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Article 29.
We recommend acceptance of this Article and appropriate $2,400, same to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
Article 30.
We recommend acceptance of this Article, and appropriate $2,000, same to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
Article 31.
We recommend acceptance of this Article, and appropriate $3,800, same to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
Article 32.
We recommend acceptance of this Article, and appropriate $2,200, same to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
Article 33.
We recommend acceptance of this Article, and appropriate $3,300, same to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
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Article 34.
We think suggestion of Sewer Commissioner to be good and recommend adoption.
Article 35.
We recommend acceptance of this Article and appropriate $3,000 to be borrowed, and that the Town Treasurer be author- ized to issue a note for same with the approval of Board of Selectmen.
Article 36.
We recommend acceptance of this Article.
Article 37.
Your Committee have inquired very carefully in regard to fire whistles, and find that for about $1,800 the Town can have installed complete a compressed air whistle. We now pay $520 yearly for maintenance of a whistle. and in four years the com- pressed air one will pay for itself. The cost of maintenance of the one at Marblehead is less than $5 per year. We, therefore, recommend the Town take such steps as are necessary to install such a whistle, the location to be left with the Board of Select- men and Board of Fire Engineers, and appropriate a sum not exceeding $1,800 to be borrowed, and that the Town Treasurer be authorized to issue a note for same with the approval of Board of Selectmen.
Article 38.
We recommend no action be taken.
Article 39.
Page 174. We think it necessary that the repairs asked for on the fire alarm system be attended to, and therefore, recom- mend an appropriation of $505 : As to the repairs on Engine Houses, we do not recommend the work to be done at present.
Page 175. This report is covered by our recommendation in Article 12.
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Article 40.
This is answered in Article 12.
Article 41. We recommend this matter be left with the school committee.
Article 42.
We recommend this be referred to Board of Selectmen and highway surveyor.
Article 43·
We recommend a culvert be built, as petitioned for, and appropriate $300 to be borrowed, and that the Town Treasurer be authorized to issue a note for same with approval of Board of Selectmen.
Article 44.
We recommend this be referred to committee on lighting with with power to place such a light, if they deem necessary.
Article 47.
Your committee recommend that the recommendations on page 168 be adopted, and that the appropriation come out of Street Watering Department.
Page 169. We recommend this be adopted and that the appropriation come out of the Highway Department.
Page 171. We recommend the bridge be repaired under direction of Selectmen and Highway Surveyor and the expense of same be taken from Highway Department.
We recommend that the Town take steps to acquire a gravel pit for use of the Town and recommend that an agreement be entered into with Mrs. Hatty Kane, Essex street to obtain the right to take gravel from her land for a term of years, and appropriate $600. One-half agreed upon.
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Article 48.
We recommend this article be adopted and $5,000 be appro- priated.
Article 49.
Page 143. Your committee do not think it wise to spend this $650 on granolithic work as recommended.
Page 144. We recommend that the recommendation in regard to the triangular piece of land be adopted and $150 be appropriated.
Page 145. Your committee have looked into the matter as asked for and find to save the shrubbery it must be attended to at once, and therefore recommend it be adopted, and $350 appropriated.
In regard to recommendation on page 14S, we do not regard it favorable. and therefore recommend it be not adopted.
Article 50.
This article is required by the By-Laws, and we therefore recommend it be done under direction of Board of Assessors. and that the book be published separately from report as published by Selectmen, as required by By-Laws, and appro- priate $450 for same.
Article 51.
As our past celebrations by private subscription have been satisfactory, we recommennd no action be taken.
Article 52.
We recommend no action be taken.
Article 53.
Your committee have talked with Board of Health in regard to this appropriation, but can get no satisfactory reason for so large an appropriation, and therefore recommend no action be taken.
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Article 54.
We find this Warrant has come before the Town many years, and has always been voted, and we therefore recommend its adoption, and that $75 be appropriated.
Article 55.
We recommend this Article be adopted and $200 be appro- priated.
