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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
FORTY - FIFTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT, MASS.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 27, 1897.
SETTLED
A.D. 1629
INCORPORATE
TT. A. D. 1852.
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SWA
LYNN, MASS. THE NICHOLS PRESS - THOS. P. NICHOLS. 1897.
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
FORTY - FIFTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT, MASS.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 27, 1897.
SETTLED A.D. 1629.
INCOR
ORATED
OTT. A. D. 1852.
TE
AS
PS
SWA
LYNN, MASS. THE NICHOLS PRESS - THOS. P. NICHOLS.
1897.
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Index.
Reports of Committees, Town Officials and Public Property.
Auditor's Remarks . 243
Cemetery, Superintendent's Report 167
Cemetery Improvement Committee's Report 168
Fire Engineer's Report . 154 Future Water Supply Committee's Report 121
Health, Board of, Report . 145
Inspector of Provisions, etc., Report 149
Jurors, List of . 82
King Street Extension (see Selectmen's Report)
Library Trustees' Report . 144
Map of Town, Assessors' Report 134
Milk Inspector's Report 152
Park Commissioner's Report
116
Pine Street Tunnel Report
169
Police Report .
158
Public Property, Schedule of
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School Committee's Report
88
Selectmen's Report 83.
Sealer of Weights and Measures' Report
179
Sewerage Committee's Report .
170
Special Committee
11
Standing Committees .
10
Street Light Committee's Report 135
Street Railway Committee's Report 178
Surveyor of Highways' Report 163
Town Clerk's Records
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Town Clerk's Statistics 79
Town Officers Elected
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Town Officers Appointed .
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Truant Officer's Report 115
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INDEX.
Index.
Financial Reports.
Assessors' Valuation 185
Assessors' Map
218
Catch Basins and Gutters
213
Cemetery Department
219
Concrete and Curbstones
211
Essex Street Culvert
214
Fire Department .
198
Financial Standing of Town
242
Fire Alarm
203
Free Public Library
220
Health Department
217
Highway Department
203
Humphrey Street Macadamizing
209 186
Interest
206
Memorial Day
222
Military Aid
222
Monument Lot, Care of
221
Notes Payable
241
Park
231
Phillips School Medal Fund .
197
Police Department .
233
Poor Department
226
Rockland Street Drainage
215
Recapitulation .
238
Salem Street Sidewalk
212
Selectmen's Department
187
Sidewalk Department
210
Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid .
225
Statistics of the Town
240
Street Light
220
Street Crossings
214
Street Watering
208
State Aid 223
Summary of Highway Department. Appropriations of 1896 216
Tax Collector's Account
184
Treasurer's Account
182
Town Clerk's Safe
235
Town Hall Department
235
Town Hall Repairs .
236
Town Warrant
244
Water Rates
216
School Department .
193
King Street Extension
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 27
Elected Town Officers.
Moderator. FRED C. MARSH.
Selectmen. GEORGE A. R. HORTON, Chairman.
CLARENCE B. DELANO. GEORGE A. HEATH. H. CUSHING BULFINCH, resigned.
Town Clerk. GEORGE T. TILL.
Treasurer. BENJAMIN O. HONORS.
Collector of Taxes. MICHAEL P. CARROLL.
Auditors. L. FRANK CAHOON, Chairman. JAY C. MERRITT, Secretary.
JOHN B. EARP.
Assessors. Term ends PELEG GARDNER, 1897.
Term ends Term ends
GILBERT DELANO, 1898. D. HOLMAN MILLETT, 1899.
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ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1897]
School Committee.
Term ends FRANK E. INGALLS, 1897. Term ends EDWIN M. BAILEY, 1898. ELBRIDGE F. SMALL, 1899.
Term ends
Public Library Trustees. Term ends
JAMES E. PEASLEY, 1897.
Terni ends Term ends
FRANK F. STANLEY, 1898. FRANK E. INGALLS, 1899.
Park Commissioners.
Term ends GEORGE A. JACKSON, 1897. Term ends
Term ends
ROBERT B. WARDWELL, 1898. BENJAMIN POTTER, 1899.
Overseers of the Poor.
Term ends MICHAEL P. CARROLL, 1897. Term ends Term ends
JOSEPH F. CROWELL, 1898. T. B. P. CURTIS, 1899.
