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75 00
$22,869 91
'Total indebtedness,
$19,030 09
LIST OF JURORS.
As revised by Selectmen, January, 1906.
William H. Weston, fisherman.
William J. Alden, shoemaker.
Gershom B. Chandler, carpenter.
E. Burton Freeman, fish pedler.
Ernest H. Bailey, retired. David H. Chandler, laborer.
Wendell Phillips, carpenter.
Joseph H. Moreland, laborer.
George A. Baker, carpenter.
Albert M. Goulding, farmer.
Charles Boomer, farmer. Herbert A. Ryder, laborer.
Julius B. Chandler, laborer.
George B. Bates, carpenter. James W. Ellis, flagman.
George A. Studley, laborer. Edmund H. Sears, farmer.
Moses K. Norwood, carpenter.
Carrol C. Foster, carpenter.
George E. Belknap, harness maker.
Leonard C. Baker, Jr., retired.
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APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED BY THE SE-
LECTMEN FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.
Support of schools, $5,200 00
School incidentals and repairs of school houses, 800 00
Superintendent of schools, 250 00
Duxbury Free Library,
400 00
Repairs of highways,
4,000 00
Removing snow,
800 00
Memorial Day,
100 00
Cemeteries,
400 00
Sinking fund for railroad debt,
2,000 00
Railroad interest,
1,000 00
Schoolhouse loan and interest,
1,080 00
Stone road loan and interest,
2,240 00
Support of poor,
1,600 00
Board of Health,
50 00
Forest firewards,
200 00
Repairs of Gurnet bridge,
98 34
Incidental expenses, bank and corporation taxes.
HENRY H. LEWIS,
EDMUND H. SEARS,
WENDELL PHILLIPS, Selectmen of Duxbury.
AUDITORS' REPORT.
We have examined the accounts of the Selectmen and find them properly vouched and correctly cast.
SIDNEY C. SOULE, THEODORE W. GLOVER. Auditors.
ASSESSORS' REPORT
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Value of buildings assessed,
$1,159,320 00
Value of land assessed, 521,566 00 Total valuation of real estate assessed 1,680,886 00
Total valuation of personal estate assessed,
248,332 00
Total valuation, 1,929,218 00
Real estate increase from last year,
57,648 00
Personal estate increase from last year,
1,080 00
Total increase,
58,728 00
Rate of taxation, $17.00 per $1,000.
Number of houses assessed,
734 I-6
Number of acres of land assessed,
13,689 1-4 389
Number of cows assessed. I90
Number of neat cattle, other than cows, assessed.
