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Whole number of ballots 93. John R. Merritt, 51, elected and qualified : Geo. H. Holden, 42.
John B. Earp and Abram G. Stone who had previously been appointed and qualified, served as Ballot Clerks.
Specimen Ballots, Cards of Instruction to voters, Penalties were posted according to law.
Balloting for Town Officers was commenced at 6.30 o'clock A. M.
The ballot box was opened and shown to be empty. The keys were placed in the hands of Seth C. Kendrick, Con- stable. The ballot box register showing 00o.
The Moderator appointed Edmund Russell, Oscar F. Morris, Bertram C. Melzard, Benj F. Rich, Charles G. Rowell, Stephen P. Hurd, Charles E. Alden and Willard M. Hatch, as Tellers ; they were qualified by the Town Clerk.
The polls closed at 5.30 o'clock P. M., the ballot box regis- ter showing 552.
There were five hundred and forty-two general and three special ballots cast, making five hundred and forty five (545,) both check lists showing five hundred and forty-five (545) checks.
At 6.30 o'clock P. M. the following result was announced.
For Selectmen-H. Cushing Bulfinch, 408, elected; Aaron R. Bunting, 234, elected; W. Ernest Stone, 234, elected ; William G. Earp, 233; John H. Farwell, 209; Arthur C. Widger, 190; blanks, 118.
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For Town Clerk-George T. Till, 471, elected; blanks, 70; scattering, I.
For Treasurer-Benjamin O. Honors, 467, elected ; blanks, 75
For Assessor, for three years-Peleg Gardner, 436, elected; blanks, 106.
For Collector of Taxes-Michael P. Carroll, 483, elected ; blanks, 59.
For School Committee for two years-Eldridge F. Small, 397, elected; blanks, 147.
For School Committee for three years-Frank E. Ingalls, 433, elected ; blanks III.
For Trustee of Public Library three years-James E. Peasley, 377, elected ; blanks, 165.
For Overseer of the Poor three years-Michael P. Carroll, 289, elected; George A. R. Horton, 172 ; blanks, 81.
For Park Commissioner one year-Robert B. Wardwell, 240, elected; James L. Taylor, 173 ; blanks, 129.
For Park Commissioner two years-Benjamin Potter, 310, elected ; blanks, 231 ; scattering, I.
For Park Commissioner three years-George A. Jackson, 313, elected; blanks, 227 ; scattering, 2.
For Board of Health-John I. Adams, 350, elected ; Joseph W. Glass, 320, elected ; Edwin F. Wiley, 317, elected ; Richard G. Gilley, 221 ; Frank Goodwin, 164; blanks, 253 ; scatter- ing, I.
For Auditors-Elmer A. Hardy, 239, elected; Jay C. Merritt, 216, elected ; J. Roswell Widger, 215, elected; L. Frank Cahoon, 214; Herman F. Ashton, 150; J. William Thurston, 143; . Wm. F. Norcross, 136; blanks, 313.
For Constables-James Wheeler, 406, elected ; Rodney A. Douglass, 362, elected; Samuel T. Harris, 337, elected; blanks, 520; scattering, I.
License Question-No, 353; Yes, 124; blanks, 65.
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VOTED. To adjourn to Tuesday evening, March 20th, at 7.30 P. M.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 20, 1894.
In accordance with the adjournment of the previous meet- ing the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall on Friday evening, March 20th, 1894.
Called to order at 7.30 o'clock P. M., by John R. Merritt, Moderator.
Records of the last meeting read and declared approved.
VOTED. To lay Articles 4 and 5 upon the table until the other articles in the Warrant have been disposed of.
VOTED. Art. 6. To accept and adopt the following as a List of Jurors :
ADAMS, JOHN I.
GOLDER, EVAN R. HARRIS, CHIARLES E.
List of Jurors.
ANDREWS, ISAAC H.
ASHTON, ELLIOT M.
HARRIS, NATHAN M.
BASSETT, JOSEPH HORTON, JEREMIAH L.
JACKSON, CHARLES T.
