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50.48
Commonwealth, General School Fund
7978.91
Commonwealth, Civ!lian War Tax
66.00
Commonwealth, Street Railway Tax
552.64
Commonwealth, Reimbursement Taxes
166.18
Commonwealth, School Tuition
175.50
Commonwealth, State Aid
648.00
Commonwealth, Industrial Schools
139.04
Commonwealth, Mothers' Aid
1263.07
Commonwealth, Temporary Aid
287.16
Commonwealth, Public Works, Moth Work
110.10
Commonwealth, Hawker's Licenses
56.00
Commonwealth, Public Works, Lowell Street.
9958.46
Essex County, Lowell Street
9958.46
Essex County, Dog Tax
323.52
Andover National Bank, Notes
235000.00
Collector's Department, Taxes
286444.88
Collector's Department, Interest on Taxes
1984.07
Collector's Department, Moth Work
4034.05
Collector's Department, Interest on Deposits
234.03
Board of Public Works, Water Rates
28013.36
Amount carried forward
$675810.06
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account with the town of Andover
CR.
Orders paid
Schools
$101288.60
Highway Department
59572.97
Lowell Street
29875.39
Park Department
1213.74
Water Department
31638.20
Street Lighting
6979.06
Police Department
9681.29
Fire Department
24525.06
Brush Fires
643.77
Printing and Stationery
1988.73
Insurance
5204.69
Miscellaneous
2062.81
Town House
2861.34
Town' Officers
8648. 19
Spring Grove Cemetery
10879.91
Board of Health
3356.45
Moth Work
7594.58
Tree Warden
6781.35
Public Dump
75.00
Hay Scales
102.00
Interest on Notes and Bonds
18440.47
Memorial Day
600.00
G. A. R. Appropriation
100.00
Memorial Hall Library
3000.00
Memorial Hall Library, Dog Tax
323.52
Town Farm Expenses
6424.72
Town Farm Repairs
248.36
Town Farm Sale
189.95
Outside Relief
4370.85
Soldiers' Relief
1270.47
State Aid
558.00
Military Aid
150.00
Amount carried forward
$350649.47
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GEORGE A. HIGGINS, Treas., in
DR.
Amount brought forward
$675810.06
Board of Public Works, Service Pipe
9568.51
Board of Public Works, Highway Department
2836.90
Board of Public Works, Sidewalk Assessment
1791.18
W. C. Crowley, Sealer's Fees
81.26
George A. Higgins, Town Clerk's Fees
198.00
Old Schoolhouse, Ballard Vale, Rents
225.00
Trial Justice Court, Fines
1869.50
Town Farm
470.61
Spring Grove Cemetery, Sale and Care of Lots
3409.28
Town House, Rents
802.70
School Department, Tuition and Supplies
419.50
Hay Scales
70.00
Cities and Towns, Mothers' Aid
1546.99
Fire Department, Use of Horses
1643.25
Sewer Department, Assessments
64.00
Sewer Department, Interest on Assessments
17.50
Sewer Department, House Connections
818.28
Auto Dealers License
14.00
Board of Health, Garbage Licenses
4.00
Board of Health, Alcohol Licenses
6.00
Board of Health, Manicurist License
6.00
Board of Health, Milk Licenses
11.50
Phillips Academy, Street Lighting
230.00
Druggist's Licenses
2.00
Smart and Flagg Agents, Insurance Rebate
76.34
Shawsheen Bridge Loan
12500.00
Shawsheen Bridge Loan, Premium and Interest
67.59
Shawsheen Bridge Loan, William M. Wood
10000.00
Andover National Bank, Interest on Deposits
626.12
Town Farm Sale
30000.00
Town Farm Sale, Interest on Deposit
335.18
Brush Fire Department
6.00
Total Receipts
$755527.25
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account with the town of Andover
CR.
