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Anno Regni Regis George Quarto
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Magno Britanno Franeio and Hibernia Quarto
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(In the fourth year of the reign of George, King of Great Britain,
Wales and Ireland)
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An act for erecting a new Parish within the Township of Chester
in this Province —
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Whereas at a Town meeting held at Chester on the twenty sixth
day of January, 1763 it was granted and voted that a part of said
Township commonly called Freetown described in said vote might be
incorporated into a new Parish as far as their consent was necessary
and it appearing to be convenient considering the situation of the
inhabitants —
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Be it therefore enacted by the Governor Council and assembly
that there be and hereby is a new Parish constituted erected and incorporated
thereby —
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The following bounds namely beginning at the Northeast corner
of Chester upon the head line of Epping at a maple tree a boundary
between Chester and Nottingham then runs South twenty nine degrees
Westbounding partly on said Epping and partly on Brentwood to the
Southeast corner of the lot number partly in said Chester as may appear
by records of the of Chester then West Northwest so far as to contain
the old hundred acre lots so called in said Township then twenty nine
degrees East to the Southeast corner of Candia by and joining upon
Candia to the line of Nottingham upon that side and by that line to
the Maple tree where at that the same Parish be called Incorporated
and Named the Parish of Raymond and all the Polls and Estates within
limits aforesaid are hereby exonerated and discharged of all taxes
and abatements existing when mentioned and excepted) on and to any
other part of said Town and are hereby invested and enfranchised with
all common privileges which other Parishes have and legally hold to
likewise with all the legal power and authorities of other Parishes
in this Province and may raise money for the necessary uses of the
said Parish as any Town or Parish may legally do: succession and continuance
forever.
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And Samuel Emerson of Chester is hereby authorized to call the
first meeting of said inhabitants for the choice of the necessary
Parish officers and any other affairs they may deem proper at said
meeting giving due notice of the time, place, and design of such meeting
in the usual and customary manner in said Town.
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Provided and excepting that the polls and estates and within
said Parish shall continue to be taxes and assessed to the Province
accounts as they have usually been until a new proposal of land rates
shall be made among the several and Parishes in this Province.
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Province of stamps
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In the house of Representatives May 4th, 1764,
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This bill having been read three times - voted that is pass
to be enacted Henry Sherburne Speaker in council May 9th, 1764 this
bill read a third time and passes to be enacted.
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Thodore Atkinson June 1764
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Consented to: B. Wentworth
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