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J. P. SANBORN, Constable.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, met at the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the twenty-fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy- four, and were called to order at one of the clock in the after- noon by the Town Clerk, who proceeded to read the warrant calling said meeting, and the return thereon of the officer who notified it.
The First Article in the warrant taken up :
To choose a Moderator.
The Town Clerk then declared the polls open for the recep- tion of votes for Moderator, and after being kept open until a quarter of three o'clock, and an opportunity given to every voter present who had not voted and desired to, so to do, they were declared closed.
The Town Clerk then proceeded to sort and count the votes so given in, and the whole number so given in was six hundred and thirty-eight for Moderator.
Charles H. Drew had three hundred and ninety-three, was declared elected, and took the chair.
The Moderator then called the meeting to order, and prayer was offered by Rev. Warren Goddard, Jr.
Second Article taken up :
To choose the usual town officers for the ensuing year.
Voted, That the meeting now proceed to elect, by ballot, the following town officers for the ensuing year, and such other times as specified ; to wit, -
A Town Clerk, five Selectmen, who shall be Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of Highways, three Assessors, Treasurer and Collector, three School Committee for three years, four Trustees of the Public Library for three years, one Trustee of the Public Library for two years, one Water Commissioner for three years, two Fence Viewers, and ten Constables, all to be voted for on one ticket.
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Voted, That the polls be kept open until seventeen minutes past six o'clock in the afternoon.
The polls were then declared open for the reception of votes for the officers above named, and were kept open until seventeen minutes past six o'clock in the afternoon, when, after giving due notice and an opportunity for any voter to deposit his vote who had not voted and desired to, they were declared closed.
The Moderator and Town Clerk then proceeded to sort and count the votes so given in, and while so engaged it was -
Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it be to to-morrow, Wednesday, the twenty-fifth instant, at three o'clock in the afternoon.
Voted, To adjourn at fifteen minutes of eleven o'clock in the evening.
Adjourned.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 25, 1874.
Pursuant to adjournment, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, met at the Town Hall in said town, on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, at three of the clock in the afternoon, and were called to order by the Moderator, Charles H. Drew.
The Moderator and Town Clerk then proceeded to finish the sorting and counting of the votes given in for town offi- cers, and the whole number so given in was eight hundred and eight, and the following-named persons, having a ma- jority of all the votes so cast, were declared elected to the following offices ; to wit, -
Town Clerk : B. F. Baker [sworn by the Moderator].
Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and Surveyors of Highways: Thomas Parsons [sworn by the Moderator], Charles D. Head [sworn by the Mod- erator], Horace James [sworn by the Moderator], Austin W. Benton [sworn by the Town Clerk], Charles K. Kirby [sworn by the Moderator].
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Assessors : Thomas B. Hall [sworn by the Moderator], F. W. Pres- cott [sworn by the Moderator], William Lincoln [sworn by the Mod- erator].
Treasurer and Collector : Moses Withington [sworn by the Moderator]. Water Commissioner for 3 years : Franklin Darracott.
School Committee for 3 years : George Brooks, Rev. William W. New- ton, Michael Driscoll.
Trustees of the Public Library for 3 years : Thomas Parsons, R. G. F. Candage, Robert Amory, Alfred D. Chandler.
Trustee of the Public Library for 2 years : James M. Codman.
Fence Viewers : Clark L. Haynes, William K. Melcher.
Constables : J. P. Sanborn [sworn by the Moderator], Willard Y. Gross [sworn by the Moderator], George F. Johnson [sworn by the Moderator], B. C. Clark [sworn by the Moderator], S. D. Edwards [sworn by the Moderator], D. W. Phelps [sworn by the Moderator], T. S. Pettengill [sworn by the Moderator], Eben W. Reed, Daniel C. Mur- ray, George F. Dearborn [sworn by the Moderator].
In voting, the check list was used, and no person was al- lowed to deposit his ballot until his name was found on the list and checked.
The meeting then nominated and chose the following offi- cers ; viz., -
Truant Officers : George F. Dearborn, Fergus B. Turner, Thomas J. Murray.
Field Drivers : Thomas S. Pettengill, Eben W. Reed, Daniel C. Mur- ray.
Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark: William D. Coolidge, J. Anson Guild, Frank F. Seamans, William K. Melcher, John E. Cousens.
Pound Keeper : Eben W. Reed.
Sealers of Leather : Samuel A. Robinson, Willard Warren.
