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The price paid was $4,750. The deed, signed by Emeline Rockwood, calls for 30 acres with the house, and 14 acres on the south side of the East Chelmsford road. The latter parcel was used for Pine Ridge cemetery. All originally belonged to the Manning estate.
The house was the Manning tavern mentioned on page 397. The usual number of inmates is from ten to twelve. There are today 21 acres in the present farm. The Town also owns 34 acres of wood land reserved from the old farm. Waldo Hannaford is the Superintendent, 1915.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL.
This institution, belonging to the County and not to the Town, was established in 1894 as the Middlesex County Truant School, where truants and boys guilty of minor offenses are sent for reformation. M. A. Warren was Superintendent until 1910. In 1908, the name was changed, substituting the word Training for Truant. It is situated near the North Village, and has six substantial and well-equipped buildings. See Map 11.
The inmates number from 100 to 120. Rufus E. Corlew is the present Superintendent. The property is valued at $250,000.
CHAPTER XII.
TOWN MEETING. TAXES. POPULATION. VALUATION. FINANCIAL MATTERS.
A N account of the first Town Meeting will be found on page 12, and of the second, on the following page. At the latter, the first Monday in March was made the day for the Annual Meeting. In 1699 the first Tuesday in March was made the day for choosing Town officers. The day was changed in 1877 to the third Monday in March. In 1915, the first Monday in February became the day for Town Meeting.
The chief Town officers are chosen by ballot, the "under officers," as far back as 1736, were chosen "by nomination and hand vote"; now viva voce.
In the early days three men were chosen to end all small causes under 40 shillings. In 1685 and some years later a com- mittee was chosen "to give the selectmen instructions according to law." The instructions were to be given in writing to "fit men chosen to order the planting and prudential affairs of the Town." The number of these selectmen was not to exceed nine "In every Town within this Jurisdiction, there shall henceforth be a Clerke of the Writts, nominated by each Town, and allowed by each Shire Court; to grant Summons and Attachments in all Civil Actions," &c. [Laws and Liberties, 1641.]
When State officers or other such officials had been voted for, the meeting was called to order to transact Town business, or, as the expression was: Then was the meeting regulated.
In 1742 the Town voted that "the selectmen and such other Town officers as has been usual to have a super on the Town's cost on the evenings of Annual Town Meetings heretofore, be allowed no more supers for the future on the Town's cost."
In 1791, there were nine Town Meetings.
From March, 1794 to March, 1795, there were ten Town Meetings.
In 1871, the sale of intoxicating liquors was authorized, also in 1876-8-9 and 1884. In 1880, it was voted to request the selectmen not to issue liquor licenses.
In 1915, the vote on license was: Yes, 91; No, 358.
It was formerly the custom to have prayers at the opening of Town Meeting.
In 1827, "Prayers were performed" in Town Meeting by Rev. John Parkhurst.
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In 1828, "Prayers were offered" by Rev. Wilkes Allen.
As a rule, the proceedings are quietly and decorously con- ducted. On rare occasions, a heated controversy breaks the monotony.
In 1829, at the close of the meeting, it was voted to dispense with the reading of the riot act, and the meeting was then dis- missed.
Town Meeting was commonly held in the meeting house. In 1842, the basement of the meeting house was built by the Town, and meetings were held there. Sometimes, for lack of room, the voters were obliged to go out on the Common to be polled. See "Traditions," p. 455.
In 1820, it was voted that there shall not be any Town business done hereafter in the meeting house in the middle of the Town by candle light.
In 1852, it was voted to build a Town House in North Chelmsford, "not to exceed the cost of the present town house." The next year the thanks of the Town were tendered to Hon. Benj. Adams and Thos. J. Adams, Esq., for "their liberal, free and generous gift" of land for the building. Williams, Bird & Co. gave $100 towards the cost of the house, which was $1,847.66.
In 1853, the November Town Meeting and election were held at the North Village, as was also the annual March meeting the next year. The annual meetings were held alternately at the Centre and North villages for a number of years.
In 1871, it was agreed that all intermediate or special meetings be held alternately at the Centre and North.
In 1873, the Town voted not to build a Town House at West Chelmsford, and hold a portion of the Town Meetings there. Also not to build a Town House in the Centre Village to cost not more than $10,000. Similar propositions were voted down in subsequent years.
In 1879, it was voted to build a Town Hall in the Centre Village at a cost not to exceed $7,000. The next year the sum of $1,000 was appropriated to furnish it.
In 1881, the Moderator, Edwin H. Warren, received a vote of thanks for the very satisfactory manner in which he performed the duties of the office.
