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Art. 64. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $180 to pur- chase and install a fire alarm box at the corner of Berkshire street and Paradise road, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Art. 65. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $150 to pur- chase and install a fire alarm box on Humphrey street at Hemingway road, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Art. 66. To see if the town will vote to give to the Board of Fire Engineers permission to dispose of the old service car as part payment on another machine to take its place, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
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Art. 67. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $500 for 500 feet of 21/2 inch hose, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Art. 68. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $400 for new batteries at the Central Fire Station for the Fire Alarm System, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Art. 69. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $5,000 for further improving the Fire Alarm System, displacing part of the present overhead construction, by underground cables with necessary loops, connections and changes, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engi- neers.
Art. 70. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $1,000 for hydrant rental, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Art. 71. To see if the town will vote to establish the following yearly rate of salaries in the Fire Department: Deputy Chief, $2,430; three captains at $2,265 each; privates, first year, $1,900; second year, $2,000; third year and thereafter, $2,100 per year, and appropriate the sum of $1,865 to cover same, to be retroactive to January 1, 1930, as petitioned for by George H. Lampard et als.
Art. 72. To see if the town will authorize and instruct the Board of Selectmen to petition the legislature for authority to borrow from time to time, within a period of five years from the passage of the act, in excess of the statutory limit of indebtedness, such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding in the aggregate $500,000 for the purpose of constructing a new high school building and originally equipping and furnishing the same, and to issue notes or bonds of the town therefor, as recommended by the High School Committee.
Art. 73. To see if the town will authorize and instruct the Board of Selectmen to petition the legislature for authority to discontinue as a public park the use of the land on Humphrey street, commonly known as Phillips Park, and to erect thereon a public high school, and to use the same generally for public school purposes, and to place the same under the jurisdiction of the School Committee of the town of Swamp- scott, as recommended by the High School Committee. .
Art. 74. To see if the town will vote to continue the ensuing year the present High School Building Committee, with power in the Mod- erator to fill vacancies therein. Said committee to investigate and con- sider matters that may arise from time to time in connection with ques- tion of establishing a new high school building, and what use, if any, may be made of the present high school building for any other purpose, and to report thereon to the town, as recommended by the High School Committee.
Art. 75. To see if the town will authorize the Finance Committee to study the present high school building to determine whether it can be efficiently used for high school needs by making changes therein and additions thereto; and further, to see if the town will appropriate money for such study, as petitioned for by James W. Santry.
Art. 76. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $3,986 to be expended for repairs upon the school buildings of the town, as peti- tioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 77. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $1,000 to be expended for the development of the grounds about the Machon School, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 78. To see if the town will vote to build a wire fence at the Stanley School, fence to be 6 feet high and 110 feet long with posts set in cement bases, and appropriate $1,000 therefor, as petitioned for by Harry E. Hardy et als.
Art. 79. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Trustees of the Public Library to make changes in, and additions to, the library building, and further to see if the town will vote to appropriate money for such changes and additions, as recommended by said trustees in their annual report for the year 1929.
Art. 80. To see if the town will vote that German police dogs and Airedale dogs be restrained while upon the streets.
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Art. 81. To see if the town will vote permission to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Joseph L. Stevens Post 1240, to occupy the old hall on Pine street, now in possession of the G. A. R., and make the neces- sary appropriation for its maintenance, as petitioned for by Leo P. Caproni et als.
Art. 82. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the eradication of mosquitoes, the same to be spent under Chap. 252 of the General Laws, as amended by Chap. 457, Acts of 1923, and subsequent amendments, especially Chap. 288 of the Acts of 1929.
Art. 83. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to make a comprehensive study as to the advisability of the town accept- ing or providing for a town manager, and appropriate money for said committee to pursue said investigation, and report their findings at a subsequent town meeting.
Art. 84. To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law of the town so that all that land on the ocean side of Humphrey street, between King's Beach and Blaney Beach, may be zoned as a business district, as petitioned for by Ellen M. Wardwell et als.
Art. 85. To see if the town will vote that portion of the land known as Phillips Gardens, as shown on a plan drawn by Philip J. Leary, civil engineer, and bounded by Bates road, Charlotte road, Phillips park, and land of Vorenberg, be transferred from a single residence district to a two family district on the zone map of the town, so as to make the same conform to the remainder of the land shown on the above men- tioned plan, as petitioned for by S. Louis Eigner et als.
