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TOWN OF ANDOVER.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING
JANUARY 10, 1894.
TOGETHER WITH THE
REPORT OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
ANDOVER, MASS .: The Andover Press, Printers. 1894
THE
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
OF THE
TOWN OF ANDOVER.
For the Financial Year ending January 10th, 1894.
ANDOVER : THE ANDOVER PRESS, PRINTERS 1894
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ยท REPORT.
TOWN MEETINGS.
Monday, March 6th, 1893.
WARRANT.
Article 1st. - To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2d. - To choose Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, One member of the Board of Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the Poor for three years, Three members of the School Committee for three years, One Water Com- missioner for three years, One Trustee of the Memorial Hall for seven years, one or more Auditors of Accounts, Consta- bles, Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, Surveyors of Lumber, a Pound Keeper, a Committee of Seven for the Spring Grove Cemetery for three years, and a Committee on Street Lighting.
Article 3d. - To take action on the following question : " Shall Licenses be granted for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors in this Town ?"
Article 4th. - To determine the disposition of unex- pended appropriations.
Article 5th .- To determine what sums of money shall be appropriated for Schools, School-houses, School Books and Supplies, Highways and Bridges, Sidewalks, Removing Snow, Horses and Drivers, Town Officers, Town House, Shade Trees, Hay Scales, Fire Department, Insurance, Street Lighting,
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Printing and Stationery, Spring Grove Cemetery, Memorial Day, Memorial Hall, State Aid, Military Aid, Waterworks, Interest on Bonds, Funds, and Notes, State Tax, County Tax, Discount on Taxes, Abatement of Taxes, Almshouse Expenses, Relief out of Almshouse, Repairs on Almshouse, and Miscellaneous.
Article 6th. - To authorize the Treasurer to hire money for the use of the Town when necessary, upon the approval of the Selectmen.
Article 7th. - To determine the method of collecting the Taxes the ensuing year.
Article 8th. - To fix the pay of the Firemen for the ensuing year.
Article 9th. - To see if the Town will revise and accept the List of names for Jurors, prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
Article 10th. - To hear and act on the Reports of the Selectmen and other Town Officers.
Article 11th. - To see if the Town will establish a public watering trough at the terminus of the water-pipe on Salem Street.
Article, 12th. - To hear the report of the committee on drainage and act thereon.
Article 13th. - To hear the report of the committee on Public Park, and act thereon.
Article 14th. - To see what sum of money the Town will appropriate for making surveys, plans, and estimates for a complete system of sewerage.
Article 15th. - To see if the Town will re-appropriate the sum of one thousand and twenty-eight dollars ($1028) for the extension of Morton Street (formerly Pike Street) as laid out by the Selectmen in February, 1887, and accepted by the Town March 7, 1887, on petition of Nathan F. Abbott and others.
Article 16th. - To see if the Town will appropriate money for the distribution of library books in the outlying districts, on petition of Edward W. Burtt and others.
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Article 17th. - To see if the Town will accept the follow- ing bequest of the late John Cornell, and choose a board of trustees as specified in said will : "To the inhabitants of Andover, aforesaid, five thousand dollars, in trust, the income therefrom to be used in the purchase of wood and coal fo" the worthy poor of said Andover, said fund to be held by a board of trustees chosen at a meeting of said inhabitants, and said trustees to apportion said wood and coal."
Article 18th. - To see if the Town will authorize the - Water Commissioners to issue ten thousand dollars ($10,000) worth of bonds.
Article 19th. - To see if the Town will establish and keep a watch, and also establish the number and qualifications of the watchman, on petition of Geo. F. Cheever.
Article 20th. - To see if the Town will pay Silas Buck the value of his horse killed while taking the J. P. Bradlee En- gine to the fire at William Haley's in Wilmington, April 12. 1892, on petition of Charles Greene and others.
Article 21st. - To see if the Town will adopt sections one, two, and three of Chapter 104 of the Public Statutes relating to the erection, construction, and use of buildings, make regulations or by-laws thereunder, and determine the limits within which the same shall apply.
