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Securities Total
$2,409 68 $2,409 68
$2,525 76 $2,525 76
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Receipts.
Income,
$116 08
Total,
$116 08
Payments.
Deposited in savings bank, $116 08
Total, $116 08
William Penn Harding Library Fund.
Securities Total
On hand at beginning of year, $1,000 00 $1,000 00
On hand at end of year, $1,000 00 $1,000 00
Receipts.
Income,
$45 50
Total, .
$45 50
· Payments.
Transferred to library,
$45 50
Total,
$45 50
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds.
Securities Total
On hand at beginning of year,
$17,307 39 $17,307 39
On hand at end of year, $19,605 92 $19,605 92
Receipts.
Income,
$798 53
Bequests,
1,500 00
Total,
$2,298 53
Payments.
Deposited in savings bank, $2,298 53
Total,
$2,298 53
BALANCE SHEET-DECEMBER 31, 1922. GENERAL ACCOUNTS.
ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Cash :
Revenue loans,
$40,000.00
In banks and office,
$25,382.27
Appropriation balances :
$50.00
Alden Street repairs,
5.50
Levy of 1919,
$9.40
Levy of 1920,
749.54
Elm and Summer Streets,
251.20
Levy of 1921,
9,021.01
Crescent Street repairs, 86.53
Levy of 1922,
25,457.13
Gurnet Road, Plymouth and Bay
96.55
Special Assessments:
Massasoit Road and Mayflower Avenue,
9.87
Moth, 1918,
$19.07
Standish Street repairs,
6.90
Moth, 1920,
1.01
Moth,
1921,
54.22
Mattakusett Court landing,
2.3.
High Street Sidewalk,
150.00
Guide boards, 114.01
Committee on town forest,
25.00
Bounds of town ways, 300.00
Road index and plans,
189.65
Mayflower Cemetery extension, 53 01
1,345.36 1,592.68
Reserve Fund, Overlay Surplus,
Overlay reserved for abatements:
Levy of 1919,
$9.40
Levy of 1920,
749.54
Levy of 1921,
770.11
Levy of 1922,
670.22
2,199.27
Surplus revenue,
16,484.20
$61,621.51
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Due from State: State Aid,
750 00
$61,621.51
Town dump,
Accounts Receivable:
Taxes:
Re-surfacing Bay Road,
4.77
35,237.08
Avenues, ·
Moth, 1922,
177.86
252.16
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DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt,
$26,600.00 Re-surfacing Loan, 1918,
$1,200.00
Re-surfacing Loan, 1919, 2,000.00
Re-surfacing. Loan, 1919, 4,400.00
Re-surfacing Loan, 1920,
18,00000
Machinery and Equipment Loan, 1919, 1,000.00
$26,600.00*
$26,600.00
$26,600.00
TRUST FUND ACCOUNTS
Trust Funds, Cash and Securities,
$23,131.68
Hathaway Shade Tree and Sidewalk Fund, William Penn Harding Library Fund, 1,000.00
$2,525.76
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds,
19,605.92
$23,131.68
$23,131.68
$23,131.68
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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN DUXBURY IN 1923. January 3. In Marshfield, Manuel Andrade of Marshfield and Patsy B. (Hampton) McCallum of Duxbury, by Shir- ley A. Crosse, Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace. April 1. In Boston, James H. Peterson of Duxbury and Mary I. MacDonald of Roxbury, by Rev. M. J. Splaine.
April 4. In Boston, William H. Carver of Duxbury and Mary A. Conroy of Boston, by Rev. A. F. Arnold.
April 7. In Quincy, Harvey W. Morton and Mary A. Hicks, both of Duxbury, by Rev. James H. Sankey.
April 9. In Kingston, Gaetano Sangiolo of Boston and Josephine DeLorenzo of Duxbury, by Rev. James H. Court- ney.
April 10. In Duxbury, Joseph Sylvia and Edith M. Hicks, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Jairus C. Osgood.
