1887 Palmyra Town Meeting Minutes

 

At the Annual Town Meeting held in and for the Town of Palmyra on Tuesday March 1^st 1887

Present presiding    M. C. Finley             Justice

                              S. N. Sawyer               “

                              H. A. Chase                “

Jas. Bourne Jr. having become disqualified by reason of canvassing for election  Frank H. Brown was appointed Clerk Pro Tem

Board formed an organization with M. C. Finley as chairman who at eight o’clock declared the Polls open and a proclamation made that they would close at 5:30 P.M.

At one o’clock meeting was called to order and the different Town Officers presented their reports which on motion were accepted and adopted by vote of the meeting.

It was also moved and adopted that the Supervisor be instructed to withdraw the appeal in the Lakey suit.

The following resolution was moved and unanimously adopted – That the Commissioner for the burial of honorably discharged Soldiers, Sailors and Marines and the erection of Tombstones for this Town be and he hereby is instructed and authorized to furnish Transportation to a Soldiers Home for any such Soldier, Sailor or Marine who is in indigent circumstances and requests to be removed to such home and the expense of such removal shall be a charge upon thisTown.

We the undersigned Justices of the Peace of the Town of Palmyra do hereby certify that the following named persons were duly elected to the office set opposite their respective names.

                              Henry R. Durfee                Supervisor

                              Jas. Bourne Jr.                  Town Clerk  

                              Edwin H. Clark                  Justice

                              James W. Pyatt                 Assessor

                              David P. Gamble               Overseer of Poor

                              John Jeffery                      Collector

                              William H. Cronise             Highway Commr.

                              Eugene Conant                  Constable

                              Charles J. Grant                    “

                              Fred V. Cleveland                  “

                              Perry S. Feller                       “

                              Gifford H. Post                  Game Constable

                              Elisha S. Lewis                  Excise Commissioner

                              Alembert G. Wigglesworh   Inspector of Election Dist No. 1

                              George R. Stetson                 “            “      “           “      “

                              Charles H. Blair                      “            “      “           “   No. 2

                              John Mander                          “            “      “           “       “

                              Wellington S. Weaver of Election District No. 1 and

James Harrison of Election District No. 2 having received the highest number of votes next to those elected to said office were duly appointed Inspectors to said districts.

The vote to appropriate Seven Hundred ($700.) Dollars for the Poor Fund was as follows, Viz.

For appropriation      56

Against appropriation   1

 

                    M. C. Finley            Justice  

                    H. A. Chase                 “

                    S. N. Sawyer                 “

                    Frank H. Brown         Clerk Pro Tem

I do hereby certify the above is a true copy of the original minutes of meeting now on file in this office

Jas. Bourne Jr.    Town Clerk

At a meeting of the Board of Town Auditors of the Town of Palmyra, Wayne Co. N.Y.  held at the office of Henry R. Durfee  Supr. Thrusday Nov. 10^th 1887 the following bills were presented and audited as below:    

#	Claiment	Services Rendered	Claimed	Allowed
1	E. S. Averill	Printing	28.00	23.00
2	F. W. Cole	“	28.00	28.00
3	Wm. Huxley	Boarding Prisoners	44.25	44.25
4	D. P. Gamble	Overseer of Poor	250.00	250.00
5	H. P. Knowles & Co.	Rent Town Clerks office	27.00	27.00
6	W. H. Cronise	Highway Comr.	114.00	100.00
7	Frank C. Beal	Excise        “	36.00	36.00
8	A. G. Wigglesworth	Inspector & Del Ret?	12.00	12.00
9	W. S. Weaver	“	6.00	6.00
10	Geo. R. Stetson	“	6.00	6.00
11	Frank Brown	Poll Clerk	6.00	6.00
12	Rev. J. R. Henderson	Vital Statistics	2.55	2.55
13	“      A. W. Broadway	“        “	2.10	2.10
14	“   Wm. Casey	“        “	2.85	2.85
15	D. McPherson	“        “