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Thirty-first Article taken from the table :
To raise and appropriate money for the current year.
The meeting voted the following appropriations ; viz., -
For Secretary and Finance Committee of School Committee . $300 00 furnishing the two new halls in Town Hall (Building Com- mittee) 8,500 00
furnishing offices, new Town Hall (Selectmen) ·
4,500 00
Sinking Fund .
7,000 00
ungraded school
1,500 00
evening school
600 00
Superintendent of Streets and Engineering Department ·
5,000 00
sewers
10,000 00
reservoirs, additional
1,500 00
widening Summit avenue
1,200 00
purchasing land for public grounds
·
10,000 00
County tax
State tax
discount on taxes .
. 15,000 00
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For abatement of taxes
$5,000 00
extinction of town debt
19,000 00
interest on town debt
. 32,500 00
ringing bell
150 00
cemetery
200 00
town officers
9,000 00
State aid
800 00
repairs of town buildings
4,000 00
Board of Health
200 00
Police, additional .
5,000 00
purchase of a stone-crusher
2,800 00
Voted, That a discount of five per cent be allowed on all taxes paid on or before the tenth day of October, provided that no discount be allowed on a fractional part of a dollar.
Voted, That the various appropriations made by the town, including those for the purpose of making and repairing high- ways and town ways, be assessed, after deducting the amount in the treasury and the probable receipts for the coming year, amounting to the sum of forty thousand dollars, upon the polls and estates, real and personal, of the inhabitants resi- dent and non-resident of the town, and collected as the town rates are usually charged and collected.
Voted, That the committee on procuring land for a ceme- tery be discharged.
Voted, The thanks of the meeting to the Moderator for his services.
Dissolved. Attest : B. F. BAKER, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING, MAY 7, 1872.
SEALT
SEAL
SEALI
SEAL
WARRANT.
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
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the Town Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the seventh day of May next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, for the fol- lowing purposes ; to wit, -
First. To choose a Moderator.
Second. To vote by ballot " Yes " or " No " on the question, " Shall any person be allowed to manufacture, sell, or keep for sale, ale, porter, strong beer, or lager-bier in this town?"
Third. To consider the act passed by the present Legislature entitled " An Act to change the boundary between Brookline and Boston, and for sanitary purposes," and to take such action thereunder as may seem ex- pedient.
Fourth. To consider the expediency of the town's applying to the General Court for an act to prevent the building of dwelling houses on unhealthy lands, or in such manner as to tend to injury to the public health.
Fifth. To see if the town will take any action upon the subject of lay- ing out streets, open spaces, squares, and sewers, in conjunction with ad- joining cities and towns.
Sixth. To consider and act upon the subject of preserving the stone on which the map of the town is engraved.
Seventh. To hear and act upon the reports of any committees or town officers to whom any matters have been referred.
Eighth. To act upon the subject of buying land for stables and stable yards.
Ninth. To see if the town will adopt a by-law authorizing the Select- men to prosecute and defend suits, and refer the same to arbitration, and to act for the interests of the town, when not specially instructed.
Tenth. To act upon the question of accepting an act passed by the pres- ent Legislature, entitled " An Act to authorize the town of Brookline to take water from Charles river," and to take any action under the same.
Eleventh. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be re- quired to defray the expense of any or all of the foregoing articles.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, four days at least be- fore the day of said meeting.
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this
twenty-ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
CHARLES D. HEAD, HORACE JAMES, WILLIAM ASPINWALL, JAMES W. EDGERLY, CHARLES K. KIRBY, Selectmen of the Town of Brookline.
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NORFOLK, SS.
BROOKLINE, May 3, 1872.
By virtue of the within precept, I have notified the legal voters of the town of Brookline to appear at the time and place, and for the purposes within specified, by leaving a printed copy of this warrant at their usual place of abode.
J. P. SANBORN,
Constable of Brookline.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline met at the Town Hall in said town on Tuesday, the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and were called to order at one of the clock in the afternoon by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant calling said meeting, and the return thereon of the officer who served the notices.
First Article taken up :
To choose a Moderator.
The Town Clerk then declared the polls opened for the re- ception of votes for Moderator, and after being kept open fif- teen minutes, and all who desired having had an opportunity to vote if they desired so to do, they were declared closed.
The whole number of votes given in was forty-one.
