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First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To see if the town will establish one or more schools for adults.
Third. To see if the town will take any action upon the subject of purchasing land for a park or common.
Fourth. To establish names for the following streets, viz. : The street east of the Town Hall, leading from Washington street to Mechanic place; the new street leading from Harvard street to the Mill Dam road, through land of the Messrs. Aspinwall; the new road leading from Har- vard street to the new county road, near the Longwood station; also, that part of the new county road leading from the bridge near Longwood station to Beacon street.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place of meeting.
Given under our hands at Brookline aforesaid, this twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, W. A. HUMPHREY, THOMAS PARSONS,
Selectmen of the Town of Brookline.
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NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, April 8th, 1858.
In pursuance of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the qualified voters of the town of Brookline to meet at the time and place and for the purposes named in said warrant, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last and usual place of residence.
ELISHA STONE, Constable of Brookline.
A true copy of the warrant and return thereon.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
Agreeable to the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the town of Brookline assembled in the Town Hall in said town, at half-past eight o'clock on Monday evening, April the twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and were called to order by, the Town Clerk, who read the warrant and return thereon, and presided during the choice of Moderator.
Voted, That the Moderator be chosen by nomination at large, -and the meeting nominated and chose Mr. Theophilus P. Chandler, Moderator, and he took the chair.
The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, viz. :
To see if the town will establish one or more schools for adults.
The meeting then passed the following votes, to wit :
1st. Voted, To establish and maintain, in addition to the schools now required by law to be maintained in this town, two schools for the education of persons over fifteen years of age, according to the provisions of the 189th chapter of the statutes of the year 1857.
2d. Voted, That said schools shall be kept from the first of October to the first of April in each year, from seven to nine of the clock in the evening, and shall be under the superintendence of the School Committee.
3d. Voted, To appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars for the support of said schools. (See page 7.)
The Third Article was then taken up, viz. : To see if the town will purchase land for a park or common.
Voted, That the whole subject be referred to the five Selectmen and Messrs. Amos A. Lawrence, E. Littell, Samuel Philbrick, William Dearborn, and William Aspinwall.
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Voted, That the committee be and hereby are authorized to procure plans to the amount of one hundred dollars.
Fourth Article taken up, to wit: To establish names for various streets.
Voted, That the street east of the Town Hall, leading from Washington street to Mechanic place, be known by the name of Holden street.
Voted, That the highway leading from Harvard street to the Mill Dam road, be known by the name of Aspinwall avenue.
Voted, That the new townway leading from Harvard street to the Longwood station, be known by the name of Longwood avenue.
Voted, That the road leading from Lodgwood avenue to Beacon street, as laid out by the County Commissioners, be known by the name of Kent street.
Voted, That the way leading from Harvard street to Pros- pect street, be known by the name of Pierce street.
Adjourned.
Attest :
B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
List of Soldiers for the year 1858, in the Town of Brook- line, as taken by the Assessors.
Thorndike Chandler
Michael Maloney
Thomas Coffran
Granville T. W. Branham
James Doyle
Richard Briggs
Rufus C. Blood
John K. Rogers
John Drew
Henry Braney
James H. W. Page
Charles Blood
William B. Richardson
William B. Chaplin
John A. Burnham
Charles U. Cotting
George W. Heard
Fletcher Carrigan
Edward Blake Frederick Almy
Samuel Page
William Lincoln
Amos A. Lawrence
William T. Eustis, 3d
Thomas B. Hall
John Franklin
William A. Bangs Daniel Keefe
S. Henry Howe William A. Howe
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Francis G. Faxon.
William H. Foster
Thomas Gray
John Mitchell
Thomas W. Gray
John Lawton
Gorham Gray
Alonzo Farrar
Ivory Bean
Edward D. Sohier
William C. Tyler
Edward G. Parker
George Griggs
George McCarty
Augustus Whittemore
Charles Soule, Jr.
John D. Brackett
George Brooks
Richard Soule, Jr.
