Town annual report of Swampscott 1901, Part 10

Author: Swampscott, Massachusetts
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 228


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75


State of Mass.


4,500 00


A


IO yrs.


34


Jan. 12, 1904


June 25, '94


80


State of Mass.


1,000 00


A


7 yrs.


34


June 25, 1901


June 25, '94


81


State of Mass.


1,000 00


A


8 yrs.


34


June 25, 1902


June 25, '94


82


State of Mass.


1,000 00


A


9 yrs.


34


Juue 25, 1903


June 25, '94


83


State of Mass.


1,000 00


A


IO yrs.


34


June 25, 1904


Nov. 12, '95


92


State of Mass.


4,000 00


B


6 yrs.


Nov. 12, 190I


Nov. 12, '95


93


State of Mass.


4,000 00


B


7 yrs.


Nov. 12, 1902


Nov. 12, '95


94


State of Mass.


4,000 00


B


8 yrs.


Nov. 12, 1903


Nov. 12, '95


95


State of Mass.


4,000 00


B


9 yrs.


Nov. 12, 1904


Nov. 12, '95


96


State of Mass.


4,000 00


B


Io yrs.


Nov. 12, 1905


July 30, '97


105


Lynn Inst. Sav'gs


3,000 00


E


10 yrs


34


July 30, 1907


Sept. 24, '97


107


Lynn Inst Sav'gs


2,500 00


F


8 yrs


4


Sept. 24, 1905


May 12, '99


II2


Col. Nat. Bank


2,500 00


B


8 yrs.


32


May 27, 1907


May 12, '99


II3


Col. Nat. Bank


2,500 00


B


9 yrs.


32


May 27, 1908


Aug. 5, '99


115


State of Mass.


2,800 00


C


9 yrs.


Aug. 5, 1908


Nov. 29, '99


116


State of Mass.


3,000 00


D


9 yrs.


Nov. 29, 1908


Nov. 29, '99


II7


State of Mass.


3,000 00


D


Io yrs.


Nov.29, 1909


June 4, 1900


119


State of Mass.


7,000 00


D


6 yrs.


June 4,1906


June 30, 1900


I20


State of Mass.


4,300 00 D


10 yrs.


June 30, 1910


Total,


$68,100 00


A. Phillips School Loan.


B. Park Loan.


c. Sewer Loan.


D. Permanent Improvement Loan.


E. Proctor Lot Loan.


F. Chemical Laboratory Loan.


17 217 00


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AUDITOR'S REPORT.


1901]


Financial Statement of the Town of Swampscott, March 1, 1901.


RESOURCES.


Cash in hand of Treasurer, Town, in-


cluding Park Department . .


.$2,330 14


Cash in hand of Treasurer, Water De- partment 2,893 15 .


Due from Concrete and Curbstones .


16 12


Due from Poor Department


451 35


Due from State Aid, Chapter 372 · 223 50


Due from State Aid, Chapter 374 ·


2,366 00 ·


Due for Taxes on advertised property and


property to be advertised for taxes 173 15


Schedule of public property


306,404 68


$314,858 09


LIABILITIES.


NOTES PAYABLE.


1901 Phillips School Loan


. $1,000 00


I90I Park Loan


· 4,000 00


$5,000 00


I902


Phillips School Loan


· 5,500 00


1902


Park Loan


· 4,000 00


9,500 00


1903


Phillips School Loan


· 5,500 00


1903


Park Loan


· 4,000 00


9,500 00


1904


Phillips School Loan


· 5,500 00


1904


Park Loan


.


· 4,000 00


9,500 00


1905


Park Loan


· 4,000 00


1905


Chemical Laboratory Loan


. 2,500 00


6,500 00


1906


Permanent Improvement Loan,


7,000 00


1907


Proctor Lot Loan


· 3,000 00


1907


Park Loan


. 2,500 00


5,500 00


1908


Park Loan


.