Art. 86. To see if the town will vote to formally dedicate Abbott Park with appropriate military exercises and appropriate money there- for.
Art. 87. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Park Com- mission to erect fences along the sidewalk lines of all playgrounds in the town, in the interest of public safety and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Chief of Police.
Art. 88. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to con- sider plans and details and to suggest a proper location for a permanent Honor Roll to replace the present Honor Roll on the Town Hall lawn, said committee to consist of the Commander of the American Legion, the Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and one represen- tative town meeting member, said committee to report at a subsequent town meeting.
Art. 89. To see if the town will vote to continue in existence the present by-law committee appointed under Article 6 of the warrant for the annual town meeting of 1929, with authority to consider revisions of and amendments to the by-laws and report to the town from time to time, such report to be made not later than the next annual town meet- ing.
Art. 90. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of three thousand six hundred fifteen dollars and sixty-four cents ($3,615.64), said sum being the portion of the expense incurred in the construction of an addition to the Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital and apportioned by the County Commissioners upon the inhabitants of the town of Swampscott.
Art. 91. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the proper observance of Fourth of July and that the Moderator be empowered to appoint a committee of three to arrange and carry out such celebration.
Art. 92. To see if the town will vote to reimburse Arthur C. Lewis the amount claimed to have been paid by him in excess of the amount rightfully due as 1924 taxes on lots 46, 47, 48 and 49, Plate 22 of the Assessors' plans, and appropriate money therefor.
Art. 93. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise, under any general or special law which authorizes the town to raise money
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by borrowing or otherwise, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
The polls will close at 6 P. M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof at the town hall, the post offices, at least one public and conspicuous place in each precinct in the town, and at or in the imme- diate vicinity of each railroad station 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 aforesaid.
Given under our hands this seventeenth day of January, A. D. 1930.
HOWARD K. GLIDDEN, R. WYER GREENE, DANIEL F. KNOWLTON, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
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Swampscott Fire Alarm Boxes
Always pull a box for fire in a building instead of using the phone if the box is within reasonable distance.
(Corrected to January 1, 1930)
Box Location
Box
Location
13 Mountwood Rd.
412
Humphrey St. cor. Harrison Av.
*413 Beach Bluff Ave. & Moystin St.
*414 Phillips and Bradlee Ave.
*415 Atlantic and Palmer Ave.
421 Kensington Lane opp. Lewis Rd. Stanley School
5 Engine House, New Ocean St.
113
Town Hall
51
Essex cor. Essex Ave.
114
Sheridan opp. Elmwood Rd.
115
Park Bldg. Fisherman's Beach
121
Thomas cor. Elmwood Rd.
122
Walker near Devens Rd.
123
Walker and Brewster Ter.
124
Greenwood Ave. cor. Bay View Ave.
125
Greenwood Ave. opp. High Sch.
*131
Banks, Farragut and State Rd.
521
Middlesex Ave. cor. Berkshire
522 Clarke School, Middlesex Ave.
21
Junct. Sher'n, Andrew, Farragut
523
Pine, Superior St.
23
Engine House, Phillips Ave. 24 Monument Sq.
*532
Norfolk and Stetson Ave.
¥621 State Rd. and Salem St.
*
7 Park and Windsor Ave.
*
71 Windsor Ave. and Nichols St.
*712 Junct. Foster Rd. & Foster Ter.
8 Jessie St., Mountain Park
SPECIAL SIGNALS
721 Call to Lynn
1-1 All Out Signal
3-3 Police Call
10-10 Out of Town Signal
57 American Legion Call
LYNN BOXES ON FIRST ALARM
315 Michigan Ave. cor. Seymour Ave.
317 Ocean cor. New Ocean
318 Lewis St. Chemical House
321 Columbia Ave., Standard Oil Co.
322 Sanderson Ave., Herrick's Fac- tory
323 Empire cor. Brookline
346 Ocean cor. Prescott Rd.
347 Ocean St. cor. Kimball Rd.
371 Essex near Bessom
* (Imaginary Boxes)
53 Cor. Beach and Mountain Ave.
54 Roy St. near Hillside
512 Burrill cor. Railroad Ave.
513 Hillside Ave. cor. Cherry
514 Machon School, Burpee Rd.
*515 Essex and Greenway near Texas Oil Yard
531 Essex St. opp. Elm Place
6 Stetson opp. Franklin Ave.
26 Humphrey opp. Glen Rd.
27 Rockland, Head of Rose
28 Sargent Rd. opp. Prospect Ave.
212 Forest Ave. and Aspen Rd.
213 Fuller and Bond St.
*214 Banks, Devens Rd., Red'gton St.
