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200.00
200.00
From Bay View Drive To Barnstable Street
942.23
392.23
To Foster Road
550.00
From Minerva Street To Barnstable Street
45.00
45.00
From Library Furnishings
900.00
To Library Repairs
900.00
From Water Receipts Reserved for Appropriation To Water
66,306.00
To Emergency Water
63,806.00 2,500.00
TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT Balance Sheet, December 31, 1931
Cash
$131,568.12 125.00
Petty Cash
Uncollected Taxes 1930 Poll
$10.00
Uncollected Taxes 1930 Personal
32.40
Uncollected Taxes 1930 Real Estate
2,951.91
2,994.31
Uncollected Taxes 1931 Poll
118.00
Uncollected Taxes 1931 Personal
1,944.04
Uncollected Taxes 1931 Real Estate
121,271.09
123,333.13
Uncollected Moth 1930
13.25
Uncollected Moth 1931
442.75
456.00
Old Age Assistance Tax
61.00
Uncollected Unapportioned Sidewalks
1,194.50
Uncollected Sidewalks 1930
87.71
Uncollected Sidewalks 1931
883.21
2,165.42
Uncollected Unapportioned Sewers
18,542.14
Uncollected Sewers 1931
3,750.53
22,292.67
Property Taken by Town for Taxes Tax Titles
7,788.18
Water Accounts Receivable 1929
121.31
Water Accounts Receivable 1930
409.29
Water Accounts Receivable 1931
11,017.06
Water Services
1,274.60
Water Interest
478.16
13,300.42
255.35
8,043.53
From Section B Sewer To Section B-2 Sewer
From Selectmen's Contingent Fund To Printing Town Reports From Salem Street Culverts To Atlantic Road Culvert
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Departmental Accounts Receivable Health $1,071.93
Departmental Accounts Receivable Selectmen
8.99
Departmental Accounts Receivable School
132.50
Departmental Accounts Receivable Public Welfare
2,731.29
Departmental Accounts Receivable Cemetery
73.00
Departmental Accounts Receivable Highway
37.50
Departmental Accounts Receivable State Aid
410.00
Departmental Accounts Receivable Military Aid
100.00
Excise Tax on Motor Vehicles
1,475.45
1,475.45
$310,380.26
Debt
Net Bonded Debt
$755,350.00
Securities and Cash
38,220.77
Securities, Income and Interest
6,783.86
$45,004.63
Sidewalks and Sewers Apportioned but Not Due
$19,893.01
TOWN OF SWAMPSCOTT
Balance Sheet, December 31, 1931 Accounts Current
Excess and Deficiency
$44,057.13
Water Available Surplus
55,649.34
Unemployment Fund (Spinney)
120.97
Revenue
Water Revenue
$13,300.42
Moth Revenue
456.00
Sidewalks Revenue
2,165.42
Sewer Revenue
22,292.67
Tax Titles Revenue
8,043.53
Excise Revenue
1,475.45
D. A. R. Revenue
4,565.21
Overlay Reserve
2,481.73
Overlay 1930
2,114.24
Overlay 1931
1,724.41
Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
100,000.00
Fire Alarm Extension
28.71
Selectmen (Artesian Well)
2,155.52
Palmer Pond Drain
2,600.00
Commonwealth Avenue
400.00
Stanley Road
150.00
Selectmen's Contingent Fund (Emergency)
587.50
Mary L. Thomson Library Fund Income
50.63
Joanna Morse Library Fund Income
263.0.5
Ellen R. Whittle Library Fund Income
101.25
Dukes Street Water
1,426.02
Allan Road Water
728.50
Emergency Water
2,426.28
General Debt Maturing
3,697.77
Sewer Easements
500.00
Newsboys' Badge Fund
4.00
Non-Revenue
High School Committee
1.90
Emergency Water
1,894.34
Emergency Sewer
9,293.12
173,738.29
Trust Funds
$4,565.21
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ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
217
Roy Street Drain
$4.84
Stanley School
41.71
Monument Avenue and Walker Road
624.38
Sewer Construction Section "A"
4,150.93
Sewer Construction Section "B"
6,146.29
Sewer Construction Section "C"
1,445.85
Sewer Construction Section "D"
794.70
Atlantic and Phillips Avenue Drains
6,557.17
Nason Road Sewer
1,615.54
Rockland Street Sewer
961.02
King's Brook Culvert
28.06
Phillips Avenue Roadway Extension
1,541.09
Whitman Road Roadway
1,668.84
Burpee Road Sewer
30.50
Culvert
14.25
$36,814.53
$310,380.26
Debt
Permanent Improvement Notes
$534,500.00
Sewer Bonds Serial
118,850.00
Water Bonds Serial
63,000.00
Tuberculosis Hospital Serial Loans
39,000.00
$755,350.00
Trust Funds
Ellen R. Whittle Library Fund
$2,000.00
Joanna Morse Library Fund
5,196.00
Mary L. Thomson Library Fund
1,000.00
Phillips Medal Fund
1,000.00
Cemetery Lots Fund
25,122.77
Municipal Insurance Fund
3,902.00
$38,220.77
Phillips Medal Fund Income
$1,524.49
Municipal Insurance Fund Income
2,860.73
Cemetery Lots Fund Income
2,398.64
$6,783.86
Apportioned
Sidewalks
$1,794.43
Sewers
18,096.58
$19,893.01
Respectfully submitted,
HORACE R. PARKER, Town Accountant.
