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I Voted to amend Section 7, Article 3, of the by-laws, so that it will read as follows, viz: Section 7, excepting as hereinafter pro- vided, whenever mechanical or other work is requested to be done for the town, at a cost amounting to $500 in one item, the same shall be publicly advertised for proposals, which shall be opened at a specified time, and a contract for the performance of the work shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, provided that any and all proposals may be rejected whenever the interests of the town so require. Written specifications of the kind of work to be performed and the manner in which the work shall be done shall make a part of the contract, which shall also be in writing. Every contract shall contain a condition that the contractor shall employ qualified inhabitants of the town in the performance of all work which qualified inhabitants of the town are competent to perform. All work involved in the construction, improvement or repair of highways, parks, bridges, culverts, playgrounds, cemeteries and water works shall be done without contract, under the direction of the superin- tendent of streets, park commissioners, or cemetery commissioners, according to the nature of the work, and no one shall be employed for any of such purposes. or upon any work for the town, excepting qualified inhabitants of the town, excepting when there are no in- habitants competent to do the same.]
Voted That all unexpended balances of appropriations in the treasury, January 31, 1895, be brought forward to their several accounts. That the Selectmen and Treasurer are hereby authorized to credit said accounts, and other accounts for which annual appro- priations are made, with an amount sufficient to meet the neces- sary expenses of each of said accounts from February 1st, to the time of appropriating money for the same. Said credits to be made from unappropriated money in the treasury February 1, 1895, and money received since, and from other moneys received by the town this year, not otherwise specially appropriated, to an amount sufficient for the requirements of each of said accounts for the time specified.
Voted to take up article forty-seven.
1 Not approved by the Court. See page 486.
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Article Forty-seven-Voted that the sum of two hundred eleven and 70% dollars be raised and appropriated to pay Patrick Eagan, the balance due him for work, performed by him on the highways.
Article Thirty-one-Voted that the Selectmen and Town Treasurer be authorized to borrow money in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the current year, to be paid therefrom.
Article Thirty-two-Voted that the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars be raised and appropriated for the use of the Park Commissioners, as suggested or recommended in their report.
Article Thirty-three-Voted that the Town elect, commenc- · ing with the annual town meeting of 1896, its Board of Park Commissioners for one, two and three years, and one for three years at each annual meeting thereafter.
Article Thirty-four-Voted that the Town raise and appro- priate the sum of $200 for the improvement of Quincy square, so called when such square shall be deeded to the town without expense to it, that the naming of the same be left with the Park Commissioners.
Voted that the other items of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Thirty-five-Voted that the Town accept and allow the taking of certain lands, lying between the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R., and Whiting avenue for a public park, according to the report of the Park Commissioners filed with the town.
Article Thirty-six-Voted that the town accept a new street, to be known as Fairview street, leading from Oakdale avenue to Whiting avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate therefor eight hundred dollars, provided the owner of the land on the north side of said streets, at the angle in said lay- ing out Southwest of Whiting avenue conveys to the town about 166 square feet to make a curve at said point instead of an angle as laid out.1 [See report of laying-out in highway book, page 141.]
Article Thirty-seven-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Thirty-eight-Voted to regrade that part of Cedar street, in Oakdale, lying between Walnut street and Dartmouth
1 See deed to Town, Norfolk Deeds, Lib. 733, fol. 341.
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avenue, and that the cost thereof be paid out of the general appropriation for highway work.
