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Voted, Article 26. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee as amended, appropriating for the Park Department as follows :
Blaney's Beach Reservation
$1,200 00
Jackson Park
500 00
Phillips Park (upkeep)
700 00
Monument Avenue
700 00
Paradise Road
400 00
Sundries
300 00
Water Rates
125 00
Lawn Mower
75 00
$4,000 00
Voted, Article 27. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee transferring to an emergency fund to be drawn on by a recorded vote of the Water and Sewerage Board upon proper petition for the extension of water mains, as recommended in their report, the unexpended balances from the following special appropriations :
Sargent and Aspen Roads
1915
$101 18
Linden Avenue
1915
52 91
Bertha and Jessie Streets
1915
5 04
Ocean Avenue
1916
176 21
Gale Avenue
1916
1,126 75
Bradlee Avenue
.
.
1916 148 43
$1,610 52
. Voted, Article 28. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating for the Water and Sewerage Board as follows :
Sewer Maintenance
$6,400 00
Plans
-
300 00
Safe
300 00
Particular Sewers 4
$7,000 00
800 00
.
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Voted, Article 29. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee as follows :
Appropriating $6,000 for isolated and continuous walks.
Appropriating $1,665 for improvements in the Town Hall to be carried out under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Transferring to the Trustees of the Public Library with authority to expend the same in accordance with the terms of the will, the sum of $1,000 received by the town under the will of the late Mary L. Thomson.
The balance of the report on Article 29 was eliminated.
Voted, Article 30. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating as follows :
GENERAL GOVERNMENT.
Legislative
$600 00
Selectmen
.
1,500 00
Auditing
1,200 00
Treasury
1,000 00
Certification, Printing and Advertising Notes and Bonds
400 00
Collector of Taxes
1,400 00
Divided as follows:
(Salary, bond and expenses, $1,200, Clerk hire $200).
Town Clerk .
500 00
Election and Registration
750 00
Law
800 00
Engineering
.
.
4,000 00
Town Hall
2,400 00
PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
Fire Department .
$15,550 00
Balance Salary Chief, 1915 .
260 00
Balance Salary Assistant Chiefs, 1915
240 00
Hydrant Rental
1,000 00
Street Lighting
12,700 00
Building Inspector, Salary, 1916 .
250 00
Building Inspector, Salary, 1917
450 00
Dog Officer, Salary, 1917
100 00
CHARITIES.
State Aid
$3,000 00
Soldiers' Reliet. .
3,000 00
School Department
LIBRARIES.
Town Library
$3,300 00
The reading room of the Library to be kept open on Sundays and holidays in accordance with the report of the Finance Committee.
RECREATION.
$50 00
Memorial Day
.
.
200 00
$250 00
UNCLASSIFIED.
Town Reports
$950 61
Reserve Fund
2,000 00
Grand Army Hall, Heating
75 00
Municipal Insurance
2,000 00
Insurance
1,000 00
.
.
·
.
,
EDUCATION.
·
$61,700 00
Monument Lot
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TOWN DEBT INTEREST.
Interest on Temporary Loans
$6,000 00
Interest on General Debt
13,840 00
Interest on Sewer Bonds 9,448 00
Metropolitan Park Interest 5,000 00
General Debt Maturing
45,544 48
Sewer Bonds Maturing
14,650 00
Metropolitan Park Assessment, Sinking Fund
and Serial Notes
6,500 00
TAXES AGENCY.
State Tax
$27,000 00 ·
County Tax
25,000 00
State Enterprises
1,200 00
Transferring to "General Debt Maturing " this year, the amount of $904.18 realized from the December, 1916, warrant : $437.61 " Premium Notes and Bonds " as shown in the Town Balance Sheet, December 31, 1916, and $4,413.73 " General Debt Maturing."
Voted, Article 31. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee accepting Harrison avenue (portion) so called, as laid out by the Select- men as soon as the waivers are signed and appropriating $300 for the construction of a culvert, the work to be done as soon as the waivers in connection with the acception of the street have been received.
Voted, To take up Articles 42 and 64 together.
