Town records of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1838-1857, v. 1, Part 36

Author: Brookline (Mass.)
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Brookline, Mass. : Published by vote of the town
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Charles D. Head, Charles W. Scudder and Edward Atkin- son were chosen Auditors.


James Robinson was chosen Sealer of Leather.


Augustus Allen, Charles W. Tolman and Samuel Clark were chosen Fire Wards.


Messrs. Tolman and Clark asked to be excused, but the meeting voted not to excuse them.


J. Davenport, D. S. Coolidge and James Bartlett were chosen Overseers of the Poor.


On motion of William I. Bowditch, it was-


Voted, To reconsider the vote passed at the annual meet- ing held March the 14th, whereby the town accepted the Auditors' report.


Voted, To accept the Auditors' report as amended and presented to this meeting. (See file G, No. 27.)


The Building Committee on school-houses made a verbal report. The chairman, Harrison Fay, stated that they had made some progress, and were now in a way to do some-


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thing more definite in the matter than they had ever been able to do before ; also, that there were two vacancies in the committee.


On motion of Edward A. Dana, it was-


Resolved, That a committee of nine be chosen, by nomina- tion from the chair, to take into consideration the whole sub- ject of new school-houses and their location, and to report as soon as practicable at a town meeting to be specially called for that purpose, with such recommendations as they may deem proper, and that the Building Committee appoint- ed last year be directed, in the meantime, to take no further action.


George Griggs offered the following amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Dana :


Resolved, That said committee cause their said report to be printed and distributed to the inhabitants of the town with the notices calling the town meeting to consider the subject.


The amendment was adopted. (G, 27.)


Mr. Dana's motion now coming up, it was-


Voted, To adopt the motion as amended by Mr. Griggs,


-and the chair appointed the following-named gentlemen to be a committee of nine, to wit :


Harrison Fay, Edw. A. Dana, Samuel Philbrick, William Dearborn, William P. Atkinson, Bela Stoddard, A. W. Goddard, James Robinson, (Augustus Allen), John Howe -committee to investigate the subject of new school-houses and their locations.


Mr. Allen declining, John Howe was chosen in his stead.


The Fourth Article in the warrant was then taken up, viz. :


To see if the town will cause flagging-stones to be laid across Wash- ington street at the head of Washington place; also, across Harvard at the foot of School street.


Referred to the Surveyors of Highways.


The Fifth Article being taken up, Dr. Chas. Wild pre- sented the following report, to wit :


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Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 4, 1853.


REPORT.


The committee appointed to report upon the expediency of widening School street, on full consideration of the subject, represent that, in view of the increased and still increasing amount of travel through said street, it is quite time that it should be rendered more commodious for the public. In some places it is but little more than thirty feet wide, and in consequence of the variety of grades on the sides of it, much even of its scanty dimensions is unavailable for the purposes of traveling with vehicles, while for foot passengers the accommodation is very imperfect and unsafe. In a very few years the call for an increase of its width will be imperious, and the value of the land to be used for the purpose will be then greatly enhanced, probably, by the erection of buildings on the southerly side. At present, with the exception of those on the estate of the late Mr. Hall, there are no buildings on the south side to interfere with any contemplated improvements, and we recommend, therefore, that the Selectmen be authorized to lay out the said street at a width not less than forty feet, and extending, where opportunities offer, to forty- eight feet, by commencing at Harvard street and taking land of Mr. William Dearborn about eight feet on said street from the north corner of School street and running to a point at the south corner of said Dear- born's land on School street; then taking land of the town from the corner of Mr. O. Cousens' land on the southerly side of the street ; thence the line strikes the land late of Timothy C. Leeds, at a point distant about seven feet southeasterly of the present southerly line of the street, and continuing at that distance from said southerly line of the street along the whole extent of said Leeds' land, as well as of land late of said Edward Hall, till it reaches Washington street. And whereas, the build- ings on the land of late Mr. Hall have been recently remodelled, and much inconvenience to the owners might result from their removal at present, we recommend that in that respect the street shall be laid out prospectively to the time when those buildings shall need much repair- ing, or the necessities of the town shall require their removal.


(File G, 28.)


Signed, CHARLES WILD. WILLIAM I. BOWDITCH. WILL. ASPINWALL.


Voted, To accept the report.


Voted, That the subject of widening School street, in con- formity with the report of the committee, be referred to the Selectmen, with full powers to act according to their discre- tion. (G, 29.)


The Sixth Article being taken up, it was, on motion of W. I. Bowditch, Esq .-


Voted, To indefinitely postpone the subject.


