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ART. 5. To see if the Town will make any further appro- priations for the Sinking Fund, or take any action in ref- erence thereto.
Not acted upon.
ART. 6. To see if the Town after extending the water pipes to the house of George L. Cousins, will extend the pipes from the Haynes' Crossing (so-called) to the house of Daniel H. Sherman and make appropriation for the payment of the same.
Voted, That after extending the water pipes to the house of George L. Cousins, the Town will further extend the pipes from the Haynes' Crossing (so-called) to the house of Daniel H. Sherman, provided a bond of four per cent be filed in accordance with the By-Laws; and an appropriation. of $1,800 be made to pay for the work.
Adjourned. JAMES L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
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Proceedings of a Town Meeting held Sept. 29, 1900
WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Lorenzo E. Brooks, or either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln, in said County : GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Maasachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lincoln, duly qualified to vote in town affairs to assemble in Bemis Hall, Saturday, September 29, at seven o'clock, P. M., to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To chose a Moderator.
Chose Thomas L. Giles, Moderator.
ART. 2. To see if the Town shall be represented in its corporate capacity before the Board of Selectmen, or any other tribunal having jurisdiction of original locations for Street Railways within the Town, and whether the Town will recommend to the Selectmen or other tribunal that Street Railway Companies be required to pay a cash consideration for any such location, or recommend that any terms, condi- tions and obligations be imposed upon such companies.
Voted, (83 yes, 41 no) That it is the sense of the Town, that in granting a location to any Street Railway Company the Selectmen should require a fair and substantial cash con- sideration equal to the value of the franchise.
ART. 3. To see whether the Town is in favor of granting a location for an Electric Street Railway in North Lincoln.
Voted, To refer to the Selectmen.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will extend the water pipe from the corner of the road east of Moorfield Storey's estate to a point opposite the Woolley Place, so-called, and make any appropriation for the same.
Not acted upon.
Adjourned.
JAMES L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
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Proceedings of a Town Meeting, Nov. 6, 1900. WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Lorenzo E. Brooks, or any other Constab'e of the Town of Lincoln, in said County.
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lincoln duly qualified to vote in the election of National and State Officers, to assemble at Bemis Hall on Tuesday, the sixth day of November next, at ten o'clock, A. M., to give in their votes for the following officers :- Electors of President and Vice-President, Governor, Lieu- tenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General, Representative in Congress, Councillor, Senator, Representative in the General Court (1), County Commis- sioner, Register of Deeds, County Treasurer. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting a copy thereof at the Town House, at each of the Post Offices, and in the vestibule of the Meeting House of the First Parish, seven days at least before the time of meeting, and to make return thereof, with your doings thereon, to either of us before the time of meeting. Hereof fail not. Dated at Lincoln this twenty-fourth day of October, in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred.
JOHN F. FARRAR, -
Selectmen CHARLES S. SMITH,
ELWARD F. FLINT, - of Lincoln.
Return. I have served this warrant by posting a copy thereof at the Town House, at each of the Post Offices, and in the vestibule of the Meeting House of the First Parish, seven days before the time of mecting.
L. E. BROOKS, Constable.
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Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, the meeting was called to order at 9.55 A. M., and Warrant read, and Thomas L. Giles appointed Ballot Clerk. William H. Sherman and Owen E. Martin, Tellers, all sworn. The Ballot Box was shown to be empty. The Polls were opened at 10 o'clock. Register on Ballot Box at 000. The Polls closed at 4.10 P.M. with Register, on Ballot Box at 158. The ballots were counted and were 158, and were as follows :-
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, AT LARGE .-
Thomas Wentworth Higginson of Cambridge, 45 votes.
Thomas J. Gargan of Boston,
43
66
Roger Wolcott of Boston,
96 66
William Whiting of Holyoke,
95
Edward Kendall of Cambridge,
6
66
John Bascom of Williamston,
6
66
Edward W. Emerson of Concord,
4
Blanks,
11
66
DISTRICT NO. 1.
William Nugent of Pittsfield,
45 votes.
James W. Toole of Holyoke,
96
Thomas A. Frissell of Hinsdale,
6
Blanks,
11
66
DISTRICT NO. 2.
