SELECTMEN
\sɪlˈɛktmɛn], \sɪlˈɛktmɛn], \s_ɪ_l_ˈɛ_k_t_m_ɛ_n]\
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The chief officers of a New England town. English parishes had their vestries, which were of two sorts, common vestries, composed of all the rate-payers, and select vestries. In the latter, concerns were managed by select vestrymen. Hence the term selectmen, as used in New England, for the governing board of a town. The practice is found in Massachusetts as early as the issue of the "Body of Liberties." The selectmen acted under the orders of the town-meeting.
By John Franklin Jameson
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