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The Selectmen will allow the owners of the land over which Cypress street is widened fifteen days from the fourteenth day of December, current, to remove all walls, fences and trees therefrom, at the expira- tion of which time the town will enter upon and make and grade said way.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, THOMAS PARSONS, Selectmen of Brookline.
BROOKLINE, December 9th, 1858.
Voted, To accept and allow the foregoing report.
Third Article taken up, relating to the laying out of Col- chester, Carlton, Ivy, Prescott, Mountfort, and Essex streets.
The Selectmen presented the following report in relation to the laying out of said streets, to wit :
REPORT ON LAYING OUT OF COLCHESTER, CARLTON, IVY, MOUNTFORT, AND ESSEX STREETS, SO CALLED, BEING CERTAIN PRIVATE WAYS LAID OUT AND MADE THROUGH LANDS OF MESSRS. CHARLES, JR., AND MARSHALL STEARNS, DAVID SEARS, AND AMOS A. AND WILLIAM R. LAWRENCE.
The Selectmen of the town of Brookline, having given written notice to all persons owning land on Colchester, Carlton, Ivy, Prescott, Mount- fort, and Essex streets, so called, in said town, of their intention to lay out said streets as townways on the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, at three of the clock in the afternoon, by serving the said notice on them 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 of said ways :
In conformity with said notice, the Selectmen met at the Longwood station of the Brookline Branchi Railroad, on Thursday, the eighteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, at three of the clock in the afternoon, and no one appearing against the laying out of said ways, they proceeded to lay out and locate said streets as follows, to wit :
Colchester street, extending from Kent to Carlton street; Carlton street, extending from Colchester to Ivy street; Ivy street, extending from Beacon to Essex street; Prescott street, extending from Ivy to Mountfort street; Mountfort street, extending from the easterly line of
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Prescott street to Essex street; Essex street, extending from the south- erly line of Ivy street to Brighton avenue; and said streets so laid out are bounded and described as follows :
Colchester street described by its notherly line : Commencing at a mon- ument at the easterly line of Kent street and running casterly one thou- sand thirty-three three-tenths feet to a monument; thence again running easterly four hundred sixty and five-tenths feet to a monument on the easterly line of Carlton street; and said Colchester street so laid out, shall be of the full and equal width of forty feet southerly from said described line.
Carlton street described by its easterly line : Commencing at a monu- ment at the corner of Colchester street and running seven hundred and ninety-four feet to a monument at the southerly line of Beacon street ; thence commencing again at the northerly line of Beacon street at a monument and running northerly one hundred and sixty-five feet to a monument; then again running northerly four hundred sixty and five- tenths feet to a monument on the southerly line of Ivy street; and said Carlton street so laid out, shall be of full and equal width of forty feet westerly from said described line.
Ivy street described by its westerly and southerly line : Commencing at a monument on the northerly line of Beacon street and running north- erly three hundred and twenty-five feet to a monument; thence running westerly one thousand one hundred seventy-three two-tenths feet to a monument at the easterly line of Essex street; and said Ivy street so laid out, shall be of the full and equal width of forty feet easterly and westerly from said described lines.
Prescott street described by its easterly line : Commencing at a monu- ment at the northerly line of Ivy street and running northerly five hun- dred forty-six feet to a monument at the easterly line of Mountfort street; and said Prescott street shall be of the full and equal width of forty feet westerly from the above described line.
Mountfort street described by its southerly line : Commencing at a monument at the easterly line of Prescott street and running westerly two hundred ninety-four seven-tenths feet to a monument at the easterly line of Essex street; and said Mountfort street so laid out, shall be of the full and equal width of forty feet northerly from said described line.
Essex street described by its westerly line : Commencing at a monu- ment opposite the southerly line of Ivy street and running northerly one thousand forty-three feet to a monument at the southerly line of Brighton avenue; and said Essex street so laid out, shall be of the full and equal width of fifty feet easterly from said described line, save that at its entrance into Brighton avenue the easterly line of said Essex street shall be along the abutment wall of the bridge of the Boston and Wor- cester Railroad Company as it now stands.
