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Selectmen of Dedham.
On the foregoing warrant the following return was made : Norfolk, ss. Dedham, April 22, 1889.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the le- gal voters of the town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by post- ing attested copies thereof in each of the postoffices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing a copy
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thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town of Dedham.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Ded- ham qualified to vote for Senators and Representatives in Gen- eral Court, holden at Memorial Hall, in said Town, in accordance with the foregoing warrant, on Monday, the twenty-second day of April, A. D. 1889, for the purpose of giving in their votes by ballot for or against the following Article of Amendment of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, namely :-
"The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage are prohibited. The General Court shall enact suitable legislation to enforce the provisions of this article."
All the ballots given in therefor were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed, and was as follows :-
" Amendment to the Constitution-Yes," 208.
"Amendment to the Constitution-No," 533.
The meeting was called to order at nine o'clock A. M., by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant, and the polls were at once opened. The Selectmen of said Town presided, and the polls were closed, on motion, at four o'clock in the afternoon. The Selectmen appointed as tellers to aid them in receiving, sorting and counting the ballots, Henry C. Bigelow, a person publicly known to be in favor of said proposed amendment, and Andrew J. Norris, a person publicly known to be opposed to said proposed amendment, and said tellers were duly sworn by the Town Clerk before entering upon the duties for which they were appointed.
And the Town Clerk appointed to distribute the ballots to the voters the following persons, namely : Willie W. Baker, pub- licly known to be in favor of said proposed amendment, and An- drew Tracy, publicly known to be opposed to the same.
In receiving all the ballots cast, the check list prepared by the Registrars of Voters of said town, was used. All the ballots
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cast at said meeting were deposited by the voters into the box called the Standard, approved and provided by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and said ballot box register showed the whole number of ballots cast at said meeting was 742, one ballot having been deposited which by some cause registered twice, and this fact was noted at the time.
Certificates of said ballotings, signed by the Selectmen and attested by the Town Clerk, were sealed up in open town meet- ing. The ballots as cast into the box by the voters were duly sealed up in an envelope certified to by the Selectmen, and placed in the custody of the Town Clerk, and the check list used was also sealed up and certified to by the Selectmen on the en- velope containing the same, and then, on motion, the meeting was dissolved at 4.30 o'clock.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
[Town Seal.]
NORFOLK, SS. To any Constable of the Town of Dedham, in said
County, Greeting :
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town of Ded- ham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memorial Hall, in said Town, on Monday, the twentieth day of May, cur- rent, at 7 1.2 o'clock P. M., to act on the following articles, viz .:
Article One .- To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article Two .- To hear and act upon the report of the com- mittee appointed at the annual town meeting to consider and re- port upon articles twenty-two and twenty-three of the warrant for said meeting.
Article Three .- To see if the Town will vote to provide two school rooms in the third story of the Ames Schoolhouse, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Four .- To see if the town will vote to provide addi- tional means of ventilation in the High, Ames, Oakdale, Colburn,
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Riverdale and Dexter schoolhouses, as ordered by the Inspectors' Department of the Massachusetts District Police, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Five .- To see if the Town will vote to build an en- closed outside stairway at the rear of the Ames Schoolhouse, as ordered by the Inspectors' Department of the Massachusetts Dis- trict Police, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Six .- To see if the Town will vote to purchase land within the present limits of the Avery and Quincy School dis- tricts, build thereon a twelve-room brick schoolhouse, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Seven .- To see if the Town will vote to raise the money appropriated under the foregoing articles by borrowing the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars in accordance with the pro- visions of Chap. 29 of the Public Statutes, and Chap. 129 of the Acts and Resolves of 1884, and authorize the Treasurer and a ' majority of the Selectmen to issue and sell the bonds of the town for fifty-five thousand dollars, bearing interest payable semi-an- nually at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, fifty-five hundred dol- lars of said bonds to be payable each year, and all to be payable within ten years.
Article Eight .- To hear and act on a report in part by the committee on sewage, drainage and grading of the streets, and to see if the Town will adopt the recommendation of the committee that the Town establish the grades of the streets and sidewalks as in- dicated on certain plans drawn by Percy M. Blake, C. E., and owned by the town.
Article Nine .- To see if the Town will accept the provisions of Chap. 303 of the Acts and Resolves of 1872, Chap. 107 of the Acts and Resolves of 1874, and Sec. 25 of Chap. 50 of the Pub- lic Statutes.
Article Ten .- To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to concrete and place and set granite edgestones on the sidewalk on the westerly side of Walnut street, from near the Walnut Hill station of the O. C. R. R. Co. to High street, and the westerly side of Bussey street, from the corner of High street as far as the corner of Belknap street, and raise and appropriate money for the same, according to the provisions named in the preceding article.