64
Number of swine assessed,
53
Number of sheep assessed,
IO
Number of fowl assessed,
1,826
Number of persons assessed on property,
1,049
Number of residents assessed on property, 643
Number of non-residents assessed on property, 406
Number of polls assessed, 570
State tax,
$2,360 00
State tax for repairs of state highway,
I42 05
County tax,
2,552 78
H. H. LEWIS, E. H. SEARS. WENDELL PHILLIPS. Assessors of Dubury.
Duxbury 3
1
Number of horses assessed,
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
EXPENSES OUTSIDE ALMSHOUSE. -
Paid-
Town of Stoneham, aid to Mary C. Rich and children, $120 00
Town of Norwell, aid to Bernard Randall, 4 00
Town of Plymouth, aid to George Brown and wife, 100 00
Town of Hanover, aid to H. T. and G. E Gardner, 51 00
City of Boston, aid to Edgar Merry, 86 00
City of Brockton, aid to Henry Harriman and family, 5 73
Mass. Hospital for Epileptics, board H. M. Fisher, 33 91
Mrs. Fernando Wadsworth, cash, aid, 65 00
Mrs. Fernando Wadsworth, fuel, 32 00
Sweetser & Arnold, supplies to Mrs. Wadsworth, 4 70
C. W. Eaton, milk to Mrs. Wadsworth, 1I 56 Rebecca Hawkins, cash aid, 76 00
Frank L. Chandler, supplies to E. J. Weston, 2 00
J. Monahan, rent for Bernard Randall, 30 00
D. M. McIntosh, M. D., attendance, Higgins and Pratt. 6 25
Taunton Lunatic Hospital, board, Sarah J. Snow, 195 92
Elisha Peterson, burial, Charity M. Bourne, 25 00
James S. Chace, M. D., attendance, Mrs. Wm. Gardner, 23 00
Geo. M. Baker, Insurance on Alms- house, 65 35
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Roger Spaulding, M. D., attendance, L. B. Fitts, 4 50
W. R. Amesbury, M. D., attendance, Mrs. McNayr, 140 00
N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend-
ance, Mrs. Lampher, 1902-1904, 22 50
N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend-
ance, Elbridge J. Weston, 1903-'04, 21 50 N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend- ance, H. B. Simmons, 1904, 21 75
N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend- ance, Elliott Randall, 1904, 9 00
N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend- ance, Mrs. Snell, 1904. 70 00
N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend-
ance, Frank Chandler, 1904, 4 50
N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend- ance, Mrs. Oscar Soule, 1902, '03, '04, 113 15
N. K. Noyes, M. D., medical attend-
ance, Mrs. Joseph Crocker, 1904, 109 25 E. H. Sears, services, relative to out- side poor, 16 00
Wendell Phillips, services relative outside poor, 7 75
$1,477 32
EXPENSES AT ALMSHOUSE.
Paid-
Charles E. Peterson, salary as superin- tendent to August 12, 1905, $275 00
WV. O. Peterson, supplies, 88 61
Sweetser & Arnold, supplies, 126 92
N. Ford & Sons, supplies, 120 38
M. M. White, supplies. 30 18
Edward W. Chandler, supplies, 8 51
Isaac L. Rich, supplies. 21 47
Gardner & Prior, meats, 64 23
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C. A. Langille, meats, 23 43
H. E. Merry, meats, 16 23
James H. Peterson, fish, 12 15
Rufus Holiday, fish,
7 55
C. W. Eaton, milk, 7 56
C. P. Gruby & Sons, coal,
7 50
Duxbury Coal and Lumber Co., coal, 105 05
D. H. Thomas, turnips, I 00
Sidney C. Soule, turnips,
I 00
Stephen Henry, hay,
16 24
H. B. Loring, ice, 1904,
II 48
J. W. Cushing, ice, 1905,
II 75
H. A. Peterson, fertilizer, etc.,
25 IO
N. M. Stetson, medicines,
3 60
F. E. Phillips, butchering,
I 25
J. K. Parker, pigs, 9 00
L. H. Cushing, wood and team work, 14 50
N. K. Noyes, medical attendance, 81 75
$1,091 44
INMATES AND THEIR AGES.
Lucy B. Chandler, 59 years.
Laura Burgess, 70 years.
\V. E. B. Thomas, 33 years.
Rosina Witherell, 84 years. Tramps lodged, 28.
AVAILABLE MEANS FOR SUPPORT OF POOR.
Balance from 1904, $1,105 32
Appropriation, 1,800 00
Received from Town of Wareham, 32 50
Received from estate of Elijah Snell, 4 5I
Received from farm sales, 56 50
Due from Town of Wareham, 4 75
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Due from Town of Marshfield, 4 50 Due from S. J. Snow, property deeded to Town, 195 92
$3,204 00
Expenses of outside poor,
$1,477 32
Expenses of inside poor, 1,09I 44
Unexpended balance,
$2,568 76 635 24
$3,204 00
Amount of inventory in Almshouse
and on farm, $274 60
HENRY H. LEWIS, EDMUND H. SEARS, WENDELL PHILLIPS, Overseers of Poor.
We have examined the above accounts of the Overseers of the Poor and find them correct.
SIDNEY C. SOULE, THEODORE W. GLOVER, Auditors.
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REPORT OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS,
1905.
The Sinking Fund Commissioners have continued the organization as effected last year, and have caused to be deposited this year two thousand dollars with interest from former deposit in the American Loan & Trust Company. The Treasurer's account is herewith submitted.
Respectfully,
EDMUND H. SEARS, GEO. P. CUSHMAN. ELISHA PETERSON, Clerk.
