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SECT. 3. The water commissioners and all other boards, committees and officers shall, on the first day of each month, pay to the town treasurer all sums collected by them the month previous to the custody of which the treasurer is entitled.
SECT. 4. A majority of the water commissioners, school committee, or of any board, or committee, and any officer having charge of the expenditure of an appropriation, shall approve in writing all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls properly chargeable to such appropriation, and shall transmit the same with his or their approval to the selectmen. All other accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls shall be examined by the selectmen and, if proper, shall be approved by them. The selectmen shall label all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls which have been approved either by themselves or by the other officers before mentioned, and shall keep a record thereof in a book kept for the purpose, stating the persons to whom payable, the amounts and dates thereof, and the funds, or appropriations, from which the same are payable.
SECT. 5. Drafts signed by a majority of the selectmen, stating the accounts to which the same are chargeable, shall be drawn upon the treasurer for the payment of all sums by law payable from the treasury to the commonwealth or county, final judgments of courts, bonds, notes, and scrip of the town and interest thereon and money payable to the commissioners of the sinking fund and to the trustees of the public library ; and also for the payment of all accounts, claims, bills and pay rolls which have been approved in the manner provided in the previous section. Such drafts shall
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not be negotiated, but shall be transmitted by the selectmen directly to the treasurer accompanied by the approved bills or other documents for the settlement of which the drafts are drawn.
SECT. 6. The treasurer shall file and safely keep all approved and receipted accounts, claims, bills, and pay-rolls, and all vouchers, cancelled bonds, notes, scrip, and other evidences of indebtedness of the town which have been paid from the treasury.
SECT. 7. No draft shall be drawn by the selectmen unless there is sufficient appropriation to pay the same, except for sums by law payable to the commonwealth or county, final judgments of courts, bonds, notes and scrip of the town and interest there- on, and money payable to the commissioners of the sinking fund.
SECT. 8. The selectmen and treasurer respectively shall make a record, in a book kept for the purpose, of each appropriation, with a list of the drafts drawn against such appropriation, and shall make a record of all bonds, notes, scrip, or other evidence of indebtedness of the town, signed or countersigned by them.
SECT. 9. When the bills contracted or approved by any board, committee, or officer have exhausted the entire appropriation for such board, committee or officer, they shall incur no further expenditure, except in cases where such expenditure may be required by law ; and it shall be the duty of each board, com- mittee or officer before the close of the financial year to approve all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls chargeable to their appropria- tion. During the interval between the thirty-first day of January in each year and the time of making the next annual appropria- tions, the selectmen, school committee and water commissioners, in order to meet the liabilities of their several departments, in- curred in the carrying on of the work entrusted to them, shall have authority to make expenditures and payments from the treasury from any available funds therein, and the same shall be charged against the next annual appropriation. Such expenditure and liability incurred for any purpose shall not exceed one-fourth the entire amount appropriated for that purpose in the previous year.
SECT. 10. Unless the town shall expressly otherwise vote, no extension of water pipes shall be made unless before the work of construction is begun one or more of the persons whom it is pro- posed to supply with water by means of such extension, shall file with the town clerk a bond with sureties satisfactory to the
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water commissioners, conditioned to pay to the town for five years next following the completion of such extension and the letting of water into the same, a sum sufficient, together with the net annual income from such extension, to amount annually to. five per centum of the total cost thereof.
ARTICLE III. TOWN SEAL.
SECTION 1. The design of the town seal shall be : a circle, in the border the words "Lincoln. Incorporated in 1746 as a Precinct : in 1754 as a Town ;" in the center, a shield, in the chief or upper part of which on a cross, gules, a fleur-de-lis, gold, from. the old seal of Lincoln, England, and in the base of the shield a view of the present town hall; crest, the old chestnut tree stand- ing upon the common in Lincoln ; in saltire two shepherd's crooks ; the device thereof being as follows :
SECT. 2. All deeds and other legal documents made, given or entered into by the town requiring a seal shall be sealed with the town seal, and signed in behalf of the town by a majority of the selectmen.
SECT. 3. The town clerk shall have the custody of the town seal.
ARTICLE IV. RECORDS.
SECTION 1. The town clerk shall record in full in a book kept for the purpose all written contracts, deeds and other instruments to which the town is a party except such instruments as may by law be recorded in the Registry of Deeds ; and it shall be the duty of any board or officer executing or receiving such written con- tract, or other instrument, to deliver the same forthwith to the
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town clerk for the purposes of record. It shall be the duty of the town clerk to see that all conveyances of real estate to the town are properly recorded in the Registry of Deeds.
SECT. 2. The town clerk shall keep a file of all town reports, reports of all committees chosen by the town, and all original documents relating to the affairs of the town which may come into his possession.
ARTICLE V. BOOKS.
SECTION 1. Books, records and laws received by the town from the commonwealth shall be deposited in the public library building.
SECT. 2. It shall be the duty of the town officer by whom any book mentioned in the preceding section is received, to cause the same to be at once deposited in the public library building.
SECT. 3. Such books may be used by the inhabitants of the- the town within such building, and may be taken therefrom upon written receipt to the librarian for a period not exceeding one day at any one time for use in any town meeting, or by or before any committee or official of the town.