Amount brought forward
$350649.47
Mothers' Aid
4657.90
Retirement of Veterans
300.00
Redemption of 8 Water Bonds
8000.00
Redemption of 7 Sewer Bonds
7000.00
Redemption of 6 High School Bonds
6000.00
Water Sinking Funds
750.00
Sewer Sinking Funds
1000.00
War Memorial Book
2933.10
Shawsheen Bridge
21921.32
Old Schoolhouse, Ballard Vale
1980.74
Sewer Department, Maintenance
2996.45
Sewer Department, Construction
14957.53
Sewer Department, House Connection
1124.08
Sewer Department, Special Survey
850.00
County Tax
19007.44
Commonwealth State Tax
25900.00
Commonwealth Bank Tax
2243.13
Commonwealth Highway Tax
2428.50
Commonwealth, Special State Tax
1221.00
Commonwealth, Street Railway Tax
254.79
Commonwealth, War Poll Tax
6072.00
Andover National Bank Notes
215000.00
Total expenditures
$697247.45
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1922
General Fund
20526.48
Town Farm Sale
30145.23
Water Loan
2707.38
Sewer Loan
2533.81
War Memorial Book
66.90
Town Farm Committee
300.00
Soldiers' Memorial Committee
2000.00
$755527.25
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Richardson Fund -Shawsheen Village School
DR.
Balance January 1, 1921
$1384.18 70.05
Andover Savings Bank, interest
$1454.23
CR.
Tremont Talking Machine Co.
$6.90
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
1447.33
$1454.23
Draper Fund - School
DR.
Balance January 1, 1921
$1067.73
Andover Savings Bank, interest
54.02
$1121.75
CR.
J. H. Playdon
$ 23.00
Natural History Society
15.00
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
1083.75
$1121.75
Edward Taylor Fund - Fuel
DR.
Balance January 1, 1921
$ 287.08
Andover Savings Bank, interest
14.52
$ 301.60
CR.
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
$ 301.60
$ 301.60
Varnum Lincoln Spelling Fund
DR.
Balance January 1, 1921
$.537.23
Andover Savings Bank, interest
26.17
$ 563.40
CR.
H. C. Sanborn, Supt. of Schools $ 20.00
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank
543.40
$ 563.40
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Isaac Giddings Burial Ground Fund DR.
Balance January 1, 1921
$1000.00
Andover Savings Bank, interest
50.62
CR.
F. H. Foster, Treas., South Cemetery $ 50.62
Deposit, Andover Savings Bank 1000.00
$1050.62
Cemetery Fund PERPETUAL CARE
DR.
Balance, January 1, 1921
$24686.64
Andover Savings Bank, interest 1294.08
Deposits for Perpetual Care 2709.25
Andover National Bank Stock
200.00
Andover National Bank Dividends 16.00
Cash 76.00
CR.
Spring Grove Cemetery, for care of lots. $ 290.50 Private Cemeteries, for care of lots 687.60
Deposits, Andover Savings Bank 28003.87
$1050.62
$28981.97
$28981.97
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
To the Selectmen of the Town of Andover.
GENTLEMEN :- I submit the following report of the Andover Fire Department from December 31, 1920 to December 31, 1921.
During this time the Department has answered 103 bell alarms, 30 still alarms. We have laid 6400 feet 21/2 inch hose, 1540 feet 34 inch hose using 950 gallons chemical, 400 feet of ladders.
Value of buildings and contents where fires have occurred, $121,200.
Loss on buildings and contents, $10,300.
The Department consists of One Combination Chemical and Hose Truck, One Combination Pump and Hose Truck, One brush fire truck, One Two horse Ladder Truck, One two horse Hose Wagon, Four Horses, 4 sets of Harness, 2 Tip Carts, 2 Sleds, and 4100 21/2 in. Hose in good condition. The Fire Alarm System is in good condition as we have replaced about ten miles of old wire on account of the damage caused by the sleet storm.
The earnings of the horses and drivers for the year are $1600.
We recommend the sum of $23,000.00 for the use of the Fire Department.
