Town annual report of Andover 1915-1920, Part 9

Author: Andover (Mass.)
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 1050


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ALFRED E. STEARNS


Term expires 1917


GEORGE A. CHRISTIE


1917


LILIAN BREWSTER


1917


BARTLETT H. HAYES


66


. 66


1918


HENRY A. BODWELL


1918


JOHN C. ANGUS


1918


THOMAS E. RHODES


1916


FREDERIC G. MOORE


1916


PHILIP F. RIPLEY


66


66


1916


Superintendent of Schools J. FRANCIS ALLISON


Board of Public Works and Sinking Fund Commission


Term expires


1917


WILLIS B. HODGKINS


1918.


ANDREW McTERNEN


1918


LEWIS T. HARDY


6


1916


BARNETT ROGERS


66


1916


66


THOMAS E. RHODES


66


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Superintendent of Water, Sewer Department, Highways and Parks FRANK L. COLE


Engineers of Fire Department CHARLES S. BUCHAN, Chief WALTER I. MORSE, Clerk ALLAN SIMPSON


Board of Health


BANCROFT T. HAYNES


Term expires 1917


FRANKLIN H. STACEY


1918


CHARLES E. ABBOTT, M.D.


66


1916


Chief of Police FRANK M. SMITH


Constables


Term expires


1916


FRANK M. SMITH


66


1916


WILLIAM L. FRYE


66


66


1916


CHESTER H. LAWRENCE


66


66


1916


Trustees of Memorial Hall Library


CHARLES C. CARPENTER


Term expires


1921


GEORGE F. SMITH


66


1922


ALFRED E. STEARNS


1916


BURTON S. FLAGG


66


1917


E. KENDALL JENKINS


1918


JOHN ALDEN


1919


FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL


66


1920


Trustees of Punchard Free School-Terms expire 1916


SAMUEL H. BOUTWELL HARRY H. NOYES


MYRON E. GUTTERSON HARRY M. EAMES FRANK T. CARLTON


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66


GEORGE W. MEARS


DAVID R. LAWSON Auditors


WALTER H. COLEMAN NESBIT G. GLEASON


Trustees of Cornell Fund


JOHN C. ANGUS


Term expires 1917


ALLAN SIMPSON


66


66


1916


DR. WILLIAM D. WALKER


66 1918


Superintendent of Moth Department JOHN H. PLAYDON


Tree Warden


JOHN H. PLAYDON


Moderator of Town Meetings ALFRED L. RIPLEY


Registrars of Voters


GEORGE W. FOSTER


JOHN F. HURLEY


PATRICK J. SCOTT GEORGE A. HIGGINS, Clerk


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TOWN MEETINGS


Annual Town Meeting, March 1, 1915


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


ESSEX, SS .: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover, GREETING:


In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town House, in said Andover, on Monday, the first day of March, 1915, at 6 o'clock A.M., to act on the following Articles:


Article 1 .- To choose a Moderator for one year, Town Clerk for one year, Treasurer for one year, Collector of Taxes for one year, one member of the Board of Selectmen for three years, one member of the Board of Assessors for three years, three mem- bers of the School Committee for three years, two members of the Board of Public Works for three years, one member of the Board of Health for three years, three Auditors of Accounts for one year, three Constables for one year, one Trustee of Me- morial Hall Library for seven years, one Tree Warden for one year, one Trustee of Cornell Fund for three years, Pound Keeper, Fence Viewers, and any other officers the town may determine to choose.


Article 2 .- To take action on the following question, Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?


Article 3 .- To determine what sums of money shall be appro- priated for Almshouse Expenses, Repairs on Almshouse, Relief out of Almshouse, Aiding Mothers with Dependent Children,


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Board of Health, Brush Fires, Fire Department, Hay Scales, Highway Department, Insurance, Interest, Memorial Hall Library, Memorial Day, Post 99, G. A. R., Miscellaneous, Parks and Playsteads, Police, Printing and Stationery, Public Dump, Retirement of Veterans, Acts of 1912, Redemption of Water Bonds and Andover Loan Bonds, Schools, School Houses, School Books and Supplies, Industrial School, Sewer Maintenance, Sewer Sinking Funds, Snow, Soldiers' Relief, Spring Grove Cemetery, Sidewalks, State Aid, Street Lighting, Town Officers, Town House, Tree Warden, Moth Department, Water Maintenance, Construction and Sinking Funds, and other town charges and expenses.


Article 4 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $500 for repairs on the old schoolhouse at Ballard Vale, on recom- mendation of the Selectmen.


