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1915-20
MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY Andover, Massachusetts 475-6960
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TOWN OF ANDOVER
ANNUAL REPORT
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Receipts and Expenditures
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FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1914
ANDOVER, MASS. THE ANDOVER PRESS
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CONTENTS
Almshouse Expenses, 55
Liabilities, 83
Personal Property at,
57
Librarian's Report, 107
Relief out of,
59
Memorial Day, 45
Repairs on,
58
Memorial Hall, 46, 103
Superintendent's Report,
60
Aiding Mothers,
59
Miscellaneous, 35
Animal Inspector,
75
Moth Superintendent's Report 72
Appropriations, 1914,
16
Moth Suppression, 73
Art Gallery,
129
North School Addition,
31
Assessors' Report,
61
Notes Given, 47
Assets,
83
Notes Paid,
47
Auditors' Report,
92
Overseers of the Poor,
54
Board of Health,
53
Board of Public Works, Appendix®
Sewer Maintenance, 52
Sewer Sinking Funds, 52
Water Maintenance, 51
Schedule of Town Property, 67
Water Construction, 52
Schoolhouses, 29
Water Sinking Funds, 52
Schools, 23
Bonds, Redemption of, 50
School Books and Supplies, 32
Collector's Account,
79
Combination Pump Truck,
41
Soldiers' Relief,
58
Cornell Fund, 78
44
Spring Grove Cemetery, Report,
77
Dog Tax,
45
State Aid,
59
Dump, care of, 47
State Tax,
44
Fire Department, 38, 62
Street Lighting, 37
Fire Alarm Boxes, 41
Summary Collector's Cash Acct., 82
Finance Committee,
93
Town House, 43
G. A. R. Post, 99,
45
Town Meeting, 7
Hay Scales, 46
Town Officers, 4,34
High School Plans,
30
Town Warrant, 96
Industrial School,
28
Treasurer's Account, 83
Insurance, 37
Tree Warden, 35
Interest on Notes and Funds, 48
Report, 71
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JUN 2 2 1924
Police, 41,65
Printing and Stationery, 44
Punchard Free School, Report of Trustees, 100
Selectmen's Report, 23
45,76
County Tax,
TOWN OFFICERS, 1914
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor
HARRY M. EAMES, Chairman Term-expires 1917
CHARLES BOWMAN WALTER S. DONALD, Secretary
1916
Town Clerk GEORGE A. HIGGINS
Tax Collector JOHN W. BELL
Town Treasurer GEORGE A. HIGGINS
School Committee
ALFRED E. STEARNS
Term expires 1917
GEORGE A. CHRISTIE
1917
LILIAN BREWSTER
66
1917
BARTLETT H. HAYES
1915
HENRY A. BODWELL
1915
JOHN C. ANGUS
66
1915
THOMAS E. RHODES
66
1916
FREDERIC G. MOORE
1916
PHILIP F. RIPLEY
1916
Superintendent of Schools J. FRANCIS ALLISON
Board of Public Works and Sinking Fund Commission
Term expires 1917
66
1915
WILLIS B. HODGKINS
66
1915
LEWIS T. HARDY
1916.
BARNETT ROGERS
1916
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THOMAS E. RHODES
ANDREW McTERNEN
1915
Superintendent of Water, Sewer Department, Highways and Parks FRANK L. COLE
Engineers of Fire Department LEWIS T. HARDY, Chief WALTER I. MORSE, Clerk ALLAN SIMPSON
Board of Health
BANCROFT T. HAYNES
Term expires 1917
FRANKLIN H. STACEY
66 1915
CHARLES E. ABBOTT, M.D.
