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In the report of last year your Superintendent said "We are a disunited school unit and the chief reason is that we have no place of assembly as a school. We need badly an assembly hall." This will strike any school worker as true and inevitable even in a very cursory review of the school. While it is not practicable to urge an assembly hall at present we can attain approximately the advantages of one by mak- ing arrangements for gathering together the primary grades in one of the first floor rooms and the grammar grades in the old manual training room on the second floor. Such an ar- rangement would necessitate only a few extra chairs and a piano for each floor. A piano is very much needed, for a school without a piano misses one of the greatest aids to unity. Let us have pianos.
In the last few years very few of the text books have been replaced and those now in use have passed the age limit and should be discarded. It is neither hygienic nor moral to con- tinue to use books so dirty and tattered as to be an offense to several senses. We shall need many new books, and also reference books for teaching geography and history, in which departments of study we are deficient.
No details of the accomplishment of work by the different classes is advisable at this time as the teachers are too new
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to the work, the interruptions to its continuity too frequent, and the time too short for your superintendent to have tested the quality of the work in all the subjects.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. MORSS, Superintendent of Schools.
Lincoln, Mass., January 20, 1919.
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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 third 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 fourth day of March, then and there to act on the following Articles :
The polls for voting the Australian ballot will be open at 12 o'clock noon and may be closed at 6.30 o'clock P. M.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator.
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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, com- missioners and trustees.
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years.
One member of the Board of Assessors for three years.
One member of the Board of Health 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 Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of Trustees for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the School Committee for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the following ques- tion : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?"
ART. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committee, Commissioners and Trustees.
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ART. 4. To appropriate money for necessary and ex- pedient purposes of the Town and enact anything in rela- tion to the same.
ART. 5. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To determine the compensation of the Col- lector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year, beginning February 1, 1918, in antici- pation of the collection of taxes for the said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current ex- penses 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. 10. To see if the Town will appropriate any money for the Middlesex County Farm Bureau.
ART. 10. To see what action the Town will take with reference to the old schoolhouse in the center of the Town.
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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 meet- ing aforesaid.
Given under our hands this nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
CHARLES S. SMITH, JOHN F. FARRAR, ROBERT D. DONALDSON, 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 : printed copy thereof at each dwelling-house within the
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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 attached to, the original warrant, and shall be served as a part thereof.
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 account 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 the month previous to the custody of which the treasurer is entitled.
Sect. 4. A majority of the water commissioners, school committee, or of any board, or committee, and any officer having charge of the expenditure of an appropriation, shall
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approve in writing all accounts, claims, oills 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, 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 transmitted by the selectmen directly to the treasurer accompanied by the approved bills or other documents for the settlement of which the drafts are drawn.
Sect. 6. The treasurer shall file and safely keep all 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 unless there is sufficient appropriation to pay the same, except for
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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 commissioners of the sinking fund.
Sect. 8. The selectmen and treasurer respectively shall make a record, in a book kept for the purpose, of each 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 or 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 interval 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 departments, 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 expenditures and liability incurred for any purpose shall not exceed one-fourth the entire amount appropriated for that purpose in the previous year.
Sect. 10. Unless the town shall expressly otherwise vote, no extension of water pipes shall be made unless before the work of construction is begun one or more of the persons whom it is proposed to supply with water by means of such
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extension, shall file with the town clerk a bond with sureties satisfactory to the water commissioners, conditioned to pay to the town for five years next following the completion of such extension and the letting of water into the same, a sum sufficient, together with the net annual income from such extension, to amount annually to five per centum of the total cost thereof.
ARTICLE III.
TOWN SEAL.
Section 1. The design of the town seal shall be: a circle, in the border the words "Lincoln. . Incorporated in 1746 as a precinct ; in 1754 as a Town"; in the center, a shield, in the chief or upper part of which on a cross, gules, a fleur- de-lis, gold, from the old seal of Lincoln, England, and in the base of the shield a view of the present town hall ; crest, the old chestnut tree standing upon the common in Lincoln ; in saltire two shepherd's crooks; the device thereof being as follows :
Sect. 2. All deeds and other legal documents made, given or entered into by the town requiring a seal shall be sealed with the town seal, and signed in behalf of the town by a ma- jority of the selectmen.
Sect. 3. The town clerk shall have the custody of the town seal.
ARTICLE IV.
RECORDS.
Section 1. The town clerk shall record in full in a book · kept for the purpose all written contracts, deeds and other
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instruments to which the town is a party except such instru- ments as may by law be recorded in the Registry of Deeds; and it shall be the duty of any board or officer executing or receiving such written contract, or other instrument, to deliver the same forthwith to the town clerk for the pur- pose of record. It shall be the duty of the town clerk to see that all conveyances of real estate to the town are prop- erly recorded in the Registry of Deeds.
Sect. 2. The town clerk shall keep a file of all town reports, reports of all committees chosen by the town, and all original documents relating to the affairs of the town which may come into his possession.
ARTICLE V.
BOOKS.
Section 1. Books, records and laws received by the town from the commonwealth shall be deposited in the public library building.
Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the town officer by whom any book mentioned in the preceding section is received, to cause the same to be at once deposited in the public library building.
Sect. 3. Such books may be used by the inhabitants of the 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 protection 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 con- ferred 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.