The above streets are all made and graded, and are offered to the town for their acceptance by the abutters, and they further agree not to claim any damages or reward for having them made townways. Said ways are agreeable to and in conformity with a plan of the same made by
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Amos R. Binney, of Roxbury, surveyor, and dated November 18th, 1858, and received into the Town Clerk's office and approved by the Selectmen November 23d, 1858, at least seven days previous to this meeting.
The Selectmen allow the abutters on said streets four months from the thirteenth day of December, current, in which to move all walls, fences, posts and trees on said street belonging to them.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, THOMAS PARSONS, Selectmen of Brookline.
BROOKLINE, Dec. 9th, 1858.
Voted, To accept and allow the foregoing report.
Fourth Article taken up, in relation to order of notice from the Back Bay Commissioners and the Cochituate Water Board.
Voted, To appoint a committee of five to attend to the notice from the Back Commissioners, and to look after the interests of the town in that matter.
Voted, That the five Selectmen be and are hereby appoint- ed that committee.
On the order of notice from the Cochituate Water Board,-
Voted, That the Selectmen be and are hereby appointed to look after the interests of this town in relation to their laying water-pipes or taking land.
Twelfth Article taken up, in relation to draining the streets in certain localities.
Voted, To refer the whole subject of this article to the Selectmen, to report thereon at the annual meeting.
Sixth Article, to purchase land of Horton adjoining the town's land on Prospect street.
Voted, That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to purchase of Mr. James Horton the quantity of land offered the town at the price asked, viz., twenty cents per foot.
Seventh Article.
The .committee on the common and cemetery presented the following report, viz. :
REPORT.
At the last March meeting of the town a committee was appointed, consisting of ten persons, to take into consideration the whole subject of a cemetery, look out a suitable place, ascertain the prices at which it
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might be purchased, and report thereon. The committee report that notices were posted in various places in the town requesting persons owning land in Brookline suitable for a cemetery to offer the same in writing to the committee, stating the location and price thereof. Three propositions were received. The first, from William R. Lawrence, offer- ing to sell to the town a lot of land lying on the northerly side of New- ton street containing about eighty-six acres, the price being twelve thousand dollars. The other two propositions were from Willard A. Humphrey, offering in the first a lot of land situated on the southerly side of Grove street containing about fifty-four acres, the price being two hundred and eighty dollars per acre. In the second he offered to divide said lot and sell the northern part of the same, situated on Grove street, containing about twenty acres. the price being four hundred dol- lars per acre.
The committee examined said lots, and after carefully considering the whole subject, the committee voted not to recommend to the town either of said lots, but to report the facts.
All which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES BARTLETT.
E. LITTELL.
MARSHALL STEARNS. HOWARD S. WILLIAMS. THOMAS PARSONS.
December 9th, 1858.
Voted, To accept the foregoing report, and that the com- mittee be discharged.
Eighth Article :
To see if the town will lower the grade of Aspinwall avenue.
Voted, That the sum of four hundred dollars be raised and appropriated, to be expended for that purpose under the direction of the Selectmen as Highway Surveyors.
Ninth Article :
To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expense of the foregoing improvements.
Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars as follows, to wit :
For making Essex street
$100 00
making Cypress street
1,050 00
grading Aspinwall avenue purchasing land
400 00
1,250 00
Voted, That the Town Treasurer be and hereby is author- ized to borrow the above sum, in such sums and such time as it may be called for by the Selectmen.
Adjourned.
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
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Annual Meeting, March 28, 1859.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 28, 1859.
SEAL.
SEAL.
SEAL.
WARRANT.
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 Monday, the twenty-eighth day of March, current, at one and a half 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 ensuing year.
Third. To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and com. mittees.
Fourth. To hear and act upon the list of jurors as revised by the Selectmen.
Fifth. To see if the town will accept and allow Pleasant street as laid out and located by the Selectmen.
Sixth. To see if the town will accept and allow Cypress street as laid out and widened between Washington and Boylston streets by the Selectmen.
Seventh. To hear and act upon an order of notice from the County Commissioners, on petition of E. A. Wild and others.
Eighth. To see what action the town will take upon the subject of the support of the Mill Dam roads after they shall be given up to the Commonwealth.
