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Article 14. The Committee recommended, and the Town voted, to raise and appropriate under this Article the sum of one
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thousand dollars, to be expended as follows : five hundred dol- lars for Brookdale Cemetery, three hundred and fifty dollars for the old cemetery in Dedham Village, and one hundred and fifty dollars for West Dedham cemetery.
Article 15. Voted to authorize the Collector of Taxes to charge six per cent. on all taxes not paid Nov. 1, 1890.
Article 16. Under this Article the Committee recommended the raising, by taxation, the sum of twenty-six thousand six hun- dred and fifty dollars for school teachers' salaries and for the Superintendent of Schools, with the recommendation that the School Committee consolidate the Dexter and Ames schools.
Voted to reject the recommendation of the Committee with regard to the consolidation of the Dexter and Ames schools.
A motion was made by Frederick D. Ely that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars for the payment of the salaries of the school teachers and Superintendent of Schools the ensuing year. To this motion Elisha Greenhood moved an amendment that the sum be made ten per cent. less. This amendment was carried, and the Town voted to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty- four thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars for the pay- ment of the salaries of the school teachers and Superintendent of Schools for the ensuing year, as aforesaid. Within an hour from the passage of the above vote Mr. Ely, with the general consent of the Town, moved the reconsideration thereof, and said motion was laid on the table.
Article 17. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to appropriate under this article the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, this sum to be expended as fol- lows : Twenty-five hundred dollars for fuel and supplies, fifty dollars for gas, five hundred eighty-two dollars for ventilation of the High Schoolhouse, fourteen hundred twenty-three dol- lars for the ventilation of the Avery Schoolhouse, nineteen hun-' dred ninety-five dollars for general repairs, the last three items to be taken from money in the treasury ; twenty-seven hun- dred dollars for the care of schoolhouses, and five hundred dollars for furniture, and that the balance of the amount appro- priated under this article not taken from the treasury, to wit, five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, be raised by taxation.
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Article 18. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to raise and appropriate the sum of eighteen hundred dollars for school stationery and text-books.
Article 19. Voted to appropriate the amounts received from other towns for the scholars attending the public schools of Ded- ham for the contingent expenses of the public schools, as recom- mended by the Committee.
Article 20. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars for chemicals and physical apparatus and for supplies for the High School.
Article 21. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to appropriate the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars for the purpose of providing additional ways of egress at the Colburn Schoolhouse, as ordered by the Inspection Department of the Massachusetts District Police, in conformity with the pro- visions contained in Chapter 426 of the Acts of 1888, and that this sum be taken from the money in the treasury.
Article 22. The Committee recommended and the Town voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Articles 23, 33, 34, 35. Voted to take up and consider articies 33, 34 and 35 in connection with article 23.
Upon article twenty-three the Committee recommended the appropriation under this article of the following sums for the fol- lowing purposes : -
1. $4,000 for general repairs of highways.
. $1,000 for incidental and extra repairs.
3. $1,200 for general repairs of sidewalks, $200 of which are to be applied for repairing sidewalks on Highland street from Court street to Sandy Valley road.
4. $400 for rebuilding two culverts on Highland street.
5. $500 for lumber for bridges and railings. $500, or so much as is necessary to be taken from the first item to make the crowning safe on High street, between Dr. Quincy's house and Court street. $7,100 to be raised by taxation.
6. $3,000 for edgestones and paving gutters.
7. $4,000 for permanent improvements to be made on High street, between Maverick street and Boyden's square in East Ded-
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ham, and on Washington street from Ames School to Metcalf street, and that this sum of $7,000 be taken from the money in the treasury.
Upon articles thirty-three, thirty-four and thirty-five, the Committee recommended the indefinite postponement of these articles.
Upon articles thirty-three and thirty-four, Winslow Warren, for a minority of the committee, presented a report recommending the adoption of the following votes, and the Town voted to accept the same as an amendment to the report of the Committee of Twenty-one in place of the indefinite postponement of said two articles, to wit : -
Voted that the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed to employ an experienced and competent roadbuilder other than the present Superintendent of Streets to rebuild and grade the streets and sidewalks in accordance with the plans adopted by the town, so far as may be practicable, or in parts of the town where no plan has been adopted upon proper plan of grades to be pre- pared, and to have charge of the expenditure of the money granted for the purpose under these articles, such person to be employed at a salary not exceeding $2,000 per year, to be paid from the treasury, and to be subject to discharge in the same manner as if superintendent ; provided, however, that not more than $25,000 shall be expended in such work without further action of the town.
Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to borrow the sum of $25,000 at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum for rebuilding and grading the sidewalks and streets of the town in accordance with the vote under the preceding article thirty-three, and to provide for the payment of the same at the end of or within ten years in sums of $2,500 and accruing interest per year, such instalments to be paid annually by appropriations, and that they be authorized to give a note or notes of the town therefor.
Voted that the sum of $3,500 be raised and appropriated for the payment of $2,500 of the principal, and $1,000 as interest upon said loan.
On the report of the Committee as thus amended, the Town proceeded to take action, and on motion it was voted that the
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Selectmen be and are hereby instructed to employ an experienced and competent road builder other than the present Superin- tendent of Streets, to rebuild and grade the streets and sidewalks in accordance with plans adopted by the Town, so far as may be practicable ; or in parts of the town where no plan has been adopted, upon proper plan of grades to be prepared, and to have charge of the expenditure of the money granted for the purpose under these articles ; such person to be employed at a salary not exceeding $2,000 per year, to be paid from the treasury, and to be subject to discharge in the same manner as if Superintendent, provided, however, that not more than $25,000 shall be expended in such work without further action by the town.
The motion was then made that the Selectmen be instructed to borrow the sum of $25,000, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum, for rebuilding and grading the side- walks and streets of the town, in accordance with the vote under the preceding Article 33, and to provide for the payment of the same at the end of or within ten years, in sums of $2,500, and accruing interest per year, such instalments to be paid annually by appropriations, and that they be authorized to give a note or notes of the town therefor.
The Moderator ruled that this motion would require a two- thirds vote for the adoption, and on a verification of the vote taken thereon, it was found that one hundred and seventy-nine had voted in the affirmative, and ninety-three in the negative, and the motion was declared not carried by the necessary two- thirds' vote.
Voted, that this meeting be adjourned to next Saturday evening, at seven o'clock, at this place.
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 Saturday, the twelfth day of April, 1890, by ad- journment from the seventh day of said month, the meeting was
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called to order at seven o'clock in the afternoon, by John R. Bul- lard, the Moderator, and the business proceeded as follows :
Articles 23, 33, 34 and 35 being under consideration. A motion that the sum of $3,500 be raised and appropriated for the payment of $2,500 of principal, and $1,000 interest on loan, was lost.
Winslow Warren moved that the Town reconsider the vote passed the 7th inst., relating to the borrowing of $25,000, for re- building and grading the sidewalks and streets (being the last vote passed before the adjournment of the meeting) ; on this .motion upon a verification thereof, 178 voted in the affirmative, and 275 in the negative, and the motion to reconsider was lost.
Erastus Worthington then moved that the Town reconsider the vote passed the 7th inst., whereby the Selectmen "were in- structed to employ an experienced and competent road builder other than the present Superintendent of Streets, to rebuild and grade the streets and sidewalks in accordance with the plans adopted by the Town, so far as may be practicable ; or in parts of the town where no plan has been adopted, upon proper plan of grades to be prepared, and to have charge of the expenditure of the money granted for the purpose under these articles ; such person to be employed at a salary not exceeding $2,500 per year, to be paid from the treasury, and to be subject to discharge in the same manner as of Superintendent, provided, however, that not more than $25,000 shall be expended in such work without further action of the Town"; and on a verification of the vote to reconsider, it was found that 282 had voted in the affirmative, and 72 in the negative, and the vote to reconsider was declared carried.
The Town then voted that the subject matter of Article 33, 34 and 35 be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, under Article 23, to accept the recommendation of the Committee of Twenty-one as recorded in the records of the meeting last Monday evening, and to appropriate the sum of fourteen thousand one hundred dollars for the repair of highways, sidewalks, and lumber for repairs of bridges and railings ; the sum of seven thousand one hundred dollars of which is to be raised by taxation, and the balance of seven thousand dollars to be taken from money in the treasury.
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Article 8 was taken up, and it was voted to reconsider the ac- ceptance of the Jury list, and thereupon the name of Charles Russell was, by vote, and at his request, stricken from the list, and the list as thus further amended was accepted.