Article 5 .- To see what action the town will take in regard to the removal of the Brick Pumping Station on Bancroft Road and the installation of a pumping station to take its place in a vault made for the purpose, said pumping station to be run by electricity instead of oil, and the appropriation of a sufficient sum of money for this purpose, on petition of Fred M. Temple and others.


Article 6 .- To hear the report of the School Committee on . High School plans, and to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars for the purpose of building and equipping a new high school building, and making the necessary changes in the Central Heating Plant, on petition of the School Committee.


Article 7 .- To see if the town will vote to extend the sewerage system to Abbott and Marland Villages, and appropriate a sum of money therefor, on petition of Daniel Hart and others.


Article 8 .- To see if the town will appropriate money for a fire alarm box to be located near the residence of John E. Hutche- son on Summer Street, on petition of John J. Cady and others.


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Article 9 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $1500 to erect a barn and shed for the purpose of housing the horses, carts, plows, wagons, watering carts, and other properties under the care of the Board of Public Works, on petition of the Board of Public Works.


Article 10 .- To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $200 to be spent for band concerts, on petition of the Board of Public Works.


Article 11 .- To see if the town will vote to extend the water system from its present terminal at the residence of Horace E. Dyer on Rocky Hill Road, to the residence of Samuel Thomes, a distance of about 1400 feet, on petition of Samuel Thomes and others.


Article 12 .- To see if the town will vote to assume the care of the Rogers Brook, so-called, from Main Street to Morton Street, and to see what sum of money the town will appropriate to pay the cost of the same, to provide adequate drainage, on petition of W. E. Lombard and others.


Article 13 .- To see if the town will provide for the removal of dump and ashes, under the care of the Board of Public Works, and appropriate a sum of money therefor, on petition of the Andover Village Improvement Society.


Article 14 .- To fix the pay of the firemen for the ensuing year.


Article 15 .- To determine the method of collecting the taxes for the ensuing year.


Article 16 .- To authorize the Town Treasurer to hire money for the use of the town in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, with the approval of the Selectmen.


Article 17 .- To act upon the Report of the Town Officers.


Article 18 .- To determine the amount of money to be raised by taxation the ensuing year.


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Article 19 .- To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations.


Article 20 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.


The polls will be open at 6 o'clock A.M., and may be closed at 2 o'clock P.M.


And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies and publication thereof seven days at least, before the time of said meeting, as directed by vote of the town.


Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.


Given under our hands this thirteenth day of February, A.D. 1915.


HARRY M. EAMES WALTER S. DONALD CHARLES BOWMAN


Selectmen of Andover


ANDOVER, MARCH 1, 1915


ESSEX, SS.


Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabitants of said town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said Warrant, by posting a true and attested copy of the same on the Town House, on each school- house, and in no less than five other public places where bills and notices are usually posted, and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said Warrants have been posted and published seven days.


FRANK M. SMITH


Constable


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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 1, 1915


At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in town affairs convened in the Town House in said Andover on Monday, the first day of March, 1915, at six o'clock in the forenoon, agreeably to the requirements of the foregoing warrant, Moderator Alfred L. Ripley presided, and after reading a part of the warrant it was


Voted, To dispense with the further reading of the warrant.


Voted, To take up Articles 1 and 2 together.


Voted, That the polls be closed at 2 o'clock P.M.


Took up Articles 1 and 2 and proceeded to vote for Town Officers and on the License Question by the Australian ballot system.


The ballot box was found to be empty and registered 0000. The polls opened at 6 o'clock A.M., and closed at 2 o'clock P.M., as voted. The total number of ballots cast was 1109, twenty- seven (27) of which were female ballots for School Committee only.


The result of the balloting was as follows :--


MODERATOR-One year:


Alfred L. Ripley


829


Scattering


5


Blanks 248


TOWN CLERK-One year:


George A. Higgins


878


Scattering


6


Blanks 198


TOWN TREASURER-One year :


George A. Higgins


846


Scattering


3


Blanks 233


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SELECTMAN-Three years :


William A. Allen


205


Charles Bowman 619


169


51


38


ASSESSOR-Three years :


William A. Allen


213


Charles Bowman


594


John H. Clinton


169


Edgar M. Earley Blanks


46


60


COLLECTOR OF TAXES-One year :


John W. Bell


851


Scattering


3


Blanks 228


SCHOOL COMMITTEE-Three years:


John C. Angus


790


Henry A. Bodwell


780


Bartlett H. Hayes


739


Scattering


5


Blanks 1013


BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS-One year:


Willis B. Hodgkins


696


Andrew McTernen


756


Scattering


2


Blanks


710


BOARD OF HEALTH-Three years:


Franklin H. Stacey


688


Scattering


6


Blanks 388


AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS-One year :


Walter H. Coleman 573


Nesbit G. Gleason 598


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John H. Clinton Edgar M. Earley Blanks


David R. Lawson 591 John S. Robertson 554 Scattering 1 Blanks 929


CONSTABLES-One year :


Thomas F. Dailey


342


Chester H. Lawrence 461


George W. Mears


592


James Oldroyd 234


Frank M. Smith


667


Scattering


3


Blanks


947


TRUSTEES OF MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY-Seven years:


George F. Smith 784


Scattering 2


Blanks 296


TREE WARDEN-One year :


JOHN H. PLAYDON


808


Blanks 274


Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxicating


Liquors in this town?


Yes 350


No


580


Blanks 152


All the foregoing officers and questions were voted on by ballot and the check lists were used.


REPORT OF PRECINCT CLERK


Polls open at 6 A.M. Ballot Box registered 0000; whole number of ballots received 150. Ballot Box registered 1010 at close, failing to work correctly. Whole number of ballots cast, 1109, of which 1082 were male voters and 27 female. The check lists tallied with the number of votes cast. Number of regular ballots returned, 918. Number of female ballots returned, 123. Polls closed at 2 P.M.


DANIEL A. COLLINS


Precinct Clerk


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The Moderator declared-


Alfred L. Ripley elected Moderator for one year.


George A. Higgins elected Town Clerk for one year. George A. Higgins elected Treasurer for one year. Charles Bowman elected Selectman for three years. Charles Bowman elected Assessor for three years. John W. Bell elected Collector of Taxes for one year.


John C. Angus elected School Committee for three years. Henry A. Bodwell elected School Committee for three years. Bartlett H. Hayes elected School Committee for three years.


Willis B. Hodgkins elected Board of Public Works for three years.


Andrew McTernen elected Board of Public Works for three years.


Franklin H. Stacey elected Board of Health for three years.


Walter H. Coleman elected Auditor of Accounts for one year. Nesbit G. Gleason elected Auditor of Accounts for one year. David R. Lawson elected Auditor of Accounts for one year. Chester H. Lawrence elected Constable for one year.


George W. Mears elected Constable for one year.


Frank M. Smith elected Constable for one year.


George F. Smith elected Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years.


John H. Playdon, elected Tree Warden for one year.


Chose Trustee of Cornell Fund-Dr. William D. Walker for three years.


Chose Fence Viewers for one year-James Saunders, George W. Mears, Raymond L. Buchan.


Chose Street Lighting Committee-Barnett Rogers, Walter H. Coleman, Colver J. Stone, Charles B. Baldwin, Henry J. Gardner.


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Chose Finance Committee for one year-George Abbot, Samuel H. Bailey, Samuel H. Boutwell, Joseph L. Burns, John H. Campion, Walter M. Lamont.


Town Pound-Voted, That Town Barn and Barnyard be the Town Pound and that the Superintendent of the Town Farm be the keeper.


Took up Article 3.


Voted, To appropriate the following stated sums of money:


Almshouse Expenses


$ 4200 00


Repairs on Almshouse


800 00


Relief out of Almshouse


4700 00


Aiding Mothers with Dependent Children


500 00


Board of Health


1000 00


Brush Fires


800 00


Fire Department


8000 00


New Hose


500 00


Hay Scales


125 00


Highway Department


25000 00


(Also amounts received from Street Sprinkling


and Street Railway and Franchise Taxes)


Insurance


950 00


Insurance under Workmen's Compensation Act


500 00


Interest


13000 00


Memorial Hall Library


1800 00


Memorial Day


350 00


Post 99, G. A. R.


