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WAMPATUCK HOOK AND LADDER.
Carriage, 7 ladders, 6 hooks, 20 buckets, 2 fountain pumps, condemned, 2 forks, 2 axes, 2 dog hooks, 1 dog hammer, 2 lan- terns, 1 pole for horses, whiffletree and chains, 1 jack, 1 wrench, 2 oil-cans, 25 badges, 11 settees, 7 chairs, 2 stoves, 2 boilers, 2 coal- hods, 2 shovels, 1 table, 7 lamps and fixtures, dust-pan, water pail, 3 brooms, feather duster, 4 spittoons, clock, ladder, mop, tubs, , 2 guy ropes, dust broom, and 11 curtains.
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FIRES IN THE YEAR ENDING FEB. 1, 1884.
And under this head we would call the attention of the town to the large number of fires, apparently of incendiary origin, and think that something should be done to stop this growing evil. There have been during the past year twice the number of fires that there have been in any year since the department was formed. The fol- lowing is a list of fires : -
Feb. 19. House and barn on Liberty Street, occupied by Tristram Dalton. Cause unknown. No alarm.
April 22. Alarm for fire in the woods near West Street School- house. Department all out.
May 6. House belonging to N. L. White, in East Braintree. Loss $1,000. Insurance, $900. Butcher Boy went to the Union's house.
June 16. Dwelling-house and saw-mill situated on Granite Street. Property of the heirs of Geo. White. Totally destroyed. Loss on house $1,500 ; mill, $3,000. Insured on mill and ma- chinery $2,000, and house $600. Cause incendiary. Butcher Boy and ladders were out.
July 6. House on Pond Street, owned by George E. Hayden. oss $200. Cause incendiary. Butcher Boy out.
July 26. House on Pond Street, owned by the heirs of J. E. Holbrook. Loss $250; insured $300. Cause incendiary. Butcher Boy out.
Aug. 11. Barn in East Braintree belonging to James Willis was on fire. The Union extinguished it. Damaged but little. Cause incendiary.
Aug. 16. Webbing facory in East Baraintree ; property of Samuel Henry. Totally destroyed. Loss $3,000 ; insured $3,000. Cause unknown. Union and ladders were out.
Aug. 28. Butcher Boy called out for a fire on the Meadows, on Union Street.
Sept. 7. Fire in the woods near Mrs. Collins, on West Street. Department all out.
Sept. 8. Barn belonging to the heirs of E. A. Hollingsworth, on Washington Street. Loss $3,000; insured $1,500. Cause un- known. Department all out.
Sept. 11. Barn belonging to Elijah Penniman, on Union Street. Cause incendiary. Department all out.
Sept. 12. House belonging to Mrs. Samuel Loring, in East Braintree. Loss $200. Cause incendiary. Department all out. Oct. 30. Hay stack on Union Street, property of George C. Hallenbeck. Loss $30. Cause incendiary. Department all out.
Nov. 3. Barn on Granite Street, belonging to the heirs of George White. Loss $250. Cause incendiary. Butcher Boy out.
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Nov. 8. Barn on Pond Street, belonging to William Dow. Loss $500 ; insured $550. Cause incendiary. No alarm.
Nov. 17. Methodist Church on Washington Street, totally de- stroyed. Loss $5,000 ; insured $2.000. Cause, over-heated stove. Department all out, and steamers from Randolph and Holbrook.
Dec. 16. House and barn belonging to the heirs of Thatcher White. Loss $2,500 ; insured $2,100. Cause incendiary. No alarm.
M. A. PERKINS, Chief Engineer.
REPORT OF THE TOWN COMMITTEE UPON THE EX- PENDITURES OF THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS LAWS.
