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Total $1,415.00
INSURANCE INVESTMENT FUND
Savings Securities
Banks Par Value Total
On hand at beginning of year
$4,767.96 $1,000.00 $5,767.96
On hand at end of year
$8,562.67 $1,000.00 $9,562.67
Receipts
Payments
Income .$294.71
Savings bank
deposits. . $3,794.71
From Town 3,500.00
Total
$3,794.71
Total
$3,794.71
CHELMSFORD WATER DISTRICT
TAXES-1922
Commitment per warrant
$11,947.70
Detailed list in excess of warrant
1.28
Interest credited as taxes
.21
Overpayment
.01
Payments to treasurer:
1922
$ 8,019.66
1923
3,597.55
1924
166.45
1925
81.44
Abatements
25.73
Outstanding December 31, 1925
58.37
$11,949.20
Outstanding January 1, 1926
$58.37
Outstanding March 16, 1926, per list
$58.37
Banks
Total
$11,865.10
$11,949.20
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CHELMSFORD WATER DISTRICT TAXES -~ 1923
Commitment per warrant
$5,189.29
Interest credited as taxes
2.62
$5,191.91
Payments to treasurer:
1923
$4,054.02
1924
1,125.15
1925
5.77
$5,184.94
Abatements
1.45
Warrant in excess of detailed list.
5.52
$5,191.91
CHELMSFORD WATER DISTRICT
TAXES-1924
Commitment per warrant
$6,840.94
Overpayments
.44
Overpayment to treasurer
10.00
Payments to treasurer:
1924
$5,324.50
1925
1,199.73
$6,524.23
Abatements
6.73
Warrant in excess of detailed list
4.21
Outstanding December 31, 1925
316.21
$6,851.38
Outstanding January 1, 1926
$316.21
Payments to treasurer January 1 to
March 16, 1926
$14.40
Outstanding March 16, 1926, per list
301.81
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CHELMSFORD WATER DISTRICT
TAXES-1925
Commitment per warrant
$8,559.65
Detailed list in excess of warrant.
49.03
Payment after abatement
4.30
Overpayment
3.34
$8,616.32
Payments to treasurer
$6,055.16
Abatements
7.44
Outstanding December 31, 1925
. 2,553.72
$8,616.32
Outstanding January 1, 1926
$2,553.72
Payments to treasurer January 1 to March 16, 1926
$510.46
Outstanding March 16, 1926, per list
2,018.21
Cash on hand March 16, 1926
25.05
$2,553.72
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$6,851.38
$316.21
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CHELMSFORD WATER DISTRICT INTEREST ON TAXES
Interest collected :
Levy of 1922
$163.19
Levy of 1923
67.51
Levy of 1924
71.01
Levy of 1925
18.13
Payments to treasurer:
1922
$8.22
1923
146.12
1924
67.58
1925
72.77
1926 to March 16
10.00
Interest credited as taxes
2.83
Cash on hand March 16, 1926
12.32
$319.84
NORTH CHELMSFORD FIRE DISTRICT TAXES-1921
Commitment per warrant
$2,207.70
Detailed list in excess of warrant
6.45
Payments to treasurer:
1921
$1,866.68
1922
228.85
1923
89.29
1924
29.33
$2,214.15
NORTH CHELMSFORD FIRE DISTRICT TAXES-1922
Commitment per warrant
$4,181.71
Overpayment to district
4.80
Payments to treasurer:
1922
$3,680.78
1923
413.43
1924
21.07
$4,115.28
Payments to district treasurer not
recorded on town books
66.43
Duplicate payment to district by
town treasurer
4.80
$4,186.51
NORTH CHELMSFORD FIRE DISTRICT TAXES-1923
Commitment per warrant
$1,566.12
Overpayment to district
92.21
$1,658.33
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$319.84
$340.69
$2,214.15
$4,186.51
Payments to treasurer :
1923
$1,300.55 233.31
1925
13.51
$1,547.37
Duplicate payment to district by
town treasurer
92.21
Abatements
.21
Outstanding December 31, 1925
18.54
$1,658.33
Outstanding January 1, 1926
$18.54
Outstanding March 16, 1926, per list
$12.84
Unlocated difference
.30
Cash on hand March 16, 1926
5.40
$18.54
NORTH CHELMSFORD FIRE DISTRICT TAXES-1924
Commitment per warrant
$5,013.92
Detailed list in excess of warrant
36.03
Payments to treasurer:
1924
$4,359.72
1925
536.21
$4,895.93
Abatements
1.88
Outstanding December 31, 1925
152.14
$5,049.95
Outstanding January 1, 1926
$152.14
Outstanding March 16, 1926, per list.