Article Thirty-nine-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Forty-Voted that Section 1, of Article 1, of the Town By-Laws, be amended by striking out the following words, commencing at the fifteenth line: "of which committee the Chairman of the Selectmen, and of the Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of Highways. or Road Commissioners, respectively, if there be either of such separate Boards ; the Chairman of the School Committee, and the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, all for the preceding year, shall be members ex-officiis, and the remaining members shall be"; and inserting after the word moderator, in the twenty-second line. the follow- ing words : "provided that no one holding an official position under the town shall be appointed a member of said committee of twenty-one," so that Section 1, of Article 1, shall read when amended as follows :
Article 1, Section 1. The Annual Town Meeting for the election of Town Officers shall be held on the first Monday of March, in each year. The warrant for said annual meeting shall contain such articles as are required for raising and appropriating moneys, and for general and special town purposes. For the election of a moderator of said meeting the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock in the forenoon, and after the election of a moderator they shall remain open for the election of town officers until half past four o'clock in the afternoon, after which time a vote may be passed to close them in not less than ten minutes. After the closing of the polls, and the choice of all town officers, the remaining articles of the warrant shall be referred to a com- mittee of twenty-one legal voters, to be appointed by the modera- tor, provided that no one holding an official position under the town shall be appointed a member of said committee of twenty- one. After the declaration of the votes for town officers, the meeting shall be adjourned to the first Monday of April next thereafter, at such hour as the meeting may determine, when the said remaining articles of the warrant may be acted upon.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
SUPERIOR COURT.
May Sitting-1895.
Of the foregoing amendments and additions to the By-Laws of the Town of Dedham, the following, to wit :
Sections seven (7) and thirteen (13) of Article Three are not approved.
And the following, to wit : Sections two (2), eight (8), nine (9), eleven (11), and twelve (12), of Article Three (3), and Section One (1), of Article One, are approved.
June 5, 1895. By the Court,
ERASTUS WORTHINGTON, Clerk.
Published in Dedham Transcript, June 15, 1895.
And on motion the meeting was adjourned, to meet at this place next Monday evening, at half past seven o'clock.
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 town, on Monday the fifteenth day of April, 1895, by adjournment, from the eighth day of of said April. The meeting was called to order at half-past seven o'clock, by the Moderator, John R. Bullard, and the business thereof proceeded as follows:
Article Forty-one-A motion was made that the town pur- chase the plant, property, franchises and privileges belonging to the Dedham Water Company. On this notice one hundred eighty- seven persons voted in the affirmative, and one hundred and thirty-one persons voted in the negative, and the Moderator de- clared the same as not passed by a two thirds vote. (See original motion on file.)
Voted that a committee consisting of C. C. Sanderson, John Crowley and William T. Tapley, be appointed to investigate and report on the subject matter of this article, at a future meeting of the town ; that the committee have power to employ such legal or other assistance to aid them, as they deem necessary, at the ex- pense of the town, and that this committee report in print, seven (7) days at least before the town meeting called to act thereon.
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Article Forty-two-A motion was made to appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars under this article, and the town voted thereon in the negative, and the motion was lost.
Article Forty-three-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Forty-four-Voted to appropriate one hundred and sixty dollars to place electric lights on Dover street, from High street to High Rock street.
Article Forty-five-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Forty-six-Voted that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Forty-seven-Already acted upon.
Article Forty-eight-Voted that the report of the town clerk relating to printing town records be accepted, and its recommen- · dations be adopted, and the report was as follows :
REPORT.
To the Inhabitants of Dedham :
I herewith submit my seventh report relating to printing the town records.
Under the vote of the town, passed at the last annual town meeting, I have compiled and published in the town report an Alphabetical Abstract of the Record of Deaths in Dedham, 1844-1890. At the same time these were being printed I also caused about 400 copies to be printed on heavier paper, and 200 thereof to be bound in cloth, uniform with the former published volumes, for sale. A few copies have been sold, but not suffi- cient to pay the extra cost of binding. The demand for these copies, I think, will come later, when the edition of the town reports has been exhausted. I would respectfully recommend that a similar Abstract of the Record of Marriages for the same period, 1844-1890, be compiled by the town clerk, and published in the next annual town report, and that the expense thereof be paid from the appropriation for printing, etc., and that at least 300 copies thereof be printed on heavier paper to bind for sale, and that after the cost of binding the Abstract of Births, Deaths and Marriages has been paid from the receipts from sale of these books the money thereafter received from such sales be used
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with the receipts from the sales of the other town publications in preparing for publication other volumes of Records.