Your committee find it necessary to omit in detail much that is. valuable to this report, for want of space ; but as some members of this committee, who hold an official commission from the Select- men, in connection with others, have been appealed to in several instances by some of our citizens for protection, in court and other- wise, against the violence of the law-breaking classes, also to visit families in distress during sickness and death, and various other troubles, all of which violence and distress were traceable to the liquor-selling class, which had followed this business without molestation in our town so long that they had become totally re- gardless of the crimes and distress chargeable to their business, we have had favorable opportunities for learning from the wives, mothers, and children that their worst troubles come through the influence of the dram-shops, which, having become formidable in numbers, were likewise bold in method.
But now having learned through their costly experience that the law is made and administered for the punishment of the vicious as well as for the protection of the innocent, they have very materi- ally weakened in methods and diminished in numbers. Some have given up the business and moved out of town; others have fled to parts unknown to your committee, to escape the penalties of the law, and some are now serving their time in the House of Correction.
In all cases where prosecutions for nuisance have been made, liquors have been found and seized. No moneys have been paid to, nor have any charges been made by, any member of the com- mittee for time or services rendered by him. It is proper for us to state that Mr. Alverdo Mason has also rendered material aid by his services in the prosecution of this work free of charge ; so that bills have been approved by the committee only for ex- penses, legal and official services, to the present time amounting to $336.50. The following is a list of cases carried to final con
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viction and punishment, or are held on bail for appearance in the upper court on appeal from sentence in the lower court.
James McSweeney, for keeping liquor nuisance, once.
Hosea B. Hayden, for keeping liquor nuisance, once, and is under bonds for appearance at upper court, on appeal from sentence in lower court.
Catharine Conners, for keeping liquor nuisance, twice, and has moved out of town.
James F. Moran, for keeping liquor nuisance, twice.
James F. Moran, for disturbing the peace, once.
James F. Moran, for drunkenness, once.
James Ragan, for keeping liquor nuisance, once, and now 'a fugitive from justice.
Catharine Reardon, for keeping liquor nuisance, once, and now a fugitive from justice.
Margaret Saunderson, for keeping liquor nuisance, once.
· Robert M. Loring, two seizures for keeping liquor nuisance, once and is under bonds for appearance at upper court, on appeal from sentence in lower court.
Daniel J. Horgan, for disturbing the peace, once.
Dennis Mahoney, for disturbing the peace, once.
Paul Dowd, for assault, once.
John Croke, for assault, once.
John Croke, for drunkenness, once.
Michael Doran, for drunkenness, once.
John Shehan, for drunkenness, once.
Thomas Ryan, for drunkenness, once.
Peter Mooney, for drunkenness, once.
Thomas Briody, for drunkenness, once.
George F. Thayer, for larceny, once.
Other well-founded cases of liquor nuisances have been prose- cuted where convictions were not secured, owing to the denial of the truth by witnesses under oath and their suppression of facts which they had previously made known to the committee when not under oath, showing the great depravity of the patrons of the dram-shop with regard to the truth. Instances are known to the committee where children from five to twelve years of age have been habitually sent to these places for intoxicating liquors, and then have been carefully instructed how to misrepresent or deny the facts.
This one great evil alone is sufficient cause for alarm, and should enlist the attention of every lover of the truth, even were there not other and greater evils and crimes connected with the liquor traffic.
T. H. DEARING, DANIEL POTTER, ~ Committee. S. F. JENKINS,
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ASSESSORS' ACCOUNT.
Support of schools
· $8,300 00
Highways and sidewalks
7,000 00
Town officers
· 1,800 00
Interest on town debt
2,100 00
Support of poor
5,000 00
Fire Department
2,000 00
Removal of snow
1,000 00
Incidental expenses of town
1,200 00
Public Library
450 00
Grand Army of the Republic
150 00
Incidental expenses of schools
300 00
Janitor
For the enforcement of the laws .
