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232,000
30
Wareham, Onset Bay,
3,350
12,000
36
Watertown and Belmont,
10,923
532,000
49
Webster,
7,953
233,000
29
Wellesley,
4,355
193,000
44
Weston,
1,719
24,000
14
Whitman, .
6,005
231,000
39
Woburn, .
. 14,311
1,026,000
72
Worcester,
. 101,589
6,126,000
60
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CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF WATER FROM THE FILTER-GALLERY OF THE BRAINTREE WATER WORKS. ·[Parts per 100,000.]
APPEARANCE.
AMMONIA.
NITROGEN AS
Date of
Collection.
Turbidity.
Sediment.
Color.
Fire.
Albumi-
noid.
Cholera.
Nitrates.
Nitrites.
Oxygen Con-
sumed.
Hardness.
Iron.
1896.
15863 Jan.
9 V. slight, Slight, rusty.
rusty.
.02
5.90
.0004
.0038
94
.0600
.0000
.05
2.1
.0030
16198 Mar.
5 None.
V. slight.
18
5.60
.0002
.0068
.82
.0650
.0000
.19
1.8
.0280
16547 May
6 None.
None.
.10
4.20
.0000
.0048
.80
.0280
.0000
.17
1.5
.0060
16921 July
6 V. slight, V .. slight. milky.
.12
5.40
.0000
.0044
.82
.0170
.0002
...
1.5
.0240
17095 July
29 None.
None.
.05
4.60
.0000
.0050
.83
.0120
.0000
.12
.6
0060
17408 Sept.
9 None.
None.
.07
5.60
0022
.0074
.84
.0050
.0000
.13
1.4
.0010
17865 Nov.
13 None.
V. slight.
.02
6.00
.0008
.0041
· .92
.0250
.0001
.08
2.0
.0040
Residue on Evaporation.
Number.
067
AVERAGES BY YEARS.
. . . .
. .
·
.
. .
.
.07
7.14
.0006
.0045
.85
.0948
.0003
. .
. .
. .
. . . .
1892
....
. ...
.02
4.69
.0002
.0030
.75
.0192
.0001
1.8
.0343
. .. .
. . . .
. ...
.03
4.72
.0002
.0049
.83
.0363
.0001
10
1.8
.0037
1894
. .. .
. . . .
.04
5.17
.0004
.0048
.86
.0338
.0001
.10
1.7
.0135
1895
. . . .
. ...
.12
5.32
.0004
.0060
.89
.0369
.0002
.13
2.0
.0417
1896+
.
.08
5.55
.0006
.0051
86
.0329
.0000
.12
1.7
.0095
*June, 1887, to May, 1888.
+Where more than one sample was collected in a month, the mean analysis for that month has been used in making the average.
NOTE to analysis of 1896: Odor, none. A faintly vegetable odor was developed on heating the samples collected in March, May and November, -- No. 1748 was collected from the filter-gallery and the others from a faucet at the pumping station.
MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION.
An insignificant number of organisms was found in Nos. 15863 and 16198; no organisms were found in the other samples.
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1893
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CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF WATER FROM TUBULAR TEST WELLS NEAR LITTLE POND, BRAINTREE. [Parts per 100,000.]
APPEARANCE.
AMMONIA.
NITROGEN AS
Number.
Date of Collec-
tion.
Turbidity.
Sediment.
Color.
Residue on Evaporation.
Albumi-
noid.
Chlorine.
Nitrates.
Nitrites.
Oxygen
Consumed.
Hardness.
Iron.
1896
17094
July 29 Decided, clayey. Dec. 12 Slight,
Cons., sandy. Cons., earthy. Cons., earthy. Cons., earthy.
.05
5.10
.0000
.0024
0.87
.0220
.0000
.04
1.9
.0200
18104
1.14
.1400
.0001
.01
2.4
.0140
18105
Dec. 12|
clayey. Slight, clayey.
00
7.10
.0006
.0012
1.16
.1250
.0001
.05
2.5
.1000
18106
Dec. 12 Slight, clayey.
