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thousand seven hundred & forty seven) be and hereby are incor- 

 porated into a District, by the name of Cohasset ; and that the 

 inhabitants thereof be and hereby are invested with all the 

 powers, privileges, and immunities which the inhabitants of Towns 

 within this Province do, or by law ought to enjoy (that of sending 

 a Representative to the general assembly only excepted) and that 

 the inhabitants of said District shall have liberty, from time to 

 time, to join with the Town of Hingham in the choice of a Repre- 

 sentative or Representatives, which Representative or Representa- 

 tives may be chosen indifferently from said Town or District, the 

 pay or allowance of such Representative or Representatives to be 

 borne by the said Town or District, according to their respective 

 proportions of the Province Tax and that the Town of Hingham 

 as often as they shall call a meeting for the choice of Representa- 

 tives, shall from time to time give seasonable notice to the Clerk 

 of said District of Cohasset for the time being, of the time and 

 place for holding said meeting, to the end that the said District 

 may join therein, and the Clerk of said District shall set up in 

 some public place in said District, a notification thereof accord- 

 ingly. And be it further enacted, that the said District shall have 

 the privilege of taxing that part of the Grist Mill at Strait Pond 

 so called which has usually been taxed by the town of Hingham, 

 and that the said District shall have their proportion of the 

 Powder House, or the value of the same, also of th^ Town's 

 stock of arms and ammunition ; to be adjusted by the rule of 

 their pay to the Province tax set on said Town of Hingham. 



And be it further enacted. That the inhabitants of said District 

 shall take to themselves & hereafter support their just proportion 

 of all such poor persons as are now wholly supported by said 

 town of Hingham, and also their proportion of all such poor 

 persons as now have a settlement in the Town of Hingham, but 

 dwell in other places, whom the said Town of Hingham may 

 hereafter be obliged by law to support ; and that the inhabitants 

 of said District shall pay all Province, County, & Town assess- 

 ments, now set or assessed on them, as if they had remained to 

 said Town of Hingham. 



And be it further enacted, that Benjamin Lincoln Esq"^ be, 

 and hereby is empowered to issue a warrant to some principal 



