272 HISTORY OF C OH ASSET. 



10 It is Represented to be Chargable to attend Publick meet- 

 ings att Such a Distance Which we think would Cost as much att 

 our Parish Considering the kindness of the Towns people. 



1 1 . Where as their has been Complaint made about School 

 money, by Reason of their Lands Lying in our Parish, for Which 

 they have always Kept the Grammar School & it is thought by our 

 Principal men that if we are set of, we should Not Raise So much 

 money as is allowed by the Town. 



'"peSnl^l JOSEPH SOUTHER 

 HiNGHAM April 6. 1770 



The committee was entertained at Lazarus Beal's, and 

 the court charged the expense of the committee, £,^ 

 lys. lod., to the whole town. 



April 25, 1770, upon the return of the committee, the 

 petitioners* were given liberty to frame a bill for incorpo- 

 rating themselves into a separate district. 



The next day, April 26, 1770, the following charter, 

 which had been carefully prepared, was made a legislative 

 document for the foundation of our town : — 



THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 



■^^EAI^^ 



ANNO ^X^V^ REGNI REGIS 



■^SEAL^ 

 GEORGII TERTII ^C ^>^^ DECIMO. 



An act for incorporating the second Precinct in Hingham into 

 a District, by the name of Cohasset. 



Whereas the Inhabitants of the second Precinct in Hingham 

 labor under many difficulties and inconveniences by reason of 

 their not being incorporated into a District. 



Be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and House 

 of Representatives, that the inhabitants and lands within the 

 present bounds of the second Precinct in the Town of Hingham 

 (excepting a number of families and their Homesteads which 

 were reannexed to the first Precinct in said Town in the year one 



*The cost of all this petitioning was;^ii2 2S. lod. old tenor, and it was ordered 

 paid in 1770 after he district got into running order. 



