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for aid rendered, 1891
$198 00
DUE FROM
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
for aid rendered, 1892 $168 00
for aid rendered, Jan. and Feb., 1893
28 00 $196 00
184
AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1892-1893.
STATE AID.
CHAPTER 301, ACTS OF 1889.
Burnham, Alfred M.
aid 11 months, April 1, 1892, to March 1, 1893 . . $4 00
$44 00
Carpenter, Martin
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 3 00
36 00
Chute, Isabelle F.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Connor, Elizabeth S.
aid 2 months, Jan. and Feb. 1893 3 00
6 00
Connor, George M.
aid 2 months, Jan. and Feb. 1893
3 00
6 00
Douglass, Rodney A. aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 3 00
36 00
Fairbanks, Mary E.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Fay, Lydia J.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Fay, William T.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Glass, Joseph W.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893
. 6 00
72 00
Gordon, Sarah A.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 2 00
24 00
Gore, Elizabeth N.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Green, Benjamin M.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Green, Mehitable
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893
4 00
48 00
Haley, Mary
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Amount carried forward
$608 00
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AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1892-1893.
STATE .. AID.
Amount brought forward
$608 00
Haley, Michael
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893
39 00
Hartshorn, Joseph W.
aid 2 months, Mar. and Apr. 1892 $4 00
8 00
Heath, Hannah M.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 4 00
48 00
Hodgkins, Sarah A.
aid 5 months, Oct. 1, 1892 to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
20 00
Horton, George
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 3 00
36 00
Horton, Joseph A.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 3 00
36 00
Marsh, Edward, Jr.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893
. 6 00
72 00
Marsh, Mary F.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1 1893 4 00
48 00
Lewis, J. M., guardian, ) aid 12 mos.
48 00
Pedrick, Benjamin G.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Spinney, George F.
aid 11 months, Apr. 1, 1892 to Mar. 1, 1893
5 00
55 00
Stevens, Sarah A.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893
2 00
24 00
Stimpson, John C.
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 6 00
72 00
Stimpson, Susan
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
48 00
Umber, Sarah L., aid Mar. 1, 1892
$2 00
aid 11 months, Apr. 1, 1892, to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00
44 00 46 00
Amount carried forward
$1,256 00
Milan, Bridget ) to Mar.1 '93 4 00
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AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1892-1893.
STATE AID.
Amount brought forward Wiley, Edwin F.
$1,256 00
aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . $6 00
72 00
Winslow, Hope S. aid 12 months to Mar. 1, 1893 . 4 00 48 00
$1,376 00
REIMBURSED.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
for aid reimbursed 1891 ·
$1,157 00
DUE FROM
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
for aid reimbursed 1892
$1,351 00
for aid rendered Jan. and Feb. 1893
251 00
$1,602 00
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' AID.
By Appropriation $200 00
To Amount of Expenditures
$97 66
Balance Unexpended . .
102 34
$200 00
$200 00
By Amount Unexpended .
$102 34
EXPENDITURES.
Gallagher, Mrs. John
paid Hanlon & Sullivan house rent
1 year to February 11, 1893 $72 00
20 86 $92 86
paid Honors & Wardwell for fuel . Ireson, Thomas E. fuel from Honors & Wardwell
4 80
$97 66
187
AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1892-1893.
RECAPITULATION.
Appropriations and receipts.
Beaches, Care of.
$300 00
Expenditures. $265 55
Catch Basins and Gutters.
400 00
285 65
Cemetery . .
400 00
315 08
Concrete and Curbstones
Appropriation. $500 00
750 83
647 12
Corporation Tax
17,860 98
County of Essex, Tax
4,952 28
4,952 28
Fire Department
2,500 00
3,276 53
Health Department
1,200 00
738 68
Highway Department . Receipts, Appropriation,
$5,500 00
5,571 50
5,497 99
Horses for Fire Dept.
1,500 00
1,469 84
Humphrey Street improvement
3,000 00
3,000 14
Huron Street.
500 00
464 03
Interest . .
Appropriation $2,000 00
2,243 00
2,056 32
Library Free Public. Appropriation, $400 00
677 09
680 43
Memorial Day
50 00
50 00
Military Aid.
198 00
336 00
Monument Lot, Care of .
25 00
27 75
National Bank Tax
1,439 44
New Ocean Street retaining wall
250 00
157 00
Notes Payable.
8,833 33
Police Department
Appropriation, $2,300 00
2,545 75
2,091 37
Poor Department
Appropriation, $2,500 00
2,758 39
2,885 57
Schools, Public.
Receipts
110 00
11,110 00
10,924 35
Selectmen's Department
4,300 00
4,145 30
Sidewalks .
1,000 00
822 71
Soldiers and Sailors' Aid.
200 00
97 66
Stacey's Brook ...... Appropriation Recd. from City of Lynn 697 16 $700 00
1,397 16
1,394 32
State Aid (received from state treasurer)
1,157 00
1,376 00
State Tax.
4,235 00
4,235 00
Street Crossing.
400 00
398 10
Street Lights ..
6,325 00
6,077 17
Temporary Loans
22,000 00
22,000 00
Town Hall.