In 1885, the Town voted that all future Town Meetings for Town business should be held in the Town Hall at the Centre of the Town.
In 1887, the Town was divided into three voting precincts. There are now four.
1894. In Town Meeting the voters expressed their cordial recognition of the strict integrity, conscientious fidelity and unfailing courtesy which have characterized the long term of office of Town Treasurer, E. H. Warren, with earnest wishes for his restoration to health.
In 1903, the Australian ballot was adopted.
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1904. The Town adopted the following Resolution in regard to the death of George A. Parkhurst, Town Clerk for 33 years.
Resolved, That in his death the Town recognizes the loss of a valued public servant whose duties during this long period have been executed with marked ability and fidelity. And we, the voters of Chelmsford, desire further to place on record our tribute to the personal worth of the deceased as a highminded, modest, patriotic and public-spirited citizen.
A committee was appointed to report on the public observance of the 250th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town.
Mr. H. S. Perham was asked to prepare a history of the Town.
1914. In accordance with an Act of the General Court, the Town's financial year closed on December 31. Hereafter, Town Meeting, instead of being held on the fourth Monday in March, is to be held on the first Monday in February, of each year.
1915. Town Meeting held on the first Monday in February, as provided by State law, instead of the fourth Monday in March, as had been the custom.
By a unanimous rising vote, the Annual Town Meeting expressed its thanks and appreciation to J. Adams Bartlett, who for thirty years had, as Moderator, shown his unfailing ability, discrimination and justice with a ready wit which often brought harmony out of discord.
OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF CHELMSFORD, 1915.
Town Clerk EDWARD J. ROBBINS
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor
D. FRANK SMALL (term expires 1918) KARL M. PERHAM (term expires 1917) A. HEADY PARK (term expires 1916)
Assessors
JAMES P. DUNIGAN (term expires 1918) FRED L. FLETCHER (term expires 1917) HERBERT C. SWEETSER (term expires 1916)
Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes ERVING W. SWEETSER Auditors
WINTHROP A. PARKHURST PRESTON L. PIGGOTT HARLAN E. KNOWLTON
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Constable HERBERT H. RICHARDSON
School Committee WILLIAM H. HALL (term expires 1918) CELIA B. PARK (term expires 1917) CHARLES H. CROWELL (term expires 1916) Trustees of Adams Library
Albert H. Davis
(Term expires 1918)
A. Heady Park
Frances Clark
(Term expires 1917)
Edwin R. Clark
Otis P. Wheeler
(Term expires 1916)
Tree Warden and Superintendent of Moth Work Minot A. Bean
Sinking Fund Commissioners
William H. Shedd (term expires 1918) William J. Quigley (term expires 1917) Walter Perham (term expires 1916)
Cemetery Commissioners
Charles F. Scribner (term expires 1918) Charles A. Holt (term expires 1917) James S. Byam (term expires 1916)
Park Commissioners
Fred L. Fletcher (term expires 1918) Patrick S. Ward (term expires 1917) Arthur M. Warren (term expires 1916)
Fence Viewers
James P. Daley
George P. Mansfield Leonard Spaulding
Appraisers of Personal Property at Town Farm
Emile E. Paignon, Jr. Walter Perham
Pliny C. Bliss
Weighers of Hay
S. Waldo Parkhurst Paul Dutton Henry H. Emerson
Myron A. Queen Frank E. Bickford John B. Emerson
Wilson Waters
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S. Waldo Parkhurst Daniel A. Reardon John Marinel, Jr.
Measurers of Wood Paul Dutton Frank E. Bickford Melvin Walker Jay B. Plummer
Alvin H. Fletcher
Myron A. Queen Francis O. Dutton
Surveyors of Lumber
R. Wilson Dix
Stewart Mackay
George E. Spaulding
E. Hamlin Russell
Myron A. Queen
Melvin Walker
Herbert C. Sweetser
Alvin H. Fletcher
Jay B. Plummer
Francis O. Dutton
Field Drivers
R. Wilson Dix
Thomas Murphy
E. Hamlin Russell
Committee on Appropriations
Karl M. Perham
D. Frank Small
John J. Monahan A. Heady Park William H. Shedd
APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN.
