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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23.,
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ghway, whenever the said committee shall receive satisfactory assurances that the compensation or damages to be allowed by said commissioners will not be less than $75.00 on each share. The county commissioners declined to take action upon the above petition. At a meeting held April 10 1843, it was voted to pay L. Spaulding for work done on the turnpike for the year ensuing $1.25 per day for April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November, and $1.00 per day for December, January and March, and $100 per day for horse and cart for the year. Also to pay fifty dollars per quarter for tending the toll gate. When the building of the Medford branch railroad was under consideration (1846) the Turnpike Corporation voted to sell the franchise of the corporation to the Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company (later called the B. & M. Railroad Co.) for the sum of $10,000 including all the damage sustained by the railroad crossing said turnpike. September 6, 1860, it was