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TOWN DOCUMENTS ..
THE LIBRARY FIFTY-FIRST
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 20, 1903.
SETTLED
A.D. 1629.
.
INCORPORATED
OTT. A. D. 1852
S
AS
SWAM
LYNN, MASS. WHITTEN & CASS, PRINTERS, No. 33 Munroe Street.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS. [Feb. 20
352 SW 1903-07
Index.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, TOWN OFFICIALS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Auditor's Remarks
287
Cemetery, Superintendent's Report . 131
Fiftieth Anniversary Committee Report
192
Fire Engineer's Report
Health, Board of, Report
II3
Inspector of Cattle, Swine and Provisions, Report
130
Jurors, List of
79
Library Trustees, Report
I35
Milk Inspector's Report
133
Park Commissioners, Report
136
Police Report
115
Public Property, Schedule of
85
Sewer Commissioners' Report
I39
Sealer of Weights and Measures
I34
Selectmen's Report
80
Sinking Fund Commissioners' Report
191
Standing Committees .
IO
Street Light Committee's Report
I28
Surveyor of Highways' Report .
I2I
Town Clerk's Records
18
Town Clerk's Statistics
76
Town Officers Appointed
6
Town Officers Elected
4
Town Warrant
288
Tree Warden's Report
118
Truant Officer's Report
108
Water Commissioner's Report
184
School Committee's Report
3
INDEX.
1903]
Index.
FINANCIAL REPORTS.
PAGE.
Assessors' Valuation
2S1
Atlantic Avenue .
232
Beach Bluff Avenue Culvert
233
Belmont and Minerva Streets
234
Catcli Basins and Gutters
229
Cemetery Department .
251
Claims of Harriet N. Emmons
263
Concrete and Curbstones
230
County Tax
275
Crushed Stone
224
Drinking Fountain
243
Ellis Road Culvert
235
Elmwood Road .
230
Engine House Repairs
217
Essex Street Bridge .
236
Essex Street School.
264
Farwell's Meadow
267
Fiftieth Anniversary
264
Financial Standing of Town
2S6
Fire Department
213
Free Public Library
247
Health Department
243
Highway Department
220
Interest
275
Memorial Day
263 263
Notes Payable
2777
Park Department
252
Pest House .
247
Phillips School Medal Fund
212
Police Department .
218
Poor Department
256
Recapitulation
284
Resetting Curbstones.
238
Selectmen's Department
201
Sewerage Committee .
267
Sewer Department .
269
Sheridan and Walker Roads
240
Sidewalks
226
Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid
259
Special Fire .
217
State Tax . .
275
State Aid, Chapter 372
261
State Aid, Chapter 374
262
Statistics of the Town
2So
Street Light Department
255
Street Crossings
228
Street Watering
242
Swampscott Water Works.
271
Tax Collector's Balance Sheet
278
Town Hall Department .
249
Town Hall Repairs .
251
Treasurer's Balance Sheet
2S2
Tree Warden
254
Water Rates
256
SWAMPSCOTT PUBLIC LIBRARY
Roy, Jessie, Buena Vista and Eureka Streets
School Department .
239 207
Monument Lot, Care of
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 20
Elected Town Officers.
Moderator. DANIEL F. KNOWLTON.
Selectmen.
JOSEPH M. BASSETT, Chairman. CLARENCE B. DELANO. EDWARD A. MAXFIELD.
Town Clerk. MILTON D. PORTER.
Treasurer. BENJAMIN O. HONORS.
Collector of Taxes. MICHAEL P. CARROLL, Died May 19, 1902. GEORGE T. TILL, Elected June 23, 1902.
Auditors.
JOHN B. EARP, Chairman. HERMAN F. ASHTON.
ROBERT AERY.
Assessors.
D. HOLMAN MILLETT, Chairman Died Dec. ) Term expires 1905
ISAAC H. ANDREWS
25, 1902
1 904
GILBERT DELANO
1903
School Committee.
FRANK E. INGALLS, Chairman
Term expires 1903
EDWIN M. BAILEY (Resigned)
1904
1905
SIDNEY E. BAILEY . · H. CUSHING BULFINCH . Appointed May 12, 1902
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ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1903]
Overseers of the Poor.
MICHAEL P. CARROLL, Chairman ( Died May ) 19, 1902
JOSEPH F. CROWELL
Term expires 1903 66 1904
THOMAS B. P. CURTIS
1905
MARTIN L. QUINN .
Elected June 23, 1902
Water Commissioners.
