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For Auditor:
Elizabeth W. Pigeon of Boston
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Elmer P. Atherton of Revere
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Alonzo B. Cook of Boston
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For Attorney General:
Joseph E. Warner of Taunton
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For Senator in Congress:
Robert M. Washburn of Boston
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Congressman, Sixth District:
A. Piatt Andrew of Gloucester
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For Councillor, Fifth District:
Eugene B. Fraser of Lynn
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Alfred C. Gaunt
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Fred A. Turner
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For Senator, First Essex District:
Albert Cole of Lynn
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For Representatives, Twelfth Essex District:
Malcolm L. Bell
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J. Andrew Foisy of Salem
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Joseph Martin
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Charles Odell of Salem
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Eva S. Perkins of Salem
Edmond Talbot, Jr.,
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For District Attorney Eastern District:
Charles A. Clifford
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Hugh A. Cregg of Methuen
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For Clerk of Courts, Essex:
Archie N. Frost of Andover
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For Registrar of Deeds, Essex Southern District:
Moody Kimball
of Newburyport
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For County Commissioner, Essex
Wallace H. Bell of Lawrence
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William Hey of Lawrence
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Chole P. Lafayette of Nahant 22
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Raymond H. Trefry of Marblehead
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For Associate Commissioners, Essex County:
Arthur Bower of Lawrence
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Edwin C. Lewis of Lynn
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Edgar S. Rideout of Beverly Blanks
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For Registrar of Probate and Insolvency (To fill Vacancy) :
Arthur D. Fowler
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Alfred W. Ingalls of Lynn
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Democratic Ballot :
For Governor:
Charles H. Cole of Boston
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James M. Curley of Boston
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For Lieutenant Governor:
Joseph L. Hurley
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Francis E. Kelley of Boston Blanks
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For Secretary:
Joseph Santosuosso of Boston
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John J. Buckley of Boston
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James Joseph Dugan of Quincy
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John D. O'Brien of Boston
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Clement A. Riley of Norwood
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William F. Sullivan of Boston
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For Treasurer:
Charles F. Hurley of Cambridge
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James P. Blake of Boston
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Frank A. Goodwin of Boston
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Henry P. Sullivan of Danvers
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For Auditor: Thomas H. Buckley of Abington
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Leo D. Walsh of Boston
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For Attorney General:
Paul A. Dever of Cambridge
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John Martin Boyle of Boston
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Philip A. Chapman of Boston Harold W. Sullivan of Boston Blanks
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For Senator in Congress:
David I. Walsh of Fitchburg
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Edward P. Barry of Boston
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William Donahue of Boston Blanks
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For Congress, Sixth District:
John D. Burns of Boston
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For Councillor, Fifth District:
William G. Hennessey of Lynn
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Louis A. Kotarski of Salem Blanks
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For Senator, First Essex District:
Joseph B. Clancy of Lynn
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Representatives in General Court, Twelfth Essex District:
Edward J. Duggan of Marblehead
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For Clerk of Courts, Essex:
Harry C. Mamber of Lynn
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For Registrar of Deeds, Essex Southern District:
Vern E. Duclos
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For County Commissioner, Essex:
Paul E. Barron of Peabody
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Charles M. Boyle of Peabody
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Lewis C. Carey of Lawrence
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George Leo Hale of Lawrence
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Samuel Adam Wilson of Lynn
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Associate Commissioners, Essex County :
Louis J. Dion of Lynn
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For Register of Probate and Insolvency (To fill vacancy), Essex: William F. Shanahan 32 of Swampscott 40 52 44 43 32 60 30
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Dissolved at 10.15 P.M.
Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
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RECOUNT OF VOTES FOR REPRESENTATIVES (REPUBLI-
CAN), TWELFTH ESSEX DISTRICT
October 1, 1934
A petition filed with the Town Clerk for a recount of votes cast at the Primary on September 20, 1934, same was held October 1, 1934, at the Town Hall, by the Board of Registrars, assisted by Horace R. Parker, George J. Place, Harry E. Cahoon, Frank G. Melvin, W. Lawrence Kehoe, Eustis B. Grimes and Walter H. Forbes, Jr. The result was as follows:
Malcolm L. Bell, Marblehead 1209 -
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J. Andrew Foisy, Salem
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Joseph Martin, Marblehead 508
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Charles Odell, Salem
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Eva S. Perkins, Salem
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Edmond Talbot, Jr., Salem Blanks
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ARTHUR C. EATON,
WILLIAM J. LYNCH, HAROLD R. YOUNG, RALPH D. MERRITT, Clerk. Board of Registrars.
Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
MEMBER FINANCE COMMITTEE October 9, 1934
Notice received on the above date that John R. Hurlburt, Mod- erator of the town of Swampscott, had appointed Robert M. Leon- ard, 176 Aspen road, a member of the Finance Committee, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Paul W. Brickett; also the appointment of William Edgar Carter on the Committee of Wages and Salaries, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fred L. Mower.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Friday, October 19, 1934
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, qual- ified to vote in elections and in town affiairs, to assemble in the Town Hall in said Swampscott on Friday, the nineteenth day of October at 7.45 P.M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz:
Article 1. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee on Water Supply for the Foster Dam District as authorized at the Town Meeting of April 11, 1934.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to determine five as the number of members which shall constitute the Reserve Police Force, in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 147, section 13A (Tercentenary Edition) as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 3. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of purchasing materials for ERA projects and to pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
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Article 4. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and au- thorize the transfer of $2,000 from interest item to the Treasur- er's current appropriation for the purpose of instituting proceed- ings to forclose the rights of redemption of tax titles held by the town as provided for under Chapter 60 of the General Laws relat- ing to taxation and special assessments, (Tercentenary Edition), or to take any action relative thereto.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $4,000.00 to be used by the Board of Public Welfare to cover their expenditures for the remainder of the year, as recommended by the Board of Public Welfare.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to transfer from the account of Cemetery Lots Fund the sum of $7,500 to the account of Cemetery Improvement, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to appropriate to the account of unpaid bills the sum of $97.46 to cover the bill of the department named below contracted in 1933 and remaining unpaid at the time of the closing of the books for the year 1933; G. A. R. Hall, labor and material furnished by A. H. Jenkins & Son, Inc.
Article 8. To see if the town will vote to change from a res- idential to a business area the two parcels of land owned by Grace S. French located on Humphrey street, the first to be used only as a right of way and the second to be used only as a gasoline filling station.
First Parcel: Beginning at the corner of Cardillo terrace and Humphrey street; thence Southwesterly by Humphrey street, 145.91 feet; thence Northwesterly 30 feet; thence Northeasterly 136 feet; thence Southeasterly 30 feet to the point of beginning, containing about 4,230 square feet.
Second Parcel: Beginning at a point on Humphrey street 145.91 feet from the corner of Cardillo terrace and Humphrey street; thence running Southwesterly by Humphrey street 100 feet to Glen road; thence Northwesterly along Glen road 80 feet; thence North- easterly 100 feet; thence Southeasterly to point of beginning; con- taining about 8,000 square feet, as petitioned for by Grace S. French and others.
Article 9. To see if the town will vote to dispose of the town scales as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow money for general municipal purposes under authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933 as amended by Chapter 313 of the Acts of 1934, or take any action relative thereto.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Post Offices and in at least one public and conspicuous place in each precinct of the town and at or in the immediate 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 eleventh day of October, A.D., 1934. KENNETH W. ULMAN, ERNEST C. BLANCHARD, PHILIP E. BESSOM, Selectmen of Swampscott,
A true copy. Attest:
WAYNE ANDERSON, Constable.
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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, at least one public and con- spicuous place in each precinct in the town, and at or in the imme- diate vicinity of each railroad station in Swampscott on Thursday, October 11, 1934, the posting of said notices being seven days be- fore the time of said meeting.
WAYNE ANDERSON, Constable.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934
In accordance with the foregoing warrant the town meeting members assembled at the Town Hall, and were called to order by John R. Hurlburt, Moderator, the necessary quorum being present (107 members.)
The warrant with the return thereon was read by the Town Clerk.
Report of the Committee on Water Supply for the Foster Dam district was read by Clarence B. Humphrey, Chairman.
Foster Dam Report
Committee to investigate the possibilities of furnishing water for the so-called Foster Dam District.
The committee as appointed by the Moderator organized as follows:
Clarence B. Humphrey, Chairman, 12 Humphrey terrace; Lester B. Morley, Secretary, 26 Minerva street; Charles H. Cunningham, 25 Beach Bluff avenue; Harold M. King, 90 Walker road; William H. McCarty, 64 Bradlee avenue.
The work of this committee is primarily to investigate the pos- sibilities of furnishing water for this section of the town. As to the need for water for drinking purposes, there would seem to be no question, but the ways and means of supplying it to the area in- volved, and the manner in which the property has been developed have raised so many questions involving large expenditures of money that your committee has deemed it advisable to consider all mat- ters that would have any bearing thereon. We have had many meetings, hearings with the departments involved, a meeting with a committee from that section, have visited the premises and report accordingly :
Within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts there are three hun- dred and fifty-four cities and towns. Plymouth with an area of 103.2 square miles is the largest, and Nahant with an area of 1 06 square miles is the smallest. Of these cities and towns there are nine hav- ing an area of less than five square miles, one of which is Swamp- scott with an area of 3.1 square miles or 1980 acres.
