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Brookline Town Records.
the third day of May next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be opened; the election held on the fifth day of April, A. D. 1852, for said purpose, having resulted in no choice.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
J. DAVENPORT, WILLIAM DEARBORN, DAVID S. COOLIDGE, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, May 3d, 1852.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Brookline within described, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at their dwellings in said Brookline. (File G, No. 14.)
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the meeting was opened at three o'clock by J. Davenport, Chairman of the Select- men, and the polls declared opened for Special Commis- sioner.
The polls having remained open two hours, they were declared closed, when the whole number of ballots was found to be eight.
John A. Gould of Walpole had seven (7).
E. L. Keyes of Dedham had one (1).
J. DAVENPORT, WILLIAM DEARBORN, DAVID S. COOLIDGE, Selectmen of Brookline.
Voted, To dissolve. Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk,
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Special Meeting, May 20, 1852.
SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 20, 1852.
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WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE.
To the Constables of the Town of Brookline,
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on Thursday, the twentieth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at four o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit :
First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer to borrow money and give the note of the town for the amount due to Asa G. Sheldon for the construction of the new road from the end of the Mill Dam to Washington street.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this twelfth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
J. DAVENPORT, WILLIAM DEARBORN, DAVID S. COOLIDGE, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, May 18th, 1852.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Brookline herein described, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the dwellings of the same.
(File G, 15.)
ELISHA STONE,
Constable of Brookline.
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Pursuant to the foregoing notice, the meeting was called to order by J. Davenport, Esq., Chairman of the Selectmen, who read the warrant and return thereon, and, the Town Clerk not being present, requested the qualified voters present to bring in their written ballots for a Clerk pro tempore, which was accordingly done, and George F. Homer was declared to be duly elected Clerk pro tem., and was duly qualified by taking the oath required by law, before Dr. S. A. Shurtleff, a Justice of the Peace.
James Robinson was then, said Clerk presiding, unani- mously chosen Moderator of the meeting.
The Second Article in the warrant being taken up, George F. Homer, Chairman of the Committee on Sheldon suit, made the following report, which was accepted :
REPORT.
The committee on the subject of the suit of Asa G. Sheldon vs. the Inhabitants of Brookline, respectfully report: That on the twenty- seventh day of April the referees awarded, as due from the town of Brookline to said Sheldon, the sum of thirty-four hundred and ninety- five dollars and seventy-two cents ($3495.72), with interest thereon from October 15th last, and that the costs should be paid by the town, who are to be allowed one-third thereof by Sheldon on the final settlement. These costs are as follows :
Referees' fees .
$150 00
Plaintiff's cost, witnesses, &c.
69 41
Harris & Doane, re-survey by order of the Referees
44 00
Court'g room, copies, &c.
17 00
Omnibus for Referees
3 00
Total .
$283 41
-which has been paid by your committee, and one-third thereof, viz., ninety-four dollars and forty-seven cents, is to be deducted from the above mentioned sum awarded, as due from the town of Brookline to Asa G. Sheldon. Your committee were instructed by the town to resist the claim of Mr. Sheldon, and the sum of five hundred dollars was appro- priated to aid them in defending this suit. They have expended for this object the sum of one hundred and seventy-nine 75-100 dollars ($179.75) for counsel fees, the assistance of the engineer, and for sundry expenses, so that the appropriation is more than sufficient to pay all the expenses of the litigation-leaving a balance in the town treasury of thirty-six 84-100 dols. ($36.84). Your committee are not aware of any outstanding bills in this case, although there may be some trifling charges to be adjusted hereafter.
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Special Meeting, May 20, 1852.
There is no term at present, in Middlesex County, of the Supreme Judicial Court; the next term thereof being holden on the 19th day of October next. The award has been opened and filed in Court, and the amount due to Mr. Sheldon thereunder can be safely paid now, which your committee recommend to be done at once. On the 22nd day of May, inst., being Saturday of the present week, the amount due Sheldon under the award, with interest from October 15th, 1851, will be three thousand six hundred and twenty-two dols. and 14-100($3,622.14) ; from which sum is to be deducted one-third part of the costs, viz., $94.47; leaving a balance to be paid Sheldon of thirty-five hundred and twenty-seven 67-100 dollars ($3,527.67).