Article 22d. - To see if the Town will vote to enlarge the culverts under Bartlet and East Chestnut Streets, through which the waters of Stony Brook, so called, are conducted, and appropriate a sum of money therefor, on petition of Er- win C. Pike and others.
Article 23d. - To see if the Town will vote to elect its members of the Board of Selectmen for a term of one year, instead of three years as at present.
Article 24th. - To see if the Town will repair the old school-house at Ballard Vale, and appropriate a sum of money therefor.
Article 25th. - To see if the Town will instruct its Select- men or Engineers to sell one of the steam fire engines.
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Article 26th. - To determine the amount of money to be raised by taxation the ensuing year.
Article 27th. - To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Took up Article 1st.
George H. Poor was elected Moderator.
Voted. To close the polls at two o'clock P.M., and the polls were closed at that time.
Voted, To choose three Constables.
Voted. To choose three Fence Viewers.
Voted. To take up and act on Articles 2d and 3d together. Peter D. Smith, Samuel H. Boutwell. John S. Stark. Bar- nett Rogers. William Marland. John Hurley. George F. Cheever. Edward S. Boutwell were appointed by the Modera- tor Tellers of votes and were duly sworn by him.
Took up Articles 2d and 3d.
At fifteen minutes past nine o'clock the polls were opened and the meeting proceeded to ballot for Town Officers, and to vote on the Liquor License question. two check lists for each voting precinet being required.
The Standard Cancelling Ballot Box failed to work prop- erly. and it was set aside. an open box being substituted therefor in taking the vote on the Liquor License question.
The Moderator appointed Dr. C. H. Shattuck. Jr .. Henry W. Barnard. John J. Sweeney, Tellers to count the votes for Town Officers and Barnett Rogers to count the License vote. and swore them to the faithful discharge of their duty, and the Tellers reported as follows :
FOR TOWN CLERK :
Abraham Marland. 399
George A. Higgins. 319
FOR SELECTMAN. ASSESSOR. AND OVERSEER OF POOR .- 3 years :
Arthur Bliss. 163
Peter D. Smith. 249
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FOR TOWN TREASURER : George A. Parker, 718
FOR COLLECTOR OF TAXES :
Abraham Marland, 387
George A. Higgins, 331
FOR SCHOOL COMMITTEE .- 3 years :
John Alden, 712
William Odlin, 481
John Nelson Cole, 471
Susan E. Jackson,
240
Frederick W. Greene,
226
FOR TRUSTEE OF MEMORIAL HALL, -7 years : Charles C. Carpenter, 693
FOR BOARD OF HEALTH :
Charles E. Abbott,
718
George S. Cole,
711
Howell F. Wilson, 718
FOR AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS :
Joseph M. Bradley,
440
George A. Higgins, 322
Louis T. Hardy,
716
Henry McLawlin,
272
Louis A. Dane,
395
FOR CONSTABLES :
George F. Cheever,
709
Elmer H. Shattuck,
448
Barnett Rogers,
706
George W. Mears,
276
FOR FENCE VIEWERS :
George Buchan,
712
William H. Carter,
444
Henry A. Hayward, 439
Michael Walsh,
270
Justin E. Clark,
273
Patrick Daley,
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FOR WATER COMMISSIONER,-3 years : John H. Flint,
718
All the foregoing officers declared elected were chosen by ballot.
And the Moderator declared Abraham Marland elected Town Clerk; Arthur Bliss elected Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor for three years; George A. Parker elected Town Treasurer; Abraham Marland elected Collec- tor of Taxes ; John Alden, William Odlin and John Nelson Cole elected School Committee for three years each; Charles C. Carpenter elected a Trustee of Memorial Hall for seven years ; Charles E. Abbott, George S. Cole and Howell F. Wilson elected Board of Health ; Joseph M. Bradley, Louis T. Hardy and Louis A. Dane elected Auditors of Accounts ; George F. Cheever, Elmer H. Shattuck and Barnett Rogers elected Constables ; George Buchan, William H. Carter and Henry A. Hayward elected Fence Viewers ; John H. Flint elected Water Commissioner for three years.