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Town Warrant Monday, February 15th, 1932
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 di- rected 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 fifteenth day of Feb- ruary, 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 Tuesday. February 23, 1932, 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 a Town Treasurer for one (1) year.
To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for three (3) years.
To choose a Collector of Taxes for one (1) year.
To choose two members of the School Committee for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Public Welfare for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Public Welfare for two (2) years, to fill vacancy.
To choose one member of the Board of Health for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Water and Sewerage Board for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Park Commission for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library for three (3) years.
To choose one Tree Warden for one (1) year.
To choose three Constables for one (1) year.
To choose two members of the Planning Board for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds for two (2) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds for one (1) year.
To choose six (6) representative town meeting members in each precinct for three (3) years.
To choose one representative town meeting member from Pre- cinct Two for two (2) years. to fill vacancy.
To choose two representative town meeting members from Pre- cinct Two for one (1) year. to fill vacancies.
To choose one representative town meeting member from Pre- cinct Four for one (1) year. to fill vacancy.
To choose one representative town meeting member from Pre- cinct Six for one (1) year. to fill vacancy.
All to be chosen on one ballot.
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Article 2. To hear and act on the reports of town officials, boards and committees.
Article 3. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Clerk and Custodian of Trust Funds for the ensuing year.
Article 4. To see what action the town will take in relation to salaries of town officials for the ensuing year.
Article 5. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money, from time to time, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year, beginning January 1, 1932, 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.
Article 6. To see what action the town will take in relation to the recommendations not calling for the appropriation of money, as contained in the reports of officers, boards or committees.
Article 7. To see what action the town will take in relation to the recommendations calling for the appropriation or expenditure of money, the creation of a debt, or the disposition of town property, as set forth in the reports of officers, boards or committees.
Article 8. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appropriation of money for departmental and other expenses as recommended and set forth on pages 184, 185 and 186 of the annual town report.
Article 9. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appropriation or raising of money for permanent street construction.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the By-law committee and adopt the amendments to the by-laws as printed on pages 165 to 173 of the Town Report.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to lay a drain and build necessary catch basins and manholes to take care of the surface water on Puritan road at Tupelo road and in Puritan road, near the entrance to Little's Point road. and appropriate money therefor as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways and Board of Selectmen.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to build a catch basin on New Ocean street. and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to build a catch basin in Banks road, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to replace broken street signs, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Sur- veyor of Highways.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to lay a surface water drain from Aspen road to Millett road drain, when the necessary easements have been granted to the town. and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 16. To see if the town will vote to change the grade of Cedar Hill terrace, at and near its intersection with Bay View avenue, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by John B. Hadaway et al.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to accept Beverly road. from Puritan road to Shelton road, as a public way. as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt. town engineer. and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Thomas S. Bubier et als.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to accept Fairview avenue as a public way, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen. in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, town engineer, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Angelo Palleschi et als.
Article 19. To see if the town will vote to purchase a 31/2 ton truck for the Highway Department and appropriate money therefor. as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
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Article 20. To see if the town will appropriate $20,000 for new street construction, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to take the property on the easterly side of Essex street, near the railroad bridge, lots 95 and 96, as shown on Assessors' plan 12, for the purpose of widening and straightening Essex street, and appropriate money therefor, as peti- tioned for by Grover C. Hambrecht et al.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to petition the County Commissioners, Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway and the Boston and Maine Railroad to share in the construction of a new, safe, fire- proof bridge to take the place of the existing bridge over the Boston and Maine Railroad on Essex street, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned by Grover C. Hambrecht et al.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into a new contract for street lighting, for a period not exceeding five years, with the Lynn Gas & Electric Co., same to be effective at the expiration of the present contract with the Lynn Gas & Electric Co., which expires June 30, 1932.
