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ART. 3. To choose all other necessary town officers for the year ensuing.
ART. 4. To see in what way and manner the town will collect its taxes the current year.
ART. 5. To hear a report of the town officers and act thereon.
ART. 6. To see what action the town will take relative to a pound.
ART. 7. To vote a suitable number of names of persons into the jury box for the year ensuing.
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ART. 8. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes for the current year, as may be necessary to meet the current expenses.
ART. 9. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to sup- press the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors in the town for the current year.
ART. 10. To see what sums of money the town will raise and appropriate for the repairs of roads, bridges and sidewalks; for the support of schools, including the salary of a superintendent and the transportation of scholars; for repairing school bouses, for school books, supplies and miscellaneous school expenses ; for the support of the poor; for the support of the fire department; for water supply ; for payment of town officers; for payment of town debt and interest; for abatement and collection of taxes ; for street lights ; for printing and stationery ; for suppression of illegal liquor traffic; for payment of police; for state and military aid; for support of the library of the Franklin Library Association ; for the decoration of soldiers' graves , for soldiers' aid ; for miscellaneous town expenses.
ART. 11. To see if the town will vote to require the School Com- mittee to employ a Superintendent of Schools, or do anything relating thereto.
ART. 12. To see if the town will appropriate any and what sums of money to construct concrete sidewalks, or do anything relating thereto.
ART. 13. To see if the town will authorize the School Board to employ a clerk at a salary not to exceed fifty dollars.
ART. 14. 'To see if the town will reimburse M. J. Lee, for money paid for concreting, or do anything relating thereto.
ART. 15. To see if the town will choose a committee to take into consideration the advisability of making changes to improve the pres- ent method of heating the Horace Mann School House and its sanitary defects.
ART. 16. To see if the town will improve the grounds in the Union Street Cemetery, and appropriate money therefor, or do any- thing relating thereto.
ART. 17. To see if the town will grant to Franklin Post, No. 60, G. A. R., the custody and occupancy of the Chapel School House, located on East Street, and a portion of the lot on which it stands, so long as the Post continues under its present charter, with the privilege of making an addition of not more than sixteen (16) feet in length to one end of the building, in consideration of a duly authorized agree- ment by the Post that they will use it for legitimate purposes only,
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keep the building insured for the benefit of the town while occupying the same, and peacefully giving up the same at the specified time with all permanent additions to the building.
ART. 18. To see if the town will vote to purchase the fire alarm system now on trial and appropriate money therefor, or do anything relating thereto.
ART. 19. To see if the town will take any and what action in rela- tion to the abolishing of the grade crossing of the New England Rail- road Company on Union Street, and commonly known as " Nason's Crossing."
The polls will be opened at seven o'clock A. M., and may be closed at twelve o'clock, noon.
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 meet- ing.
Given under our hands this sixteenth day of February, A. D. 1897.
EDWIN A. MASON, CHARLES F. NYE,
Selectmen of Franklin.
Upon the above warrant the following return was made: NORFOLK, S.S.
FRANKLIN, FEBRUARY 20TH, A. D. 1897.
By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Franklin herein described to assemble in their Town Hall on Monday, the first day of March, A. D. 1897, for the purposes within mentioned, by posting attested copies of the within warrant in each of the post offices 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 the return thereon.
Attest : ORESTES T. DOE,
Town Clerk.
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Proceedings of the Annual Town Meeting, MARCH Ist, 1897.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the aforesaid Town of Franklin qualified to vote in town affairs met at the Town Hall, in said town, on the first Monday of March, it being the first day of said month, A. D. 1897.
The meeting was called to order at the time and place named in said warrant by the Town Clerk, who read the war- rant and return thereon, and then at his request, Rev. C. W. Longren offered prayer, after which William F. Rav was chosen Moderator by ballot, in receiving which the check-list was used, and he was sworn by the Town Clerk.
