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editor
Prescott, Eben
editor
Patten, Harry L.
clerk
Penniman, N. Allen
salesman
Robery, John P.
contractor
Ross, William A.
manufacturer
Record, Sanford P.
broker
Sampson, William A.
salesman
Sampson, George E.
real estate and insurance
Shaw, Chester H.
paper hanger
salesman
Shaw, Will H. Southworth, Alfred
clerk
Stevens, George W.
clerk
Sullivan, Edward J.
merchant
Summers, William B.
draftsman
Stark, William F. Tuttle, G. Henry
engineer
Thayer, Franklin D. Thayer, Louis W.
merchant
Tilden, Sidney A.
engineer
White, Jonathan F.
bookkeeper
White, Hartley L.
civil engineer
Woodsum, Rufus H.
tack maker
Whitman, Henry B.
harness maker
Woodsum, Wilford F.
electrician
retired
clerk
shoe worker
Warrant
FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Braintree, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective precincts, to wit :
Polling place in Precinct No. 1, Town Hall;
Polling place in Precinct No. 2, Hose House, Hollis avenue ; Polling place in Precinct No. 3, Hose House, Allen street ; on Monday, the third day of March, 1902, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the Wardens of their re- spective Precincts their votes on one ballot for a Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, three Selectmen, three Assessors, three Over- seers of the Poor, three Road Commissioners, one for a term of one year, one for two years, and one for a term of three years ; three Auditors, three Fence Viewers, a Tax Collector, a Tree Warden, two members of the Board of School Committee for three years, one Water Commissioner and Commissioner of Sinking Funds for three years, and one member of the Board of Health for three years, and fifteen Constables. Also to vote on the same ballot Yes or No upon the question " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town ?"
Also to vote Yes or No on the same ballot on the following Article, namely : "Shall an Act passed by the Legislature of the Commonwealth in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, together with the amendments thereof, entitled, An Act author- izing towns and cities to lay out public parks within their limits, be accepted."
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The polls will be open at six o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at 12 o'clock, M.
You are further directed to notify and warn said inhabitants qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree on Monday, the tenth day of March, 1902, at seven and one half o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following Articles, namely :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose all other Town Officers except those elected by ballot.
ART. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the several Boards of Town Officers, and of any committee, and to choose any committee the Town may think proper.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will authorize its Treasurer with the approval of a majority of the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, and issue notes of the Town therefor. Also to see if the Town will hold the Treasurer harm- less on his bond from any loss which may arise from the failure of any National Bank in which the funds of the Town may be on deposit, said Bank or Banks being designated by the Select- men. Also to see if the Town will continue to pay for the bond of its Treasurer.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote to charge interest on all unpaid taxes after a certain date.
ART. 6. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Public Schools and for transporting pupils to and from the same.
ART. 7. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repairs of highways, town-ways and bridges. Also for repairs and building sidewalks and stone road, removal of snow and watering streets.
ART. 8. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for support of the poor.
ART. 9. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for support and maintenance of the Fire Department, purchase of new hose, harnesses, etc.
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ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to choose a Munic- ipal Light Board as provided by Section 10 of Chapter 454 of the Acts of 1893, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years.
ART. 11. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for operating expenses of the Electric Light Department, for connecting new consumers, etc.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to continue its Night Police and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to assist Post 87, G. A. R., in defraying the expenses of memorial services on Memorial Day.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for Hydrant Service.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the Water Loan Sinking Funds.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the payment of notes, and for the payment of interest on the same.
ART. 17. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of Town Officers.
ART. 18. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Thayer Public Library and for the distribution of library books.
ART. 19. To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for supplies and repairs of the Town Hall, and for the services of a janitor.
ART. 20. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.
ART. 21. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for abatements of taxes.
ART. 22. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for insurance on Town Buildings.
