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HEREOF FAIL NOT.
Dated at Lincoln, Massachusetts, this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seven.
CHARLES S. SMITH, C. LEE TODD, Selectmen of Lincoln.
The return on the Warrant is as follows:
Lincoln, Mass., Oct. 29, 1907.
I have served this Warrant by posting an attested copy at each of the Post Offices and one in the Railroad Station, seven days before said meeting.
JAMES T. LAIRD, Constable of Lincoln.
Pursuant to the above Warrant the meeting was called to order at 7 o'clock by the Chairman of the Selectmen, and after reading the Warrant, Thomas L. Giles was sworn as Teller, and James W. Lennon and Henry N. Bean as Ballot Clerks.
The polls were then declared open, with the register in the Ballot Box reading 000.
The polls were closed at 4.15 P. M., and upon counting the ballots, disclosed 143 ballots cast. After counting, and signing the returns, the following vote was declared by the Chairman of the Selectmen.
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FOR GOVERNOR .-
Charles W. Bartlett of Newton had 3 votes Hervey S. Cowell of Ashburnham had 2 “
66 Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston had 89
66 Thomas L. Hisgen of West Springfield had 6
(Dem.) Henry M. Whitney of Brookline had 33
(Ind. Citizen.) Henry M. Whitney of Brookline had 5 (Dem. Citizen.) Henry M. Whitney of Brookline had Blanks, 4
1 vote
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR .-
E. Gerry Brown of Brockton had 6 vote John T. Cahill of Lawrence had 2 " Eben S. Draper of Hopedale had 82 Jonathan S. Lewis of Stoneham had 3 George A. Schofield of Ipswich had 32 Blanks, 18
FOR SECRETARY .-
Solon W. Bingham of Newton had 3 votes Odilon L. E. Charest of Holyoke had 26 “
John Hall, Jr., of Chicopee had 1 vote Wm. M. Olin of Boston had 89 votes Dennis J. Ring of Lowell had 8
Blanks, 16 66
FOR TREASURER .-
Edward J. Cantwell of Fall River had 1 vote Arthur B. Chapin of Holyoke had 90 votes William P. Connery of Lynn had 1 vote Daniel F. Doherty of Westfield had 25 votes
Charles C. Hitchcock of Ware had 1 vote Edward Kendall of Cambridge had 3 votes Blanks, 22 “
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FOR AUDITOR .-
Joseph A. Cousy of Boston had 26 votes Thomas E. Finnerty of Clinton had 2 George G. Hall of Boston had 1 vote James F. Pease of Merrimac had 2 " Henry E. Turner of Malden had 90 Blanks, 22
FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL .-
Allen Coffin of Nantucket had 2 votes Dana Malone of Greenfield had
90 “ James E. McConnell of Boston had 27 William N. Osgood of Lowell had 2 Hervey H. Pratt of Scituate had Blanks, 21 "
1 vote
FOR COUNCILLOR, SIXTH DISTRICT .-
Alvin S. Bennett of Westford had 28 votes Seward W. Jones of Newton had 86 William H. Partridge of Newton had 4 Blanks, 25
FOR SENATOR, FIFTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT .-
John J. Mitchell of Marlborough had 79 votes George W. Taylor of Lexington had 57 Blanks, 7
FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT.
THIRTEENTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT .-
Alfred I .. Cutting of Weston had 88 votes
Blanks, 55 "
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FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, MIDDLESEX DISTRICT .-
Francis Bigelow of Natick had 87 votes George A. De Lord of Acton had 26 “ Austin B. Robbins of Cambridge had 3
66 George W. C. Smith of Somerville had 3
Blanks, 24
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NORTHERN DISTRICT .-
John J. Higgins of Somerville had 95 votes John J. McClure, Jr., of Lowell had 26
Blanks, 22
FOR ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER, MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.
