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plan is inexpedient, as they believe that a matter of such vital importance to the community as the building and maintenance of a public sewer should be under the exclusive control of the town.
Respectfully submitted,
THEOPHILUS KING, JR.
H. M. FEDERHEN. E. W. MARSH. JOSIAH QUINCY. W. N. EATON.
TOWN RECORDS
FOR
1884.
WARRANT FOR THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING,
MARCH 3, 1884.
NORFOLK, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Quincy, in said County, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Masschusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Quincy, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Quincy, on MONDAY, the third day of March next, at half past seven o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz. : -
ARTICLE I. - To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. - To choose Town Officers.
ART. 3. - To see how the town will vote on the following question : " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
ART. 4. - To act upon the report of the Auditors of Accounts, Selectmen, School Committee, Road Commissioners, Trustees of Crane Public Library, Adams Academy, and Managers of Mount Wollaston Cemetery.
ART. 5. - To determine the method of repairing the highways dur- ing the ensuing year.
ART. 6. - To determine how the town land shall be improved dur- ing the ensuing year.
ART. 7. - To see if the town will sell their land, or any part thereof, on Adams Street, known as the Newcomb lot, and authorize the Selectmen to execute a deed for the same.
ART. 8. - To revise the Jury List.
ART. 9. - To hear and act on the report of the Road Commis- sioners upon guide-boards.
ART. 10. - To see if the town will appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for repairing and decorating soldiers' graves, the same to be expended under the direction of Post 88 of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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ART. II. - To see if the town will grant the free use of the Town Hall for free lectures, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 12. - To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to appoint special police officers, to enforce all laws bearing upon the sale of in- toxicating liquors, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 13. - To see if the town will accept two water fountains from Henry H. Faxon, to be placed in vicinity of the town pump and Wol- laston depot, and appropriate money to erect same and furnish water supply.
ART. 14. - To see if the town will elect three Park Commissioners, under the Act of Legislature approved March 9, 1882.
ART. 15. - To see if the town will instruct the Park Commissioners to take a portion of the land left by the late Ebenezer Woodward to the town, and will appropriate money to pay for the same.
ART. 16. - To see what action, if any, the town will take in refer- ence to laying out a park under the act approved March 9, 1882, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 17. - To see if the town will, by its vote or otherwise, ask the Legislature to extend to women who are citizens the right to hold town offices, and to vote in town affairs on the same terms as male citizens.
ART. 18. - To see if the town will amend Article 9 of the by-laws for the government of the Mount Wollaston Cemetery, by adding to the first clause thereof the words " or to persons entitled to burial privileges in the old burial ground," or such other amendments as may serve to extend the right to buy and hold lots in Mount Wollaston Cemetery to descendants of owners of tombs in the old cemetery.
ART. 19. - To see if the town will pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to certain soldiers who served during the late war as part of the quota of the town of Quincy, and have never received any bounty from the town, and appropriate a sum of money therefor.
ART. 20. - To see whether the town will authorize and direct the Selectmen to pay back to the representatives or heirs of James Huck- ins, late of Quincy, deceased, the double taxes that have been paid on land not belonging to his estate, the taxes thereon having been once taxed to, and paid by, the real owners of the land.
ART. 21. - To see if the town will appoint a committee, and author- ize 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.
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ART. 22. - To see if the town will enlarge the Coddington School- house, or otherwise provide additional school accommodations, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 23. - To see if the town will vote to change the present con- tract with the Quincy Water Company, in that which relates to the number of hydrants and the money to be paid for the same, so that the agreement shall be that the Quincy Water Company shall furnish, set, maintain, and supply with water hydrants wherever desired by the town on its line of pipe, the town to pay for the same thirty five (35) dollars each per annum.
ART. 24. - To see if the town will sell the Tiger Engine.
ART. 25. - To see if the town will cause the erection of additional fire-alarm boxes, the same to be located under the direction of the Board of Engineers, and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars therefor.
ART. 26. - To see if the town will purchase fifteen hundred feet of hose, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 27 - To see if the town will cause a steam whistle to be placed at the pumping station of the Quincy Water Works.
ART. 28. - To see if the town will authorize the Board of Engineers to reorganize the fire department by selling any portion of the present apparatus and purchasing new, if, in their opinion, they find that the proposed hydrant service will warrant them in so doing, and appropri- ate money therefor.