Sealer of Weights and Measures : Alfred Kenrick, Jr. [sworn by the Town Clerk].
Cemetery Committee : Thomas S. Pettengill.
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: William A. Wellman, John C. Abbott, Charles D. Head.
Before proceeding to further business, on motion of George Griggs, it was -
Voted, That all reports of the Selectmen of the laying out of streets and sewers, including the awards for damages, and all reports of special committees recommending or requiring the appropriation of more than five hundred dollars ($500), be laid on the table and printed and distributed in the same manner as the annual town reports are distributed, at least
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three days before the day of acting upon such reports by the town.
Third Article taken up :
To hear and act upon the reports of town officers and committees.
Mr. Thomas Parsons presented the following reports of town officers and committees which had been printed and distributed among the inhabitants of the town previous to the meeting, which were read by their titles ; to wit, -
Treasurer's report of the receipts and expenditures of the town of Brookline ; also report of the Selectmen, and reports of the Trustees of the Public Library and the Board of School Committee, with a list of taxes and the names of the tax- payers for the year ending February 1, 1874.
Voted, To lay the reports on the table.
Mr. George F. Homer presented the following report for the committee appointed October 28 to consider the subject of purchasing land for a cemetery ; to wit, -
REPORT.
The committee appointed by the town to examine and report a suit- able lot for a public cemetery, respectfully present the following as the result of their investigations : -
The committee have examined several lots of land to which their atten- tion has been called :
First. A parcel of land situated on Heath street, belonging to the es- tate of the late J. Sullivan Warren, and containing, according to the sur- vey of the town engineer, about sixty-two acres. This lot can be bought on favorable terms, and for a price deemed reasonable by your committee.
A sum between sixty-five and seventy thousand dollars will be re- quired to purchase and fit this lot for cemetery purposes, for which it is admirably adapted. This is a splendid lot of land, and, beyond doubt, free from all objection.
Second. The " Cowan lot," on the corner of Clyde and Warren streets, containing nearly twenty acres, has already received the favorable notice of your committee.
It is a beautiful and picturesque spot.
The price of the lot is fifty thousand dollars. It would require a con- siderable outlay to fence and prepare it for a cemetery.
Third. A lot of land on Grove street, containing about ninety acres of land, formerly belonging to Mr. Willard A. Humphrey, was offered to your committee for $1600.00 per acre, but as the price was deemed alto- gether too high, and the lot had been previously examined and rejected by the town, your committee did not examine it at the present time.
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Your committee do not recommend to the town to purchase any land for a cemetery at the present time.
They present to the town their judgment of the lands offered and available for this purpose.
It is for the citizens to determine whether they will purchase either of the lots designated.
Your committee have the honor to add that no part of the appropria- tion for this object has been expended.
And your committee respectfully request that they may be discharged. Brookline, March 21, 1874 ..
By order of committee,
GEO. F. HOMER, Chairman ..
Voted, That the report be accepted and the committee discharged.
Voted, That the report be printed and distributed.
Voted, To take up the report of the engineers of the Fire Department.
Moved by Alfred Kenrick, Jr., that a special committee of three be appointed by the chair to take into consideration the subject of a telegraphic fire-alarm, and report at the next meeting.
Laid on the table.
The following report on Guide Posts and Boards was pre- sented and accepted ; to wit, -
Sign Posts in Brookline.
One junction of Warren and Walnut streets, to Jamaica Plain.
One junction of Warren and Walnut streets, to reservoir.
One junction of Warren and Cottage streets, to Jamaica Plain.
One junction of Boylston and Brighton streets, to Chestnut Hill reser- voir.
One junction of Newton and Clyde streets, to Dedham.
One junction of Boylston and Cypress streets, to Newton.
One junction of Newton and Grove streets, to Dedham and West Rox- bury.
One junction of Newton and South streets, to Dedham and West Rox- bury.
One junction of Hammond and Boylston streets, to Dedham and West Roxbury and Oak Hill.
One junction of Harvard and Beacon streets, to Cambridge and Cam- bridgeport.
One junction of Harvard and Beacon streets, to Chestnut Hill reservoir.
One junction of Harvard and Longwood avenue, to Boston Highlands.
One junction of Brighton avenue and Essex street, to Brighton and Cambridge.
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One junction of Washington and Beacon streets, to Boston Highlands and Brighton.
Brookline, March 24, 1874.
