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WARREN E. RHOADS, Constable of Norwood.
Attest :
JOHN F. KILEY, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Norwood qualified to vote in elections met in Village Hall, in said town, on Tuesday, the fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, and were called to order at six forty o'clock in the forenoon by Fred L. Fisher, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The Town Clerk then read the warrant calling said meeting and the return thereon of the officer who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Fred L. Fisher, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen,
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took charge of the meeting after the reading of the war- rant and acted as presiding election officer. In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth in relation to elec- tions, Village Hall had been fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off, and compartments provided for the use and convenience of the voters to examine and mark their ballots. Each compartment was supplied with suitable facilities for the purpose and with cards of instruction.
The following having been appointed by the Selectmen were sworn by the Town Clerk to the faithful discharge of their duties :-
Ballot Clerks: Conrad Readel, Joseph Schuster, E. P. Tucker, F. M. Readel, A. N. Hartshorn, Thomas F.Ma- honey.
Tellers: Frank Rcadel, Eben Gay, John Tobin, Charles Dunn, John Neville, Michael Murphy, George Capen, George Dexter.
A scaled package of ballots, supplied by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, marked "First set of ballots, 1500, Town of Norwood," was then delivered to the Ballot Clerks by the Town Clerk, together with specimen ballots and cards of instruction, and their receipt therefor was taken in conformity to the law. The presiding elec- tion officer publicly broke the seal on the package and de- livered the ballots to the Ballot Clerks, who took their positions at the entrance to the polling place and furnished the ballots to the voters who presented themselves and were 'found to be qualified. . The Registrars of Voters had provided duplicate lists of the qualified voters entitled to vote at this clection, one copy of which was placed in the hands of the Ballot Clerks at the entrance to the polling place and the other copy was placed at the ballot box. No voter was furnished a ballot until his name had been found and checked on the list at the entrance to the polling place, and he was not allowed to deposit his ballot until his name had been found and checked on the list at the ballot box.
The cards of instruction and specimen ballots were posted in different parts of the building, outside the rail, as re- quired by law.
The register of the ballot box was set at zero, and the
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box was then locked by the Town Clerk.
At fifteen minutes] before seven o'clock the polls were declared open for the reception of votes, and were kept open by vote of the meeting until twenty minutes of five o'clock in the afternoon, when, after due notice, they were declared closed.
By unanimous consent the ballot box was opened at twenty minutes past ten o'clock, and also several times during the day, for the purpose of removing the ballots to be counted. The ballot box was opened at the close of the polls, and the register stood at 958, with 22 that it failed to register, owing to a ballot becoming caught in the working part of the ballot box. The total of the register of the box should have been 980 votes deposited.
The names were checked on the voting lists by the Ballot Clerks at the entrance to the polling place and by the check- ers at the ballot box, were counted up and compared and found to agree, and the number of names so checked was nine hundred and eighty (980) which agreed with the total number of votes taken from the ballot box.
The unused ballots were enclosed in a package, endorsed and sealed and delivered to the Town Clerk. The election officers canvassed the votes given in and the whole number was found to be nine hundred and eighty (980), which were sorted, counted and recorded and declaration thereof made in open meeting, as required by law. In counting the votes the blank forms approved by the Secretary of the Commonwealth were used by the Tellers.
The votes for State and County Officers werc declared at seventeen minutes past six o'clock, as follows:
Governor:
John L. Bates of Boston, Republican, had 424.
Michael T. Berry of Haverhill, Socialist Labor, Nomina- tion Paper, had 11.
John C. Chase of Haverhill, Socialist, had 194.
William A. Gaston of Boston, Democratic, had 303.
William H. Partridge of Newton, Prohibition, had 6. Blank, 42.
Lieutenant-Governor:
John Quincy Adams of Amesbury, Socialist, had 202.
Thomas F. Brennan of Salem, Socialist Labor, Nomi-
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nation Paper, had 19.
Oliver W."Cobb of Easthampton,"Prohibition, had 5 .? Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston,'Republican, had'430.
Herbert C. Joyner of Great Barrington, Democratic, had 280. Blanks, 44. Secretary :
Edward A. Buckland of Holyoke, Socialist, had 194.
Herbert B. Griffin of Winthrop, Prohibition, had 5.
Jeremiah O'Fihelly of Abington, Socialist Labor, Nomi- nation Paper, had 21.
William M. Olin of Boston, Republican, had 427.
Willmore B. Stone of Springfield, Democratic, had 282. Blanks, 51.
Treasurer and Receiver-General:
Edward S. Bradford of Springfield, Republican, had 430. Joseph L. Chalifoux of Lowell, Democratic, had 277.