$111.07
Unlocated difference
.01
Cash on hand March 16, 1926
41.06
$152.14
NORTH CHELMSFORD FIRE DISTRICT TAXES-1925
Commitment per warrant
$3,374.61 5.67
Detailed list in excess of warrant.
$3,380.28
Payments to treasurer
$2,630.97
Outstanding December 31, 1925
749.31
$3,380.28
Outstanding January 1, 1926
$749.31
Outstanding March 16, 1926, per list. ..
$403.28
Cash on hand March 16, 1926
346.03
$749.31
1924
$5,049.95
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NORTH CHELMSFORD FIRE DISTRICT INTEREST ON TAXES
Interest collected :
Levy of 1921
$26.10
Levy of 1922
24.99
Levy of 1923
8.07
Levy of 1924
31.45
Levy of 1925
8.43
$99.04 .95
Overpayments to district
$99.99
Payments to treasurer:
1921
$.76
1922
13.82
1923
26.29
1924
13.42
1925
29.84
$84.13
Payments to district treasurer not
recorded on town books
4.01
Duplicate payment to district by town treasurer
.95
Cash on hand March 16, 1926
10.90
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$99.99
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TOWN OF CHELMSFORD Balance Sheet-March 16, 1926 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES
Cash:
In bank and office
$42,333.49
At almshouse
50.00
Accounts Receivable : Taxes:
Levy of 1921 $31.98
Levy of 1923
2,481.38
Levy of 1924
8,232.23
Levy of 1925
53,037.19
Special Assessmer
Moth 1923
$8.00
Moth 1924
7.28
Mothi 1925
110.90
Departmental
435.04
Tax title revenue
846.85
Tax Titles
846.85
Surplus revenue
47,188.74
Overdrawn accounts:
Perpetual care, cemetery lots (r'e-
imbursement to be made from trust funds) $685.00
Interest on town debt (to be
raised by assessors) 1,649.52
2,334.52
North Chelmsford Fire District- overpayment of district tax Revenue 1926 (appropriations) .$208,042.67 Less collections (estimated receipts) 1,769.75
97.96
206,272.92
$316,279.74
1,280.76 Surplus war bonus fund $3,104.95 Premium reserved for payment of debt Chelmsford Water District-collection of taxes to be paid to district treasurer 524.86
Grammar School appropriation 1925
30,669.79
Appropriation balances 1926 unex- pended 197,893.84
Overlay, for abatement of taxes:
Levy of 1923 $2,634.23
63,782.78
Levy of 1924
2,650.97
Levy of 1925
1,728.42
7,013.62
Overlay Reserve
27,195.11
Moth assessment revenue
126.18
1216.18
Departmental revenue
435.04
$42,383.49
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net funded or fixed debt $241,120.00
High school loan
$35,750.00
North Road loan No. 3
2,400.00
Westlands School loan .
25,000.00
Motor Fire Apparatus loan.
2,680.00
Acton Road loan No. 1
4,800.00
East Chelmsford Fire Station loan ...
