Knapp v. Fasbender’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[Copy of Demand.] To WM. W. WOOD, President, WARREN B. SAMMIS, BUEL TITUS, WM. H. SAMMIS, J. MATTHIAS, HENRY BUFFETT, ISAAC C. IRELAND, Trustees of the Town of Huntington, elected April 2, 1872. GENTLEMEN: By virtue of Chapter 492 of the Laws of the State of New York, entitled ‘an Act to abolish the office of Trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of the Town of Huntington, in the Town of Huntington, County of Suffolk, and to create their successors,’ we the undersigned, after due consultation with eminent counsel, consider it our duty, as successors created under that Act, and we do hereby make a formal demand of you the former Trustees, of all books, papers, documents, moneys or any and all property that may be in your possession, or subject to your order, that may belong [sic] or owned by said Town of Huntington, and that the same shall be delivered and put in our possession, as being the proper custodians thereof, on or before the 20th day of July, 1872. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and signatures this fifteenth day of July, 1872. J. AMHERST WOODHULL, Supervisor. DANIEL L. BAYLIS, Town Clerk. O. SMITH SAMMIS,] SELAH SMITH, J Assessors Recorded by Daniel L. Baylis, Town Clerk.””

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