The town is nearly rectangular in shape and bounds northerly by the Salem and Marblehead lines for about 234 miles, easterly by the ocean for about 13/8 miles, southerly by Nahant Bav. for about 11/2 miles and southwesterly by the city of Lynn line which runs in a general northwesterly direction for about 15/8 miles. Swampscott was set off from Lynn in 1850.
The geographical center of the town is the circle at the end of Mountwood road, from which a large part of the town is visible. A radius of one mile from this center includes all the town except the extreme northeast and northwest corners. These facts should be kept in mind when making comparisons with other towns for municipal purposes.
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The Highlands, or Foster's Dam Section, so-called, and being the subject matter of this report, is situated at the extreme north- west corner. It bounds on the Lynn line for about 3,600 feet, on the Salem line for about 4,000 feet, on land of the Lynn Sand and Stone Company for about 3,000 feet, and on the south by three large un- developed parcels of land for about 2,000 feet. It contains 146 acres.
The territory was once known as Buena Vista and the larger part thereof was formerly owned by Charles A. Stetson, Esq., who caused it to be surveyed by Alonzo Lewis of Lynn in 1855. It was sold in 20 acre lots. Buena Vista Hill is located on the northwest of the property, and as shown on the Lewis plan is noted as elevation 210 feet, being as high as the top of the Observatory on High Rock, Lynn. A copy of this plan may be found on the files of the Land Court in Boston with abstract of title No. 7069.
The approach to this property from Swampscott is by way of Burpee road leading off of Essex street adjacent to Jackson Park, and the south end where Foster road now begins is about 1,500 feet from Essex street. There is another approach from Eastern ave- nue in Lynn which leads into Windsor avenue on the west side of the property. This approach is through Harvest street which is about one mile from Humphrey street along Eastern avenue.
For the purpose of this report the territory may be convenient- ly divided into three sections. The first section will be known as the Park Street section, the second as the Western section, and the third, being that section in which we are at this time most particu- larly interested, as the Griswold section.
The Park street section is the result of a development on the edge of Lynn and overlapping onto the outskirts of Swampscott. It appears on the Lynn atlas of 1897 and shows streets running from the Lynn side into Swampscott and stopping at the line of the Gris- wold purchase. It contains 7 acres.
Windsor avenue runs through the middle of this section, on which and on streets leading southerly therefrom there are about twenty-seven lots and nine houses. All of these houses are supplied with water from pipe lines laid by the City of Lynn, which also col- lects charges as a part of its water system. This was a neighborly act on the part of the city giving service to a small group of people then on the frontier of Swampscott.
The Western section containing 53 acres, a portion of which is a part of the Griswold purchase, lies west of the Griswold section, It is triangular in shape reaching to where the Lynn, Salem and Swampscott lines intersect, and being at a point about 500 feet from Western avenue. Southerly and along Western avenue for a dis- tance of one-half mile, one comes to Floating Bridge.
This section is laid out in large lots, not occupied to any extent, and is not serious so far as the purpose of this present report is concerned. There is a development at the extreme angle point which also reaches in from Lynn and is only accessible by coming in from a road off of Western avenue in the vicinity of Floating Bridge.
The Griswold section containing 86 acres, was purchased by Frederick H. Griswold in 1917. The contour of the ground is rather irregular and slopes towards the center where there was a small natural pond with an outlet through a brook running in a north- westerly direction into Lynn. There are numerous indications of out-cropping ledge scattered throughout the property which indi- cates all construction work would be rather expensive. An earth and stone dam was built across the brook which caused the pond to be higher and larger so that it is now nearly 1,800 feet long, varies
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from 150 to 200 feet wide and contains seven acres. Windsor ave- nue as now constructed runs over the top of this dam.
Mr. Griswold caused this section to be subdivided into streets and lots, staked them out on the ground, stripped the sub soil for ways, did a small amount of grading to make them passable and placed the property on the market for sale. The average price of the lots was about $200.00, and we understand that no property now stands in the name of Mr. Griswold. In this section there are about three miles of streets, 315 lots and 71 houses located as follows:
Assessed Value of
Value of
Street
Linear feet Houses
Houses
Buildings
54 Windsor Avenue
2676
20
13,800
750.00 250.00
1 Carson Terrace
810
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300
13 Elwin Road
768
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2,650
25.00
0 Connelly Avenue
380
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1,200
50.00
4 Vaughan Place
439
3
2,600
75.00
18 Sampson Avenue
1266
9
7,300
100.00
0 Manson Road
495
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0 Marion Street
456
0
20 Nichols Street
2080
14
6,350
325.00
0 Martin Street
450
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14 Fisher Avenue
1110
9
4,225
400.00
0 Anoka Street
1060
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400
8 Stuart Street
940
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2,600
150.00
147
15,000
71
45,825
2,125.00
47 children
194
The population is about 194 and the total valuation including land, houses and other buildings is about $77,000.
