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Town Warrant.
ESSEX, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Andover, - and of the Town of North Andover, so far as relates to the election of a Board of five Trustees of the Punchard Free School, - qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town House in said Andover, on Monday, the Fourth day of March, 1889, at 12 o'clock, M., to act on the following Articles, namely :
Article 1st. - To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2d. - To choose Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collec- tor of Taxes, Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, a Board of Health, One member of the School Committee for Three Years, Five Trustees of the Punchard Free School for Three Years, One Trusted of Memorial Hall for Seven Years, Constables, Fence Viewers, Field Drivers, Surveyors of Lumber, One or more Highway Surveyors, Pound Keeper, Street-Lighting Committee, a Committee of Seven for the Spring Grove Cemetery for Three Years, and one or more Auditors of Accounts.
Article 3d. - To see what action the Town will take on the following question : " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town ?"
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Article 4th. - To see what action the Town will take in regard to unexpended appropriations.
Article 5th. - To see what sums of money the Town will appropriate for the use of the several Departments the en- suing year, namely : Schools, School-houses, School Books and Supplies, Highways and Bridges, Sidewalks, Removing Snow, Town Officers, Town House, Fire Department, Street Lighting, Printing and Stationery, Spring Grove Cemetery, Memorial Day, State Aid, Military Aid, Insurance, Hay Scales, State Tax, County Tax, Discount on Taxes, Abate- ment of Taxes, Interest on Notes and Funds, Almshouse Expenses, Relief out of Almshouse, Repairs on Almshouse, and Miscellaneous.
Article 6th. - To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer to hire money for the use of the Town when necessary, upon the approval of the Selectmen.
Article 7th. - To determine the method of collecting the Taxes the ensuing year.
Article 8th. - To fix the pay of the Firemen for the ensuing year.
Article 9th. - To see if the Town will revise and accept the List of names for Jurors, as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
Article 10th. - To hear and act on the Reports of the Selectmen and other Town Officers.
Article 11th. - To see if the Town will pay the amount awarded against the Town by the County Commissioners under the Act of the Legislature relating to the Lawrence Bridges, and appropriate three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars ($3520) therefor.
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Article 12th. - To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of Life-saving Apparatus for use in the Fire Department, as required by Chapter 310 of the Acts of the Year, 1888, entitled, " An Act to require the equipment of Fire Departments with Apparatus for the saving of Life at Fires."
Article 13th .- To see if the Town will re-appropriate eight hundred dollars ($800) and pay the same to Joseph W. Smith when he shall have completed the improvement of a certain portion of Main Street in Frye Village to the satisfac- tion of the Selectmen, as voted at the last Annual meeting.
Article 14thi. - To see what action the Town will take in regard to selling the South Centre School-house, and the land thereunder and adjoining the same.
Article 15th. - To see if the Town will appoint a com- mittee to investigate the subject of building a new School- house at Ballard Vale, and report at the next town meeting held after March 4th, 1889, on petition of the School Com- mittee and others.
Article 16th .- To see if the Town will accept the pro- visions of Chapter 264 of the Acts of the Year 1886, relating to Precinct Voting in Towns, on petition of Howell F. Wilson and other citizens of Ballard Vale.
Article 17th. - To see what action the Town will take in regard to a better supply of Water for the inhabitants of the Town.
Article 18th. - To see if the Town will re-appropriate the sum of one thousand and twenty-eight dollars ($1028) for the Extension of Pike Street as laid out by the Select- men in February, 1887, and accepted by the Town March 7th, 1887.
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Article 19th. - To see if the Town will accept and allow a way laid out by the Selectmen on petition of William S. Jenkins and others, leading from a point on Elm Street near the house of Charles O. Cummings to a point on Summer Street near the house of Benjamin F. Wardwell, and appro- priate a sum of money therefor.
Article 20th. - To see if the Town will accept and allow a way laid out by the Selectmen on petition of J. M. Bradley and others, leading from a point on Elm Street near the house of Samuel B. Locke to a point on High Street about one fourth mile northerly from the house of Mrs. Bridget Collins, and appropriate a sum of money therefor.
Article 21st. - To see if the Town will appropriate five hundred dollars ($500) for the improvement of Pearson Street ; the money to be expended in procuring a survey and plan establishing the grade of the street, grading, removing banks, putting in bank-walls, paving the gutters, and making sidewalks, on petition of John Stack and others.
Article 22d. - To see if the Town will vote to repair Park Street, and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) therefor, on petition of Benjamin Brown and others.
Article 23d. - To see if the Town will vote to lay asphal- tum-concrete Sidewalks in place of the present gravel walks on Essex Street, and appropriate a sum of money therefor, on petition of J. W. Churchill and others.
Article 24th. - To see if the Town will vote to increase the amount of Fence Damages awarded to William Quinn by the Road Commissioners, on the line of Chester Street in Ballard Vale, in 1887, and appropriate a sum of money therefor, on petition of C. H. Shattuck, Jr., and others.
