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Voted, That the town appropriate the sum of $1,500 to pur- chase land and erect a building at Atlantic at a point to be fixed by the Selectmen and Engineers for the use of the Fire Depart- ment, to be built under the direction of the Selectmen and En- gineers.
Voted, That the town appropriate $1,500 to purchase land and erect a building at Wollaston, at a point to be fixed by the Select- men and Engineers, for the use of the Fire Department, to be built under the direction of the Selectmen and Engineers.
Voted, That the matter of placing a fire alarm box on the Factory of the Tubular Rivet Company at Wollaston, be re- ferred to the Selectmen and Engineers as a committee, and that the sum of seventy-five dollars be appropriated for their use in case they may deem it expedient to fix an alarm at or near the spot indicated in Article 41.
Voted, That the Engineers be authorized to purchase fifteen hundred feet of hose at a cost not to exceed twelve hundred and
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seventy-five dollars, and that said amount be appropriated for that purpose.
Voted, That the matter of the location of seven additional hydrants on the line of the pipe of the Quincy Water Company as follows: One on Goffe Street, three on Adams Street, two on Water Street, and one on Washington Street, be referred to the Selectmen and Engineers.
Voted, That the matter of thoroughly rebuilding or con- structing some one mile of the road on Washington or Hancock Streets, between the Point and Neponset bridge, and provide surface drainage therefor, be referred to the committee appointed under Article 38.
Voted, That the town allow the Engineers, members, and stewards of the Fire Department for the past year as fol- lows : -
Steamer and Hose 1, 12 men at $20 each,
$240
Hook and Ladder, 12 men at $15 each,
180
Steward (H. & L.)
40
Granite 3, 50 men, 3 months, at $2.50 each, Steward,
125
Hose 2, 10 men, 6 months, at $5 each, Steward,
50
Hose 3, 10 men, 9 months, at $7.50 each, Steward,
30
Hose 4, 10 men, 12 months, at $10 each, Steward,
100
Chemical 1, 20 men, 6 months, at $5 each, Steward,
100
Chemical 2, 12 men, 12 months, at $10 each, Steward,
40
Chief Engineer and Clerk, $25 each,
50
Five Assistant Engineers, $15 each,
75
$1,315
Voted, For the current year : -
Engineer and driver of steamer,
$1,352
Fuel and light for the entire department,
300
Keeping horses,
500
Land rents,
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Horse hire and fire alarm,
500
Miscellaneous,
1,000
$3,782
10
20
75
40
20
120
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Voted. That the following sums be severally appropriated, payable for the various purposes and accounts as follows, viz .:-
SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
Superintendent and teachers' salaries, fuel, and care of room, $35,700 00
Incidental expenses,
3,000 00
Books and stationery,
2,000 00
Repairs of buildings,
2,000 00
Transportation of pupils,
1,000 00
Sum paid for new school lot (vote of 1884) (balance due), 1,559 60
Evening mechanical and industrial school (Art. 19), 1,000 00
$46,259 60
THOMAS CRANE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
General appropriation, $2,500 00
Care of grounds, 200 00
2,700 00
CEMETERIES.
Old Cemetery,
$
100 00
Mount Wollaston Cemetery,
1,000 00
Building wall to new location of Valley Street, 300 00
1,400 00
SUPPORT OF POOR,
7,000 00
REPAIRS TOWN BUILDINGS, 300 00
BRIDGES.
Neponset bridge, Quincy Point bridge,
$ 1,000 00
300 00
-
1,300 00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Article 34, compensation, 1884, $1,315 00
Article 34, miscellaneous, 3,782 00
Article 39, land and house for chemical No. 2, Atlantic, 1,500 00
Article 40, land and house for Hose 2, Wollaston, 1,500 00
Amounts carried forward,
$8,097 00 $54,959 60
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Amounts brought forward, $8,097 00 $54,959 60
Article 41, fire alarm box,
75 00
Article 42, purchase of hose (1,500 feet), 1,275 00
Quincy Water Company,
3,500 00
12,947 00
HIGHWAYS.