Town Developments and Board of Survey
The development of property in Swampscott has from the be- ginning proceeded in a formal and orderly manner, and the town has not been asked to assume the expense for the care and main- tenance of new streets until they had been put in proper shape for acceptance in accordance with our practice and by-laws. Under the Board of Survey Act and our town by-laws Section 8, Chapter VI, the procedure is well established.
The Board of Survey Act adopted by the town in February, 1912, being Chapter 191, Acts of 1907, is an act to assist the development of the town and not to retard it. The owner of land must, how- ever, comply with the requirements of the act and work with the board which insures streets being properly located both in reference to lines and to grades, and anticipates all subsequent engineering problems such as water, drainage and sewers.
There is no power given in the act, however, to prevent devel- opment of property in accordance with an owner's desires, but cer- tain results follow if he persists in ignoring the common practice accepted by others, which leaves the persons living on these streets forced to provide themselves with water, light, sewer facilities, and streets and sidewalks made convenient for travel in such a manner as they can best afford, but wholly unaided by municipal funds. See town of Lexington vs. Suburban Land Co., 235 Mass., 108.
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Town By-Laws-Streets Chapter VI-Section 8.
Section 8. "No water pipes shall be laid in an unaccepted street or way nor shall any other public construction be done in or upon the same until such street or way has been built to not less than sub-grade in conformity with a plan duly approved by the Board of Survey, and some or all of the abutters have filed with the Board of Selectmen a written agreement accompanied by a bond with surety or sureties, if required by said Board of Selectmen, said agreement and bond to be approved by the Board of Selectmen that such abutter or abutters will cause said street to be built to grade in conformity with such plan within six months from the time of completion of said work. It shall be the duty of the Town Engineer to certify in writing to the Board of Selectmen, when said street is to sub-grade and when it is to grade.
"This provision shall not apply to streets or ways laid out by the Board of Selectmen in compliance with the laws of the Common- wealth relating to the laying out of streets, prior to the acceptance by the town of the Board of Survey Act, so called, being now Gen- eral Laws, Chapter 41, Sections 73 to 81."
This by-law is for the guidance of all town departments having to do with ways, either public or private.
Plans showing locations and grades for Foster road and Windsor avenue were by instructions of the selectmen prepared by the Town Engineer, hearings given as provided by this act and these streets were finally approved by the Board of Selectmen acting as the Board of Survey on February 1, 1933. None of the other streets have been thus approved.
This procedure should not be confused with the acceptance of graded streets by the town under the provision of Chapter 82.
Swampscott Water Department
Previous to July 25, 1898, the townspeople bought water from the Marblehead Water Company, a company operating in Swamp- scott and getting its water supply from driven wells. In that year the town voted to purchase the rights of this company, paying for the same the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This amount was raised by a bond issue and provisions made for paying the bonds when they became due by establishing a sinking fund. This amount became due in 1928 and was paid in full. In 1909 the town voted to become a part of the Metropolitan Water District and its equity in this district amounted to ninety thousand dollars. This amount was raised by a serial bond issue, a certain amount on the principal as well as the interest being paid each year. The amount remaining unpaid is eighteen thousand dollars.
Each year the town pays its proportional part of the Metropol- itan Water District expense as well as for all water used. This water is measured by meter as it enters Swampscott and is sold to the townspeople as used and measured bv meter. These amounts plus the overhead expenses of the local department determine the water rates. No part of the State tax for this purpose, nor of the local department's overhead expense, comes out of direct taxation and it is not a burden upon real estate, developed or undeveloped. It is a service paid for by the people who are benefited by it.
The commissioners in the administration of affairs connected with their office are governed by the Metropolitan District Commis- sion rules and regulations. the town by-laws and such other rules and regulations adopted by them. These rules first provide that
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all water be metered, that is there is no charge by faucet, as is the- practice in some towns, and second that the expense for laying all service pipes from the street main to the house be assumed by the owner and paid for before any water is turned on. These service pipes cost from twenty-five dollars to seventy-five dollars, depend- ing on whether or not ledge is encountered. If this expense is not paid it becomes a lien upon the property. In unaccepted streets, but approved by the Board of Survey, and where homes are being erected, the rule has been to lay the main pipes through the streets if the owner or owners of property guarantee the interest on the investment until such time as the revenue from the water rates equal the same. These rules have always been adhered to, and they work to the advantage of the town.
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