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Ireland. Weymouth.
19
Elwood F. Thurber.
Disease.
Birthplace.
Ireland.
Middleboro. Weymouth.
Weymouth. Weymouth.
widow of Philip .. 41
Apoplexy.
Roxbury. Weymouth.
2
4
Capillary Bronchitis ... Hæmoptvsis and Phthisis Pulmonalis.
69 3 21
Old Age
182
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date -
Name.
Death.
| Years.
| Months.
| Days.
Feb. 20
71 8 23
Brochial Pneumonia ...
Abington.
Ireland. Weymouth. Weymouth.
Northboro'. Holbrook. Ireland.
Weymouth.
Ireland.
Weymouth. Ireland. Marshfield. Abington.
Weymouth. Weymouth,
Augusta, Me.
Weymouth. Weymouth.
Scituate. Ireland.
Guildhall, Vt. Ireland.
Wey mouth.
25
2 Herbert W. Bates. 2|21 Scarletina Maligna
6 27
Willie F. Griffin. 26
3 25 Phthisis Pulmonalis.
..
31
Arthur L Dexheimer. 20
Pneumonia.
April 2
Betsey (Cushing) Smith, widow of otis.
80
9
3
Mary E. (Barnes) Jacob, widow of Peter H 67
24
Cardaic Hyperthropy Gangrene
Marasmus.
6 Lena F. Bagley
38 8 10 Lencocythœmi:
4
8
Albert P. Worthen 1
3 22 Convulsions
8 Martm H. White. .
52
11 Eveline S (Kittrell) Richmond, wife of William B ... .. 72
6 |23 Lucy W. (Tirrell) Bayley, wife of Nathaniel W .. 75 3/28 Carcinoma of the Breast
14 Almeda D (Orcutt) Hollis, wite of John Q. 62
1
3 Pneumonia
17 Alfred O. Smith
64
2
9 Double Pneumonia.
2 19 9 Susan J. Morales. 124 Pneumoma.
07. John Lynch. 23 Moses R. Greeley. 68 8|10 11 Acute Bronchitis. . Acute Millary Tuber. culosis
" 23 Jolin E. Stoddard 60
72
2
8
3
Ilarriet (Ford) Vining, widow of Elias 79
4 28
3
Catherine T Youreil. 22
7
15 Phthisis.
6
Alexander Sherman 72
A poplexy .
6
Florence E. Cushman. 14
3
6 Peritonitis
6 Jennie R. (Turell) Pratt wife
of Gustavus J. 26
1 113
8 Annie Hanalan .. 14
3
8
Elizabeth S. (Coss) Parker,
widow of Daniel S. 10 22
8
John L. Pratt.
72 5 23
La Grippe and Paraly- sis of Heart
12 Edward P. Tirrell 62 11 23 Heart Disease
15
Ellen A. (Merritt) Cudworth, wife of George L. 44
66
20
Thomas Quinn .. 85
2,26
Mary C. , Ross) Harris, widow of William .. 72|11|13
23 Michael ronovan 72 10 23
24
Arthur T Morales 5.11 |18
Convulsions.
Weymouth.
Weymouth. Weymouth.
Weymouth.
Hingham. Wey mouth. Boothbay, Me. Weymouth. Marshfield.
Kingston,
Weymouth.
Weymouth. Cambridge. Weymouth. Weymouth.
Hudson, N. H. Scituate.
“ 20
wife of Patrick. 91
1 20
",20
Leander C. T. Hersey . 48 11 18
.4 28
James A. Denbroeder 26
2 17
៛ 28 Alice C. (Smith) Emmons, wi e of George E,. 33
4
7
Acute Phthisis
" 28
Lucy M. (Newcomb) Thay er, wife of Noah B. 62
6 26
" 28
Matthew Lynch 91
General Debility.
Mar. 1
Nelson Thomas. 68
2|18
Chronic malaria and en argement of liver and spleen, with
general debility.
3
Ann ( Allen) Sherlock, widow of Robert.
Valvular Disease of the Heart and La Grippe
Typhoid Pneumonia ...
Pulmonary Phthisis ..
Phthisis.
Chronic Myelitis .
Phthisis. Old Age
Dropsy. Cardiac
Influenza.
Natural C'auses.
Heart Disease
14
5 .John Orsi.
1 17
Disease.
Birthplace,
Royal Norton . Ann (Fitzgibbons) Wethers.