SINKING FUND ACCOUNT.
The undersigned holds certificates of deposit of the American Loan and Trust Co., Boston, as follows :
No.
DATE.
Amount.
Interest Accrued to Jan. 20. 1906.
Total Amount Due.
689
January 20, 1903
$2,000 00
$18: 57
$2.187 57
769
January 21. 1904
·
2.000 00
123 00
2.123 00
818
January 20. 1905
2.000 00
60 66
2.060 66
852
January 20, 1906
2.000 00
2.000 00
$8,000 00
$311 23
$8,371 23
GEORGE H. STEARNS,
Treasurer Sinking Fund Commissioners. Duxbury, January 20, 1906.
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TOWN LANDINGS.
To the Citizens of Duxbury-
Your committee on "Town Landings," looking to the fu- ture needs of the town and impressed with the importance of the town controlling rights of way to the bay between "Hall's Corner" and the Kingston line, recommend that a public town landing be established through property owned by the Foote's and the Crosby's, and another through land owned by Mr. Harrison Loring, known as Hick's Point, both being on the easterly side of Border street, provided locations can be satisfactorily secured.
A. E. GREEN, Chairman. C. F. ALLEN, J. H. GLOVER.
Committee.
REPORT OF FOREST FIREWARDS.
We have again escaped any serious fire, though there have been numerous small ones. These were quickly subdued, and the extinguishers have proved a great success, already having saved much more than all that has been spent on them, besides saving at least one house.
The committee on "Fire Protection," joined with us in buying more extinguishers and chemicals; and all of these are for the present under the charge of Forest Firewards, and are inspected and put in order by us. We are in better position than ever before to quickly extinguish a small fire and fight a big one, but we should be much better prepared for the latter.
The two new fire engines do not come under our juris- diction.
LOCATION OF EXTINGUISHERS.
Charles M. Hayden, fireward, district I.
James K. Burgess, district I
W. O. Peterson, store, district I
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Charles E. Peterson, forest fireward, district 2 Levi Cushing, fireward, district 2 M. M. White, post office, district 2 Mark L. Simmons, forest fireward, district 3
During his absence, Oscar H. Brown, John McCarty.
Walter Cushing, fireward, district 3
Harry B. Loring, district 3 Horatio Chandler, forest fireward, district 4
Asa C. Chandler, fireward, district 4
Lawrence M. Chase, forest fireward, district 5
Charles E. Hunt, fireward, district 5
Leonard Baker, district 5 Albert M. Goulding, forest fireward and fireward, district 6 Eden W. Soule, fireward, district 7
Winslow P. Johnson, post office, district 7 Frederick B. Knapp, forest fireward, district 8
James L. McNaught, fireward, district 8
Edgar Chandler, district 8 Elisha Peterson, forest fireward and fireward, district 9 Henry A. Fish, district 9
Harvey J. Reynolds, district 9
John A. Hunt, forest fireward and fireward, district IO George E. Belknap, district 10
John K. Parker, fireward, district II
Fred V. Hunt, district II
Harold Sampson, district II
Harry I. Winslow, fireward, district 12
Elisha Peterson has charge of a fire wagon kept loaded with extinguishers, chemicals, a barrel of water, pails, shov- els, etc., and he has the general supply of extra extinguish- ers and of chemicals, both in bulk and in boxes. Each box contains six charges of acid and soda. Each fireward has two extinguishers; six boxes of chemicals, six pails, and a water barrel.
Each of the others named has one or two extinguishers with chemicals. There are in all over fifty extinguishers in working order, where they can easily be got at, and will not freeze. The apparatus is inspected, repaired and replaced, to have it always ready for use. If any of it gets out of or- der or needs attention, it should be exchanged at the general supply, or the secretary notified.
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Recommendations by the secretary :
An appropriation of $400 for the current year.
More complete organization in conjunction with a fire de- partment.
Drill in the use of apparatus, and a regular system for fighting a big fire, including the use of fire lines and back fires.