James H. Christie of Newton had 2 votes George B. Glidden of Waltham had 5 Matthew H. Quick of Cambridge had 5 David T. Strange of Stoneham had 75
Edw.Everett Thompson of Woburn had 54 Chas. S. Ward, of Stoneham had 4
Blanks, 71
FOR SHERIFF, MIDDLESEX COUNTY .--
John R. Fairbairn of Cambridge had 94 votes Albion A. Weeks of Cambridge had 4 "
George W. Wilkins of Carlisle had 24
Blanks, 21
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION .-
50 votes
Yes, No, 8 “
Blanks, 85
Voted to adjourn.
GEORGE L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
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Concord, Mass., Nov. 15, 1907.
At a meeting of the Town Clerks of the Thirteenth Middlesex Representative District held this day in the Town Clerk's Office, the following vote for Representative was disclosed:
Cutting 92
Blanks 43
Scattering
Tota
Bedford
135
Concord
438
266
4 708
Lincoln
88
55
143
Wayland
217
166
1
384
Weston
231
36
267
Sudbury
79
34
113
1,170
600
5
1,750
Two certificates of election were filled out for Alfred L. Cutting of Weston and signed by
Abram E. Brown, Town Clerk of Bedford.
Walter A. Carr, Town Clerk of Concord.
George L. Chapin, Town Clerk of Lincoln.
Daniel Brackett, Town Clerk of Wayland.
George W. Cutting, Town Clerk of Weston.
Frank F. Gerry, Town Clerk of Sudbury.
Attest :
GEORGE L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
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Proceedings of a Town Meeting, held Nov. 29, 1907
WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County :
GREETING:
Whereas, T. Wilbur Smith, C. G. Smith, Roger Sherman, Wallace M. Brooks, Albert S. Brooks, L. E. Brooks, P. F. Corrigan, Charles E. Clark, George M. Baker, and Charles Lunt, being ten of the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, have in writing represented to me, Prescott Keyes, of Concord, Massachusetts, a Justice of the Peace, that ten legal voters of said Town on or about November 11th, 1907, requested in writing the Selectmen of said Town to call a special town meet- ing to act upon various articles set forth in said request in relation to the location and erection of a new schoolhouse, the action of the School House Building Committee and the re- consideration of votes of the Town relating thereto, and that said Selectmen on November 18th, 1907, unreasonably refused to call such a meeting; and whereas said ten legal voters above named have applied in writing to me to call such a meeting by a warrant under my hand stating the subjects to be acted upon and directed to the constables of said Town;
Now, therefore, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln qualified to vote at Town meetings for the transaction of Town affairs to meet at
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Bemis Hall in said Lincoln on Friday, the twenty-ninth day of November, current, at one o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to act on the following articles:
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. To hear and act upon any report that the School- house Building Committee may present.
ART. 3. To determine whether the Town will reconsider any votes heretofore passed in relation to the erection or location of the new schoolhouse or the appropriation or bor- rowing of money therefor.
ART. 4. To determine whether the Town will give any in- structions to the Schoolhouse Building Committee.
ART. 5. To determine the location of the new schoolhouse and adopt all necessary measures to purchase and procure land therefor.
ART. 6. To determine whether the Town will remodel the present schoolhouse building at the center of the Town and will authorize the Treasurer, under the direction of the Se- lectmen, to borrow money therefor.
And you are hereby required to serve this Warrant by posting a copy hereof by you attested in each of the Post Offices within the Town and in one of the churches or one other public place within the Town not less than seven days before the day appointed for such meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Dated at Lincoln this twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seven.
PRESCOTT KEYES, Justice of the Peace.
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The return of the Warrant is as follows:
Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 21, 1907.
I have served this Warrant by postingan attested copy there- of in each of the Post Offices and in the Railroad Station, seven days before the day appointed for said meeting.
WILLIAM C. ROBUS, Constable.
Pursuant to the above Warrant the meeting was called to order by the Town Clerk, and after reading the Warrant, the following votes were passed.
ARTICLE 1. Voted and chose George Clasendon Hodges, Moderator. (The Check List was used.)
The Schoolhouse Building Committee read a printed state- ment, a copy of which had been previously mailed to each voter.
After an hours discussion of the subject, it was voted to adjourn.
GEORGE L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
December 31, 1907, James E. Baker and Joseph Delory, were this day sworn as Special Police.
