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 | | And the said town is hereby invested with all the powers and Privileges, rights and immunities to which other towns are entitled by the Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth. |
 | | Down to the incorporation, in 1804, of the town, the corporation so created exercised many of the functions of a town, such as the construction of bridges, highways, and of a schoolhouse, and one that a town could not exercise, the building of mills. |
 | | Most of the early settlers of Andover made their selection of lots, making clearings upon them, erecting buildings and moving to them, several years before they were confirmed to them by a vote of the proprietors. |
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