Before the opening of the polls the Selectmen appointed Nathan C. Nye and John B. Collins Ballot Clerks, and they were sworn as such by the Town Clerk before receiving the ballots, and before the opening of the polls the Town Clerk delivered a bundle packed by him and sealed, as required by law, containing 1,575 official ballots and 75 special official ballots for women, and the receipt of said Ballot Clerks was taken for said ballots.
The Town Clerk caused the cards of instruction and specimen ballots to be posted in each of the 14 marking shelves or compartments provided by the Selectmen, and a guard-rail was set six feet or more from said marking shelves or compartments, as required by law, and the cards of instruc- tion and specimen ballots were posted outside the guard-rail, according to law.
Voted, that article two (2) be acted upon next.
Voted, that the Moderator appoint a committee consist- ing of fifteen legal voters to consider the remaining articles of the warrant.
Voted, that when this meeting adjourns it be to Monday, March 8th, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., at Morse's Opera House.
Voted, that the polls be kept open until 4 o'clock P. M., and then closed.
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The ballot box, provided by the Secretary of the Com- monwealth, used at the election, was publicly opened and shown to be empty, and was examined by the Moderator and Town Clerk and found to be empty, and the register thereon was set at 000 and then locked and the key thereof given to Officer Silas W. Nickerson and the polls were declared open.
The voters cast their ballots into said ballot box, when it was found that the box would not accurately register the num- ber of ballots cast therein, the paper on which the ballots were printed not being of sufficient thickness.
When the ballots were delivered to the voters by the Bal- lot Clerks, the check-list was used and the name of each voter receiving a ballot was announced and checked thereon by the Ballot Clerks ; and the voter so receiving his ballot marked it at the marking shelf, or compartment, and then deposited his ballot in the box, as directed by the Moderator. The name of each voter so casting a ballot was announced in a loud and distinct tone of voice and checked upon the check-list by the election officers in charge at said box and list.
The following persons were appointed Tellers by the Moderator : Bradley M. Rockwood, James W. Desmond, Walter C. Sherman, John P. Costello and James E. Kelley, all of whom were duly sworn by the Town Clerk.
William A. Moore and Osman B. Carter were appointed Ballot Clerks by the Moderator to fill vacancies, and they were duly sworn.
By unanimous consent of the election officers, the ballots were taken from the box which registered one hundred and fifty-six (156), at 9 o'clock A. M., and the counting of the bal- lots begun, and in said ballot box there were found to be one hundred and forty-seven (147) ballots.
The polls were closed at 4 o'clock P. M., due notice hav- ing been given.
Then the register on the ballot box showed that seven hundred and sixty -one (761) ballots had been cast therein, and the names checked on each voting list were then counted by the election officers in a distinct and andible voice, and the
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number checked on each list used for the men voters was six hundred and sixty-two (662), which was announced.
And the names on each of the check-lists used for the women voters were counted and found to be ten on each, which was announced.
The number of ballots left at the close of the polls, deducted from the whole number receipted for by the Ballot Clerks, showed 662 ballots delivered to the men who voted, and ten ballots delivered to the women voters.
All the ballots cast by the voters as aforesaid were sorted, counted and declaration thereof made by the Town Clerk in open town meeting, as follows, viz :
For Selectmen :
John G. Cunningham had three hundred and twenty-five -325.
John F. Lesure had one hundred and two-102.
George P. Mason had three hundred and ninety-three- 393.
Jeremiah J. McCarthy had two hundred and sixty-260.
Charles F. Nye had four hundred and ten-410.
S. Arthur Perkins had three hundred and nine-309.
Walter M. Fisher had one-1.
Lewis R. Whitaker had three-3.
Blanks, one hundred and eighty-three-183.
And Chas. F. Nye, Geo. P. Mason and John G Cun- ningham were declared elected.
For Town Clerk :
Orestes T. Doe had five hundred and eighty-three-583.
Blanks, seventy-nine-79.