Paralysis from old age. Cirrhosis of Liver ... Typhoid Pleuro-Pneu monia
Diabetis.
6| Cerebral Embolism ...
22
183
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date of Death.
Name.
| Years.
| Months.
Disease.
Birthplace.
Apr 24
Alexander W. Cormack.
62
Cardiac ..
“ 25
Paul White. ..
73
Na nral Causes
4. 27
Mary E. Levangie
1.11 3 { roup. . .
4 27
Mary A. Kinzig .
8 18
Brouchitis.
" 28
Rosabelle (Tirrell Wagner, wife of Samuel W. 23
5 17
Concealed Accidental Hemorrhage
“ 29
Male child of Frank E. and Bertha H. Shores
Stillborn
Weymouth.
Weymouth. Weymouth.
Brown'gton, Vt
Weymouth. Weymouth. Weymouth- Scituate. Weymouth.
Danville, Me. Princeton, Me. Switzerland. Weymouth. Vermont. Roxbury.
Weymouth.
Braintree. Weymouth. Wey mouth. Wey mouth.
Weymouth.
Weymouth.
Biddeford, Me.
3
Ella F. (Tırrell) Stewart, wife of John E 46 3 23
Oedema of Lungs.
6
Ebenezer F. Colson. 68
5 12 Paralysis.
7
Sophia (Porter) Tirrell, wife of Elbridge G. 86
3 16
George F. Vinson 44
5
14 Francis M. Shaw. 63
11
18
Harry L. Virgin 14 1 21 Peritonitis
23 Patrick Ryan. 64
23
James L. Hunt. 66
9 Uræmia
24
William J. Kenney 30
66
25
Eva L. Blemis . 1
8 3 Scarlet Fever
25
Anna Maunion. 20 10 16
25
Female child of Arthar L. and . Alice L. Blanchard ...
2 10
Natural Causes.
Phthisis. Cerebral Hemorrhage.
England. Can da. Weymouth. Weymouth.
Weymouth.
“ 30
Jolın T. Sullivan . . . 25
4
8 Posterior Spinal Scle- rosis
May 1 66 2
Josiah L. Thayer. 77
3 19
Consumption.
Bright's Disease.
4
Martha (Shaw) Hollis, wife of Sanford. 74
1
29
Insanity
4 He en Hart 5
11 Tubercular Meningitis Pyelo Hephritis.
57
Frederick Farrar 43
3
Peritonitis and Cancer Apoplexy
13
Cordelia (Goss) Blethen, widow of Simeon. 65
3 20
16 Fred V. Clarke. 19
5
9 Consumption.
21
Charles E. Kanzig 38
5 27 Tuberculosis
24
Joseph F. Coyle ...
11
4
Samuel C. Derusha 41
7|14 Tuberculosis
27
John L. MoKrever. 48
Cancer of the Liver.
29
Femal- child of Elmer W. and Adella S. Honghton ..
66 29
Mary L. (Houghton) Farrar, wife of Hosea D. 40
3
Phthisis Pulmonalis.
9 Phthisis.
66
29
70 Ebenezer H. Thomas. |11
Apoplexy
30
Joshua Phillips .. . 83
2 10 Cerebral Apoplexy, ..
June 1
1
Male child of Peter and Mary Hughes
13
Natural Causes.
2
Benjamin F. Rice. 77 4 7
General Debihty and Slight Valvular Disease of Heart ....
Cerebral Apoplexy ..
Pleuritis
Weymouth. Weymouth.
Weymouth. Rochester, NH Ireland. ockland. Weymouth. Rockland.
Ireland.
July
Nellie White ...
50
5
2 2 Annie M. Lougee.
Olin D. Sterling. 12 3 22
9 Acute General Tuber culosis .
Cardiac Disease ..
Suicide by Drowning .
Septic Intection from hip joint disease ...
Stillborn
Weymouth. Boston. Weymouth. Weymouth.
5
Richard r. Lynch. 26
Roswell L. Corbin 63
7 18
Uterus Tumor
Bronchitis ..
Stillborn
8
29
John Cohan 32
2
Malo child of Edward R. and Edith M. Wilder ..
Stillborn.
W. Abington. Weymouth.
7
Huldah E. (Pelton) Clark, wife of Henry. 66
27
Days.
184
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date of Death.
Name.
Years.
Months.
| Days.
July .5 " '5
Norma Marden .
8
Tubercular Meningitis
Boston.
Weymouth. Rockland.
