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Respectfully submitted, CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, ELIAS G. HODGKINS, JAMES F. CATON, Selectmen of Swampscott.
SWAMPSCOTT, March 18, 1914.
Voted, Article 43. To accept and adopt the report of the Selectmen upon Blaney's Beach.
Voted. To reconsider the vote whereby it was voted to accept and adopt the report of the Selectmen upon Blaney's Beach.
Voted. To accept the report of the Selectmen upon Blaney's Beach and refer to the Ways and Means Committee to be reported upon at the next Town Meeting.
Voted, Article 44. That no action be taken upon the final report of the Schoolhouse Construction Committee at this time.
The Board of Selectmen reported verbally as in favor of adopting the following :
That the By-Laws of the Town be amended so as to read September I instead of August I for the time that the warrant for the collection of taxes for the year shall be placed in the hands of the Tax Collector by the Assessors. Voted. To adopt the report.
Voted, to dissolve at 10 P. M.
Attest : GEORGE T. TILL, Town Clerk.
March 30, 1914.
The Moderator appointed the following committee on observance of Fourth of July. Article 29.
Board of Park Commissioners. Oscar G. Poor, 12 Essex avenue. Frank W. Homan, 31 Beach avenue. Edward Woolf, SI Middlesex avenue, resigned.
Frank A. B. Stanton, 287 Humphrey street appointed to fill vacancy. William R. Curtis, 410 Humphrey street.
April 15, 1914. The Moderator appointed the following committees :
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WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE.
Wiear L. Rowell, 33 Millett road, three years. Sidney M. Shattuck, 22 Beach avenue, three years.
HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE INVESTIGATION COMMITTE TO ACT WITH SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
James W. Santry George D. R. Durkee
Harry E. Hardy Daniel F. Knowlton
Swampscott, February 1, 1914.
I hereby certify that I have this day caused to be destroyed the package containing the ballots cast for State and County officers at the last Annual Election, also unused ballots.
Friday, July 10, 1914. 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 assemble in the Town Hall, in said Swampscott, on Friday, the 10th day of July, at 8.00 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE I. To see if the Town will vote to lower the grade of Atlantic avenue in front of the estate of Fred N. Kimball, and appropriate the sum of $900 for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
ART. 2. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $500 for the improvement of Jackson park, as recommended by the the Park Commis- sioners.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $600 for the improvement of Phillips park as recommended by the Park Commis- sioners.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell the lot of land on Orient street now occupied by the Beach school.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell the lot of land on Jessie street now occupied as a hose house by the Fire Department.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will vote to take the triangular piece of land at the southwest corner of Burrill and Essex streets and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will instruct the Park Commissioners to place and maintain off Blaney's Beach, a bathing raft with spring board, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Nathaniel R. Martin and others.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will extend the sewer through Bay View avenue from Greenwood avenue and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Harry M. Curtis and others.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $500 to pay land damages on property taken in extending sewer from King street to Redington street, as recommended by Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will extend the sewer in the easterly side of Monument avenue from Walker road to Elmwood road and appropriate money for same, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. II. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $500 for the use of the Sewerage Board for repairs and maintenance of the sewerage system, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 12. To see what action the Town will take, if any, toward extending water mains in Mountwood road about 525 feet and appropriate $1,100 for the same, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
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ART. 13. To see what action the Town will take, if any, toward extending water mains in Millett road a distance of about 50 feet, appro- priate $150 for the same, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 14. To see what action the Town will take, if any, toward extend- ing water mains in Phillips avenue a distance of about 600 feet and appro- priate $700 for the same as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to construct an extension of the existing sewer in Orient street from its present easterly terminus in an easterly direction to a point at or about opposite to Tupelo road and appropriate money for the same as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow a portion of Millett road, so called, as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk, June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting as soon as the waivers are signed.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept a portion of Fuller avenue, so called, as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting as soon as the waivers are signed.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept Wyman road, so called. as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk, June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting, as soon as the waivers are signed.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to accept Ocean View terrace, so called, as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting, as soon as the waivers are signed.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept Bay View avenue, so called, as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting, as soon as the waivers are signed.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow Cedar Hill terrace, so called, as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk June 13, 1914, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to accept Bond street, so called, as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated, April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk, June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting, as soon as the waivers are signed.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to accept Humphrey terrace, so called, as laid out by the Selectmen, shown on a plan drawn by Fred H. Eastman, Town Engineer, dated November 16, 1911, modified by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, April, 1914, filed with the Town Clerk June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting, as soon as the waivers are signed.