And Orestes T. Doe was declared elected.
For Treasurer :
Henry R. Jenks had five hundred and ninety-one-591.
Blanks, seventy-one-71.
And Henry R. Jenks was declared elected.
For Assessors :
Elisha P. Chapman had three hundred and ninety-nine-
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399.
James O. Chilson had four hundred and sixty-eight-468. Lawrence J. Kelley had two hundred and thirteen-213. James B. Mckinnon had one hundred and fifty-nine-159. William Rockwood had four hundred and five-405.
Calvin M. Smith had one hundred and thirty-two-132. Blanks, two hundred and ten-210.
And James O. Chilson, William Rockwood and Elisha P. Chapman were declared elected.
For Overseers of Poor :
Cyrus M. Allen had three hundred and one-301.
George E. Emerson had four hundred and fifty-one-451. Wilton A. Pond had two hundred and seventeen-217. Samuel Y. Reed had four hundred and twenty-one-421. Hiram Whiting had three hundred and forty-four-344. Blanks, two hundred and fifty-two-252.
And George E. Emerson, Samuel Y. Reed and Hiram Whiting were declared elected.
For Auditor :
Nelson E. Newell had five hundred and seventy-eight- 578.
Blanks, eighty-four-84.
And Nelson E. Newell was declared elected.
For Collector of Taxes :
Edward H. Sherman had five hundred and ninety-four- 594.
Amos P. Woodward had one-1.
Blanks, sixty-seven-67.
And Edward H. Sherman was declared elected.
For School Committee for Three Years :
Henry E. Ruggles had three hundred and one-301.
William A. Wyckoff had three hundred and twenty-two -322.
J. Herbert Baker had one-1.
A. J. Gallison had one-1. Blanks, forty-seven-47.
And William A. Wyckoff was declared elected.
For Board of Health for Three Years :
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William H. Colby had five hundred and fifty-four-554.
Blanks, one hundred and eight-108.
And William H. Colby was declared elected.
For Constables :
Anthony Connor had three hundred and seventy-nine- 379.
Fred L. Davis had four hundred and forty-440.
Kervin R. Jewett had three hundred and ninety-nine- 399.
Lewis R. Whitaker had four hundred and thirty-430.
Silas W. Nickerson had six-6.
Blanks, three hundred and thirty-two-332.
And Fred L. Davis, Lewis R. Whitaker and Kerwin R. Jewett were declared elected.
In answer to the question, " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" the town voted :
Yes, one hundred and ninety-five-195.
No, three hundred and eighty-one-381.
Blank, eighty-six-86.
And the Moderator appointed for the committee to con- sider the remaining articles of the warrant, the following named persons, viz :
Frederic E. Aldrich, Joseph P. Bassett, Charles H. Cor- bin, Mancy M. Daniels, George N. Gaskill, Timothy J. Healey, Walter M. Fisher, E. Lovell Metcalf, Joseph G. Ray, Chas. Stewart, Dennis F. O'Sullivan, Joseph M. Whiting, Geo. W. Wiggin, Amos P. Woodward, Chas. E. Woodward.
After the declaration of the vote, as aforesaid, all the bal- lots cast at said election were sealed in an envelope, and the voting lists used at said election were enclosed in an envelope and sealed, and each of said envelopes was endorsed by the election officers according to law.
The Moderator caused all ballots which were not dis- tributed to voters to be enclosed in an envelope and sealed, and he certified thereon that said envelope contained such undistributed ballots ; and all said envelopes containing said ballots and check-lists were placed in the custody of the Town Clerk.
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And, on motion, at 6 o'clock P. M., the meeting was adjourned to March 8th, current, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., at Morse's Opera House, as aforesaid.
A true record.
Attest :
ORESTES T. DOE, Town Clerk.