Ninth. To see if the town will take any action in relation to laying out Park street as a public highway, or any part thereof.
Tenth. To see if the town will make any appropriation for building a school-house to accommodate the Pierce primary school.
Eleventh. To see if the town will take any action in relation to widen- ing and grading Heath street.
Twelfth. To see if the town will accept the " Act to amend an act to authorize cities and towns to establish public libraries."
Thirteenth. To see if the town will take any action in relation to the building of a Town Hall.
Fourteenth. To see if the town will take any action in relation to altering the grade of the street and the wall in front of the Town Hall, according to plans made by Amos R. Binney.
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Fifteenth. To see if the town will take any action in relation to pur- chasing the whole or a part of the lot of land formerly occupied by the Baptist Society, at the junction of Washington and Harvard streets.
Sixteenth. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray the necessary 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 sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.
JAMES BARTLETT, MARSHALL STEARNS, HOWARD S. WILLIAMS, THOMAS PARSONS, Selectmen of the Town of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, March 24th, 1859.
In compliance with the foregoing 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.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
According to the foregoing warrant, the citizens of the town of Brookline assembled at the Town Hall in said town, on Monday, the twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and were called to order by the Town Clerk at half-past one of the clock.
The Clerk then proceeded to read the warrant and return thereon.
The meeting was then called upon by the Town Clerk to bring in their votes for a Moderator, under the First Article in the warrant, and presided during the voting.
The whole number of votes was thirty-nine, all for Wil- liam I. Bowditch, and he was declared elected Moderator, and took the chair.
No clergyman being present, the customary form of open- ing the meeting with prayer was omitted.
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The Second Article was then taken up :
To choose the necessary town officers for the ensuing year.
Voted, That the meeting proceed to elect, on one ticket, the following officers for the ensuing year, to wit: A Town Clerk, five Selectmen, who shall be Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of Highways; three Assessors, Treasurer and Collector, eight Constables, and four School Committee -three for three years and one for two years.
Voted, That the polls be now declared open, and be kept open until four o'clock.
The polls were kept open until four o'clock, agreeable to the vote of the meeting, at which time they were declared closed by the Moderator.
The Moderator and the Town Clerk then proceeded to sort and count the votes. The whole number of votes was two hundred and sixty, and the following-named persons having a majority were declared elected, viz. :
Town Clerk: B. F. Baker (sworn by the Moderator).
Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and Surveyors of Highways : James Bartlett, Marshall Stearns, Howard S. Williams (sworn by the Mod- erator), Willard A. Humphrey, Thomas Parsons.
Assessors : Jerathmeel Davenport, Thomas B. Hall (sworn by the Moderator), Willard A. Humphrey.
Treasurer and Collector : Moses Withington (sworn by the Moderator).
Constables: Augustus Allen (sworn by the Moderator), Elisha Stone (sworn by the Moderator), Aaron Whitney, John Dustin (sworn by the Moderator), F. H. Corey (sworn by the Moderator), James M. Alger (sworn by the Moderator), Eli D. Sanderson (sworn by the Town Clerk), Reuben A. Chace (sworn by the Moderator), Samuel A. Walker.
School Committee for three years : John N. Turner (accepted), Edward A. Wild (accepted), George Brooks (accepted).
School Committee for two years ; W. H. Jameson (accepted).
In voting for the foregoing officers the check-list was used, and all persons voting were checked.
Voted, To dispense with the election of a Tythingman.
Voted, To choose four Field Drivers for the ensuing year, -and the following-named gentlemen were nominated and chosen, viz :
Field Drivers : Samuel A. Walker, Charles Craft, Charles Smith, Wil- liam H .. Jameson.
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The meeting then nominated and chose the following . officers for the ensuing year, viz. :
Fence Viewers: Elisha Stone, Clark L. Haynes, Aaron Whitney.
Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark: Elisha Stone, D. S. Coolidge, Oliver Cousens.
Voted, That the Selectmen appoint Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Sealers of Leather : Charles W. Tolman, Willard Onion, Jr.
Cemetery Committee : William Dearborn, John Dustin.
