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school account, without the knowledge of your Committee, and should not have been so entered.
Also in connection with the school finances, the Committee submit the following statement of amounts received, and al- though heretofore never having been credited to the account of schools, yet might properly be so considered at this time. town on account of expenditures in connection with the teachers' It will be noted that substantial amounts have been paid the salaries and the transportation of high school pupils.
The above are the most prominent of the items that show an increase over those of last year, other than that of "Salaries," which has been referred to earlier in this report, and that in connection with the "Local Transportation" which matter your Committee went into and discussed at the "Annual Meeting" of last March, and accounted for most of the increase over that of last year.
In referring to the matter of the expenditures in connection with the school department, the Committee would like to call attention to the fact that when the new school was first opened three rooms only were in use as class rooms for grades, while at this time seven rooms are in use at all times, and both base- ments on two days of each week.
Including the ninth grade with a class of thirteen, there are at this time one hundred and eighty-eight pupils attending in- struction daily in this school building.
The very important matter of more school room has been before your Committee for some time, and has been referred to by the Superintendent in his report.
The Committee feel that the time has come when this matter should be brought to the attention of the town. The Center School is now overcrowded, and is working to a capacity far above that originally planned for or intended.
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Additional room must be acquired and in the immediate future. There is available, of course, the school in the South part of the town, and undoubtedly this building will have to be opened at the beginning of the school year next September. Should the class be established for the special instruction of backward children, as is required by a law passed by the Legis- lature of the year 1919, then this South School will have to be made ready for September next. This will relieve in part the congestion of the Center School, but at best will be only tem- porary.
The Committee would, therefore, advise that the town take action at its regular meeting for the year 1920 on this now important matter of additional school room.
For the present year, to carry on the school work, including the payment of the present salaries of the teaching staff, will require an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars, which sum is hereby recommended by your committee. In this con- nection, it is expected that an amount equal, if not in excess of that received for the year 1919, will be received this year from the State, and other sources.
For other school matters more in detail, you are referred to the report of the Superintendent, together with a summary of school expenses for the year, attached hereto.
Respectfully submitted, ANTHONY J. DOHERTY, CONRAD P. HATHEWAY, AMOS R. LITTLE.
School Committee.
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SUMMARY OF SCHOOL EXPENSES FOR YEAR 1919
Appropriation for 1919
$18,000.00
Salaries of Superintendent and teachers
6,861.13
High School tuition
2,401.00
High School transportation
688.05
Local transportation
4,360.20
Incidental repairs on building
666.77
Janitor service
500.00
Fuel
861.00
School physician
200.00
Supplies
2,537.01
Miscellaneous
124.36
Total
$19,199.52
AMOUNTS RECEIVED BY THE TOWN ON ACCOUNT OF SCHOOLS
Grammar School Fund $ 83.41
Massachusetts School Fund 1,037.07
Educational Independent Industrial School
341.87
Tuition of Children 181.25
Income tax 1919 General School Fund 690.00
Transportation High School Children
361.90
Boston School Account
358.15
Sloyd - Sale of Articles
12.07
Cooking
2.45
Total
$3,068.14
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the School Committee, Town of Lincoln :-
Gentlemen :- Notwithstanding the enforced suspension of the schools on account of the epidemic of influenza, in the fall of 1918 and again in December of the same year, we managed, by continuing the sessions till the end of June, to provide one hundred seventy-three days, or thirty-four and three-quarters weeks, of schooling in place of the usual term of thirty-eight weeks.
While the work was necessarily much hampered by this irregularity, yet we were able to accomplish a fair year's work in all grades. There are still several classes in the upper grades that are not doing as advanced work as is ordinarily expected of these grades, a backwardness due in part to frequent changes of teachers and in part to the too frequent promotion of pupils who had not accomplished fully the work of their grade, but who from kindly meant sympathy, or the desire to please parents, were advanced with their classes, thus coming to the upper grades without a good foundation of primary work. Such pupils necessarily flounder in subjects for which their mental preparation has been inadequate, and they now constitute one of our most difficult problems. Promotions of this sort are unwise and unkind, for the pupil cannot receive much benefit from instruction which he but imperfectly com- prehends, and, besides the injury to himself, he is a hinderance to the advancement of the other members of the class who are able and ready to do the more advanced work. One of these retarded pupils requires more of the teacher's time and attention than any three normal pupils. At the end of the school year in June many of these unprepared pupils were held back. Others on the border line would have been benefitted by repeating the grade, but were sent on with the class, rather than overwhelm
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any one grade by too great a number of the backward and retarded.
One reason for the better work now being done is that our classes are in charge of the same teachers as last year, and we have been spared the evils that come from frequent changes of the teaching staff. In order to keep a permanent force we must add to the natural attractiveness of our town and school surroundings a sufficient monetary remuneration to hold teachers, especially when the larger places are bidding against each other to obtain well qualified teachers, and even then find it impossible to fill all their vacancies. There has never been a time in the whole history of public school education when the shortage of teachers was so great. Even with the recent increases of salary, we are now paying less than most towns within the same radius of Boston, and much less than is paid in the cities.
