Title

An Act to incorporate the Town of Williamsburgh

Creator

Maine State LegislatureFollow
William King

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Document Type

Text

Contributing Institution

Maine State Archives

Identifier

322428

Description

Inscription of the text:

An Act to incorporate the town of Williamsburg.
SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, That the Plantation of Williamsburg, being township number six, in the eighth range, in the county of Penobscot, as the same was surveyed by Samuel Weston, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and bounded south by the town of Sebec, east by the plantation of Brownville, north by township number six in the ninth range, and west by township number seven in the eighth range, with the inhabitants thereof, be and hereby are incorporated into a town by the name of Williamsburg ; and the inhabitants of said town arc hereby vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities, which the inhabitants of towns within this State do or may by law enjoy.
SECT. 2. Be it further enacted, That Moses Greenleaf, Esq. is hereby empowered to issue his warrant to some inhabitant of said town, directing him to notify the inhabitants thereof to meet at such time and place, as he shall appoint, to choose such officers as other towns are empowered to choose at their annual town meetings.

[This Act passed June 21, 1820.]

Exact Creation Date

6-21-1820

Language

English