CHARLES S. HASKELL, Chairman
Term expires 1904
WILLARD C. CHASE
1903
WILLIAM H. BATES
66 1905
Public Library Trustees.
ELIZABETH J. HADLEY, Chairman .
Term expires 1903
FRANK E. INGALLS
1905
FRANK F. STANLEY
1904
Park Commissioners.
EDWARD H. KITFIELD, Chairman .
Term expires 1903
J. M. GROSVENOR, JR. . 1904
JEROME PAUL JACKSON .
1905
Board of Health.
DR. FRANK B. STRATTON, Chairman
Term expires 1905
MICHAEL HALEY .
1904
RICHARD P. HORTON
66
1903
Surveyor of Highway s. JAMES P. M. S. PITMAN.
Constables.
SAMUEL T. HARRIS. RICHARD G. GILLEY.
JEFFERSON G. OWENS.
Sewer Commissioners.
AARON R. BUNTING, Chairman
Term expires 1904
OSCAR G. POOR
1903
HENRY B. SPRAGUE
66
1 005
Tree Warden. GEORGE NEWHALL.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 20
Appointed Town Officers
Secretary of Selectmen. CHARLES G. ROWELL.
Town Counsel. WILLIAM H. NILES.
Librarian of Public Library. MISS S. L. HONORS.
Assistant Librarians.
CARL BAIN.
RALPH H. RUSSELL.
Engineers of Fire Department.
GEORGE P. CAHOON .
.
Chief
GEORGE H. LAMPARD · · .
Ist Assistant
FRANK L. CHAPMAN
2d Assistant
Forest Fire Wardens.
GEORGE P. CAHOON. GEORGE H. LAMPARD. FRANK L. CHAPMAN.
Regular Poliee. CHARLES H. DUNLAP, Chief.
JOHN C. WHORF. ADELBERT S. HAMMOND. SAMUEL T. HARRIS. JOSEPH D. SPINNEY. CHARLES CONNELL.
Superintendent of Cemetery. NATHAN M. HARRIS.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1903]
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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[Feb 20
Registrars of Voters.
ANDREW OLSEN, Chairman . Term expires 1904
GEORGE C. WEBSTER
1905
JAMES H. MOULTON
66 1903
MILTON D. PORTER
(ex officio.)
Special Election Officer, March 17, 1902. WILLIS C. PAUL Democrat
Inspectors of Election, March 17, 1902.
WILLARD M. HATCH
Republican
DAVID W. NESBETT .
Democrat
Deputy Inspectors of Election, March 17, 1902.
FRANK H. BASSETT
Republican
ABRAM G. STONE
Democrat
Tellers of Election, March 17, 1902.
W. H. WEBSTER
H. P. PETERS
J. H. WIDGER
J. D. SPINNEY
Republican Republican Republican Republican
B. F. RICH
Republican
J. L. TAYLOR
Republican
F. A. BAKER
H. B. MARTIN
Republican Democrat
F. D. THURSTON
Democrat
W. H. COLLINS Democrat
E. H. THOMAS Democrat
D. J. KAIN
. Democrat
Special Election Officer, June 23, 1902. DAVID W. NESBETT ·
Democrat
Inspectors of Election, June 23, 1902.
EDWARD H. CURTIS
Republican Democrat
ABRAM G. STONE
.
Deputy Inspector of Election, June 23, 1902. FRANK H. BASSETT . Republican
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1903]
Tellers of Election, June 23, 1902.
EDGAR M. TUTTLE
Republican
W. H. WEBSTER .
· Republican
H. BYRON MARTIN
Democrat
FRANK S. THURSTON
Democrat
Special Election Officer, November 4, 1902.
EDWARD H. THOMAS Democrat
Inspectors of Election, November 4, 1902.
A. FRANK ROGERS .
·
Republican
THOMAS H. NOONAN
. Democrat
Deputy Inspector of Election, November 4, 1902. FRANK H. BASSETT . Republican
Tellers of Election, November 4, 1902.
JOHN B. EARP .
Republican
JAY C. MERRITT
. .
· Republican
W. H. WEBSTER
HARRY P. PETERS
. Republican Republican
FRANK D. THURSTON
Democrat
ALBERT STONE
Democrat
W. H. COLLINS
Democrat
BERNARD MCDERMOTT
Democrat
SAMUEL T. HARRIS. JOHN C. WHORF.
Constables. CHARLES H. DUNLAP. JOSEPH D. SPINNEY. ADELBERT S. HAMMOND.
Keeper of Lockup. CHARLES H. DUNLAP.
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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.
J. SHELDON MUDGE.
JOHN BURNETT.