Weymouth. Brooklyn,N.Y.
Virginia.
Weymouth;
Boston. Weymonth. Hingham. Weymouth.
Sanford, Me. Windham, Me. Weymouth.
Braintree. Weymouth. Weymouth.
Stoneham. Weymouth. Weymouth. Lynn.
Wey mouth.
Nova Scotia.
Weymouth. W-ymouth. Boston.
Weymouth. Weymouth.
Weymouth. Weymouth. Boston. Weymouth. Weymouth.
SanborntonNH Weymouth. Weymouth. &
Weymouth .; Weymouth. Windham,N.H
Ireland.
9
Mary G. Hearn
1
3
11
William R. Rogers.
61
11
Ruth W. (White) Shaw, widow of David .. 90
8
Neuralgia of the heart.
15
Francis (Turrell) Loring, widow of Israel ... 75
6 19
.6 16
Richard M. Holbrook. 67
F 26
17 Walter Carver 10
18
Wicklie Desando, 3
2
9
18
wife Cora B. (Dorman) Clapp, of Albert F. 28
Trberculosis
18
Edwin Mayberry
68
21
E. nest M. Spear
4
23
Mary E. (Poole) Crosby, wite of Joshua .. 60
2
23
Howard W. Tirrel).
21
7
24
George M. D'avis, Jr.
23 21
Lora F. (Stevens Rowland, wife of Edward.
42 11
Thomas W. French
Cerebral Embolism ..
Jacob Holbrook 6
C'ancer
Joshua Rainsdall .. 8
56 8 16 Hem . plegia.
9
Male child of James and Martha Brayshaw ..
9
Margaret (Coughlan) Harigau, wife of Michael Mary I. Lowell ..
64 41 11 3
10
Pulmonary
Tubercu-
losi-
Blanche L. Busiere.
13
3
1
6 Diphtheria ..
" 14
9
Whooping Cough, sum- mer diarrhea and hydrocephaloid.
1 Cholera Infantum.
16 17
Margaret N. (Pratt) Rice, widow of Willian.
83
4 11
6
19
Eugene H. Lynch. .
3
20
Esther V. Dimmock
4 8 ( holera Infantum.
66
21
Esther Richards. 1
6 Cholera Infantum
21
Marı Gould.
Infantile Debiliry. 1
22
Hannah P. (Wadleigh) Pollard widow of Calvin 8|10
91
Dvsenterv.
Edward M. Terry
1
( holera Infantum.
24
Elten L. M.Carthy
26
5
9 Phthisis Pulmonalis . .
26
Male child of George W. and Grace Kimball 10
Debility from prema- ture birth
27
IIenry F. Cushing. 73
Carcinoma ..
27
Thomas Nesmith. 73
1
2 Valvular Disease of
Ileart.
“ 28
Patrick Sheely. 58 4 6 Shork from accidental injury ...
7
Paralysis of Heart .. ..
?
Mary H. (Po brook) Bnrre Il,
widow of William
57.11 11
Maria R. Dondero.
1
5 Capillary Bronchitis
following Whooping Cough
Natural Causes, .. Chronic Mania, Apo plexy .
Apoplexy.
Chronic heart disease. Diphtheretic Croup ... Scarlet Fever
Cerebral Embolism .. Cholera Infantum.
Acute Bright's Disease Acnte Tuberculosis ... Septicemia
Aug. 3
Broncho Pneumonia ...
6
11
6 71 76 7 24
Premature Birth
Softening of the Brain.
12
Cholera Infantur
12
Rosella Bryant. Alberta F. Dunbar.
John W. Boyd .
8
Old Age Diarrhea.
24
Clarissa II. (Clapp) Richards, wi ow of Warren.
90
3
Suicide
8
Disease.
Birthplace.
5 15
185
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date of Death.
Name.
| Years.
¡ Months.
Days.
Aug.28
Male chil l of J. Frank and Lizzie J Hollis
Stillborn
Weymouthı.
" 30
Elizabeth J. (Hammond) Holhs wife of John F. 37
11 13 Fibroid Tumor
Hanover.
“ 30
Harold E. Fraher.
8
8 Hydrocephal- id follow- ing enteritis
Weymouth.
" 30
Mary (Moran) Moran, wife of Jeremnah. 65
Pneumonia.
Ireland.
“ 31
William J. Terry 3
4 24 Typhoid Dysentery.
Weymouth. ..
