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It was-
Voted, That the subject be referred to the School Com- mittee, to report thereon at the next annual meeting or at any meeting previous if they think it necessary.
It was also-
Voted, That the School Committee be instructed to pre- sent, in their future annual reports to the town, information upon the following topics :
1st. The number of scholars registered in each school, and the average attendance.
2d. The number of monthly visits made to each school, when made, and by what members of the committee.
3d. The examinations made of the several schools, when, and by what members of the committee.
4th. The several meetings of the School Committee, when holden, and attended by what members of the com- mittee.
The Ninth Article was then taken up :
To see if the town will erect public scales at the corner of Beacon and Harvard streets.
It was-
Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed to erect public scales on the corner of Beacon and Harvard streets, at an expense not exceeding three hundred dollars.
The Tenth Article was then taken up :
To see if the town will procure a new set of hose for the fire-engine, and a suitable place for the safe keeping of the hydrant-hose carriage.
It was-
Voted, That the Selectmen and four citizens appointed by the chair constitute a committee to take the whole subject into consideration, and report thereon at the adjourned meeting.
The chair appointed Messrs. Augustus Allen, Charles L. Palmer, Ansel H. Waterman and Jerathmael Davenport as the gentlemen to be added to the Selectmen to fill the com- mittee.
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Voted, To lay the Eleventh Article on the table. The Twelfth Article was then taken up :
To see if the town will make an order or pass a by-law relating to the obstruction of streets.
It was- .
Voted, That the Highway Surveyors be and are hereby instructed to clear all limbs of trees and remove all obstruc- tions from the highways of the town.
Voted, To lay the Thirteenth Article on the table.
The Fourteenth Article coming up :
To select a Justice of the Peace to attend to the cases of truant chil- dren, agreeable to a by-law adopted by the town Sept. 18, 1854,
-Charles Pope, Esq., was nominated and chosen as the Justice of the Peace to attend to such cases.
Messrs. Jerathmael Davenport, Samuel Philbrick and Augustus Allen were selected and chosen as suitable persons to make complaint against such as they may know to be truant children.
Voted, That the Thirteenth Article be now taken up, viz. :
To see if the town will make such appropriations as may be called for in the reports of any committees for objects heretofore authorized by vote of the town.
It was-
Voted, That the sum of one thousand dollars be appro- priated for the use of the committee for taking charge of the case of the Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation against the town for crossing their road at grade. (See report, page [501].)
Voted, That the sum of four thousand dollars be appro- priated for the use of the committee for building the new Grammar school-house, and that the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to borrow that sum as it may be called for by the Building Committee.
On motion of Charles Wild, M. D., it was-
Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the
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Annual Meeting, March 19, 1855.
Moderator to consider the expediency of laying out a road in continuation of School street by the Episcopal Church, to terminate near Oakland place, on the Mill Dam road, and to report thereon as soon as may be.
The chair appointed Messrs. Charles Wild, William Aspin- wall and William J. Griggs as the committee to attend to the subject.
Voted, To adjourn, to meet in the same place on Monday, the second day of April next, at three o'clock in the after- noon.
Adjourned.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth, the Town Clerk forthwith issued his warrant and delivered the same to Constable Elisha Stone, requiring him to summon all officers chosen to appear before the Town Clerk within seven days from the reception of such summons and be sworn to their respective offices, where an oath is required by law, or to signify their acceptance or refusal of the office to which they were respectively chosen.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
(File G, No. 73.)
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE.
Then personally appeared before me and were sworn at the times set against their names, or signified their accept- ance or refusal of the several offices to which they had been chosen.
B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
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Mar. 29. Sworn. Win. H. Jameson, } Assistant
66 24. 66 George Craft,
22. Decl'd. George W. Bird,
Geo. Griggs,
Rufus S. Allen.
26.
David H. Daniels, Chas. G. Colbath,
66 22. Sworn. Moses Jones, Jr., Mar. 24.
Sworn. Simon Warren, J. Davenport, Horace James,
Drivers.