WALTER W. JOHNSON, JOSEPH M. BASSETT, GEORGE D. R. DURKEE, FRED L. PERKINS, CHARLES E. ROLFE, ROBERT KING, P. F. MUNSEY,
Committee on Ways and Means.
SWAMPSCOTT, April 20, 1910.
Voted, To accept and place on file.
MILTON D. PORTER, Town Clerk.
On motion it was voted that the report be accepted and placed on file and that the Article be taken up separately.
Voted, to adopt the recommendations of the Committee and appropriate the following amounts for fixed items : State Tax, estimated
$18,000 00
County Tax, estimated
15,000 00 . · 8,650 00 Interest . . ·
Interest, Sewer 6,700 00 ·
Retirement of Sewer Bonds
4,600 00
. Notes payable
14,945 00
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ART. 5. Voted, to adopt the Committee's recommendations and appropriate the following amounts for the current year,
Highways and receipts
$14,000 00
Schools
·
3,500 00
Selectmen
· 6,500 00
Poor and receipts
2,400 00 ·
Police and receipts
7,300 00 .
Fire and receipts
· 9,200 00
Street lighting .
. 10,500 00
Cemetery . ·
1,200 00
Library, Dog Tax and receipts . 'Soo oo
Street signs
50 00
Assessors' book
450 00
Health
4,000 00
Care of brooks .
200 00
Sidewalks ·
500 00
Town Hall
1,400 00 ·
Crushing stone .
·
1,200 00
Catch basins and gutters
900 00
Continuous sidewalks
1,000 00
Resetting curbstones
200 00
Memorial Day .
200 00
Care of Monument grounds
50 00
Tree Warden
350 00
Moth Work
5,000 00
Street watering
. 4,000 00
Parks
·
1,300 00
Assessors
1,500 00 .
Care of snow
· 1,000 00
Fences .
.
150 00
Water. new construction
3,000 00
Stacey brook
150 00
G. A. R. fund
75 00
Soldiers' Relief
·
3,000 00
Sewer Maintenance
5,500 00
Engineering
1,500 00 ·
Ambulance
· 150 00
Water rates
·
2,610 00
·
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Voted, unanimously as recommended by the Committee, that the following amounts be borrowed, and that the Town Treasurer be authorized to issue a note or notes of the Town for same with approval of Selectmen.
Macadam streets and gravel pit. · · $4,000 00
Catch basins and gutters · 900 00
Sidewalks
1,500 00
Fire Department
· 500 00
ART. 12. The Committee recommended the salaries as last year except as follows :
Chief of Fire Department, raise from $18 to $21 per week. Engineer of Steamer from $16.50 to $18 per week.
Two Captains from $50 to $60 per year.
Two Lieutenants from $50 to $55 per year.
Two Assistant Engineers from $50 to $75 per year.
Raise Policeman to $18 per week, and that $624, be added to appropriation for Police Department.
Pending a motion to adopt the report, M. E. Nies moved to amend that the salary of the Board of Health be $200 for the Chairman and $150 for each of his associates. Carried by rising vote of 55 Yeas, 42 Nays, tellers having been appointed by the chair.
Voted, to adopt Article 12 as recommended by the Committee and thus amended.
ARTS. 16, 17, and 18. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report on these Articles,-and also on Article 19, that no action be taken at this time.
ART. 20. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report and appro- priate $300.
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ART. 22, page 87 of Annual Report. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report upon this recommendation, and that the Committee be appointed by the Moderator to report at next Annual Meeting ; also to adopt the report on the recommenda- tions on page 93 of Annual Report.
ART. 23. Voted, unanimously, to adopt the Committee's re- port, and appropriate $1,500 to be borrowed, and Town Treasurer be authorized to issue a note for same, with approval of Selectmen.
ART. 24. Voted, unanimously to adopt the Committee's report, and appropriate $1,000 on Treasurer's note, as above.
ART. 25. Voted, unanimously, to adopt the report of the Committee, and appropriat $800 on Treasurer's note, as above.
ART. 26. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report on this Article, and to rescind both the votes referred to in said Article.
ART. 27. Voted, unanimously, to adopt the report of the Committee on this Article to borrow $14,000.
