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Another handicap is the large proportion of sub- normal children in our schools. Such children always need more of the teacher's attention than normal children and should be instructed in small groups, otherwise they will make very little progress. At the Centre the special teacher is a great aid to these pupils and other backward children and succeeds in saving many of them to their class. Miss Ames is also doing much towards aiding pupils to form good habits of study.
Teachers and Pupils
A year ago last summer we lost all but one of our regular teachers, but this year, owing to the generous increase in salaries voted by the school committee,
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only one teacher resigned. When good teachers remain in our schools for a series of years we can accomplish much more and better work than when there are constant changes in the teaching force.
The spirit of the school is good. Teachers and pupils are working harmoniously. There are only a few hard cases of discipline and teachers and school officials co- operate in handling these. We hope too that the parents will always stand ready to aid us in any case where we must discipline their children, for in all our acts we are trying to work for the welfare of the children. We are trying to train them in such a way that they will form habits of earnest study and right living.
The reports which we receive from the Concord and Waltham High Schools and from other schools which our pupils attend, indicate that our boys and girls have formed good habits of study and do their work well as compared with pupils from other towns. The students sent to high schools last September have more than held up the reputation of our schools.
Manual Training and Domestic Arts
The work in manual training, cooking and sewing is progressing well and I feel that the boys and girls are getting much valuable training from these lessons which will be of great practical value to them through life. While doing this work some children find themselves and wake up intellectually. Such pupils would not make much headway if kept at their books all the time.
Mr. Brackett, in referring to manual training, reports: "I think very little need be said in reference to this subject. The exhibition of some of the boys' work at Framingham and at the Lincoln Grange received a generous share of awards.
Those who would criticise should remember that it is
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boys' work and not the product of skilled labor. Skill is the result of practice and the eight days of actual working time given each year to manual training is hardly sufficient to produce skilled workmen. Never- theless, the boys learn a great deal about the use of tools and construction. The desire to create and make things of use and beauty is in many cases remarkably developed."
Attendance
The following table will show that the attendance in the Lincoln schools and the number of pupils sent to the high schools from this town have greatly increased during the eight years of my supervision :-
Year
Enrollment
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Per cent of Attendance
Pupils sent to High Sch.
1907
117
103
96
92.7
22
1908
115
107
96
89.2
23
1909
150
139
128
92.6
19
1910
141
127
117
91.9
20
1911
159
147
136
92.4
22
1912
159
151
142
94.0
32
1913
164
157
146
93.3
35
1914
176
163
153
93.7
36
Fall, '14 197
178
169
94.9
45
The enrollment during the past fall term was then 68 per cent larger and the average attendance 76 per cent larger than in 1907, while the number of pupils sent to high schools had more than doubled in the same period.
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The following table will show the attendance in the various rooms during the fall term of 1914 :-
Enroll- Member- Attend-
Teachers
Grades
ment
ship
ance
Miss Crawford, VII-VIII,
35
33
32
Miss Work,
V-VI,
41
37
35
Miss Bowker,
III-IV,
50
43
41
Miss Heath,
I-II,
35
31
28
Miss Jones,
I-II-III,
36
34
32
Total,
197
178
169
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The school census also shows an increase in the number of children of school age in town. £ From all this it would seem advisable to finish off and furnish the fifth room in the Lincoln School Building. This would make it necessary to engage another teacher.
Respectfully submitted, C. S. LYMAN, Superintendent of Schools.
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ROLL OF HONOR
The following pupils have been neither absent nor tardy for the time designated :-
For Four Years Emily Robus
For One Year
Ethel Cousins. James Corrigan. Alden Farrar. William Robus.
Malcolm Donaldson. Robert Donaldson. Lillian Rocks. Harold Rocks.
For Two Terms
Esther Cousins. Evelyn Cousins.
Elizabeth Giles. Elizabeth Connors.
Bertha Chapin.
Helen Peirce. Louisa Monella.
Bernice Cousins. Waldo Langille. Mary F. Lennon.
Harriet Peirce. Gladys Ryan. Carl Nelson. Edward Flint. Raymond Langille. Helena Sherman. Alice Connors. Donald Donaldson. Edward Rocks.
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For One Term
Grace Anderson.
Mary Diamond.
Sara Clark.
Albert Brooks.
Kenneth Hamilton.
Louis Cook. Catherine Diamond. Alice Robus. Charles Lee Todd, Jr.
Belva Gallent.
Jacqueline Crook.