BLANCHARD, HORACE W. BURNHAM, ELI H. CARR, SILAS B.
JENNISON, JOSEPH R. KNOWLTON, DANIEL F. MORRIS, OSCAR F.
CARROLL, MICHAEL P.
NEWCOMB, NOAH R.
COLLINS, W. HENRY COREY, ALONZO
NIES, MARTIN E.
CONNOR, GEORGE M.
PARKER, SAMUEL R.
CROSMAN, JOHN H.
PEASLEY, JAMES E.
DELANO, GILBERT
DOUGLASS, RODNEY A. ELDRIDGE, ZIBA
PHILLIPS, LEONARD H. POTTER, BENJAMIN RICH, THOMAS P.
FARWELL, JOHN H.
ROGERS, JOHN A.
FREEMAM, GEORGE L. SEGER, WILLIAM GALEUCIA, NATHANIEL THING, FRANCIS C.
GILBERT, GEORGE E.
WARDWELL, EBEN N.
VOTED. Art. 7. That the Treasurer be re- Treas. bond. quired to give a bond of ten thousand dollars ($ 10,000).
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To hire money in anticipation of taxes.
VOTED. Art. 8. That the Town Treasurer be and is hereby authorized, under the direction of the Board of Selectmen to hire such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to be raised in an- ticipation of the taxes to be assessed and collected for the current year, such sums to be payable therefrom. (Unanimous.)
Tax Col. bond. VOTED. Art. 9. To require of the Collector of Taxes a bond for five thousand dollars ($5,000.)
Com. on Salaries.
VOTED. Art. 10. That a committee of three be appointed to bring in at an adjourned meeting a list of salaries for all elected and appointed Town Officers.
VOTED. That the several articles in the Warrant relating to salaries be laid upon the table until the committees' report is heard.
Discount on Taxes. VOTED. Art. II. To allow 2% discount on all taxes paid on or before October Ist, the current year.
Additional appropriation for Phillips School.
VOTED. That the Town appropriate an addi- tional sum of $8,000, for the purpose of erecting, furnishing and completing the high and grammar school building now in process of erection on land conveyed to the Town by D. K. and L. H. Phillips, and that the Town Treasurer, under the direction and authority of the Selectmen, shall borrow said sum of $8,000, hereby appropriated for the erec- tion of said school building, and that the vote on this motion be a yea and nay vote, and that the check list be used in voting thereon. "Yes" 139, "No" 14.
VOTED. Art. 13. To appropriate the sum of money received from the County Treasurer for Dog Licenses to aid in support of Public Library.
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VOTED. That the subject matter of Art. 15 Concrete. ('urbstones and be laid over and taken up in connection with the Selectmen's Report.
VOTED. Art. 16. To appropriate the sum of Appropriation one hundred dollars ($100) the same to be used by James L. Bates Post 118, G. A. R., toward de- fraying the expenses of Memorial Day.
VOTED. That Articles 17 to 22, both numbers Street inclusive, be referred to the Board of Selectmen to be acted upon as in their judgment may be deemed expedient for the public convenience and that the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700) be appropriated to defray the expense of same.
VOTED. To lay over the matter contained in Art. 23, to the next Annual Meeting.
VOTED. Art. 24. To refer the matter of build- Salem street Sidewalk. ing a sidewalk on Salem street to the Selectmen, a report on the same to be made at the Adjourned Meeting.
VOTED. Art. 25. To refer the matter of col- Collecting lecting rubbish to the Board of Health, a report
Rubbish. to be made at an adjourned meeting.
VOTED. Art. 26. To indefinitely postpone the matter of purchasing land adjacent to the Town Hall Lot.
VOTED. Art. 27 and 28. To refer to the Street Light Committee for a report at the adjourned meeting.
VOTED. To indefinitely postpone the subject Street Watering matter of Art. 29.
VOTED. To reconsider the vote whereby the Street Watering subject matter of Art. 29, was indefinitely post- poned.