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Article Eleven .- To see if the Town will raise and appropri- ate money for the construction of the new road from the railroad bridge on High street to Washington street, as laid out by the County Commissioners.
Article Twelve .- To see if the Town will adopt the By-Laws relating to the management of the Public Library, as prepared by the board of trustees.
Article Thirteen .- To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of five hundred dollars to purchase and set three circular drinking troughs ; one for Memorial Hall square, one for Boyden's square, so called, in East Dedham, and one at Oakdale, and appoint a special committee of three men to purchase, locate and set the same.
Article Fourteen .- To see if the Town will vote to increase the compensation of the Collector of Taxes, and appropriate money for the same.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.
Given under our hands, and the seal of said Town, at Ded- ham, aforesaid, this ninth day of May, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
HOWARD COLBURN, -
THOMAS P. MURRAY, Selectmen of
DON GLEASON . HILL, ALFRED HEWINS, Dedham.
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE,
On the foregoing warrant the following return is made :
Norfolk, ss.
DEDHAM, May 20, 1889.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, to meet at the time and place, and for the several purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the Post Offices in said Town, and in twenty other public places in said Town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing an attested copy thereof to be published twice, before the time of said meeting, in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said Town.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
Art. 2.
The shaded square shown between Colburn and Maverick streets indicates the proposed site of the schoolhouse, around which the town may purchase whatever sized lot it may elect.
Report of Committee on Additional Accommodations at the Avery and Quincy School Districts.
When the question of additional ac- commodations at the Avery School was first considered it was suggested that the present building be remodeled at an ex- pense of 815,000 or $20,000. Before ac- cepting this plan however, several mem- bers of this committee made a careful examination of the building to determine whether or not so large an expenditure could be made, with profit, upon a build- ing so old aud so poorly adapted to tbe BOSTON, May 22, 1889. GUY C. CHANNELL, Esq., needs of a large school. The present school house wuis found to be old and dilapidated, with small, low, illy venti- lated, and in many instances poorly lighted rooms. There is no cellar under the building, although several holes have been excavated at different times to make room for the furnaces, coal-bins, ete., etc., and further excavation would be ex-[ highest authorities who have looked into pensive and almost impossible, espec- ially while the building is standing, be- cause of the underlying ledge upon which its foundations rest. An examination of the Quincy School house shows that the town will soon be callect upon to expend a large amount, either in repairing and remodeling the old building, or in pro- viding a new one in its place. It is the opinion of the committee that these two districts, the Avery and Quincy, could be well accommod ated by one large school house centrally located, with reference to the combined districts ; and in their opin- in such a cousolidation would be a wise aud economical measure.
In order to make ample provision for the uceds, both immediute and future, of the proposed consolidated district, a twelve room school house is required. Several sketches of such a building have been obtained from various architrets with estimates of the probable cost. From an examination, both of these sketches and of similar buildings in ucigh- | ple in its character, curing more particu- boring cities and towns, it is evident that larly For its engineering quality, rather
- a twelve room school house, of two stories, cannot be made to cover an area of less than 9000 square feet, and uo con- tractor has been found who would ngure the cost of such a building, built of brick, in a plain and substantial manner, with- out ornamentation, stone trimmings, etc., and with little regard for fire proof qual- ities iu the construction of partitions floors, stairways and corridors, at less than five dollars per square foot.
The following letter is herewith ap pended as a typical report concerning the character and cost of such a building :
Supt. of Schools, 'l'owu of Dedham. DEAR SIR :- In answer to your inquiry respecting the cost of modern school buildings, I will state as follows: First, the type of plan adopted has much to do with the cost. It is conceded by the
the matter that the best results in school architecture have been reached in Ger- mauy and Austria. The results referred to, apply principally to the methods of lighting aud hygienic qualities, and in my experience in school architecture, for the last fifteen years, I have found that the buildings I have erected after this tpye have given the best satisfaction. 'I'bere are several examples in Boston and vicinity, and one in the state of Pennsyl. vania. Such a school building, two stories high, containing twelve rooms and au exhibition hall, laid out on the departmental systemu, with fifty-six pu- pils to a room. each room connected with two wardrobe closets, one for girls and one for boys, with the necessary corridor and staircase arrangements, cannot be properly compressed into an area of less than 9000 square fect to encli floor. 'T'o ereet such a buikling in a substantial manner, of brick, with slated roofs, wood floors and staircases, thorough but siu-
than for its artistic and architectural feat- ures, also regarding strictly the essential parts, can be erected for between four nud five dollars per square foot of arca of land covered. In defining what I have termed the essentials in the above price, I have not included shcathed wainscottlug of the walls of the school rooms and corridors, neither have I in- cluded the paving of the school yards nor basement floor, (concrete iustead) nor any ornamental stone trimmings, no elaborate yard fences, and the lot select- ed must be favorably adapted to the pur- pose.
