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$450.00
$450.00
Selectmen
*2,300.00
2,615.24
2,558.00
2,558.00
Accounting
2,450.00
2,448.63
2,578.00
2,578.00
Treasury
1,938.00
1,645.17
2,253.00
2,253.00
Collector of Taxes
3,100.00
3,082.48
3,580.50
3,580.50
Assessors
3,500.00
3,304.46
3,500.00
3,900.00
Town Clerk
644.00
628.04
644.00
644.00
Law
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Election and Registration
*1,155.00
1,304.75
5,000.00
4,000.00
Engineering
6,265.00
6,263.94
7,000.00
7,000.00
Town Hall
*3,500.00
3,602.64
3,770.00
3,770.00
Town Hall Repairs
100.00
100.00
200.00
200.00
Certification of Notes and Bonds
500.00
128.50
500.00
500.00
Board of Appeals.
200.00
198.77
245.00
245.00
PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY
Police
$44,586.00
$39,795.72
$37,105.00
$35,698.00
Fire
39,510.00
39,491.27
39,600.00
39,600.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
555.00
555.00
555.00
555.00
Moth
5,364.00
4,989.35
4,683.00
4,683.00
Tree Warden
2,400.00
2,399.52
3,500.00
3,500.00
Forest Warden
200.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
Inspector of Buildings
935.00
934.75
1,100.00
1,100.00
Subordinate Officials
390.00
380.60
390.00
490.00
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HEALTH AND SANITATION
1927
1928
Appropriated
Expended
Asked
Recommended
Health
$9,183.00
$8,768.16
$8,866.00
$8.866.00
Dental Clinic.
550.00
545.68
1,200.00
1,200.00
Health Nurse.
1,350.00
1,290.50
1,350.00
1,350.00
Cleaning Beaches
1,220.00
1,220.00
1,376.00
1,376.00
Refuse and Garbage
13,730.00
13,577.37
13,525.00
13,525.00
Health Dumps
1,700.00
1,628.24
1,700.00
1,700.00
Sewer
9,000.00
8,532.07
9,000.00
9,000.00
Particular Sewers.
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Brooks
500.00 .
283.84
1,500.00
1,500.00
HIGHWAYS
Highway Administration
$2,790.00
$2,598.24
$2,600.00
$2,600.00
Highway
38,800.00
33,628.30
38,800.00
37,000.00
Crushed Stone and Gravel
4,000.00
3,558.11
4,000.00
4,000.00
New Streets
3,000.00
1,780.00
3,000.00 Į
New Construction
15,000.00
covered by articles
Seal Coating
4,000.00
3,666.98
· 5,000.00
4,000.00
Street Construction
2,500.00
2,138.70
2,500.00
2,500.00
Street Watering and Oiling
4,000.00
3,725.72
5,000.00
4,000.00
Sidewalks and Curbing.
3,000.00
3,000.00
4,000.00
3,500.00
Snow and Ice
10,000.00
9,961.16
5,000.00
4,000.00
Millett Road and Bay View Drive
2,500.00
2,500.00
2,000.00
Lighting Streets ..
20,500.00
19,083.88
23,500.00
23,500.00
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Public Welfare
$9,050.00
$8,956.90
$9,000.00
$8,550.00
Soldiers' Relief
5,000.00
4,959.10
5,000.00
5,000.00
State Aid
700.00
516.00
500.00
500.00
Military Aid
720.00
620.00
700.00
700.00
Pensions
5,535.10
5,535.10
6,823.11
5,679.11
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SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
1927
Appropriated $151,270.00 6,000.00
Expended $151,261.99 5,977.68
Asked $156,480.00 6,500.00
1928
Schools Library
RECREATION AND UNCLASSIFIED
Parks
$8,350.00
$8,331.08
$7,500.00
$8,000.00
Memorial Day
500.00
464.81
500.00
500.00
Firemen's Memorial Sunday
200.00
193.51
200.00
200.00
Heat and Light G. A. R. Hall
700.00
622.98
625.00
625.00
Heat and Light V. F. W. Hall
200.00
196.14
200.00
200.00
District Nurse
300.00
300.00
300.00
300.00
Legion Lease
950.00
950.00
950.00
950.00
Trust Fund Custodian's Bond
40.00
40.00
40.00
40.00
Reserve Fund
5,000.00
4,867.90
5,000.00
5,000.00
Printing Town Reports
1,531.67
1,531.62
1,009.55
1,009.55
Insurance
6,164.61
6,164.61
3,000.00
2,993.25
ENTERPRISES
Cemetery
$3,290.00
$3,283.30
$4,500.00
$4,500.00
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
Interest on Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
$10,000.00
$8,370.54
$10,000.00
$10,000.00
Interest on General Debt
14,893.50
14,893.50
13,090.50
13,090.50
Interest on Sewer Loans.