Proceedings of Adjourned Annual Town Meeting, MARCH 8, 1897.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Franklin qualified to vote in town affairs, held in Morse's Opera House, in said town, on Monday, the eighth day of March, 1897, pur- suant to the aforesaid adjournment, William F. Ray, the Moderator, called the meeting to order at 7.30 o'clock in the evening, and the business proceeded as follows, to wit :
ARTICLE 3. The meeting made choice of the following town officers :
FENCE VIEWERS.
Granville H. Ellis, Wilton A. Pond, Cyrus M. Allen.
FIELD DRIVERS.
Carl B. Johnson, Douglass P. A. Jacoby, Henry E. Rug- gles.
POUND KEEPER.
Norman B. Stone.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS.
The Committee of Fifteen, appointed to consider the remaining articles of the warrant and to report thereon, pre- sented its report, through its Chairman, Walter M. Fisher, and the meeting voted that said report as printed be accepted and placed on file, and it was also voted that each section of the report of said committee be acted upon at the same time as the article in the warrant to which it referred.
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COMPENSATION OF COLLECTOR.
ARTICLE 4. Committee report and recommend " That the compensation of the Collector of Taxes be one per cent. on the amount collected, and that the Collector have the same power and authority that the Treasurer has when appointed Collector."
Voted, that the report and recommendation be adopted, and that interest at the rate of seven per cent. shall be charged and collected on all taxes which shall remain unpaid after the first day of December, 1897.
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REPORT OF TOWN OFFICERS.
ARTICLE 5. Voted, " That the report of the town offi- cers, as printed in the Annual Report, be accepted."
POUND.
ARTICLE 6. Committee report and recommend " That the yard at the Almshouse be the pound for the present year."
Voted, that the report and recommendation be adopted.
JURORS.
ARTICLE 7. Committee report and recommend " That the list of jurors as printed by the Selectmen be placed in the jury box the current year."
Voted, that the list of jurors as printed by the Selectmen, and posted according to law, be placed in the jury box for the current year, except the name of Aaron A. Willard, who was by vote of the town and at his request, stricken from the list.
The names as accepted are as follows, viz :
Allen, Cyrus M. Allen, Thomas B. Austin, William H. Baker, J. Herbert Bates, Frank A. Bent, Herbert A,
Blake, Oramel B. Blake, William A.
Summer street Union street Crescent street Lincoln street Emmons street Beaver street Maple street Pond street
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Brock, Albert L.
Buckley, Daniel, Jr. Bullock, Hubbard M. Butters, Edward F.
Carter, Osman B. Chapman, Elisha P.
Chase, William C.
Cleaveland, William M.
Cody, William G.
Colby, William H.
Corbin, Charles H.
Corbin, Daniel O.
Corson, David W.
Crocker, James B. Crowninshield, Walter
Daniels, Lucius W.
Desmond, James W. Dove, William Emerson, George E.
Estey, Willard A. Everett, Alfred F. Gaskill, George N.
Geb, Jacob F. Gowen, Charles R. Heath, Albert E. Hosie, John P. Johnson, Carl B. Kingsbury, George A. Lesure, John F. Messenger, Everett S.
Metcalf, Edgar A. Metcalf, E. Lovell, Metcalf, Hiram F.
Moran, Daniel P. Murphy, John, Jr. Newell, Nelson E. Nye, Charles F. Osborne, Fred E.
School street Pond street Ruggles street West street Alpine street Dean avenue Peck street Garfield street Alpine place
Crescent street Central street Cottage street Emmons street Crescent street Queen street Pond street Church street Union street Main street Fales street King street Washington street McCarthy street Pleasant street Union street Peck street Union street Lincoln street Central street Main street Crescent street Central street Lincoln street Dean avenue Pleasant street Alpine street Central street Central street
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Peck, George I.
Rockwood, Bradley M.
Rounds, Daniel H.
Smith, Calvin M.
Beaver street
Sommers, Rudolph
Dean avenue Maple street
Stetson, Orlando S.
Stevens, Roswell K.
