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Consumption
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21 Albert Early Daniels
Acute bronchitis
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24 Abigail R. Williams.
Senile debility
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29 Mary Gordon ..
Measles
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Disease of brain
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October
30 Thomas D Morse. 1 Lillian Morrissey 8 Clara A Perkins .
Asthma and Emphysema 38
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12 Katherine F Staples
Consumption ...
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.6 Michael Joseph Smith.
Unknown (natural)
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24 Mary Agnes Dillon
- Congestion of brain. 5 20
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November 3 Julia K Stockbridge
Cancer.
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7 Harriet B Adams.
Phthisis .
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16 Mary A Hill.
Consumption . 27
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27 Sarah McGroary
Heart disease
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26 Carrie A Hunter.
Marasmus and diarrhea
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7 Willard C Whiting
Phthisis
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12|Hiram E Briggs
Gastro-enteritis.
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13|Alfred Clark.
Typhoid fever
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12 John Reardon
Cancer of pilorus
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21 - Lester
Old age.
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Heart disease.
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Ilypertrophy
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May
1 Ann Murphy
Cerebro-spinal· meningitis
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3 Annie M Demerritt.
Congestion of lungs.
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O'Connell
Stillborn
26 Anna Morrissey
19 Georgianna Burns.
Diphtheritic laryngitis.
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16 Mary Connolly
Bright's disease
16 Marilla A Ross
Cerebral tumor ·
7 Lillian May McConkey
Cholera infantum.
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18 Leon Webster Foster
Cholera Infantum
Marasmus
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28 William H Gould.
Diabetes 22
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25 Pearl L. Enegren
10 Mabel May McDougall
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DATE.
NAME OF NAME.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
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December 5 Stephen S Foster
Acute meningitis
19 Mamie McIlugh
Scarlet fever
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23 Frank H Gilmore
Croup ...
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24 Ada May G Hurd
Scarlet fever.
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25 Matilda Wadman.
Heart disease.
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26 Walter Hutchinson
Scarlet fever.
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Males, 33 ; Females, 42 ; Total number, 75.
Average duration of life, 33 years, 3 months, 27 days.
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23 Jesse Linton ...
Congestion of lungs.
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26 Daisy May McFaden
Scarlet fever.
AGE.
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Warrants and Proceedings
OF TOWN MEETINGS FOR YEAR ENDING JAN. 31, 1888.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
To EITHER OF THE CONSTABLES OF THE TOWN OF FRANLIN, GREETING :
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn the qualified voters of said town to assemble in their Town Hall, on Monday, the seventh day of March, next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside in said meet- ing.
Art. 2. To hear a report of the settlement with the treas- urer, and act thereon.
Art. 3. To hear a report of the collector of taxes, and act thereon.
Art. 4. To choose all necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
Art. 5. To see what sums of money the town will grant the current year for the support of the schools, repairs of school houses, for miscellaneous school expenses, for the pur- chase of school books and supplies, for the support of the poor, repairs of roads, bridges and sidewalks, for support of fire de- partment, for the purchase of hose, for water supply of hy- drants, for payment of town officers, interest account, and for abatement and collection of taxes, and for lighting streets, for defraying the expenses of the Franklin Library Association, and for printing and stationery, and miscellaneous expenses.
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Art. 6. To see in what way and manner the town will col- lect its taxes for the current year.
Art. 7. To see in what way and manner the town will re- pair its roads, bridges and sidewalks the current year.
Art. 8. To see what action the town will take relative to a pound.
Art. 9. To hear a report from the selectmen respecting guide boards.
Art. 10. To see if the town will grant any and what sum of money to Franklin Post No. 60, G. A. R., for decorating soldiers' graves on Memorial Day.
Art. 11. To see if the town will restrain neat cattle, horses, mules, and swine from running at large the year ensuing.
Art. 12. To see what compensation the town will pay the engineers of the fire department and members of the fire, hose and hook and ladder companies the current year.
Art. 13. To hear the report of the engineers of the fire de- partment, and act thereon.
Art. 14. To vote the names of a suitable number of per sons into the jury box for the current year.
