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ART. 10. To see if the Town will appoint a com- mittee to prosecute persons for selling intoxicating liquors in the Town, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 11. To see what action the Town will take with reference to the old schoolhouse in the center of the Town.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will accept the provision of Chapter 244 of the Acts and Resolves of the year 1911, or take any action with reference to the matter.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will accept the provi- sions of the Revised Laws of Chapter 78 and particularly Sections 21 to 25 of said Acts, which refer to cemeteries.
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ART. 14. To see if the Town will instruct the Tree Warden, under the direction of the Selectmen, to set shade and ornamental trees in different parts of the Town along the highways and appropriate the sum of $200 for this purpose.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will extend the water pipe from a point on the Waltham Road, known as Kid- der's Corner, to a point on the same road near the house of Mrs. Albert Washburn, or take any action with refe- rence to said extension or make any appropriation for the same.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will extend the electric lighting system from a point near the house of Kidder Brothers to the estate of Mrs. Albert Washburn, or take any action with reference to the matter or make appro- priations for the same.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $200 to purchase hose for fire protection in the East part of the Town, or take any action with reference to the matter.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will name the street running from a point opposite the house of Mr. John F. Farrar to the Wayland Line, or take any action with reference to the matter.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will extend a 4 inch water main from a point opposite the house of John F. Farrar to a point near the residence of Vernon A. Wright, and appropriate money for the same or take any action with reference to the matter.
ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take with reference to any suits now pending against it.
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And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in each of the Post Offices and one of the churches or some other public place, seven days at least before the day appointed for such meeting, and to make seasonable return thereof with your doings, thereon, to the Town Clerk.
HEREOF FAIL NOT.
Dated at Lincoln, this twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.
CHARLES S. SMITH, C. L. TODD, R. D. DONALDSON, Selectmen of Lincoln.
The Acts referred to in Articles XII and XIII are printed herewith.
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CHAPTER 244 ACTS AND RESOLVES OF 19II
An Act Relative to Fires in the Open Air
Section 1. Chapter two hundred and nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight is hereby amended by striking out section one and inserting in place thereof the following :- Section 1. It shall be unlawful within any city, or within any town which accepts the provisions of this act, for any person to set a fire in the open air between the first day of March and the first day of De- cember except by the written permission of the forest warden, or the chief of the fire department, or, in cities that have such an official, the fire commissioner : provided that debris from fields, gardens and orchards, or leaves and rubbish from yards may be burned on ploughed fields by owners thereof, their agents or lessees; and provided, further, that persons above eighteen years of age may maintain a fire for a reasonable purpose upon sandy or barren land, if the fire is enclosed within rocks, metal or other non-inflammable material. In every case such fire shall be at least two hundred feet distant from any forest or sprout lands, and at least fifty feet distant from any building, and shall be properly attended until it is extinguished. The forest warden shall cause public notice to be given of the provisions of this section, and shall enforce the same. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 2. Said chapter two hundred and nine is here- by further amended by striking out section four and
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inserting in place thereof the following :- Section 4. The state forester and forest warden, or any duly authorized assistant in the employ of the state forester, or any duly appointed deputy forest warden, may arrest without a warrant any person found in the act of setting or main- taining a fire in violation of the provisions of this act.
Section 3. Said chapter is hereby further amended by striking out section five and inserting in place thereof the following new section :- Section 5. The selectmen of every town may submit this act to the voters for their acceptance at any annual or special town meeting. The vote shall be taken by separate ballot, and shall be "Yes" or "No" in answer to the following question printed upon the ballot: "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and eight, entitled 'An Act to provide for the protection of forest or sprout lands from fire,' be accepted by this town?" A majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at such meeting shall be required for the acceptance of this act; and upon such acceptance the provisions of section twenty-four, of chapter thirty-two of the Revised Laws shall cease to apply to any town which has previously accepted that section.
Section 4. Section eleven of chapter two hundred and eleven of the Revised Laws is hereby repealed.
Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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BOARDS OF CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS
Chapter 78.
Section 21. A town which accepts the provsions of this and the four following sections or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws may, at any town meeting, elect by ballot a board of cemetery commission- ers consisting of three persons, a majority of whom shall, for at least one year previous to their election, have been owners of a lot in a cemetery or other public burial ground in said town. If such board is first chosen at a meeting other than an annual town meeting, one member shall be elected for one year from the day following that fixed by law for the last preceding annual town meeting, one mem- ber for two years, and one member for three years, from said day ; and annually thereafter one member so qualified shall, at the annual town meeting, be elected by ballot for a term of three years. Such boards shall choose a chairman, and a clerk who may be a member of the board.