For Moderator, Hon. William Aspinwall had twenty-three, was declared elected and took the chair.
Second Article taken up :
To vote by ballot "Yes " or "No" on the question, "Shall any per- son be allowed to manufacture, sell, or keep for sale, ale, porter, strong beer, or lager-bier in this town?"
The meeting then voted that the polls be opened and kept open until half-past three o'clock for the reception of votes on the foregoing Article.
The polls were then declared opened at twenty-five minutes past one o'clock, and were kept open until half-past three o'clock, when, on motion, it was voted that the polls be closed.
The Moderator and Town Clerk then proceeded to sort and count the votes given in, and the whole number so given in was two hundred and twenty-six, as follows ; to wit, -
" No," ninety-eight (98); "Yes," one hundred and twenty-
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eight (128), and the result of the voting was declared to the meeting by the Moderator.
In voting for the choice of Moderator, and on the Second Article in the warrant, the check-list was used, and no per- son was allowed to deposit his vote until his name was found on the list and checked.
Third Article taken up :
To consider the act passed by the present Legislature, entitled " An Act to change the boundary between Brookline and Boston, and for sani- tary purposes," and to take such action thereunder as may seem expe- dient.
Voted, That the act passed by the present Legislature, en- titled " An Act to change the boundary between Brookline and Boston, and for sanitary purposes," be and hereby is accepted.
Voted, That the Selectmen of Brookline are hereby in- structed to exercise all the powers conferred upon the town of Brookline by the act of the present Legislature entitled " An Act to change the boundary between Brookline and Boston, and for sanitary purposes," to notify and invite the city of Boston to unite with the town of Brookline in carrying out the various provisions of said act, and if the city of Boston shall refuse or neglect so to unite with the town of Brookline, then the Selectmen are instructed to act under the provisions of said act without the joint action of said city, as they shall deem best for the interests of the town of Brookline.
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to expend, under the provisions of the act entitled " An Act to change the boundary between Brookline and Boston, and for sanitary purposes," the sum of three thousand dollars appropriated at the annual meeting of this year for the erection of a dam and tide-gate across Muddy river at Brookline avenue.
Voted, That the Selectmen be instructed to define the new line described in the act entitled "An Act to change the boundary between Brookline and Boston, and for sanitary purposes," now accepted, and to erect stone monuments at the intersections of streets and at the angles wherever possible,
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and that this be done with the cognizance and co-operation of the authorities of Boston.
Fourth Article taken up :
To consider the expediency of the town's applying to the General Court for an act to prevent the building of dwelling houses on unhealthy land, or in such manner as to tend to injury to the public health.
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to apply to the General Court for a law to prevent the building of dwelling houses on unhealthy lands, or in such manner as to tend to injury to the public health.
Fifth Article taken up :
To see if the town will take any action upon the subject of laying out streets, open spaces, squares, and sewers, in conjunction with adjoining cities and towns.
Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to confer with the authorities of adjoining cities and towns in relation to laying out streets, open spaces, squares, and sewers, for the com- mon advantage and convenience.
Sixth Article taken up :
To consider and act upon the subject of preserving the stone on which the map of the town is engraved.
Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to make such arrangements with the lithographer of the town map for the purpose of preserving the stone upon which it is engraved, as they consider for the interests of the town.
Seventh Article taken up :
To hear and act upon the reports of any committees or town officers to whom any matters have been referred.
Seventh Article laid on the table.
Eighth Article taken up :
To act upon the subject of buying land for stables and stable yards.
Voted, That the Eighth Article be recommitted to the Selectmen, to consider and report thereon at a future meet- ing.
Ninth Article taken up :
To see if the town will adopt a by-law authorizing the Selectmen to
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prosecute and defend suits, and refer the same to arbitration, and to act for the interests of the town, when not specially instructed.
Voted in the negative.
Tenth Article taken up :
To act upon the question of accepting an act passed by the present Legislature, entitled "An Act to authorize the town of Brookline to take water from Charles river," and take any action under the same.
Voted, That the act entitled " An Act to authorize the town of Brookline to take water from Charles river," be and hereby is accepted.
Voted, That the Selectmen and the Committee on Water Supply be instructed to confer with the authorities of Boston and of adjoining towns, to see on what terms they can ob- tain a supply of water by or through the works of said city or towns, now constructed or to be constructed, and to report the facts to the town.