VOTED. To adjourn to Wednesday evening, March 2Ist, at 7.30 o'clock.
for Memo. Day.
Crossings.
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RECOUNT OF VOTES.
A petition for a recount of votes cast at the Town Election of March 19th, for Selectmen was received by the Town Clerk, on Tuesday, March 20th, signed by the required number of voters.
The Moderator appointed Wednesday, March 2Ist, at 3 P. M. as the time when the recount should be made.
Arthur F. Foster and Eldridge F. Small were appointed as Tellers. They were qualified by the Town Clerk.
The ballots were all gone over and the result found to be the same as before declared.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 21, 1894.
Agreeable to the foregoing adjournment, the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall, on Wednesday, March 21st, 1894.
The meeting was called to order at 7.30 o'clock P. M., by John R. Merritt, Moderator.
The records of the last meeting were read and declared approved as corrected.
Street Watering
VOTED. Art. 29. That the Town authorize the Selectmen to petition the Legislature for an act to enable the Town of Smampscott to raise and appropriate money for street watering.
VOTED. To lay Article 30 upon the table to be .ยป taken up at the adjourned meeting.
The following Resolution was adopted on Art. 31 :
Assessors' Valuation.
RESOLUTION.
That so much of Section 3, of Article 2, of the Town By-Laws, which refers to the publication of an Assessors' valuation of estates, shall be changed
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so that it shall read as follows: Every fifth valua- tion of estates made by the Assessors or are abstract thereof, together with a list of poll tax payers, shall be printed and distributed with the Annual Town Reports for the next year after same shall be made, and that the valuation of May I, 1895, shall be the first published under this vote and one every fifth year thereafter.
VOTED. Art. 32. To appropriate the sum of Appropriation for Grade Crossing.
fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) the same to be used in connection with the abolishment of the grade crossing at Burrill street, the matter to be left with the Selectmen.
VOTED. Art. 33. To accept and adopt that Surveyor of Highways. part of Chap. 16 of the Acts of 1894, as relates to the election of one or more Surveyors of High- ways.
VOTED. Art. 34. To refer the matter of an Assessors' plan of Land. Assessors' plan of the land in Town to a commit- tee of three, namely: D. Holman Millett, Daniel P. Stimpson and John Chapman, to investigate and report thereon at the adjourned meeting.
VOTED. To refer Art. 35, to the next Annual Relating to 'Sea
Wall, Orient st.
Meeting.
VOTED. To refer Art. 36, to the next Annual Concreting Sidewalks bordering Beaches.
Meeting.
Committee on Salaries.
The Moderator appointed as a Committee to bring in at an adjourned meeting a list of salaries for all elected and appointed officers, Robert B. Wardwell, Wm. G. Earp, Sidney M. Shattuck.
VOTED. Art. 37. To adopt Sections 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48 of Chapter 102 of the Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, relating to Steam Engines, Furnaces and Boilers.
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App. for Road Roller.
VOTED. Art. 4. Report of Superintendent of Streets. To appropriate a sum not exceeding two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225) to purchase a Ring Road Roller, weighing two and one-half tons, and to appoint a committee of three to pur- chase the same. The Moderator appointed as a committee, Samuel F. Crosman, Martin E. Nies and Daniel F. Knowlton.
VOTED. To take up Art. 4, and act on each report.
VOTED. To accept the Auditors' Report and refer the recommendations to the Committee on Salaries.
VOTED. To accept the Selectmen's Report and have the recommendations contained therein read.
VOTED. To lay upon the table that part of the Selectmen's Report as pertains to the appropria- tions recommended for the several departments, . the same to be acted upon in connection with Article 5.
VOTED. To adjourn to Thursday evening, March 22, at 7.30 o'clock.
In accordance with a vote taken at the adjourned meeting held April 16th, 1894, the following is in- serted : A motion to strike out from the records the " Preamble and Resolutions on the Selectmen's Report," adopted at the Town Meeting of 1893, was negatived.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH 22, 1894.
In accordance with the foregoing adjournment the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall, on Thursday evening March 22, 1894.