ART. 23. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to appropriate for the support of the insane in hospit ils ; for the payment of State Aid and Military Aid, and for Soldiers' Relief
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as provided by Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1890, and to deter- mine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
ART. 24. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the payment of Court Fees and Expenses in criminal cases.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will accept the Jury List as prepared by the Selectmen.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of Stedman avenue, so called, as a town way, as made by the Selectmen, leading southerly from School street to Elm street, and appropriate a sum of money to build the same.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of Harrison avenue, so called, as a town way, as made by the Select- men, leading westerly from Middle street to a point near the new Penniman schoolhouse, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to build the same.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 8 of Article 8 of the By-Laws of the Town of Braintree, by adding after the word "Town" in said section, the words : "provided, however, that the Selectmen may, at the request of seven citizens of the town, designate certain streets on which coasting with a sled or runners may be allowed."
ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money to be expended by the Tree Warden.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to build a drain on the West side of Washington street from a point in front of the house of C. H. Hobart, to connect with the drain at the end of Holbrook avenue, and appropriate the sum of $230.00 to build the same.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will supply the Board of Health with a team for the purpose of removing rubbish from the highways, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to place suitable lights on Grove street, between Plain and Liberty streets, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to direct the proper officers to open the school on Liberty street.
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ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to extend the street lights on West street, from the junction of West and Granite streets to a point near the Blue Hill cemetery, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 36. To see if the Town desires to take any action in relation to building concrete sidewalks and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 37. To see if the Town will vote to build a sidewalk on Pearl street from the tracks of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. to the junction of Pearl and Fountain streets and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will rescind the vote passed at the last annual Town Meeting, wherein it was voted to accept of the act to choose a Board of Road Commissioners.
You are directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof in three public places in each Precinct in said Town of Braintree, seven days at least before said third day of March, 1902, and by publishing the same once in the Braintree Observer and Reporter.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk before the first day of March, 1902.
Given under our hands at Braintree, this twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and two.
ANSEL O. CLARK, WM. W. MAYHEW, J. PARKER HAYWARD,
Selectmen of Braintree.
A true copy,-Attest :
CHARLES A. HOBART,
Constable of Braintree.
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NORFOLK, ss. BRAINTREE, February 12, 1902.
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 purposes therein mentioned.
CHARLES A. HOBART, Constable of Braintree.
Index.
PAGE.
Almshouse, Inmates of
20
Appropriations of 1901
5
Assessors' Account
48
Assets of Town
59
Auditors' Report
70
Auditors' Summary
74
Births of 1901
163
Court Fees and Expenses
42
Deaths of 1901
173
Debt and Sinking Fund . ·
69
Debt of Town
60
Dog Tax Account
211
Electric Light Department, Report of
99
Electric Light Loans
56
Enforcement of Laws
28
Expenditures of 1901
.
8
Financial Statement of Town
59
Fire Department, Report of .
113
Fire Department Expenditures
44
Grand Army Appropriation .
26
Health, Report of Board of ·
95
Highway Surveyors, Report of
3
Highway Expenditures
34
Hospital Account
28
Incidental Expenses
28
Insurance Account .
75
Insurance Expenditures .
43
Interest Account
53
Jury List Prepared for 1902
239
Liabilities of Town
55
Library, Report of Trustees of Thayer
115
Night Police
42
Notes Outstanding .
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58
Marriages of 1901
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168
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Orders drawn .
47
Out Door Poor
20
Penniman School Grading
17
Poor Department Expenditures
17
Records of Town
177
School Committee, Report of
213
School Estimates for 1902
218
School Expenditures
8
School Fund
64
School Pupils-Source and Disposition -
223
Selectmen, Report of
3
Sinking Fund Accounts .
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66
Soldiers Aid
27
Smallpox Case, Expenditures
26
Soldiers Relief
25
Stone Road, Expenditures
39
State Aid Account
27
Street Watering
43
Superintendent of Schools, Report of
217
Snow Account
34
Tax Collector's Account
61
Taxes, Collection and Abatement
43
Thayer Public Library, Report of
115
Town Clerk's Report
161
Town Hall Expenditures
41
Town Officers of 1901
2
Town Officers, Pay of
33
Town Records
177
Town Debt
60
Town Treasurer's Report
51
Vote of Representative District
210
Vote at State Election
206
Vote at Town Election
186
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting of 1902 .
241
Water Commissioners, Report of
79
Water Department, Report of Superintendent
86
Water Extensions
86
Water Finances-Treasurer's Report
94
Watering Streets
93
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