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LINCOLN PUBLIC LIBRARY, MASS. 3 4864 00275 4835
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE YEAR 1946 -50 ALSO THE REPORT OF THE SCHOOL AND OTHER COMMITTEES FOR THE YEAR 1946
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NEWTON GARDEN CITY PRINT, INC.
1947
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 76
Assessors, Report of
Auditor, Report of
106
Board of Appeals, Report of
164
Building Inspector, Report of
174
Cemetery Commissioners, Report of
154
Collector of Taxes, Report of
96
deCordova and Dana Museum Advisory Committee, Report of
175
Finance Committee, Report of
66
Fire Engineers, Report of
156
Health, Board of, Report of
148
Inspector of Animals, Report of
161
Jury List for 1946
53
Library, Report of Trustees of Statistics
160
Memorial Day Committee, Report of
178
Middlesex County Extension Service, Report of
171
Mosquito Control Commissioners, Report of
150
Nursing Committee, Report of
157
Old Age Assistance, Report of
75
Overlay Account
74
Planning Board, Report of
162
Playground Committee, Report of
173
Roll of Honor
63
School Committee, Report of
179
Expenditures and Receipts
191
Graduating Class of 1946
193
School Calendar.
181
School Committee, Report of
182 192
School Nurse, Report of
194
School Personnel
180
School Superintendent, Report of
184
Selectmen, Report of
59
State Auditor, Report of
129
Streets, Superintendent of, Report of
143
Town Clerk, Report of
8
Annual Meeting, March 4, Proceedings at
15
Annual Meeting, March 4, Warrant of
8
Births
54 58
Dog Licenses
53 53 56
Special Town Meeting, June 1
26
Special Town Meeting, June 28
33
Sporting Licenses
53
State Election, November 5, Warrant of
41
State Primary, June 8, Warrant of
28
Town Election, March 9
24
Town Officers, List of
4
Treasurer, Report of
98
Tree Warden, Report of .
172
Trust Funds Commissioners, Report of 135
Warrant of 1947 195
Water Commissioners, Report of
144
Deaths
Juror List for 1946
Marriages
School Enrollment.
158
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TOWN OF LINCOLN
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1946
Moderator DONALD P. DONALDSON
Town Clerk WILLIAM H. DAVIS
Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare
SUMNER SMITH (Chairman) Term expires 1949
ALBERT A. SCHAAL Term expires 1947
H. BIGELOW HILLS Term expires 1948
Regular meeting second and fourth Mondays of each month, at 8 p.m., at the Town Hall office.
Assessors
PHILIP R. SNELLING (Chairman) Term expires 1947
D. EVERETT SHERMAN, JR. Term expires 1949
CYRUS W. MURPHY . Term expires 1948
Treasurer FREDERICK B. TAYLOR
Collector of Taxes
WILLIAM H. DAVIS
Auditor
JAMES W. LENNON
School Committee
ROLLIN J. FAIRBANKS (Chairman) Term expires 1947
HELEN P. WILEY . Term expires 1948
JOHN W. CARMAN Term expires 1949
Regular meetings first Monday of each month at Center School at 8 p.m.
Water Commissioners
SUMNER SMITH (Chairman) Term expires 1947
JOHN J. KELLIHER Term expires 1949
THOMAS J. ROUNER . Appointed
Regular meetings second Monday of each month at Town Hall office, at 8 p.m.
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TOWN OFFICERS
Board of Health
ROBERT L. DENORMANDIE (Chairman) .
Term expires 1948
ROBERT H. BRINKERHOFF
Term expires 1949
PAUL L. NORTON
Term expires 1947
Tree Warden JOHN J. KELLIHER
Commissioners of Trust Funds
LEONARD C. LARRABEE (Chairman)
Term expires 1948
HENRY DEC. WARD .
Term expires 1947
CLEMENT C. SAWTELLE
Term expires 1949
Trustees of Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures
CHARLES V. BRIGGS (Chairman)
Term expires 1949
MABEL H. TODD
Term expires 1947
LEONARD C. LARRABEE
Term expires 1948
Cemetery Commissioners
JOHN F. PETERSON (Chairman) Term expires 1949
GEORGE E. CUNNINGHAM
Term expires 1947
ROBERT D. DONALDSON
Term expires 1948
Planning Board
JOHN O. WILSON (Chairman)
Term expires 1948
HAYWARD PEIRCE
Term expires 1949
ROBERT D. DONALDSON
Term expires 1947
WILLIAM DEFORD
Term expires 1950
LAWRENCE B. ANDERSON
Term expires 1951
Board of Appeals Appointed by Selectmen
HARLAND B. NEWTON .
