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Voted, to accept the list of jurors as prepared by the
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Selectmen and posted according to law, the names of James F. Adams, Fred E. Aldrich, Sherman H. Barrett. Charles E. Enegren, Alfred F. Everett, Walter M. Fisher, Samuel H. Frost. Joseph G. Guild, Frank E. Hancock, Michael J. Hart, Jr., Charles E. Johnson, Chester F. Morse, Edgar A. Metcalf, Thomas Neelon, John W. Richardson, Fremont M. Richard- son, Thomas Spence, James H. Shaw and Edgar A. Young, having been by vote and at their request first stricken from the list. The names as accepted are as follows, viz :
Adams, Asa W.,
Hills, Frank S.,
Abbott, Sylvester S.,
Hubbard, Sabin,
Burrell, James H.,
Hutchinson, Joseph T.,
Bullock, Hubbard M.,
Capron, Sandford T ..
Kingsbury, George A.,
Clark, Alfred,
Leslie, Alvah H.,
Clark, William S.,
Corbin, Daniel O.,
Canney, William A.,
McCarthy, Michael,
Corbin, Charles H.,
Nye, Nathan C.,
Cleary, Michael,
O'Sullivan, Dennis F.,
Crowninshield, Wm. E.,
Partridge, George I.,
Chilson, James O.,
Pond, Wilton A.,
Davis, Fred L.,
Perkins, George S.,
Dean, Charles L.,
Russell, Christopher H.,
Dorr, George B.,
Rockwood, John,
Dodge, Alanson H.,
Reilly, James O.,
Daniels, Lucius W.,
Rockwood, Edmund J.,
Ellis, Granville H.,
Razee, Arthur W.,
Fales, Charles L.,
Stevens, Roswell K.,
Fitzpatrick, Jerome B.,
Sommers, Rudolph,
Fisher, Eugene G.,
Stockbridge, Columbus A.,
Gaskill, George N.,
Turner, Thaddeus M.,
Greenwood, Alonzo S.,
Tower, Jason, Thayer, Herbert W.,
Hosie, George S.,
Trentham, Wm. I.,
Hill, Albert M.,
Whipple, George M.,
Howe, William H.,
Whiting, Joseph M.,
Whitney, John D.,
Waterman, John A.
Goff, Everard E.,
Haggert, Alexander M.,
King, Wm. F.,
Lesure, John F.,
Lowell, William H ..
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BORROWING MONEY.
ARTICLE 8. Committee report and recommend "That the Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, be authorized to borrow money in anticipation of taxes for the current year."
Voted, That the Treasurer be so authorized.
SUPPRESSION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
ARTICLE 9. Committee report and recommend "That the Selectmen be instructed to suppress the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor the current year."
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
APPROPRIATIONS.
ARTICLE 10. Committee report and recommend "That the town raise and appropriate for the following named pur- poses the following named sums for the current year, to wit : Repairs of roads, bridges and sidewalks, to be ex-
pended under the direction of the Selectmen, $7,000 00 For the support of Schools, including salary of a
Superintendent,
12,000 00
For repairs of schoolhouses,
450 00
" School books and supplies,
650 00
" Miscellaneous school expenses,
500 00
" Support of poor,
4,300 00
" Support of Fire Department,
2,000 00
Water supply,
4,000 00
" Payment of town officers,
1,500 00
" Payment of town debt, 2,200 00
" Payment of interest, 2,400 00
" Abatement and collection of taxes,
700 00
" Street lights,
3,350 00
·· Printing and stationery,
350 00
" Suppression of illegal liquor traffic and sup- port of police,
1,500 00
" Military and State aid,
800 00
" Support of Franklin Library, 700 00
·· Decoration of soldiers' graves, 100 00
·· Miscellaneous town expenses, 700 00
·· Soldiers' aid,
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And that the assessors be required to publish in the Annual Town Report a list of persons for whom and the amount for which said taxes are abated, and the reasons for said abatement.
Voted on each of the items recommended by the com- mittee separately, and each item was adopted except the item for the support of the Fire Department, and upon this item it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500).
SIDEWALKS.