Division of our big areas of woodland into smaller ones by fire lines, made partly on old woods roads, by the use of rotary plow or otherwise. A line of cleared earth, one or two feet wide, on which to start back fires, would in many cases enable a small force of men with extinguishers to stop a strong fire which they would be powerless to check other- wise.
The addition of three fire wagons and extinguishers; co- operation with adjoining towns; more extended printed in- formation with a map.
F. B. KNAPP, Secretary.
TREE WARDEN'S REPORT.
To the Citizens of Duxbury :
I herewith submit my account for 1905, together with the following extract from "Woodland and Roadside."
Account of Tree Warden for 1905 :
Paid-
E. S. Freeman,
$49 00
Julius Briggs,
3 00
Thomas McNaught,
4 70
E. W. Chandler,
16 42
Walter Cushman,
I 60
Levi H. Cushing,
56 75
J. A. Soule,
14 68
H. E. Barrows,
16 00
D. C. & L. Co.,
2 05
$164 20
Balance from previous years,
$286 26
Expended, 1905,
164 20
Unexpended,
$122 06
EUGENE S. FREEMAN, Tree Warden.
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BATTLING WITH THE MOTHS.
PROGRESS, METHOD, AND AIMS OF THE STATE WORK UNDER SUPERINTENDENT KIRKLAND.
All summer the fight against the gypsy and browntail moths has been in progress in the infested territory, and ever since the gypsy moths finished their egg laying, late in August, redoubled efforts have been put forth. The State, the City and Town governments, and individual property owners are working in co-operation, and if this co-operation is kept up in the spirit of the new law good results will follow.
During the summer the efforts of the State workers were devoted to a thorough examination of the terriory known to be infested by the gypsy moth, and all that was suspected of infestation, thus determining definitely the whereabouts of this chief pest. This work has been accomplished through a corps of experienced men under the direction of Frof. Kirkland, the State Superintendent.
When the State work ceased in the winter of 1899 there were 539 square miles of territory, reaching from Boston to Lincoln and thence northeasterly to Manchester, infested by the gypsy moth. This summer's examination shows that in the past five to six years the infested area has ex- tended until it now comprises 2.083 square miles, or from New Hampshire on the north to Buzzard's Bay on the south, and westward to Marlborough and Hopkinton. In the old infested district the moth is present in large numbers, and in the central portion of that region the conditions are most formidable.
Aside from this examination of the infested country the State force has worked in all possible ways to educate the public, and city and town officials, concerning the new law covering the case; has assisted the local authorities in organ- izing their local work; has issued a well-illustrated bulletin, fully describing both the gypsy and brown-tail moths, and giving clear instructions as to the best methods of fighting them. This bulletin has been freely distributed throughout the district, and in addition posters have been issued, and press notices furnished from time to time, informing the public as to seasonable methods of work.
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The State's inspectors have been employed since the com- pletion of the examination of the territory in following up the work which is going on in the several cities and towns, to see that it is effectually done. They report that in the cities and towns which have suffered most from the ravages of the moth the work has been taken up with spirit. In a general way, it is said, the towns have taken hold of the work more promptly, and have accomplished more than the cities.
The general policy of the campaign as urged by Superin- tendent Kirkland is to first prevent the further spread of the moths. To this end every effort will be made to rid the highways, and their immediate surroundings, of the pests. To accomplish this, all roadside trees and shrubs, together with walls and fences, must be thoroughly cleaned this win- ter, and to do this economically it is necessary for the local authorities to remove all needless growth along the high- ways. Overcrowded and decrepit trees should be removed, and much of the roadside shrubbery must also be lost, tem- porarily at least. As one tree warden said, it was with great reluctance that he finally determined to sacrifice the greater part of the shrubbery roadside growth, which he and his predecessors in office had protected against slaughter at considerable pains, but he recognized that the caterpillars would surely destroy it and much beside in spite of all the town could afford to do. In short, we must sacrifice some things in order to save others. It is absolutely essential that the roadsides should be cleaned, as the spread of the gypsy moth is in great measure dependent on the assistance of man and his vehicles. The caterpillars swarm down from the trees upon passing carriages and automobiles and are thereby whisked no one knows how far.