May 15. In Marshfield, Edward H. S. Boatner and Claudine M. Thibou, both of Duxbury, by Rev. J. Sherman Gove. June 14. In Winchester, Kenneth Bunten of Cambridge and Edna A. Mayers of Duxbury, by Rev. George Hale Reed.
June 16. In Duxbury, Ernest A. Chandler and Elizabeth M. Sinnott, both of Marshfield, by Rev. Lewis J. Thomas. June 30. In Duxbury, Roderick N. MacDonald of Winches- ter and Eleanor S. Young of Brookline by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot.
July 2. In Boston, Leon H, Baker of Duxbury and Cassie MacAskill of Boston, by Rev. Hector Ferguson.
July 3. In Duxbury, Harold H. Hodgkinson of Allston and Helen Bradley of Duxbury, by Rev. Andrew Hahn.
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July 23. In Kingston, William S. MacDonald of Duxbury and Florence E. Andrews of Plymouth, by Rev. H. S. Kilborn.
August 11. In Newton, George H. Doane and Rose McKen- na, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Andrew Hahn.
August 17. In Duxbury, Charles J. Young of Schenectady,
N. Y., and Eleanor L. Whitman of Cambridge, by Rev. John C. Lee.
August 27. In Duxbury, Roscoe O. Elliott and Laura W. Lewis, both of Somerville, by Rev. Lewis J. Thomas.
September 22. . In Plymouth, Domingo P. Bulu of Duxbury and . Ana D. Fernandes of Boston, by Rev. Fr. John J. Morrissey.
October 19. In Kingston, John E. Hobell of Pembroke and Ellen H. Mahoney of Duxbury, by Rev. James H. Court- ney.
October 29. In Kingston, Lloyd R. Sprague and Isabella M. Eastman both of Duxbury, by Rev. James H. Courtney.
October 30. In Plymouth, Frank F. Taylor and Blanche R. Howe (MacNeil), both of Duxbury, by George B. How- land, Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace.
November 3. In Duxbury, Philip L. Gile of Washington, D. C. and Sibyl A. Buttrick of Duxbury, by Rev. Howard S. Wilkinson.
November 18. In Kingston, Roy A. Holmes of Duxbury and Nellie Cronin of Brookline, by Rev. James H. Courtney.
November 19. In Boston, Clarence M. Gibney of Boston and Edith A. White of Duxbury, by Rev. Charles P. Heaney.
DEATHS REGISTERED IN DUXBURY IN 1923.
Date
Name
Y.
Age M.
D.
January
2
Mattie B. Osgood
74
2
23
January
30
Sylvia J. Alden (Burgess)
73
5
5
February
7
Eugene P. Merlet
42
9
1
February
8
William E. Freeman
77
4
10
February
11
William H. Weston
82
8 - 27
March
3
Abbie J. Otheman (Hoxie)
86
4
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Sprague and Sylvinia
March
30
Huldah D. Thrasher (Freeman)
80
7
13
April
13
William W. Simmons
91
5
13
May
19
Katherine Rogers (Benn)
50
10
14
May
6
Edward C. Osborne
63
6
12
67
9
27
May
27
Fanny A. Baker (Kelley)
Samuel and Martha
May
30
Ella P. Ellison (Stetson)
79
7 1
84
2
23
July
4
Annie A. Burke
72
28
Cerebral hemorrhage
August
11
Henry Schlee
55
4
Fracture of skull
September
13
Mary A. Winsor (Freeman)
71
11
5
57
1
1
Oedema of lungs
September
14
Anna M. York
68
11
2
Myocarditis
September
24
Margaret B. Rothery (Bull)
53
6
14
Scarlet fever
November
10
Edna E. Glass (Foster)
45
9
10
Chronic nephritis
Novenber
13 Henry F. Beale
66
12
Mitral and aortic regurgita- tion
December December
18
Emeline T. Gullifer (Peterson)
89
3
8
Pulmonary tuberculosis Cerebral hemorrhage
Parents' Names
James and Helen Eugene and
Joseph and Mehitable
Joseph and Selina
Allen and Daphia
William W. and Ruth
Charles and Elizabeth
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John and Lodema H. William A. and Catherine
David H. and Mary
William S. and Mary P.
