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TOWN DOCUMENTS
SIXTY-THIRD
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1914
SETTLED A.D.
1629
· INCORPORATED
T. A. D. 1852.
AS
SWA
LYNN, MASS. FRANK S. WHITTEN, PRINTER
1915
TOWN DOCUMENTS
SIXTY-THIRD
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1914
SETTLED
A.D. 1629
INCORPORATED
T. A.D. 1852.
AS
SWAMP
LYNN, MASS. FRANK S. WHITTEN, PRINTER
1915
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
INDEX.
Reports of Departments and Committees.
PAGE
Animals, Inspector of
162
Appropriations recommended
.
.
.
115
Cemetery, Superintendent of
167
Election, Town
22
Election, State
78
Fire Engineers
151
Forest Warden, Report of
I55
Fourth of July, Committee on
171
High School Addition, Report on
·
177
Highway, Surveyor of
168
Humphrey Street, Widening of
62-III-205
Library, Trustees of
176
Milk Inspector, Report of
163
Moth Work, Superintendent of
.
.
153
Mudge Brook, Rebuilding of .
108
Park Commission, Report of .
172
Plumbing, Inspector of
163
Police, Chief of
149
Poor, Overseers of .
165
Primaries, State
73
Public Property, Inventory of
II
Selectmen, Board of
. 86-229
School Census
126-144 .
School Committee, Report of
I20
School Directory
I45
Salem Fire Sufferers, Committee, Report of . Town Accountant, Report of .
182
Town Clerk's Statistics
81
Town Clerk's Records
I5
Town Committees Appointed
.
6
Town Officers Elected .
4
Town Warrant, January 9, 1914
15
Town Warrant, February 16, 1914 .
19
Town Warrant, March 18, 1914
25
Town Warrant, July 10, 1914 .
49
Town Warrant, September 22, 1914 .
72
Town Warrant, February 15, 1915 .
.
.
243
Tree Warden, Report of . .
156
Ways and Means Committee, Reports of
16, 25, 27, 52, 60, 62
Weights and Measures, Sealer of
164
Financial Reports.
Assessors' Department
187
Auditing Department
·
.
.
Balance Sheet .
.
.
.
211-212
Bureau of Statistics .
.
.
·
230
.
Town Engineer
.
147
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Town Officers Appointed
.
.
.
47-IIO
Blaney's Beach, Report of Selectmen on
.
.
Health, Board of
.
157
.
.
.
186
229
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PAGA
Cemetery
203-204
Charities and Soldiers' Benefits
.
196
Collector of Taxes .
187
Collector of Taxes, Report of
·
224-226
Contingent Fund
201
Dog Officer
192
Engineering Department
.
188
Election and Registration
188
Fire Department
190
Fire Insurance
99
Health Department
193
Heat and Light, G. A. R. Hall
200
Highway Department
194
Jackson Park .
201
July Fourth
201
Law Department
188
Library .
198
Liabilities
218
Memorial Day
200
Metropolitan Assessments
203
Metropolitan Parks
200
Moth Extermination
192
Notes Payable
213-217
Parks
199
Phillips Park .
201
Police Department
190
Premium Notes and Bonds
200
Printing Town Reports .
200
Refuse and Garbage
194
Redington Street, Widening of
196 96
Schools
197
School Repairs
198
Sealer of Weights and Measures
191
Selectmen's Department .
186
Sewer Maintenance and Operation
193
Sewer Bonds
220
Sidewalks and Curbing
195
Soldiers' Relief
197
State Aid .
197
Statistics (1872-1914)
228
Street Construction
196
Street Lighting
195
Street Watering and Oiling
195
Table of Aggregates
227
Teachers' Pensions .
198
Town Clerk's Department
188
Town Debt
220
Town Hall
189
Treasurer's Report .
221-223
Treasury Department
187
Tree Warden .
192
Trust Funds
204
Water Bonds
219
Water Department . .
202
Wires, Underground
.
192
INDEX.
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Treasurer's Receipts
182
Salaries, Town Officers .
203
Interest and Maturing Debt
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
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Elected Town Officers, 1914.
Selectmen. Clarence B. Humphrey, Chairman. Term expires 1917
Elias G. Hodgkins. Term expires 1916
James F. Caton. Term expires 1915
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 1917
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 1917
Park Commissioners. Arthur T. Tapper, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Alfred F. Frazier, Secretary. Stuart P. Ellis. Term expires 1915 Term expires 1917
School Committee. J. Henry Welch, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Arthur W. Stubbs, Secretary.
Rev. Edward Tillotson.