66 26. Sworn. Joseph Bradley, Constable.
66
27. Clark L. Haynes, ? Fence
66
21. Thos. C. Quimby, § Viewers.
66 26.
J. A. Guild,
D. S. Coolidge, Measurers of Wood and Bark. Chas. Smith, Pound Keeper.
Chas. W. Tolman, Sealer of Leather.
21. Acp'd. Rev. John S. Stone,
23.
M. M. Smith,
66
21.
Fred'k N. Knapp,
School
66 22. 60
Mr. Wm. A. Wellman,
Committee.
Edw. A. Wild,
66 Chas. Warren,
25.
Jesse Bird,
Sam'l Philbrick, &Cemetery Committee.
23.
Harrison Fay,
27.
Chas. D. Head,
23.
66
Chas. W. Scudder, Auditors.
66 24.
Edw. Atkinson,
66 21.
Augustus Allen, -
Chas. L. Palmer, W. J. Griggs,
Fire Wards.
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ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 2, 1855.
Pursuant to the adjournment of the nineteenth day of March, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline met in the Town Hall in said town, on the. afternoon of Monday, April the second, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and fifty-five, at three o'clock.
The Moderator called the meeting to order, and read a list of the officers chosen at the last meeting who had not qualified themselves or who had neglected to give proper notice of their refusal of such office to the Town Clerk.
66 29. Decl'd. Wm. H. Jameson, Charles Burrell, Wm. O. Churchill,
Assessors.
Marshall Russell, -
Field
20. 66 Elisha Stone, Surveyors of Lumber 66 and
23.
T. B. Hayward,
26.
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Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 2, 1855.
Voted, That three Field Drivers be the number for the ensuing year.
Hugh M. Sanborn was chosen Pound Keeper.
D. S. Coolidge was chosen Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of Wood and Bark.
Charles W. Tolman was chosen Sealer of Leather.
Edward A. Wild and Charles Warren (Washington street) were chosen School Committee, and accepted the office.
William H. Jameson was chosen an Assistant Assessor, and was sworn by the Moderator.
Voted, To choose an additional Constable.
Whole number of ballots, sixty-four. A. H. Clapp had thirty ; J. M. Russell had thirty-five, and was declared elected.
Voted, To excuse William P. Atkinson from serving on the Building Committee of the new Grammar school-house and the committee for surveying the streets.
Marshall Stearns gave notice that he should move a recon- sideration of the vote passed at the last town meeting, whereby the town appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars for the use of the committee having the suit of the Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation against the town for crossing their road at grade in charge.
The committee chosen at the last meeting to take into consideration the wants of the town in respect to a complete fire apparatus, made the following report :
REPORT.
The committee appointed at the annual town meeting, held on the 19th of March, 1855, to ascertain what is necessary for the town to pro- cure to equip it with apparatus sufficient for the better extinguishing of fires, and report thereon at the adjourned meeting, would state that after having given the subject their careful attention, would report that the town needs new hose for the fire-engine, a new hook or hooks, and several ladders suitable to be used at fires, and a good, substantial car- riage on which to convey the same to and from fires, a reservoir near the Town Hall that shall hold at least four hundred hogsheads of water ; also, a lot of land whereon to erect a building of sufficient capacity to accommodate the hook and ladder and hydrant-hose. carriages and their companies, the present engine-house being too small to accommodate any more than the present engine and company.
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After making careful enquiries, the estimated cost of what is neces- sary to complete the fire equipage of the town to extinguish fires with facility is as follows, to wit :
Six hundred feet of new lose $500 00
Hooks, ladders, and carriage for the same 200 00
Land and house for the hook and ladder, and hydrant-hose
carriages 1,300 00
Reservoir .
1,000 00
Your committee would recommend that the town procure the whole or a part of the same the present year.
All of which is respectfully submitted. JAMES BARTLETT,
(File G, No. 74.) Chairman.
Voted, To accept the foregoing report.