Sept. 9
Mary (Coakley) Welch, widow of Willam 8.2
10
Heart Disease
Ireland.
..
9
Hattie Baker. 27
12 Pulmonary Tuberculosis Oakland, Me.
« 10
Sarah H. Downing) Clapp. wife of Aaron D. 79
7 29 Hemorrhage of the
bowels and Diarrhea
Marblehead. . . .
“ 12
Ellen A. (Reagan) Monahan, wife of John F. 31
3
Heart Disease
11 12 Typhoid Fever. Strangulation of Intes- 2 21 tine ..
Ireland ..
Gertrude ( leary. 11
2 Hemorrhage
Weymouth ..
21
Robert T Bicknell.
53
5 16 General Paresis
Weymouth. .. .
23 28
Herbert L. Derusha ..
4 27 Marasmus.
Weymouth .....
Bertram Parker Rogers
21|Marasmus. Weymouth. ... .
" 29
Bertha Pratt Rogers.
2 Marasmus
Weymouth. ..
29
Irene May Kennedy.
5
7 Enteritis
Weymouth. ...
Oct. o
Lucy E. (Hall) Reed. wite of
1
28 Aortic Insufficiency.
River Point, R.I.
6
F.male child of Albert and Helen L. Smith. ..
Premature Birth.
Weymouth ... . .
7
Female child of James and Mary Maguire
Stillborn
7 10 Typhoid Fever
9
Maurice A. Garvey
11
Amie M. (Boylan) Quinlan, wife of John J. 32
27 Acute Gastritis.
Weymouth.
13
Amnie L. ( Kennedy) Garvey, wife of Michael J 30 Andrew Coakley .. 65
4
15
18
Helen L. Tisdale.
1
Capillary Bronchitis. 7
20 20
John W. Tirrell. 59 4|14 Bronchial Pneumonia
Weymouth ..... E. Providence, R. I ..
66 22 23
Hattie L. Montgomery
5 22 Consumption.
St. John, Me ...
Freu C. Manson.
2,13 Enteritis and Laryngis- mus Stridulus
Weymouth. Weymouth .. . .
23 ‹‹ 24
John H. Greaney .6
7 28 Consumption.
Margaret ( Reed) Ford, widow of 65 John ..
Ireland.
27
Annie B. (Lincoln) Binney, 78 5
widow of John
Nehemiah Thayer. 81 16 Natural Causes 7
Maria J. ( Wales) Lord, wife of 154 George T ...
New York City
7
John F. Cohan. 31
.0 Septicemia. 5 20 Pulmonary Consumption en ing with Hemorr hage.
Braintree .... . . .
8 Female child of Robert S. and
Anna M. Burbank
Stillborn
Weymouth. ...
12
Mildred I. Larmney George E. Gardner. 37
7 Convulsions.
St. John, N. B. Weymonth ..... Hingham ..
13
16
Rebecca H. (Payne) Wrighting- ton, wife of Benjamin E 28
Henry A. Richards ... 30 1 4 26 Meningitis.
Weymouth .. .. Weymouth .... . Worcester ... ...
Holyoke ..
8 Phthisis Pulmonalis .... Phthisis and Capillary Bronchitis
Ireland .. .. Weymonth .. ...
Ennna B. ( Armington) Foster, widow of William 11. 87 19
8 20 Disease of Heart.
9|19 General Paresis. 1 Heart Disease
Weymouth ..... Weymouthı .....
28 Nov. 6
8
Quincy L. 67
Disease.
Birthplace.
186
DEATHS. - Continued.
Age.
Date of Death.
Name.
Years.
Months.
Davs.
Nov.12
Antoinette M. Palmer.
1
26
Enteritis.
13
John L. Monson .
35
l'uberculosis
14
Avis K. (Hawes) Walker, wife of Dana B. H 39
1 5 Pneumonia.
16
Margaret T. Walsh 29
18|Pulmonary Tuberculosis 5
23
Isabella Ferry.
3
Enteri is.
Weymouth .. ..
27
5
3
9 Membraneons Croup
and Bronchitis
Weymouth. ...
28
Mary R. (Leonard) Marshall, wi low of Benjamin F 62
2
3
Lympho-Sarcoma
Wareham .. . ...
29
Eliza L. (Loud) Howe, widow of Appleton. 83
6 20 Endocarditis
Weymouth. ....
Dec. 1
Ellen F. Holbrook. 19 3,17 Phthisis.
Cambridge. ....