500 00
Improvement of town lands
300 00
Furnishing room in Union Schoolhouse
325 00
Repairs on South Schoolhouse
100 00
Repairs on West Schoolhouse
100 00
Painting of schoolhouses
500 00
Refurnishing East Primary school-room
350 00
Painting engines and hook and ladder truck
125 00
Land for new almshouse
1,000 00
Reservoir at Little Pond
75 00
Reservoir on Hobart Street
450 00
Reservoir near Josephus Sampson's
250 00
County tax
2,147 42
State tax
2,790 00
Overlay
1,409 76
$41,822 18
APPROPRIATIONS NECESSARY FOR ENSUING YEAR.
Schools
$8,500 00 - 5:400
Highways and bridges
·
6,000 00 - 4000.+
Interest on town debt
2,800 00 - 2800.
Town officers
1,800 00 - 1800.
Support of the poor
5,000 00 - 5000,
Fire Department
2,000 00 - 2000.
Incidental expenses
1,200 00 - 1000, 1,000 00 -100:, 450 00 - 450.
Grand Army
150 00
Incidental expenses of schools
300 00
3.0,
Incidental expenses of schoolhouses Janitor
300 00
: 300,
600 00 6000
Repavis Ited 20,00. Bruge a
300,
1000+
.
.
.
300 00
schoolhouses
600 00
Lighting and ventilating Town House .
1,200 00
Removing snow .
Public Library
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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THAYER PUBLIC LIBRARY.
TO THE SELETCMEN :
The Trustees of the Thayer Public Library respectfully present their annual report.
The library was open during the year 280 days.
Number of volumes borrowed, 16,537.
Average per day, 59.
The largest daily issue was on March 24, 230.
The smallest daily issue was on July 30, 11.
Of books borrowed, the percentage was as follows : -
History, 4++ ; biography, 2++ ; travel, 5+; science, 2+ ; fiction, 62+; poetry, 2+; juvenile, 10+ ; miscellaneous, 6+ ; reference, 3+.
Whole number of volumes in the library . . 6,530
Number of volumes added during the year 530 ·
Whole number of borrowers 2,574 ·
Increase over last year
196
The trustees are pleased to note that the high standing of last year is maintained, and that the percentage taken of fiction is much less than former years. This tendency to a more solid and useful class of reading has been going on steadily year by year ; it indi- cates a distinct educational improvement in those who use the library.
Attention has been called to the comments and marks which ap- pear on many of the books; we trust that such an evil will cease. The privileges of the library will be taken from those who persist in so defacing the books.
The trustees would recommend an appropriation of $450 by the town for the coming year.
"The receipts and expenditures of the past year are set forth in detail in the accompanying report of the treasurer.
By order of the trustees.
N. F. T. HAYDEN, ASA FRENCH,
H. A. JOHNSON, F. A. HOBART, N. H. HUNT,
Board of Trustees.
FEB 1, 1884.
THAYER PUBLIC LIBRARY.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
FUND ACCOUNT.
Balance in hands of treasurer, Feb. 1, 1883, $418 06
Town treasurer, on interest note $10,000 300 00
From librarian for fines and catalogues ·
29 54
$747 60
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Estes & Lauriat for books .
$571 42
A. Williams & Co. for books
3 50
Forbes Lith. Company for printing
8 75
Cutter, Tower & Co. for stationery
10 25
Green & Prescott for printing
33 50
A. M. Arnold for microscope
1 83
629 25
Balance in hands of treasurer, Feb. 1, 1884
$118 35
6 months' interest due Feb. 1, 1884, uncollected . . $300 00
TOWN ACCOUNT.
EXPENDITURES.
Paid T. B. Stoddard for repairs $1 10
A. M. Arnold for librarian one year
300 00
W. A. Wood & Co. for oil .
6 13
J. F. Sheppard for coal
113 00
E. F. E. Thayer for insurance ·
94 00
$514 23
RECEIPT'S.
Balance in hands of treasurer Feb. 1, 1883,
$31 29
Sale of old junk
. 75
Town appropriation .