Term expires 1948
D. EVERETT SHERMAN, JR.
Term expires 1947
ANTHONY J. DOHERTY. Term expires 1949
JAMES DENORMANDIE . Term expires 1950
RICHARD S. MERIAM
Term expires 1951
Associate Members
HENRY B. HOOVER Term expires 1948 WALTER E. LOVEJOY Term expires 1949
Measurers of Wood and Bark HAROLD S. COUSINS
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Trustees of Grammar School Fund
CLEMENT C. SAWTELLE HENRY DEC. WARD LEONARD C. LARRABEE
Trustees of Lincoln Library ROLAND C. MACKENZIE (Chairman) GEORGE G. TARBELL C. LEE TODD (Deceased) SUMNER SMITH (Chairman Selectman ex-officio) ROLLIN J. FAIRBANKS (Chairman School Committee ex-officio)
Registrars Appointed by Selectmen
ANDREW J. DOUGHERTY
Term expires 1947
HENRY J. DAVIS . Term expires 1948
MANLEY B. BOYCE
Term expires 1949
WILLIAM H. DAVIS (Town Clerk ex-officio)
Finance Committee Appointed by Moderator
F. WINCHESTER DENIO (Chairman) Term expires 1948
GUILBERT WINCHELL
Term expires 1947
JOSEPH L. SNIDER Term expires 1949
WILLIAM N. PAGE
Term expires 1949
LELAND A. WILDES
Term expires 1948
Population - 1,998 by 1945 census
Town Area - 8,572 acres.
1946 Tax Rate-$28.00 per $1,000.00 valuation.
Annual Town Meeting: - First Monday in March - March 3, 1947.
Annual Election of Town Officers: - On Saturday following Town Meeting - March 8, 1947.
Registration of new voters - On Wednesday, February 19, 1947, from 12 noon until 10 p.m.
Qualifications for Registration: - Twelve months continuous residence in the State of Massachusetts prior to March 3, 1947, and six months continuous residence in the Town of Lincoln prior to March 8, 1947.
Town Office open daily 9.00 A.M. to 4.30 P.M., Saturdays 9.00 A.M. to 12 noon.
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TOWN OFFICERS
OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN
Superintendent of Streets - Thomas W. Coan.
Sealer of Weights and Measures - John J. Kelliher.
Forest Warden and Moth Superintendent - John J. Kelliher. Clerk of Selectmen - M. Elizabeth Causer.
Inspector of Animals - Daniel E. Sherman.
Member of District Nursing Committee - Alberta A. Fradd. Inspector of Slaughtering - John J. Kelliher. Registrar for three years - Manly B. Boyce.
Dog Officers - John J. Kelliher, Edward B. Cunningham.
Member of Board of Appeals for five years - Richard S. Meriam.
Petroleum Inspector - Matthew H. Doherty.
Burial Agent - George E. Cunningham.
Surveyor of Cord Wood - Harold S. Cousins.
Fence Viewers - John J. Kelliher, Thomas W. Coan.
Field Drivers - Frank Davis, John Costello.
Bureau of Old Age Assistance - Anthony J. Doherty, John J. Kelliher, M. Elizabeth Causer.
Fire Engineers - Edmund W. Giles, Charles K. Fitts, Andrew J. Dougherty.
Caretaker of Town Hall and Library - Orrin C. Wood.
Constables - John J. Kelliher, George E. Cunningham.
Chief of Police - John J. Kelliher.
Police Officer - Edward B. Cunningham.
Special Police - James V. David, Thomas Dee, Andrew J. Dougherty, Herbert G. Farrar, Frank Gordon, Isaac Langille, Daniel Ryan, Sumner Smith, Francis J. Smith, Joseph Tracy, Henry Warner, Robert H. Booth, Harry B. Knowles, Robert H. Morris, John Gilbert, Lawrence Hallet.
Building Inspector - Cyrus W. Murphy.
Caretaker of deCordova Estate - Povl Bang.
