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AGES.
Date.
NAMES.
Cause of Death.
r.
M.
D.
Jan. 1
John Mahan
Marasmus.
I
Bridget P. Noonan
Puerperal Peritonitis.
8
Hugh Pepper.
Bright's Disease.
8
Herbert Melville Soule
13
6
Pleuro Pneumonia.
8
Lucy Maria Wilbur.
Typhoid Pneumonia.
9
Ethelind Dawes . .
23
Heart Failure.
11
Mary Ellen McCarthy
1
Difficult Labor.
12
Nahum Keene
Heart Disease.
16
Ida Josephine Ames
9
25
16
Mary A. Mahan
3
26
Pneumonia.
18
Unknown child
..
5
Unknown.
19
- Sbine
Stillborn.
27
Delia Theresa McAuliffe
11
.
Heart Disease.
28
Marcus Addison Forrist
24
3
26
Railroad Accident.
Feb. 1
John Cowen Earnes .
6
26
Chronic Diarrhoea.
9
- McEntee .
Stillborn.
10
Daniel Ferguson Sullivan
6
26
Progressive Paralysis.
11
Louisa Russell .
3
2
..
Premature Birth.
16
Maggie Ann Joyce .
13
7
10
Exhaustion.
19
Mirick Pollard Sumner
24
Paralysis.
20
Mary Perry . .
18
24
Erving Blanchard Whitten Cyrus Hicks .
6
7
Abscess of Brain.
5
Albert Gay .
9
9
4
General Debility.
9
Mary Ethel Dana
Premature Birth.
14
Rose McAleer. .
Dysentery.
20
Agnes S. Hollingsworth
2
27
Eulargement of Heart.
21
Annie Reilly .
19
Cancer.
22
Eleanor May Tuttle.
11
25
Pneumonia.
April 3
Edgar Henry Kingsbury
9
12
Heart Disease.
8
Frederick Augustus Cormerais Isabelle Maria Goding .
11
18
Heart Disease.
10
Jacob I. Wagner.
3
8
Diphtheria.
17
Edward Wade .
Pneumonia.
18
Chauncey Carroll Churchill Samuel Massey.
5
Heart Disease.
19
Mary Lee Storrs
€
9
29
Diphtheria.
19
George Robert Ebbs
6
9
..
3
26
Cancer.
20
Marasmus.
21
Isabella Timper
S
2
18
Phthisis.
21
Alonzo Bond Wentworth.
1
7
27
Meningitis.
23 Emma Jane Greely.
28
6
27 Double Pneumonia.
23
Margaret Murray.
60
11
13
Chronic Dis. of Liver.
May
4 Frances Louise Storrs
5
14
Diphtheria.
4 -
Mary Honora Gaynor
..
3
Diphtheria.
10
Joseph Patrick Gaynor.
31
1
14
Intussusception of
14
Gertie Eliza Harrington. Sarah Chester
5
3
Old Age.
17
Michael Charles McGowen.
. .
..
2
14
Phthisis Pulmonalis. Enteritis.
25
1
3
7
Diphtheretic Croup.
28
Emma Amelia Ma comber Rose Harthey.
38
8
25 Meningitis.
Jane
Charles Austin Mackintosh
35
9
15
Heart Failure.
9
Sarab K. Butterfield .
12
..
Peritonitis.
11 |
Edward Taft Hitchings.
4
11
6 Disease of Brain.
M'ch. 1
James Francis Henderson Bathsheba Mills.
5
1
4
22
Old Age.
6
Frank Leslie Walton . .
10
..
7
14!
Agnes Genevieve Doggett
..
18
Cardiac Asthma.
..
29
Consumption.
24
Heart Disease.
11
·
3
..
Bright's Disease.
3
6
23
Acute Bronchitis.
18
Typhoid Pneumonia.
20
Oliver Theodore Thompson (B) Nelson Baker. .
1
4 8 00-+ 2010 9
16
Diphtheria. [Bowels
2
Diphtheria.
15
Heart Malformation.