Term expires 1917
Term expires 1915
Trustees of Public Library. Frank F. Stanley, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Francis E. Ingalls. Term expires 1917
Elizabeth J. Hadley. Term expires 1915
Overseers of the Poor. Joseph F. Crowell, Chairman. Term expires 1916
Edmund Russell, Secretary. Harry E. Cahoon. Term expires 1917
Term expires 1915
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ELECTED TOWN OFFICERS.
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Board of Health. Dr. Loring Grimes, Chairman. Term expires 1917
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. Ulysses M. Corson.
Frank H. Bradford.
Charles Walter Burrill.
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Appointed Town Officers, 1914.
Town Accountant. *Charles G. Rowell. Arthur C. Widger, appointed Acting Town Accountant.
Town Counsel. Parsons & Bowen.
Engineers of Fire Department. George P. Cahoon, Chief.
George F. Clay. W. Percy Norcross.
Permanent Police. Ulysses M. Corson, Chief.
Adelbert S. Hammond.
Charles Connell. Charles H. Dunlap.
J. Henry Pedrick. Joseph D. Spinney. 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.
Town Weigher. Mary M. Nies.
Librarian of Public Library. Miss S. L. Honors.
Librarian Assistants.
Frederick Bradford. Leonard Congdon.
Donald Chase. Forest Warden. George P. Cahoon.
Forest Fire Wards. George P. Cahoon.
George F. Clay.
W. Percy Norcross.
*Died September 19, 1914.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1914]
Inspector of Animals and Provisions. Dr. Frank B. Stratton.
Town Engineer. Wallace W. Pratt.
Inspector of Milk. Herbert D. Smith.
Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers 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. Frank H. Bradford.
Field Driver. John H. Bryson.
Superintendent of Moth Work. Everett P. Mudge.
Fence Viewers.
George H. Doane. Oscar G. Poor. Peleg Gardner. Truant Officer. Alfred F. Frazier.
Registrars of Voters.
Ernest B. Thing (Republican) John A. Finnegan (Democrat)
Frank D. Thurston (Democrat) .
George T. Till .
.
. Term expires 1915 (ex-officio)
Special Police.
Lemuel W. Pickard.
Horace W. Wardwell.
Frank A. Martin.
Patrick Cryan.
William C. McNamara.
George D. R. Durkee. Alfred F. Frazier. John M. Dougherty.
Charles L. Stover.
Burton A. Fogg.
Horace W. Blanchard.
Edward A. Smith.
Edward G. Spaulding.
Charles A. Bryson.
George H. Reed.
James D. Bentley.
Fred A. Taylor.
William P. Brannan.
George W. Boston.
Herbert D. Smith.
George H. Crowell. Coleman M. Wood.
Joshua B. Acker.
Oscar Zierlen.
Daniel B. Collins.
Harvey Wright.
Thomas Handley.
Secretary of Selectmen. *C. G. Rowell. Arthur C. Widger, Appointed Acting Secretary.
Secretary of Board of Health. Frank E. Littlefield.
*Died September 19, 1914.
-
Term expires 1917 Term expires 1916 .
Charles Q. Lowd. L. Herbert Cahoon. John C. Thomas.
John H. Bryson.
James M. Kennedy.
Gordian Meggison. Frank H. Bradford.
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Secretary of Water and Sewer Commissioners. James W. Libby. Inspector of Plumbing. Martin E. Nies.
Town Treasurer's Assistant. Arthur C. Widger, Resigned.
Election Officers, Town Election, Feb. 16, 1914.
Election Officer
John A. Cullen (Democrat)
Inspector
.
Inspector
Harold C. Snow (Progressive)
Deputy Inspector ·
.
W. Percy Norcross (Republican) .
Deputy Inspector .
.
.
. Abram G. Stone (Democrat)
Deputy Inspector .
Clarence W. Horton (Progressive)
Tellers (Republican.)
Tellers (Democrat.)
Fred A. Oliver.
Andrew Olsen.
Guy T. White.
Robert Leslie.
Joseph G. Reed.
James H. Ryan.
Freeman A. Baker.
John. B. Cahoon.
John J. Mehegan.
James Hegarty.
Arthur E. Eaton.
George H. Stone.
Benjamin B. Blanchard.
Frank G. Melvin.
A. Lee Stover.
Francis M. Kennedy.
Election Officers, Town Primaries, Sept. 22, 1914. 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.) Andrew Olsen.
Fred A. Oliver.
George D. R. Durkee.
John B. Cahoon. Frank G. Melvin.
John J. Mehegan.