1,140.00
Groton Road loan No. 1
2,000.00
Groton Road loan No. 2
3,600.00
Groton Road loan No. 4
3,600.00
School Truck loan
1,106.00
East Chelmsford School loan
16,000.00
Boston-Acton Road loan
6,400.00
Stone Crusher loan
2,200.00
Highway Truck loan
4,444.00
New Grammar School loan
130,000.00
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$241,120.00
$241,120.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT FUND ACCOUNTS
Trust and investment funds:
Cash and securities $53,374.34
Adams Emerson Library Fund. $210.21
O. A. G. Flint Library Fund 19,779.34 Joseph Warren Library Fund 1,532.47
L. G. Richardson Library Fund 308.73
$21,830.75 2,319.34
O. A. G. Flint Library Book Fund .. Adams Emerson Cemetery Improve- ment Fund
103.56
O. A. G. Flint Cemetery Care Fund. .
1,060.97
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds . 18,497.05 . . Insurance Investment Fund 9,562.67
$53,374.34
$53,374.34
Town Clerk's Report
OFFICERS ELECTED
Moderator WALTER PERHAM (Term Expires 1927)
Town Clerk HAROLD C. PETTERSON (Term Expires 1927)
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor
GEORGE RIGBY
Term Expires 1927
ROBERT BARRIS
Term Expires
1928
RALPH P. ADAMS
Term Expires 1929
Treasurer and Tax Collector ERVIN W. SWEETSER (Term Expires 1927)
Assessors
WILLIAM J. QUIGLEY
. Term
Expires 1927
HERBERT C. SWEETSER
Term Expires
1928
WARREN WRIGHT
Term Expires 1929
Tree Warden WILLIAM SHANKS (Term Expires 1927)
Board of Health
ELIPHALET G. BROWN
Term Expires 1927
GEORGE A. MCNULTY
Term Expires 1928
J. CLARK OSTERHOUT
. Term Expires 1929
School Committee
CHARLES H. CLOUGH
Term Expires 1927
WILLIS L. MacCOMB Term Expires 1928
FRANK J. LUPIEN
Term Expires 1929
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Park Commissioners
FRED L. FLETCHER
. Term Expires 1927
WALTER H. MERRILL
Term Expires 1928
PATRICK S. WARD
Term Expires 1929
Cemetery Commissioners
ARTHUR O. WHEELER Term Expires 1927
RALPH P. ADAMS
Term Expires 1928
BAYARD C. DEAN
Term Expires 1929
Trustees of Adams Library
ALBERT H. DAVIS Term Expires 1927. A. HEADY PARK
LUELLA H. S. CLARK . Term Expires 1928 .... LOTTIE L. SNOW
FRANCES CLARK Term Expires 1929 WILSON WATERS
Insurance Fund Commissioners
WILLIAM H. SHEDD
Term Expires 1927
WALTER PERHAM Term Expires 1928
WILLIAM J. QUIGLEY . Term Expires 1929
Constable DONALD F. ADAMS (Term Expires 1927)
CHARLES F. SHUGRUE (By Appointment)
APPOINTED OFFICERS
Town Accountant HAROLD C. PETTERSON
Finance Committee JOHN C. MONAHAN C. GEORGE ARMSTRONG EMILE E. PAIGNON EDMUND FAIRBURN JAMES W. STEVENS JAMES A. GRANT
Town Counsel FREDERIC A. FISHER
Superintendent of Streets WILLIAM SHANKS
Inspector of Animals ARNOLD C. PERHAM
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ARNOLD C. PERHAM
Fire Engineers DAVID BILLSON ARCHIBALD COOKE
Moth Superintendent WILLIAM SHANKS
Registrars of Voters
KARL M. PERHAM
. Term Expires 1927
JAMES F. LEAHEY
. Term Expires 1928
*G. CARLTON BROWN
Term Expires 1929
HAROLD C. PETTERSON
Ex-Officio
*To Fill Unexpired Term of Walter T. Monahan
Janitors of Public Buildings
JOHN WRIGLEY (Centre) JUSTIN J. POTTER (North)
Sealer of Weights and Measures CURTIS A. AIKEN
Forest Fire Warden SIDNEY E. DUPEE
Superintendent of Almshouse FRANK H. HANNAFORD