22
19 Samuel Graves Barnard . Bridget Begley .. Louisa Lawrence LeMote
26
58
29
Pneumonia.
56
00 : 0110 11 : 00 == 2 5 1 9 11 7
..
..
. .
21
20
Peritonitis.
..
Typhoid Fever.
27
Heart Disease.
..
16
..
66
.
13 Margaret Louisa Begley
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Date.
NAMES.
Cause of Death.
Y.
K.
D.
June 11
31
7
10
Consumption.
11
James McLane .
68
Heart Disease.
16
Annie Marcella Barrett
25
1
24
Peritonitis.
23
Olfene .
1 Premature Birth.
24
Joanna Catherine Quinlan Patrick Desmond.
23
Insanity.
29
Belcher Sylvester Wood
75
11
15
Pleurisy.
29 Abigail Swett
91
12 Brain Exhaustion.
July 13
Jeremiah Aloysious Golden Nathaniel Clapp
86
10
14 Pneumonia.
29 John Fisher
84
4
9
Chronic Enteritis.
29
Studley William Muxworthy Mary Dowd.
28
16
Consumption.
Aug. 4
Julia Richards
£3
3
28
Tuberculosis.
18
Mary Ann Larkin
65
..
8
Convulsions.
21
Adelaide Peck
29
..
..
Alcoholism.
22
Catherine Rafferty
74
. . Heart Disease.
22
..
2
Exhaustion.
Sept.
Susan E. Wight .
22
11
22 Consumption.
5
Henry Stoomes
40
. .
3
18
Unknown.
8
William Reed Rogers. Mary E. Welsh .
38
4
.
Unkknown.
15
8
1
6
Diphtheria.
20
Theodore Hatfield - O'Leary Arthur Guild Taft
20
2
11 Accidental Drowning.
27
Margaret Murphy. Mary Wales
84
11
3
Brain Disease.
Oct.
1
William Patrick Egan
75
.
..
Abscess of Liver.
23
5
5 .Consumption.
5
Frederick Gay .
66
..
..
Pyaemia
7
Alice Lawton.
61
Leucoeythaemia. ..
7
Edward Martin.
89
9
. .
Old Age.
7
Francis Louis Morrison
2
Cholera Infantum.
8
Catharine Vincent Collins Charles Sumner
66
7
9
Heart Disease.
11
Kate Sullivan.
82
Fractured Femur.
16
Hayden A. Merrill .
46
·
..
Paresis.
17
Mary Jane Felix (B)
2
..
..
Unknown.
17
Sophronia Hilton.
63
21
Daniel Joseph Collins
31
7
15
Heart Disease. [ach.
22
Michael Burns .
53
Hemorrhage of Stom-
Nov.
1
Rachel Tower Tarbell Ann Glispin
71
6
Heart Disease.
3
Danforth Freeman Elizabeth Swallow
38
.
..
Railroad Accident.
12
Nathaniel Noyes
79
8
2
Old Age.
Dec.
6
Robert McAllister
68
.
.
7
Lois Derby . Hannah Keagan
94
7
22
Old Age
8
9 Patrick Morrissey.
32
11
8 Consumption.
21 Ira Cleveland
87
10
20 Cengestion of Lungs.
23 Rebecca Newell Ellis.
78
2
15 Paralysis.
23
Michael Farnham.
75
..
..
Hemorrhage.
25
Ellen Frances McAuliffe.
32
..
Pneumonia,
8
Louis Oscar Heyn Bridget Donnelly.
60
.
Heart Disease.
9
28
8
24
Consumption.
10
Premature Birth.
22
42
Valvular Dis. of Heart
29
Timothy Francis Hickey Susan Bell .
78
. .
Old Are.
21
5
7 Hemorrhage of Lungs.
.
..
..
31
Gertrude Simpson
..
3
1
..
Diphtheria.
2
..
Old Age.
16
Daniel Cushing Holmes
62
4
Pericarditis.
..
Heart Disease
60
Heart Disease.
..
3
11 Averted Development.
7
65
..
5
53 .