ART. 29. - To see if the town will place a fire-alarm box on some building at a point near the present location of the steam fire pump.
ART. 30. - To see if the town will accept the report of the Road Commissioners laying out a town way from Quincy Avenue to South Street, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 31. - To see if the town will accept the report of the Road Commissioners laying out a town way, being an extension of Quarry Street westerly to Common Street, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 32. - To see if the town will accept the report of the Road Commissioners laying out a town way from Lincoln Avenue to New- port Avenue, and appropriate money therefor.
ART 33. - To see if the town will accept the report of the Road Commissioners laying out as a town way Walker Street, and appropri- ate money therefor.
ART. 34. - To see if the town will accept the report of the Road Commissioners widening Copeland Street, near corner of Willard Street, and appropriate money therefor.
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ART. 35. - To see if the town will accept the report of the Road Commissioners laying out a town way from Old Colony Street to Depot Street, being an extension of Contest Avenue.
ART. 36. - To see if the town will change the name of Contest Avenue to Newbury Avenue.
ART. 37. - To see if the town will repair Douglas Street, and appropriate one hundred dollars therefor.
ART. 38. - To see if the town will rebuild the wall in front of Charles Loring's place, on Washington Street, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 39. - To see if the town will discontinue that portion of Valley Street leading from Coddington Street to its junction with Valley Street, as relocated March, 1882, and transfer the same to the Managers of the Mount Wollaston Cemetery.
ART. 40 .- To see if the town will revoke the vote whereby it accepted the provisions of Chap. 158 of the Acts of the year 1871, and abolish the Road Commissioners.
ART. 41. - To see if the town will extend the fire alarm to Squan- tum.
ART. 42. - To see what compensation the town will allow the engi- neers, members, and stewards of the fire department for their services during the past year.
ART. 43. - To raise money to defray the necessary expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
ART. 44. - To hear and act upon the report of any committee, and to choose any committee the town may think proper.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk, on or before the day appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands at Quincy, this eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
GEORGE H. FIELD, ELIAS A. PERKINS, CHRISTOPHER A. SPEAR, Selectmen of Quincy.
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OFFICER'S RETURN.
QUINCY, February 20, 1884.
NORFOLK, SS.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Quincy herein described, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes, within mentioned, by posting up attested copies of this warrant, in ten or more public places in said town, ten days before the time set for said meeting; and I have likewise caused the substance of said warrant to be pub- lished in the Quincy Patriot, a newspaper printed in said town of Quincy.
WASHINGTON M. FRENCH, Constable of Quincy.
A true copy,
Attest : GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 3, 1884.
The Annual Meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Quincy was held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, on Monday, March 3, 1884.
Chose John Quincy Adams for Moderator.
Voted, That after the election of town officers, under Article 2 of the warrant, and the disposition of Article 3, the Moderator, without entertaining any other motion, shall declare this meet- ing adjourned, to meet at this place on Monday, March 24, 1884, at I o'clock, P. M., at which time the remaining articles of the warrant shall be considered.
Voted, That the Moderator of this meeting, with the retiring Selectmen, the Selectmen elect, and fifteen citizens to be ap- pointed by the Moderator, three of whom shall be inhabitants of the Centre District, three of the South District, three of the West District, two of the Wollaston District, two of the Atlantic District, and two of the Quincy Point District, shall constitute a committee who shall consider the remaining articles of the warrant, and report at the adjournment of this meeting what action they consider it advisable for the town to take thereon, with suitable form of votes for carrying out their recommenda-
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tions. They shall also publish in the Quincy Patriot, previous to said adjourned meeting, the action they intend to propose for the consideration of the town on the several articles submitted to them.
Voted, To vote for Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, three Select- men and Assessors, two School Committee for three years, two Trustees of Thomas Crane Library for three years, two Managers of Adams Academy for three years, two Managers of Mount Wollaston Cemetery for two years, one Commissioner of Sinking Fund for three years, Collector of Taxes, one Road Commissioner for three years, and fourteen Constables, all on one ballot.
Voted, To close the polls at 4 o'clock P. M.