450 00
483 04
Amount over-expended on town account Feb. 1, 1884
$31 19
N. F. T. HAYDEN, Treasurer.
JAN. 31, 1884. Approved,
HENRY A. JOHNSON.
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COLLECTOR'S ACCOUNT. JOSEPH DYER, Collector for 1882.
Balance due from collector, 1882 . $3,382 71
Interest collected
90 57
Cash paid D. H. Bates, treas. $3,283 68
Unpaid taxes, as per list
96 88
Cash paid D. H. Bates as interest
90 57
Cash due from collector
2 15
$3,473 28
COLLECTOR'S ACCOUNT. JOSEPH DYER, Collector for 1883.
Tax levy for 1883
. $41,941 93
Interest collected
40 14
$41,982 07
Cash paid D. H. Bates, treas. . . $38,119 80
Cash paid D. H. Bates, as interest 40 14
Unpaid taxes, as per list .
3,822 13
-$41,982 07
TAXES UNPAID, 1882.
John Brightman, balance ·
·
$1 87
John Greenwood
.
.
.
6 38
William Hayden, balance .
5 02
John W. Richardson, balance
6 50
David Thayer, balance
12 89
D. Brainard Thayer, balance
12 02
Nute Bros.
52 20
$96 88
LIST OF UNPAID TAXES FEB. 1, 1884.
Heirs of Benjamin, Ar-
nold . $15 53
Edward Bannon 2 00
William A. Bishop 19 94
Benjamin C. Bannon 2 , 00 John Bowditch 14 77
Martin Bannon 2 00
J. Francis Bowditch 13 46
Joseph I. Bates 30 98
Albert E. Bradford . 2 00
Joseph I. Bates & Son . 11 39
John Brightman . 3 04
Joseph I. Bates & Co. 6 90
Sarah T. Brown . 35 88
F. Amasa Bates . 2 00
Elijah Benjamin . $22 70
Michael Bentley . 12 35
Symms G. Buker 6 83
$3,473 28
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Frank A. Burrell . $43 40
Joshua N. Hobart $21 74
Charles Carpenter
37 88 Robert G. Hobart 53 48
John Cavanagh . 178 65 Heirs of N. M. Hobart . 71 76
Leroy W. Collins
2 00
Elias Holbrook 33 74
James Croke (bal. )
4 83
Walter Holbrook (bal.). 3 45
C. L. Holbrook 2 00
George E. Hollis . 2.00
Charles W. Daley 13 73
William J. Dana (bal.).
27 60
Jeremialı Dennehey .
16 49
Horace F. Hunt (bal.).
1 04
Heirs of Robert Dickey,
80
Thomas Hueston (bal.). Patrick Hennegan 2 00
John J. Downes (bal. ) 13 46
Thomas Donahue
3 38
Daniel Horgan 2 00
Thomas Doyle .
24 84
Israel Harness 2 00.
Edward H. Drinkwater,
2 00
Silas M. Jones
36 85
Heirs of Asa Dyer 26 22
Arza B. Keith (bal.). 28 23
William F. Dyer .
26 50
James Laven 11 73
Eugene A. Dustin
2 00
Mrs. George M. Lincoln 56 58
Susan H. Drollett
73 1
Henry O. Learned 13 04
Patrick Deviney : 00
Robert M. Loring 14 08
Charles C. Fogg 15 80
Hiram A. French
73 76
Loring 93,50
Charles H. Loring 14 42
Richard F. Loring 73
John Jackson French
25 46
Luke Mulligan (bal.)
7 25
Waldo French
74 45
Artemus L. Morrow .
33 74
Charles, Gardner
15 11
Thomas J. McCormick . 8 90
James Genders
4 76
James McDonald (bal.) 13 11
Charles E. Goodnow 2 00
John Greenwood .
9 59
John McGlincy N 00
Henry F. Hall
13 39
James McSweeney
19 94
Benjamin Hawes,
20 98
Patrick McLaughlin .