7,830.75
7,830.75
7,174.75
7,174.75
Interest on T. B. Hospital Bonds
2,280.00
2,280.00
2,120.00
2,120.00
General Debt Maturing
41,200.00
41,200.00
37,023.40
37,023.40
Sewer Loans Maturing
15,850.00
15,850.00
15,850.00
15,850.00
T. B. Hospital Bonds Maturing
4,000.00
4,000.00
4,000.00
4,000.00
AGENCY
T. B. Hospital Assessment.
$3,985.55
$3,985.55
$4,000.00
$4,049.70
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Recommended $155,480.00 6,300.00
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TRANSFERS From Emergency Sewer Fund
Walker Road Sewer
$2,500.00
From Excess and Deficiency
Motorcycle Side Car
$115.00
Hydrant Rental
1,000.00
Replacing Three Fire Alarm Boxes
480.00
Replacing Boiler Central Fire Station
1,200.00
Painting Phillips Beach Fire Station
375.00
New Hose
490.00
New Automobile for Fire Chief
1,050.00
Resurfacing Millett Road
2,000.00
Highway Stable
10,000.00
Cemetery Shrubs
200.00
Unpaid Bills
1,023.68
Overlay 1925
22.93
Overlay 1926
251.66
Awards and Executions
500.00
Blasting Committee
125.00
Mapledale Place Drain
1,200.00
Atlantic Avenue Seal Coating
1,100.00
Foster Road
1,200.00
Hillcrest Circle
900.00
Oceanview Road
400.00
Banks Circle
400.00
Lodge Road
1,400.00
Bates Road
2,000.00
Kensington Lane and Northern Avenue
1,500.00
Norfolk Avenue
9,42.17
Blaney Street widening
105.00
Palmer School land
8,080.00
Fourth of July
1,000.00
Continuous Sidewalks
5,000.00
School Repairs
2,635.00
$55,205.44
Bonded Articles
Franklin Avenue Sewer
$10,500.00
Fuller Avenue Sewer
4,000.00
King's Brook Culvert
3,500.00
Eastern Intercepting Sewer
13,000.00
Palmer School
6,000.00
Appropriated from Tax Levy
12,000.00
Net Amount to be Borrowed
$79.000.00
Voted, that report of the Finance Committee be accepted and their recommendations be adopted as follows: That a committee of five in- cluding the chairman of the Board of Selectmen be appointed to study the subject, purchasing of supplies, to devise a legal method of carrying it out, and to report at a special meeting to be held the first Monday of October next.
Voted, Article 4. To accept the Finance Committee report, and the recommendations be adopted as amended.
That the annual salary of the chairman of Assessors be fixed at $1,000 and that of the other members at $400 each.
$91,000.00
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That the treasurer's annual salary be fixed at $1.200. Inspector of Buildings salary be fixed at $1,000. That the salary of the secretary of the Board of Public Welfare be fixed at $150. Inspector of Animals be $200. That the salary of the Tree Warden, superintendent of moths and forest warden regarded as one office be fixed at $40.00 per week. That the Surveyor of Highways as amended be fixed at $2,600. That the Board of Selectmen as amended be fixed at $500 for each member. That the salaries of all other town officials except the Chief of Police be the same as last year. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 7. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows :-
That whatever amount is left in the sinking fund after cancelling the indebtedness of $150,000 due August 1, 1928, be turned over to the Water and Sewerage Board to be included in the water funds.
That the town lay a sewer in Walker road from its present ter- minus, a distance of about 360 feet and appropriate therefor the sum of $2,500 to be transferred from the Emergency Sewer Fund.
That the town lay a sewer in Paradise road and Franklin avenue from the present terminus of the sewer in Paradise road, near Farragut road a distance of about 1,600 feet and appropriate therefor the sun of $10,500 to be raised by notes or bonds of the town. (Unanimous.)
That the town lay a sewer in Fuller avenue from Bay View avenue a distance of about 400 feet, and appropriate therefor the sum of $4.000 to be raised by notes or bonds of the town. (Unanimous.)
That the King's Beach culvert be extended 225 feet northerly and $3.500 be appropriated therefor, to be raised by notes or bonds of the town. (Unanimous.)
That the Chief of Police be authorized to purchase a new side car to be used on a motorcycle now owned by the department and that $115 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Deficiency Funds.