We also recommend the purchase of an auto Ladder Truck.
CHARLES F. EMERSON, Chief Engineer.
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BOARD OF HEALTH
Since the introduction of a town water supply and system of sewers the problem of sanitation has fundamentally changed, not on account of these innovations alone, but the fact that many problems in civic and individual care of the health have undergone a species of reformation. The community now recognizes that personal security from, and the care of disease conditions, is the basis of general health conditions. Education of the public through the medium of the press, school supervision, district and public health nurses, and the physician himself, are among the many useful sources. Not only is the source of disease looked for, but particularly the route through which it is conveyed to others. Much of the work done has consisted in clearing away the fal- lacies built up by tradition, but constructive work has gone on also, and we now are able to formulate the results that deal with the individual as well as with environment. The ultimate eradication of Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria, Tuberculosis and all other transmissible diseases we now know depend upon the eradication of the source and prevention of a route of communi- cation. We are now sure that the sources of these diseases are as well defined as are the seeds from which spring the various forms in the animal and vegetable kingdom. The Board of Health therefore, is not worried by theoretical possibilities, but concerns itself with practical probabilities. These principles are the basis for official public health activities, the search for and the super- vision of infected persons, or animals in the case of bovine tuberculosis for instance; the control of infected discharges and their exclusion from the mouth, breathing apparatus, food and drink. The search for and supervision of mild, early conyal- escing, unrecognized and concealed cases and carriers, as well as of acute cases, is necessarily an essential factor in the work of the Board of Health.
The State, in view of its Constitution, is concerned with man's surroundings and relationships. It must plan for and consider
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his comfort and happiness as well as his health. This must be done co-operatively, as well as economically and authorita- tively in order to secure for the individual every possible ad- vantage. The secret of successful organization is the parcelling out along material lines of all the different activities which are to be co-ordinated to one great end. The work of the Board of Health then, has become not only the work of sanitary inspection, but also of educational supervision.
Suggestions for removal of the cause of disease must go hand in hand with suggestions for treatment in the same method as carried out in medical practice. It is not enough that Boards of Health promulgate rules and regulations for the carrying out of the above outlined scheme, it should be at all times equipped with the facilities for its work, and have the hearty co-operation of the public. Knowledge, authority, equipment and availa- bility are the essentials, and each should be given due consideration.
The problem of the general health of the community is always with us, and upon it depends in a great measure the civic activi- ties of pleasure, safety and convenience. Our Town should inter- est itself in the conservation of its health as it does in the con- servation of property and financial problems, unfortunately property has always had precedence over persons in almost every relation. We protect ourselves against accident so far as we are able, we should all the more protect ourselves against disease, for it may be both an accident as well as a disease.
In Andover we have done much to protect the public against disease through the work of School Medical Supervision. School nurses, district and health nurses, and the Board of Health un- qualifiedly recommends the continuance of all these activities. We call attention to the various reports in this volume as evidence of the work already done, with the assurance that more and better work will be done as we learn from personal experience the varied needs of our community.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES E. ABBOTT, M. D. FRANKLIN H. STACEY BANCROFT T. HAYNES
Board of Health
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MILK INSPECTOR'S REPORT
To the Board of Health.
GENTLEMEN :-
During the past year I examined 19 samples of milk and visited 39 barns where cows were kept. Believing sanitary in- spection of dairies more important than taking and testing sam- ples of milk I have given that part of the work the most attention.
The agent of the Board of Health reported several cases of Scarlet Fever on the premises of one producer. I stopped the sale of milk which was sold in Lowell, notified the Inspector of that city and made a return visit to meet him and the Health Officer.
Also visited one farm in North Andover to see if by any chance any of our Scarlet Fever cases could be traced, but found every- thing all right.
During the year there were 19 licenses issued for the sale of milk, cream and oleomargerine. Samples of milk tested from 3.35 to 7% butter fats.