Another factor fully as important as that of salary militates against the permanency of the teaching force, and that is the difficulty of finding a suitable boarding place. Frequent changes have been necessary for many, and the outlook for next September is unpromising; in fact it looks as if several teachers would be obliged to live out of town and come every day by train. This misfortune will surely be upon us unless there are more citizens willing to receive a teacher into their family. This state of affairs is unfortunate, and the teachers cannot be blamed if they seek places where living conditions are made easier for them and their welcome more cordial even if there is no advance in salary.
The only resignation during the year was that of Mr. Walter F. Brackett who for twelve years had had charge of the manual training work. His place was taken by Mr. R. B. Houston, a graduate of the Normal Art School, who devotes two days a week to our schools for both manual training and drawing and teaches the remainder of the week in Lancaster.
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The decision to have the pupils of the first year courses in high school taught at home, instead of sending them to either Concord or Waltham, necessitated the employment of another teacher, and we engaged the services of Miss Esther L. Miles of Cambridge. Miss Miles is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Col- lege and a teacher of experience in high school work. We have a class of thirteen pupils in this high school grade, five taking the Commercial and English courses and eight the Col- lege and General courses as offered by the Concord High School. The departmental plan has been made possible by organizing the seventh and eighth grades with this high school class into a semblance of a Junior High School, in which Miss Miles teaches Latin and history, Miss Strid, English and geography, and the Superintendent, Mathematics and Science. The courses of study at the Concord High School in the first year are as follows :
COLLEGE PREPARATORY
*English
*Latin
*Algebra 5 *Latin (Optional)
Community Civics Choose 4
*El. Science 1
*Drawing (Elective)
SCIENTIFIC PREPARATORY
5 *English 5
5
*Algebra 5
Choose 5
French 1 5
4 *Mech. Drawing Choose
1 Community Civics 1 4
*El. Science 4
GENERAL
*English
*Latin
Community Civics Choose 4
*El. Math. 3
*El. Science (5)
*Drawing (Elective)
COMMERCIAL
5 Required -* English 5
5
*Penmanship and Spelling (5) 3
5
*El. Math. 5
4 *Electives-not less than 4
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The studies that we offer are marked in the above outline with an asterisk. On the successful completion of these, pupils
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should be well prepared to enter the second year classes of any high school. Our teaching force is not large enough to offer the courses in Civics and French. If it becomes possible to add an extra teacher to our force to take care of the backward and subnormal children, of which we have a goodly percentage, we may be able, by a rearrangement of classes, to offer French to those desiring it.
During the summer vacation the domestic science equipment was removed from its former place on the second floor to the girls' basement, where a very good laboratory for this depart- ment has been made. The room also serves the purpose of a science laboratory for the high school class when not in use by the cooking classes.
With the opening of the former domestic science room as a class room for the high school grade, we have seven class rooms in use, five of which are of a single grade. Two rooms only have double grades, the fourth and fifth grades, numbering thirty-six pupils in one and the seventh and eighth grades with thirty-three pupils in the other. The latter are fairly well ac- commodated, as the classes are conducted on the departmental plan in which the Superintendent acts as teacher, but the former are at a decided disadvantage as the fifth grade contains a large percentage of backward pupils who need special training to bring them to the proper grade. This is impossible in a double grade room. Having a class composed of such varying grades of intelligence is a detriment to both the backward and to the bright pupils as each is a hinderance to the work of the other, and the latter cannot advance as fast as they are capable owing to the abnormal amount of time required by the former. Although the total number of pupils is not large, these two grades should be separated in order to accomplish satisfactory work. Above the primary grades the time required for a recitation depends not so much on the number in the class as upon the subject taught. It takes no more time to teach a geography or an arithmetic class of thirty than it does a class of ten. There is the same amount of ground to be covered
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in either case. But as all the rooms of the present building are used we have no way of separating these grades. To bring our school to the highest efficiency we need extra rooms. We can have under the present limitations a fairly good school that will compare favorably with other rural towns, but, if the citizens wish the very best for their children, the only way to give it to them is to provide for a better grading of the classes. This might be accomplished by removing the first and second grades to the unused South building, thus leaving room for the spreading out of the remaining grades. Such removal need in no way complicate the transportation problem.
As before remarked we have in our upper grammar grades many backward children, children whose mental powers have not developed much if any beyond the fourth grade, yet these have been sent along with the higher classes on account of their age and size. It is obvious that they are not deriving all the benefit from school instruction that they should, or that they could, were we able to devote to them the extra time and atten- tion that they need. Class teaching necessarily must be adapted to the majority, and the weaklings get only a faint idea of what it is all about. It is unwise to hold back in primary grades these children of thirteen or fourteen years of age physically, but eight years mentally, they are much out of place there. Therefore we have the alternative of giving them what we can in classes nearer their own physical age, in which most of the work is far beyond their comprehension.
