Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Development of Our Town Government and Common Lands and Commonage: With the Proceedings at the Annual Meeting, December 4, 1899
To keep these primitive highways in fair condition was no mean task in itself. But the highway surveyor had other duties. The lines of roadway were not defined with any accuracy. It was easy for landholders to push out their fences and claim portions of the common highway, and the surveyor was bound to detect such encroach ments and determine their extent. Men of the finest quality were needed for this and other delicate tasks, and large powers were given them, as the regulations adopted in 1641 indicate.
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