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32 ORGANIZATION.
and to offer a reward of three hundred dollars
for information that would convict any one of
setting any of the recent numerous incendiary
fires.
Early in January, 1828, the following petition
was sent to the state legislature: —
"To the Honorable Senate and Honorable the
House of Representatives of said Commonwealth
in General Court assembled.
"We, the subscribers composing the Bemis
Manufacturing Co., humbly represent that we
have been at great expense in procuring a Fire-
Engine upon the most approved plan, for the
security of our mills and other property situated
in the towns of Watertown and Newton, on
Charles River, the river being at that place the
boundary line between such towns, and we are
desirous it should be employed for the benefit of
both said towns, and be used at any tires that
may happen in either, but as the engine is located
in Watertown aforesaid, the selectmen of
Newton cannot without an act of your Hon-
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orable body empowering them, appoint men to
said engine, and as the Bemis
Manufacturing
Co. have not in their employ a sufficient number
of men in either of said towns to work said engine
effectually, we therefore pray the Honorable
Court to pass an act empowering the selectmen
of Newton aforesaid, to appoint men to said en-