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TOWN OF LINCOLN
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
Annual Town Meeting Monday, March 4th, 1946 WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County: GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, qualified to vote in Town Meeting for the Transac- tion of Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Lincoln, on Monday the fourth day of March next at 7.30 o'clock P.M., then and there to act on the following articles except Article 1 and also to meet in said Town Hall on Saturday the ninth day of March next at 12 o'clock Noon, then and there to act on the following Article 1, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested in each of the Post Offices, and in some other public place in said Town seven days at least before the fourth day of March next:
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March ninth, will be open at 12 o'clock Noon, and may be closed at 7 o'clock P.M.
Article 1. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers and any other officers required by law, to be elected by Australian Ballot, viz:
One Moderator for one year.
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years. One member of the Board of Assessors for three years. One Treasurer for one year.
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One Collector of Taxes for one year.
One Auditor for one year.
One member of the School Committee for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Health for three years.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Trustees of the Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Planning Board for five years.
Article 2. To bring in their votes for any committees, commissioners, trustees and other officers, required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.
Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
Article 4. To fix the salaries and compensation of the several elective officers of the Town and to determine whether any Department, Board or Committee shall be authorized to employ for additional compensation any of its members and to fix the additional compensation of such members.
Article 5. To raise and appropriate money for the neces- sary and expedient purposes of the Town, and enact anything in relation to the same.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1946, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
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Article 7. To see whether the Town will purchase a heavy duty truck and appropriate the sum of $7,500 to be taken from the Machinery Fund, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will purchase the following equipment.
1 Medium Duty Truck $5.000 00
1 Power Grader 6,000 00
1 Pick-up Truck 900 00
1 Power Lawn Mower 800 00
1 Sickle Mower 150 00
Appropriate the sum of $12,850 therefore, this amount to be taken from free cash, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote that the collector of taxes be elected for a three-year term, or take any action relative thereto
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to pay the following unpaid 1945 bills.
Board of Health, S. R. Wrightington, Services $80 00
Building Inspector, Salary for 1944 and 1945 123 66
Highway Dept. Doherty's Garage, rent of land 37 53
$241 19
Article 11. To see if the Town will adopt a by-law pro- viding that the existing Board of Appeals under the Zoning By-Laws be the Board of Appeals under Section 81-I of Chapter 211, Acts of 1936.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to have the super- vision of the investments of the John H. Pierce Fund placed under the control of the Commissioners of Trust Funds or take any action relative thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to conduct Mem- orial Day Services on May thirtieth next, appoint a committee, appropriate money, or take any other action relative thereto.
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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Water Commissioners to obtain an engineer's report as to the advisability of the Town joining the Metropolitan Water System, and appropriate $700 for same, or take any other action on the question.
Article 15. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to study the question of an ice hockey and skating rink, and report to the Town at a future meeting, not later than the next annual, or take any action on the question.
Article 16. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $150.00 to place street lights on Farrar Road from Concord Road to Ox Bow Road or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 723 enacted by the General Court in the 1945 Session relative to the establishing and maintenance of a Department for fur- nishing Information, Advice and Assistance to Veterans of World War 2 or other Veterans, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to amend the existing By-laws by striking out Section 10 of Article 2 and substituting therefor the following:
There shall be a Finance Committee composed of five voters of the Town who shall serve without pay and shall not, while serving on said committee, hold any other town office. Within thirty days after the adjournment of the Town Meeting at which this By-law is adopted, the Moderator shall appoint five persons to serve on said Committee, one person for a term of five years, one person for a term of four years, one person for a term of three years, one person for a term of two years, and one person for a term of one year. The members of the Committee shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualified, and any vacancy shall be filled by the remaining members of the committee and the Moderator. The Com- mittee shall choose a chairman and a secretary and shall, prior to the Annual Town Meeting, confer with the Selectmen for consideration of the annual budget, and may hold public hearings. The Committee shall consider all questions that
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require the expenditures of money and shall consult with all boards, committees, or officers on their respective annual or special requests for appropriations. The Committee shall make reports and recommendations in the Annual Town Report or by special report on any question brought before the Town at a Town Meeting other than the Annual Town Meeting.
