pound-masters

Updated: May 27, 2025

Four of the overseers were elected each year in town-meeting, and one of the retiring overseers was at the same time elected constable. In course of time the elective offices came to include assessors and collectors, town clerk, highway surveyors, fence-viewers, pound-masters, and overseers of the poor.

John Fiske - Civil Government in the United States Considered with: Some Reference to Its Origins

2d, That there be four constables elected for said town. 3d, That there be four pound-masters chosen for said town. 4th, That an amount, equal to the sum which may be distributed to said town from the common school fund, be raised by tax for the support of common schools in said town. 5th, That the sum of one dollar per day be allowed to the fence viewers of said town.

Dudley M. Campbell - A Sketch of the History of Oneonta