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Article 25th. - To see if the Town will vote to construct a Reservoir on Central Street in Ballard Vale, and appro- priate a sum of money therefor, on petition of John S. Stark and others.
Article 26th. -- To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of fifty dollars ($50) to place street lamps in the fol- lowing localities on Summer Street : one near the house of the late Mrs. Mayberry ; one at the corner of Summer Street and Punchard Avenue ; one between the houses of B. F. Wardwell and George H. Thwing; and one at the junction of Summer Street and the street leading by the house of N. F. Abbott, on petition of Moses Foster and others.
Article 27th. - To see if the Town will vote to have a lock-up in or near the Town House, or to see what action the Town will take in regard thereto, and what sum of money shall be appropriated therefor, on petition of Moses Foster and others.
Article 28th. - To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) to place a pipe drain under the gutter on the northerly side of Essex Street, from the railroad bound to the river, and pave the said gutter where necessary, on the petition of Barnett Rogers and others.
Article 29th. - To see what action the Town will take with reference to lighting its public streets and ways with elec- tricity, and raise and appropriate money for the same, on petition of George Ripley and others.
Article 30th. - To see if the Town will grant and vote a sum of money to be expended in planting shade trees on the public squares and highways of the Town.
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Article 31st. - To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise by taxation to defray the necessary expenses the ensuing year.
Article 32d. - To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting.
Given under our hands, at Andover, this Twentieth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
B. FRANK SMITH, Selectmen SAM'L H. BOUTWELL, of
BROOKS F. HOLT,
Andover.
A true Copy. - Attest :
GEORGE F. CHEEVER, Constable of Andover.
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Appropriations, 1889.
The following Appropriations are recommended for the ensuing year.
Schools,
$13000 00
School-Houses,
1800 00
School-Books and Supplies,
900 00
Highways and Bridges,
7000 00
Sidewalks,
1000 00
Removing Snow,
800 00
Town Officers,
4500 00
Town House,
600 00
Fire Department, running expenses,
2500 00
Horses and Driver,
1500 00
Street Lighting,
1500 00
Printing and Stationery,
500 00
Spring Grove Cemetery,
300 00
Memorial Day,
200 00
State Aid,
1400 00
Military Aid,
750 00
Expenses of Almshouse,
4500 00
Relief out of Almshouse,
4500 00
Repairs on Almshouse,
100 00
State Tax,
6500 00
County Tax,
6000 00
Discount on Taxes,
2500 00
Abatement of Taxes,
450 00
Interest on Notes and Funds,
2000 00
Insurance,
400 00
Hay Scales,
50 00
Shade Trees,
100 00
Miscellaneous,
800 00
Total,
$66450 00
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CONTENTS.
Abatement of Taxes, 36, 47
Additions to Library, 91-107
Almshouse, 50, 57
Personal Property at,
58
Military Aid,
35, 45
Relief out of,
52
Miscellaneous,
38, 47
Remaining in,
57
Notes discounted,
37
Repairs at, 54
Notes paid, 37
Annual Town Meeting. 48
Overseers' Account, 50-55
Appropriations recommended,
115
Overseers' Report, 56-58
Assets, 18, 78
84
Punchard Free School, 72,73
Chester Street extension, 24
Railroad Street damages, 30
55
Chief Engineer's Report, 63, 64
Schedule of Town Property,
71
Chief of Police, Report, 65, 67
School-houses,
8, 44
Cities and Towns, 53
Schools,
3, 44
Collector's Account, 74, 75
School Books and Supplies,
13,44
Commonwealth,
53
Selectmen's Account,
3-43
County Tax,
36,46
Selectmen's Report,
44-49
Discount on Taxes,
36,47
Shade Trees,
31,46
Dog Tax,
35
Sidewalks,
23, 45
Donors of Books, etc.,
88
Snow, Removal of,
20,45
Fire Department,
28,45
Spring Grove Cemetery,
33,46
Grammar School house,
13
State Aid,
34, 45
Gray Sidewalk damages,
31
State Tax, 36, 46
Hay Scales,
31, 46
Statistics, 1888,
48
Highways and Bridges,
14, 45
Street lighting,
31,45
Highway Surveyor's Re- port, 60-62
Summary of Appropriations and Receipts, 40
Horses, Carts, Sheds, etc., 30
Summary of Overseers' Orders, 54 Summary of Selectmen's Orders, 41
Superintendent's Account, 59
Lawrence Bridges,
48
Town House, 27, 44
Town Map, 32
Librarian's Report,
85-107
Town Officers, 26,44
Lunatic Hospitals, 54
Town Safe, 33
Memorial Hall Trustees'
Town Warrant, 109-114
Treasurer's Account, 76-78
Account, 81. 83
Memorial Hall Trustees'
Report, 79,80
Memorial Day, 32,46
Insurance, 33, 46
Interest on Notes and Funds, 37, 47
Liabilities, 48, 78
Printing and Stationery, 32, 45
Auditors' Certificate,
Cemetery Com., Report of, 68-70
Representative Fund,
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