This enormous sum for those days was used partly to support the selectmen and their families, but mostly to send an embassy to England to seek redress from the King and his council.
Selectmen have agreed each of them to take their turns, with the constables to walk abroad on the Lord's day, both forenoon and afternoone, morning and evening, to redress such miscarriages as they shall at any time meet withal.
But the following license granted by the selectmen in 1672, shows a much greater liberality than is exhibited in these days.
About 1804 your Selectmen ordered that after a given date no barber's shop should be kept open on Sunday morning.
It was once a law of the State that the selectmen of each town should appoint some suitable man to fill his cellar with various liquors, and whose sole right it should be to sell such articles.
There were five selectmen in 1744, whose salary was five dollars apiece.
The following year the citizens voted the selectmen a salary of five pounds apiece and "to find themselves.
In Gloucester, Massachusetts, as in other towns the selectmenheld their meetings in the tavern.
The selectmen demanded the withdrawal of the troops to Castle William and Hutchinson hesitatingly complied.
When the governor refused to summon the assembly, the selectmen called a convention of delegates from the Massachusetts towns.
Some thousand fhip-loads of chronometers were diftributed to the selectmen and other great folks of all the different nations.
The red Indians would have known better; the selectmen of an African kraal-village would have had more respect for their ancestors.
There was another silence, while the selectmen looked at one another and then at Rowena whose face was all alight.
One of the selectmen was the editor of the village paper, and fortunately for Rowena it was the one who had looked the most kindly at her and had invited her to sit up at the table.
The selectmen of the village don't care how shiftless and careless the people are here.
At a town meeting in 1662, it was ordered "that a cage be made or some other meanes invented by the selectmen to punish such as sleepe or take tobacco on the Lord's day out of the meetinge in the time of publique service.
That was perhaps demanding too much; for it was not until "May ye 7" of the following year that the selectmen were fortunate enough to put their finger on this rara avis in the person of Mr. Tho.
So far back as 1660 the selectmen instituted a fine of five shillings for the cutting of timber or any other wood from off the town common, excepting under special conditions.
It is more than probable that "the said Pickering" indirectly furnished an occasional bird for his cage, for in 1672 we find him and one Edward Westwere authorized by the selectmen to "keepe houses of publique entertainment.
The supervisors of the voting were the town clerk and the three selectmen (the executive officers of the town), who were seated on a platform at one end of the hall.
But in practice nothing has been more common than for the same persons to be re-elected as selectmen or constables or town-clerks for year after year, as long as they are willing or able to serve.
Selectmen receive a sum per diem; constables, fees; school committeemen make out their own bills.
Articles 10 and 11 were passed over, having been covered in the general appropriations, and the selectmen were instructed to enforce in highway work the nine-hour law.
There had been a time not so very long before when Janice and the president of the town selectmen had been at variance.
And if the president of the town selectmen could not license himself to drive a motor car, who could?
Among his other offices, Mr. Crow was commissioner of water-works, having held over in that office because the board of selectmen forgot to appoint any one else in his place after the last election.
The Killjoy sisters beat it, and I was just assuring mother that getting pinched was considered very distingue by the upper crust of the eastern metropolis when in prance the village selectmen followed by the deacons of the church.
In vain Gage appealed to the selectmen and to Hancock.
A vast number" of them assembled at the Coffee House in King Street, and choseselectmen and an orator, "who deliver'd an oration from the balcony to a crowd of few else beside gaping officers.
Demand was made for quarters for the soldiers; the Selectmen and Council replied by referring to the law which forbade such a requisition until the barracks at Castle William should be filled.
The selectmen of the town, and a committee from the convention for Suffolk County which then happened to sit, came to Gage with remonstrances.
It was reported that he was to cut a ditch across the Neck, and confine traffic to a narrow bridge; but at the objection of the selectmen such an idea, if he had considered it, was given up.
Yet he drew in his men in order to make himself secure, and began with the selectmen negotiations looking to his safety.
Yet when Gage called the selectmen before him, and graciously indicated his willingness to allow meetings for certain harmless purposes, the reply surprised him.
This reply the selectmen sent in haste to Washington, begging for a similar assurance.
In the absence of executive and judicial officers, the selectmen of the towns and the Committees of Correspondence took upon themselves the work that was to be done, and did it quietly and well.
Brown are appointed by the Selectmen to see that Free Passages in the streets are kept open.
Frequent conferences with the consignees were held by the selectmen of Boston.
There were indeed two merchants, reputed rich, and the selectmen of the town, but these last say they went to prevent disorder.
The selectmen say they were present to prevent disorder.
Despite the rigid New England observance of the Sabbath, the selectmen immediately met, and remained in session until nine o'clock in the evening, in the expectation of receiving the promised proposal of the consignees.
The selectmen told the consignees plainly that nothing less than sending the tea back to England would satisfy the people.
A meeting was therefore called by the selectmenfor the next day, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
This enactment enabled the selectmen to offer an additional inducement to enlistment for making up the quota of the town.
At the same time, Washington's license to continue the enlistment of negroes was regarded as a rule of action both by the selectmenin making up, and by the State Government in accepting, the quota of the towns.
He was one of the Selectmen of Boston at the time when the town was invested by troops under Washington.
Cap'n Eb he got the minister o' Sherburn and one o' the selectmen down to see him; and they took his deposition.
It happened that two of the selectmen who had the care of the streets, passed that way driving in a chaise, stuck fast in this hole, and were obliged to get out in the mud to extricate their vehicle.
He happened to be one of the selectmen at Falmouth, whose business it was to give notice of Town Meetings.
Fowler got permission to dig up those skulls from the Selectmen of Concord, and he carried them about with him and used them in his lecturing.
When did the selectmenof Concord give Professor Fowler permission to dig up the two bodies of the British soldiers and remove the skulls to be used for exhibition purposes?
The resolution recommended by the committee was adopted and it was voted that the selectmen be requested to transmit a copy thereof to each town in this commonwealth.
In 1742, when Faneuil Hall was opened, Ezekiel Lewis was among the Selectmenand representatives of the town of those who were "to wait upon Peter Faneuil, Esq.
On July 28 he sent his answer to the selectmen of Boston, and it is such an important paper that it must be given in full.
There are yet in town three of the selectmen and some thousands of inhabitants, 't is said.
Some of the selectmen have been to the lines, and inform that they have carried away everything they could possibly take; and what they could not, they have burnt, broke, or hove into the water.
The people are much alarmed, and the selectmen have waited upon him in consequence of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selectmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
