Excerpt from Proceedings at the Celebration of the Sesqui-Centennial of the Town of Waltham: Held in Music Hall, on Monday, January 16th, 1888 Upon the recommendation of the Mayor in his inaugural address, January 2, 1893, that the proceedings of the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration be collected and printed for preservation, the matter was referred on February 20th to the Committee on Public Education. The committee subsequently reported (April 17th) that they had secured the co-operation of the gentlemen who had charge of the preparation of the material used on that occasion. The committee recommended that the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) be appropriated for the purpose of printing and publishing one thousand copies of the proceedings. The report was accepted and the following order adopted: City of Waltham, In the Board of Aldermen. Ordered: That the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) be and hereby is appropriated for putting into permanent form as complete a report as possible of the proceedings at the celebration of the Sesqui-Centennial Anniversary of the Incorporation of Waltham. Said amount is to be charged to the account of Printing, Publishing and Stationery, and is to be taken from the unappropriated funds in the City Treasury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.