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 TOWN LEGISLATION. 427 The town council was instructed to open a road from Bridge Road to Ferry Lane. This project was not carried out on account of inability to agree with the owners of the land through which it would go. A second attempt was made in 1890 without success. April I, 1885. Charles H. Merriman, Charles E. Smith and Lewis B. Smith were appointed a committee to remove the old wooden bridge across Barrington river with its pier and abutments and to have an iron bridge built on the same site at a cost not to exceed $7,000. Aug. 17, 1885. Resolutions were adopted in regard to the life and public services of the late John C. Burrington and Nathaniel Peck. April 7, 1886. A Resolution to purchase wooded land from the Nayatt Brick Co. was defeated. Vote: yes, 55; no, 124. The Barrington Water Co. exempted from taxation for 20 years. " Resolved, That a committee of three are hereby author- ized and empowered in behalf of the town to purchase a lot of land near the geographical center of the town on the main highway, and near one of the railway stations, said land to be retained for a building for town purposes, and the cost of said land not to exceed the sum of $2,000." Asa Peck, John L. Draper and Joseph U. Starkweather were appointed committee. Nov. 2, 1886. David A. Waldron, Lewis B. Smith, Asa Peck, Erastus L. Walcott and William H. Bullock are appointed a committee to secure plans for a town hall, April 6, 1887. It was voted to deed a parcel of ground near the Nayatt Railroad station to the Railroad Company to be kept by them as a public park. Albert H. Peck, Joseph U. Starkweather and William H. Bullock were appointed a committee to take into considera- tion and prepare plans and estimates for a bridge across Barrington river near the residence of the late George R. Kinnicutt.