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Meeting called to order at 7.30 P. M. by John R. Merritt, Moderator.
Records of last meeting read and declared ap- proved.
VOTED. To take from the List of Jurors the name of John A. Rogers.
VOTED. To act upon the appropriations as recommended by the Selectmen.
VOTED. To act upon each article separately.
VOTED. To appropriate for the several depart- ments as follows :
Selectmen's Department
$4,300 00
Highway Department
5,500 00
Sidewalk Department
1,000 00
School Department
12,000 00
Health Department
1,500 00
Poor Department
2,500 00
Concrete and Curbstones
500 00
Town Hall, Receipts and
400 00
Library, Receipts, and
400 00
Catch Basins and Paving Gutters
500 00
Monument Lot, Care of
25 00
Water Rates
600 00
Soldiers' and Sailors' Aid
400 00
Interest and Discount
2,800 00
County Tax
5,500 00
State Tax
5,500 00
VOTED. To defer action on appropriation for the Fire Department until after the report of the Committee on Salaries is made.
VOTED. To adopt the recommendations as pub- lished in the Engineer's Report in regard to adding five more men to the company.
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App. for the Police Dept.
VOTED. To appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500), for the Police Depart- ment for the ensuing year. The Board of Select- men to be required to employ four men for the entire year.
VOTED. To defer action on appropriation for Cemetery Department, until the report of the Committee on Salaries is made.
VOTED. To lay upon the table the matter of an appropriation for the Street Light Department, until that committee's report is made on Articles 27 and 28.
Street Light Committee.
VOTED. To reappoint the same Street Light Committee for the ensuing year. E. A. Farnham, Curtis V. Merritt, Wm. F. Norcross.
Town work to be done by Citizens.
VOTED. That the substance of the vote taken on Article 31, in the Annual Meeting of 1893, be the sense of the Town for ensuing year.
Future Water Supply.
VOTED. To appoint a committee of five members to investigate the matter of a future Water Supply, as recommended in Selectmen's report, and re- port on the same at the next Annual Meeting.
COMMITTEE.
Frank E. Ingalls, Peleg Gardner, Arthur C. Widger, Eldridge F. Small, Martin E. Nies.
VOTED. To lay over the matter of removing the ledge on Essex street until the adjourned meeting.
VOTED. To lay over the recommendations made in connection with the Cemetery until after the report of the Committee on Salaries is made.
Cemetery.
VOTED. That the reports which do not contain recommendations, be not read unless called for.
VOTED. That the matter of procuring more land for Cemetery purposes be referred to the
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Selectmen for their investigation, to be reported upon at the adjourned meeting.
VOTED. To accept the reports of the School Committee, the Trustees of the Public Library, the Board of Engineers, the Board of Health, the Inspector of Provisions and Animals, and the Street Light Committee as printed.
VOTED. That when this meeting adjourns it be to Monday, April 16th, at 2.30 o'clock P. M.
VOTED. To adopt the following resolutions in regard to Street Lighting :
In veiw of the fact that the contract for Street Lighting, made with the Lynn Gas and Electric Company, of Lynn, April 30, 1890, for a term of (5) five years, and whereas the said contract expires April 30, 1895.
Resolved, That it is the sentiment of this meeting that the Street Light Committee be and is hereby authorized to receive proposals for street lighting for such time, after the expiration of the present contract, as shall in the judgment of the committee be for the best interests of the Town. Said pro- posals shall be submitted to the Town by the com- mittee by publishing same in connection with the Street Light Committee's Annual Report for 1894-95.
VOTED. To add Arthur C. Widger to the Com- mittee on New School Building.
VOTED. To reappoint the same Sewerage Com- mittee : S. F. Crosman, F. E. Ingalls, A. R. Bunting, J. H. Farwell, A. C. Widger, Geo. E. Emmons, Chas. P. Curtis Jr., Edward H. Kitfield, Kendall Pollard.
VOTED. To adjourn at 8.50 P. M.
Street Lighting.
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ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 16, 1894.