Moved, by Geo. Griggs, Esq., that there shall be made an accurate topographical survey of the town by a skillful


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engineer, and that a plan be drawn and submitted to the town by him, showing where and at what grades streets and sidewalks can be most advantageously made and public squares and parks reserved, and that, if it meets the appro- bation of the town, the Selectmen or County Commissioners be authorized to lay out such streets prospectively, to be hereafter built, from time to time, as there shall be need.'


Voted, That the subject be referred to the Selectmen, to report at some future meeting.


Voted, That the appropriations be taken up separately.


Voted, That the following appropriations be made for the ensuing year, to wit :


For support of poor


$1,200 00


support of schools


4,200 00


books of reference


25 00


support of highways


1,650 00


making road by Town House, widening School street, and land damages .


500 00


County tax


5,100 00


Fire Department


500 00


collecting taxes


150 00


abatement of taxes


250 00


town officers


800 00


repairs of public buildings


200 00


extinction of town debt


2,000 00


interest on town debt


850 00


Cemetery


180 00


contingencies


900 00


plan of town for use of Assessors


100 00


$18,605 00


Voted, That the expenses of draping the Town Hall with emblems of mourning in honor to the memory of Hon. Daniel Webster, late Secretary of State, be paid by the Selectmen from the contingent fund.


Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized forthwith to remove the hay-scales from Washington street to some suitable place on land belonging to the town, or to purchase land elsewhere for their accommodation, as they may see fit; and that they cause Washington street to be graded so as to afford an easy and safe access to the bridge, and also to the depot-grounds from said street, and that $150 be appropriated for that purpose. (G, 30.)


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Voted, That the money appropriated by the town for various purposes, including the appropriation for the mak- ing and repairing highways and town ways, be assessed, after deducting the balance in the treasury and the probable receipts for the ensuing year amounting to the sum of -, upon the polls and estates, real and personal, of the in- habitants, resident and non-resident, of the town, and collected as the town charges are usually assessed and collected.


Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, in anticipation of taxes to be raised and collected.


Adjourned without day.


Attest : B. F. BAKER,


Town Clerk.


SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 2, 1853.


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 required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote in elections, to bring in their votes to the Selectmen,.at the Town Hall in said town, for two County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners, to complete the number required for the County aforesaid, on Monday, the second day of May next, at three o'clock in the after- noon, at which time and place the polls will be opened.


Hereof fail not, and make due 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 twenty-second day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.


J. DAVENPORT, D. S. COOLIDGE, JAMES BARTLETT,


Selectmen of Brookline.


NORFOLK, SS.


BROOKLINE, April 27th, 1853.


By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of this town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their several places of residence.


ELISHA STONE,


(File G, No. 31.)


Constable of Brookline.


At three o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, May the second, in conformity with the foregoing warrant, the meet- ing was called to order and the warrant and return was read by J. Davenport, Chairman of the Selectmen.


The polls were then opened and kept open until five of the clock, when they were closed by a vote of the voters present. The Selectmen then sorted and counted the votes in presence of the Town Clerk and in open town meeting, and declaration thereof was made as follows, to wit, for County Commissioners :


Whole number of ballots, forty-one.


Nath'l F. Safford of Dorchester had twenty-five (25).


James C. Doane " Cohasset twenty-five (25).


Eleazer Beal " Randolph sixteen (16).


Asaph Churchill " Dorchester " sixteen (16).


For Special Commissioners-the whole number of ballots forty-one.


Abraham F. Howe of Roxbury had twenty-five (25).


John A. Gould " Walpole " twenty-five (25).


James Humphrey " Weymouth " sixteen (16). James Bartlett " Brookline " sixteen (16).


The return was made up and signed by J. Davenport and Jas. Bartlett, and attested by the Town Clerk, and sealed up in open town meeting.


The meeting was then dissolved.


Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.


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Militia List, 1853.


List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1853.


Albert Clark


B. F. Baker


William Barnard


Calvin Smith


James Hobbs


Ira A. Dutton Clark


Doct. Chamberlin


Will. Aspinwall


William Stearnes


Geo. F. Homer


Meyers Orcutt


Joseph Fisk


Francis Holms


William K. Melcher


John W. Griggs S. L. Lyford Mark Ellisson


D. H. Rogers T. B. Maynard


Sylvester Kimball


Cyrus W. Hays


Charles Burrell


William B. Chapin


Ezra S. Burrell


Thomas B. Hall


David Wilder, Jr.


