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Abijah W. Goddard was chosen Fence Viewer (in place of Clark L. Haynes, who had not accepted), & he and Charles G. Colbath were sworn as Fence Viewers by the Town Clerk.
Elisha Stone declined serving as Constable.
Voted, To reconsider the vote by which the Town decided to have five Constables.
Voted, Not to excuse the field drivers who had not been sworn, but to fine them if they do not serve.
Voted, To postpone indefinitely filling the vacancies in the office of field drivers.
Elisha Stone was sworn as surveyor of lumber and meas- urer of wood and bark.
Charles Heath was chosen Auditor, in place of A. W. Goddard, declined-and accepted.
Rev. Wm. H. Shailer reported for the School Committee on the subject of a primary school in the North part of the Town. Said report was accepted and is on file F, No. 32.
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Voted, To leave the subject of a new school to the School Committee, with full power to establish such school as they deem necessary.
On motion of George F. Homer, it was-
Voted, That a committee of five be chosen to consider and investigate the subject of introducing the study of music into the schools of this Town, and if they shall deem it expedient, present to the Town a plan for the same, and that said committee be requested to report to the Town in their discretion, at or before the next annual meeting.
Voted, That said Committee be appointed by nomination of the Moderator of this meeting.
The Moderator appointed George F. Homer, Benjamin B. Davis, Samuel Eliot, Edward R. Seccomb, and B. Chandler Howard, said Committee.
On motion of Jerathmael Davenport, it was-
Voted, That in future the report of the School Committee be printed and distributed with the Auditors' Report.
On motion of Charles D. Head, it was-
Voted, That in every order drawn on the Treasurer, there shall be stated the appropriation or appropriations against which it is drawn.
Voted, That the books of the Selectmen and Treasurer be kept in future in such a manner as to show at any moment the precise portion of each appropriation which has been expended, and the amount which remains subject to draft. And in no case shall the Selectmen draw any orders beyond the appropriation, unless obliged so to do by circumstances beyond their control.
Mr. Bartlett, for the Selectmen, made a verbal Report as to the expense of a new Lock-up, estimating the expense at three hundred and twenty-five dollars.
On motion of Mr. Samuel Philbrick, it was-
Voted, That Messrs. William I. Bowditch, William Dwight, , Abijah W. Goddard, Daniel Sanderson, and George F. Homer, be a committee to take into consideration that part of the report of the School Committee which pertains to the subject of school houses, and make report thereon at their earliest convenience.
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Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 24, 1851.
Mr. Charles D. Head moved that One Hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated towards building a sidewalk in Warren Street from Mr. Howard's house by Deacon Clark's and Mr. John L. Gardner's land. Rejected.
Voted, That the subject of said sidewalk be commended to the attention of the highway surveyors.
Voted, That an additional appropriation of three hundred dollars be made and placed at the disposal of the school committee, to be used by them in case they find it necessary during the year to establish a school for such children as may be too large to enter the primary schools and not suf- ficiently advanced to enter the intermediate schools.
Voted, That the sum of Twenty-five dollars be appropri- ated and placed at the disposal of the school committee to procure some standard works in different branches of study, to be held as the property of the town, and kept for the use of scholars in the High School as books of reference.
Voted, That One Hundred and twenty-five dollars be appropriated for the purchase, under the direction of the Selectmen, of chandeliers and a new desk for the Town Hall, and for the alteration of the platform therein.
Voted, That Three Hundred and Twenty-five dollars be ap- propriated to building a new lock-up under the Town House.
Voted, That the following appropriations be made for the year ensuing, to wit :
for the support of the poor, one thousand dollars
$1000 00
66 " Schools, thirty-eight hundred dollars 3800 00
66 highways, thirteen hundred dollars 1300 00
66 making town roads near the Town House, & widening School Street & land damages, five hundred dollars
500 00
County tax, forty-five hundred dollars
4500
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fire department, hydrant, &c., five hundred dollars
500
66 collecting taxes, one hundred & fifty dollars
150
abatement of taxes, two hundred & fifty dollars
250
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Town Officers, eight hundred dollars
800
66
repairs of public buildings, two hundred & seventy-five dollars
275
66 extinction of town debt, one thousand dollars ·
1000
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66 payment of interest on same, one hundred & ninety dollars
190
grading, making & fencing new County road from Brighton Street to Washington Street, twelve hun- dred dollars
1200
-
Cemetery, fifty dollars
50 -
Contingencies, six hundred dollars
600 -
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-
-
$16115 00
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Voted, That the moneys appropriated to repairing the public highways for the year ensuing, be assessed upon the polls and estates of resident and non-resident inhabitants, and collected in the same manner that all other Town expenses are assessed and collected, and that said sum be drawn from the Treasury, by orders from the Selectmen, for the purposes above named, in payment of the surveyors' accounts, when presented and approved.
Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- ized to borrow Three Thousand Dollars, in anticipation of the taxes to be received.
Voted, To adjourn without day.
Adjourned.
Attest : WILL. ASPINWALL, Town Clerk.
PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN BROOKLINE AND ROXBURY, 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER, A. D. 1849.
Be it Remembered, that on the 23rd day of October, 1849, we, the sub- scribers, being authorized as the law directs, met and proceeded to perambulate the Boundary line between the City of Roxbury and Town of Brookline, viz. : beginning at the point in the full basin where the bounds of Boston, Roxbury and Brookline meet, from thence continuing the channel of Muddy River at the junction thereof with a brook run- ning between Roxbury and Brookline across the Mill Dam Road to a Monument on Washington Street; thence Southerly and Westerly by the center of said Muddy Brook through the estate of James O. Ward; thence following the centre of said Brook through the land late of Sam- uel Wyman, now Charles C. Perkins, until it meets a stone marked R.B. in the wall dividing said Perkins' land from the land of Joseph Curtis ; thence following said wall nearly in a northwesterly direction to a stone monument marked R.B. standing in the fence between the lands of Thomas Lee and Joseph Curtis; thence to a stone monument marked R.B. on Perkins Street in Roxbury and Cottage Street in Brookline; thence to a stone monument in the ground on the hill in Edward H. Rob- bins' land marked R.B .; thence to a white-oak tree standing in the wall on land of Mrs. Wm. H. Eliot marked R.B .; thence by said wall to a stone monument marked R.B. standing on B. Lincoln's land; thence to a stone monument marked R.B. at the corner of Alvin Loker's land; thence to a stone monument marked R.B. lying on the wall on the east side of the end of Loker's lane; thence to a stone monument marked R.B. in the wall on Land of Willard A. Humphrey's and land belonging to Charles
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Stearns, Jr .; thence to a stone monument marked R.B. in the wall between land of A. D. Weld and Randall; thence to a stone monument marked R.B. on the South side of Church Street in Roxbury and South Street in Brookline; thence to a stone monument at the foot of a tree in A. D. Weld's land marked R.B. ; thence to a stone monument in John C. Gore's land marked R.B .; thence to a white-oak tree marked R.B. stand- ing in the wall; thence across the swamp to its westerly edge to a stone monument marked R.N.B., which forms the corner bounds between Rox- bury, Newton and Brookline line. All which bounds we have agreed to and renewed the day and year before mentioned.
FRANCIS C. HEAD, Agents for the City
WM. B. KINGSBURY, S of Roxbury.
JAMES BARTLETT, JER. DAVENPORT, of
Selectmen
WILLIAM DEARBORN, Brookline.
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ARTEMAS NEWELL, Town Clerk.
The above was received the nineteenth day of March, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and recorded by me.
WILL. ASPINWALL, Town Clerk.
List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1851.
Isaac Dearborn
Seth Cousens
Charles Cotting
David S. Coolidge
Daniel T. Eaton
Omar Binney
Wesley Powell
Benj. F. Baker
Charles Coolidge
Francis Coolidge
George Tyler
Francis Caverly
Leonard Locke
George F. Homer David Wilder, Jr.
Charles White Sylvester Kimball John L. Stone
James W. Coolidge
Daniel H. Rogers
George W. Butters
William J. Griggs
Thomas Seaverns George Stoddard
James Williams
Willard Jackson Ozias Locke
Oliver Whyte Moses C. Warren
Charles Morse Moses Morse
Moses Day
Charles Warren
John Shepherd
Edward D. Sohier
James Hobbs
Levi Barnard Charles M. Ford
Nathaniel Sawyer James Stratton Warren Hyde
George C. Barney
Hutchins S. Coolidge
Calvin Smith
Moses Judkins
William Perry
David Sears, Jr.
