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Amount brought forward,
$2,661 93 87 50
Nov. 22. Com. Mass., Notes 112 and 113
Nov. 25. Lynn Institution for Savings, Notes
146, 147 and 148
444 19
Nov. 28. Com. Mass., Notes 116 and 117 .
105 00
Dec. 5. Com. Mass., Note 119 1IO 85
Dec. 23. Loring, Toleman & Tupper, Note 136, ·
52 70
Dec. 30.
Com. Mass., Note 120 .
68 16
1905.
Jan. 30. Lynn Institution for Savings, Note 105, 56 25
Feb. 6. Com. Mass., Note 115 44 10
Feb. 24. Salem Five Cent Savings Bank, Note
I39 ·
20 00
Feb. 24. James Parker & Co., Notes 141, 142 . 80 00
Feb. 24. Commonwealth Saving Bank, Note 140, 20 00
Sewer bond interest
7,565 38
$11,316 06
RECEIPTS.
Interest on treasurer's deposits ·
$382 12
1
$3,750 68
206
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
George T. Till, Collector of Taxes in Account Current with Town of Swampscott.
1904. DR.
To amount committed for collection, as
per assessors warrant :
County tax
$10,897 85
State tax
.
·
10,607 0I
Town tax
80,504 69
Supplementary list
1,276 19
$103,285 74
CR.
By cash paid B. O. Honors, Treasurer .
$98,555 99
Discount 2 per cent. taxes paid on or be- fore October 1, 1904 .
1,474 06
Abatement of assesors 1,292 85
Uncollected taxes to be advertised or other- wise collected
1,962 84
$103,285 74
$967.50 uncollected is in littigation and cannot be settled at time of closing books.
DR.
To excise tax Boston & Northern Street Railroad Co.
$733 75
CR.
By cash paid B. O. Honors, Treasurer $733 75
207
AUDITORS' REPORT.
1905]
George T. Till, Collector of Taxes in Account with Town of Swampscott.
1902-3-4. DR.
To balance uncollected March 1, 1904
$751 34
CR.
By cash paid B. O. Honors, Treasurer
$680 94
Abatements by assessors
70 40
$751 34
M. P. Carroll Estate in Account with Town of Swampscott.
1901. DR.
To uncollected taxes
·
$89 72
REBATED.
By Article 31 of Town Warrant Annual March Meeting, 1904 . $89 72
208
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
Benjamin O. Honors, Treasurer,
DR.
To Balance in treasury, March 1, 1904
$12,529 08
Cemetery Department receipts
430 00
Concrete and curbstones reimbursements
209 50
Corporation tax received from State
13,405 84
Fire Department receipts
1,380 00 50
Health Department, plumber's license
Highway Department receipts
996 45
Interest on Treasurer's deposits
382 12
Library Department, dog tax and receipts
518 48
National Bank tax .
2,699 02
Park Department receipts
232 36
Permanent Improvement loans-
$23,950 .
Marshall Drain loan
1,300 00
Police Department receipts
70 8 1
Poor Department reimbursements .
277 13
School Department receipts
63 50
Selectmen's Department receipts
128 78
State Aid, Chapter 372
96 00
State Aid, Chapter 374
2,548 00
Street railway tax .
792 39
Soldiers' Relief reimbursements
85 00
Taxes, 1904-5, George T. Till, collector .
98,555 99
Taxes, 1903-4, George T. Till, collector .
680 94
Temporary Loans .
30,000 00
Town Hall Department receipts
471 50
.
$192,403 39
.
25,250 00
Lynn Institution for Savings
·
AUDITORS' REPORT.
1905]
In Account Current with Town of Swampscott.
CR.
By County Tax, 1904 .
$10,897 85
Commonwealth of Massachusetts-
Park loan sinking fund
$655 87
Interest on parks
1,099 98
Interest on boulevards
251 74
Cost of maintaining parks .
658 86
Cost of maintaining boulevards .
174 30
Cost of maintaining Nantasket .
66 76
Repairs on State highway .
