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Voted, That the town send a Representative to the next General Court.
The Chairman of the Selectmen then declared the polls opened for the reception of ballots, as follows : For thirteen Electors for President and Vice-President of the United
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States, Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of this Common- wealth, Councillors, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Receiver-General, Attorney-General, Auditor of Accounts, three Senators for Norfolk County, Commissioners of Insol- vency, Register of Insolvency, Register of Probate, District Attorney, one County Commissioner, two Special County Commissioners, Clerk of Courts, Sheriff, a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress from the Fourth District, and a Representative to the next General Court-all to be on one ticket.
At two o'clock, the polls having been kept open one hour, on motion, it was-
Voted, That the polls be closed at a quarter-past five o'clock,
-at which time they were declared closed, and the Select- men then proceeded to sort and count the votes, and the whole number was five hundred and thirty-nine (539). And the whole number of votes were sorted, counted, and recorded, and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is direct- ed, and said votes were for the following persons, to wit :
For Electors at Large : Five hundred and thirty-five.
William Appleton, of Boston, one hundred and sixty-four.
Charles D. Stockbridge, of Wately, one hundred and sixty-four. Nathaniel J. Lord, of Salem, one hundred and seventy-three. Whiting Griswold, of Greenfield, one hundred and seventy-three. Julius Rockwell, of Pittsfield, one hundred and ninety-eight. Thomas Colt, of Pittsfield, one hundred and ninety-eight.
For an Elector for District Number One.
John Baylies, New Bedford, one hundred sixty-four.
Abraham H. Howlan, New Bedford, one hundred seventy-three. John Vinson, Edgartown, one hundred ninety-eight.
District Number Two :
Henry Dimon, Jr., Fall River, one hundred sixty-four.
Jared Pratt, Middleboro, one hundred seventy-three.
Azariah B. Wheeler, North Bridgewater, one hundred ninety-eight.
District Number Three :
Alfred B. Ely, Newton, one hundred sixty-four.
Bradford L. Wales, Randolph, one hundred seventy-three.
George R. Russell, West Roxbury, one hundred ninety-eight.
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District Number Four :
Archelaus Wilson, Boston, one hundred sixty-four. Patrick Riley, Boston, one hundred seventy-three. George Odiorne, Boston, one hundred ninety-four.
District Number Five :
Zelotes Hosmer, Cambridge, one hundred sixty-four. Daniel Draper, Boston, one hundred seventy-three.
Lucius B. Marsh, Boston, one hundred ninety-six.
District Number Six :
Henry Luscomb, Jr., Salem, one hundred sixty-four. William Hammond, Marblehead, one hundred seventy-three. George Devereux, Salem, one hundred ninety-four.
District Number Seven :
Luther F. Bell, Charlestown, one hundred sixty-four.
Edward Riddell, Charlestown, one hundred seventy-three.
James M. Usher, Medford, one hundred ninety-eight.
District Number Eight :
Jefferson Bancroft, Lowell, one hundred sixty-four. James C. Abbott, Lowell, one hundred seventy-three. John Nesmith, Lowell, one hundred ninety-eight.
District Number Nine :
Joseph W. Lealand, Grafton, one hundred sixty-four. George W. Bentley, Worcester, one hundred seventy-three. J. S. C. Knowlton, Worcester, one hundred ninety-eight.
District Number Ten :
Joseph E. Marsh, Chicopee Falls, one hundred sixty-four. Alonzo F. Blanchard, Palmer, one hundred seventy-three.
Charles E. Forbes, Northampton, one hundred ninety-eight.
District Number Eleven :
Franklin Weston, Dalton, one hundred sixty-four. Thomas F. Plunkett, Pittsfield, one hundred seventy-three. Franklin Ripley, Greenfield, one hundred ninety-eight.
The whole number of votes for Governor was five hundred and twenty- four, as follows :
Charles Sumner had one. Josiah Quincy had two. Luther V. Bell, Charlestown, forty-eight (48.) George Wm. Gordon, Boston, one hundred and twelve (112). Erasmus D. Beach, Springfield, one hundred seventy-three (173). Henry J. Gardner, Boston, one hundred eighty-eight (188).