I have also, under the vote of the town, passed at the last annual meeting, caused to be published a fourth volume of the Ancient Records of the town. This volume speaks for itself, and needs no description in this report. In order to add value to this volume I made careful research in the Mass. Archives, at the State House, and the old Court files at the Court House, in Boston, for all papers relating to the early history of Dedham, and the papers found have been transcribed and printed in the appendix to this volume. The town appropriated towards this work, $500, and the balance of the cost has already been made up from sales of this and the former town publications. I do not think it wise to undertake to publish another volume of ancient records this year, but as there is a constant demand for, and sale of, these published records, I would recommend that the money received from the sales of the town publications be used by the town clerk in preparing for publication a fifth volume of ancient records, and in procuring copies of such other original papers, relating to the history of Dedham, as may be found in the State Archives, Court files, or elsewhere, prior to and including the period covered by such fifth volume, and not already published by the town.
As I stated in my last report the town clerk makes no charge for his services in this work of publishing the records (either ancient or modern). With me it is wholly a labor of love and, I believe, a- very important service to the town, and a work I know is appreciated by many. I have also caused (without charge on my part) to be made a card index of all the Births, Marriages and Deaths, recorded in Dedham, from Jan. 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1895, containing abstracts of the records in the same form as those published in the Abstract of Births and Deaths. The account of the cost of the publication of Volume Four, and the receipts from sales of this and former publications, since my last · report, is as follows :
Amount on hand at last report. $93 40
Received from sale of Volume 4, 153 75
Received from sale of other Volumes, 83 65
Town appropriation, · . 500 00
$830 80
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Cost and Expenses of Publications :
Miss Martha A. Smith, balance due for copy for printer, . $90 00
H. H. McQuillen, bill for printing, 630 00
Miss Abby M. Pond, work on index, 5 00
Boston Heliotype Co., 6 35
Cash paid for binding 50 copies of Volume 1, Dedham Records, 8 50
Cash paid for binding Volume 4, 71 27
Expressage and postage on books sold. and circulars,
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$830 80
All of which is respectfully submitted.
DON GLEASON HILL,
Dedham, March 1, 1895. Town Clerk.
Voted that the Town Treasurer be authorized to borrow ($17,000) seventeen thousand dollars of the money appropriated under the warrant for this meeting, including the $5000, appro- priated for improvement of side-walks, under article 13, paying therefor a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum, giving the note or notes of the town therefor, signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority at least of the Se- lectmen, such indebtedness shall be made payable in such annual proportional payments as will extinguish the same within ten years from date of delivery of said note or notes, the same to be known as the improvement loan of 1895, and that all other moneys appropriated at this meeting, not otherwise provided for, be raised by taxation.
On this vote, one hundred and twenty-nine persons voted in the affirmative, and one person in the negative, and the Mod- erator declared the same as passed by a two thirds vote.
On motion of James T. Clark the Town voted to abolish the Labor Commission, appointed by the town last year.
On motion the meeting was dissolved.
Attest, DON GLEASON HILL.
Town Clerk.
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OFFICE OF SELECTMEN.
Dedham, Mass., April 11, 1895. To DON GLEASON HILL, Esq., Town Clerk, Dedham, Mass. Dear Sir :
At a meeting of the Selectmen, held Thursday, April 4th, the following appointments were made for the ensuing year, namely :
Superintendent of Streets .- Philip Putnam.
Chief of Police .- William F. Drugan.
Police Officers .- Martin J. Barrett, Irving Donley, John Dean. Special Police Officers .- Albert F. Daniels. James R. Finn, Andrew J. Nolan, Emerson B. Webber, John Bestwick, John F. Barrett, Philip Putnam, Patrick H. McManus,
Isaac H. Carter, Charles O. Haynes, Horatio G. Turner. Fire Police .- James J. Gaffney, Emerson B. Webber, John F. Barrett, Charles O. Haynes, George L. Cutting, Frederick E. Rogers.
Committee on the Burial of Deceased Indigent Soldiers and Sailors .- Henry W. Weeks, J. Varnum Abbott, John B. Fisher.
Janitor of Memorial Hall .- John Bestwick.
Sealer of Weights and Measures .- John Bestwick.
Inspector of Provisions, and of Animals intended for Slaughter, and of Animals kept for the Production of Milk .- Creighton Colburn.
Keeper of the Lockup .- Otis S. Guild.