Frederick A. Nagler of Springfield, Socialist Labor, Nom- ination Paper, had 16.
Daniel Parlin of Worcester, Prohibition, had 15.
David Taylor of Boston, Socialist, had 182. Blanks, 60.
Auditor:
David Morrison of Fall River, Prohibition, had 8.
S. Fremont Packard of Brockton,' Socialist, had 196.
Charles Stoeber of Adams, Socialist Labor, Nomination Paper, had 15.
Thomas C. Thacher Yarmouth, Democratic, had 282. Henry E. Turner of Malden, Republican, had 412. Blanks, 67.
Attorney-General:
Allen Coffin of Nantucket, Prohibition, had 13. Charles E. Fenner of Worcester, Socialist, had 192. John J. Flaherty of Gloucester, Democratic, had 286.
John A. Henley of Lynn, Socialist Labor, Nomination Paper, had 14.
Herbert Parker of Lancaster, Republican, had 415. Blanks, 60.
Representative in Congress, Twelfth District:
Frank Hayward of Hyde Park, Socialist, had 184.
Napoleon B. Johnson of Milford, Prohibition, had 4 ,
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Samuel L. Powers of Newton, Republican, had 402.
Frederic J. Stimson of Dedham, Democratic, had 359. Blanks, 31.
Councillor, Second District:
Gustave B. Bates of Quincy, Socialist, had 209. John T. Kennedy of Boston, Democratic, had 287. Arthur A. Maxwell of Boston, Republican, had 401.
Robert S. Maxwell of Boston, Republican, Citizen,' Nom- ination Paper, had 10.
Blanks, 73.
Senator, Second Norfolk District:
Albion F. Bemis of Foxboro, Republican, had 396. Dennis W. Higgins of Walpole, Socialist, had 219.
Osborne Howes of Brookline, Democratic, had 315. Blanks, 55.
Representative in General Court, First Norfolk District: John E. Fisher of Dedham, Democratic, had 429.
Henry E. Weatherbee of Westwood, Republican, had 473.
John P. Reardon of Norwood, had 1.
Blanks, 77.
County Commissioner, Norfolk :
William E. Badger of Quincy, Republican, had 345. Daniel H. Coleman of Braintree, Socialist, had 192. Marshall P. Wright of Quincy, Democratic and Republi- can Independent, Nomination Paper, had 392. Blanks, 51.
The business of the meeting having been completed, the ballots cast, together with the tally sheets, sealed and en- dorsed by the Tellers, and the voting lists sealed and en- dorsed by the Ballot Clerks, and the unused ballots also sealed and endorsed by the Ballot Clerks, were enclosed in a bag, sealed and endorsed by the Selectinen and delivered by the presiding election officers to the Town Clerk for safe keeping, as required by law.
The returns of the election, for recording which blank forms had been received by the Town Clerk from the Sec- retary of the Commonwealth and the Clerk of Courts of Norfolk County, were filled out, signed by the Selectmen, countersigned by the Town Clerk, sealed up in open meet- ing and delivered to the Town Clerk to forward to their several places of destination.
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The meeting was then declared dissolved at forty minutes past six o'clock in the evening by Fred L. Fisher, presid- ing election officer.
Dissolved.
Attest: JOHN F. KILEY, Town Clerk. MEETING OF TOWN CLERKS.
The Clerks of the towns of Dedham, Westwood and Norwood, in the County of Norfolk, comprising Norfolk District, Number One, at their meeting in Memorial Hall in said Dedham, on Friday, the fourteenth day of November, A. D. 1902, at twelve o'clock, noon, said day being the tenth day following the election, made out under their hands the following complete returns of all votes cast for Representative to the General Court in said district, as fol- lows:
John E. Fisher of Dedham had 1,086.
Henry E. Weatherbee of Westood, had 1,233.
Joseph Coolbrith had 1.
John P. Reardon of Norwood had 1.
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk of Dedham.
JOHN F. KILEY, Town Clerk of Norwood.
WILLIE W. BAKER, Town Clerk of Westwood.
EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
WATER BOARD, 1902.
EDMUND J. SHATTUCK, CHAIRMAN,
MARCUS M. ALDEN,
JOHN F. CALLAHAN.
G. A. P. BUCKNAM, SUPERINTENDENT AND ENGINEER.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
The Board of Water Commissioners herewith present their eighteenth annual report for the year ending December 31st, 1902, with a detailed statement of receipts and expenditures; as and, Trustees of the Sinking Fund, a statement of its invest- ments.
At the annual town meeting John F. Callahan was re-elected Water Commissioner for the term of three years. The Board organized by choice of E. J. Shattuck, Chairman, J. F. Callahan, Clerk.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT IN BRIEF.