Section 22. Said board shall have the sole care, super- intendence and management of all public burial grounds in its town, may lay out any existing public burial grounds in its town or any land purchased and set apart by said town for cemeteries and other public burial grounds in lots or other suitable subdivisions with proper paths and avenues, may plant, embellish, ornament and fence the same and erect therein such suitable edifices and conveniences and make such improvements as it con- siders convenient; and, subject to the approval of the town, may make such regulations, not inconsistent with law, as it considers expedient.
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Section 23. Said board may, by deed made and exe- cuted in such manner and form as it may prescribe, con- vey to any person the sole and exclusive right of burial in any lot in said cemetery and of erecting tombs, ceno- taphs and other monuments or structures thereon upon such terms and conditions as its regulations prescribe. Such deeds and all subsequent deeds of such lots made by the owners thereof shall be recorded by said board in suitable books of record, which shall be open to the pub- lic at all reasonable times.
Section 24. A town in which cemetery commssioners are chosen may receive gifts or bequests for maintaining cemeteries or cemetery lots, which shall be paid into the town treasury of said town, and with the accounts there- of, shall be kept separate from the other money and ac- counts of said town. The town treasurer shall invest all such funds in accordance with the stipulations, if any, accompanying them; otherwise he shall invest them as ordered by the selectmen and said commissioners and pay the income thereform upon their order or with their approval. The proceeds of sales of lots or rights of burial in said cemetery shall be paid into the town treas- ury and shall be subject to said orders.
Section 25. Said board shall not incur debts or lia- bilities for purposes other than aforesaid nor to an amount exceeding the amount of the funds subject to their order; and it shall annually make a report in writing to said town of its official acts, of the condition of said cemetery and burial grounds, and render an account of its receipts and expenditures for the same and of the funds subject to its order.
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By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
At the Superior Court, within and for the County of Middlesex, Anno Domini, 1897,
The following By-Laws of the Town of Lincoln, in said County, are presented to this Court for approval, to wit :-
"ARTICLE I.
TOWN MEETINGS.
Section 1. The annual town meeting shall be held on the first Monday of March in each year.
Sect. 2. Notice of every town meeting shall be given by posting copies of the warrant calling the same, attested by the officer making service thereof, 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 be- fore the day appointed for such meeting. But when, in the judgment of the selectmen, the interests of the town require a meeting to be held without giving so long a notice, a meeting may be called by posting attested copies of the warrant in the places above mentioned, and by leaving a printed copy thereof at each dwelling-house within the town, at least three days before the time appointed for the meeting; provided that in such cases the selectmen shall certify that, in their opinion, the interests of the town re- quire that a town meeting be called upon a notice of less than seven days, which certificate shall be made upon, or at- tached to, the original warrant, and shall be served as a part thereof.
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ARTICLE II.
FINANCES.
Section 1. The financial year shall commence with the first day of February and end with the thirty-first day of January annually.
Sect. 2. The town treasurer shall have the custody of all funds belonging to the town except sinking funds, trust funds and funds for which other provision is made by law; and he shall pay no money from the treasury except upon a draft signed by a majority of the selectmen, stating the ac- count to which the same is chargeable. Such draft shall be sufficient authority to the treasurer to pay the same, and the payment thereof shall discharge him from all liability on account of the money so paid.
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 th month previous to the custody of which the treasurer ie 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 trans- mit the same with his or their approval to the selectmen. All other accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls shall be ex- amined 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,
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shall be drawn upon the treasurer for the payment of all sums by law payable from the treasury to the common- wealth or county, final judgments of courts, bonds, noto and scrip of the town and interest thereon and money pay- able 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 not be negotiated, but shall be trans mitted by the selectmen directly to the treasurer accom- panied 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 ap- proved 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 un- less 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 thereon, and money payable to the com missioners of the sinking fund.
Sect. 8. The selectmen and treasurer respectively shal' make a record, in a book kept for the purpose, of each ap propriation, with a list of the drafts drawn against such appropriation, and shall make a record of all bonds, notes, serip or other evidence of indebtedness of the town, signed + countersigned by them.
