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TOWN RECORDS
OF
BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS,
1858=1871.
V. 2
OF
BOSTON
A PART
ROOKLINK
RIVER
MUDDY
FOUNDED 1630
INCORPORATED
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974.402 B81t v. 2. PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF THE TOWN.
1892.
PRINTED BY C. A. W. SPENCER, HARVARD SQUARE, BROOKLINE.
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This volume has been prepared and is published pursuant to the following vote, passed at the special town meeting, held September 18, 1890, under the eighth article in the warrant, to wit :-
Eighth Article,-" To appropriate money for the printing of Town Records."
" Voted, That the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars be appro- priated for printing the Town Records for the years 1838 to 1871, inclusive, said sum to be taken from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated."
The records of the period covered by the above vote are published in two volumes, one comprising the years 1838 to 1857, inclusive, the other the years 1858 to 1871, inclusive.
B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
BROOKLINE, February, 1892.
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BROOKLINE TOWN RECORDS.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 22, 1858.
WARRANT.
SEAL. ] SEAL. [SEAL.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline,
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on the afternoon of Monday, the twenty-second day of March, current, at one of the clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit :
First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year.
Third. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and com- mittees.
Fourth. To see if the town will make appropriation for alterations in the High school-house, and fitting and furnishing rooms so made.
Fifth. To see what action the town will take in respect to laying a plank sidewalk on Beacon street across the marsh from the high land to its junction with the Mill Dam; also, on any other roads that may be deemed necessary.
Sixth. To act upon the question of accepting the act of the Legisla- ture incorporating the Brookline Railroad Company.
Seventh. To see if the town will pay the expense of the evening school for adults.
Eighth. To see if the town will make an appropriation to celebrate the coming Fourth of July.
Ninth. To see if the town will accept the Jury List revised by the Selectmen.
Tenth. To see if the town will take any action in respect to procuring a place for a cemetery.
Eleventh. To see if the town will take any action in relation to mak- ing an alteration in the Lock-up, and providing lodging-rooms.
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Twelfth. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen, or some committee, to call on the County Commissioners to locate anew and widen Harvard, Washington, Walnut, Clyde, and Newton streets.
Thirteenth. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray the necessary expenses of the town for the ensu- ing year.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, March 18th, 1858.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the town of Brookline to appear at the time and place and for the pur- poses within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last and usual place of residence.
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
Pursuant with the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, on the afternoon of Monday, March the twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and were called to order by the Town Clerk at ten minutes past one o'clock.
The Town Clerk then proceeded to read the warrant call- ing said meeting and the return thereon.
The First Article in the warrant, " To choose a Mod- erator," being in order, the Town Clerk called on the meet- ing to bring in their ballots for that officer, and presided during the voting, and they elected for Moderator Theophilus P. Chandler, and he took the chair.
The Moderator then called the meeting to order, and prayers were offered by the Rev. N. M. Perkins ..
The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, and the meeting proceeded to the election of a Town Clerk, and
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Annual Meeting, March 22, 1858.
Benjamin F. Baker was chosen, and sworn to the duties of that office by the Moderator. The whole number of votes for Town Clerk was seventy. B. F. Baker had sixty-nine.
Voted, That the meeting proceed to vote for the following officers for the ensuing year, all on one ticket, viz. : Five Selectmen, to be Overseers of Poor and Surveyors of High- ways, three Assessors, eight Constables, one Treasurer and Collector, nine School Committee-three for three years, three for two years, three for one year.
Voted, That the meeting now proceed to vote for the foregoing officers, and voted that the polls be kept open fifteen minutes.
At the expiration of the time set the Moderator declared the polls closed, and the Moderator and the Town Clerk proceeded to sort and count the votes, and the result was the following-named gentlemen were found to be chosen to the several offices, to wit :
Selectmen, Overseers of Poor, and Highway Surveyors : (Sworn by the Moderator) James Bartlett, Marshall Stearns, Howard S. Williams, Willard A. Humphrey, Thomas Parsons.
Assessors : (Sworn by the Moderator) Willard A. Humphrey, Jerath- meel Davenport, Thomas B. Hall.
Constables : (Sworn by the Moderator) Augustus Allen, Elisha Stone, Aaron Whitney, John Dustin, F. H. Corey, James M. Alger, Eli D. Sanderson, Reuben A. Chace.