Art. 15. To vote.by ballot, "Yes," or "No," in answer to the question, "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxi- cating liquors in this town?"
Art. 16. To see if the town will authorize their treasurer, under the direction of the selectmen, to borrow money in an- ticipation of taxes.
Art. 17. To see what sum of money the town will appro- priate for tree planting.
Art. 18. To see what action the town will take relative to a police force, and grant a sufficient sum of money to pay the same.
Art. 19. To hear the report of the selectmen in laying out the extension of Queen street to Pleasant street, and act there- on.
Art. 20. To see if the town will vote to build a new Town House, or act or do anything relating to the same.
Art. 21. To see if the town will make an appropriation for the improvement of the Common.
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Art. 22. To see if the town will make an appropriation for the draining of Central street between the house of Nelson Corbin and the four corners, so-called.
Art. 23. To hear the reports of committees appointed at prior town meetings.
Art. 24. To see what action the town will take, if any, in regard to purchasing the Franklin Water Works.
Art. 25. To see what sum of money, if any, the town will vote to authorize the selectmen to expend, in such way and manner as they may deem most judicious, for the suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin for the year en- suing ; so much of said money as may be expended, to be taken from the unexpended balance of last year's appropriation for the same purpose.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the town clerk on or before the hour of said meeting.
Given under our hands this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
DANIEL C. COTTON. JAMES M. FREEMAN. WILLIAM F. RAY,
Selectmen of Franklin.
NORFOLK, SS.
February 26, A. D., 1887.
By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the inhabi- tants of the town of Franklin herein described to assemble in their Town Hall, on Monday, the seventh day of March, A. D. 1887, for the purposes within mentioned, by posting at- tested copies of the within warrant in each of the postoffices of the town and in ten other public places seven days before the day of meeting in compliance with Sec. two of Article one of the By-Laws of the Town of Franklin.
LEWIS R. WHITAKER, Constable of the Town of Franklin.
A true copy of the warrant and return thereon.
Attest : CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN,
Town Clerk.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 7, 1887.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the legal voters of the town of Franklin met in their Town Hall on the seventh day of March, A. D. 1887, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and proceeded as follows :
The meeting was called to order by Daniel C. Cotton, chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
The warrant was read by William F. Ray, one of the Se- lectmen.
CLERK PRO TEMPORE.
There being a vacancy in the office of Town Clerk, the Se- lectmen called upon the qualified voters present to elect a Clerk pro tempore, and said Selectmen using the check list, received, sorted and counted the ballots and declared the election of Clarence E. Griffin as such Clerk, and he was sworn by James M. Freeman. Esquire, a Justice of the Peace.
MODERATOR.
Art. 1. The meeting then made choice, by ballot, the check list being used, of William F. Ray, for Moderator, and he was sworn by James M. Freeman, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace.
REPORT OF TREASURER.
Art. 2. It was then voted that the report of the Treasurer, as set forth in the published town report for the current year, be accepted.
COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
Art. 3. It was then voted that the report of the Collector, as set forth in the published town report for the current year, be accepted.
Voted, That Article 15 be voted and acted upon at the same time with Article 4.
Voted, That the polls be kept open till two o'clock p. m.
Voted, That when this meeting adjourns we adjourn to Monday, March 14. at one o'clock p. m.
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TOWN OFFICERS.
Art. 4. The meeting then made choice by ballot of the fol- lowing named Town Officers, the check list being used :
The polls were opened at 9.45 o'clock a. m., and in accord- ance with the vote of the meeting the polls were declared closed at 2 o'clock p. m.
SELECTMEN.
Henry R. Jenks, William Rockwood, Daniel C. Cotton, and they were sworn by Clarence E. Griffin, Justice of the Peace.
TOWN CLERK.
Clarence E. Griffin, and he was sworn by George W. Wig- gin, Justice of the Peace.
TREASURER.
James M. Freeman, and he was sworn by the Clerk.
AUDITOR.
George W. Wiggin.
ASSESSORS.
Asa A. Fletcher, William Rockwood, Sabin Hubbard, and they were sworn by the Clerk.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Warren H. Bright, George E. Emerson, Sabin Hubbard.
COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
William E. Nason.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THREE YEARS.