2 00
Benjamin Hawes, Jr.
24 08
Erastus A. Newton 2 00
John H. Hawes
2 69
Elisha B. Nightengale . 2 35
21 74
Nicholas Nute. 3 38
Heirs of Caleb Hayden . Hosea B. Hayden
6 14
Albert D. Nute 2 00
William Hayden .
18 56
Alfred F. Nute 2 00
Theodore A. Hayden
2
69
Willis H. Nute 2 00
Loring Hayden 3 38
Peter O'Roake 9 59
C. Henry Hayden
6 83
William H. Pierce 2 00
Edward P. Hayward 36 13
Herman F. Porter 9 94 Asa T. Pratt 18 56
John Hayward 27 53
Patrick Hennesey
18 91
Frank A. Pease 2 00
Edward Hobart
5 11
Mary Randall . 1 38
Heirs of Henry Hobart,
16 91
John W. Richardson
19 25
John Croke 2 00
Heirs of John Cunning- ham 15 87
William A. Hollis
19 25
Edward Huff 10 80
William H Howard . . 305 26
22 08
Robert A. Dickey 2 : 00
Alden H. Holbrook . 10 97
Heirs of Barnabas T.
J. Jarvis French (bal.). 9 66
Heirs of Adam French .
39 68
Alexander McGaw 17 18
Dennis Griffin
18 56
James McKenney 2 07
58
Charles N. Richards
$2 00 | Thatcher White $68 94
John W. Rowell . 2 00
William W. Saunders
2 00 Heirs of Elisha Wild
(bal.) 36 57
James Willis .
45
Robert A. Wilson.
3 73
John D. Young
2 00
NON-RESIDENTS.
Jenkins
Manufacturing
Co. $729 33
Samuel J. Wall 4 14
Mrs. D. W. Teele
26 22
David Thayer
16 15
David Thayer, 2d
18 56
Neil McRae .
31 05
D. Brainard Thayer . 14 77
8 90
John Dorety 88 32
Mrs. John L. Hill 20 01
George Brown (bal.) 45 20
Carrie C. Thayer .
33 12
Lewis Thayer .
10 63
Simeon Thayer
16 49
Benjamin F. Torrey,
(bal.). 11 39
Joseph Tuck 2 00
Edgar H. Trufant
13 04
William Thomas .
2 00
Thomas B. Vinton
89 29
Heirs of Freeman G.
White 26 57
Augustus White .
29 95
$3,822 13
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT.
DAVID H. BATES, Treasurer.
Dr.
Cash on hand Feb. 20, 1883 Cash received from : -
.$11,911 49
Joseph Dyer, collector, 1881
4 07
Joseph Dyer, collector, 1-82
3,283 68
90 57 Joseph Dyer, collector, 1882, interest . .
Joseph Dyer, collector, 1883 .
, 38,119 80 ·
Joseph Dyer, collector, 1883, interest . 40 14 .
Weymouth Bank (borrowed)
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·
3,000 00
Braintree Saving Bank (borrowed)
6,000 00
James Slyne 00
21
James E. Slyne
2
00
Terence Starr .
2 00
Thomas B. Stoddard
27 19
John P. Stoddard
14 77
Timothy E. Sullivan . 2 00
John F. Sullivan 2 00
John Sommers 16 49
Webster D. Teele (bal.) 8 28
Boston Organ Co. 13 80
Marcellus Yawvey 17 25
.
Charles A. Vinal (bal.). 12 63
William M. Hunt 8 28
Eleazer Beales 1 04
Heirs of Samuel Chees- man 3 11
Robert V. Barnes 4 49
Solon W. Pratt
48 30
Thomas B. Porter
30 02
Heirs of Mary T. W.
Dewing . 1 04
Frank W. Mead .
.