Article Fifteenth was then taken up, viz. :
To see if the town will cause the By-Laws of the Town to be reprinted and distributed to the inhabitants.
It was-
Voted, That the Selectmen cause the By-Laws to be re- printed and distributed to the inhabitants.
The committee chosen at the last meeting to take into consideration the subject-matter of the Sixth Article of the warrant, to wit :
To see what action the town will take in respect to celebrating in a suitable manner its third semi-centennial anniversary,
-made the following report :
REPORT.
The committee chosen at the annual meeting, March 19th, 1855, to con- sider the subject of celebrating the third semi-centennial anniversary of the town, having held a meeting, ten of the twelve chosen being present, would respectfully report that, after a full and deliberate discussion, it was unanimously agreed to recommend to the town to defer the subject until the next centennial anniversary. Your committee was brought to this conclusion by the following circumstances, to wit :
First. It occurs at an inclement season of the year-24th November.
Second. There is no church in town sufficiently large to seat such a number as it might be supposed would like to attend the services.
Third. There is no room in town of sufficient capacity to accommo- date all who might wish to partake of a collation.
In behalf of the committee,
BROOKLINE, April 2d, 1855.
OTIS WITHINGTON, Sect'y.
(File G, No. 75.)
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Adjourned Annual Meeting, April 2, 1855.
Voted, To accept the foregoing report.
On motion of Mr. Marshall Stearns, it was-
Voted, That the vote passed at the last annual meeting whereby the town appropriated $1,000 (one thousand dol- lars) for the use of the committee on the suit brought against the town by the Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation for crossing their railroad with the new road known as Beacon street at grade, be and is hereby reconsidered.
Voted, That the sum of six hundred dollars be and hereby is appropriated to pay the counsel fees and expenses already incurred by the committee in the above-mentioned certiorari case.
Voted, That a committee of two be chosen by nomination to carry out the plans recommended by the committee in their report on the best course to be pursued to furnish the town with better facilities for extinguishing fires. (See report on page [507].)
Voted, That the three Selectmen be added to the com- mittee,
-and the committee consisted of the following gentlemen, to wit :
Messrs. James Bartlett,
Marshall Stearns, Selectmen
Howard S. Williams,
Augustus Allen, and
Oliver Cousens, Committee appointed.
Benj'n F. Baker was chosen Fire Ward, and accepted.
Voted, That the list of delinquent tax-payers be printed in the Treasurer's report.
Voted, That those who do not pay their taxes within one month after the legal time be considered as delinquents.
Article Eleventh was then taken up, to wit :
To see if the town will procure and place in the Town Hall a suitable safe for the preservation of its records.
It was-
Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by nomi- nation at large to place in the Town Hall a suitable safe for the preservation of the town records; also, to alter and
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arrange the lower part of the Town Hall now occupied for school-rooms, agreeable to and to correspond with a plan submitted to the meeting by J. Davenport.
Voted, That the sum of six hundred dollars be and hereby is appropriated to carry that object into effect.
Voted, That the following gentlemen be a committee to take charge of and carry out the intentions of the foregoing votes, viz. : Jerathmael Davenport, James Bartlett, Howard S. Williams.
The Sixteenth Article was then taken up, viz. :
To grant and appropriate such sums of money as may be deemed neces- sary to meet the expenditures of the town for the ensuing year, .
-and the following appropriations were voted to meet the expenses of the town for the current year, to wit :
For the support of poor
$1,200 00
" schools
9,200 00
" highways
2,000 00
repairing Heath and Warren streets
200 00
general expense of Fire Department ·
600 00
new hose for fire-engine
500 00
hook and ladder carriage .
200 00
purchasing land and erecting a building thereon for hook and ladder and hydrant hose
1,300 00
reservoir near Town Hall
1,000 00
collecting taxes
300 00
abatement of taxes
400 00
town officers
1,200 00
repairing town buildings
200 00
extinction of town debt
2,000 00
interest on town debt
2,600 00
a flag-staff for the engine company
100 00
cemetery
150 00
lighting Town Hall and streets
600 00
sidewalks
200 00
prosecuting violations of the liquor law contingencies
1,000 00
complete the survey of the streets
700 00
land damages, grading and widening streets
1,700 00
paving gutters and relaying drains
300 00
insurance on town buildings
300 00
ringing bell
100 00
new hay-scales, corner Harvard and Beacon streets stopping tide-water from Beacon street .