Article 24. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $300, to be raised out of taxation or to be transferred out of the emergency fund, to be used by the Water and Sewerage Board in the settlement of sewer easements taken during the preceding year, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to transfer the following unexpended balances from sewers to Emergency Sewer account, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board: Nason road sewer, $1,615.54; Rockland street sewer, $961.02; Burpee road sewer, $30.50; Section A sewer, $4,150.93; Section B sewer, $6,146.29; Section C sewer, $1,445.85; Section D sewer, $794.70; Roy street drain, $4.84; King's brook culvert, $28.06: culvert, $14.25.
Article 26. To see if the town will vote to lay a six-inch water main in Hampden street, a distance of about 750 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to lay a six-inch water main in Berkshire street, a distance of about 720 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to lay a six-inch water main in Bradley avenue, a distance of 285 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board. .
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to build and equip a new high school and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to enlarge, remodel and add to the present high school, located on Greenwood avenue, and provide necessary equipment and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 31. To see if the town will appoint a committee to carry out either the building of a new high school or remodeling, enlarging and adding to the present high school, whichever the town may deter- mine, with power to obtain plans, engage an architect, enter into con- tracts in behalf of the town and do all things necessary, convenient or proper to carry out and complete said work, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 32. To see if the town will vote to use Phillips Park under Chapter 310 of the Acts of 1930 for high school and school yard pur- poses, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 33. To see if the town, in case it votes to build a public high school under articles in this Warrant, will vote to erect the same on Phillips Park, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to take by eminent domain or to acquire by purchase, for public school purposes, land on Forest avenue, bounded on the south by Forest avenue, on the east by the
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Whitney estate and on the north by the Boston and Maine Railroad, or any portion of the same, and appropriate money therefor, as recom- mended by the School Committee.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to take by eminent domain, or acquire by purchase for public school purposes, land lying on the southerly side of Forest avenue contiguous to Forest avenue and Fuller avenue, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 36. To see if the town, in case it votes to build a high school under any articles in this Warrant, will vote to locate the same on any of the foregoing land, as recommended by the School Com- mittee.
Article 37. To see if the town will vote to purchase a 1000-gallon Combination Motor Pumper and equipment for the Central Fire Sta- tion, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Article 38. To see if the town will appropriate $5625 for further improving the fire alarm system by continuing the underground cables from Humphrey street and Ingalls terrace to the Central Fire Station, with necessary loops, connections and changes, also laying new con- duit on Burrill street, between Monument square and the Police Station, in co-operation with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Article 39. To see if the town will vote to purchase 400 feet of 11/2 inch hose and fittings and appropriate $250 therefor, as recom- mended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Article 40. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $490 for 500 feet of 21/2 inch hose, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Article 41. To see if the town will vote to install an incinerator for the disposal of its combustible waste material and offal from the fish markets, hotels, etc., and appropriate money therefor, as recom- mended by the Board of Health.
Article 42. To see if the town will vote to amend the zoning by-law by changing from a general residential district the premises located at No. 225 Humphrey street, so as to permit the said premises to be used for the erection of an apartment building, as petitioned for by Ellen M. Wardwell et al.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote that the land at 175 Humphrey street, and adjoining on Cliffside, be changed on the zoning map, so that the property may be used for apartment or hotel purposes, as petitioned for by Daniel F. Knowlton et al.
Article 44. To see if the town will vote to rescind its previous action in accepting Commonwealth avenue as a public way, as here- tofore laid out by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 45. To see if the town will vote to accept Commonwealth avenue as a public way as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a revised plan made by W. W. Pratt, dated January, 1932, on file with the Town Clerk, and appropriate money therefor.
Article 46. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Select- men to take by eminent domain for purposes of a public way on Com- monwealth avenue the following described property or any of same:
Beginning at the northwest corner of land owned by Luigi and Genoveffa Gallo; thence by land of said Gallo south 40-38-0 west, for a distance of 46.86 feet; thence by land of William H. Burnett, north 66-10-55 west, for a distance of 3.54 feet: thence by old line of Com- monwealth avenue north 44-40-40 east for a distance of 48 feet, to the point of beginning, above parcel containing 79 square feet.