That the following amounts be appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for the following purposes: Hydrant rental, $1,000; replacing three fire alarmı boxes. $480; replacing boiler and remodeling boiler room at Central Fire Station. $1,200; painting the outside of Phil- lips Beach Fire Station, $375; the purchase of new 21/2 inch fire hose. $490; purchase of a new automobile and equipment to take the place of the 1921 Dodge runabout now used by the Chief of the Fire Depart- ment, $1,050.
That the Board of Fire Engineers be authorized to dispose of the old boiler to the best advantage of the town and that they be further authorized to turn in the 1921 Dodge runabout in part payment for a new car.
Action indefinitely postponed on Wyman road, or as it is now known Bay View Drive.
That $2,000 be appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency fund for resurfacing Millett road.
That the town authorize the Board of Selectmen. Surveyor of High- ways and Building Inspector to secure suitable plans and specifications for the construction of a building suitable for the needs of the Surveyor of Highways and that they be further authorized to make, sign and deliver a contract on behalf of the town for this purpose and that the sum of $10,000 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Action on establishment of a branch public library in the proposed new Palmer School, be indefinitely postponed.
That the town appropriate $200 from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for the purchase of shrubs to be placed in the newly prepared part of the cemetery in the vicinity of the chapel.
Action on the purchase of a light truck for cemetery purposes be indefinitely postponed. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 8. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
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That the town appropriate $1,023.68 from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for the purpose of paying bills contracted by the Board of Public Welfare in 1927 and under instruction of the State Accountants, not payable from 1928 funds.
That the sum of $22.93 be transferred from the Excess and Defi- ciency Fund to the account of Overlay 1925 and the sum of $251.66 from the Excess and Deficiency Fund to the account of Overlay 1926 to bal- ance these accounts to date.
The sum of $500 be appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency Fund to be used by the Board of Selectmen in paying awards, execu- tions or settled claims.
The following amounts be appropriated from the Excess and De- ficiency Fund:
Continuous Sidewalks
$5,000.00
School repairs 2,635.00
The following amounts appropriated for the various departments for the ensuing year. (Unanimous.)
General Government
Legislative
$ 450.00
Selectmen
3,358.00
Accounting
2,578.00
Treasury
2,253.00
Collector of taxes
3,580.50
Assessors
3,900.00
Town Clerk
644.00
Law
1,000.00
Election and registration
4,000.00
Engineering
7,000.00
Town Hall
3,770.00
Town Hall repairs
200.00
Certification of notes and bonds
500.00
Board of Appeals
245.00
Protection of Life and Property
Police
$35,698.00
Fire
39,600.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
555.00
Moth
4,683.00
Tree Warden
3,500.00
Forest Warden
200.00
Inspector of Buildings
1,100.00
Subordinate officials including
Dog Officer, Constable, Weigher, Inspector of Animals
490.00
Health and Sanitation
Health
$8,866.00
Dental clinic
1,200.00
Health Nurse
1,350.00
Cleaning beaches
1,376.00
Refuse and garbage
13,525.00
Health dumps
1,700.00
Sewer
9,000.00
Particular sewers
1,000.00
Car of brooks
1,500.00
Highways
Highway administration
$2,840.00
Highway
37,000.00
Crushed stone and gravel
4,000.00
Seal coating
4,000.00
Street construction
2,500.00
Street watering and oiling
4,000.00
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Sidewalks and curbing Snow and ice Lighting streets
$3,500.00
4,000.00
23,500.00
Charities and Soldiers' Benefits
Public Welfare
$8,550.00
Soldiers' relief
5,000.00
State Aid Military Aid
700.00
Pensions
5,679.11
Schools and Libraries
School
$155,480.00
Library
6,300.00
Recreation and Unclassified
Parks
$8,000.00
Memorial Day
500.00
Firemen's Memorial Sunday
200.00
Heat and Light G. A. R. Hall
625.00
Heat and Light V. F. W. Hall
200.00
District Nurse
300.00
Legion lease
950.00
Trust Fund Custodian's bond
40.00
Reserve fund
5,000.00
Printing Town Reports
1,009.55
Insurance
2,993.25
Enterprises
Cemetery
$4,500.00
Interest and Maturing Debt
Interest on Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
$10,000.00
Interest on General Debt
13,090.50
Interest on Sewer Loan
7,174.75
Interest on Tuberculosis Hospital bonds
2,120.00
General Debt Maturing
37,023.40
Sewer Loans Maturing
15,850.00
Tuberculosis Hospital Bonds Maturing
4,000.00
Agency
Tuberculosis Hospital Maintenance $4,049.70
Report amended by striking out that part Millett road $2,000 on page 13 of Finance Report. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 9. To amend the Zoning By-Law by changing from general residence districts to single residence districts the area included in the following streets and the land contiguous thereto or in the vicinity thereof, so that said area shall be subject to the provisions of Article 3 of said Zoning By-Law, namely: Bay View avenue, Greenwood terrace, Fuller avenue and Forest avenue. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 10. To amend the Zoning By-Laws by including both sides of Woodbine avenue, namely: All property abutting on said Woodbine avenue, in the single residence district, so-called, shown on the zoning map of the town as Number 3. (Unanimous.)