Commissioners of Cemeteries .- Erastus Worthington, Andrew J. Norris, Patrick A. Nolan.
Commissioners of Cemeteries at West Dedham. - Howard Colburn, Charles H. Ellis.
Registrar of Voters for three years .- Frederick E. Smith.
Yours respectfully, GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
OFFICE OF OVERSEERS THE POOR. Dedham, Mass., April 11, 1885.
DON GLEASON HILL, Esq., Town Clerk, Dedham, Mass. Dear Sir :
At a meeting of the Overseers of the Poor, held Wednesday,
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April 3rd, the following appointments were made for the ensuing year, namely :
Town Physician .- John W. Chase, M. D.
Committee to Distribute the Income of the Shuttleworth Fund .-
Don Gleason Hill, John H. Burdakin, Thos. P. Murray, Elizabeth C. Colburn, Mary B. Burgess.
March 6th : Superintendent of Alms House and Poor Farm .- George N. Lyman.
March 6th : Matron of Alms House and Poor Farm .- Mrs.
George N. Lyman.
Yours respectfully,
GEO. W. WEATHERBEE, Clerk.
Town of Dedham, Mass.
The Board of Selectmen hereby grants a license to John A. Hirsch, to keep Pool Tables at his place of business on Bussey street, near Chauncey street, in said Town of Dedham, for public hire, to be used for amusement merely, but not for purpose of gaming for money or other property, until May 1st, 1896.
By order of the Selectmen, this ninth day of May, A. D. 1895.
J. EVERETT SMITH, Chairman. DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
Appended to this license are extracts from Chapter 102, Public Statutes, viz: Section 113, 123 and 126.
The ballots cast at the last annual Town election, have been destroyed according to law.
The following persons elected to office in the town of Ded- ham, at the annual March meeting 1895, have been sworn into their respective offices by the town clerk, as follows .:
To the office of Selectmen, J. Everett Smith, David Neal and George W. Weatherbee, on March 5, 1895; Charles H. Ellis and Lester A. Newcomb, on March 6, 1895. To the office of Assessors, * (statute oath,) Charles C. Sanderson, on March 6, 1895 ; John L. Fisher, on March 7, 1895 ; Daniel A. Lynch, on March 9, 1895. To the office of Auditors, Edward C. Paul on March 5, 1895 ; Frank M. Bailey, on March 15, 1895. To the office of Town
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Treasurer, Edwin A. Brooks, on March 5, 1895. To office of Collector of Taxes, Thomas J. Baker, on March 5, 1895. To the office of Overseers of the Poor, Howard Colburn and George W. Weatherbee, on March 5, 1895; Anna G. Ely, on March 11, 1895. To the office of Constables, Martin J. Barrett, Irving Donley, Wm. F. Drugan and Andrew J. Nolan, on March 4, 1895 ; John Dean, Charles O. Haynes, on March 5, 1895 ; Otis S. Guild, on March 11, 1895; Isaac H. Carter, on March 13, 1895; and John R. Finn, on April 1, 1895.
The following, appointed by the Selectmen, have been sworn by the Town Clerk .: Measurers of wood and bark, George P. Goding, March 13, 1895 ; Frank M. Bailey, March 15, 1895; Nathaniel Morse, March 14, 1895 ; C. H. Ellis, March 21, 1895. Weighers of Hay and Coal .- J. Everett Smith, March 12, 1895. E. Moffett, March 13, 1895. Chas. Russell, March 14, 1895. Frank M. Bailey, March 15, 1895. Geo. C. French, March 16, 1895.
Sealer of Weights and Measures .- John Bestwick, April 8, 1895. Measurer of Lumber .- Francis Turner, April 11, 1895.
Superintendent of Streets .- Philip Putnam, April 16, 1895. Inspector of Provisions, etc .- Creighton Colburn, May 1, 1895. Register of Voters .- Fred E. Smith, Sept. 11, 1895.
DON GLEASON HILL,
Town Clerk.
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 Monday, the sixteenth day of September, A. D. 1895, at half-past seven 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.
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Article Two-To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the widening of Milton street, as ordered by the County Commissioners.