James A. Ryan.
Thomas E. Berry.
George H. Stone. Robert Leslie.
Election Officers, State Election, Nov. 3, 1914.
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 J. Mehegan. Joseph G. Reed.
James A. Ryan.
Thomas E. Berry. Arthur C. Eaton.
George H. Stone. Robert Leslie.
Board of Survey. Clarence B. Humphrey, Chairman and Secretary. Elias G. Hodgkins. James F. Caton.
John B. Cahoon. Frank G. Melvin.
Joseph G. Reed.
Arthur C. Eaton.
William R. Patten (Republican)
.
1914]
APPOINTED TOWN COMMITTEES.
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Committee Appointed by Selectmen to Investigate Insurance on Public Buildings.
Clarence B. Humphrey. James F. Caton. Harry A. Stanbon.
Elias G. Hodgkins. John S. Humphrey. George D. R. Durkee.
Edward A. Maxfield.
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Appointed Town Committees, 1914.
Ways and Means.
Henry S. Baldwin, Chairman.
Richard B. Hussey. Wiear L. Rowell.
Edward Newhall. David C. Lash. Harry F. Phillips.
Sidney M. Shattuck.
Celebration of 4th of July.
Arthur T. Tapper.
Alfred F. Frazier.
Stuart P. Ellis.
Oscar G. Poor. Frank W. Homan. F. A. B. Stanton.
William R. Curtis.
Increased Accommodations for Library.
Frank F. Stanley.
Francis E. Ingalls.
Leonard H. Phillips.
Elizabeth J. Hadley. Elihu Thomson. Henry B. Sprague.
Elisha W. Cobb.
Town Clerks Pro tem.
H. Ashley Bowen.
Milton D. Porter.
High School House Investigation Committee.
J. Henry Welch.
Rev. Edward Tillotson.
George D. R. Durkee.
Arthur W. Stubbs. James W. Santry. Harry E. Hardy.
Daniel F. Knowlton.
Relief Salem Sufferers.
Rev. John Vannevar.
Rev. Patrick Colman.
Alfred F. Frazier. Willard P. Jackson, 2nd.
Humphrey Street Widening and Approaches. Clarence B. Humphrey. Elias G. Hodgkins. James F. Caton.
Weston K. Lewis. Amos R. Little. Fred M. Collins.
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INVENTORY OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1914]
Inventory of Public Property.
Town Hall and land
$37,000 00
House adjoining and land
3,000 CO
Public Library ·
5,000 00
Soldiers' Monument
3,000 00
Hay scales .
200 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 .
.
600 00
G. A. R. Hall
.
9,000 00
$58,820 00
School Department.
Phillips School and land
· $110,000 00
Clarke School and land
43,000 00
Machon School and land
17,000 00
Palmer School and land
11,000 00
Hadley School and land
125,000 00
Manual Training School Essex Street land
300 00
School furniture .
7,500 00
Manual Training equipment
1,700 00
School supplies .
5,300 00
Laboratory supplies
800 00
Domestic Science equipment
600 00
$324,200 00
Cemetery Department.
Receiving tomb
$2,000 00
Old tomb
.
.
.
.
20 00
House
.
.
.
.
.
500 00
Land
·
.
.
.
5,000 00
Implements .
.
.
.
.
.
$7,620 00
Police Department.
Police station and fixtures
.
$3,300 00
Ambulance and garage Safe
100 00
Motorcycle and tools
100 00
Typewriter .
60 00
Public statutes
10 00
Equipment for officers
383 00
Lung motor
130 00
$7,083 00
Street Watering Department.
$400 00
Two watering carts Oil wagon .
.
.
600 00
Pump . .
.
.
.
.
.
50 00
$1,050 CQ
.
.
3,000 00
.
.
.
.
.
-
.
·
100 00
·
2,000 00
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Highway Department.
Stone crusher plant
$5,000 00
Steam road roller
3,000 00
Storage building stable and land, State road
8,500 00
Gravel bank (Marblehead) . .
500 00
Locker building (Marblehead)
75 00
Road machine
250 00
Water cart
200 00
Two-horse wagon
.
200 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
580 00
Six horses, harness, etc.
2,150 00
Tip carts
500 00
Pungs .
.
.
350 00
Crushed stone at yard
.
.
.
400 00
$23,230 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 Reservation
7,500 00
Land, Monument Avenue Reservation
24,997 00
Land, Paradise Road Playground
15,205 00
Building, Paradise Road Playground .
300 00
Building Jackson Park
300 00
Jackson Park
·10,000 00
Phillips Park
8,000 00
Equipment and tools
308 60
Office furniture .