Board of Health.
Term ends JOSEPH W. GLASS, 1897.
JOHN I. ADAMS, 1898.
Term ends Term ends EDWIN F. WILEY, 1899.
Surveyor of Highways. JAMES P. M. S. PITMAN.
Constables.
JAMES WHEELER.
RODNEY A. DOUGLASS.
SAMUEL T. HARRIS.
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Appointed Town Officers.
Secretary of Selectmen. CHARLES G. ROWELL.
Town Counsel. NILES & CARR.
Librarian of Public Library. MISS S. L. HONORS.
Assistant Librarians.
NOWELL INGALLS. HOWARD G. ELLIS. EDITH FARNUM.
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Engineers of Fire Department. GEORGE P. CAHOON, Chief.
CHARLES K. ROBERTS. JAMES E. PHILLIPS.
Forest Firewards. ! ..
GEORGE P. CAHOON.
CHARLES K. ROBERTS. JAMES E. PHILLIPS.
Town Forester. J. P. M. S. PITMAN.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
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Regular Police. SAMUEL T. HARRIS, Chief.
JOHN C. WHORF. ADELBERT S. HAMMOND.
FRANK GOODWIN. HENRY E. DOUGLASS.
Superintendent of Cemetery. JOSEPH S. BROWN.
Superintendent of Burial of Deceased Soldiers and Sailors. JOHN I. ADAMS.
Inspector of Provisions, and Animals intended for Slaughter or kept for production of Milk. SAMUEL A. SPAULDING. Milk Inspector. CHARLES E. HARRIS.
Field Drivers. .
SAMUEL A. SPAULDING. J. K. CARROLL.
Pound Keeper. JEFFERSON G. OWENS.
Fence Viewers.
GILBERT DELANO.
PELEG GARDNER.
Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of Wood and Bark. FRED H. EASTMAN.
Sealer of Weights and Measures. BENJAMIN A. MARTIN,
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Secretary of the Overseers of the Poor. MRS. L. E. KENDRICK.
Secretary of Board of Health. WILBUR B. ADAMS.
Agent of Town Hall. GEORGE T. TILL.
Janitor of Town Hall. JAMES A. MOTT.
Registrars of Voters.
Term ends JAMES H. MOULTON, 1897. Term ends Term ends
J. WILLIAM THURSTON, 1898. ERNEST B. THING, 1899. GEORGE T. TILL. (Ex-officio.)
Ballot Clerks, Election, March 16, 1896.
FRANK H. BASSETT. DANIEL J. KANE, Dep. Insp.
Republican. Democrat.
Tellers of Election, March 16, 1896.
WILLARD M. HATCH.
S. M. SHATTUCK.
BENJAMIN F. RICH.
H. BYRON MARTIN.
STEPHEN P. HURD. FRANK D. THURSTON.
GEORGE H. LAMPARD. CHARLES H. GARDNER.
Ballot Clerks, Special Election, May 9, 1896. GEORGE H. LAMPARD. WILLIAM H, COLLINS.
Republican. Democrat.
Tellers, Special Election, May 9, 1896.
BENJAMIN F. RICH. SIDNEY M. SHATTUCK.
FRANK L. CHAPMAN. WILLIAM F. NORCROSS.
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1897]
Tellers, Recount, May 11, 1896.
L. FRANK CAHOON. . CHESTER W. DURGIN. JOHN B. EARP. JOHN F. KEEFE.
Ballot Clerks, Election, Nov. 3, 1896.
BENJAMIN F. RICH. WILLIAM H. COLLINS. Democrat.
Republican.
Tellers, National and State Election, Nov. 3, 1896.
OSCAR F. NORRIS.
WILLARD M. HATCH.
H. BYRON MARTIN. JOHN B. EARP.
EDWARD H. THOMAS.
GEORGE H. LAMPARD.
FRANK D. THURSTON. EDMUND RUSSELL.
CHARLES T. JACKSON.
A. FRANK ROGERS. ALFRED G. WATTS. JOHN F. HUTT.
Constables. SAMUEL T. HARRIS.
JOHN C. WHORF.
ADELBERT S. HAMMOND.
Keeper of Lockup. SAMUEL T. HARRIS.
Special Police.