CHARLES D. HEAD, Chairman of Selectmen.
Fourth Article taken up :
To see if the town will accept and allow the list of jurors as revised by the Selectmen, and posted according to law.
List of Jurors for the Town of Brookline for the year 1874.
Allen, Philip S.
Heath, Sidney
Allen, Rufus S.
Humphrey, Willard A.
Avery, John
Hunt, David
Bancroft, Charles P.
Jewett, Francis A.
Barton, Edward H.
Lamb, Salem T.
Baxter, Sidney R.
Lawrence, Francis W.
Beals, James H.
Lincoln, William H.
Bennett, Stephen D.
Lincoln, William
Bishop, Robert
Long, Jonathan D.
Blaney, Henry
Lovell, John W.
Brett, Henry
Mann, N. P., Jr.
Burdett, Horatio S.
Mason, Henry
Burrill, Charles
Mathews, Ashael G.
Cabot, Follen
Merrill, Silas W.
Candler, John W.
Nash, Francis J.
Chester. W. R.
Palmer, Charles L.
Clark, Edwin
Perrin, Lewis
Clark, Samuel
Plimpton, Charles T.
Coolidge, George H.
Quinlan, M. W.
Cooley, William H.
Roberts, Joseph D.
Cousens, Oliver
Rodman, Francis
Crane, Lewis M.
Rooney, William
Cutler, William S.
Sabin, Charles W.
Dana, Dennison D.
Sargent, Charles S.
Darracott, Franklin
Searle, Frederick A.
Dimon, William
Seaverns, Henry G.
Dupee, John
Shurtleff, Augustine
Duffley, Daniel
Stone, Milton J.
Dwight, Charles
Soule, Richard
Edgerly, James W.
Taylor, John Von Arnim, Theodore F.
Fisher, George J.
Wells, Henry B.
Fisher, Horace N.
Williams, Howard S.
Floyd, Edward E.
Wood, Amos L.
Goddard, Abijah W.
Woodward, Isaac
Gove, Arthur B. Hall, Isaac P.
Young, Edward
Brookline, Mass., March 6, 1874.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
Everett, George E.
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The names of Horatio S. Burdett and Theodore Von Arnim were stricken from the list as not being liable to serve.
Voted, To accept and allow the foregoing list of jurors as corrected.
Fifth Article taken up :
To see if the town will accept Chapter 38 of the Acts of the year 1873, entitled "An Act to establish a grade in the town of Brookline."
Laid on the table and ordered to be printed with the other reports.
Sixth Article taken up :
To see if the town will make an appropriation for a bank wall on Prospect street, against the Pierce Grammar and High schoolhouse lots.
Referred to the Selectmen to report in print to the ad- journed town meeting.
Seventh Article taken up :
To see if the town will change the name of Ivy street, from its junc- tion with St. Mary's street to Beacon street, to St. Mary's street.
Voted, That so much of Ivy street as lies between Beacon street and St. Mary's street, be called and known as St. Mary's street.
Eighth Article taken up :
To see if the town will increase the number of the School Committee to twelve, and to elect, in addition to the three members to be elected in place of the three whose term of office expires in 1874, three other mem- bers : one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year.
Voted, That the Eighth Article be laid on the table.
Ninth Article taken up :
To see if the town will accept and allow a new town way leading from Cypress street to Davis avenue, to continue Gorham avenue, as laid out. and located by the Selectmen.
Voted, That Articles Nine, Ten, Eleven, Thirteen, and Fourteen be laid upon the table, and printed and distributed to the town.
Voted, To lay the Twelfth Article on the table.
Fifteenth Article taken up :
To consider and act upon the subject of a by-law concerning the re-
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ports of the several boards, committees, or officers, annually made to the town.
Voted, That the Fifteenth Article be referred to a com- mittee of three, to be appointed by the chair, to report in print to the adjourned town meeting.
The chair appointed the following gentlemen to compose said committee ; to wit, William Aspinwall, Oliver Edwards, George Griggs.
Sixteenth Article taken up :
To act upon the subject of amending or repealing any votes or ordi- nances concerning the supply of water to the town.
Laid upon the table.
Seventeenth Article taken up :
To consider the subject of settling claims against the town on account of damages for laying out ways and sewers, or raising or lowering roads, and making a by-law thereon.
Voted, That the Seventeenth Article be referred to the Committee on the Fifteenth Article.
