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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Selectman  \Se*lect"man\,  n.;  pl  {Selectmen}. 
  One  of  a  board  of  town  officers  chosen  annually  in  the  New 
  England  States  to  transact  the  general  public  business  of  the 
  town,  and  have  a  kind  of  executive  authority.  The  number  is 
  usually  from  three  to  seven  in  each  town. 
 
  The  system  of  delegated  town  action  was  then,  perhaps, 
  the  same  which  was  defined  in  an  ``order  made  in  1635 
  by  the  inhabitants  of  Charlestown  at  a  full  meeting  for 
  the  government  of  the  town,  by  selectmen;''  the  name 
  presently  extended  throughout  New  England  to  municipal 
  governors.  --Palfrey. 




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