268 HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



As to the Distance from the Place where Our Town Meetings 

 are always held it is true the Centre of the Second Parish is 

 about five Miles from the Center Meeting House in the Town 

 where Town Meetings have been held as tlje whole was there 

 best accomodated being Near y^ Real Centre of the Town and 

 such of their People who are at the greatest distance as the Road 

 goes (or as the Highway is) are the most Indifferent with respect 

 to being set off for the way by them Generally Used to Assemble 

 at Town Meetings is but little further then they would have to 

 travel if they were made a District. 



The Petitioners say they must assemble oftener while united ; 

 this cannot be considered as very Burthen seeing we have but 

 Two Town Meetings in a year unless something very perticular 

 Viz. March & May the Latter they ask to Attend and the former 

 being at a very Leisure Season of the year. 



"The Petitioners complain that they have been deprived of 

 the Tax Raised on a Considerable part of the Real Estate within 

 Said Parish Towards the Support of the Schools, Repairs of High- 

 ways, &c." With Respect to the Schools the Case is truly this 

 for many years past the Inhabitants of Each Parish have been 

 allowed to draw out of the Treasury the whole of the money 

 Raised for the use of the Schools which they placed therein And 

 improve it for the purpose to which it was appropriated in a 

 manner they should think best comported with their circum- 

 stances while the first Parish have kept the Grammer School 

 which by Law the Town is obliged to do and in the country is 

 Looked upon as the Burthen the Doors of which have at all 

 times been opened to the Grammer scholars of both the other 

 parishes by the free and united consent of the whole. 



As to their Roads we are Constrained to observe that we look 

 upon the representation given as to y*^ Badness of them to be 

 greatly Exaggerated by the Petitioners for it is Conceived by 

 many that they do not want Greater Expence of repairs yearly 

 than an equal proportion with the other Roads in the Town Not- 

 withstanding that the Town ever has taken part of the Roads in 

 the Second Parish and made them without any of their assist- 

 ance, and more lately since the Highway, have been repaired by 

 a Tax, the whole they asked for hath been done for them to the 

 amount of four or five pounds Lawful Money in a year. 