Lorenzo and Margaret
Edward and Salome
October
6
Emma M. Cobbett (Slauenwhit)
Solomon R. and Caroline I.
William and Eliza
Augustus and Emily M. Marshall and
17 Emily M. Sherman
64
11
3
Cause of Death
Myocarditis
Lobar pneumonia
Carbon monoxide poisoning (accidental)
Cerebral hemorrhage
Cancer of Bladder
Broncho pneumonia
Cancer of intestines
Arterio sclerosis
Surgical shock following anı- putation of right thigh for gas gangrene of leg
Carcinoma prostate gland
Nathan H. and Lucy A.
Alonzo and Fanny A. .
Broncho pneumonia
Cerebral embolism
Malignant growth of liver
21
Eliza E. Pratt (Chase)
August
Cerebral embolism
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BIRTHS REGISTERED IN DUXBURY IN 1923.
Date
Name
February
18
Lawrence Flaviano Govoni Evelyn Marjorie howarde
Charles S. and Emma W.
Alden
Bates
Barbosa
Grant
March
31
Helen Grant Chandler
May
5
Edna Marie Reed
May
29
Arthur Sherman Mounce
June
1
Malcolm Hutchinson Connor
Ray M. and Hazel V.
Joseph T. C. and Grace S.
July
8
Irvina Bradford Jones
July
8
Georges Forbes Stetson
July
17
Elizabeth Veronica Delano
July
19
Clarence Wadsworth Walker
Percy L. and Grace M. Theodore and Maria
Veiga
July
26
Louisa Sonto Armado
August
15 Arlene Vadilla Randall
Currier
September
27
Mona Elizabeth Scholpp
Murray
September 29
Walter Bernard Thornhill Nancy O'Neil
James T. and Isabel E.
Charles and Vera M.
George
October
21 Charles Raymond Olsen
Glover
October
22 Phoebe Bradford Shirley
October
24
Richard Warren Nightingale
October
28
Doris Jane Prince
Parents' Names
Sebastian and Angelina
March
6
March
23
Arthur Everett Verge
March
29
Manuel Pires Mendes
Samuel P. and Pauline
Arthur C. and Irene A. Waldo B. and Sarah E. David S. and Hazel Theodore E. and Grace A.
Porter
Chapman
Hutchinson
Randall
June
23
Esther Elizabeth Parks
Wadsworth
Oates
George H. and Violet A.
Harold K. and Jennie
Foley
Delano
Mcauliffe
Henry R. and Elsie M. William F. and Florence M. James and Mary J.
John N. and Clara H.
Paul S. and Leotta E.
Holmes
Cooper
Walter and Margaret
Maiden Name of Mother
Verdelli
Foster E. and Estelle W.
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Sherman
October 6
DEATHS OCCURRING OUT OF TOWN, INTERMENT IN DUXBURY.
Date 1922
Name
Y. M. D.
December
3
Thomas Harrison
58
1 22
December 1923
27
Joseph N. Thomas
66
6 21
January
29
Mary A. White
72
11 3
Broekton, Mass.
Angina pectoris Careinoma of reetum
February
5
Edward H. Sampson
59
Boston, Mass.
February
5
Orson M. Arnold
78
1
25
Winthrop, Mass. Fryeburg, Maine.
Broneho-pneumonia
February
6
Callie A. Harris
61
6 9
Marshfield, Mass.
Chronic bronchitis
February
20
George Delano
84
11 29
February
29
Lois A. M. Bradford
76
5 4
Boston, Mass.
Cerebral hemorrhage
March
6
Lena M. Freeman
38
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1
Taunton, Mass.
March
9
Chester A. Morse
41
4
3
Plymouth, Mass.
Acute nephritis
March
12
Nancy S. Parks
74
9
15
Plymouth, Mass.