ART. 24. To hear a report of the Selectmen upon the Humphrey street widening and approaches thereto, act thereon, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote an appropriaton for the Salem, Mass., fire sufferers or take other appropriate action as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to increase the salaries of the Board of Fire Engineers and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Ernest C. Phillips and others.
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ART. 27. To hear the report of the Hadley School Committee, act thereon and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 28. To hear the report of the Ways and Means Committee upon the Selectmen's report on Blaney's Beach of March 20, 1914, act thereon, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will appropriate $300 to assist the pro- prietors of Forest avenue in said Town in the maintenance of the said way and to reimburse Mrs. Elizabeth F. P. Whitney to the extent of said sum for the money already expended in putting Forest avenue in a fit con- dition for travel, as petitioned for by Addis M. Whitney and others.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will amend the vote passed under Article 47 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held on March 18, 1914, the same being an adjournment of the Annual Town Meeting of February 16, fixing the particulars of the bonds or notes to be issued by the Town for the purposes set forth in Articles 12, 19, 27 and 42, so that the vote will read as follows :- Voted, That the following be fixed as the particulars of the notes to be issued by the Town for the purposes set forth in Articles 12, 19 and 27 of the Warrant which relate to the appropriation of $3,500 for sewers in Stetson avenue, $16,000 for sewers in Humphrey street, and $600 for sewers in Greenwood avenue, said appropriations aggregating the sum of $20,100. There shall be issued twenty notes of the Town, one for $1,100 and nineteen for $1,000 each. They shall be dated during the current year, and the note for $1, 100 shall be payable in not more than one year from the date thereof, and one note for $1,000 shall be payable annually thereafter, so that the entire loan shall be extinguished in not more than twenty years from the date of the first note issued therefor. Said notes shall bear the Town Seal, shall be signed by the Town Treas- urer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one-half per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall be certified by the Director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics. The principal and interest shall be payable at the office of the Town Treasurer or at such bank or trust company as the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen may determine. Said notes shall bear upon their face the words, "Swampscott Sewerage Loan, Act of 1913," and shall be sold under the direction of the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen.
All other particulars as to form, issuance and sale of said notes shall be determined by the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen, but said notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will amend the vote passed under Article 41 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held on March 18, 1914, the same being an adjournment of the Annual Town Meeting of February 16, so as to read as follows, Voted : That the Town appropriate the sum of $4,200 for the purpose of refunding to the treasury the amount expended in lay- ing water pipes in Crosman avenue and replacing water pipes at Galloupe's Point, and that the same be raised in the levy of the year 1914.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will amend the vote passed under Article 42 of the warrant for the Town Meeting held on March 18, 1914, the same being an adjournment of the Annual Town Meeting of February 16, so as to read as follows, Voted : That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,920 for the purpose of reimbursing the treasury for the amounts expended in the construction of sewers in Roy and Rockland streets and for procuring plans for an extension of the sewerage system, and that the sum of $1,900 be raised in the levy of the year 1914, and that the sum of $20 be trans- ferred from the Sewer Department receipts.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to adjust the lines of private and public ownership at Blaney's Beach, and empower the Selectmen for that purpose, to receive and execute in the name of and on behalf of the Town, grants or releases of land.
ART. 34. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for all or any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
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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 time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place of' meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-sixth day of June, in the year 1914.
CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, ELIAS G. HODGKINS, JAMES F. CATON, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
Return of 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 at the Town Hall, Post Offices, Depots and twenty public and conspicuous places in Swampscott on Tuesday, June 30, 1914, the posting of said notices being at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
FRANK H. BRADFORD,
Constable.
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant, the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall on Friday evening, July 10, 1914.
There was a good number present to transact business in accord with the by-laws.
The meeting was called to order by Daniel F. Knowlton, Moderator, at eight o'clock.
The Warrant calling the meeting and return thereon was read by the Town Clerk.
