was not to be paid in cash, but in labor.
    The rate of computation for labor was 75 cents per day in the spring and 50 cents per day in the fall for a man or a three cattle team.
    That meeting also voted that each man liable by law to do road work should be required to perform two days work on the high way, over and above paying his tax.
    Much discussion was carried on among the voters concerning what roads should be developed. In April of 1810, the town meeting appointed the selectmen to view the layout of the road from the Turnpike Road near David Candee's to Five Mile Hill, and another road from the Turnpike to Quaker Farms and thence to Ousatonick Turnpike.
    However, by September of that same year, the voters changed their minds and voted to instruct the selectmen to take no action.
    The early townspeople also opposed the development of a bridge in the Rimmon Falls area, voting on April 13, 1807 to send Abel Wheeler as representative to oppose "any petition that may be brought to the General Assembly to be holden at Hartford in May next praying for the privilege of collecting a toll on Rimmonfalls Bridge."
    Thus began a long struggle between the town meeting voters and the highway firm, which was resolved twenty years later, by an offer from Sheldon Clark.
    He agreed to place a deposit of 100 pounds in money for the town, with the town being allowed to draw interest on the fund to be used for the maintenance of the bridge.
    "If prudently and fortunately engaged, the interest after that time will probably build and keep in repair all the bridges that will ever be wanted in that place," Clark wrote.
    The offer was accepted, and Pines Bridge was constructed in the area which later became part of Beacon Falls.

    In early town meetings a great variety of topics were discussed and decided upon. An unusual situation in February of 1810, found the voters considering the problem of grave robbery.