. .
Consumption.
19
Aurelia Schneider;
.
3
29
Convulsions.
29
Alfred Maiers. James Taylor (B)
45
..
. .
Fracture of skull.
27
Lizzie Fay. . Hannah Butler.
59
4
..
Heart Disease.
15
..
42
..
Peritonitis.
26
..
..
Apoplexy.
5
.
Typhoid Fever.
1
7
.
3
Paralysis.
10
AGES.
RECORD OF
TOWN MEETINGS,
.
.
AND
VITAL STATISTICS
OF THE
TOWN OF DEDHAM FOR THE YEAR 1890.
RECORD OF THE TOWN MEETINGS,
1890.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
[Town Seal.]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
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 Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memo- rial Hall, in said town, on the first Monday in March (being the third day of said month ) A. D. 1890, at seven o'clock in the fore- noon, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
Article One. - To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article Two. - To see if the Town will choose the Selectmen Surveyors of the Highways, and authorize and instruct them to employ a Superintendent of Highways.
Article Three. - To vote upon the following question : Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town ? The vote on this question is to be by a separate ballot, and the ballot shall be " Yes " or "No," in answer to said question.
Article Four. - To choose all necessary Town Officers. The following are to be chosen by ballot : Selectman, Assessor, Over- seer of the Poor, Board of Health, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, School Committee, Auditors, Trustees of the Public Library, and Constables, and for the following terms, viz. : One Selectman, one Assessor, one Overseer of the Poor, two School Committee, and three Trustees of the Public Library for three years each, and all other town officers for one year each.
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Article Five. - To see if the Town will vote to revoke its acceptance of Chapter 255 of the Acts of 1878 (otherwise Chapter 27, Sects. 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, of Public Statutes), and Chapter 203 of the Acts of 1883, with reference to the election of Select- men, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor of said Town.
Article Six. - To see if the Town will vote to increase or diminish the number of Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor of said Town.
Article Seven. - To hear and act on the report of the Audi- tors of the Treasurer's and Collector's account.
Article Eight. - To see if the Town will accept the list of jurors as prepared by the Selectmen, and posted according to law.
Article Nine - To see if the Town will authorize the Col- lector of Taxes to use the same means as Town Treasurer may use when acting as Collector.
Article Ten. - To hear and act on the report of the com- mittee on the distribution of the interest of the Damon and Draper donation, and choose a committee to distribute the interest the ensuing year.
Article Eleven. - To see what sums of money the Town will raise to defray the incidental and other necessary expenses not otherwise provided for, of the Town for the ensuing year.
Article Twelve. - To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the decoration of the soldiers' graves.
Article Thirteen. - To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the Dedham Public Library.
Article Fourteen. - To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate money to keep the cemeteries in Dedham village and West Dedham in repair.
Article Fifteen. - To see what rate of interest the Town will authorize the Collector to charge on all taxes not paid Nov. 1, 1890.
Article Sixteen. - To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for payment of the salaries of the School Teachers and Superintendent of Schools the ensuing year.
Article Seventeen. - To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for repairs and care of the School- houses, and for fuel and supplies for the same.
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Article Eighteen. - To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for School Stationery and Text Books.
Article Nineteen. - To see if the Town will appropriate the amount received from other towns for scholars attending the public schools in Dedham, for contingent expenses of the Public Schools.
. Article Twenty. - To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for chemicals and physical apparatus and supplies for the High School.
Article Twenty-One - To raise and appropriate money for the purpose of providing additional ways of egress at the Colburn School-house, as ordered by the Inspection Department of the Massachusetts District Police, in conformity with the provisions contained in Chapter 426 of the Acts of 1888.
Article Twenty-Two. - To see if the Town will provide addi- tional school accommodation in the Avery School District, or in the Avery and Quincy School Districts, and raise and appropriate money for the same, or see what action the Town will take in relation thereto.
Article Twenty-Three. - To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for repairs of highways, side- walks, and lumber for repairs of bridges and railings.