42 78
Ephraim B. Thayer
Francis P. Thayer
2 00
George W. Thayer 2 00
George S. Whiting 10 28
Elisha Savill (bal.). 2 90
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Weymouth Bank, interest on deposits
$168 81
County of Norfolk, dog tax
407 54
Joseph Dyer, treasurer Braintree school fund
300 00
Cash received from State, viz. :
Corporation tax .
4,422 52
Bank tax
1,875 03
State aid
1,321 00
Support of indigent soldiers and sailors
425 25
State school fund
225 69
Burial of pauper
5 00
Support of State paupers
32 00
Cash received from Overseers of the Poor, viz. :
17 13
City of Lawrence, due last year .
17 75
City of Somerville, due last year
46 58
Town of Holbrook, due last year
130 00
Town of Harvard, due last year .
31 00
Town of Foxboro, due last year .
24 25
Town of Bridgewater, due last year
20 00
Town of Stoughton, due last year
8 00
Town of Manchester, due last year
3 83
City of Taunton '
4 56
Refunded by poor persons .
45 13
Refunded .
286 21
Sale of cow from almshouse
65 00
Almshouse, labor, produce, etc. .
667 18
Cash received from Selectmen, viz. : -
Use of Town Hall
293 22
Use of piano
14 00
Billiard licenses
20 00
Sale of old hose
2 62
Sale of old drawbridge
36 00
State aid refunded
4 00
Sale of old couplings .
3 55
Sale of rubber boots
18 00
Town of Holbrook
13 40
Burial lot, J. F. Holbrook .
5 00
Burial lot, James Miller
5 00
Cash received from Road Commissioners, viz. : -
Town land .
35 20
Drawbridge
63 00
Snow bills .
17 60
Old iron
7 12
$73,536 92
629%
City of Brockton, due last year .
CO
Cr.
Cash paid on 689 orders $56,511 94
Weymouth Bank, note . 3,000 00
Weymouth Bank, interest 45 75
Braintree Savings Bank, notes -
6,000 00
Braintree Savings Bank, interest
45 75
William S. Dexter, interest .
600 00
Amos W. Stetson, interest .
550 00
N. F. T. Hayden, treasurer, interest
600 00
F. C. Miles, treasurer, interest
300 00
State tax
2,790 00
County tax .
2,147 42
State, adjustment of corporation tax
5 06
Cash balance on hand
941 00
$73,536 92
BRAINTREE, Feb. 15, 1884.
We have examined the accounts of David H. Bates, treasurer, and find them well vouched and rightly cast, and that the balance ($941.00), as shown, is actually on hand and deposited in the Union National Bank of Weymouth in the name of the town of Braintree.
JOHN M. BEALS,
ALVERDO MASON, Auditors. EBEN DENTON,
THE TOWN OWES THE FOLLOWING NOTES AND INTEREST, FEB. 1, 1884.
Trustees estate of Gen. S. Thayer : -
Feb. 26, 1873, at six per cent . $10,000 00
March 7, 1874, at six per cent · 10,000 00 .
Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, F. C. Miles, treasurer : -
July 24, 1875, ten years, at six per cent 5,000 00
A. W. Stetson, trustee : -
Aug. 1, 1880, six years, at five and one half per cent
. 10,000 00
Less assets for schedule
$35,000 00 . $7,205 34
Net debt Feb. 1, 1884
. $27,794. 66
Net debt Feb. 1, 1883
. $17,419 38
Net debt Feb. 1, 1884
. 27,794 66
Net debt more than last year . $10,375 28
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ASSETS OF THE TOWN, FEB. 1, 1884.
Balance in treasury
$941 00
Due from Joseph Dyer, collector, 1882
99 03
Joseph Dyer, collector, 1883
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3,822 13
City of Somerville
53 40
City of Brockton .
174 55
City of Chelsea
10 00
City of Lawrence
16 00
Town of South Scituate
3 00
Town of Foxboro
5 50
Town of Holbrook
142 80
Town of Weymouth
35 01
Town of Canton .