William Pope Wm. B. Haseltine
Frederick W. Prescott
Charles W. Wilder
David H. Daniels
Charles H. Stearns
Thomas Pettengill
William Stearns
George H. Homer
Isaac Dearborn
Daniel H. Rogers
David Coolidge
Charles Burrell
Edward A. Robinson
James W. Jones
William J. Griggs
George Stoddard
John Shepherd
Charles W. Smith
William D. Coolidge
Albert Lincoln
George Coolidge
Wm. H. Jameson
William T. Bramhall
Franklin Z. Brett
Robert Bramhall
William A. Wellman
Thomas Bramhall
William I. Bowditch
Thomas McMahan
William Fitzgerald
Josiah Gooding
Joshua Andrews
Charles F. Huntington
John N. Turner
B. F. Dane
Charles W. Scudder
Robert S. Littell
Isaac Rich
Richard Andross
J. W. Potter
William Nichols
Edward C. Wilson
Nehemiah Washburn
Abner B. Hardy John Parkhurst
Thomas B. Griggs Thomas S. Allard Francis Durgin
Moses D. Phillips
James W. Edgerly
George B. Blake
Edward A. Wild
Lucus K. Miles
William Lincoln
D. Augustus Griggs
David Fitzpatrick Charles W. Rice
Nathan Hall, Jr. Horace James
T. P. Chandler
Frederick A. Corey
C. W. Tolman
Charles E. Abbott
James Rooney
Timothy Corey Theodore Corey
Maurice Kallihan
George Wilder
John Gibbs
Thomas Green
A. S. Adams
Bradford Kingman
Jonathan P. Sanborn
F. Henry Corey Warren Clifford
Andrew McCulloch
William J. Swift
Amos L. Wood
Militia List, 1858.
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James Bartlett Edward Downing George Whitman Theodore Downing Willard Onion Samuel A. Robinson Edwin Field T. E. Francis E. R. Butler Benjamin Wells, Jr.
F. O. Selfridge
Joshua H. Putnam Elijah C. Emerson Geo. E. Carlton Oliver B. Delano James M. Seamans Frank Seamans James A. Dupee Charles Huestis Charles Sampson Augustus Allen J. A. Fairbanks Ambrose Willard George W. Bird Bart. Field John H. Webber Michael Griffin Henry Watson James Cusick Anson Beal B. W. Neal John Murray Michael Cusick
Daniel McCarty John Doyle . John Lynch Michael Gleason Thomas Gafney Michael Hickey Ebenezer Morse Calvin A. Kemp Charles Townsend Horace Whiffield John Keenan Sylvester Kimball Mears M. Orcutt William H. Dexter George Peck William H. Barnard
Edwin Clark James M. Alger Michael Mahan Michael Butler Robert S. Davis
A. W. Smith Simon Macauslin Sylvester Burleigh
George Harnnes
N. W. Brackett John O. Libby J. D. Long John H. Grush
William K. Melcher
James Mahan
Samuel Graves
Henry Thayer
L. H. Gilman
Alvin A. Rice Richard H. Taylor
James Andrew A. H. Waterman
Joshua A. Varney
George W. Funk James W. Sinclair John Dustin
Charles T. Brackett
John McCormack
Patrick Hogan
Dennis Driscoll
John Maloney
Edward Leahy Martin O'Dea
Arthur Treanon
Michael Mahoney
Michael Flannigan
John Donahue
Patrick Dillon
Thomas Dillon
Bart'o. Cusick John Carmondy
Terrance McGrath
John McMahan Edward Sheehan William Summers John Mealy
James Driscoll Michael Quinlan . John O'Hare
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Royal Woodward Daniel O. Clark James Morse
Phillip Duffey Thomas Duffey
Timothy Kennedy
Edward Maloney John McNamarra
Oliver Cousens Alonzo Bowman Henry H. Blake
Thomas Wilson Daniel McNamarra '
John O'Connell
Patrick Hickey
Frank Lyford
James Mitchell
John M. Otis
Michael Davis
P. W. Pierce
Thomas Maloney
David S. Dutton
Michael ()'Neal
Henry B. Eager C. P. Trowbridge
Thomas Crody
Joseph Whitcomb
Henry Mellen J. R. Burditt Otis Vinal
M. C. Warren Augustus Bachelder
Albert A. Cobb
Abraham B. Shedd
Walter Lawton
Moses Withington
Edward H. Chamberlin
G. B. Chamberlin
George E. Bogman
Edw. F. Head
Job Plimpton George F. Homer
John F. Gibson
William Aspinwall
Antoine Parker
Howard S. Williams
Thomas Curry
Charles Pope
Bartholomew Cusick
Thomas H. Bacon
Aaron Whitney
George E. Hersey
Thomas Cummings
James M. Edmond
Michael Miskill
E. Clifford Walker
Patrick Rooney
A. R. Walker
Moses Jones, Jr.
Daniel Duffley David Mahoney Josiah Thomas
A. C. Studley
Seth B. Poole
Wm. P. Perkins
Richard Hills
Alfred Kenrick, Jr.