Article Twenty-Four. - To see if the Town will vote to pur- chase a stone crusher, with power to operate it, for use upon the highways, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Twenty-Five. - To see if the Town will purchase gravel pits for use upon the roads, and appropriate money for the same.
Article Twenty-Six. - To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars to build a new street from railroad bridge on High Street to Washington Street, as ordered by the County Commissioners.
Article Twenty-Seven. - To see if the Town will consider and act upon the report of the committee on the Drainage of Wigwam Meadows.
Article Twenty-Eight. - To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Surveyors of Highways and Superintendent of Streets to employ no one upon public work except qualified voters of the town.
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Article Twenty-Nine. --- To see whether the Town will remove the Town Lock-up from the neighborhood of the Ames and High schools, and purchase land for a new site, and raise and appro- priate money for the same.
Article Thirty. - To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to improve Westfield street, as ordered by the County Commissioners. ·
Article Thirty-One. -- To see if the town will raise and appro- priate money to build a drain from near Raymond's Stable on High street to the "Grist Mill Hill," for the purpose of taking the standing water from the rear of the stable that is constantly flowing into the street.
Article Thirty-Two. - To see if the Town will improve and repair Chauncey street (so called) from Bussey street to the Avery Schoolhouse lot, said Chauncey street being the passage- way for school children from the northerly side of East Dedham, , and to see if the Town will raise and appropriate money for the same.
. Article Thirty-Three. - To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to employ a competent civil engineer to rebuild and grade the streets and sidewalks in accordance with the plan accepted by the town.
Article Thirty-Four. - To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to incur a loan for twenty-five thousand dollars at a rate of interest not over four per cent. for such rebuilding and grading.
Article Thirty-Five. - To see if the-Town will provide a sink- ing fund for such loan in such manner that the whole indebted- ness shall be paid off at or within ten years.
Article Thirty-Six. -- To see what action the Town will take towards abolishing the grade crossing of the Old Colony Railroad on River street, and raise and appropriate money for the same, if thought necessary.
Article Thirty-Seven. - To see if the Town will vote to ex- tend the electric lights on Pine street and Needham street, from the Riverdale School to Bridge street.
Article Thirty-Eight. - To see if the Town will discontinue a part of old River street, between the railroad and Milton street.
Article Thirty-Nine. - To see if the Town will vote to author"
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ize the Selectmen to instruct the Superintendent of Streets to pay men employed upon the highways two dollars per day, and that nine hours constitute a day's work.
Article Forty. - To see if the Town will accept the provi- sion of Chapter 303 of the Acts and Resolves of 1872 ; Chapter 107 of the Acts and Resolves of 1874 ; and Section 25 of Chapter 50 of the Public Statutes, relative to the assessment of betterments on improved sidewalks.
Article Forty-One. - To see if the Town will concrete and lay curbstones on the sidewalk on the westerly side of Walnut street, beginning at a point near the Walnut Hill station of the Old Col- ony Railroad ; also on the westerly side of Bussey street, beginning at the junction of High and Bussey streets, and running to the junction of Bussey and Curve streets, near the Merchants Woolen Mill, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty-Two. - To see if the Town will concrete and lay edgestones on the sidewalks on High street, beginning at its junction with Bussey street, and running on the northerly side of said street, and build the same to a point near the junction of High street and Maple place in Dedham village, and raise money for the same.
Article Forty-Three. - To see if the Town will vote to locate a hydrant on Bryant street, as recommended by the Board of Engineers, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty-Four. - To see if the Town will vote to locate a hydrant on Harvard street, as recommended by the Board of Engineers, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Forty-Five. - To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Engineers to sell or exchange Niagara Engine at any time as in their judgment shall seem best.
Article Forty-Six. - To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate money for a hose carriage and hose for fire purposes, to be located in that part of the Town known as Oakdale.
Article Forty-Seven. - To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to procure 1000 feet of hose, a hand carriage for the same, and build and maintain a hose and carriage house, near the intersection of Lowder and Highland streets.