Sect. 9. When the bills contracted or approved by any board, committee, or officer have exhausted the entire ap- propriation for such board, committee or officer, they shall incur no further expenditure, except in cases where she", expenditure may be required by law; and it shall be the duty of each board, committee or officer before the close of the financial year to approve all accounts, claims, bills and pay-rolls chargeable to their appropriation. During the in-
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terval between the thirty-first day of January in each year and the time of making the next annual appropriations, the selectmen, school committee and water commissioners, in order to meet the liabilities of their several dpartments, incurred 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 appropria- tion. Such expenditure and liability incurred for any pur- pose shall not exceed one-fourth the entire amount appro- priated 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 be- fore the work of construction is begun one or more of the persons whom it is proposed to supply with water by means of such extension, shall file with the town clerk a bond with sureties satisfactory to the water commissioners, condi- tioned 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 in- come from such extension, to amount annually to five per rentum 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 standing upon the common in Lincoln; in saltire two shepherd's crooks; the device thereof being as follows:
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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 bool kept for the purpose all written contracts, deeds and other instruments to which the town is a party except such in- struments as may by law be recorded in the Registry of Deeds; and it shall be the duty of any board or officer exe cuting or receiving such written contract, or other instru- ment, to deliver the same forthwith to the town clerk for the purpose 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 ___ town re- ports, reports of all committees chosen by the tow " and all original documents relating to the affairs of the tow. 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 town within such building, and may be taken therefrom upon written receipt to the librarian for a period not ex- ceeding one day at any one time for use in any town meet- ing, or by or before any committee or official of the town.
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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 repre- sent 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 purpose aforesaid and for other purposes when it may be expedient to do so, and to take all necessary and proper measures for the pro- tection of the interests and rights of the town.
Sect. 3. If the town shall, at any meeting called for the purpose, chocse, 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
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preceding year; a list of all laws of the commonwealth ac- cepted 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 dur- ing 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 commonwealth 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 and fifteen years found wandering about the streets or public places within the town having no lawful occupation or business, not attend- ing school, and growing up in ignorance, and such children as persistently violate the reasonable rules and regulations of the public schools, may upon conviction thereof be com- mitted to the Middlesex County Truant School at Chelms- ford, Mass., or to any other place provided by the town within its limits, for confinement, instruction, and disci- pline.
ARTICLE IX.
PUBLIC 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
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after obtaining such permit 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 permit 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 offense, 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, ap- proved.
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.
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INDEX
PAGE
Town Officers, 1911-1912
3-5
Proceedings of Town Meetings, 1911-1912
7-31
Town Clerk's Report
32-35
Recommendations for Appropriations
37-38
Selectmen's Report
37-45
Auditor's Report
36
Expenditures for the year
46-62
Report of Assessors
84-100
Report of Town Treasurer
70
Report of Commissioner of Sinking Fund
71
Report of Treasurer Commissioners Trust Funds
72-80
Report of Treasurer Geo. F. Bemis Lecture Fund
81-82
Report of Treasurer Cemetery Commissioners
112
Report of Water Commissioners
101-111
Report of Tree Warden
113-114
Report of Board of Health
83
Report of Supt. of Streets .
65-69
Report of Inspector of Animals .
63
Report of Fire Engineers
64
Report of Committee on Claims
115-116
Abstract of Title
117-135
Report of Trustees of Lincoln Public Library
136-139
Library Statistics .
141
Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library
140
Report of Librarian
142
List of Accessions to Library
143-148
School Reports
149-176
School Expenditures
170
Report of School Committee
151-155
School Calendar and Statistics
174-175
Roll of Honor
173
Tabular Statement
176
Warrant, 1912
ยท
177-184
By-Laws of the Town
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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN
From February 1, 1912, to February 1, 1913 ALSO THE Reports of the School and other Committees FOR THE YEAR 1912-1913
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BOSTON: GEO. E. CROSBY CO., PRINTERS, 394 Atlantic Avenue. 1913
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN
From February 1, 1912, to February 1, 1913 ALSO THE
Reports of the School and other Committees
FOR THE YEAR 1912-1913
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BOSTON: GEO. E. CROSBY CO., PRINTERS. 394 Atlantic Avenue. 1913
Town Officers, 1912-1913
Town Clerk.
GEORGE L. CHAPIN.
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
CHARLES S. SMITH, CHARLES LEE TODD, ROBERT D. DONALDSON.
Board of Health.
R. D. DONALDSON
Term expires 1915
MARTIN M. WELCH
1913
EDWARDS W. HERMAN
6% 1914
Assessors.
CHARLES S. WHEELER
Term expires 1915
WILLIAM C. PEIRCE
1913
WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
66 66 1914
Treasurer and Collector of Taxes.
CHARLES S. WHEELER.
Auditor. JAMES W. LENNON.
Constables.
JAMES T. LAIRD, WINSLOW A. EATON, GEORGE E. CUNNINGHAM.
Commissioners of Trust Funds.
CHARLES S. SMITH
Term expires 1915
C. LEE TODD
1913
JULIUS E. EVELETH
1914
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Tree Warden. JOHN J. KELLIHER.
Committee on Claims.
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