2,500 00


1908


Sewer Loan


2,800 00


1908 Permanent Improvement Loan, 3,000 00


8,300 00


1909


Permanent Improvement Loan,


3,000 00


3,000 00


1910


Permanent Improvement Loan, 4,300 00


4,300 00


$68,100 00


Water Bonds, 30 years, due 1928


120,000 00


$188,100 00


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 21


Auditors' Remarks


To the Citizens of Swampscott :


We herewith present for your consideration the forty-ninth Annual Report of the Town, for the fiscal year ending Feb. 21, 1901.


The accounts of the several departments have been carefully examined and found to be correct and proper vouchers on file for payments made.


The Treasurer's accounts have been audited quarterly, and we have on file bank cashiers' certificates of deposits from the Colo- nial National Bank, Boston, National Security Bank, Central National Bank and First National Bank, Lynn, for balance of each quarter's auditing.


The items of receipts can be found by referring to the different departments as they appear in the Treasurer's account.


Respectfully submitted, JOHN B. EARP, HERMAN F. ASHTON, WARREN S. BLANCHARD. Auditors.


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TOWN WARRANT.


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Town Warrant, 1901.


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 affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in said Swampscott, on Monday, the eighteenth day of March, current, at six o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz. :-


ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.


ART. 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 Com- mittee for three (3) years.


To choose one member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library for three (3) years.


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To choose a Board of Auditors for the year ensuing.


To choose one Overseer of the Poor for three (3) years.


To choose one member of the Board of Health for three (3) years.


To choose a Surveyor of Highways for the year ensuing.


To choose three Constables for the year ensuing.


To choose a Park Commissioner for three (3) years.


To choose a Water Commissioner for three (3) years.


To choose a Sewer Commissioner for three (3) years.


To choose a Tree Warden for the year ensuing .


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 Intox- icating Liquors in this Town.


ART. 4. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the question as petitioned for : Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year 1901, Chapter 78, entitled : " An Act to extend the provisions of the Civil Service Law to the Police and Fire Forces of Towns" be accepted and made applicable to the Police Force of the Town of Swampscott.


ART. 5. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the question as petitioned for : Shall an act passed by the General Court in the year 1901, Chapter 78, entitled : "An Act to extend the provisions of the Civil Service Law to the Police and Fire Forces of Towns" be accepted and


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made applicable to the Fire Force of the Town of Swampscott.


ART. 6. To hear and act upon the reports of the Auditing Committee, the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee, 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 Water Commissioners, the Surveyor of Highways, the Inspector of Cattle, Provisions, etc., the Park Com- missioners, the Sewer Commissioners and the Tree Warden.


ART. 7. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appropriations therefor.


ART. 8. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for Jurors, as prepared and posted by the Select- men.


ART. 9. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.


ART. IO. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to bor- row money in anticipation of taxes.


ART. II. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing.


ART. 12. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the collection of taxes, and what rate of dis- count, if any, will be allowed for prompt payment on or before a certain date.


ART. 13. To see if the Town will accept and allow the report of the Selectmen, laying out a road or way from Burrill street to State highway through the lands of Harriet


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[Feb. 21


N. Emmons, according to the plan of said road or way, now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Town, and to see if the Town will accept said road or way and appro- priate money therefor.


ART. 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to rebuild the stone culvert, located under the pro- posed State highway from Burrill street to the overhead bridge on the Marblehead branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad, according to the plan of said culvert, prepared by the Engineer of the State Highway Commissioners, and to see if the Town will hereafter keep said culvert per- petually in repair, and indemnify and save the Common- wealth harmless from all claims for damages caused by said culvert, or the flowing of water through or from the same.


ART. 15. To see if the Town will appropriate five hundred ($500) dollars to defray the cost of rebuilding said culvert.


ART. 16. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars 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 the sum of fifty ($50) dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health, in removing rubbish which may be washed upon Whale's Beach during the coming season, as petitioned for.


ART. 18. To hear and act upon the report of the Board of Selectmen laying out Ellis road.


ART. 19. To hear and act upon the report of the Board of Selectmen in relation to extending Ellis road and appropriate money therefor.


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TOWN WARRANT.