Charles J. Bellamy of Springfield,
46 votes.
Charles E. Stevens of Ware,
96
66
Oliver W. Cobb of Easthampton,
6
Blanks,
10
DISTRICT NO. 3.
Eben S. Stevens of Dudley,
45 votes.
Josiah Perry of Dudley,
96
William W. Nash of Worcester Blanks,
6
11 66
20
DISTRICT NO. 4.
Robert E. Bisbee of Pepperell,
45 votes. 96
Josiah P. Thacher of Littleton,
Alfred L. Cutting of Weston,
6 66
Blanks,
11
DISTRICT NO. 5.
Nathan D. Pratt of Lowell,
45 votes.
William Beggs of Woburn,
96
William W. Sherman of Lowell, Blanks,
11
66
DISTRICT NO. 6.
Arthur Withington of Newburyport,
45 votes.
Arthur D. Story of Essex,
96
6 66
Frank N. Rand of Haverhill, Blanks,
11
DISTRICT NO. 7.
Thomas E. Dwyer of Wakefield,
45 votes.
George L. Morse of Melrose,
96
George H. Harwood of Lynn,
6 66
Blanks,
11
DISTRICT NO. 8.
Henry T. Schaefer of Winchester,
45 votes.
William H. Dyer of Boston,
96 “
George E. Crosby of Medford, Blanks,
11
DISTRICT NO. 9.
Thomas F. Keenan of Boston
45 votes.
Henry C. Richardson of Boston,
96
66
Herbert B. Griffin of Winthrop, Blanks,
11
DISTRICT NO. 10.
Richard Sullivan of Boston, John Shaw of Quincy, Samuel F. Smith of Quincy, Blanks,
45 votes.
96
6 66
11 66
6
66
6
6
66
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DISTRICT NO. 11.
John H. Lee of Boston, 45 votes.
Eben S. Draper of Hopedale,
96
Samuel B. Shapleigh of Boston, Blanks,
6
11
DISTRICT NO. 12.
Albert P. Worthen of Weymouth,
45 votes.
96
6
11
DISTRICT NO. 13.
Charles R. Codman of Barnstable,
45 votes.
Edmund Anthony Jr. of Fairhaven, Elijah Humphries of New Bedford, Blanks,
6
11
GOVERNOR .-
W. Murray Crane of Dalton,
94 votes.
John M. Fisher of Attleborough,
7 66
Robert Treat Paine Jr. of Boston, Michael T. Berry of Haverhill, Blanks,
1
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LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR .-
John L. Bates, of Boston, 93 votes.
John B. O'Donnell, of Northampton, 32
Wilbur M. Purrington, of Williamsburg. 7 Moritz E. Ruther, of Holyoke, 1 Blanks, 25 66
SECRETARY .-
Alfred E. Jones, of Everett, 1 vote. William M. Olin, of Boston, 95 votes.
William H. Partridge, of Newton, Luther Stephenson of Hingham, Blanks,
7
32
23
Wilmon W. Blackman of Hingham, Edward G. Knight of Hull, Blanks,
96
37
22
TREASURER .-
Edward S. Bradford of Springfield,
97 votes. Joseph L. Chalifoux of Lowell, 32 “
Napoleon B. Johnson of Milford, Stephen O'Shaughnessy of Boston, Blanks,
8
66
1 66
20
66
AUDITOR .-
Elbridge Gerry Brown of Brockton,
33 votes.
Frank Albin Forsstrom of Worcester,
1 66
William G. Merrill of Malden,
12
Henry E. Turner of Malden,
66
66
Frank S. Walsh, of Brockton, Blanks,
24
66
ATTORNEY-GENERAL .-
Allen Coffin of Nantucket,
7 votes.
John C. Crosby of Pittsfield,
31
Hosea M. Knowlton of New Bedford,
96
1 66
Frank MacDonald of Stoneham, Blanks,
23
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS .-
Charles D. Lewis of Framingham, Charles Q. Tirrell of Natick, Blanks,
38 votes.
93 “
27 “
COUNCILLOR, -
S. Herbert Howe of Marlborough,
95 votes.