200 00
safe, and altering Town Hall rooms 600 00
600 00
counsel fees and expense of committee on certiorari furnishing and completing new school-house .
4,000 00
$41,550 00
county tax
5,100 00
state tax
2,500 00
200 00
300 00
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Special Meeting, May 23, 1855.
Voted, That the list of taxes for the year 1854 be printed under the direction of the board of that year ; also, that the list for the year 1855 be printed under the direction of the present Board of Assessors.
Voted, That a list of the assets of the town be printed in the Treasurer's annual report.
Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 23, 1855. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
WARRANT.
SEAL. I SEAL.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SEAL.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of 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 Wednesday, the twenty-third day of May, at three 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 :
To bring in their votes to the Selectmen on the proposed Articles of Amendment to the Constitution, each article to be voted for separately upon one ballot, as follows, to wit :
On the First Article of Amendment, Yes or No. On the Second Article of Amendment, Yes or No.
On the Third Article of Amendment, Yes or No. On the Fourth Article of Amendment, Yes or No.
On the Fifth Article of Amendment, Yes or No. On the Sixth Article of Amendment, Yes or No.
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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 fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-five.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, May 17th, 1855.
By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote at elections, to meet at the Town Hall in said town, at the time and for the purposes within mentioned, by leaving a printed notice of the same at their last and usual place of residence.
(File G, No. 76.)
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the qualified voters of the town of Brookline met at the Town Hall on the after- noon of Wednesday, May the twenty-third, eighteen hun- dred and fifty-five, and were called to order at ten minutes past three o'clock, by James Bartlett, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
The Town Clerk then read the warrant and the return thereon.
The polls were then opened and kept open until five o'clock, when the meeting voted to keep them open until half-past five o'clock, at which time the polls were declared closed, and the result of the voting was found to be as fol- lows, to wit :
The whole number of ballots cast was ninety-one.
On the First Article of Amendment : Yeas, eighty-five (85) ; Noes, six (6). On the Second Article of Amendment: Yeas, eighty-five (85) ; Noes, six (6).
On the Third Article of Amendment: Yeas, seventy-five (75) ; Noes, six- teen (16).
On the Fourth Article of Amendment: Yeas, sixty-eight (68) ; Noes, twenty-three (23).
On the Fifth Article of Amendment: Yeas, eighty-eight (88) ; Noes, three (3).
On the Sixth Article of Amendment: Yeas, eight (8) ; Noes, eighty- three (83).
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Militia List, 1855.
During the voting the check-list was used, and no person was allowed to vote until his name was first found and checked on the list.
The votes were sorted, counted, declaration thereof made, and sealed up in open town meeting and delivered to the Town Clerk to transmit to the Secretary of State, and the meeting was then dissolved, by Mr. James Bartlett, Chair- man of the Selectmen.
Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
List of Soldiers in Brookline, taken by the Assessors, May, 1855.
Thomas M. Coffran
Charles Kimball
John Scott
Francis Caverly
William Lincoln
Isaac Dearborn
Lewis B. Doe
George M. Dexter
John Ryder
Noah Coffran
Charles U. Cotting
James Coolidge
Ira Stubbs Simon F. Barstow
Michael Golher
A. J. Harrington
John A. Burnham
A. A. Frazer
John Stuart
Isaac E. Bates
Douglas Frazer
John Shepherd
Frederick Stone
Joseph Thayer
William D. Coolidge
William Almy
John Mitchell
James M. Seamans
A. A. Lawrence Thomas B. Hall
Peter Rooney
Thomas -, at Bramhall's
E. F. Allen I. H. Paige
Thomas B. Griggs
Chas. F. Huntington
Austin Sumner
G. W. Atkinson
Robert S. Littell
William Chaplin
John Laughton
B. F. Dane Otis Vinal
Patrick Carroll
Thomas B. Pope
John H. Dane
Walter Lawton
Frederick Almey M. J. Mandall Frederick H. Allen
Patrick McAvoy
Timothy Corey
George Griggs
William Stearns
F. Henry Corey F. A. Corey
John W. Griggs
Philip Lemmis
S. L. Lyford
Nathan Dorr
William Dolan
Christopher Campbell Henry Upham Henry W. Palmer
William J. Griggs Hayes
Benj'n Wells, Jr.
