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ber, 18_____. (Signed by all the judges of election.) MINUTES OF TOWN MEETING. At the annual (special) town meeting held in the town of __________, county of __________, state of __________, at _____, on the day of _____, 18 _____, the meeting was called to order by R.G., town clerk. M.J.H. was then chosen to preside as moderator of the meeting. The moderator, at the opening of the meeting, stated the business to be transacted and the order of the same as follows: That the business to be transacted would be to elect three supervisors, &c., (stating the officers to be elected,) and to do any other business proper to be done at said meeting. That said business would be entertained in the following order: 1st--The election by ballot of town officers, the polls to be kept open throughout the day. 2d--At one o'clock P.M., election of overseers of highways for each road district in the town. 3d--That immediately following the election of overseers of highways the general business of the town would be taken up and proceeded with until disposed of. Proclamation of opening the polls was then made by the moderator and the polls opened and the election of town officers proceeded. The hour of one o'clock P.M. having arrived and the general business of the town being now in order, the following named persons were elected, by ayes and noes, overseers of highways for the ensuing year in the following road districts, viz.: (here give the numbers of the road districts and the names of the persons elected overseers thereof.) A.B. was elected poundmaster of said town. On motion, ordered that a pound, &c., (give the location, cost, &c., of pound, if ordered.) The following three places were determined and designated by the voters present as the most public places in said town for the posting up of legal notices, and suitable posts for such purpose were ordered to be erected or maintained by the supervisors at each of such places, viz.: (describe the places.) The supervisors submitted to the electors a report of all the places at which guide posts are erected and maintained within the town, and of all places at which, in their opinion, they ought to be erected and maintained. Thereupon, it was ordered that guide posts be erected and maintained at the following places, viz.: (describe the places.) The town clerk read publicly the report of the board of auditors, including a statement of the fiscal concerns of the tow
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