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Insurance Premiums 1,200 00
Town Departments, assessments levied by the Sewer Department 773 45
Overdrafts to reimburse the treasurer 1,300 68
Unpaid bills in the various departments 2,217 98
Voted. To take up Article 19.
Voted, Article 19. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as amended, appropriating as follows :
Highway Department General Expenses $21,000 00
Sidewalks and Curbing 1,500 00
Street Watering and Oiling 5,000 00
Street Construction
2,000 00
Tar Penetration Work on Humphrey street,
Puritan road and New Ocean street 6,000 00
$35,500 00
All extra material in the vicinity of Phillips Park to be deposited by the Highway Surveyor on Phillips Park.
Danvers Street Bridge, $850.00.
Concrete Mixer, indefinitely postponed.
Humphrey Street Pavement, $893 87, being unexpended balance of last year's appropriation.
Voted, Article 19. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations, appropriating $8,500, as esti- mated by the Surveyor of Highways to lay a concrete pavement on, and curb both sides of that portion of Essex street between the easterly side of Burrill street and the entrance to the Boston and Maine freight yard, the work to be done by the Highway Department, in accordance with the specificaions of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, the money to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, the work to be done under the conditions as stated in the report of the Ways and Means Committee.
Voted, Article 19. To appropriate for catch basins and gutters, $2,000, as recommended by the Ways and Means Committee.
Voted, that when we adjourn it be to Thursday evening, March 23, at 7.45 o'clock.
Voted. To take up Article 49.
Voted, Article 49. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating $300 to be paid to Nettie Smith, widow of Everett Smith, who met his death in the per- formance of his duty in Fire Department.
Voted. To adjourn at 10.25 P. M.
Attest : GEORGE T. TILL,
Town Clerk.
Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 23, 1916.
Less than one hundred voters present.
Voted, That when we adjourn, it be tomorrow, Friday evening, March 24, at 7.45 o'clock.
Meeting declared adjourned by Moderator at 8.35 o'clock.
Attest : GEORGE T. TILL, Town Clerk.
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Adjourned Annual Meeting, March 24, 1916.
Agreeable to the foregoing adjournment of the previous evening the voters assembled at the Town Hall on Friday evening, March 24, 1916.
The meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock by Daniel F. Knowlton, Moderator, there being at that time the necessary number of voters present.
Records of last meeting read and declared approved.
Voted, Article 16. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations making the salary of the Sealer of Weights and Measures $100 and appropriating $100 for that purpose, also $70 for general expenses of the department.
Voted, Article 17. To accept the reports of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating $1,600 for care and maintenance of cemetery for current year.
Voted, Article 18. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating for the Health Department as follows :
Health and Sanitation
$3,300 00
Refuse and Garbage 4,000 00
Voted, Article 20. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations to appropriate $3,500 for the Poor Department for the current year.
Voted, Article 21. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com - mittee and adopt their recommendations as amended appropriating for the Sewer and Water Commissioners as follows :
Truck for use of the Water Department $650. The Water and Sewer Commissioners are hereby authorized to dispose of the horse and horse equipment, the proceeds of such sale to go towards purchase of the Truck.
Building to house the Truck $200 00
Water Pipe at Galloupe's Point and Tupelo road
under conditions outlined in report, (bonds or notes),700 00 Sewer Department maintenance 6,000 00
Particular Sewers 800 00
Voted. That the Board of Sewer and Water Commissioners and Select- men be a committee to look into the matter of conditions at Sewer Pump- ing Station and report at some future Town Meeting, this committee to have the power to use in their investigations the balance of an appro- priation made for a similar committee, October 10, 1913, amounting to $846.30.
Voted, Article 22. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mitte and adopt their recommendations as amended appropriating for the Park Department as follows :
Blaney's Beach Reservation (including repairs to building) . $1,200 00
Jackson Park (loam, seeding, care and trees) 500 00
Monument Avenue Reservation . 700 00
Paradise Road Playground . 600 00 Sundries 200 00
Phillips Park (care of dump, repairing fences, clearing debris) 200 00
Voted, Article 22. To appropriate the sum of $550 for a new drain at the easterly end of Monument Avenue reservation, the money to be expended under the direction of the Water and Sewerage Board.
Voted, Article 23. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating $11,000 for the expense of the Police Department for current year.
Voted, Article 24. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating as follows : Phillips
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Park Drain as conditioned in report $6,500 and Marshall Brook Drain $650, the money to be raised by bonds or notes of the town. Cleaning brook rear Phillips park, $200.