ARTICLE VI. SUITS AND CONTROVERSIES.
SECTION 1. The selectmen may compromise claims and suits to which the town is a party, provided that they shall act upon the advice of counsel when the amount claimed by or against the town exceeds $200.00.
SECT. 2. The selectmen shall have, unless it is otherwise voted by the town, full authority as agents of the town to institute and prosecute suits or other proceedings in the name of the town before any tribunal, to appear and represent or defend the town before any tribunal in all suits and other proceedings against the town or in which the town has an interest, to employ counsel for the purposes aforesaid and for other purposes when it may be expedient to do so, and to take all necessary and proper measures for the protection of the interests and rights of the town.
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SECT. 3. If the town shall, at any meeting called for the pur- pose, choose a committee on claims, such committee shall have and exercise exclusively all the powers and duties conferred upon the selectmen by the two preceding sections.
ARTICLE VII. REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS BY THE TOWN.
SECTION 1. The annual reports of the town officers, boards and committees shall be prepared in form suitable for printing on or before the tenth day of February in each year. The selectmen shall cause such reports to be printed and distributed to the legal voters of the town seven days at least before the annual meeting.
SECT. 2. The selectmen shall cause to be printed and bound each year with the annual reports of the town officers, boards and committees, a copy of the records of the town meetings during the preceding year ; a statement of all devises, bequests and donations to the town during the preceding year ; a list of all laws of the commonwealth accepted by the town during the year ; all by-laws adopted by the town since the preceding annual report ; copies of the laying out, alteration, locating anew or discontinuance of any highway or townway within the limits of the town during the preceding year ; and a statement of all outstanding bonds, notes and obligations of the town for the payment of money.
SECT. 3. The selectmen shall from time to time cause to be printed a sufficient number of copies of the by-laws of the town and shall incorporate therewith a list of the laws of the com- monwealth which have been accepted by the town.
ARTICLE. VIII. TRUANTS.
SECTION 1. Any minor being an habitual truant, and any child between the ages of seven ar d fifteen years found wandering about the streets or public places within the town having no lawful occu- pation or business, not attending school, and growing up in igno- rance, and such children as persistently violate the reasonable rules and regulations of the public schools, may upon conviction thereof be committed to the Middlesex County Truant School at Chelmsford, Mass., or to any other place provided by the town within its limits, for confinement, instruction, and discipline.
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ARTICLE IX. POLICE REGULATIONS.
SECTION 1. No person shall coast upon any public street or part thereof after the selectmen have posted a notice prohibiting coasting upon such street or part thereof.
SECT. 2. No person, unless authorized by law, shall break or dig up any part of any street without a written permit therefor from the selectmen. Every person who after obtaining such per- mit shall obstruct or render unsafe any public street, shall guard the same by a proper fence or railing, and by lights during the night time, subject to the approval of the selectmen. Such per- mit may be revoked at any time.
SECT. 3. No person shall be or remain in any doorway, or upon any stairs, doorstep, portico or other projection from any house or building, or upon or against any wall or fence on or near any street or public place, after having been requested by the owner or any occupant of the premises or by any constable or police officer to remove therefrom.
SECT. 4. No person shall make, write, print, paint, cut or post any indecent or obscene marks, words, figures or signs upon any fence, building, post, tree or other object exposed to public view.
SECT. 5. No person shall wilfully injure, mar, deface or destroy any fence, signboard, guideboard, lamp-post, lamp or lantern in any street or public place, nor extinguish any street light, nor extinguish or remove any light placed to denote an obstruction or a defect in any public street or way, without proper authority to do so.
SECT. 6. Any person who shall offend against any of the provisions of this article shall forfeit and pay, for each offence, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars."
Which said By-Laws being seen and understood by the Court. are on this nineteenth day of June, A. D. 1897, approved.
In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy of record, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1897.
RALPH M. SMITH, Ass't Clerk.
SEAL.
INDEX.
PAGE
Town Officers, 1897-98
3-5
Warrant, 1898
6-9
Proceedings of Town Meetings, 1897
10-25
Alteration and Laying Out Town Ways
26-29
Town Clerk's Report
30-32
Town Grants, 1897-98
33
Recommendations for Appropriations
31
Selectmen's Report
35-37
Report of Overseers of the Poor
38
Report of Town Treasurer
39
Expenditures for the year
40-58
Jury List
59
Report of Committee on Claims
60-65
Report of Committee on Public Improvements
66
Report of Assessors
67-78
Report of Water Commissioners
79-96
Report of Engineer
88-91
Report of Highway Surveyor
97-100
Report of Committee on State Road
101-105 ·
Report of the Board of Health
106-107 .
Report of Treasurer Commissioners Trust Funds
108-109 .
Report of Treasurer Geo. F. Bemis Lecture Fund
110-111
Report of Treasurer Cemetery Commission
112
Library Statistics
114
List of Accessions to Library
115-118
School Reports
119-148
Report of School Committee
120-129
Minority Report
. £ 130-131
Superintendent's Report
132-143
Music Committee's Report
144-145
Roll of Honor
146
School Statistics .
147
Tabular Statement .
148
By-Laws of the Town
149
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113
Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library
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