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Excerpt from The Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Old Yarmouth, Mass: Including the Present Towns of Yarmouth and Dennis; September 1 and 3, 1889 The town of Yarmouth included within its limits until 1794 all that is now comprised in the two towns of Yarmouth and Dennis. It is the founding of the old town, so described, that it was proposed to celebrate and is hence called in this memorial - Old Yarmouth. In the warrant of the annual town meeting to be held February 11, 1889, appeared the following articles: "To see if the town will raise a sum of money not to exceed one thousand dollars to defray the expenses of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration of its incorporation." "To see if the town will appoint a committee of arrangements, with full power to carry out. all the necessary plans for this celebration, the expenses not to exceed the sum appropriated." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.