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PATRICK F. GRADY,
1888.
JOB B. SAVERY, Clerk.
158
ANNUAL REPORT.
List of Persons Liable to Serve as Jurors, Prepared by the Selectmen of Attleborough, March 3, 1886.
Albro, Joseph G.
Holmes, Joseph L.
Aldrich, Welcome B.
Hodges, Gardner C.
Arnold, Ezra
Horton, Everett S.
Atwood, Osmond H.
Jordan, Charles E.
Andrews, Albert Jackson, George F.
Allen, George W.
Joyce, John T.
Allen, Henry K. W.
Jillson, George L.
Allen, Henry B.
King, George D.
Atwell, Elmer W.
Knapp, Edward C.
Barnett, Alexander
King, William L.
Bates, John T.
Lynch, Thomas,
Bodman, Henry A.
Lamb, Norval B.
Brady, Philip
Lathrop, Samuel P.
Briggs, William H.
Lord, Frost
Bicknell, George F.
Millard, William H.
Brown, Jesse C.
Monroe, George A.
Barden, Joseph G.
May, Elisha G.
Blackinton, Milton W.
May, Henry F.
Burbank, Charles M.
Maxcy, Erastus B.
Brewster, Charles S.
Macdonald, Robert
Boomer, Benjamin F.
Macdonald, John,
Bicknell, George A.
Marble, Walter P.
Bacon, Ebenezer
Nerney, Nicholas
Baker, John H.
1 Nerney, Peter Newcomb, Joseph M.
Barnes, Clarence ".V.
Bartosch, Francis
Bates, Allen M.
Blackinton, Charles W.
. Nye, Russell B. O'Leary, Daniel Orr, James
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Bliss, Everett
Bourne, Edmund L.
Chace, George A.
Price, George G.
Carpenter, Jesse A.
Read, A. Theodore
Chatterton, Alfred H.
Rogers, William H.
Carpenter, Phillip M.
Read, Lewis L.
Carpenter, Lyman
Read, Henry C.
Chadwick, Lurad H.
Robbins, Isaiah
Capron, Isaac N.
Riley, Elmer W.
Conant, John A.
Robbins, Freeman
Curtis, Owen A.
Richardson, Daniel A.
Capron, Everett S.
Richardson, Albert J.
Carpenter, Charles E.
Read, Arthur W.
Carpenter, Eustace N. Carpenter, Samuel N.
Sweetland, Samuel
Curren, George W.
Sweet, Charles D.
Carpenter, Edwin F.
Sweet, Albion A. Sturdy, John F.
Doll, Frederick Dean, Calvin G.
Slater, John Sweet, Charles R.
Dunham William E.
Sweet, J. Lyman
Evans, Benjamin F.
Smith, William H.
Eldridge, Horace
Sweet, Frank S.
Ellis, Frederick M.
Thomas, Albert C. Tingley, James H.
Fitzpatrick, Matthew
Thurber, Joseph G.
Fisher, Emor S.
Fisher, Albert L.
Tiffany, William H. Thompson, David
Fuller, Jaduthan Gardner, Thomas D.
Tobitt, John L. Tucker, Almon H.
Gould, Samuel W.
Thurber, William H.
Guild, Emmons
Tinkham, Ebenezer
Underwood, Albert F.
Guild, Jason F.
Perry, Joseph A. Powers, Charles H.
Esten, Randall
Rhodes, Charles M.
Dana, George F.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
Gould, Albert E.
Vose, Seth M.
Grant, Charles W.
Wetherell, Joseph L.
Hall, D. Sanford
Wilmart, David A.
Handy, James R.
Whiting, Aaron
Hatch, John B.
White, Eliphalet,
Harris, Charles R.
Witherell, Wilbur R.
Hancock Ceorge A.
White, Edwin A.
Hancock, Timothy E.
C. T. GUILD, FRANK I. BABCOCK, HENRY K. W. ALLEN, ) Attleborough.
Selectmen of
Attleboro, March 3, 1886.
161
ANNUAL REPORT.
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting,
BRISTOL, ss.
To fames W. Riley, or either of the Constables of Attleborough, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the legal voters in the Town of Attleborough, to meet in Agricultural Hall, in said Attleborough, on MONDAY, March 15th, 1886, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, to wit:
I. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
2. To consider and act upon the Reports of the Selectmen, Treasurer, and other Town Officers.
3. To determine the number that shall constitute the Board of Selectmen, Assessors, and School Commit- tec; also the number of Collectors, Constables and Board of Health, for the ensuing year.
4. To bring in their votes for Town Clerk, Select- men, Assessors, Board of Health, one Overseer of the Poor, Treasurer, Collectors and Constables, all on one ballot.
162
ANNUAL REPORT.
5. To bring in their votes for School Committee.
6. To vote "Yes" or "No", by separate ballot, upon the question :- "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?" the ensuing year.
7. To bring in their votes for one Commissioner of Sinking Fund.
8. To choose all other Town Officers.
9. To see if the Town will accept the Jury list as prepared by the Selectmen.
IO. To determine the compensation of Town Officers, and laborers on the highways, or any other bus- iness pertaining thereto.
II. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to make temporary loans, in anticipation of receipts from taxes, for the year 1886 and 1887, and expressly made payable therefrom.
12. To see what disposition the Town will make of the dog fund reported in the hands of the Treasurer.
13. To see if the Town will raise money to pay Military Aid, as provided by the Statutes.
14. To see if the Town will authorize the Overseers of the Poor to contract with physicians to attend the poor for the ensuing year.
15. To choose any committee, to hear the report of any committee, and act thereon.
16. To see if the Town will vote to construct a main drain or sewer through Pleasant Street, in the vil- lage of Attleboro, or do or act anything relative thereto, agreeably to a petition.
17. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Seventy-Five Dollars, to purchase iron markers for Soldiers' graves, agreeably to a petition.
163
ANNUAL REPORT.
18. To see if the Town will vote to maintain one or more Patrolmen for the ensuing year, agrecably to a petition.
19. To see if the Town will vote to apply the amount received from the County on account of dog fund, toward the support of the Public Libraries, now maintained by the Union Improvement District, at North Attleborough, and by the Attleborough Free Public Lib- rary Association at Attleborough, in equal proportions, to each of the Libraries named, agrecably to a petition.
20. To see if the Town will accept East street, run- ning from Parker street to James street, as located by the Selectmen, agrecably to a petition.
21. To see if the Town will accept Parker street, running from Pearl street to Maple street, as located by the Selectmen, agreeably to a petition.
22. To see if the Town will accept Maple street, from County street to Dennis street, as located by the Selectmen, agrecably to a petition.
23. To see if the Town will accept Dunham street, from HI. A. Bodman's lot to the end of F. Torry's land, as located by the Selectmen, agreeably to a petition.
24. To see if the Town will accept Highland street, as laid out by the Selectmen, agreeably to a petition.
25. To see if the Town will accept Second street, running westerly from County street, as located by the Selectmen, agreeably to a petition.
26. To see if the Town will accept Mt. Hope street, from Elmwood street to Fire District line, as located by the Selectmen, and make an appropriation therefor, agree- ably to a petition.
164
ANNUAL REPORT.
27. To see if the Town will accept Allen Road, (so called), beginning at State line and running to and ending at Newell's Bridge, as located by the Selectmen, agrecably to a petition.
28. To see if the Town will accept Prospect street beginning at West street and running southerly, as located by the Selectmen, agreeably to a petition.
29. To see if the Town will accept Jefferson street, beginning at Chestnut street and running southerly to land of H. F. Barrows, as located by the Selectmen, agreeably to a petition.
30. To see what sum the Town will grant for the purchase of text books and stationery, for use in the Pub- lic Schools.
31. To see what sum the Town will appropriate to be expended under the direction of the School Committee, in conveying children to and from the Public Schools.
32. To see what sum the Town will grant for build- ing, enlarging and repairing School Buildings.
33. To see what sum the Town will grant for the support of Public Schools. 1
34. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to procure apparatus, books of reference, and other means of illustration for the Public Schools.
35. To see what sum the Town will grant for inci- dental Educational expenses.
36. To see what sum the Town will grant to provide a Free School, for instruction in industrial and mechanical drawing.
37. To see what sum the Town will appropriate to be expended by G. A. R. Post 145, in decorating the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Republic.
165
ANNUAL REPORT.
38. To see how much the Town will appropriate for the support of Paupers.
39. To see how much the Town will appropriate for Highways and Bridges.
40. To see how much the Town will appropriate for current and incidental expenses.
41. To see if the Town will authorize the Collect- ors of Taxes to use all means of collecting taxes, which a Town Treasurer may use when appointed Collector.
42. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the pro- visions of Sections 22 and 23 of Chapter 50 of the Public Statutes, agreeably to a petition.
43. To see what sidewalks, if any, the Town will instruct the Selectmen to construct or grade, and make an appropriation therefor.
44. To see if the Town will vote to construct a main drain or sewer, from a point near the junction of High Street and Broadway, to the Ten Mile River in North Attleboro, and make an appropriation therefor, or do, or act anything in relation thereto, agrecably to a pe- tition.
45. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Six Hundred and Fifty Dollars, for the purchase of pianos for the High Schools.
46. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum to grade and drain Ash Street, from Broadway to Washington Street, agreeably to a petition.
47. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to employ a Superintendent of the Public Schools.
48. To see if the Town will vote to extend the drain or sewer on Washington Street, from Fisher to Tifft. Street, and make an appropriation therefor, agreeably to a petition.
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ANNUAL REPORT.
49. To see what debts the Town will vote to create in accordance with Chapter 29, Sections 7 and 8 of the Public Statutes.
50. To see if the Town will accept of the provisions of Sections 65, 66, 67 and 68 of Chapter 27, of the Pub- lic Statutes, in regard to Assessors of Taxes, agreeably to a petition.
And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof in at least ten pub- lic places in said Town, at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this War- rant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at or before the time of said meeting.
Given unto our hands at Attleborough, this fifth day of March, A. D. 1886.
C. T. GUILD, Selectmen
FRANK I. BABCOCK, of
HENRY K. W. ALLEN, Attleborough.
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