The report of the Committeee on Ways and Means was submitted.
Report of Ways and Means Committee of the Town of Swamp- scott for Special Town Meeting, July 10, 1914.
It is the opinion of the Committee that all important matters concerning Town affairs should be taken up at Annual Town Meetings and that articles for special Town Meetings should be confined to such matters as are essentially of an emergency character, and for this reason the Committee, in a number of instances, has recommended that articles which may have merit, be referred to an Annual Town Meeting, when budgets are presented for consideration and the articles in the Warrant at the time are considered largely with respect to their relative importance.
ARTICLE I. The Committee believes that the grade of Atlantic avenue in front of the estate of Fred N. Kimball should be lowered but that the matter is not sufficiently urgent to require action at this time, and recom- mends that it be referred to the next Annual Town Meeting.
ART. 2. The Committee is informed by the Park Commissioners that the sum of money asked for is to be used for the purpose of sufacing a part of the field of Jackson park and also for building a fence, to protect pedestrians, owing to the fact that the grade of the field is lower than the sidewalk. The Committee is of opinion that the surfacing need not be undertaken at this time, but that the fence is required as a matter of public safety, and we recommend that $225 be appropriated for the latter purpose to be included in the tax levy of 1914.
ART. 3. At the last Annual Town Meeting $1,000 was appropriated principally to take care of the filling and surfacing of Phillips park. The money has been used and there is yet much work of this nature to be done. We are informed that there are between 2,000 and 3,000 yards more of material available in connection with Humphrey Street Construc- tion which will have to be taken care of, and recommend that the sum of
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$300 be appropriatated for this purpose to be included in the tax levy of 1914.
ART. 4. The Committee is advised by the Selectmen and School Com- mittee that the Town has no further need for the school building and lot of land on Orient street, and we recommend that the Selectmen be author- ized to sell the same.
ART. 5. The lot of land and hose house on Jessie street is a small piece of property which we are informed is a continual expense to the Town, serving no useful purpose. The Committee recommends that the Select- men be authorized to sell the same.
ART. 6. The Committee considers that the taking of land at the corner of Burrill and Essex streets is not especially urgent and recommends that the article be referred to the next Annual Town Meeting.
ART. 7. The Committee recommends that the question of providing a spring board and raft at Blaney Beach be referred to the next Annual Town Meeting, as it should properly be included in the annual budget of the Park Commissioners.
ART. 8. After consultation with the Water and Sewerage Board the Committee considers it advisable that when the sewer is built in Bay View avenue it should run easterly through Cedar Hill terrace, rather than west- erly as petitioned for, as this is the natural gradient and will avoid deep cuts in ledge. We recommend that action on this article be deferred until the question of a sewer for Cedar Hill terrace is considered.
ART. 9. Inasmuch as the work of constructing a sewer from King street to Redington street was authorized by the Town and that the appro- priation was insufficient to cover the land damage included in the work, we recommend that the sum of $500 be appropriated as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board and that that amount be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
ART. 10. Part of the sewer in question in Monument avenue was laid as an emergency, owing to the fact that the street was to be resurfaced and we recommend that the sewer be extended as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board, and that the sum of $500 be appropriated for the same to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
ART. [I. Because of the heavy rains in the spring and the necessity of continuous pumping at such times to keep the basins from overflowing, the maintenance expense of the Sewerage System has been unusually large, and we recommend that the sum of $500 be appropriated, as recom- mended by the Water and Sewerage Board, to be included in the tax levy of 1914.
ART. 12. On acount of new buildings nearing completion on Mount- wood road requiring water service the Committee recommends that the sum of $1, 150 be appropriated for the extension of mains, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board, to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
ART. 13. On account of new building's nearing completion on Millet road requiring water service, the Committee recommends that the sum of $150 be appropriated for the extension of mains, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board, to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
ART. 14. On account of new buildings nearing completion on Phillips avenue requiring water service, the Committee recommends that the sum of $700 be appropriated for the extension of mains, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board, to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
ART. 15. The Water and Sewerage Board estimate that the expense of extending the sewer from the present terminus in Orient street to Tupelo road would be about $9,500. The Committee is of opinion that this expense is not warranted at the present time, and recommends that the matter be indefinitely postponed.