At my request the State Department of Health detailed one of their inspectors to instruct me as to the proper method of scoring the dairies, several were visited and scored by the standard system in use. Notices were sent to these dairies giving the score and recommendations made.
In view of the field work now required in addition to the regular work, I feel that I should not give the time to this position and have tendered my resignation. Have held over on this work since it came under the Board of Health until a successor should be appointed, but there have been no applicants for the position. It is necessary to qualify by examination given by the Mass. Agricultural College, and for some part of the work one must be a recognized chemist.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANKLIN H. STACEY, Pharm. D., Ph.C.
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REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH NURSE, AGENT AND CLERK
To the Board of Health.
I hereby submit my second annual report:
Number of contagious diseases reported for the year was 473, compared with 302 for 1920.
1921
1920
Influenza
171
Tuberculosis
10
18
Encephalitis Lethargica
1
Anterior Poliomyelitis
3
6
Typhoid Fever
6
2
Scarlet Fever
36
8
Diph theria
21
15
Chicken Pox
25
20
Whooping Cough
2
17
Measles
358
31
Mumps
5
13
Suppurative Conjunctivitis
1
Lobar Pneumonia
4
Tetanus
2
DEATHS FROM CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
-
Tuberculosis
6
Typhoid Fever
1
Tetanus
2
Measles
1
Lobar Pneumonia
2
Scarlet Fever
1
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13
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Reports of several dog bites were received but the dogs did not have Rabies so the Pasteur treatment was not required.
During the year, I made 1241 sick calls, also miscellaneous calls as follows:
Accident and Emergency
11
Erysipelas
8
Raynaud's Disease
1
Carcinoma
4
Diphtheria Culture for Diagnosis
38
Diph theria Cultures for release
20
Dressings 42
I made 335 child welfare and prenatal calls. There were 178 births, and 17 deaths under one year of age.
In addition to other work I made 227 Sanitary visits. There were 70 complaints made to the Board of Health about unsani- tary conditions.
Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, and Measles occurred in epidemic form. The Diphtheria was mostly nasal which is especially difficult to control owing to its similarity to a bad catarrhal head cold, and is treated as such by parents who fail to call a physician before others are infected.
It seems that the epidemic of Scarlet Fever was due to its being so mild that the patient having it did not seek medical advice before the infection was spread. It is perhaps wise to recommend at this time the separation of members of a family suffering from any signs of illness that may become detrimental to others.
There are more Typhoid Fever cases in Andover this year than for many years previous, but after histories were compiled it was found they were all imported cases. Owing to precaution and disinfection there were no secondary cases.
Clinics attended, Tuberculosis, Child Welfare, Cancer, eye, ear, nose, and throat, and dental.
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Public Health conferences attended, Boston, Rhode Island, New York and Haverhill.
Several visits were received from representatives of the State Department of Health, including Doctor Simpson, our district, health officer, Miss Ashley, nursing assistant, the late Doctor Gallivan of the Division of Tuberculosis, and Doctor Drury of the Division of Food and Drugs.
Many Doctors attending the Public Health class of Harvard University were assigned to Andover for public health survey. There were Doctors from Bombay, India, Czecho Slovakia, Serbia, Maine and Kentucky. Visits were made to local dairies producing ordinary and certified milk, also schools and factories.
Hogs have been a great source of complaint and it has been necessary to investigate this problem very closely.
In view of the recent rules relating to Bakeries promulgated by the State Department of Health an inspection was made in company with one of their representatives, and their recom- mendations will be carried out.
I would like to emphasize that all complaints to the Board must be made in writing and that all cases suffering from any communicable disease MUST be reported to the local Board of Health.
Respectfully submitted,
LOTTA JOHNSON, R. N.
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AUDITORS' CERTIFICATE
We have examined the accounts of the several town officers and find them correctly cast, with satisfactory vouchers for all payments.