General repairs, $15,000 00
Breaking roads, removing snow and ice from sidewalks,
1,000 00
Street lights,
4,100 00
20,100 00
LAYING OUT TOWN WAYS.
Quarry Street extension (vote 1884), $1,500 00
Quarry Street re-appropriation, 400 00
Article 21, repairing Kidder Street, 200 00
Article 22, Driftway from Granite Street, near Quarry Street, 150 00
Article 23, private way from Granite Street to Parkerville,
75 00
Article 28, Woodbine Street and Green- wood Avenue, 200 00
Article 29, Newbury Street,
100 00
Article 30, foot-way from Hancock
Street to O. C. R. R., Atlantic, 110 00
Article 31, Academy Street, 50 00
Article 32, Liberty Street, 300 00
Article 33, Penn Street,
250 00
3,335 00
SEWERS.
Article 14,
1,000 00
PAY OF TOWN OFFICERS.
Selectmen, including horse hire, $2,400 00
Treasurer, Town Clerk, and Select- men's Clerk,
500 00
Collector of Taxes,
600 00
Police,
700 00
Special police to enforce liquor law (Art. 12),
1,000 00
Town Physician,
300 00
Registrars of Voters,
300 00
5,800 00
Amount carried forward,
$98,141 90
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Amount brought forward,
$98,141 90
POLICE STATION,
400 00
MISCELLANEOUS.
Article 9, Grand Army,
$200 00
Article II, lighting and care of Town
Hall (free lectures),
200 00
Article 15, Braintree records (800 copies),
450 00
Article 16, soldiers' bounty,
500 00
Article 37, watering-place at West Quincy,
100 00
Aid to indigent soldiers,
600 00
Sinking fund,
3,000 00
Interest town debt,
2,500 00
Discount and abatement of taxes,
6,000 00
Miscellaneous town expenses,
3,000 00
Water fountains (water supply),
350 00
Soldiers' bounty re-appropriation,
250 00
17,150 00
$119,691 60
TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS, $119,691 60
Less sum for new school lot, $1,559 60
Less bank and corpora-
tion tax, 8,132 00
9,691 60
$110,000 00
Voted, To raise and assess on the polls and estates of the town the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars ($1 10,000), to be applied for the purposes set forth in the foregoing vote.
Voted, That the thanks of the town be given to John Quincy Adams for his efficient services as Moderator, also to the com- mittee on the warrant, for its valuable services.
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest :
GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR A SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, MAY 5, 1885.
NORFOLK, S. S. To either of the Constables of the Town of Quincy, in said County, GREETING :
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 Tuesday, May 5, 1885, at half-past seven o'clock P. M., to act upon the following articles, viz. : -
ARTICLE I. - To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. - To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to sprinkle Washington Street, from the Point Bridge to Hancock Street, and Hancock Street from its junction with Granite Street to Neponset Bridge, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 3. - To see if the town will widen Copeland Street.
ART. 4. - To see if the town will accept the Betterment Act, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Chap. 51, Public Statutes.
ART 5. - To see if the town will appropriate five hundred dollars for the use of the Board of Health.
ART. 6. - To see if the town will rake steps to enclose with rounded granite curbing the small waste places at the intersections of streets, fill the same with loam and plant to grass, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 7. - To see if the town will make level with the enclosing streets, properly curb, and plant to grass the lot of land bounded by School, Pleasant, and Fort Streets, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 8. - To see if the town will enclose with stone curbing a cir- cular plot of ground at the junction of Elm and Washington Streets, place the lamp post with names of streets on lights of lantern in the centre, and appropriate money for the same.
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.
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Given under our hands, at Quincy, this twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.
GEORGE H. FIELD, Selectmen ELIAS A. PERKINS, of
CHRISTOPHER A. SPEAR, Quincy.
A true copy. Attest :
GEORGE H. LOCKE, Constable of Quincy.
OFFICER'S RETURN.
QUINCY, April 27, 1885.
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 at- 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.
GEORGE H. LOCKE, Constable of Quincy.
A true copy. 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, May 5, 1885.
Chose Edwin W. Marsh, Moderator.
