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Article Twenty-Two-Voted to set a hydrant on Eastern avenue, near the junction of Dwight street, and to appropriate fifty dollars therefor out of the treasury.
Article Twenty-Three-Voted to raise and appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars for 400 feet of hose for Engines No. 2 and 6. .
Article Twenty-Four-Voted that a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator, to see what arrangement could be made with the town of Norwood, for water for fire protection, and the Moderator appointed as that committee James M. Ellis, Henry E. French and Willie W. Baker.
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Article Twenty-Five-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Twenty-Six-Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars to carry on the concreting of sidewalks and laying of curbstones in the same manner as last year.
And at 10 o'clock, p. m., the meeting was, on motion, adjourned to next Monday evening, at this place, at half past seven o'clock.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF' MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
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. At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Dedham, in said County, qualified to vote in town affairs, held at Memorial Hall, in said town, on Monday, the eleventh day of April, 1892, by adjournment from the fourth day of said month. The meet- ing was called to order by Erastus Worthington, the Moderator, at half past seven o'clock, in the afternoon, and the business pro- ceeded as follows :
Voted to take up Articles 27, 28, and 29 together.
Articles Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight-Voted to indefi- nitely postpone the subject matter of these two articles.
Article Twenty-Nine-Voted that the town revoke its ac- ceptance of the provisions of Sec. 72, Chap. 423 of the Acts of 1890, relating to dividing the town into voting precincts and to discontinue voting precincts. Motion to reconsider, lost.
Article Thirty-Voted to instruct the Selectmen and High- way Surveyors to first employ the inhabitants of the town upon all work, and no others to be employed unless there are no in- habitants of the town who can do the work.
Also voted-That it is the sense of the Town that the School Committee shall employ no persons to do mechanical work for the town, other than inhabitants of the town, except when there is no person in the town capable and willing to do the work at a fair price.
Article Thirty-One-Voted that a sum not exceeding $1,500 be raised and appropriated for drainage near junction High and
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Common streets, and $150 for Washington street, corner Spruce street.
Article Thirty-Two-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Thirty-Three-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Thirty-Four-Voted to authorize the Selectmen to instruct the Superintendent of Streets to pay men employed upon the highways two dollars per day.
Article Thirty-Five-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Thirty-Six-Voted that the compensation of the Col- lector of Taxes be one per cent on the amount committed to him, but not to exceed nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Voted also, that the Collector give on the back of each tax bill the items of the estate taxed, as given on the Assessors' valuation.
Article Thirty-Seven-Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $100, to be expended in paying the expenses in giving a series of open-air concerts during the season of 1892.
Article Thirty-Eight-Voted to accept a new street, as laid out by the Selectmen, leading from High street to Avery street, through the land of John Crowley, and raise and appropriate for the same the sum of five hundred dollars. (See report in Highway Book, page 137.)
Article Thirty-Nine-Voted to regrade and improve High street, between Memorial Hall and Westfield street, and raise and appropriate for the same the sum of three thousand dol- lars.
This article was first laid on the table until after the con- sideration of Article Forty, after which the foregoing vote was passed.
Article Forty-Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to purchase a stone crusher, with power to operate it, for use upon the highways, and raise and appropriate for the same the sum of forty-five hundred dollars. Motion to reconsider, lost.
Article Forty-One-Voted to accept the following By-Laws as recommended by the Cemetery Commissioners in their report printed in the last Town Report, pages 76-7, as follows :
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BY-LAW CONCERNING MONEYS DEPOSITED FOR CARE OF LOTS IN CEMETERIES.
SECTION 1 .- The Town Treasurer shall receive such a sum of money, not less than one hundred dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars, as shall be paid into the town treasury by any person holding, occupying, or interested in a lot, in either of the public cemeteries of the town, for the preservation and care of such lot, and shall keep an account of moneys so deposited separate from other moneys of the town, with the name of each depositor, and the number or other designation of the lot for the care of which such deposit is made, and the name of the cemetery.