Auditors : Charles D. Head, Charles W. Scudder, Edward Atkinson (accepted).
Fire Wards : Reuben A. Chace, Charles L. Palmer, Aaron Whitney, Alfred Kenrick, Jr.
Pound Keeper : Silas H. Langley.
Truant Officers : J. Davenport, Augustus Allen, Charles E. Abbott.
Truant Justice : William Aspinwall.
Trustees of Public Library : Thomas Parsons, B. F. Baker (accepted), J. M. Howe (accepted), J. N. Turner (accepted), Amos A. Lawrence, George F. Homer, T. P. Chandler, Frederick H. Hedge, William I. Bowditch, E. C. Emerson, Wm. Aspinwall, William A. Wellman (ac- cepted).
The Third Article was then taken up :
To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and committees.
The reports of the Town Treasurer, Selectmen, Assessors, and Trustees of the Public Library, which had been printed and distributed to the citizens of the town, was presented by its title and accepted.
The printed report of the School Committee, which had also been distributed, was then presented and accepted.
James Bartlett, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, pre- sented by their titles the following reports, which were laid upon the table, to wit :
Reports : On laying out to curbing and widening Pleasant street ; Widening Cypress street between Washington and Boylston streets ; Drainage on Washington street ; Drainage on Boylston street; and the report on Guide Posts and Boards.
The report on guide posts and boards was read and accept- ed, and placed on file.
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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, viz. :
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 Worces- ter, Newton, and Dedham.
One at the corner of Brighton street, directing to Brighton.
One at the corner of Boylston and Cross streets, directing to Newton Upper Falls, Newton, and Brighton.
One at the corner of Heath and Warren streets, directing to Newton, Dedham, and Brighton.
One at the corner of Clyde and Warren streets, directing to Dedham and Brighton.
One at the corner of Clyde and Newton streets, directing to Brighton, Newton, and Dedham.
One at the corner of Grove and Newton streets, directing to West Roxbury and Dedham.
One at the corner of Grove and South streets, directing to Brighton.
One at the corner of South and Newton streets, directing to Dedham, Brighton, and Newton.
One at the corner of Warren and Cottage streets, directing to Dedham and Jamaica Plain.
One at the corner of Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain.
One at the corner of Washington and Harvard streets, directing to Brighton and Cambridge.
One at Sewall avenue and Harvard street, directing to Cambridge and Cambridgeport.
One at the corner of Beacon and Washington streets, directing to Boston, Newton Centre, Roxbury, and Brighton.
One at the corner of Beacon and Harvard streets, directing to Boston, Newton Centre, Cambridge, and Cambridgeport.
One at the junction of the Mill Dam and Beacon street, directing to Newton Centre.
All of which is respectfully submitted for the Selectmen.
JAMES BARTLETT, Chairman.
BROOKLINE, March, 1859.
The Fourth Article was then taken up, and the following list of Jurors was read and accepted, viz. :
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List of Jurors for the Town of Brookline for the Year 1859.
Babcock, George (Mar. 26, '59)
Haynes, Clark L. Head, Charles D.
Barnard, William
Barnett, Robert
Howe, Thomas
Bartlett, James
Humphrey, Willard HI.
Bird, William (April 14, '59) Jameson, William H. (Mch. 26, '59) Brackett, Nathaniel W. (Mar. 26, '59) Kenrick, Alfred, Jr. (Mch. 26, '59) Brooks, George Lyford, Nathaniel
Chapin, Nathaniel G.
- Parsons, Thomas
Coolidge, David S.
Robinson, Samuel A. (Mch. 26, '59)
Craft, George (Feb. 6, '60)
Smith, Albert W. (Feb. 7, '59)
Dana, Charles B.
Scudder, Charles W.
Dane, John H. (Mch. 26, '59)
Seccomb, Edward R.
Davis, Robert S.
Stearns, William (Apr. 14, '59) Seamans, James M.
Dearborn, Isaac
Emerson, Elijah C. (Dec. 8, '59)
Warren, Simon
Goddard, Abijah W.
Warren, Charles
Griggs, Thomas B.
White, Joseph L.
