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TOWN DOCUMENTS
SIXTY-SECOND
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1913
SETTLED A.D. 1629
· INCORPOR
T. A. D. 1852.
TED
AS
SWAMP
LYNN, MASS. FRANK S. WHITTEN, PRINTER
1914
TOWN DOCUMENTS
SIXTY-SECOND
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1913
SETTLED A.D. 1629.
· INCORPORATED
A. D. 1852.
AS
SWA
LYNN, MASS. FRANK S. WHITTEN, PRINTER
1914
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
INDEX.
Reports of Departments and Committees.
PAGE.
Appropriations recommended
131
Animals, Inspector of
196
Auto Hose and Pumping Outfit
219
Brooks, Committee of
69
Cemetery, Superintendent of
144
Fire Engineers
139
Health, Board of
190
Highway, Surveyor of
211
Humphrey Street, Widening of
208
Library, Trustees of
218
Milk Inspector, Report of
195
Morris Land
122
Moth Work, Superintendent of
I43
Park Commission, Report of
198
Phillips' Playground Landscape Architect, Report of Plumbing, Inspector of
201
Police, Chief of
I35
Public Property, Inventory of
12
Sewers, Eastern Section, Engineer's Report
234
School Committee, Report of
148
School Population .
183
School Teachers and Janitors
184
Street Oiling, McDonough Co.
I34A
Town Accountant
242
Town Clerk's Statistics
107
Town Clerk's Records
19
Town Engineer
145
Town Committees Appointed
II
Town Officers Appointed
6
Town Officers Elected
4
Town Warrant, February 17, 1913
19
Town Warrant, April 21, 1913
58
Town Warrant, June 6, 1913 .
76
Town Warrant, September 23, 1913
91
Town Warrant, November 4, 1913 .
102
Town Warrant, February 16, 1914 . Tree Warden, Report of .
197
Water and Sewerage Board
221
Ways and Means Committee .
32, 61, 67, 78, 80, 93
·
142
Financial Reports.
Assessors' Department
· 248
Auditing Department
247
Auto Hose and Pumping Outfit
275
Balance Sheet .
. 278-279
Bureau of Statistics
.
. 301-307
Brooks .
·
258
Assessors, Board of
214
Fourth of July, Committee on
209
123
Land Plots at Intersecting Streets, Committee on
194
Poor, Overseers of
216.
Selectmen, Board of
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82
Town Warrant, October 10, 1913 .
319
Weights and Measures, Sealer of
.
1912 ]
INDEX.
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PAGE.
Cemetery
.
270
Collector of Taxes .
248
Collector of Taxes, Report of
295-298
Contingent Fund
268
Continous Sidewalks
275
Curbs for Street Corners
26I
Dog Officer
255
Engineering Department
250
Election and Registration
249
Fire Department
253
Hadley School
272
Health Department
256
Heat and Light, G. A. R. Hall
267
Highway Department
259-275
Interest and Maturing Department
271
Jackson Park
273
July Fourth
267
Law Department
249
Library
265
Liabilities
285
Memorial Day
267
Metropolitan Parks
266
Moth Extermination
254
Morris Land
272
Notes Payable
280-284
Parks
265
Phillips Land
273
Police Department .
251
Poor Department
262
Premium Notes and Bonds
267
Printing Town Reports
267
Refuse and Garbage
258
Schools .
263
School Furnishings
272
Sealer of Weights and Measures
254
Selectmen's Department
246
Sewers, Statement .
232
Sewer Maintenance and Operation
257
Sewer Bonds .
287
Sewer Construction
274
Soldiers' Relief
262
State Aid
262
Statistics, (1871-1913)
300
Sidewalks and Curbing Maintenance
260
Street Construction
260
Street Lighting
128-260
Street Watering and Oiling
260
Table of Aggregates
299
Teachers' Pensions
264
Town Clerk's Department
249
Town Debt
288
Town Hall
250
Treasurer's Report .
289-294
Treasury Department
247
Treasurer's Receipts
242
Tree Warden .
255
Water Bonds
228-286
Water Construction
273-274 ·
Water Department .
269
Water Sinking Fund
229
Water Statement
224
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
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Elected Town Officers, 1913.
