Note by the Commissioner on the Sources of Land Titles in Maine
…29 and adjourned to January 5, 1820, after submitting it to the people in town meetings to be held in December 6,1819. On re-assembling, the Convention found that the Constitution…
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An Act concerning Town Property in Dartmouth, 1850 c53
…Public Property to be chosen for the Township of Dartmouth – their duties, &c.: I. After the first Annual Town Meeting in the Township of Dartmouth, Three Trustees of Public…
Amicitia Crescimus
…supranational dictate. What happened to “all the powers relating thereto, vested in the Sessions, Grand Jury, School Meeting and Town Meeting;…all the powers and authority which within the district, previous…
1873
…by a majority vote of ratepayers at town meetings. From now on a Town Council, elected annually in May, would exercise control over all local affairs. One great advantage of…
To authorize the Commissioners of Streets for the Town of Dartmouth to sell certain lands, 1873 c19
…the direction of the “ The Annual Town Meeting” to the improvement of the Streets of the Town of Dartmouth. Appraisement of damage done to James W. Turner: 5. James…
Dartmouth Mechanics’ Institute, later Dartmouth Town Hall
…was also the scene of many a lively Town meeting in the years when Dartmouth was governed by Magistrates. In the daytime, the place was long used as a school-house,…
John Adams, to the Abbé de Mably, 15 January 1783
…their select Men, in Town Meeting to deliberate upon the publick affairs of the Town, or to instruct their Representatives. The Consequence of this Institution has been, that all the…
Letter Addressed To The Earl of Carnarvon by Mr. Joseph Howe, Mr. William Annand, and Mr. Hugh Mcdonald
…in the State, whose duty it shall be to present the same to the inhabitants thereof for their consideration at a town meeting, legally warned and held for that purpose…
Petition of inhabitants of Dartmouth concerning the inconvenience of not having regularly appointed town officers
…a manner as to afford general satisfaction. That your petitioners conceive that if your Honorable House were to grant to the Township of Dartmouth the privilege of holding Town Meetings…
1876
…approval of ratepayers at the town meeting. (The equivalent of a plebiscite.) The Union Protection Company was organized that year. John Y. Payzant resigned as Stipendiary Magistrate, and was succeeded…