The  selectmen  were  also  directed  to  administer  the  fol-
lowing oath  to  each  person  before  taking  an  inventory  of
his  property :


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You  solemnly  swear,  or  affirm  (as  the  case  may  be),  that  you  will
make  true  answers  to  such  questions  as  shall  be  asked  you  in  refer-
ence to  your  property  and  estate,  liable  by  law  to  taxation ;  So  help
you  God.
After  taking  the  inventory,  the  selectmen  were  to  pro-
pound the  following:

Upon  the  oath  you  have  taken,  have  you  now  given  a  true  account
of  all  your  property  and  estate,  liable  by  law  to  taxation  on  the  first
day  of  April  instant,  according  to  your  best  knowledge  and  belief  ?

Have  you  neither  transferred,  concealed,  kept  back,  nor  in  any
way  disposed  of  any  of  your  money,  or  securities,  or  other  property
of  any  description,  with  a  design  to  avoid  or  diminish  your  taxes  ?

On  the  5th  of  the  following  December,  Moses  Colby  was
chosen  an  agent  of  the  town  to  oppose  a  road  laid  out  by
the  road  commissioners  from  Bell's  tavern  in  Henniker  to
Stan  wood's  tavern  in  Hopkinton.  Bell's  tavern  was  on  the
site  of  the  present  Henniker  hotel,  and  Stanwood's  tavern
on  that  of  the  present  Perkins  Inn.
On  the  5th  of  June,  1842,  James  Straw  signed  an  indent-
ure allowing  the  selectmen  of  the  town  to  drain  Wolf
meadow,  the  consideration  being  #2.  Wolf  meadow  is  now
flowed  by  Whittier's  pond,  at  the  westerly  junction  of  the
old  and  new  roads  running  between  Hopkinton  and  Con-
cord.