Cost of works to Dec. 31, 1902,
$175,091 83
DEBT STATEMENT.
Bonds and Notes issued,
$129,486 41
Bonds and Notes paid, 49,750 00
Bonds and notes outstanding, (not due,)
$79,736 41
Value of Sinking Fund Dec. 31, 1902, 22,074 60
Net Debt Dec. 31, 1902,
$57,661 81
Water rates collected 1902, $15,208 71
We wish to congratulate the citizens of the town on the fact that the receipts for water during the past year are the largest since the establishment of the works.
The amount expended for repairs, $561.58, is somewhat in
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excess of the cost of repairs for several years past. This increase over previous years was largely caused by the destruction of the Washington street bridge over Hawes Brook in the inundation of 1902.
In rebuilding this bridge such changes were made in the structure that there was not sufficient space left for cover, and we were compelled to carry the pipe over the stream at the street level ; and, in order to properly protect it from freezing, more expensive coverings and housing were necessary.
The reservoir was drained, cleaned and carefully inspected, and found in excellent condition.
The pumping station buildings are in good condition. Neces- sary repairs have been made, and the woodwork of the structures has been painted.
Hydrants and gates have had the usual attention, repairs made in several, and all are believed to be in good condition. Seven hydrants have been added to the main lines. There are now in use a total of one hundred sixty hydrants.
All bills for water rates and construction accounts have been collected and paid to the Treasurer.
We publish in full the authority granted us by the State Board of Health, acting under the authority of Section 1, Chapter 510, of the Acts of the year 1897, who have transmitted to the Nor- wood Water Department the following Rules and Regulations for the protection of the waters of Buckmaster Pond and its tribu- taries, and your Board has caused the same to be legally pub- lished and posted both in Norwood and Westwood. Under these regulations we believe the water supply may be kept pure.
OFFICE OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, STATE HOUSE, BOSTON.
January 5, 1901.
E. J. SHATTUCK, Chairman of the Board of Water Commis- sioners, Norwood, Mass.
Dear Sir:
I have the honor to transmit the rules and regulations prepared
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by the State Board of Health, in reply to your petition received at this office December 8, 1900, relative to preventing the pollution and securing the sanitary protection of the waters used by the town of Norwood as sources of water supply. These rules and reg- ulations were adopted by the State Board of Health at its meeting, January 3, 1901.
Respectfully yours,
SAMUEL W. ABBOTT, Secretary.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
for the Purpose of preventing the pollution and securing the San- itary Protection of the Waters of Buckmaster Pond and its Tribu- taries, used by the Town of Norwood as a Source of Water Supply.
The State Board of Health, acting under the authority of sec- tion 1 of chapter 510 of the Acts of the year 1897, and every other act thereto enabling, hereby makes the following rules and regu- lations for the purpose of preventing the pollution and securing the sanitary protection of the waters of Buckmaster Pond and its tribu- taries, used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, which shall remain in force until further order, and which may be hereafter from time to time amended or added to by the State Board of Health :-
1. No cesspool, privy or other place for the reception, deposit or storage of human excrement, and no urinal or water-closet not discharging into a sewer, shall be located, constructed or maintained within fifty feet of high water mark of Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or within fifty feet of high- water mark of any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ulti- mately into said Buckmaster Pond.
2. No human excrement shall be deposited or discharged in or into Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond; and no human excrement shall be kept in, or deposited or discharged in or into, any cess- pool, privy or other receptacle situated within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of said Buckmaster Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any open waters
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the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond, unless such cesspool, privy or other receptacle is so constructed that no portion of its contents can escape or be washed into any such waters.
3. No human excrement, or compost containing human excre- ment, or contents of any privy or cesspool or sewer, or other recep- tacle for the reception or storage of human excrement, shall be deposited or discharged upon or into the ground at any place from which any such excrement, compost or contents, or particles there- of, may flow or be washed or carried into Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond.
4. No house slops, sink waste, water which has been used for washing or cooking, or other polluted water, shall be discharged into Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ulti- mately into said Buckmaster Pond; and no house slops, sink waste, water which has been used for washing or cooking, or other pol- luted water, shall be discharged into the ground within fifty feet, or upon the ground within two hundred and fifty feet, of high- water mark of said Buckmaster Pond, or into the ground within fifty feet, or upon the ground within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any open waters flowing as aforesaid into said Buckmaster Pond.
5. No garbage, manure or putrescible matter whatsoever shall be put into Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows di- rectly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond; and no garbage, manure or putrescible matter whatsoever, shall, except in the cul- tivation and use of the soil in the ordinary methods of agriculture, be put upon the ground within two hundred and fifty feet of high- water mark of said Buckmaster Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any open waters flowing as afore- said into said Buckmaster Pond.
