Provided nevertheless the Said District Shall pay their proportionable part of all such Town County Parish and Province Charges as are already Assessed upon the Town of Groton in like manner as though this Act had never been made. And Be it further Enacted that M'r Jn'o. Whitney be and hereby is impowred to Issue his Warrant directed to Some principal Inhabitant in s'd District requireing Him to Notifie & warn the Inhabitants of S'd District qualified by law to vote in Town affairs to meet at Such Time & place as shall be therein Set forth to Choose all such officers as Shall be Necessary to manage the affairs of s'd District In the House of Rep'ives June 4, 1752 Read three several times and pass'd to be Engross'd T. HUBBARD Spk'r. Sent up for concurrence In Council Nov'r. 28, 1752 Read a first Time 29 a second Time and pass'd a Concurrence THO's. CLARKE Dp'ty Secry. [Massachusetts Archives, CXVI., 293, 294.] This act did not take effect until January 5, 1753, when it was signed by the governor. On June 3, 1771, thirty years after Groton Gore had been lost by the running of the provincial line, the proprietors of the town held a meeting, and appointed Lieutenant Josiah Sawtell, Colonel John Bulkley, and Lieutenant Nathaniel Parker, a committee to petition the General Court for a grant of land to make up for this loss. They presented the matter to that body on June 7, and the following entry in the records gives the result:-- The Committee on the Petition of _Josiah Sartel_, and others, reported.