RICHARD G. GILLEY. MICHAEL HALEY. GEORGE H. LAMPARD. R. V. BESSOM. SAMUEL A. SPAULDING. GEORGE R. HUSSEY. L. G. CLARK. JOHN B. CROWELL. JAMES A. MOTT. JAMES S. BRYSON.
T. FRANK WIDGER. J. P. M. S. PITMAN. JOSEPH W. GLASS. JEFFERSON G. OWENS. WILLIAM D. HUTT. CHARLES S. LEWIS. JOSEPH D. SPINNEY. GEORGE NEWHALL. JOSEPH S. BROWN. JOHN T. BIRD.
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Standing Committees.
Committee on Street Light.
SAMUEL F. CROSMAN. PATRICK H. RYAN. JOHN R. MERRITT. J. ROSWELL WIDGER. AARON R. BUNTING.
Committee on Assessors' Maps. JOHN CHAPMAN.
DANIEL P. STIMPSON. D. HOLMAN MILLETT.
Committee on Future Water Supply.
MARTIN E. NIES.
PELEG GARDNER.
ARTHUR F. FOSTER. ARTHUR C. WIDGER.
MILTON D. PORTER. ELDRIDGE F. SMALL.
Committee on Sewerage.
SAMUEL F. CROSMAN.
FRANK E. INGALLS.
EDWARD H. KITFIELD.
KENDALL POLLARD. AARON R. BUNTING. ARTHUR C. WIDGER.
JOHN H. FARWELL. D. HOLMAN MILLETT. MARTIN E. NIES.
Committee on Cemetery Improvement.
EDMUND RUSSELL. ANTHONY BILKOVSKY. MARTIN E. NIES.
Committee on Proposed Pine Street Tunnel. BOARD OF SELECTMEN.
H. CUSHING BULFINCH. J. P. M. S. PITMAN. ARTHUR C. WIDGER.
Committee on Street Railway. BOARD OF SELECTMEN. J. ROSWELL WIDGER. J. P. M. S. PITMAN.
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SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
1897]
Special Committees.
Committee on Salaries.
JAMES L. TAYLOR. SIDNEY M. SHATTUCK. STEPHEN P. HURD. JOSEPH M. BASSETT. AARON R. BUNTING.
Committee on By-Laws.
ROBERT B. WARDWELL. WILLIAM F. NORCROSS. EDMUND RUSSELL.
Committee to Investigate Fire Department.
ARTHUR F. FOSTER. SIDNEY M. SHATTUCK. JOHN R. MERRITT.
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[Feb. 27
Schedule of Public Property.
Town Hall and land
$14,000 00
Aqueduct pipes
50,000 00
Public Library .
5,000 00
Soldiers' Monument
3,000 00
Hay scales
200 00
Portable safe
200 00
Steel box
25 00
Piano
75 00
Standard weights and measures
100 00
Treasurer's safe
20 00
Town Clerk's safe
75 00
$72,695 00
School Department.
Phillips School and land $57,000 00
Redington Street School and land . 5,000 00
Beach School and land 4,000 00
Pine Street School and land .
4,000 00
Essex Street School and land
4,000 00
Farm School and land
2,000 00
Land Essex Street opposite Cemetery
300 00
School furniture 2,000 00
School supplies 500 00
$78,800 00
Amount carried forward,
$151,495 00
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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1897]
Amount brought forward,
$151,495 00
Cemetery Department.
Receiving tomb
$2,000 00
Superintendent's building
500 00
Implements
27 25
$2,527 25
Police Department.
Seven revolvers
$42 00
Thirty badges .
32 75
Eight handcuffs
26 00
Nine twisters
9 00
Sixteen billies
17 50
Eleven helmets
26 00
Six whistles .
1 00
One lantern
1 00
One gun
20 00
One cap
3 50
Three belts
13 50
Two hundred buttons
$192 25
Highway Department.
Stone crusher plant .
$2,500 00
Gravel bank, Marblehead
500 00
Storage building, New Ocean Street .
400 00
Land with same
400 00
Street watering cart
408 00
Victor road machine
150 00
Amounts carried forward, $4,358 00 $154,214 50
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Amounts brought forward,
$4,358 00 $154,214 50
Five snow plows
156 00
Tool house
25 00
Tool box
6 00
Two sets double harness
87 00
Two sets lead harnesses
21 00
One cart harness
15 00
Five horse collars
15 00
One four-wheel tip-cart
156 00
One horse tip-cart
70 00
One two-horse roller
225 00
Four street hoses
2 00
Four rakes
1 60
Six drag rakes .