67 00
Signs, wire and tank
45 00
Bubble fountains
100 00
$105,125 60
Health Department.
Dory and fittings .
$15 00
Tools
25 00
Hospital and ambulance
2,800 00
Household goods
25 00
Carriage shed
50 00
Generators
100 00
Office furnishings
250 00
Milk inspection outfit .
33 25
Pest house and land
1,500 00
Moth Department.
Power sprayer and hose
$1,045 75
Ladders
.
.
43 25
Hand pump equipment
50 00
Insecticides
.
·
.
.
87 00
Tools, etc .. .
.
.
.
.
81 85
.
.
$4,798 25
.
.
$1,307 85
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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Poor Department.
Safe
$35 00
Furniture
35 00
$70 00
Fire Department.
Engine house and land, New Ocean street .
$7,000 00
Land and building
1,500 00
Steam fire engine
1,500 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 and land, Phillips beach
$14,000 00
Auto chemical
5,800 00
Horse drawn chemical
.
.
1,500 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
Hose reel and supplies, John P. Palmer's
$200 00
Hose reel and supplies, Essex street car barn
200 00
Three thousand six hundred and fifty feet hose,
3,130 00
Five hundred feet chemical hose
140 00
Transmitter and disks
145 00
$3,815 00
Water Department.
Water mains and stand pipes
· $151,275 87
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 and land
7,000 00
Storage house, Pine street
2,000 00
Stock on hand
900 00
Horse, wagon, pung and harness
350 00
Office furnishings, Town Hall
400 00
One thousand seven hundred and .
fifty-five
meters
15,734 65
Stand pipe
1,000 00
$185,660 52
Sewer Department.
Pumping station .
$5,000 00
Pumping plant .
:7,500 00
Land at station
.
.
4,500 00
Office furniture .
.
.
.
.
350 00
Tools and equipment
.
.
300 00
$17,650 00
.
$28,874 50
$21,985 00
INVENTORY OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
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Engineering Department.
Instruments and tools .
$457 00
Typewriter
100 00
Furniture
140 00
Supplies
·
.
.
.
$747 00
Summary.
Miscellaneous
· $58,820 00
School .
·
324,200 00
Cemetery
7,620 00
Police
7,083 00
Street watering
1,050 00
Highway
23,230 00
Assessors
3,245 00
Park
105,125 60
Health .
4,798 25
Moth
1,307 85
Poor
·
70 00
Fire
54,674 50
Water
185,660 52
Sewer
17,650 00
Engineering
747 00
$795,281 72
.
50 00
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TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS.
1914]
Town Clerk's Records.
Special Town Meeting, Friday, January 9, 1914. 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 Friday, the ninth day of January, at 8. P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
. ARTICLE I. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate all the receipts from the Supplementary Tax Warrant for 1913, to a Special Account, to be used for abatements of Taxes for 1913, and previous years, as recom- mended by the Board of Assessors.
ART. 2. To see if the Town will authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to take whatever appropriate action may be necessary for the registration of the title in the Town of Swampscott, to that part of Blaney's Beach, so called, bounded easterly by land taken by the Town of Swamp- scott for Park purposes : Southerly by the sea ; westerly by land taken by the Town of Swampscott for Park purposes, and northerly by existing walls and lines between the same, as petitioned for by Whitfield A. Stubbs and others.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the unexpended balances of the Water Construction appropriations, as follows : Phillips avenue $99.53, Banks terrace $105.72, Little estate $327.65, Orient street $101.03, to the appropriation for Galloupe's Point, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of grading or otherwise improving and preparing the north- easterly section of Phillips Park, so called, so that it will be in condition to deposit thereon whatever surplus material may be removed in the con- struction of Humphrey street as recommended by the Park Commis- sioners.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote that the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the taxes of the municipal year beginning the first day of January, A. D., 1914, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred seventy-five thousand ($175,000) dollars, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year. Any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the taxes of said municipal year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to rescind its action taken under Article 2, in the Warrant of meeting of October 10, 1913, relating to the issuing of bonds or notes for the purposes set forth in Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and to of said Warrant, which relate to the appropriation of $1,000 for the Engineering Department, $500 for cleaning brooks, $1,000 for water pipes in Crosman avenue, $3,200 for replacing water pipes at Galloupe's Point, $420 for the completion of sewers in Roy and Rockland streets, and $1,500 for the purpose of procuring plans for an extension of the
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sewage system, and now vote to issue bonds or notes for said purposes in separate issues, or make other suitable provision for said appropriations.