Rob't Almy


Hallett Edw. A. Dana


N. W. Brackett


Geo. Forrester Barstow Charles W. Scudder


Moses Judkins


Simeon Barstow


John N. Turner


Henry H. Pain


Francis Caverly


Harrison Fay


Alvin A. Rice


Charles White


Benjamin Bradley


Charles Brackett


Caleb Russell


Thomas Howe


William C. Clark


David Sears, Jr.


David Robinson


Michael Quinlan


Edward D. Sohier


William Robinson


William Jones James Driscoll


Charles W. Cotting


Franklin Z. Brett


Daniel Cowdry


Isaac Dearborn


Stephen Coolidge


Nathaniel Sawyer


David S. Coolidge


James W. Coolidge Francis French


Moses Stone John Dustin


Andrew J. Harrington


W. A. Wellman


William J. Griggs


W. I. Bowditch


P. J. Howard


Wellington Fogg


W. A. Ladd


A. H. Clapp


Henry Robbins


Thomas Seaverns


Isaac Farrington, Jr.


William Bramhall, Jr.


David T. Kenrick


John Webber


Ferdinand Andrews


Geo. Stoddard


William Coolidge


Josiah Gooding


Charles W. Smith


B. W. Hobart Josiah M. Russell


Chas. F. Huntington Charles E. Lane


Isaac Taylor


Elijah C. Emerson


Rob't S. Littell


D. Augustus Griggs Edward R. Seccomb


George E. Carlton


Geo. C. Barney William Pope John Pope Oliver Cousens Edwin Field


James L. Oliver


Josiah W. Putnam Elisha Jacobs


C. L. Palmer Alfred Kenrick


Jona. D. Long Henry Averill


Frederick Prescott


Alfred A. Colt


James Alger


Elijah Hersey


- Perry M. C. Warren


David H. Daniels Ginery Twichell Cyrus W. Ruggles Simeon Taylor James Morse Royal Woodward Samuel B. Little O. B. Delano