74 50
2,982 0I
Interest on notes payable
3,750 68
Notes paid-
June 25, 1904, Phillips School loan,
Note No. 83, $1,000 00
November 12, 1904, Park loan,
Note No. 95, 4,000 00
Temporary loans
30,000 00
35,000 00
Selectmen's Department ---
Paid outstanding orders, 1903-4 .
Paid orders, 1904-5
Sewer bond, interest
7,565 38
Sewer Bonds-
Series A, No. 1, 2, 3
$3,000 00
66 B, “ I .
100 00
66 C, “ I .
1,000 00
66 D, I .
500 00
4,600 00
State Tax
7,625 00
Sewer credit-
Norfolk avenue drain reimbursement $377 44
Sewer maintenance, 1903, reimbursement, 2,002 57
Sewer maintenance appropriation, 1905 3,500 00
5,880 0I
Balance in treasury, March 1, 1905
7,995 55
$192,403 39
209
647 23 105,459 68
210
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
Benjamin O. Honors, Treasurer,
DR.
To Balance in treasury, March 1, 1904
$2,064 05
Interest on treasurer's deposits
46 91
Land rent
63 00
Old iron .
36 80
Sale of pipes .
· 76 59
Service receipts
588 04
Water receipts
21,150 66
$24,026 05
Benjamin O. Honors, Treasurer,
DR.
To Balance in treasury, March 1, 1904
$1,243 75
Bonds sold, par value
$25,000 00
Premium on same .
1,315 75
Accrued interest on same .
200 00
26,515 75
Eglee, Bunting & Co., reimbursement .
65 25
Interest on deposits
114 69
Lynn, City of, drain assessment
11 00
Marshall street drain, sale of pipe
170 88
Particular sewer assessments .
$12,074 24
Sewer assessments .
4,332 49
Interest on assessments
64 99
16,471 72
Sand screen .
5 00
Sewer maintenance for 1903, reimbursed
$2,002 57
Sewer maintenance for 1904-5, reimbursed, appropriation
3,500 00
Norfolk avenue drain, reimbursed
377 44
5,880 0I
$50,478 05
Benjamin O. Honors, Treasurer,
DR.
To Town balance .
$7,995 55
Water balance
3,090 56
Sewer balance
13,211 76
$24,297 87
2II
AUDITORS' REPORT.
1905]
In Acct. with Town of Swampscott, Water Dept.
CR.
By Commissioners' orders :
Outstanding order, 1904
$7 85
Paid order, 1904-5
16,465 14
Interest on water bonds .
4,462 50
Balance in treasury, March 1, 1905
3,090 56
$24,026 05
In Acct. with Town of Swampscott, Sewer Dept.
CR.
By Commissioners' orders :
Outstanding order, 1904
$45 75
Paid order, 1904-5
12,220 54
Demand note, Central National bank
25,000 00
Balance in treasury, March 1, 1905
13,211 76
C
$50,478 05
Summary, March 1, 1905.
CR.
By Bank balance, certified by cashier's certificates, Cash on hand
$21,925 75
2,372 12
$24,297 87
.
212
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
Sewer Department Assessments.
George T. Till, Collector, in Account with Town of Swampscott. DR.
To amount of area and frontage assessments, levy
to March 1, 1905
$25,724 84 ·
Interest collected .
57 67
$25,782 51
CR.
Cash paid Benjamin O. Honors, Treasurer, prior to March 1, 1904 $3,181 42
Cash paid Benjamin O. Honors, Treasurer, March 1, 1904, to March 1, 1905 12,131 91
To be collected .
10,469 18
$25,782 51
DR. .
To amount of particular sewer and connecting drain assessment, levy to March 1, 1905 $7,395 54
Interest collected 7 32
$7,402 86
CR.
Cash paid Benjamin O. Honors, Treasurer to
March 1, 1905 .
$4,339 81
To be collected . · . .
3,063 05 .
$7,402 86
213
AUDITORS' REPORT.
1905]
Water Receipts.
DR.
To Water rentals to April 1, 1905
$21,006 78
Water rentals to April 1, 1905, charges ·
fractional
161 92
Service receipts · .
