This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...a few days, and then enlisted into the service of the United States. Three other persons on said list did not belong to said town, viz.--Henry Vose, Enoch Baldwin and Nathaniel Thomas; and one person not in existence, whose name was put on said list, as the assessors averred, by mistake. The committee, on these facts, are unanimously of opinion, and do report, that the said town of Milton did not, at the time of said election, contain a sufficient number of ratable polls to entitle it to two representatives; and inasmuch as the said Asaph Churchill and Wil-" liam Pierce were chosen at one and the same balloting, that the said supposed election was utterly void, and that their seats in this House ought to be declared vacated. At the request of two of the committee, it is observed, that the remonstrants did not give notice to the Selectmen and to the sitting members, pursuant to the requisition of the last House of Representatives. But the sitting members attended before the committee, and were fully heard, and made no objection before them, of a want of notice. SAM. PUTNAM, per order. The "requisition," referred to by the committee is contained in the following resolve or order of the House, passed February 28, 1811: --" No remonstrance, against the election of any member, shall be sustained or committed in the House, unless at the time of presenting the same to the House, the said remonstrance be accompanied by evidence that a copy of the same remonstrance has been given to some one of the Selectmen of the town, whose elective franchise u affected thereby, and the person or persons elected, or left at their several last and usual places of abode, ten Jays at last, before the remonstrance (hall be presented to the House." The committee probably...