Article Forty-Eight. - To see what action the Town will take with reference to the compensation of the Collector of
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Taxes as provided in Section 6, Article 3, of the Town By- Laws.
By-Laws of the Town require the Polls to be open at seven o'clock, and remain open till thirty minutes past four in the after- noon.
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 of Ded- ham, aforesaid, this twentieth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety.
HOWARD COLBURN, THOMAS P. MURRAY, DON GLEASON HILL, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, ALFRED HEWINS,
Selectmen of
Dedham.
On the foregoing warrant, the following return was made :
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
DEDHAM, March 1, 1890.
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 ench 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 meet- ing, in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town.
JOHN DEAN, Constable of Dedham.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, at Memorial Hall, in said town, on the first Monday of March (being the third day of said month), A. D. 1890.
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The meeting was called to order at the time and placed named in said warrant, by the Town Clerk, who presided as the choice of Moderator.
Article One. - Howard Colburn was appointed and sworn by the Town Clerk a teller to aid the Town Clerk in receiving and counting votes for Moderator.
John R. Bullard was chosen Moderator by written ballot, in receiving which the check list was used.
Article Two. - Voted that this article be dismissed.
Article Three - Voted to take up this Article and ballot thereon at the same time ballots are cast for town officers, under Article Four, at which time the vote on said question was taken by separate ballots, and the result was as follows :
Yes,
389
No,
· 351
In receiving these ballots the check list, and also the ballot box, approved and provided by the Secretary of the Common- wealth, were used, and all the ballots cast under this article were deposited in said box, and all were duly cancelled, but the re- gister in said box did not work so as to register the votes.
CERTIFICATE OF THE MODERATOR.
I, John R. Bullard, the Moderator at the town meeting held in Dedham, March 3, 1890, hereby certify that all the ballots cast under Article Three of the warrant, were deposited in the Stand- ard ballot box, and were duly cancelled thereby, but were not thereby registered because of some defect in the machinery of said box.
JOHN R. BULLARD, Moderator.
Article Five. - Voted to take up Article Five. Voted that the town revoke its acceptance of Chap. 255, of the Acts of 1878 (otherwise Chap. 27, Sect. 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 of the Public Statutes), and Chap. 203 of the Acts of 1883, with reference to the election of Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor of the town.
Voted, that when this meeting adjourn it be to the first Monday of April next, at seven o'clock, P. M., at this place.
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Article Four and Six. - Voted, to take up Article Six with Article Four.
Voted, that the Town proceed to ballot for one Selectman, one Assessor, one Overseer of the Poor, for one year ; two School Committee, and three Trustees of the Public Library for three years each ; three members of the Board of Health, a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, three Auditors and nine Constables for one year each, all on one ballot.
The Moderator appointed as Tellers to assist him in receiv- ing, sorting and counting the ballots, under Articles Three and Four, Howard Colburn, Willie W. Baker, Charles H. Smith, and Edward L. Burdakin, and they were duly sworn by the Town Clerk before entering upon said duties.
In receiving the ballots cast at this meeting, under Article Four, the check list was used ; after the ballots for town officers had been sorted and counted, the Moderator made declaration thereof as follows :
Whole number of ballots (except for School Committee), 766. For School Committee 58 additional ballots were cast by the women voters.
For Selectman, Assessor, Overseer of the Poor, for one year :
Thomas P. Murray had
390
Francis L. Babcock had 358
John Wardle, Jr., had ·
14
Scattering, 1
1
And said Murray was declared elected.
For Board of Health .
. George A. Southgate had . 756
Francis L. Babcock had 747
-
Alonzo W. Cheever had 754
And said Southgate, Babcock and Cheever were declared elected.
For Town Clerk :
Don Gleason Hill had
760
Scattering . 2
And said Hill was declared elected, and was sworn into said office by the Moderator in open town meeting.
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For Town Treasurer :
Lewis H. Kingsbury had
764
Scattering . 1
And said Kingsbury was declared elected.
Collector of Taxes :
Thomas J. Baker had 764
Scattering . 5
And said Baker was declared elected.
