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TOWN DOCUMENTS
SIXTY-FOURTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1915
LED
A.D.
SETT
1629
· INCOR
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. A. D. 1852.
TED
AS
SWA
LYNN, MASS. FRANK S. WHITTEN, PRINTER
1916
TOWN DOCUMENTS
SIXTY-FOURTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Swampscott, Mass.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1915
SETTLED A.D. 1629
· INCORPORATED
T.A.D. 1852.
AS
SWA
LYNN, MASS. FRANK S. WHITTEN. PRINTER 1916
[Dec. 31
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
INDEX.
Reports of Departments and Committees.
PAGE,
Animals, Inspector of
I41
Appropriations recommended
22I-226
By-Laws, Report of Committee on Revision of
174
Cemetery, Superintendent of
135
Drainage, Report of Committee on
183
Election, Town
20
Election, State
64
Fire Engineers
I26
Forest Warden
131
Fourth of July. Report of Committee on
173
Health, Board of
136
Health Officer. Report of
142
High School House Building Committee, Report of
47-187
Highway, Surveyor of
145
Humphrey Street, Reconstruction of
56
Library, Trustees of
161
Library, Report of Building Committee
175
Milk Inspector
I40
Moth Work, Superintendent of
I32
Park Commission
163
Pine Street, Sale of Land Committee Report
182
Plumbing, Inspector of
140
Police, Chief of
171
Poor, Overseers of .
149
Primaries, State
61
Public Property, Inventory of
II
Selectmen, Board of
189
School Committee .
90
School Directory
121
Town Accountant
231
Town Clerk's Statistics
67
Town Clerk's Records
15
Town Engineer
123
Town Committees, Appointed
69 6
Town Officers, Appointed
4 15
Town Warrant, May 10, 1915
46
Town Warrant, August 26, 1915
51 60
Town Warrant, February 21, 1916 . Tree Warden
301
Water and Sewerage Board
151
Ways and Means Committee .
24. 26, 48, 53
Weights and Measures, Sealer of
I34
School Census
96
Town Officers, Elected .
Town Warrant, February 15, 1915
Town Warrant, March 16, 1915
23
Town Warrant, September 21, 1915
130
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INDEX.
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Financial Reports.
PAGE
Assessors' Department
236-282
Auditing Department
236
Balance Sheet .
264
Bureau of Statistics
73-284-296
Cemetery
253
Charities and Soldiers' Benefits
247
Collector of Taxes .
236
Collector of Taxes, Report of
279-281 .
Department Summaries .
261
Dog Officer
241
Engineering Department
237
Election and Registration
237
Fire Department
239
Forest Warden
241
Health Department
242
Heat and Light, G. A. R. Hall
251
High School Addition
257
Highway Department
244
Humphrey Street Widening
255
Interest and Maturing Debt
254
July Fourth
251
Law Department
237
Library
249
Liabilities
272
Memorial Day
251
Metropolitan Assessments
251
Moth Extermination
241
Mudge Brook Conduit
257
Notes Payable
266-271
Parks
250
Police Department
239
Poor Department
246
Premium Notes and Bonds
251
Printing Town Reports .
251
Refuse and Garbage
244
Sealer of Weights and Measures
240
Sewer Maintenance and Operation
243
Sewer Notes and Bonds
274
Sidewalks and Curbing
245-255
Soldiers' Relief
247
State Aid
247
Statistics (1873-1915)
283
Street Construction
245-246 ·
Street Lighting
245
Street Watering and Oiling
246
Teachers' Pensions
249
Town Clerk's Department
237
Town Debt
274
Town Hall Department .
238
Treasurer's Report
275
Treasury Department
236
Treasurer's Receipts
231
Tree Warden
241
Trust Funds
255
Water Bonds and Notes .
273
Water Debt Sinking Fund
156
Water Department .
253
Schools
247
Selectmen's Department
235
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
Elected Town Officers, 1915.
Selectmen. Clarence B. Humphrey, Chairman. Term expires 1917.
James F. Caton. Term expires 1916.
Elias G. Hodgkins. Term expires 1916.
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.
Peleg Gardner. Term expires 191S.
Oscar G. Poor. Term expires 1916.
Water and Sewer Commissioners. I. Irving Edgerly, Chairman .* Term expires 1916. Samuel M. Kehoe, Chairman. Term expires 191S.
Charles E. Hodgdon.
Term expires 1917.
George D. R. Durkee. Appointed. Term expires 1916.