Article eleven was next taken from the table, and it was voted to appropriate under this article thirty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars, of which $1,800 is to be taken from money in the treasury, and the balance of $33,975 to be raised by taxation, and the amount so appropriated to be ex- pended as follows : -
Town Clerk, $100 ; Town Treasurer, $350 ; Board of Health, $150; Registrars of Voters, $200; Selectmen, $1,600 ; Superinten- dent of Streets, $1,000; Cemetery Commissioners, $100; Col- lector of Taxes, $850 ; Police Department, $3,000 ; removing snow, $500; stationery, advertising and printing, $750; abatement of taxes, $1,200 ; poor in the almshouse, $1,300 ; poor out of the alms- house $4,000; Insane and Reform School, $1,700; Lock-up and Superintendent, $700 ; Fire Department, $3,500 ; electric lighting, $5,000 ; High School debt, $3,600; water for hydrants, $5,175 ; and miscellaneous expenses, $1,000, as recommended by' the Committee of Twenty-one, except that the appropriation for police is $700 less than recommended by the committee.
Article 24. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 25. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 26. Voted to raise and appropriate thirty-five hun- dred dollars to build a new street from railroad bridge on High street to Washington street, as ordered by the County Commis- sioners and as recommended by the Committee of Twenty-one.
Article 27. Voted to accept the report of the committee (made in print) mentioned in the article, and to indefinitely post- pone any further action thereon, as recommended by the Com- mittee of Twenty-one.
Article 28. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 29. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 30. The Committee recommended, and the Town
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voted to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars to improve Westfield street, as ordered by the County Commis- sioners.
Article 31. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 32. The Committee of Twenty-one reported as fol- lows : The Committee deem it unwise to recommend the appro- priation of any money for any improvement of Chauncy street, so.called, at this time, except for laying a plank sidewalk on one side thereof, because it is not a town way ; but they deem the condition to be such as to require the laying out of the same as a town way as early as possible, and until that time derive such benefit as the plank walk will afford, and recommend the appro- priation of sixty-five dollars from the treasury for that purpose, and it was voted to adopt this report and appropriate said sum for the purpose aforesaid.
Article 36. The Committee recommended, and it was voted, that the Town hereby assents to any action taken by the Old Colony Railroad Company to abolish the grade crossing on River street, provided that the corporation will agree to pay all the ex- penses thereof, including damages, if any, excepting the removal of the gravel required by such abolition, and the grading of the street in accordance with the plans thereof, and that the Town appropriate from the treasury $800 for removing such gravel and grading the street, in the event of the corporation making said agreement.
Article 37. The Committee recommended, and it was voted, to locate not exceeding fifteen lights on the streets named in said article, to extend electric lighting to all streets called for, and to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred and forty dollars for the expense of lighting the same the ensuing year.
Article 38. The Committee recommended, and it was voted, to discontinue the part of old River street between the railroad and Milton street.
Article 39. The Committee recommended, and it was voted, to authorize 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 40. The Committee recommended and it was voted
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to accept the provisions 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 assessments of betterments on improved sidewalks.
Article 41. The Committee recommended. and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 42. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 43. The Committee recommended and it was voted to locate a hydrant on Bryant street, as recommended by the Board of Engineers, and to appropriate sixty-five dollars from the treasury therefor.
Article 44. The Committee recommended and it was voted to locate a hydrant on Harvard street, as recommended by the Board of Engineers, and that thirty-five dollars be appropriated for water therefor the ensuing year.
Article 45. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to authorize the Board of Engineers to sell or exchange Niagara engine at any time as in their judgment shall seem best.
Article 46. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 47. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 48. The Committee recommended and the Town voted to fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes at one per cent., but not to exceed eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Oct. 16. The motion of Mr. F. D. Ely, made under this article, to reconsider the vote by which the Town voted to appro- priate $24,435 for the payment of the salaries of the School Teachers and Superintendent, was taken from the table, and it was voted that said vote be reconsidered, and, on motion of Mr. Ely, it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty seven thousand one hundred and fifty ($27,150) dollars for the payment of the salaries of the School Teachers and Superinten- dent of Schools for the ensuing year.
On motion, the meeting was dissolved.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
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The following persons were sworn by the Town Clerk into the offices to which they had been elected at the March Town Meeting, 1890, viz. : March 3,1890, Wm. F. Drugan, Martin J. Bar- rett, and John Dean, as Constables ; March 4, 1890, Lewis H. Kingsbury, as Treasurer ; Thomas J. Baker, as Collector ; Daniel A. Lynch, as Auditor ; George E. Morse and Charles O. Haynes, as Constables. March 6, 1890, Thomas P. Murray, as Selectman and Overseer of the Poor ; and Edwin C. Paul, as Auditor ; February 4, 1891, Frank M. Bailey, as Auditor.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
DEDHAM, March 7, 1890.