John J. Mahoney of Lowell, Edwin S. Mayo of Everett, Blanks,
31
1 66
31 6:
SENATOR. -
Bror Bendroth of Medford, William J. Daley of Winchester, Chester B. Williams of Wayland, Blanks, 26 66
1 vote.
36 votes.
95 “
22
23
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT .-
Wallace M. Brooks of Lincoln,
22 votes ..
John F. Farrar of Lincoln,
88
Edward McKenna, of Concord, Blanks,
12
COUNTY COMMISSIONER .-
Trueman W. Hagar of Framingham,
33 “
John O'Donnell of Woburn,
1 votes.
Samuel O. Upham of Waltham, Blanks,
31 66
REGISTER OF DEEDS .-
Edwin O. Childs of Newton,
98 votes.
Charles A. Johnson of Somerville,
4 6.6.
Blanks,
56 «
COUNTY TREASURER .-
Albert M. Grant of Everett,
3 votes.
Joseph O. Hayden of Somerville, Blanks,
97 “
58 66
Meeting dissolved.
JAMES L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk_
Proceedings of a Town Meeting, Jan. 26, 1901.
WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Lorenzo E. Brooks, or either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln, in said County :
GREETING =
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lincoln, duly qualified to vote in the Town
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93
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affairs, to assemble at Bemis Hall, on Saturday, the twenty- sixth day of January next at 1.30 o'clock, P.M., to act on the following articles :
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting a copy thereof at each of the Post Offices, and in one of the Churches, or one other public place within the Town seven days at least before the time of meeting, and to make seasons able return thereof, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk. Hereof fail not.
Dated at Lincoln, this seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and one.
JOHN F. FARRAR, Selectmen
EDWARD F. FLINT, of Lincoln.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator.
At a meeting held in pursuance of the foregoing warrant, under article 1, chose Charles S. Wheeler, Moderator.
ART. 2. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to petition the General Court for legislation enabling the town to provide special town ways for the use of electric or other railways, or take any other action in relation to the matter.
Voted, that the Selectmen be authorized and instructed to petition the General Court for legislation to enable the town to lay out special town ways for the use of Electric Railroad, substantially in accordance with the proposed act submitted by the Selectmen at this meeting.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will extend the water pipes from the Page corner (so called) to the Woolley place (so called).
Voted, that the Water Commissioners be authorized to extend the water pipe from Page's corner (so called) to a point opposite the Woolley place (so called), provided that before such extension is made a bond with sureties satisfac- tory to the Water Commissioners shall be filed with the Town
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Clerk in accordance with the By-Laws of the Town; and that the sum of $400.00, be appropriated for the same to be taken from the Treasury.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will make any appropriation for water extensions.
Not acted upon.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will make any appropriation for Water Works Construction.
Not acted upon.
ART. 6. To see if the Town, for the purpose of compro- mising any claims for damages occasioned to any person in his estate by reason of takings of land by the Water Com- missioners, will release to any such person, or to the owner of any estate affected, any such lands or rights or easements therein, and will authorize the selectmen to execute and de- liver any releases for the said purpose, under the provisions of Chapter 148 of the Acts of the year 1900, or take any other action in relation to the matter.
Not acted upon.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to establish a plant for Electric Lighting.
Voted, that in regard to Article 7, a committee consisting of Wm. S. Briggs, Geo. F. Newton, and Geo. L. Chapin, be appointed to consider the whole subject of establishing an Electric Lighting plant, and report to the town at its next annual March meeting.
Adjourned.
JAMES L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
There have been recorded for the year ending Dec. 31, 1900 :
Births
16
Marriages
8
Deaths
· 18
BIRTHS REGISTERED.
Date of Birth.
Name of Child.
Name of Parents.
Jan. 11, 1900. Feb. 23, "
Willis Nathaniel.
Eveleyn Maud.
Fred A. Cousins and Mary A. (Flint.] George L. Cousins and Lillian L. (Sherman.)
March 26, "
Harold Francis Johnson.
Charles W. Johnson and Elvera T.
Erickson.
June 10, "
Anna Harriet Pierce.
William C. Pierce and Harrict M. (Titcomb.)
July 5,
Henry L. Higginson.
Alexander Henry Higginson and Rosamond (Tudor.)
Aug. 15, "
Robert A. Ellsworth.
