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 266 THE HISTORY OF BARRINGTON". Voted, " to raise ;^ioo to defend the town against the exe- cution the Reverend Mr. Peleg Heath had obtained against it." also to allow "all reasonable charges that shall arise by imprisoning any person or persons for not discharging the said execution." April lo. Mr. John Read, Mr. John Adams, and Mr, Heze- kiah Tiffany were chosen a committee or agents to represent the town at the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay to prefer a petition of the inhabitants of the town "by reason of an execution obtained by the Reverend Mr. Peleg Heath at the Superior Court of Judicatur last held at Bristol for said county of Bristol by reason whereof James Smith, Jun, and James Adams are now prisoners in his majesty's prison in Bristol, and to act for and in behalf of said town. April i6, Messrs. John Read, John Adams, and Matthew Watson were made the Committee to go to Boston on the business of April lo. Voted, that the town accept of a way through James Adams land leading to the ferry by two good gates allowing him to take in the highway on the north side of his land " untill he is molisted by Court or propriety." Voted, also " that the town accept of an open highway through Edward Bosworth's land and Jacob Bosworth's to a convenient place for keeping the ferry over to Mr, Samuel Millers." See chapter on Ferries and Bridges. August 9. Voted, "that the selectmen should not give an order to the town treasurer to pay the Reverend Mr. Peleg Heath's salary £120 this present year seeing he still refuses to preach at the place the town hath appointed him at on the sixth day of February, 1737-8." Voted, " to raise ;^I5 to hire a schoolmaster three months." Voted, "to give Nathaniel Peck and Peleg Richmond ^14 to build a pound with stone, of twenty foot squair within the walls and five foot and a half high with a cap on the walls and with good white oak posts and the caps to be dovetailed in at each corner." Josiah Humphrey was allowed ^5 for keeping school one