Park Commissioners. Alfred F. Frazier, Chairman. Term expires 191S.
Stuart P. Ellis, Secretary. Arthur T. Tapper. Term expires 1916.
Term expires 1917.
School Committee. J. Henry Welch, Chairman. Term expires 1916.
Arthur W. Stubbs, Secretary. Rev. Edward Tillotson. Term expires 1918. Term expires 1917.
Trustees of Public Library. Frank F. Stanley, Chairman. Term expires 1916.
Francis E. Ingalls. Term expires 1917.
Elizabeth J. Hadley. Term expires 191S.
Edmund Russell, Secretary.
Overseers of the Poor. Joseph F. Crowell, Chairman. · Term expires 1916. Harry E. Cahoon. Term expires 1917.
Term expires 19IS. *Died May 14, 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 1918.
Surveyor of Highways. Michael J. Ryan. Term expires 1918. Tree Warden. Everett P. Mudge. Constables. Frank H. Bradford.
Clarence W. Horton.
Charles Walter Burrill.
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Appointed Town Officers, 1915
Town Accountant. Arthur C. Widger. Town Counsel. Parsons & Bowen. Engineers of Fire Department. George P. Cahoon, Chief.
James Warnock.
George F. Clay. W. Perry Norcross. Removed January 1, 1916. Harold C. Blaney, Chairman. Ralph W. Lowe, Secretary. Appointed December 31, 1915. George P. Cahoon, Chief. Clarence D. Kendrick, Ist Assistant Chief . Appointed January 1, 1916. 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. Pearson.
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. Henry Butt.
Donald Chase. Forest Warden. Everett P. Mudge. Forest Fire Warden. Everett P. Mudge.
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APPOINTED TOWN OFFICERS.
1915]
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. Benjamin A. Martin.
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.
Attendant Officer. C. Walter Burrill. Registrars of Voters.
Ernest B. Thing (Republican)
John A. Finnegan (Democrat) .
Andrew Olsen (Democrat)
George T. Till . .
.
.
·
Term expires 1916 Term expires 1918 (ex-officio)
Special Police.
Patrick Cryan.
William C. McNamara. Charles L. Stover.
Burton A. Fogg.
Edward A. Smith.
Charles A. Bryson.
James D. Bentley.
Fred A. Taylor.
William P. Brennan.
John H. Bryson.
Herbert D. Smith.
Joshua B. Acker. Thomas Handley.
Perley C. Fop.
James D. Mulligan.
William Bluste.
Secretary of Selectmen. Arthur C. Widger.
Secretary of Board of Health. Frank E. Littlefield.+ Secretary and Health Officer. Clarence W. Horton, Appointed May 18, 1915.
tResigned.
Lemuel W. Pickard. Horace W. Wardwell.
George D. R. Durkee. Alfred F. Frazier. John M. Dougherty. Horace W. Blanchard.
Edward G. Spaulding.
George H. Reed.
Charles Q. Lowd.
L. Herbert Cahoon. John C. Thomas. George W. Boston. Coleman M. Wood. Daniel B. Collins.
James M. Kennedy.
Gordian Meggison. Frank H. Bradford.
Term expires 1917
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Secretary of Water and Sewer Commissioners. James W. Libby. Inspector of Plumbing. Martin E. Nies.
Election Officers, Town Election, February 15, 1915.
Election Officer
John A. Cullen (Democrat)
Inspector
William R. Patten (Republican)
Inspector
Harold C. Snow (Progressive)
Deputy Inspector
W. Percy Norcross (Republican)
Deputy Inspector
Abram G. Stone (Democrat)
Deputy Inspector
Benjamin F. Poole (Progressive)
Tellers (Republican.)
Tellers (Democrat.)
Fred A. Oliver,
Andrew Olsen,
Guy T. White,
Sidney M. Shattuck,
Joseph G. Reed,
James H. Ryan,
Freeman A. Baker,
James A. Hegarty,
John J. Mehegan,
Peter J. Blaser,
Nathaniel F. Bartlett,
George H. Stone,
Benjamin B. Blanchard,
Frank G. Melvin,
Charles L. Stover,
Francis M. Kennedy.
Election Officers, Town Primaries, September 21, 1915. Ballot Clerks.
John A. Cullen (Democrat) William R. Patten (Republican) Francis M. Kennedy (Democrat)
Deputy Ballot Clerks.
W. Percy Norcross (Republican) Abram G. Stone (Democrat)
Tellers (Republican.)