Voted, Articles 42 and 64. To adopt the report of the Finance Com- mittee as amended on these two articles appropriating $1,450 to extend the sewer in Essex street, from Essex avenue easterly about 350 feet, and $11,500 to lay a concrete pavement on, and curb both sides of that portion of Essex street from the easterly side of Burrill street to the Lynn line, the work to be done in accordance with the specifications of the Massa- chusetts Highway Commission, by the Surveyor of Highways, or, if he deems it best, under contract, the money to be raised by bonds or notes of the town and in accordance with the conditions as recommended by the Finance Committee, said conditions applying to both these articles.
Voted, Article 43. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee and appropriate $450 to construct a sewer in Banks road for about 45 feet northerly, to be raised by bonds or notes.
Voted, Article 44. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $4,250 to extend the sewer in Humphrey street easterly from its present termination for a distance of about 500 feet towards Phillips square, the money to be raised by bonds or notes of the town.
Voted, Article 45. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $350 to extend the sewer in Hillcrest circle 200 feet from Essex street, the money to be raised by bonds or notes.
Voted, Article 46. To postpone the subject matter of this article as recommended by the Finance Committee.
Voted, Article 47. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $1, 150 to replace the present water main in Palmer avenue with a 6-inch main, the money to be raised by bonds or notes.
Voted, Article 48. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $700 to extend the water main in Millett road a distance of 200 feet, the money to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, work to be done as conditioned in report.
Voted, Article 49. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $1,000 to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, to have water pipes extended in Northern avenue and Phillips circle, the work to be done, as conditioned in the report.
Voted, Article 50. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appro- priating $1,400 to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, to replace the present 2-inch water main in Phillips street and Claremont terrace with a 6-inch main.
SWAMPSCOTT PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Voted, Article 51. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $1,350 to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, to replace the present 2-inch water main in Orient court with a 6-inch main.
Voted, Article 52. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $1,300 to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, to extend the water main in Buena Vista avenue, from Roy street to Bertha street, the work to be done under conditions specified in report.
Voted, Article 53. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $1,100 to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, to replace the 2-inch water main in Manton road from Humphrey street to Beach Bluff avenue with a 6-inch main.
Voted, Article 54. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $500 to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, to extend the water main in Hillcrest circle 150 feet, under conditions specified in report.
. Voted, Article 55. To indefinitely postpone the subject matter of this article, as recommended by Finance Committee.
Voted, Article 56. To appoint a committee consisting of the the School Committee, three residents of the easterly section of the town, one mem- ber at large, to investigate conditions in the Palmer School District and report to the town at a subsequent meeting.
Voted, To have this committee named by the Chair at a later date.
Voted, Article 57. To indefinitely postpone, as the subject was dealt with in report in Article 24.
Voted, Article 58. To make the salary of the regular police officers $1,200 per year and to appropriate $756 to be added to the appropriation of the Police Department for this purpose.
Voted, Article 59. To increase the pay of special police officers from 372c. to 41c. per hour.
Voted, Article 60. To increase the pay of the six (6) private permanent men of the Fire Department to $1,200 per year and to appropriate $648 to be added to the Fire Department appropriation for this purpose.
Voted, Article 61. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee increasing the pay of the call men of the Fire Department to $100 a year.
Voted, Article 63. To indefinitely postpone the subject matter of this article, landing at Blaney's Beach, as recommended by the Finance Committee.
Voted, Article 65. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $4,500, to be raised by bonds or notes of the Town, to resurface Cedar Hill terrace, the work to be done by the Surveyor of Highways in accordance with the specifications of the Massachusetts Highway Commission.
Voted, Article 66. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $675 for the Teachers' Pension Fund.
Article 67 considered under Article 15.
Voted, Article 68. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $500 for the observance of Fourth of July. The voters appointed Nathan G. Bubier, James R. Dyer, James Sharp and C. Edward Newhall to serve with the Park Commissioners in this matter.
Oscar G. Poor was appointed by vote of the meeting to serve with Fourth of July committee.
Voted, Article 69. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee indefinitely postponing the matter of granolithic sidewalks at Paradise Road playgrounds.
Voted, Article 71. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee appropriating $375 for the employment of district or other nurses.
Voted, Article 72. To indefinitely postpone the subject matter of this article as recommended by the Finance Committee.
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Voted, Article 73. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee indefinitely postponing the matter of the employment of a public health nurse.