Appraisers of Personal Property EMILE E. PAIGNON JOHN F. PARKER ALBERT H. DAVIS
Superintendent of Burials of Indigent Soldiers and Sailors WALTER PERHAM
Regular Police Officers DONALD F. ADAMS CHARLES F. SHUGRUE
Special Police Officers FRED I. VINAL GEORGE SMALL GUY HAZELTINE
Measurer of Sawdust
PEARL DURRELL C. WALLACE McDONALD
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Weighers of Coal
HAROLD D. MacDONALD JOHN J. DUNIGAN WILLIAM HALL JAMES P. DUNIGAN
MARY C. HEALY JOHN A. HEALV EDWARD T. HEALY ARTHUR L. HEALY
Weighers of Hay
HAROLD D. MacDONALD
WILLIAM H. HALL
MYRON A. QUEEN
Weighers of Merchandise
JAMES F. LEAHEY JAMES P. DUNIGAN JAMES LONG
HAROLD D. MacDONALD WALTER PERHAM WILLIAM BROWN
SINAI SIMARD MICHAEL SCOLLAN JAMES F. DUNIGAN
MARY C. HEALY SIDNEY E. PERHAM EDWARD T. HEALY
Measurers of Lumber
MYRON A. QUEEN
FRANCIS O. DUTTON
HARRY L. PARKHURST
EDWARD B. RUSSELL
HERBERT C. SWEETSER
PEARL T. DURRELL
ARTHUR LAPRICE
JAMES A. BERTON
WALTER EDWARDS CARL DUNNING C. WALLACE MacDONALD HERBERT C. SWEETSER
JOSEPH ERWIN
Measurers of Wood
ERWIN W. SWEETSER MYRON A. QUEEN
,HOSMER SWEETSER JAMES F.DUNIGAN
PEARL T. DURRELL
HARRY L. PARKHURST C. WALACE MacDONALD HERBERT C. SWEETSER
Weighers of Sand and Gravel
ROBERT E. BLISS JAMES W. STEVENS
Fence Vlewers HERBERT C. SWEETSER GEORGE SMALL GEORGE A. MCNULTY
Agent of the Board of Health MARY A. SHEEHAN
Superintendent of Schools CHARLES H. WALKER
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Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
FEBRUARY 1, 1926 and FEBRUARY 8, 1926
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss. To Donald F. Adams, a Constable of the Town of Chelmsford,
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid you are hereby request- ed to notify and warn the legal voters of said Chelmsford to meet in their several Polling Places, viz .:
Precinct 1, Town Hall, Chelmsford Centre.
Precinct 2, Town Hall, North Chelmsford.
Precinct 3, Historical Hall, West Chelmsford.
Precinct 4, School House, East Chelmsford.
Precinct 5, Liberty Hall, South Chelmsford.
Precinct 6, Golden Cove School House, Westlands.
on MONDAY the FIRST DAY of FEBRUARY, 1926, being the first Mon- day in said month, at 12 o'clock noon, for the following purposes: To bring in their votes for the following officers:
Moderator for one year. One Selectman for three years.
One Overseer of the Poor for three years.
One Assessor for three years.
Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for one year. One Member of the Board of Health for three years.
One Constable for one year.
One School Committeeman for three years.
Two Trustees of Adams Library for three years.
Tree Warden for one year.
One Insurance Fund Commissioner for three years.
One Cemetery Commissioner for three years. All on one ballot.
(The polls will be open from 12 m. to & p. m.)
and to meet in the Town Hall at Chelmsford Centre on the following MONDAY, the EIGHTH DAY of FEBRUARFY, 1926, at 9.30 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz .:
ARTICLE 1. To hear reports of Town officers and committees; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 2. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be required to defray Town charges for the current year.
