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Nov. 19, 1909
Nov. 19, 1906
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Nov. 19, 1906
173
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Dec. 20, 1906
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A. Marshall Drain Loan.
B. Park Loan.
C. Sewer Loan.
D. Permanent Improvement Loan.
E. Proctor Lot Loan.
F. Chemical Laboratory Loan.
G. . Playground Loan.
H. Clarke School Loan.
I. Morris Land Loan.
J. Temporary Loan.
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Statistics of the Town of Swampscott, 1870=1907.
ASSESSORS' VALUATION MAY I.
MARCH 1.
YEAR.
REAL
PERSONAL
TOTAL
RATE TAXES PER $1,000
YEAR.
NOTES
ESTATE
PROPERTY
VALUATION
PAYABLE
1906
$6,303,625
$2,093,820
$8,397,445
$14.50
1907
$167,320.00
1905
6,030, 185
2, 117,442
8,147,627
14.50
1906
151,320.00
1904
5,489, 12I
2,206,172
7,695,293
12.90
1905
I 10,020.00
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
1 900
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
I 896
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
I896
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
IS92
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
1885
2,365,280
1,130,863
3,496, 143
9.00
I886
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
188I
31.750,00
1879
1,930,205
418,904
2,349,109
8.30
1880
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
389,441
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
I886
2,383,055
1,275,405
3,658,460
9.50
1887
55,500.00
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Jan. 31
Assessors' Valuation of the Town of Swampscott, May 1, 1906.
TABLE OF AGGREGATES OF POLLS, PROPERTY AND TAXES AS ASSESSED MAY 1, 1906.
Number of residents assessed on property 855
Number of firms, corporations, etc. 26
88 I
Number of non-residents assessed on property 324
Number of non-resident firms, corporations, etc., 18
342
Number of persons assessed on property .
1,179
Number of persons assessed poll tax only I,O24 .
2,203
Number of male polls assessed .
1,453
Tax on each male poll ·
·
$2 00
Value of assessed personal estate Value of assessed real estate-
.
$2,093,820 co .
Buildings, excluding land, $3,481,935 00
Land, excluding buildings, 2,821,690 00
6,303,625 00
Total valuation of assessed estate May 1, 1906
$8,397,445 00
Tax for state, county and city or town purposes, including over- laying-
On personal estate $30,360 52
On real estate
91,402 72
On polls .
2,906 00
Total .
$124,669 24
Rate of total tax per $1,000
$14 50
Number of horses assessed
311
Number of cows assessed .
65
Number neat cattle other than cows
I
Number dwelling-houses assessed
.
1,198
Number of acres of land assessed .
1,675
.
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Auditors' Remarks.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
Herewith is submitted the fifty-fifth Annual Report of the Town, for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1907.
We have carefully audited the accounts of the different departments and find them correct.
At the close of each quarter the Treasurer's accounts have been examined and bank cashiers' certificates produced and examined showing correct balances for each quarter.
The Water Board Sinking Fund has been examined, the bonds checked up and a correct balance found.
The various items of receipts appear both in the tabulations of departments and in the account of the Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted,
STUART P. ELLIS, HARRY E. CAHOON. NATHANIEL F. BARTLETT,
Board of Auditors.
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[Jan. 31
Town Warrant, 1907.
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 temporary Moderator to serve until the Moderator elected on the official ballot qualifies.
ART. 2. To choose a Moderator for one (1) year.
ART. 3. 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 Committee 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. 4. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the question : Shall Licenses be granted for the sale of Intoxicating Liquors in this Town?
ART. 5. 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, the Board of Assessors and the Overseers of the Poor. .
ART. 6. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town charges for the ensuing year, and make appro- priations therefor.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will accept the list of names for Jurors, as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
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ART. S. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.
ART. 9. 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. 10. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the year ensuing.
ART. II. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the collection of taxes, and what rate of discount, if any, will be allowed for prompt payment on or before a certain date.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) to be placed in the hands of James L. Bates Post, 118, G. A. R., toward defraying the expenses of Memorial Day.
ART. 13. 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. 14. To see what action the town will take in determin- ing how money shall be raised to pay for permanent improve- ments.
ART. 15. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Water Commissioners the present year.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to pay the claim of Amos O. Cahoon, as authorized by the Act of the Legislature of 1906, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Amos O. Cahoon and others.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will appeal or amend Chapter I, Section 4; Chapter II, Section 5; Chapter III, Sections 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11; Chapter IV; Chapter V; and Chapter VI, Sections 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 17, of the new By-Laws, as petitioned for by Martin E. Nies and others.
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ART. 18. To see if the Town will locate a Fire Alarm Box near the junction of Walker and Outlook Roads, or at some point which the Chief of the Fire Department may elect, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by W. W. Bemis and others.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will locate a Fire Alarm Box at the junction of Beach and Mountain avenues, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by C. S. Haskell and others.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will install a Fire Alarm Signal in the Tower at the Engine House, Phillips Beach, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by George Barker and others.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to do anything in rela- tion to the Stacy Brook Outlet, as requested by the Selectmen.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to construct a sewer in that portion of Orient Court which has been accepted as a Town Way, as petitioned for by Stuart P. Ellis and others.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a com- mittee of five members, to bring in a list of salaries for Town Officials for the ensuing year, as petitioned for by Edwin G. Spaulding and others.
ART. 24. To see what action the town will take to the end that the streets to be watered by contract, as petitioned for by Oscar G. Poor and others.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to put the Police Force under the provisions of the Civil Service Laws as pro- vided in Chapter XIX, Section 37 of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts, and accept the provisions of said Section 37 of Chapter 19 of the Revised Laws, in so far as they relate
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to the Police Force, as petitioned for by P. F. Munsey and others.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400) for the improvement of Reding- ton Street Extension, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by James L. Taylor and others.
ART. 27. To see if the the Town will macadamize Atlantic avenue from Humphrey street to Marblehead line, and appro- priate the sum of forty-five hundred dollars ($4,500) for the same as petitioned for by F. H. Gage and others.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) to be expended in grading and repairing Essex street, as petitioned for by William R. Patten and others.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will increase the salary of the Surveyor of Highways, five dollars ($5) per week, and appropri- ate money for the same, as petitioned for by William F. Gannon and others.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to increase the rate of wages now paid all Town laborers, by twenty-five cents ($0.25) per day, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by William F. Gannon and others.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to regrade the lines on that portion of Burrill street north of Maple avenue to Columbia avenue, a distance of about three hundred (300) feet, to allow the water flowing down Burrill street from Essex to pass by Maple avenue, as petitioned for by Oscar G. Poor and others.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to issue the remaining ten thousand
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dollars ($10,000) in bonds, allowed by law at such times as in their judgment the needs of the Department demand it, as petitioned for by William H. Bates and others.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125) for heat, light and repairs on the Pine Street School Building, said building being under the care and occupied by the General Bates Post 118, G. A. R., as petitioned for by John R. Merritt and others.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will accept a portion of Orient street as laid out by the Selectmen, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 35. To see if the town will grant a Saturday half holi- day with pay to the employees of the Highway, Sewer, Water and Health Departments, during the months of June, July, August and September, as petitioned for by Martin E. Nies and others.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for moth work, as required by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ART. 37. To appoint a Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Chapter V., Section I, of the revised By-Laws.
The polls to be closed at sunset.
And you are directed to serve this Warrent 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.
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Given under our hands this Fourth day of March, in the year Nineteen Hundred and Seven.
ALLEN H. COLE, ARTHUR C. WIDGER, JOHN R. MERRITT, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest,
RICHARD G. GILLEY, Constable.
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