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TOWN DOCUMENTS
FIFTIETH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 21, 1902.
SETTLED A.D. 1629.
INCORPORATED
TT. A. D. 1852.
CO1
AS
SWA
LYNN, MASS. : WHITTEN & CASS, PRINTERS 1902
TOWN DOCUMENTS
FIFTIETH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 21, 1902.
LED A.D. 1629.
SET
· INCORPORATED
TT, A. D. 1852.
AS
SWA
LYNN, MASS. : WHITTEN & CASS, PRINTERS 1902
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
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Index.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, TOWN OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Auditor's Remarks
189
Cemetery, Superintendent's Report
99
Fire Engineer's Report
80
Health, Board of, Report . 83
Inspector of Cattle, Swine and Provisions, Report
95
Jurors, List of
53
Library Trustees, Report
103
Milk Inspector's Report
IOI
Park Commissioners' Report
I04
Police Report
96
Public Property, Schedule of
II
School Committee's Report
59
Sealer of Weights and Measures
102
Selectmen's Report
54
Sinking Fund Commissioners' Report
116
Standing Committees
IO
Street Light Committee's Report
93
Surveyor of Highways' Report .
85
Town Clerk's Records
18
Town Clerk's Statistics
49
Town Officers Appointed
6
Town Officers Elected
4
Town Warrant
190
Tree Warden's Report
91
Truant Officer's Report
79
Water Commissioner's Report
106
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INDEX.
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Index.
FINANCIAL REPORTS.
PAGE.
Assessors' Valuation .
187
Assessors' Valuation Book
171
Beaches . .
154
Band Concerts
172
Catch Basins and Gutters
145
Cemetery Department .
158
Cemetery Improvement .
160
Concrete and Curbstones
146
County Tak .
177
Crescent Street
147
Ellis Road Extension
148
Fences. .
150
Financial Standing of Town
188
Fire Department
132
Free Public Library
157
Health Department
151
Highway Department
139
House Offal and Ashes
154
Horses.
136
Interest
173
Memorial Day .
169
Monument Lot, Care of
169
Notes Payable .
179
Paradise Road Culvert
149
Park Department .
160
Phillips School Medal Fund
132
Police Department .
137
Poor Department
164
Orient Street Sea Wall.
150
School Department.
127
Selectmen's Department
121
Sewerage Committee.
172
Sidewalks . Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid
143
State Tax . .
177
State Aid, Chapter 372
169
State Aid, Chapter 374
170
Statistics of the Town
186
Street Light Department
163
Street Crossings
144
Street Watering
151
Swampscott Water Works
173
Tax Collector's Balance Sheet
ISO
Treasurer's Balance Sheet
182
Town Hall Department .
155
Town Hall Plans
156
Tree Warden
162
Water Rates
164
Whistle
136
Recapitulation
184
107
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
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Elected Town Officers
Moderator. DANIEL F. KNOWLTON.
Selectmen. GEORGE A. R. HORTON, Chairman. JOSEPH M. BASSETT. CLARENCE B. DELANO.
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 66 1904
GILBERT DELANO
1903
School Committee.
FRANK E. INGALLS, Chairman Term expires 1903
EDWIN M. BAILEY
66 1904
ELDRIDGE F. SMALL .
60 1902
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ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1902]
Water Commissioners.
BENJAMIN G. INGALLS, Chairman
Term expires 1902
CHARLES S. HASKELL
1904
WILLARD C. CHASE
.
1903
Public Library Trustees,
ELIZABETH J. HADLEY, Chairman . ·
Term expires 1903
FRANK E. INGALLS
66
1902
FRANK F. STANLEY ·
1904
Park Commissioners.
EDWARD H. KITFIELD, Chairman
Term expires 1903
H. CUSHING BULFINCH
66
1902
J. M. GROVESNOR, JR. .
1904
Board of Health.
DR. FRANK B. STRATTON, Chairman
Term expires 1902
MICHAEL HALEY
66
1904
RICHARD P. HORTON
1903
Surveyor of Highways. JAMES P. M. S. PITMAN.
Constables.
SAMUEL T. HARRIS. RICHARD G. GILLEY.
SILAS B. CARR.
Sewer Commissioners.
AARON R. BUNTING, Chairman
Term expires 1904
OSCAR G. POOR
1903
FRANK B. STRATTON
·
66
1902
Tree Warden. GEORGE NEWHALL.