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The whole number of votes for Lieutenant-Governor was five hundred and twenty-two, as follows :
Julius Rockwell, Springfield, had one (1).
Henry Chapin had one (1).
Homer Foote, Springfield, one hundred fifty-six (156).
Albert Currier, Newburyport, one hundred seventy-two (172).
Henry W. Benchly, Worcester, one hundred ninety-two (192).
The whole number of votes for Secretary of State was five hundred thirty-eight.
John Sargent, Cambridge, had one (1).
William L. Lincoln, Worcester, forty-seven (47).
Wm. M. Cornell, Boston, one hundred fourteen (114).
Jonathan E. Field, Stockbridge, one hundred seventy-seven (177).
Francis DeWitt, Ware, one hundred ninety-nine (199).
The whole number of votes for Attorney-General was five hundred and thirty-nine, as follows :
Ezra Wilkinson, Dedham, one hundred seventy-seven (177).
John H. Clifford, New Bedford, three hundred sixty-two (362).
Auditor : The whole number of votes was five hundred thirty-nine, as follows :
Joseph Mitchell, Boston, fifty-one (51).
Timothy Ingraham, New Bedford, one hundred fourteen (114).
Giles H. Whitney, Winchendon, one hundred seventy-seven (177).
Charles R. Ransom, Roxbury, one hundred ninety-seven (197.)
Treasurer and Receiver General : The whole number of votes was five hundred thirty-seven, as follows :
John Sargent, Cambridge, forty-seven (47). George Foster, Lynn, one hundred fifteen (115.)
Stedman Butterick, Concord, one hundred seventy-seven (177).
Moses Tenny, Georgetown, one hundred ninety-eight (198).
For Senators :
Walter Jones, Medfield. three hundred twenty-five (325). Abner Holbrook, Weymouth, three hundred thirty-one (331). Charles J. Hendee, Roxbury, three hundred thirty-two (332). John N. Turner, Brookline, two hundred (200).
John M. Merrick, Walpole, two hundred (200). Asaph Churchill, Dorchester, two hundred (200). T. W. Prescott, one (1).
District Attorney : The whole number of votes for District Attorney was five hundred and twenty-nine, as follows :
Edward Avery, Braintree, three hundred and twenty-nine. James M. Keith, Roxbury, two hundred.
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Register of Probate : The whole number of votes for Register of Probate was four hundred and twenty, as follows :
Jonathan H. Cobb, Dedham, two hundred and eight.
Waldo Colburn, Dedham, two hundred and twelve.
County Commissioners : The whole number of votes was five hundred and thirty-nine, as follows :
George Beals, Jr., Cohasset, three hundred and thirty-nine. Seth Mann, 2d, Randolph, two hundred.
Special County Commissioners: The whole number of votes was five hundred and thirty-nine, as follows :
Abraham F. Howe, Roxbury, three hundred and thirty-nine.
John A. Gould, Walpole, three hundred and thirty-nine.
George W. Gay, Sharon, two hundred.
Samuel B. Noyes, Canton, two hundred.
Sheriff : The whole number of votes was five hundred and twenty-eight, as follows :
Edward Potter, Braintree, three hundred and twenty-eight.
John W. Thomas, Weymouth, two hundred and one.
Thomas Adams, Roxbury, one.
Commissioners of Insolvency : The whole number of votes was five hun- dred and thirty-nine, as follows :
Franklin Woodside, Roxbury, three hundred and thirty-nine.
Asa French, Braintree, three hundred thirty-nine.
A. Loring Cushing, Randolph, three hundred thirty-nine.
Charles Endicott, Canton, two hundred.
Warren Lovering, Medway, two hundred.
N. C. Berry, Randolph, two hundred.
Register of Insolvency : The whole number of votes was five hundred and thirty-nine, as follows :
Edgar K. Kingman, Dedham, three hundred thirty-nine.
Erastus Worthington, Dedham, two hundred. -
Clerk of the Courts : The whole number of votes was two hundred and thirty-nine.
Ezra W. Sampson received the whole number, viz., two hundred and thirty-nine.
Representative to Congress : The whole number of votes was five hundred and ten, and were for the following persons, to wit :
Linus B. Comins, Roxbury, two hundred and six.