Voted, Article 74. To indefinitely postpone purchasing an automobile for the health officer, as recommended by the Finance Committee.
Voted, Article 75. To refer the matter of resurfacing Beach Bluff avenue to the Board of Selectmen, a report to be made at the next Special Town Meeting.
Voted, Article 78. To adopt the report of the Finance Committee as amended 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 42, 43, 44 and 45, which relate respectively to the appropriation of $1,450 for a sewer in Essex street, $450 for a sewer in Banks road, $4,250 for a sewer in Humphrey street, and $350 for a sewer in Hillcrest circle, said appropriations aggregating $6,500.
There shall be thirteen bonds or notes of the town, each for the sum of $500. They shall be dated during the current year. The first bond or note shall be payable one year from its date, and one bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter.
Said bonds or notes shall bear the town seal, shall be signed by the Town Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of Board of Selectmen and a majority of the members of the Water and Sewerage Board, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent 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 pay- able at the office of the Town Treasurer or 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 direc- tion 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 Board of Select- men, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest.
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 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 54, which relate to the appropriation respectively of $1,150 for the laying of a 6-inch water main in Palmer avenue ; $700 for the extension of the water main in Millett road ; $1,000 for the extension of water pipes in Phillips circle ; $1,400 for the laying of a 6-inch water main in Phillips street and Claremont terrace ; $1,350 for the laying of a 6-inch water main in Orient court; $1,300 for the lay- ing of a water main in Buena Vista avenue; $1,100 for the laying of a 6-inch water main in Manton road; and $500 for the laying of a water main in Hillcrest circle ; said appropriations aggregating $8,500.
There shall be seventeen bonds or notes of the town, each for the sum of $500. They shall be dated during the current year. The first bond or note shall be payable one year from its date and one bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter.
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 Select- men and Water Board (now Water and Sewerage Board), shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one-half per cent per annum, payable semi-annuallv, shall be authenticated bv 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 pay-
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able at the office of the Town Treasurer or 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 Addi- tional 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 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.
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 64, which relates to the appropriation of $11,500 for the construction of a concrete pavement with curbing on Essex street from the Lynn line.
There shall be twenty-three bonds or notes of the town, each for the sum of $500. They shall be dated during the current year. The first five bonds or notes shall be payable one year from their date, and two bonds or notes shall be payable each year thereafter.
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 Select- men, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one-half per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, shall beauthenticated 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 such Bank or Trust Com- pany as the Town Treasurer and Board of Selecmen shall designate. Said bonds or notes shall bear on their face the words "Street Pave- ment Loan, 1917." Said bonds or notes shall be sold under the direc- tion 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 Selectmen, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest.
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 65, which relates to the appropriation of $4,500 for resurfacing Cedar Hill terrace.
There shall be five bonds or notes of the town; four for the sum of $1,000 each and one for the sum of $500. They shall be dated during the current year. The first bond or note shall be payable one year from its date, and one bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter.
Said bonds or notes shall bear the town seal, shall be signed by the Town Treasurer and countersiged by a majority of the Board of Selectmen, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one-half per cent 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 are issued, and appropriate endorsement. Principal and interest shall be payable at the office of the Town Treasurer or 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, "Street Pavement Loan, 1917." 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 Selectmen, but said bonds or notes shall not be sold for less than par and interest.
That the sums of $6,200 and $12,000 be appropriated by the town pur- suant to and for the purposes specified in Articles 15 and 67, which relate respectively to the appropriation of money for the purchase of equipment for the Fire Department and for the Sewerage Pumping Station ; said appro- priations aggregating $18,200, and that the same be raised in the manner
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following, namely : $4,200 from the tax levy for the current year, and the balance, $14,000, by fourteen bonds or notes of the town, each for the sum of $1,000. They shall be dated during the current year. The first five bonds or notes shall be payable one year from their date; the next five bonds or notes shall be payable two years from said date; the next two bonds or notes shall be payable three years from said date ; and one bond or note shall be payable each year thereafter.
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 Select- men, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four and one-half cent 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 presentstion 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 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, "Departmental Equipment Loan, 1917." 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 interest. (Unanimous.)
The following resolution was adopted by a unanimous rising vote :
Resolution.
The recent death of Aaron R. Bunting takes from our midst a man of sterling qualities, a faithful, honest and conscientious citizen, a public servant of ability and honor for years.