Voted, Article 32. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating $300 to extend Marshall brook, so called, in accordance with this article.
Voted, Article 40. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating $1,500 to pay land and grade damages incurred in consequence of taking and altering grade, in accordance with the layout of Essex street by the County Commis- sioners, and the cost of excavation to sub grade.
Voted, Article 41. To indefinitely postpone the matter of this article, granolithic sidewalks on Paradise road, in accordance with the report of the Ways and Means Committee.
Voted, Article 42. To indefinitely postpone the subject of granolithic sidewalks and curb on Puritan road in front of New Ocean House property, in accordance with report of the Ways and Means Committee.
Voted, Article 43. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendation appropriating $2,000 to resurface Walker road.
Voted, Article 44. In accordance with the report of the Ways and Means Committee to indefinitely postpone action on the matter of an appropriation to pay premiums upon Employers' Liability Insurance.
Voted, Article 45. To indefinitely postpone any further action on the matter of an appropriation to pay premiums upon insurance policies and in adjusting insurance rates of the town, in accordance with the report of the Ways and Means Committee.
Voted, Article 46. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating $500 to be expended by the Park Commissioners and a committee of four citizens to be appointed from the floor, for the observance of Fourth of July. Commit- tee, Everit B. Terhune, Frank A. B. Stanton, James Sharp and Andrew Olsen, Oscar G. Poor (the last name being added to the Committee by vote of the meeting).
Voted, Article 47. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropriating $300 for the employment of District Nurse or other nurses, as provided in Chapter 72, Act of 1911, the money to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen.
Voted, Article 48. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendation appropriating $675 for Teachers' Pension Fund, under Chapter 498, Acts of 1908, Sections 1 and 2.
Voted, Article 50. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee on this article appropriating $200 to pay for water used in the water troughs of the town for current year, and appoint the Select- men and Water and Sewerage Board a committee to confer upon this question and report at the next annual town meeting.
Voted, Article 51. To adopt this article, authorizing and directing the selectmen to petition the Legislature for authority to borrow money for the purposes of playground development, as stated in this article.
Voted, Article 52. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee, referring the subject matter of a Police Signal System to the Selectmen and Chief of Police for investigation, a report to be made at some future town meeting.
Voted, Article 53. To accept and adopt the report of the Ways and Means Committee on this article, as amended, granting a Saturday half- holiday with pay to the employees of the Highway, Water, Sewer, Moth and Cemetery Departments under the same regulations as in 1915.
Voted, Article 55. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations appropropriating $7,000 to be used by the High School Building Committee for work now under construction.
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Voted. That when we adjourn it be to Monday evening, May 8, 1916, at 7.45 o'clock.
Voted, Article 57. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows :
That the following be fixed as the particulars of the bonds or notes to be issued by the town pursuant to and for the purposes specified in Articles 19 and 25, which relate to the appropriation of $8,500 to lay a cement pave- ment on and curb both sides of that portion of Essex street between the easterly side of Burrill street and the entrance to the Boston & Maine freight yard; and $6,000 for isolated and continuous sidewalks, said appropria- tions aggregating $14,500.
There shall be 15 bonds or notes of the town, 14 for the sum of $1,000 each, numbered 1 to 14 inclusive, and one for the sum of $500, numbered 15. They shall be dated during the current year. Bonds or notes num- bered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 shall be payable one year from their date. Bonds or notes numbered 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 shall be payable two years from their date. Bonds or notes numbered 11, 12 and 13 shall be payable three years from their date, and I bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter in their numerical order. 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 centum per annum, payable semi-annually, 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 upon 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 Treas- urer or at such Bank or Trust Company as the Town Treasurer and the Selectmen shall designate. Said bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words " Swampscott Concrete Pavement and Sidewalks-1916." 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 said bonds or notes shall be determined by the Town Treasurer and the Board of Select- men, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and inter- est. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 57. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows :
That the following be fixed as the particulars of the bonds or notes to be issued by the town pursuant to and for the purposes specified in Article 24, relating to the appropriation of $6,500 for the construction of Phillips park drain, and $650 for the extension of the Marshall brook drain, said appropriations aggregating $7,150.
There shall be 15 bonds or notes of the town, 14 for the sum of $500 each, numbered I to 14 inclusive, and one for the sum of $150, numbered 15. They shall be dated during the current year. The bond or note numbered I shall be payable one year from the date thereof, and one bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter in their numerical order. 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 4 1-2 per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, shall be authenticated by some Bank or Trust Company or by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statis- tics, and 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 Treas- urer, or at such Bank or Trust Company as the Town Treasurer and Selectmen shall designate. Said bonds or notes shall bear upon 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 said bonds or
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notes, shall be determined by the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest (unanimous).