Charles G. Green, Boston, one hundred and eighty-eight.
B. F. Cook, Boston, one hundred and eight.
Wm. Raymond Lee, Roxbury, three.
James M. Howe, Brookline, three.
Edward A. Dana, Brookline, one. David A. Simmons, one.
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Councillors : The whole number of votes was five hundred and thirty- nine, as follows, to wit :
Jonathan P. Robinson, Roxbury, one hundred and seventy-seven.
Joseph H. Chadwic, Roxbury, one hundred and sixty-two.
Charles R. Train, Framingham, two hundred.
Representative to General Court : The whole number of votes was five hundred and thirty-three, to wit :
Abijah W. Goddard, two hundred and one.
Daniel D. Broadhead, one hundred and eighty-five.
Augustus Allen, one hundred and forty-seven.
Mr. Goddard was declared elected.
In voting the check-list was used, and no person was allowed to deposit his vote until his name was checked on the list.
The business of the meeting being accomplished, the returns were then filled up, signed by the Selectmen and Town Clerk and declaration thereof made, and sealed up in open town meeting. They were then delivered to the Town Clerk to forward to the office of the Secretary of the Com- monwealth, the Clerk of the Courts, and the County Com- missioners of the County of Norfolk.
The meeting was then declared dissolved, by the Chair- man of the Selectmen.
Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING, DECEMBER 1, 1856.
WARRANT.
SEAL. SEAL. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. سالـ 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
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the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the first day of December next, at three of the clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit :
First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To raise and appropriate money to complete the new High school building and procure furniture for the same and other schools.
Third. To see if the town will enlarge the Pearl place school-house.
Fourth. To see if the town will take any measures in respect to pur- chasing a lot of land belonging to Harrison Fay, adjoining the Pierce school-house.
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 nineteenth
day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, November 26th, 1856.
In conformity with the within warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within named, by leaving a printed notice of the same' at their last and usual place of residence.
ELISHA STONE,
(File G, No. 89.) Constable of Brookline.
In compliance with the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, on the afternoon of Monday, the first day of Decem- ber, 1856, and were called to order by the Town Clerk at ten minutes past three o'clock, who proceeded to read the warrant and return thereon, and presided while the meeting chose a Moderator.
On motion, it was-
Voted, That a Moderator be chosen by nomination at large.
Marshall Stearns was accordingly nominated and chosen, and proceeded to take the chair.
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The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up :
To see if the town will raise and appropriate money to complete the new High school building and procure furniture for the same and other schools.
Thomas Parsons, chairman of the building committee, then read the following report :
REPORT.
The building committee appointed at the adjourned town meeting held on the 7th day of April last, to supervise the building of the new High school-house for the town of Brookline, beg leave to lay before the citi- zens and authorities of the town the following statement as exhibiting the reason for calling the present town meeting.
The sum appropriated last April by the town for building the new High school-house was $10,000. Exclusive of its heating apparatus, the building which has been put up and dedicated to its appropriate use has cost $9,939, and inclusive of that apparatus, consisting of two of Chil- son's improved furnances, it has cost $10,492, as will appear from the following items :
Contract with Jonas Fitch, carpenter
Horace James, mason
$7,689 2,250 $9,939
Chilson's furnaces, with iron chimney
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$10,492
The building thus completed is considered by your committee as inferior to few if any of a similar character in the state, whether regard be had to its fitness for the purposes of a High school or to its substan- tial value and the thoroughness of its workmanship. It has a very heavy frame of the best timber, and is finished with lumber and other materials of the best quality. It contains in the cellar two apartments, separated from each other by a brick wall, each about 20x40 feet, nine feet high in the clear, and paved with brick, to be used as separate exercise or play- rooms for the pupils in stormy weather; and in addition to these, a commodious furnace-room, with coal and ash bins attached, and two staircases, each accommodating a pump and sink supplied with good water for the use of the school; in the first story, a large lecture-room, a smaller apartment for philosophical apparatus, and two clothes-rooms for the convenience of the pupils ; and in the second story, the principal school-room, about. 42 feet square, an assistants' recitation-room, and a room for the use of the Principal and for the cases of the High school library. Such a building, in good architectural taste, and finished as it is in a very thorough manner, and with all the most approved modern con- veniences, the committee cannot but think is not only a credit to the town but well worth the money which it has cost.
