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share of the said fence within three 

 months after demande, He shall be liable 

 to pay damages as two indifferent men 

 shall award, which shall be chosen by 

 the party es in controversy." 1 In the 

 same year the following vote was taken : 

 " Whereas the Plan tinge of Indian Corne 

 in the meddowe Swamp on ye other side 

 of Agawam river, hath occasioned a long 

 stay after moowinge tyme before men can 

 put over theyr Cattell thither : Therefere 

 it is ordered that no more Indian corne 

 shall be planted, neither in the meddowe 

 nor in ye Swampes, that so the Cattell of 

 all those that have alotments there may 

 be put over by ye I5th of September." 

 The early settlers were often much an- 

 noyed in their agricultural and horticul- 

 tural affairs, by the trespassing of swine, 

 consequently it was decreed that "All 

 swine that breake into any man's corne 

 ground or meddowe y t it sufficiently fenced 

 against yoked hoggs : in case men let ye 

 Swine run abroad unyoked if they breake 

 1 History of Springfield by M. A. Green, p. 78. 

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