ART. 21. As the acceptance of Cedar Hill terrace involves land takings we believe it is not advisable to accept the street at the present time, and recommend that action on this article be indefinitely postpond.
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ART. 24. While the report of the Selectmen on the Humphrey street widening and approach has not yet been accepted by the Town, the Com- mittee has received a copy and submits the following recommendation, provided the report is accepted.
The question presented by the report of the Selectmen is one involving many important considerations aside from the fact of a large expenditure of money. It is now estimated that $21,000 will be necessary for the approach on the west end from the Lynn line, and possibly this amount may be increased, as in the case of the Humphrey street widening.
As the information now available is in our opinion not sufficiently definite and there has not been adequate time to give proper consideration to a matter of this magnitude; and furthermore as the Selectmen have made no recommendation or expressed an opinion in their report, we recommend that a special Committee consisting of the Selectmen and three other citizens of the Town be appointed by the Moderator, to thoroughly investigate the plans for the proposed approach and submit a report with their findings and recommendation to an adjourned meeting.
ART. 25. In view of the dire calamity which has befallen our neighboring city of Salem, it is felt that some action should be taken by the Town to render substantial aid for the Relief Work.
The Committee has, however, been advised by Town Counsel that the funds of the Town cannot legally be appropriated for this purpose. We therefore regret to recommend that no appropriation be made.
ART. 26. It is customary for the salaries of town officials to be arranged at the annual Town Meeting and the Committee is not in favor of the policy of changing salaries at special meetings, and we recommend that the question of raising the salaries of the Board of Fire Engineers be indefinitely postponed.
ART. 27. We are informed by the Hadley School Committee that the sum of $500 is needed to pay for work which has been required by State Inspectors, and we therefore recommend that this amount be appropri- ated to be included in the tax levy of 1915.
ART. 28. As this article and Article 33 pertain to the same subject they can well be considered together. It is shown in the report of the Selectmen that the main object is to establish for all time the boundaries of Blaney's Beach.
The matter is now before the Land Court, and we recommend that the Selectmen be empowered to receive and execute in the name and on behalf of the Town, grants or leases of land according to plan of the Town Engineer referred to in the report. The Selectmen state that no appropriation is necessary.
ART. 29. The Committee is advised by the Town Counsel that money cannot legally be appropriated for the purpose specified in this article, and we recommend that it be indefinitely postponed.
ART. 30. On account of a decision of the Supreme Court of Massa- chusetts, rendered since the last annual Town Meeting, it is impossible to raise money by bond issue to refund expenditures that have already been made, and we recommend that the Town vote to adopt this article which has been requested by the director of the Bureau of Statistics and issue bonds or notes accordingly.
ART. 31. For reasons given in the previous recommendation the moneys called for in this article must be taken from the annual tax levy, and we recommend that the Town amend its previous vote and adopt the article.
ART. 32. For reasons given the moneys called for in this article must be taken from the annual tax levy, and we recommend that the Town amend its previous vote and adopt the article.
ART. 34. We recommend that the following be fixed as the particulars of the bonds to be issued by the Town for the purposes set forth in Articles 12, 13 and 14, which relate to the appropriation of $1,150 for water mains in Mountwood road; $150 for water mains in Millet road ; and $700 for water mains in Phillips avenue. There shall be four bonds
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or notes for $500 each, numbered one to four inclusive. They shall be dated during the current year. Bond or note numbered one shall be pay- able one year from the date thereof, and one bond or note shall be pay- able each year thereafter in numerical order. Said bonds or notes shall bear the Town Seal, shall be signed by the Town Treasurer, and counter- signed by a majority of the Water and Sewerage Board; shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 42% per annum; shall be authenticated by some bank or trust company or by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics ; shall be subject to registration at the holder's option on presentation to the Town Treasurer for cancellation of coupons, if coupon bonds or notes are issued, and appropriate endorsement. Principal and intertest shall be pay- able at the office of the Town Treasurer or at such bank or trust company as the Town Treasurer and Selectmen shall designate.
Said bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words "Swampscott Additional Water Loan, Act of 1912." Said bonds or notes shall be sold under the direction of the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen.
All other particulars as to form, issuance and sale of bonds or notes, shall be determined by the Town Treasurer and Board of Selectmen, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest.
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