1916
Chief of Police FRANK M. SMITH
Constables
JOHN H. CLINTON
Term expires 1915
GEORGE W. MEARS
66
66
1915
FRANK M. SMITH
66
1915
WILLIAM L. FRYE
1915
Trustees of Memorial Hall Library
CHARLES C. CARPENTER
Term expires 1921
GEORGE F. SMITH
1. 66
1915
ALFRED E. STEARNS
66
1916
BURTON S. FLAGG
1917
E. KENDALL JENKINS
1918
JOHN ALDEN
1919
FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL
1920
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1915
LLEWELLYN D. POMEROY
Trustees of Punchard Free School - Terms expire 1916
SAMUEL H. BOUTWELL
HARRY H. NOYES
MYRON E. GUTTERSON HARRY M. EAMES FRANK T. CARLTON
Auditors
JOHN S. ROBERTSON WALTER H. COLEMAN NESBIT G. GLEASON
Trustee of Cornell Fund
JOHN C. ANGUS
Term expires 1917
ALLAN SIMPSON
1916
*FRANK E. GLEASON
66
66 1915
DR. WILLIAM D. WALKER
1915
*Deceased.
Superintendent of Moth Department JOHN H. PLAYDON
Tree Warden
JOHN H. BAKER
Moderator of Town Meetings ALFRED L. RIPLEY
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TOWN MEETINGS
Annual Town Meeting, March 2, 1914
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX, SS .: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover. GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in town affairs to meet and assemble at the Town House, in said Andover, on Monday, March 2nd, 1914, at 6 o'clock A.M., to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To choose a Moderator for one year, Town Clerk for one year, Treasurer for one year, Collector of Taxes for one year, one member of the Board of Selectmen for three years, one member of the Board of Assessors for three years, three members of the School Committee for three years, one member of the Board of Public Works for three years, one member of the Board of Health for three years, one member of the Board of Health for one year, three Auditors of Accounts for one year, three Constables for one year, one Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years, one Tree Warden for one year, one Trustee of Cornell Fund for three years, Pound Keeper, Fence Viewers, Surveyors of Lumber, and any other officers the town may determine to choose.
Article 2 .- To take action on the following question, "Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
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Article 3 .- To determine what sums of money shall be appro- priated for Almshouse Expenses, Repairs on Almshouse, Relief out of Almshouse, Aiding Widows and Destitute Children, Board of Health, Fire Department, Hay Scales, Highway Department, Water for Street Sprinkling, Insurance, Interest, Memorial Hall Library, Memorial Day, Miscellaneous, Parks and Playstead, Police, Printing and Stationery, Public Dump, Redemption of Water Bonds, School House Bonds and Andover Loan Bonds, Schools, School Houses, School Books and Supplies, Sewer Maintenance, Sewer Sinking Funds, Snow, Soldiers' Relief, Spring Grove Cemetery, State Aid, Sidewalks, Street Lighting, Town Officers, Town Hall, Tree Warden, Moth Department, Water Maintenance, Construction and Sinking Funds, and other town charges and expenses.
Article 4 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $8900 for the purchase of a Combination Hose and Pump Motor Truck, operating and maintaining the same, to replace the hose wagon and fire engine now in use and dispose of two pair of horses, on petition of the Board of Fire Engineers.
Article 5 .- To see if the town will vote to build an addition to the North School and appropriate $2500 therefor, on petition of the School Committee.
Article 6 .- To see if the town will instruct the School Com- mittee to secure the services of a competent architect to prepare floor plans and elevations of a new high school building, and to obtain approximate estimates of the cost of same. These plans and estimates to be submitted to the town at the annual meeting in March, 1915, and appropriate the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars therefor, on petition of the School Committee.
Article 7 .- To see if the town will vote to extend the water line to the residence of Charles C. Stickney on Woburn Street, on petition of Daniel H. Poor and others.
Article 8 .- To see if the town will appropriate two hundred ($200) dollars for the improvement and care of "The Boulders" to be expended under the care of the Andover Village Improve- ment Society.
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Article 9 .- To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to ascertain whether the town owns any of the land now fenced in, adjoining Elm Square, on petition of the Andover Village Improvement Society.
Article 10 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of four hundred ($400) dollars for the purpose of giving a series of band concerts in the summer of 1914, on petition of Thomas E. Rhodes and others.