Eighteenth Article taken up :
To consider the subject of repealing or amending any votes of the town concerning delinquent tax-payers.
Voted, That a former vote of the town, instructing the Town Treasurer to publish the names of persons whose taxes remain for thirty days unpaid, be and the same is hereby re- scinded.
Nineteenth Article taken up :
To consider the subject of indexing, copying, and printing the town records, and publishing the proceedings of the boards of town officers.
Voted, That the Nineteenth Article be referred to a com- mittee of three, to be appointed by the chair, to report to the adjourned meeting.
The Moderator appointed the following gentlemen to com- pose said committee ; viz., N. C. Towle, J. E. Hoar, J. W. Edgerly.
Twentieth Article taken up :
To fix the salaries of town officers.
Voted, That the Twentieth Article be referred to a com-
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mittee of five, to be appointed by the chair, to report in print to the adjourned town meeting.
The chair appointed the following gentlemen to compose said committee ; viz., Edward I. Thomas, A. W. Goddard, W. A. Wellman, William H. Lincoln, R. S. Littell.
Twenty-first Article taken up :
To consider and act upon any by-law which may be submitted.
Voted, That the Twenty-first Article be laid on the table. Twenty-second Article taken up :
To consider any by-law forbidding town officers from bidding for town work and contracting therefor.
Voted, That the Twenty-second Article be referred to the Committee on the Twentieth Article.
Twenty-third Article taken up :
To consider the subject of auditing bills or claims against the town.
Voted, That the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Articles be referred to a committee of five, to report at the adjourned town meeting.
The meeting appointed the following gentlemen to com- pose said committee ; viz., E. I. Thomas, D. H. Rogers, H. B. Eager, Thomas Parsons, Thomas H. Bacon.
Thirty-fifth Article taken up :
To see if the town will accept Chapter 382 of the Acts of the Legisla- ture for the year 1871, entitled "An Act in relation to betterments."
Voted, That the Twenty-fifth Article be laid on the table. Twenty-sixth Article taken up :
To see what action the town will take in providing some suitable memorial of the soldiers from this town who lost their lives in the late War of the Rebellion.
Voted, That the Twenty-sixth Article be referred to a committee of five to be appointed by the chair, to report in print at the adjourned town meeting.
The chair appointed the following gentlemen to compose said committee ; viz., M. J. Stone, F. W. Lawrence, Alfred Winsor, W. Y. Gross, George P. Richardson.
Twenty-seventh Article taken up :
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To see if the town will accept and allow the change and relocation of Irving street, as made and located by the Selectmen.
Voted, That the twenty-seventh Article be laid on the table, to be taken up at the adjourned town meeting.
Pending a motion to take up the twenty-eighth Article, the meeting
Voted, To adjourn, to meet at this place three, weeks from to-day, on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of April next, at three o'clock in the afternoon.
Adjourned.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
In pursuance of the laws of this Commonwealth, the Town Clerk forthwith made out his warrant and delivered it to Constable J. P. Sanborn, requiring him within three days from the date thereof to summon all officers chosen and not qualified, to appear before the Town Clerk within seven days from the date of said warrant, to be qualified for their several offices, to be sworn where an oath is required, or to signify their refusal of said office ; also to signify their acceptance of the office to which they have been elected where an oath is not required.
Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, April 10, 1873.
Personally appeared the persons below named, and were sworn at the time set against their names, or signified their acceptance or refusal of the office to which they had been chosen ; to wit, -
Field Drivers : Clark L. Haynes [sworn March 31], William K. Mel- cher [sworn March 28].
Truant Officers : George F. Dearborn [sworn March 28], Fergus B. Turner [sworn April 1], Thomas J. Murray [sworn March 31].
Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark: William K. Melcher [sworn March 28], John E. Cousens [sworn April 2].
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Field Drivers : Eben W. Reed [sworn March 28], Daniel C. Murray [sworn April 3], Thomas S. Pettengill [sworn March 30].
Pound Keeper : Eben W. Reed [sworn March 28].
Sealers of Leather : Samuel A. Robinson [sworn March 31], Willard Warren [sworn March 31].
Constables : Eben W. Reed [sworn March 28], Daniel C. Murray [sworn April 3].
School Committee, 3 years : George Brooks [accepted March 28], Rev. W. W. Newton [accepted March 28], Michael Driscoll, accepted April 15].