(Tellers Democrat.)
Fred A. Oliver,
James A. Hegarty,
Harold C. Snow,
John B. Cahoon,
George F. Clay,
Robert Leslie,
John J. Mehegan,
Frank G. Melvin,
Thomas E. Berry,
George H. Stone,
Joseph G. Reed,
James H. Ryan.
Arthur C. Eaton,
Willard P. Jackson, 2nd.
Election Officers, State Election, Nov. 2, 1915. Ballot Clerks.
John A. Cullen (Democrat) William R. Patten (Republican) Francis M. Kennedy (Democrat)
Deputy Ballot Clerks.
W. Percy Norcross (Republican) Abram G. Stone (Democrat)
Tellers (Republican.) Harold C. Snow,
Frank G. Melvin,
Fred A. Oliver
James A. Ryan,
George D. R. Durkee,
George H. Stone,
George F. Clay, John J. Mehegan,
James A. Hegarty,
Thomas E. Berry,
Nathan K. Atkins,
Arthur C. Eaton,
William P. Bergin.
Harold H. Bartol.
Tellers (Democrat.)
Robert Leslie,
Board of Survey. Clarence B. Humphrey, Chairman and Secretary. James F. Caton, Elias G. Hodgkins.
Assistant Town Clerk. Milton D. Porter.
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APPOINTED TOWN COMMITTEES.
1915]
Appointed Town Committees, 1915
Ways and Means.
David C. Lasht, one year. Henry S. Baldwin, Chairman, two years. Weston K. Lewis, three years. F. Walker Johnson, one year.
Celebration of July 4th.
Arthur T. Tapper.
Oscar G. Poor.
Stuart P. Ellis.
Frank W. Homan.
Alfred F. Frazier.
Frank A. B. Stanton.
Andrew Olsen.
Willard P. Jackson, 2nd.
Increased Accommodations for Library.
Frank F. Stanley.
Elizabeth J. Hadley.
Francis E. Ingalls.
Elihu Thomson.
Leonard H. Phillips .*
Henry B. Sprague.
F. Keeler Rice.
Elisha W. Cobb.
John Albree.
Aaron R. Buntingt.
High School House Building Committee.
J. Henry Welch, Chairman.
Arthur W. Stubbs.
Rev. Edward Tillotson.
Harry E. Hardy.
George D. R. Durkee. Daniel F. Knowlton.
James W. Santry, Clerk.
Humphrey Street Widening and Approaches.
Clarence B. Humphrey. James F. Caton. Elias G. Hodgkins.
Weston K. Lewis.
Amos R. Little.
Fred M. Collins.
By-Laws.
H. Ashley Bowen, Chairman.
George T. Till.
Daniel F. Knowlton.
James W. Santry.
Elgar H. Townsend.
Regulating Selling Price of Water.
Benjamin G. Ingalls.
Charles E. Hodgdon.
Oscar G. Poor.
Samuel M. Kehoe. George D. R. Durkee. C. Irving Lindsey.
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.
*Deceased. tResigned.
William E. Carter. Wiear L. Rowell. E. Harold Newhall.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
Committee on Mudge Brook. Selectmen.
Committee on Sale of Land on Pine Street and New Ocean Street. Selectmen, Water and Sewerage Board.
Committee on Drainage Phillips Park and Adjoining Territory. Selectmen, Water and Sewerage Board.
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INVENTORY OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
1915]
Inventory of Public Property.
Miscellaneous.
Town Hall and land
$37,000 00
House adjoining and land
3,000 00
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
· $150,000 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
2,000 00
Essex Street land
300 00
School furniture
8,000 00
Manual Training equipment
1,700 00
School supplies
5,300 00
Laboratory supplies
800 00
Domestic Science equipment
600 00
$364,700 00
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
$3,300 00
Ambulance and garage
3,000 00
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.
Two watering carts
$400 00
Oil wagon
·
600 00
Pump
50 00
$1,050 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 plows
75 00
Sand (stored)
300 00
Horse, harness, buggy,sleigh,pung and blankets,
350 00
Equipment and supplies
580 00
Five 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 co
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
$4,798 25
Power sprayer and hose
$1,045 75
Ladders
43 25
Hand pump equipment
50 00
Insecticides
87 00
Tools, etc.
81 85
.
·
Moth Department.
.
$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
$28,874 50
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, Five hundred feet chemical hose
140 00
Transmitter and disks
145 00
.