6. No stable, pig-sty, hen-house, barn-yard, hog-yard, hitching or standing place for horses, cattle or other animals, or other place where animal manure is deposited or accumulates, shall be located, constructed or maintained, any part of which is within fifty feet of high-water mark of Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or within fifty feet of high-water mark of
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any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond. No stable or other place, as above enumerated, shall be located, constructed or maintained within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of said Buckmaster Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any open waters flowing as aforesaid into said Buckmaster Pond, unless suitable and adequate provision is made to prevent any manure or other polluting matter from flowing or being washed into said pond or such open waters.
7: No interment shall, except by permission in writing by the Board of Water Commissioners of the town of Norwood, be made in any cemetery or other place of burial, within fifty feet of high-water mark of Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or within fifty feet of high-water mark of any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond.
8. No lands, which were not under the control of cemetery authorities and used for cemetery purposes on January 3, 1901, from which the natural drainage flows into Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond, shall be taken or used for cemetery purposes until a plan and description of the lands which it is proposed to use for such purposes, sufficient for their identification, shall be presented to the State Board of Health and until such taking or use shall be approved in writing by the State Board of Health.
9. No manufacturing refuse or waste products or polluting liquid, or other substance of a nature poisonous or injurious, either to human beings or animals, or other putrescible matter whatsoever, shall be discharged directly into, or at any place from which it may flow or be washed or carried into, Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Nor- wood as a source of water supply, or into any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond.
10. No system of sewers or other works for the collection, conveyance, disposal or purification of domestic or manufacturing sewage or drainage, or any other putrescible matter whatsoever, shall, except in accordance with plans first approved in writing by the State Board of Health, be constructed or maintained at any place within the water-shed of Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of
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Norwood as a source of water supply. No private or separate sewer shall be constructed or maintained, having an outlet upon or in the ground within two hundred feet of high-water mark of said Buck- master Pond, or within two hundred and fifty feet of high-water mark of any reservoir, lake, pond, stream, ditch, water course or other open waters, the water of which flows directly or ultimately into said Buckmaster Pond.
11. No public or private hospital, or other place intended for the reception or treatment of persons afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, shall, until the location and construction thereof have been approved in writing by the State Board of Health, be located or constructed at any place within the water-shed of Buck- master Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply. No public or private hospital, or other place intended for the reception or treatment of persons afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease, shall be maintained at any place within such water-shed, unless all the provisions required by the State Board of Health for the purification or disposal of sewage, drainage or other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, have been com- plied with, and unless all orders issued from time to time by the State Board of Health in relation to the purification and disposal of sewage, drainage and other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, are fully complied with.
12. No tannery, currying shop or other establishment or place where the skins, wool, hair or fur of any animal are treated, shall, until the location and construction thereof have been ap- proved in writing by the State Board of Health, be located or constructed at any place within the water-shed of Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply. No tannery, currying shop, or other establishment or place where the skins, wool, hair or fur of any animal are treated, shall be maintained at any place within such water-shed, unless all the provisions required by the State Board of Health for the purification or disposal of sew- age, drainage or other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, have been complied with, and unless all orders issued from timeto time by the State Board of Health in re- lation to the purification and disposal of sewage, drainage and other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, are fully complied with.
13. No slaughter house or other building for carrying on the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or other animals, and no melting or rendering establishment, shall, until the location and construction thereof have been approved in writing by the State Board of Health, be located or constructed at any place within the water-shed of Buckmaster Pond, so-called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source
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of water supply. No slaughter house or other building for carrying on the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or other animals, and no melting or rendering establishment, shall be maintained at any place within such water-shed, unless all the provisions required by. the State Board of Health for the purification or disposal of sew- age, drainage or other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged therefrom, have been complied with, and unless all orders issued from time to time by the State Board of Health in relation to the purification and disposal of sewage, drainage and other polluting or organic matter, which may be discharged there- from, are fully complied with.
14. No person shall bathe in, and no person shall, unless per- mitted by a special regulation or by a written permit of the Board of Water Commissioners of the town of Norwood, fish in, or send, drive, or put any animal into Buckmaster Pond, so called, said pond being in the town of Westwood, and used by the town of Norwood as a source of water supply. No person other than a member of said Board of Water Commissioners, its officers, agents or employees, or public officers whose duties may so require, shall, unless so permitted by regulation or permit of said Board, enter or go, in any boat, skiff, raft or other contrivance, on or upon the water of said pond, nor shall enter or go upon, or drive any animal upon the ice of said pond.
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