State of Maine. HANCOCK, 55......To the Selectment or Assessors of the Town of branbury John in the County of Hancock, GREETING. WHEREAS the Legislature, at their last session, resolved that the sum of Six Thousand dollars should be raised on the several towns and plantations within the said County, according to the directions of the law, for defraying the usual necessary charges of the County, and whereas the Court of County Commissioners holden at Castine in and for the County of Hancock, on the last Tuesday of April : ORDERED, that the Clerk of the said County should forthwith send out Warrants for assessing the several towns' and plantations' proportion therefor, as July next a the residence by the first day of b clober the law directs, and for paying in the same : one half by the first any of These are therefore, in the name of the State of Maine, & to will and require you, to assess the sum of 97.07 Ninety Seven dollar a Seven Centy upon the inhabitants of the Town of each his due and equal proportion thereof, as near as may be, according to the rule for defraying the State Charge ; being the said Town proportion for the County tax and rate above mentioned. And you are to make a true and perfect list or lists of the names of the persons on whom you assess the aforesaid sums: which list or lists, so perfected, and signed by yourselves (or the major part of you,) you are to commit to the Collector, Constable, or Constables of your said town requiring them respectively to levy and collect the said sum of mining fever dollars and Seven cents on inhabitants and to same unto the thereof, pay the Thancy B Morgan July'a Esquire, Treasurer of said County of Hancock, on or before the first dayrof. October next ensuing. Hereof, fail not of making return of the names of the person or persons to whom you commit the aforesaid list or lists as soon as may be, after you have committed the same. Dated at Ell worth the Thuntisth day of april A.D. 1840 By order of the Court of County Commissioners. ATTEST: j alseane CLERK. To the Treasurer of said County of Hancock. I