Article 11 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of two hundred fifty ($250) dollars for the purpose of installing a Universal Box in the Central Fire Station, on petition of Louis A. Dane and others.
Article 12 .- To see if the town will appropriate money for a fire alarm box at the upper end of Morton Street, on petition of Daniel J. Haggerty and others.
Article 13 .- To see if the town will appropriate money for two fire alarm boxes, one at the junction of Andover and High Streets and another at the corner of Centre and Tewksbury Streets, Ballard Vale, on petition of Willis B. Hodgkins and others.
Article 14 .- To see if the town will instruct the Board of Public Works to extend the sewer system from its present ter- minus on Summer Street as far as the residence of H. F. Chase, authorize its construction and assess betterments upon the estates benefited, on petition of John Franklin and others.
Article 15 .- To see if the town will vote to lay aside the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars for the purpose of laying out and macadamizing Lowell Street from Broadway, Frye Village, to the Tewksbury line, on petition of Joseph S. Chambers and others.
Article 16 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of three hundred ($300) dollars for the construction of a drain to carry off the surface water in front of 88 Central Street, on petition of L. F. Hitchcock and others.
Article 17 .- To see if the town will vote to authorize the issue of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars of water Loan Bonds, the proceeds to be used for the extension and improvements of the water system, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
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Article 18 .- To see if the town will vote to discontinue that part of Prospect Hill Road beginning at a point near the house owned by W. H. Higgins to the North Andover line, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Article 19 .- To see if the town will vote to discontinue that part of Poor Street between North Main and Union Streets, on petition of George L. Stott and others.
Article 20 .- To see what action the town will take in improv- ing Elm Square according to plans made by the Superintendent of Streets, G. W. Wood, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
Article 21 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of one thousand ($1000) dollars for the erection of a sidewalk on the south side of Haverhill Street, beginning at the boundary line of the late Frank Barton to the boundary line of Geo. C. H. Dufton, on petition of Hugo E. Dick and others.
Article 22 .- To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for an extension of the sidewalk on the northerly side of Haverhill Street about 275 feet east of the Filter Bed Road, on petition of Thomas T. Clark and others.
Article 23 .- To see what action the town will take in regard to the removal of the Brick Pumping Station on Bancroft Road, and the installation of a pumping station to take its place in a vault made for the purpose near the so-called Holt farm reservoir, said pumping station to be run by electricity instead of oil, and the appropriation of a sufficient sum of money for this purpose, on petition of Fred M. Temple and others.
Article 24 .- To see if the town will petition the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for an audit of its accounts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598, Acts of 1910, and amend- ments thereof.
Article 25 .- To see if the town will grant permission to the "Syrian Public Cemetery Corporation" to use for cemetery pur- poses the following described land, to wit: Westerly by Corbett Street 125 feet; Southerly by land owned by the United Syrian Society Cemetery Corporation 250 feet; Easterly by land now or formerly of Hanna Skeirik 125 feet; Northerly by land now
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or formerly of Hannah Skeirik 250 feet, the whole being a part of the land formerly granted to the United Syrian Society Ceme- tery Corporation, on petition of The Syrian Public Cemetery Corporation.
Article 26 .- To fix the pay of the firemen for the ensuing year.
Article 27 .- To determine the method of collecting the taxes for the ensuing year.
Article 28 .- To authorize the Town Treasurer to hire money for the use of the town in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, with the approval of the Selectmen.
Article 29 .- To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations.
Article 30 .- To act upon the Report of the Town Officers.
Article 31 .- To determine the amount of money to be raised by taxation the ensuing year.
Article 32 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
The polls may be closed at 2 o'clock P.M.
Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Andover this seventeenth day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.
HARRY M. EAMES,
WALTER S. DONALD, CHARLES BOWMAN, Selectmen of Andover.
ANDOVER, MARCH 2, 1914
ESSEX SS.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the in- habitants of said town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said Warrant, by posting a true and attested copy of the same on the Town House, on each schoolhouse and in not less than five other public places where bills and notices are usually posted, and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said warrants have been posted and published seven days.