Eleventh Article taken up :
To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray the expense of any or all of the foregoing articles.
There being no appropriations, the article was laid on the table.
The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted the Moderator for the fair and impartial manner in which he had presided.
Dissolved.
Attest : B. F. BAKER,
Town Clerk.
List of persons liable to military duty within the Town of Brookline, as taken by the Assessors, May 1, 1872.
Amory, Frederick
Allen, Philip S.
Averill, John
Andrews, Francis E.
Allyn, A. H. Armington, Asa W.
Barren, Francis E.
Ayers, John
Butters, E. F.
Annable, John J.
Butters, Charles H.
Amory, Robert
Barry, Michael
Allen, Edward
Brennan, James
Allen, Samuel S.
Bowen, Patrick W.
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Beal, Samuel
Boynton, George F.
Bertsch, Leo
Brown, William F.
Burleigh, Sylvester S.
Browne, George F.
Bartlett, Frank
Bush, S. Dacre
Briggs, Henry
Brackett, I. Lewis
Bird, William B.
Bangs, William A.
Cowan, George H.
Brighamn, Frank E.
Cushing, S. M.
Barrett, James
Cate, Isaac M.
Bartlett, James
Chadbourne, Theodore V.
Bennett, Stephen D.
Cabot, Walter C.
Bugbee, George A.
Carlysle, Ira B.
Barry, William
Cook, John
Brooks, Lyman B.
Cantwell, James
Baxter, Albert G.
Cusick, Michael
Baxter, Sidney R.
Curry, John
Bird, George W.
Cusick, Andrew J.
Bryant, Thomas G.
Bryant, William G.
Clark, Burnham C. Crawshaw, Joseph
Burt, Solomon
Cobb, Roscoe A.
Baxter, Benjamin F.
Cobb, Albert A.
Burk, Thomas
Chapin, Edward G.
Bowditch, James H.
Chapin, Henry G.
Bowditch, Ernest W.
Campbell, Bartlett
Bowditch, Frederick C.
Chadbourn, Walter
Bachelder, Charles W.
Codman, James M.
Bowman, Alonzo
Cutler, William S.
Bentley, David
Carroll, Walter
Barrett, George T.
Cusick, James
Boody, James
Channing, Eugene G.
Bruce, G. Herbert
Crane, Joshua
Burdett, Horatio S.
Cabot, Follen
Beals, James H., Jr.
Collins, Henry
Brown, Edward J.
Chase, Charles
Benton, Edward A. R.
Cooper, Edward M.
Bird, Albert H.
Conant, Nathaniel
Bowman, James T.
Currier, Warren G.
Brett, Henry
Cheney, Alfred A.
Brooks, George K.
Coss, James
Bowker, W. Henry
Bogman, George W.
Cusick, Patrick
Bogman, Edward Y.
Cusick, Thomas J.
Clark, Robert Condry, Patrick
Candage, R. G. F.
Barton, Edward
Caston, C. George
Brown, William S.
Call, James M.
Clark, William P.
Bishop, Robert
Bixby, Henry C. Blaisdell, John H. Billings, Virgil D. Burton, HI. J., Jr.
Brown, Thomas S. Bowles, R. Lincoln Bacon, Francis E.
Curley, James H.
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Militia List, 1872.
Crane, Lewis M.
Driscoll, Timothy
Chase, H. Lincoln
Driscoll, James, J.
Chapman, John N.
Daily, Patrick
Coolidge, George H.
Davis, Isaac S.
Coolidge, James W. Crocker, Gilbert L.
Draper, Charles H.
Curtis, Elijah J.
Dearborn, George F.
Crocker, Ariel
Dunn, Charles Dexter, Charles W.
Cushman, Albert
Darracott, Marland S.
Curtis, J. Gardner
Driscoll, James, Jr. Driscoll, Michael
Clapp, J. W.
Cotton, W. C.
Doran, Enoch
Cotton, Frank B.
Davis, Charles E.
Cotton, Walter C.
Dexter, William S.
Cotton, John W.
Daniels, Philip
Cotting, Charles U.
Chadbourne, Charles H.
Chamberlin, Frederick E.
Cousens, John E.
Chapin, E. D.