Weighers of Coal
S. Waldo Parkhurst
Paul Dutton
Frank E. Bickford
John B. Emerson James P. Dunigan Clarence Leavitt
Superintendents of Burials
Walter Perham George F. Cutler
Fred W. Edwards
Superintendent of Burial of Indigent Soldiers and Sailors Walter Perham
Agents of the Board of Health
Arthur G. Scoboria (Precincts 1 and 4) Fred E. Varney (Precincts 2 and 3)
Registrars of Voters
Patrick H. Haley (term expires 1918) George H. Ripley (term expires 1917) John F. McManomin (term expires 1916) Edward J. Robbins, clerk, ex-officio
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Sealer of Weights and Measures Curtis A. Aiken
Superintendent of Town Farm Waldo Hannaford
Superintendent of Moth Work Minot A. Bean
Forest Warden
Arnold C. Perham
Deputy Fire Warden
Walter S. Holder
Highway Surveyor David Higgins
Janitors of Public Buildings
James S. Byam
Patrick S. Ward
Albert E. Jenny
Inspector of Meats and Provisions Arnold C. Perham
Special Police Officers
George C. Moore
Albert E. Jenny
Owen Scollan
Thomas Brown
Thomas Jones
Waldo Hannaford
James J. Hackett
James Buchanan
Frank G. Foote
Frank C. Byam
James S. Byam
Curtis A. Aiken
Patrick S. Ward
Henry Staveley James R. Gookin
John Marinel, Jr. Wm. E. Belleville
George Small
John J. Quessy
Charles Grantz
Fred I. Vinal
Weighers of Merchandise
James F. Leahey James Long
James J. Hackett
Emma L. Parkhurst
Clarence Leavitt
William Brown
Game Wardens
James Peck
Charles F. House
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SOME OLD WARRANTS AND LICENSES.
Before the Revolution, warrants for Town Meetings were issued in the King's name to the constables of the Town. Thus, in 1776 there were, as for many years, two constables, one in the south end and the other in the north end, in this year, Amos Kidder and Thomas Marshall, each of whom received a copy of this warrant:
Middlesex. SS.
To Amos Kidder one of the Constables of the Town of Chelms- ford in the County of Middlesex.
SEAL In his Majesties name you are hereby required forthwith to warn all the freeholders and other Inhabitants of sd. Town in your ward qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to assemble at the meeting house in Chelmsford aforesd, on Monday the fourth day of March next at eight of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to make choice of all Town officers as the Law directs to serve the said Town the year ensuing.
2ly. To Grant such sum or sums of money as shall be thought needful for the support of the Gospel ministry, and to defray all other needful Town charges in said Town the year ensuing.
3ly. To agree and vote in what part or parts of the said Town the grammar school or other schools shall be kept the year ensuing . .
The fourth Article relates to repairing highways.
The fifth to providing firewood for the Rev. Mr. Bridge.
The sixth to see whether the Town will vote that swine shall go at large.
The seventh relates to the County tax.
The eighth, At the desire of Deacon Ebenezer Goold and Capt. Zachariah Richardson and others to see if the Town will make choice of. . "Queresters and come in to some regulation respecting singing in the Congregation."
The ninth, At the desire of Mr. Josiah Parkhurst, to see if the Town will exempt those persons which call themselves ana- baptists from paying the Minister rate.
Hereof fail not and make return,.
Dated at Chelmsford aforesaid the nineteenth day of February in the seventeenth year of his Majesties Reign, anno Domini, 1776. By order of the selectmen of said Chelmsford.
David Spaulding, Town Clerk.
TOWN OFFICERS CHOSEN MARCH 6, 1775, AT THE ANNUAL MEETING.
Moderator, Selectmen, Clerk, Assessors (the Selectmen), Overseers of the Poor (the Selectmen), Treasurer, Constables, Wardens or Wardeners, Tythingmen, Surveyors of Highways,
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Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, Surveyors of Board and Timber, Deer Reeves, Hog Reeves, Sealer of Leather, two men to prevent the destruction of Fish, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
In 1737, a surveyor of hemp and flax was chosen.
In 1793, inspectors of bread were chosen.
[See p. 409.]
At the Annual Town Meeting March 4, 1776 The Town voted for a grand juryman and a County Treasurer and Registrar. Then the meeting was regulated. Chose a Moderator, a Com- mittee of Correspondence, five Selectmen, Town Clerk, Assessors (the Selectmen), Overseers of the Poor (the Selectmen), Town Treasurer, two Constables.
The remaining part of the business (the choosing of under- officers) was by nomination and hand vote: Wardeners, Tything- men, Surveyors of Highways, Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, Surveyors of Boards and Timber, Deer Reeves, Hog Reeves, Sealer of Leather, two men for preventing the destruction of Fish in the Merrimack and Concord Rivers, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
July 3 chose Representative to the General Court.
1776, May 13, the names of two men were drawn out of the box for Petty jurymen at the Superior Court. A Representative and a County Registrar were voted for.