241 Hadley School, Redington St.
*242 Humphrey opp. Shore Drive
31 Atlantic and Phillips Aves.
32 Humphrey opp. Beach Bluff Ave.
34 Opp. 279 Humphrey St.
35 Beach Bluff Ave. cor. Eulow St.
36 Humphrey opp. St. John's Ch. Plummer and Atlantic 37
* 38 Whitney Est. Forest Ave.
312 Millet Rd. and Ocean View Rd. Orchard Rd.
313
324 Little's Point near Stearn's Est. 331 New Ocean House (private)
332
Puritan Rd. cor. Woodbine Ave. Galloupe's Point
*334
Tupelo Rd. Gale Estate
*341
342 Puritan Rd. opp. Ent. Little's Pt. Mountain Park
+ 41
+ 42 Camp Progress
+ 43 State Rd. to Salem St.
+ 45 Phillip cor. to Galloupe's Point
+ 46 Banks Rd. and Forest Ave.
+ 47 Foster's Dam
¡ Woods Fire Calls.
422
112
14 Humphrey opp. Pump Station
15 Puritan Rd. near Orient Ct .-
16 Puritan Rd. opp. Galloupe's Point Rd.
17 Highland near King
Farragut cor. Ellis Rd.
52 Essex near Danvers St.
*132 State Rd. and Berkshire St.
25 Humphrey. Atlantic, Puritan Rd.
*335
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INDEX
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Index
Reports of Departments and Committees
Page
Animals, Inspector of
142
Appropriations Recommended
44
Appropriations Voted
50
Assessors
164
Board of Appeals
151
Black Will's Cliff. taking of
55
Building Inspector
112
By-Laws Amended
52
Cemetery, Superintendent of
140
Dental Clinic
125
Election, Town
21
Finance Committee. Reports of
10-24-32-33
Fire Alarm Boxes
224
Fire Engineers
134
Forest Warden
147
Health, Board of
113
Health Officer
114
Health Nurse
126
High School, Committee on
104
Highway Surveyor
143
Highway Stable Committee Jury List
214
Library, Trustees of
141 -
Milk Inspector
121
Moth Superintendent
147
Park Commissioners
145
Plumbing, Inspector of
125
Police
136
Public Welfare
127
Selectmen, Board of
157
School Attendance
101
School Committee
93
School Costs
99
Slaughtering, Inspector of
126
Town Budget
162
Town Clerk's Records
9
Town Clerk's Statistics
65
Town Committees Appointed
8
Town Counsel .
153
Town Engineer
149
Town Meeting Members
3
Town Officers Appointed
6
Town Officers Elected
2
Town Warrant, January 16, 1929
9
Town Warrant, February 18. 1929 .
14
Town Warrant, March 25, 1929
30
Town Warrant, April 16, 1929
62
Town Warrant, February 17, 1930 .
216
Tree Warden
148
Wate- and Sewerage Board
128
Weights and Measures .
150
Wires. Inspector of
140
Stanley School Building Committee
155
Town Accountant
177
145
Dog Officer
133
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Financial Reports
Page
Accountant's Department
182
Assessors' Department
183
Balance Sheets
78-91-210-211
Borrowing Capacity
171
Cemetery
203
Collector of Taxes
174-183
County Tax
207
Dental Clinic
190
Eastern Intercepting Sewer
205
Election and Registration
184
Engineering Department
184
Fire Department
186
Forest Warden
188
Health Department
188
Highway Department
192
Interest and Maturing Debt
207
Law Department
183
Legislative
181
Liabilities
168
Library
199
Memorial Day
201
Metropolitan Assessments
208
Moth Extermination
187
Notes Payable
167
Park Department
200
Police Department
185
Public Welfare
196
School Department
197
Sealer of Weights and Measures
187
Selectmen's Department
182
Sewer Department
189
Sewer Notes and Bonds
169
State Aid
197
Statistics (1887-1929)
165
Street Lighting
193
Town Clerk's Department
183
Town Debt
171
Town Hall Department
184
Transfers
47-180-208
Treasurer's Report
166
Treasurer's Department
182
Treasurer's Receipts
177
Tree Warden
187
Trust Funds
172
Valuation
164
Water Bonds and Notes .
167
Water Debt
129
Water Department
.
203
.
.
66-81
State Audit
State Tax
207
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