ART. 29. Voted, unanimously, to adopt the Committee's report, and appropriate $2,400, to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
ART. 30. Voted, unanimously, to adopt the Committee's report, and appropriate $2,000, to be raised by bond issue, under Article 27.
ART. 31. Voted, unanimously, to adopt the report of the Committee, and appropriate $3,800, to be raised by bond issue, under Article 27.
ART. 32. Voted unanimously, to adopt the Committee's report on this Article, and appropriate $2,200 to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
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ART. 33. Voted unanimously, to adopt the Committee's report and appropriate $3,300, to be raised by bond issue under Article 27.
ART. 34. Voted, to adopt the Committee's recommendations to adopt the suggestion of the Sewer Commission.
ART. 35. Voted unanimously, to adopt the report of the Committee and appropriate $3,000, that the Town Treasurer issue note for same with approval of the Selectmen.
ART. 36. Voted, to adopt the recommendations of the Com- mittee that the incoming Street Light Committee be authorized to proceed, and given power to make such contract for street lighting as in their judgment will be for the best interests of the Town.
Voted, that the same Street Light Committee be and are appointed for the current year.
ART. 37. Voted unanimously, to adopt the Committee's report on this Article and appropriate $1,800, to be borrowed by Town Treasurer with approval of the Selectmen.
ART. 38. Voted to adopt the Committee's report that no action be taken.
ART. 39. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report on recommendations on p. 174 of the Annual Report, and appro- priate $505 for repairs on the Fire Alarm System. Also, to adopt their report relative to repairs on Engine House, which is "do not recommend the work to be done at present."
ART. 40. This is answered in Article 12.
ART. 41. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report that this matter be left with the School Committee.
ART. 42. Voted, as reported by the Committee, to refer this to the Board of Selectmen and the Highway Surveyor.
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ART. 43. Voted, unanimously to adopt the Committee's report, and appropriate $300, to be borrowed by the Town Treasurer with approval of Selectmen.
ART. 44. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report to refer to the Street Light Committee with power to place such light as they deem necessary.
ART. 47. Voted, to adopt the report of the Committee on recommendations on page 168 and that the appropriation come out of Street Watering Department also on page 169 and that the appropriation come out of Highway Department, also on page 171 that the bridge be repaired under direction of Select- men and Highway Surveyor, the expense of same to be taken from Highway Department.
Voted. To adopt the report, that the Town take steps to acquire a gravel pit for use of the Town and that an agreement be entered into with Mrs. Hatty Kane, Essex street to obtain right to take gravel from her land for a term of years (twelve years agreed upon) and appropriate $600 for same.
ART. 48. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report and appropriate $5,000.
ART. 49. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report as follows : Page 143 "we do not think it wise to spend this $650 on grano- lithic work as recommended," page 144 that the recommenda- tion in regard to the triangular piece of land be adopted and $150 be appropriated.
Page 145 to appropriate $350 as recommended.
Page 148 that this recommendation be not adopted.
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ART. 50. Voted, to adopt the report of the Committee on this Article.
"This Article is required by the By-laws and we therefore recommended it to be done under direction of Board of Assessors and that the book be published separately from report as published by Selectmen as required by By-Laws and appropriate $450 for same."
Voted, on motion of Mr. Keefe to appropriate $600 for cele- bration of the fourth of July and a committee of five be appointed to carry out the same. The Committee having recommended "no action be taken."
ART. 52. Voted, to refer to the Park Commissioners to report at convenience the Committee having reported " no action be taken."
ART. 53. Page 186. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report that " no action be taken."
ART. 54. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report and appropriate $75 for heating and lighting G. A. R. Hall.
ART. 55. Voted, to adopt the Committee's report and appro- priation $200 for use of Post IIS, G. A. R. for Memorial Day.
Report on Proposed Additional Land for Parks.
March 8, 1910. To the Citizens of Swampscott :
At the Town Meeting held April 16, 1909, a committee com- posed of Frank H. Gage, Martin L. Quinn, Benjamin G. Ingalls and George A. Heath, was appointed to cooperate with the Board of Park Commissioners to determine if it would be possible to obtain the Phillips swamp property on Humphrey street as a playground for the Town.
