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ARTS. 20 and 21. The Committee recommend that these articles be acted on together, and that $250 be appropriated for fire alarm boxes under these articles and that it be expended by the Board of Engineers. Voted to accept and adopt the Committee's report on Arts. 20 and 21.
ART. 22. The Committee reported that the petitioners have leave to withdraw; the report was not adopted. Voted, Art. 22, that a hydrant be placed at the corner of Thomas and Elm- wood roads, as petitioned for, and that $500 be appropriated for the same.
ARTS. 26, 27, 28, 29. Your Committee recommend that Arts. 26, 27, 28, 29 be taken up together and that on Art. 26 the prayers of the petitioners be granted; on Art. 27 that a single crossing be laid ; on Art. 28 a single crossing be laid ; and on Art. 29, on Sheridan and Walker roads, single crossings be laid ; on Monument avenue, a single crossing, and on Outlook road the petitioners be given leave to withdraw; and the sum of $500 be appropriated to pay for same. Work to be done under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. Voted to accept and adopt the Committee's report on Arts. 26, 27, 28, 29.
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ART. 30. Your Committee recommend that the avenue be accepted, as it is in excellent condition ; and that the Town re- imburse the Phillips estate to the extent of $300, less than one- half the cost of the pipe in this thoroughfare, and that the pay- ment for same be taken from the funds of the Water Depart- ment. Voted to accept and adopt the report of the Committee on Art. 30.
ART. 32. Your Committee recommend that Ingalls terrace be accepted as laid out by the Selectmen and the sum of $450 be appropriated to build iron steps in place of the wooden ones. This sum to be spent under the direction of the Highway Sur- veyors. Voted to accept and adopt the Committee's report on this article.
ART. 36. To see what action the Town will take to appro- priate money for the improvement of Buena Vista street as petitioned for. Your Committee after careful investigation rec- ommend that the sum of $1,000, be appropriated to be spent under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. Voted to accept and adopt the Committee's report on this article.
ARTS. 37, 38. Voted, To take up Arts. 37 and 38 jointly. Voted, To appropriate $6,000 to carry out Arts. 37 and 38 and the same to be carried out under the direction of the Highway Surveyor, the Board of Selectmen and J. P. M. S. Pitman. Voted, To accept and adopt the Committee's report on Arts. 37 and 38.
ART. 39. Your Committee, after careful consideration rec- 4 ommend that the petitioners have leave to withdraw. Voted, To accept and adopt the Committee's report on Art. 39.
ART. 40. Your Committee recommend that the sum of $100 be appropriated to be spent under the direction of the Highway Surveyor. Voted, To accept and adopt the report of the Com- mittee on this article.
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ART. 41. Your Committee recommend that a safe be pur- chased and the sum of $275 be appropriated. Voted, To ac- cept and adopt the Committee's report on Art. 41.
ART. 49. Your Committee recommend that it is inexpedient to take any action in this matter. Voted, That the Committee's report on Art. 49 be accepted and adopted.
ART. 50. Voted, That the sum of $21,000 be raised by loans under the direction of the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen, to pay for permanent improvements.
Voted, To accept and adopt the report of the Park Commis- sioners, and to appropriate $1,000 for their use the coming year.
Voted, That $750 be added to the appropriation for the Fire Department, for a permanent man as recommended by the Chief Engineer.
ART. 23. Voted, That $16 be appropriated for an incan- descent light to be placed in Middlesex avenue as recommended by the Street Light Committee.
ART. 24. Voted, To appropriate $16 to place an incan- descent light at the corner of the State and Ellis roads.
ART. 25. Voted, To appropriate $134 for maintaining two arc lamps on the State highway, east of the B. & M. R. R. bridge, for one year, as recommended by the Street Light Com- mittee.
Voted, That the sum of $67 be appropriated for an arc light on Norfolk avenue, between the State road and Middlesex avenue.
Voted, at 9.15 P. M., To dissolve the meeting.
Attest : MILTON D. PORTER,
Town Clerk.
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Special Town Meeting, June 30, 1903.
TOWN WARRANT.
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 election, and in Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Swampscott, on Tuesday, the thirtieth day of June, current, at seven-thirty o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meet- ing.
ART. 2. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $9,000 for Highway improvements.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will vote to build a new box drain, commencing at the easterly end of Atlantic avenue culvert and continuing therefrom 120 feet, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
ART 4. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $150 for the Board of Assessors to introduce the Library or Card System.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $750 for the purpose of widening and grading Roy street (so called) as already laid out and accepted by the Town, as petitioned for.
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And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting 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 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.
Given under our hands, this nineteenth day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and three.
JOS. M. BASSETT, C. B. DELANO, MARTIN L. QUINN,
Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
RICHARD G. GILLEY,
Constable.