Robert Ellsworth and Catherine (Cahill.)
Oct. 14,
Catherine Diamond.
James Diamond and Catherine (Fahey.)
" 20,
James French Farrar.
Herbert W. Farrar and Alice (Gile
" 20, 66
Marion L. Rocks.
John Rocks and Annie (Flynn.)
" 23,
Frank Venus Ryan.
"' 80,
Premature Jurada.
John Ryan and Anastatia (Flynn. ) John Jurada and Scolastia(Fopiano.) Thomas L. Giles and Anna H.(Farrar)
Nov. 2,
Elizabeth Freneh Giles.
Dec. 13,
Joseph Campbeli.
Daniel Campbell and Maria (Hanlon)
" 18,
Martin Francis King.
Daniel W. King and Elizabeth L. Martin.
" 5, -
Elizabeth Conners.
Michael Conners and Mary (Martin.
Nov. 26,
Not named, Hunter.
Willie J Hunter and Estella A. ( Browning.)
·
.
Whole number of Births registered
16
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MARRIAGES REGISTERED.
Date of Marriage.
Names.
Residence.
Jan.
16, 1900,
Jeffrey D. Frazer. Margaret Delory.
Lincoln. Lincoln.
17,
6
George C. Lynah. Annie Buckley.
Lincoln. Lexington.
April 26,
..
Melvin L. Guptill. Ida M. Browning.
Malden. Lincoln.
May
16,
Joseph Sanford. Delia Gately.
Lincoln. Newton.
June
6,
Thomas Nelson Perkins. Louise Catherine Adams.
Westwood. Lincoln.
14,
Henry Eldridge Warner. Henrietta Ela Sladc.
Lincoln. Newton.
27,
Robert D. Donaldson. Charlotte Henrietta Alcock.
Lincoln. Somerville.
Nov. 29,
Frank J. Cullen. Aliaca K. Harding.
Weston. Lincoln.
Whole number of Marriages registered 8.
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DEATHS REGISTERED.
Date of Death.
Name.
Age. Y. M.
D.
Cause of Death.
Jan. 9, 1900,
Nathaniel F. Cousins.
68
7
13 Injuries about the head from a fall.
20, 66
Michael Wallace.
67
Stricture of intestine above rectum.
26, 66
Charles Connors.
2
Acute Bronchitis and Acute Gastro-Enteretis
Feb.
2, "
Miriam Eggleton.
68
1
Valvular disease of Heart.
.6
3,
Adeline H. Farrar.
78
7
10 Paralysis of Heart following ordena of the lung.
"
10, "
Mary A. Eveleth.
58
8
27
Apoplexy.
Sept. 15, 1899,
William Fitzgerald.
38
Accident, fell from team- run over.
June 7, 1900,
Mary A. Lennon.
14
11
11 |Pulmonary Tuberculosis
" 28, “
Abby Fuller.
80
10
Uraemia.
July 27, 66
Benjamin Giles.
84
5
27 Dysentery.
28, 66
Lucy B. Hartwell.
80
11
18 Old Age.
Aug. 15,
Moses Warren Kidder.
7I
11
4 Appendicitis followed by Peritonitis.
Oct. 30, "
Mary Jurada.
1 Debility.
1,
Charles S. Bamforth.
60
7
6 Diabetis Mellitus.
5,
Thomas Kent.
28
Alcoholism Delirium Tremens
Dec.
13,
Joseph Campbell.
Still Born.
17, 66
Maria Campbell.
29
Puerperal Septicemia.
Whole number of Deaths registered
· 17
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EXTRACTS FROM ACTS AND RESOLVES OF 1897, CHAPTER 444.
SECTION 3. Physicians and midwives shall on or before the fifth day of each month report to the clerk of each city or town a correct list of all children born therein during the month next preceeding, at whose birth they were present, stating the date and place of each birth, the name of the child, if it has any, the sex and color of the child, the name, place of birth and residence of the parents, the maiden name of the mother, and the occupation of the father.
Any physician or midwife neglecting to report such list for ten days after it is due shall for each offence forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
SECT. 8. Any parent, keeper, superintendent or other person required by Section 6 of this act to give, or cause to be given, notice of a birth or death, who neglects to give the required notice or cause the same to be given, for ten days after it is due, shall for each offence forfeit not exceeding five dollars.