But in addition to the building itself, the committee have been obliged to expend a further sum in grading and fencing the lot on which it
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stands and in furnishing the various rooms which it contains, and toward meeting these additional expenses they are compelled to ask from the town a further appropriation to the amount of $3,500, a sum which they consider moderate in view of the hard and encumbered lot which they have had to grade, the handsome shape and condition to which they have reduced it, the thoroughness of its drainage, and the excellent quality of the furniture with which they have been able to supply the various apart- ments in the building. The additional appropriation which they hereby respectfully ask will cover the cost of the furnaces, and, it is believed, most all the other bills which yet remain unpaid. These bills comprise the following items, viz. :
On Mr. Allen's bill
$166 83
Fitch's bill
1,172 49
" Smith & Lovett's bill
160 47
" Kenrick's bill
117 90
" Jones & Carpenter's bill
4 12
" C. A. Morse's bill
4 12
" Mr. Orcutt's bill
65 00
66 Driscoll's bill
83 37
James' bill
647 86
Binney's bill
16 00
66 66 Palmer's bill
49 80
Davenport's bill
17 82
Chilson's bill
560 00
" Privies
250 00
" Sundries, say
.
All which is respectfully submitted.
BROOKLINE, Dec'r 1st, 1856. (File G, No. 90.)
THOMAS PARSONS,
Chairman.
Voted, To accept the foregoing report.
Voted, To lay the Second Article on the table. Voted, To take up the Third Article, to wit :
To see if the town will enlarge the Pearl place school-house.
William A. Wellman then presented plans showing the proposed enlargement, and moved that the school-house now on Pearl place be enlarged according to those plans, and that the sum of ($2,500) two thousand five hundred dollars be raised and appropriated for that purpose. Adopted.
Voted, That the sum of $2,500 be raised and appropri- ated to enlarge the present Pearl place school-house, as moved by Mr. Wellman, agreeable to the plans submitted.
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14 82
121 90
$3,500 00
Ross's bill
47 50
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The Fourth Article was then taken up, to wit :
To see what action the town will take in relation to purchasing a piece of land of Harrison Fay, adjoining the Pierce school-house.
Voted, That a committee of five be appointed by the Mod- erator, to examine the land and ascertain on what terms it can be purchased.
The Moderator appointed the following gentlemen, to wit : Messrs. Samuel Philbrick. Charles Stearns, Jr., James Bart- lett, J. Davenport, and Thomas Parsons, committee appoint- ed to examine land and obtain terms, under Fourth Article.
Voted, That a committee of three be chosen by nomina- tion at large, to take charge of the enlargement of the Pearl place school-house.
The following gentlemen were then nominated and chosen, to wit : Messrs. Thomas Parsons, J. Davenport, and A. W. Smith, committee on Pearl place school-house.
Voted, To take up from the table the Second Article.
Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of ($3,500) three thousand five hundred dollars to complete the High school building.
Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of ($500) five hundred dollars to furnish the High and other schools.
Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- ized to borrow for the use of the town the sum of $6,500, as follows :
For completing the High school-house . $3,500
66 enlarging the Pearl place school-house 2,500
furniture for the various schools 500
$6,500
-and to give the note or notes of the town therefor, in such sums and at such times as may be called for by the various committees.
Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
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ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 16, 1857.
WARRANT.
SEAL. SEAL. SEAL.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
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 the afternoon of Monday, the sixteenth day of March, current, at one of the clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, to wit :
First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To choose the necessary town officers for the following year.
Third. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and com- mittees.
Fourth. To see what action the town will take upon the order of notice from the County Commissioners in relation to the laying out a road from Harvard street to the Western avenue.
Fifth. To see what action the town will take on an order of notice from the County Commissioners in relation to the laying out of a road from Appleton or Oakland place through Brookline to the bridge across Charles river, leading from Brookline to Cambridgeport to connect roads leading from Dorchester and Roxbury to Cambridge and Somerville; also, a road between the city of Roxbury and the old county road of Cambridgeport and the colleges, passing through Brookline.