School Committee for three years : Thomas. Parsons, Frederick W. Prescott, Rev. N. M. Perkins.
School Committee for two years: Stephen Salisbury, M.D., Tappan Eustis Francis, M.D., Rev. John S. Stone.
School Committee for one year: Rev. Matson M. Smith, Edward A. Wild, M.D., John N. Turner.
Treasurer and Collector : (Sworn by Moderator) Moses Withington.
During the voting for the above-named officers the check- list was used.
Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the chair to report a list of names to the meeting for trustees of the public library,
-and Messrs. William H. Jameson, John E. Horr, and Charles F. Huntington were appointed.
Voted, To not choose Tythingmen.
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Voted, To choose twelve Field Drivers, -and the meeting nominated and chose the following-named gentlemen :
Field Drivers: William O. Churchill (sworn by the Moderator), B. W. Neal (sworn), Aaron Whitney, William J. Hyde, Peter W. Pierce (sworn), William Stearns (sworn), Silas H. Langley, William D. Cool- idge (sworn), John E. Cousens, Moses Jones, Jr., John Gibbs (sworn), Thomas S. Pettengill (sworn).
Fence Viewers : (Sworn by Moderator) Elisha Stone, Clark L. Haynes, Aaron Whitney.
Surveyors of Lumber: (Sworn) Oliver Cousens, Elisha Stone, David S. Coolidge.
Voted, That the Selectmen appoint Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Sealer of Leather : Charles W. Tolman.
Cemetery Committee : William Dearborn, John Dustin.
Auditors : Charles D. Head, Charles W. Scudder, Edward Atkinson.
Fire Wards : Augustus Allen, Reuben A. Chace, George Stoddard.
Pound Keeper : Silas H. Langly.
Truant Officers : Jerathmeel Davenport, Augustus Allen.
Truant Justice : Charles Pope.
The committee appointed to report a list of names to the meeting for Trustees of the Public Library, reported the fol- lowing list of names, which was accepted, and the list was adopted and chosen by the meeting, to wit :
Trustees of Public Library : Thomas Parsons, B. F. Baker, James M. Howe, John N. Turner, Amos A. Lawrence, T. P. Chandler, Frederick H. Hedge, William I. Bowditch, Edward A. Dana, George F. Homer, William Aspinwall, E. C. Emerson.
Third Article taken up-to hear reports of town officers and committees.
The printed reports of the Selectmen, Treasurer, Audit- ors, Trustees of the Public Library, and School Committee, which had been distributed amongst the inhabitants, were presented and accepted by the meeting.
Fourth Article-to alter rooms in High school-house.
Voted, That the sum of one thousand one hundred dol- lars be raised and appropriated to defray the expense of altering the rooms in said building, to be expended under the direction of the School Committee.
Voted, To lay the Fifth Article on the table.
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Annual Meeting, March 22, 1858.
Voted, To lay the Sixth Article on the table.
Seventh Article-to see if the town will defray the ex- pense of the adult school.
Voted, That the whole subject be referred to the School Committee, to report upon at the adjourned meeting.
Voted, To take the Fifth Article from the table, which is as follows :
To see if the town will lay a plank sidewalk on Beacon street across the marsh from the high land to its junction with the Mill Dam; also on any other roads.
Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized to lay a plank sidewalk across the marsh on Beacon street, provided the expense does not exceed six hundred dollars and the abutters on said street will make a continuous line of sidewalk up to Kent street.
Voted, That the sum of six hundred dollars be raised and appropriated to defray the expense of making said plank sidewalk.
Eighth Article-to make an appropriation for celebrating the Fourth of July.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
Ninth Article-to see if the town will accept the Jury List.
Voted, To accept the Jury List prepared by the Select- men, as follows, to wit :
List of Jurors for the Town of Brookline for the year 1858.
Abbott, John C. Hills, Samuel D.
(Feb. 1, '58) Barnett, Robert (Dec. 6, '58) Humphrey, Willard A. Barnard, William Huntington, Charles H. (Sept. 6, '58) Bartlett, James Jameson, William H. Kenrick, Alfred, Jr.
Babcock, George
Bird, William Brackett, Nathaniel (April 12, '58) Parsons, Thomas
Craft, George
Robinson, Samuel A. Seaverns, Thomas Smith, Albert W.