Appropriation, $400 00
746 90
822 33
Water Mains.
5,000 00
3,854 18
Water Rates
350 00
391 03
$116,176 65
$94,568 81
· Receipts,
346 90
Reimbursements, 250 83
71 50
Recd. from Treasurer 243 00
Receipts and dog to 7 09
Reimbursements, 245 75
Reimbursements, 258 39
Appropriation $11,000 00
1.88
AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1892-1893.
Financial Condition of the Town of Swampscott, February 28, 1893.
RESOURCES.
Cash in hands of Treasurer, funds on
deposit in Security National Bank,
Lynn, as per Cashier's certificate
$10,979 20
Due to Poor Department
156 88
" " State Aid, chap. 301, acts 1889
1,602 00
" " Military Aid, chap. 279, acts 1889
196 00
" " Town Hall Department
14 00
Value public property as per schedule
109,553 50
$122,501 58
LIABILITIES.
Notes Payable 1893, Water Pipes
$7,000 00
1893, Town Debt
4,333 33
$11,333 33
1894, Water Pipes
4,000 00
1894, Town Debt
4,333 33
8,333 33
1895, Culvert
1,000 00
1895, Water Pipes
2,000 00
66
1895, Town Debt
4,333 33
7,333 33
66
66 1896, Culvert
1,000 00
66
1896, Water Pipes
1,000 00
66
1896, Engine House .
2,250 00
4,250 00
1897, Culvert
1,000 00
66
1897, Engine House .
2,250 00
3,250 00
66
1898, Monument
3,000 00
3,000 00
$37,499 99
Due H. Scott Tuttle, 5 per cent water pipe contract 1892
189 94
Selectmen's Outstanding orders 1893
230 10
$37,820 03
189
AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1892-1893.
Appropriations -Comparative Exhibit.
DEPARTMENTS.
Appropriations and Receipts, 1892-93.
Expendi- tures, 1892-93.
Appropri- ations, 1893-94.
Beaches, Care of.
$300 00
$265 55
Catch Basins and Gutters
400 00
285 65
$300 00
Cemetery .
400 00
315 08
400 00
Concrete and Curbstones
750 83
647 12
700 00
Corporation Tax
17,860 98
County Tax
4,952 28
4,952 28
4,952 28
Essex Street, Repairs (1893)
1,200 00
Fire
2,500 00
3,276 53
3,500 00
Healtlı
1,200 00
738 68
1,500 00
Highway
5,571 50
5,497 99
5,500 00
Horses for Fire Department
1,500 00
1,469 84
Humphrey Street Improvement. .
3,000 00
3,000 14
Huron Street.
500 00
464 03
Interest
2,243 00
2,056 32
2,500 00
Library.
677 09
680 43
400 00
Memorial Day.
50 00
50 00
100 00
Military Aid.
198 00
336 00
Monument Lot. .
25 00
27 75
25 00
National Bank Tax.
1,439 44
New Ocean Street Wall.
250 00
157 00
Ontario Street (1893)
700 00
Notes Payable
S,833 33
8,833 33
*11,333 33
Police
2,545 75
2,091 37
2,300 00
Poor
2,758 39
2,885 57
2,500 00
School
11,110 00
10,924 35
11,500 00
Selectmen
4,300 00
4,145 30
4,300 00
Sidewalks
1,000 00
822 71
1,000 00
Soldiers and Sailors' Aid.
200 00
97 66
200 00
Stacey's Brook
1,397 16
1,394 32
State Aid .
1,157 00
1,376 00
State Tax
4,235 00
4,235 00
4,235 00
Street Crossings
400 00
398 10
400 00
Street Lights
6,325 00
6,077 17
6,400 00
Temporary Loan.
22,000 00
22,000 00
Town Hall
746 90
822 33
400 00
Wall, New Ocean Street (1893)
800 00
Water Pipes
5,000 00
3,854 18
Water Rates
350 00 .
391 03
600 00
$116,176 65
$94,568 81
$67,745 61
*Not on Appropriation List.
190
TOWN WARRANT-1893.
TOWN WARRANT, 1893.
ESSEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott, in said County,
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott qualified to vote in elections, and in Town af- fairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Swampscott, on Monday, the Twentieth day of March, current, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following Articles, viz .: -
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting. ARTICLE 2. To choose a Town Clerk for one (1) year. To choose a Board of Selectmen for the year ensuing.
To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for three (3) years.
To choose a Town Treasurer for one (1) year. To choose a Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing.
To choose one member of the School Committee for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library for three (3) years.
To choose three members of the Board of Audi- tors for the year ensuing.
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TOWN WARRANT-1893.
To choose one Overseer of the Poor for three (3) years.
To choose a Board of Health for one (1) year.
To choose three Constables for the year ensuing. All to be chosen on one ballot.
ART. 3. To vote by ballot "Yes " or "No" upon the ques- tion : Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxicating Liquors in this Town.
ART. 4. To vote by ballot "Yes " or "No " upon the ques- tion : Shall an Act passed by the Legislature of the Common- wealth in the year 1882, entitled "An Act authorizing Towns and Cities to lay out Public Parks within their limits" be accepted.
