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Balance, Taxes
Overlay
1926
189.33
1926
50.11
1927
382.83
1927
45.94
1928
1,363.04
1928
319.89
1929
9,598.73
1929
537.71
1929 Polls
368.00
1930
959.05
1929 Motor Veh. Excise
2,823.40
Water Receipts reserved for appropriation
8,194.86
1930 Polls
600.00
Poor Funds Income
175.25
1930 Motor Veh. Excise
3,483.73
Library Funds Income
98.15
1927 Moth
11.00
Cemetery Funds Income
916.71
1928 Moth
12.00
Sale of Cemetery Lots & Graves
50.00
1929 Moth
32.25
Temorary Loans
30,000.00
1930 Moth
115.75
Valuation List
24.30
Tax Titles
5,808.94
Town Hall Repairs
223.20
Traffic Signal
15.31
New Highway Equipment
70.00
Loker St. Repairs
1.25
Improvements N. E. Corner, Main and Plain Sts.
9.63
Highway Dept. Equip. Bldg. Heater
.53
Pond St. Sidewalks
2.40
1930
45,730.86
111
Water Accounts Receivable
1,943.29
112
Street Signs
Proposed New High School
4.25 158.62
Library, Painting and Redecorating 138.75
300th Anniv. Celebration
6.20
Water Main Extension,
Concord Road
2.46
Water Main Extension,
Lincoln Road
47.94
Water Main Extension, Hammond Avenue
131.25
Cemeteries General Improvement
202.29
Special Assessment Revenue
171.00
Motor Vehicle Excise Revenue
6,307.13
Tax Title Revenue
5,808.94
Water Revenue
1,943.29
Excess and Deficiency
26,240.92
$82,882.33
$82,882.33
Respectfully submitted,
MABEL T. S. SMALL, Town Accountant
Wayland, Mass., February 1, 1931
BALANCES TAXES DECEMBER 31, 1930
1926 Taxes
(All) Bal. Jan. 1, 1930
$ 191.10
Collections
1.77
Balance Moth Bal. January 1, 1930
$ 189.33
.75
Collections
.75
1927 Taxes
(All) Bal. Jan. 1, 1930
2,536.18
Collections
$ 2,151.35
Abatements
2.00
2,153.35
Balance
382.83
Moth Bal., Jan. 1, 1930
28.50
Collections
17.50
Balance
11.00
1928 Taxes
(All) Jan. 1, 1930 Bal.
14,102.95
T. T. Charged back
31.50
14,134.45
Collections
11,908.62
Abatements
113.09
T. T. Taken
749.70
12,771.41
Balance Moth, Jan. 1, 1930 Balance Collections
1,363.04
52.25
40.25
Balance 12.00
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1929 Taxes
Poll, Jan. 1, 1939 Balance
688.00
Additional Warrant
16.00
704.00
Collections
330.00
Abatements
6.00
336.00
Balance Personal and Real Estate,
51,674.12
January 1. 1930 Balance T. T. Charged back
4.90
51,679.02
Collections
41,040.69
Overpayment
9.27
Abatements
176.51
1928 T. T.
853.82
42,080.29
Balance
$ 9,598.73
1929 Excise
Balance, Jan. 1, 1930
5,974.03
Refunds
103.89
6,077.92
Collections
2,989.82
Abatements
264.70
3,254.52
Balance
$2,823.40
Moth, Balance Jan. 1, 1930
162.25
Collections
130.00
Balance
$ 32.25
WILBUR C. GORMAN, Collector of Taxes
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368.00
REPORT OF TAX COLLECTOR
For Year Ending December 31, 1930
1930 Taxes
Poll commitment
$ 1,794.00 12.00
1,806.00
Abatements
6.00
Collections
1,200.00
1,206.00
Balance
$ 600.00
Real Estate and Personal
Commitment
121,184.55
Commitment
79.20
121,263.75
Refunds
19.80
$121,283.55
Abatements
113.30
Collections
73,945.59
Tax Titles Credit
1,493.80
75,552.69
Balance
$45,730.86
Excise
Commitment
$ 7,685.54
Commitment
1,777.72
Commitment
907.07
Commitment
338.37
10,708.70
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Refunds
181.37
10,890.07
Abatements
Collections
678.59 6,727.75
7,406.34
Balance
3,483.73
Moth
Commitment
357.75
Collections Balance
242.00
115.75
$49,930.34
THEODORE H. HARRINGTON,
Tax Collector, Town of Wayland
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REPORT OF ASSESSORS
Valuation of Real Estate April 1, 1930
Valuation of Personal Estate April 1, 1930
$5,094,226 414,163
5,508,389
Valuation of Real Estate April 1, 1929
4,839,791
Valuation of Personal Estate April 1, 1929
403,257
5,243,048
Increase in Real Estate
254,435
Increase in Personal Estate
10,906
265,341
Valuation December Assessment
1,900.00
Polls Assessed as of April 1, 1930
897.00
Supplemented Polls
6.00
Horses Assessed
76
Cows
263
Neat Cattle
53
Swine
450
Number of Dwelling Houses
1162
Number of Fowls
6910
Number of Motor Vehicles
1235
Tax on Motor Vehicles
10,708.70
Abatement on Motor Vehicles
678.59
Moth Tax
357.75
Tax rate on property $22.00 per 1000
Tax rate on Motor Vehicles $29.12 per 1000
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Tax Levy 1930
Town Appropriations
153,755.89
State Tax
5,040.00
State Highway
1,230.39
State Snow Tax
291.00
State Auditing
207.67
County Tax
7,608.44