Joseph Ferguson
William Aspinwall
David Eckley
-- Morse, at Barnard's -
Calvin Soper
Charles Burrill
Ebenezer P. Wetherell
Jonathan Sanborn
Charles Whittemore
Andrew J. Harrington
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Albert H. Hovey
- Hunt, at Eckley's
Abraham H. Lambert Nath. W. Brackett
Oliver Cousens
John Gustin
John Park
James Morse
Jolın Collins John Robinson
Alfred Kenrick, Jr.
Jeremialı Roberts
David T. Kenrick
- Tilson, at Brackett's Benj. W. Hobart
James Percy
Samuel Hobart
Calvin D. Crawford Josiah M. Russell
George Click
Stephen S. Stone
Otis Mitchell
Ransom N. Weld
S. Augustus Thayer George W. Patten
Henry Mitchell John Green 1 Samuel Premo
Thomas Lee Robert S. Davis Elisha Jacobs
George W. Minus Elijah C. Emerson George E. Carlton
Royal Woodward
Alexander C. Studley
Stephen R. Griggs
Joseph Little Samuel Little
Charles W. Tolman
Augustus Griggs
J. Anson Guild
Dearborn Langley Isaac Taylor Henry A. Mellen Albert Jennings Theophilus P. Chandler David H. Daniels
John Aspinwall
Simon Malcolm
James L. Thompson
Ansel Waterman
John W. Candler
Charles W. Scudder
Abijah Stone
Gardner S. Rathan
John N. Turner
Frederick James
David S. Gilman
William I. Bowditch
- Munroe, at Woods' Benjamin F. Germain
Washington Atkinson Thomas B. Griggs
Benjamin Bradley George Haven
Abraham H. Clapp
Thomas Jefferson
William H. Jameson
James Blair
Samuel A. Robinson
Josialı Bacon
Isaac Farrington
Moses Withington
Thomas H. Bacon
Sidney D. Ostrander
F. Henry Corey
Edwin Howland
Philander D. Ostrander John H. Edwards
Joshua A. Little, at Gibbs George Atkinson
Charles B. Dana
James Edwards Edward Atkinson
Edward A. Dana
Charles F. Foster
Moses B. Williams
Harrison Bird James M. Howe
Peter Pierce
John Gilman
Pliny E. Kingman
William Eliot
George Griggs Benjamin Leeds
Edward C. Wilson Charles Pope
Swan Mitchell at Mrs. Merchants
Eben Wright
William Pope
Harvey James
Reuben A. Chase
Elijah Hersey
Franklin Tukey
Lewis T. Stoddard
Charles P. Trowbridge George H. Stone
George E. Hersey John Davis John H. Dane
Alverda Mason
Moses Stone
Woodbury Mosher
William B. Towne
Edward Dane
Philip Gannett
William B. Dean
Charles F. Huntington
George F. Willey Alvan Wiggin
John Colby
Nathaniel Lyford
Luther L. Greenleaf
Augustus Allen
Roscoe Green
Stephen Allen
William A. Ladd
Augustus W. Seamans
Simeon Taylor
Edward R. Seccomb
Stephen Archer
Albert W. Smithi
John H. Webber
Jeremiah Chuff Charles Ballou Daniel Hall Frederick A. Corey George T. Bartlett Timothy Corey
Edwin Field Charles Brackett
Charles True
William H. Slocum
Militia List, 1851.
