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General Accounts.
ASSETS.
Cash :
In banks .
$46,067 08
In Water Department office
25 00
$46,092 08
Accounts receivable :
Taxes :
Levy of 1921 .
$28,338 69
Levy of 1922 .
63,869 72
Moth assessments 1921
$167 41
Moth assessments 1922
287 25
454 66
Sidewalk assessments 1921
$492 76
Sidewalk assessments 1922
786 01
1,278 77
Sewer assessments 1921 .
$ 70 29
Sewer assessments 1922
729 17
799 46
Unapportioned sewer assessments
$ 815 52
Unapportioned sidewalk assessments
3,367 16
4,182 68
Tax titles, held by town .
$844 60
Tax possessions held by town
309 61
1,154 21
Water Department bills :
Charges of 1917 .
$ 34 03
Charges of 1918 .
363 06
Charges of 1919 .
498 93
Charges of 1920 .
275 73
Charges of 1921 .
465 40
Charges of 1922 .
6,397 92
Services, connections, etc.
692 15
Overdrawn Accounts :
Certification of notes and bonds .
$ 260 50
Special assessments abated
15 14
.
8,727 22
.
92,208 41
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Election and registration .
632 07
Police
.
.
.
1,281 06
Forest warden .
163 66
Refuse and garbage
330 38
Poor
222 98
Interest
500 12
Maturing debt
100 00
Refunds
35 68
.
3,541 59
$158,439 08
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DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS
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TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT.
Balance Sheet-December 31, 1922. General Accounts. LIABILITIES.
Temporary Loans :
In anticipation of revenue .
$50,000 00
Premiums on notes and bonds
. .
2,289 64
Unexpended Balances :
Continuous sidewalks .
$ 1,057 55
Forest avenue
2,395 95
Burrill and Columbia streets
115 18
Burpee road
500 00
Library building fund
308 59
Municipal insurance fund
402 00
Water
8,330 35
Emergency water fund
2,045 67
Emergency sewer fund
4,268 98
Loan appropriations :
General
14,224 66
Water
7,426 52
41,075 45
Reserve fund-overlay surplus
3,847 11
Overlays-reserved for abatements:
Levy of 1921
$2,185 29
Levy of 1922
71 48
2,256 77
Water Revenue:
Reserved for Water Department, when collected
8,752 22
Special revenue reserve ·
1,031 31
Surplus Revenue :
Tax title .
$ 844 60
Tax possessions .
309 61
Excess and deficiency
48,032 37
49,186 58
$158,439 08
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TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT. Balance Sheet-December 31, 1922.
Deferred Revenue Accounts.
CR.
Apportioned assessments-not due . $1,583 36
$1,583 36
DR.
Apportioned sewer assessments, due 1923 to 1931, inclusive .
$1,387 43
Apportioned sidewalk assessments, due 1923 to 1926, inclusive
195 93
$1,583 36
Debt Accounts.
CR.
Water loan sinking fund
$120,321 54
Net funded or fixed debt . . .
721,828 46
$842,150 00
$842,150 00
DR.
Permanent improvement loans
$343,900 00
Sewer loans (serial)
236,950 00
Water loans (serial) ·
.
111,300 00
Water loan (sinking fund) . .
.
150,000 00
$842,150 00
$842,150 00
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TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT. Balance Sheet-December 31, 1922. Trust and Investments Accounts. CR.
Trust and Investment Funds :
Cash and securities .
$32,101 83
$32,101 83
DR.
Phillips School Medal Fund :
Principal
$ 1,000 00
Income
941 52
$1,941 52
Joanna Morse Library Fund :
Principal
$ 5,196 00
Income
1,716 89
6,912 89
Mary L. Thomson Library Fund :
Principal
$ 1,000 00
Income
245 75
1,245 75
Ellen R. Whittle Library Fund :
Principal
$ 2,000 00
Income
338 40
2,338 40
A. F. Nesbitt General Cemetery Fund :
Principal
$ 200 00
Income
133 61
333 61
A. F. Nesbitt Private Cemetery Fund :
Principal
$ 200 00
Income
71 44
271 44
Chlotilda Farrar Cemetery Fund :
Principal .
250 00
Cemetery Lots Investment Fund :
Principal
$12,404 21
Income
2,120 07
Municipal Insurance Fund :
Principal
$ 3,500 00
Income
783 94
4,283 94
$32,101 83
.
14,524 28
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In Memoriam
ELMER R. DYER Assessor Died July 24, 1922
ULYSSES M. CORSON Chief of Police
Died October 28, 1922
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Warrant for Town Meeting February 19, 1923.
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 their respective precincts, in said Swampscott, on Monday, the nineteenth day of February, at 6 A. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz .:
At the close of the election the meeting shall adjourn to February 20, 1923, at 7:30 P. M., at the Town Hall.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator for one (1) year. To choose a Town Clerk for one (1) year.
To choose three members of the Board of Selectmen for one (1) year.
To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for two (2) years.
To choose a Town Treasurer for one (1) year.
To choose a Collector of Taxes for one (1) year.