Erhard, George Eastman, Moses
Edgerly, James W. Eager, Henry B. Everett, George Everett, Moran
Etheridge, George Edwards, Samuel D. Erskine, O. R.
Fay, Richard S. French, A. H. Funk, George W. Farnham, Gerry
Foster, Charles C. Fitzgerald, Richard Fuller, Horatio W.
Flynn, Thomas
Fay, Henry G. Folsom, George C.
Fitzgerald Fuller, Hafford B. Ferris, E. M.
Floyd, Edward E. Farnum, Charles B. Faxon, John L.
Fabyan, George F. Foster, Charles O.
Dow, Charles R. Darling, Herbert C. Dawes, George G. Donovan, Michael
Donlan, Edward Darrah, William Dolloff, Abner P. Dana, Carle Dupee, Frank Dupee, William R. Dwyre, William Drohan, Patrick
Dwyre, Patrick Davis, George G. Daniels, David H. Delano, Charles E. Delano, Clarence A. Davis, William Darrah, James Doran, Levi Doran, Alfred Davis, Michael Diman, J. H. Driscoll, Jeremiah
· Edmond, J. Walter English, Richard English, John, Jr.
Clark, R. D. Conneally, Philip P.
Doane, Daniel Dane, Edward S.
Chase, Charles F. Chase, William L.
Davis, G. T.
Crane, John
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Foster, John H. Foster, Charles Foster, William Fernald, Albion W. Fernald, Fred A.
Howe, Harrison Hall, Henry M. Holtzer, Charles Honan, Michael Holloran, Edward
Gardiner, Charles P. Goodnough, Xanthus
Goddard, Maurice
Hamblin, Joshua C.
Goodwin, Willard A.
Goodwin, Ashael J.
Hall, William F.
Giles, John D.
Haughton, Frank S.
Hill, William H., Jr.
Goodspeed, Munroe Gilman, Edward
Glass, Rufus P.
Heyer, Charles A.
Griffin, David J.
Hammond, Henry M.
Gilbert, Henry C.
Hall, Isaac P.
Goodwin, Thaddeus P.
Hand, James B.
Hurd, Benjamin
Hurd, George F.
Howard, John A.
Hubbard, Francis S.
Grogan, Richard H.
Hubbard, John
Getchell, Isaiah S.
Hackett, Benjamin
Green, Henry A.
Hall, William F.
Hall, Henry J.
Hoar, John E.
Howard, Alonzo P.
Haskell, Nathaniel
Hutchins, Isaac M.
Jordan, Thomas
Jewett, Francis A.
James, Horace
Jeffers, Samuel T.
James, Charles H.
Judge, P. Johnson, Patrick Jones, Edward, Jr. Johnson, Frank A. Jones, Moses
Jackson, Henry W.
Johnson, Andrew L.
Keenan, John, 2d Kriessman, Carle Kingman, Bradford
King, James
Kingman, Martin Koch, John, Jr.
Hastings, Levi W. Harmon, David I. Heath, Charles H. Heath, Sidney Hays, George
Hills, Richard
Healy, James Holmes, William Head, Harris R. Hancock, Zacheriah Head, Joseph Head, Richard C.
Holmes, Edwin T. Higginson, Louis
Hedge, Frederick H., Jr. Hooper, Edward W. Hall, Charles Hobart, David J. Halfenstine, Adam Harrison, John Hammond, Silas Houlahan, Charles E.
Hayes, Jeremiah Howe, Albert Hunting, Henry H.
Haven, Albert
Haven, Frank
Gardner, Philip P.
Gibson, George A.
Greene, Cyrus P. Gardner, Harrison
Goodwin, LeBaron Gross, Willard Y.
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Militia List, 1872.
Keenan, John M.
McCarty, Patrick
Kelley, Daniel, Jr.
Madore, Joseph
Kirk, Albert E.
Murphey, Cornelius
Kenrick, David T.
McManners, Patrick
Kinsley Edward
Morse, Eugene S.
Kingman, Abner A. Kemp, Arthur
Mason, Albree McKeon, Michael
McCarty, Peter
McInerny, John
McMara, Daniel
Mealy, Francis
Malone, Bernard
Morse, John McPeters, George H.
Mahan, Thomas
Lovell, Warren D.
Mahan, James
Lynd, Charles A.
Moore, Charles
McIntosh, Royal, Jr.
