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TOWN DOCUMENTS
FORTY-NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 21, 1901
ED A.D.
SETTI
1629
INCORPORATED TF
OTT. A. D. 1852
DAS
S
SWA
LYNN, MASS. : WHITTEN & CASS, PRINTERS 1901
TOWN DOCUMENTS
FORTY-NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 21, 1901
SETTLED A.D. 1629
INCORP
OTT. A.D. 1852.
RATED
AS
SWAM
LYNN, MASS. : WHITTEN & CASS, PRINTERS 1901
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 21
Index
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, TOWN OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Auditor's Remarks
· 208
Cemetery, Superintendent's Report
124
Fire Engineer's Report
103
Health, Board of, Report
. 105
Inspector of Cattle, Swine and Provisions, Report
I20 .
Jurors, List of
71
Library Trustee's Report
127
Milk Inspector's Report
. I26
Park Commissioner's Report
I28
Police Report
I21
Public Property, Schedule of
II
Remodeling Town Hall, Committees Report
116
School Committee's Report
78
Selectmen's Report
72
Sewer Commissioners' Report
.
137
Standing Committees
IO
Street Light Committee's Report
I18
Surveyor of Highways' Report
108
Town Clerk's Records
18
Town Clerk's Statistics
68
Town Officers Appointed
6
Town Officers Elected .
4
Tree Warden's Report
II4
Truant Officer's Report
IO2
Water Commissioner's Report
I30
.
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INDEX.
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Index
FINANCIAL REPORTS.
Assessors' Valuation .
200
Band Stand .
184
Catch Basins and Gutters
161
Cemetery Department . 179
Cemetery Improvement
180
Collecting Ashes ..
173
Concrete and Curbstones
160
County Tax
196
Elmwood Road
163
Essex Street Widening.
163
Engine House Repairs .
154
Financial Standing of Town
207
Fire Department
149
Free Public Library .
176
Health Department
171
Highway Department
155
Horse for Fire Department
154
Hose .
155
Interest
197
Memorial Day
178
Monument Avenue
167
Monument Lot, Care of
178
Notes Payable .
206
Norfolk Avenue Drain
165
Park Department . .
IS2
Phillips School Medal Fund
149
Police Department .
168
Poor Department
IS9
Reimbursement to J. W. Glass
183
School Department
144
Selectmen's Department
138
Sewerage Committee
IS4
Sidewalks
I58
Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid
185
State Aid, Chapter 372
187
State Aid, Chapter 374
188
Statistics of the Town
201
Street Light Department
18I
Street Light Committee
182
Street Crossings 162
Street Watering
166
Swampscott Water Works
192
Tax Collector's Balance Sheet
198
Town Hall Department
175
Town Warrant .
209
Water Rates .
186
Whale's Beach
174
.
Treasurer's Balance Sheet 202
180
State Tax
IQ6
Recapitulation .
204
Silver Lot
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 21
Elected Town Officers
Moderator, JOHN R. MERRITT.
Selectmen,
EDWARD A. MAXFIELD, Chairman. GEO. A. R. HORTON. HEZEKIAH NEWCOMB.
Town Clerk, MILTON D. PORTER.
Treasurer, BENJAMIN O. HONORS.
Collector of Taxes, MICHAEL P. CARROLL.
Auditors,
JOHN B. EARP, Chairman. HERMAN F. ASHTON. WARREN S. BLANCHARD.
Assessors,
D. HOLMAN MILLETT, Chairman Term expires 1902
ISAAC H. ANDREWS
1901
GILBERT DELANO .
1903
School Committee,
FRANK E. INGALLS, Chairman .
EDWIN M. BAILEY .
ELDRIDGE F. SMALL . .
Term expires 1903
60 1901
1902
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ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1901]
Water Commissioners,
BENJAMIN G. INGALLS, Chairman
Term expires 1902
CHARLES S. HASKELL
1901
WILLARD C. CHASE
·
1903
Public Library Trustees,
ELIZABETH J. HADLEY, Chairman
Term expires 1903
FRANK E. INGALLS .