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Appointed Town Officers
Secretary of Selectmen. JAY C. MERRITT, resigned. CHARLES G. ROWELL, appointed Dec. 27, 1901.
Town Counsel. WILLIAM H. NILES.
Librarian of Public Library. MIss S. L. HONORS.
Assistant Librarians.
ROY E. CRANE, resigned. CHESTER BROWN, resigned.
CARL BAIN. RALPH H. RUSSELL.
Engineers of Fire Department.
GEORGE P. CAHOON Chief
GEORGE H. LAMPARD
Ist Assistant
EDWIN B. TAYLOR (deceased) 2d Assistant
FRANK L. CHAPMAN
appointed Nov. 8, 1901
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. CHARLES CONNELL.
Superintendent of Cemetery. NATHAN M. HARRIS.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1902]
Superintendent of Burial of Deceased Soldiers and Sailors. MICHAEL HALEY.
Care of Monument Lot. EDWIN F. WILEY.
Inspector of Provisions and Animals Intended for Slaughter or Kept for Production of Milk. FRANK B. STRATTON.
Milk Inspector. J. E. O. NESBETT.
Town Weigher. THEOPHILUS W. BRACKETT.
Fence Viewer. 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. WILBUR B. ADAMS.
Agent of Town Hall. JAMES A. MOTT.
Janitor of Town Hall. JAMES A. MOTT.
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Registrars of Voters.
ANDREW OLSEN, Chairman
·
Term expires 1904
FRANK L. BONNEY . 1902 ·
JAMES H. MOULTON
66 1903
MILTON D. PORTER
(ex officio.)
Special Election Officer, March 18, 1901.
WILLIS C. PAUL Democrat
Inspectors of Election, March 18, 1901.
B. F. RICH
Republican
DAVID W. NESBETT .
Democrat
Deputy Inspectors of Election, March 18, 1901.
F. H. BRADFORD Republican
ABRAM G. STONE
Democrat
Tellers of Election, March 18, 1901.
STUART P. ELLIS
Republican
JAMES L. TAYLOR .
CHARLES T. JACKSON
Republican Republican
J. HENRY WIDGER Republican JOHN T. BURNETT Republican GEORGE H. STONE Republican F. D. THURSTON Democrat
BERNARD MCDERMOTT
Democrat
WILLIAM H. COLLINS Democrat
H. BYRON MARTIN Democrat
J. W. THURSTON Democrat
HARRY P. PETERS
Democrat
Special Election Officer, November 5, 1901. WILLIS C. PAUL Democrat
Inspectors of Election, November 5, 1901.
WILLIARD M. HATCH Republican
DANIEL MOHAN . . Democrat
Deputy Inspectors of Election, November 5, 1901.
FRANK H. BASSETT
ABRAM G. STONE .
.
Republican Democrat
·
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1902]
Tellers of Election, November 5, 1901.
E. M. TUTTLE
B. F. RICH
.
J. D. SPINNEY
. Republican
CHARLES T. JACKSON
. Republican Republican .
W. H. COLLINS
Democrat
FRANK D. THURSTON
Democrat
BERNARD MCDERMOTT
Democrat
H. BYRON MARTIN
Democrat
SETH C. KENDRICK. JOHN C. WHORF.
Constables. CHARLES H. DUNLAP. JOHN B. CROWELL.
ADELBERT S. HAMMOND. Keeper of Lockup. CHARLES H. DUNLAP.
Special Police.
RICHARD G. GILLEY.
LOUIS F. AMAZEEN.
GEORGE R. HUSSEY.
ELIAS G. HODGKINS.
JAMES A. MOTT.
PATRICK CRYAN.
J. P. M. S. PITMAN.
LOUIS G. CLARK.
JEFFERSON G. OWENS.
GEORGE H. REED.
JOSEPH W. GLASS.
RICHARD V. BESSOM.
SILAS B. CARR. JOHN BURNETT. WILLIAM D. HUTT.
J. SHELDON MUDGE.
EDWARD G. SPAULDING.
SYLVESTER F. DOUGLASS.
JOSEPH D. SPINNEY.
HORACE W. BLANCHARD.
JOHN T. WARD. MELVIN W. BURDETT.
DANFORTH T. BOYL.
LEMUEL W. PICKARD.
PETER COAN. F. H. BRADFORD.
GEORGE NEWHALL.