Voted, That Articles 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted, That the sum of five hundred dollars be appropriated for the use of the Board of Health.
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest : GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR A SPECIAL TOWN MEETING,
AUGUST 19, 1885.
NORFOLK, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Quincy in said County, GREETING :
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 Wednesday, the nineteenth day August, 1885, at half-past seven o'clock P. M, to act on the following articles, viz. : -
ARTICLE I. - To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. - To elect three Park Commissioners and prescribe their term of office.
ART. 3. - To see if the town will instruct the Park Commissioners, when elected, to purchase the tract of land bounding on and lying be- tween Elm, Washington, and Canal Streets, known as the “Miller estate," to be used as a common or public park.
ART. 4. - To appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase said estate, and authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow the same.
ART. 5. - To see if the town will appropriate the sum of fifty thou- sand dollars for the purpose of erecting a brick schoolhouse upon the lot recently purchased by the town, near the junction of Granite and Water Streets, in Quincy, and authorize the Town Treasurer to bor- row the same.
ART. 6. - To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to at once cause the street lamps to be changed from kerosene to gas in Wollas- ton, and also toward Quincy Point, where the gas main has been laid.
ART. 7 .- To see if the town will sell their land, corner of Franklin and High Streets, and authorize the Selectmen to execute a deed for the same.
ART. 8. - To see if the town will authorize the repairing of the Steam Fire Engine House, and appropriate money therefor, and authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow the same.
ART. 9. - 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 ap- pointed for said meeting.
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Given under our hands at Quincy, this seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty- five.
GEORGE H. FIELD, ELIAS A. PERKINS, CHRISTOPHER A. SPEAR, Selectmen of Quincy.
A true copy. Attest :
GEORGE H. LOCKE,
Constable of Quincy.
NORFOLK, SS.
QUINCY, Aug. 7, 1885.
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- 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 pub- lished in the Quincy Patriot, a newspaper printed in said Town of Quincy.
GEORGE H. LOCKE. Constable of Quincy.
A true copy.
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, Aug. 19, 1885, at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
Chose Edwin W. Marsh for Moderator.
Voted, That no motion to reconsider any vote shall be enter- tained by the Moderator, unless the mover thereof shall give notice of his intention before the meeting shall have passed from the consideration of the question.
Voted, That pending the verification of a doubtful vote, debate upon the main question shall be in order.
Voted, That Article 4 be considered before Article 2 and 3, and on a motion to appropriate fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required to purchase the Miller estate on Elm Street for a "Common," and authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow the same, the vote was, Yeas, 120, Nays, 214, and the motion was not carried, two thirds of the voters present and voting being required.
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Voted, That Articles 2 and 3 be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, That a committee of five persons be appointed by the Moderator to consider, with the School Committee, the matter of additional accommodations for schools, and report at a town meeting to be called for the purpose, within one month from this date, and Messrs. George H. Field, Quincy A. Faunce, Herbert M. Federhen, Jonas Shackley, and Elias A. Perkins were appointed.
Voted, That the Selectmen are instructed to at once cause the street lamps to be changed from kerosene to gas in Wollas- ton, and also towards Quincy Point, where the gas main pipe has been laid.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone the matter of sale of land at the corner of Franklin and High Streets.
Voted, That the repairs required on the Steam Fire Engine House be made, and three hundred dollars appropriated for the same, which sum the Town Treasurer is authorized to borrow.
Voted, That a committee of five be appointed by the Modera- tor to confer with Henry H. Faxon and Charles H. Porter, in relation to the propositions made by them concerning grants of land to the town for the purpose of parks for the public use of the inhabitants of the town, said committee to report at the next town meeting, and Messrs. George Cahill, Theophilus King, Jr., Joseph L. Whiton, Charles R. Sherman, and John E. Burns were appointed.
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest :
GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR A SPECIAL TOWN MEETING,
SEPT. 24, 1885.
NORFOLK. SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Quincy, in said County, GREETING :
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 Thursday, September 24th, 1885, at half-past seven o'clock P. M., to act on the following articles, viz. :-
ARTICLE I. - To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. - To see if the town will build a schoolhouse on their land near the junction of Granite and Water Streets, and appropriate thirty-
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eight thousand dollars therefor, and authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow the same.