The result of the vote on the Liquor License question was declared to be as follows :
" Yes," 55.
" No," 405.
Chose Field Drivers : George F. Cheever, John H. Flint, John S. Stark, Samuel H. Boutwell, Augustus A. Upton.
Chose Surveyors of Lumber : William H. Carter, Joshua H. Chandler, Henry Gray, H. P. Ladd, Charles H. Marland, Charles G. Hussey, Joseph F. Cole, Herbert A. Moody, Frank E. Gleason.
Chose Pound Keeper, Superintendent of Town Farm, and the Town Barnyard to be the Pound.
Chose Committee of seven, Spring Grove Cemetery, three years : John L. Smith, James P. Butterfield, Felix G. Haynes, William S. Jenkins, George W. Foster, Charles S. Parker, Charles Greene.
Voted, That the matter of street lighting be left with the Selectmen.
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Took up Article 4th.
Voted, That all unexpended balances of Appropriations, except so far as used and expended at the February pay day, be covered into the Treasury.
Took up Article 5th.
Voted, To appropriate the following stated amounts of
money :
For Schools, $20,400.
School-houses, including $11,000 for new Vil-
lage School-house, 13,500
School Books and Supplies, 1,800
Highways and Bridges, 10,000
Sidewalks, 1,500
[$1,000 to be for building concrete side-
walks under the betterment act when re-
quested by abutters. ]
Removing Snow, 3,000.
Town Officers,
5,000.
Town House, 1,500
Lighting Memorial Hall, 175
Water-works (maintenance),
3,800
Two Sinking Funds for Water Debt, $150 each, 300
Fire Department, 2,500
Horses and Drivers,
3,300
Street Lighting,
4,600
Printing and Stationery,
1,000
Spring Grove Cemetery,
200
[With proceeds of sale of lots]
Memorial Day,
200
State Aid,
1,600
Military Aid,
500
Almshouse Expenses,
4,000
Relief out of Almshouse,
5,000
Repairs on Almshouse,
500
State Tax, 6,000
County Tax,
6,000
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For Discount on Taxes, $3,000
Abatement of Taxes,
300
Interest on Notes, Funds, and Bonds,
8,500
Insurance, 300
Hay Scales,
50
Shade Trees,
100
[To be expended under direction of Farmers'
Club. ]
Miscellaneous, 1,500
To pay and retire five Water Bonds, 5,000
[Sewerage, Article 14], 1,500
[Extension of Morton St., Article 15], 1,028
[Silas Buck, pay for Horse, Article 20], 150
[Enlarging Culverts, Article 22], 490
[Repairing Old School-house at Ballad Vale, Article 24], 500
[Draining Watering Trough on Salem St.,.
Article 11], 150
Took up Article 6th.
Voted, To authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to hire money for use of the Town, when necessary, in anticipation of taxes of the current year, and to be payable therefrom.
Took up Article 7th.
Voted, That the taxes be collected as herctofore, the Col- lector to collect all taxes; that he be paid one per cent on the amount collected ; that a discount of five per cent be allowed on all taxes paid to the Collector on or before Sep- tember 1st, 1893, and that interest at the rate of six per cent per annum be charged and collected on all taxes remaining unpaid on and after January 1st, 1894.
Took up Article 8th.
Voted, To pay Firemen twenty-five dollars per year for their services.
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Took up Article 9th.
Voted, To accept the list of Jurors here following :
Abbott, Almon P.
Gould, Milo H.
Abbott, Ezra L.
Gray, Henry.
Abbott, Warren G.
Grosvenor, James.
Bailey, Charles L.
Gulliver, John F.
Bailey, Frank E.
Hackett, William H.
