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That the following be fixed as the particulars of the bonds to be issued by the Town for the purposes set forth in Articles 9 and 10, which relates to the appropriation of $500 for sewer from King street to Redington street, under Article 9, and $500 for sewer in Monument avenue, from Walker road to Elmwood road under Article 10.
There shall be two bonds or notes for $500 each, numbered one and two. They shall be dated during the current year. Bond or note num- bered one shall be payable one year from the date thereof, and bond or note numbered two shall be payable two years from the date thereof. Said bonds or notes shall bear the Town Seal, shall be signed by the Town Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Board of Selectmen ; shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 42% per annum; shall be au- thenticated 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. Princi- pal and interest shall be payable at the office of the Town Treasureror 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 Sewerage Loan, Act of 1913." Said bonds or notes shall be sold under the direction of the Town Treasurer and 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.
H. BALDWIN, D. C. LASH, WIEAR L. ROWELL, E. HAROLD NEWHALL. Ways and Means Committee.
Voted, Article I. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee on this article and adopt their recommendations to wit: That the matter of lowering the grade of Atlantic avenue near the residence of Fred N. Kimball be referred to the next Annual Town Meeting.
Voted, Article 2. To indefinitely postpone the matter of an appropria- tion for the improvement of Jackson park.
Voted. To take up Article 30 at this time for action.
Voted, Article 30. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommedations on Article 30, as follows : To 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
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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 three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) for sewers in Stetson avenue, sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000) for sewers in Humphrey street and six hundred dollars ($600) for sewers in Green- wood avenue, said appropriations aggregating the sum of twenty thous- and one hundred dollars ($20,100). There shall be issued twenty notes of the Town, one for one thousand one hundred dollars ($1,100) and nineteen for one thousand dollars ($1,000) each. They shall be dated during the current year, and the note for one thousand one hundred dol- lars ($1, 100) shall be payable in not more than one year from the date thereof, and one note for one thousand dollars ($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 cent 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. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 3. To indefinitely postpone the matter of an appropria- tion for the improvement of Phillips park.
Voted, Article 4. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations, thereby authorizing the Select- men to sell the lot of land on Orient street now occupied by the Beach School.
Voted, Article 5. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations, thereby authorizing the Select- men to sell the lot of land on Jessie street now occupied for a hose house by the Fire Department.
Voted, Article 6. To accept and adopt the the report of the Ways and Means Committee, referring the matter of taking the triangular piece of land at the southwest corner of Burrill and Essex streets to the next Annual Town Meeting.
Voted, Article 7. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee referring to the next Annual Town Meeting the matter of placing and maintaining a raft with spring board off Blaney's Beach.
Voted, Article 8. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee deferring action on the matter of sewering Bay View avenue until the question of a sewer for Ceder Hill terrace is considered.
Voted, Article 9. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee appropriating the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) to pay land damages on property taken in extending sewer from King street to Redington street and that the amount be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
Voted, Article 10. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee appropriating the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for extending the sewer in the easterly side of Monument avenue from Walker road to Elmwood road, and that the amount be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
Voted, Article II. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee appropriating five hundred dollars ($500) for the use of the sewerage Board for repairs and maintenance of the sewerage system.
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Voted, Article 12. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee appropriating the sum of eleven hundred and fifty dollars ($1,150) for the extension of the water mains in Mountwood road, a distance of about 525 feet, the amount to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
Voted, Article 13. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee appropriating the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) for the extension of the water mains in Millett road, a distance of about 50 feet, the amount to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
Voted, Article 14. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee appropriating the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700) for the extension of the water mains in Phillips avenue, a distance of about 600 feet, the amount to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town.
Voted, Article 15. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee indefinitely postponing the construction of additional sewers in Orient street.
Voted, Article 16. To adopt this article thereby accepting and allowing 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.
Voted, Article 17. To adopt this article, thereby 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.
Voted, Article 18. To adopt this article, thereby 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, and filed with the Town Clerk June 13, 1914, and reported to the Town at this meeting, as soon as the waivers are signed.
Voted, Article 19. To adopt this article, thereby 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.
Voted, Article 20. To adopt this article, thereby 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.
Voted, Article 21. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committe indefinitely postponing the acceptance of Cedar Hill terrace.
Voted, Article 22. To adopt this article, thereby 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.
Voted, Article 23. To adopt this article, thereby 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. The report of the Selectmen upon Humphrey street widening and approaches thereto was read by Clarence B. Humphrey, Chairman of Selectmen.
Voted, Article 24. To accept the report as read.
Voted, Article 24. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee on this article with the amendment : That the Com-
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mittee report fully in print to the Town four days before the time of the adjourned Town Meeting.
Voted. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee on Article 25.