George Hancock James Scott Dennis Mahoney
Stephen Libby
Patrick Brawley
Franklin L. Smith
Charles H. Heath
H. N. Fisher John R. Simpson
Seth Gage Augustine Shurtleff
Charles Smith
William Waldron
Cornelius Dunnovan John McNulty
Patrick Mack
William Mahoney
Henry Lee, Jr. Francis K. Fisher
Thomas Penniman Eben Reed
Silas H. Langly Asbury C. Langly
J. C. Withington
F. J. Williams Nathaniel Lyford
Charles Haughton
George A. Slack
B. F. Baker
William O. Churchill Phillip Allen
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Militia List, 1858.
Eli D. Sanderson Samuel L. Cutter Edward Atkinson Charles T. Weld Francis Henshaw John H. Henshaw Francis Hennessy William Rooney Charles C. Follen Joseph G. Batchelder Joseph L. White John Dow Richard Nichols Robert Barnett
Thomas Sweeney William Tawfa
Langdon Sherriff Walter Cabot J. Elliot Cabot James H. Cowan George H. Cowan
George Nelson
George W. Rollins
John Warren
Sanford Blake
Enos Dodge George R. Phelps
George I. Perry
Horace T. Palmer
John L. Sanderson
Charles D. Head
Albert Whitney
Henry Whitney
Samuel Townsend
Thaddeus Townsend
John Briggry
Thomas Townsend
John Miskill
James Ward
John D. Hayward
Benjamin Leeds, Jr.
George Stone John Noonan
Samuel Clark
Thomas Hartigan
William Bird, 2d
John A. Bird
B. F. Kendall
James Gwinn
Alfred Winsor, Jr.
Nathaniel Gill
Moses Judkins
Henry S. Bigelow
George Atkinson
Henry Orcutt
Edward Guild
Marshal Russell
John Park
Homer Morse
John D. Kelley Elisha Jacobs
A. L. Cutler
Charles A. Whitney
Wm. E. Baker James Gwinn William S. Wilson
Lewis Pierce Joseph Gutterson John S. Richards William G. Weld Charles Taylor Daniel C. Murray
Edward S. Philbrick
Wm. D. Philbrick
Charles Warren
Charles F. Foster Levi Titus Charles Chase J. H. Francis Ebenezer Wright John H. Harris John Robinson Joseph Began Mark F. Hill Daniel Barrett
J. W. Thornton Rufus S. Allen
Theodore Lyman Edward C. Cabot
George H. Townsend Thomas Quimby N. G. Chapin George Bacon James M. Howe B. F. Cook
Coleman Noonan
J. Anson Guild James Keenan
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G. W. Goodnough
Francis A. White
Xanthus Goodnough
Wilder Dwight
Charles Craft
John E. Horr
George Craft
Ransom N. Weld
Charles G. Colbath
Reuben A. Chace
W. J. Humphrey
George F. Whiting
John Consadine
Henry Gallup
Lawrence Welch
B. W. Hobart
William J. Hyde
Charles T. Seaverns
Samuel D. Hills
Burton W. Neal
Joseph W. Goddard
David T. Kenrick
The foregoing is a true copy of the List of Soldiers, as taken from the Assessors' book, for the year 1858. J. DAVENPORT.
Return made to the Adjutant General August 1st, 1858.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 2, 1858.
WARRANT.
SEAL.
SEAL.
SEAL.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SEAL.
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 second day of November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, at one of the clock in the afternoon, to give in their votes to the Selectmen for the following State and County officers, to wit :
A Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of the Com- monwealth, Treasurer and Receiver-General, Auditor, Attor- ney-General, a Councillor for Council District No. Six, one Senator for the Ninth Norfolk District, a Representative from
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the Third Representative District of the County of Norfolk, consisting of the town of Brookline, being the number ap- pointed to' said district according to law ; a Representative to the Thirty-sixth Congress of the United States from the Fourth Congressional District ; also a District-Attorney for the Southeastern District, Register of Deeds, Register of Pro- bate and Insolvency, a County Treasurer, and one County Commissioner for the County of Norfolk ; all to be voted for on one ballot. The polls to be kept open not less than two hours.
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-third day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
JAMES BARTLETT, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, W. A. HUMPHREY, THOMAS PARSONS, Selectmen of the Town of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, October 28th, 1858.
By virtue of 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, Constable of Brookline.
Agreeable with the foregoing warrant, the legal voters of the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, on the afternoon of Tuesday, the second day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and were called to order at one of the clock, by James Bartlett, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
The Town Clerk then read the warrant calling said meet- ing and the return thereon.
Voted, That the polls be kept open until half-past six o'clock in the evening, and that they be closed at that time.