SECT. 2 .- The Town Treasurer shall invest or deposit in some savings bank all moneys thus received by him, as directed by the Selectmen and Cemetery Commissioners, and pay the in- come therefrom on the warrants of the Selectmen, to the Cemetery Commissioners, or with their approval to other persons, and such income shall be expended annually for the preservation and care of the lots designated as aforesaid by such depositors respectively, and in keeping such lots in repair, in cutting the grass at such times and in such manner as the Cemetery Commis- sioners shall deem to be for the interests of the cemetery, or in accordance with such other stipulations relating to such preserva- tion and care as the Cemetery Commissioners shall approve, which shall be made at the time of the deposit of money.
SECT. 3 .- The Cemetery Commissioners shall execute and deliver to any person depositing money as aforesaid, an instru- · ment in writing which shall contain the obligations assumed by the town in pursuance of this by-law, and the receipt of the Town Treasurer, with the provision that the town may at any time annul and cancel said obligation by repaying to any depositor or to his heirs or legal representatives, the amount deposited by him as aforesaid. Said instrument shall be recorded by the Town Clerk, at the expense of the depositor.
(Approved by the Superior Court, May 23, 1892, and published in the Dedham Transcript, May 28, 1892.)
Article Forty-Two-Voted to authorize the Cemetery Com- missioners to settle upon the boundary line between Brookdale cemetery and the estate of the late Thomas Barrows, and to ex- ecute any deed which may be necessary for that purpose.
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Article Forty-Three-Voted to accept the report of the Town Clerk relating to printing the Town Records, and to adopt its re- commendations and to raise and appropriate therefor the sum of five hundred dollars. The report was as follows :
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT ON PRINTING TOWN RECORDS.
My last report relating to the printing of the Town records was made February 1, 1889, and submitted to, and approved by the Town, at the annual meeting in 1889. The first volume was published in 1886, the second volume in 1888. As stated in my last report, there was then due me, for money advanced to pay the cost of publication above the sum of the amount appropri- ated and the amount thus received from sales, the sum of $191.40. There has been a slow, steady sale of these publi- cations, and the net amount received since that time is $227.79, so that I have at last been reimbursed for all sums advanced by me, and have on hand $36.39.
These two volumes have been received with much favor by the public. Robert T. Swan, the Commissioner on Public Records of Parishes, Towns and Counties, in his second report to the Legislature in 1890, printed in full my first two reports to the town, relating to this matter of printing our records.
My recommendation in the last report was that any balance received for sales above the amount necessary to make up said deficiency be used to bring the publication of the Births, Mar- riages and Deaths from 1845 down to the present time, but as these modern records are also to be found at the State House, where they have been annually returned since that date, I believe a more important work would be to commence the publication of the general records of the town from the beginning.
Very few towns have so full and satisfactory records from the beginning as Dedham. Hon. Charles Francis Adams, in a paper recently read before the Massachusetts Historical Society upon the "Genesis of the Massachusetts Town, and the Development of the Town Meeting Government," has taken the Dedham Records as among the most important for that study, and he speaks from personal examination approvingly of their value and completeness. By the publication of these records we have in print the early history of the town in a most valuable and inter_ esting form.
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A careful reading of these early local records incites a desire to study the general history of the colony and of the formation of the government, and the general history is thereby more clearly comprehended, as it is thus brought down to the individual acts and doings of the people themselves, right upon our own soil.
The work which I did upon the last volume published re- quired a good deal of time, in reading proof (all of which was read by me personally with the original records) and in seeing to it that all my corrections were actually made in each signature before it was allowed to go to press ; in sending out circulars to bring the work before the public, and in delivering by mail and otherwise the books sold, but I was very glad for the sake of having these valuable records published to give the town the benefit of my services without any compen- sation therefor. I propose to do the same thing with regard to the third volume. if the town will authorize its publica- tion, and I promise to accomplish as much as possible with the amount placed at my disposal for that purpose. I there- fore respectfully recommend that the town publish a printed volume of its early general records (similar in form and size to the volumes already published) to be edited by the Town Clerk, that five hundred dollars be raised and appropriated to that work, when published to be disposed of in the same manner as pro- vided for with regard to the two volumes already published, the price for sale to be fixed by the Clerk, according to the size of the volume, and that the proceeds of this, and of the former publications of the town in his hands, or hereafter received, be used by the Clerk to pay any deficiency in the cost of this publi- cation above the appropriation made, and to account to the town for the same.