To DON GLEASON HILL, ESQ., Town Clerk.
At a regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen held March 6, 1890, the following appointments were made for the ensuing year :
Fence Viewers.
Ebenezer Gay, Thomas Murphy, Eben T. Paul.
Surveyors of Lumber.
Hiram Hinkley, Francis Turner, Thomas Coleman.
Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Frank M. Bailey, P. O'Sullivan, E. W. Bonnemort, John F. Shine, Charles H. Ellis, George P. Goding, Nathaniel Morse.
Weighers of Hay and Coal.
Frank M. Bailey, George A. French, Waldo Chase, Thomas Coleman.
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
John Bestwick.
Respectfully submitted, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
And the following have been sworn into their respective offices by the Town Clerk : Said Hinkley, March 10; Turner, March 25; and Coleman, March 19, as Surveyors of Lumber. Said Bonnemort, March 15; Ellis, March 13; Goding, March
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10 ; and Morse, March 20, as Measurers of wood and bark; and said French, April 19, and Coleman, March 21, as Weighers of hay and coal.
DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
[Town Seal.]
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Dedham, Greeting :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn the inhabitants of the said town of Dedham, qualified to vote in town affairs, to assemble at Memo- rial Hall, in said town, on Monday, May the 12th, 1890, at one o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, namely : -
Article One. - To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article Two. - To choose one Selectmen, one Assessor, one Overseer of the Poor, in place of Thomas P. Murray, resigned.
And the polls may be closed as early as half-past 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 Dedham aforesaid, this first day of May A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety.
HOWARD COLBURN, DON GLEASON HILL, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE,
ALFRED HEWINS,
Selectmen of Dedham.
On the foregoing warrant the following return was made : -
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
DEDHAM, May 10, 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
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and for the purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies 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 pub- lished twice before said meeting 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 Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in Town affairs, held at Memorial Hall, in said Dedham, pursuant to the foregoing warrant, on Monday, the 12th day of May, A. D. 1890, the meeting was called to order at the time mentioned in said warrant, by the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.
Article 1. Howard Colburn was appointed and sworn a Teller, to aid the Town Clerk in receiving and counting the votes cast for Moderator.
Elisha Greenhood was chosen Moderator by written ballot, in receiving which the check list was used.
Article 2. Voted to chose by ballot, one Selectman, one Assessor, one Overseer of the Poor, in place of Thomas P. Mur- ray, resigned.
The Town then proceeded to ballot for said officers, and on motion, the polls were closed at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, when it was found that the whole number of ballots cast were one hundred and sixty-eight, of which Henry Smith had one hundred and fifty-nine; scattering, nine ; and said Smith was declared duly elected to each of said offices.
In receiving said ballots the check list was used ; after the declaration of said vote, the ballots cast were deposited in an en- velope, sealed, and endorsed thereon by the Moderator, and placed in the custody of the Town Clerk, after which, on motion, the meeting was dissolved ; and immediately after said meeting, on the same day, said Henry Smith was duly sworn by the Town Clerk into the offices of Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor of said town, to which he had been elected.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
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The ballots cast for town officers and also upon the question of license or no license at last town election were duly destroyed by the Town Clerk without being opened.
At a joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and School Committee of the town of Dedham, held at Memorial Hall, Sept. 15, 1890, it appearing that John H. Burdakin, a member of the School Committee, had declined further service on said Board, that notice of said resignation had been given by the remaining members of said School Committee in writing to the Selectmen of said town, and that public notice of more than one week had been given by publication in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town, thereupon the two Boards proceeded to fill such vacancy by a joint ballot of both said Boards, and upon a count of the ballots cast it was found that Julius H. Tuttle had received more ballots than any other person for said office, and said Tuttle was declared elected to hold such office of School Committee until the end of the present municipal year and until the next annual town election.
O. S. WILLIAMS, Secretary of School Committee. GEORGE W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk of Selectmen.
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 Memorial Hall, in said town, on Tuesday, the fourth 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.
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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 Representative to Congress from the Ninth Congres- sional District.
One Representative to the next General Court for the First Norfolk Representative District.
One County Commissioner for the County of Norfolk.
District Attorney for the Southeastern District, to fill vacancy in said District caused by the death of Charles W. Sumner.
" Amendment to the Constitution to prevent the disfranchise- ment of voters because of a change of residence within the Com- monwealth."
"Amendment to the Constitution relative to soldiers and sailors exercising the right of franchise."
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