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James Bartlett, Chairman of the Selectmen, then declared the polls open for. the reception of votes, and they were kept open for that purpose until half-past six o'clock, at which time they were declared closed, agreeable to the vote of the meeting.
The Selectmen and Town Clerk then proceeded to sort and count the votes, and the whole number given in was four hundred and thirty-six ; and the whole number of votes were sorted, counted, recorded, and declaration thereof made in open town meeting, and were for the following-named persons and officers, to wit :
For Governor : Four hundred and eighteen.
Nathaniel P. Banks, of Waltham, had one hundred and forty-nine. Erasmus D. Beach, of Springfield, had one hundred and forty. Amos A. Lawrence, of Brookline, one hundred and twenty-nine.
For Lieutenant-Governor : Four hundred and twenty-seven.
Eliphalet Trask, of Springfield, one hundred and fifty-seven.
Charles Thompson, of Charlestown, one hundred and thirty-two. Increase S. Sumner, of Great Barrington, one hundred and thirty-two.
For Secretary of the Commonwealth : Four hundred and twenty-seven. Oliver Warner, of North Bridgewater, one hundred and sixty-two. Benjamin L. Allen, of Boston, one hundred and thirty-two. John M. Cole, of Williamstown, one hundred and thirty-two. John N. Turner, one.
For Treasurer and Receiver-General : Four hundred and eighteen. Moses Tenney, Jr., of Georgetown, one hundred and sixty-two. Alva G. Underwood, of Milford, one hundred and twenty-four. Silas Pierce, of Boston, one hundred and thirty-two.
For Auditor : Four hundred and twenty-seven.
Charles White, of Worcester, one hundred and fifty-eight. Chandler R. Ransom, of Roxbury, one hundred and thirty-seven. Seymour L. Mead, of Nantucket, one hundred and thirty-two.
For Attorney-General : Four hundred and twenty-seven. Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, one hundred and seventy. Andrew A. Richmond, of Adams, one hundred and twenty-four. Ezra Wilkinson, of Dedham, one hundred and thirty-three.
For Representative to Congress : Four hundred and twenty-six. Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, two hundred and fifty-three. Newell A. Thompson, of Boston, forty-eight.
Samuel W. Waldron, Jr., of Boston, one hundred and twenty-four. Samuel H. Walley, one.
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For Councillor for the Sixth District : Four hundred and twenty-six.
Aaron C. Mayhew, of Milford, one hundred and sixty-three. Uriah Bowker, of Hopkinton, one hundred and twenty-four. A. F. Ammidown, of Southbridge, one hundred and thirty-two. William J. Ames, two.
For State Senator : Four hundred and seventeen.
Edward G. Parker, of Brookline, one hundred and eight.
William B. May, of Roxbury, seventy-eight.
Ebenezer Eaton, of Dorchester, one hundred and thirty. John N. Turner, one.
For Register of Probate and Insolvency : Four hundred and twenty-nine.
Jonathan H. Cobb, of Dedham, two hundred and twenty-eight.
Elijah F. Hall, of Weymouth, one hundred and thirty-one.
For Register of Deeds ; Four hundred and fourteen.
Enos Foord, of Dedham, three hundred and sixty-two. Charles Endicott, of Canton, fifty-two.
For District-Attorney : Four hundred and twenty-seven.
Benjamin W. Harris, of East Bridgewater, two hundred and ninety-six. Edward Avery, of Braintree, one hundred and thirty-one.
For County Treasurer ; Four hundred and eleven.
Chauncy C. Churchill, of Dedham, two hundred and seventy-nine. Jonah Fisher, of Dedham, one hundred and thirty-one.
For County Commissioner : Four hundred and thirty-six.
Nathaniel F. Safford, of Dorchester, two hundred and ninety-eight. John W. May, of Roxbury, one hundred and thirty-eight.
For Representative to the General Court : Four hundred and six. John N. Turner, one.
William I. Bowditch, three.
George Babcock, of Brookline, one hundred and twenty-four.
Thomas Parsons, of Brookline, two hundred and seventy-eight, and he was declared elected Representative to the General Court for the ensuing year.
In voting the check-list was used, and no one was allowed to deposit his ballot until his name was found on the list and checked.
The business being all transacted, the returns were filled up and signed by the Selectmen and Town Clerk and declar- ation thereof made in open town meeting. They were then
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sealed up and delivered to the Town Clerk to be forwarded to their several places of destination.
The meeting was then dissolved, by the Chairman of the Selectmen.
Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING, DECEMBER 9, 1858. 1
WARRANT.
SEAL.
SEAL.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. €
SEAL.