The result of some inquiry as to methods employed by the cities and towns seems to indicate that unless thoroughly competent men are put in charge of the local work, and the gangs obliged to do thoroughly what they undertake, the moths will never be suppressed. Citizens who value the welfare of their towns or cities, and their own property in- terests therein, should see to it that local politics do not "graft" this work to its ruin. This is a serious business we are engaged in. It will be a costly job under the most economical management. If local "grafters" are allowed to
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play politics with the money to secure jobs for incompetent heelers all will be wasted.
The whole aim of the present hand-to-hand encounter is to secure the suppression of the insects, to reduce them to a point where they can be controlled by the municipalities and individuals without great difficulty. If the present law had been enacted in 1900, at which time the Board of Agricul- ture had the gypsy moth reduced to an almost negligible quantity, the pest could have been kept in bounds. If an occasional outbreak had occurred it could have been promptly squelched. Now it has become necessary to do the work all over again. It is earnestly hoped that import- ant allies in the fight may be drafted from the insect world, so that man's labor for suppression may not become too exhausting.
CEMETERY TRUSTEES' ACCOUNT.
Dr
Jan. I, to cash from old account, $5 08
April 19, to cash from G. Bradford, I 00
May, to cash town, 400 00
July, to cash, Mrs. Stebbins, I 00
Dec., to cash, H. Hathaway, interest, 50 00
$457 08
Cr.
By cash to estate, W. B. Campbell, $3 00
By cash to F. B. Cain, I 00
By cash to Guy A. Stearns,
37 00
By cash to John Ellis, 61 67
By cash to A. F. Peterson, 65 67
By cash to Calvin Josselyn,
34 67
By cash to A. E. Parks,
26 90
By cash to Thomas Gorham,
36 67
By cash to John Simmons,
3 75
By cash to J. D. Randall.
25 88
By cash to D. C. & L. Co.,
9 50
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By cash to John K. Parker, 8 00
By cash to Elisha Peterson.
138 05
By cash carried to new account,
5 32
$457 08
ELISHA PETERSON, Treasurer.
CEMETERY TRUSTEES' REPORT. Year ending December 31, 1905.
The cemeteries, under the management of the trustees are believed to be in a neat and sanitary condition, thanks to the liberality shown by the town in its annual appropriation. We find the necessary work increases from year to year as new avenues are extended, and the more than a thousand large oaks increase in size.
We are pleased to report so far as we are able to find no gypsy or brown tail moths are present in Mayflower Ceme- terv.
This year a fence has been built around the Dingley burial ground at a cost of seventy dollars. The coming year will require a fence on front of the Standish burial ground, and something should be done looking to the establishment of a receiving vault at Ashdod. We would ask for the usual appropriation of four hundred dollars.
Interments, Mayflower, 37
Interments, Ashdod, I Submitted for trustees,
ELISHA PETERSON, Sec.
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ACTS OF 1870. CHAPTER 195.
An Act to regulate the Clam Fishery in and around the Shores of Plymouth, Kingston and Duxbury.
Sec. I. The Selectmen of the Towns of Plymouth, Kingston and Duxbury may, by writing under their hands, grant a license for such a term of years, not exceeding five, as they in their discretion may deem necessary and that the public good requires, to any inhabitant of their respective Towns, to plant, cultivate and dig clams upon and in any flats and creeks in their respective Towns, not, however, impairing the private rights of any person.
Sec. 2. Such license shall describe by metes and bounds the flats and creeks so appropriated and shall be recorded by the Town Clerk before it shall have any force-and the person licensed shall pay to the Selectmen for their use two dollars, and to the Clerk fifty cents.
Sec. 3. The person so licensed, his heirs and assigns, shall for the purposes aforesaid have the exclusive use of the flats and creeks described in the license during the time specified therein and may in an action of tort recover treble damages of any person who, without his or their consent. digs or takes clams from such flats or creeks during the con- tinuance of the license.
Sec. 4. The Towns of Plymouth. Kingston and Dux- bury, at any legal meeting called for the purpose, may make such by-laws as they mav from time to time deem expedient to protect and preserve the shell fisheries within said Towns respectively-provided, always. that no by-laws made as above shall infringe upon the laws of the Commonwealth.