Queen street
Stewart, Charles L.
Union street
Talbot, Henry A.
Central street King street
Ware, Eugene F.
Main street
Walsh, John P.
School street
White, Richard S.
Main street
Willard, Frank A.
Winter street Main street
Woodward, Amos P.
BORROWING MONEY.
ARTICLE 8. Committee report and recommend " That the Treasurer be authorized, under the direction of the Select- men, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes for the current year."
Voted, that the report and recommendation be adopted.
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 be adopted.
APPROPRIATIONS.
ARTICLE 10. Voted, that the town raise and appropriate for the following named purposes the following named sums of money for the current year, to wit :
For repair of roads, bridges and sidewalks, to be
expended under the direction of the Selectmen, $5,000 00 For the support of schools, including the salary of
a Superintendent, and the transportation - of scholars ; for repairing school houses, for
Central street Dean avenue Pleasant street
Tyler, John H.
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school books, supplies and miscellaneous school expenses, 12,900 00
. For support of poor,
4,000 00
" support of Fire Department, 2,500 00
66 water supply,
4,100 00
payment of town officers,
1,400 00
66 debt,
2,200 00
66 " interest,
1,650 00
66 abatement and collection of taxes,
800 00
" street lights,
3,700 00
" suppression of illegal liquor traffic and for pay- ment of police, 1,400 00
" State and Military aid, 800 00
" support of the library of the Franklin Library Association, 700 00
" printing and stationery, 350 00
65 the decoration of soldiers' graves, 100 00
' soldiers' aid, 700 00
" miscellaneous town expenses, 1,100 00
Of the last named sum $200.00 may be used for printing the Town Records.
Voted, that the Assessors publish, in the next Annual Town Report, a list of all abatements and the reason therefor.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
ARTICLE 11. Committee report and recommend " That the town require the School Committee to employ a Superin- tendent of Schools the present year,"
Voted, that the report and recommendation be amended by adding to the end thereof the words " in the same manner as the past year." So that the recommendation as amended shall read as follows, viz: " That the town require the School Committee to employ a Superintendent of Schools the present year in the same manner as the past year."
Voted. that the report as amended be adopted.
CONCRETE SIDEWALKS.
ARTICLE 12. Committee report and recommend " That
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the town raise and appropriate five hundred ($500) 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 amount."
Voted, that the report and recommendation be adopted.
CLERK OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
ARTICLE 13. Committee report and recommend " That the town be authorized to employ a clerk for the School Board at a salary not to exceed fifty (50) dollars a year."
Voted, that the report and recommendation of the com- mittee be adopted.
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION TO REIMBURSE M. J LEE.
ARTICLE 14. Committee report and recommend " That the town be authorized to reimburse M. J. Lee one hundred and sixty-eight ($168) dollars for money paid for concreting."
Voted, that the report and recommendation be adopted.
REPAIRS ON HORACE MANN SCHOOL HOUSE.
ARTICLE 15. Voted, that a committee of three (3) be appointed by the Moderator to ascertain the defects in the heating and sanitary conditions of the Horace Mann School House and report at some future town meeting.
And the Moderator appointed William A. Wyckoff, Dwight M. Hodge and Horace W. Hosie to serve as such committee.
UNION STREET CEMETERY.
ARTICLE 16. Committee make no report.
Voted, that this article be indefinitely postponed.
ARTICLE 17. Committee report and recommend " That the town be authorized to grant the request of the Franklin Post, No. Sixty (60), G. A. R., regarding custody and occu- pancy of the Chapel School House, located on East street, upon conditions named in said request."
Voted, that the report and recommendation be adopted.
ARTICLE 18. Committee report " That the town be authorized to raise and appropriate money to purchase the Fire Alarm System now on trial at a fair valuation."
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Voted, that the report be adopted, and the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars raised and appropriated therefor.
ARTICLE 19. Committee report " That the subject mat- ter 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 of the committee be adopted.
