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 250 THE HISTORY OF BAREINGTON. town treasurer ; Zachariah Bicknell, John Torrey, and Joshua Kent, surveyors of highways ; Zachariah Bicknell, Jr., Joseph Allen, and John Short, hog-reeves ; Joseph Allen and Nathaniel Peck, tything men. Voted, " That Nathaniel Peck is to have fifteen shillings to provide the town with a good pair of stocks and all things suitable for them and bring them to the meeting-house forthwith." Voted, ''That the selectmen provide standard weights and measures for the town at a cost of £,i more or less." Mr. Timothy Wadsvvorth was allowed ;^26, " for attorney's fees, his own work for the pound and meeting-house." Recompence Tiffany was allowed seven shillings for a sealing hammer. Voted, " That hoggs shall goe at large, being kept yoaked and ringed as the law directs," and that " no hog kind or sheep kind shall goe at large on the highways." Zachariah Bicknell was chosen agent to prosecute a memorial to obtain the Court's Resolves at Boston, concern- ing those meadows which belong to the inhabitants of Reho- both lying within the township of Barrington, "Also the said Zachariah Bicknell is to have five pounds which he agrees to accept in full satisfaction for all his time and charge in case he obtained the Court's grant that those meadows shall become taxable or ratable by the assessors of the town of Barrington, but in case he doth not obtain such a grant or resolve of the General Court, then he is to have nothing for his time and charge." Lieut. James Adams, Edward Luther, and James Brown were elected trustees to dispose of the town's part of the man shall have more than ten pounds of the bank money (bills of credit), and no man less than five pounds." The town agreed with Lieut. Nathaniel Peck "to build a sufficient pound and soke the timber five weeks in salt water and git it up by the tenth of March next for five pound."
 * ^50,ooo bills of credit granted by the General Court. " No