3 00
Twenty snow shovels
10 00
Four trow bars .
4 00
Twenty-two shovels .
11 00
Two mattocks
5 00
Five hammers .
7 00
Six stone points
1 00
Ten hand drills
2 60
Two frost-wedges
8 00
Twenty-four picks
24 00
Three pounders
3 00
One wheelbarrow
2 50
Three sand pails
45
Four sand scoops
60
One tamping bar
1 00
Ten lanterns
5 00
One hundred feet hose
9 00
One gravel screen
6 00
Two brush hooks .
1 50
One bush scythe
1 50
One axe
1 00
One steel rammer
6 75
Amounts curried forward,
$5,251 50 $154,214 50
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1897]
Amounts brought forward,
$5,251 50 $154,214 50
One dirt rammer
3 00
One S. S. pump and hose
43 00
$5,297 50
Fire Department.
Engine house
$5,750 00
Land and storage buildings
1,500 00
Land and hose house, Mountain Park
300 00
Steam fire engine
3,500 00
Hose wagon .
450 00
3,200 feet cotton hose, .60 .
1,920 00
250 feet cotton hose, damaged, .25
62 50
Ladder truck
ยง 2 crowbars, 8 ladders, hose straps, 6 coal baskets, 6 hydrant wrenches One 42-ft. extension ladder
One 27-ft. ladder
One 25-ft. ladder
One 24-ft. ladder .
One 20-ft. ladder .
Two 18-ft. ladders
One 15-ft. ladder .
Four fire hooks and poles
Three axes
Supply wagon 100 00
200 00
Amounts carried forward,
$13,782 50 $159,512 00
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Amounts brought forward, $13,782 50 $159,512 00
Hose reel and 200 feet hose, wrench, spanners, Lincoln House 145 00
Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench and spanners, John Shepard's, At- lantic Ave. 200 00
Hose Reel and 500 feet hose, wrench and spanners, Evans & Cole's stable, Orient St. . 250 00
Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench and spanners, D. P. Stimpson's stable, Redington St. 200 00
Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench and spanners, Lynn & Boston R. R. stable, Essex St. 200 00
Hose reel, 400 feet hose, wrench and spanners, Mountain Park 200 00
Fire alarm bell, Town Hall
800 00
Sixteen fire alarm boxes . 800 00
Two fire alarm strikers, Town Hall and Congregational Church 550 00
Two fire alarm strikers, engine house,
65 00
Two gongs, engine house and chemical house 85 00
Three tappers, engine house
35 00
Two hand chemicals on hose wagon .
50 00
Steam whistle, Marblehead Water Co. Six horses
50 00
1,200 00
Three sets of double swing harnesses,
450 00
One single swinging harness
75 00
Eight horse blankets
16 00
Hay and grain .
25 00
Furniture and bedding
150 00
Supply for batteries
75 00
Wood and coal .
20 00
Amounts carried forward,
$19,423 50 $159,512 00
--- LOCATION OF HOSE REELS .-
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Amounts brought forward,
$19,423 50 $159,512 00
One ladder hose pipe
15 00
Five hose pipes
125 00
Two extra nozzles
10 00
Twenty-two spanners
5 50
Two wagon jacks .
5 00
Eleven lanterns
27 50
Twenty-two rubber coats
55 00
Canvas life net
20 00
Life sheets
35 00
Two Siamese connections
20 00
One ladder hose pipe
15 00
$19,756 50
$179,268:50
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Records of the Town Clerk.
Annual Meeting, March 16, 1896.
TOWN WARRANT.
ESSEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott, in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, qualified to vote in Elections, and in Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Swampscott, on Monday, the Sixteenth day of March, current, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following Articles, viz : -
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose a Town Clerk for one (1) year. To choose a Board of Selectmen for the year ensuing.
To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for three (3) years.
To choose a Town Treasurer for one (1) year. To choose a Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing.
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To choose one member of the School Com- mittee for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Trus- tees of the Public Library for three (3) years.
To choose a Board of Auditors for the year ensuing.