588 04
$21,756 74
CR.
By Cash paid to B. O. Honors
· $21,150 66
Cash paid to B. O. Honors
588 04
To be collected .
.
.
18 04
$21,756 74
Summary of Selectmen's Orders, Paid by Treasurer, for 1904-1905.
Selectmen's Department
. $105,459 68
Water Department · ·
16,465 14
Sewer Department .
12,220 54
Outstanding order, 1904-5 .
461 91
Total amount of orders drawn, 1904-5
$134,607 27 ·
·
1
.
$134,145 36
.
15
214
RECAPITULATION.
Appropriations.
Receipts and Reimbursements.
Totals.
Expenditures.
Balances
Amounts Unexpended. Overdrawn.
Catch Basins and Gutters
$1,500 00
$1,500 00
$1,492 71
$7 29
Cemetery Department
·
1,000 00
$430 00
1,430 00
1,004 30
425 70
Chemical House
500 00
500 00
482 70
17 30
Concrete and Curbstone
500 00
209 50
709 50
814 82
$105 32
Crescent Street
50 00
50 00
49 25
75
Crushed Stone
1,200 00
1,200 00
1,245 57
45 57
Curbstones Reset
300 00
300 00
84 00
216 00
Farragut Road
500 00
500 00
491 81
8 19
Fire Department
8,500 00
9,880 00
9,894 02
14 02
Fire Alarm Box
80 00
80 00
79 65
35
Hay Scales
250 00
250 00
231 28
18 72
Health Department
4,500 00
50
4,500 50
4,560 91
60 41
Highway Department
10,000 00
996 45
10,996 45
11,276 70
280 25
Horse for Superintendent of Streets,
250 00
250 00
211 00
39 00
Humphrey Street Culvert
100 00
100 00
60 00
40 00
Library, Free Public
750 00
518 48
1,268 48
1,278 98
IO 50
Mapledale Place
200 00
200 00
189 50
10 50
Marshall Street Drain
2,000 00
2,000 00
1,396 51
603 49
Memorial Day
175 00
175 00
175 00
Monument Lot
35 00
35 00
35 00
Orient Street Widening .
300 00
300 00
317 00
Park Department
1,000 00
1,232 36
823 85
408 51
Pest House Road
100 00
100 00
99 10
90
Police Department .
5,100 00
670 81
5,770 81
5,768 28
2 53
Poor Department
3,500 00
277 13
3,777 13
2,227 31
1,549 82
Play Grounds .
6,500 00
6,500 00
6,527 00
27 00
School Department
24,000 00
63 50
24,063 50
24,530 93
467 43
Selectmen's Department
5,700 00
128 78
5,828 78
5,541 30
287 48
Sewer Department, for receipts see Treasurer's account.
12,514 59
13,211 76
Sidewalk Department
1,500 00
1,500 00
1,456 89
43 II
[Feb. 28
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
17 00
232 36
1,380 00
Snow Plow Soldiers' Relief
150 00
150 00
IO1 30
48 70
85 00
2,085 00
1,804 99
280 0I
Special Fire
496 64
496 64
503 56
6 92
176 00
State Aid, Chapter 374
.
2,548 00
2,601 00
Street Light Department
9,500 00
9,500 00
9,290 01
209 99
Street Watering
3,000 00
3,000 00
2,764 70
235 30
Street Sweeper
275 00
275 00
Stone Ledge
2,400 00
2,400 00
2,150 00
250 00
Town Hall Department .
1,400 00
471 50
1,871 50
1,727 04
144 46
Tree Warden .
775 00
775 00
818 01
218 01
Water Department, for receipts see Treasurer's account.
16,474 20
3,090 56
Watering Carts
300 00
300 00
306 50
6 50
Water Rates
1,100 00
1,100 00
1,030 00
70 00
Amt. of Selectmen's orders drawn Less outstanding orders, 1904-5
$134,607 27 461 91
Paid by Treasurer, Orders, 1904-5 ..