GEORGE L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
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There have been recorded during the year, ending Dec. 31, 1907, 22 Births, 7 Marriages, 18 Deaths.
BIRTHS REGISTERED
Date of Birth
Name of Child.
Name of Parents.
Jan. 26, 1907.
Lindgren.
JohnA. and Eva (Haggblom). Israel A. and Sarah S. (Coldwell).
Jan. 12, 1893.
Ethel Foster Bent.
Jan. 30, 1907.
Elliott Stevens Bunker.
Charles F. and Abbie E. (Miner).
Mar. 13,
Ruth Lillian Cousins.
George L. and Lillian L. (Sherman).
May 5, 4
Frederick Crowley.
Timothy F. and Alice A. (Morrissey) Nelson S. and Mary E. (Costello.)
June 21,
Charlotte Wild.
Alfred W. and Alice (Howard). Henry B. and Elizabeth P. (Shattuck). John and Mary (Geoghegan).
Aug. 21, 4
William Lorenzo Calkins. Mahar.
James L. and Helen A. (McClary). Patrick J. and Catherine (Maloney).
Aug. 28,
Thomas Peter Diamond.
James and Catherine (Fahey).
Sept. 6,
Florence Evelyn Bennett.
William H. and Amelia J. (Delory). Walter E. and Lilian J. (Lane).
Oct. 1,
Francis Gilbert.
Napoleon and Agnes (Delory).
Oct. 24, Nov. 9,
Frederika Warner.
ĮHenry E. and Henrietta E. (Slade). Isaac N. and Nellie G. (Christie. Isaac and Adella (Waugh). Charles M. and Ada (Peterson).
Nov. 24,
Forest Thorstea Nelson.
Nov. 26,
William Everett Chute.
William E. and Nellie B. (Ferguson) John J. and Bridget (McBreen).
Dec. 24,
Daniel Everett Sherman.
Daniel E. and Minnie E. (Watson).
Aug. 30, 1906. George Bemis Flint.
Epraim B. and Edith F. (Whitney).
MARRIAGES REGISTERED
Date of Marriage.
Name.
Residence.
Jan. 22, 1907.
James Lorenzo Calkins. Helen Amelia McClary.
Lincoln. Lincoln.
Apr. 24, } "
George Hale Anson. Sarah Adams Tarbell.
Keene, N. H. Lincoln.
May 2, ' 2 "
Howard Snelling.
Lincoln. Concord.
May 4, L"
§ 1 Ramona T. Whittier.
Lincoln. Wayland.
May 9, 24 "
Alexander Henry Higginson. Jeanne Calducci.
Lincoln. New York.
Jan. 19, 1/2"
Burleigh Everett Richardson. Elizabeth Augusta Wheeler.
Medford. Lincoln.
Sept.[22,
Carl Howard Durgan. Vera Bliss Burgess.
Waltham. Lincoln.
June 5,
Evelyn Elizabeth Seavey.
June 28,
Elizabeth Perkins Bigelow.
Aug. 14,
Thomas Coyne.
Aug. 29,
Sept. 13,
Edna Winship Sherman.
Nov. 15,
Sidney Grant MacRae. Langille.
Dec. 20,
Margaret Corkum.
Eleanor G. Goodwin.
T. Alonzo Calkins.
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DEATHS REGISTERED
Date of Death.
Name.
Age. Y. M.
D.
Jan. 30, 1907.
James Hunter.
50
0 14
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Feb. 8, "
Josiah G. Sherman.
80
8 22
Arterio Sclerosis.
Mar. 24, “
Edgar E. Rogers.
1
6
14
Meningitis.
Oct. 31, 1906.
Ambrose Crummett.
60
0
0
Probably Heart Disease.
Apr. 25, 1907.
Arthur Sylvanus Browning.
23
6 30
Tuberculosis of Cervical Vertebrae. Killed on Railroad.
May 26 or 27, 1907.
An unknown boy.
About 13 ys.
May 31, 1907.
Albert Washburn.
64
7
12
Anaemia.
June 1, "
Paul Manette.
93
0
()
Senile Debility.
June 23,
Fred H. Eldridge.