50 00


Miscellaneous


1700 00


Parks and Playsteads


1500 00


Police


4500 00


Printing and Stationery


1250 00


Public Dump


75 00


Retirement of Veterans, Acts 1912


300 00


Redemption of Water Bonds


11000 00


Redemption of Andover Loan Act Bonds


5000 00


Amount carried forward


$87600 00


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Amount brought forward Schools


$87600 00


Unexpended Balance for Plans


250 00


Maintenance


40500 00


Books and Supplies


2400 00


School Houses


3600 00


Industrial School


200 00


Sewer Department


Maintenance


1800 00


Sinking Funds


1000 00


Snow


1500 00


Soldier's Relief


900 00


Spring Grove Cemetery and Receipts from sale of lots


1000 00


State Aid


1500 00


Sidewalks ($250 to be spent under Betterment Act but if no applications are received before September


1, it shall be at the disposal of the Board of Public Works)


2000 00


Street Lighting


6300 00


Town Officers


6500 00


Town House


2000 00


Tree Warden


250 00


Moth Department


3250 00


Water Department


Maintenance


10000 00


Construction (no part for extension)


3000 00


Sinking Funds


750 00


Fire Alarm Box (Article 8)


225 00


New Barn and Shed (Article 9)


1500 00


Water-Rocky Hill Road (Article 11)


1500 00


Total


$179525 00


Estimated County Tax


14000 00


Estimated State Tax


23000 00


$216525 00


Took up Article 4.


Voted, at 4.10 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.


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Took up Article 5.


Voted, at 4.12 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.


Took up Article 6.


Voted, at 4.19 P.M., That the report of the Committee on High School Plans be accepted and the committee be discharged.


On the motion that the town raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars for the purpose of building and equipping a new high school building and making the necessary changes in the central heating plant, it was


Voted, at 6.19 P.M., Not to do so, the vote being Yes 199, No 153, which was not the required two-thirds.


Voted, at 6.24 P.M., That further consideration and definite action on the question of erecting a new high school building be postponed until the annual town meeting in March, 1916. That a committee be appointed by the Moderator to consider the entire question with especial reference to the disposal of the present high school building and to the construction of a new high school, that this committee consist of two members of the School Board, one member of the Board of Trustees of Punchard Free School not a member of the School Board, and two other citizens.


The Moderator appointed the following committee: From the School Committee, Henry A. Bodwell and Alfred E. Stearns; from the Trustees of Punchard Free School, Myron E. Gutterson; from the town, John N. Cole and Burton S. Flagg.


Took up Article 7.


Voted, at 6.33 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.


Took up Article 8.


Voted, at 6.35 P.M., That the sum of $225 be appropriated for a fire alarm box to be located near the residence of John E. Hutcheson on Summer Street.


Took up Article 9.


Voted, at 6.37 P.M., That the sum of $1500 be appropriated to erect a barn and shed for the purpose of housing the horses, carts, plows, wagons, watering-carts, and other properties under the care of the Board of Public Works.


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Took up Article 10.


Voted, at 6.38 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.


Took up Article 11.


Voted, at 6.45 P.M., That the town extend the water system from its present terminal at the residence of Horace E. Dyer on Rocky Hill Road, to the residence of Samuel Thomes, a distance of about 1400 feet, and that the sum of $1500 be ap- propriated therefor.


Took up Article 12.


Voted, at 6.52 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.


Took up Article 13.


Voted, at 6.53 P.M., To indefinitely postpone.


Took up Article 14.


Voted, at 6.54 P.M., That the pay of the firemen be $75.00 per year.


Took up Article 15.


Voted, at 6.55 P.M., That the taxes be collected by the Col- lector, and that he receive one per cent of all moneys collected.


Took up Article 16.


Voted, at 6.56 P.M., That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1915, 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.


Took up Article 17.


Voted, at 6.57 P.M., That the Report of the Town Officers be accepted.


Took up Article 18.


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Voted, at 6.58 P.M., To raise by taxation $125,500 and also an amount sufficient to meet the State and County Taxes.


Took up Article 19.


Voted, at 6.59 P.M., That all unexpended balances be turned into the treasury.


Took up Article 20.


Voted, at 7.00 P.M., To instruct the Selectmen to petition the County Commissioners to locate the bounds on North Main Street in the Town of Andover from Shawsheen Bridge to Andover Square and to especially widen that portion of the highway, viz :- the bridge crossing the Boston & Maine tracks on said street, in accordance with the provisions contained in Chapter 463, section 23, part one, Acts of 1906.


Voted, at 7.01 P.M., That, whereas, the size of the Town Hall makes it difficult to seat the qualified voters of the town at their meetings, Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that admission to the floor of the hall at town meetings should be granted only to qualified voters, as determined by use of the check list.


Voted, at 7.04 P.M., That the meeting be dissolved.


The foregoing is a true copy of the warrant and of the Officer's return on the same, also a true copy of the doings of the meeting.


ATTEST,


GEORGE A. HIGGINS


Town Clerk


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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


ESSEX, SS .: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover, GREETING:


In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet and assemble at the Town House, in said Andover, on Wednesday, the thirty-first day of March, 1915, at 7.45 o'clock P.M., to act on the following Articles: .