ARTICLE 11. Committee report and recommend "That the town raise and appropriate one thousand (1000) dollars for the construction of concrete sidewalks, and that the sum be spent for this purpose in whole or in part as abutters may contribute a like sum."
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
LIGHTS ON BEAVER STREET.
ARTICLE 12. Committee report and recommend "That the town maintain two arc lights on Beaver street, and that the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be raised and appro- priated therefor."
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
SALE OF LAND.
ARTICLE 13. Committee report and recommend "That the subject matter of this article be left in the hands of the Selectmen, with full power to act in the matter as they see fit."
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
SAME.
ARTICLE 14. Committee report and recommend "That the subject matter of this article be left in the hands of the Selectmen, with full power to act in the matter as they see fit."
Voted, That the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
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BY-LAWS.
ARTICLE 15. Committee report and recommend "That he Selectmen be instructed to have the Revised Town By- laws printed in the Annual Report for 1893 and 1894."
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
ARTICLE 16. Committee report and recommend "That the pay of the members of the Fire Department be fifteen dollars and poll tax each for the ensuing year."
Voted, to amend the recommendation of the committee by striking out the words "ensuing year" and substituting the words "for the year ending May first, 1893," so that said recommendation, as amended, shall read as follows, viz : "That the pay of the members of the Fire Department be fifteen dollars and poll tax each for the year ending May first, 1893."
Voted, that the report of the committee, as amended, be adopted.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
ARTICLE 17. Committee report and recommend "That the name of the new High School building be 'Horace Mann School.'"
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
GRADING.
ARTICLE 18. Committee report and recommend "That the subject matter of this article be left in the hands of the Selectmen."
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
ARTICLE 19. Committee make no recommendation.
Voted, to make no appropriation.
NEW INDUSTRIES.
ARTICLE 20. Committee report and recommend "That town abate the taxes for five years on a new mill and machi- nery for a new manufacturing industry, built and operated by
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Mr. Adelbert D. Thayer. provided said mill and machinery cost not less than ten thousand dollars."
Voted, that the subject matter of this article be indefi- nitely postponed.
GUIDE-BOARDS.
ARTICLE 21. Committee make no report.
Voted, that the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
ARTICLE 22. Committee make no report.
Voted to accept the report of the committee which was appointed at the adjourned annual town meeting in 1892 to consider the subject matter of Article 16 in the warrant for that year, and voted to discharge said committee.
It was voted at 9.45 o'clock P. M. to adjourn without date.
A true record.
Attest : ORESTES T. DOE, Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 7, 1893.
TOWN MEETING WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. NORFOLK, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Franklin. in said County, GREETING :
You are hereby. required, in the name of the Commonwealth o Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town quali- fied to vote for State officers to assemble in their Town Hall on Tues- day, the seventh day of November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday of said November, at seven o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in their votes, on one ballot, for Governor,
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Lieutenant Governor. Councillor for the Second Councillor District, Treasurer and Receiver General, Secretary of said Commonwealth, Auditor, Attorney General, a County Commissioner for the County of Norfolk, a Register of Probate and Insolvency, a Senator for the Second Norfolk Senatorial District and two Representatives to the General Court for the Eighth Norfolk Representative District; and also to give in their votes for or against the following article of amendment to the Constitution relative to the payment of mileage to members of the General Court :
So much of Article two of Section three of Chapter one of the Constitution of the Commonwealth as is contained in the following words :
"The expenses of travelling to the General Assembly and return- ing home once in every session, and no more, shall be paid by the Government out of the public treasury to every member who shall attend as seasonably as he can, in the judgment of the House, and does not depart without leave," is hereby annulled.
The polls may be closed as early as eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, unto the Selectmen on or before the said day and hour.
Given under our hands this twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
EDGAR K. RAY, EDWIN A. MASON, JESSE B. HOPKINS, Selectmen of Franklin.
NORFOLK, SS. OCTOBER 30th, A. D. 1893.
By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Franklin, herein described, io assemble in their Town Hall on Tuesday, the seventh day of November. A. D. 1893, for the purpose 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 Section two of Article one of the By-laws of the Town of Franklin.
LEWIS R. WHITAKER,
Constable of Franklin.
A true record of the warrant and officer's return thereon.