1902
FRANK F. STANLEY
1901
Park Commissioners,
EDWARD H. KITFIELD, Chairman
Term expires 1903 66 1901
FRANK L. EARL
H. CUSHING BULFINCH
.
66
1902
Board of Health,
JOSEPH W. GLASS, Chairman, resigned
. Term expires 1901
MICHAEL HALEY, appointed
1901
DR. FRANK B. STRATTON
1902
RICHARD P. HORTON .
1903
Surveyor of Highways, JAMES P. M. S. PITMAN.
Constables, SAMUEL T. HARRIS. RICHARD G. GILLEY. J. FRANK MOORE.
Sewer Commissioners,
OSCAR G. POOR, Chairman
Term expires 1903
FRANK B. STRATTON
1902
EDWARD A. MAXFIELD
.
1901
Tree Warden, JAMES T. LYONS.
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Appointed Town Officers
Secretary of Selectmen, JAY C. MERRITT.
Town Counsel, NILES & CARR.
Librarian of Public Library, MISS S. L. HONORS.
Assistant Librarians,
ROY E. CRANE. CHESTER BROWN.
Engineers of Fire Department,
GEORGE P. CAHOON Chief
GEORGE. H. LAMPARD
Ist Assistant
EDWIN B. TAYLOR
2d Assistant
Forest Fire Wardens,
GEORGE P. CAHOON. GEORGE H. LAMPARD.
EDWIN B. TAYLOR.
Regular Police, CHARLES H. DUNLAP, Chief.
JOHN C. WHORF. ADELBERT S. HAMMOND.
SETH C. KENDRICK. JOHN B. CROWELL.
Superintendent of Cemetery, NATHAN M. HARRIS.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1901]
Superintendent of Burial of Deceased Soldiers and Sailors, MICHAEL HALEY.
Care of Monument Lot, FREEMAN HOWES.
Inspector of Provisions and Animals Intended for Slaughter or Kept for Production of Milk, FRANK B. STRATTON.
Milk Inspector, CHARLES E. HARRIS.
Town Weigher, THEOPHILUS W. BRACKETT.
Fence Viewers,
ISAAC ANDREWS. ORLANDO R. MILLETT.
Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of Wood and Bark, FRED H. EASTMAN.
Sealer of Weights and Measures, MICHAEL HALEY.
Secretary of the Overseers of the Poor, MRS. L. E. KENDRICK.
Secretary of the Board of Health, WILLIS E. DOUGHTY.
Agent of Town Hall, JAMES A. MOTT.
Janitor of Town Hall, JAMES A. MOTT.
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Registrars of Voters,
ANDREW OLSEN, Chairman
FRANK L. BONNEY .
Term expires 1901 66 1902
JAMES H. MOULTON
66 1903
MILTON D. PORTER
( ex officio.)
Special Election Officer, March 19, 1900,
JAMES H. Moulton Democrat.
Inspectors of Election, March 19, 1900,
FRANK H. BRADFORD
Republican.
JAMES T. LYONS
. Democrat.
Deputy Inspectors of Election, March 19, 1900,
BENJAMIN F. RICH
Republican.
ABRAM G. STONE .
Democrat.
Tellers of Election, March 19, 1900,
CHARLES T. JACKSON
Republican.
HERBERT W. WEBSTER
· Republican.
FRANK V. PORTER
Republican.
JAMES L. TAYLOR .
Republican. .
FRANK D. THURSTON
Democrat. ·
SIDNEY M. SHATTUCK
Democrat.
H. BYRON MARTIN
Democrat.
BENJAMIN A. MARTIN
Democrat.
Special Election Officer, November 6, 1900,
WILLIS C. PAUL Democrat.
Inspectors of Election, November 6, 1900,
BENJAMIN T. RICH Republican.
JAMES T. LYONS Democrat.
Deputy Inspectors of Election, November 6, 1900,
S. F. DOUGLASS
Republican.
J. M. MATHER
Democrat.
.
.
.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
Tellers of Election, Nov. 6, 1900,
STUART P. ELLIS .
