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Art. 6. Voted, That the report of the finance committee be accepted.
Art. 7. Appropriations voted :
Bonds for Town Officers.
Treasurer's, $30,000 ; collector's, 1899, $20,000,
collector's, 91-97, $5,000 ; water registrar's,
$10,000, (from income of department) bal- ance, and $275 00
Cemetery improvement, .
2,000 00
Contingent expenses, general, balance and 66 66 66 assessors 66 special for val- uation book,
300 00
300 00
Contingent expenses, town clerk's balance and Deficiencies, highways, . $4,844 72
300 00
Insurance, . 785 73
Police, 86 10
Poor department,
1,171 02
$6,887 57
Debt, on principal, receipts from bank and corporation tax. Debt, interest :
School house loan, . $8,000 00
Sewer loan, 14,000 00
Amount carried forward, 22,C00.00
4,000 00
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Amount brought forward, $22,000,00
Town hall loan,
1,800 00
Notes, permanent loans, 2,760 00
School house loan, sinking fund,
475 00
Sewer loan, sinking fund, 235 00
Cemetery trust funds, 184 00
$27,454 00
Balance on hand, receipts and
$24,000 00
Fire department, balance and
11,500 00
Health department, “ .
1,800 00
Highway department :
Highways, receipts and
22,000 00
Lighting, balance and
10,800 00
Sidewalks (mostly for repairs), balance receipts and . ·
2,500 00
Sprinkling, receipts by assessment of 3 cents per front foot. Widening Main street, damages
690 27
Insurance,
1,18I 05
Melrose hospital (see article 13), .
1,000 00
Memorial day,
200 00
Military aid, balance and
250 00
Park department, balance and
400 00
Police department, receipts and
11,220 00
Poor department,
8,000 00
Public Library, balance, dog tax and
2,800 00
School department, balance and
65,000 00
School committee estimates :
Salaries,
$56,300 00
Fuel,
6,500 00
Books and supplies,
5,000 00
Furniture,
1,500 00
Repairs,
4,000 00
Printing and advertising, 200 00
Miscellaneous,
1,500 00
$75,000 00
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Sewer department, maintenance, $3,737 21
" extension (see article 16).
Soldiers' relief, balance and 1,250 00
Town hall, balance, receipts and
1,000 00
Water department (to be paid from income of that department, $30,000, see article 14.)
Art. 8. (1) Salaries, to be paid out of general tax levy. Selectmen, $200 each,
$1,000 00
Town clerk,
400 00
Treasurer,
750 00
Auditor, .
450 00
Assessors, $300 each,
900 00
Assessors' clerk,
850 00
Overseers of the poor,chairman, $200 ; others, $50 each, .
300 00
Board of health, chairman, $200 ; others, $50 each, 300 00
Registrars of voters, clerk, $100 ; others, $50 each,
250 00
Inspector of buildings,
100 00
Attorney,
500 00
Collector of taxes, one-half of one per cent.
on real and personal property, and sew- er assessments, seven and one-half per cent. on polls and street sprinkling, esti- mated, ,
1,500 00
Salaries to be paid from funds of the respective departments :
Cemetery commissioners, $25 each, $75 00
Sewer commissioners, $100 each, 300 00
Water commissioners, $50 each, 150 00
Treasurer water loan sinking fund,
50 00
Water registrar,
1,000 00
Superintendent of water department,
1,200 00
Superintendent of streets,
1,000 00
Art. 9. Voted, All poll and personal taxes to be due on delivery of bills ; all other taxes to be made payable on or before November Ist, 1899 ; interest on all taxes remaining unpaid after said date to be added at the rate of 6 per cent-
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per annum ; all property upon which the taxes remain un- paid on June Ist, 1900, to be sold by the collector according to law.
Art. IO. Voted, Under article 7.
Art. II. Voted, Under article 7.
Art. 12. Voted, Under article 7.
Art. 13. Voted, That the selectmen be authorized to make a contract for the year ensuing, with the Melrose hospital association, for the reception, care and treatment of persons who, by misfortune or poverty require relief during tempo- rary sickness, and that the sum of one thousand dollars ($1000) be appropriated therefor. Article 7.