10 40
State pauper acccount .
12 45
State aid (Cbap. 301) .
1,421 75
State aid (Chap. 252) .
417 95
Road Commissioners
24 37
Town of Quincy .
4 00
Town of Bridgewater
12 00
$7,205 34
Assets not collectible shown in last year's report : - '
Due from Town of Chelmsford .
$20 00
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WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Braintree, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Braintree, qualified to vote in. town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in Braintree, on Monday the third day of March next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, namely : -
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear the report of the several town officers and act thereon.
ART. 3. To determine the manner of repairing the highways, townways, and bridges the ensuing year. .
ART. 4. To choose all necessary town officers for the ensuing year.
ART. 5. To see what action the town will take in relation to hiring money for any purpose.
ART. 6. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
ART. 7. To see if the town will accept the jury list as made by the selectmen.
ART. 8. To see if the town will vote an appropriation of $150, and pay the same to Gen. Sylvanus Thayer Post G. A. R., for the purpose of assisting them in defraying the expenses of memorial services on Decoration Day.
ART. 9. To see how the town will vote to pay the members of the Fire Department. 1.10. 004.000
ART. 10. To see how the town will vote on the following ques- tion, as required by Chap. 54 of the Acts of the year 1881 :, Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?
ART. 11. "To see if the town will vote to deliver books from the Public Library to the people of the east part of the town, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 12. To see if the town will vote to have a well dug at the intersection of Middle and Union Streets, for the accommodation of the school and general public, and appropriate money for the same. Lescual 0
ART. 13. To see if the town will take any action in relation to their by-laws.
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ART. 14. To see if the town will vote to amend Sect. 6 of Art. 4 of the by-laws of the town by the addition of the word "not " after the word "shall."
ART. 15. To see if the town will vote to make suitable gutters and drains to carry off surface water from the north side of Allen Street, leading from Shaw Street to Quincy Avenue, as recom- mended by the Road Commissioners, and appropriate money for the same.
Refered 15 RC.
ART. 16. To see if the town will request the Selectmen to notify the Old Colony Railroad Corporation to erect suitable gates as soon as practicable, and that an agent be stationed to open and close such gates when an engine passes at the following crossings : At the crossing on Commercial Street, near the house of L. O. Crocker ; the crossing on Allen Street, near the engine house ; the crossing on Shaw Street ; and on Quincy Avenue, near the Union Church. Relever
ART. 17. To see if the town will vote to purchase and establish a set of scales, to be located in South Braintree, for the purpose of weighing coal, hay, etc.
ART. 18. To see if the town will appoint a committee, and au- thorize it in connection with committees appointed by the other towns, constituting the original town of Braintree, to have the records of Braintree, from 1640 to 1793, printed and indexed, and appropriate money therefor. Color
ART. 19. To see if the town will vote to accept the provisions of Chap. 382 of the statutes of the year 1871, in relation to the assessment of betterments on account of the cost of public improve- ments.
ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to pay their laborers on town work at the rate of one dollar and seventy-five cents ($1.75) per day.
ART. 21. To see if the town will allow the Braintree military company the use of the armory free of expense.
ART. 22. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to repair the horse sheds and for the improvement of the town lands.
ART. 23. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to widen and straighten Washington Street, as ordered by the County Commissioners.
ART. 24. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to build a barn at the new almshouse.
ART. 25. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to procure furniture for the new almshouse.
ART. 26. To see if the town will reappropriate the unexpended balance of the appropriation for building the drawbridge at East Braintree, and also the money unexpended on the almshouse appropriation.
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ART. 27. To hear and act upon the report of any committee and to choose any committee the town may think proper.
You are to give notice of this meeting by posting true and attested copies of this warrant in not less than nine public places in this town seven days at least before the time of said meeting.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the town clerk, before the time of said meet- ing.
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