Respectfully submitted,
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
March 7, 1892.
Article Forty-Four-Voted that the town accept the devise given it under the will of Mary Emerson.
And on motion, at 10:45 p. m., the meeting was dissolved. Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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DEDHAM, April 13, 1892.
DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Town Clerk : Dear Sir :-
I hereby resign office as a member of the Board of Health for the Town of Dedham for the current year.
Very truly yours,
G. A. SOUTHGATE. Received April 14, 1892.
Upon receipt of the above the following notice was sent to Drs. F. L. Babcock and J. W. Chase.
TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE, DEDHAM, Mass. DRS. F. L. BABCOCK and J. W. CHASE, Board of Health : Gentlemen :-
Dr. G. A. Southgate has this day filed his resignation as a member of your Board. Your duty is pointed out by the en- closed law. Chap. 336, Acts 1892.
Yours truly, DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
Dedham, April 14, 1892.
A copy of said Chap. was attached to each notice.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
PERAMBULATION OF DEDHAM AND NORWOOD LINE.
We the subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Dedham and Norwood, and together with Howard Colburn appointed by the Selectmen of Dedham, acting together this twenty-eighth day of April, 1892, perambulated the line between the said towns of Dedham and Norwood, as follows :
First-Beginning at a stone monument standing in the land of James P. Tisdale, near Bubbling Brook, being the corner of - the town of Norwood, and Dedham, and Walpole.
Second-From thence to a stone monument at the junction of Oak and Brook streets.
Third-From thence to a stone bound by the wall between
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lands of the late James Pettee and John L. Fisher, being about eight rods from the corner of the wall.
Fourth-From thence to a stone bound on the cart path in land of John L. Fisher about twelve rods from Oak street.
Fifth-From thence to a stone bound by cart path in land of the late J. Edward Everett, being about twelve rods from Oak street.
Sixth-From thence to a stone bound by cart path in land of Ezra Morse estate.
Seventh-From thence to a stone bound by cart path in land of Calvin S. Locke ; and from thence to a stone bound, numbered 7 1-2, and standing between lands of Calvin S. Locke and Warren Fisher.
Eighth-From thence to a stone monument in land of John Nugent, being in Germany (so called).
Ninth-From thence to a heap of stones in land of John Nugent, with one in centre marked "D. N., No. 9," near wall.
Tenth-From thence to a stone monument west side of Winter street.
Eleventh-From thence to a stone bound in land of Lewis Thompson, by wall between his pasture and woodland.
Twelfth-From thence to a stone bound between the wood- land of Ebenezer Gay, and Turner heirs.
Thirteenth-From thence to a monument on the westerly side of Nahatan street.
Fourteenth-From thence to a stone bound by the wall of James M. Ellis' rye lot, (so called) five rods from the corner of wall.
Fifteenth-From thence to a stone bound in woodland of James M. Ellis, four hundred and thirty feet from last mentioned bound ; from thence to a stone in the wall marked "D. N.," be- tween the land of James M. Ellis and B. F. Bailey's estate, eight rods from the corner of wall ; from thence to a stone in the wall marked " D. N." between land of estate of B. F. Bailey and Pea- body, about fifteen feet south of a large rock in the rock.
Sixteenth-From thence to a stone bound the west side of wall, between Peabody's pasture and woodland near a large stone heap.
Seventeenth-From thence to a stone monument on the
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west side of Clapboardtree street, near the lane leading to Pea- body's farm.
Eighteenth-From thence to a stone monument opposite the house of the late Jeremiah W. Gay.
Nineteenth-Thence to a stone monument at the junction of Clapboardtree street and Washington street on the south side.
Twentieth-From thence to the southeasterly abutment of the N. Y. & N. E. R. R. bridge over Washington street.