In conformity with the requirements of Chapter 444, Section 17, of the Acts of 1897, the Town Clerk hereby gives notice that he is prepared to furnish to parents, house- holders, physicians and midwives applying therefor, blanks for returns of births as required by law.
DOGS.
There have been 118 dogs licensed, 100 males, 18 females and 1 kennel, for which there has been paid to the County Treasurer the sum of $316.20.
JAMES L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
LINCOLN. Feb. 9, 1901.
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TOWN GRANTS FOR 1900-1901.
For Schools $5,500 00
Miscellaneous Expenses
3,000 00
Support of the Poor
1,200 00
Highways and Bridges
5,000 00
Library, Dog Tax and
500 00
Interest, from the Treasury
250 00
Payment of Water Bond, from Treasury
1,000 00
Cemeteries, from the Treasury
300 00
Street Lamps
600 00
Board of Health
300 00
Tree Warden
250 00
State Aid
48 00
Contingent Fund
2,500 00
Sinking Fund, from the Treasury
1,000 00
Flag Staff, re-appropriated
500 00
Water Pipe Extention (Briggs)
800 00
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(Cousins)
2,500 00
60 66 (D. H. Sherman)
1,800 00
$27,048.00
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The selectmen recommend the following amounts of money be appropriated for the current year.
For support of schools, all departments, $5,500
Miscellaneous expenses, 3,000
Support of the poor, 1,200
Highways and bridges,
4,000
Library, dog tax, and the sum of
500
Interest,
200
Water bond, due December 1. 1901,
1,000
Cemeteries,
300
Street lamps,
650
Board of health,
150
Tree warden,
650
State aid,
48
Contingent fund,
2,500
Sinking fund,
960
Water works, for maintenance, receipts of
current year.
Total, $20,158
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
Town Debt.
The indebtedness of the town is wholly for water works construction and amounts to $57,000. Of this indebtedness $43,000 must be provided for by a sinking fund. The re- maining $14,000 is what remains unpaid of the original water debt of the town, when a portion of it was refunded under the act of 1894. No sinking fund is necessary to provide for the payment of this $14,000, because by the terms of the act one bond of $1000 falls due December 1st of each year until the whole amount is paid.
It is important that the town immediately put the sinking fund for the $43,000 indebtedness mentioned, upon a proper basis. A sufficient sum must be appropriated each year to meet this indebtedness of maturity. The indebtedness to be so provided for is made up as follows :
Note payable to Middlesex Institution for Savings, Concord, Mass., April 7, 1902, interest at 4 per cent., $10,000
$10,000 4 per cent. bonds issued June, 1897, due June, 1917, 10,000
$23,000 4 per cent. bonds issued June 1900, due June, 1930, 23,000
Total,
$43,000
The first two items of the above-mentioned indebtedness were incurred under the original water act, chapter 188 of the Acts of 1872. The third item was incurred under chap- ter 341 of the Acts of 1897, which increased the borrowing capacity of the town for water purposes $25,000. The orig-
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inal borrowing capacity of $50,000 under the Act of 1872 was exhausted in 1897. The additional borrowing capacity of $25,000 under the Act of 1897 has been exhausted with the exception of $2000, which sum is all the town can now bor- row for water purposes without further legislative authority.
All of the Acts of the Legislature under which money has been borrowed for the water works required that all surplus income derived from the water works, after paying the run- ning expenses, shall be applied to the interest on the water debt, to the payment of the bond which falls due each year, and to the sinking fund which the town is required to pro- vide against a portion of the indebtedness. These applica- tions will probably more than exhaust for some time to come all of the net income from the water works, after charges of maintenance are paid.
Highways.
By consent of the Unitarian parish the roadway in front of its church has been widened so that it is substantially of the same width as the roadway as laid out above. With this exception, no roads have been built or altered under the authority of the town or the county. Complaint has been made to the Selectmen that the causeway opposite the estate of Mrs. E. L. Campbell is so constructed that it dams the water flowing down the brook and produces an unsightly mud-hole. The Selectmen have taken no action upon this matter. If the trouble is to be remedied, either the land above the road must be filled, or the culvert rebuilt in another place, Ineither case, the expense will probably be $500 or $600.