The Town Clerk appointed George H. Field, Elias A Perkins, and C. A. Spear to act as Tellers during the election of Mod- erator, and they were sworn by the Town Clerk; also the Moderator appointed George H. Field, Elias A. Perkins, C. A. Spear, H. A. Keith, Edwin W. Marsh, and Sigourney Butler as Tellers, and they were duly sworn by the Town Clerk.
The result of the voting was declared by the Moderator to be the election of the following officers, viz. : -
George L. Gill for Town Clerk, and the oath of his office was administered to him by the Moderator.
Horace B. Spear for Town Treasurer.
George H. Field, Elias A. Perkins, and Christopher A. Spear for Selectmen and Assessors.
Sylvester Brown and Adelaide A. Claflin for School Commit- tee for three years.
Luther W. Anderson and Frederick A. Claflin, Trustees of the Thomas Crane Public Library for three years.
Peter Butler and John Quincy Adams, Managers of Adams Academy for three years.
Joseph H. Vogel and George L. Baxter, Managers of Mount Wollaston Cemetery for two years.
Rupert F. Claflin, Commissioner of the Sinking Fund for three years.
George H. Locke for Collector of Taxes.
William L. Faxon, Road Commissionor for three years.
Washington M. French, J. Warren Hayden, Edward H. Rich- ardson, Amos M. Litchfield, Francis A. Spear, George O. Langley, Marcus E. Wight, William C. Seelye, Edward A Spear, Mark E. Hanson, George H. Locke, Napoleon B. Furnald, Charles N. Hunt, and Samuel B. Turner, for Constables.
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The following is the number of votes cast for the several candidates for town officers, as declared by the Moderator.
Town Clerk.
George L. Gill, 1,674
Town Treasurer.
Horace B. Spear, 1,674
Selectmen and Assessors.
George H. Field, 1,OIO
Elias A. Perkins, 990
Christopher A. Spear, 975
James E. Maxim, 7II
James J. Malone,
584
George Cahill, 562
Alexander Marnock, 73
Scattering,
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School Committee for three years.
Sylvester Brown, 1,002
Adelaide A. Claflin, 808
Francis L. Hayes, 790
John F. Cole, 593
William O'Connor, 77
Scattering,
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Trustees of Thomas Crane Pub- lic Library for three years.
Luther W. Anderson, I,O27
Frederick A. Claflin, 885
William H. Price, 692
John E. Burns, 541
Samuel M. Donovan,
79
Frank J. Bonney, 73
Henry McGrath, I7
Scattering,
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Managers of Adams Academy for three years.
Peter Butler, 1,673
John Q. Adams,
1,124
Lewis Bass, 542
Scattering, I
Managers of Mt. Wollaston Cemetery for two years.
Joseph H. Vogel, 1,662
George L. Baxter,
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Thomas H. McDonnell, 543
Scattering,
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Commissioner of Sinking Fund for three years.
Rupert F. Claflin,
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Joseph W. Robertson,
554
Scattering,
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Collector of Taxes.
George H. Locke,
988
Joseph T. French,
642
Scattering,
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Road Commissioner for three years.
William L. Faxon, 762
John A. Duggan, 745
George A. Ordway, IO7
Scattering,
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Constables.
Washington M. French, 1,656
J. Warren Hayden, 1,623
Edward H. Richardson, 1,077
Amos M. Litchfield, 1,040
Francis A. Spear, 1,032
George O. Langley, 1,029
Marcus E. Wight, 1,026
William C. Seelye, 1,024
Edward A. Spear, I,O2I
Mark E. Hanson, 1,007
George H. Locke, 995
Napoleon B. Furnald,
991
Charles N. Hunt, 980
Samuel B. Turner, 857
Robert J. Williams, 7II
Nathan G. Glover, 633
Joseph W. Lombard, 627
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John"Harkins,
626
James E. Maxim,
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John C. Kapples,
620
Joseph Walker,
98
Jonathan S. Paine,
571
William H. Warner,
79
Stephen N. Swain,
547
Walter Pinel,
77
William Egan,
543
Timothy Egan,
77
James Haverhan,
537
Arthur Austin,
77
Edward Powers,
536
John Hagerty,
76
Bryant N. Adams,
532
Robert Allen,
76
Michael J. Carey,
528
John Burnett,
75
The following town officers were also elected : -
Overseers of the Poor, George H. Field, Elias A. Perkins, and Christopher A. Spear.