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7 0
Killed on Railroad.
June 19,
Peter Underwood.
93
7
0
Old Age.
June 26,
Annie Tyler.
60
3
0
Abscess.
July 6,
Ellen Jeffery.
95
0
0
Old Age.
Nov. 22,
Bridget Neville.
62
0
0 Heart Disease.
Nov. 28,
Edward Ryan.
76
0
0
Myocarditis.
Dec. 4,
Lewis Miner.
94
8
0
Dec. 23,
J. Falon.
50
0
0
Killed by R. R. train.
Dec. 23,
Patrick Cody.
40
About 0 About 0
0 Killed by R. R. train.
Dec. 25,
Nora Callahan.
34
6
Pneumonia.
Cause of Death.
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Extract from the Revised Laws. Chapter 29.
SECT. 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 preceding month at whose birth they were present, stating the date and place of each birth, the name, if any, of the child, its sex and color, and the name, place of birth and residence of the parents, the maiden name of the mother, and the occu- pation of the father. A physician or midwife who neglects to report such list on or before the fifteenth day of the month shall for each offence forfeit not more than twenty-five dollars.
SECT. 6. Parents, within forty days after the birth of a child, and every householder, within forty days after the birth of a child in his house, shall cause notice thereof to be given to the clerk of the City or Town in which such child is born.
SECT. 8. A parent, keeper, superintendent or other person who is required by Section 6 to give or cause to be given notice of a birth or death, who neglects so to do for ten days after the time limited therefor, shall forfeit not more than five dollars for such offence ..
DOGS LICENSED IN 1907.
There have been 126 licenses issued as follows: 104 males, 20 Females, and 2 Kennels, for which $357.80 have been paid to the County Treasurer.
GEORGE L. CHAPIN, Town Clerk.
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REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
The Selectmen have the honor to present the following Report for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1908:
The Board was organized at a special meeting by the choice of Charles S. Smith, Chairman, and R. D. Donaldson, Sec- retary. Regular meetings have been held as heretofore on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 7.30 P.M.
The following table gives the appropriations made by the Town during the year 1907, and the appropriationsrecommend- ed by the Board to be made at the next annual meeting :-
Appropriations for 1907.
The Selectmen recommend the following appropriations for the ensuing year.
For schools,
$7,000.00
$7,500.00
Support of poor,
700.00
700.00
Highways and bridges,
5,500.00
5,500.00
Library, dog tax, and
500.00
500.00
Interest,
200.00
600.00
Cemeteries,
300.00
300.00
Board of Health,
300.00
300.00
Tree Warden,
1,500.00
2,500.00
State Aid,
96.00
96.00
Miscellaneous expenses
2,500.00
2,500.00
Contingent Fund,
1,500.00
1,500.00
Payment of water bond,
1,000.00
1,500.00
Sinking fund, Water,
1,946.38
2,173.37
Sinking fund, New School-house
1,780.18
Hydrant and other public water service,
1,500.00
2,000.00
Waltham Hospital, free bed
250.00
250.00
Rewriting early Town Records,
150.00
Street lamps,
No appropriation
600.00
Fire Department,
1,000.00
500.00
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APPOINTMENTS.
Under the provisions of the public statutes, the Board has made the following appointments :-
Burial Agent, Herbert E. Barnes.
Sealer of weights and measures, M. H. Doherty.
Special police, Dr. S. H. Blodgett, John F. Farrar, James E. Baker, Joseph Delorey.
Forest fire wardens, The Selectmen and James E. Baker, John F. Farrar, F. E. Cousins, Wallace M. Brooks and Charles S. Wheeler.
Inspector of animals, Martin M. Welch.
Ballot clerks and tellers at the annual State Election, Thomas L. Giles, James Lennon, Henry N. Bean.
Superintendent of Streets, John F. Farrar.
Janitor of public buildings and care-taker of public grounds, Edward Bannon.
Jury List.
The subjoined list of names has been prepared and posted in accordance with the provisions of the revised laws and will be reported at the next annual Town Meeting, to be placed in the jury box, subject to revision by the Town :-
List of Jurors.