George King.
CONSTABLES.
Lewis R. Whitaker, William E. Nason, T. C. Packard.
FENCE VIEWERS.
Clarence E. Griffin, Jason Tower, Nathan C. Nye.
LICENSE.
Art. 15. Upon the question : "Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" the vote being
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taken by ballot, and the check list used, two hundred and twenty-three (223) persons voted "yes," and two hundred and thirteen (213) persons voted "no."
SUPPRESSION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Voted, That Article 25 be now taken up.
Voted, That we grant the sum of one dollar for the suppres- sion of the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors in Franklin for the ensuing year.
Moved and seconded that the above vote be reconsidered. The motion was decided in the negative.
ROADS, BRIDGES AND SIDEWALKS.
Voted, That we take up Article 7 now.
Art. 7. Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to hire one road master, he to hire his own help at $1.75 per day.
G. A. R. POST NO. 60.
Voted, To take up Article 10.
Art. 10. Voted, That the town grant the G. A. R. Post, No. 60, the sum of $100 for Memorial Day, any balance unex- pended to go into the charity fund.
QUEEN STREET EXTENSION.
Voted, To take up Article 19.
The report of the Selectmen in reference to the laying out of the extension of Queen Street to Pleasant Street was read as follows :
"Queen Street Extension. Report to town of laying out such way. We, the Selectmen of Franklin, having complied with the requirements of the law in relation to notifying the owners of land over which we were petitioned to lay out a town way, have laid out such town way as follows : Beginning at stake and stones on south side of Pleasant Street, 6 1-2 feet easterly from centre of capstone on culvert under said Pleasant Street ; thence running south 2° east on land of Mrs. Sand- ford T. Capron and Mrs. Anne M. Atwood six rods and three links to land of the heirs of Jeremiah Claflin ; thence over land of said heirs, fourteen rods twelve links, in same course, to
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intersection of Queen Street. Said town way to be forty feet wide, and said line above described to be westerly boundary of said town way. And we have agreed with the heirs of Jere- miah Claflin to pass over their land without payment of any damage, and have awarded seventy-five dollars each to Mrs. Sandford T. Capron and Mrs. Anne M. Atwood as damage for the taking of their land for said town way, and we have granted said parties sixty days to remove any trees, fences, or other property, situated on said location."
DANIEL C. COTTON, JAMES M. FREEMAN, WILLIAM F. RAY, Selectmen of Franklin.
Dated at Franklin, Jan. 29, 1887.
Art. 19. Voted, That the report be accepted.
Voted, To adjourn to Monday, March 14, A. D., 1887, at one o'clock in the afternoon.
A true record. Attest :
CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN, Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING. MARCH 14, 1887.
Meeting called to order by the Moderator, William F. Ray.
Voted, To reconsider the vote passed under Article 7, where- by the town voted to authorize the Selectmen to hire a road master for the year ensuing, said master to hire his own help.
Voted, To lay the above motion on the table.
Voted, To elect three (3) field drivers.
The remaining town officers chosen were as follows :
James M. Freeman, Henry Earle, Lewis R. Whitaker, Field Drivers.
George B. Peck, Poundkeeper.
Voted, That the Selectmen appoint the remaining Town Officers.