Edna Wetherbee.
Hazel Brooks.
Marie Connors.
Edith Cudhey.
Elizabeth Hutton.
Marjorie Doherty.
Edmund Giles.
Francis Corrigan.
Phillip Snelling. Lyman Cousins.
Harold Hart.
Margaret MacRae.
Lillian Hart.
Mary Bradstreet.
Ethel MacRae.
Richard Nelson.
Gladys Wetherbee.
Rosa Cotona.
Francis Eaton.
David Farquhar.
George Flint.
Walter Nelson.
Lester Pearson.
Douglas Langille.
Edith McCormick.
Blanche Cousins.
Florence Sherman. Myrtle Sherman.
Mary P. Lennon.
Richard Corrigan.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR
Winter Term begins January 4, 1915, ends March 26; twelve weeks.
Spring Term begins April 5, ends June 18; eleven weeks.
Fall Term begins September 7, ends December 17; fifteen weeks.
Winter Term begins January 3, 1916, ends March 24; twelve weeks.
Spring Term begins April 3, ends June 16; eleven weeks.
Recess from Wednesday before Thanksgiving to Monday following.
Holidays: Washington's Birthday, Patriot's Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day.
Length of school year, thirty-eight weeks.
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STATISTICS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1913-1914
Number of children in Town, September, 1914, between the ages of 5 and 16: boys, 121; girls, 113; total 234
Number of children in Town, between 7 and 14: boys, 80; girls, 83; total 163
Number of children in Town between 5 and 7: boys, 26; girls, 14; total
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Number of children in Town between 14 and 16: boys, 15; girls, 16; total 31
Enrollment for the year, ending June, 1914 176 .
Enrollment between 5 and 15 years of age 173 .
Enrollment between 7 and 14 years of age 144
Enrollment over 15 years of age 3
Number attending Concord High School 23
Number attending Waltham High School
12
Number attending Lexington High School
1
Number of regular teachers employed 6
Number of special teachers employed
2
Number of teachers who have graduated from Normal School 2
Number of teachers who have graduated from Training School 2
Total number registered in Lincoln schools during the year, ending June, 1914 180
Number of pupils sent to High Schools from Lincoln 36
Number of pupils receiving instruction at town expense
216
Number of pupils sent to High Schools from Lincoln during the Fall of 1914 . 45
Number completing Grammar School course June 1914: boys, 5; girls, 13; total 18 Number of pupils entering High Schools: boys, 5; girls, 12; total .
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ATTENDANCE TABLE FOR SCHOOL YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1914.
Schools Grades
Teachers.
Supplementary List
of Pupils
Enrollment for
State Report.
Enrollment-Boys.
Enrollment-Girls.
Average
Membership.
Average
Attendance.
Percent. of
Attendance.
Pupils between
5 and 15 years of age.
Pupils between
7 and 14 years of age.
Pupils over
15 years of age.
Lincoln VII-VIII
Abbie H. Bowlby, Prin.
0
38
13
25
34.9
32.793.5
35
31
3
Lincoln V-VI
Katherine E. Works
0
45
22
23
39.3
37.495.1
45
45
0
Lincoln III-IV
Helen M. Bowker
2
29
14
15
27.3
26.295.9
29
29
0
Lincoln I-II
Hattie B. Heath
0
37
24
13
32.6
30.292.5
37
24
0
South I-II-III
Helen P. Jones
2
27
12
15
28.9
26.390.9
27
15
0
Totals
4
176
85
91
163.0152.8 93.7173
144
3
1
173
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WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To 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 the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, qualified to vote at Town Meeting for the transaction of Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said Lincoln, on Monday, the first day of March next, at 11.30 o'clock A. M. by posting a copy of this Warrant by you attested, in each of the Post Offices and in some other public place in said Town, seven days at least before the said first day of March, then and there to act upon the following Articles:
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator.
ART. 2. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers, and any other officers required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise, also any committees, commissioners and trustees.
Three Selectmen for one year.
One member of the Board of Assessors to be elected for three years.
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One member of the Board of Health to be elected for three years.
One Treasurer for one year.
One Collector for one year.
One Auditor for one year.
Two Constables for one year.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One member of the School Committee to be elected for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners to be elected for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners to be elected for three years.
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the following question :
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?"
The polls will be open at 12 o'clock noon and may be closed at 6.30 o'clock P. M.