Baker, George F.
Hanson, Eugene A.
Barnard, Henry W.
Hardy, Edward L.
Billington, Charles F.
Haynes, Bancroft T.
Blunt, Charles C.
Hayward, Henry M.
Boutwell, Samuel H.
Holt, Ballard.
Boynton, Henry.
Holt, E. Francis.
Burtt, Edward W.
Jaquith, Newton.
Chandler, Joshua H.
Leslie, David C.
Chase, Herbert F.
Lovejoy, Stephen A.
Chase, Omar P.
Lowd, Joseph H.
Chickering, Milton. Claflin, John M.
McLawlin, Henry.
Clement, Millard A.
Mears, Nathan E.
Clemons, Albert E.
Newton, Charles H.
Cummings, Brainard.
Nolan, James.
Cummings, Charles O.
Daley, Patrick.
Phelps, Frank C. Poor, Daniel H.
Daley, James E.
Riley, Lawrence F.
Dear, Alexander.
Rogers, Barnett.
Dodson, Richard J.
Russell, Henry A.
Donald, Walter S.
Saunders, Warren.
Dove, George W. W.
Scott, John W.
Flint, George E., 2d.
Shapleigh, William T.
Flint, Henry K.
Flint, James S.
Smart, Joseph A. Smith, Peter D.
Flint, John H.
Souter, James, 2d.
Goldsmith, William G.
Stark, John S.
Goodwin, Sherman.
Stott, Joshua H. -
Caffrey, Owen F.
Jowett, John W.
Chandler, George W.
Joyce, Patrick V.
Matthews, Thomas H.
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Stott, Thomas E. Tuck, M. Warren.
Tucker, Wiliam H.
Ward, Anthony.
White, William W. Wright, Edgar G.
Took up Article 10th.
Voted, That Annual Reports of Selectmen and other Town Officers be accepted.
Dr. C. E. Abbott, Secretary of the Board of Health, made a verbal report on the work of that depurtment, and on the Board's desire to have a public system of drainage.
Took up Article 11th.
Voted, To drain the existing watering trough at the termi- nus of the water pipe on Salem Street, and that one hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated for that purpose.
Took up Article 12th.
William S. Jenkins of the Drainage Committee made the following report :
DRAINAGE REPORT.
At a meeting held May 13th, 1892, a committee of five was appointed to inquire into the subject of public drainage, and report at the next annual Town Meeting. In accordance with said vote your Committee beg leave to report that they have attended to that duty by looking over the most thickly settled portion of the Town, and are unanimous in concluding that the time has arrived when the Town should, without delay, secure a competent Surveyor's plan, specifications and estimate of such a system of sewerage as may be acceptable to the Town and State Board of Health. The Committee have no desire to cite individual cases, to convince the citizens that a necessity exists demanding the better protection of the Town against disease, and would recommend that the Town proceed to carry a system of sewerage into effect.
WM. S. JENKINS, JOSEPH M. BRADLEY, WM. B. GRAVES, CHARLES E. ABBOTT, JOHN L. SMITH, Committee.
Voted, That the Report be accepted.
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Took up Article 13th.
John N. Cole of the Committee on Public Park called at- tention to the printed report here copied.
THE PUBLIC PARK.
The committee on the Public Park beg leave to report as follows :
A public park in Andover may not be of such urgent need as are many other improvements, but it has seemed best to your committee to consider the future and not the present in preparing this report. On the east side of the " Old Rail- road, " between Andover and North Andover, the town owns a tract of woodland, familiarly known as "Carmel Woods, " whose rolling surface and handsome groves might be made into a beautiful park.
This piece of land may be considered to be quite a distance from the centre, but there are several reasons why it comes into this report for consideration. The town owns it; its surface is broken by pretty knolls and glens, and attractive groves, walks and drives could be laid out within its borders with a small outlay each year.