WILLIAM D. HUTT.
SYLVESTER F. DOUGLASS.
JOHN T. WARD.
HORACE W. BLANCHARD.
MELVIN W. BURDETT.
GEORGE FABAYAN.
LEMUEL W. PICKARD.
DANFORTH T. BOYL.
M. J. RYAN.
PETER COAN.
B. G. PEDRICK.
F. H. BRADFORD.
CHARLES Q. LOUD.
GEORGE NEWHALL.
FRANK GRIFFIN.
J. FRANK MOORE.
GEORGE M. CONNER.
WILLIAM R. BLANEY.
FRANK E. POWERS.
ARNOTTI PAGNOTTI.
SETH C. KENDRICK.
Pound Keeper. JEFFERSON G. OWENS.
Field Driver. RICHARD G. GILLEY.
Dog Officer. RICHARD G. GILLEY.
Standing Committees.
Committee on Street Lights. EDWIN A. FARNHAM, Chairman. FRANK J. LINNEHAN. MARTIN L. QUINN.
JOHN R. MERRITT.
FRANK L. BONNEY.
MICHAEL HALEY. P
EDWARD G. SPAULDING.
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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1903]
Schedule of Public Property.
Swampscott Water Works
$175,433 79
Town Hall and land
23,000 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
Collector's safe
.
50 00
$207, 178 79
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
8,000 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
86,200 00
Amount carried forward,
$293,378 79
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Amount brought forward,
$293,378 79
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 building .
·
1,500 00
Mountain Park hose house and land
500 00
Amounts carried forward,
$8,750 00 296,193 04
.
.
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Amounts brought forward,
$8,750 00 296, 193 04
Steam fire engine
3,600 00
Hose wagon
450 00
Ladder truck
Two crow-bars, 9 ladder hose straps, 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 ladder
·
One 18-foot extension ladder
Four fire-hooks and poles
Two axes
Six coal baskets, 5 hydrant wrenches
19 00
One supply wagon
75 00
One syphon .
17 00
One army coat
2 50
Nineteen alarm boxes
1,140 00
Stable tools
15 00
Fire alarm bell, Town Hall
800 00
Two fire-alarm strikers, one at Town Hall, one at Congregational Church,
550 00
Three gongs
166 00
Three tappers
45 00
Three hand chemicals .
65 00
Two steam whistles
500 00
Eight horses
1,625 00
Three sets double harnesses
450 00
One single harness
35 00
One three-horse hitch .
150 00
Eight horse blankets in good order
.
40 00
Two old blankets
3 00
·
Amounts carried forward,
$18,897 50 296, 193 04
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Amounts brought forward,
$18,897 50 296, 193 04
Furniture and bedding
75 00
Supplies for batteries .
100 00
Five play pipes .
100 00
Twenty-four spanners
6 00
Two wagon-jacks
6 50
Nine lanterns
4 50
Thirty-one rubber coats
92 00
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
Thirty-two badges
24 00
One repeater
300 00
One tape register
60 00
Two indicators
225 00
One nickle iron bar
4 00
One patent horse collar
15 00
Old ladders
20 00
18 feet soft suction
12 00
One heater for steamer
25 00
One pump
20 00
One hydrant pump
6 00
Eighty-five hydrants
2, 12.5 00
One light wagon
50 00
Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench and two spanners at John Shepard's Atlan- tic avenue · ·
200 00
Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench and two spanners at John Palmer's stable, Humphrey street 200 00
Hose reel and 300 feet hose, wrench and two spanners at Lynn & Boston R. R. stable, Essex street
200 00
Amounts carried forward,
$22,860 50 296, 193 04
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Amounts brought forward, $22,860 50 296, 193 04
Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench, one
axe, two spanners at Mountain Park Hose House
250 00
Hose reel and 400 feet hose, wrench and spanners at Lincoln House 250 00
Two hundred and fifty feet hose, wrench and two spanners at Evans & Cole's stable, Orient street . 125 00
Twenty-seven hundred feet cotton hose, rubber lined two and one-half inch, Eight hundred feet cotton hose, rubber lined two and one-half inch, worthless.
1,350 00
24,835 50
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
210 00
Tool house .
25 00
Two tool boxes
10 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
Amounts carried forward,
$5,284 00 321,028 54
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Amounts brought forward,
$5,284 00 321,028 54
Ten street hoes
5 10
Three rakes
I 50
Five drag rakes .