James H. Patten


Geo. W. Patten


Robert S. Davis Russell O. Bean Henry Lee, Jr. ChristopherShepherdson


George E. Hersey Charles Berry


M. C. Ferris Geo. W. Hancock


David Eckley


William H. Jameson


Henry Sawyer


Charles Whitemore


George W. Butters Andrew McKenney Clark L. Bixby Abijah C: Stone


Alfred M. Shapleigh


John A. Burnham


George B. Bradford


Edward Leighton


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Charles Warren


William F. Lawrence


Geo. W. Stearnes


Reuben A. Chase


Thomas H. Bacon


William Sanderson


Charles W. Tolman


Frederick W. Leavit


A. H. Knight


Edward A. Wild


Frederick J. Williams


Horatio Leavit


Benj'n R. Jewett Aaron Whitney John O. Libbey Ansel Waterman


Gardner S. Kathen


Lafayette Fairbanks


John W. Candler


Gardner F. Clark


Royal McIntosh


George W. Atkinson Daniel W. Atkinson Phillip S. Allen


A. H. Allen Moses Jones, Jr. Edward Head


William Bird Clark L. Haynes


Victor Vinton


Andrew H. Newell


Abraham L. Cutler


Augustine Shurtleff


Charles O. Howe


Rich'd Pendergrass Abraham Langley John Kanlin


William Jackson


W. R. Day


Cochran


- Lyford


Frank Seamans John Aspinwall


Henry. Staffer


Benja. T. Stephenson


William D. Town


Geo. T. Bartlett


Charles F. Foster


William R. Dean


Timothy Corey


John Gibbs


Eben'r Reed Silas H. Langley


F. Henry Corey Enoch Potter


Geo. S. Cushing


Thadeus Townsend


Moses Withington John F. Edwards


John W. Warren


Charles B. Dana


Simon Warren


I. L. Sherriff Joseph L. White William White


Edw. C. Willson E. D. Kellogg Harrison Bird


John Woodward


E. T. Penniman


Solomon Seavery


Nathaniel Lyford


Eli D. Sanderson


Daniel S. Sanderson


Geo. Atkinson


Francis K. Fisher


William McKee


Edw'd Atkinson


Geo. J. Fisher


N. G. Chapin


Mont'y D. Parker Lewis T. Stoddard Geo. Bacon James M. Howe Geo. N. Hill


A. B. Milliken


Charles F. Howard John Goss


Lawrence McCarty


William J. Hyde


Samuel Clark


Geo. I. Perry


Samuel D. Hill


Mathias Wood


George W. Goodenough


B. W. Clark John A. Bird Alfred Winsor


William Ford


Xanthus Goodenough


Lafayette Thayer


Frank Howe


Geo. Craft


B. F. Kendall


Simon Clifford


Charles Craft


H. W. Carr


William Teeaffee


Albert Clifford


Russell Hallett


Eliot Cabot


George Colbath


T. B. Griggs


Frederick K. Newell


Doct'r Salisbury


C. P. Trowbridge


Frankl. Tukey


A. Newell Daniel Kendall Geo. Brooks John Colby


Samuel A. Robinson Peter Harvey Andrew Cutter


Peter W .. Pierce


Calvin E. Crawford


A. Coffran - Andrews


Israel F. Horn


Geo. Tyler


Thomas Townsend


Charles Smith


John H. Henshaw


Will. J. Humphrey Henry Jones


Charles D. Head James Williams James Ward


Alonzo Bowman


John Townsend


Charles Wild James Edmonds Geo. B. Blake


Charles Pope A. W. Seamans James M. Seamans


Peleg Gulliver


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William D. Philbrick


Lewis Cabot


James Madder


Charles Warren


Charles Johnson


Edw'd N. Dane


Geo. Griggs


Samuel Simmonds


Geo. N. Dane


Eben'r Wright


Joseph Bogan


L H. Stoddard


John N. Wright


Patrick McCue


W. W. Clement


John L. Gillman


Stephen Smith


Thomas S. Pettingale


M. B. Williams


John W. Blanchard


Charles Chase


Waldo Maynard


William H. Slocum


John Srenson


Richard Sullivan


Gilbert


J. Whitney Lawrence William Wharton


Dr. Tappan E. Francis Henry Whitney


Henry Houghton


William P. Atkinson


Horace James


J. Boylston Clark


John Wood William Dwight


George W. Goldsmith


- Benckner


Wilder Dwight


Dr. John H. Trowbridge


Francis Bibber


Henry Weeks


Henry K. White


Joseph Ferguson


Samuel Eliot


John E. Sanborn


Benjamin Wells


William P. Eliot


James Young 345


Recorded and returned July 8, 1853. (File G, No. 32.)


List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken May, 1853, by the Assessors, according to law.


CHARLES STEARNS, JR., Chairman of the Assessors. B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.


SPECIAL MEETING, SEPT. 22, A. D. 1853.


WARRANT.


SEAL. ] SEAL.


SEAL. ] 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 said town, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town on Thursday, the twenty-second day


A. W. Smith Thomas C. Quimby John Burton


J. Anson Guild Isaac Coffin


James Houghton


Samuel Champion George C. Hull


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of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at two and a half o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit :


First. To choose a Moderator.


Second. To act upon the report of the committee chosen at the annual meeting to consider the whole subject of new school-houses and their location.


Third. To hear and act upon the petition of Geo. Baty Blake and others, for the laying out of a road from the foot of School street to the new bridge across Charles River, leading from the ship-yard (so called) to Cambridgeport.


Fourth. To hear and act upon the proposition of David Sears and others in regard to widening Beacon street across the marsh, and plant- ing ornamental trees on the same.


Fifth. To hear and act upon the request of Charles Burrell to see if the town will sell him a piece of the town's land adjoining his estate.


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 tenth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.


J. DAVENPORT, D. S. COOLIDGE, JAMES BARTLETT, Selectmen of Brookline.


NORFOLK, SS.


BROOKLINE, Sept. 15th, 1853.


By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants. of this town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their several places of residence. (File G, No. 32.)


ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.


A true copy of the warrant and the return thereon.


Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.


According to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the town met at the Town Hall on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. the 22d, A. D. 1853, and were called to order by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant and. return (at twenty minutes to three o'clock ), and presided during the election of Moderator, who was chosen by written ballots, and result- ed in the choice of John Howe for Moderator.


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The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, and it was-


Voted, To accept the report of the Committee on school- houses, which had been printed and distributed amongst the inhabitants of the town for their consideration. (See File G, No. 33.)


Mr. Edward A. Dana then presented the following reso- lutions :


Voted, That for the purposes of enlarging the present school-house lot in the South, or Middle, District, agreeably to the recommendations of the Committee on new school- houses and their location, this day submitted, the Select- men be directed and authorized to purchase as much addi- tional land from the adjoining estate of Mr. Warren White as will make the lot, when thus enlarged, equal to half an acre in extent ; and in case the owners thereof shall refuse to sell the same, or demand therefor a price which in the opinion of the Selectmen is unreasonable, that they be author- ized to select and lay out as much additional land from said adjoining estate as is allowed by the statute to be taken for the purpose aforesaid, and also to take all such further pro- ceedings in the premises as required by law.


