Chap. 0034 AN ACT FOR ERECTING THE NEW PLANTATION CALLED PONTOOSUCK, IN THE COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE, INTO A TOWN BY THE NAME OF PITTSFIELD.
Preamble.
Bounds of the town.
Town meeting to be warned.
Proviso.
"Whereas it hath been represented to this court that the erecting the plantation called Pontoosuck, into a township, will greatly contribute to the growth thereof, and remedy many inconveniencies to which the inhabitants and proprietors may be otherwise subjected,-
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and House of Representatives,
[Sect. 1.] That the plantation aforesaid, bounded as follows; viz110., north, on New Framingham, so called ; east, partly on Ashuelot equivalent, and partly on unappropriated lands ; south and west, on unappropriated lands ; - be and hereby is erected into a town by the name of Pittsfield ; and that the inhabitants thereof be and hereby are invested with all the powers, priviledges and immunities which the inhabitants of the towns within this province do enjoy.
Saving,-
[Sect. 2.]   That the said town shall not have liberty to send a representative to the general court, until the general election in May, 1763. And be it further enacted,
[Sect. 3.] That William Williams, EsqCr]., be and hereby is impowered to issue his warrant, directed to some principal inhabitant in said town, to notify and warn the inhabitants in said town, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to meet, at such time and place as shall be therein set forth, to chuse all such officers as are or shall be required, by law, to manage the affairs of said town.
Provided, nevertheless,-
[Sect. 4.] That no inhabitant of said town, or proprietor in the same, excepting the original sixty settling proprietors, or those who
hold under them, shall be obliged to pay an}' part or proportion of the charge towards building a meeting-house, settling the first minister, and the other charges within said town, which the said original proprietors were obliged to perform, either according to the tenor of their grant, or to an}' agreements already made by or among themselves. And be it further enacted,
[Sect. 5.] That all assessments of rates and taxes agreed upon by said original proprietors shall be in full force, and may be levied and collected, in like manner as if this act had not been made. [Passed April 21 ; published April 22, 1761.