Return on the Warrant.
Pursuant to the within Warrant to me directed, I have notified the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, qualified as herein expressed, to meet at the time and place and for the purpose herein mentioned, by posting up attested copies of said Warrant at the Town Hall, Depots, Post Office, and fifteen other public and conspicuous places in said Swampscott, on Monday, the twenty second day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and three, the posting of said notices being at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
RICHARD G. GILLEY, Constable of Swampscott.
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant the voters of the Town met in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, June 30, 1903, and were called to order at 7.35 o'clock by the Town Clerk, who read the Warrant and the return thereon.
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ART. I. Edmund Russell was chosen Moderator, and quali- fied.
ART. 2. If was unanimously voted to appropriate $9,000 for highway improvements.
ART. 3. It was voted, That for the purpose of building a ยท new box drain to extend 70 feet from the sea wall at the easterly end of the Atlantic avenue culvert, the sum of $500 is hereby appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen and the Surveyor of Highways.
ART. 4. Voted, To appropriate $150 for the Board of As- sessors to introduce the Library or Card System.
ART. 5. Voted, To appropriate $750 for the purpose of widening and grading Roy street (so called) as already laid out and accepted by the Town, the money to be expended under the direction of the Highway Surveyor.
Voted at 7.50 P. M., To dissolve the meeting.
Attest : MILTON D. PORTER, Town Clerk.
Special Town Meeting, July 22, 1903.
TOWN WARRANT.
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
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Town Hall in said Swampscott, on Wednesday, the twenty- second day of July, current, at 7.30 o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, viz :-
ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meet- ing.
ART. 2. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 401 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the Massachusetts Legislature in the year 1903, entitled, "An Act to authorize the Town of Swampscott to make an Additional Sewerage Loan and to Construct Particular Sewers in any Street or Way."
ART. 3. To see if the Town will instruct and authorize the Board of Sewer Commissioners to make and lay connecting drains and particular sewers in any street or way in which sew- ers or underdrains have been laid in connection with the sewer- age system now being installed or which are to be laid under existing contracts, such particular sewers and drains to be laid within the limits of the public streets or ways to connect estates abutting thereon, and to authorize said Board to make any con- tracts necessary therefor in the name and behalf of the Town.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote to issue any bonds, notes or scrip to an amount not exceeding ten thousand ($10,- 000) dollars, for the purpose of making such drain and sewer connections from the main sewers and drains as set forth in the preceding article, in accordance with the authority granted the Town under Chapter 401 of the Acts of 1903.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote that any and all streets and ways through which a common sewer or drain has been built in connection with the sewerage system installed un- der Chapter 86 of the year 1902 or under Chapter 401 of the year 1903, shall have the estates abutting thereon connected with such main drains or sewers in said streets or ways between such main drains or sewers, and the property lines of said streets or ways; and that such vote of the Town shall constitute a lien
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upon all such estates when connected for any and all assess- ments which may be made for such connections under said Chapter 401 of the year 1903.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will accept the plan and de- scription prepared by the Sewer Commissioners defining the sec- tion or sections of the Town within which sewer and drain con- nections are to be made in accordance with Chapter 401 of the year 1903 and determine that within such section or sections as set forth in said plan and description the cost of such connec- tions shall be determined by said Board of Sewer Commission- ers by taking the average cost of such particular sewers per foot and the average cost of such drain connections per foot, sepa- rately, and that when such average costs have been determined, the Sewer Commissioners shall assess each estate connected with the main sewers or drains by multiplying such average cost per foot by the number of feet in the length of any particular sewer or drain laid for each estate connected, in the manner and under the conditions provided in 'said Chapter 401 of the year 1903.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to issue any notes, bonds or scrips for the further extension of the sewerage system as may be voted by the Town or for completion of the work already authorized, such notes, bonds or scrips to be issued under Chapter 86 of the year 1902, or under Chapter 401 of 1903, or under both of said chapters and to pass any vote necessary to enable the Town to issue and negotiate such notes, bonds or scrip.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to extend the present system of sewerage to and through Farragut road, and appropri- ate money for the same as petitioned for.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will construct a sewer, running from the present sewer in Thomas road, easterly for a distance of 450 feet or to the easterly line of the Wessel lot on Elmwood road, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
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ART. 10. To see if the Town will extend the sewer system through Ellis road, between Paradise and Farragut roads, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
ART. II. To see if the Town will consider the petition of Elizabeth F. D. Sargent, of Swampscott, asking compensation for injury to a certain private road or way, said injury being caused by the use of said way by the Town of Swampscott and the inhabitants thereof, and for the purpose of taking appropri- ate action upon the said petition, as petitioned for.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will extend the sewer pipe as far as the residence of Charles B. White, on Norfolk avenue, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will extend the water pipe on Walker road, and appropriate money for the same.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting 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 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 thirteenth day of July, in the year nineteen hundred and three.