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 Thursday, the ninth day of December next, at half-past six of the clock in the evening, for the following purposes, to wit :
First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To see if the town will widen and make so much of Cypress street as lies between Walnut and Boylston streets, as laid out by the Selectmen.
Third. To see if the town will accept of Colchester, Carlton, Ivy, Prescott, Mountfort, and Essex streets, as laid out by the Selectmen.
Fourth. To see what action the town will take in relation to an order of notice from the Back Bay Commissioners, and one from the Cochituate Water Board of Boston.
Fifth. To see what action the town will take in relation to draining Washington street between the Town Hall and School street, also Wal- nut and Boylston streets at the southerly end of the railroad bridge.
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Sixth. To see what action the town will take in relation to purchas- ing a piece of land of James Horton, adjoining the Pierce and High school-house lots.
Seventh. To hear the report of the committee on the cemetery and common.
Eighth. To see if the town will lower the grade of Aspinwall avenue.
Ninth. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be nec- essary for the foregoing purposes.
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-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, W. A. HUMPHREY, THOMAS PARSONS, Selectmen of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, December 6th, 1858.
By virtue of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the legal voters of this town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their last and usual place of residence.
ELISHA STONE, 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 Thursday, December the ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and were called to order at twenty minutes of seven o'clock in the evening, by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant and return thereon, and presided during the choice of a Moderator.
William I. Bowditch was nominated and unanimously chosen Moderator of the meeting, and took the chair.
The Second Article in the warrant was then taken up, in relation to widening Cypress street between Walnut and Boylston streets, and the Selectmen presented the following report of their doings thereon, viz. :
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REPORT ON WIDENING AND LAYING OUT CYPRESS STREET BETWEEN WALNUT AND BOYLSTON STREETS.
The Selectmen of the town of Brookline, having given written notice to all persons owning land on Cypress street in said town, and by post- ing the same on the station of the Brookline Branch Railroad, of their intention to widen and lay out Cypress street on the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, by leaving the same at their last and usual place of residence at least seven days previous to said meeting, that all persons interested might then and there appear and be heard in relation to the laying out and widening of said way :
In conformity with said notice, the Selectmen met at their office in the Town Hall, on Wednesday, the 20th day of October, 1858, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, and no person appearing against the widening of said street between Walnut and Boylston streets, the Selectmen proceeded to widen and lay out that portion of said street as follows, to wit :
Commencing at a monument on the westerly line of said street at its junction with Walnut street, thence running northerly by the present line of the street one hundred eighty-six and two-tenths feet to a monument; thence again northerly one hundred fifty-one six-tenths feet to a monu- ment standing five feet westerly from the present line of the street; then again northerly one hundred fifty-one six-tenths feet to a monument on the present line of the street; then again northerly ninety-eight feet to a monument on the northwest corner of said street at its junction with Boylston street, completing the westerly line of that portion of Cypress street; also taking a right of way to lay a drain on the southerly side of Boylston street from the above-described westerly line of Cypress street and running westerly by the line of Boylston street to the brook, said way being six feet wide and about one hundred and fifteen feet long, for the purpose of laying a drain or gutter to pass off the water from the above-mentioned portion of Cypress street and a portion of Walnut street. The line on the easterly side of said street is as follows : Commencing at a monument on Walnut street, thence running northwest- erly by a curve of twelve feet radius fourteen and three-tenths feet to a monument; thence again northwesterly thirty-seven and six-tenths feet to a monument; then northerly by a curve of thirty feet radius twenty- six two-tenths feet to a monument standing forty feet from the previ- ously described westerly line of said street; then again northerly by a line parallel with and forty feet from the previously described westerly line of the street four hundred seventy-one nine-tenths feet to Boylston street, completing the easterly line of said street according to and agree- able with a survey and plan of the same drawn by Amos R. Binney of Roxbury, surveyor, and dated October the 4th, 1858, and approved by the Selectmen, and deposited in the office of the Town Clerk, November the 3d, 1858, at least seven days previous to this meeting.
The Selectmen have taken land for the purpose of widening and mak- ing said way as follows, viz .: Land of John A. Bird, seven hundred and forty-three square reet; land of the heirs of Caleb Clark, six thou- sand three hundred and forty-three square feet.
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The Selectmen have also considered the subject of awarding damages for land taken for the above purpose, and after careful deliberation, considering the advantages and benefits the widening and making said way will be to the abutters, they make the following award: To John A. Bird, the sum of fifty dollars, in full for all damages he may sustain by the widening and making Cypress street opposite his estate; to the heirs of Caleb Clark, three hundred and seventy dollars, in full for all damages they may sustain by the widening and making of Cypress street opposite their estate.
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