The law takes away our right to assemble in town meeting, except by permission, and then we can only elect selectmen to look after town affairs," said Tom.
No more could they lawfully assemble in town meeting to elect representatives to the legislature.
Another wanted to know if I was going to wear trousers and vote in town meeting.
You ought to hear him in town meeting; you won't find him stuck up one mite; you can talk with him just as you do with me.
When the call came, Hingham took action at once, and on the 5th held a town meeting at four o'clock p.
The 13th beheld the citizens assembled in town meeting, wherein it was voted to increase the bounty to two hundred dollars, thus adding a stimulus which resulted in filling the company to the maximum.
It was further voted to call a town meeting on the 24th of the month for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this popular gathering.
A town meeting--and particularly a Bayport town meeting, where everything from personal affairs to religion is likely to be discussed--can stir up excitement when nothing else can.
This year there were several questions to be talked over and settled at town meeting.
The right of the towns of Massachusetts to ask one another's advice could no more be disputed than the right of the freemen of any single town to hold a town meeting.
Otis (the most popular man in Boston), at a town meeting held to discountenance riot, delivered a speech in which he recommended caution, and advised that no opposition should be made to the new duties.
The inhabitants of Boston, at a town meeting, unanimously expressed their abhorrence of these proceedings, and a civil guard was organized to prevent their repetition.
In 1774 the people of New London held a town meeting, and passed strong resolutions in reference to the oppressive acts of the British Parliament.
Town meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness.
The New England "town meeting," for example, is precisely the same thing as the boys' meeting.
No mere representative system can give the opportunity for real participation in government which a town meeting affords.
A public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc.
The first government of Plymouth Colony was practically a town meeting.
At first the men assembled in town meeting, made laws, and elected officers.
If a newcomer, he had to be formally admitted to freemanship at a town meeting.
The affairs of a New England town were regulated at town meeting, to which from time to time the freemen were "warned," or summoned, by the constable.
At a town meeting of the inhabitants of Boston, a committee was deputed for the purpose of praying the governor to convene another general assembly.
At Boston, a town meeting appointed a committee to wait on the consignees to request their resignation.
A committee of a town meeting held in Philadelphia on the 21st, four days afterward, also recommended such a measure; and on the 23d, a town meeting in New York city uttered the same sentiment.
The form which it first assumed amongst them was that of a democratic municipality, wherein the "masters of families" incorporated themselves into a town, and transacted their public business in town meeting.
Should they be elected by the freemen in town meeting, or by the General Assembly?
In accordance with this fundamental principle all laws were first discussed in Town Meeting, then submitted to the General Court, a committee of six men from each town freely chosen, and finally referred to the General Assembly.
More than Elder Concannon did not believe that Polktown could be carried for prohibition in Town Meeting.
What is to be said of its manner of town meeting may, with little modification, be said of all.
For several reasons, a detailed account here of what actually happened recently at a town meeting is, it seems to me, justified.
Within its proper sphere," says Fiske, "government by town meeting is the form of government most effectively under watch and control.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "town meeting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