Voted, That for the purpose of providing a school-house lot for the new Primary school in the North District, as rec- ommended by the committee aforesaid, the Selectmen be directed and authorized to select and purchase a lot of land of suitable dimensions in the vicinity of Pearl place, and in case the owner thereof shall refuse to sell the same, or shall demand a price therefor which in the opinion of the Select- men is unreasonable, that the Selectmen be directed and authorized to select and lay out, at their discretion, a school- house lot in that vicinity of an area not exceeding what is allowed by law, and also to take all such further proceedings in the premises as the law requires.


Voted, That for the purpose of providing a new school- house for the northerly section of the North District, as rec- ommended by the committee aforesaid, that the Selectmen be authorized to select and purchase a suitable school-house


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lot on or near Pleasant street, and in case the owner thereof shall refuse to sell the same, or shall demand a price therefor which in the opinion of the Selectmen is unreasonable, that the Selectmen be authorized and directed to select and lay out, at their discretion, a school-house lot in that vicinity of the extent allowed by law, and to take all such further pro- ceedings in the premises as the law requires.


Voted, That the Selectmen be directed to cause all the gravel that may hereafter be required for the repair of the highways in the vicinity, or for other public purposes, to be taken from the southeast corner of the town's land lying north of the new town road from Washington street to School street, with a view to bring the land, as soon as prac- ticable, to a suitable grade for the erection of a new school- house thereon.


Voted, That a Building Committee of five be appointed to erect upon each of the three school-house lots which the Selectmen have been directed by the preceding votes to obtain, a new school-house of sufficient size to accommodate two schools of not less than sixty scholars each, to be built of wood, after such plans and designs as the committee, in their discretion, may see fit to adopt.


Voted, That the Treasurer of the town be authorized to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars, in such sums and at such times as may be required by the Selectmen and the Building Committee to perform the duties with which they are respectively charged.


Voted, To rescind the votes of the town passed at the annual meeting in March, 1852, appointing a Building Com- mittee and authorizing the Treasurer of the town to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars for the objects then con- templated. (These votes, together with the amendment, is on file G, No. 34.)


Voted, That the resolutions be taken up separately.


The first resolution coming up in order, elicited a lengthy debate, Mr. Warren White, the owner of the estate, object- ing to his land being taken under the statute, and not wish- ing to sell. The discussion was spiritedly maintained by


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Messrs. Homer, Dana, Philbrick and Atkinson in the affirm- ative, and Messrs. White, Aspinwall and Parker in the neg- ative. Mr. George F. Homer proposing an amendment, it was-


Voted, To lay the first resolution on the table, to give time to the mover to complete his amendment, with the understanding implied that the resolution should be taken up when his amendment was ready.


The second resolve then coming up in order, it was-


Voted, To adopt the second resolution.


Voted, To adopt the third resolution.


Voted, To adopt the fourth resolution.


Voted, That the first resolution be now taken from the table.


The first resolution was then taken from the table, and the following amendment was offered by G. F. Homer and accepted by Mr. E. A. Dana, to wit :


Provided, however, that the Selectmen and School Com- mittee shall have power to change said location to such suit- able lot of land as said White may cause to be conveyed to the town for this purpose in manner and on terms satisfac- tory to them within thirty days from this date.


The question then coming up on the amendment, it was


Voted, To adopt the amendment to the first resolution.


It was then-


Voted, To adopt the first resolution as amended.


And the whole resolution was thereby made to read thus :


Voted, That for the purpose of enlarging the present school-house lot in the South, or Middle, District, agreeably to the recommendations of the Committee on new school- houses and their location, this day submitted, the Select- men be directed and authorized to purchase as much addi- tional land from the adjoining estate of Mr. Warren White as will make the lot, when thus enlarged, equal to half an acre in extent ; and in case the owner thereof shall refuse to sell the same, or shall demand therefor a price which in the opinion of the Selectmen is unreasonable, that they be authorized to select and lay out as much additional land for


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the said adjoining estate as is allowed by statute to be taken for the purpose aforesaid, and also to take all such further proceedings in the premises as are required by law. Pro- vided, however, that the Selectmen and School Committee shall have power to change said location to such suitable lot of land as said White may cause to be conveyed to the town for this purpose in manner and on terms satisfactory to them within thirty days from this date.




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