Twenty-First -- From thence to a stone monument on the northeasterly side of Everett street.
Twenty-Second-From thence to a stone monument on the northeasterly side of Everett street, near the corner of David Ellis' land.
Twenty-Third-From thence to a stone monument on the west side of Downer street.
Twenty-Fourth -- From thence to a stone monument on the south side of Everett street, near the Dry Bridge, connecting lands of the late Jesse Weatherbee.
Twenty-Fifth-From thence to a stone bound near the fence between land of the late Eleazer Wight and Messrs. Forbes, trustees.
Twenty-Sixth-From thence to a stone bound on Ridge hill in land of Forbes, back of the barn of John Eaton's estate.
Twenty-Seventh-From thence to a stone monument on the westerly; side of Canton street, at the corner of the land of the late John and Luther Eaton.
Twenty-Eighth-From thence to a stone monument on the westerly side of Canton street, by land of the late John Eaton, near the meadow ; from thence to Neponset River, following the westerly side of Canton street, to Canton line.
Bounds No. 1, 2, 3, 10, 13, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27 and 28 are lawful bounds, four feet high, with the letters " D. N." cut in the stone. All others are intermediate bounds, marked with the letters " D. N." with black paint.
HENRY SMITH, Selectman of Dedham.
HOWARD COLBURN,
Authorized by Selectmen of Dedham. GEO. H. MORSE, JOHN GILLOOLY, Selectmen of Norwood.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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DEDHAM, Mass., May 7, 1892.
To DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Town Clerk :
Dear Sir :
At a joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and Board of Health, of the Town of Dedham. held at Memorial Hall May 4, 1892, it appearing that George A. Southgate, a member of the Board of Health, had declined further service on said Board, that notice of said resignation had been given by the remaining members of said Board of Health, 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 news- paper published in said town, thereupon the two Boards pro- ceeded to fill such vacancy by a joint ballot of both of said Boards, and upon a count of the ballots cast it was found that Erastus Worthington, Jr., had received more ballots than any other person for said office, and said Worthington was declared elected to hold such office of Board of Health until the end of the present municipal year, and until the next annual town election.
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk of Selectmen.
FRANCIS L. BABCOCK, Acting Clerk of Board of Health.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, DEDHAM, Mass., May 18, 1892. DR. CREIGHTON COLBURN :
. Dear sir :-
The Selectmen have this day appointed you as "Inspector of Provisions and of Animals intended for Slaughter, and Animals kept for the Production of Milk," for the ensuing year. Yours respectfully,
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
Norfolk, ss. July 15, 1892.
Then personally appeared the above named Dr. Creighton Colburn, and made oath that he would faithfully perform the
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duties of the office to which he had been appointed as above, to the best of his knowledge.
Before me, DON GLEASON HILL, Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk.
OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, DEDHAM, MASS., July 21, 1892. [Town Seal.]
TO DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Town Clerk :
Dear sir :-
At a regular meeting of the Selectmen held this day, it was voted that permission be granted John A. Hirsch to keep a pool table for the use of the public, at his place of business in the back room, on the ground floor at the corner of Bussey and Colburn street, East Dedham.
Yours truly,
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
To the Board of Selectmen of Dedham :
The undersigned citizens, recognizing the evil results which arise from a high tax rate, and being of opinion that public interest demands that an effort be made to cut it down, respect- fully request you to call a special town meeting to consider and act upon the following articles :
Article One-To see if the town will require and authorize the Selectmen to borrow the sum of fifteen thousand five hundred dollars ($15,500) upon the bonds, notes or scrip, of the town, to be paid in annual instalments of $1,550 at a rate of interest not exceeding four and one half (4 1-2) per cent per annum, for the purpose of carrying out the votes of the town at the annual meet- ing of the current year, under articles 16, 23, 26, 31, 38, 39, 40, 43.
Article Two-To see if the town will require and authorize the selectmen to borrow money upon the bonds, notes or scrip of the town, to be fully paid in not exceeding ten years, at a rate of interest not exceeding four and one half (4 1-2) per cent per annum, to defray appropriations made by the town at the annual
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meeting of the current year ; if yes, how much money, and to defray what appropriations.