02
4.80
.0004
.0044
0.96
,0400
.0001
10
1.6
.0450
Odor, none, becoming faintly earthy or mouldy on heating .- The samples were collected from tubular wells located on the easterly shore of Little Pond, 17 feet from the high-water mark, as follows; The first sample, from a two-inch test well 195 feet north of the filter-gallery of the Braintree Water Works; the last three samples, from six-inch tubular wells located 140, 165 and 190 feet north of the filter-gallery.
MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION.
No. 17094. Fungi, Crenothrix, 1,600. No organisms were found in the remaining samples.
292
00
6.70
.0008
.0020
Free.
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 said Braintree, on Monday, the Seventh Day of March, 1898, at 7 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 high- ways and bridges the ensuing year.
ART. 4. To choose all necessary town officers for the en- suing year. Also to vote on the following question, Yes or No, as required by Chapter 54 of the Acts of 1881, namely : Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale of intoxi- cating liquors? Under this article the polls will be kept open until one o'clock P. M.
ART. 5. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of Board of Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.
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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 prepared by the Selectmen.
ART. 8. To see if the town will vote to charge interest on all unpaid taxes after a certain date.
ART. 9. To see if the town will vote an appropriation to assist Post 87, G. A. R., in defraying the expenses of memorial services on Memorial Day.
ART. 10. To see what compensation the town will vote to pay the members of the Fire Department the ensuing year.
ART. 11. To appropriate a sum of money for hydrant service.
ART. 12. To appropriate a sum of money for the Water Loan Sinking Fund.
ART. 13. To appropriate a sum of money for the Electric Light Sinking Fund.
ART. 14. To appropriate a sum of money to convey pu- pils to and from the public schools.
ART. 15. To see if the town will vote to continue the Night Police and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 16. To make necessary appropriations for operating the Electric Lighting System.
ART. 17. To see if the town will vote to quit-claim to Sarah M. Mansfield the lot of land with buildings thereon, situate on the corner of Taylor (formerly Winter) and Cen- tral streets, in that part of the town known as South Brain- tree, and being the same premises named in a deed of Solon David to Sarah M. Mansfield, dated July 5, 1893, and re- corded with Norfolk Deeds, Book 696. page 324.
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ART. 18. To see if the town will vote to quit-claim to Henry W. Mansfield the lot of land with buildings thereon, situate on Central street in that part of the town known as South Braintree, and being the same premises named in a deed of Solon David to Henry W. Mansfield, dated May 31, 1890, and recorded with Norfolk Deeds, Book 638, page 330.
ART. 19. To see if the town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Chapter 374 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1895, entitled "An Act to Authorize Towns to Place the Administration of their Highways under a Single Highway Surveyor."
ART. 20. To see if the town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Chapter 186 of the Acts of the Legislature of 1895, entitled " An Act Relative to the Watering of Streets in Towns."
ART. 21. To see if the town will vote to build a sidewalk on Franklin street, west of the residence of the late Calvin Thayer, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 22. To see if the town will vote to have a survey and plans made of the improved lands within the town, to better enable the assessors to perform their duties.
ART. 23. To see if the town will appoint a committee to consider and report on the question of a new school building.
ART. 24. To hear the report of the committee appointed at the last annual Town Meeting, to report as to the rights of the town in reference to the A. S. Morrison Lighting Plant.
ART. 25. To see if the town will vote to extend the street lighting system on Hayward street, also on Pond street.
ART. 26. To see if the town will accept the laying out as town ways Lowel street, so-called, and that portion of Park street running east from the aforesaid Lowel street to Cedar street, as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate a sum of money to build the same.
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ART. 27. To see if the town will vote to build a concrete sidewalk on Washington street and Hall avenue, partly on land of Mr. E. C. Hall, in accordance with the provisions of a vote passed at the annual meeting March, 1897, and appro- priate a sum of money for the same.
ART. 28. To see if the town will vote to extend the Elec- tric Lighting System to establish an arc light at the corner of Fountain and Boscobel streets, and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
ART. 29. To see if the town will vote an appropriation to rebuild the target used by Company K, Fifth Regiment ; also to aid said company in providing such furnishings as may be needed to equip the company in a comfortable man- ner.
ART. 30. To see if the town will place the lighting plant in the charge of a Municipal Lighting Board, and accept the statutes in relation to the same ..
ART. 31. To see if the town will vote to divide the town into voting precincts, and accept the statutes relating to the same.