The table below shows the number of pupils by age and · grade as they were at the beginning of the fall term. The numbers immediately below the heavy line are those of normal age for the grade, those to the right above the normal. What the table does not show is the number of those in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades who sit with the grade but are not equal to it mentally.
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Total
Grade I
2
14
10
26
13
7
3
1
24
III
32
IV -
4
5
1
10
V -
2
5
10
7
1
25
" VI -
7
7
8
1
27
" VII -
2
3
6
4
1
16
" VIII -
2
6
5
1
1
15
" XI
3
7
3
13
2
14
25
22
19
18
21
20
23
18
5
1
188
-
2
15
10
3
1
1
II
-
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Our school session extends from 8.45 a. m. to 2 p. m. and it goes without saying that all pupils should have a luncheon in the meantime, as breakfast must be had in most cases as early as seven or seven-thirty. Last year we found the lunch problem a difficult one to handle, as we had no place in which the food could be eaten. The older pupils did not as a rule bring any- thing from home, and those that did ate it at the recess while they were playing or standing around in some corner of the grounds or basement. Such a method, or rather lack of method, was obviously detrimental to health. The first move was to get all to bring something for a luncheon, and then to provide that it be eaten under proper conditions. Such condi- tions were possible only in the class rooms. We now require all to spend the first ten or fifteen minutes of the noon inter- mission over the luncheon which they spread on their desks, the latter being protected by paper napkins. In this way we insure a sane and quiet method of partaking of the necessary food. About the middle of January we tried the experiment of furnishing a cup of hot cocoa with the luncheon. This was made possible through the generosity of a few interested men who provided funds for the purpose. Children who could afford to do so contributed to the fund, and we were able to continue the service to all through the cold weather. The results were marked in the greater alertness of all during the last hour of the session, there being less of that listlessness and lack of attention so frequently noticed toward the end of the school day. The total cost of the experiment was $104.25. We re- newed the same practice this last term on the first of December and shall continue as long as the cold weather lasts. Notwith- standing the advance of fifty percent in the cost of our raw materials, generous friends have guaranteed the amount neces- sary. The work is done by the girls of the seventh and eighth grades who alternately take charge of the cooking and choose their assistants for the serving, so that the burden of the work does not fall heavily on any one.
This was one item of the health problem. The physical examination of the children conducted by Dr. Wood developed
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another problem, one that is not so easy of solution. Faulty development of figure, defective teeth, enlarged and diseased tonsils, adenoids were among the more common defects noted. Faults of posture due to unsymmetrical development were present in fifty-two percent of the pupils, faults most of which are capable of correction in childhood by a proper systematic training. The time is undoubtedly coming when we shall give as much attention to the training of the bodies of our children as we do to those of our thoroughbred horses and dogs. The rejection of so many of our young men by the draft boards is a sorry commentary on our neglect of physical development.
We can have as modern and as efficient a school as the citi- zens of the town wish, we already have the foundation. If they wish a school second to none in the country they can have it, but it must be borne in mind that the very best goods are not to be had at the bargain counter. A real diamond is not to be had for the price of a rhinestone.
Respectfully submitted, CHARLES H. MORSS, Superintendent of Schools.
January 2, 1920.
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WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. r
MIDDLESEX, S.S.
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 transac- tion of Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said Lin- coln 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 first 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 elected
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by ballot or otherwise, also any committees, commissioners 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.
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.
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Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the following question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?"
ART. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Offi- cers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
ART. 4. To appropriate money for necessary and expe- dient 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.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow during the muni- cipal year, beginning January 1, 1920, 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 take any action to pro- vide additional school facilities.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will extend the street lights from Blodgett's Corner to Bent's Corner, so called, and ap- propriate money therefor.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will extend the street lights from Haynes' Crossing to the Weston line and appropriate money therefor.
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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 fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.
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 a 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, 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, 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, 1919
3-5
Proceedings of Town Meetings, 1919
7-25
Town Clerk's Report
26-29
Selectmen's Report
30-38
Town of Lincoln's Honor Roll .
33
Recommendations for Appropriations
35
Auditor's Report
39
Expenditures for the year
40-55
Collector of Taxes
78
Report of Assessors
79-93
Treasurer's Report
64
Report of the Cemetery Commissioners .
76
Report of Town Treasuer in acc't Cemetery Com'ssioners
77
Report of Commissioner of Sinking Fund
65-66
Report of Treasurer Commissioners Trust Funds
67-73
Report of Treasurer Bemis Lecture Fund
74-75
Report of Water Commissioners
95-99
Report of Inspector of Animals
56
Report of Fire Engineers .
59
Report of Superintendent of Streets
60-63
Report of Tree Warden
94
Report of Board of Health
100
Report of Trustees of Lincoln Public Library
101
Report of Treasurer of Lincoln Library
102
Library Statistics
103
List of Accessions to Library
104-110
School Reports
113
Report of School Committee
114
School Calendar
115
School Expenditures
120
Report of Superintendent of Schools
121
Warrant 1920
129-132 ·
By-Laws of the Town . .
·
133-142
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