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Voted-That a committee of three, consisting of the mem- bers of the Board of Health, be appointed to present this resolu- tion to the railroad corporations therein mentioned, and that such committee be authorized to act in behalf of the town in urging upon said corporations the necessity for these corporations to provide suitable culverts at a proper elevation under their road- beds at Dedham and Dedham Junction respectively, in accord- ance with the report of the Board of Health. That such commit- tee treat with the said corporations, and if unable to induce them to make such changes as are necessary, to report at once to the town the results of their findings together with what legal steps they deem necessary to compel said corporations to act.
Article Thirty-five-Under this article the town adopted the following:
BY-LAWS,
For prescribing rules and regulations in relation to materials and construction of the plumbing which shall be placed in any build- ing within the limits of the Town of Dedham, Mass., prepared in accordance with Chap. 477 of the Acts of the Legislature of Massa- chusetts for 1893.
1. Every person carrying on the business of plumbing in Dedham shall annually have his name and place of business reg- istered with the Board of Health, and shall give immediate notice
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to said Board of any change in his place of business ; and no person shall carry on such plumbing business in Dedham unless he shall pass a satisfactory examination before the Board of Plumbers' Examiners appointed under Chapter 477 of the Acts of 1893. Every person before doing any plumbing work in a building shall, except in the case of repairs of leaks, file with said Board a notice of all work to be performed, upon a blank to be furnished by said Board for this purpose and shall obtain a per- mit for such work, and he shall also submit plans when desired by the Board, showing such work.
2. Every building provided with water from the town or other water supply shall have a waste pipe for the conveyance of waste-water, separately and independently connected with the public sewer, or if there are no sewer, with a sufficient and proper cesspool satisfactory to the Board of Health for the Town of Ded- ham, easily accessible for inspection and cleaning.
3. Drain and soil pipes within a building, and for a distance of not less than five feet outside the foundation walls thereof, through which water or sewage is used or carried, shall be made of lead or iron ; shall be sound, free from holes and other defects, of a uniform thickness and if iron is used of not less than one eighth of an inch for a diameter of four inches or less, and of five thirty-seconds of an inch for a diameter of five or six inches, with a proportional increase of thickness for a greater diameter ; shall be securely ironed to walls, laid in trenches or suspended by strong iron hangers; and shall have a proper fall of not less than one-quarter of an inch to a foot towards the drain or sewer ; shall be supplied with suitable traps, placed with an accessible clean- out. All pipes passing through cellar or foundation walls shall pass through a collar or slot so that no bearing of such wall shall be had on the pipe. Changes in direction shall be made with curved pipes, and connections with horizontal pipes shall be made with Y branches. Every stack of soil-pipe of every building here- after erected shall be carried above the roof, open and undimin- ished in size, and to a height of not less than two feet above the roof. No soil pipe shall vent under any window or nearer than five feet to a window, and in all cases shall be carried above the highest window or opening of the house.
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4. Rain-water leaders, when connected with soil or drain pipes, shall be suitably trapped.
5. All iron pipes before being put in place shall be coated inside and out with coal-tar pitch applied hot, or with paint, or with some equivalent substance ; joints of cast-iron pipes shall be made by thoroughly calking the same with molten lead ; joints of lead pipes when connecting with cast-iron pipes shall be made by soldering the same into brass ferrules and calking the ferrules to cast-iron pipes.
6. Every fixture connected with a drain or soil pipe shall have an independent water supply, and every fixture having a waste pipe connected with the sewer or cesspool shall be fur- nished with a separate trap, except where any two adjoining fix- tures are not over two feet apart' they may be trapped together ; this does not apply to water-closets or urinals which must be trapped independently. All such traps must be placed as near as practicable to said fixture and shall be protected by special ventilating air pipes of a size satisfactory to the Board of Health or their agent ; all ventilating pipes smaller than two inches shall be of the same size as the waste and for water-closet traps shall be not less than two inch bore for thirty feet or less, and of not less than three inch bore for more than thirty feet ; such air-pipes shall be run as direct as practicable, and shall be of not less than four inch bore where they pass through the roof, two or more such air-pipes may connect together, or with a soil-pipe, but in every case of connection with a soil-pipe such connection shall be made above the upper fixture of the building. All ventilating pipes shall be so arranged as to drip.