Article Three-To see what action the Town will take in re- lation to the purchasing of land and erection of a building for the accommodation of Hose Company No. 3, East Dedham, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Four-To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money for the abatement of taxes.
Article Five-To see what action the Town will take towards considering its interests in the Metropolitan Sewer to be con- structed in the Neponset and Mother Brook Valleys, in accord- ance with Chapter 406 of the Acts of 1895, Massachusetts Legis- lature, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article Six-To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for finishing and furnishing the Avery School- house, grading the lot on which it stands, and digging and build- ing cesspools on said lot.
Article Seven-To hear and act upon the report and recom- mendations of the Park Commissioners in regard to the improve- ment of Stone Park and Play Grounds, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Article Eight-To see if the Town will vote to approve the change of the name of Stone Park to Stone Play Ground.
Article Nine-To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Park Commissioners to appear forthwith before the Metropolitan Park Commission, and urge and impress upon said Commission the justice of giving the Town an entrance to the Stony Brook Reservation, by a boulevard, substantially a continuation of High street from Boyden's Square in East Dedham.
Article Ten-To see what action the Town will take in regard to widening High street, from Boyden's Square, in East Dedham, to the railroad bridge near Harvard street.
Article Eleven-To see if the Town will purchase or take action on land between High street and Boston and Providence R. R., branch of N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R., in East Dedham, to make a connection with Stone Park, or to make street for same across said railroad, and raise and appropriate mone; for same.
Article Twelve-To see if the Town will abandon the further
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use of Stone Park, for park or play ground purposes, and authorize, direct and instruct the Park Commissioners or Selectmen to cause the same to be surveyed into house lots and sold, either at public or private sale, as may seem best for the Town's interest, and the proceeds from said sales to be used by the Town Treasurer in paying, as far as it will the notes of the Town falling due Nov. 1, 1896, with the interest on the same, except the notes for money borrowed in anticipation of the taxes for said year, or in any manner which the Town may determine.
Article Thirteen-To see if the Town will buy the properties and real estate on the southeast corner of High and Bussey streets; also any other property needed for the widening of Boyden Square, in East Dedham, and raise and appropriate money for same.
Article Fourteen-To see if the Town will vote to purchase land to enlarge the Boyden Square, so called, at the corners of Walnut, Milton and High streets, and raise and appropriate money therefor, and take such other action as may be necessary and desirable to carry out such vote.
Article Fifteen-To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate money to light Sprague street, from East street to Hyde Park line; and also street from Sprague street to ice house of Davenport, or said houses at the foot of the said street leading past said houses.
Article Sixteen-To see if the Town will vote to instruct the School Committee to insure the new Avery School building against loss by fire.
Article Seventeen-To see on which side of Washington street, in the opinion of the Town, the widening (adjudicated as necessary by the County Commissioners), should be made.
Article Eighteen-To see if the Town will widen the square from corners of Bussey, Colburn and Curve streets, East Dedham, sometimes called Tracey's Square according to a plan made by Erastus Worthington, Jr., C. E.
Article Nineteen-That the present Superintendent of Streets shall have charge of the work laid out by the County Commis- sioners on Milton street, and shall receive four hundred dollars for superintending the same.
Article Twenty-To see what sum the Town will pay to Margaret Murphy, for personal injuries incurred by her through
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falling on High street, in the winter of 1893-4, in consideration of a release of all claims and demands by her upon the Town, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article Twenty-one-To see what sum if any, the Town will pay to Catherine Watts, for personal injuries incurred by her through falling on High street, in the winter of 1893-4, in consid- eration of a release of all claims and demands by her upon the Town, and raise and appropriate money therefor.
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 fifth day of September, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
J. EVERETT SMITH, - DAVID NEAL, LESTER A. NEWCOMB, CHARES H. ELLIS, GEORGE W. WEATHERBEE, - Selectmen of Dedham.
On this warrant the following return was made :-
Norfolk, ss. Dedham, September 16, 1895.
By virture 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 purposes specified in said warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in each of the post-offices in said town, and in twenty other public places in said town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting, and by causing an attested copy thereof to be published twice before the time of said meeting in the Dedham Transcript, a newspaper published in said town of Dedham.
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