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Sect. 2. The selectmen shall cause to be printed and bound each year with the annual reports of the town offi- cers, boards and committees, a copy of the records of the town meetings during the preceding year; a statement of all devices, bequests and donations to the town during the preceding year; a list of all laws of the commonwealth accepted by the town during the year; all by-laws adopted by the town since the preceding annual report; copies of the laying out, alteration, locating anew or discontinuance of any highway or townway within the limits of the town during the preceding year ; and a statement of all outstand- ing bonds, notes and obligations of the town for the pay- ment 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 attending 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 commit- ted to the Middlesex County Truant School at Chelmsford, Mass., or to any other place provided by the town within its limits, for confinement, instruction, and discipline.
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ARTICLE IX.
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 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.
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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, approved.
In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy of record, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1897.
RALPH M. SMITH, Ass't Clerk.
INDEX
PAGE
Town Officers, 1918
3-5
Proceedings of Town Meetings, 1918
7-36
Town Clerk's Report
37-41
Men of Lincoln Who Have Gone to War
41
Recommendations for Appropriations
44
Selectmen's Report
42-55
Auditor's Report
56
Expenditures for the year
57-71
Report of Assessors
93-107
Treasurer's Report
79
Report of the Cemetery Commissioners
91
Report of Town Treasurer in acc'nt Cemetery Com'ssioners
92
Report of Commissioner of Sinking Fund
80-81
Report of Treasurer Commissioners Trust Funds .
82-88
Report of Treasurer Bemis Lecture Fund
89-90
Report of Water Commissioners
108-113
Report of Tree Warden
115
Report of Board of Health
114
Report of Superintendent of Streets
76-78
Report of Inspector of Animals
72-73
Report of Fire Engineers
75
Report of Trustees of Lincoln Public Library
116
Library Statistics
118
Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library
117
List of Accessions to Library
119-124
School Reports
127-137
School Expenditures
133
Report of School Committee .
130-132
Report of Superintendent of Schools
134-137
School Calendar
129
Warrant 1919
139-142
By-Laws of the Town
143-152
REPORT OF THE OFFICERS
OF THE
TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE YEAR 1919
ALSO THE REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL AND OTHER COMMITTEES FOR THE YEAR 1919
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1919-1920
Town Clerk. WILLIAM C. PEIRCE
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
CHARLES S. SMITH
Term expires 1921
ROBERT D. DONALDSON
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1920
JOHN F. FARRAR
1922
Board of Health.
MARTIN M. WELCH
Term expires 1922 .
CHARLES E. CLARK
1921
ROBERT D. DONALDSON .
66 1920
Assessors.
WILLIAM C. PEIRCE
Term expires 1922
CHARLES S. WHEELER
66 1921
WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
1920
Treasurer. C. LEE TODD.
Collector of Taxes. THOMAS L. GILES.
Auditor. JAMES W. LENNON.
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Constables. JOHN J. KELLIHER GEORGE E. CUNNINGHAM
Commissioners of Trust Funds.
DONALD GORDON ,
Term expires 1920
CHARLES S. SMITH
66
1921
C. LEE TODD
66
1922
Tree Warden. JOHN J. KELLIHER
Trustees for Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures.
DONALD GORDON .
Term expires 1920
CHARLES S. SMITH
1921
C. LEE TODD
66
1922
Trustees of Grammar School Fund.
CHARLES S. WHEELER. CONRAD P. HATHEWAY. JOHN T. CLARK.
Trustees of Lincoln Library.
GEORGE G. TARBELL. JOHN F. FARRAR. C. LEE TODD.
CHARLES S. SMITH, Chairman of Selectmen, ex-officio.
ANTHONY J. DOHERTY, Chairman School Committee, ex-officio.
Registrars.
CHARLES S. SMITH.
JOHN F. FARRAR.
ROBERT D. DONALDSON. WILLIAM C. PEIRCE
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School Committee.
AMOS R. LITTLE . CONRAD P. HATHEWAY
ANTHONY J. DOHERTY
Term expires 1920
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66 1921
66
1922
Water Commissioners.
SUMNER SMITH
Term expires 1920
WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
1921
JOHN J. KELLIHER
66
1922
Field Drivers.
WARREN A. SHERMAN. PHILLIPS BRADLEY
Fence Viewers.
JOHN F. FARRAR. WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
Surveyor of Lumber. SAMUEL FARRAR.
Measurers of Wood and Bark.
SAMUEL FARRAR.
JOHN F. FARRAR
Cemetery Commissioners.
FRITZ CUNNERT
Term expires 1920
CHARLES S. SMITH
1921
EDWARD F. FLINT
1922
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
Proceedings of a Town Meeting held March 3, 1919
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 third 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 third day of March, then and there to act on the following Articles :
The polls for voting the Australian ballot will be open at 12 o'clock noon and may be closed at 6.30 o'clock P. M.
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
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elected by ballot or otherwise, also any committees, com- missioners and trustees.
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years.
One member of the Board of Assessors for three years.
One member of the Board of Health 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 Trust Fund Commissioners for three years. One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for one year.
One member of Trustees for Free Public Lectures for three years. One member of Trustees for Free Public Lec- tures for one year.
One member of the School Committee for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the following ques- tion : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?"
ART. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committee, Commissioners and Trustees.
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ART. 4. To appropriate money for necessary and ex- pedient purposes of the Town and enact anything in rela- tion to the same.
ART. 5. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To determine the compensation of the Col- lector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the municipal year, beginning January 1, 1919,) in antici- pation of the collection of taxes for the said year, such sums of money as may be necessary for the current ex- penses 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. To see if the Town will appropriate any money for the Middlesex County Farm Bureau.
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