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Hanging near is the spade used on the occasion, properly inscribed. There is a convenient basement under the entire building.

The program at the dedication of the chapel was as follows: Scripture Reading; Prayer; Singing, “Angel of Peace," by a quartet, with organ accompaniment by F. E. Robbins; Dedicatory Address and Presentation by Rev. F. H. Billington. In accepting the keys Mr. D. W. Robbins, chairman of the selectmen, voiced the sincere and heartfelt thanks of the town for the munificent gift of Captain Wilson. The audience joined in singing "America," and the exercises closed with the benediction.

Captain Wilson's grave is near the summer house, and in front of the Wilson Chapel, the spot being marked by a pink Westerly granite monument. Green Cemetery is very beautiful, is systematically planned, and regularly laid out; it has nearly all the accessories of an up-to-date necropolis, and that practically without expense to the town.

CHAPTER X

BRIDGES

THE act incorporating the second district of Carlisle made it incumbent on the district to pay one-sixth part of the charges that might arise from the maintenance of the North Bridge over the Concord River in Concord, until such time as the inhabitants of the district should themselves build a bridge over said river. Several sums of money were raised by the district for this purpose from time to time and paid usually to the inhabitants of the district for doing the work required.

An extract from an order served on the district treasurer by the selectmen, pertaining to the case in question, reads as follows:

"Carlisle, Jan. 3, 1789.

To Mr. Jonathan Blood, Treasurer.

Sir: Please to pay out of the Districts money to Mr. Simon Blood, Jun'., the following Sums. viz. one pound thirteen Shillings and Sixpence it being for fourteen gallons and three quarts of Rum provided for those that worked at the north Bridge in Concord, also pay to him the Sum of thirteen Shillings, it being for five Days work done at Said Bridge."

On Thursday, the ninth day of December, 1790, at a meeting of the inhabitants of the district the following was the second article which appeared in the warrant: "To See if the District will agree to build a Bridge over Concord River between Carlisle and Bedford or any part thereof, or do any thing for the encouragement of a publick Road through Carlisle and Bedford or act on

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the article as they may think proper.' In response to this article a committee of five inhabitants of the district were chosen, first, to determine as to the necessity of building said bridge; second, should they think it advisable to build to determine the most proper place; third, they were to confer with the inhabitants of Bedford respecting the matter; and finally to see how much they could get by subscription toward building said bridge.

This was the beginning of a question that agitated the minds of the inhabitants of the district for upward of four years and which resulted in the establishment of a public highway from Carlisle to Bedford, and the building of the first bridge over the Concord River between the two towns. The bridge appears to have been completed for service in the year 1795, but appropriations for the purpose of repairing the causeway and for replanking the bridge are subsequently of frequent occurrence.

At a district meeting called for May 26, 1791, it was "Voted to prepare a Road from the Meeting House to the River and build an abutment on this side at the place agreed to by the Committee, if Bedford will prepare a Road to the River and build an abutment on the other side." At a subsequent meeting held October 3, 1791, by adjournment from September 5, it was voted to dismiss the former committee, and that the district take the subscription and build a bridge over the river if the town of Bedford will conform to the requirements of the vote previously passed. The selectmen were chosen a committee to petition the town of Bedford, to lay out a road to the river and build the abutment on their side.

Later it was "Voted to petition the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for a Committee to View the necessity of a Road from Carlisle to Bedford Meeting House," and the selectmen were delegated a committee to accompany them and also to build the bridge. Several sums

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