7
Rosauna (Cunniff) Murray,
widow of Martin 55 Erysipelas
Ireland ..
66
8
Mary (Gannon) McMann, widow of Anthony 71 Leila E. Bullock
Paralysis of Heart ...
Ireland.
-
9
14 Henry Keay 69
17
Mabel Mckenna
1 10 Septicemia.
Har over.
18
Jennie P. Stedman. 21
4|11 \ onsumption
Hanson ...
22
Male child of Irving P. and Lil lian I- Loud ...
Stillborn
Weymouth. ..
6 23
Male child of Walter L. and S. Ellen M.Conney.
Stillborn.
25
John Logue. 69 Pneumonia ..
66
26
Male child of Giuseppe and Fil lomena Jeaffo.
Stillborn.
Weymouth. ·
“ 31
Annie F. (Waters] McGlynn, wife 01 John. 35
Functional Disease
of
5 5 Heart and Embolism in Brain.
Quebec, Can .. .
Disease.
Birthplace.
Weymouth .. Sweden.
Saugus. Weymouth
Flora S. Farrar
Mary (Collins) Croker, wire of Thomas. 76 Rosalie Trask. 6 2 17 Meningitis
Consumption
Ireland .. Weymouth.
8
7 11 Croupous Laryngitis .. Cerebral Hemorrhage ..
Weymouth England ..
Weymouth. .... Ireland ..
-
187
Number of marriages recorded in the town of Weymouth for the year 1895 :-
Where one or both parties were residents of the town . 113
Non-residents
13
Total . 126
Number of births :-
Males
155
Females
115
Total
270
Number of deaths :
Males
102
Females
.
115
Total . ·
217
Excess of births over deaths
53
JOHN A. RAYMOND,
Town Clerk.
WEYMOUTH, Jan. 30, 1896.
TOWN RECORDS FOR 1895.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Weymouth, in said County ; GREETING.
In the name of said Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid, qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective voting precincts, to wit :
In Precincts numbered One, Two, Three and Five, in the halls of the Fire Engine houses located respectively in those precincts ; in Precinct numbered Four in the upper hall of the Town House, and in Precinct numbered Six, in Grand Army Hall, over the store of Henry Loud on Broad street, on Monday, the Fourth Day of March next, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the Wardens of their several precincts their votes, on one ballot, for the following-named Town Officers, to wit : Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, five Selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, five Assessors, three Auditors, Collector of Taxes, ten Constables, Water commissioner for three years, two School Com- mittee for three years, Park Commissioner for three years, and three Trustees of the Tufts Library for three years ; and 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 ?"
.The Polls will open at six o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants, qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Town House in said town on Monday the Eleventh Day of March next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose all other necessary 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 appointed at any former meeting, and to choose any committee the town may think proper.
Art. 4. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools.
Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to instruct the school com- mittee to employ a superintendent of schools.
Art. 6. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repairs of highways, townways and bridges.
Art. 7. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the poor.
Art. 8. To see what sum of money the town will vote to ap- propriate for the payment of state aid, military aid, and for relief under Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1890, to disabled soldiers and seamen, and the families of disabled soldiers and seamen, and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
Art. 9. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the fire department.
Art. 10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Art. 11. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Tufts Library.
Art. 12. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for abatement and remittance of taxes.
Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest that may become due the ensuing year.
190
Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.
Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers.
Art. 17. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.
Art. 18. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for care and repair of the town house.
Art. 19. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for electric lighting.
Art. 20. To see if the town will authorize and direct the treas- urer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow temporarily in anticipation of the taxes of the present municipal year, the sum of $70,000, as the same may be from time to time required and to give the negotiable note or notes of the town for money so bor- rowed, and that all such temporary loans shall be payable from the said taxes.
Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for hydrants and for water rent and care of drink- ing fountains.
Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from the revenue of the water works for the current year, the sum of $25, 720 to be expended for the following purposes, $17,120 for the interest on the Weymouth water loan becoming due the ensuing year ; $2,700 for salaries of the superintendent of the works and engineer at the pumping station ; $2,200 for maintenance of works and $3,700 for all other necessary expenses.
Art. 23. To see if the town will appropriate and direct to be paid to the trustees of the sinking fund out of the income of water rates for the current year the sum of $8,560 to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the principal of the Weymouth Water Loan Bonds.
Art. 24. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $3,000 for the purpose of extending the main water pipe line.