.
FRANK H. BRADFORD
JAMES L. TAYLOR
CHARLES T. JACKSON
HERBERT W. WEBSTER
JOHN I. ADAMS
ARTHUR E. PECKER
DANIEL J. KANE .
FRANK D. THURSTON
Democrat.
BERNARD MCDERMOTT
Democrat.
O. A. McINTOSH
Democrat.
Democrat.
Constables,
SETH C. KENDRICK. JOHN C. WHORF. ADELBERT S. HAMMOND.
CHARLES H. DUNLAP. JOHN B. CROWELL. RICHARD G. GILLEY.
Keeper of Lockup, CHARLES H. DUNLAP.
Special Police,
RICHARD G. GILLEY.
LOUIS F. AMAZEEN.
GEORGE R. HUSSEY.
CHARLES CONNELL.
JAMES A. MOTT.
ELIAS G. HODGKINS.
J. P. M. S. PITMAN.
PATRICK CRYAN.
JEFFERSON G. OWENS.
LOUIS G. CLARK.
JOSEPH W. GLASS.
GEORGE H. REED.
SILAS B. CARR. JOHN BURNETT. WILLIAM D. HUTT.
J. SHELDON MUDGE. EDWARD G. SPAULDING.
JOSEPH D. SPINNEY.
SYLVESTER F. DOUGLASS.
JOHN T. WARD.
HORACE W. BLANCHARD.
MELVIN W. BURDETT.
GEORGE FABAYAN.
LEMUEL W. PICKARD.
DANFORTH T. BOYL.
CHARLES Q. LOUD. Pound Keeper, JEFFERSON G. OWENS.
Field Driver, RICHARD G. GILLEY.
.
H. BYRON MARTIN
Republican. Republican. Republican. Republican. Republican. Republican. Democrat. Democrat.
RICHARD V. BESSOM.
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Standing Committees
Committee on Street Lights,
AARON R. BUNTING. EDWIN A. FARNHAM.
JOHN R. MERRITT. MARTIN L. QUINN.
FRANK L. BONNEY.
Committee on Remodeling the Town Hall,
EDWARD A. MAXFIELD.
HEZEKIAH NEWCOMB.
GEORGE A. R. HORTON.
D. HOLMAN MILLETT. AARON R. BUNTING. EDWARD H. KITFIELD.
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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1901]
Schedule of Public Property
Swampscott Water Works .
. $165,982 38
Town Hall and land .
· 17,135 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
Collector's safe .
50 00
$191,862 38
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
·
4,500 00
Essex Street School and land .
4,000 00
Farm School and land
2,000 00
Land, Essex street, opposite Cemetery,
300 00
Chemical Laboratory .
1,900 00
Laboratory supplies
400 00
School furniture
2,300 00
School supplies .
800 00
82,200 00
Amount carried forward,
$274,062 38
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Amount brought forward,
$274,062 38
Cemetery Department.
Receiving tomb .
$2,000 00
Superintendent's building
500 00
Implements
43 50
2,543 50
Police Department.
Nine revolvers .
$45 00
Forty-eight badges
55 00
Nine handcuffs .
29 00
Nine twisters
9 00
Ten billies
10 00
Seventeen helmets
30 00
One gun
20 00
One cap
3 00
Six belts and clubs
7 50
Six lanterns
3 50
Five chairs
7 50
One table .
3 50
One gas heater
3 00
One Public Statute
4 25
Thirty-two dozen buttons
.
19 00
249 25
Fire Department.
Engine house ·
$6,750 00
Land and storage buildings
1,500 00
Mountain Park hose-house and land
500 00
Steam fire engine
3,600 00
Hose wagon
450 00
Twenty-eight hundred feet cotton hose
@ 50c. .
1,400 00
Amounts carried forward,
$14,200 00 $276,855 13
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Amounts brought forward, $14,200 00 $276,855 13
One hundred and fifty feet cotton hose (worthless) ·
Ladder truck
Two crow-bars, 9 ladder hose-straps, 6 coal baskets, 5 hydrant wrenches,
2 hay-hooks, 2 hay-forks . .