County Tuberculosis
521.83
Overlay
987.15
169,642.37
Received from Income Tax
19,663.82
Estimated Receipts
9,000.00
Estimated from Auto Excise
9,000.00
Water Revenue
9,000.00
46,663.82
Tax on Property and Polls
122,978.55
169,642.37
DANIEL BRACKETT SIDNEY LOKER CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS
Assessors
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WAYLAND PLANNING BOARD
1930-1931
The Planning Board organized with Frank I. Cooper, Chairman; Roland Campbell, Secretary; and Howard S. Russell, Treasurer.
At the meeting of the Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards, Messrs. Small and Cooper represented the Wayland Board.
The Committee on Street Signs, Messrs. Russell and Bolton, completed their work of placing signs at all im- portant corners. Sixty-one Street signs have been erected and the Board has turned them over to the Selectmen representing the Town.
During the past year the Board has assisted in the location of sidewalks and curb at the intersection of Plain and Main Streets, Cochituate. The engineering services of Barnes & Beale have been paid by the Planning Board.
The dangerous intersection of roads at Mansion Inn and the Intersection of Connecticut Path and Cochituate Road have been surveyed and plans have been drawn for improving the Mansion Inn Corner. Plans are in prepar- ation for improving the Connecticut Path intersection. The Planning Board has kept in touch with the proposed use by the Massachusetts Board of Public Works of Com- monwealth Road and Connecticut Path as a relief to traf- fic on the Worcester-Boston Turnpike, and should it find this diversion of traffic imminent, our citizens will at once be notified.
The Planning Board was directed by the 1929 Town Meeting to consider the dangerous curve by Mr. Goodell's land. They consulted with the County Engineer on the relocation of the Concord Road at this point. A plan was prepared by the County Engineer and was approved
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by the Planning Board. When the Road was built this plan was not followed and the dangerous curve by the Goodell and Kenney property was little changed. The bank on the easterly side of the road at this point should be cut and a sidewalk should be provided, starting at the Library and continuing northerly. The road in its pres- ent condition is very dangerous for pedestrians.
The County and State are prepared to join with the Town in further road building, paying a large part of the expense. It is suggested that a mile of the Concord Road be built from the point where work ended last year, also that a mile of the Cochituate Road be build, beginning at Five Paths and extending north. As soon as the Town lays the water main from Cochituate Path South, that portion of the road should be built. The County suggests that the boundaries and grades of Connecticut Path be studied.
Much work has been done on the Town Plan and the Planning Board requests an appropriation for this and other necessary work.
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REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE
For Year Ending December 31, 1930
Cochituate, Mass., Jan. 17, 1931
Number of arrests:
Assault
2
Robbery
3
Breaking and entering
2
Breaking entering and larceny
2
Larceny of automobile
14
Larceny
2
Receiving stolen goods
1
Unlawful taking
10
Disturbing the peace
3
Drunkenness
34
Violation of liquor laws
1
Violation of motor laws
66
Non-support
2
Vagrant
1
Carrying weapons
5
Driving so as to endanger
4
Driving drunk
13
Robbery while armed
3
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This list includes arrests made by the State Police Patrol.
HARRY W. CRAIG, Chief of Police
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REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEERS
For the Year Ending December 31. 1930
The past year has been both busy and costly for the Wayland Fire Department. The Wayland and Cochituate Companies have answered one hundred and sixty-four calls. thirty-one of these being Building and Chimney tires.
Owing to the unusually dry condition of the woods, we have had nearly double the number of woods fires. Several of these were large and kept continually breaking out. The lack of modern Forest Fire Equipment un- doubtedly place us under a great handicap.