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ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take towards constructing double street crossings as petitioned for as follows : Across Atlantic avenue at the corner of Beach Bluff avenue ; across Atlantic avenue, at or near the new steps to the Hotel Preston. Also the following single street crossings : Across Humphrey street at the junction with Glen road ; across Stetson avenue at the junction with Bristol avenue; across Essex street at the junction with Belmont avenue; across Hillside avenue at the junction with Cherry street; across Ellis road at the junction with Farragut road.


ART. 21. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) for band concerts during the Summer of 1901 as petitioned for.


ART. 22. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) to pay for publishing the Assessors' Valuation.


ART. 23. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350) to repair and rebuild the sea-wall and fence on Orient street.


ART. 24. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) to build the culvert at Beach Bluff.


ART. 25. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for Cemetery improve- ments.


ART. 26. To see what action the Town will take - towards purchasing road building material from the owners of land on Elmwood road and to make such appropriation as may be required for same, as petitioned for.


ART. 27. To see what action the Town will take on a request for the Park Commissioners and the Board of


(15)


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TOWN DOCUMENTS.


[Feb. 21


Health to unite in the selection of one and the same person, to not only have the care of the park, but also for some three or four months of the year to attend to the removal of the fish offal from the fish markets and to have a gen- eral care of Fishermen's Beach, so called, as petitioned for.


ART. 28. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the care of the Town brooks for the ensuing year as petitioned for.


ART. 29. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the care of its beaches and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.


ART. 30. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the collection of house offal and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.


ART. 31. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the collection of ashes and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.


ART. 32. To see if the Town will determine to borrow such sum of money as may be necessary to construct sewers, and the ways and works necessary to the use and maintenance of the same, and to defray any and all expen- ses incident to the laying out and construction of the same.


ART. 33. To determine how the Town is to borrow any sum of money which may be authorized under the last preceding article, and to fix the terms and conditions upon which the same shall be borrowed, and if bonds are to be issued therefor, to determine the form of such bonds and the term for which the same are to run, and to pass any other vote or votes necessary to enable the Town to execute, issue and negotiate said bonds.


ART. 34. To see if the Town will provide for the es- tablishment of a Sinking Fund for the payment of any


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bonds that may be issued, if any are to be issued by the Town, for the purpose of raising money for the construc- tion and establishment of a system of sewerage, or whether the Town will provide for the payment of such debt by notes or bonds, and raise the money for the payment thereof by taxation ; and to pass any other vote or votes necessary to authorize the establishment of such Sinking Fund, or for providing money for the payment of such notes or bonds by taxation or otherwise.


ART. 35. To determine what compensation, if any, shall be paid to said Sewerage Commissioners, or either of them.


ART. 36. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the report of the committee on remodeling the Town Hall.


ART. 37. To see if the Town for the purpose of remod- eling the Town Hall will authorize the Treasurer, under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, for a period of ten years, and for the Treasurer to issue ten (10) notes of the Town for the same in equal accounts, one to be paid each year.


ART. 38. To see what action the Town will take in regard to purchasing the lot of land in the rear of the Town Hall, provided the same can be obtained at a reason- able price and appropriate money therefor as petitioned for.


ART. 39. To see if the Town will authorize its Water Commissioners to purchase land and erect a new Stand- Pipe thereon.


ART. 40. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money sufficient to pay for the land and stand-pipe mentioned in the preceding article, and if so, to determine whether the same shall be borrowed upon the bonds or


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[Feb. 21


notes of the Town, and if borrowed upon the bonds or notes of the Town to fix the time of payment thereof, and the rate of interest, and to act upon any and all other matters necessary to enable the Town to borrow said money, and to issue said bonds or notes.


ART. 41. To see what action, if any, the Town will take in determining how money shall be raised to pay for permanent improvements.


The polls to be closed at sunset (5.54 P. M.) .


And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Depot, Post Of- fice, 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 returns 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 fifth day of March, in the year nineteen hundred and one.


EDWARD A. MAXFIELD, HEZEKIAH NEWCOMB, GEO. A. R. HORTON, Selectmen of Swampscott.


A true copy. Attest :


RICHARD G. GILLEY, Constable.





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