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Your Committee has interviewed the owners of the property and reports that at the present time they are unwilling to dispose of the land for such purpose and the Committee so report.
CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, EVERIT B. TERHUNE. ROBERT LESLIE, MARTIN L. QUINN. FRANK H. GAGE, BENJAMIN G. INGALLS. GEORGE A. HEATH.
Committee.
Voted. to accept the report.
Voted, that a vote of thanks be extended by the Ways and Means Committee for the able manner in which they have presented the business which has been presented to them.
Voted, that when we adjourn it be to Tuesday evening, April 26, 1910 at 7.45 o'clock.
Voted, at 9.55 P. M. to adjourn.
Attest : MILTON D. PORTER. .
Town Clerk.
Adjourned Annual Town Meeting, April 26, 1910.
Meeting called to order by the Moderator at 7.45 P. M.
Voted, to dispense with reading of records of previous meet- ing, said records being declared approved by the chair.
The Moderator named the following Committees :
On Increased Accommodations for the Library-The Trustees of the Library; Elisha W. Cobb, Elihu Thomson, Leonard H. Phillips, Henry B. Sprague.
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On Fourth of July, Frank W. Homan, John M. Nelson, Stanley M. Stocker, Nathaniel R. Martin, and John F. Keefe. Committee on Ways and Means : William W. Seymour, William E. Plummer, Harry O. Russ, Charles W. Tucker, Harry M. Doane, Frederick W. Newcomb, C. Irving Lindsey.
On School House Site : The School Committee, Edward H. Kitfield, John M. Fernald, Charles P. Jeffers, Clarence B. Humphrey.
On motion of Robert Leslie, Voted, that the Selectmen be requested to publish in their Annual Report a list of all Town officials to whom they have granted permits to do Town work for the past year.
Voted, at 8 o'clock P M. to dissolve the meeting.
Attest : MILTON D. PORTER, Town Clerk.
Special Town Meeting, Wednesday, June 15, 1910.
TOWN WARRANT.
ESSEX, SS.
To either of the Constables in 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 Wednesday, the fifteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and ten, at S o'clock P. M .. then and there to act on the following articles, viz. :
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ARTICLE I. To see whether the Town will vote to amend, supplement or confirm the vote passed under Article 27 at the annual Town Meeting on April 20, 1910, with reference to the issuance of $14,000, "Town of Swampscott Sewerage Loan 1910 " bonds, or take any action with reference to the matters dealt within said vote.
ART. 2. To see whether the Town will specify the particulars of the notes to be issued by the Town under previous notes of the Town, as follows : On November 15, 1909, under Article 8, $2,200 for ladder truck ; on April 20, 1910, under Article 7, $4,000 for Macadam Streets and Gravel Pit; $900, for Catch- basins and Gutters ; $1,500, for Sidewalks; $500, for Fire Department ; under Article 23, $1,500 for Laying Out Fuller avenue ; under Article 24, $1,000 for Laying out Banks road. Section 1 ; under Article 25, $800 for Laying Out Banks road, Section 2 ; under Article 35, $3,000 for Construction Purposes in Water Department ; under Article 37, $1,Soo for Compressed Air Whistle ; under Article 43, $300 for Culvert from junction of Banks road across Farragut road to the Brook ; a total of $17,500 ; or take any reference to the issuance of notes or bonds or said purposes.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Selectmen's Department, for the use of that department during the current year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the School Department, for the use of that department during the current year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Cemetery Department. for the use of that department during the current year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Town Hall Department, for the use of that department during the current year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
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ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Continuous Sidewalk Department, for the use of that department during the current year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. S. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Moth Work Department, for the use of that department during the current year. as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Street Watering Department. for the use of that department during the current year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Engineering Department, for the use of that department during the current year, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. II. To see if the Town will vote to allow the receipts of the Park Department, for the use of that department during the current year, as petitioned for by George D. R. Durkee and others.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a com- mittee to cooperate with the City of Lynn, to investigate brooks. and report odjectionable conditions along the boundary line, and suggest remedies therefor. as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote that the report of the Committee on Ways and Means on the articles in the Warrant of the regular Annual Meeting. be caused to be printed and distributed among the tax payers of the Town. three days at least before the adjourned meeting at which said report is to be received. as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will accept Sections 1 to 13. inclusive of Chapter 104 of the Revised Laws in relation to appointing an Inspector of Buildings, and make appropriation therefor, as petitioned for by James L. Taylor and others.