Attest : ORESTES T. DOE,
Town Clerk.
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PROCEEDINGS OF NOVEMBER ELECTION,
NOVEMBER 7, 1893.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Frank - lin, in the county of Norfolk, qualified to vote as required by the Constitution for civil officers, holden at the Town Hall, in said Franklin, in accordance with the foregoing warrant, on Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, being the seventh day of said month, in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and ninety-three, for the purpose of giving in their votes for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer and Receiver General, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Auditor, Attorney General, Councillor for the Second Coun- cillor District, Senator for the Second Norfolk Senatorial District, one County Commissioner for the County of Norfolk, Register of Probate and Insolvency, and two Representatives to the next General Court for the Norfolk Representative District number Eight.
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
So much of Article two of Section three of Chapter one of the Constitution of the Commonwealth as is contained in the following words: "The expenses of travelling to the General Assembly and returning home once in every session, and no more, shall be paid by the government, out of the public treasury, to every member who shall attend as season- ably as he can, in the judgment of the House, and does not depart without leave," is hereby annulled.
The meeting was called to order at 7 o'clock A. M. and the warrant was read by the Town Clerk.
Bradley M. Rockwood and John B. Collins were ap- pointed Ballot Clerks before the opening of the polls by the Selectmen, and were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk ; and Bernard A. McCabe and Charles L. Stewart were subsequently appointed addi- tional Ballot Clerks, and were duly sworn by the Town Clerk and acted in the absence of the Ballot Clerks.
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Fifteen voting shelves or compartments were provided by the town, according to the requirements of the law, and a guard-rail erected six feet or more from said shelves or com- partments.
The first set of ballots furnished for said election by the Secretary of the Commonwealth was, before the opening of the polls on said day, delivered by the Town Clerk, sealed. to the chairman of the Selectmen and a receipt taken therefor.
The ballot box, furnished and certified to by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, was, before the opening of the polls, opened in public meeting and examined by the Selectmen and Town Clerk and found to be empty, and the register on said ballot box was set at zero (0) and thereupon locked, as re- quired by faw, and the key delivered to the police officer. Silas W. Nickerson.
The seals of the package containing the first set of ballots were then broken and the package delivered to the Ballot Clerks, and the cards of instructions, specimen ballots and copies of the proposed amendment to the constitution were posted in the voting compartments and about the room out- side the guard-rail, as required by law, after which the polls were declared open.
And it was then voted that the polls be kept open until four o'clock and then closed.
The ballots were delivered to each voter by the Ballot Clerks, after the name of such voter had first been publicly announced and duly checked by said clerks upon the voting list used by them.
The ballot as delivered to each voter was by him marked in one of the voting compartments aforesaid, and thereafter by each voter deposited by him in said ballot box, after his name had first been publicly announced at said box and duly checked upon the voting list by the election officers in charge of said box and list.
The Selectmen appointed Henry H. Gallison, George R. Winsor, Bradley M. Rockwood and John B. Collins as tellers to assist them in receiving, sorting and counting said ballots,
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and before entering upon their duties as such tellers were duly sworn by the Town Clerk.
The Selectmen and Town Clerk had charge of the elec- tion, and the ballot box and check-list used with the same were under their care, and during the time of voting the bal- lot box, by the unanimous consent of the election officers, was opened twice to remove the ballots therefrom for the purpose of counting.
The polls were declared closed at four o'clock in the afternoon, due notice having been made, after which it was found that the register of the ballot box showed 772 ballots cast ; but it was known by the officers in charge that said ballot box did not register when some of the ballots were put into it, and upon a complete count of all the ballots it was found that seven hundred and ninety-four ballots had been cast into said box and cancelled thereby.
The names of the voters, checked upon the two voting lists used as aforesaid, were then counted in a distinct and audible voice in the presence of all the election officers, and the number of names checked on each list was seven hundred and ninety-four.
The voting lists used as aforesaid were furnished by the Registrars of Voters of said Franklin for the purpose of said election.
After the completion of the canvass of all the votes cast and the whole number duly sorted, counted and recorded, declaration thereof was made, according to law, in open town meeting, as follows, viz :
For Governor :
Lewis Albert Banks of Hyde Park had thirty-nine votes -39.