Voted, Article 25. To have a Committee of five appointed by the Moderator to look into the matter of reliet for the Salem, Mass., fire sufferers and to collect funds.
COMMITTEE.
Rev. John Vannevar
Alfred F. Frazier
Rev. Patrick Colman Willard P. Jackson, 2nd.
C. Irving Lindsay, who declined to serve.
William H. Bates was appointed to fill vacancy.
Voted, Article 26. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee indefinitely postponing the question of raising the salaries of the Board of Fire Engineers.
Voted, Article 27. That the report of the Hadley School Committee be referred to the adjourned meeting.
Voted, Articles 28 and 33. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee on these articles, the Selectmen to 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.
Voted, Article 29. To accept the report and adopt the recommendation of the Ways and Means Committee, indefinitely postponing an appropria- tion for Forest avenue.
Voted, Article 31. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee, amending 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 four thousand two hundred dollars ($4,200) for the purpose of refunding to the treasury the amount expended in laying water pipes in Crosman avenue and replacing water pipesat Galloupe's point, and that the same be raised in the levy of the year 1914.
Voted, Article 32. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee, amending 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 one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars ($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 exten- sion of the sewerage system, and that the sum of one thousand nine hundred dollars ($1,900) be raised in the levy of the year 1914 and that the sum of twenty dollars ($20) be transferred from the Sewer Depart- ment receipts.
Voted, Article 34. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee as follows : That the following be fixed as the parti- culars of the bonds to be issued by the Town for the purposes set forth in Articles 12, 13 and 14, whichrelate to the appropriation of $1,150 for water mains in Mountwood Road; $150 for water mains in Millett road ; and $700 for water mains in Phillips avenue. There shall be four bonds or notes for $500 each, numbered one to four, inclusive. They shall be dated during the current vear. 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
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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 interest shall be payable at the office of the Town Treasurer or at such bank or trust com- pany 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. (Unanimous.)
That the following be fixed as the particulars of the bonds to be issued by the Town for the purposes set forth in Articles 9 and 10, which relate to the appropriation of $500 for sewer from King street to Redington street under Article 9 and $500 for sewer in Monument avenue, from Walker road to Elmwood road, under Article IO.
There shall be two bonds or notes of $500 each, numbered one and two. They shall be dated during the current year. Bond or note numbered one shall be payable one year from the date thereof, and bond or note num- bered two shall be payable two years from the date thereof. Said bonds or notes shall bear the Town Seal, shall be signed by the Town Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Board of Selectmen, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 42 per cent per annum ; shall be authenti- cated by some bank or trust company, or by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics ; shall be subject to registration at the holder's option on presen- tation to the Town Treasurer for cancellation of coupons, if coupon bonds or notes are issued, and appropriate endorsement. 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 Selectmen shall designate
Said bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words " Swampscott Sewerage Loan, Act of 1913." Said bonds or notes shall be sold under the direction of the Town Treasurer and 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. (Unanimous.)
Voted. That when we adjourn it be to Friday, July 24, at & P. M.
Voted. To adjourn at 10 P. M.
Attest : GEORGE T. TILL, Town Clerk.
Committee appointed by the Moderator to report at adjourned meeting on Humphrey street widening and approaches.
Clarence B. Humphrey, Elias G. Hodgkins, Selectmen. James F. Caton, Weston K. Lewis, 22 Woodbine Ave.
Elgar H. Townsend, 33 Farragut Rd. Amos R. Little, Forest Avenue.
Elgar H. Townsend declined to serve on above Committee and Fred M. Collins was appointed by the Moderator to fill vacancy.
SWAMPSCOTT, July 23, 1914.
Milton D. Porter has this day been appointed Assistant Town Clerk for the balance of the current year, and been qualified for the office. This appointment is made under Section 4, Chapter 423, Acts of 1893.
Adjourned Meeting, July 24, 1914.
In accordance with the adjournment of July 10, the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall on Friday evening, July 24, 1914.
The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock by Moderator Daniel F. Knowlton, more than the required number of voters being present.
The records of the last meeting were read and declared approved,
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Voted. To take up Article 27.
ART. 27. The report of the Construction Committee of Hadley School building was read by J. Henry Welch, Secretary.
JULY 24, 1914.
To the Citizens of Swampscott :
Upon the completion and occupation of the Hadley School building the State Inspector of Buildings refused a license for the use of the auditorium until fire doors were erected at either ends of the corridors at the head of each flight of stairs. ,
The building being of fire proof construction of standard of the City of Boston, where such requirements are not in force, the committee, acting on the advice of the best authorities on schoolhouse construction, carried the issue to the court. The decision wa's against the Town. The matter was finally compromised by placing one partition with doors in the centre of each corridor in place of two partitions one at either end, thereby reducing the expense to the Town one-half.