Art. 14. Voted, To appropriate the sum of thirty thous- and dollars ($30,000) from the income of the water works, for the expense of maintenance, operation and construction of new works, as required by Section 20, Chapter 488, of the Acts of 1895.
Voted, That all the citizens of the town of Melrose shall be given preference in employment in the water department under their vote.
Art. 15. Voted, An appropriation under article 7.
Art. 16. Voted, To authorize the sewer commissioners to expend a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the construction, and extension of sewers, to be paid from the sums received from assessments, as authorized by law.
Art. 17 and 18. Voted, That the fire engineers be instructed to place the fire alarm boxes mentioned in articles seven- teen and eighteen, and pay for the same out of the regular appropriation to the fire department.
Art. 19. Voted, To lay over for one week.
Art. 20. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 21. Voted, To appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) to put South and North High streets in a proper condition.
Voted, To take up article 32.
Art. 32. Voted, That a committee of nine, five of whom shall be the members of the board of selectmen, be ap- pointed to consider the subject of the permanent improve-
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ment of the streets. They to have the service of the town engineer, and superintendent of streets in the matter, and to report a comprehensive plan, and estimate of the cost, at an early town meeting. This plan to be outside the regular highway work, and appropriation.
Voted, That a committee of three consisting of C. C. Barry, S. H. Buttrick and C. H. Adams be appointed to draw up a referendum clause regarding franchises that will be suitable for incorporation as an amendment to the pro- posed city charter and report at a future town meeting in 1899, and that they confer with citizens of other towns and cities with a view to encouraging action of a similar nature.
Voted, To accept the report of the town officers as printed.
Voted, That the forty thousand dollars ( $40,000) sewer assessments be paid over into the sinking fund.
Voted, That our representative in the general court be directed to petition the legislature to legalize the appropri- ation of such a sum of money as the town may vote for the purpose of taking part in the celebration of the 250th anni- versary of the incorporation of the town of Malden, of which Melrose was a part during a period of 200 years.
Voted, To take up Article 22.
Art. 22. Referred to the selectmen.
Art. 23. Voted, To grade and repair Mt. Vernon street, at its junction with Brown street, and appropriate five hundred dollars ($500) from the highway appropriation.
Art. 24. Voted, To turn the surplus of the water board for the year 1898 into the hands of the sinking fund commis- sioners.
Meeting adjourned at 10 o'clock p. m.
Attest:
W. DEHAVEN JONES,
Town Clerk.
Total appropriations, Article 19, Third street, .
$190,891 10 500 00
$191,391 10
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MELROSE, March 8, 1899.
Upon petition of James B. Dillingham and nine others for a recount of votes cast for selectmen at the town meeting March 6th, the board of registrars ordered a recount to take place in the selectmen's room, town hall, Wednesday, March 15th, at 7 o'clock p. m. All the candidates interested were notified in writing.
SELECTMEN'S ROOM, March 15, 1899.
Recount of votes for selectmen, cast March 6th, at the annual election.
Board of registrars conducting the same:
VICTOR C. KIRMES, CHAS. W. COCHRANE, EDGAR R. SOMES, W. DEHAVEN JONES, Board of Registrars.
Registrars appointed the following tellers : D. Webster Dow, Edw. E. Babb, F. H. Blanchard, Eben M. Taylor, John H. Clausen, Simeon Cragin.
Clerk delivered key to Edward E. Babb, who broke the seals and unlocked the box.„ The ballots were then counted. All the candidates were present or represented.
MELROSE, March 15, 1899.
At a recount of the ballots cast for selectmen at the an- nual election, the following was found to be the result of the ballot, viz :
Charles J. Barton, 1074
Sidney H. Buttrick, 1024
George E. Carbee, 178
William A. Carrie, 750
L. Frank Hinckley, II37
Johathan C. Howes,
IO73
John H. Lawson. .
745
Joseph D. Lord, 706
Eugene H. Moore, 727
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Daniel Norton, I
Blanks, 1190
8605
(Signed ) VICTOR C. KIRMES, CHAS. W. COCHRANE, EDGAR R. SOMES, W. DEHAVEN JONES, Board of Registrars.
Attest :
W. DEHAVEN JONES, Town Clerk.
Adjourned Town Meeting, Monday evening, March 20th, 1899, 7.30 o'clock.