ART. 3. - To see what action the town will take on the proposition of Mr. C. F. Adams, Jr , to purchase certain lands held by the trustees of the Woodward Fund, and convey them to the town for the free use of its inhabitants as a public park or pleasure-ground.
ART. 4. - To see what action the town will take on the proposition of Mr. Henry H. Faxon, to convey certain lands to the town for the free use of its inhabitants as public park or pleasure ground.
ART. 5. - To elect Park Commissioners.
ART. 6. - To see if the town will discontinue the town-way leading from Hancock Street to Goffe Street, known as Academy Street.
ART. 7. - To see if the town will appoint a committee to consider and report on a practical plan for providing Wollaston with a sewer, and appropriate three hundred dollars therefor, and authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow the same.
ART. 8. - 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 ap- pointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands at Quincy, this fifteenth day of Sep- tember, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.
GEORGE H. FIELD. ELIAS A. PERKINS, of
Selectmen
CHRISTOPHER A. SPEAR, Quincy.
A true copy.
Attest : MARK E. HANSON, Constable of Quincy.
OFFICER'S RETURN.
NORFOLK, SS.
SEPT. 18, 1885.
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, nine 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.
MARK E. HANSON, Constable of Quincy.
A true copy. Attest :
GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
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RECORD OF A SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
A meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Quincy was held pursuant to the foregoing warrant, Sept. 24, 1885, at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
Chose Edwin W. Marsh for Moderator.
Voted, That the sum of thirty five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be needed, be appropriated to build a brick schoolhouse, of at least eight rooms, on the lot of land now owned by the town near the junction of Granite and Water Streets ; said building to be erected according to a plan that will admit of extensions without affecting the symmetry of the structure or causing any unnecessary loss of the money paid for the original building ; said money shall be expended by a com- mittee consisting of the School Committee, Superintendent of Schools, and three practical builders, to be appointed by the Moderator of this meeting, and the Town Treasurer is authorized to borrow such portions of said money as the committee herein provided for may deem necessary.
Voted, That Jason G. Witham, John A. Gordon, Sigourney Butler, Sylvester Brown, Adelaide A. Claflin, Francis L. Hayes, George I. Aldrich, Elias A. Perkins, Quincy A. Faunce, and Jonas Shackley be the committee constituted by the foregoing vote.
Voted, To accept the following report of a committee chosen at a town meeting, held Aug. 19, 1885.
REPORT.
The committee appointed by the town, Aug. 19, 1885, to con- sider the proposition of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and also of Henry H. Faxon, concerning gifts of land for public parks, respectfully present the following report.
We recommend the acceptance by the town of the munificent gift of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of the tract of land in the northerly part of the town, known as " Merry Mount Park," and that the same be hereafter called " Adams Park."
We recommend the acceptance by the town of the proposition of Henry H. Faxon, of the gift of a tract of land in the " South Common," near Mount Pleasant, for a public park, and that the town name the same " Faxon Park."
THEOPHILUS KING, JR., CHARLES R. SHERMAN, GEORGE CAHILL, JOHN E. BURNS, JOSEPH L. WHITON,
Committee.
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Voted, That the following letter of gift of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., be placed on record.
BOSTON, Sept. 14, 1885.
MY DEAR MR. PORTER :
As it was chiefly through your friendly ard active intervention that the recent purchase of land from the Trustees of the Woodward Fund was brought about, I would ask you to bring this communication be- fore the town at the meeting to be held on the 24th inst., for such action as it may then see fit to take.
The land in question comprises some eighty-five acres. It is part of the original colonial grant made to Edmund Quincy in 1637, three years before old Braintree was incorporated. Its history and owner- ship since then have been traced, and are set forth in the reports of the Merrymount Park Association. Situated close to the sea-shore, and wooded and broken in character, this tract of land has seemed to many almost adopted by nature, as the pressure of population in- creased, for a public pleasure-ground. Accordingly, some years ago, efforts were made to induce the town to purchase and hold it for that use. That those efforts failed I now account fortunate, as it enables me to carry out a scheme which I have long had in mind.