Chapin, Nathaniel G.
Coolidge, David S.
Corey, Francis Henry (Mar. 11, '58) Scudder, Charles W.
(Nov. 11, '58) Davis, Robert S. Dana, Charles B.
(Mar.,11, '58) Seccomb, Edward R.
Dane, John H.
Stearns, William Seamans, James M.
Dearborn, Isaac
(April 12, '58) Vinal, Otis
Goddard, Abijah W.
Warren, Simon
Griggs, Thomas B.
Warren, Charles White, Joseph L.
Haynes, Clark L.
Williams, Howard S.
BROOKLINE, March 8th, 1858.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
Lyford, Nathaniel
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Voted, To take the Sixth Article from the table-to see if the town will act upon the acceptance of the act of the Legislature incorporating the Brookline Railroad Company.
Voted, That the act of the Legislature entitled An act to incorporate the Brookline Railroad Company, being the three hundred and fourth chapter of the acts passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- seven, he and hereby is accepted by the inhabitants of the town of Brook- line in town meeting assembled.
Tenth Article-to see if the town will take any action to procure a place for a cemetery.
Voted, That a committee of nine be appointed by the chair to take the whole subject into consideration, look out a suitable place, ascertain the price at which it can be pur- chased, and report thereon.
The chair appointed the five Selectmen and four others, viz. : James Bartlett, Marshall Stearns, Howard S. Wil- liams, Willard A. Humphrey, Thomas Parsons, and Samuel Philbrick, Amos A. Lawrence, Eliakim Littell, William Dearborn, committee on cemetery.
Eleventh Article.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
Twelfth Article-to see if the town will authorize the Selectmen, or some committee, to call on the County Com- missioners to locate anew and widen certain streets.
Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to call on the County Commissioners in behalf of the town to locate anew and widen Harvard, Washington, Walnut, Clyde, and Newton streets.
Voted, To reconsider the vote whereby the Eleventh Arti- cle was indefinitely postponed.
Said Article is as follows :
Eleventh Article. To see if the town will take any action in relation to altering the Lock-up, and providing lodging-rooms.
Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are requested to take the subject into consideration, and report at the adjourned meeting.
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Annual Meeting, March 22, 1858.
Thirteenth Article. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray the necessary expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
The meeting then made and voted the following appropri- ations, to wit :
For the support of schools
$13,800 00
66 66 66 poor .
800 00
66 highways .
3,700 00
66
" fire department 700 00
county tax
4,300 00
state tax
2,992 00
collecting taxes
700 00
abatement of taxes
500 00
extinction of town debt
5,000 00
interest on town debt
3,700 00
repairs of town buildings
500 00
town officers
1,200 00
ringing bell
100 00
sidewalks
600 00
paving gutters and relaying drains
600 00
prosecuting violations of the liquor law .
200 00
police
600 00
increase and maintenance of town library
240 00
extra on railroad bridge on Aspinwall avenue contingencies
100 00
making and grading Kent street
250 00
fencing new town road (Longwood avenue)
200 00
plank sidewalk on Beacon street
600 00
alterations in new High school building
1,100 00
additions to the Lock-up
500 00
adult schools
300 00
Voted, That the various appropriations made by the town, including those for the purpose of making and repairing highways and townways, be assessed, after deducting the amount now in the treasury and the probable receipts for the ensuing year, amounting to the sum of -, upon the polls and estates, real and personal, of the inhabitants, resi- dent and non-resident, of the town, and collected as the town charges are usually charged and collected.
Voted, That when this meeting adjourns it be to meet in this place on Monday, the twelfth day of April next, at half- past seven of the clock in the evening.
cemetery
100 00
lighting streets and town buildings
1,400 00
2,000 00
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Voted, To reconsider the vote whereby the Eighth Article was indefinitely postponed.
Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the chair, who shall take the whole subject of the Eighth Article into consideration, and report thereon at the adjourned meeting.
The chair appointed the following gentlemen to constitute said committee, viz. : Messrs. John H. Wakefield, George F. Homer, and William Aspinwall.
Adjourned.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
In conformity with the laws of this Commonwealth, the Town Clerk forthwith made out his warrant and delivered it to Constable Elisha Stone, requiring him to summon all officers chosen to appear before the Town Clerk within seven days from this date and be qualified for their respective offices, to be sworn where an oath is required by law, or to signify their acceptance or refusal of the office to which they were respectively chosen.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, March 29th, 1858.