Sixth. To see what action the town will take upon an order of notice from the Commissioners on the Back Bay Lands in relation to the alter- ation of the boundary lines between the cities of Boston and Roxbury and the town of Brookline.
Seventh. To see if the town will, under the provisions of the 305th chapter of the statutes of 1851, establish and maintain a public library within the town for the use of its inhabitants, and provide suitable rooms therefor, and prescribe regulations concerning the same, and make appropriations for the foundation and commencement and increase thereof.
Eighth. To see if the town will take any action with respect to calling in the School Fund, which was loaned to the town for the erecting of
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the Town Hall in 1845, and appropriate such fund to the erecting of a building to contain suitable rooms for an evening school and a public library.
Ninth. To see if the town will purchase a gravel pit on Fairmount or vicinity for the repairs of highways.
Tenth. To see if the town will purchase a lot of land in rear of the Town Hall, lying between the Town Hall and Mechanic place.
Eleventh. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
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 second day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, March 12th, 1857.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the pur- poses within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last and usual place of residence.
(File G, No. 91.)
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
Agreeable to the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town on the afternoon of Monday, the sixteenth day of March, A. D. 1857, and were called to order by the Town Clerk at ten minutes past one o'clock, who proceeded to read the warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon, as before given.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
The meeting then proceeded to the choice of a Moderator, the Town Clerk presiding.
The whole number of votes was seventy-six, all for Wil- liam I. Bowditch, and he was declared elected, and took the chair.
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The meeting was then called to order by the chair, and prayer was offered by the Rev. N. M. Perkins.
The Second Article was then taken up, and the meeting proceeded to vote for a Town Clerk for the ensuing year. The whole number of ballots was one hundred and twenty- six, and were all for B. F. Baker, and he was accordingly declared elected, and was sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of the office, by the Moderator.
Voted, To lay the Second Article on the table.
The Third Article was then taken up, viz. :
To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and committees.
The Treasurer's report, which had been printed and circu- lated through the town, was then presented and accepted. (File G, No. 92.)
The School Committee's report, which had been printed and distributed, was then presented and accepted. (File G, No. 93.)
James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, presented the following report, which was accepted :
REPORT ON GUIDE POSTS AND BOARDS.
The Selectmen submit the following report of the places where guide posts and boards are erected and maintained by the town, to wit :
There is a guide post with a board thereon standing at the junction of Boylston street with Washington street, directing to Newton Upper Falls and Brighton.
One at the corner of Boylston and Heath streets, directing to Newton, Worcester, and Dedham.
One at the corner of Boylston and Brighton streets, directing to Brighton.
One at Boylston and Cross streets, directing to Newton Upper Falls, Newton, and Brighton.
One at Heath and Warren streets, to Newton, Dedham, and Brighton. One at Clyde and Warren Streets, directing to Dedham and Brighton. One at Clyde and Newton streets, to Brighton, Newton, and Dedham. One at Grove and Newton streets, to West Roxbury and Dedham.
One at Grove and South streets, directing to Brighton.
One at South and Newton streets, to Dedham, Brighton, and Newton.
One at Warren and Cottage, to Dedham and Jamaica Plain.
One at Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain.
One at Washington and Harvard streets, directing to Brighton and Cambridge.
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One at Sewall's avenue and Harvard street, directing to Cambridge and Cambridgeport.
One at Beacon and Washington streets, directing to Boston, Newton Center, Roxbury, and Brighton.
One at Beacon and Harvard streets, directing to Boston, Newton Cen- tre, Cambridge, and Cambridgeport.
One at the junction of Mill Dam and Beacon street, directing to New- ton Centre.
All which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen.
BROOKLINE, March, 1857. JAMES BARTLETT,
(File G, No. 94.) Chairman.
Voted, To lay on the table, and to take up from the table the Second Article.
Voted, To choose three Selectmen.
The whole number of votes was one hundred and thirty. James Bartlett had one hundred and twenty-three, Marshall Stearns had one hundred and thirty, Howard S. Williams had one hundred and twenty, and they were declared elect- ed, and were sworn into the office by the Moderator.
Voted, That the Selectmen be Overseers of the Poor.
Voted, To choose three Principal Assessors and three Assistant Assessors.
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