that the Petitioners Serve the Towns of Grotton and Dunstable with
Coppys of the petition.

In Council January 4'th. 1738.

Read again and Ordered that the further Consideration of this
Petition be referred to the first tuesday of the next May Session
and that James Minot and John Hobson Esq'rs with Such as the
Honourable Board shall joine be a Committee at the Charge of the
Petitioners to repair to the Lands petitioned for to be Erected
into a Township first giving Seasonable notice as well to the
petitioners as to the Inhabitants and Non Resident Proprietors of
Lands within the s'd Towns of Dunstable and Groton of the time of
their going by Causing the same to be publish'd in the Boston
Gazette, that they carefully View the s'd Lands as well as the
other parts of the s'd Towns, so farr as may be desired by the
Partys or thought proper, that the Petitioners and all others
Concerned be fully heard in their pleas and Allegations for, as
well as against the prayer of the Petition; and that upon Mature
Consideration on the whole the Committee then report what in their
Opinion may be proper for the Court to do in Answer there to Sent
up for Concurrence.

J QUINCY Sp'kr.

In Council Jan'ry 9'th. 1738

Read and Concurred and Thomas Berry Esq'r is joined in the Affair

SIMON FROST Dep'ty. Sec'ry.