Then personally appeared the undermentioned and were sworn at the time set against their names, or signified their acceptance or refusal of the offices to which they had been chosen.
William J. Hyde.
Field Drivers. - Silas H. Langly, declined March 29, 1858. John E. Cousens. Moses Jones, Jr.
Pound Keeper. Silas H. Langly, declined March 29, 1858.
Sealer of Leather. C. W. Tolman.
J. Davenport, sworn March 28, 1858.
Truant Officers. Augustus Allen, sworn March 28, 1858.
School Committee Thomas Parsons, accepted March 24, 1858. F. W. Prescott, accepted March 23, 1858.
for three years. Rev. N. M. Perkins, accepted March 29, 1858.
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Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 12, 1858.
School Committee Stephen Salisbury, accepted March 29, 1858. for two years. T. E. Francis, accepted March 27, 1858. Rev. John S. Stone, accepted March 25, 1858.
Rev. Matson M. Smith, declined March 25, 1858.
School Committee for one year. John N. Turner, accepted March 25, 1858. Charles D. Head, accepted March 29, 1858.
Edward A. Wild, accepted March 29, 1858.
Auditors. . Charles W. Scudder, accepted March 27, 1858. Edward Atkinson, accepted March 24, 1858.
William Dearborn, accepted March 29, 1858.
Cemetery Committee. John Dustin, accepted March 27, 1858.
Augustus Allen, accepted March 29, 1858.
Fire Wards. Reuben A. Chace, accepted March 25, 1858. George Stoddard, declined March 25, 1858.
Truant Justice. Charles Pope, accepted March 29, 1858. Thomas Parsons, accepted March 24, 1858. B. F. Baker, accepted March 22, 1858. James M. Howe, accepted March 29, 1858. John N. Turner, accepted March 26, 1858. Amos A. Lawrence, accepted March 29, 1858. T. P. Chandler, accepted March 27, 1858. F. H. Hedge, accepted March 29, 1858. W. I. Bowditch, accepted March 26, 1858. E. A. Dana, accepted March 25, 1858. George F. Homer, accepted March 24, 1858. William Aspinwall, accepted March 26, 1858. E. C. Emerson.
Trustees of the Public Library.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 12, 1858.
According to adjournment, the citizens of the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, on Monday evening, April the twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, at half-past seven o'clock, T. P. Chandler, Mod- erator, in the chair.
The meeting then proceeded to fill vacancies in the offices chosen at the last meeting :
School Committee for one year : Albert W. Smith. Pound Keeper : Eben W. Reed. Sealer of Leather : Charles W. Tolman. Fire Ward : Oliver Cousens (accepted).
Trustee of Public Library : James A. Dupee.
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The chair then called for reports of committees and town officers who were not ready at the last meeting.
The printed report of the Selectmen was then taken up.
Voted, That the whole subject of widening and accepting streets be referred to a committee consisting of the Select- men and two others to be nominated by the Moderator, with discretion to make a full and detailed report thereon with their recommendations of what action it is best for the town to take in relation to each street proposed to be wid- ened or accepted, and that the said committee print their report and distribute it to the citizens at least ten days before a town meeting is held to act upon it. Nothing herein con- tained shall affect the vote passed by the town under the Twelfth Article of the warrant.
The Moderator added to the Board of Selectmen Messrs. Samuel Philbrick and George F. Homer.
The making of sidewalks and the laying of flag-stones was brought up, and it was-
Voted, That the whole subject be referred to the Select- men, to act in such manner as they may think best.
The committee on the Seventh Article presented the fol- lowing report, which was accepted, to wit :
REPORT.
The School Committee, to whom was referred the whole subject of appropriations by the town for the support or assistance of the evening school for adults, under the Seventh Article of the warrant calling this meeting, would respectfully report that, having taken legal advice, they have come to the conclusion that the town has no power to pay the expenses already incurred by individuals for the evening school for adults, nor, under the Seventh Article calling this meeting, has the town any power to establish such a school.
All which is respectfully submitted.
By order of the School Committee,
BROOKLINE, April 12th, 1858.