Trustees of the Public Library for three years :
Henry P. Quincy had 745
James M. Ellis had .
·
735
Robert J. Johnson had
.
680
Scattering .
15
And said Quincy, Ellis and Johnson were declared elected.
For School Committee, for three years :
Frederick D. Ely had . 784
Charles H. Shriver had .
637
Frances M. Baker had
164
Scattering .
3
And said Ely and Shriver were declared elected.
For Auditors :
Daniel F. Lynch had . 753
Edward C. Paul had . .
752
Frank M. Bailey had .
616
William S. Macomber had .
137
Scattering .
4
And said Lynch, Paul and Bailey were declared elected.
For Constables :
William F. Drugan had 726
Martin J. Barrett had 754
Daniel W. Bonney had
603
Willie W. Baker had . ·
750
Charles O. Haynes had
738
James R. Finn had 751 ·
John Dean had. .
744
·
·
-
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John Wardle, Jr., had
589
George E. Morse had
721
James J. Gaffney had
655
Martin Hanson had .
641
And said Drugan, Barrett, Baker, Haynes, Finn, Dean, Morse, Gaffney and Hanson were declared elected.
Voted that the remaining town officers be appointed by the Selectmen.
At forty minutes past four o'clock in the afternoon, on mo- tion, the polls were closed, after which the Moderator appointed as the committee under the by-laws, to whom were referred the remaining articles of the warrant, the following persons : -
Fred. D. Ely, Winslow Warren, Lyman D. Wilcutt, Charles C. Sanderson, Alonzo W. Cheever, Charles H. Shriver, Joseph A. Laforme, Jacob Lorio, Charles French, John W. Chase, Calvin S. Locke, Elisha Greenhood, H. Everett Marden, George A. Southgate, Alonzo B. Wentworth, Thomas Murphy, Daniel A. Lynch and Patrick F. Tracy, who, with Howard Colburn, chairman of the Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, George W. Cooke, chairman of the School Committee, and George A. Guild, chief engineer of the Fire Department, members ex-officiis, consti- tute the full Committee of Twenty-one.
The ballots cast for town officers were sealed up in an envelope, also the ballots cast under article three, in another envelope, and the check lists used, in another envelope, all in open town meet- ing, and all were endorsed thereon by the Moderator, and placed in the custody of the Town Clerk, after which the meeting was adjourned to the time and place designated by the vote above recorded.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, held at Memorial Hall, in said Dedham, on the first Monday of April (being the seventh day of
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said month), A. D. 1890, by adjournment from the third day of March, 1890, the meeting was called to order at seven o'clock in the afternoon, by John R. Bullard, the Moderator, and the busi- of the meeting proceeded as follows : The committee of twenty-one made report upon each Article as the same was taken up.
Article 7. Voted to accept the reports of the Auditors of the Treasurer's and Collector's accounts, as the same were printed in the town report.
Article 8. Voted to accept the list of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen, and posted according to law, the names of Henry 1). Humphrey and Charles A. Turner being first, by vote (and at their own request), stricken from the list.
Article 9. Voted to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means as Town Treasurer may use when acting as Col- lector.
Article 10. The committee on the distribution of the in- terest of the Damon and Draper donations reported that they had received and distributed the sum of fifty-nine 86 100 dollars during the year. Voted that this report be accepted. (See report on file) .. Voted that John W. Chase and Willie W. Baker be chosen a committee to distribute the interest of said funds the ensuing- year.
Article 11. Voted that this article be laid upon the table.
Article 12. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for the decoration of Soldiers' graves, as recom- mended by the Committee of Twenty-one.
Article 13. The Committee of Twenty-one recommended and the Town voted to appropriate for the ordinary expenses of the Public Library, the sum of two thousand dollars, and also the- further sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the purchase of books, and three hundred and fifty dollars for wiring the Library building for electric lighting, of which sum the amount of one thousand and ninety-two -86 dollars is to be taken from the money now in the treasury, received last year from the dog taxes, and the balance of fifteen hundred and seven 7% dollars be raised by taxation.
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