$134,145 36
County Tax
7,000 00
7,000 00
10,897 85
Com. of Mass., Met. Park Assess.,
2,982 OI
Interest on Notes Payable
§ 8,500 00
382 12
8,882 12 }
.11, 316 06
5,066 об
66
" Sewer Bonds . .
7,500 00
7,500 00 )
4,462 50
Notes Paid
35,000 00
Selectmen's Outst'd'g orders, 03-04,
700 83
Sewer Bonds Paid .
5,600 00
5,600 00
4,600 00
Sewer Demand Note Paid
25,000 00
Sewer Department .
3,500 00
2,380 0I
5,880 0I
5,880 01
State Tax
8,000 00
8,000 00
7,625 00
375 00
Total Amt. of Treas. Disbursem'nts,
$242,609 62
1905]
AUDITORS' REPORT.
215
·
96 00
2,000 00
State Aid, Chapter 372
3,897 85
" Water Bonds
1,000 00
216
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
Report of Trustees of Sinking Fund.
As trustees of the Sinking Fund and in compliance with Chapter 293 of the acts of 1898, we submit the following report :
Amount of fund as per report of
1904 . . ·
$18,909 40
RECEIPTS.
Peoples' Savings, Worcester $40 16
Salem Five Cents Savings 36 12
Widley Savings, Boston . .
20 00
Commonwealth Savings, Lynn
35 91
Institution for Savings, Lynn .
20 97
Brookline Savings .
·
20 00
Mechanics Savings, Worcester
41 74
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings, Har- wich .
37 57
Natick Five Cents Savings .
23 56
Institution for Savings, Newbury-
port 42 08
Marblehead Savings, account with- drawn May Ist ·
9 81
Salem Savings
37 66
$365 58
Interest on $10,000 Swampscott
Water Bonds, August 1, 1904
$175 00
February 1, 1905
175 00
350 00
Reserved for Sinking as required by law, 2 percent. on $140,000 bonds, 1904-1905
2,800 00
Total
$22,424 98
217
REPORT OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
1905]
INVESTMENTS.
Ten $1,000 3.50 per cent. Swamp- scott Water Bonds
$10,000 00
On deposit in the following banks :
Westborough Savings Bank ·
175 00
Lynn Institutions for Savings .
525 34
East Boston Savings Bank ·
989 68
Natick Five Cents .
1,023 56
Brookline Savings .
·
1,020 00
Wildey Savings, Boston .
1,020 00
Commonwealth Savings, Lynn
1,053 41
Institution for Savings (Newbury-
port) .
1,154 28
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings (Har- wich) ·
1,102 42
Mechanics Savings (Worcester) ·
1,085 21
Salem Savings
1,104 76
Salem Five Cents Savings
·
1,059 86
Peoples' Savings (Worcester)
I,III 46
Total
$22,424 98
.
.
WILLIAM H. BATES, CHARLES S. HASKELL, SAMUEL M. KEHOE,
Water Commissioners.
218
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
Notes Payable.
Date of Note.
No.
To whom payable.
Amoun
Class.
Time il. Yrs.
Rate.
payable.
Nov. 12, 1895
96
State of Mass.
$4,000 00
B
10
3 60-100
Nov. 12, 1905
July 30, 1897
105
Lynn Inst. Sav'gs
3,000 00
E
10
3 75-100
July 30, 1907
Sept. 24, 1897
107
Lynn Inst. Sav'gs
2,500 00
F
8
4
Sept. 24, 1905
May 22, 1899
112
Col. Nat. Bank
2,500 00
B
8
3 50-100
May 22, 1907
May 22, 1899
113
Col. Nat. Bank
2,500 00
B
9
3 50-100
May 22, 1908
Aug. 5, 1899
115
State of Mass.
2,800 00
C
9
3 15-100
Aug. 5, 1908
Nov. 29, 1899
116
State of Mass.
3,000 00
D
3 50-100
Nov. 29, 1908
Nov. 29, 1899
117
State of Mass.