Very respectfully submitted,
GEO, A. CLOUGH, Architect.
It appears then that a building such as is needed for the proposed district must cover an area of not lees than 9000 square feet, aud will eost if built of brick, not less than five dollars per square foot; making a total cost of the building alone of $15,000.
Concerning the relative merits of brick and wood in the construction of school houses, especially when one of so great a size is coutemuplated, little need be said. Certainly so far as the important qual ities of durability, freedom from ex- pense for repairs, immunity from danger by fire, and economy in heating arc con- cerned, it is the opinion of this eommit- tee that a brick building is unquestion- ably preferuble to one constructed of wood.
In order to find a suitable and available site for the proposed school house, the members of this committee visited that part of the town and made a careful examination of the different locations suggested. After carefully investigating the merits of the several locations pro- posed, tbe committee were practically unanimous in recommending the lot on Colburn street, on land now owned by the Merchant's Woolen Company. An examination of the accompanying map including a large part of the proposed consolidated district, will show that this location is practically in the centre of the district, and upon the completion of the proposed street in the rear of the school lot, may be easily npproached from all directious. l'he land is pleasantly situ- ated, sloping generally toward the soutb, is high, and can be easily dralned. This land can be purchased at a price which seems to your committee to be reason- able, and the location is in their opinion the most desirable one on which a school house can be built to well accommodate the entire district.
It is therefore recommended that the town purenase the lot of land on Colburn street now owned by the Merchants' Woolen Company, and build thereon a brick school house of twelve rooms, to take the place of the Avery and Quincy school houses.
Signed,
GEO. W. COOKE, J. H. BURDAKIN, JOHN L. WAKEFIELD, L. D. WILL.CUTT, J. R. BULLARD, C. C. SANDERSON, JOHN CROWLEY, CHAS. F. KIMBALL.
Art.2.
opinion of the committee that these two districts, the Avery and Quincy, could be well accommod ated by one large school house centrally located, with reference to the combined districts ; and in their opin- ion such a consolidation would be a wise and economical measure.
In order to make ample provision for the needs, both immediate and future, of the proposed consolidated district, a twelve room school house is required. Several sketches of such a building have been obtained from various architects with estimates of the probable cost. From an examination, both of these | floors and staircases, thorough but sim- sketches and of similar buildings in neigh- [ ple in its character, caring more particu- boring cities and towns, it is evident that larly for its engineering quality, rather
There are several examples in Boston and vicinity, and one in the state of Pennsyl. vania. Such a school building, two stories high, containing twelve rooms and an exhibition hall, laid out on the departmental system, with fifty-six pu- pils to a room. each room connected with two wardrobe closets, one for girls and one for boys, with the necessary corridor and staircase arrangements, cannot be properly compressed into an area of less than 9000 square feet to each floor. To erect such a building in a substantial manner, of brick, with slated roofs, wood
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town purchase the 100 of land on Corburn street now owned by the Merchants' Woolen Company, and build thereon a brick school house of twelve rooms, to take the place of the Avery and Quincy school houses.
Signed,
GEO. W. COOKE, J. H. BURDAKIN, JOHN L. WAKEFIELD, L. D. WILLCUTT, J. R. BULLARD, C. C. SANDERSON, JOHN CROWLEY, CHAS. F. KIMBALL.
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chairman of the Board of Trustees, and it was voted that the same be and hereby are adopted by the town, to wit :
ARTICLE IX.
DEDHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY.
By - Laws.
SECT. 1. The Board of Trustees shall consist of nine persons.
SECT. 2. Regular meetings of the board shall be held on the second Tuesday of March, June, September and December in each year. Special meetings may be called at the request of the chairman or of any two trustees.
. SECT. 3. At the regular meeting in March the Board of Trustees shall choose from their number, by ballot, a Chairman, a Secretary, a Finance Committee, and a Book Committee. They shall also appoint a Librarian, such assistants as may be neces- sary, and a Janitor, and fix the salaries of each.
SECT. 4. The Book Committee shall have control of the selection, purchase, exchange, arrangement and care of the books and reading matter in the Library, and shall have general super- vision of the librarian and assistants in the performance of their duties. All bills for books or other reading matter shall be ap- proved by the chairman of the committee.
SECT. 5. The Finance Committee shall have charge of the accounts, and make proper investment in the name of the town of all funds held for the use of the Library, designating the same as Library Fund. All orders on the treasurer on account of the income of the Library funds and of appropriations made by the town shall be signed by a majority of the committee.
