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20. That whenever requested the Treasurer and Over- 

 seers shall lay all the Hospital Accounts and transac- 

 tions before the town for examination. 

 All which is submitted by 



Abra™ Watson 



RiCH'^ Ward , r^, ^ 



Elias Hasket Derby ^ ^^^ Committee. 



Barth*' Putnam 



[Note. Co\ Benj* Pickman the other of the Committee 

 was out of town when the foregoing report was made.]" 



The foregoing Report, having been read, was accepted ; 

 and the twenty articles thereof were voted, one by one. 



Voted, that there be five Overseers to manage and di- 

 rect all the aflfairs of the Hospital. Then the following 

 persons were chosen Overseers by five several votes, in 

 the order they here stand. Jonathan Gardner jun., Ste- 

 phen Higginson, Timo. Pickering jun., John Prince & 

 William Pickman. 



Voted, Benjamin Pickman Esq. Treasurer of the Hos- 

 pital." 



[March 14, 1774, the town assumed the Hospital as 

 public property.] 



Town meeting, March 17, 1777, at 9 o'clock in 

 the morning. 



"Voted, that the Hospital in the great Pasture be 

 opened for inoculating for the small pox." 



"Voted, that a committee be chosen to draught regula- 

 tions for the above Hospital." 



"Voted, that this Comm. consist of five persons viz: 

 Bart^ Putnam, Nath^ AVhittaker, Jacob Ashton, John An- 

 drew & W" Wetmore." 



Town Meeting, March 18, 1777. 



"Voted, that five persons be chosen as overseers of the 



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