3,000 00
D
10
3 50-100
Nov. 29, 1909
June 4, 1900
119
State of Mass.
7,000 00
D
6
3 17-100
June 4,1906
June 30, 1900
120
State of Mass.
4,300 00
D
10
3 17-100
June 30, 1910
Sept. 9, 1901
124
State of Mass.
3,000 00
D
4
3 30-100
Sept. 9, 1905
Sept. 9, 1901
125
State of Mass.
3,000 00
D
6
3 30-100
Sept. 9, 1907
Sept. 9, 1901
126
State of Mass.
6,000 00
D
S
3 30-100
Sept. 9, 1909
May 19, 1902
129
State of Mass.
3,570 00
D
8
3 25-100
May 19, 1910
May 19, 1902
130
State of Mass.
7,500 00
D
9
3 25-100
May 19, 1911
Nov. 29, 1902
136
Col. Nat. Bank
3,100 00
D
10
3 40-100
Nov. 29, 1912
Aug. 24, 1903
139
Col. Nat. Bank
1,000 00
D
7
4
Aug. 24, 1910
Aug. 24, 1903
140
Col. Nat. Bank
1,000 00
D
4
Aug. 24, 1910
Aug. 24, 1903
141
Col. Nat. Bank
1,000 00
D
4
Aug. 24, 1910
Aug. 25, 1903
142
Col. Nat. Bank
3,000 00
D
3
4
Aug. 25, 1906
July
1,1903
1-2
Col. Nat. Bank
2,000 00
D
S
4
July
1,1911
uly
1, 1903
3-8
Col. Nat. Bank
6,000 00
D
9
4
July
1, 1912
July 1, 1903
9-18
Col. Nat. Bank
10,000 00
D
10
4
July
1, 1913
May 25, 1904
146
Lynn Inst. Sav'gs
6,500 00
G
20
3 60-100
May 25, 1924
May 25, 1904
147
Lynn Inst. Sav'gs
3,450 00
D
8
3 75-100
May 25, 1912
May 25, 1904
148
Lynn Inst. Sav'gs
14,000 00
D
10
3 75-100
May 25, 1914
May 25, 1904
149
Lynn Inst. Sav'gs
1,300 00
A
4
3 75-100
May 25, 1908
Total $110,020.00.
A. Marshall Drain Loan.
E. Proctor Lot Loan.
B. Park Loan.
F. Chemical Laboratory.
c. Sewer Loan.
G. Playground.
D. Permanent Improvement Loan.
When
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AUDITORS' REPORT.
1905]
Sewer Bonds.
Series A ($3,000), due annually
$120,000 00
Series B ($100), due annually
4,000 00
Series C ($1,000), due annually
·
40,000 00
Series D ($500), due annually
20,000 00
Series F ($1,000), due annually (from 1913) ·
13,000 00
Series G ($1,000), due annually
(from 1914)
12,000 00
$209,000 00
Bonds Paid in 1903-4.
Series A No. 1, 2 and 3
$3,000 00
Series B No. I
100 00
Series C No. I
·
1,000 00
Series D No. I
500 00
Bonds Paid in 1904-5.
Series A
$3,000 00
Series B
100 00
Series C
1,000 00
Series D
500 00
$9,200 00
$199,800 00
Balance Due on Sewer Bonds.
Series A ($3,000), due annually
. $114,000 00
Series B ($100), due annually
·
3,800 00
Series C ($1,000), due annually ·
38,000 00
Series D ($500), due annually
· 19,000 00
Series F ($1,000), due annually 13,000 00 Series G ($1,000), due annually . .12,000 00
$199,800 00
.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
Statistics of the Town of Swampscott, 1868=1905.
ASSESSORS' VALUATION MAY I.
MARCH I.
YEAR.
REAL
PERSONAL
TOTAL
RATE TAXES PER $1,000
YEAR.