SECT. 6. The Treasurer shall have the custody of the se- curities and funds of the Library, and shall pay the income thereof, together with the appropriations made by the town, upon the order of a majority of the Finance Committee.
SECT. 7. Mortgages in which the Library Fund may have been invested shall, on payment thereof, be discharged by the Treasurer in the name of the town. Transfers of mortgages, bonds or other securities, foreclosures of mortgages, and convey- ances of real estate held under such foreclosures, shall be made by him, and shall be countersigned by a majority of the Finance Committee.
SECT. 8. (a), It shall be the duty of the Librarian to attend to the delivery of books ; to record in a book kept for that pur- pose, the title of each book added to the Library, the date of its reception, its cost, or if presented, the name of the donor, which
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shall also be inscribed in the book presented ; promptly acknowl- edge, in behalf of the Board of Trustees, all gifts to the Library ; promptly cover and number each book, and attach thereto a copy of the Rules before delivering it.
(b). The Librarian shall keep an account of all fines in- curred and paid, and pay over the amount thereof to the Treas- urer monthly, and may, by direction of the Book Committee, refuse to issue books to any person violating the rules of the Library.
(c). The Librarian shall notify persons detaining books beyond the time allowed to return the same ; and if not there- upon returned, may send for such books at the expense of the de- linquent, and shall notify the Trustees of all persons refusing or neglecting, after due notice, to return books, or to pay fines incurred.
(d). The Librarian shall keep a record of all books asked for which are not in the Library, with the names of those asking for them.
SECT. 9. The Chairman shall annually, on or before the 5th day of February, prepare and submit to the Board of Trustees for approval, at a meeting to be called for the purpose, the re- port and recommendations to the town provided for in Section 6, Chapter 304, of the acts of 1888.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk of Dedham.
Norfolk, ss. Dedham, May 29, 1889.
Then the foregoing By-Laws of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham were laid before the Superior Court in session at said Dedham for civil business, and were approved by the Court.
JAMES M. BARKER,
Associate Justice of the Superior Court.
A true copy of By-Laws and of approval thereon. Attest : ERASTUS WORTHINGTON, Clerk.
A true copy of By-Laws and of approval thereon.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
(Published in Dedham Transcript, June 8, 1889.)
Article 13. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 14. Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
And on motion, at ten o'clock and seventeen minutes in the evening, the meeting was dissolved.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk,
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TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
[Town Seal.]
Norfolk, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Dedham, in said County, Greeting :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town of Dedham, qualified to vote for civil officers, to assemble at Me- morial Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the fifth day of November next, at seven o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to give in their votes for :
Governor of the Commonwealth.
Lieutenant-Governor of the Commonwealth.
Councillor for the Second Councillor District.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Treasurer and Receiver General.
Auditor of the Commonwealth.
Attorney-General of the Commonwealth.
Senator for the Second Norfolk District.
One County Commissioner for the County of Norfolk.
Two Special County Commissioners for the County of Norfolk.
District Attorney for the Southeastern District.
Treasurer for the County of Norfolk.
Sheriff for the County of Norfolk.
Three Commissioners of Insolvency.
One Representative in General Court, for the First Norfolk Representative District.
All of said votes to be on one ballot. And the polls may be closed as early as four o'clock in the afternoon of said day.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen, on or before said day and time.
Given under our hands, and the seal of said town, at Ded-
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ham aforesaid, this twenty-fourth day of October, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
HOWARD COLBURN, THOMAS P. MURRAY, Selectmen of Dedham.
DON GLEASON HILL, ALFRED HEWINS, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE,
On the foregoing warrant the following return was made : Norfolk, ss. Dedham, Nov. 4, 1889.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the le- gal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by post- ing attested copies thereof in each of the postoffices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing a copy thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town of Dedham.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Ded- ham, in said County, qualified as by the Constitution required, to vote for Civil Officers, holden at Memorial Hall in said Town, in accordance with the foregoing warrant, on Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, being the fifth day of said month, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine, for the purpose of giving in their votes for-
Governor ; Lieutenant-Governor ;
Councillor ;
Secretary ;
Treasurer and Receiver General ;
Auditor ; Attorney General ;
Senator for the Second Norfolk District ;
One County Commissioner for the County of Norfolk ;
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Two Special County Commissioners for the County of Norfolk ;
District Attorney for the Southeastern District ;
Treasurer for the County of Norfolk ;
Sheriff for the County of Norfolk ;
Three Commissioners of Insolvency ;
One Representative in General Court for the First Norfolk Representative District.
The meeting was called to order at 7 o'clock, A. M., by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant, and after the delivery of the ballots by the Chairmen of the Selectmen to the Ballot Clerk, the polls were opened, and the Selectmen of said town presided at said meeting.
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