The Town Treasurer has on deposit in Andover National Bank and cash on hand:
General Fund
$20526.48
Town Farm Sale
30145.23
Water Loan 2707.38
Sewer Loans
2533.81
World War Memorial Committee
2000.00
War Memorial Book
66.90
Town Farm Committee
300.00
$58279.80
JOHN S. ROBERTSON
WALTER H. COLEMAN 1
HARRY SELLARS
Auditors
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PUNCHARD FREE SCHOOL
REV. CHARLES W. HENRY, President HARRY H. NOYES, Clerk and Treasurer
REV. E. VICTOR BIGELOW MYRON E. GUTTERSON
REV. NEWMAN MATTHEWS FREDERIC S. BOUTWELL WILLIAM ODLIN EDMOND E. HAMMOND
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REPORT OF TREASURER
PRINCIPAL FUND
January 1, 1921
Cash in banks
$ 7677.16
Real estate, mortgages and bonds
68977.12
Transferred from income account
200.00
$76854.28
December 31,1921
Cash in banks
10911.21
Real estate, mortgages and bonds
65943.07
76854.28
January 1, 1921
Cash in banks
7677.16
Mortgages paid during year
8880.00
Transferred from income account
200.00
16757.16
December 31, 1921
Cash in banks
10911.21
Invested in new mortgages and bonds
5845.95
16757.16
INCOME
January 1, 1921
Cash in Bank
1661.54
Interest
4100.87
5762.41
EXPENDITURES
N. C. Hamblin, Principal
800.00
Helen M. Dunn, instructor
1550.00
Hazel Underwood, instructor
1600.00
Rogers and Angus, insurance
25.00
Amount carried forward $3975.00
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Amount brought forward
$3975.00
Andover National bank-box rent
5.00
Interest on bonds 54.58
City of Boston - taxes
54.69
Horace H. Atherton, legal papers
2.00
Stationery
3.42
Harry H. Noyes, Treasurer
200.00
Transferred to principal account
200.00
Balance
1267.72
5762.41
BARNARD FUND
January 1, 1921
Cash in bank
25.50
Dividends
40.00
65.50
Prizes awarded
First
20.00
Second
12.00
Third
8.00
December 31, Cash in bank
25.50
65.50
DRAPER FUND
January 1, Cash in bank
1402.25
Dividends
70.97
1473.22
Scholarship - Dorothy M. Ryley 30.00
December 31, 1921
Cash in Andover National Bank 30.00
Cash in Andover Savings Bank 1413.22
1473.22
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GOLDSMITH FUND
January 1, 1921
Cash in bank
260.32
Dividends
13.15
273.47
Prizes awarded
10.00
December 31, Cash in bank
263.47
273.47
HARRY H. NOYES, Treasurer
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TOWN FARM
In accordance with the vote of the special town meeting November 1, 1921 that the selectmen be a committee on ways and means for housing the inmates of the Town Farm and that they have power to add two other members to the committee, the names of Mrs. Annie Swanton, matron at the Farm and Perley F. Gilbert, the well-known architect, were added. The committee has visited several institutions of this kind and have been in consultation with Mr. Bardwell, State inspector of Alms- houses. After long consideration the committee feels that a new building should be erected and accordingly Mr. Gilbert has pre- pared plans and specifications, which will be submitted with estimates of cost, at the coming annual town meeting.
The question of a site for the new building has also been given long consideration and the three following locations are suggested to the citizens of the town: Carmel Woods lot, land at junction of Burnham road and High street, and land on the plains at Ballardvale, all of which locations are owned by the town.
WALTER S. DONALD CHARLES BOWMAN ANDREW McTERNEN ANNIE SWANTON PERLEY F. GILBERT
Committee.
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING
In making this report, your committee has had in mind two factors, the immediate need of the Town of Andover for a change in its form of government and possibilities for the future.