The Engineers think it very advisable to purchase a Forest Fire Pump and necessary hose. The ownership of such equipment would greatly lessen the amount of money spent in fighting large woods fires.
The fire hose at the Wayland Station is in very bad condition and will have to be replaced immediately.
The Fire Alarm System is not dependable and some- thing will have to be done in the near future. It is growing harder each year to secure replacements and supplies. It is not only old but expensive to operate.
The Pumping Engine is in first-class condition and answers all alarms in Wayland for building fires.
Due to the unusual dryness of the woods and increased number of fires, the Department has heavily overdrawn. The overdraft has been cared for by transfer of available funds as is shown by the Report of the Town Accountant.
HARRY W. CRAIG, T. H. HARRINGTON, Clerk
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REPORT OF MOTH EXTERMINATION
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Pay Roll
D. J. Graham
Roy Campbell
1,435.00 35.00
Schedule of Bills
Hewell Rubber Co., 50 feet hose
27.50
Bowker Chemical Co., Arsenate of lead
128.28
Repairs on Sprayer
15.80
J. H. Lee, team on sprayer
70.00
Wayland Motors, gasoline
4.21
Private Work
385.75
Lead Sales
80.80
DANIEL J. GRAHAM
Superinetendent
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REPORT OF TREE WARDEN
To the Board of Selectmen,
Wayland, Mass.
Gentlemen :
I submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1930.
From the appropriation of $1000 granted me, I have cut forty miles of brush, doing all the main Highways and several back roads that were in such bad conditions it was most impossible for two cars to pass.
Have cleared all curves and corners that were ob- structed from view as far as possible.
Have trimmed trees of dangerous limbs and dead- wood aong the Highways that would endanger the public.
I wish to thank the people of the Town for cutting brush beside their property, and the numerous other ways in which they have co-operated with me.
For the financial condition of the Tree Warden Dept. see report of the Town Accountant for the year 1930.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES L. FULLICK Tree Warden
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SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
This is the report of work performed by the Sealer for the year ending November 30th, 1930.
Sealed
Platform scales over 5000 lbs.
2
Platform scales under 5000 lbs.
9
Counter scales under 100 lbs.
18
Spring scales over 100 lbs.
6
Spring scales under 100 lbs.
21
Computing scales over 100 lbs.
4
Computing scales under 100 lbs.
9
Personal Weighing (Slot)
2
Avoirdupois Weights
118
Liquid Measures
9
Milk Jars
150
Gasoline Pumps
37
Kerosene Pumps
12
Motor Oil Pumps
55
Molasses Pumps
1
Stops on Pumps
199
Yard Sticks
1
Total number sealed
653
Condemned
Platform Scales
1
Spring Scales
2
Avoirdupois Weights
2
Trial Weighing of Commodities
Total No. No. Correct
Under
Over
Bread
3
3
0
0
Charcoal (in bags)
2
1
0
1
125
Coal (in paper bag) 2 2
0 0 Kindling (wood in bag) 3
Fees collected $51.98
2
1
0
Yours truly,
ALBERT B. MARCHAND
Sealer
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REPORT OF GAME WARDEN
During the year of 1930 I have looked over 126 Sportman's licenses and patrolled 215 hours and one case for violation of Fish and Game Laws.
CHARLES M. MAGORTY Game Warden
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
The Board of Health submits the following report for the year of 1930:
Contagious Diseases
Scarlet Fever
3
Measles
1
Chicken Pox
1
Whooping Cough
8
Dog Bite
9
Tuberculosis
2
Typhoid Fever
2
Mumps
4
Infantile Paralysis
1
The Meningitis
1
Syphilis
1
Licenses Granted
Alcohol
10
Manure
2
The board has investigated many complaints during the year.
All contagious diseases that were reported were taken care of, but nothing can be done unless the case has been reported by the physician in charge, or by the head of the family. The Board wishes that everyone realize the necessity of knowing the General Laws governing contagious cases.
The following Rules and Regulations have been adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held September 24, 1930. We had them printed in the Way- land Enterprise, Friday, October 31, 1930.
Rules and Regulations
The Board of Health shall examine into all nuisances,
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sources of filth and causes of sickness within the town, which may, in its opinion be injurious to the public health, shall destroy, remove or prevent the same as the case may require, and shall make regulations for the public health and safety relative thereto, and to articles capable of containing or conveying infection or cantagion or creating sickness brought into or conveyed from the town. General Laws, Chapter III. Section 122.
The basis for control or relief from any condition which is detrimental to the welfare of a community rests in the knowledge of its existence. It therefore follows that the first requisite for the prevention or control of communicable disease is that the local health authorities should early learn of the existence of each and every case of communicable disease occuring within the limits of the town.