George H. Cary of Lynn had five-5.
Frederick T. Greenhalge of Lowell had four hundred and sixty-two-462.
Patrick F. O'Neil of Boston had one-1.
John E. Russell of Leicester had two hundred and sev- enty-six-276.
Blanks, eleven-11.
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Whole number of ballots, including blanks, seven hun- dred and ninety-four-794.
For Lieutenant Governor :
James B. Carroll of Springfield had two hundred and sixty-eight-268.
Joseph K. Harris of Haverhill had five-5.
Morris E. Ruther of Holyoke had none-0.
Henry C. Smith of Williamsburg had thirty-four-34.
Roger Wolcott of Boston had four hundred and seventy- one-471.
Blanks, sixteen-16.
Whole number of ballots, including blanks, seven hun- dred and ninety-four-794.
For Secretary :
James W. McDonald of Marlborough had two hundred and fifty-nine-259.
Frederick A. Nagler of West Springfield had one-1.
William M. Olin of Boston had four hundred and sixty- nine-469.
Samuel B. Shapleigh of Boston had thirty-one-31.
Isaac W. Skinner of Waltham had six-6.
Blanks, twenty-eight-28.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
For Treasurer :
Wilbert D. Farnum, Jr., of Somerville, had thirty-one -31.
Henry M. Phillips of Springfield had four hundred and sixty-four-464.
Squire E. Putney of Somerville had three-3.
Eben S. Stevens of Dudley had two hundred and fifty- six-256.
Thomas A. Watson of Braintree had five-5.
Blanks. thirty-five-35.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
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For Auditor :
Alfred H. Evans of Ashburnham had thirty-two-32.
Bordman Hall of Boston had two hundred and sixty- nine-269.
John W. Kimball of Fitchburg had four hundred and fifty-eight-458.
Hermann J. Koepke of Pittsfield had none-0.
Maurice W. Landers of Pittsfield had six-6.
Blanks, twenty-nine-29.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
For Attorney General :
Hosea M. Knowlton of New Bedford had four hundred and sixty-460.
Charles S. Lilley of Lowell had two hundred and sixty- nine-269.
Daniel Lynch of Boston had none-0.
Robert F. Raymond of New Bedford had thirty-three -33.
Conrad Reno of Boston had six-6.
Blanks, twenty-six-26.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
For Councillor, Second District :
William Moore of Walpole had two hundred and seventy- nine-279.
Cyrus Savage of Taunton had four hundred and sixty- six-466.
Blanks, forty-nine-49.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
For Register of Probate and Insolvency for Norfolk County :
Jonathan Cobb of Dedham had six hundred and seven-607. Blanks, one hundred and eighty-seven-187.
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Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
For County Commissioner, Norfolk County :
Watts H. Bowker of Brookline had four hundred and eighty-one-481.
Elliot C. Lee of Brookline had two hundred and seventy- three-273.
Blanks, forty-40.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
For Senator, Second Norfolk District :
Robert S. Gray of Walpole, had four hundred and sixty- five-465.
Timothy F. Quinn of Sharon had two hundred and fifty- three-253.
Salmon W. Squire of Franklin had fifty-two-52.
Blank, twenty-four-24.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hun- dred and ninety-four-794.
For Representatives in General Court, Eighth Norfolk Dis- trict :
Alfred F. Everett of Franklin had fifty -- 50.
Clarke P. Harding of Medway had four hundred and fifty-four-454.
Timothy Ide of Medway had twenty-one-21.
Henry E. Ruggles of Franklin had three hundred and twenty-seven-327.
Henry A. Whitney of Bellingham had four hundred and twenty-420.
Blanks, three hundred and sixteen-316.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, fifteen hun- dred and eighty-eight-1588.
Amendment to the Constitution relative to the payment of mileage to members of the General Court: So much of Article two of Section three of Chapter one of the Constitu-
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tion of the Commonwealth as is contained in the following words : "The expenses of travelling to the General Assembly and returning home, once in every session, and no more, shall be paid by the government, out of the public treasury, to every member who shall attend as seasonably as he can, in the judgment of the House, and does not depart without leave," is hereby annulled.