Be it resolved : That in his death the town feels a keen and irreparable loss, a man worthy of emulation by our young men in excercising their civic and political duties.
Be it resolved : That a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the records of this meeting and a copy sent to the bereaved family.
Voted : To extend a vote of thanks to the Finance Committee for their excellent work and report rendered at this meeting.
The Moderator appointed Herbert A. Cahoon a member of the Finance Committee for three years.
The Moderator appointed the following committee to study the financial situtation, with the view particularly of recommending some method of voting by ballot upon questions involving the appropriation or expendi- ture of money, report to be made at the next Annual Town Meeting :
James T. Lyons, George A. Heath, Harry R. Stanbon, James W. Kimball.
Daniel F. Knowlton was added to the committee by vote of the meeting. Voted : To dissolve at 10.45 P. M.
Attest : GEORGE T. TILL, Town Clerk.
The Moderator appointed as Committee to investigate as to the needs at Palmer School District, Calvin S. Tilden, William M. Bunting, George W. Foster and Oscar G. Poor.
Member of Committee on Pumping Station equipment, Malcom F. MacLean.
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Constitutional Convention Primary, Tuesday, April 3, 1917. 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 Pri- maries to meet in the Town Hall, in Swampscott, Tuesday, the third day of April, 1917, at 2 o'clock P. M., for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the nomination of Candidates for Delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Thirty-two Delegates at Large.
Two Delegates from Representative District Fifteen.
All the above candidates are to be voted for upon one ballot.
Each voter may vote only for sixteen candidates at large, and one by representative district.
The polls will be open from 2 P. M. to 8 P. M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the town. .
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-third (23) day of March, A. D. 1917 .. HENRY S. BALDWIN, WILLIAM E. CARTER, CLARENCE B. HUMPHREY, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
Twenty-seventh day of March, 1917.
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 other public and conspicuous places in Swampscott on Tuesday, March 27, 1917, the posting of said notices being at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
FRANK H. BRADFORD,
Constable.
Constitutional Convention Primary, April 3, 1917.
Agreeable to the warrant the voters of the town assembled at the Town Hall on Tuesday, April 3, 1917.
The meeting was called to order at 2 P. M. by William E. Carter, Selectman, as Presiding Election Officer. Warrant and return were read.
John A. Cullen (Dem.), William R. Patten (Rep.), and Francis M. Kennedy (Dem.), were qualified as Ballot Clerks.
The following Tellers were also qualified :
Republicans-Harold C. Snow, Alfred F. Frazier, Arthur C. Eaton, Thomas E. Berry, Edward M. Kehoe, Horace R. Parker, Charles W. Burrill, Joseph G. Reed.
Democrats-James A. Hegarty, John B. Cahoon, James M. Kennedy, James H. Ryan, Peter J. Blaser, John A. Finnegan, William P. Bergen, George H. Stone.
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There were 755 ballots cast ; the ballot box register was 754; there were 755 checks on both check lists.
The polls were opened at 2 P. M. and closed at 8 P. M.
At 11.30 P. M. the following result of balloting was announced.
For Delegates at Large to Constitutional Convention.
Charles Francis Adams, of Concord .
483
George W. Anderson, of Brookline
217
William G. Andrew, of Somerville
I33
Albert S. Apsey, of Cambridge .
197
Charles J. Barton, of Melrose
206
John L. Bates, of Brookline
467
Addison P. Beardsley, of Boston
87
William H. Brooks, of Holyoke
255
Walter A. Bine, of Boston .
92
Harvey S. Chase of Brookline
219
Charles F. Choate, Jr., of Southborough
301
Charles W Clifford, of New Bedford
192
George W. Coleman, of Boston
193
Louis A. Coolidge, of Milton
347
John W. Cummings, of Fall River
211
Edwin U. Curtis, of Boston
394
Samuel R. Cutler, of Revere
89
Arthur W. DeGoosh, of Boston
33
Daniel E. Denny, of Worcester .
53
Daniel R. Donovan, of Springfield
78
George H. Doty, of Waltham
153
Hugh P. Drysdale, of North Adams .
62
Frank E. Dunbar. of Lowell
192
Samuel J. Elder, of Winchester .
326
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