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ACT OF INCORPORATION. 297 on or before the 8th day of July next in order to choose and appoint all officers necessary for managing and conducting the prudential affairs of said Town agreeably to the laws of this Colony. And be it further enacted by the authority that the said Town of Harrington shall send three grand and two petit jurors to each of the Superior and Inferior Courts which shall be holden in the County of Bristol, and that the Town of Warren shall send three grand and four petit jurors to each of the said Courts. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that Nathaniel Fales, Thomas Throop and Daniel Bradford, Esqs., all of Bristol, be and they are appointed a committee to settle and proportion the debts and poor of said Town, agree- ably to the last tax of said town. God Save the King. Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. VII., pages 1 5, 16, 17." The only evidences of junkets, bribes, and other essentials of modern legislation in the acts of the Committee in secur- ing the division of the town, appear in the following bills of the Committee : ' - Barrington, July 11, i770- The Town of Barrington, To James Brown, Dr, To my expense at Newport when the town was divided : To my time 5 days .... p^i, los. 2p. To Cash paid Esq. Kinnicutt for the estimate 5s. To one day when we met the Committee at Martin's 9^- To part of two days as a Committee to settle the town's proportions .... 3s. To one day and a half going to Bristol to settle Pat Monroe 5s. To three times going to Providence . . 2s. £2, 14s. 2p. Less 6s. £2, 8s. 2p.