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Art. 25. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or will appropriate, to provide for any de- ficiencies in the appropriations for the current year, or for any overdraft already made.
Art. 26. To determine in what manner taxes shall be collected the ensuing year, and to fix the rate of interest upon all taxes re- maining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
Art. 27. To choose a committee on appropriations, to report at the next annual meeting.
Art. 28. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to act as attorneys to defend the town in any suit that may be brought against it.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000 for the payment of a note for that amount be- coming due the ensuing year.
Art. 30. To see if the town will recommend the granting [of sixth-class licenses to all druggists in the town, or act in any manner in relation to the same.
Art. 31. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of suppressing the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, and to determine the manner of expending the same.
Art. 32. On petition of M. E. Hawes and others : "To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $40,000, to build a town house at Weymouth Center.
Art. 33. On petition of John A. Connell and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $30,000 to build a high school building at Weymouth Center.
Art. 34. On petition of John G. Worster and others: "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500,- $500 for each Ward,-to sprinkle the main streets of each Ward of the town, from May 1st to October 15th.
Art. 35. To see what sumn of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for working the re-location of Bridge street, as laid out by the County Commissioners.
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Art. 36. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the construction of the street off Sea street, accepted by the town at the last annual meeting.
Art. 37. On petition of John A. Connell and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate $500 to work the street leading from Pleasant street, which was accepted by the town at the last annual meeting."
Art. 38. On petition of John A. Connell and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $600, to be ex- pended on Lake street the ensuing year."
Art. 39. On petition of W. J. Dunbar and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the purpose of draining Commercial square, Water, School, High and Broad streets."
Art. 40. On petition of Arthur Cunningham and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300 to complete the sidewalk on the east side of Middle street, between Hillside avenue and the Bates estate."
Art. 41. On petition of N. B. Peare and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the pur- pose of working the proposed widening and re-location of Cedar street."
Art. 42. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the purpose of working the extension of Phillips street to Prospect street, as laid out and accepted by the town.
Art. 43. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $100 to complete the working of the widening of Torreys lane.
Art. 44. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of working the re-location of Front street, as laid out by the County Commissioners.
Art. 45. On petition of Elbridge Nash and others : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500 to com- plete Tower avenue, Ward 5."
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Art. 46. On petition of Edgar S. Wright and others : "To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $800 for the purpose of procuring a hook and ladder truck for the Reso- lute Hook and Ladder Company, Ward 5."
Art. 47. On petition of Edward I. Pratt and others : "To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300, or such other sum as may be necessary, for the purpose of purchasing a hose carriage or wagon for the use of Hose Company No. 7 of the Weymouth Fire Department."
Art. 48. On petition of William W. Burke and others: "To see if the town will vote to establish and maintain a plant for electric lighting in town, or act on anything relating thereto."
Art. 49. On petition of George E. Perry and others : "To see if the town will authorize the placing of electric lights on Pond street, from near the Depot to Pooles Corner, the light at the last-named place to be an arc light, and appropriate money for the same."
Art. 50. On petition of Moses R. Greeley and others : "To see if the town will appropriate a sum sufficient to place a marker of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution at the grave of each Revolutionary soldier or sailor buried in this town, the expense not to exceed one dollar each."
Art. 51. On petition of John E. Farrell and others : "To see if the town will instruct the Board of Selectmen or Superintendent of Streets that in the employment of teams on the highways an equal division of work be given to owners of teams in the different wards."
Art. 52. On petition of M. W. Lynch and others : "To see if the town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to pay $2.00 per day to all able-bodied men for work performed by the town, whether by contract or otherwise, and preference to be given to the townspeople, and that nine hours shall constitute a full day's work."
Art. 53. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the Selectmen on the re-location of Cedar street.
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Art. 54. At the request of James Humphrey : "To see if the town will raise and appropriate any sum of money for the purpose of making surveys of the boundary and street lines of the town, . preparatory to the making of a correct map of Weymouth, and will appoint a committee to superintend the expenditure of such appropriation."
Art. 55. To see if the town will raise and appropriate $300 for the purpose of re-setting the curbstone and re-paving the gutter on the easterly side of Washington street, from Washington square to Richmond street.
Art. 56. To see if the town will raise and appropriate $250 for the purpose of building a retaining wall on Broad street, opposite the Hunt schoolhouse.
Art. 57. To see if the town will authorize the placing of elec- tric lights on Union street, from near the residence of Edward May to the Rockland line, and appropriate money for the same.
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