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 422 THE HISTORY OF BAREIKGTON. cil in their doings in declaring the Road East of Ellis Pecks house to the River a Public Highway as Surveyed by order of said Town Council on the 12th day of March, 1847, ^^'^ in clearing the same, Wilmarth Heath and Henry Smith are appointed a Committee to defend the case of Asa Peck vs. the Town of Barrington with power to employ Council. 1848. Voted; Benjamin Martin and Charles Bent were made a Committee to ascertain whether the Town has a good title to the Burying Ground on New Meadow Neck. Voted ; Nathaniel Brown and Joseph P. Bicknell were a Committee to procure a lot to place the Hearse House on & to remove the same, and George R. Kinnicutt was chosen to take care of the hearse, house, harness, etc. 1849. Lewis B. Smith, Stillman Welch, and Ebenezer Tiffany were appointed a Committee to fence the burying ground on Princes Hill, and said Com. were authorized to draw on the Town for one hundred dollars for that purpose. Benjamin Martin, John Kelley and John Short, Jr., were made a Committee to fence the burying [ground on New Meadow Neck, and said Committee were allowed one hundred Dollars for that purpose. June 12, 1863. A resolution was introduced in relation to the Town building a Town Hall, which, after a long discus- sion, was indefinitely postponed by a vote of thirty-three to thirty. June II, 1864. Resolutions were adopted concerning the life and public services of the late town^clerk, Ebenezer Tif- fany, who died June 4th. April 6, 1870. Five hundred dollars were appropriated for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Barrington ;[as a [Rhode Island town. The following committee was appointed : Rev. Francis Wood, Rev.^Francis Horton, Rev. Samuel B. Shaw, D. D., John A. Humphreys, Asa Peck, Benjamin Martin, Lewis T. Fisher, Nathaniel C. Smith, Benjamin F. Drown, George R. Kinnicutt, Earl C. Potter, Allen Bowen, David A. Waldron, Charles E. Smith, Nathaniel Peck, Jo-