Voted, Article 57. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows :
That the following be fixed as the particulars of the bonds or notes to be issued by the town pursuant to and for the purposes specified in Articles 31 and 33, relating to the appropriation of $2,000 for the con- struction of a sewer from Ontario street to Erie street, so-called, and $20,000 for the extension of the eastern end of the new trunk sewer, said appropriation aggregating $22,000.
There shall be 22 bonds or notes of the town for the sum of $1,000 each, numbered I to 22 inclusive. They shall be dated during the current year. The bond or note numbered I shall be payable one year from the date thereof, and one bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter in their 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 Board of Selectmen, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 42 per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, shall be authenticated by some Bank or Trust Company, or by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, and 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 interest shall be payable at the office of the Town Treasurer or at such Bank or Trust Company as the Town Treasurer and Board of 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 the Board of Selectmen.
All other particulars as to form, issuance or sale of said bonds or notes, shall be determined by the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest (unanimous).
Voted, Article 57. To accept the report of the Ways and Means Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows :
That the following be fixed as the particulars of the bonds or notes to be issued by the town pursuant to and for the purposes specified in Articles 21, 34, 35 and 36, which relate to the appropriation of $700 for the exten- sion of the water pipe on Galloupe's Point from the dead end, opposite the Clapp estate, to the dead end in Tupelo road; $3,000 to lay a six-inch water main in Gale avenue ; $800 to lav 6-inch water main in Hill Crest avenue, and $1, 100 to lay a six-inch water main in Ocean avenue, said appropriations aggregating $5,600.
There shall be II bonds or notes of the town. One for the sum of $600, numbered I, and 10 for the sum of $500 each, numbered 2 to II inclusive. They shall be dated during the current year. The bond or note numbered one shall be payable one year from the date thereof, and one bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter in their numerical order. 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 and of the Water Commissioners (now Water and Sewerage Board), shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding 4₺ per centum per annum, payable semi- annually, 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 endorse- ment.
Principal and interest shall be payable at the office of the Town Treas- urer or at such Bank or Trust Company as the Town Treasurer and the Board of Selectmen shall designate. Said bonds or notes shall bear upon their face the words " Swampscott Additional Water Loan, Act of 1912." Said bonds or notes shall be sold under the direction of the Town Treas- nrer and the Board of Selectmen.
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All other particulars as to form, issuance and sale of said bonds or notes shall be determined by the Town Treasurer and the Board of Select- men, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest (unanimous).
Voted, That a vote of thanks be extended to the Ways and Means Com- mittee for the very efficient report rendered.
Voted. To adjourn at 9.50 o'clock.
Attest : GEORGE T. TILL,
Town Clerk.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Presidential Primary, Tuesday, April 25, 1916. TOWN WARRANT.
ESSEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott in said County, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, in said Swampscott, on Tuesday, the 25th day of April, 1916, at 3 o'clock P. M., for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the election of candidates of political parties for the following offices :
Four Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Republican Party.
Four Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Republican Party.
Four Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Democratic Party.
Four Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Democratic Party.
Eight Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Prohibition Party.
Eight Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Prohibition Party.
Two District Delegates to the National Convention of the Republican Party Sixth Congressional District.
Two Alternate District Delegates to the National Convention of the Republican Party Sixth Congressional District.
Two District Delegates to the National Convention of the Democratic Party Sixth Congressional District.
Two Alternate District Delegates to the National Convention of the Democratic Party Sixth Congressional District.
One District Delegate to the National Convention of the Prohibition Party Sixth Congressional District.
One Alternate District Delegate to the National Convention of the Prohibition Party Sixth Congressional District.
All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot The polls will be open from 3 to 9 P. M.
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 return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place of meeting.
Given under our hands this fourteenth day of April, A. D., 1916.
HENRY S. BALDWIN, CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, WILLIAM E. CARTER,
Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
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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 at the Town Hall, Post Offices, depots and five public and conspicuous places in Swampscott, on Saturday, April 15th, 1916, the posting of said notices being at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
Presidential Primaries, April 25, 1916.
In accordance with the foregoing warrant, the voters of the Town assembled at the Town Hall on Tuesday, April 25, 1916.
The meeting was called to order at 3 P. M. by Henry S. Baldwin, Chairman of the Selectmen and presiding election officer.
The warrant, calling the meeting and the return thereon, was read by the Town Clerk.