Bright's disease
March
22
Irving H. Wilde
61
Boston, Mass.
Lobar pneumonia
March
31
Levi Sampson
13
20
East Boston, Mass.
Intestinal carcinoma
April
3
Almira B. Weston
92
8
11
Lynn, Mass.
Cerebral hemorrhage
April
10
Charles F. Kellogg
75
6
14
Brookline, Mass.
Cerebral hemorrhage
April
17
Caroline Peterson
84
8
15
Brookline, Mass.
June
16
Otis S. Perkins
33
10
Kingston, Mass.
June
21
84
6
6
Plymouth, Mass.
Senile pneumonia
June
21
86
8
14
Rockland, Mass.
Cerebral hemorrhage
Jume
21
Irving H. Smith
58
3 18
South Weymouth, Mass.
Caneer of polypus; gastric hemorrhage
July
31
Everett Arnold
66
4
Rockland, Mass.
August
14
Catherine A. Higgins
Hanson, Mass.
August
20
Leonard C. Baker
71
3
8
Bridgewater, Mass.
Acute myocarditis
October
8
Sarah A. Gardner
74
11
Whitman, Mass.
Apoplexy Dilatation of heart
November
6
Arthur F. Turner
60
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14
Brookline, Mass.
November
12
Emily W. Sears
85
12
Cambridge, Mass.
December
13
Helen F. Collins
18
2
23
Danvers, Mass.
December
23
Charles F. Whitney
35
3
24
Hanson, Mass.
Pulmonary tuberculosis
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Pulmonary tuberculosis
5
3
Broncho-pneumonia Hypostatie pneumonia
Abbie Cooper
Arabella Burns
Age
Place of Death
Cause of Death
South Boston, Mass.
Angina pectoris Pneumonia
Arterio sclerosis
Influenza and broncho-pneu- monia
,
Acute gastritis Broncho pneumonia
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TOWN MEETINGS
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 10, 1923
Chose Henry P. Moulton, Moderator.
The Tellers, Harold F. Hanigan, Harry A. McNaught, Herbert Packard and Ray M. Parks, were sworn by the Town Clerk.
The polls were opened at 6 o'clock a. m. At 11 o'clock it was voted that the polls be kept open until 11.30. At 11.30 the polls were closed, and an intermission of ten min- utes was taken.
The register on the ballot-box indicated 305 and 305 bal- lots were counted out.
Following is the result of balloting for Town Officers :
For Selectmen for one year :
Paul H. Cushing,
120 votes
E. Burton Freeman,
75 votes
Alfred E. Green,
187 votes
Wendell Phillips,
183 votes
Sidney C. Soule,
246 votes
Scattering, 1 vote
Blanks,
93
For Assessor for three years :
Paul H. Cushing, 75 votes
E. Burton Freeman,
36 votes
Wendell Phillips,
154 votes
Scattering, 2 votes
Blanks, 38
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For Overseers of the Poor for one year :
Paul H. Cushing,
110 votes
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E. Burton Freeman, 71 votes -
Alfred E. Green,
Wendell Phillips,
186 votes 180 votes
Sidney C. Soule, 253 votes Scattering, 2 votes
Blanks, 113
For Town Clerk for one year :
George H. Stearns, 270 votes 35
Blanks,
For Town Treasurer for one year : George H. Stearns, · 268 votes
Blanks,
37
For Collector of Taxes for one year : George H. Stearns,
266 votes
Blanks,
39
For Constables for one year :
Charles S. Pierce, 227 votes
Warren C. Prince,
211 votes
Margaret L. Edgar,
17 votes
Robert I. Tower,
14 votes
Scattering,
22 votes
Blanks, · 424
For School Committee for three years:
Ralph K. Bearce,
204 votes
Scattering,
9 votes
Blanks, 92
For Board of Health for three years :
Eugene E. Covell,
171 votes
Clarence M. Taylor,
84 votes
Scattering, 2 votes
Blanks, 48
For Cemetery Trustee for five years : Martin Hanigan,
249 votes
1 vote
Scattering,
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Blanks, 55
For Tree Warden for one year :
John D. Morrison, 247 votes
Blanks, 68
For Auditor for one year :
Myron M. White, 4 votes
Scattering, 20 votes
Blanks, 281
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non- intoxicating beverages in this town ?"
