In 1832 the first mention is made of the election of justices of the peace in town-meeting, the following being chosen : Nathaniel Brown, Elijah Purdy and John Bennett, Jr., and in 1835 the first tax was laid upon the owners of dogs. For the next succeeding years the office of town clerk was held by the following persons : 1838, Francis Losee ; 1839-40, Caleb Tompkins ; 1841-42, George B. Varian ; and 1843, Elias A. Travise. In 1848 the town- meeting was held for the first time in the " Fox jMeadow " school-house, which had replaced the old building which had been burned early in the century.

In 1860 the following were chosen officers of the town : Francis Secor, supervisor (for the tenth time) ; James F. Palmer, town clerk ; David Underhill, assessor ; Elijah Tompkins, James F. Palmer, Lawrence Dobbs and Elias G. Drake, path masters ; James Wiiletts, James D. McCabe and Elias G. Drake, pound masters; James Willetts, commissioner of highways ; James F. Palmer, justice of peace ; Richard Palmer, and Lawrence Dobbs, overseers of the poor ; Richard Palmer, James Willetts and Jonathan G. Tompkins, inspectors of elections ; Orrin A. Weed, constable

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and collector ; and William H. Boda, constable. At the next town-meeting it was voted " that the Rail Road depot, the School-House and the apple tree

near and West of house, in the town of Scarsdale,

be and hereby are designated as proper places for posting legal notices."