To choose one Overseer of the Poor for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Health for three (3) years.
To choose a Surveyor of Highways for the year ensuing.
To choose three Constables for the year ensuing.
To choose a Park Commissioner for three (3) years.
All to be chosen on one ballot.
ART. 3. To vote by ballot " Yes " or "No" upon the question : Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxi- cating Liquors in this Town ?
ART. 4. To hear and act upon the reports of the Auditing Committee, the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee, the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, the Engineers of the Fire Department, the Superintendent of the Cemetery, the Board of Health, the Chief of Police, the Milk Inspector, the Committee on Street Lights, the Com- mittee on Future Water Supply, the Committee on Assessors' Plans, the Committee on King Street, the Committee on pur- chase of Watering Cart, the Committee on Cemetery Im- provement, the Surveyor of Highways and the Inspector of Provisions and Animals.
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ART. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be neces- sary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriations therefor.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for Jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
ART. 7. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the current year.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.
ART. 9. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing.
ART. 10. (1.) To see what action the Town will take in regard to the regulation of salaries of Town Officials for the ensuing year. (2.) To see what action the Town will take in regard to creating and establishing By-Laws to govern the Town Fire Department, agreeable to the petition of Edmund Russell and others.
ART. 11. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the collection of taxes, and what rate of discount if any, will be allowed for prompt payment on or before a a certain date.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred ($100) dollars, to be placed in the hands of James L. Bates' Post 118, G.A.R., towards defraying the ex- penses of Memorial Day.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars, for -the, purpose of purchasing a safe for the use of the Town Clerk.
ART. 14. (1.) To see what action the Town will take as to paying Geo. A. R. Horton additional compensation for expenses and services as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen
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for the year 1895-1896. (2.) To see what action the Town will take as to paying C. G. Rowell additional com- pensation for services as Clerk of the Board of Selectmen for the year 1895-1896, agreeable to the petition of Edmund Russell and others.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will grant to the Swamp- scott Veteran Firemans' Association, of Swampscott, the Hand Fire Engine, known as the Atlantic No. 1, of Swamp- scott, agreeable to the petition of Gratin Martin and others.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will appropriate sufficient money to build two (2) street-crossings, one on Orient Street, opposite the "Little Anawan," at or near the way leading from Orient Street to the sea ; the other across Orient Street, opposite the estate of Miles Blanchard, near the Ocean House, agreeable to the petition of Wm. R. Blaney and others.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will take action in regard to the disposal of the surface drainage of Rockland Street, and appropriate money therefor, agreeable to the petition of Charles Harwood and others.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will accept and allow the Act of Taking of Blaney's Beach, executed by the Park Commissioners, Feb. 20, 1896, in accordance with instruc- tions given them by the Town at its last Annual Meeting, and with the provisions of the Park Act.
ART. 19. To see what action the Town will take in regard to placing an electric arc light at the junction of Railroad Avenue and Pine Street, as a substitute for the incandescent light now located near that point, and appro- priate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of E. N. Wardwell and others.
ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take to cause an arc electric light to be placed at the corner of Essex
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and Burrill Streets, and appropriate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of Harry P. Norton and others.
ART. 21. To see what action the Town will take in regard to locating an electric arc light on the corner of Clark and Crescent Streets, also an arc light to take place of incandescent at the corner of Crescent and Elliott Streets, and appropriate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of Wm. C. Cowdrey and others.
ART. 22. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to locating a Fire Alarm Box in the vicinity of Middlesex Avenue and Hampden Street, and appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars for same, agree- able to the petition of Geo. R. Hussey and others.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to give free use and control of the rooms in the second story of the Red- ington Street School Building, to Gen. James L. Bates' Post 118, G.A.R., agreeable to the petition of J. A. Ingalls, John F. Keefe, H. E. Douglass, H. Newcomb and others.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to accept and adopt Section 1, of Chapter 186, of the acts of 1895, agree- able to the petition of J. M. Bassett and others.
ART. 25. To see what action the Town will take to have a Sewerage Committee appointed, consisting of three (3) members, for the purpose of building sewers for the Town of Swampscott, and to obtain plans and specifications, and to report at an adjourned Town Meeting, the expense of building one section this year and appropriate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of Clarence J. Eaton and others.