We do not find that an emergency exists which requires in- creased accommodation under the use of the printed voting list, but with a rapid increase in our population the question may arise in the near future. Suggestions and plans' for civic im- provement in the form of new and commodious buildings are now in the hands of a committee, and we are unable to foretell what the carrying out of these plans may accomplish in overcoming such an emergency. We have therefore, after a study of plans now in use in various towns in our Commonwealth, and consulta- tion with the officials at the State House who are familiar with the framing of laws for the several towns now working under this new form of government, come to the conclusion, that the wise course to pursue is the printing in the annual report of the town, a sample act drawn from the plans now in operation, that the voters may have at hand for study and consideration such changes as are essential in the acceptance of an act to establish a so- called representative town meeting government.
We do not at this time advise or repudiate the acceptance of such an act, but do advise a general discussion of this, or some similar act, at the annual town meeting in March 1922, with the hope that whatever may be decided will be in harmony with the best traditions of our town.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES E. ABBOTT GEORGE L. AVERILL JOSEPH L. BURNS BARTLETT C. HAYES GEORGE A. HIGGINS
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-Two.
AN ACT
To provide for Precinct Voting, Representative Town Meetings, Town Meeting Members, a Referendum and an Annual Moderator in the Town of Andover.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Upon the acceptance of this act by the town of Andover as hereinafter provided the selectmen of the town and the board of assessors, acting jointly and hereinafter referred to as the districting board, shall forthwith divide the territory thereof into not less than four voting precincts, each of which shall be plainly designated, and shall contain approximately an equal number of registered voters. Such precincts shall be so established as to consist of compact and contiguous territory, to be bounded as far as possible, by the centre line of known streets and ways and by other well-defined limits. Their boundaries shall be reviewed and, if need be, wholly or partly revised, by the districting board, in December, once in five years, or in December of any year when directed by a vote of the preceding annual town meeting. The districting board shall, within ten days after any establishment or revision of the precincts, file a report of their doings with the town clerk, the registrars of voters, and the assessors, with a map or maps or description of the precincts and the names and residences of the registered voters therein. The
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districting board shall also cause to be posted in the town hall a map or maps or description of the precincts as established or revised from time to time, with the names and residences of the registered voters therein; and they shall also cause to be posted in at least one public place in each precinct a map or description of that precinct, with the names and residences of the registered voters therein. The division of the town into voting precincts and any revision of such precincts shall take effect upon the date of the filing of the report thereof by the districting board with the town clerk. Whenever such precincts are established or revised, the town clerk shall forthwith give written notice thereof to the secretary of the commonwealth, stating the number and desig- nation of such precincts. Meetings of the voters of the several precincts for elections, for primaries, and for voting upon any question to be submitted to all the voters of the town shall be held on the same day and at the same hour, and at such place or places within the town as the selectmen shall in the warrant for such meeting direct. The provisions of chapter eight hundred and thirty-five of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen and any amendments thereof relating to precinct voting at all elections, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this act, shall apply to all elections and primaries in the town upon establishment of voting precincts as hereinbefore provided.
SECTION 2. The registered voters in each such precinct shall, at the first annual town election held after the establishments of such precincts, and conformably to the laws relative to elections not inconsistent with this act, elect by ballot thirty such voters in such precinct other than the officers hereinafter designated in section three of this act as town meeting members at large, such elected voters to be town meeting members of the town, one third of whom shall be elected for the term of one year, one third for the term of two years and one-third for the term of three years from the date of the annual town meeting; and thereafter, except as hereinafter provided, at each annual town election the regis- tered voters of each precinct in the town shall, in like manner, elect ten of their number to be town meeting members of the town for the term of three years, and shall at such election fill
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for the unexpired term or terms any vacancies then existing in the number of town meeting members in their respective pre- cincts. Upon every revision of the precincts or of any of them the term or terms of office of all town meeting members from each and every such revised precinct shall cease upon the election of their successors, and at the first ensuing annual town election there shall be an entirely new election of town meeting members in each and every precinct so revised, as well as in any new pre- cinct or precincts established. The town clerk shall, after every election of town meeting members, forthwith notify each member by mail of his election.
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