7. Drip or overflow pipes from safes under water-closets and other fixtures, or from tanks or cisterns, shall be run to some place in open sight, and in no case shall any such pipe be con- nected directly with a drain, waste-pipe or soil-pipe.
8. Waste-pipes from refrigerators, or other receptacles in which provisions are stored, shall not be connected with a drain, soil-pipe, or other waste-pipe, unless such waste-pipes are pro- vided with traps, suitably ventilated, and in every case there shall be an open tray between the trap and refrigerator.
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brick, sheet metal, or earthenware, nor shall any chimney flues be used as such pipes.
10. Every water-closet, or line of water-closets, on the same floor, shall be supplied with water from a tank or cistern, and the flushing-pipe shall not be less than one inch in diameter ; but this requirement shall not apply to water-closets substituted for vaults, where the same are located outside of the building proper, and water-closets so located may be arranged so as to receive their supply directly from the main, with such water-fixtures as shall be approved by the Board of Health or their authorized agent. All earthen water-closets shall ; be connected to .lead bends with brass flange and rubber gasket.
11. Pipes and other fixtures shall not be covered or con- cealed from view until after the work has been examined by the inspector ; but all work shall be so arranged as to be easily ac- cessible at all times. The inspector shall be notified by the plumber when the work is sufficiently advanced for inspection, all lead connections with soil-pipe to be in position before such in- spection. Such inspection will be made within two days after such notification.
12. Plumbing work shall not be used until the same is in good condition as shown by the water test made by the plumber in the presence of the inspector.
13. A grease-trap shall be constructed for every hotel, eat- ing-house, restaurant, or other public cooking establishment, in such a manner as to be easily accessible for inspection and cleaning.
14. No steam exhausts shall enter soil-pipe or drain used for waste.
[Published in the Dedham Transcript, May 26 and June 2,1894.]
Article Thirty-six-Voted to introduce an electric fire alarm system in town and appropriate fifteen hundred dollars therefor.
Article Thirty-seven-Voted to appropriate six hundred and fifty dollars to purchase one thousand feet of hose for the fire department.
Article Thirty-eight-Voted to refer the subject matter of this article to a committee to be appointed, by the Moderator. And the Moderator appointed as that Committee William C. Williams, Henry E. French and Benjamin F. White.
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Article Thirty-nine-Voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Articles Forty and Forty-one-Taken up and acted upon to- gether, and it was voted to authorize the Selectmen to grant the · use of the unoccupied store in Memorial Hall for the purposes mentioned in these articles.
Article Forty-two-Voted that this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Forty-three-Voted to compensate Mr. John Brennan for expenses and loss of services of his minor child, by reason of injuries received in March last, in the yard of the Ames School- house, and appropriate for the same the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars.
Article Forty-four-Voted to appropriate sixty-five dollars to pay Ernest Halbauer for taxes illegally assessed by the Town and paid by him.
. Article Forty-five-Voted that the report of the Town Clerk upon printing the Town Records be accepted and its recommen- dations adopted, and the sum of five hundred dollars be raised and appropriated therefor in addition to the balances mentioned in said report, and said report is as follows :-
Town Clerk's Report on printing Records.
To the Inhabitants of Dedham :-
I submit herewith my sixth Report relating to the printing of the Town Records.