John Crowley,
H. Herbst,
Elisha Greenhood,
Daniel W. Bonney,
F. F. Favor,
R. A. Clogher,
Michael Keelan,
F. L. Babcock,
Edward J. Keelan,
Friedrick Lips,
J. M. Schuler,
J. Bittighoffer,
Winslow Warren,
Frank M. Bailey,
Geo. F. Fisher,
Thos. Murphy,
W. H. McLauchlin,
Michael J. Moloney,
Geo. W. Caston,
P. O. Sullivan,
Chas. J. Capen,
Patrick Fox,
Chas. H. Shriver,
George H. Hogan,
Edward C. Paul,
J. W. White,
E. L. Burdakin,
J. W. Chase.
Geo. W. Toomey,
A. D. G. Poch,
John Collins,
Alfred G. Poch.
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 Memorial Hall, in said town, on Tuesday, the twelfth day of July, A. D. 1892, at eight o'clock in the evening, 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 require and authorize the Selectmen to borrow the sum of fifteen thousand five hundred dollars ($15,500), upon the bonds, notes or scrip of the Town, to be paid in annual instalments of $1,550, at a rate of interest not exceeding four and one-half per cent. (4 1-2) per annum, for the purpose of carrying out the votes of the Town, at the annual meeting of the current year, under Articles 16, 23, 26, 31, 38, 39, 40 and 43.
Article Three-To see if the Town will require and authorize the Selectmen to borrow money upon the bonds, notes or scrip of
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the Town, to be fully paid in not exceeding ten years, at a rate of interest not exceeding four and one-half per cent. (4 1-2) per annum, to defray appropriations made by the Town at the annual meeting of the current year ; if yes, how much money.
Article Four-To see if the town will rescind its action at the annual Town Meeting of the current year, under Articles 16, 21, 22, 23, 26, 38 and 43 of the warrant therefor, whereby it voted to raise the money appropriated for the purpose named therein, . and see if the Town will vote that the sum so appropriated be taken from the treasury.
Article Five-To see if the town will rescind its action at the annual Town Meeting for the current year, under Article 39 of the warrant therefor.
Article Six-To see if the Town will rescind its action at the annual Town meeting for the current year, under Article 40 of the warrant therefor. .
Article Seven-To see if the town will entirely rescind its action at the annual Town Meeting for the current year, under Article 31 of the warrant therefor, so far as it relates to drainage near the junction of High and Common streets ; and rescind its action upon the remainder of said article, whereby it voted to raise money therefor, and to see if the town will vote that the sum so appropriated be taken from the treasury.
Article Eight-To see if the town will appoint a committee of three, to consider the expediency, means and expense of the drainage of High and Common streets, at their junction, and to report in the Dedham TRANSCRIPT on or before March 5, 1893.
Article Nine-To see if the town will appropriate money from the treasury to light Washington street, from Gay street to Court street.
Article Ten-To see if the town will elect one or more trustees to manage the estate given to it, under the will of Mary Emerson, and to see if the Town will vote to sell said estate or any part thereof.
Article Eleven-To see if the Town will raise and appropri- - ate the additional sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the proper drainage of High and Common streets, as recommended by the civil engineer.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your
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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 sixth day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-two.
HENRY SMITH,
THOHAS P. MURRAY,
Selectmen
JOSEPH A. LAFORME, of
HENRY E. FRENCH,
Dedham.
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE,
On this warrant the following return was made :
Norfolk, ss.
DEDHAM, July 12, 1892.
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Dedham, aforesaid, 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, four days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing an attested copy thereof to be published once before the time of 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 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 Tuesday, the twelfth day of July, A. D. 1892.
The meeting was called to order at the time and place named in said warrant by the Town Clerk, who presided at the choice of Moderator.
Article One-J. Varnum Abbott was appointed and sworn by the Town Clerk, a Teller, to aid the Town Clerk in receiving and counting votes cast for Moderator.
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