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Naomi Adiv's Beating the Bounds project

March 7, 2008 8:06am

I believe there is still a law in Massachusetts that requires the selectmen of each town to "perambulate the boundaries" together with their counterparts in the surrounding towns. As I recall, this was done about every 10 years. The selectmen (probably now "selectpersons") are the elected officials that manage the town.

Most towns also had (have?) a "fence viewer", whose duty is to inspect all fences between properties within the town.

Dick.

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