Selectmen. James F. Caton, Chairman. Term expires 1915
Elias G. Hodgkins. Term expires 1916
Clarence B. Humphrey. Term expires 1914
Moderator. Daniel F. Knowlton.
Town Clerk. George T. Till.
Town Treasurer. William H. Bates.
Collector of Taxes. Nathan G. Bubier.
Assessors. Edward A. Maxfield, Chairman and Secretary. Term expires 1914
Oscar G. Poor. Term expires 1916
Peleg Gardner. Term expires 1915
Water and Sewer Commissioners. I. Irving Edgerly, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Samuel M. Kehoe. Term expires 1915
Charles E. Hodgdon. Term expires 1914
Park Commissioners. Arthur T. Tapper, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Alfred F. Frazier, Secretary. Term expires 1915
Robert Leslie. Term expires 1914
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ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1913]
School Committee. *S. Perry Congdon, Chairman. Term expires 1914. J. Henry Welch, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Arthur W. Stubbs, Secretary. Rev. Edward Tillotson. Appointed balance 1913
Term expires 1915
Trustees of Public Library. Frank F. Stanley, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Francis E. Ingalls. Term expires 1914
Elizabeth J. Hadley. Term expires 1915
Overseers of the Poor. Joseph F. Crowell, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Edmund Russell, Secretary William H. Carroll. Term expires 1915 Term expires 1914
Board of Health. Dr. Loring Grimes, Chairman. Term expires 1914.
George C. Webster Term expires 1916
John B. Cahoon. Term expires 1915
Surveyor of Highways. Michael J. Ryan. Term expires 1915
Tree Warden. Everett P. Mudge.
Constables. ¡Richard G. Gilley.
Frank H. Bradford.
William H. Carroll.
*Resigned July 11, 1913 +Died
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Appointed Town Officers, 1913.
Town Accountant. Charles G. Rowell.
Town Counsel. Parsons & Bowen.
Engineers of Fire Department. George P. Cahoon, Chief. Frank W. Oulton.
George F. Clay.
Permanent Police. Ulysses M. Corson, Chief.
Adelbert S. Hammond. J. Henry Pedrick.
Charles Connell. Joseph D. Spinney. Charles H. Dunlap. Eugene P. Brogan.
James C. Pearsons.
Keeper of Lockup. Ulysses M. Corson.
Constables.
Ulysses M. Corson. Adelbert S. Hammond.
Charles Connell.
Charles H. Dunlap.
J. Henry Pedrick. Joseph D. Spinney . Eugene P. Brogan. James C. Pearsons.
Superintendent of Cemetery. Edward A. Smith.
Superintendent of Burial of Deceased Soldiers and Sailors. George W. Thomas.
Caretaker of Monument Lot. Michael Haley.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1913]
Town Weigher.
* Enoch S. Eastman. *Died, Oct. 8, 1913
Mary M. Nies.
Librarian of Public Library. Miss S. L. Honors.
Librarian Assistants.
Linthall Leatherby. Leonard Congdon. Donald Chase.
Forest Warden. George P. Cahoon.
Forest Fire Wards. George P. Cahoon.
George F. Clay.
Frank W. Oulton.
Inspectors of Animals and Provisions. Dr. Frank B. Stratton.
Town Engineer. Wallace W. Pratt.
Inspector of Milk. Herbert D. Smith.
Surveyor of Lumber and Measurer of Wood and Bark. Elmer P. Dyer. Oscar G. Poor.
Sealer of Weights and Measures. Alfred G. Watts.
Agent and Janitor of Town Hall. L. Herbert Cahoon.
Dog Officer.
* Richard G. Gilley.
Frank H. Bradford.
*Died Sept. 30, 1913
Field Driver. John H. Bryson.
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Superintendent of Moth Work. Everett P. Mudge.
George H. Doane.
Fence Viewers. Oscar G. Poor. Peleg Gardner.
Truant Officer. Alfred F. Frazier.
Registrars of Voters.
Ernest B. Thing (Republican)
Term expires 1914
John A. Finnegan (Democrat) ·
· Term expires 1916
Frank D. Thurston (Democrat)
George T. Till
.
. Term expires 1915 (ex-officio)
Special Police.