Your committee, on the general subject of this suit, would add that although the award in favor of Sheldon was more than, in their opinion, was justly his due, yet they consider the result, on the whole, favorable to the town, and very much more reasonable than the verdict of a Mid- dlesex jury. Sheldon claimed of the town over $10,000.00, and his lowest offer of settlement was over $6,200.00, which the result of this abitration reduced more than $2,300.00.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
G. F. HOMER, SAM'L PHILBRICK, J. DAVENPORT, JAMES ROBINSON, Committee.
BROOKLINE, May 20th, 1852. (File G, 16.)
The following votes were then unanimously adopted :
Voted, That the town hereby accept the award of the Referees in the case of Asa G. Sheldon vs. the Town, now pending in the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Middlesex, and do appropriate a sum of money sufficient to pay the sum due to said Sheldon under the same.
Voted, That for this purpose the Treasurer of the town is authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars, and that he give the promissory note of the town therefor, payable at such time, not exceeding five years, as may be agreed upon, with interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually.
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest : GEO. F. HOMER, Town Clerk pro tem.
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Brookline Town Records.
List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1852.
Francis Caverly
Henry Coburn
B. F. Baker
Charles White
James W. Coolidge
George F. Homer
John Gustin
Charles Whittemore
Daniel H. Rogers
Albert Clark
Andrew J. Harrington
Charles Burrill
Edward D. Sohier
William J. Griggs
Charles W. Scudder
Levi Barnard
Moses Day
John N. Turner
William Stearns
Charles Coolidge
William A. Ladd
David Sears, Jr.
James Hobbs
William I. Bowditch
Maturin Ballou
William T. Bramhall
William O. Churchill
Chas. W. Cottin
Richard McDonald
T. Henry Perkins William H. Jameson
Samuel Lyford
Edward S. Dane
Thomas Seaverns
Amos A. Lawrence
Benj. F. Dane
George Stoddard
Cyrus Hayes
William Aspinwall
Oliver Whyte Edward R. Seccomb
David S. Coolidge
Asbury Longley
D. Augustus Griggs Isaac Taylor
Charles Sim
Edwin Field
Henry A. Mellen
David H. Daniels
Charles Caldwell
F. Henry Corey
Simeon Taylor
Caleb W. Johnson
Jeremiah Shuff
Ginery Twitchell
George A. Holland
Daniel Shuff
Crighton Ruggles
Horace James
Timothy Corey
Cyrus W. Ruggles
William E. Eloot
Calvin D. Crawford
Alfred Kenrick, Jr.
Allen Pierce
Daniel Hall
David T. Kenrick
John H. Webber
George T. Bartlett
Chas. L. Palmer James Morse
F. F. Pratt
Samuel A. Robinson
Chas. Snicle
Isaac H. Porter Hamlet Wood
Willard Jackson
Moses Corson
James Woodworth
Stephen Foss
Alex. H. Clapp
Henry Hitchcock
Theophilus P. Chandler Thomas Lee
Clark S. Bixby
Martin Williams
Abijah C. Stone
Alex. C. Studley
Jotham C. Sanborn
Nathaniel W. Brackett Alvin A. Rice
Josiah M. Russell Elijah C. Emerson George E. Carlton George W. Minns
Ransom N. Weld Colin Baker Albert W. Smith
J. Anson Guild
George W. Patten
S. Augustus Thayer
Benj. W. Hobart
George W. Butters Andrew McKenney - Dwight
Robert S. Davis Elisha Jacobs
Charles P. Trowbridge Alverda Mason Joseph B. Smead
Sylvester Kimball
Augustus W. Seamans Charles W. Tolman
George B. Blake
Franklin Tukey James Sinclare Wilder H. C. Dorain
Royal Woodward Augustus Allen John Aspinwall Joseph Ferguson
Gardner H. Rathorn George W. Atkinson Stephen Allen
John Harris Peter W. Pierce
Harvey James
Ferdinand Delis Denere Moses Withington
Benj. F. Stephenson
Charles F. Foster
Thomas H. Bacon
Chas. Smith
Isaac Dearborn
William Perry
Francis H. Coolidge
Oliver Cousens
Amos Snow
James Robinson
Thomas B. Griggs
George Prouty
Charles Brackett
Thomas Edgar
Wm. K. Melcher
Phillip Allen
Thomas B. Hall
Robert Littell
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Militia List, 1852.