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Robert Littell . Oliver B. Delano Howard S. Williams Andrew H. Newell Hezekiah Shailer William H. S. Ventris Jona. D. Long - Rand, at Long's
George J. Moulton
Charles Warren
John Brown
Daniel S. Kendall
Nath'l G. Chapin
Augustus W. Newell
George Hill
Charles O. Howe
Benj. W. Clark
Clark L. Haynes
Samuel Clark John A. Bird
William Bird Benjamin F. Gerry
Ivory Ross
Benj. F. Kendall
William H. Leonard
William W. Clement
Alfred Winsor
Thomas C. Pettingill
George S. Cushing
Henry W. Carr
George W. Stearns
Charles L. Palmer
Emerson Leland
Albert Cass Willard A. Humphrey
John Gibbs
James M. Richardson
John H. Shumaker
Eliphalet Farnum Abel B. Milliken
Alfred Roby
James Cheesbrough
Charles Bean
Thomas C. Quimby
Everett, at Eliot
Alfred Roby
Daniel S. Sanderson
Alvin Loker
Ira Bean
Albert Clifford
Jonathan Butterfield
Willard J. Humphrey
John H. Henshaw Joseph L. White William White
Samuel D. Hills
Daniel Kingsbury
Charles Townsend
Hiram R. Bean
William Wallace
James Eliot Cabot Henry Lee, Jr.
Charles G. Colbath
John Jackman
Frank E. Howe
Simon W. Clifford
Elisha T. Penniman
John Blanchard J. D. Whitney James S. Amory
Caleb Craft
Eli D. Sanderson
George Craft
Nath'l Wentworth
Geo. J. Perry Henry Gordon
Robert Miles
Simon Warren
Charles D. Head
Nath'l P. Johnston
John W. Warren
Joshua B. Clark
George W. Goodnough
George Penniman
Wm. P. Atkinson
Xanthus Goodnough
Charles H. Heath
Henry Whitney
George Harlow
John S. Warren
Francis Perkins
Simeon Gutterson
Samuel Townsend, Jr.
Thomas Parsons
John Cowan
Thaddeus J. Townsend Henry Weeks Total, 315.
The above list of soldiers in the Town of Brookline is made up by us- five names being cancelled by us before signing our names.
CHARLES STEARNS, JR., WILLIAM I. BOWDITCH. JOHN N. TURNER.
Recorded & returned. June 14, 1851.
WILL. ASPINWALL, Town Clerk.
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Thomas Pike
Thomas Townsend
Samuel Eliot
Augustine Godfrey
William E. Richardson
William J. Hyde
George Hancock
Thomas Kennan
Edward Haynes
Charles Smith
George White
William P. Sanderson
Charles Craft
Eben. W. Reed
William S. Wilson
Hugh M. Sanborn
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SPECIAL MEETING, JUNE 16th, 1851.
SEAL.] SEAL. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SEAL.]
NORFOLK, TO WIT : To the Constables of the Town of Brook- line, GREETING :
You are hereby required to warn the inhabitants of said Town to meet at the Town Hall in said Town on Monday, the sixteenth day of June, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit :
- 1st. To choose a Moderator.
2nd. To see what action the Town will take upon a notice received from the County Commissioners of an application made to them by the Charles River Branch Railroad Company to be allowed to construct their Railroad across Washington Street and across Cypress Street upon a level with said streets, and without bridges across the same.
3rd. To see if the Town will accept and allow the Town way as laid out, altered and widened by the Selectmen, running from Walnut Street across Boylston Street to Washington Street, by taking land of Samuel A. Walker and the heirs of Rachel White, and appropriate money for the expenses of the same.
4th. To see if the Town will make compensation in addition to the award of the Selectmen to Thomas Seaverns for damage done to his land by change of grade in the new street or way laid out from Washington Street between the Town Hall lot and the Holden Estate and along by the side of the land of said Thomas Seaverns.
5th. To see what action the Town will take upon the request of N. G. Chapin and George J. Fisher that the Town would widen Walnut Street opposite the Reservoir.
6th. To see what action the Town will take upon a notice received from the County Commissioners in relation to widening Newton Street as ordered by them in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-four, and to see if the Town will appropriate any money for said purpose.
7th. To see if the Town will appropriate any money for repairing the hearse.
Hereof fail not, and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
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Given under our hands and seals, at Brookline aforesaid, this sixth day of June, in the year One Thousand Eight Hun- dred and Fifty-one.
JAMES BARTLETT, J. DAVENPORT,
Selectmen of
WILLIAM DEARBORN, Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, June 11th, 1851.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of Brookline herein described to meet at the time and place and for the purpose within mentioned, by leaving printed notices at the last and usual place of abode of every legal voter.