Warrant issued to William Fletcher:
5th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, of Gt. Breton, King
Province of the Massachusetts- Bay S.S.
Royal Arms
Jeremiah Allen Esq.
Treasurer and Receiver General of his Majesties said Province. To Mr. Wm Fletcher Constable or Collector of Taxes of Chelms- ford Greeting: &c
By Virtue of an Act of the Great & General Court or Assembly of the said Province, Begun & Held at Boston, upon Wednesday the Twenty-Sixth Day of May 1731. In the Fourth & Fifth Year of His Majesties Reign, Intitled, An Act for Apportioning and Assessing a Tax of Six Thousand Eight Hundred & Eighteen Pounds, and for Assessing a Tax of Twenty Pounds laid on the Town of Weston, for not sending a Representative; And also for Apportioning and Assessing one other Tax of Four Thousand One Hundred & Nine Pounds Six Shillings paid the Representatives for the Year 1730, 31. And a further Tax of One Thousand Pounds Emitted & Appropriated for the Payment of His Majesty's Council, in this present Year 1730, 31.
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These are in His Majesties Name to Will & Require you to Collect all and every the Sums of Money mentioned in the List or Lists of the said Tax or Assessment of your Town, made by the Assessors or Select men of the Said Town, and Committed to you to Collect; Amounting in the whole to the Sum of fourty- five pounds eight shillings & two pence.
In manner following: That is to say, Of each Persn the whole of his Proportion set down in the Said List or Lists, before the Last Day of March next, so that you duely pay in the Sum Total of the said Lists unto & make up and issue your accompt of the whole thereof with Myself, His Majesty's Treasurer, &c .....
And in Case Any Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect to pay the several Sum or Sums of Money, whereat he or they are set in the Said Assessment and are to pay towards the same, upon demand made: It shall & may be lawful for you and you are hereby Authorized & Required for Non-payment to distrein the Person or Persons for refusing or neglecting by his or their goods or Chattels & the Distress or Distresses so taken, to keep by the space of four days, at the cost and charges of the owner thereof, & if the said owner do not pay the Sum or Sums of Money so assessed upon him within the said four days, then the said Distress or Distresses to be forthwith openly Sold At an Out-cry by you, for payment of the said money.
For want of such distress to commit the Party to the Common Gaol.
The collection or gathering up of Town taxes or rates was made by the Constables who received an order like this:
Chelmsford, March 25, 1772.
To Mr John Robbins, one of the Constables of the Town of Chelmsford, you are hereby ordered to pay in to Mr. David Parker, Treasurer for the said Town of Chelmsford the Town Rate which you shall levy and collect, by virtue of this List and Warrant as followeth, viz. The sum of fifty five pounds, on or before the twentieth day of May next. And the further sum of fifty nine pounds, six shillings and eleven pence and one farthing, on or before the thirtieth day of December next.
By order of the Assessors of said Chelmsford.
David Spaulding, Town Clerk.
Chelmsford, April 17, 1772
At a meeting of the selectmen it was ordered that Mr David Parker, Town Treasurer should receive the Town Tax or Rate made this present year which is committed to the Constables of Sd Town to collect.
"THE CAPTAIN BILL FLETCHER HOUSE," CHELMSFORD CENTRE
No. 36 THE SPAULDING-HAZEN HOUSE, CHELMSFORD CENTRE
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The Constable for the north end of the Town in 1772 was Samuel Howard. He and John Robbins received copies of the following:
Middlesex, SS. To Samuel Howard, one of the Constables of the Town of Chelmsford in the County of Middlesex. .
Greeting-
SEAL In his Majesties name you are hereby required to levy and collect of the several persons named in the list herewith committed unto you each one his respective proportion therein set down of the sum total of such list, being part of a tax or assessment agreed upon and granted by the Inhabitants of said Town of Chelmsford regularly assembled the second day of March, Anno Domini, 1772, for defraying the necessary charges arising within the said Town the present year, and deliver and pay in the sum and sums you shall so levy and collect unto Mr David Parker, Treasurer of the said Town, and to compleat and make up an account of your collections of the whole sum at or before the thirtieth day of December next. And if any person or persons shall neglect or refuse to make payment of the sum or sums whereat he or they are respectively assessed in said list, you are to distrain the goods or chattels of such person or persons to the value thereof and the distress or distresses so taken to keep by the space of four days at the cost and charge of the owner; and if the owner do not pay the sum or sums of money so assessed upon him or them within the said four days, the said distress or distresses so taken you are to expose and openly sell at an outcry for payment of the said money and the charges, notice of such sale being posted up in some public place within the same town twenty four hours before hand. And the overplus coming by said sale (if any be) besides the sum or sums of the assessment and the charges of taking and keeping of the distress or distresses to be immediately restored to the owner. And for want of goods or Chattels whereon to make distress you are to seize the body or bodies of the person or persons so refusing, and him or them to commit unto the common gaol of the same county, there to remain until he or they pay and satisfie the several sum or sums whereat they are respectively assessed as afore sd. unless upon application made to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace the same or any part thereof shall be abated. Dated at Chelmsford the twenty fifth day of March in the twelfth year of his Majesties Reign, Anno Domini 1772.