PAYABLE
1904
$5,489, 12I
$2,206,172
$7,695,293
$12.90
1905
$110,020.00
1903
5,135,124
4,286,981
9,422,105
11.50
1904
114,770.00
1902
4,762,665
1,744,874
6,507,539
12.00
1903
75,270.00
1901
4,668,985
1,598,745
6,267,730
12.00
1902
70,600.00
1900
4,446,900
1,138,275
5,585,175
11.00
190I
68,100.00
1899
4,200,175
1,199,045
5,399,220
11.50
1 900
64,300.00
1898
4,135,582
1,318,591
5,454,173
14.00
1899
59,000.00
1897
3,997,975
1,304,163
5,302, 138
12.00
1898
71,000.00
1896
3,896,059
1,245,245
5,141,304
12.00
1897
78,250.00
1895
3,756,900
1,444,947
5,201,847
12.00
1896
84,500.00
1894
3,619,525
1,529,675
5,149,200
11.00
1895
66,333.30
1893
3,439,975
1,649,953
5,989,928
11.00
1894
71,166.66
1892
3,271,279
1,504,170
4,775,449
10.00
1893
37,499.99
1891
3,122,350
1,771,373
4,893,723
10.00
1892
42,333.32
1 890
3,001,550
1,857,777
4,859,327 .
10.00
1891
48,666.66
1889
2,585,431
1,453,30I
4,038,732
8.40
1 890
52,500.00
1888
2,465,256
1,501,530
3,966,792
8.50
1889
56,000.00
1887
2,417,556
1,288,498
3,706,054
8.00
1888
57,500.00
1886
2,383,055
1,275,405
3,658,460
9.50
1887
55,500.00
1885
2,365,280
1,130,863
3,496,143
9.00
1886
47,500.00
1884
2,371,610
1,135,215
3,506,825
11.00
1885
49,000.00
1883
2,259,855
1,589,566
3,849,41I
8.50
1884
50,500.00
1882
2,228,330
1,264,938
3,493,268
6.00
1883
49,000.00
1881
2,121,080
807,159
2,928,239
7.20
1882
30,500.00
1880
1,991,880
1,133,247
3,125,127
7.00
1881
31,750,00 39,424.80
1878
2,049,980
384,841
2,434,82 I
8.00
1879
42,424.00
1877
2,041,935
340,323
2,382,258
8.50
1878
42,424.80
1876
2,108,462
360,961
2,469,423
12.00
1877
45,524.80
1875
2,074,850
389,44I
2,464,291
10.00
1876
50,224.80
1874
2,028,875
457,260
2,486, 135
11.00
1875
51,432.80
1873
1,949,225
460,867
2,410,792
12.00
1874
50,342.50
1872
1,854,750
578,000
2,432,750
9.50
1873
47,068.00
1871
1,598,800
504,073
2,102,873
9.50
1872
43,150.00
1870
1,332,570
508,564
1,843,134
10.00
1871
38,745.00
1869
1,244,120
313,7II
1,557,834
11.20
1870
31,545.00
1868
1,141,020
347,173
1,488,193
11.50
1869
33,745.00
1879
1,930,205
418,904
2,349,109
8.30
1880
NOTES
ESTATE
PROPERTY
VALUATION
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AUDITORS' REPORT.
1905]
Assessors' Valuation of the Town of Swampscott, May 1, 1904.
Table of aggregates of polls property and taxes as assessed May 1, 1904 :
Number of residents assessed on property
765
All others
26
791
Number of non-residents assessed on property,
259
All others
19
278
Number of persons assessed on property .
1,069
Number of persons assessed for poll tax only,
880
1,949
Number of male polls assessed
1,370
Tax on each poll .
$2 00
Value of assessed personal estate
$2,206, 172 00
Value of assessed real estate, buildings
$3, 117,015 00
Value of assessed real estate, land .
2,372, 106 .00
Total real estate
$5,489, 121 00
Total valuation of assessed estate, May 1, 1904,
$7,695,293 00
Tax for State, County and Town purposes, including over- layings :
On personal estate .
$28,459 71
On real estate
70,809 84
On polls ·
2,740 00
Total
$102,009 55
Rate of tax per $1,000 .