Sec. 5. Whoever takes any shellfish from within the waters of the said Towns of Plymouth. Kingston and Dux- bury in violation of the by-laws established by them respec- tively, or of the provisions of this Act, shall for everv offence nay a fine of not less than five or more than ten dol- lars and cost of prosecution and one dollar for every bushel of shellfish so taken, said fine and forfeiture imposed under this Act to be recovered bv indictment or by complaint before a Trial Justice in the County of Plymouth.
Approved April 22. 1870.
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LAW'S RELATING TO CLAMS.
Section 85, Chapter 91. Revised Laws.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Cities and the Selectmen of Towns, if so instructed by their Cities and Towns, may, except as provided in the two preceeding sections, control, regulate or prohibit the taking of eels, clams, quahaugs, and scallops within the same; and may grant permits prescrib- ing the times and methods of taking eels and such shellfish within such Cities and Towns, and make such other regula- tions in regard to such fisheries as they may deem expedient. But an inhabitant of the Commonwealth, without such per- mit, may take eels and the shellfish above named for his own family use from the waters of his own or any other City or Town, and may take from the waters of his own City or Town any of such shellfish for bait not exceeding three bushels, including shells, in any one day, subject to the general rules of the Mayor and Aldermen and Select- men, respectively, as to the times and methods of taking such fish.
The provisions of this section shall not authorize the tak- ing of fish in violation of the provisions of sections forty- four and forty-five. Whoever takes any eels or any of said shellfish without such permit. and in violation of the pro- visions of this section, shall forfeit not less than three nor more than fifty dollars.
Chapter 102, which relates to shellfish other than oysters.
Whoever takes any other shellfish from their beds, or destroys them, or wilfully obstructs their growth therein, except as is hereinafter provided, shall forfeit one dollar for every bushel of such other shellfish, including shells. But the Mayor and Aldermen of a City or Selectmen of a Town may at any time give a permit in writing to any per- son to take such other shellfish from their beds therein, at · such times, in such quantities and for such uses as they shall express in their permit; but every inhabitant of each of said places may. without such permit, take such other shellfish from the beds therein for the use of his family.
Sec. 83. Whoever, between the first day of April and the first day of October, takes scallops from the waters of the Commonwealth, or buys, sells or has in his possession,
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any scallops, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offence, but the provisions of this section shall not apply to the taking of scallops for bait in the waters adjacent to the Town of Nantucket from the first day of April to the fifteenth day of May, inclusive.
Sec. 84. Whoever takes seed scallops from the flats or waters of the Commonwealth shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offence; but such penalty shall not be incurred by any person taking such scallops who returns them alive to the flats or waters from which they were taken.
Town Votes Relating to Clams.
March 10, 1890 .- Voted, That no clams shall be dug within the bounds of the Town of Duxbury from the first day of April until the first day of October in each year, ex- cepting that any inhabitant of Duxbury may procure one or two buckets each day, at any season, for use of himself and family.
March 4, 1895 .-- Voted, To request the Selectmen not to grant licenses to plant, cultivate and dig clams.
April 28, 1897 .- Voted, To reconsider the vote taken by the Town, March 27, 1895, whereby the Town voted to "request the Selectmen not to grant licenses to plant, culti- vate and dig clams," and that the Selectmen be requested to grant licenses to citizens of the Town to plant, cultivate, propagate and dig clams upon barren flats.
March 7, 1898 .- Voted, To appropriate two hundred dollars for seeding clams, care and protecting the same on the flats in Duxbury Bay, and Chose George P. Cushman, James K. Burgess and John A. Irwin as committee for this purpose.
March 6, 1899 .- Votcd, That the Committee on Seeding Clan Flats be given further time and that they report at the next Annual Town Meeting. Voted, That the following resolutions offered by this Committee be accepted and adopted.
Resolve No. I. That a Special Committee of five be ap- pointed and elected by the Town to act and confer with the Selectmen of the Town in the making and enforcing of all laws and regulations governing the clamming privileges in Duxbury Bay.
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