Trustees of the Public Library for 3 years : Robert Amory [accepted April 3], R. G. F. Candage [accepted March 31], Alfred D. Chandler [accepted March 30].
Trustee Public Library for 2 years : James M. Codman [accepted March 28].
Cemetery Committee : Thomas S. Pettengill [accepted March 30].
Trustees of the Sinking Fund: William A. Wellman [accepted April 11], Charles D. Head [accepted March 28], John C. Abbott [accepted April 15].
Water Commissioner for 3 years : Franklin Darracott [accepted March 28].
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 15, 1874.
Pursuant to adjournment, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, met at the Town Hall in said town, on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, at three o'clock in the afternoon, and were called to order by the Moderator, Charles H. Drew.
The meeting nominated and chose -
Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark : William D. Coolidge, J. Anson Guild, Frank F. Seamans.
Twenty-eighth Article taken up :
To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray the expenses of the town for the ensuing year and for any or all of the foregoing articles.
The meeting then voted the following appropriations ; to wit, -
For schools
$40,000 00
evening schools
600 00
Superintendent of Schools
3,000 00
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For support of highways
$30,000 00
support of poor
2,000 00
sidewalks
15,000 00
Newton street (making of) 500 00
making Park street .
1,000 00
making Pearl and Emerald streets
466 61
making Marion and Vernon streets
6,500 00
grading public grounds
5,000 00
Fire Department
12,500 00
purchasing hose
1,700 00
sewers
2,000 00
extinction of town debt
47,404 16
interest
52,000 00
Cemetery ·
200 00
ringing bell
150 00
repairing town buildings
4,000 00
watering streets
9,000 00
sinking fund
24,500 00
Decoration Day
300 00
library
6,000 00
care of Town Hall, including janitor
2,500 00
State aid
900 00
lamp posts
3,000 00
Board of Health
2,000 00
Police .
16,000 00
expenses of stable
2,000 00
contingencies
10,000 00
Voted, That the Selectmen investigate the whole subject of the expenses, of the town stable, and report at the future town meeting.
Voted, That the Selectmen be hereby instructed to peti- tion the County Commissioners, on behalf of the town, to suspend the order for building and making Washington street east from Park street.
Voted, That when this meeting adjourns it be to Wednes- day next, the twenty-second instant, at three of the clock in the afternoon.
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to employ coun- sel to defend all pending suits against the town and all suits brought against it during the present year.
Adjourned.
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
lighting town buildings and streets
18,000 00
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ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 22, 1874.
Pursuant to adjournment, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, met at the Town Hall in said town, on Wednesday, the twenty-second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, at three of the clock in the afternoon, and were called to order by the Moderator, Charles H. Drew.
After coming to order, the meeting then proceeded to transact the following business ; to wit, -
Voted, To take up Articles Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, and Twenty-seven.
Article Nine taken up :
To see if the town will accept and allow a new town way leading from Cypress street to Davis avenue, to continue Gorham avenue as laid out and located by the Selectmen.
Voted, That the subject of the Ninth Article be referred to the Selectmen to examine into, and report at a future meeting.
Tenth Article taken up :
To see if the town will accept and allow a new town way as laid out and located by the Selectmen, leading from Aspinwall avenue to Francis street.
The following report of the Selectmen on the laying out and location of said way, which had been printed and dis- tributed through the town, was presented ; to wit, -
The Selectmen of the town of Brookline. after giving legal notice to all persons and interests known to them of their intention to lay out as a town way the private way known as Perry street, leading from Aspin- wall avenue to Francis street, did, in pursuance of said notice, meet at their office in the Town Hall on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth day of Feb- ruary A.D. 1874, at half-past seven of the clock in the evening, and pro- ceeded to hear all parties and interests present and desiring to be heard in relation thereto, and again by adjournment to Monday, the ninth day of March, 1874; and all parties and interests which had appeared having been heard and examined in relation thereto, and said route having been examined by the Selectmen, they proceeded to locate and lay out said way, describing it by its centre line, as follows ; to wit, -
Commencing at a stone post on the northerly boundary line of Aspin- wall avenue and running N. 14º 36' E., 680.64 feet to a stone post in the
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southerly line of Francis street, taking equal widths of 20 feet on each side of said above-described centre line.
The location of said way is in accordance with a plan and profile of the same as drawn by George Tyler, civil engineer, dated March 9, 1874, and accepted and allowed by the Selectmen, and filed in the office of the Town Clerk the same day.
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