JOSEPH M. BASSETT, C. B. DELANO, M. L. QUINN, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
RICHARD G. GILLEY,
Constable.
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Return on the Warrant.
Pursuant to the within Warrant, to me directed, I have noti- fied the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, qualified as herein expressed, to meet at the time and place and for the pur- pose herein mentioned, by posting up attested copies of said Warrant at the Town Hall, depot, post office and fifteen other public and conspicuous places in said Swampscott, on Wednes- day, the fifteenth day of July, in the year nineteen hundred and three. The posting of said notice being at least seven days be- fore the time of said meeting.
RICHARD G. GILLEY, Constable.
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant, the voters of the Town met in the Town Hall, on Wednesday evening, July 22, 1903, and were called to order at 7.30 o'clock by the Clerk, who read the Warrant and return thereon. Martin E. Nies was chosen and qualified as Moderator.
ART. 2. Voted unanimously, That the Town hereby accept Chapter 401 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts in the year 1903, entitled "An Act to authorize the Town of Swampscott to make an additional Sewerage Loan, and to construct particular sewers in any street or way."
Voted, to take up Articles 7, 8, 9 and 10.
ART. 7. On motion of Benj. G. Ingalls, it was unanimously voted, That the Town issue bonds to the amount of $13,000, for the purpose of further construction and extension of the Sewerage System in accordance with the authority granted to said Town under Chapter 86 of the Acts and Resolves of the Massachusetts Legislature for 1902, entitled, "An Act to Authorize the Town of Swampscott to Construct a System of Sewerage," said bonds to be of the denomination of $1,000 each, and to have interest coupons thereto attached, and to have the privilege of registration,
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said bonds or any portion thereof to be sold at such date or dates as may be deemed by the Board of Sewer Commissioners to be for the best interests of the Town ; said bonds to be designated as Series F., numbered consecutively from one to thirteen, both in- clusive ; said bonds of Series F., shall be payable as follows, viz :
No.
I.
Payable 10 years from date of such bond.
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Each bond to be payable with interest at 3 1-2 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually in each year, at such bank or trust company as the Town Treasurer shall determine, on pre- sentation and surrender of the coupons therefor, as the same shall severally become due; that each of said bonds shall be signed by the Treasurer of the Town, and countersigned by a majority of the Sewer Commissioners of said Town, and bear on its face the words, " Swampscott Sewerage Loan," and that the Treasurer is hereby directed to affix to each of said bonds the seal of the Town, and to sell or negotiate said bonds under the direction of the Board of Sewer Commissioners, but not below par; and that the proceeds realized from the sale of said bonds shall be applied to defraying the expenses and liabilities incurred by the Town in carrying out the provisions of said Chapter 86.
The Town shall also issue bonds to the amount of $12,000 for the purpose of further construction and extension of the
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Sewerage System in accordance with the authority granted the said Town under Chapter 401 of the Acts and Resolves of the Massachusetts Legislature for 1903, entitled, " An Act to author- ize the Town of Swampscott to make an Additional Sewerage Loan and to construct Particular Sewers in any Streets or Ways," said Bonds to be of the denomination of $1,000 each and to have interest coupons thereto attached ; with the privilege of registra- tion ; said Bonds or any portion thereof, to be sold at such date or dates as may be deemed by the Board of Sewer Commission- ers to be for the best interests of the Town; said Bonds to be designated as Series G., numbered consecutively from one to twelve, both inclusive ; said Bonds of Series G. shall be payable as follows, viz :-
No.
I,
payable II years from date of such bond.
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Each bond to be payable with interest at 3 1-2 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually in each year, at such bank or trust company as the Town Treasurer shall determine, on presentation and surrender of the coupons therefor, as the same shall sever- ally become due ; that each of said bonds shall be signed by the Treasurer of the Town, and countersigned by a majority of the Sewer Commissioners of said Town, and bear on its face the words, " Swampscott Sewerage Loan," and that the Treasurer is hereby directed to affix to each of said bonds the seal of the Town, and to sell or negotiate said bonds under the direction of the Board of Sewer Commissioners, but not below par; and
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that the proceeds realized from the sale of said bonds shall be applied to defraying the expenses and liabilities incurred by the Town in carrying out the provisions of said Chapter 401 of the Acts of 1903 and of Chapter 86 of the Massachusetts Legislature for the year 1902.
ART. 8. Voted, That the Town extend the present system of sewerage in Paradise road to Farragut road, and through Farra- gut road from Paradise road to Andrew road, and that the necessary expense occasioned by such extension be met by the Sewer Commissioners from the loan authorized under Art. 7 of this Warrant.