Richard G. Gilley.
Lemuel W. Pickard.
John W. Martin.
Horace W. Wardwell.
George H. Kenney.
Frank A. Martin.
Gordian Meggison.
George D. R. Durkee. Alfred F. Frazier.
Patrick Cryan. John B. Hoitt.
John M. Dougherty.
Horace W. Blanchard.
William C. McNamara.
Edward G. Spaulding.
Charles L. Stover.
Burton A. Fogg.
Edward A. Smith.
Charles A. Bryson.
James D. Bentley.
Fred A. Taylor.
George W. Boston.
Fred G. Littlefield.
George H. Crowell.
William P. Brannan.
Coleman M. Wood.
Perley C. Foss.
Daniel D. Collins.
John H. Bryson.
Secretary of Selectmen. C. G. Rowell.
Secretary of Board of Health. Frank E. Littlefield.
Frank H. Bradford.
George H. Reed. Charles Q. Lowd. L. Herbert Cahoon. John C. Thomas. John L. Sullivan.
James M. Kennedy.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1913]
Secretary of Water and Sewer Commissioners. James W. Libby.
Inspector of Plumbing. Martin E. Nies.
Town Treasurer's Assistant. Arthur C. Widger.
Election Officers, Town Election, Feb. 17, 1913.
Election Officer
Inspector
·
Inspector
Deputy Inspector .
Deputy Inspector
John A. Cullen (Democrat) William R. Patten (Republican) John B. Ryan (Democrat) W. Percy Norcross (Republican) Abram G. Stone (Democrat)
Tellers (Republican.)
Fred A. Oliver.
Richard E. Melzard.
Joseph G. Reed. George D. R. Durkee.
Freeman A. Baker.
John J. Mehegan.
Arthur E. Eaton.
Benjamin B. Blanchard.
Tellers (Democrat.)
Andrew Olsen.
Joseph P. Mather.
James H. Ryan. John B. Cahoon.
Sidney M. Shattuck.
George H. Stone.
Frank G. Melvin.
Francis M. Kennedy.
Election Officers, Town Primaries, Sept. 13, 1913.
Ballot Clerks. John A. Cullen (Democrat) William R. Patten (Republican) Harold C. Snow (Progressive)
Deputy Ballot Clerks. W. Percy Norcross (Republican) Abram G. Stone (Democrat ) Clarence W. Horton (Progressive)
Tellers (Republican.)
Fred A. Oliver.
George D. R. Durkee. John J. Mehegan. Joseph G. Reed. Thomas E. Berry. Arthur C. Eaton.
Tellers (Democrat.)
Andrew Olsen. John B. Cahoon. Frank G. Melvin. James A. Ryan.
George H. Stone. Robert Leslie.
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Election Officers, State Election, Nov. 4, 1913. Ballot Clerks.
John A. Cullen (Democrat) William R. Patten (Republican) Harold C. Snow (Progressive)
Deputy Ballot Clerks. W. Percy Norcross (Republican) Abram G. Stone (Democrat) Clarence W. Horton (Progressive)
Tellers (Republican.)
Tellers (Democrat.)
Fred A. Oliver.
Andrew Olsen.
George D. R. Durkee.
John B. Cahoon.
John J. Mehegan. Joseph G. Reed.
Frank G. Melvin. James A. Ryan.
Thomas E. Berry.
Arthur C. Eaton.
George H. Stone. Robert Leslie.
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APPOINTED TOWN COMMITTEES.
1913]
Appointed Town Committees, 1913.
Ways and Means.
George D. R. Durkee, Chairman.
Leon L. Dennis.
Henry S. Baldwin. Richard B. Hussey.
Horace B. Ingalls. Harry F. Phillips.
Committee on Resolutions on Death of Benjamin O. Honors, Treas. Aaron R. Bunting. Milton D. Porter.
Edward A. Maxfield.
Committee on Purchase of Combination Hose and Pumping Outfit. James F. Caton.
Elias G. Hodgkins.
Clarence B. Humphrey.
George P. Cahoon.
Frank W. Oulton.
George F. Clay.
Celebration of 4th of July.
Arthur T. Tapper. Alfred F. Frazier. Joseph McBrien.
