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Amount carried forward,
$232 02
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AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1893-1894.
ATLANTIC AVENUE SIDEWALK.
Amount brought forward,
$232 02
Granger, S. G. 153 days' labor with teamn$3.50
55 13
Granger, William, 2 days' labor with team 3.50
7 00
Haley, William, 3 days' labor . 2.00
6 00
Kendrick, R. P. 71 days' labor . 2.00
14 50
Lufkin, C. E. 133 days' labor with team 3.50
48 13
Mahan, John, 1 day's labor
2 00
McDonough, John
151 days' labor with team . 3.50
53 38
Myers, Daniel, 261 days' labor
. 2.00
52 50
Randall, Stephen
91 days' labor with team . 3.50
32 38
Randall, W. N. 1 day's labor with team
3 50
Ryan, Michael, 241 days' labor
. 2.00
48 50
Ryan, Peter, 14 days' labor
. 2.00
28 00
Ryan, P. H. 201 days' labor
. 2.00
40 50
Ryan, Timothy, 7 days' labor . 2.00
14 00
Ryan, M. J. 3 days' labor
. 2.00
6 00
Shaw, S. H. 202 days' labor with team
3.50
72 63
Stone, A. D. 1 day's labor
2 00
Stone, Abraham G. 233 days' labor
. 2.00
47 50
$760 67
RECAPITULATION.
Appropriations and receipts.
Atlantic Avenue, Sidewalk
$800 00
Cash Expenditures. $760 67
Catch Basins and Gutters
300 00
302 12
Cemetery .
Appropriation, $400 00}
440 00
373 66
Cemetery Entrance.
450 00
419 00
Concrete & Curbstones
Appropriation, $700 00}
895 15
493 16
Essex Street Improvement.
1,200 00
1,185 05
Fire Department
Receipts, cash 42 57
4,027 26
4,406 34
Labor on highway, 484 69 )
Amount carried forward,
$8,112 41
$7,940 00
Receipts, 40 00$
Reimbursements, 195 155
Appropriation, $3,500 00 )
AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT-1893-1894.
165
Amount brought forward,
$8,112 41
$7,940 00
Fire Alarm Striker
225 00
217 85
Fire Alarm Box.
125 00
130 85
Health Department
1,500 00
1,198 17
Highway Department. Appropriation, $5,500 00} 74 685
Receipts,
5,574 68
6,014 47
Hose for Fire Apparatus
650 00
650 00
Library, Free Public Appropriation,
$400 00}
667 86
667 64
Memorial Day.
100 00
100 00
Military Aid ..
298 00
Monument Lot, Care of
25 00
29 65
New School-House
45,000 00
3,754 65
Ontario Street.
700 00
680 50
Police Department. Appropriation, $2,300 00 }
Receipts,
24 005
2,324 00
2,176 21
Poor, Overseers of. .. Appropriation,
$2,500 00}
2,891 52
3,043 76
Retaining Wall.
800 00
996 05
Salem Street Water Pipe
3,000 00
2,650 46
School Department. . [ Receipts, Appropriation, $11,500 00} 60 005
11,560 00
11,056 11
Selectmen's Department
4,300 00
4,505 78
Sidewalk Department.
1,000 00
1,025 90
Soldiers and Sailors' Aid.
200 00
112 53
Street Light Department
6,900 00
6,507 35
State Aid.
1,561 00
Street Crossing.
700 00
690 25
Town Hall
"Appropriation, $400 00}
618 00
785 05
Water Rates
600 00
568 63
Net Amount of Selectmen's Orders . Less Amount of Labor by Fire Department, $484 69}
$57,360 86
Less Selectmen's Outstanding Orders 356 47 5
841 16
Net Am't of Orders paid by Treasurer
$56,519 70
County Tax
6,091 33
Interest and Discount [ Appropriation, $2,500 00} 755
2,801 75
2,105 32
Notes Payable of, 1893-94, Paid
11,333 33
State Tax
6,050 00
Net Am't. Appropriations and Receipts $100,375 22
Outstanding Orders of 1892-93 paid ....
230 10
Temporary Loans of, 1893, paid. . . ...
27,000 00
Net Amount of Treasurer's Payments
$109,329 78
Receipts and dog tax, 267 86 5
Reimbursements, 391 525
Receipts, 218 00 $
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AUDITORS' FINANCIAL REPORT -1893-1894.
Financial Condition of the Town of Swampscott, February 28, 1894.
RESOURCES.
Cash in hands of Treasurer
$50,928 23
Due to Poor Department
Court fines $19.00 (
38 87
" " Catch Basins and Gutters
8 25
" Highway Department
3 00
66
" Concrete and Curbstone Dept.
11 34
" Soldiers and Sailors' Aid .
12 00
66 " State Aid, Chapter 301, Acts 1889
1,812 00
66 " Military Aid, Chapter 279, Acts 1889
177 00
Value of Public Property, as per Schedule .
109,553 50
$162,718 55
LIABILITIES.
Notes Payable § 1894 Water Pipe Loan
$4,000 00
2 1894 Town Debt
4.333 33
$8,333 33
( 1895 Water Pipe Loan
2,000 00
66
| 1895 Town Debt
4,333 33
66
1895 Culvert Loan
1,000 00
66
66
( 1895 School House Loan
4,500 00
11,833 33
66
66
1896 Culvert Loan
1,000 00
66
66
1896 Water Pipe Loan
1,000 00
66
1896 Engine House Loan
2,250 00
66
1896 School House Loan
4,500 00
8,750 00
1897 Culvert Loan
1,000 00
1897 Engine House Loan
2,250 00
7,750 00
66
1898 Monument Loan .
3,000 00
7,500 00
1899 School House Loan
4,500 00
66
1900 School House Loan
4,500 00
66
1901 School House Loan
4,500 00
1902 School House Loan
4,500 00
66
66
1903 School House Loan
4,500 00
1904 School House Loan
4,500 00
Due to H. Scott Tuttle, 5 per cent Water Pipe Contract, 1893 .