Article 19. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $1,250.00 to obtain available blue prints of parcels of property in Lincoln, filed at the Registry of Deeds of Middlesex County, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will accept as a public way the private road known as Woods End Road, as shown on a plan in the Land Registration Office being plan numbered 107 (B of 2) and approved by the Board of Survey of the Town of Lincoln, January 30, 1939, - this acceptance being subject to the payment to the Town of an amount sufficient to properly surface the road or take any action relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will appropriate $1,000.00 to form a Mosquito Control Project for the Town of Lincoln under the State Reclamation Board, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to have the town insurance handled by a licensed broker residing in the town, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to have the Moderator appoint a Committee to submit to the Selectmen plans for a Veteran's Homecoming Program or to take any action relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will accept the beneficial interest in the Trust established by the will of Julian de Cor- dova late of Lincoln, and take any further action relating thereto, or to the Deposit Agreement between the Merchant's National Bank of Boston and Julian de Cordova dated November 29, 1930 as amended:
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Article 25. To see whether the Town will vote to create a "Capital Improvements Committee" to consist of the mem- bers of the Planning Board with five additional appointees of the Moderator, to study and draw up a comprehensive plan for the immediate and future physical development of the Town, such plan to include without limiting the generality of the foregoing, their recommendations relating to
1. the location, equipment and appropriate accessories to all public and community buildings, athletic fields, play- grounds, parks and public needs of similar character and
2. any problems legal or otherwise that would be involved in the proper correlation of these town facilities;
to appropriate money for the use of such committee in carrying out such study; or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to purchase or acquire land for the site of a school, appropriate any money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will instruct the Moderator to appoint a Committee, authorize the same to engage an architect to develop preliminary plans and specifications for an elementary school and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00, for such expenses as the Committee may incur, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 28. To determine whether the Town shall au- thorize the Selectmen to take such steps as may be necessary to enable the Town to erect a school building or Town Hall upon the land owned by the Town by virtue of the will of John H. Pierce, and to use the balance of said land for school, play- ground, educational and recreational purposes, and further to take such steps as may be necessary to enable the Town to use so much of the annual income bequeathed including income accumulated thereon, as the Selectmen in their discretion sltall consider advisable for the foregoing purposes, the balance, if any, of said income to be used for hospital treatment by such inhabitants of the Town as in the opinion of the Selectmen should be in financial need thereof.
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Further to take such steps as may be necessary to permit the Town to use the sum bequeathed to the Town by the will of Charles S. Smith towards the construction of a school house upon said land devised to the Town by said will of said John H. Pierce, or to take any other action in relation to any one or more of the foregoing matters.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at or before the time for the meeting aforesaid. Given under our hands this 11th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.
SUMNER SMITH, ALBERT A. SCHAAL, H. BIGELOW HILLS, Selectmen of Lincoln.
On the reverse of the Warrant is the following :
February 23rd, 1946.
I have served this Warrant by posting attested copies in each of the Post Offices, at the Town Hall and Railroad Station seven days before the date of said meeting.
JOHN J. KELLIHER, 1 Constable.
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Monday, March 4, 1946
In accordance with the above Warrant the meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7.30 P.M., the return of the Warrant was read, the Moderator called attention to Article 1, and explained that a voiced vote would be taken first. The Selectmen, fearing an overflow meeting on account of the intense interest in the proposed site for the new school, had arranged for the installation of a two-way radio, portable microphones were placed on the floor of the upper hall with loud speakers in the lower hall and vice versa. An editorial in the Boston Globe of March 6th, 1946, may be of interest.
TWO-WAY RADIO
The oldest instrument of popular local government known to western civilization has joined up with one of the most modern of gadgets to meet a present situation. The Town of Lincoln, as its annual meeting approached, realized that a severe space problem must be faced. The questions to come before the townsfolk were important, and likely to draw a large attend- ance. But the hall was too small to contain them all.
At first it was suggested that the meeting be held in neigh- boring Concord where the armory is commodious. But refer- ence to the Attorney General's Office brought the informal opinion that it would be illegal to have the meeting beyond the border. Then it was proposed to have an overflow meeting in another hall with a two-way radio connecting the two groups. This was deemed entirely legal. The meeting has been held and many town questions have been acted on. Of course, there should be a limit to such process. With the walky- talky on the market, somebody may propose that a town meet- ing be held without any citizens present in the flesh.