"'Yes" had two hundred and twenty-one-221.
"No" had one hundred and sixty-nine-169.
Blanks, four hundred and four-404.
Whole number of votes, including blanks, seven hundred and ninety-four-794.
Certificates of said balloting, signed by a majority of the Selectmen and attested by the Town Clerk, were sealed up in open town meeting and delivered to the Town Clerk.
The ballots cast into said box by the voters were duly sealed up and certified to thereon by a majority of the election officers for said town and delivered into the custody of the Town Clerk.
The voting lists used at said election were enclosed in an envelope and sealed, and a majority of the election officers certified thereon to the identity of the voting lists so enclosed.
The presiding officer caused all ballots which were not distributed to voters to be enclosed in an envelope and sealed and placed thereon his certificate as to the identity of such undistributed ballots.
The presiding officer delivered to the Town Clerk all · said ballots cast, all undistributed ballots and the voting lists sealed as aforesaid, together with the ballot box, in accord- ance with the law in that case made and provided.
And on motion the meeting was dissolved at 9 o'clock and 20 minutes P. M.
A true record.
Attest :
ORESTES T. DOE,
Town Clerk.
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MEETING OF THE TOWN CLERKS
OF THE
EIGHTH NORFOLK REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.
The Clerks of the towns of Wrentham, Medway, Frank- lin, Foxborough, Bellingham and Norfolk, comprising the Norfolk Representative District, Number Eight, at their meeting at the Town Hall, in said Franklin, on Friday, the seventeenth day of November, A. D. 1893, at twelve o'clock noon, said day being the tenth day following the day of the election, and made out under their hands the following com- plete returns of all votes cast for Representatives to the Gen- eral Court in said district, as follows, viz :
Whole number of votes cast, not including blanks, thirty-seven hundred and ninety-four.
Alfred F. Everett of Franklin had one hundred and sixty-two-162.
Clarke P. Harding of Medway had fourteen hundred and twelve-1412.
Timothy Ide of Medway had ninety-six-96.
Henry E. Ruggles of Franklin had eight hundred and sixty-two-862.
Henry A. Whitney of Bellingham had twelve hundred and sixty-two-1262.
And did ascertain from the foregoing canvass that Clarke P. Harding of Medway and Henry A. Whitney of Belling- ham were duly elected and made certificates of their election, as the law requires.
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Witness our hands at Franklin this seventeenth day of November, A. D. 1893 :
DAVID T. STONE, Town Clerk of Wrentham.
GEORGE E. POND, Medway.
ORESTES T. DOE,
Franklin.
LEWIS E. GRAY,
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Foxborough.
HENRY A. WHITNEY, 66 Bellingham.
SILAS E. FALES,
Norfolk.
A true record.
Attest :
ORESTES T. DOE,
Town Clerk.
The ballots cast at the last annual town meeting have been destroyed, according to law.
The Assessors have filed a list of persons liable to enroll- ment in Franklin for 1893, and it contains the names of eight hundred and six men, and the same filed and return thereof made to the Adjutant General.
Attest : ORESTES T. DOE, Town Clerk.
JANUARY 10, 1894.
I hereby certify that I have destroyed the ballots cast at the last November election, according to law.
ORESTES T. DOE, Town Clerk.
FRANKLIN, Mass., April 29, 1893.
We, the Selectmen of Franklin, in the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, hereby appoint Bradley M. Rockwood of said Franklin to be a Registrar of Voters in and for said town for the term of three years B 4
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from the first day of May, A. D. 1893, and until another is appointed in his place.
EDGAR K. RAY, EDWIN A. MASON, JESSE B. HOPKINS. Selectmen of Franklin.
I, Bradley M. Rockwood, having been appointed a Registar of Voters for the town of Franklin. Mass., for the term of three years from the first day of May, A. D. 1893, and until another is appointed in my place, do swear that I will faithfully perform the duties of said office. BRADLEY M. ROCKWOOD.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
FRANKLIN, May 31 1893.
Then personally appeared the above named Bradley M. Rockwood and made oath that he would faithfully perform the duties incumbent upon him as Registrar of Voters. Before me.
ORESTES T. DOE, Justice of the Peace.
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