One 30-foot ladder
Two 25-foot ladders
One 22-foot ladder
400 00 .
One 20-foot ladder
Two 17-foot ladders
One 10-foot ladder
One 50-foot extension ladder
One 18-foot extension ladder
Four fire-hooks and poles
Two axes .
Supply wagon
50 00
One syphon
17 00
One army coat
2 50
Twenty-five alarm boxes 1,025 00
Stable tools
13 00
Fire-alarm bell (Town Hall)
800 00
Two fire-alarm strikers (Town Hall and Congregational Church)
550 00
Three gongs
166 25
Three tappers (Engine house)
35 00
Two hand chemicals (hose wagon)
50 00
Two steam whistles
500 00
Six horses
1,200 00
Three sets double harnesses (swinging), 450 00
One single swinging harness .
25 00
Nine horse blankets
25 00
Furniture and bedding
75 00
Supply for batteries
75 00
Amounts carried forward,
$19,658 75 $276,855 13
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Amounts brought forward,
$19,658 75 $276,855 13
One whistle machine .
20 00
One ladder hose pipe .
15 00
Four house pipes
100 00
Two extra nozzles
10 00
Eighteen spanners
4 50
Two wagon jacks
6 50
Nine lanterns
4 50
Thirty-one rubber coats
92 75
Canvas life net
20 00
Life sheet .
35 00
One shut-off nozzle
15 00
One shut-off gate
20 00
One plaster hook
3 00
One repeater
300 00
One tape register
75 00
One indicator
100 00
One nickle iron bar
4 00
One patent horse-collar
15 00
Old ladders
25 00
Eighteen feet soft suction
12 00
One heater for steamer
25 00
One pump
20 00
One hydrant pump
6 00
Eighty-five hydrants .
2,125 00
Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench and spanners, at John Shepard's, Atlantic avenue · .
200 00
Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench, and spanners, at John Palmer's sta- ble, Humphrey street 200 00
Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench, and spanners, at Lynn and Boston R. R. stable, Essex street 200 00
Amounts carried forward,
$23,312 00 $276,855 13
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Amounts brought forward, $23,312 00 $276,855 13
Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench,
axe and spanners, Mountain Park 225 00 Four hundred feet hose, wrench and spanners, Lincoln House 250 00
Two hundred and fifty feet hose, wrench and spanners, at Evans & Cole's stable, Orient street . 125 00
23,912 00
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
Two street watering carts
500 00
Victor road machine .
150 00
Five snow ploughs
156 00
Tool-house
25 00
Tool-box
6 00
Two sets double harnesses
87 00
Two sets lead harnesses
21 00
Five horse collars
15 00
One cart harness
15 00
One four-wheel tip-cart
156 00
One-horse tip-cart
70 00
One two-horse roller
225 00
Six street hoes
3 00
Three rakes
I 20
Six drag rakes
3 00
Twenty snow shovels .
10 00
Seven crowbars .
7 00
Thirty-two shovels
16 00
Two mattocks
5 00
Amounts carried forward,
$5,271 20 $300,767 13
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Amounts brought forward,
$5,271 20 $300,767 13
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
Five sand pails .
75
Four sand scoops
60
Two tamping bars
3 50
Twelve lanterns
6 00
One gravel screen
6 00
Two brush hooks
I 50
One bush scythe
I 50
One steel rammer
6 75
One dirt rammer
3 00
One S. S. pump and hose .
43 00
One 37-foot extension ladder
11 00
Two long-handle scoops
2 00
One locker
20 00
One claw-hammer
50
One hatchet
85
One level .
I 00
Paving hammer .
I 50
One wrench
1 00
5,429 75
Amount carried forward,
$306,196 88
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Amount brought forward,
$306, 196 SS
Board of Health.
One desk .
$30 00
Twenty-one fumigating generators
105 00
One wagon
25 00
One case for generators
4 00 .