ART. 7. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for all or any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Depots, Post Offices 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, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this thirtieth day of December, in the year 1913. JAMES F. CATON, ELIAS G. HODGKINS, CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY,
Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
Return on the Warrant.
Pursuant to the within Warrant to me directed, I have notified the legal voters of Swampscott, by posting attested copies of said Warrant in the Town Hall, Depots, Post Offices, and three other public and conspicuous places in Swampscott on Thursday the first day of January, 1914. The posting of said notices being at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall on Friday evening, January 9, 1914.
The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock by Moderator, Daniel F. Knowlton.
The Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon was read by the Town Clerk, a sufficient number of voters being present.
The report of the Ways and Means Committee was read.
Report of Committee on Ways and Means.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, January 9, 1914.
ARTICLE I. This is largely a matter of transfer of accounts and book- keeping, and as it is requested by the Board of Assessors your Committee recommends that the Town appropriate all the receipts from the Supple- mentary Tax Warrant for 1913 to a special account to be used for Abate- ments of taxes for 1913 and previous years as called for in this article.
ART. 3. The amounts mentioned in this article represent unexpended balances for sums voted by the Town and raised by Water Department Bonds. Your Committee feels that inasmuch as these sums have been borrowed on bonds of the Water Department, the balances should not be turned over to the Town Treasury for current expenses but should be retained for other work of that department. The Water Department should not be obliged to pay principal and interest on bonds where the money or any part of it is used for other purposes. A similar case came up last year and the Town authorized the transfer in accordance with the recommendation of this Committee. We recommend that the Town authorize the transfer of unexpended balances of the Water Construction on appropriations as follows :
Phillips Avenue
$99 53
Banks Terrace
.
.
105 72
Little Estate . . Orient Street . .
329 65
. . 101 03
to the appropriation for Galloupe's Point.
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TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS.
1914]
ART. 4. In the reconstruction of Humphrey street which has already been started, it is probable that a considerable amount of gravel will have to be removed and it is the intention of the Board of Selectmen that, if possible, a clause shall be inserted in the contracts specifying that this excess gravel shall be dumped on Phillips park. In order to take care of this economically, there should be a number of workmen on hand to level and grade as fast as material is brought in. It will also be desirable to cut down some of the trees and undergrowth before filling in. The work will probably be at least well along before any money appropriated at the Annual Meeting will be available; hence the request for appropriation at this time. Your Committee recommends the appropriation of $500 for grading and improving Phillips park as set forth in Article 4.
ART. 5. This is a usual procedure and is asked for in order that money may be on hand to meet expenses of the Town until such time as taxes of the coming year become available. We recommend that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen may be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the taxes of the municipal year beginning the first day of January, A. D., 1914, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred seventy- five thousand ($175,000) dollars, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year. Any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the taxes of said municipal year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 6. We recommend that the Town vote to rescind its vote taken under Article 2 of the warrant of the meeting of October 10th, 1913, relating to the issuing of bonds or notes for the purposes set forth in Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 of said warrant, relating to the appropriation of $1,000 for the Engineering Department; $500 for cleaning brooks ; $1,000 for water pipes in Crosman avenue; $3,200 for replacing water pipes at Galloupe's Point ; $420 for completing sewers in Roy and Rock- land streets, and $1,500 for the purpose of procuring plans for an extension of the sewerage system, and now vote to issue the following bonds or notes :
For the purpose of $1,000 for water pipes in Crosman avenue and $3,200 for replacing water pipes at Galloupe's Point, there be issued bonds or notes for the sum of $4,200; that the following be fixed as the particu- lars thereof. There shall be nine bonds or notes, eight for the sum of $500 each numbered one to eight, and one for the sum of $200 numbered nine. They shall be dated during the current year, and shall bear inter- est payable semi-annually at a rate not exceeding 42 per cent per annum. Bonds or notes numbered one and two shall mature one year from the date thereof, and two bonds or notes shall mature each succeeding year in their numerical order. Said bonds or notes shall bear the Town Seal, shall be signed by the Town Treasurer and countersigned by the Water Commissioners, known as the Water and Sewerage Board; shall be authenticated by the Bureau of Statistics of the Commonwealth of Mass- achusetts, or by some bank or trust company ; shall be subject to registra- tion at the holder's option on presentation to the Town Treasurer for appropriate endorsement. The principal and interest shall be payable at the office of the Town Treasurer or at such bank or trust company as the Town Treasurer and Selectmen shall designate. Said bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words " Swampscott Additional Water Loan, Act of 1912."
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