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 296 THE HISTORY OF BAREINGTON. ACT INCORPORATING THE TOWN OF BARRINGTON. An Act for Incorporating the West Part of the Town of Warren Into a Township to be Distinguished and known by the Name of Barrington. " Be it enacted by this General Assembly and by the au- thority thereof : It is enacted that the Town of Warren be and the same is hereby divided into two distinct and sepa- rate towns, that the bounds between them be as the river between Bristol and Rumstick extends itself northerly to Myles Bridge, that all the lands on the westerly side of the said river be and they are hereby erected and made into a Township to be distinguished, called and known by the name of Barrington, and that the inhabitants thereof shall choose two deputies to represent them in the General Assembly, and shall have, hold and enjoy all and singular the liberties, privileges and immunities which the other towns in this Colony have, enjoy and are entitled to. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all debts due and money belonging to the Town of Warren before the division thereof by this Act made shall be divided according to the last tax, that all debts due from the said Town before the division shall be settled and made in the same manner, and that the poor of the said Town be divided between the said two Towns in proportion to their taxes and debts. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all and every of the Justices of the Peace and Military Offi- cers who were chosen and appointed for the Town of War- ren and live in that part thereof which is now Barrington be and they are hereby continued in their respective offices 'with as full power and ample authority in every particular as they had in consequence of their being chosen into and commissionated for the offices by them respectively sus- tained, and that James Brown, Esq., be and he is hereby authorized and fully empowered to issue a warrant and call the Freemen of the Town of Barrington to meet together at such time and place within said Town as he shall think fit