Article 47. To see if the town will vote to accept Bates road, from the present accepted portion to Charlotte road, as a public way, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, town engineer. dated January, 1932, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Abraham Ranen et al.
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Article 48. To see if the town will vote to accept Shelton road, from Humphrey street to Beverly road, as a public way, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, town engineer, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Pasquale Grieco et al.
Article 49. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1000 for necessary repairs and changes in the G. A. R. hall building, so called, on Pine street, as petitioned for by Loran J. Harvey et al.
Article 50. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sufficient sum of money for a suitable observance of the Fourth of July, as peti- tioned for by the Veterans' Council.
Article 51. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sufficient sum of money for a suitable observance of Armistice Day, November 11. 1932, as petitioned for by the Veterans' Council.
Article 52. To see if the town will vote to purchase lots 675 and 678 as shown on Assessors' plan No. 11, at Windsor avenue extension and Nichols street, in Swampscott Highlands, for playground purposes, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Bertha P. Hollis et al.
Article 53. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute a new lease with the Leon E. Abbott Post 57 American Legion Building Association for a term of five (5) years from March 27th, 1932, and appropriate money therefor.
Article 54. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise, under any general or special law which authorizes the town to raise money 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 twenty-first day of January. A. D. 1932. R. WYER GREENE. HARRY E. HARDY. EDWARD LaCROIX. Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest :
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
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INDEX
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Index
Reports of Departments and Committees
Page
Animals, Inspector of
Appropriations Recommended
Appropriations Voted
Assessors
137
Board of Appeals ·
158
Building Inspector .
131
By-Law Committee .
165
Dental Clinic
103
Election, Town
15
Finance Committee, Reports of
. 21, 27, 29, 53
Fire Engineers .
111
Forest Warden .
174
Health, Board of
95
Health Officer
96
Health Nurse
162
Jury List
176
Library, Trustees of .
114
Milk Inspector .
104
Mortuary Report
102
Moth Superintendent
174
Park Commissioners
160
Planning Board
40, 53, 115
Plumbing, Inspector of
106
Police Department .
107
Property Appraisal .
48
Public Welfare .
134
Selectmen, Board of .
179
School Enrollment
156
School Committee
149
Town Accountant
187
Town Clerk's Records
9
Town Clerk's Statistics
61
Town Committees Appointed .
6
Town Counsel
164
Town Engineer
135
Town Meeting Members .
3
Town Officers Appointed
6
Town Officers Elected
2
Town Warrant, February 16, 1931 .
9
Town Warrant, February 24, 1931 .
13
Town Warrant, April 6, 1931 .
26
Town Warrant, April 27, 1931
55
Town Warrant, May 28, 1931
56
Town Warrant, November 4, 1931 .
59
Town Warrant, February 15, 1932
218
Tree Warden
174
Water and Sewerage Board
143
Weights and Measures .
132
Wires, Inspector of . .
.
164
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161 29-36 45
Cemetery, Superintendent of
175
Dog Officer
110
Highway Surveyor
106
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Financial Reports
Page
Accountant's Department
187
Assessors' Department
192
Assets
137
Balance Sheets
75,92,215
Bonds and Notes Payable
123
Bonds of Town Officers .
196
Borrowing Capacity .
128
Cemetery
210
Collector of Taxes
120
County Tax
211
Division of Accounts
62-79
Fire Department
209
Health Department .
199
Highway Department
201
Interest and Maturing Debt
211
Law Department
193
Liabilities
124-137
Library
206
Metropolitan Assessments
212
Moth Extermination
196
Old Age Pensions
211
Park Department
207
Pensions
204
Police Department
207
Property Report
137
Public Welfare .
204
School Department
205
Sealer of Weights and Measures
197
Selectmen's Department .
191
Sewer Department .
144
Sewer Notes and Bonds
128
State Tax .
211
Statistics (1889-1931)
140
Street Lighting .
202
Tax Rate .
138
Town Budget
184
Town Debt
128
Town Hall Department
194
Transfers
. 190-214
Treasurer's Report
123
Treasurer's Department
123
Trust Funds
129
Unemployment Costs
209
Valuation
128
Water Debt
. 126-144
Welfare Costs
134
Engineering Department .
193
196
Election and Registration
193
Fourth of July .
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