The inspector has further recommended the erection of an iron fence around the parapet wall of the auditorium roof as a safeguard in case the roof is used as a fire exit from the adjoining rooms.
As both of these requirements were unjoined by state authority your Committee, upon advice of the Town Counsel, proceeded with the work, which has recently been completed. The cost for partitions and doors was $456.75 ; for the iron fence, $192,00, a total of $648.75, which amount the Committee recommends be appropriated for this work.
The Committee having completed its duties requests that it be dis- charged.
J. HENRY WELCH,
Secretary of Committee on Construction of Hadley School Building.
Voted. To receive the report as read.
Voted. To accept and adopt the report of the Committee on Ways and Means on Article 27, as amended, appropriating from the tax levy of 1915 the sum of $648.75 to pay for improvements required by the State Inspector.
Voted. To discharge Committee on Construction of Hadley School Building.
Voted. Article 24. To accept the report of the Committee on Hum- phrey street widening and approaches.
The report of the Ways and Means Committee on Humphrey street widening and approaches was read by the Town Clerk.
Report of Ways and Means Committee for Adjourned Town Meeting, July 24, 1914.
ARTICLE 24.
The Committee has considered the subject of this article broadly and has carefully studied both the physical conditions and the matter presented in the report of the Special Committee created by the Town Meeting of July 10, 1914.
This has been printed and distributed to the citizens of the Town, who are thus given additional information, with time to form an opinion before being called upon to vote.
There are a number of salient points in connection with the proposed approaches that should be thoroughly understood before further expendi- ture is undertaken, and the Committee will outline these separately so as not to confuse them with the various phases of the Humphrey street widening previously authorized by the Town and now under construction.
The resolution that was adopted by the Town on February 18, 1913, urged the passage of legislation necessary to carry out the widening of Humphrey street substantially in accordance with a plan submitted to the Highway Commissioners by the Selectmen of Swampscott, with certain provisions as to division of expense.
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As stated in the report of the Special Committee, it was the intention that the whole of Monument square be included in the layout and it is probable that the citizens of the Town expected that the enterprise would be put through and completed accordingly. Owing to an error in the wording of the bill, the Highway Commissioners were compelled to interpret that the work should start at the easterly end of Monument square, but should not include the square itself. This ruling at once made further legislation necessary to include Monument square and at the same time the idea of extensive approaches is first mentioned. Chapter 398, Acts of 1914.
Another clause of the Act of 1914 is that " underground structures and connections " should include water pipes, the reason for this being given in the report of the Special Committee. It is our opinion that the $13,000 required for this purpose formed a legitimate part of the expense of the work and should have been included in the first estimate.
From these facts it appears that the Town must now go to further expense in order to carry out its original plan, which included the Monu- ment square improvements but not the extensive so called approaches on both the east and west end of the work. Unquestionably the improve- ments in Monument square, called for by the original plan, should be made in order to complete the work and obtain greater safety and more space in the square. This part of the new proposition therefore appears to the Committee to be necessary, otherwise one of the most important advantages sought by the Humphrey street widening would be lost.
Referring to that portion of the western approach from the Lynn line to Monument square and the eastern approach of about 1,300 feet, the Committee has investigated these and conferred with the various boards of the Town interested.
Both these parts of the highway are in bad condition, and will require resurfacing in a short time. The expense of this work, if done by the Town, is estimated at $1.50 per square yard, or approximately $13,500, and after completion the Town would not have the wider street, corrected lines, paved surface or double track.
Furthermore, officials of the Bay State Street Railway inform us that they will petition for double track on the western approach as soon as the location is given by the Highway Commissioners ; also for double track for the eastern approach from Orient street to Roberts turnout, provided ordinary construction is used, that is, without the necessity for conduit. This action would benefit the Town by increasing facilities for transporta- tion and at the same time render traffic safer. It is probable that the requests will be granted and the railroad will undertake to do its sub- grading and paving.
The Water and Sewerage Board inform us that it will not be necessary to re-locate their water pipes or sewers at either end if the approaches are authorized, and that whatever incidental expense is involved will be assumed by them.
The Surveyor of Highways and the Town Engineer informs us that in their opinion most of the edgestones on both sides of the western approach would be suitable for the new road and that edgestones already rejected on Humphrey street might be used for the eastern approach if necessary.
The improvements now proposed are of decided advantage to the Town, giving greater safety, better transportation facilities and generally improved appearance of the main thorougfare of the Town.
In conclusion it must be kept in mind that improvements of the nature outlined will benefit not only adjoining property but property throughout the Town, and while this may be a small amount, it should be considered.
The expense of the undertaking seems to be the only objection, and for the reasons already given it appears that a large part of this would necessarily have to be met at an early date, possibly without the aid of the State, which now proposes to use the surplus appropriation on hand for paving.
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