In General Assembly, Oct. 16th, 1801.

Read and referred to the Committee on the Petition of John Ellsworth and others.  Attest JAS. ELLIOT Clerk.

And the same being read, Resolved,  To concur in the said reference.

A Petition from Jonathan Ware, praying that a Committee maybe raised to lay a highway from Cabot to Newbury, ad that a tax of one cent on the acre in Danville and Barnet, two cents on the acre in Peacham, three cents on the acre in Deweysburgh, and four cents on the acre in Ryegate, may be raised to make and repair said highway; and A Petition from John Skeels, praying that two cents of the tax prayed for by Jonathan Ware and others may be appropriated to lay out, make or repair a road from Newbury to Cabot, and that an impartial and disinterested Committee may be appointed to lay out and establish the same in the most direct and easy route, after viewing the several routs that may be proposed, were sent up from the house with this order on each.”

Reference Data:

Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont, by Vermont, Vermont Governor, Vermont Safety Committee, 1876, page 301