Pound-keeper, Christopher A. Spear.
Fence Viewers, Charles ·S. French, Ebenezer Adams, and George Veazie.
Field Drivers, Frank L. Merrill, Samuel B. Turner, Thomas Kennon, and Bartholomew Reardon.
Auditors, John Q. A. Field, John Chamberlin, and H. A. Keith.
Committee to whom the remaining articles of the warrant were referred, John Q. Adams, George H. Field, Elias A. Perkins, Christopher A. Spear, Edwin W. Marsh, William A. Hodges, George Cahill, Theophilus King, Jr., Charles F. Adams, Jr., John W. Hall, John F. Cole, Joseph H. Vogel, William N. Eaton, George F. Pinkham, Herbert T. Whitman, John A. Duggan, William B. Glover, James H. Slade, and James J. Malone.
The vote of the town on the question, " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?" was as follows : Yes, 407 ; No, 1,067.
In accordance with the vote of the town, the meeting adjourned to Monday, March 24, 1884, at I o'clock P. M.
Attest : GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR A SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 24, 1884.
NORFOLK, SS. To either of the Constables of the town of GREETING :
Quincy, in said County,
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Quincy, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Quincy, on Monday, March 24, 1884, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz. : -
ARTICLE I. - To choose a Moderator.
"ART. 2. - To see how the town will vote on the following question : Will the town pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each soldier or sailor who re-enlisted between the first day of Decem- ber, 1863, and the twenty-first day of April, 1864, in the quota of said town, and served until the close of the late war, or was honorably dis- charged during said period, and has never received any bounty from said town, and raise the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, and ap- propriate the same to the payment of said bounties ?
ART. 3 .- To see if the town will construct a public sewer.
ART. 4 .- To see if the town will favor, the building of a public sewer by a private corporation.
ART. 5 .- To see if the town accept the provisions of Sections 64, 65, 66, 67, and 68 of Chapter 27 of the Public Statutes of Massachu- setts, choosing Selectmen and Assessors for one, two, and three years.
Hereof fail not, but make return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk, on or before the day ap- pointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands this fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four.
GEORGE H. FIELD, ELIAS A. PERKINS, CHRISTOPHER A. SPEAR, Selectmen of Quincy.
OFFICER'S RETURN.
NORFOLK, SS.
TOWN OF QUINCY, March 15, 1884.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Quincy herein described, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes, within mentioned, by posting up at-
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tested copies of this warrant in ten or more public places in said town, eight days before the time set for said meeting ; and I have likewise caused the substance of said warrant to be published in the Quincy Patriot, a public newspaper printed in said town.
WASHINGTON M. FRENCH,
A true copy,
Constable of Quincy.
Attest :
GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
RECORD OF THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
A meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Quincy was held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, March 24, 1884, at 8 o'clock in the forenoon.
Chose John Quincy Adams for Moderator.
Messrs. George H. Field, Elias A. Perkins, and Christopher A. Spear were appointed as Tellers by the Town Clerk, and also by the Moderator, and duly sworn by the Town Clerk, to act in receiving and counting votes for the election of a Moderator, and during the balloting under Article 2.
Voted, That after the announcement of the vote under Article 2 of the warrant, the Moderator, without entertaining any other motion, shall declare this meeting adjourned until five o'clock this afternoon, at which time the remaining articles of the war- rant shall be considered.
Voted, To proceed to ballot on the following question : "Will the town pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each soldier or sailor who re-enlisted between the first day of December, A. D. 1863, and the twentieth day of April, A. D. 1864, in the quota of said town, and served until the close of the late war, or was honorably discharged during said period, and has never received any bounty from said town, and raise the sum of twenty-five hundred, dollars and appropriate the same to the pay- ment cf said bounties ?" That the vote shall be by separate bal- lot, and the ballots shall be Yes or No in answer to the foregoing question. Also, that the check list shall be used, and that the polls be closed at 12.15 o'clock P. M.
The result of the voting was declared to be as follows, viz., in the affirmative, 484 ; in the negative, 58.
Of the whole number in the negative, 31 ballots were in accord- ance with the statute, and 27 ballots with the word " sailor" omitted.