McLaughlin,
McIntosh, Edward
McIntosh, George
McAvoy, Patrick
Lang, John H. Lynch, Michael Lynch, James Lunny, James
McNamara, John
Murphey, Lawrence C.
Mullen, Michael
Laighton, James A.
McNamara, Dennis Murray, John
Lincoln, William E. Lyford, George E.
McGrath, Patrick
Loring, Stanton D.
Matthew, Ashael G.
Lincoln, Albert L., Jr. Lyon, Levi 'T. Ladd, Charles P.
Mann, John H.
Mudge, George A.
Littell, Robert S.
Murray, Robert A.
Mason, Henry
Martin, Walter
Marston, George
Murphey, Thomas
McDonald, Archibald E.
Mead, Morris
Merritt, George W. Moore, Emery B. Merrill, Luther M. Merridith, James M.
McCarty, Marcus B. McCormack, James Moran, Lawrence Marley, Michael McNamara, Thomas Mungovan, James G.
.
Mealy, Daniel Miskill, Michael Mahan, Dennis McAndrews, Thomas Mann, N. P., Jr.
Kenrick, Alfred E. Kirby, Charles K. Kelleher, Maurice
Keizer, Peter Kennard, Edward P.
Lovell, John W. Lovell, Thomas P.
Lowell, Augustus Liddy, Frederick Lowrey, Andrew Liddy, John H. Lyon, Otis
Murray, Thomas
Lanman, Thomas E.
McGrath, James
Lincoln, Wm. Henry Loring, Robert P. Lovering, Daniel Lee, Thomas J. Lawrence, William Lincoln, Roland C. Linnehan, Cornelius Lock, Leonard
Mullen, Frederick H.
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Mellen, George M. Mellen, Frederick II. Mulliken, Henry Mahoney, John J.
Neal, Burton W.
Nelson, Edwin
Newcomb, Edward
Roy, Joseph
Ryan, Matthew
Reed, Isaac
Rogers, Samuel
Russell, Edmund
Robinson, Willard HI.
Ricker, Oliver P.
Ritchie, Andrew M.
Ritchie, John
Reed, William T.
Reed, John J.
Robertson, John
Rolf, John S.
Robinson, Henry
Ray, Alfred F.
Roberts, H. B.
Ritchie, Thomas
Rogers, O. A.
Reed, Henry
Ropes, W. B.
Rogers, George
Rice, Henry F.
Pulsifer, Asa
Palmer, Edwin F.
Pons, Charles A.
Palmer, George F. Paige, Albert S.
Poole, Frederick
Power, Edward
Plummer, Lincoln K. Pottle, John Palmer, Jacob P.
Perkins, Joseph J.
Phillips, John F. Phillips, Edward H. Phelps, Daniel W. Peabody, Robert S. Pierce, Jacob W. Parker, Mason G. Pierce, Henry E.
Quimby, Benjamin F. Quinlan, Thomas
Quinlan, Michael Quinby, Henry F.
Ruggles, Albion L.
Ruggles, Cyrus W.
Robinson, Thomas
Richards, Francis C.
Nash, Francis J.
Norton, Henry
Newton, W. W.
Newman, Marshall P.
Orcutt, Mears O'Dea, John T. O'Connor, Dennis O'Dea, Michael O'Dea, Thomas Olsen, Peder Orrock, John M.
Price, Lewis S. Power, Frederick Pratt, George L.
Perry, Charles L. Paine, Joseph Pollard, Joseph D. Perrin, Lewis
Pulsifer, John C.
Sanderson, George S. Smith, Edmund S.
Stockton, Howard
Sturgis, John H. Shurtleff, Augustine Snow, Albert
Stetson, A. Henry
Searle, Frederick A.
Staples, Richard Sargent, Charles S.
Sargent, John A.
Sargent, Horace
Sanderson, Eli D. Stitt, George Shehan, John
Somers, William
Shehan, William Sullivan, John Sullivan, Jeremiah Shewell, Thomas B.
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Militia List, 1872.
Stees, Edward
Turnbull, George
Seamans, Marshall
Tompson, Edward W. E.
Seamans, Manning. Salisbury, W. F. G. Stone, Grafton W.
Tompkins, Eliot D. Thorndike, Charles
Thayer, Arthur T.
Spinney, Frank Sanderson, Alfred
Tilden, George F. Tyler, William R.