It is the judgment of your committee that a landscape gardner or some forester should be secured to lay out this piece of land on a plan, and year by year a small sum should be appropriated to cut a few trees, make a few walks, and all being in accord with a definite, well-defined plan, would in a few years give to our town an attractive pleasure ground with but little expenditure of money.
The committee further recommends that the town careuflly consider the land known as the " Richardson lot, " and its value to the town if acquired and improved. This piece of land is the best located of any plat in town for a local, cen- tral public play-ground. It is not large enough to be con- sidered as a public park, but its size easily admits of an ample and first-class play-ground, intersected by walks and dotted by bits of lawn, all making a delightful breathing place for old and young. Its near location to the school buildings owned
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by the town, and the assured growth of the town should be considered.
The question of draining the centre of town finds a partial solution in the lowering of Stony Brook: the control of the Richardson lot puts this brook into the hands of the town and its lowering would afford not only the proper drainage of this land, but many acres of land back of the Richardson property, desirable and attractive for building purposes, if properly drained. The filling in of low places in this land, if owned by the town, could be done as the town was able, and by use of refuse matter now used to fill in private land, need not be an expensive job.
WM. S. JENKINS, JOHN L. SMITH, JOSEPH M. BRADLEY, CHARLES L. CARTER, JOHN N. COLE,
Committee.
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Voted, That the report be accepted.
Took up Article 14th.
Voted, That Fifteen Hundred Dollars be appropriated for making surveys, plans, and estimates for a complete system of sewerage, and the expenditure of this sum be left with the committee in existence, also that the matter of getting sur- veys, etc., of a public park, be left with the same committee and be paid for from the same appropriation.
Voted, That a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to apply to the Legislature for an act to authorize the Town to establish a sewer commissson.
The Moderator appointed as that committee, Joseph M. Bradley, Charles E. Abbott and Charles Greene.
Took up Article 15th.
Voted, That the ten hundred and twenty eight dollars be re-appropriated for building the extension of Morton Street as laid out and accepted in 1887.
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Took up Article 16th.
Voted, That the matter of distribution from the Library be left to the Trustees of Memorial Hall to carry into effect, if they deem it expedient, and pay the expense from the dog money.
Took up Article 17th.
Voted, To accept the legacy of the late John Cornell, which reads as follows: "To the inhabitants of Andover aforesaid, five thousand dollars, in trust, the income therefrom: to be used in the purchase of wood and coal for the worthy poor of said Andover, and said fund to be held by a board of trus- tees, to apportion said wood and coal."
Voted, To chose a board of trustees, one for one year, one for two years, one for three years. Chose Frank E. Gleason, Joseph A. Smart, Charles Greene.
Took up Article 18th.
Voted, That the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue the bonds of the Town, to be designated on their face " Andover Water Loan," to the amount of ten thousand dol- lars, in addition to the amounts heretofore authorized and issued for this purpose, the proceeds to be used to pay the ex- pense of supplying the Town with water, as authorized by law. The bonds hereby authorized to be issued shall be ten in number and of the denomination of one thousand dollars each ; they shall be numbered from 171 to 180, both numbers inclu- sive ; they shall bear the date of June 1st, 1893, and shall mature and be paid June 1st, 1923 ; they shall bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, and the interest shall be paid semi-annually on the first day of June and December in each year ; they shall have coupons attached to them providing for the payment of said interest at the times aforesaid ; the interest and principal of said bonds shall be paid at some convenient bank or office in the city of Boston. Said bonds shall be signed by the Town Treasurer, and countersigned by the Water Commissioners, as required by law in this behalf, and shall be sold by the Treasurer to the
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highest bidder therefor in proposals to be solicited by him from bankers and others.
For the purpose of paying the principal of said bonds at their maturity, a sinking fund is hereby established, in accordance with the provisions of law in this behalf, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay into the sinking fund whatever premiums may be received from the sale of said bonds in excess of their face value, and there shall be raised by taxation and contributed annually to said sinking fund such sums as shall be sufficient, with the accumulations thereof, to pay the principal of said bonds at their maturity. But said sinking fund shall remain inviolate and pledged to to the payment of said bonds, and shall not be used for any other purpose.