One barrel for alcohol
I 25
One wheelbarrow
2 00
Five gallons wood alcohol
5 00
One dory
15 00
One pair oars
1 00
Two lanterns
I 50
Four rakes
I 20
Three forks
I
35
One trowel
1 00
Four garbage pails
5 00
Three garbage barrels
9 00
One spade
50
207 So
$306,404 68
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Records of the Town Clerk
Annual Town Meeting, March 19, 1900.
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 nineteenth day of March, current, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, vız :
ARTICLE I. 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 Committee for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Trustees 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.
To choose a Water Commissioner for three (3) years.
To choose a Sewerage Commissioner for one (I) year.
To choose a Sewerage Commissioner for two (2) years.
To choose a Sewerage Commissioner for three (3) years.
All to be chosen on one ballot.
ART. 3. To vote by ballot " Yes" or "No" upon the ques- tion : Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?
ART. 4. To vote by ballot " Yes " or " No " upon the ques- tion of adopting Chapter 344, Acts of 1899, entitled : An act to make eight hours a day's work for city and town employees.
ART. 5. 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 Water Commissioners, the Surveyor o
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Highways, the Inspector of Cattle, Provisions, etc., the Park Commissioners, and the Board of Selectmen upon the question of purchasing more land adjoining Town Hall lot.
ART. 6. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appro- priations therefor.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
ART. S. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the year ensuing.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.
ART. 10. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. II. 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 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 expenses of Memorial Day.
ART. 13. To see what action the Town will take toward amending the By-laws.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of fifty ($50) dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health, in removing rubbish which may be washed upon Whale's Beach during the coming season.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee to investigate as to the necessity of remodeling and repairing the Town Hall, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 16. To hear and act upon the report of the Board of Selectmen on laying out Shaw road.
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ART. 17. To hear and act upon the report of the Board of Selectmen laying out a portion of Elmwood road, and appro- priate money therefor.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to furnish and operate electric arc lights as follows : On Hardy road, at the place where said road turns, going from Monument avenue to Elmwood road ; at the junction of Farragut and Grant roads ; on Maple avenue, at a point adjacent to the residence of L. Frank Cahoon. Also the following incandescent electric lights : Three (3) on Ocean avenue, between Atlantic avenue and Phillips Beach Station; and three (3) on Phillips avenue.
ART. 19. To see what action the Town will take towards constructing double street crossings as follows : Across Burrill street, at the junction of Essex street ; across Essex street at its junction with Cherry street; across Humphrey street to the eastern side of driveway of "Hotel Elms;" across Humphrey street to Beach Bluff avenue, east of watering fountain; at the northern junction and another at the southern junction of Norfolk avenue, with Middlesex avenue; at the junction of Berkshire avenue with Middlesex avenue; at the junction of Burrill street and Middlesex avenue, across Middlesex avenue ; across Burrill street from the northwest corner of Rock avenue to the estate of Jabez Hawes ; also the following single street crossings : Across Elmwood road at the easterly junction with Thomas road ; across Thomas road between the estates of John R. Merritt and B. F. Rich, across the proposed street near the residence of Willard C. Chase on Stetson avenue; across Essex street at the junction with Belmont avenue; across Belmont avenue at the junction with Essex street ; at the junction of Shaw and Thomas roads ; at the junction of Andrew and Thomas roads ; on Blaney street at the southerly corner of Rose street, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sufficient sum of money to be expended on Essex street, as laid out by the County Commissioners.
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ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to adopt Chapter 330, Acts of 1899, entitled, " An act to codify and amend the laws relative to the preservation of trees."
ART. 22. To see if the Town will pay the call firemen fifty ($50) dollars each per year.
ART. 23. To see what action the Town will take in relation to appropriating a sum of money, to be used for the purpose of furnishing music for public band concerts, or do anything in relation to same.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to sell cemetery lots to non-residents at the discretion of the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will appropriate eight hundred ($800) dollars for the purchase of land adjoining the cemetery, known as the "Silver Lot."
ART. 26. To see if the Town will reimburse Joseph W. Glass for ten (10) days' pay lost on account of small-pox case, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Section 335, Chapter 548, Acts of 1898, by which the Town may elect the next Board of Selectmen, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and thereafter elect one man each year for three years.
