Contributing Writer
"At a legal meeting of freeholders and inhabitants of the town of Hampton, in the province of New Hampshire, held at the town meeting house in said town on the 7th day of July 1755.
"The town has allowed that there shall be a gate set up at the west end of the 'cassey' ('causeway' or now Winnacunnet Road) or at the most convenient place, from the 20th of November to the 20th of October next ensuing ....
"Capt. Ephr. Marston, Samuel Palmer, Jeremiah Moulton, John Lamprey and Jonathan Marston, be a committee to take care of the fence and gates to preserve the beach ....
"The town has empowered the said committee for to impound all cattle, and horses and sheep that shall be found on the beach between Hampton Rivers mouth and North Hill line (North Hampton) from the 20th of November to the 20th of October next ensuing ....
"That if any person or persons shall presume to leave a gate open or break any gate or throw down any fence that is erected to save the Beach, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 30 shillings to be recovered by said Committee ....
"That if any person or persons shall presume to cut or destroy any beach grass peas on any part of the Beach between Hampton Rivers mouth and North Hill line, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 30 shillings to be recovered by said committee before any Justice of the Peace.
-- Attest, Samuel Dow, Town Clerk (Hampton, New Hampshire)"