FRANK M. SMITH,
Constable.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 2, 1914
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in town affairs, convened in the Town House in said Andover on Monday, the second day of March, 1914, at six o'clock in the forenoon, agreeably to the requirements of the foregoing warrant, Moderator Harry A. Ramsdell presided, and after reading a part of the warrant it was
Voted, To dispense with the further reading of the warrant.
Voted, That the polls be closed at 2 o'clock P. M.
Took up Articles 1 and 2 and proceeded to vote for Town Officers and on the Liquor License question by the Australian Ballot System.
The ballot box was found to be empty and registered 0000. The polls opened at 6 o'clock A. M. Whole number of ballots cast, 914, forty-one (41) of which were female ballots for School Committee only.
The result of the balloting was as follows:
MODERATOR-One year:
Harry A. Ramsdell
382
Alfred L. Ripley
462
Henry Provo Blanks
69
TOWN CLERK-One year:
George A. Higgins
763
David Burns
1
P. J. Scott
1
Henry Provo Blanks
148
TOWN TREASURER-One year :
George A. Higgins
743
Martin Doherty
1
E. R. Shaw
1
Henry Provo
1
Blanks 168
1
1
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SELECTMAN-Three years: Harry M. Eames 702 Chester Harnden 1 Tom Conners 1 Tom Rhodes 1 Henry Provo 1 J. Trainor 1 Blanks 207
ASSESSOR-Three years :
Harry M. Eames Henry Provo John Trainor Blanks
685
1
1
227
COLLECTOR OF TAXES-One year :
John W. Bell
749
T. J. Mahoney
1
Reuben Eastwood
1
Henry Provo 1 Blanks 162
SCHOOL COMMITTEE-Three years:
Lilian Brewster
535
George A. Christie
609
Edward C. Conroy
453
Alfred E. Stearns 678 Blanks 590
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND SINKING FUND
COMMISSION-Three years :
Thomas E. Rhodes
515
George F. Smith
303
John Sweeney
70
Blanks 26
BOARD OF HEALTH-Three years:
Bancroft T. Haynes
655
Blanks 259
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BOARD OF HEALTH-One year: Franklin H. Stacey Henry Provo Blanks
663
1
250
AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS-One year :
Walter H. Coleman .
645
Nesbit G. Gleason
637
John S. Robertson
691
Joseph Lynch
1
1
Henry Provo Blanks
767
CONSTABLES-One year :
John H. Clinton
724
George W. Mears
634
Frank M. Smith
707
George T. Abbott
1
William Frye
1
Blanks 675
TRUSTEE OF MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY-Seven years:
Charles C. Carpenter 644
Blanks 270
TREE WARDEN-One year :
John H. Baker
670
Blanks
244
Shall Licenses be granted for the Sale of Intoxicating
Liquors in this town?
Yes
268
No
531
Blanks 115
"Shall this town accept the provisions of Section forty-two of Chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, as affected by Chapter four hundred and ninety-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and
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eleven, which provides that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for city or town employees?"
Yes
366
No
216
Blanks
332
"Shall Chapter eight hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being an act to provide for compensating laborers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained in public employment and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay such compensation, be ac- cepted by the inhabitants of this town?"
Yes 393
No
135
Blanks
386
All the foregoing officers and questions were voted on by ballot and the check lists were used.
PRECINCT CLERK'S REPORT.
The Moderator declared-
Alfred L. Ripley elected Moderator for one year.
George A. Higgins elected Town Clerk for one year.
George A. Higgins elected Town Treasurer for one year.
Harry M. Eames elected Selectman for three years. Harry M. Eames elected Assessor for three years. John W. Bell elected Collector of Taxes for one year.
Lilian Brewster elected School Committee for three years.
George A. Christie elected School Committee for three years. Alfred E. Stearns elected School Committee for three years.
Thomas E. Rhodes elected Board of Public Works for three years.
Bancroft T. Haynes elected Board of Health for three years.
Franklin H. Stacey elected Board of Health for one year.