Wallace M. Brooks.
occupation,
farmer. farmer.
Michael Boyce,
James E. Baker.
superintendent.
James T. Calkins
farmer.
Martin Corrigan,
forester.
Thomas J. Dee,
farmer.
Edward F. Flint,
farmer.
Charles P. Farnsworth, 66
farmer.
John F. Farrar,
farmer.
Herbert G. Farrar,
farmer.
A. Henry Higginson,
no occupation.
D. Lincoln Hamilton.
farmer.
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Joseph S. Hart,
occupation, physician. plumber.
Isaac N. McRae,
Charles O. Sargent,
farmer.
W. H. Sherman,
foreman.
Daniel H. Sherman,
66
farmer.
Howard Snelling,
superintendent.
Moses F. Underwood, 66
farmer.
C. Edgar Wheeler,
66
farmer.
James B. Wheeler,
66
farmer.
Martin M. Welch,
66
farmer.
Finances.
For the current financial condition of the Town we refer to the Town Treasurer's Report.
The Town now has a net bonded debt on account of its water department of $87,000.00, as follows :-
Issue of 1894, $7,000.00, due one each year.
Issue of 1897, $10,000.00, 4% bonds, due 1917.
Issue of 1900, $23,000.00, 31% bonds, due 1930. Issue of 1902, $9,000.00, 31% bonds, due 1932.
Issue of 1903, $5,000.00, 4% bond, due 1933. Issue of 1904, $5,000.00, 4% bond, due 1934.
Issue of 1906, $14,000.00, 4% bond, due 1936. Issue of 1907, $4,000.00 bonds, due 1937. Twenty $500.00 bonds, $10,000.00, due one each year. Total bonded indebtedness, $87,000.00.
It will be necessary for the Water Works to provide $1,500 for the direct payment of bonds and a sinking fund of $2,173.37
The Committee to erect a new schoolhouse has already expended in connection with the work about $5,000.00. The Town Treasurer, in accordance with the vote of the Town, has borrowed on a twelve months' note $5,000.00, at 5%. It will, in the opinion of the Board, be advisable for the Town to consider further the matter of financing the cost of the new schoolhouse, and an article covering this matter will be found in the warrant for the Annual Meeting.
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Town Records.
The rewriting of the earlier records of the Town has been continued during the past year and has been completed up to the year 1850; that is, all of the earlier records of the Town, including the records of the precinct and parish previous to the incorporation of the Town, have been rewritten, and copies of the same will be deposited in the State House.
Support of Poor.
The Town is at present supporting Mr. Stephen H. Garfield at an expense of $10.00 per week. Other applications for aid have been received, but provision thus far has been made for these cases without drawing on the Town treasury.
Water Works.
During the year extensions which had been previously voted have been completed and a further extension from Kidder Brothers to a recently constructed house of Dr. Herman has been made.
The net indebtedness of the Town on account of the water works has, during the last two years, been very materially increased. It will not, in our opinion, be possible to lower the water rates until the debt incurred has been considerably reduced.
Public Buildings.
At the present time, with the exception of the Center School Building, the public buildings of the Town are in good condition. Extensive repairs were made on the Library and the condition of the building has been entirely satisfactory.
Serious trouble has arisen during the past year in connec- tion with the drainage and sewerage systems at the Town Hall. These have been remedied at considerable expense, but have now been put in a perfectly satisfactory and sanitary
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condition. The trouble was due primarily to an improper laying of the drains when the building was constructed. It will be necessary, ere long, to spend a considerable amount of money on the Town Hall, and it is the opinion of the Board that it will not be advisable to undertake this work until money enough can be expended to make the extensive im- provements.
Fire Department.
In accordance with the revised laws of the public statutes, the Selectmen, soon after the annual meeting, appointed four fire engineers :- Messrs. I. N. MacRae, Thomas L. Giles, Thomas J. Dee, and William C. Robus, who have organized the hose companies in such a wayas we believe to materially improve the service. Their report will be found on another page of this book.
Schools.
