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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 3: (search)
pect of persons or favor of any man. So help me God, in the Lord Jesus Christ. In 1643, the Court ordered, that if any freeman shall put in more than one paper or corn for the choice of any officer, he shall forfeit £ 10 for every offence; and any man, that is not free, casting in any vote, shall forfeit the like sum of £ 10. The ballots used at elections were corns and beans: corns, yeas; beans, nays. The conditions of voting in towns was fixed by the General Court as early as April 17, 1729. Voted that no person but what has been rated 1s., at least, to the last province-tax more than the poll-tax, laid in said town, shall be admitted to vote. The constable seemed to be a remarkably large part of the executive head in the early days. At General Court, held at Newtowne, May 14, 1634, Mr. Thomas Mayhew is entreated by the Court to examine what hurt the swine of Charlestown hath done amongst the Indian barns of corn, on the north side of Mystic; and accordingly the inhabit