Ephraim Church William W. Clement Thos. S. Pettingale George S. Cushing George Tyler Charles Pope William Pope John F. Edwards Howard Edwards George N. Dana
Josiah Bacon Andrew H. Newell Moses Stone
Chas. O. Howe
John W. Warren
Eben W. Reed
Nathiel Winter
Elisha T. Penniman Wm. Bird Clark L. Haynes A. L. Cutler
Edw. A. Dana
John Reynolds
Daniel S. Kendall
Charles B. Dana
Fredr'k J. Williams Horatio Leavitt
Thomas H. Leavitt Edward C. Wilson
Elijah Hersey
Solomon Severry
Samuel G. Glover James W. Merriam
William F. Lawrence
Daniel S. Sanderson
Willard A. Humphrey
Benjamin F. Kendall Samuel Clark
Oliver B. Delano
Ira T. Bean
Benjamin W. Clark
Samuel B. Little
David B. Humphrey
George J. Fisher
Joseph T. Little Jonathan D. Long
Willard J. Humphrey
George Bacon
Howard S. Williams Hezekiah Shailer John A. Bird
Thaddeus J. Townsend James M. Howe Abel B. Milliken
George Hill
William P. Atkinson
John H. Trowbridge Alvin Loker
Alfred Winsor Henry W. Carr
Henry Whitney
Joshua B. Clark
Chas. E. Eliott
Emerson Leland
Thomas Parsons
William J. Hyde
James M. Richardson
Henry Weeks
Samuel D. Hill
George P. Richardson Abraham H. Lambert George Griggs Charles D. Head
Everett Colburn
George White
Benjamin Leeds
Wm. F. Weld
Seth Anderson
Edward Atkinson
Geo. W. Goodnough Xanthus Goodnough
John W. Blanchard
William Wharton
Chas. G. Colbath
Thomas B. Cowan
John L. Sheriff John E. Sanborn
George Crafts Charles Craft
Stephen Smith (File G, 17.)
Recorded and returned Total, 282
List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1852, by the Assessors, according to law.
WM. I. BOWDITCH, b. 5 Chairman of the Assessors.
Recorded and returned June 14th, 1852.
Eli D. Sanderson George Penniman Simon Warren
Benj. F. Gerry Aaron Whitney Geo. R. Phelps P. T. Gillett
Hugh M. Sanborn Ansel Waterman
George Hancock Francis K. Fisher John Jackman John H. Henshaw William Macomb
Joseph L. White William White Cyrus Thompson
Charles Warren William B. Town Eben Wright William H. Slocum Moses B. Williams John Gilman Lafayette Thayer
George E. Hersey Nathaniel Lyford George A. Gardner
John H. Shumaker
Eliphalet Farnum
Nathaniel G. Chapin
Samuel Eliot
Hiram R. Bean
James Houghton Edward Berry
John Townsend Nathaniel P. Johnson Simon W. Clifford Caleb Craft, Jr.
Benjamin Leeds, Jr.
George J. Perry John Bartlett
James S. Young
Albert A. Cobb John Colby Wm. B. Dean
B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
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Brookline Town Records.
BROOKLINE, August 31st, 1852.
Whereas, Benjamin F. Baker, Town Clerk of Brookline, duly elected at the annual meeting of the inhabitants of said town, on the eighth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, is now absent from said town, and is thereby prevented from performing the duties of said office, we, the Selectmen of said Brookline, do hereby appoint George F. Homer of said Brookline to be Town Clerk pro tempore during such absence of said Baker, to do and perform all the duties of said office.
Witness our hands and seals, this thirty-first day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
J. DAVENPORT. [L.S.]
WILLIAM DEARBORN. [L.s.]
D. S. COOLIDGE. [L.S.]
.COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
31st August, 1852.
Then personally appeared Geo. F. Homer and made oath that he would faithfully perform and discharge the duties incumbent on him as Clerk of thetown of Brookline during the absence of B. F. Baker. (File G, 18.)
SPECIAL MEETING, OCTOBER 14, 1852.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE.