The Town has definitely decided, during the past year, to erect a new school building at a cost not to exceed $50,000.00. Already a site has been selected by vote of the Town, and work on the substructure has been partially completed. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy by the fall or winter of 1908. . When completed, it is hoped that a long felt want in connection with our schools will have been met; namely, a building will be provided, adequate for all the needs of the Town for several years to come.
Tree Warden.
The work of the Tree Warden during the past year has been directed largely to the control of the gypsy moth. The pest has spread to such an extent in the Town that any person owning real estate can but feel anxious in regard to the future. There has been expended by the Tree Warden on account of the gypsy moth and other work in connection with his office 6,974.89.
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The Town appropriated at the last Town Meeting $1,500.00 for the use of the Tree Warden, and the Superintendent of gypsy moth work for the State allotted to the Town an ad- ditional $3,000.00, also there was available $1,300.00 on account of the 1906 appropriations by the State.
It will be seen therefore that the appropriation by the Town and State has been largely exceeded. The Selectmen felt that under the circumstances the Town would approve of this additional expenditure, because the Board believed that unless the work of the Tree Warden was continuous, the danger from the spread of the pest would be imminent.
For further information in connection with this work, reference is made to the Tree Warden's Report.
Highways.
Subsequent to the last annual meeting the Board elected Mr. John F. Farrar as Superintendent of Streets, and he has had charge of this important department during the past year. The horses were removed from the care of Mr. Roger Sherman to the barn of Mr. Edwin S. Bent, the Town renting from Mr. Bent stable and shed room at a cost of $8.00 per month. Instead of, as heretofore, paying so much per week for board and care of teams, the Town has bought hay and grain and hired a man to take entire care of them. If the expense incurred has been greater than by the other method, it is largely accounted for by the fact that hay and grain have cost considerably more this year than in any year since the Town owned its own teams. The horses have never been, in our opinion, in better condition than at the present time.
All of the Town property which is connected with the Highway Department is in good condition, except one horse. This horse has been lame more or less during the last two years and it is a question if he will ever again be of service for hard work. He would be an excellent animal for the Tree Warden or the Water Board or both to use in connection with their work.
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For further information in connection with this department reference is made to the Superintendent's Report.
New Highway.
Late in the year the attention of the Board was directed to the matter of providing convenient means of entrance and exit to the new schoolhouse lot. This lot, besides its use for school purposes, will undoubtedly be used in the future for athletic games and all out-door sports and entertainments in which the Town is interested. There will doubtless at times be large gatherings of people on this lot, and it seemed to the Board that it would be economy to lay out a public way to this lot. Attention of the Board was also called to the fact that the abutter on one side of the way already established was encroaching on the deeded right of way by a fence. The deed called for a right of way 20 feet wide, and posts had been placed, reducing the width of this way to 16 feet. A public way has therefore been laid out, 100 feet wide, to the south- easterly corner of the schoolhouse lot and a private way, 40 feet wide from that point to the intersection of the land of John H. Pierce, Roger Sherman and Charles S. Smith. A plan and report has been filed with the Town Clerk in accord- ance with the provisions of the statute and will be reported at the next annual meeting for acceptance by the Town.
The old right of way was crooked; the new one, as laid out, is approximately straight and will some time in the future be the north terminus of a road which will extend through, connecting in the easterly part of the Town with the road to Waltham.
Elections.
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 579, of the Acts of 1907, which is as follows :-
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"SECTION 1. Each assessor in every city and town of the Commonwealth, except in the city of Boston, shall be elected or appointed to hold office for the term of three years and until his successor is duly elected or appointed; provided, that where the number of assessors is fixed at three, there shall be elected or appointed one for a term of three years, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year; where the number is fixed at five, there shall be elected or appointed one for a term of one year, two for the terms of two years, and two for the terms of three years; where the number of assessors is seven, there shall be elected or appointed two for terms of one year, two for terms of two years and three for terms of three years; where the number of assessors is nine, there shall be elected or appointed three for terms of one year, three for terms of two years and three for terms of three years; and annually thereafter there shall be elected or appointed one, two or three for terms of three years, as the term of office of one, two or three expires. But this proviso shall not apply to cities and towns in which the three year term for assessors is already established.
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