Schrawbstadter, Carle
Stone, George F.
Verney, Osarius
Sabin, Charles W. Seely, Guy B.
Woods. James
Sawin, Francis N.
Webber, Charles F.
Seaverns, Henry G.
Walters, James
Skinner, Charles W.
Woodward, William
Shepherd, John S. Stuart, William Seaver, William
Willis, Herbert Wetherell, John W.
Scudder, Winthrop
White, Joseph
Sinclair, James W.
Walther, George J.
Stedman, George E.
Ware, Charles P. Williams, Moses, Jr.
Sears, Isaac H. Stearns, William
Winsor, Alfred
Winsor, Walter T. Winsor, Ernest
Whiting, George E.
Wiswall, William D.
Soule, George Stearns, John G., Jr.
Stearns, George M. Stearns, Joseph G.
Stearns, Charles H. Stearns, F. Gilbert
Tilley, James F. Tilley, Charles Towle, James Tappan, Lewis W., Jr. Towle, George M. Taft, William Taylor, William H., Jr. Train, Samuel P. Train, Stephen G. Turner, Fergus B. Trough, Edmund Tracy, Patrick Thomas, Edward I. Taylor, John C. Trull, Washington B. Taylor, Alfred S. Taylor, Isaac H.
Wildman, James G. Warren, John W. Ward, Clement T. Weinstein, Rupert Whalen, Michael Walliston, John W. Watson, Nicholas Watts, Stephen Whitfield, Horace Welsh, John Wood, John S.
Woods, Rufus K. Willis, Albert
Willis, Augustus
Weeks, Hiram P.
Wall, William H. H. Waterman, W. S.
Warren, George Wilder, William H. Wood, Charles B. Wesselhoeft, George P. Winslow, Andrew J. Woodbury, William P. Williams, James F.
Spofford, Samuel W. Sawtell, Richard
Slack, Edmund W.
Soule, Richard H.
Worthington, George
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Woods, James M.
Wells, Henry B.
Wheelock, Joseph
Wise, Daniel W.
Winchester, Stephen S.
Wrightington, Charles T.
Wellman, Gustavus O.
Wood, William.
Wellman, Francis L.
Whitney, Henry M.
Woods, Amos L.
Waterman, Joseph T.
Young, John W.
Worthley, George H.
Young, John D., Jr.
Williams, Arthur
Young, Edward
Wood, William
Young, Charles H.
Wrightington, Charles W.
THOS. B. HALL,
AUSTIN W. BENTON, WM. LINCOLN, Assessors of Brookline.
GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 5, 1872.
SEAL
SEAL
SEAL
WARRANT.
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 Tuesday, the fifth day of November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, at twelve of the clock, noon, at which time and place the polls will be opened and kept open until thirty minutes past four of the clock in the afternoon, during which time they will be required to give in their votes to the Selectmen for the following National, State, and County Officers ; to wit, -
For thirteen Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, each vote for such Elector to contain the name of at least one inhabitant of each Congressional Dis- trict of this Commonwealth ; a Representative to Congress for the Eighth Congressional District, Governor, Lieutenant
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General Election, November 5, 1872.
Governor, Councillor for the Third Councillor District, Sec- retary of the Commonwealth, Treasurer and Receiver Gen- eral, Auditor of Accounts, Attorney General, Senator for the First Norfolk Senatorial District, Representative to the General Court for the Fifteenth Norfolk District, and one County Commissioner for three years, all to be voted for on one ticket.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant to the Selectmen, with your doings thereon, four days at least before the day of said meeting.
Given under our hands and seals at Brookline aforesaid, this fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
CHARLES D. HEAD, HORACE JAMES, WILLIAM ASPINWALL, JAMES W. EDGERLY, CHARLES K. KIRBY, Selectmen of the Town of Brookline.
NORFOLK, SS. BROOKLINE, Mass., October 30, 1872.
In pursuance of the within warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within named, by leaving a printed copy of the same at their usual place of abode within said town, four days at least before the day of said meeting.
J. P. SANBORN, Constable of Brookline.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the town of Brookline, qualified to vote in elections, assem- bled at the Town Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and were called to order at twelve of the clock, noon, by Charles D. Head, Esq., chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The Town Clerk then read the warrant calling said meeting, and the return thereon of the constable who had served the notices.
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