To the Constables of the Town of Brookline,
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on Thursday, the fourteenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit :
First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To act upon a letter received from the Hon. Samuel P. Loud, in relation to a certiorari prayed for by Boston & Worcester Railroad Corporation against the County Commissioners, for the purpose of com-
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pelling the County of Norfolk or the town of Brookline to erect a bridge over that portion of the new county road called Beacon street, which now crosses the Worcester Railroad upon a level therewith.
Third, To see if the town will remunerate Charles Stearns for damage to his land not taken by the Commissioners in building the new road.
Fourth, To choose two persons to fill the vacancies in the Cemetery Committee.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands and seals at Brookline, this fourth
day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
J. DAVENPORT, WILLIAM DEARBORN, D. S. COOLIDGE, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, October 8th, A. D. 1852.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the within-named persons to appear at the time and place for the purposes within men- tioned, by leaving a printed notice at the dwelling house of the same.
(File G, 19.)
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants met at the Town Hall on Thursday, October the fourteenth, at three o'clock in the afternoon, and were called to order by the Town Clerk at ten minutes past three o'clock, who then read the warrant and return.
G. F. Homer, Esq., was then chosen Moderator.
The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, and the following action had upon it :
Voted, To choose a committee of three to consider and act upon the subject, with power to employ counsel and do as in their judgment the interests of the town demand.
Voted, That G. F. Homer, William Aspinwall and Samuel Philbrick be such committee.
Voted, That the Third Article be indefinitely postponed.
Article Fourth was taken up, and it was - .
Voted, To fill the vacancies in the Cemetery Committee by ballot,
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-which resulted in the choice of Jesse Bird and Samuel Philbrick, Esqrs. The whole number of ballots was thir- teen. Jesse Bird had 13, Samuel Philbrick had 12, and were delared elected, and they accepted the trust.
Voted, To adjourn sine die.
Adjourned.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
NOVEMBER ELECTION OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, NOV. 2, A. D. 1852.
WARRANT. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS.
To the Constables of the Town of Brookline,
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the second day of November next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be opened, and kept open not less than two hours, then and there to give in their ballots for thirteen Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, each ballot for such Elector to contain the name of at least one inhabitant of each Congressional District of this Commonwealth,-all to be voted for on one ballot. You are also hereby directed to notify and warn the said inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, on the second Monday of November next, being the eighth day of
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said month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time and place the polls will be opened, and kept open not less than two hours, for the following purposes, to wit :-
First. To determine whether the town will send a Representative to the next General Court.
Second. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for the following officers, to wit: For Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Com- monwealth; for three Senators from this County; a Representative to the Thirty-Third Congress of the United States from the Fourth District; and Representative to the next General Court, if the town determine to send one,-all to be voted for on one ballot.
Third. To give in their ballots on the question -Is it expedient that delegates should be chosen to meet in convention for the purpose of revising the Constitution of Government of this Commonwealth?
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands and seals. this twenty-second day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty- two.
J. DAVENPORT, WM. DEARBORN, D. S. COOLIDGE, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, October 28th, 1852.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Brookline herein described, to meet at the time and place for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice at the dwelling place of the same.
(File G, 20.)
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the polls were opened by the Selectmen, on the afternoon of Tuesday, November the second, A. D. 1852, at one o'clock, and were kept open two hours, when, on motion of William Aspinwall, Esq., it was voted to keep them open until five o'clock and thirty minutes past, when they were declared, by Jerathmael Daven- port, Chairman of the Selectmen, to be closed. The Select- men then counted the envelopes and found the whole number
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to be two hundred and eighty-one. The votes were counted by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and the result was as follows, to wit :
The whole number of ballots in was two hundred and eighty, and one blank, and the whole number of votes given were received, sorted, counted and declared, and record thereof made in open town meeting as by law directed, and said votes were as follows, viz. :
For Electors at Large.
Robert C. Winthrop of Boston had one hundred fifty-five (155).
George Bliss of Springfield 66 one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Charles G. Green of Boston seventy-five (75).
James S. Whitney of Conway seventy-six (76).
Stephen C. Phillips of Salem 66 forty-seven (47).
James Fowler of Westfield forty-seven (47).
James Fowler
one (1).
Pliny Cutler of Boston
two (2).
Edward A. Newton of Pittsfield .“ two (2).
For Electors in District No. One.
J. H. W. Page of New Bedford had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
S. B. Phinney of Barnstable seventy-six (76).
John N. Shaw of Nantucket forty-seven (47).