Art. 5. Voted, under Article 5, to appropriate five thou-
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sand dollars ($5,000) for roads, bridges and sidewalks, five hundred dollars ($500) of which may be expended upon the completion of Queen Street, if necessary, under the direction of the Selectmen.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Voted, To grant and appropriate for the following named ' purposes the following sums of money, namely :
Support of Schools, seventy-eight hundred dollars, $7,800 00 Repairs of Schoolhouses, five hundred dollars, 500 00 Miscellaneous School Expenses, six hundred dollars, 600 00 Purchase of School Books and School Supplies, six hundred and fifty dollars, 650 00
Support of Poor, three thousand dollars, 3,000 00
Repairs of Roads, Bridges and Sidewalks, five thousand dollars, 5,000 00
Support of Fire Department, two thousand dollars, 2,000 00
Purchase of Hose, three hundred dollars, 300 00
Water Supply of Hydrants, twenty-seven hundred dollars, 2,700 00
Payment of Town Officers, fifteen hundred dollars, 1,500 00
Interest Account, six hundred dollars, 600 00
Abatement and Collection of Taxes, five hundred dollars, 500 00
Lighting Streets, seven hundred dollars, 700 00
Franklin Library Association, three hundred dollars, 300 00 Printing and Stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars, 250 00 Miscellaneous Expenses, two thousand dollars, 2,000 00
Soldiers' Aid, four hundred dollars, 400 00
The following named sums were also voted under Articles 10, 17, 18, 21 and 25 :
G. A. R. Post, No. 60, one hundred dollars, 100 00
Tree planting, fifty dollars, 50 00
600 00
Police Department, six hundred,
Improvement of Common, one hundred and fifty dollars, 150 00
Suppression of Liquor Traffic, one dollar, 1 00
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Also, as suggested by reports, as follows ; Painting Engine Houses, one hundred dollars, $100 00
Arlington Street Schoolhouse, four hundred dollars, 400 00
Total,
$30,201 00
LIGHTING STREETS.
Voted, To appoint a committee of three to inquire into the matter of lighting our streets by electricity, and that the Se- lectmen be instructed to make only temporary arrangements for lighting of streets under present system.
The following was the committee appointed : Asa A. Fletcher, Amos P. Woodward, Davis Thayer, Jr., street light committee.
Voted, That two thousand dollars be raised and appropriat- ed for miscellaneous expenses, one thousand dollars of which may be expended to enforce the liquor laws.
Moved and seconded, That the above vote be reconsidered ; the motion was decided in the negative.
COLLECTION OF TAXES.
Art. 6. Voted, To collect the taxes in the same way and manner as last year.
ROADS, BRIDGES AND SIDEWALKS.
Voted, To take from the table the motion : "To reconsider the vote passed under Article 7 whereby the town voted to au- thorize the Selectmen to hire a roadmaster for the year ensu- ing, said master to his own help."
Voted, To reconsider the motion as taken from the table.
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to hire a road- master, he to his own help at $1.75 per day of ten hours, and that the Selectmen be authorized to hold the roadmaster with- in the appropriations for the current year.
POUND.
Art. 8. Voted, That the town farm be the pound.
GUIDE BOARDS.
Art. 9. The Selectmen made a verbal report relative to the 10
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guide boards, to the effect that some were up all right, while many were down.
Voted, To accept the report.
CATTLE, HORSES, MULES AND SWINE.
Art. 11. Voted, To restrain neat cattle, horses, mules and swine from running at large the year ensuing.
PAY OF MEMBERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Art. 12. Voted, That the compensation of the Engineers of the Fire Department and members of Fire, Hose, and Hook and Ladder Companies for the current year be the same as last year.
ENGINEERS' REPORT.
Art. 13. Voted, To accept the report of the Engineers of the Fire Department as contained in the town report for the present year.
JURORS CHOSEN.
Art. 14. Voted, That the following list of names be placed in the jury box for the present year :
Arnold, Nathan B.
Mason, George P.
Badger, Charles.
McCarthy, Jeremiah.
Buckley, William F.
Morse, Horace S.
Bright, Warren H.
Morse, Aaron R.
Bourne, Samuel C.
Nason, William E.
Baker, J. Herbert.
O'Riley, James.
Blake, Charles H.
Peck, Henry C.
Cleary, Michael.
Pond, Eliab M.
Cunningham, John G.
Partridge, George I.
Clark, William S.
Rockwood, Edmund J.
Corbin, Daniel O.
Reed, Samuel Y.
Corson, David W.
Rockwood, John.
Fisher, Walter M.
Rockwood, William.
Ford, James H.
Stanley, Osmyn A.
Greenwood, George H.
Smith, Calvin M.
Howe, William H.
Sommers, Rudolph.
Heywood, George W.
Thayer, Alexander.
Hosie, George S.
Tobey, James J.
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Hawkes, James R.
Kingsbury, George A.
Wadsworth, Joseph H. Woodward, Amos P.
BORROWING MONEY.
Art. 16. Voted,' That the Treasurer be authorized, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipa- tion of taxes.
TREE PLANTING.