Once this report is made to the local health author- ities the obligation passes in part from the individual to the community and become a community problem subject to the regulations of the Board of Health, and for the pro- tection of the public, the Board requests the cooperation of all citizens in preventing the spread of disease.
The Board of Health of the Town of Wayland, under authority of Chapter III of the General Laws, and every other power, does hereby make the following regulations for the protection of the public health.
Minimum Regulations For Communicable Diseases
Definitions
Chapter I
Quarantine
Section 1. The term quarantine as used in these regu- lations shall be understood to mean that persons in the dwelling, tenement, apartment or other quarters under restriction, shall not leave said premises, and that no persons, other than the physician, nurse, clergyman and authorized health officers shall enter such premises except by permission of the Board of Health.
Isolation
Section 2. The term isolation as used in these regu- lations, shall be understood to mean the restriction of the patient and nurse or other attendants to a certain room
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or rooms apart from other members of the household, in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health.
Householder
Section 3. The term householder, as used in these regulations, shall be understood to mean the head of the household, or the one in charge of a hospital, asylum, school or institution.
Tenement, Tenements or Apartments
Section 4. The term tenement, tenements or apart- ments as used in these regulations shall be understood to mean the room or rooms or that portion or whole of a building occupied as a home or residence by a single family or household. A family may consist of one or more persons. In a house containing two or more tene- ments or apartments, where each is provided with a separate entrance and exit, quarantine applies only to a single tenement or apartment. In a house containing two or more tenements or apartments and provided only with common entrance and exit halls, quarantine applies to all persons residing within the building.
Disinfection
Section 5. The term disinfection as used in these regulations, shall be understood to mean the airing, cleansing and renovating of the room or rooms, tenement or apartment occupied by the patient together with their contents, and the taking of such additional measures as the Board of Health may require.
Chapter II Reporting of Communicable Diseases
Section 1. Every physician shall immediately in writing report to the Board of Health, giving the name, age, sex and address, together with the name of source of milk supply, and if of school age, the school attended, of each and every person whom he has been called upon to treat for any disease defined by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to be dangerous to the public health.
Section 2. When a householder has reason to believe that a person within his house is ill with any disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give
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notice to the Board of Health.
Chapter III Sick Room Regulations - Duration of Isolation
Section 1. In every case of communicable disease isolation or quarantine shall remain in force until re- lease by the Board of Health.
Section 2. The minimum period of isolation or quarantine for a person afflicted with any one of the following diseases shall be as follows:
Chapter IV Contacts - Children Excluded from School
Section 1. Contact children (children who have been exposed to a disease) unless immunized artificially, or by a previous attack of the same disease, shall be detained from school for a period corresponding to the minimum period of quarantine as above provided.
Readmission to school shall be only upon the pre- sentation of a duly signed certificate from the Board of Health, or from the attending physician, approved by the Board of Health.
Adult Contacts
Except in case of epidemic of any communicable disease and except in a case of Small Pox, and except in a case of Diphtheria, when one negative culture shall first be obtained from both nose and throat, adult contacts may attend to business unless engaged in the handling of food, or unless engaged in any business that would require close contact with children.
Chapter V Placarding of Dwelling
Section 1. The Board of Health shall give warning of the existence of each of the following diseases reported by posting a placard or other signal bearing the name of the disease near one or more of the entrances to the dwelling, apartment or room in which such case is located.
Anterior Poliomyelitis. (Infantile Paralysis.)
Cerbrospinal Meningitis Diphtheria Scarlet Fever
Measles Small Pox
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Section 2. The Board of Health shall give such warning of the existence of other diseases dangerous to the public health reported as shall be necessary for the protection of the public health, or as required by law.
Section 3. No person shall, without permission of the Board of Health, remove, obliterate or deface such placard or other signal so posted, and the responsible head of the household shall immediately notify the Board of Health in the event of the removal, obliteration or deface- ment of such placard or signal.
Section 4. No person shall remove any milk bottles from a house in which there is or has been a case of Anterior Poliomyeltis, Diphtheria, Epidemic Cerebro- spinal Meningitis, Scarlet Fever, Septic Sore Throat, Small Pox or Typhoid Fever, without permission of the Board of Health.
Section 5. No person shall interchange books be- tween libraries and quarantined households.
Secton 6. When in the opinion of the Board of Health proper isolation or quarantine of a person affected with a communicable disease is not, or cannot be carried cut on the premises the Board may cause the removal of such person to a hospital or other suitable place pro- vided the removal can be accomplished without endanger- ing the health of the patient.