Met according to adjournment.
Article 25. Voted, To amend article 2 of the town by- laws by adding a new section to be known as Section II.
Voted, The selectmen shall annually, in March or April, appoint a sealer of weights and measures ; he shall be paid such salary as the town shall determine, and shall account for and pay into the treasury of the town all fees received by him by virtue of his office.
Voted, The sealer of weights and measures, who may be appointed by the selectmen, be paid a salary of two hundred dollars ($200) a year, and turn all fees into the treasury of the town. Yea IIO, nay 23.
Votid, To take up article 19.
Art. 19. Voted, To repair Third street, from Sixth street to Waverly avenue, and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the same.
Art. 26. Referred to the school committee.
Art. 27. Voted, To accept, and allow the taking by the board of park commissioners of certain lands north of Ell Pond for the locating and laying out of a public park, as shown in taking and plan duly filed with the town clerk.
Art. 28. Voted under aticle 7.
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Art. 29. Referred to the selectmen.
Art. 30. Motion, To appropriate nine thousand dollars ($9,coo) for fire station at Wyoming, west of B. & M. R. R. track. Defeated, yea 86, nay 89.
Motion to reconsider defeated. Yea 71, nay 96.
Art. 31. Voted, To accept the following streets as laid out by the selectmen.
(I) An extension of Richardson road, running from Ash- land street southerly and southwesterly to Alpine street.
(2) Street running from Richardson road northerly to Wakefield line, to be called Renwick road.
Article 32. Voted. In the event of the town counsel being satisfied that there is any informality in the warrant, that our representative to the general court be authorized to petition the legislature for an act to legalize the doings of this town meeting.
Voted, unanimously, To accept the report of the board of selectmen relating to guide posts, etc.
Voted, To adjourn sine die.
Attest:
W. DEHAVEN JONES, Town Clerk.
Committee appointed by the moderator on the improve- ment of the highways, to serve with the selectmen, Moses S. Page, John H. Lawson, Frank R. Upham, Chas. E. Gassett. Attest:
W. DEHAVEN JONES, Town Clerk.
Under article 32 the moderator presented the quill pen with which the governor had signed the new city charter for Melrose, the thirty-third city in the commonwealth, to Elbridge H. Goss, the town historian.
WARRANT.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose, in the County of Middlesex: GREETING.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you
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are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of the town of Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the town hall, on Monday the eighth day of May, A. D., 1899, at 6 o'clock a. m., then and there to act on the following articles, viz:
Article I. To choose a moderator,
Art. 2. To see if the town will accept Chapter 162 of the Acts of 1899, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Mel- rose, and bring in their votes by ballot in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 548 of the year 1898, and acts in amendments thereof and in addition thereto, so as the same shall be applicable in answer to the question : Shall an act passed by the general court in the year 1899 entitled an act to incorporate the city of Melrose be accepted. The form of the ballot shall be as follows:
"Shall an act passed by the general court in the year 1899 entitled an act to incorporate the city of Melrose," be accepted. Vote Yes or No.
Polls to be open until 6 p. m. And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies. thereof at the town hall, each of the post offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days before the day ap- pointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands this 29th day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, JONATHAN C. HOWES. WM. A. CARRIE, L. F. HINCKLEY, CHARLES J. BARTON,
Selectmen of Melrose.
A true copy.
Attest: WILLIAM L. PIERCE, Constable.
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MELROSE, May 6, 1899.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have served the same by posting up an attested copy at each of the railroad de- pots and post offices in the town, and at the town hall, more than seven days before the time set for said meeting. And I have also left a printed copy at the residences of legal voters in said town before the day set for said meeting.
WILLIAM L. PIERCE, Constable.
Town Meeting, Monday, May 8th, 1899, 6 o'clock a. m.
Meeting opened by the town clerk.
Article I. Unanimously elected Levi S. Gould to be moderator.
Art. 2. The following election officers were sworn by Sidney H. Buttrick, justice of the peace :
Ballot clerk, James P. Cassell.
Check list, William P. Peirce, J. F. Fernald, W. Scott Gib- bons, A. W. Parker, Julian C. Woodman, Thomas J. Hawkes.
Tellers, John J. Mccullough, P. J. Curran, Frank W. Lewis, Victor C. Kirmes.
