At the adjourned wardmote, the 23d of January, 1772, it was ordered, that the Common-Council-Men, for this ward, do summon the inhabitants of their respective precincts, to meet and make choice of proper persons for a committee, to consider of, and form a scheme or method for better regulating the nightly watch within this ward: that such committee do consist of 20 persons, being householders within this ward, and that each precinct do choose 2 of them, and return the names of the persons so chosen to the Beadle, who shall within ten days after such return, give notice tom and appoint a time, and place within the ward, for the meeting of, such committee. ... [electronic resource].