Voted, That the Water Commissioners be requested not to run the pumps on Sunday, except when absolutely neces- sary.
Took up Article 19th.
Toted, That the Town establish a watch, and that one watchman be appointed to have all the power conferred on watchmen by the public statutes.
Took up Article 20th.
Toted, To appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars to pay Silas Buck for horse lost by drawing steam fire engine to the fire in Wilmington April 12th, 1892.
Took up Article 21st.
Voted. To indefinitely postpone this article.
Took up Article 22d.
Toted, To appropriate four hundred and ninety dollars for enlarging culverts on Rogers Brook under Bartlett and East, Chestnut Streets.
Took up Article 23d.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone this article.
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Took up Article 24th.
Voted, That five hundred dollars be appropriated to repair the old schoolhouse at Ballard Vale.
Took up Article 25th. Voted, To indefinitely postpone this article.
Took up Article 26th.
Voted, to raise eighty thousand dollars by taxation, which sum shall include the amount of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars for Town notes due and payable this year.
Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow the sum of thirty thousand dollars, and give the notes of the Town therefor, with the approval of the Selectmen, payable ten thousand dollars in one year, ten thousand dollars in two years, and ten thousand dollars in three years, with interest, semi-annually at four per centum per annum ; the proceeds of such notes to be used to pay appropriations made at this meeting not otherwise provided for by the amount raised by taxation and other revenue of the current year.
Voted, That the coal for Town use except that for the Water-works be purchased by the Selectmen from the lowest bidder.
George S. Cole, John H. Flint, John Newton Cole, were appointed a committee to build the Village School-house.
Voted, To adopt the following By-Law.
Whoever dumps or places any stones, rubbish or garbage in a street or way within the limits of the Town shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars.
Abraham Marland, Town Clerk, Arthur Bliss, Selectman, George F. Cheever and Barnett Rogers, Constables, were duly sworn to the performance of their duties by the Mod- erator.
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Meeting dissolved at five o'clock and fifty minutes P. M.
The foregoing is a true copy of the Warrant and of the Officers' return thereon ; also a true record of the doings of the meeting.
Attest,
ABRAHAM MARLAND,
Town Clerk.
Special Town Meeting, May 22d, 1893.
WARRANT.
Article 1st. - To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2nd - To elect a board of Sewer Commissioners as authorized by chapter 236 of the acts of the year 1893; said board to consist of three persons to be elected by ballot, to serve for the term of one year, two years, and three years respectively from the next annual meeting.
Article 3rd. - To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to use the Ware Sidewalk Fund for the construction of a sidewalk on the easterly side of Main Street in accordance with the purpose of the donor, and provide therefor.
Article 4th. - To see if the Town will vote to purchase a small lot of land opposite the Railroad Station, for material to be used for repairing town ways, and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars therefor.
Took up Article 1st.
Chose George H. Poor Moderator by ballot, he receiving the only one vote cast.
Took up Article 2nd.
Voted, To act on Article 2nd, and chose by ballot, using the check list, three sewer commissioners. The Moderator ap-
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pointed Arthur Bliss, Samuel H. Boutwell and John S. Stark tellers and checkers, and they were duly sworn by him. Elected the following board of Sewer Commissioners : Chas. E. Abbott for one year by sixty-three votes, John L. Smith for two years by sixty-three votes, William S. Jenkins for three years by sixty-six votes and they were declared elected by the Moderator and duly sworn after the close of the meet- ing by George H. Poor, Justice of the Peace.
Took up Article 3rd.
Voted, To authorize the Selectmen to use the Ware Sidewalk Fund for the construction of a sidewalk on the easterly side of Main Street, in accordance with the purpose of the donor, and that the Selectmen take the amount of the Ware Fund for this purpose from any funds of the Town not otherwise spent during the current year.
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