Under the vote of the Town passed at the last annual town meeting, I have compiled an Alphabetical Abstract of the Record of Births from the middle of 1844 through 1890, and have caused the same to be printed in the Town Report of 1893-4. An edition . was also published for sale from the same type, but upon heavier paper, about two hundred of which were bound in black cloth, uniform with the Dedham Records previously published. With this Abstract is published an Introduction describing the work, which I hope will be read in every family. I recommend that a similar abstract of the Record of Deaths for the same period, be compiled by the Town Clerk, and published in the next annual Town Report, and that at least three hundred copies for sale be published in addition, upon heavier paper ; that after the cost of
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binding the extra edition of the Abstract of Births has been paid, the rest of the proceeds of the sales of that book, together with the proceeds of the sale of the Abstract of Deaths above the ex- pense of binding the extra edition, be applied towards the expense of compiling and publishing the Abstract of Deaths, and that the balance of said expense be paid by the Town as a part of the ex- pense of publishing the Town Report. In my last report I stated that I had on hand a balance of $36.25 received from the sales of former publications of Town Records, and the Town adopted my recommendation that this amount, together with amounts subse- quently received from the sale of the town publications, should be appropriated by the Town Clerk towards the preparation of a fourth volume of Ancient Records. Since that time I have re- ceived $70.75 and have paid therefrom $3.60 for postage and expressage, and $10 on account of copy, and I have in my hands a balance of $93.40, and I recommend that the Town now pub- lish a fourth volume of Ancient Records, which shall be a contin- uation of the general records from the date where the third volume ends, of about the same quantity of matter as published in the third volume, to be disposed of by the Town Clerk in the same manner as the other volumes have been disposed of ; that the sum of five hundred dollars be raised and appropriated therefor, and that the sum now on hand and all sums hereafter received from the sales of all the town publications, except the Abstracts of Births and Deaths, be applied, together with said appropriation, towards the expense of publishing said fourth volume, and that after paying the cost of the publication of said volume over and above said appropriation of five hundred dollars and the amount received from sales, the sums thereafter received from such sales be used by the Town Clerk for the preparation of a fifth volume. This has been the plan heretofore. Each new volume has helped to sell the previous volumes, as a number of copies of each volume have been sold each year.
The publication of these ancient Records is an important work, and the appreciation of its importance is shown by the fact that there is quite a demand for its continuance. As I have stated in previous reports, these Records are very important contribu- tions to the history of the town.
No charge is made by the Town Clerk for services in this
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work, and while it requires a considerable amount of time and labor, I am glad to do it for the purpose of having these Records published.
March, 1894. DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
Article Forty-six-Voted to appropriate the sum of $300, to be used with the unexpended balance appropriated for a like pur- pose a year ago, to procure horses, harnesses, etc., to be located at the steamer house.
Article Forty-eight - Voted that the compensation of the Collector of Taxes be one per cent on the amount committed to him, but not to exceed $950, and also that the Collector give on the back of each tax bill the items of the estate taxed, as given in the Assessors' valuation.
Voted that when this meeting adjourn it be to the second Monday of May next, at this place, at half past seven o'clock p.m.
Voted that a committee of three be appointed by the Mod- erator to take into consideration the best method of raising the money appropriated at this meeting, and report thereon at the adjournment of this meeting, and the Moderator appointed as that committtee Howard Colburn, Thomas P. Murray and Joseph A. Laforme.
And on motion the meeting adjourned to said 2d Monday of May next.
Attest : DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
OFFICE OF SELECTMEN.
Dedham, Mass., April 23d, 1894.
To Don Gleason Hill, Esq.,
Town Clerk, Dedham, Mass.
Dear Sir :
At a meeting of the Board of Selectinen held Wednesday, April 18th, the following appointments were made, viz :
Fence Viewer .- Samuel C. French, West Dedham.
Registrar of Voters, for three years, to take effect from May 1st, 1894 .- George C. Stearns.
Engineers of the Fire Department for the ensuing year .- William C. Williams, Willie W. Baker, Henry A. Phipps, James R. Finn and Charles B. Trefrey.
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Forest Fire Wards .- The Engineers of the Fire Department.
Police Officers .- William F. Drugan, Chief ; Martin J. Barrett, Irving Donley and John Dean.
Committee on Burial of Deceased Indigent Soldiers and Sailors.
Henry W. Weeks, J. Varnum Abbott, John B. Fisher.
Janitor of Memorial Hall .- John Bestwick.
Superintendent of Streets .- Philip Putnam.
Inspector of Provisions and Cattle .- Creighton Colburn.
Sealer of Weights and Measures .- John Bestwick.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
Notice of the appointment of Police Officers mailed to Commissioners of Prisons, April 24, P. M.