Art. 17. Voted, That the sum of fifty dollars be appropri- ated for tree planting.
POLICE FORCE.
Art. 18. Voted, To appropriate six hundred dollars ($600) for the police force, and that one policeman be employed.
TOWN HOUSE.
Art. 20. Voted, That a committee of five be appointed to take into consideration the subject matter of Article 20, and report at some future meeting.
The following were chosen to compose said committee : Asa A. Fletcher, Davis Thayer, Jr., Homer V. Snow, Joseph G. Ray, William E. Nason, Town House Committee.
IMPROVEMENT OF COMMON.
Art. 21. Voted, That the town grant, to be expended un- der the direction of the Franklin Improvement Society, for reseeding and fertilizing the Common at the north end of the village, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150), and the crops of grass for the three years next after said reseeding.
CENTRAL STREET DRAINAGE.
Art. 22. Voted, Not to grant any money for the purpose suggested in Article 22.
PAINTING ENGINE HOUSES.
Voted, To appropriate one hundred dollars ($100) with which to paint the engine houses.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Art. 23. The report of the committee on increased efficien-
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cy of our water supply was read by the chairman. Homer V. Snow.
Voted, To accept the report.
The report is filed with other town papers.
Voted, That the recommendations of the committee be adopted and that the same committee be authorized to make a contract with Mr. Norman embodying the recommendations contained in the report.
ARLINGTON STREET SCHOOLHOUSE.
The report of the committee appointed to build this school- house made a report through the chairman, Henry R. Jenks. Voted, To accept the report.
The report is filed with other town papers.
Voted, To raise four hundred dollars ($400) as recommend- ed by the committee.
Voted. To dismiss the warrant.
A true record. Attest :
CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN,
Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING.
To LEWIS R. WHITAKER, or either of the Constables of Franklin, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the legal voters in the town of Franklin, to assemble in the Town Hall, in said Franklin, on Saturday, July ninth, at three o'clock in the after- noon, then and there to act on the following articles, to wit :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside over said meeting.
Art. 2. To hear a report of the Committee chosen by the town "to investigate and inquire into the matter of lighting our streets by electricity," and act thereon and make an approria- tion for the same if deemed best.
Art. 3. To choose by ballot a Town Treasurer, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James M. Freeman.
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And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by post- ing up attested copies thereof, as required by Section Two of Article One of the By-Laws of Franklin.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Franklin, this twenty-ninth day of June, A. D., 1887.
DANIEL C. COTTON, HENRY R. JENKS, WILLIAM ROCKWOOD, Selectmen of Franklin.
NORFOLK, SS.
July 1st, A. D., 1887.
By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the inhabi- tants of the Town of Franklin herein described to assemble in their Town Hall, on Saturday, the ninth day of July, 1887, for the purposes within mentioned, by posting attested copies of the within warrant in each of the postoffices of the town, and in ten other public places, seven days before the day of meeting, in compliance with Sec. Two of Art. One of the By-Laws of the town of Franklin.
LEWIS R .. WHITAKER,
Constable of Franklin.
A true copy of the warrant and return thereon.
Attest : CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN,
Town Clerk.
PROCEEDINGS OF SPECIAL TOWN MEETING,
JULY 9, 1887.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the legal voters of the town of Franklin met in their Town Hall and proceeded as follows, to wit :
The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk and the warrant read.
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MODERATOR.
Article 1. William F. Ray was then chosen Moderator of the meeting, by ballot, the check list being used.
Voted, That we pass over Article 2 and take up Article 3.
TREASURER.
Art. 3. Henry R. Jenks was then chosen Town Treasurer, by ballot, the check list being used.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Art. 2 was then taken up.
Asa A. Fletcher read the report of the committee.
Voted, That the report be accepted.
Report and proposition placed on file.
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to contract with H. W. Burgett for 20 or 25 electric lights, as in their judgment seems best, at a price not to exceed 32 cents per lamp per night, as per proposition of said Burgett, the contract not to extend beyond April 1, 1888.
All the articles of the warrant having been acted upon the meeting was dissolved.
A true record. Attest :
CLARENCE E. GRIFFIN, Town Clerk.
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