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ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to act as its agent in any suit or suits which may arise during the current year; also in such other matters as may arise requiring in their judgment the action of such agent and to employ counsel therefor.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenues of the current financial year.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from money already in the hands of the Treasurer a sufficient sum with which to meet unpaid bills of 1925; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to contract with the Lowell Electric Light Corporation at the then prevailing price per light for the following additional lights, and will raise and appropriate sufficient money to meet the expense thereof, viz .:
Five lights on Richardson Road;
Three lights on Edmunds avenue, East Chelmsford;
Four lights on Locust Road; Four lights on Robbins Hill Road; One light on Westford Road;
One light on Gorham street; Four lights on Dalton Road; Three lights on Fletcher street;
Seven lights on Russell Mill Road; Three lights on Dunstable Road; Five lights on Billerica street; Eight lights on Hunt Road; Six lights on Pine Hill Road; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000), or what other sum, for the purpose of continuing the construction of the Boston Road, the Acton Road and of repairing Billerica street, two-thirds of the expense to be borne equally by the Commonwealth and County of Middlesex; or . act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250), or what other sum, with which to carry on the work of the committee appointed at the Annual Town Meeting of 1924 "to have charge of suitably marking hsitoric spots within the Town," which committee was "to continue in office until all such places are marked;" or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to sell and convey a certain lot of vacant land supposed to have been formerly of Homer Stevens and wife, situated on the Dunstable Road, so called, acquired by the Town for the purpose of building a school house; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will consent to the laying-out of a new road extending southerly from the West Chelmsford Road for a distance of about one thousand feet over and along the westerly side of the new cemetery, so called; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To hear and act upon the report of the Special Com- mittee appointed at the last Annual Town Meeting to investigate and report relative to the "Town Forest Act;" or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to purchase for a public domain a certain lot of stump land situated in the southerly part of Chelmsford, containing about twenty-five acres, commonly known as the Thanksgiving Ground, formerly property of the late Daniel Gage; also an adjoining piece of sprout land containing about twen- ty acres, belonging to E. H. Russell; also a certain lot of stump land situated on Chestnut Hill, containing about twenty-five acres, be- longing to Fred L. Fletcher, or any one or more of them as provided in General Laws, Section 19, Chapter 45, entitled "Parks, Play- grounds and Public Domains;" or in the alterative, will vote to pur- chase said lots of land or any one or more of them, for the pur- poses of forestation, as provided in General Laws, Section 35, Chap- ter 132, entitled "Forestry," as amended by the Acts of 1924, Chap- ter 24, and will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum to cover the purchase price of such real estate and the cost of procuring and setting out forest trees thereon; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To hear and act upon the report and recommendations of the Committee on Renaming streets appointed at a special Town Meeting held in 1925; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue the follow- ing public or Town ways, namely: Chestnut Hill Road, in part; Canal Road, in part; North Road to the Lowell line; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will indemnify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying-out, alteration or reconstruction of the State Highway or section of the State Highway on Littleton Street, and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign indemnity agreement therfor in be- half of the Town, or take any other action in respect thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to instruct Town officials having any property of the Town to sell, to advertise said property and call for competitive bids on same fourteen (14) days before the date of sale, except when otherwise voted at an annual or special Town Meeting; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Four Hudred Dollars ($400), or what other sum, and elect a director; the money to be expended by and the director to serve in co-operation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Ser- vice, under the provisions of Sections 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General Laws of Massachusetts; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250), or what other sum, with which to continue the grading of Moore street; or at in rela- tion thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise ad appropriate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500), or what other sum, for the purpose of grading and oiling Sprague Avenue; or art in rola- tion thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250), or what other sum, for the purpose of constructing a sidewalk beginning at the termination of the present sidewalk on the North Road, so calied, on the easterly side in front of Mr. Thayer's residence and con- tinuing northerly to the junction of Dalton and North Roads, a dis- tance of approximately eleven hundred feet, more or less; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1200), or what other sum, for the purpose of