ART. 5. To hear and act upon the Reports of the Auditing Committee, the Board of Selectinen, the School Committee, the Superintendent of Streets, the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, the Engineers of the Fire Department, the Superinten- dent of the Cemetery, the Board of Health, the Chief of Police, the Milk Inspector, the Committee on Street Lights, the Commit- tee on Sewerage, the Inspector of Provisions and Animals, the Committee appointed to purchase Horses for the Fire Depart- ment, and the Committee on New School Building.
ART. 6. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropria- tions therefor.
ART. 7. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the current year.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer to hire money, under the direction of the Selectmen, in anticipation of the taxes to be assessed and collected for the current year.
ART. 9. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector for the collection of taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 10. To see what compensation the Town will allow the Collector for the collection of taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 11. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the collection of taxes, and what rate of discount, if any, will be allowed for prompt payment on or before a certain date.
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TOWN WARRANT-1893.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for Jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will appropriate the money re- ceived from the County Treasurer for dog licenses to aid in sup- port of the Public Library.
ART. 14. To see what compensation the Town will allow the members of the Fire Department the current year, and grant money for the same.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to furnish and set curbstones, and lay concrete sidewalks ; provid- ed, the abuttors will pay one-half of the expense.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), to be placed in the hands of James L. Bates' Post 118, G. A. R., towards defraying the expenses of Memorial Day.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept, adopt, and allow the report of the Selectmen laying out of Ontario street, as a Town way, as per report and plan on file in the Town Clerk's office, and appropriate money therefor.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to place a Fire Alarm Striker on the bell of the First Church, Blaney Street, agreeable to the petition of George A. Jackson and others.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to place a Fire Alarm Box on Humphrey street, in the vicinity of Salem street, agreeable to the petition of E. M. Tuttle and others.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to place a Fire Alarm Box at the junction of Mon- ument avenue, Walker, Andrew and Farragut roads, as petitioned for by William G. Earp and others.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will construct a retaining wall against the lands of George F. King and Milton D. Porter on Rock avenue, where the same has been undermined by excava- tions of the Town, as petitioned for by Milton D. Porter and others, and make appropriation therefor.
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TOWN WARRANT-1893.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to amend the By-Laws by adopting a By-Law in regard to licensing Plumbers, as peti- tioned for by Kendall Pollard and others.
ART, 23. To see if the Town will vote to amend the By- Laws by adopting the following By-Law: "The Sealer of Weights and Measures of the Town of Swampscott shall be paid by a salary, and shall account for and pay into the Treasury of the Town of Swampscott the fees received by him by virtue of his office, and the Selectmen shall each year fix the amount of such salary at the time of the appointment of such Sealer of Weights and Measures."
ART. 24. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to construct a Street Crossing across Humphrey street, at the foot of Marshall street, as petitioned for by Thomas A. Maclellan and others.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will construct a Stone Crossing on New Ocean street, at the foot of Rock avenue, and one across Pine street, where it connects with New Ocean street, and ap- propriate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of Ken- dall Pollard and others.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to construct a Stone Crossing on Humphrey street, near Phillips street, as petitioned for by Charles T. Jackson and others.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to construct a Stone Crossing on Humphrey street, at the foot of Pleasant street, agreeable to the petition of J. Henry Widger and others.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to construct a Street Crossing on Humphrey street, near Phillips Beach Station, as petitioned for by David K. Phillips and others.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to construct a Street Crossing across Atlantic ave- nue, near Ocean avenue, as petitioned for by David K. Phillips and others.
ART. 30. To see what action the Town will take as to pur- chasing and procuring a lot for, and the erection of, a School
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TOWN WARRANT-1893.
House that shall take the place of the Redington Street Building, and appropriate money therefor, agreeable to the petition of W. H. Rogers and others.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote that all Town work shall be done by the Town's people, and that no Italian or other foreign labor shall be employed, agreeable to the petition of W. N. Randall and others.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will extend the water main the remainder of the way on Salem street, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Willard F. Lewis and others.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will construct a sidewalk on Atlantic avenue, from the estate of S. C. Heald to the Marble- head line, and appropriate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of George S. Burton and others.
ART. 34. To see what action the Town will take towards de- fining the lines and grading that portion of Beach Bluff avenue lying between Atlantic avenue and the sea, and building a side- walk on each side thereof, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by George S. Burton and others.
ART. 35. To see what action the Town will take towards im- proving the entrance to the Cemetery, and appropriate four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) therefor.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will improve Essex street and appropriate money therefor, agreeable to the report of the Selectmen.
The polls to be closed at 5.30 o'clock P.M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting at- tested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Depot, Post Office, and three other public and conspicuous places in the Town, seven days at least before the time of holding said 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 as aforesaid.
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TOWN WARRANT-1893.
Given under our hands, this Fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety- three.
AARON R. BUNTING, Selectmen
JOHN H. FARWELL, of
ARTHUR C. WIDGER, Swampscott.
SWAMPSCOTT PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1996 00132 2991
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