Name/Title
1813-1849 TOSL Bylaws and Annual Meeting MinutesEntry/Object ID
2021.2.41Scope and Content
Ninety-page PDF of a ledger recording the earliest officers, bylaws, and Town Board meeting minutes of the Town of Sand Lake from its first annual meeting in 1813 through its 1849 annual meeting and any interim special meetings or cases brought before a Justice of the Peace. Specifically, the meetings:
- Defined and resolved to adopt local laws beginning with an 1813 resolution to adopt the bylaws of the Town of Greenbush, from which the Town of Sand Lake was partially created in 1812, as the bylaws of the Town of Sand Lake until amended otherwise;
- Were conducted at the home of a town officer, rather than a public building, on a rotating basis and chaired by a Moderator with Ebenezer Gregory being selected as the first moderator;
- Formally established the annual slate of town officers ranging from a sole Town Supervisor to up to 67 Overseers of Roads;
- Determined tax revenue requirements and tax levies;
- Elected Overseers of the Poor to administer public welfare requirements (refer to the Overseer of the Poor entry in this folder for a description of the Overseers wide-ranging responsibilities);
- Particularly focused on specifying and enforcing the restraint of livestock and recording related violations between meetings, and;
- Recorded the disposition of cases appearing before the Town Justices of the Peace until Justice William Franklin Averill began maintaining separate and far more detailed court records in 1832.
The PDF is downloadable while fully logged into the system. Refer to the two example pages for a preview of its content. A much higher resolution PDF is stored off-line and available upon request under the file name:
1813-1849_TOSL_Annual_Meeting_&_Court_Minutes_Hi_Res.pdf
The original ledger is stored in a locked fireproof safe at Town Hall. This is the first of the 15 ledgers described in the, "Summary of 15 Town Ledgers," entry in this section.Cataloged By
Michael Frederick PerryAcquisition
Accession
2021.2Acquisition Method
FoundDimensions
Height
12 inWidth
8 inDepth
3/4 inCreated By
curator@slhstrustees.orgCreate Date
March 11, 2022Updated By
curator@slhstrustees.orgUpdate Date
March 26, 2022