2 50
Thirty snow shovels
20 00
Six crowbars
7 00
Twenty shovels
10 00
Four mattocks
5 00
Five hammers
7 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
1 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
Seventy-five sewer rods
37 00
One sewer scraper
4 50
5,535 95
Amount carried forward,
$326,564 49
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Amount brought forward,
$326,564 49
Health Department.
One desk
$30 00
Twenty-one generators
105 00
One wagon
20 00
One wheelbarrow
2 00
One dory
15 00
One pair oars
.I OO
Two lanterns
I 50
Four rakes .
I 20
Three forks
I 35
One trowel .
I 00
Four garbage pails
5 00
Three garbage barrels
9 00
One spade .
·
50
Lot and house, No. 7 Minena street
2,100 00
New Contagious Hospital
2,032 00
Household goods at Hospital
.
186 22
Carriage
50 90
Carriage shed
84 00
Office furniture (Town Hall)
141 00
4,785 77
Total
$331,350 26
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Record's of the Town Clerk.
Town Meeting, March 4, 1902.
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 Tuesday, the fourth day of March, current, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :-
ARTICLE. I. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meet- ing.
ART. 2. To hear and act upon the report of the Sewerage Committee.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 86, of the Acts passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts during the session of 1902, entitled " An Act to Authorize the Town of Swampscott to Construct a System of Sewerage."
ART. 4. To see if the Town will issue any bonds, notes or scrip and fix the form, amounts, times of payment and rates of
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interest thereof and thereon, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter · 86, of the Acts passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts during the session of 1902.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will instruct its Board of Sewer Commissioners to proceed with the construction of a sewerage system in accordance with their report and instruct and authorize them to make all necessary contracts therefor in the name and behalf of the Town.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to borrow any money in anticipation of the issue and sale of bonds, notes or scrip, voted upon under Article 4.
ART. 7. . To see if the Town will vote to establish a sinking fund and raise and appropriate any moneys for the same, or pass any votes in relation thereto.
ART. 8. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee appointed to investigate the A. O. Cahoon claim.
ART. 9. To see what action the Town will take with reference to the claim of A. O. Cahoon and make appropriation therefor.
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 aforesaid.
Given under our hands this nineteenth day of February in the year nineteen hundred and two.
GEORGE A. R. HORTON, JOSEPH M. BASSETT, CLARENCE B. DELANO, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
RICHARD G. GILLEY,
Constable.
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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 other public and conspicuous places in said Swampscott, on Friday, the twenty-first day of February, 1902, 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 voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, March 4, 1902, and were called to order at 7.45 o'clock by the Town Clerk, who read the Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon.
ARTICLE I. John R. Merritt was elected Moderator and qualified by the Town Clerk.
ART. 2. Voted, To waive the reading of the Sewerage Com- mittee's report, it having been printed and distributed, and that the same be accepted.
ART. 3. Weston K. Lewis offered the following motion : That this article be taken up at an adjournment of this meeting to be held on Wednesday, March 5, 1902, to be then voted upon on a printed ballot prepared by the Town Clerk under the Australian form by a Yes or No vote; that the polls be opened at 12 M. on the day above mentioned and closed at 9 P. M. of the same day, such ballot to be taken on the following question : " Shall the Town of Swampscott accept Chapter 86 of the Acts of 1902, entitled " An Act to Authorize the Town of Swamp- scott to Construct a System of Sewerage?"
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A spirited debate, participated in by M. E. Nies, A. R. Bunt- ing, H. B. Sprague, Thomas E. Stone, Mr. Cobb and others, ensued, at the close of which the motion of Mr. Lewis was carried.