Robert Leslie. Edward E. Call. John A. Finnegan.
Thomas L. Lennox.
New Town Hall.
Joseph M. Bassett. Henry B. Sprague. Dr. R. E. Bicknell.
Elisha W. Cobb. Edward A. Maxfield. Wilbur S. Bishop.
James F. Caton.
Increased Accommodations for Library.
Frank F. Standley. Francis E. Ingalls. Leonard H. Phillips.
Elizabeth J. Hadley. Elihu Thomson. Henry B. Sprague.
Elisha W. Cobb.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
Inventory of Public Property.
Town Hall and land
$23,000 00
Public Library ·
.
. 5,000 00
Soldiers' Monument
3,000 00
Hay scales
200 00
Portable safe .
100 00
Piano
.
350 00
Standard weights and measures
250 00
Treasurer's safe
295 00
Town Clerk's safe .
75 00
Collector's safe
.
50 00
Selectmen's office fixtures
225 00
$32,545 00
School Department.
Phillips School and land
· $60,000 00
Clarke School and land .
33,850 00
Machon School and land 10,000 00 Palmer School and land . 8,000 00 . Pine Street School and land 4,500 00
Beach School and land .
4,200 00
Redington Street School and land
125,000 00
Manual Training School
2,000 00
Essex street land
300 00 .
School furniture
·
9,700 00
Manual Training equipment
1,550 00
School supplies
1,300 00
Laboratory supplies
800 00 - $261,200 00
.
.
-
1913]
INVENTORY OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
I3
Cemetery Department.
Receiving tomb
$2,000 00
Old tomb
.
- 20 00
House
500 00
Land .
.
5,000 00
Implements
100 00
$7,620 00
Police Department.
Police station and fixtures
$3,200 00
Ambulance and garage
3,000 00
Safe
100 00
Motorcycle and tools
200 00
Typewriter
60 00
Public statutes
10 00
Equipment for officers
383 00
$6,953 00
Street Watering Department.
Two watering carts
.
1 .
$400 00
Highway Department.
Stone crusher plant
$5,000 00
Steam road roller
3,250 00
Storage building. State road
3,000 00
Gravel bank (Marblehead)
500 00
Locker building (Marblehead)
75 00
Road machine
250 00
Water cart
200 00
Two-horse wagon .
200 00
Amount carried forward,
$12,475 00
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Amount brought forward,
$12,475 00
Street sweeper
.
300 00
Ten snow plows
500 00
Gutter plow
75 00
Sand (stored)
300 00
Horse, harness, buggy, sleigh, pung and blankets . .
350 00
Equipment and supplies .
500 00
Six horses, harness, etc. .
2,150 00
Tip carts
380 00
Pungs .
.
.
.
350 00
Crushed stone at yard
.
$18,710 00
Assessors' Department.
Plans and maps
$3,000 00
Safe
·
.
.
90 00
Desk
25 00
Table
25 00
Chairs ·
50 00
Cabinet and cards .
55 00
$3,245 00
Park Department.
Land, Blaney's Beach Reservation . $38,303 00
Buildings, Blaney's Beach Reserva-
tion .
8,326 00
Land, Monument Avenue Reserva- tion . 24,997 00
Land, Paradise Road Playground . 15,205 00
Building, Paradise Road Playground, 225 00
Jackson Park
8,750 00
Phillips Park .
8,103 00
Equipment and tools
·
308 60
Office furniture 67 00
Signs, wire and tank 45 00 .
Band stand, benches and shades ·
450 00
Bubble fountains
100 00
.
.
·
.
·
1,250 00
Pump : .
So 00
$104,879 60
1913]
INVENTORY OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
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.
Health Department.
Dory and fittings
$21 50
Tools
20 50
Hospital and ambulance .
2,800 00
Household goods
25 00
Carriage shed
.
50 00
Generators
100 00
Office furniture
193 50
Atlas
25 00
Typewriter and letter press
100 00
Milk inspection outfit
33 25
$3,368 75
Moth Department.
Power sprayer and hose .
$1,045 75
Ladders
32 75
Hand pump equipment
42 00
Insecticides
94 50
Tools, etc.
81 85
$1,296 85
Poor Department.