Article 1 .- To see if the town will appoint a sum not to exceed $75,000 for the purpose of paying any portion of the cost of the extension of the sewerage system in the Town of Andover, to what is known as the Abbott and Marland Village section, in accordance with plans drawn by McClintock and Woodfall, to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow the same, and to assess betterments upon the estates benefited by the said extension, upon petition of Daniel Hart and others.


Article 2 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.


And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies and publication thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting, as directed by vote of the town.


Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.


Given under our hands this fifteenth day of March, A.D. 1915.


HARRY M. EAMES WALTER S. DONALD CHARLES BOWMAN Selectmen of Andover


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ANDOVER, MARCH 31, 1915


ESSEX, SS.


Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabitants of said town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said Warrant, by posting a true and attested copy of the same on the Town House, on each school- house and in not less than five other public places where bills and notices are usually posted, and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said Warrants have been posted and published seven days.


FRANK M. SMITH, Constable


At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in town affairs convened in the Town House in said Andover on Wednesday, the thirty-first day of March, 1915, at 7.45 o'clock in the evening, agreeably to the require- ments of the foregoing warrant, Moderator Alfred L. Ripley presided and read the warrant.


Took up Article 1.


Voted, at 10.30 P.M., That that portion of a sewerage system shown on plan of McClintock and Woodfall dated June 8, 1898, on the west side of the Shawsheen River between Central and Stevens Streets be adopted as a part of the sewerage system of the Town of Andover, twenty-five (25%) per cent of the cost of the same to be borne by the town and seventy-five (75%) per cent by the owners of estates situated within the territory embraced by it and benefited thereby, in accordance with the provision of Section 11, Chapter 386, of the Acts of 1895. That the town raise and appropriate the sum of seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars for the purposes specified in Article No. 1, to wit :-


Of paying any portion of the cost of the extension of the sewerage system in the Town of Andover to what is known as the Abbott Village and Marland Village sections in accordance with plans drawn by McClintock and Woodfall, and that the


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Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow said sum and to issue therefor bonds or notes of the Town bearing interest at the current rate but not to exceed five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, January 1 and July 1, said bonds or notes to be signed by the Treasurer of the Town, and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen and Board of Public Works, and to be under the seal of the Town. They shall bear upon their face the words "Ando- ver Sewer Loan of 1915", and the statement that they are exempt from taxation in Massachusetts. They shall be dated July 1, A.D. 1915, and shall be issued in numbered series and shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 8, Chapter 386 of the Acts of 1895, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than thirty years from the date of the first bond or note issued or at such earlier periods as the Treasurer and Selectmen may determine. Principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable in lawful money of the United States at such bank or trust company as the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, shall elect. Said securities may be sold by said Treasurer at public or private sale or pledged at not less than their par value for money borrowed for the purposes of this act. Said bonds shall be certified by a bank or trust company to be selected by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen. Yeas 251; Nays 14.


Voted, at 10.35 P.M., That by virtue of Section 10, Chapter 386 of the Acts of 1895, the Board of Public Works be and hereby is authorized to supervise the construction of said construction, to bind the Town by contract therefor, to take on behalf of the town by purchase or otherwise any lands, water rights, rights of way or easements in Andover deemed necessary for the estab- lishment of such an extension of the sewerage system and system of sewerage disposal and for connections therewith; to assess upon the estates benefited by the said extension their pro- portional part of the cost of the same and similarly to establish an annual charge for the privilege of connecting with the sewerage system of the town in accordance with the provisions of Section 11, Chapter 386 of the Acts of 1895, and the provisions of all laws in that case made and provided, and to do any and all other


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things reasonably necessary or expedient to accomplish the purposes of this act in conformity to the law in such case made and provided.


Took up Article 2.


Voted, at 10.38 P.M., That the sum of $1500 be appropriated for interest, this sum to be added to the amount appropriated at the annual town meeting, March 1, 1915.


Voted, at 10.40 P.M., That the meeting be dissolved.


The foregoing is a true copy of the warrant and of the Officer's return on the same, also a true record of the doings of the meeting.


ATTEST: GEORGE A. HIGGINS Town Clerk


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SELECTMEN'S REPORT


SCHOOLS


Appropriation, March 1, 1915


$40500 00


Received from tuition


425 50


Received from miscellaneous sales


219 99


Transferred from School Houses


58 11


$41203 60


J. Francis Allison, Superintendent




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