ART. 32. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to make extensions of the water mains and appropriate the sum of $2,000 to defray the expense of the same.
ART. 33. To see if the town will vote to gravel the drive- way in front of the Jonas Perkins school, and appropriate the sum of $150 for the same.
ART. 34. To see if the town will vote to construct a safe and suitable fence on Commercial street over the Arch bridge, and appropriate money to defray the expense of the .
same.
ART. 35. To see if the town will vote an appropriation to enlarge the culvert under Elm street, near the factory of A. C. Drinkwater.
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ART. 36. To see if the town desires to instruct the Select- men in relation to the two franchises petitioned for by the Braintree & Weymouth Street Railway Company.
ART. 37. To see if the town desires to instruct the Select- men in relation to the petition of the Braintree & Randolph Street Railway Company to extend its tracks in Pearl street.
ART. 38. To see if the town will vote to build a drain in Washington street to take the surface water flowing in front of the residence of the late Elisha Morse.
ART. 39. To see if the town will choose a Board of Assessors other than the Selectmen.
ART. 40. To see if the town will choose a Board of Road Commissioners, and accept the statutes relating to the same.
ART. 41. To see if the town will vote to purchase uni- forms for the night police, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 42. To choose any committee or hear the report of any committee and act thereon.
ART. 43. To see if the town will vote to make some pro- vision for drainage in Franklin street, and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
ART. 44. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to rebuild the Fire Alarm. Also a sum of money to purchase new hose for the Fire Department.
You are to give notice of this meeting by posting up 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, and by publishing once in the Braintree Reporter.
Hereof fail. not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk before the time of said meeting.
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Given under our hands at Braintree this twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.
ANSEL O. CLARK, WILLIAM W. MAYHEW, Selectmen of Braintree.
J. PARKER HAYWARD,
A true copy. Attest :
HORACE FAXON, Constable of Braintree.
NORFOLK, ss. BRAINTREE, Feb. 25, 1898.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I hereby notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as therein expressed, to meet at the time and place for the pur- poses therein mentioned.
HORACE FAXON, Constable of Braintree.
INDEX.
PAGE.
Abatement of Taxes
40
Almshouse Account
14
Assessors' Account
48
Assets of Town .
92
Appropriations of 1897
4
Auditors' Report
94
Births of 1897
131
Braintree School Fund, Treasurer's Report
55
Court Fees and Expenses
39
Deaths of 1897
141.
Electric Light Department, Report of Manager Town Appropriation .
118
Financial Statement
92
Fire Department, Report of Engineer Pay of Members.
·
35
Incidental Expenses
36 42
Fire Department,-Hydrant Service Account
Inventory of Property
108
List of Fires of 1897
109
Grand Army Account
42
Highways Account
32
Hospital Account
25
Incidental Town Expenses
25
Inmates of Almshouse
17
Insurance Account
98
Jury List of 1898
184
Liabilities of Town
87
Marriages of 1896
136
Night Officers
39
Poor out of Almshouse Accounts
18
Recapitulation
46
Schools, Report of School Committee
191
Members of Board
.
189
.
,
117
106
.
300
Report of Superintendent
213
Pay of Teachers ·
7
Pay of Janitors .
9
Fuel Account
9
Conveyance of Pupils' Account
10
Salary of Superintendent
9
Text Books and Supplies
.
.
10
Incidentals for Schools .
11
Incidentals for School Houses
12
Selectmen and Assessors, Overseers of Poor, and High-
way Surveyors, Report of
3
Snow Account
·
32
Soldiers' Relief Account
24
State Aid Account
25
Superintendent of Streets, Report of
57
Special Appropriations .
72
Receipts and Expenditures
75
Location and Cost of Repairs
83
Taxes, Report of Collector .
99
Thayer Public Library, Report of Trustees
101
Report of Librarian
102
Financial Account
41
Report of Treasurer
104
Town Hall Account
32
Town Lands, care of
34
Town Officers of 1897, List of
2
Pay of
31
Town Records
147
Town Treasurer's Report
50
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting of 1898
293
Water Commissioners, Report of .
243
Report of Treasurer
280
Statistical Report .
274
Financial
275
Pumping Station, Illustrated
245
Report of State Board of Health
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287
Sinking Fund Account
. 282
Schedule of Property ·
265
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