In accordance with the adjournment of March 22d, the voters assembled at 2.30 P. M., April 16, 1894.
The meeting was called to order at the appointed time by John R. Merritt, Moderator.
VOTED. To dispense with the reading of the records and adjourn until this evening at 7.30.
In accordance with the adjournment of the afternoon the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall, on Monday evening, April 16th, 1894.
The meeting was called to order at 7.35 o'clock P. M., by John R. Merritt, Moderator.
The records of the last meeting were read and approved.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SALARIES.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :-
Your committee appointed at the adjourned Town Meeting, March 20th, 1894, to prepare a list of salaries for the Town Officials, respectfully submit the following report :
ELECTED OFFICERS.
Salaries.
Moderator for annual meeting $25 00
Board of Selectmen
825 00
Town Clerk
100 00
Treasurer (the town to furnish bond) .
400 00
Collector of Taxes (the town to furnish bond, 400 00
Board of Auditors 200 00
Board of Assessors 400 00
School Committee, each 100 00
Overseers of the Poor: Chairman 100 00
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Two other members, each
75 00
Secretary, Overseers of the Poor 25 00
Board of Health, each
60 00
Secretary, Board of Health .
25 00
APPOINTED OFFICERS.
Secretary, Board of Selectmen
200 00
Librarian, Public Library
200 00
Assistant Librarians, each .
30 00
Inspectors of Elections or Deputies per day
5 00
Tellers per day
3 00
Supt. of Streets, per week, to include team
20 00
Supt. of Cemetery
350 00
Janitor of Town Hall, including all charges .
350 00
Engineers of the Fire Department, Chief
100 00
Assistant Engineers, each
50 00
Firemen, per year
35 00
Engineer of Steamer
100 00
Permanent men at Engine House, per week
12 00
Inspector of Provisions, etc., including expenses, per year .
40 00
Milk Inspector, per year 20 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures, per year
20 00
Police Officers, per week
15 00
Special Police Officers, per hour .
25
Agent of Town Hall, per year-Ten per cent of receipts
ROBERT B. WARDWELL, SIDNEY M. SHATTUCK, WILLIAM G. EARP.
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VOTED .- To accept and adopt the report of the Committee on Salaries.
A motion that salaries of Town Officials be same as last year was negatived.
VOTED. To take from the report of Committee on Salaries, those items relating to the Library.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN ON SALEM STREET SIDEWALK.
Salem Street Sidewalk.
The Selectmen to whom was referred Article 24, relative to the construction of a sidewalk the re- mainder of the way on Salem street, report that they have investigated the same and find there to be about 3,000 feet of walk to construct. The probable cost of same to be about $1,200. .We feel that it is not advisable for the Town to con- , struct the whole of said walk this year. But as there is a large lot of coarse material constantly accumulating at our gravel pit, which is quite handy, we recommend that the same be used in the con- struction of part of said sidewalk this year, and that the sum of $500 be appropriated for the same.
Respectfully submitted,
H. C. BULFINCH, A. R. BUNTING, W. ERNEST STONE, S
Selectmen.
VOTED. That the report of the Selectmen on Salem street sidewalk, be not adopted.
VOTED. To reconsider the vote whereby the report of Selectmen on Salem street sidewalk was not adopted.
VOTED. To accept and adopt the report of the Selectmen on Salem street sidewalk.
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VOTED. To refer to the Board of Selectmen the following recommendation :
"That the Superintendent of Streets, hereby be instructed by this meeting, to cut away and clean up Salem street to its full width, and use said street as a dump ground until leveled to a grade of street." Referred with discretionary powers.
The Board of Heath reported that it would cost one thousand dollars ($1,000) to collect ashes and rubbish as petitioned for in Article 25.
A motion to appropriate one thousand dollars for the purpose called for in Article 25, was negatived.