ART. 26. To see what action the Town will take with reference to amending the Cemetery By-Laws, agreeable to the petition of Edmund Russell and others.
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ART. 27. To see what action the Town will take in causing a tunnel for pedestrians to be constructed under the tracks of the Boston & Maine Railroad, from the head of Pine Street to Beach Avenue, thereabouts, and appropriate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of Wm. F. Norcross and others.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to charge the Lynn & Boston Railroad Co., for the use of our streets, any portion of the thousand and more dollars, of extra expense incurred annually in maintaining Humphrey and Essex Streets, by reason of their occupancy by the railroad tracks, and to fix the amount of such charge, agreeable to the petition of Geo. A. Jackson and others.
ART. 29. To see what action the Town will take as to making, constructing, and completing the way in the Town of Swampscott which the County Commissioners on the peti- tion of David W. Nisbett and others praying for a highway to be laid out in the Town of Swampscott known as King Street extension as a Town-way laid out, as set forth in the report of said County Commissioners, dated February 13th, A.D. 1896, which report at the December Term, A.D. 1895, of the Court of said County Commissioners was filed and accepted, and upon which report at said December Term, A.D. 1895, it was ordered that the same be recorded, and that the said road might be known as a public highway for- ever, and a copy of which report, with the order of the County Commissioners thereon, was filed in the Office of the Town Clerk of said Swampscott, February 14, 1896, and to see what action the Town will take as to raising money for the making, construction, and completion of said way accord- ing to said report and order of the County Commissioners, and to see if the Town will appropriate not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, the same to be raised by loan,
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for the purpose of making, constructing, and completing said way, and will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the direc- tion and authority and with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow not exceeding said sum of five thousand dollars so appropriated for the making, construction, and completion of said way, and will act on this article in the Warrant by a yea and nay vote, and use the check-list in voting upon this arti- cle in the Warrant.
The polls to be closed at 5.30 o'clock, P.M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Depot, Post Office, and three other public and conspicuous places in the Town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands, this fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.
GEO. A. R. HORTON, Selectmen of W. ERNEST STONE, H. CUSHING BULFINCH, Swampscott. A true copy. Attest :
Constable.
RETURN ON THE WARRANT.
Pursuant to the within Warrant to me directed, I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, quali- fied as herein expressed, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes herein mentioned, by posting up attested copies of this Warrant in eleven public and conspicuous places in said Swampscott on Saturday, the seventh day of March, 1896.
JAMES WHEELER, Constable of Swampscott.
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RECORDS OF THE TOWN CLERK.
1897]
Annual Meeting, March 16th, 1896.
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant the inhabi- tants of the Town of Swampscott, qualified to vote in elec- tions, met in the Town Hall on Monday, March 16th, 1896, and were called to order at 6 o'clock A.M., by the Town Clerk, who read the Warrant, calling said meeting and the return thereon of the officer who served the same upon the inhabitants.
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator.
The polls were declared open for the reception of votes for Moderator.
Voted. To close the polls for choice of Moderator at 6.23 A.M.
There were two hundred and nine ballots cast for Moderator, as follows :
Fred C. Marsh, 131, elected ; J. R. Widger, 78.
Fred C. Marsh was immediately qualified for the duties of Moderator by the Town Clerk.
The ballot-box was shown to be empty, the register denoting 000 ; the Moderator then declared the polls open for balloting for Town Officers; the keys to the ballot-box were delivered to Samuel T. Harris, the Constable in charge.
The Town Clerk had prepared ballots, as follows :
General ballots, 1200; special ballots, 75; specimen ballots, 25.
The package containing the ballots was delivered the Ballot Clerks, Frank H. Bassett (Rep.), Deputy Inspector; and Daniel J. Kane (Dem.), Inspector; who had been ap- pointed by the Selectmen, and qualified for their duties by the Town Clerk; they receipted therefor.
Cards of instruction and penalties, also specimen ballots,
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were posted inside and outside the polling place, as required by the laws of the Commonwealth.
The Selectmen appointed Sidney M. Shattuck, Willard M. Hatch, Benj. F. Rich, Frank D. Thurston, George H. Lampard, Stephen P. Hurd, George W. Marshall, and H. Byron Martin to serve as tellers; George W. Marshall de- clined to serve, and the Moderator appointed Charles H. Gardner to serve in his place.
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