J. FRANK MOORE.
WILLIAM R. BLANEY. ARNOTTI PAGNOTTI.
Pound Keeper. JEFFERSON G. OWENS.
Field Driver. RICHARD G. GILLEY.
FRANK GRIFFIN.
GEORGE FABAYAN.
M. J. RYAN. SAMUEL T. HARRIS. B. G. PEDRICK, CHARLES Q. LOUD.
Republican Republican
HERBERT W. WEBSTER
·
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Standing Committees
Committee on Street Lights.
AARON R. BUNTING. EDWIN A. FARNHAM. MARTIN L. QUINN.
JOHN R. MERRITT.
FRANK L. BONNEY.
Sewerage Committee.
AARON R. BUNTING.
HENRY B. SPRAGUE.
OSCAR G. POOR.
BENJ. O. HONORS.
FRANK B. STRATTON. EDW. A. MAXFIELD.
Committee Appointed to see that Justice be Done to its Humblest Citizen.
MARTIN E. NIES. EDMUND RUSSELL.
H. C. BULFINCH. M. V. B. STONE.
GILBERTDELANO.
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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1902]
Schedule of Public Property
Swampscott Water Works .
. $173,244 57
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
-$199,124 57 -
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,
$281,324 57
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Amount brought forward,
$281,324 57
Cemetery Department.
Receiving tomb
$2,000 00
Old tomb
20 00
House ·
500 00
Implements
45 00
2,565 00
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
Amounts carried forward,
$8,750 00 $284, 138 82
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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
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Amounts brought forward,
$8,750 00 $284, 138 82
Steam fire engine
3,600 00
Hose wagon
450 00
Twenty-eight hundred feet cotton hose
@ 50c. .
1,400 00
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
One 20-foot ladder
400 00
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
Amounts carried forward,
$19,458 75 $284, 138 82
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Amounts brought forward,
$19,458 75 $284, 138 82
One single swinging harness
25 00
Nine horse blankets
25 00
Furniture and bedding
75 05
Supply for batteries
75 00
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 . Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench, and spanners, at John Palmer's stable, Humphrey street
200 00
200 00
Amounts carried forward,
$23, 112 00 $284, 138 82
.
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Amounts brought forward, $23, 112 00 $284, 138 82
Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench,
200 00
and spanners, at Lynn and Boston R. R. stable, Essex street 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
One wagon
30 00
23,942 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
160 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
Ten street hoes .
5 10
Amounts carried forward,
$5,235 10 $308,080 82
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Amounts brought forward,
$5,235 10 $308,080 82
Three rakes
I 50
Five drag rakes .
2 50
Twenty snow shovels .
10 00
Six crowbars
7 00
Twenty shovels .
10 00
Two mattocks
3 00
Five hammers
700 00
Eight stone points
I 50
Twelve hand drills
3 00
Two frost wedges
8 00
Twenty-five picks
25 00
Three pounders
3 00
One wheelbarrow
2 50
Five sand pails .
75
Four sand scoops
I 00
Three tamping bars
5 25
Ten lanterns
5 00
One gravel screen
5 00
Two brush hooks
I 50
One bush scythe
I 50
One steel rammer
6 50
One dirt rammer
3 00
One S. S. pump and hose .
43 00
One 37-foot extension ladder
10 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
I 00
5,428 35
Amount carried forward,
$313,509 17
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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1902]
Amount brought forward,
$313,509 17
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 80
Total . .
$313,716 97
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Records of the Town Clerk
Annual Town Meeting, March 18, 1901. 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 eighteenth day of March, current, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :-
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 ensu- ing To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for three (3) years.
To choose a Town Treasurer for one (1) year.
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To choose a Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing. 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 Sewer Commissioner for three (3) years.
To choose a Tree Warden for the year ensuing. 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 question as petitioned for : Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year 1901, Chapter 78, entitled : "An Act to extend the provisions of the Civil Service Law to the Police and Fire Forces of Towns" be accepted and made applicable to the Police Force of the Town of Swampscott.
ART. 5. To vote by ballot " Yes " or " No " upon the ques- tion as petitioned for : Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year 1901, Chapter 78, entitled : "An Act to extend the provisions of the Civil Service Law to the Police and Fire Forces of Towns " be accepted and made applicable to the Fire Force of the Town of Swampscott.
