Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... appropriation is made, for the benefit of the Cemetery, of $500 to $800, and sometimes $1,500, a gratuity never to be returned. But the idea to which I desire to especially refer, and contained in this bill, is, that, as we have in the past, so we may now and ever remain one united community and municipality, and give present living application to the provisions of the bill, which secure union and rest together in Oak-grove Cemetery, belonging to the town of Medford, after death. Adjourned until Thursday, March 19, at 10 A.M. Thursday, March 19, 1885. The Committee met in the Green Room at 10 A.m., Senator Sessions in the chair. The Chairman. A quorum of the Committee is present, and we are ready to proceed with the hearing. Mr. Hayes. Mr. Chairman, we are ready to proceed: but, before proceeding, I wish to say one word with regard to a misconstruction which has been put upon some remarks which I made yesterday to the Committee; and. that is, that I had assumed that the citizens of West Medford, if incorporated into a town, would act, in regard to the sewer question, in a manner which might be hostile to the old town below. Now, in the remarks which I made before the Committee on the first day, I stated expressly that we had no fears of anybody living in that section of the town doing any thing in that respect which would be hostile to the citizens of the old town. But I also said, that, of the successors of the present people, we could not say that. So that, what I said yesterday on that question was only to call the attention of the Committee to the state of facts as they exist, and to the general policy, whether, in a small territory like ours, there should be two municipalities on that river, or whether the whole territory should be...