At this time the Moderator, Kendall A. Sanderson, turned the chair over to the Town Clerk, as he wished to speak from the floor, on Articles 11 and 12.
Voted, Article 11. That a committee be appointed to make a study of the zoning of both sides of Humphrey street, from the Post Office block to Blaney Beach and to report their recommendations to the first town meeting subsequent to October 1, 1928: said committee consist of chairman Board of Selectmen, Town Counsel, one member Zoning Board
500.00
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of Appeals, one member Board of Assessors, and three citizens to be nominated from the floor. Chester A. Brown, 17 Middlesex avenue, Henry S. Baldwin, Elmwood road, and Fred A. Hale were named to serve on this committee.
Voted, Article 12. That this article be referred to the same com- mittee under Article 11.
Voted, Article 13. That this article be referred to the same com- mittee under Article 11.
Voted, Article 17. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 18. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows: That the committee do not continue in power, nor the appropriation of money for the employ- ment of counsel, but that all legal matters relating to the blasting con- troversy be handled by the town counsel under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, and that the sum of $125 be appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency Fund to pay the expenses of a stenographer em- ployed by said committee.
Voted, Article 19. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, and adopt their recommendations: That the town transfer the unex- pended balance of $1,291.82 in the Barnstable street water main account to the Emergency Water Fund.
A motion made at this time that when we adjourn it be to Wednes- day evening, April 4, 1928, was lost.
Voted, Article 20. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, and adopt their recommendations: That the town authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to sell the land, now owned by the town, on Dan- vers street in Salem, known as Thompson's Meadow, to the town of Marblehead for $1,000 the money so received to be credited to the Water Department from whose funds the original purchase was made, and that the Water and Sewerage Board are hereby authorized to execute, acknowledge and deliver in the name and in behalf of the town a deed conveying the title thereto.
Voted, Article 21. That the town authorize the Water and Sewer- age Board to execute and deliver a lease to Frank I. Richardson con- veying the premises now occupied by him on New Ocean street, for the term of five years, beginning with the date of expiration of his present lease and on the same terms and conditions as are contained in said present lease.
Voted, Article 22. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, and adopt their recommendations: That a water main be laid in Mac- Arthur circle a distance of approximately 180 feet from Foster road and that the sum of $860 be appropriated therefor from the revenue of the Water Department but on condition that the Town Engineer shall have certified in writing to the Board of Selectmen that the street conforms in line and grade to the plan approved by the Board of Survey, and abutters have signed an agreement to pay 6 per cent interest on the in- vestment until the water rates of the users are equal to the interest thereon, proper waivers to be obtained from the abutters if in the judg- ment of the Water and Sewerage Board waivers are necessary for the protection of the town.
Voted, Article 23. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 24. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the town build a catch basin in Mapledale place to be connected with a pipe emptying into the Sprague brook so called, the work to be done under the supervision of the Water and Sewerage Board, that easements be taken in connection with said work if necessary and that the sum of $1,200 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Voted, Article 25. That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted, and their recommendations be adopted as follows: That only that part of the eastern intercepting sewer from its present terminus to about Shepard avenue be constructed and that the sum of $13,000 be
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appropriated therefor, to be raised by bonds or notes of the town, the work to be done under the direction of the Water and Sewerage Board. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 26. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 27. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 28. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, and their recommendations adopted.
That the town authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell to Angelina Palleschi the lot located on Fairview avenue numbered 45, plan 13 of the present assessors' plans formerly known as lot 8 plan 27 of the old assessors' plans, for the sun of $100, and to execute, acknowledge, and deliver a deed conveying the title thereto.
Voted, Article 29. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the annual salary of the Chief of Police be fixed at $2,600.00.
Voted, that when we adjourn it be to Thursday evening, April 5, 1928, at 7:30 P. M.
Voted to adjourn at 11:50 P. M.
Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING April 5, 1928
In accordance with the adjournment of April 3, 1928, the voters were called to order at 7.30 P. M. by Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator.
Voted to dispense with the reading of the records of last meeting. Voted, Article 30. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the town appropriate from Excess and Deficiency Fund the sum of $1,000 to be used for the observance of the Fourth of July, and to be expended under the direction of a committee consisting of one citizen from each of the eight precincts of the town.
Voted, Article 31. That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted and their recommendations be adopted.
That the grass plots at the intersections of streets of the town not already under the control of the Park Commission be placed under the control of that board.
Voted, Article 32. To accept the report of the Finance Committee, and adopt their recommendations: That the Town Engineer be re- quested to keep a record of the yardage and cost of replacing any portion of the wood block pavement on Humphrey street and Monument square and that the Surveyor of Highways be requested to report to the Town Engineer all instances of repairs made on this pavement and the cost of work done by his department, that all further action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 33. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the town seal coat Atlantic avenue and that the sum of $1,100 be appropriated therefor from the Ex- cess and Deficiency Fund.
Voted, Article 34. That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted and their recommendations be adopted: That part of the road between Burpee road and Tid street as laid out by the Board of Select- men be accepted as soon as all waivers are signed and delivered, and that the sum of $1,200 be appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency Fund to put it in condition for travel.
Voted, Article 35. Action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 36. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the town accept that part of Hillcrest Circle not already accepted, and laid out by the Board of
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Selectmen as soon as the Town Engineer certifies to said Board that it is built to conform to the plan approved by the Board of Survey and that the sum of $900 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Voted, Article 37. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the town resurface Ocean View road from Sargent road, a distance of about 200 feet easterly and that $400 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Voted, Article 38. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That part of Banks circle as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated March, 1926, be accepted and that the sum of $400 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Defi- ciency Fund.
Voted, Article 39. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the town accept Lodge road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in accordance with a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated February, 1928, when all abutters have signed waivers, and that the sum of $1,400 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Voted, Article 40. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations. That the town accept Bates road as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated February, 1928, when all abutters have signed waivers and that the sum of $2,000 be appropriated therefor from the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Articles 41 and 42 taken up together.
Voted, Articles 41 and 42. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations: That the town accept Ken- sington lane, a distance of 700 feet, beginning at Glen road and then con- tinuing to Northern avenue and also Northern avenue both as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with plans drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated February, 1928, when all abutters have signed waivers, and that the sum of $1,500 be appropriated from the Excess and Deficiency Fund for resurfacing Kensington lane and sur- facing Northern avenue.
Voted, Article 43. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the town resurface Norfolk avenue, easterly from Stetson avenue to Paradise road, the work to be done by contract made by the Board of Selectmen for the town, with bituminous macadam construction in accordance with specifications ap- proved by the division of highways of the State Department of Public Works, and that for this purpose $47.83 be transferred from the appro- priation for Humphrey street resurfacing and $9,452.17 from the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Voted, Article 44. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to take by eminent domain for the purpose of widening Blaney street a strip of land at the southeast corner of Humphrey street and Blaney street in said Swampscott, containing 69 square feet, ac- cording to a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated Jan- uary, 1928, and that $105 be appropriated therefor from Excess and Deficiency Fund. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 45. Action under this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted, Article 46. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations: For the purposes specified in Article 7 and 25 which relate to the appropriation of ten thousand five hundred dollars for the construction of a sewer in Paradise road and Franklin avenue from the present terminus of the sewer in Paradise road near Farragut road, a distance of about sixteen hundred feet; to the appro- priation of four thousand dollars for the construction of a sewer in
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Fuller avenue from Bay View avenue, a distance of about four hundred feet; to the appropriation of three thousand five hundred dollars for the extension of the King's brook culvert in a northerly direction for a distance of two hundred twenty-five feet; to the appropriation of thirteen thousand dollars for the construction of that part of the intercepting sewer from its present terminus in Palmer road to about Shepard ave- nue, said appropriations aggregating thirty-one thousand dollars, that six thousand dollars thereof be raised from the tax levy of the current year in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 338 of the Acts of 1923, and that the treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz., twenty- five thousand dollars, and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor; said bonds or notes to be signed by the treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and shall be issued and payable in ac- cordance with provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and any acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than thirty years from the date of the issue of the first bond or note or at such earlier dates as the treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen may determine. Said bonds or notes shall be denominated on the face thereof "Swampscott Sewer Loan 1928," and shall bear such rates of interest as may be fixed by the treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen. (Unanimous.)
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