Provided, nevertheless_, That the persons above-mentioned shall pay
all taxes that have been legally assessed on them by said
_Groton_, in the same manner as if this Act had never been passed.

[This act passed _February_ 25, 1793.]

The zigzag line caused by this act was somewhat modified by the two
following ones, passed at different times a few years later. I think
that the very irregular boundary between the two towns, with its
eighty-six angles, as mentioned by Mr. Butler, was produced by the
subsequent annexations to Dunstable.

An Act to set of _Nathaniel Lawrence with_ his Estate, from the
Town of _Groton_, and annex them to the Town of _Dunstable_.

BE _it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in
General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same_, That
_Nathaniel Lawrence_ of _Groton_, in the county of _Middlesex_,
together with his estate, which he now owns in that town, be, and
hereby is set off from said town of _Groton_, and annexed to the
town of _Dunstable_, in the same county; and shall hereafter be
considered as part of the same; there to do duty and receive
privileges as other inhabitants of said town of _Dunstable:
Provided nevertheless_, That the said _Nathaniel Lawrence_ shall be
holden to pay all taxes that have been legally assessed on him by
said town of _Groton_, in the same manner as if this Act had not
been passed.

[This act passed _January_ 26, 1796.]