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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

         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.
   [1913 Webster]
2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SELECTMEN. The name of certain officers in several of the United States, who 
are invested by the statutes of the several states with various powers.
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