A. H. CLAPP, Constable of Brookline.
The said inhabitants met in pursuance of the foregoing warrant, at the time and place mentioned. The meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, who read the War- rant and return.
It was voted to choose the Moderator by nomination and hand vote.
John Dane, Esq., was nominated and chosen Moderator by hand vote, but declining to serve, was excused by a vote. of the Town.
George F. Homer, Esq., was then nominated and chosen Moderator, and took the chair.
The second article in the Warrant was taken up.
A. W. Goddard, Esq., made the following motion : That the Committee chosen by the Town on 25th July last, to remonstrate against the petition of the directors of the Charles River Branch Railroad for liberty to cross Washington Street without a bridge, be now hereby instructed to offer no objection nor make any remonstrance on behalf of the Town against the recent petition of said directors to the County Commissioners for liberty to construct said road across Washington and Cypress Streets without bridges ; provided that Gates and a Flagman shall be required and provided at each of said crossings as a substitute for bridges -provided, also, that the County Commissioners reserve the right to require the erection of a bridge at either or both of said cossings whenever it shall be deemed necessary.
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This motion was supported by Messrs. John Howe, Sam- uel Philbrick, and A. W. Goddard, and opposed by Messrs. George B. Blake, W. I. Bowditch, and W. Aspinwall.
George Griggs, Esq., asked the motion might be divided, so as to take question as to the Cypress Street crossing first alone, and the question was so divided.
On motion of A. W. Goddard, Esq., it was ordered that when the vote is taken, it be taken by calling over the names of the voters on the voting-list, and their voting yes or no according as they were in favor of or opposed to the motion aforesaid.
Said motion was then put, in relation to the Cypress Street crossing alone, and the vote being taken as ordered, it was rejected by Sixty-seven Yeas to Seventy-six Nays.
The names of those who voted Yea were as follows :
Augustus Allen
A. W. Goddard Thomas Griggs
Charles L. Palmer Samuel Philbrick
James Bartlett
George T. Bartlett
Thomas B. Griggs
Thomas C. Quimby
Hiram R. Bean
William J. Griggs
James Robinson
Jesse Bird Capt. B. Bradley Samuel Clark
Elijah Hersey John Howe
Daniel S., Sanderson
A. H. Clapp
Willard A. Humphrey
Hugh M. Sanborn Amos Snow
F. Henry Corey
Warren Hyde
Timothy Corey
Henry W. Jameson
Charles Stearns, Jr.
Calvin D. Crawford
Moses Jones
Marshal Stearns
Oliver Cousens
John D. Kelly
Elisha Stone Samuel Townsend
Benj. B. Davis
Abner H. Knights
Thomas Townsend
Franklin Tukey
Jerathmael Davenport Patrick Dillon James Driscoll John Dustin
David Kenrick Abraham H. Lambert Samuel B. Little
John W. Warren Simon Warren Samuel A. Walker
John G. Faxon
Royal McIntosh, 2nd Woodbury Mosher
Joseph L. White
Isaac Farrington, Jr.
John McNamara
William White
Lemuel Foster
Abel Milliken
Henry Whitney
Eliphalet Farnum
Artemas Newell
Aaron Whitney
Royal Woodward, Jr.
The names of those who voted Nay were as follows :
Augustus Aspinwall John Davis
William Aspinwall
Jolın F. Edwards
Edward Atkinson
Samuel Eliot
Lafayettee Thayer
George Adams
Harrison Fay ·
L. T. Stoddard John Shepherd
Charles W. Tolman
George Griggs
Daniel H. Rogers
Daniel Sanderson
Wm. C. Cunningham
Alfred Kenrick, Jr.
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William P. Atkinson.