Section 7. Immediately upon the death, recovery or removal of any person affected with a communicable disease, the owner, agent or lessee of such house wherein such person resided, shall cause the room or rooms thus occupied, together with their contents, to be cleansed and disinfected in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health.
Section 8. The owner, agent or lessee of any prem- ises, room tenement, apartment or dwelling which has been occupied by a person affected with a communicable disease, shall not rent the same to others, or permit the occupation of the same by others, until the premises have been cleansed and disinfected in a manner satis- factory to the Board of Health.
Section 9. The Board of Health or its duly author- ized representative may, if they have reason to suspect the presence of a communicable disease, enter upon any
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such premises within the limits of the town, take such measures for the relief of the patient or patients as may be necessary, and may use all their vested powers as authorized by law for the prevention of the spread of such disease.
Section 10. Every person suffering from tuberculo- sis shall dispose of his sputum in a manner satisfactory to the Board of Health.
Section 11. Whenever a person suffering with tuber- culosis changes his residence, the attending physician if there be one, or the active head of the household in which the patient resided, shall forthwith notify the Board of Health, giving the name of the patient, and if known the address removed to. Both of the above named persons will be held legally responsible for viola- tion of this regulation.
Section 12. All persons recovering from Typhoid Fever shall be instructed that they are a possible danger to the community and given the necessary instruction as to the methods to be pursued in order to make the dan- ger as little as possible.
Section 13. Other diseases dangerous to the public health not specifically mentioned in the above rules be- cause of their rarity, shall be subject to such isolation, quarantine or other measures of control as the Board of Health may determine by special rules or regulations.
Chapter VI Funerals and Disposals of Dead Bodies
Section 1. No public funeral shall be held over the body of any person who has died of Anterior Poliomye- litis, Cholera, Diphtheria, Epidemic Cerebrospinal Men- ingitis, Epidemic Influenza, Plague, Scarlet Fever, or Small Pox. In every case of a person dying of any of the above mentioned diseases, the undertaker upon being called to prepare the body for burial, shall wrap the en- tire body, including the face, in a sheet saturated with a solution of one-fifth of one per cent of bichloride of mer- cury, and shall place it in a tight coffin or basket which shall be securely fastened and the lid thereof sealed in two places with sealing wax, and such coffin or casket shall not thereafter be opened by any person without the
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written permission of the Board of Health and burial of such body shall take place within twenty-four hours after death, unless further time be allowed by the Board of Health.
Section 2. No person shall inter or cause to be interred or buried the body of any person in a grave less than three feet in depth from the surface of the ground to the top of the coffin or casket.
Section 3. No person shall inter or cause to be interred or buried the body of any dead person at any time other than between sunrise and sunset, without a special permit from the Board of Health.
Section 4. No person shall remove the body of a dead person from a grave or tomb, to a grave or tomb in another cemetery, without a permit from the Board of Health.
Chapter VII Nuisances
Section 1. Any person or persons owning or having control of any building or premises, in or upon which there is any substance or material, or any condition, which is or may become a source of danger to the public health or a nuisance, shall, when ordered by the Board of Health in writing, remove or abate the same within the time specified in said order.
Section 2. Any person or persons owning or having control of any premises abutting on a private way, and having the right to use such private way shall, when ordered by the Board of Health in writing, remove or abate from that part of said private way adjoining such premises, any substance, material of condition, which is, or may become a menace to the public health or a nuis- ance, and such removal or abatement shall take place within the time specified in said order.
Section 3. No person or persons shall transport or cause to be transported through any public or private stret or way in this town, any offensive material, unless the same is properly covered and so confined as to cause no nuisance while in passage in or through this town.
Section 4. House offal shall be placed in suitable water-tight vessels, properly covered and so located as to
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be easily removed by the duly authorized persons. Re- ceptacles used for the storing of house offal, shall at all times be kept in a reasonably clean condition. No metal, glass, crockery or substances other than house offal shall be placed in such receptacles. No person or persons shall remove or transport or cause to be removed or transported in or from this town, any house offal, without first regis- tering with the Board of Health, and complying in all respects with the regulations governing the removal or transportation of house offal.
Section 5. No person, firm or corporation shall re- move or transport or cause to be removed or transported in or from this town, any meat trimmings, grease or bones, without first registering with the Board of Health and complying in all respects with the regulations govern- ing the removal or transportations of meat trimmings, grease or bones. All such regulations expire annually on April 30, and may be revoked by the Board at any time for cause. No person, firm or corporation shall be regis- tered without first paying to the clerk of said Board for the use of the town, the sum of two (2) dollars.
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