To choose one member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the School Committee for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Health for three (3) years. -
To choose one member of the Overseers of the Poor for three (3) years.
To choose three Constables for one (1) year.
To choose one Park Commissioner for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Water and Sewerage Board for three (3) years.
To choose one Tree Warden for one (1) year.
To choose one member of the Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds for three (3) years.
All to be chosen on one ballot.
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ART. 2. To vote by ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the question: "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this town?"
ART. 3. To hear and act on the reports of:
Town Clerk. School Committee. Captain of Police. Board of Fire Engineers.
Board of Assessors.
Town Engineer. Forest Warden.
Superintendent of Moth Work. Tree Warden.
Treasurer's report.
Trust Funds Commissioners.
Superintendent of Cemetery.
Building Inspector.
Trustees of Public Library.
Library Building Committee.
Board of Health.
Health Officer.
Health Nurse.
Milk Inspector.
Inspector of Plumbing.
Park Commissioners.
Surveyor of Highways.
Water and Sewerage Board.
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Additions to Palmer School.
Overseers of the Poor.
Dog Officer.
Fourth of July Committee.
Collector of Taxes.
Board of Selectmen.
Town Accountant's Report.
Finance Committee.
ART. 4. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.
ART. 5. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Water and Sewerage Board for the ensuing year.
ART. 7. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Clerk for the ensuing year.
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ART. 8. To see what action the Town will take in relation to salaries of town officials for the ensuing year.
ART. 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipa- tion of the revenue of the financial year, beginning January 1, 1923, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, the debt or debts incurred thereby to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
ART. 10. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the School Committee, as contained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on pages 87 and 94.
ART. 11. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Captain of Police, as contained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on pages 108 and 109.
ART. 12. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Board of Fire Engineers, as con- tained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on pages 111, 112, and 113.
ART. 13. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Board of Health, as contained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on pages 145 and 149.
ART. 14. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Park Commissioners, as contained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on pages 155 and 156.
ART. 15. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Surveyor of Highways, as contained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on page 160.
ART. 16. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Water and Sewerage Board as con- tained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on pages 161, 168, and 170.
ART. 17. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the recommendations in the report of the Board of Selectmen, as contained in the Annual Report, dated December 31, 1922, on pages 188, 189, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, and 204.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of nine hundred dollars to permit the School Committee to give "instruction in the use of English for adults unable to speak, read or write the same, and in the fundamental principles of government and other subjects adapted to fit for American citizenship" in accordance with the provisions of Sections nine and ten of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto.
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ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take by right of eminent domain for public school purposes, and appropriate money for the same, a certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, bounded and described as follows :-
Beginning at a point at the southeast corner of the Hadley School lot; thence northerly for a distance of about one hundred two feet; thence easterly for a distance of about sixty-nine feet ; thence southerly for a distance of about one hundred two feet to the northerly side of Redington street; thence westerly along said street to the point of beginning.
And also another parcel of land for public school purposes bounded and described as follows :-
Beginning at a point at the northwesterly corner of the above described lot; thence northerly for a distance of fifty-one feet; thence easterly for a distance of sixty-nine feet; thence southerly for a distance of fifty-one feet; thence westerly along the above described lot for a distance of sixty-nine feet to the point of beginning.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to place a fire alarm box at the junction of Sheridan and Elmwood roads and appropriate money for the same as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from Excess and Deficiency the sum of three thousand five hundred forty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents overdrawn appropriations, and carried forward to 1923 by authority of the Department of Corporations, Division of Accounts.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will accept the bequest under the will of Mrs. Ellen E. Andrews, as follows :-
"All the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my death, to be paid to the Town of Swampscott for the purpose of erecting a Memorial Chapel in said cemetery in memory of my late husband, Isaac H. Andrews, said Chapel to be named, 'The Andrews Memorial Chapel.' I desire that said Chapel be built either of light colored brick or of split stone, according to the remaining funds, the design of said Chapel to be chosen by said Augustine H. Rich, and I desire that my piano be placed in said Chapel and kept covered when not in use. It is my wish that only the five persons whose names are on the monument on said lot shall be buried there, and as each person passes away the year to be cut in the stone."
ART. 23. "I direct that my executors hereinafter named shall pay one hundred and fifty dollars to the Town of Swampscott, for the care of the monument and urn on my cemetery lot No. 455 in said Swampscott, the same to be kept clean and when repaired to be done in a workmanlike manner and purchase a new urn when necessary and place flowers on said lot during each year. This sum is in addition to the sum already paid to said Town of Swampscott for the perpetual care of said lot."
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ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to lay a six-inch (6") water main in Sherwood street, Bond street and Fuller avenue for a distance of about twelve hundred feet (1,200') and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Frank H. Van Blarcom, et als.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a fourteen-ton road roller with scarifier and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to place street signs on the different streets of the town and appropriate fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to curb and build a sidewalk on the north side of Humphrey street from Phillips Beach station to Forest avenue for a distance of about twelve hundred feet (1,200') and appro- priate money for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to purchase sidewalk plows and road machines for the Highway Department and appropriate fifteen hun- dred dollars ($1,500) for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept Valley road as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated December 1922, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept Mountwood road as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated December 1922, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to accept Roy street as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated December 1922, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to accept that portion of private way known as Burpee road and all of the private way known as Bertha street, and to be known as Burpee road, as laid out on a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated February 1921, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept Phillips circle as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated December 1922, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept Bradlee avenue as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January 1923, and appropriate money for the same.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept Palmer avenue, so- called, from Humphrey street to its intersection with Orchard road, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Arthur C. Lewis, and others.