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ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to purchase 500 feet of hose for the Fire Department, and appropriate $400 for the same, as recommended by the Board of Engineers of the Fire Department.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to oil Farragut road, and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for by Robert Leslie and others.
ART. 17. To see what action the Town will take in regard to selling land in Thompson's Meadow, Salem, to the Town of Marblehead, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 18. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the laying of water mains through a new thoroughfare to be laid out through the Lodge Estate, off Orient street, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Henry E. Lodge and others.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $300, for resurfacing sidewalks with tar concrete, as recom- mended by the Surveyor of Highways.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $500 to provide for transporting children to and from school as provided for by A'cts of Legislature, said sum to be expended by the School Committee at their discretion, as petitioned for by Walter W. Johnson and others.
ART. 21. To see what action the Town will take to increase the compensation of the permanent drivers of the Fire Depart- ment, from $16 to $18 per week, commencing March 21, 1910, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by George Barker and others.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will accept Suffolk avenue when the necessary waivers are signed, as laid out by the Select- men, and shown on plan drawn by Fred H. Eastman, Town Engineer, dated June 8, 1910, and to be filed with the Town Clerk and appropriate money for the same.
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ART. 23. To see if the Town will accept a portion of Orient court when the necessary waivers are signed, as laid out by the Selectmen, and shown on plan drawn by Fred H. Eastman, Town Engineer, dated June 8, 1910, and to be filed with the Town Clerk, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will authorize the Water and and Sewerage Board to build and maintain a sewer in Suffolk avenue, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Martin L. Quinn and others.
ART. 25. To see what action the Town will take to extend the sewer south in Orient court, a distance of about two hundred and fifty feet and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by James W. Piper and others.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $124 for the purchase of a portion of the Brock estate, on Humphrey street, for the purpose of widening Humphrey street and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will appropriate an additional sum of $1,000 for Street Watering and Oiling, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salary of the Janitor of the Town Hall, from $14 to $16 per week, and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Selectmen.
ART. 29. To see what action the Town will take to increase the compensation of the Town Treasurer from $400 to $600 per year, and the Treasurer's Assistant from $100 to $150 per year and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
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ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to extend the Sewer- age System in Essex street in an easterly direction and appropri- ate money for the same, as recommended by the Board of Health.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Depots, Post Offices, and three other public and conspicuous places in the Town, seven days at least before the holding of 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 sixth day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and ten.
CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, ELIAS G. HODGKINS, JAMES F. CATON,
Board of Selectmen.
A true copy. Attest :
RICHARD G. GILLEY.
Constable.
Return on the Warrant.
Pursuant to the within Warrant to me directed, I have notified the legal voters of Swampscott by posting attested copies of said Warrant in the Town Hall, Depots, Post Offices and three other public and conspicuous places in Swampscott on Tuesday, the seventh day of June, 1910. The posting of said notices being at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
RICHARD G. GILLEY,
Constable.
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Meeting called to order at 8 o'clock P. M. by the Moderator Mr. Harry O. Russ, Chairman of the Ways and Means Com- mittee, read and submitted their report upon Articles contained n the Warrant as follows :
Committee on Ways and Means Report.
In the limited time allotted us in which to investigate and report on the twenty-seven articles in the Warrant coming within our scope, the Committee has made as exhaustive a study of the conditions as has been possible, supplementing personal investi- gation by statements from all parties appearing by the Warrant to be interested in the various articles and also causing to be inserted in the local Lynn papers a notice enabling others to appear and afford the Committee such information as they might have that would in any way be useful to it in arriving at an intelligent report.
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