ART. 28. To fix the amount of salary for Town Officials for ensuing year.
ART 29. To see if the Town will appropriate money for the purchase of a new gravel pit.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars for the erection of a Band Stand under the direction of the Park Commissioners, upon the park between Ingalls place and Greenwood street, said Park Commissioners to have full charge of the said band stand after it is erected.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse Stephen L. Breed the sum of fifteen ($15) dollars, the amount of
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expense incurred for the examination of title and preparing deed of the Breed land, corner Redington and Highland streets.
ART. 32. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee on Sewerage.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will determine to borrow such sum of money as may be necessary to construct sewers, and the ways and works necessary to the use and maintenance of the same, and to defray any and all expenses incident to the laying out and construction of the same.
ART. 34. To determine how the Town is to borrow any sum of money which may be authorized under the last preceding article, and to fix the terms and conditions upon which the same shall be borrowed, and if bonds are to be issued therefor, to determine the form of such bonds and the term for which the same are to run, and to pass any other vote or votes necessary to enable the Town to execute, issue and negotiate said bonds.
.ART. 35. To see if the Town will provide for the establish- ment of a Sinking Fund for the payment of any bonds that may be issued, if any are to be issued by the Town, for the purpose of raising money for the construction and establishment of a system of sewerage, or whether the Town will provide for the payment of such debt by notes or bonds, and raise the money for the payment thereof by taxation ; and to pass any other vote or votes necessary to authorize the establishment of such Sinking Fund or for providing money for the payment of such notes or bonds by taxation or otherwise.
ART. 36. To determine what compensation, if any, shall be paid to said Sewerage Commissioners, or either of them.
ART. 37. To hear and act upon the report of the Board of Selectmen laying out Monument avenue, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will adopt the recommenda- tions of the Board of Engineers in regard to the Engine House.
ART. 39. To see what action, if any, the Town will take in
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
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determining how money shall be raised to pay for permanent improvements.
The polls to be closed at sunset.
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 eighth day of March, in the year nineteen hundred.
GEORGE T. TILL, EDWARD A. MAXFIELD, HEZEKIAH NEWCOMB, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest: RICHARD G. GILLEY, Constable.
Return on the Warrant.
Pursuant to the within Warrant to me directed, I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, to meet at the time and place and for the purpose herein mentioned, by posting up attested copies of said Warrant at the Town Hall, Depots, Post Office, and twenty-four other public and conspicuous places in said Swampscott, on Saturday, the tenth day of March, in the year 1900, the posting of said notices being seven days before the time of said meeting.
RICHARD G. GILLEY, Constable of Swampscott.
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, met in the Town Hall on Monday, March 19, 1900, and were called to order at 6 o'clock A.M., by the Town
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RECORDS OF TOWN CLERK.
1901]
Clerk, who read the Warrant calling said meeting, and the return thereon.
ARTICLE I. Moderator. On motion, it was voted that the Town Clerk cast one ballot for John R. Merritt for Moderator ; that ballot having been cast, John R. Merritt was declared elected Moderator, and was immediately qualified for the duty by the Town Clerk. Frank H. Bradford (Rep.) and Abram G. Stone (Dem.), having been appointed by the Selectmen to serve as Inspectors, were qualified by the Clerk, and to them were delivered the package containing 1,200 general and 60 special ballots. All the requirements of the law having been complied with, the polls were declared open for balloting for Town Officers. James H. Moulton (Dem.) having been appointed by the Moder- ator as additional Election Officer, was duly qualified by the Clerk, as also were the following, who had been appointed as Tellers and Inspectors by the Selectinen : Charles T. Jackson, James L. Taylor, Frank V. Porter and Herbert W. Webster (Reps.), Sydney M. Shattuck, Benjamin A. Martin, Frank D. Thurston and H. Byron Martin (Dems.). The polls were closed at 5.58 P.M., the new " United States" ballot box having been used for the first time. There were 782 general and four special ballots cast.
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