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ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to accept Orchard road, so-called, from Humphrey street to its intersection with Palmer avenue and appro- priate money for the same, as petitioned for by Arthur C. Lewis, and others.
ART. 37. To see if the Town will vote to enclose in a cement culvert a portion of Hawthorne brook from Salem street easterly for about six hundred fifty feet (650') and appropriate money for the same, as recom- mended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to construct a culvert for a part of King's brook, extending from Stacey brook to Huron street, a dis- tance of about five hundred feet (500'), in accordance with the plans pre- pared by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and appropriate ninety-five hun- dred dollars ($9,500) for the same, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to construct a culvert for a por- tion of King's brook extending from Cherry street to Essex street, a dis- tance of about two hundred seventy feet (270') in accordance with the plans prepared by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and appropriate forty- five hundred dollars ($4,500) for the same, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 40. To see if the Town will vote to lay a sewer in Claremont ter- race for a distance of three hundred feet (300') to connect with private sewer already laid across town's sewer easement to main sewer, and to appropriate money for the same; also to reimburse Fred M. Collins for a part of cost of said private sewer, as petitioned for by Stuart P. Ellis, et als.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will vote to build a sewer in Humphrey street from the Palmer school to Palmer avenue, a distance of about seven hundred feet (700'), and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by William C. McNamara, et als.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) for the purpose of extending the present sewer at the corner of Palmer avenue and Humphrey . street, a distance of two hundred fifty feet (250') east of Humphrey street, as petitioned for by Edward N. Carpenter, et als.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will vote to extend the sewer in Mountain avenue a distance of two hundred seventy feet (270') from Beach avenue, and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Board of Health.
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ART. 44. To see if the Town will vote to sell to the E. R. Grabow Company, Inc., owners of the New Ocean House, an irregular strip of land, adjoining the property of that Company, on the southern extremity of the pumping station lot located on Humphrey street, belonging to the Town of Swampscott, containing approximately fifty-three hundred eighty square feet (5,380 sq. ft.) of land, as shown on plan submitted, for the sum of five hundred dollars ($500), as petitioned for by the Water and Sewerage Board.
ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee to study the advisability of dividing the town into zones or districts and to limit buildings according to their use or construction to such zones or districts, as authorized by sections 25 to 30, inclusive, of chapter 40 of the General Laws, and to report at the next annual town meeting, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 46. To see if the Town will vote to amend section 2 of chapter 2 of the by-laws by striking out the period at the end thereof and substituting in place thereof a comma and by adding the following words, namely :- "but a less number may adjourn from time to time," so that said section will then read as follows :-
"Section 2. The number of voters necessary to constitute a quorum at a town meeting shall be one hundred, excepting at a meeting devoted exclusively to the election of town officers, but a less number may adjourn from time to time."
as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 47. To see if the Town will vote to amend the by-laws by striking out section 11 of chapter 11 of the same and substituting in place thereof the following, namely :-
No building shall be erected, or located on a lot of land so that any part of the same shall be within three feet of any line sep- arating the land upon which such building rests from adjacent land, except such buildings as are described in chapter 635 of the Acts of 1912 and Acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto.
as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
ART. 48. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to acquire suitable quarters for the use of the veterans of the various wars, as petitioned for by E. Stanley Flagg, et als.
ART. 49. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) for the construction and enclosing of double tennis courts on Abbott Park, as petitioned for by Arthur E. Willard, et als.
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ART. 50. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for the purchase and installation of portable bleachers for Jackson and Phillips Parks, as petitioned for by Robert W. Campbell, Jr., et als.
ART. 51. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of twenty- two hundred dollars ($2,200) for playground activities, including the pur- chase and installation of equipment, the same to be expended under the joint supervision of the Park Commissioners and the School Committee, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 217, section 1, of the General Laws, as petitioned for by Arthur F. Bent, et als.
ART. 52. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the celebration of the Fourth of July and to appoint a committee to have charge of the celebration, as petitioned for by Alfred F. Frazier, et als.
ART. 53. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the appointment of a committee to investigate the feasibility of a forest for Swampscott.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to accept sections 21-28, in- clusive, of the General Laws permitting certain sports and games on the Lord's Day, as petitioned for by Samuel G. King, et als.
ART. 55. To appropriate and raise, by borrowing or otherwise, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the pur- poses mentioned in the foregoing articles.
The polls will be closed at 4:30 P. M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Post Offices and three other public and con- spicuous places in the Town, seven days before the day appointed for said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this second day of February, in the year 1923.
CLARENCE B. DELANO, HENRY S. BALDWIN, FRANK E. MORRISON, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
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