Polls opened at 6 o'clock a. m., closed 6 p. m.
Box registered 302 at 9 o'clock.
Box registered 398 at 12 o'clock.
Box registered 741 at 6 o'clock.
Check lists and votes showed 744 votes cast.
Moderator declared the vote as follows:
Yes,
525
No, .
218
Blank,
I
Total,
744
As moderator, I declare that you have accepted Chapter 162 of the Acts of 1899, as passed by the legislature, to incorporate the City of Melrose.
Voted, To adjourn sine die.
W. DEHAVEN JONES, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose, in the County GREETING.
of Middlesex:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby requested to notify the inhabitants of the town of Melrose qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the town hall, on Monday, the eighth day of May, A. D. 1899, at 8 o'clock p. m., then and there to act on the following articles, viz .:
Article I. To choose a moderator.
Art. 2. To see if the town will make operative and avail- able the appropriation as voted, of one thousand dollars ($1000) in aid of the Melrose hospital, made at the last annual town meeting, either by authorizing the treasurer to borrow the same in anticipation of taxes, or by taking any other action the circumstances may demand.
Art. 3. To see if the town will accept the changes in the rules and regulations as to plumbing, and the new rules re- cently adopted by the board of health (as required by Acts of 1895, Chapter 453, Section I.)
Art. 4. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000), for the collection and dis- posal of ashes in the town of Melrose during the coming year.
Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to purchase ti.e lot of land lying south of and adjoining the Franklin school building lot, and authorize the town treasurer to borrow money, to pay for the same.
Art. 6. To see if the town will accept extension of Mal- vern street, easterly from Faxon to Meridian street, as laid out by the selectmen.
Art. 7. To see if the town will raise or appropriate a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) for the pur- pose of celebrating the 250th anniversary of the incorpora- tion of the town of Malden.
Art. 8. To see if the town will rescind the vote whereby the town voted to appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand
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dollars ($15,000) for park purposes, voted at an adjourned town meeting, December 23rd, A. D. 1897.
Art. 9. To see if the town will raise the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the purpose of taking land for park purposes, as referred to in the report of the park committee at the adjourned town meeting held December 23rd, 1897, and authorize the town treasurer to borrow the same, giving the notes of the town therefor, each of the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000), bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 4 % per annum, said interest payable semi-annually, and said notes, that is to say the first nine notes, to be made payable one each year for nine years, the balance of said loan, viz. six thousand dollars ($6,000), pay- able in ten years.
Art. 10. To hear and act upon the reports of town offi- cers and committees, and for the transaction of any other business which may legally come before the meeting.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post- offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days be- fore the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting. Hereof fail not, and make 'due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.
SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, JONATHAN C. HOWES, WILLIAM A. CARRIE, CHARLES J. BARTON, L. F. HINCKLEY, Selectmen of Melrose.
A true copy.
Attest : WILLIAM L. PIERCE, Constable.
MELROSE, May 6, 1899.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have served the same
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by posting up an attested copy at each of the railroad depots and post offices in the town, and at the town hall more than " seven days before the time set for said meeting.
And I have also left a printed copy at the residence of legal voters in said town, before the day set for said meeting. WILLIAM L. PIERCE,
Constable.
Town Meeting, Monday evening, May 8th, 1899, at 8 o'clock.
Meeting opened by the town clerk.
Article I. Unanimously elected Levi S. Gould to be moderator.
Art. 2. Voted, That it is the sense of the town that the select- men approve vouchers to an amount not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars, as appropriated at the annual town meeting in aid of the Melrose hospital.
Art. 3. Voted, That this entire subject be referred to a committee of three, one of whom shall be a competent builder, to report at a future town meeting.
Plumbing Committee.
William Morss. A. B. Franklin.
Peter J. Lynch.
Art. 4. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 5. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 6. Voted, To accept the extension of Malvern street, easterly from Faxon to Meridian street, as laid out by the selectmen.
Art. 7. Voted, To appropriate a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of celebrating the 250th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Malden, and the proper officers be authorized to approve bills for the same. Yea 89. Nay 81.
Art. 8. Indefinitely postponed.
Art. 9. Indefinitely postponed.
