Commonwealth of Massachusetts : To the selectmen of the town of [blank] in the fourth western district: Greeting ... These are in the name of the commonwealth, to will and require you ... to cause the freeholders ... to give in their votes ... for one representative, that is an inhabitant of the said district, to represent them in the Congress of the United States ... in the room of the Hon. Dwight Foster, Esq. ... Given at the council-chamber, at Boston, this 18th day of September, Anno Domini, one thousand and eight hundred ...