David Spaulding Oliver Barron Joseph Warren Zebulon Spaulding John Minot
Assessors for Chelmsford
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Warrant issued to John Minot:
The Honorable Harrison Gray, Esq;
Treasurer and Receiver-General for His Majesty's said Province.
To John Minot Constable and Collector of Chelmsford Greeting, Etc.
Where As the Great and General Assembly of this Province did in their Session in October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy, grant unto His Most Excellent Majesty a Tax of Twenty-seven Thousand three Hundred Pounds, to be levied on Polls and Estates both real and personal within this Province: And Where As the Great and General Court or Assembly at their Session in May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-one, did not agree to levy and apportion a Tax of Twenty-seven Thousand three Hundred Pounds, which by the Act aforesaid they were impowered to do; And Where As in Obedience to the Act aforesaid made and passed in October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy, I issued out my Warrants directed to the Selectmen or Assessors of the several Towns and Districts within this Province, to assess the Sums laid upon them respectively as their Proportion of the said Sum of Twenty-seven Thousand three Hundred Pounds.
These are in His Majesty's Name to will and require you to collect all and every the Sums of Money mentioned in the List or Lists of the Tax of Assessment of your Town, District, Parish or other Place, made by the Assessors or Selectmen of the said Town, District, Parish or other Place, and committed to you to collect: Amounting in the Whole to the Sum of
Fifty two pounds five shillings three pence.
In Manner following: That is to say, To collect the whole of each respective Sum assessed on each particular Person, set down in the said List or Lists, so that you duly pay in the Sum- Total of the said List or Lists unto, and make up and issue your Accompt of the Whole thereof with Myself, His Majesty's Treasurer and Receiver-General of His Revenue within this Province, my Deputy or Deputies, or Successors in the said Office, at or before the Thirtieth Day of April next, which will be in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy two. And in Case any Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect to pay the several Sum or Sums, whereat he or they are set at in the said Assessment, and are to pay the same upon demand made, it shall and may be lawful for you, and you are hereby authorised and required for Non-payment, to destrein the Person or Persons for refusing or neglecting, by his or their Goods or Chattles: and the Distress or Distresses so taken, to keep for the Space of Four Days, at the Cost and Charges of the Owner thereof; and if the Owner does not pay the Sum or Sums of Money so assessed upon him, within the said Four Days, then
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the said Distress or Distresses to be forthwith sold at an Outcry, by you for the Payment of the said Money, Notice of such Sale being posted up in some public Place in the same Town, District, Parish or other Place, Twenty-four Hours before-hand; and the Overplus coming by the said Sale (if any there be) over and above the Charges of taking and keeping the Distress or Distresses to be immediately restored to the Owner.
And if any Person or Persons assessed as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to pay the Sum or Sums so assessed, by the Space of Twelve Days after Demand thereof, where no sufficient Distress can or may be found, whereby the same may be levied; in every such Case, you are to apply yourself unto Two or more of the Assessors within your Town, District, Parish or other Place, for Warrant to commit such Person or Persons to the common gaol, as the Law directs. And where any Person or Persons shall remove from your Town, not having first paid the respective Sums or Proportion set upon him or them in said Tax or Assessment, you are hereby authorised and impowered to demand the Sum or Sums assessed upon such Person or Persons, in what Town or Place soever he or they may be found within this Province; and upon Refusal or Neglect to pay the same, to destrein the said Person or Persons, by his or their Goods and Chattles, as aforesaid; and for want of such Distress to commit the Party to the common Gaol, there to remain until Payment be made of the Sum or Sums so set upon him, with all Charges arising by reason of such commitment.
And hereof you are not to fail, upon the Pains and Penalties as may in such Cases by law be inflicted on you.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Boston, the Thirty-first Day of December, 1771, in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, of Great Britain, Etc. King.
H. Gray.
As there will be a necessity for the above Money to be in the Treasury by the 30th. of April, to enable me to dis- charge the Government's Securities, that will about that Time become due: You are therefore ordered strictly to obey this Warrant.
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