You are also required to notify and warn the in- habitants aforesaid to meet at the Town Hall in said town on Monday, the eighth day of March next, at one o'clock in the afternoon of said day, to act on the following Articles, viz .:
ART. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
ART. 4. To appropriate money for necessary and expedient purposes of the Town and enact anything in relation to the same.
ART. 5. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To determine the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
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ART. 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year, beginning February 1, 1915, in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current expenses of the Town, but not exceeding the total tax levy for the said year, giving the notes of the Town in payment therefor payable in one year from the date thereof. All debts incurred under authority of this vote shall be paid from taxes of the present municipal year.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will choose a Committee on Claims under the provisions of Section 3, Article 6 of the By-Laws.
ART. 9. Shall Chapter 807 of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being an act to provide for compensating laborers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained in public employment, and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay such compensation, be accepted by the inhabitants of this Town?
ART. 10. To see if the Town will change the fiscal year of the water works from July 1st to Jan. 1st, or take any action in the matter.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will direct the Water Commissioners to collect the fixture rates by August 1st and the meter rates by June 25th and December 24th respectively in each year.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will authorize the Water Commissioners to install a new pump at the Pumping Station and make provisions for payment of the same.
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ART. 13. To see if the Town will direct the Town Treasurer to pay all the employees of the Town in cash.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will choose by official ballot the Trustees for the Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures, or any other officers of the Town, under the Provisions of Chap. 385 of the Acts of 1913, or take any action in reference to elections on an official ballot.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will appoint a com- mittee to suggest changes or additions to the By-Laws, and report to the next Town Meeting or take any action in relation to the matter.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will extend the street lights from Miner's corner, so called on the Concord and Wayland Road to the Wayland line, also from the stone watering trough corner to Bent's corner, so called. Also from Page's corner, so called, to the Waltham line (via old Winter Street ) or take any action on street light extensions.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will raise the pay of the Highway employees from $2.25 to $2.50 for a nine hour day.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will widen old Winter Street at the corner opposite the house of Andrew J. Dougherty and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will take any action under the provisions of Chapter 103 of the Revised Laws or of Chapter 536 of the Acts of 1909 or Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or take any action in relation to the supervision of the business of plumbing, or accept the provisions of any of the said acts relating to plumbing.
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ART. 20. To see if the Town will accept the provi- sions of Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1912, entitled, "An Act Relative to Tenement Houses in Towns," or of any Act amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, or take any other action in relation to the subject.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will take any action in reference to naming its roads.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to petition the Bureau of Statistics for an Auditor in accordance with the Provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910 and Amendments thereto.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will accept the provi- sions of any Act or Acts thereto enabling them to provide by By-Laws or otherwise for issuing local licenses to junk dealers or take any action with reference to this matter.
HEREOF FAIL NOT.
And make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at or before the time for the meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
JOHN F. FARRAR, R. D. DONALDSON, JOSEPH S. HART, ·
Selectmen of Lincoln.
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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 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 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, notes. 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 nitted 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 shall 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, scrip or other evidence of indebtedness of the town, signed r 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 such 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 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 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 boo] 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 u !! town re- ports, reports of all committees chosen by the town, 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, 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
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preceding year; a list of all laws of the commonwealth ao- 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, 1914-1915
3-5
Proceedings of Town Meetings, 1914-1915
7-38
Town Clerk's Report
39-43
Recommendations for Appropriations
49-50
Selectmen's Report
46-59
Auditor's Report
45
Expenditures for the year
60-76
Report of Assessors
95-112
Report of Town Treasurer
82
Report of the Cemetery Commissioners
129-130 131
Report of Town Treasurer in account Cemetery Commissioners .
Report of Commissioner of Sinking Fund
83-84
Report of Treasurer Commissioners Trust Funds
85-91
Report of Treasurer Bemis Lecture Fund
92-93
Report of Water Commissioners
113-128
Report of Tree Warden
132-134
Report of Forest Warden
135
Report of the Committee on Claims
136-146
Report of Board of Health
94
Report of Supt. of Streets .
79-81
Report of Inspector of Animals .
77
Report of Fire Engineers
78
Report of Trustees of Lincoln Public Library
147
Library Statistics .
149
Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library
148
Communications
155-158
List of Accessions to Library
150-154 ·
School Reports
159-173
School Expenditures
163
Report of School Committee
161-162
Report of Superintendent of Schools
164-168
School Calendar and Statistics
. 171-172
Roll of Honor
169-170
Tabular Statement
173
Warrant, 1915
175-179
By-Laws of the Town
180-187
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