Edw. F. Head
Henry H. Bowditch
Edw. Ritchie
Nathan Mosman
Joshua H. Putnam E. C. Emerson Josiah M. Russell
Moses Jones, Jr.
Thomas H. Bacon
Thomas F. Alvord 33
Elbridge F. Law
Daniel Dolan
- Andrew
Hayward Pott
John H. Webber
Rufus R. Bishop
Lorenzo Stephens
Charles Allen
Edw. Chamberlin
Henry A. Kelley
James Robinson
William Bramhall
Sam'l A. Robinson
Josiah Gooding
William S. Dexter D. S. Coolidge
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Charles Herrick
Joseph Bradley
Horace James
Gardner S. Kathen
George McCarty
Charles W. Tolman
James Rooney
Chas. Warren, Wash'n St.
William Pope
Sam'l P. Baldwin
Weller Baldwin
James Alger
Jonathan P. Sanborn
Ansel G. Mathew
Charles L. Palmer
John C. Cook
Howard S. Williams
George E. Carlton
William K. Melcher
Nathaniel Lyford
Ariel Coffran
Francis Doherty
Francis H. Lane
John A. Barickman Charles T. Brackett Jack Whiting
George C. Barney
Alex. C. Studley
George Thomas
David T. Kenrick
Reuben A. Chace
Henry Gallup
George Stoddard
Geo. W. Bird
Lewis Searle
Charles Smith
Elisha Jacobs
John Leavy
James Oliver
Albert W. Smith
George Gleason
David H. Daniels
Robert S. Davis
James Edmond
Henry A. Mellen
Benj. Hobart, Jr.
Seth W. Fowle
George Mellen
Daniels
Charles Townsend
Simeon Taylor
George E. Bogman
Patrick Nolton
Chas. H. Heath
Peter W. Pierce Turnbull
G. W. Stearns
John Dorr
F. M. Lyford
M. P. Kennard
William Bird
Keith
John S. Kennard
Patrick Hogan
Brown
Henry Lee, Jr.
John D. Kelley
McDonough
Francis Fisher
William Mahoney
French
Thomas Penniman Eli D. Sanderson
Benj'n N. Jewett Aaron Whitney
Charles P. Trowbridge W. J. Humphrey
Wilber Dexter
John H. Henshaw
Joseph Batchelder
Geo. F. Whiting
Francis Henshaw
Charles A. Batchelder
Edwin Field
William Rooney
Jonas M. Miles
Oliver Cousens
L. K. Miles
L. M. Miles
John A. Fairbank
J. Anson Guild
Thomas S. Pettingill
D. Augustus Briggs
James W. Jones
Edw. R. Seccomb
Daniel H. Rogers Charles Burrell
William B. Town Richard Hills
Alfred Kenrick, Jr.
Benjamin Bradley
Solomon Crosby
John Colby
Geo. H. Brooks
John Aspinwall James Walworth Gardiner H. Clarke A. W. Seamans
Thomas C. Baldwin Luke Baldwin, JJr.