Guild, J. Anson
Withington, Otis (Sept. 5, '59)
Williams, Howard S. (Mch. 26, '59)
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
BROOKLINE, Mass., March 7th, 1859. Town Clerk.
The Fifth Article was then taken up :
To see if the town will accept and allow Pleasant street, as laid out by the Selectmen.
The following report, which was laid upon the table, was then taken up and read, to wit :
REPORT ON LAYING OUT PLEASANT STREET.
BROOKLINE, February 12th, 1859.
We, the subscribers, Selectmen of the town of Brookline, have laid for the use of the said town a townway, to be known by the name of Pleasant street, as follows :
Describing said townway by its easterly and southerly line : Com- mencing at a monument on the northerly line of Longwood avenue (414% ft.) four and four-tenths feet easterly from the easterly line of Harvard street and running northeasterly three hundred seventy-one feet (371) to a monument on the southerly line of Beacon street; thence again and running northeasterly and crossing Beacon street one hundred seventy- one eight-tenths feet (171,8%) to a monument opposite the northerly line of a private way known as Waldo street; thence again running north- easterly five hundred ninety-nine five-tenths feet (5991%) to a monument placed on the southerly line of a private way known as Wait street; thence again running northeasterly one hundred seventy-nine five-tenths feet (1791%) to a monument; thence again running northeasterly two
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hundred eleven feet (211) to a monument placed at the southwesterly line of land occupied by George Adams; thence running northerly one hundred and fifty feet as the wall now stands to a monument placed on the southerly side of a private way known as Brown street ; thence again running northerly by the fences and walls as they now stand seven hundred twenty-six (726) feet to a monument; thence again running northerly three hundred fifty-seven six-tenths feet (35716) to a monu- ment; thence again running northerly three hundred thirty-eight eight- tenths feet (338,8%) to a monument placed at the northerly line of a private way known as Egmont street; thence again running northerly as the fence now stands one hundred twenty-five eight-tenths (1251%) feet to a monument; thence again running northerly one hundred sixty-nine nine-tenths feet (169,9%) to a monument placed in the northerly line of a private way known as Dummer street; thence again running northerly two hundred eighty-nine two-tenths feet (289,2%) to a monument placed in the southerly line of Brighton avenue at a point forty feet (40 ft.) easterly from the face of the wall of the Crowninshield estate at its junction with said Brighton avenue; and said townway shall be of the full and equal width of forty feet (40 ft.) throughout, measured north- easterly and westerly from said described line, and that the junction of the northerly line of Beacon street with the southerly line of said town- way so laid out be rounded by a curve of thirty-seven feet (37) radius, commencing at a monument placed opposite the northerly line of a private way known as Waldo street and running in a southeasterly direction by a curve of said radius of thirty-seven feet (37) one hundred and one (101) feet to the line of said Beacon street, and that the junction of the southerly line of Beacon street with the northeasterly line of said townway be by a curve of sixteen feet (16) radius.
The location of said townway is according to a plan thereof made by Amos R. Binney and dated January 18th, 1859, and approved and accepted by us as Selectmen of the town of Brookline, February 12, 1859, and deposited in the office of the Town Clerk; and we have taken for the said townway all the land included within the private way known as Pleasant street as now fenced, and as shown in said plan, and have taken of the land of the abutters on said way as shown by said plan, on the south- easterly and easterly side of said street :
Of land of Charles Stearns, between Longwood avenue and Beacon street
3255 sq.ft.
North of Beacon street .
5082
8337
Of the land of Charles Stearns, Jr.
2970
Of the land of David Sears, Sr., between Stearns and Adams
1915 66
Between Farrar's land and Dummer street . 246
Between Dummer street and land leased to Fowle 658
Of the land leased to Fowle
111 66
Between land leased to Fowle and Brighton avenue
315
66
3245 66
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The land of Mrs. G. W. Rives (the estate occupied by Henry Upham) 338 sq.ft. Of the land of David Sears, Jr., (the estate occupied by E. D. Sohier) . 232
And on the northeasterly side of the townway we have dedicated to the townway, of the land belonging to the town and appurtenant to the school-house 1769 66
And we have taken for the said townway, of the land of the abutters on its northeasterly and westerly side :
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