$12 90
Number of horses assessed
296
Number of cows assessed
79
Numbe of neat cattle other than cows
I
Number of dwelling-houses assessed
1,130
Number of acres of land assessed .
.
1,675
.
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Financial Standing of the Town of Swampscott, March 1, 1905.
RESOURCES.
Balance in Treasury (Town) $7,995 55
Balance in Treasury (Water)
3,090 56
Balance in Treasury (Sewer) ·
13,211 76
Due for Taxes
1,962 84
Due from Concrete and Curbstones,
312 II
Due from Poor Department .
749 49
Due from Police Department .
41 75
Due from State Aid, Chapter 372
112 00
Due from State Aid, Chapter 374
3,059 00
Due from Soldiers' Relief
52 00
Due from Sewer Assessments .
10,469 18
Due from Particular Sewer Assess- ments
3,063 05
Due from Water Rentals
18 04
Due from Water Commissioners, Sinking Fund
22,424 98
Schedule of Public Property ·
.
373,913 34
$440,475 65
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LIABILITIES.
NOTES PAYABLE.
Due in 1905
$9,500 00
Due in 1906
.
10,000 00
Due in 1907
8,500 00
Due in 1908
9,600 00
Due in 1909
9,000 00
Due in 1910
12,870 00
Due in 1911
13,500 00
Due in 1912
16,550 00
Due in 1914
14,000 00
Due in 1924
6,500 00
$110,020 00
Due on Sewer Bonds
199,800 00
Water Bonds due 1928 .
140,000 00
Outstanding orders for 1904-5 :
Selectmen's Department .
$158 80
Sewer Department
294 05
Water Department -
.
9 06
461 91
Outstanding orders for 1902-3
60 90
$450,342 81
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Feb. 28
Auditors' Remarks.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
We herewith present for your consideration the fifty-third Annual Report of the Town, for the fiscal year ending February 28, 1905.
The accounts of the several departments have been carefully examined and we have proper vouchers on file for payments made.
The Treasurer's accounts have been audited quarterly, and we have on file bank cashiers' certificates for balance of each quarter's auditing.
The Water Board Sinking Fund has been carefully looked over, bonds.examined, and balance found to be correct.
The items of receipts can be found by referring to the different departments as they appear in the Treasurer's account.
On the recommendation made by the Auditors of 1903-4, the Water Department have adopted a card system this year for the care of water rentals which is an improvement over the old system and we feel that it will facilitate and systematize in future the work of that department.
We recommend that a committee of five (5) including the present Board of Selectmen be appointed to investigate as to the advisability of changing the By-Laws to close the fiscal year at an earlier date. The necessity of this being done to give the Auditors and printers ample time to get the reports out on time, the tendency of committees being to hold their reports past the time they should be in the printer's hands,- the last report pre- sented was March 8th.
Respectfully submitted,
L. FRANK CAHOON, GEORGE R. HUSSEY, HERMAN F. ASHTON,
Auditors.
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TOWN WARRANT,
1905]
Town Warrant, 1905.
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 twentieth 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 meet- ing.
ART. 2. To choose a Town Clerk for one ( 1) year. To choose a Board of Selectmen for the year ensu- ing.
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 ensu- ing.
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 a Board of Auditors for the year ensu- ing.
To choose one overseer of the Poor for three (3) years.
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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 ques- tion : Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxicating 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 Board of Trustees of the Public Library, the Engineers of the Fire Department, the Superintendent of 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 Commissioners, the Sewer Commissioners, the Tree Warden, and the Board of Assessors.
ART. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appro- priations 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 ensuing year.
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ART. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes.
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 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. II. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and seventy-five ($175) dollars to be placed in the hands of James L. Bates, Post 118, G. A. R., toward defraying the expenses of Memorial Day.
ART. 12. To see what rate of interest the Town will charge on taxes not paid before November I, of the year in which they are assessed.