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
OFFICE OF THE SELECTMEN.
[Town Seal.]
Dedham, Mass., April 25, 1894.
The Board of Selectmen hereby grants a license to John A. Hirsch to keep, or suffer to be kept, pool tables on the ground floor of the second building north of Chauncey street, on the westerly side of Bussey street, opposite Merchants Woolen Mill, in the easterly part of said Dedham, for public hire, to be used for amusement merely, but not for the purpose of gaming for money or other property, until May 1st, 1895.
By order of the Selectmen, this twenty-fifth day of April, 1894.
EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 102, PUBLIC STATUTES.
Section 113. "The keeper of a billiard, pool, or sippio room or table, or bowling alley, who admits a minor thereto, without the written consent of his parent or guardian, shall forfeit ten dollars for the first and twenty dollars for each subsequent offence."
Section 123. "Any marshal or his deputy, sheriff or his deputy, constable, police officer or watchman may at any time enter into a billiard, pool, or sippio room, bowling alley, or room connected therewith, or with the premises of a common victualler, for the purpose of enforcing any law of the state ; and whoever
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obstructs or hinders the entrance of such officer shall be punished ,by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars."
Section 126. " No license issued as aforesaid shall be valid to protect the holder thereof in a building or place other than that designated in the license, unless consent to removal is grant- ed by the mayor and aldermen, or selectmen."
THOMAS P. MURRAY, Chairman of Selectmen. DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
Attest :
OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, DEDHAM, Mass., April 26th, 1894.
To DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Town Clerk, Dedham, Mass. : Dear Sır:
At a meeting of the Board of Selectmen held Wednesday, April 25th, the following appointments were made, namely :
Cemetery Commissioners-Erastus Worthington, Andrew J. Norris, Patrick A. Nolan.
Cemetery Commissioners for West Dedham-Howard Colburn, Charles H. Ellis.
Special Police-Albert F. Daniells, James R. Finn, John Bell, Andrew J. Nolan, John J. Bestwick, Philip Putnam, Emerson B. Webber, Patrick H. McManus.
Fire Police-James J. Gaffney, Charles O. Haynes, Emerson B. Webber, George L. Cutting, John F. Barrett, George E. Morse.
Yours Respectfully, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk. Attest:
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, DEDHAM, Mass., May 4th, 1894. To DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Town Clerk, Dedham, Mass. Dear Sir: :
At a meeting of the Selectmen held Wednesday, May 2d., Jerry Sweeney was appointed a Fence Viewer for the ensuing year, Eben T. Paul declining to serve as such.
Yours Respectfully,
Attest:
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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DEDHAM, Mass., May 18th, 1894.
To DON GLEASON HILL, EsQ., Dedham, Mass.
Dear Sir:
At a meeting of the Overseers of the Poor held Wednesday, May 16th, the following committee were chosen to distribute the interest of the Hannah Shuttleworth Fund for the ensuing year, said appointments to date from May first, namely: Don Gleason Hill, John H. Burdakin, Thomas P. Murray, Elizabeth C. Col- burn and Mary B. Burgess.
Respectfully,
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
Wednesday, May 16, appointed Horatio G. Turner Special Police Officer to May 1st, 1895.
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
Attest :
DON GLEASON HILL, Town Clerk.
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 at Memorial Hall, in said Dedham, on the second Monday of May, being the 14th day of said Month. 1894, by adjournment from the 9th day of April, 1894, the meeting was called to order at the time pre- viously appointed, by Alonzo B. Wentworth, the Moderator, and the business of the meeting proceeded as follows :-
The committee appointed on said 9th day of April to con- sider the best method of raising the money appropriated at this meeting made a verbal report, and it was voted that it was the sense of this meeting that the assessors should this year make a new valuation of the taxable property in the town, and that such valuation be made according to law.
Under Article seven it was voted that the sum of five hun- dred dollars more be appropriated for the assessors, to be used in the construction of street lists of estates in town.