David R. Griggs
John Turner
George Babcock
Charles Heath
Ginery Twitchell
Joseph V. Bacon
Charles D. Head
George Tyler
Stephen G. Bass
George N. Hill
M. C. Warren
John A. Bird
Benjamin Howard
Wm. A. Wellman
William Bird
B. Chandler Howard
Oliver Whyte
Harrison Bird
George F. Homer
Charles Wild
George B. Blake
James Hobbs
Moses B. Williams
William I. Bowditch
Elisha Jacobs
Benjamin Bradley
Daniel S. Kendall
David Wilder, Jr. Edward Wilson Alfred Winsor
Thomas Celfe N. G. Chapin
B. Franklin Kendall
Ebenezer Wright
John S. Wright
William Wilson
William Churchill
Benj. W. Clark
William W. Clement
Eliakim Littell Nathaniel Lyford Benjamin Leeds J. K. F. Mansfield Andrew H. Newell
Mr. S. A. Thayer David Coolidge Charles G. Colbath Charles Pope requested that his George S. Cushing William Pope name might be called John W. Candler F. W. Prescott but as his name was Charles B. Dana Isaac Rich John Dane Charles W. Scudder not on the voting list William Dearborn George Searle and there being no William P. Dexter Thomas Seaverns evidence offered that William R. Dean Samuel A. Shurtleff he was a legal voter, the Moderator (objection being made to the name being called) declined to call his name, and he did not vote.
Opportunity having been given to any voter to vote on the motion, and no one else offering to vote, the vote as aforementioned was declared.
The vote ordering the calling over the list was then recon- sidered, and it was voted to take the vote on Mr. Goddard's motion in relation to the Washington Street crossing in the ordinary manner.
The question on Mr. Goddard's motion as regarded the crossing of Washington Street by the railroad being put by the Moderator, it was rejected by a large majority.
The Moderator declared the motion to have been rejected, and no voters doubting his decision, a count was not had.
Mr. Harrison Fay moved that the committee appointed by the Town July 25th, 1850, to appear before the County Commissioners and oppose the crossing by the Charles River Branch Railroad of Washington Street, Cypress Street, or
Henry W. Carr
Hugh R. Kendall
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any other highway in this Town, at grade and without bridg- ing, be instructed to continue their efforts before the County Commissioners in opposition to such crossings at grade.
Mr. G. B. Blake moved, as an amendment to Mr. Fay's motion, that Mr. Harrison Fay be added to said committee.
Voted, That George B. Blake, William I. Bowditch, and John Dane, Esq., the committee appointed by the Town on the twenty-fifth day of July last, with H. Fay, Esq., added as a member thereof, be and hereby are instructed to con- tinue their efforts in behalf of the Town in opposing the crossing of Washington Street, Cypress Street, or any other public highway in Brookline, by any railroad upon a level therewith and without bridging the same.
The third article in the warrant was then taken up, and upon motion of John Howe, Esq., was laid upon the table.
The fourth article being taken up, it was-
Voted, To refer the subject of the fourth article to Messrs. Daniel Sanderson, A. Warren Goddard, and Charles Heath, to consider and report upon the same.
The fifth article being taken up, it was-
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to take such course upon the request of N. G. Chapin and Geo. J. Fisher as they shall deem most for the interest of the Town.
Voted, That One Hundred Dollars be appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen in widening Newton Street, as ordered by the County Commissioners in the year 1834.
Voted, To appropriate One Hundred Dollars to repair the hearse.
Voted, To dissolve the meeting.
Dissolved.
Attest : WILL. ASPINWALL, Town Clerk.
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Appointment of Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. TOWN OF BROOKLINE.
Pursuant to the annexed appointment of the Selectmen of said town, the original whereof is on file, George F. Homer was appointed Town Clerk, pro tempore, during the absence of William Aspinwall, the Town Clerk ; and said Homer having this day been duly sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of said office, has entered upon the performance of the same.
Attest : GEO. F. HOMER, Town Clerk, pro tem.
BROOKLINE, July 21st, 1851.
Whereas, William Aspinwall, Town Clerk of Brookline, duly elected at the annual meeting of the Inhabitants of said Town, on the tenth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, is about to be absent from said town for some weeks, and will, by such absence, be prevented from performing the duties of said office; we, the Selectmen of said Brookline, do hereby appoint George F. Homer, of said Brook- line, to be Town Clerk pro tempore, during such absence of said Aspin- wall, to do and perform all the duties of said office.
Witness our hands and seals, the 21st day of July, in the year one thou- sand eight Hundred and Fifty-one, at Brookline aforesaid.
JAMES BARTLETT. [L.S. ]
J. DAVENPORT. [L.S.]
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