$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
$21,985 00
$3,815 00
Water Department.
Water mains and stand pipes
3,130 00
.
.
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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
·
364,700 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
$835,781 72
·
50 00
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TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS.
1915]
Town Clerk's Records.
Town Meeting, February 15, 1915. 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 fifteenth 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 one (I ) year.
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 a Surveyor of Highways for three (3) years. To choose three (3) Constables for one year.
To choose one Park Commissioner for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Water and Sewerage Board for three (3) years.
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 question : "Shall llcense be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town?"
ART. 4. To vote by ballot " Yes " or " No" upon the question : Shall an Act passed by the General Court, being Chap, 487, Acts of 1913, being an act relative to the promotion of call men in the Fire Department of cities and towns be accepted.
ART. 5. To vote by ballot " Yes " or " No" upon the question : Shall an act passed by the General Court, being Section 42 of Chap. 514, Acts of 1909, as affected by Chap. 494, Acts of 1911, which provides that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for city and town employees, be accepted.
ART. 6. Shall Chapter 807, of the Acts of 1913, being an act to pro- vide for compensating laborers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sus- tained in public employment, and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay such compensation, be accepted by the inhabitants of this Town. Yes. No.
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ART. 7. To hear and act upon the reports of the
Selectmen.
Board of Assessors.
Board of Health.
Overseers of the Poor.
Park Commissioners.
School Committee.
Surveyor of Highways.
Library Trustees.
Tree Warden.
Superintendent of Moth Work.
Town Accountant.
Board of Fire Engineers.
Chief of Police.
Superintendent of the Cemetery.
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Inspector of Plumbing.
Inspector of Animals and Provisions.
Inspector of Milk.
Committee on July Fourth.
Committee on Ways and Means.
Committee on Increased Accommodations for the Library.
Committee to consider the needs of the High School.
Committee on new Town Hall.
Committee on Salem Relief Sufferers.
Forest Warden.
ART. 8. 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 11. To see what action the Town will take in relation to salaries for Town officials for the ensuing year.
ART. 12. 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 supervise the engineering work of all the departments of the Town, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in antici- pation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1915, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, a debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
ART. 14. 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 31, 1914, on pages 86, 90, 92, 93; 95. 96, 101, 103, 104, 109, 110, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118 and 119.
ART. 15. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendation of the Board of Assessors, as contained in the Annual Report, Dec. 31, 1914.
ART. 16. 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 31, 1914, on page 161.
ART. 17. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Overseers of the Poor, as contained in the Annual Report, Dec. 31, 1914, on page 165.
ART. 18. 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 31, 1914, on page 175.
ART. 19. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the
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recommendations in the report of the School Committee, as contained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914.
ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Surveyor of Highways, as contained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914, on page 170.
ART. 21. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Tree Warden, as contained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914, on page 156.
ART. 22. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Engineers of the Fire Depart- ment, as contained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914, on pages 151 and 152.
ART. 23. 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 31, 1914, on page 150.
ART. 24. 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 31, 1914, on page 167.
ART. 25. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Moth Superintendent, as contained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914, on page 153.
ART. 26. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Forest Warden, as contained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914, on page 155.
ART. 27. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Library Trustees as contained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914, on page 176.
ART. 28. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations of the Committee on High School addition, as con- tained in the Annual Report, December 31, 1914, on page 179.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will construct a sewer from Ontario street to Erie street, so-called, and appropriate money for same, as peti- tioned for by A. E. Matthews and others.
ART. 30. To see what action the Town will take to extend the eastern end of the new trunk sewer, and appropriate what money is necesary for the same, as petitioned for by Walter W. Johnson and others.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to lay a six-inch water main in Linden avenue, a distance of two hundred and fifty feet, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Adelbert S. Hammond and others.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to extend the water main from a point at corner of Jessie and Tidd streets, a distance of about 660 feet, through Bertha street, with two hydrants, and make the necessary appro- priation therefor, as petitioned for by Edwin G. Spaulding and others.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to extend the water system through the following streets : Stimpson road, 367 feet from Ocean View terrace ; Sargent road, 665 feet from Stimpson road ; Aspen road, west of Sargent road, and Arbutus road, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to lay a 24-inch drain pipe from the brook on Banks road to the culvert at the foot of Farragut road and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Albert R. Ellis and others.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to lay a 24-inch drain pipe from the brook on Banks road to the culvert at the foot of Farragut road and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by George T. Smart and others.
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