Chap. 0075 An Act to incorporate the Town of Thorndike.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the plantation heretofore called Lincoln, in the County of Hancock, as 'contained in the following described boundaries, be, and hereby is established as a town, by the name of Thorndike ; that is to say : Beginning at the south west corner of said plantation, at a stake and stones ; thence running north, twenty-five degrees east, about one mile, to a birch tree ; thence north, seven degrees east, four miles and one hundred and forty-three rods, to a cedar stake; thence north, eighty-seven degrees east, four miles and thirty rods, to a beach tree; thence south, three degrees east, five miles and forty-one rods, to a stake and stones; thence south, eighty-seven degrees west, five miles and thirty-five rods, to the place of beginning. And the said town of Thorndike is hereby vested with all the corporate powers and privileges, and shall also be subject to all the duties and requisitions of other corporate towns, according to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

Sec, 2, Be it further enacted, That any Justice of I the Peace for the County of Hancock, be, and he is hereby empowered, upon application therefor, to issue a warrant, directed to a freehold inhabitant of the said.

town of Thorndike, requiring him to notify and warn I the freeholders and other inhabitants of said town, to meet at such convenient time and place, as shall be appointed in said warrant, for the choice of such officers, as towns are by law empowered and required to choose at their annual town meetings. '

[Approved by the Governor, February 15,1819.]