"Yes,"' 162 "'No," 106
Blanks, 37
Voted, that the Selectmen appoint officers not chosen by ballot.
Voted, that the report of the Joint Committee on School Buildings be accepted as a Report of Progress, and that the Committee be continued.
Voted, that the Town establish a Town Forest.
Voted, to accept report of Committee on Standish Shore Road, and that the Committee be continued.
Voted, to accept reports of all other Committees and Of- ficers as printed in the Town Report.
Voted, to raise and appropriate $499.58 for payment of bills remaining unpaid for 1922, as follows: Fire Depart- ment, $61.75 ; Police, $77.10; Town Dump, $9.34; Charities, $296.72; Highways, $50.67; Vital Statistics, $4.00.
Voted, to raise and appropriate $39,186.31 as follows : Re-surfacing King Caesar Road, loan, 1918, $1,200 00
Road Machinery, loan, 1919, 1,000 00
Re-surfacing Washington Street, loan, 1919, 1,000 00 Re-surfacing Columbus Avenue and Marshall . Street, 'loan, 1919, 2,200 00
. Re-surfacing Chestnut, Toby Garden and Elm
Streets, loan, 1920, 6,000 00
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Interest, 5,000 00
Gypsy and Browntail Moth, 1,786 31
State, County and Highway Tax, estimated,
21,000 00
Voted, to raise and appropriate for : Cemeteries, 3,500 00
Plymouth County Hospital, Maintenance, 1922, 1,256 03
Support of Schools,
35,000 00
Fire Protection,
500 00
Forest Warden, 600 00
Tree Warden, 100 00
Snow Removal, 3,000 00
Voted, to take up Article 34 in connection with the Street Lighting appropriation, and
Voted, to appropriate $1,908 for Street Lighting, the fol- lowing street lights to be installed : One at Island Creek Railroad Station; one at the junction of Park and Loring streets ; one at the junction of Loring Street and Bay Road; one at Elm and School streets; and one at Tree of Knowl- edge.
Voted, that the Plymouth Electric Light Company be re- quested to inspect street lights once in two weeks.
Voted to appropriate for :
Health Department, $1,000 00
Vital Statistics Department, 50 00
Animal Inspection Department, 150 00
Department of Inspection of Slaughtered Animals, 150 00 Charities, 6,000 00
Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid, 150 00
Town ,Physicians, 400 00
Repairs of Gurnet Bridge, 1922,
1,471 53
Selectmen's Department, 1,200 00
Election and Registration Department,
400 00
Treasurer's Department, 950 00
Collector's Department,
1,000 00
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Assessors' Department, including maps,
1,500 00
Law Department, 500 00
Town Office and Hall, 800 00
Town Clerk's Department,
450 00
Clerk (Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of Poor), 800 00
Police Department, 1,500 00
Department of Sealer of Weights and Measures,
175 00
Bounty on Hawks, Crows and Seals,
75 00
Unclassified Department,
1,300 00
Town Dump,
100 00
Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks,
8,500 00
Town Landings, 100 00
Voted, to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to be expended under the direction of William Wadsworth Post No. 165, G. A. R., for the observance of Memorial Day.
Voted, that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, be authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of revenue for the financial year beginning Jan- uary 1, 1924, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Voted, that $592.68 of the balance of the Overlay Reserve Fund be transferred to the Reserve Fund for the year 1923, and that $1,000.00 be returned to the treasury.
Voted, to raise and appropriate for the use of the Plymouth County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, $100.00, as provided in Section 45, Chapter 128, of the General Acts of 1921, and chose Alpheus H. Walker, Director.
Voted, to apply the dividend ($314.27) from the Plymouth County Dog Fund to the support of schools.