Article 2. Voted: That Harold S. Cousins and Joseph R. Tracey be elected Measurers of Wood and Bark for the ensuing year.
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Article 3. Voted: That the reports of the Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees be accepted, and that the report of the Committee appointed for studying the needs of the Lincoln schools be accepted as an interim report.
Article 4. Voted: That the salaries of the elected officers of the Town for the current year be fixed at the following amounts respectively :
Selectman each . $200 00
Assessors, Chairman $200 00
Treasurer
200 00 Assessors, other members each 175 00
Collector of taxes
1,375 00
Auditor 150 00
Town Clerk 300 00
Water Commissioners each .. 75 00
and that the Water Commissioners be authorized to employ one of their members as Superintendent of the Water De- partment at a salary of $400.00 per year, and that one or more Cemetery Commissioners be authorized to work on the Cemetery Grounds at the rate of 70c per hour.
At this time it was voted that the meeting take up Articles 25, 26, 27 and 28, and consider them together. In connection with the above Articles a leaflet was in- serted in, and delivered with the Annual 1945 Town Re- port, reading as follows: "At the request of citizens of the Town the following information is being given as much publicity as possible. On Sunday, February 17, 1946, the five members of the Committee on the Needs of the Lincoln Schools, two of the three members of the Finance Committee and Mr. John Todd met at the home of Mr. H. Bigelow Hills at his invitation. Mr. Joseph L. Snider acted as chairman of the meeting, by request of the group. After lengthy discussion it was agreed without dissent to propose the following motions at Town Meeting as substitutes for Articles 25, 26 and 27, in the warrant for the meeting. (1) Moved - that the matter of engaging an expert in town planning to begin a Master Plan for the Town of Lincoln be referred to the Planning Board and that $2,000.00 be appropriated therefor from free cash.
"(2) Moved-that the Moderator appoint a committee of three who, with the Planning Board shall engage an expert in town planning who shall render an opinion on all proposed school sites in relation to the Master Plan, that a report be made by the committee and Planning Board at a Town Meet-
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ing to be called not later than June 1, 1946, that an appropriate article or articles be inserted in the warrant for this purpose, and that the sum of $500.00 be appropriated therefor from free cash." An amendment to the original motion reading : "That the motion be amended as follows: That the words 'that the Moderator appoint a committee of three who' be stricken out and the following words substituted therefor: 'that the Committee for Investigating the Needs of the Lincoln Schools, together'," was lost. For the amendment 187; against the amendment 192.
Article 5. Voted: That the appropriation for Selectmen be increased by $200.00 to $2,564.00 and that the Selectmen be directed to expend not to exceed said sum of $200.00 to com- pile, publish, and distribute before the next town meeting, to each household house in Lincoln a summary, or the complete text of all deeds, instruments of trust, wills, or other writings by which the Town now holds any public land, buildings, or trust funds or under which it receives any beneficial interest including any restrictions, amendments, agreements, or court decisions affecting the use of the same.
Voied: That the recommendations for Town Hall be in- creased to $4,150.00 to include two-way radio installation $40.00, and piano tuning $50.00.
Voted: That the sum of four hundred dollars be appro- priated for the use of the Committee for Investigating the Needs of the Lincoln Schools, this amount increases recom- mendation of Unclassified to $5,325.00.
Voted: To appropriate the following :
Selectmen
$2,564 00
Treasurer
520 00
Collector of Taxes
1,655 00
Town Clerk
340 00
Assessors
776 00
Auditor
150 00
Election and Registration
500 00
Town Hall
4,150 00
Planning Board
200 00
Finance Committee
30 00
Counsel and Expenses
200 00
Total for General Government
$11,085 00
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Police Department
$5,835 00
Fire Department
2,660 00
Tree and Moth Department
3,405 00
Building Inspector
115 00
Total for Protection of Persons and Property
$12,015 00
Board of Health
2,955 00
Total for Health and Sanitation
2,955 00
Charities Total
14,000 00
Veteran's Aid Total
1,000 00
Schools
53,265 00
Library plus Dog Tax
1,845 00
Totals for Education
55,110 00
Recreation Total .
1,080 00
Cemeteries Total.
1,770 00
General Highway Maintenance
22,835 00
Chapter 90
10,000 00
Machinery
4,350 00
Total for Highways
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