It was voted at 9.45 P. M. to adjourn without date.
A true record.
Attest :
ORESTES T. DOE, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
Franklin, Mass., Mar. 2, 1897.
I hereby certify that Orestes T. Doe appeared before me this day and made solemn oath that he would faithfully dis- charge the duties of Town Clerk of Franklin, in said Com- monwealth, to which office he has been duly elected.
JAMES M. FREEMAN, Justice of the Peace.
A true record. Attest : ORESTES T. DOE,
Town Clerk.
I administered the oath of office according to law to the following-named persons who were elected to office in the town of Franklin at the annual March election, A. D. 1897, on the dates set against their respective names, all in said year. SELECTMEN-Charles F. Nye, March 1st ; John G. Cunning- ham, George P. Mason, March 2d.
ASSESSORS, as prescribed by statute-Elisha P. Chapman, William Rockwood, March 2d ; James O. Chilson, March 3d.
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OVERSEERS OF THE POOR-Samuel Y. Reed, George E.
Emerson, Hiram Whiting, all on the second day of March.
AUDITOR-Nelson E. Newell, March 2d.
COLLECTOR OF TAXES-Edward H. Sherman, March 6th.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE-William A. Wyckoff, March 2d.
TREASURER-Henry R. Jenks. March 2d.
BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THREE YEARS-William H. Colby, March 3d.
CONSTABLES-Fred L. Davis, Lewis R. Whitaker, March 2d ; Kervin R. Jewett, March 3d.
The following is a list of the appointments made by the Selectmen when duly assembled on the following dates, all in the year 1897 :
SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS-Charles S. Rand, March 13 (13).
SPECIAL POLICE, appointed March 2 without pay-Charles R. Gowen, Joseph T. Hutchinson, William G. Cody, Fred L. Davis, Kervin R. Jewett, Edmund J. Ro'ck- wood, George Bourbeau, Amos W. Stone ; appointed March 10, Daniel W. Fisher, William Redpath ; appointed March 26, Willard H. Fish ; appointed August 27, George W. Hill.
SURVEYORS OF LUMBER, appointed March 10-William Rockwood, Clarence H. Woodward, George M. Wads- worth, Walter M. Fisher.
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK, appointed March 10- William Rockwood, T. Jefferson Daniels, Wilton A. Pond, George M. Wadsworth, Alexander M. Haggart, Kervin R. Jewett, Clarence H. Woodward, Thomas B. Allen ; Norman B. Stone, May 28.
MEASURERS OF GRAIN, appointed March 10-Frank D. Met- calf, James F. Ray, Nathan B. Arnold, George M. Wads-
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worth, Clarence H. Woodward, William Rockwood. WEIGHERS OF COAL AND HAY, appointed March 10-Joseph E. Clark, George M. Wadsworth, Clarence H. Wood- ward, Kervin R. Jewett, James F. Ray. Jessie D. Hop- kins, Nathan B. Arnold, Alexander M. Haggart, Anson B. Longworth, James B. Crocker, Thomas Keefe ; ap- pointed March 26, Elmer M. Wadsworth.
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, appointed March 10- Granville H. Ellis.
INSPECTOR OF KEROSENE OIL-Granville H. Ellis, March 10. AGENTS FOR BURIAL OF SOLDIERS-Edwin A. Mason, Wal- ter M. Fisher, March 10.
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS AND PROVISIONS-William F. King, April 3.
SPECIAL POLICE, appointed March 2 for two weeks-Silas W. Nickerson and Anthony Connor. March 13, appoint- ment of same two officers extended fourteen days. On the 26th day of March Silas W. Nickerson and Anthony Connor were appointed police officers for the current year until March 10th, 1898, unless sooner revoked, at a salary of fifty dollars per month. On the 15th day of October William Redpath was appointed police officer. AUCTIONEERS-Lewis R. Whitaker, March 13; David W. Corson, April 16.
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