Isaiah Gifford " Provincetown
two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Two.
George A. Crocker of Taunton had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Edward Cazneau " Hingham " seventy-six (76).
William H. Wood ' Middleton " forty-seven (47).
Lemuel May Attleboro " two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Three.
John Gardner of Dedham had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Caleb Stetson
Braintree 6 seventy-six (76).
Edward L. Keyes " Dedham forty-seven (47).
Frederick W. Lincoln of Canton "
two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Four.
Amos Lawrence of Boston had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Isaac Aclams Boston seventy-six (76).
Timothy Gilbert Boston forty-seven (47).
William Hayden 66 Boston
two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Five.
Robert G. Shaw of Boston had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Benjamin F. Hallett " Boston seventy-five (75.)
John G. Palfrey ' Cambridge " forty-seven (47).
George T. Curtis " Boston two (2).
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For an Elector for District No. Six.
Daniel C. Baker of Lynn had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Jonathan Nayson ' Amesbury seventy-six (76).
John G. Whittier " Amesbury "
forty-seven (47).
Mark Healy " Lynn
two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Seven.
George Cogswell of Bradford had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Eben H. Safford " Haverhill 66 seventy-six (76).
Samuel E. Sewell " Stoneham
forty-seven (47).
Andrew H. Nelson " Woburn
two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Eiglit.
Jacob Coggin of Tewksbury had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Walter Fessenden " Townsend seventy-six (76).
John W. Greaves " Lowell
forty-seven (47).
Henry B. Pierson " Harvard
two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Nine.
Ebenezer Torry of Fitchburg had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
J. S. C. Knowlton " Worcester " seventy-six (76).
Charles Mason " Fitchburg forty-seven (47).
Alvin G. Underwood " Oxford
" two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Ten.
Rufus Bullock of Royalstone had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
O. P. Ingraham " South Hadley " seventy-six (76).
Rodolphus B. Hubbard " Sunderland " forty-seven (47).
Homer Foote " Springfield " two (2).
For an Elector for District No. Eleven.
Ezekiel R. Colt of Pittsfield had one hundred and fifty-five (155).
Jonathan E. Field of Stockbridge " seventy-six (76).
Joel Hayden of Williamsburg forty-seven (47).
Luther Griffing, Richmond " two (2).
The returns of the votes were then filled up, signed by the Selectmen and Town Clerk, and sealed up in open town meeting, and delivered to the Chairman of the Selectmen to forward to the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The meeting was then declared dissolved, by J. Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen.
Attest :
B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
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GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 8, 1852.
In pursuance of the warrant copied on pages [410, 411], the inhabitants of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall on Monday, the eighth day of November, A. D. 1852, and were called to order at one o'clock precisely, by J. Daven- port, Chairman of the Selectmen of Brookline.
Voted, To send a Representative to the next General Court.
The polls were then declared opened, when, on motion of G. F. Homer, Esq., it was-
Voted, That the polls be kept open until half-past five of the clock,
-at which time they were declared closed, and the Select- men counted the envelopes, and the whole number was three hundred and eighteen. And the whole number of ballots were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made, as by the Constitution is directed, and said votes were for the following persons, viz. :
The whole number of votes for Governor was three hundred and seven- teen.
John H. Clifford of New Bedford had two hundred and fourteen.
Henry W. Bishop of Lenox had forty-five.
Horace Mann of Newton had fifty-five.
Wendell Phillips of Boston had two.
Jesse Bird of Brookline had one.
The whole number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor was three hundred and sixteen.
Elisha Huntington of Lowell had one hundred and seventy-five.
James D. Thompson of New Bedford had eighty-three.
Amasa Walker of North Brookfield had fifty-four.
Effingham L. Capron of Worcester had two.
John A. Bird of Brookline had one.
Thomas B. Hall of Brookline had one.
The whole number of votes for Representative to Congress from the Fourth District was three hundred and sixteen.
Samuel H. Walley of Roxbury had two hundred and fifteen.
Levi A. Dowley of Boston had fifty.
Charles M. Ellis of Roxbury had fifty.
Charles K. Whipple of Boston had one.
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The whole number of votes for Senators from this District was three hundred and fifteen.
John J. Clark of Roxbury had one hundred and seventy-eight.
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