VOTED. Art. 25. To lay upon the table indefi- Collection of nitely the matter of collecting ashes and rubbish.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :-
Your Street Light Committee have attended to their duty and respectfully submit the following report for your deliberation :- Concerning Articles 27 and 28, in our late Town Warrant which were referred to your Committee, we recommend the placing of two arc lights at such points in the Stetson estate as will best serve the interests of all. We also recommend the placing of an incan- descent light at the park, so called, in Elmwood terrace. Your Committee take this occasion to explain that in calling for the yearly appropriation extra lights were not anticipated. We would therefore recommend an additional $300 be added to the same.
Report of Street Light Com.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. F. NORCROSS,
Sec'y St. Light Committee ..
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Appropriation for St. Lights. VOTED. To accept and adopt the report of the Street Light Committee and appropriate seven thousand dollars ($7,000) for the Street Light Department for the current year.
PETITION TO LEGISLATURE.
In regard to Article 29, of the Warrant, the Selectmen beg leave to report that they have peti- tioned, as authorized, the Legislature for an act enabling the town of Swampscott to raise and ap- propriate money for street watering, and that said petition has been granted.
Respectfully submitted,
H. C. BULFINCH, A. R. BUNTING, Selectmen. W. ERNEST STONE,
VOTED. To accept the above report on Art. 29.
(CHAPTER 240.) COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.
AN ACT
TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT TO EXPEND MONEY FOR WATERING ITS PUBLIC STREETS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in General Court assembled and by authority of the same, as follows :-
SECTION I. The Town of Swampscott may raise, appropriate and expend money for watering its public streets.
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, April 11, 1894.
Passed to be enacted.
G. V. L. MEYER, Speaker.
IN SENATE, April II, 1894.
Passed to be enacted.
WILLIAM M. BUTLER, President.
Approved.
April 12, 1894.
F. T. GREENHALGE.
Office of the Secretary, BOSTON, April 13, 1894.
SEAL.
A true copy. Witness the Seal of the Common- wealth.
ISAAC H. EDGETT, Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.
A motion that the petitioners' request contained in Article 30, be granted and a sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) be appropriated for the same, the amount to be taken from the High- way Department appropriation, the work to be done under the direction of the Superintendent of Streets, and Essex street from Lynn line to the brook on the east side of E. R. Golder's estate, and Burrill street from Essex street to the Depot, be watered by the Town was negatived.
Street Watering
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[ Apr. 16,
VOTED. Art. 30. That the matter of watering the streets of the Town be laid upon the table for one year.
VOTED. That the record of the adjourned meeting of March 21st, last, be re-opened, and that the Town Clerk be instructed to record the vote whereby the Town voted not to strike out from the records, the Resolutions on Selectmen's Report, passed at the Annual Town Meeting of 1893.
REPORT ON ASSESSORS' PLAN, ART. 34.
TO THE CITIZENS OF SWAMPSCOTT :
The Committee appointed to investigate the matter of the probable cost of maps, showing the measurement of each lot of land in the town, would submit the following report :
After examining the maps used by the Assessors of Lynn and Marblehead, your committee decided that those in use in Lynn came nearest to our requirements, they being of convenient size, and well adapted to the purpose for which they were made, the assessors informed us that by numerous tests their maps were found to be substantially correct, and that the amount of taxes received from land which these maps have brought to light, had paid for their cost many times. The Marblehead Assessors gave similar testimony in regard to the great benefit their maps had been to them in show- ing property which had not heretofore been assessed.
The committee have received figures from prom- inent surveyors, to furnish maps similar to those of Lynn, covering the whole town, the work to be completed in three years, one-third part thereof to be finished in each year, for sums ranging from
Assessors' plan of Land.
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forty hundred to forty-eight hundred dollars, for the entire work.
Respectfully submitted,
D. P. STIMPSON, JOHN CHAPMAN, D. HOLMAN MILLETT.
VOTED. To accept and adopt the above report and empower same committee to procure said maps or plans.
VOTED. To accept and adopt the recommenda- Approp. for Cemetery. tions made by the Selectmen in their report in re- lation to the Cemetery, and to appropriate the sum of nine hundred and twenty-five dollars ($925) for the Cemetery Department for the current year.
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