F. W. PRESCOTT, Secretary, pro tempore.
The subject-matter of the Eighth Article, which was referred to a committee for consideration, was taken up, and the committee made the following report, which was accepted, to wit :
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Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 12, 1858.
REPORT.
To the Town of Brookline in Town Meeting assembled by adjournment from March 22d, 1858 :
The committee appointed at said meeting on the 22d of March, 1858, to report to the town whether or not it was legal for the town to make an appropriation to celebrate the coming Fourth of July, as specified in the Eighth Article of the warrant, respectfully beg leave to report that they have carefully examined the matter submitted to them, and the statutes of this Commonwealth and the decisions of the Supreme Judi- cial Court, as well as some of the decisions of the highest law courts in some of the other states, relating thereto, and they are of the opinion and do therefore unanimously report that the town has no legal power or authority to make such appropriations.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN H. WAKEFIELD. GEORGE F. HOMER. WILL. ASPINWALL.
BROOKLINE, April 12, 1858.
The Selectmen, to whom was referred the subject of the Eleventh Article in the warrant, reported thereon as follows, viz. :
REPORT.
The committee to whom the subject of the Eleventh Article in the warrant calling the annual meeting held March 22d, 1858, was referred, have attended to that duty, and would respectfully report, that, in their opinion it is necessary to provide more rooms for the safe keeping of persons who are under the necessity of calling upon the town for tem- porary relief. All the accommodations at present are the two lock-up cells in the cellar of the Town Hall building, and are, we consider, insuf- ficient for the present wants of the town. We therefore recommend the addition of four more rooms, and a passageway by which they can be reached without going through the entry of the Town Hall, and that the sum of five hundred dollars be appropriated to defray the expense of the same.
All which is respectfully submitted.
BROOKLINE, April 12th, 1858.
JAMES BARTLETT, W. A. HUMPHREY, Selectmen of Brookline.
Voted, To accept the foregoing report.
Voted, That the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) be and hereby is raised and appropriated to make such rooms and alterations as recommended, and that the Selectmen have full power to expend the same as they shall deem best. (See page 7.)
Voted, That the appropriation for the state tax be $2,992. (See page 7.)
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Voted, That the appropriation for the county tax be $4,300. (See page 7.)
Voted, To add to the appropriation for highways, $700. (See page 7.)
[NOTE .- The above sums are included in the sums recorded on page 7.]
James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, presented the following report on guide posts and boards, viz. :
REPORT ON GUIDE POSTS AND BOARDS.
The Selectmen submit the following report of the places where guide posts and boards are erected and maintained by the town, to wit :
There is a guide post with a board thereon standing at the junction of Boylston street with Washington street, directing to Newton Upper Falls and Brighton.
One at the corner of Boylston and Heath streets, directing to Newton, Worcester, and Dedham.
One at the corner of Brighton street, directing to Brighton.
One at Boylston and Cross streets, directing to Newton Upper Falls, Newton, and Brighton.
One at Heath and Warren streets, to Newton, Dedham, and Brighton. One at Clyde and Newton streets, to Brighton, Newton, and Dedham.
One at Clyde and Warren Streets, to Dedham and Brighton.
One at Grove and Newton streets, to West Roxbury, Dedham, and Newton.
One at Grove and South streets, to Brighton.
One at South and Newton streets, to Dedham, Brighton, and Newton.
One at Cottage and Warren streets, to Dedham and Jamaica Plain.
One at Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain.
One at Washington and Harvard streets, to Brighton and Cambridge.
One at Sewall's avenue and Harvard street, to Cambridge and Cam- bridgeport.
One at Beacon and Washington streets, to Boston, Newton Centre, Roxbury, and Brighton.
One at Beacon and Harvard streets, to Boston, Newton Centre, Cam- bridge, and Cambridgeport.
One at the junction of Mill Dam and Beacon street, directing to New- ton Centre.
All which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen.
JAMES BARTLETT, Chairman.
BROOKLINE, March, 1858.
Voted, That the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, in anticipation of taxes.
Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
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Special Meeting, April 12, 1858.
SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 12, 1858.
WARRANT.
SEAL
SEAL.
SEAL.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SEAL.
SEAL.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Brookline, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the twelfth day of April, current, at eight of the clock in the evening (or immediately after the close of the adjourned annual meet- ing), for the following purposes, to wit :
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