_votes._ Elisha Cooke Esqr 188 } m. Thomas Cushing 190 } m. Ezekll Lewis 190 } Chose[n] Representatives m. Samll Welles 184 } Voted To Chuse a Co[=m]ittee to Prepare Instructions for the Representatives for their Acting at the General Court at their Approching Session, And to Lay them befor the Meeting in the Afternoon-- Voted: That John Alford Esqr mesrs Henry Dering and Nathll Cunningham be the Said Committee-- On the Petition of Sundry Inhabitants about the Situatian of the Grainery Voted That mr Moderator and the Selectmen be Joyned with the Co[=m]ittee appointed for Building the Grainery, Be desired to View the Place, And make Return of their Opinion thereof to the Meeting after Dinner this Day-- mr John Jeffers Excus'd } mr Thomas Moffat Excus'd } Chosen Assessors. Edward Maycomb Sworn } John Spooner Sworn } Clerks of the Market. Nathanll Cobbit Sworn } Post Meridiem. Voted That the Grainery be Erected and Set up Rainging with the Line of the Burying place on the Co[=m]on fronting Eastward, The Said Building to be not Less then [than] forty feet distant from the [South] Corner of the Brick wall of the Burying place-- mr James Pemberton Pay[111] } mr James Watson Sworn } Assessors. In as much as the Gramer School at the North End of the Town of which mr Peleg Wiswall is the Master is much Increaced in the Number of the Schollers, and that no Usher is alowed to assist him in his School: Voted That there be an Additian of Forty Pounds to the Said mr Wiswalls Salary-- Samll Oakes Petition Read and Dismist-- * * * * * In Answer to Mr. Edward Mills His Petitian. Voted That there be an Addition of Twenty Pounds to the Said Mr. Edward Mills Sallary-- Upon A Motion made by Elisha Cook Esquire That the Dividing Line between the Towns Land in the Occupation of Mr. Nathaniel Williams and His Land on the East Side in School Street is for want of due Care become Crucked, intrenching both upon the One and the Others Land, That therefore they would Direct and Imp[o]wer the Selectmen to Rectifie that line as to them Seems Just and Equitable--And Further That they would be pleased to Accomodate him with about two feet of the Front of his Land next Mr. Williams on Such Terms as the Selectmen Shall Agree for with the Said Mr. Cooke-- Read and Voted That it be left with the Selectmen to Act therein as they Judge Meet-- On the Petition of Mr. Jeramiah Condy for Addition to his Salary.