Town Meetings.
Special town meetings have been held during the year on the following dates :
The Selectmen called the. meeting of May 1, 1900, espe- cially for the purpose of taking action upon the location of the flag-staff, which the committee having that matter in charge were proceeding to erect in front of the west entrance
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to the town hall. Before the meeting was called the Select- men protested to the committee against the proposed loca- tion, believing that the town did not want the flag-staff there. The best course for the Selectmen to pursue was to call a meeting. At the meeting the town voted to locate the flag- staff between the hall and the chestnut tree, provided that it should not be placed within twenty feet of any asphalt. The flag-staff committee thereupon carried out the instructions of the town by erecting the staff in that place. The expense to the town in causing this change of location to be made and in calling the meeting amounts to $117.60. We think that we were justified in calling the meeting and that the money used in preventing the erection of the flag- staff in the concrete west of the hall was well expended.
The town meeting of September, 1900, was called by re- quest of the citizens to enable the town to express its opinion upon certain petitions of street railway companies for loca. tions through the town. The action of the town upon this matter is fully set forth under the appropriate heading in this report.
The meeting called January 26, 1901, was for the especial purpose of authorizing the Selectmen to petition the Legis- lature for an Act authorizing the town to lay out special town ways for the use of street railway companies. This subject is also treated under the proper heading in this report.
Contingent Fund
This year abatements of taxes have been charged to the contingent fund. Formerly they were charged to miscel- laneous expenses. The abatement by the county commis- sioners of the tax assessed in 1899 to F. and C. S. Smith amounts to $1,400. This was so large a sum that it more than exhausted the balance of the appropriation for the con- tingent fund. It is wise for the town to maintain a contin- gent fund because not only may there be unusual and unfore- seen expenses which are properly chargeable to no specific
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appropriation, but it may also happen, as in the case men- tioned that the town fails, by reason of abatements or otherwise, to collect the amount of the regular tax levy.
Town Boundaries.
During the fall the Selectmen, in accordance with the law, perambulated the town boundaries between Lincoln and the towns of Lexington, Waltham and Wayland, for the purpose of inspecting the town lines and renewing the marks; and after our perambulations we caused our proceedings to be recorded in our town records.
Gift to the Town.
"Mr. Thomas J. Pairpoint, of Providence, R. I., early in the year sent to our fellow townsman, Charles Francis Adams, a letter in which he expressed a desire to give the Town of Lincoln, free of expense, a replica of a panel in high relief, executed by him, representing the arrest of Paul Revere, in the early morning of the 19th of April, 1775. As the inhabitants of Lincoln are well aware, this memor- able incident occurred within our Town limits. A peculiar interest, therefore, here attaches to anything illustrative of it. The Selectmen, would, therefore, recommend that the panel in question be set at some suitable place in the walls of Bemis Hall, and that the following vote be passed in relation thereto :
*In relation to the above, Mr. Adams makes the follow- ing resolution :-
* Voted, That the Town of Lincoln accepts with gratitude from Thomas J. Pairpoint, the replica in high relief of a panel representing the arrest of Paul Revere; and that the Selectmen be instructed to convey to Mr. Pairpoint the thanks of the Town for his vauable and interesting gift."
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Street Lamps.
The Street lamps between the Town Hall and Farns- worth's corner have been lighted throughout the year to the satisfaction of the Selectmen at an expense to the Town of less than $600. We have removed the posts from one side of the road and have reset some of those on the side now lighted, which we think greatly improves and economizes the entire outfit.
Street Railways.
During this year for the first time petitions have been made by street railway companies for locations in Lincoln. No company has appeared to care much for Lincoln traffic in itself, but the object has been to go through the town to reach other places. We gave three hearings on the petitions of two street railway companies which aroused great interest.
After granting several hearings upon the petitions of the street railway companies, we called a town meeting in Sep- tember, at which it was voted to be the sense of the town " that in granting any location to a street railway company the Selectmen"should require a fair and substantial cash con- sideration therefor, equal to the value of the franchise." It was also argued at this meeting that the electric roads should not be allowed at all upon the highways, but finally the town voted to leave the whole subject in the hands of the Select- men.
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