ART. 4. On motion of H. C. Bulfinch it was unanimously Voted, That this article be taken up at an adjournment of this meeting to be held on March 5, 1902, to be then voted upon on a printed ballot prepared by the Town Clerk under the Australian form by a Yes or No vote; that the polls be opened at 12 M. on the day above mentioned, and closed at 9 P. M. of the same day ; such ballot to be taken on the following question : "Shall the Town issue bonds to the amount of one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars ($124,000) for the purposes set forth in Chapter 86 of the Acts and Resolves of the Massachusetts Legislature for 1902 entitled, " An Act to Authorize the Town of Swampscott to Construct a System of Sewerage," one hundred and twenty of said bonds to be of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, and forty of said bonds to be of the denomination of one hundred dollars each, and to have interest coupons thereto attached ; said bonds to have the privilege of registration ; said bonds, or any portion thereof, to be sold at such date or dates as may be deemed by the Board of Sewer Commissioners to be for the best interests of the Town; said one thousand dollar bonds to be designated as Series A, and numbered consecutively from one to one hundred and twenty (1 to 120) both inclusive; said one hundred dollar bonds to be designated as Series B, and num- bered consecutively from one to forty (1 to 40) both inclusive ; said bonds to be made so payable that three bonds of Series A, and one bond of Series B, shall be payable each and every year during the forty years from the issuing thereof, so that the loan secured by said bonds shall be paid in forty, equal, annual pay- ments, each bond to be payable with interest at three and one- half per cent. (3} per cent.) per annum, payable semi-annually in each year, at such Bank or Trust Company as the Town Treasurer shall select and determine, on presentation and sur- render of the coupons therefor, as the same shall severally become
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due; that each of said bonds shall be signed by the Treasurer of the Town, and countersigned by a majority of the Sewer Com- missioners of said Town, and bear on its face the words " Swampscott Sewerage Loan," and that the Treasurer is here- by directed to affix to each of said bonds the seal of the Town, and to sell or negotiate said bonds under the direction of the Board of Sewer Commissioners, but not below par; and that the proceeds realized from the sale of said bonds shall be applied to defraying the expenses and liabilities incurred by the Town in carrying out the provisions of said Chapter 86.
Voted, That articles 5, 6 and 7 be taken up at tomorrow's adjourned meeting.
Voted, At 9.38 P. M., To adjourn to tomorrow March 5 at 12 M.
Adjourned Town Meeting March 5, 1902.
In accordance with the previous adjournment the Voters of the Town assembled at Town Hall on Wednesday March 5, 1902, and were called to order at 12 M. by the Moderator.
The records of the last meeting were read and declared ap- proved. The Selectmen, G. A. R. Horton, Joseph M. Bassett and Clarence B. Delano were appointed by the Moderator to act as ballot clerks and tellers and were qualified by the Clerk. Twelve hundred ballots having been prepared by the Town Clerk in accordance with the previous vote, balloting on Articles 3 and 4 commenced at 12.10 P. M., the registering ballot box being used. The polls closed at 9 P. M., 571 ballots having been cast, the check list agreeing. At 9.15 P. M. the following result of the balloting was declared :
ART. 3. Yes, 428; No, 131; Blanks, 12.
ART. 4. Yes, 423; No, 134; Blanks, 14.
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ART. 5. On motion of Edmund Russell, it was voted that the Sewer Commissioners be, and they hereby are, authorized to proceed with the construction of a sewerage system in accord- ance with their report, and to make all necessary contracts there- for and perform all necessary acts in the name and behalf of the Town in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 86 of the Legislative Acts of 1902.
ART. 6. On motion of D. H. Millett, it was voted that the Town Treasurer be, and he hereby is, authorized to borrow in behalf of the Town, of any person or corporation, when so directed by the Board of Sewer Commissioners, such sums of money not exceeding in all thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) as in the judgment of the Board of Sewer Commissioners may be necessary in anticipation of the issue of bonds authorized by the Town under Article 4 and under the authority of Chapter 86 of the Acts of the Massachusetts Legislature for 1902, giving the note or notes of the Town therefor, for a period not exceeding six months, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding four per cent. per annum, signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Board of Sewer Commissioners, such sums of money to be applied by said Board of Sewer Commissioners towards defraying the cost of introducing and constructing sewers under the authority of said Chapter 86, and said notes to be paid from the proceeds of the aforesaid bonds.
Voted, That Article 7 be indefinitely postponed.
ART. 8. Edmund Russell of the Committee appointed at the last Annual Town Meeting to investigate the claim of A. O. Cahoon against the Town submitted the following report.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
Your committee appointed at the last Annual Town Meeting to investigate the claim of A. O. Cahoon against the town, beg leave to submit the following report.
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After careful inqury into all matters relating thereto, your committee has reached the conclusion and become convinced that throught the Public Acts of the Town, the said A. O. Cahoon has suffered material loss and injury.
Your committee believe that it is not too late to right a wrong, and that it is not only within the power but the duty of the Town to pay to a worthy citizen, a just compensation for damages in- flicted by reason of its own acts.
Your committee find that every request made to the Town officials for a hearing in the matter by the petitioner, A. O. Ca- hoon, has been unanswered, he being actually forced to seek relief in the courts.
Unfortunately the prevailing opinion entertained by our fellow citizens is that the Town won this case in court, this is an error, for the reverse is trne. The decree actually sustaining the pe- titioner's contention, that he held a valid lease of the land con- veyed to the Town, and on which the buildings and personal prop- erty owned by him, were demolished and removed by the Town.
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