Chas. Warren, Walnut St. Michael Mahan
William Aspinwall
George S. Cushing John Gibbs
Charles Pope William H. Spear
Geo. W. Haven
John H. Wakefield John M. Wright George E. Hersey
Ransom N. Weld
John C. Weld
Royal McIntosh
Augustine Shurtleff
Thomas Curry
David S. Dutton
Henry Whiting
John O. Libbey James Kerrigan Joseph Archer George Young
John E. Cousens
Ephraim Church
L. R. Richmond Moses Stone Benjamin Leeds Eben Wright Michael Downe
George F. Homer
William H. Jameson Z. F. Brett
Chas. F. Foster Charles Warren A. H. Lambert
George B. Blake
H. C. Cutting
Edw. A. Dana
Thomas Seaverns Charles B. Dana
Militia List, 1855.
515
William A. Wellman William I. Bowditch John N. Turner Chas. W. Scudder Isaac Taylor
Daniel S. Kendall
Edw. C. Broadhead
John Kilroy
Charles Follen
William Hadskins
William White
Albert A. Cobb
Joseph L. White
Charles Smith Silas Langley Ashley Langley Leonard Dame
J. E. Cabot William Heath
G. T. Goddard
Wm. H. Lenord
Rufus S. Allen
Eben W. Reed
George W. Rollin
John E. Horr John Miskill
Charles H. Hawes
William Claney
Thomas O'Dea
John Warren John Zecher
Joseph Gutterson Samuel McIntire
John Daley
Samuel Hanson
Henry K. White John Park
Cornelius O'Herne
John L. Sheriff
Thaddeus Townsend
Wm. H. Slocum
Thomas Coy Francis Daly James Mitchell
Thomas Townsend
George Atkinson Edw. Atkinson
Patrick Keenan
Daniel Mahoney
John H. A. Tappan B. F. Kendall Alfred Winsor
Michael Glynn Owen Cassidy Patrick Hickey
John S. Woods
Lafayette Thayer
James Murphy
Alfred James Abijah C. Stone James F. Burdit
Samuel Clark
Patrick McAvoy
A. C. Saunders
Benj'n W. Clark
Francis Ward
Albert Woodbury
Clark S. Bixby
Dennis Driscoll
Charles D. Head
A. L. Cutler
Jerre Flannegan
George J. Perry
George N. Hill
Samuel D. Hills
William Dwight, Jr.
Robert Kirkpatrick Edw. W. Cutler
Cyrus Lock Albert Clifford
John Flannigan
James M. Howe
Charles G. Colbath
Simon Warren
George J. Fisher
John D. Witcher
Alonzo Bowman
George D. Wild
David A. Hodgsden
William Taffe
Henry Whitney Michael O'Dea Otis Smith Edwin Clark
- Stuart Thomas Dillon
Wm. J. Hyde
George W. Butters
George W. Goodnow
James O'Connell
Patrick Savage
Xanthus Goodnow
Fletcher Johnson
Sylvester Kimball
James Moore
Mathew Frawley
Mears Orcutt
Thomas Parsons John Dustin A. H. Clapp
William Currey
James Morse John D. Kelly
John McCormack
Timothy Maroney
Alvin A. Rice
William Sumers
Charles Chase
B. F. Baker John Murray
John McMahan
Samuel Chase
Richard Rawson
Nathaniel W. Brackett
Recorded and returned July the 3d, 1855.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
(File G, No. 77.)
Patrick Malony
Royal Woodward
Philip Duffey
Ira A. Dutton
Geo. Craft Charles Craft
Michael Gleason
Wilder Dwight
John A. Bird
William Hicks Michael Hicks
T. E. Francis
William S. Wilson
John Carmondy
Sanford Roby
Marshall Russell
J. S. Warren
Wm. P. Atkinson
A. H. Waterman Geo. Penniman
James Driscoll
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GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 6, 1855.
WARRANT.
[SEAL.] SEAL. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SEAL.
NORFOLK, SS.
To either of 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 sixth day of November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in 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, Lieutenant-Governor, Attorney-General, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Receiver-General, and Auditor of Accounts for this Commonwealth; three Senators, one County Commis- sioner, Treasurer, and Register of Deeds for the County, and a Repre- sentative to the next General Court, if the town determine to send one; all to be voted for on one ballot.
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