ART. 13. To see what action the Town will take in determ- ining how money shall be raised to pay for permanent improve- ments.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will vote to place an electric (arc) light in the square at the junction of Forest avenue, Devens and Banks roads and Redington street and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to place an incandes- cent light at the end of Greenwood avenue near Humphrey street, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to place an incandes- cent light at the corner of Yawata street and Beach Bluff depot yard, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
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[Feb. 28
ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to place an electric (arc) light on Ontario street, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to make the salary of the clerk of the Overseers of Poor fifty ($50) dollars per year, . as petitioned for.
ART 19. To see what action the Town will take, if any, to abate the nuisance caused by the overflow of the surface water from the brook emptying on the easterly side of the tracks of the Boston & Maine railroad, near Stetson avenue, as petioned for.
ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take in regard to repairing the Soldiers Monument lot, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will appropriate the' sum of ($300) three hundred dollars to buy and set boundry stones on the several streets which have been accepted, and do not now have said stones.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to charge for all water used in the Town at a rate per thousand gallons, said rate to be established by the Water Commissioners of the Town; and that meters for the measurement of all water used be pur- chased, owned, and installed by the Town, and that said Water Commissioners be authorized to purchase and install said meters.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars for the purchasing and installing of water meters mentioned in Article 22, and if so, to determine whether the same shall be borrowed upon the bonds or 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.
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ART. 24. To see what action the Town will take toward purchasing a new piano for the Town Hall and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Sewer Commissioners to comply with the conditions of the per- mit issued by the Massachusetts Highway Commission in relation to substituting adjustable manhole covers for those now in use on the State Highway, so that they can be adjusted to the grade of the roadbed, also to keep in repair the macadam around the manhole covers.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to include in Section 1 for the construction of particular sewers and connecting drains that portion of Thomas road between Burrill street and Elmwood road, and also Ingalls terrace, and instruct the Sewer Commis- sioners to assess in the same manner, and at the same prices all sewer connections on the above-named streets in accordance with the average cost before determined upon in Section I, as voted by the Town in a meeting held July 22, 1903.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to secure by purchase or by taking, land for the erection thereon of a public school building as recommended by the School Board of the Town, or to see if the Town will take any action in relation thereto.
ART. 28. To see what money, if any, the Town will appro- priate for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Art. 27.
ART. 29. To see what action the Town will take, if any, to abate the nuisance caused by the overflow of water on the south- erly side of Essex street, commencing at a point near the easterly end of the cemetery and continuing to a point near the junction of Stetson avenue with Essex street, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for.
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ART. 30. To see what action the Town will take, if any, in relation to granting the Town employees of the Highway Department a half-holiday Saturdays with pay during the months of June, July, August and September, as petitioned for.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will accept Fuller avenue as laid out by the Selectmen.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will accept Eureka avenue as laid out by the Selectmen.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will accept that part of Devens road as laid out by the Selectmen.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will accept that part of Red- ington street as laid out by the Selectmen.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to consider and make a detailed report at the adjourned Town Meeting, upon a plan for providing a Memorial Building to be used as a Public Library and Grand Army of the Republic Hall, and if the plans as submitted at the adjourned meeting be approved, to make appropriation, therefor, as petitioned for.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will place the care, mainten- ance and control of the public playground in the hands of the Park Commissioners.
ART. 37. To see if the Town will vote to elect its Selectmen at the next Annual Town Meeting to be held in March, 1906, in the following manner : One for the term of one year, one for the term of two years and one for the term of three years, and at each Annual Town Meeting thereafter to elect one Selectman for the term of three years.
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ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the follow- ing as an amendment to the By-Laws of the Town, or to see what other action will be taken thereon. No motion that will prevent debate on a motion pertaining to an article in the Warrant shall be in order until the article shall have been before the meeting at least 15 minutes, provided any voter present desires to be heard, and no motion shall be entertained that will dispose of any arti- cle in the Warrant without at least 15 minutes' debate having been given the article, provided any voter present desires to be heard on the same.
The polls to be closed at sunset.
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 aforesaid.
Given under our hands this sixth day of March in the year nineteen hundred and four.
JOSEPH M. BASSETT, MARTIN L. QUINN, PERCY F. MUNSEY,
Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
RICHARD G. GILLEY,
Constable.
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