Voted that the Selectmen and Treasurer be authorized to borrow on the notes of the town, twelve thousand dollars of the money appropriated under the warrant for this meeting, such notes to be for twelve hundred dollars each, payable one each
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year for ten years, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, and on said vote 96 persons voted in the affimative and 19 persons in the negative, and the same was declared by the Moderator as passed by a two-thirds vote.
Voted that all the rest of the money appropriated under said warrant, and not otherwise provided for by the meeting, be raised by taxation.
Articles Fourteen, Fifteen and Sixteen-The committee ap- pointed under Articles fourteen, fifteen and sixteen submitted a written report. Voted that said report be accepted, and said re- port was as follows :--
The undersigned, a committee appointed April 2, 1894, to consider the matter contained in Articles 14, 15, and 16 of the warrant, beg leave to report as follows :-
The committee have made a careful examination of the present building, and are satisfied that a new building is needed. The present building is in one part forty years old, and in another part, sixty. The newer part was originally of no very thorough construction, and the building is badly out of repair. The ex- penditure necessary to put it in proper condition would, in the judgment of the committee, be an unwise outlay.
With regard to a new school-house, the committee, after con- sidering the requirements in point of size, and otherwise, con- ferred with two architects and have received from both sets of sketch plans, in competition, without expense to the town. The committee have not had time to obtain estimates upon all these plans, but upon those which were submitted earliest they have what amounts, in their judgment, to a responsible bid for the the whole expense of construction, including cellar and founda- tion, plumbing, and heating and ventilating apparatus, as well as the architect's commission ; and they see no reason to doubt that the amounts so fixed represent very closely the cost of con- struction.
Before presenting these estimates, the committee will speak of the matter of a branch library.
They are all of the opinion that it would be well to establish in East Dedham a reading room, as a branch of the public library. They think, however, that it would be more convenient to the people of that neighborhood to have such a library in Boyden
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Square. The expense of providing quarters for a branch library in the proposed school-house building would be from two thousand to two thousand and seven hundred dollars. For less than that sum a lot could be bought and a separate building erected for a library, if no suitable room can be hired. The committee recom- mend that the matter of providing room in the proposed school-house for a proposed branch library be indefinitely post- poned, with a view to action by the town upon the question of an independent library room or building at East Dedham.
Among the plans submitted to the committee and referred to above, are plans for an eight-room school-house, attractive archi- tecturally, with a hall seating about three hundred persons, and with every provision for health and convenience. From these plans and the estimates above referred to, the committee feel no hesitation in reporting that the town can build a handsome and substantial school-house of eight rooms, all of the usual size of 28x32 feet, with the other accommodations above referred to, for a contract price of $27,000, if the hall is on the third floor, or of $31,000 if the hall is on the second floor.
Although these estimates cover the whole field of construc- tion, there might, nevertheless, be some extra expense for grad- ing, for making a new approach with steps in the middle of the lot, as has been suggested by some of the committee ; for possible incidental expenses of the town in connection with the construc- tion, and for other matters which it is impossible to foresee, and it would therefore, in the judgment of the committee, be proper, as a matter of precaution, to add to these estimates, as to any estimate, a sum of $2,000 to cover unforeseen expenses, but with the view that the contract price should be the sum specified above.
The committee gave careful attention to the question of a hall and its location. It seems to be the judgment of all those familiar with the matter, that in a modern school-house there should be a comfortable hall. With regard to the question whether the hall should be on the second or third floor, this committee conferred with the chairman and other members of the School Committee and with the Superintendent of Schools. The School Committee are strongly of the opinion that the hall should be on the second floor, and this committee, relying to some extent in that particular upon the experience and the opinion of the School Committee, have united in that conclusion.
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The committee, therefore, recommend that the town proceed to erect upon the Avery lot, in place of the present school-house, an eight-room school-house, with a hall on the second floor, at an expense not exceeding $33,000, including contingent and unfore- seen expenses.
The committee are informed that an act has just been passed permitting payments for such purpose to extend over a period of twenty years, and they recommend under Article 16 that the town authorize the Selectmen to borrow a sum not exceeding $33,000 upon the bonds, notes or scrip of the town, payable in twenty in- stalments, with interest payable semi-annually at a rate not ex- ceeding 4 per centum per annum.
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