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Art. 10. Voted, That a committee of five be appointed for the purpose of consulting with the owner of the land about the Franklin school lot regarding price, etc., and report at the next town meeting.
School Lot Committee.
George L. Morse. John C. Maker.
Thos. W. Ripley. Charles W. Cochrane.
Edward S. Page.
Voted, That a committee of three citizens and the park commissioners be appointed to consider and report upon the question of taking land from Melrose street to Franklin street on both sides of North Ell Pond Brook for public highway or park purposes.
Committee on Ell Pond Brook.
Charles H. Adams.
Maurice G. Cochrane.
Willis C. Goss. L. H. Kunhardt.
John Heber Larrabee. D. Webster Dow.
Voted, That a committee of five consisting of Levi S. Gould, Sidney H. Buttrick, J. Augustus Barrett, Benj. W. Guppy, and Chester Shepard be appointed to investigate and report at the next town meeting, upon the future require- ments, alterations, improvements, for repairs in the town hall, and that said committee have power to fill vacancies, and be given one hundred dollars for said purpose, the money to be taken from the contingent, or any other avail- able fund.
Committee on improved highways made a report of progress.
Meeting adjourned sine die at II.15 p. m.
W. DEHAVEN JONES, Town Clerk.
WARRANT.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose in the County of Middlesex : GREETING.
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you
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are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of Precinct One, of the town of Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs to meet at Rogers' Hall, Rogers' Block, Franklin street, corner Chipman avenue, on Tuesday, the seventh day of November, A. D. 1899, at 6 o'clock a. m., then and there to give in their votes on one ballot:
For governor; lieutenant governor; secretary of the commonwealth; treasurer; auditor; attorney general; coun- cillor for the sixth councillor district; senator for the fourth Middlesex district; representative in the general court from the thirty-first Middlesex district, county com- missioner for Middlesex county; sheriff.
The polls will be opened at 6 o'clock a. m., and will be closed at 4.30 p. m.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post offices and depots in town, not less than seven days before the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, L. FRANK HINCKLEY, WILLIAM A. CARRIE, JONATHAN C. HOWES, CHARLES J. BARTON, Selectmen of Melrose. A true copy.
Attest: WILLIAM L. PIERCE, Constable.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
November 6, 1899.
Pursuant, to the within warrant, I have served the same, by posting up an attested copy at each of the railroad depots, and post offices in the town, and at the town hall, more than seven days before the time set for said meeting, and I have also left a printed copy at the residences of legal voters in said town, before the day set for said meeting. WILLIAM L. PIERCE, Constable.
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WARRANT.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose in the County GREETING.
of Middlesex:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of Precinct Two, of the town of Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the town hall, on Tuesday, the seventh day of November, A. D. 1899, at 6 o'clock a. m., then and there to give in their votes on one ballot:
For governor; lieutenant governor; secretary of the commonwealth; treasurer; auditor; attorney general; coun- cillor for the sixth councillor district; senator for the fourth Middlesex district; representative in the general court from the thirty-first Middlesex district, county commissioner for Middlesex county; sheriff.
The polls will be opened at 6 o'clock a. m., and will be closed at 4.30 o'clock p. m.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the town hall, each of the post offices and depots in the town, not less than seven days before the day appointed for said meeting, and by leaving printed copies of the warrant at the dwellings of the legal voters before the day of meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon to the town clerk, at the time and place of meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.
SIDNEY H. BUTTRICK, L. FRANK HINCKLEY, WM. A. CARRIE, JONATHAN C. HOWES, CHARLES J. BARTON, Selectmen of Melrose.
A true copy.
Attest: WILLIAM L. PIERCE, Constable.
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MELROSE, Nov. 6, 1899.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have served the same by posting up an attested copy at each of the railroad depots and post offices in the town, and at the town hall, more than seven days before the time set for said meeting, and I have also left a printed copy at the residence of legal voters in said town, before the day set for said meeting.
WILLIAM L. PIERCE, Constable.
WARRANT.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Melrose, in the County GREETING.
of Middlesex:
In the name of the Commonwealth.of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the inhabitants of Precinct Three, of the town of Melrose, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet at the school house, Chestnut street, corner Lynde street, on Tuesday, the seventh day of November, A. D. 1899, at 6 o'clock a. m., then and there to give in their votes on one ballot:
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