ART. 9. Voted, That the Town extend the present system of sewerage in Elmwood road, from Thomas road easterly, a dis- tance of about 450 feet, to the easterly line of the Wessel lot and that the necessary expense occasioned by such extension is to be met by the Sewer Commissioners from the loan authorized under Art. 7 of this Warrant.
ART. 10. Voted, That the Town extend the present system of sewerage through Ellis road, between Paradise and Farragut roads, the necessary expense occasioned by such extension to be met by the Sewer Commissioners from the loan authorized under Art. 7 of this Warrant.
Voted, to take up Article 12.
Voted, That the Town extend the present system of Sewerage in Norfolk avenue, from Stetson avenue, easterly, a distance of 320 feet, so as to include the house of Charles B. White and the necessary expense occasioned by such extension is to be met by the Sewer Commissioners from the loan authorized under Article 7 of this Warrant.
Voted, To take up Article 4. On motion of Weston K. Lewis it was voted, That the Town issue bonds to the amount o
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$10,000, for the purpose of laying connecting drains and partic- ular sewers within the streets and ways of the Town of Swamp- scott and for any and all purposes set forth in Chapter 86 of the Legislative Acts of 1902, such bonds to be issued under the au- thority granted the said Town by Chapter 401 of the Acts of the year 1903, entitled, "An Act to authorize the Town of Swamp- scott to make an Additional Sewerage Loan and to construct particular sewers in any street or way," such bonds to be of the denomination of $1,000 each, and to have interest coupons thereto attached; and to have the privilege of registration ; said bonds or any portion thereof to be sold at such date or dates as may be deemed by the Board of Sewer Commissioners to be for the best interests of the Town ; said bonds to be designated as Series E., and numbered consecutively from one to ten, both inclusive, and to be made payable,
No.
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One year from date of such Bond.
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Each bond to be payable with interest at 32 per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually in each year at such bank or trust com- pany as the Town Treasurer shall determine, on presentation and surrender of the coupons therefor, as the same shall become sev- erally due, that each of the said bonds shall be signed by the Treasurer of the Town, and countersigned by a majority of the Sewer Commissioners of said Town, and bear on its face the words, "Swampscott Sewerage Loan," and that the Treasurer is hereby directed to affix to each of said bonds the seal of the Town, and to sell or negotiate said bonds under the direction of he Board of Sewer Commissioners, but not below par, and that
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the proceeds realized from the sale of said bonds shall be applied to defraying the expenses and liabilities incurred by the Town in carrying out the provisions of said Chapter 401 of the Legislative Acts of the year 1903.
ART. 3. Voted, On motion of A. R. Bunting, That the Town hereby instructs and authorizes the Board of Sewer Com- missioners to make and lay connecting drains and particular sewers in any street or way in which sewers or underdrains have been laid in connection with the sewerage system, now being in- stalled or which are to be laid under existing contracts, and all extensions of said sewerage system as voted by the Town in this and prior Town Meetings, such particular sewers and drains to be laid within the limits of the public streets or ways to any estate abbutting thereon, and the Board of Sewer Commissioners is hereby authorized to make any contracts necessary for the lay- ing of such connecting drains and particular sewers in the name and behalf of the Town.
ACT. 5. Voted, on motion of Mr. Bunting, That the estates abutting upon any and all streets and ways through which a common sewer or drain has been built in connection with the sewerage system installed under Chapter 86 of the Legislative Acts of the year 1902, or under Chapter 401 of the year 1903, or upon any street or way in which a sewer or drain is to be con- structed as a part of such sewerage system under existing con- tracts and all extensions of said sewerage system as voted by the Town in this and prior Town Meetings, shall be connected with such main drains or sewers in said streets or ways between such main drains or sewers and the property lines of said streets or ways, and that the Town hereby makes any and all assess- ments which may be made for such sewer and drain connections under this vote and in accordance with the authority granted in Chapter 401 of the Acts of the year 1903, a lien upon all such estates when connected with the main drains or sewers.
ART. 6. On motion of Mr. Bunting, it was voted, To accept the following as presented by the Sewer Commissioners :
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SWAMPSCOTT SEWERS. SWAMPSCOTT, MASS.
The Sewer Commissioners of Swampscott hereby present for acceptance by the Town the following-described section of the Town of Swampscott, to be termed Section I, for construction of particular sewers and connecting drains, and within said Sec- tion I all particular sewers and connecting drains are to be constructed within the limits of the streets or ways in which main sewers and drains are constructed, and upon which average costs of particular sewers and connecting drains are to be determined by the Sewer Commissioners, and assessments made in accord- ance with such average cost within said Section I.
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