Voted, to return to the treasury the following appropria- tion balances : Alden Street repairs, $5.50; Bay Road re- pairs, $4.77; Toby Garden Street, $251.20; Massasoit Road,
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$9.87; High Street sidewalk, $150; Mattakeesett Court Landing, $2.37; total, $423.71.
Voted, that the sum of $11,000 from the Excess and Defi- ciency Account be used by the Assessors in making the tax rate.
Voted, that the Town pay four dollars ($4) per day as a minimum wage for labor.
Voted, for a two-day Town Meeting, the first day to be de- voted to business and a later 'day for election of town officers, and that the first meeting be called at 9 o'clock A. M .; 71 in favor and 26 opposed.
Voted, to raise and appropriate $1,000.00 for the purchase of land suitable for the use of citizens of the Town as a play- ground, and that the Moderator appoint a committee of three persons to ascertain if Train Field can be purchased, with power of purchase, and the Moderator appointed Harry B. Bradley, William J. Burke and Paul C. Peterson as this com- mittee.
Voted, to lay on the table Article 17, which reads, "Will the Town instruct the School Committee to withdraw from the Superintendency Union No. 1?"
Voted, that the Selectmen be authorized to lease suitable quarters for the Duxbury Post No. 223, American Legion, for five years, and to raise and appropriate not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for rent for 1923, and not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
The following resolution, offered by Mr. Henry P. Moulton, was unanimously adopted :
"Be it resolved, that the citizens of Duxbury in town meet- ing assembled, are most earnestly opposed to any action of the Legislature to remove the statue of Myles Standish from its place on the top of the monument on Captain's Hill, South Duxbury. We would respectfully urge the General Court to enact legislation providing for the restoration of the statue to its condition before the accident."
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Voted, to appropriate $200.00 to be expended under the direction of the Public Grounds Committee of the Duxbury Rural Society, to complete the swings and other necessary work on the Public Playgrounds at Train Field, subject to the opinion of the Town Counsel.
Voted, to raise and appropriate $1,000.00 for the Duxbury Free Library, subject to the opinion of the Town Counsel.
Voted, to instruct the Selectmen to lay out a highway along the southerly side of the cemetery extension, leading from Tremont Street to Mayflower Street.
Voted, to raise and appropriate $1,000.00 to complete the work now begun on Standish Street.
Voted, to raise and appropriate $15,000 to build a sand and asphalt road on Harrison Street, to be built before July 1, 1923, if possible, notes to be issued, payable in five annual payments. Eighty-nine (89) voted in favor and thirty (30) in opposition. More than two-thirds having voted in favor, the motion was carried and was so declared by the Moderator.
Voted, that Surplus Street be put in a passable condition, the money to be taken from the General Highway appro- priation. .
Voted, to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 to con- tinue the road work started in 1922 on Temple Street.
Voted, to expend the sum of $400 to complete the asphalt road on Josselyn Avenue, to be taken from the Highway appropriation.
Voted, not to raise and appropriate a sum of money to re- build a macadam or sand asphalt road on School Street, Oak Street from School to Tremont Streets, Park Street from Tremont to Loring Streets, and Loring Street from its junc- tion with Park Street to Bay Road.
Voted, to lay on the table Article 28 which reads, “Will the Town vote to resurface Chapel Street with sand asphalt and raise and appropriate money for same ?
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Voted, to take no action under Article 29 which reads, "To see what action the Town will take in instructing the Select- men in the laying out of a road at Duxbury Beach, begin- ning at the northerly end of the Hummock and continuing around the Hummock to Pine Point, so-called, and take any other action thereon.' "
Under Article 30 which reads, "To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the en- largement of. the two Grammar School buildings, and take any other action thereon,"
It was voted, that the meeting resolve itself into a Com- mittee of the Whole to discuss the school buildings question, and
Mr. Henry P. Moulton was chosen chairman of this com- mittee.