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Walter H. Coleman elected Auditor for one year. Nesbit G. Gleason elected Auditor for one year. John S. Robertson elected Auditor for one year. John H. Clinton elected Constable for one year. George W. Mears elected Constable for one year. Frank M. Smith elected Constable for one year.
Charles C. Carpenter elected Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years.
John H. Baker elected Tree Warden for one year.
Chose Trustee of Cornell Fund-John C. Angus for three years.
Chose Surveyors of Lumber for one year-Frank E. Gleason, William H. Carter.
Chose Street Lighting Committee for one year-Barnett Rogers, Walter H. Coleman, Colver J. Stone, Charles B. Baldwin, Henry J. Gardner.
Chose Finance Committee for one year-Bernard M. Allen, George L. Averill, Samuel H. Bailey, Albert W. Lowe, Joseph L. Burns, John H. Campion.
Town Pound-Voted, That the Town Barn and Barnyard be the Town Pound.
Took up Article 3.
Voted, To appropriate the following stated sums of money :
Almshouse Expenses
$4000 00
Repairs on Almshouse · 800 00
Relief out of Almshouse
4,500 00.
Aiding widows and destitute children 500 00
Board of Health 1,000 00
Fire Department, running expenses, purchase of new hose and necessary repairs 7,700 00
Use of hydrants and water used in Engine House 550 00 Hay Scales 100 00
Highway Department
25,000 00
Amount carried forward,
$44150 00
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Amount brought forward,
$44150 00
Also amounts received from Street sprinkling and Street Railway Excise and Franchise Taxes
Water for Street Sprinkling
300 00
Insurance
850 00
Interest
14,000.00
Memorial Hall Library
2,300 00
Memorial Day
350 00
Post 99, G. A. R., Chapter 62, Acts of 1913
50 00
Miscellaneous
2,800 00
Parks and Playstead
1,700 00
Police
4,200 00
Printing and Stationery
1,250 00
Public Dump
75 00
Redemption of Water Bonds
10,000 00
Redemption of School House Bonds
4,000 00
Redemption of Andover Loan Act Bonds
5,000 00
Schools
Maintenance
39,000 00
Books and Supplies
2,400 00
School Houses
2,500 00
Industrial School
500 00
Sewer Department
Maintenance
1,500 00
Sinking Funds
1,000 00
Snow
2,500 00
Soldiers' Relief
1,000 00
Spring Grove Cemetery and receipts from Sale of lots
1,000 00
State Aid
1,500 00
Sidewalks ($250 to be spent under Betterment Act, but no applications are received before September 1,
it shall be at the disposal of the Board of Public Works)
· 1,500 00
Street Lighting
6,000 00
Town Officers
6,500 00
Town Hall
2,300 00
Amount carried forward,
$160,225 00
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Amount brought forward,
$160,225 00
Tree Warden
250 00
Gypsy and Browntail Moth Department
3,250 00
Water Department
Maintenance
10,000 00
Construction
1,500 00
Sinking Funds
750 00
Motor Truck
8,900 00
Addition to North School
2,500 00
Plans for High School
500 00
Fire Alarm Boxes
600 00
Total
$188,475 00
Estimated County Tax
13,400 00
Estimated State Tax
23,000 00
$224,875 00
Took up Article 4.
Voted, at 3.09 P. M., That the town appropriate the sum of $8,900 for the purchase of a Combination Hose and Pump Motor Truck, operating and maintaining the same, to replace the hose wagon and fire engine now in use and to dispose of two pairs of horses.
Took up Article 5.
Voted, at 3.12 P. M., That the School Committee be authorized to build an addition to the North School and that the town appropriate $2,500 therefor.
Took up Article 6.
Voted, at 3.18 P. M., That the town instruct the School Com- mittee to secure the services of a competent architect to prepare floor plans and elevations of a new high school building, and to obtain approximate estimates of the cost of same, also to look into the matter of remodelling the present building. These plans and estimates to be submitted to the town at the annual meeting in March, 1915, and that the sum of $500 be appro- priated therefor.