improving and extending the fire alarm system; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee to make investigation and report at the next Annual Town Meeting as to the advisability of obtaining a fire house site at the West Village; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a triple com- bination fire pump or pumper, so called, for the use of the Fire De- partment, and will raise and appropriate in whole or in part, or bor- row in part, the sum of Seventy-five Hundred ($7500), with which to pay therefor; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 24. In the event of affirmative action under the preceding article, to see if the Town will vote to sell one piece of motor fire apparatus now in use by the Fire Department; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to expend from mony already in the Town Treasury, the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400), for the purpose of pro- curing plans ond specifications of new heating system in the two school buildings on Princeton street, North Chelmsford, and also in the Quessy school at West Chelmsford; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee to expend from money already in the Town Treasury the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100), for the purpose of procuring technical advice and preliminary lay-out of a flush toilet system at the Quessy school at West Chelmsford; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to dispose of the old North Row school house; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will accept and allow King street, as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clerk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will accept and allow an extension of Evergreen street as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clerk: or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will accept and allow New Fletcher street, as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clerk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will accept and allow Fern street, as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report duly filed in the office of the Town Clerk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will accept and allow Albina street, as laid out by the Selectmen as shown by their report filed in the office of the Town Clerk; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1000), or what other sum, for the pur- pose of grading Wilson street; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to pur- chase six reflex beacons for the Street Department and will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300), or what other sum; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to consider and report at some future meeting as to what changes or improve- ments, if any, should be made in the Public Common at Chelmsford; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote that the School Committee together with such other persons as the Town may add, shall be a Special Committee to investigate and report as to the best use or disposition to be made of the old grammar school house situated on the North Road at Chelmsford Centre.
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ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum with which to pay land damages growing out of the relocation of the Dalton Road; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars ($575), or what other sum, for State Aid; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 39. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from money already in the hands of the Terasurer, a sum not exceeding Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00), to be used as a Reserve Fund at the direction . of the Finance Committee, as provided in General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 6; or act in relation thereto.
AND YOU ARE DIRECTED to serve this Warrant by posting at- tested copies thereof at Post Offices in the Centre of the Town, South Chelmsford, North Chelmsford, and West Chelmsford, and at the School House, East Chelmsford, and at the Golden Cove School House, West- lands, seven days at least before the time appointed for holding the first meeting aforesaid.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding the first meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-six.
GEORGE W. DAY, GEORGE RIGBY, ROBERT W. BARRIS, Selectmen of Chelmsford.
RETURN
I have served the foregoing Warrant by posting attested copies thereof more than seven days before the time of said first meeting, as directed by vote of the Town, and by the foregoing order.
DONALD F. ADAMS,
Constable of the Town of Chelmsford.
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ELECTION OF OFFICERS
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Chelmsford qualified to vote in Town affairs held pursuant to Warrant February 1, 1926 at the six precincts in the Town, the following persons received the number of votes set against their respective names for Town Officers, as follows:
Moderator for 1 Year-
P-1
P-2
P-3
P-4
P-5
P-6
Total
Walter Perham
495
200
62
104
60
135
1056
Blanks
92
125
13
82
13
37
362
Selectman for Three Years-
Ralph P. Adams
404
132
54
47
38
57
732
Arthur E. Dutton
87
12
4
3
20
8
134
David Ingham
80
175
16
131
15
106
523
Blanks
16
6
1
5
0
1
29
Overseer of Poor for 3 Years-
Ralph P. Adams
402
128
55
48
38
52
723
Arthur E. Dutton
95
14
3
2
18
S
140
David Ingham
84
162
15
120
16
109
506
Blanks
6
21
2
16
1
3
49
Board of Health for 3 Years-
J. Clark Osterhout
.260
134
29
110
38
85
656
Abbot W. Russell
300
123
346
62
35
68
624
Blanks
27
68
10
14
0
19
138
Treasurer and Tax Collector for 1 Year-
Ervin W. Sweetser
.397
260
63
116
67
109
1012
George M. Wright
180
54
7
46
G
59
352
Blanks
10
11
5
24
0
4
54
Assessor for 3 Years-
Warren Wright
560
193
533
104
71
132
1112
Blanks
27
132
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