127 58
Selectmen's outstanding orders of 1894
356 47
$71,650 71
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174 36
" " Police Department :
Highway $19.87
1897 School House Loan
4,500 00
1898 School House Loan
4,500 00
66
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TOWN WARRANT-1894.
TOWN WARRANT. 1894.
ESSEX, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott, in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott qualified to vote in elections, and in Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Swampscott, on Monday, the Nineteenth 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 meet- ing.
ARTICLE 2. To choose a Town Clerk for one (1) year. To choose a Board 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 Com- mittee for two (2) years.
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To choose one member of the School Com- mittee for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Trus- tees of the Public Library for three (3) years.
To choose three members of the Board of Auditors for the year ensuing.
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.
To choose three Park Commissioners, one for one (1) year, one for two (2) years, one for three (3) years.
All to be chosen on one ballot.
ART. 3. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the question : Shall licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxi- cating Liquors in this Town.
ART. 4. To hear and act upon the reports of the Auditing Committee, the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee, the Superintendent of Streets, the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, the Engineers of the Fire Department, the Superintendent of the Cemetery, the Board of Health, the Chief of Police, the Milk Inspector, the Committee on Street Lights, the Sewerage Committee, the Inspector of Provisions and Animals, and the Committee on New School Building.
ART. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriations therefor.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for Jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
ART. 7. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the current year.
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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 of Taxes for the year ensuing.
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.
ART. 12. To see what action the Town will take as to appropriating and raising by loan an additional sum of money for the purpose of erecting the High and Grammar School Building now in process of erection on Greenwood avenue, on land conveyed to the Town by D. K. and L. H. Phillips.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will appropriate the money received from the County Treasurer for dog licenses to aid in support 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 a money to furnish and set curbstones, and lay concrete side- walks; provided the abutters will pay one-half the expense.
ART. 16. To ee 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 appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing a Street Crossing from the corner of Railroad avenue and Pine street, across Pine
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street to the westerly side thereof, agreeable to the petition of George A. R. Horton and others.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to construct a Street Crossing on Humphrey street at a point near Washburn's boarding stable, so-called, opposite the land of William R. Blaney, as petitioned for by Wm. R. Blaney and others.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to place a Street Crossing across Humphrey street at a point near the store of S. J. Pettingell, as petitioned for by Joseph F. Crowell and others.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing a Street Crossing from the Depot entrance across Columbia street, as petitioned for by William F. Norcross and others.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will construct Street Cross- ings as follows : One across Thomas' road at its junction with Burrill street and another across Paradise road at its junc- tion with Burrill street and make an appropriation for the same, agreeable to the petition of S. T. Beers and others.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will construct a Street Crossing from New Ocean street to Paradise road, across Burrill street and appropriate money for the same, as peti- tioned for by James L. Taylor and others.
ART. 23. To see what action the Town will take toward increasing the number of the Board of Selectmen from three to five members, agreeable to the petition of E. M. Tuttle and others.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will build a sidewalk the remainder of the way on Salem street and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by John E. Chase and others.
ART. 25. To see what action the Town will take in rela- tion to the collecting of ashes and rubbish and to appropriate
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money for the same, agreeable to the petition of M. W. Burdett and others.
ART. 26. To see what action the Town will take toward procuring additional land for the Town Hall, by purchasing the property known as the Proctor estate and make an ap- propriation therefor, the same to be raised by loan or do anything in relation to it.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to erect and maintain an electric (arc) light over the Park, so-called, in Elmwood terrace, agreeable to the petition of William G. Earp and others.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will erect two electric (arc). lights on the property now or formerly of the Stetson Land Co., one at the junction of Norfolk and Middlesex avenues, the other at a suitable point on Norfolk avenue, and appro- priate money for the same, agreeable to the petition of Stetson Land Co. and others.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to petition the Legislature for an act to enable the Town of Swampscott to raise and appropriate money for street watering as petitioned for by S. F. Crosman and others.
ART. 30. To see what action the Town will take as to raising and appropriating money for watering certain streets of the Town as petitioned for by Geo. S. Burton and others.
ART. 31. To see what action the Town will take in regard to revising the last part of Sec. 3, Art. 2 of the By-Laws in order to have a copy of Assessors' Valuation of estates with a list of poll tax payers, published every fifth year, as peti- tioned for by J. R. Widger and others.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred ($1500) dollars to be used in connection with the abolishment of the grade crossing at Burrill street.
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ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept and adopt that part of Chapter 16 of the Acts of 1894, as relates to the election of one or more Surveyors of Highways.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of making an Assessor's plan of the land in Town.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money to have the sea wall on Orient street raised to a level with the curbstone by placing suitable capstone thereon as petitioned for by Robert B. Wardwell and others.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will have all sidewalks bordering on the Beaches concreted and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Robert B. Wardwell and others.
ART. 37. To see what action the Town will take as to adopting Sections 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, and 48, of Chapter 102 of the Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The polls to be closed at 5.30 o'clock P. M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by post- ing attested 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 hold- ing 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.
Given under our hands, this Sixth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.
AARON R. BUNTING, H. C. BULFINCH, 1 Selectmen of
A. C. WIDGER,
Swampscott.
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