Safe
$35 00
Furniture
35 00
$70 00
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Fire Department.
Engine House, New Ocean street
$6,500 00
Land and buildings 1,500 00
House and land, Mountain park
500 00
Steam fire engine
3,000 00
Hose wagon .
500 00
Ladder truck and ladders
1,999 50
Supply wagon 250 00
Thirty-one fire alarm boxes
290 00
Registers and gongs
535 00
Eight hand chemicals
200 00
Air whistle
1,845 00
Horses, harness and blankets
.
750 00
Furniture and bedding .
185 00
Storage battery and switchboard
1,000 00
Repeater and indicators .
525 00
Light wagon .
145 00
Wire wagon and supplies
425 00
Bells and strikers .
2,225 00 .
Combination pumping outfit
8,500 00
Chemical house, Phillips beach
$8,400 00
Auto chemical
5,800 00
Horse drawn chemical
2,000 00
Four hand chemicals
100 00
Indicator and gong
135 00
Blankets, harness and tools
260 00
Furniture and bedding
75 00
Two play pipes
42 00
Shoes and inner tubes
73 00
$16,885 00
Hose reel and supplies, John P. Palmer's ·
$200 00
Hose reel and supples, Essex street car barn
200 00
Hose reel and supplies, Mountain park . ·
300 00
Three thousand six hundred and fifty feet hose ·
2,050 00
Five hundred feet chemical hose .
140 00
Transmitter and disks
145 00
.
.
$30,874 50
$3,035 00
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INVENTORY OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1913]
Water Department.
Water mains and stand pipes . . $145,617 30
Forty-eight thousand feet land, Pine street .
5,000 00
Twenty thousand feet land west of brook . ·
1,000 00
Ten acres land, Thompson's
meadow ·
.
1,000 00
Brick building, Pine street
4,000 00
Storage house, Pine street
.
1,300 00
Stock on hand
750 00
Horse, wagon, pung and harness
400 00
Office furnishings, Town Hall
400 00
One thousand seven hundred and
fifty-five meters .
15,226 45
$174,693 75
Sewer Department.
Pumping station
$7,162 64
Pumping plant
9,000 00
Land at station
1,500 00
Office furniture
420 00
Tools and equipment
500 00
$18,582 64
Engineering Department.
Instruments and tools
·
$457 00
Typewriter
100 00
Furniture
140 00
Supplies
·
.
.
50 00
.
.
$747 00
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Summary.
Miscellaneous
. $32,545 00
School .
·
· 261,200 00
Cemetery
7,620 00
Police
6,953 00
Street watering
400 00
Highway
18,710 00
Assessors
3,245 00
Park
104,879 60
Health
3,368 75
Moth
1,296 85
Poor
70 00
Fire
50,794 50
Water
·
174,693 75
Sewer .
18,582 64
Engineering .
747 00
.
·
.
- $685,106 09
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TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS.
1913]
Town Clerk's Records.
Annual Town Meeting, Monday, February 17, 1913. 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 assemble in the Town Hall, in said Swampscott, on Monday, the seventeenth day of February, current, at 6 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz. :
ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator for one (1) year.
ART. 2. To choose a Town Clerk for one ( 1) year.
To choose one member of the Board of Selectmen for three (3) years.
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 one (1) year. To choose one member of the Board of 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 one member of the Board of Overseers of the Poor for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Health for three (3) years.
To choose three Constables for one (1) year. To choose one Park Commissioner for three (3) years.
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To choose one member of the Water and Sewerage Commission for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Water and Sewerage Commission for one (1) year. (Unexpired term.) To choose one Tree Warden for one ( 1) year. 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 the Town ? "
ART. 4. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the ques- tion : To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1912, being an act relative to tenement houses in Towns, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 5. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the ques- tion : Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year 1908 entitled "An Act to Authorize Cities and Towns to establish pension funds for teachers in the public schools" be accepted.
ART. 6. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the question : To see if the Town will vote to increase the number of its School Committee from three in number to six in number, to take effect at the Annual Election for the year 1914, as petitioned for by John B. Quinn and others.