The following Primary Officers were appointed by the Selectmen :-- Ballot Clerks, John A. Cullen, (Dem.); Arthur C. Widger, (Rep.) ; Francis M. Kennedy, (Dem.), and William R. Patten, (Rep.); Deputy Ballot Clerks, William P. Norcross, (Rep.); Abram G. Stone, (Dem.) ; Democratic Tellers, James E. Hegarty, John B. Cahoon, Robert Leslie, Frank G. Melvin, George H. Stone, James H. Ryan, William P. Bergen, Peter J. Blaser ; Republican Tellers, Harold C. Snow, Fred A. Oliver, Alfred F. Frazier, Arthur C. Eaton, Thomas E. Berry, Edward M. Kehoe, Harold H. Bartol, Willard P. Jackson, 2nd.
All of the appointed officers were qualified by the Town Clerk.
The packages of ballots were delivered to the Ballot Clerks, who receipted therefor.
The polls were closed at 9 P. M. The ballot box registered 512; there were 509 ballots cast, the checks on check list agreeing with ballot box register : 482 ballots marked for Republican candidates ; 27 ballots marked for Democratic candidates.
At 10.10 P. M. the following result was announced :
Marked for Democratic Candidates, 27.
Delegates-at-Large.
David I. Walsh, of 251 Main street, Fitchburg 23 ·
Joseph H. O'Neil, of 122 Seaver street, Boston 23
Humphrey O'Sullivan, of 105 Butterfield street, Lowell . 23
Charles B. Strecker, of 400 Commonwealth avenue, Boston 23
Blanks
16
Alternate Delegates-at-Large.
H. Oscar Rocheleau, of 26 Kendall street, Worcester 14 .
Edmund D. Codman, of 141 Beacon street, Boston . 14
Vincent Brogna, of 97 Endicott street, Boston . 14
Thomas F. Higgins, of 318 Madison street, Fall River 14
Blanks
52
District Delegates-Sixth District.
Daniel N. Crowley, of 23 Conant street, Danvers IO
Raymond V. McThomas, of 10 Franklin street, Haverhill William Stopford, of 126 Dodge street, Beverly
·
4
Michael L. Sullivan, of 24 Lafayette street, Salem 7
7
26 Blanks
Alternate District Delegates, no votes.
Prohibition Candidates, no votes.
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Marked for Republican Candidates. Delegates-at-Large.
Grafton D. Cushing, of 20 Chestnut street, Boston . · 223
Charles Sumner Bird, of Walpole . 210
Augustus P. Gardner, of Main street, Hamilton 228
Robert M. Washburn, of 42 Elm street, Worcester Samuel W. McCall, of Myopia road, Winchester Henry Cabot Lodge, of Nahant 254
196
246
John W. Weeks, of 97 Valentine street, Newton
216
Winthrop M. Crane, of Main street, Dalton
222
Blanks .
I33
Alternate Delegates-at-Large.
Alexander McGregor, of 400 Commonwealth avenue, Boston . · 179
Lombard Williams, of High street, Dedham 171 ·
Daniel Cosgrove, of 492 Gorham street, Lowell 169 . William M. Armstrong, of 91 Summer street, Somerville 169
Butler Ames, of 333 Andover street, Lowell 217
221
Louis A. Frothingham, of 33 Bruinmer street, Boston Eben S. S. Keith, of Bourne
205
Frank W. Stearns, of 269 Park street, Newton
206
Blanks
391
District Delegates-Sixth District.
John L. Saltonstall, of 304 Hale street, Beverly 174
Edward R. Hale, of 85 Arlington street, Haverhill 174
Robert A. Jordan, of 55 Saltonstall road, Haverhill , 183 A. Preston Chase, of 8 Winthrop street, Danvers I86
Blanks
.
247
Alternate District Delegates-Sixth District.
Isaac Patch, of 31 Eastern Point road, Gloucester 147 William Felton, of 357 Essex street, Salem 151 .
Vincent S. Peterson, of 34 Columbus avenue, Salem 175 Arthur D. Story, of 20 Winthrop street, Essex 176
Blanks
Voted. To dissolve at 10.15 P. M.
Attest : GEORGE T. TILL, Town Clerk.
Adjourned Meeting, May 8, 1916.
In accordance with the adjounment of March 24, the voters assembled at the Town Hall on Monday evening, May 8, 1916. There was not a quorum present.
Voted. That when we do adjourn it be to Friday, June 23rd, at 8 P. M.
Voted. To adjourn at 8.20.
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