The family of which I am a member is one of the oldest connected with Quincy. Father and son, we have lived here close upon two cen- tur es and a half. This connection must some time be severed, and in
mutations of modern life it seems hardly probable that it can ex- tend so as to cover three full centuries. When making a somewhat similar gift to the town sixty-three years ago. John Adams expressed himself as moved to do so "by the veneration he felt for the residence of his ancestors and the place of his nativity, and the habitual affec. tion he bore to the inhabitants with whom he had so happily lived." Actuated by the same feeling, I have wished now, while it is surely in my power, to do something for the town and its people which. as time goes on, will be of ever increasing value, and serve to remind coming names and generations of the names and generations that are gone.
I wish. therefore, you would be kind enough, at the meeting of the 24th, to offer the town in my name, as a free gift, the tract of land in ques- tion. 'To the deed of gift I propose to attach two slight conditions only : first, that the town shall hold this land forever, and improve it as a public pleasure-ground free to all inhabitants of Quincy. and shall apply it to no other use ; and secondly, that not more than $1,000 of public money shall be appropriated for it or spent upon it annually until after the close of the year 1895.
'The land being secured to the town now, it has seemed to me that the cost of its improvement may safely be deferred to the future.
I remain very sincerely yours,
CHARLES F. ADAMS, JR.
CHARLES H. PORTER, EsQ.,
Quincy, Mass.
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Voted, That the town accept the gift of land from Mr. Adams, as set forth in the above communication, and upon the conditions stated therein, for a public park, and that the same shall be called Adams Park, and that a committee of three be chosen to express to Mr. Adams the unanimous and hearty thanks of the town for his munificent gift, and Jason G. Witham, Edwin W. Marsh, and George L. Gill were chosen said Com- mittee.
Voted, That the town accept the generous gift of land from Henry H. Faxon, being a tract of about twenty-eight acres, with about four and a half acres of streets leading thereto, situated in the " South Common," near Mount Pleasant, as set forth in an informal statement made by Mr. Faxon to the town at this meet- ing through Theophilus King, Jr., and that the same be accepted for a public park, upon the conditions embraced in said state- ment, which are as follows : ---
First, That said tract of land shall be held and used as a pub- lic park, free to all the inhabitants of Quincy forever.
Second, That the same shall be called and known as Faxon Park.
Third, That no intoxicating liquors shall ever be sold on said premises.
Fourth, That the town shall construct a roadway to be fifty feet wide, extending from Franklin Street to Quincy Avenue.
Fifth, That the town shall construct a road fifty feet wide, from the corner of Quincy Avenue and Water Street, following the course, or nearly so, indicated on a plan exhibited to the town at this meeting, striking the old driveway to the Job Faxon homestead, and following the same to the new street first herein described.
Sixth, That all fences and walls on the line of the above named new streets, against the land owned by the grantor in common with other heirs of Job Faxon, shall be erected by the town.
Voted, That the thanks of the town be given to Henry H. Faxon for his gift of land for a public park, and that the com- mittee chosen under the action of the town, relative to the Adams Park, be directed to communicate said expression of thanks to Mr. Faxon.
Voted, That said committee furnish the Town Clerk with copies of the letters of acknowledgment to Mr. Adams and Mr. Faxon, that the same may be placed on the Town Records.
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Voted, To proceed to the election of a Board of three Park Commissioners, and Charles F. Adams, Jr., was elected for a term of three years, William B. Rice for a term of two years, and George Cahill for a term of one year.
Voted, That all vacancies in the Board of Park Commis- sioners shall be filled by a joint convention of said Board and the Board of Selectmen.
Voted, That Articles 6, 7, and 8 be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved.
A true copy. Attest :
GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk.
To GEORGE L. GILL, Town Clerk :
In accordance with a vote of the town passed at the meeting held Sept. 24, 1885, we herewith furnish you, for the Town Records, with copies of the letters of acknowledgment to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Henry H. Faxon, for their gifts of lands to the town for public parks.
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