At 5.30 P. M., this committee voted to dissolve, and the Town Meeting voted to adjourn to Saturday next at 1 o'clock P. M.
GEORGE H. STEARNS, Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING FROM MARCH 10 TO MARCH 17, 1923.
The meeting was called to order at 1.10 P. M., by the Mod- erator.
Voted, to consider Articles 33, 35, and 36 of the Warrant before taking up the matter of school buildings.
Voted, to raise and appropriate $1,000 for dredging chan- nel in Duxbury Bay.
Voted, to lay on the table Article 35 which reads, "To see if the Town will vote to exchange a piece of land at Town Landing at Old Cove, so-called, for a piece adjoining said Town Landing now belonging to Mrs. Helen Ripley Clapp
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and Mrs. Clara Ripley Evans, and take any other action thereon."
Voted, to indefinitely postpone Article 36 which reads, "To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote whereby it was voted to abolish the office of Highway Surveyor and vote to elect by a popular vote a Highway Surveyor."
Voted, that the Town Meeting resolve itself into a Commit- tee of the Whole to continue consideration of the school build- ings question, and chose Mr. Henry P. Moulton, chairman of this committee.
After a thorough discussion of the school buildings ques- tion for three hours at 4.45 P. M., it was
Voted, that the committee rise and report. The chairman reported that the matter was now ready for action by the Town Meeting. The matter was then discussed in Town Meeting until 5.30 when it was
Voted, to indefinitely postpone action under Article 30 which reads, "To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the enlargement of the two Grammar School buildings and take any other action there on " 112 voting in favor and 81 against.
Voted, to lay on the table Article 31 which reads, "To see what action the Town will take regarding the construction of a new school building or buildings, and raise and appro- priate a sum of money not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for this purpose, appoint the necessary committee and any other action thereon."
Voted, to indefinitely postpone Article 32 which reads, . "Will the Town authorize and instruct the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to issue bonds or notes to cover any action taken under Article 31 ?"
Voted , that the thanks of the meeting be extended to the Moderator and that he be paid the sum of $25 for his services. Voted, to adjourn.
GEORGE H. STEARNS, Town Clerk.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, DECEMBER 29, 1923.
Chose Harry B. Bradley, Moderator.
Voted, unanimously, to appropriate from the Excess and Deficiency Department the sum of $1,650 for the various de- partments, as follows: Charity, $1,000; Soldiers' and Sail -. ors' Aid, $125; Forest Warden, $100; Fire Protection, $150; Sealer of Weights and Measures, $50; Bounties, $25; Treas- urer's Department, $100; Tax Collector's Department, $100.
Voted, that Article 3 which reads, "To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $25,000 for the purchase of the Partridge Academy property, including buildings and land, for the purpose of a Junior-Senior High School," be laid upon the table.
Voted, that Article 4 which reads, "To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay for plans to be provided for the Joint Committee for enlarging the Academy Building," be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, to adjourn.
GEORGE H. STEARNS, Town Clerk.
STATEMENT OF DOG LICENSES ISSUED.
Whole number of dogs licensed, 162
Males, 130
Females, 32
Kennel or breeders, 1
. Paid County Treasurer, $412 40
Fees, paid Town Treasurer,
$32 60
Duxbury, December 31, 1923.
GEORGE H. STEARNS. Town Clerk.
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ASSESSORS' REPORT
Value of buildings assessed, $2,882,758 00
Value of land assessed, $1,369,182 00
Total value of real estate,
$4,251,940 00
Total value of personal estate,
$381,871 00
Total valuation,
$4,633,811 00
Increase from last year in real estate,
$142,275 00
Increase in personal estate from last year,
$26,976 00
Rate of taxation. on $1,000-$19.50
Number of houses assessed, 1,041
Number of acres of land assessed,
14,328
Number of horses assessed, 137
Number of cows assessed, 218
Number of sheep assessed,
8
Number of neat cattle, other than cows,
85
Number of swine assessed,
11
Number of fowl assessed,
8,415
Number of persons assessed on property,
1,465
Residents,
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