In accordance with the vote the meeting adjourned to five
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o'clock P. M., at which time it was called to order and the follow- ing votes were passed : -
Voted, That Article 3 of the warrant, relating to the con- struction of a public sewer, be referred to a committee of five citizens, to be appointed by the Moderator, who shall carefully consider the whole subject, and report in writing so that their report may be printed before the next annual meeting, and con- sidered under an appropriate article in the warrant for that meet- ing; and Messrs. Theophilus King, Jr., Herbert M. Federhen, Edwin W. Marsh, Josiah Quincy, and William N. Eaton were elected said committee.
Voted, That Article 4 of the warrant, relating to the building of a public sewer by a private corporation, te referred to the same committee.
Voted, That the Selectmen are hereby requested to cause to be inserted in the warrant for the next annual town meeting a copy of Article 5, of this warrant, which is as follows, namely : " To see if the town accept the provisions of Sections 64, 65, 66, 67, and 68, Chapter 27 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts, choosing Selectmen and Assessors for one, two, and three years."
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest :
GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
MONDAY, March 24, 1884.
The Annual Town Meeting was held this day by adjournment from March 3, 1884.
The following articles of the warrant, which were acted upon in their due order, were by vote indefinitely postponed.
Article 14. concerning electing Park Commissioners.
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taking land for a public Park.
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laying out a Park.
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the right of
women to hold town offices, etc.
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20,
repayment to the heirs of James Huckins of money paid for taxes.
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36,
38,
changing the name of Contest Avenue. rebuilding wall in front of Charles Loring's place.
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extending the fire alarm to Squantum.
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Voted, That the course of the Engineers of the Fire Depart- ment and the Road Commissioners in exceeding their appropria- tions during the past year is disapproved. The attention of the officers composing those boards is called to Article 9 of the Town By-Laws, and they are instructed hereafter to conform thereto.
Voted, That the sum of $500 is hereby appropriated, to be ex- pended under direction of the Selectmen, in grading, fencing, etc., the grounds around the almshouse.
Voted, That the sum of $2,500 be appropriated for the regular expenses of the Public Library, and a further sum of $350 for the purposes of introducing water, grading and caring for grounds, the same to be expended by the Trustees.
Voted, That so much of the Selectmen's report as relates to the town debt is referred to a committee consisting of the Town Treasurer and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund ; and the Treasurer is authorized, under the instructions of said committee, to issue new notes of the town to meet outstanding notes now due, said notes to be approved by the Selectmen.
Voted, That Article 5 be laid upon the table, to await the action of the town on Article 40 of the warrant.
Voted, That the Overseers of the Poor shall direct the im- provement of the town lands for the ensuing year.
Voted, That the Selectmen are hereby authorized to sell land on Adams Street, known as the "Newcomb lot," or any part thereof, and the proceeds, after deducting therefrom the neces- sary expenses of the sale, shall be paid over to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, who shall receipt therefor, and forthwith apply the same to the purposes of said fund.
Voted, That the list of jurors, as prepared by the Selectmen, is hereby accepted, after striking out the names of H. M. Federhen and Samuel B. Turner, at their request.
Voted, That the report of the Road Commissioners on guide- boards is hereby accepted.
Voted, That the sum of $200 be appropriated for the purpose of keeping in repair or decorating the graves, within the limits of Quincy, of soldiers and sailors who died in the military ser- vice of the United States, or the monuments or other memorials erected to their memory, the same to be expended under the direction of Post 88, of the Grand Army of the Republic ; and the treasurer and commander of said Post shall furnish to the
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Selectmen a true and detailed account, duly itemized and certi- fied by them, of the manner in which said sum was expended, within thirty days after Decoration Day.
Voted, That the Selectmen shall grant the free use of the Town Hall, whenever it is requested in writing by not less than two citizens of the town, for a free lecture on any scientific, literary, or moral topic, subject to such regulations as they may deem expedient ; and $200 is appropriated to defray the cost thereof.
Voted, That the Selectmen are instructed to appoint special officers to enforce all laws bearing on the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ; and $500 is appropriated for that purpose.
Voted, That the inhabitants of Quincy accept with gratitude the public-spirited proffer of their fellow-townsman, Henry H. Faxon, of two water fountains, and hereby return to him their cordial thanks for the gift ; and they direct that they be erected at suitable spots, to be designated by the donor, and the sum of $400 is hereby appropriated to defray the necessary expense of setting them up and supplying them with water.
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