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ART. 6. 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 Commit- tee on Street Lights, the Water Commissioners, the Surveyor of Highways, the Inspector of Cattle, Provisions, etc., the Park Commissioners, the Sewer Commissioners and the Tree Warden.
ART. 7. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appro- priations therefor.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for Jurors, as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
ART. 9. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.
ART. 10. 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. II. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing.
ART. 12. 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. 13. To see if the Town will accept and allow the report of the Selectmen, laying out a road or way from Burrill street to State highway through the lands of Harriet N. Emmons, according to the plan of said road or way, now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Town, and to see if the Town will accept said road or way and appropriate money therefor.
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ART. 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to rebuild the stone culvert, located under the proposed State highway from Burrill street to the overhead bridge on the Marblehead branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad, according to the plan of said culvert, prepared by the Engineer of the State Highway Commissioners, and to see if the Town will hereafter keep said culvert perpetually in repair, and indemnify and save the Commonwealth harmless from all claims for damages caused by said culvert, or the flowing of water through or from the same.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will appropriate five hundred ($500) dollars to defray the cost of rebuilding said culvert.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty (150) dollars to be placed in the hands of James L. Bates Post, 118, G. A. R., towards defraying the expenses of Memorial Day.
ART. 17. 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, as petitioned for.
ART. 18. To hear and act upon the report of the Board of Selectmen laying out Ellis road.
ART. 19. To hear and act upon the report of the Board of Selectmen in relation to extending Ellis road and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take towards constructing double street crossings as petitioned for, as follows : Across Atlantic avenue at the corner of Beach Bluff avenue ; across Atlantic avenue, at or near the new steps to the Hotel Preston. Also the following single street crossings: Across Humphrey street at the junction with Glen road ; across Stetson avenue at the junction with Bristol avenue ; across Essex street
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at the junction with Belmont avenue; across Hillside avenue at the junction with Cherry street ; across Ellis road at the junction with Farragut road.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) for band concerts during the sum- mer of 1901 as petitioned for.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) to pay for publishing the Assessors' Valuation.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350) to repair and rebuild the sea wall and fence on Orient street.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) to build the culvert at Beach Bluff.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for Cemetery improvements.
ART. 26. To see what action the Town will take towards purchasing road building material from the owners of land on Elmwood road and to make such appropriation as may be required for same, as petitioned for.
ART. 27. To see what action the Town will take on a request for the Park Commissioners and the Board of Health to unite in the selection of one and the same person, to not only have the care of the park, but also for some three or four months of the year to attend to the removal of the fish offal from the fish markets and to have a general care of Fishermen's Beach, so called, as petitioned for.
ART. 28. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the care of the Town brooks for the ensuing year as petitioned for.
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ART. 29. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the care of its beaches and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.
ART. 30. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the collection of house offal and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.
ART. 31. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the collection of ashes and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.
ART. 32. 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. 33. 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, 34. 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. 35. To determine what compensation, if any, shall be paid to said Sewerage Commissioners, or either of them.
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ART. 36. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the report of the committee on remodeling the Town Hall.
ART. 37. To see if the Town for the purpose of remodeling the Town Hall will authorise the Treasurer, under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow a sum of money not ex- ceeding twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, for a period of ten years, and for the Treasurer to issue ten (10) notes of the Town for the same in equal amounts, one to be paid each year.
ART. 38. To see what action the Town will take in regard to purchasing the lot of land in the rear of the Town Hall, pro- vided the same can be obtained at a reasonable price and appro- priate money therefor as petitioned for.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will authorize its Water Com- missioners to purchase land and erect a new stand-pipe thereon.
ART. 40. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money sufficient to pay for the land and stand-pipe mentioned in the preceding article, and if so, to determine whether the same shall be borrowed upon the bonds or notes of the Town, and if borrowed upon the bonds or notes of the Town to fix the time of payment thereof, and the rate of interest, and to act upon any and all other matters necessary to enable the Town to borrow said money, and to issue said bonds or notes.
ART. 41. To see what action, if any, the Town will take in determining how money shall be raised to pay for permanent improvements.
The polls to be closed at sunset (5.54 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.
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RECORDS OF TOWN CLERK.
1902]
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due returns 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 fifth day of March, in the year nineteen hundred and one.
EDWARD A. MAXFIELD, HEZEKIAH NEWCOMB, GEORGE A. R. HORTON, Selectmen of Swampscott.
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