ART. 7. To hear and act upon the reports of the Selectmen, the School Committee, the Water and Sewerage Commissioners, the Board of Health, the Library Trustees, the Park Commis- sioners, the Overseers of the Poor, the Board of Assessors, the Surveyor of Highways, the Tree Warden, the Committee on Ways and Means, the Board of Fire Engineers, the Chief of Police, the Superintendent of the Cemetery, the Inspector of Plumbing, the Inspector of Animals, the Inspector of Provisions, the Inspector of Milk, the Sealer of Weights and Measures, the Town Accountant, the Committee on Increased Accommodations for the Library, for Superintendent of Moth Work, the School- house Construction Committee, the Committee on placing Wires Underground, the Committee on Brooks, the Committee on Auto Ambulance.
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ART. S. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.
ART. 9. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 10. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Water and Sewerage Commissioners for the ensuing year.
ART. II. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the collections of taxes and what rate of discount, if any, will be allowed for the prompt payment on or before a certain date and what rate of interest, if any, shall be charged after a certain date.
ART. 12. To see what action the Town will take in relation to salaries for Town officials for the ensuing year.
ART. 13. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the Selectmen's report as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on pages 167, 170, 171, 174.,
ART. 14. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Board of Health, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 219.
ART. 15. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Park Commissioners, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 223.
ART. 16. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Surveyor of High- ways, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 228.
ART. 17. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Engineers of the Fire Department, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 231.
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ART. 18. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Chief of Police, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 235.
ART. 19. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Board of Assessors, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 237.
ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Overseers of the Poor, as con- tained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 242.
ART. 21. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Committee on putting wires underground, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 246.
ART. 22. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Tree Warden, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 249.
ART. 23. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Superintendent of the Cemetery, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 251.
ART. 24. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Water and Sewerage Commis- sioners, as contained in the Annual Report, December 30, 1912, on page 263.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars, to be placed in the hands of the Town Treasurer, under the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 498 of the Acts of 1908, entitled, an "Act to authorize cities and towns to establish pension funds for teachers in the public schools," as petitioned for by Daniel F. Knowlton and others.
ART. 26. To see what action the Town will take, if any, towards granting a Saturday half holiday with pay for the employees of the Highway, Water, Sewer and Moth Depart- ments during the entire year, as petitioned for by John B. Cahoon and others.
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ART. 27. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars for the observance of the Fourth of July, the money to be spent under the direction of the Park Commis- sioners and three others to be selected by them, as petitioned for by Nathaniel F. Bartlett and others.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to place all plots of land at intersecting streets in the hands of the Park Commis- sioners, and make an appropriation for the care of same, as petitioned for by George W. Demmick and others.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to employ a Civil Engineer to act as Town Engineer, to have charge and surpervise the engineering work of all the departments of the Town, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $3,600 for the purpose of refunding to the treasury of the Town the sum paid out of the general funds in the treasury during the year 1912, in payment for land taken from Leonard H. Phillips, on Humphrey street, for park purposes, said money to be used for the expenses of the Town during the current year, as recom- mended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to lay a six inch water main in Phillips avenue, from the intersection at Bradlee avenue to the intersection at Atlantic avenue, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Arthur F. Estabrook and others.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to establish the sal- aries of the members of the Board of Selectmen, as follows : Chairman, $500; associate members of the Board, $350 each, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Joseph M. Bassett and others.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to lay edgestones along the northerly side of Hillside avenue from Cherry street to Roy street, and cover the sidewalk with concrete or some suitable, permanent material, in such a manner as to make a continuous sidewalk along the northerly side of said Hillside avenue and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Martin L. Quinn and others.
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ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to make a taking, or take such other appropriate action as may be necessary to con- vert so much of the Monument lot, so called, at Monument square, Swampscott, from the said lot into the roadway, as would lie outside a circular lot, the diameter of which is thirty feet in length, taking the present location of the Monument as a center, or to convert so much of said lot as would lie outside of an oval, the length of which shall be fifty feet, fifteen feet in length of said oval to extend on the westerly side, and twenty- eight feet in length to extend on the easterly side of said monu- ment, in accordance with sketch in hands of Selectmen, and after said taking, reconstruct said lot by grading to a curb, said curb to be not less than twelve inches above said roadway at Monument square, and make an appropriation for the same, as petitioned for by William O. Titcomb and others.
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