Took up Article 7.
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Voted, at 3.37 P.M., To refer the matter to the Board of Public Works.
Took up Article 8.
Voted, at 3.39 P.M., That the Article be laid on the table and that Article 3 be reconsidered and the appropriation for Parks and Playstead be increased from $1,500 to $1,700, the additional $200 to be spent on "The Boulders" and that the Board of Public Works invite the co-operation of the Andover Village Improvement Society in its expenditure.
Voted, at 3.40 P.M., That Article 8 be taken from the table and indefinitely postponed.
Took up Article 9.
Voted, at 3.50 P.M., That the Board of Selectmen be requested to ascertain and to determine the limits of the town's land in and adjoining Elm Square.
Took up Article 10.
Voted, at 3.56 P.M., To lay on the table.
Took up Article 11.
Voted, at 4.03 P.M., To lay on the table.
Took up Article 12.
Voted, at 4.04 P.M., To take up Articles 12 and 13 in con- junction.
Voted, at 4.09 P.M., To appropriate the sum of $600 for two fire alarm boxes, one at the upper end of Morton Street, and one at the junction of Andover and High Streets, Ballard Vale.
Took up Article 14.
Voted, at 4.10 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 15.
Voted, at 4.11 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 16.
Voted, at 4.12 P.M., To refer to the Board of Public Works. Took up Article 17.
Voted, at 4.26 P.M., That by virtue and in pursuance of Chapter 363 of the Acts of 1908, for the purpose mentioned in
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Section 5 of Chapter 439 of the Acts of 1887, the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized to issue bonds of the Town in the aggregate principal amount of $10,000 to be dated May 1, 1914, and pay- able $1,000 thereof on the first day of May of each of the years 1915 to 1924 inclusive, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 4 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually May 1 and Nov- ember 1.
The said bonds shall be denominated on the face thereof "Andover Water Loan Act of 1908", shall be signed by the Board of Public Works and countersigned by the Town Treas- urer and be in such form and contain such statements not incon- sistent with this vote, as the Town Treasurer may determine. The vote stood, affirmative 228, negative 3.
Took up Article 18.
Voted, at 4.32 P.M., That the town discontinue that part of Prospect Hill Road beginning at a point near the house owned by W. H. Higgins to the North Andover line.
Took up Article 19.
Voted, at 4.40 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 20.
Voted, at 4.41 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 21.
Voted, at 4.43 P.M., To refer to the Board of Public Works.
Took up Article 22.
Voted, at 4.44 P.M., to refer to the Board of Public Works. Took up Article 23.
Voted, at 4.53 P.M., To refer to the Board of Public Works to report at the next annual Town Meeting.
Took up Article 24.
Voted, at 4.54 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.
Took up Article 25.
Voted, at 4.55 P.M., To grant permission to the "Syrian Public Cemetery Corporation" to use for cemetery purposes the follow- ing described land, to wit: Westerly by Corbett Street, 125 feet;
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southerly by land owned by the "United Syrian Society Ceme- tery Corporation", 250 feet; easterly by land now or fromerly of Hanna Skeirik 125 feet; northerly by land now or formerly of Hanna Skeirik 250 feet; the whole being a part of the land formerly granted to the "United Syrian Society Cemetery Cor- poration ".
Took up Article 26.
Voted, at 4.56 P.M., That the pay of the firemen be the same as last year, viz., $50.00 per year.
Took up Article 27.
Voted, at 4.57 P.M., That the taxes be collected by the Col- lector, and that he recieve one per cent of all moneys collected.
Took up Article 28.
Voted, at 4.58 P.M., That the Town Treasurer, with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1914, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Took up Article 29.
Voted, at 4.59 P.M., That all unexpended balances be turned into the treasury.
Took up Article 30.
Voted, at 5.00 P.M., That the report of the Town Officers be accepted and adopted.
Took up Article 31.
Voted, at 5.01 P.M., To raise by taxation $116,000 and also an amount sufficient to pay the State and County Taxes.
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