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2,500 00
Central Street, Sidewalk
300 00
Retaining Wall, Hunt School Public Parks
77 25
50 00
Preservation Shade Trees
23 22
23 22
Street Records, Indexing
75 00
Health Department
136 53
300 00
Fire Department .
173 03
173 03
5.500 00
Police Department
1,524 20
4,200 00
Tufts Library
1,236 11
2,200 00
Fogg Library Reading Room
125 00
500 00
Abatement and Remittance
270 24
270 24
1,000 00
Interest and Discount .
1,470 35
5,000 00
Printing and Advertising
895 08
1,000 00
Electric Lighting .
2,160 71
7,500 00
Miscellaneous Expenses
254 67
2,500 00
Election Expenses
91 02
700 00
Town offices
48 02
200 00
700 00
State and Military Aid and Soldiers' Burials
479 84
10,000 00
Soldier's Relief
297 83
1,000 00
4,600 00
Town House
223 50
Use R. M. White's Dwelling
3 09
3 09
Storage Battery
83
Memorial Day
400 00
Hydrants and Dr. Fountains
5,000 00
Suppression of Moths .
2,800 00
Old Home Week .
200 00
Note due Jan. 1, 1907
7,500 00
Town Officers
465 54
891 56
7,000 00
Poor Account
1,066 33
3,566 33
13,000 00
State Road
2,296 77
2,296 77
$7,093 57
$22,988 01
$11.837 11|$150,200 00
11,837 11
Total appropriation
$162,037 11
.
150 00
Thomas' Corner, Draining
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$10,395 04 339 80
cies.
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Statement of Appropriations and Expenditures for 1906.
OBJECT OF APPROPRIATION
Appropria- tion.
Expended.
Unex- pended.
Expended in Excess.
Support of Schools
$63,192 06
$56,115 98
$7,076 08
Transportation of Pupils
1,839 80
2,280 00
$440 20
High School Sinking Fund
3,500 00
3,500 00
Union Truant School .
30 42
30 42
Highway Repairs
11,532 49
13,710 95
2,178 46
Removal of Snow
3,000 00
1,318 10
1,681 90
Bridges
600 00
1,080 00
480 00
Holbrook Road
28 42
28 42
Pilgrim Road
309 04
32 78
276 26
Keith Street
33 49
33 49
Chard Street
17 43
17 43
Thomas' Corner-Draining
500 00
491 64
8 36
Broad Street-Grading and Draining . .
800 00
784 68
15 32
Commercial St .- Macadam
2,713 46
2,713 46
Central Street-Sidewalk
300 00
300 00
Retaining Wall - Hunt
School
150 00
150 00
Public Parks
127 25
52 60
74 65
Preservation Shade Trees
129 98
129 98
Suppression of Moths
3,216 39
4,657 28
1,440 89
Land Damage-Pleasant St.
240 00
240 00
Street Records-Indexing
75 00
75 00
State Road .
85 47
85 47
Health Department
436 53
181 61
254 92
Fire Department
5,531 25
5,372 79
158 46
Police Department
6,363 71
4,734 67
1,629 04
Tufts Library
4,197 97
3,236 11
961 86
Fogg Library-Reading Rm.
625 00
500 00
125 00
Abatement and Remittance
1,000 00
1,593 18
593 18
Interest and Discount
8,914 71
7,508 80
1,405 91
Printing and Advertising Electric Lighting
9,660 71
7,406 63
2,254 08
Miscellaneous Expenses
2,754 67
3,099 62
Election Expenses
791 02
818 10
27 08
Town Offices
851 98
470 03
381 95
State and Military Aid and Soldiers' Burials
10,479 84
9.707 00
772 84
Soldiers' Relief
6,067 83
4,994 18
1,073 65
Town House
223 50
13 50
210 00
Memorial Day
400 00
400 00
Old Home Week .
200 00
185 00
15 00
Storage Battery .
83
83
Hydrants and Dr. Fountains
5,000 00
5,000 00
Note Due Jan. 1, 1907
7,500 00
7,500 00
Town Officers
8,357 10
6,444 61
1,912 49
Poor Account
15,502 00
14,660 66
841 34
Over-drafts and Deficiencies
6,149 40
11,837 11
5,687 71
New School House-Lovell's Corner .
13,000 00
1,183 73
11,816 27
Removal of Town House
·
11,000 00
1,871 46
9,128 54
New School House, Ward 2
1,671 45
1,671 45
$218,837 96 $181,920 78
$50,266 97
$13,349 79
13,349 79
50,266 97
$232,187 75
$232,187 75
.
.
.
1,895 08
1,357 20
537 88
344 95
TRIAL BALANCE, JANUARY 1, 1907.
School houses and lots
$181,400 00
Engine houses and lots
44,000 00
Tufts Public Library
21,200 00
Street Department, fixtures
4,300 00
Fire apparatus
17,475 00
Town farm
16,400 00
Town farm, personal property, .
8,868 75
Water Department, real estate .
800 00
Water Department, personal .
8,540 00
Water Department, water rents
1,402 83
Water Department, material and labor .
488 08
Water Department, construction
501,910 20
Water Depattment, sinking fund
228,855 77
High School sinking fund
46,871 44
Tax Collector .
63,052 62
Town Treasurer
.
855 42
State Treasurer
.
10,451 61
County Treasurer
1,333 27
County Commissioners
726 00
Due from cities and towns
1,669 92
Refund hospital bills
424 35
Tax deeds
1,107 35
F. H. Chandler
357 58
Trustees Fore River bridge
2,001 82
Suppression moths appropriation
1.440 89
Transportation pupils appropria- tion
440 20
Highways repairs appropriation
2,178 46
Bridges appropriation
480 00
Abatement and remittance
593 18
Election expenses .
27 08
Miscellaneous expenses
344 95
Preservation shade trees
129 98
New school house, Ward Two
1,671 45
Land damage, Pleasant street
240 00
Union Truant School
.
30 42
State Road
.
85 47
Deficiencies and overdrafts
5,687 71
Note not negotiated .
5,000 00
.
.
.
.
Amount carried forward $1,182,841 80
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Amount brought forward $1,182,841 80
Water bonds
$474,000 00
Notes payable
166,500 00
Support of schools, appropria- tion
7,076 08
Removal of snow, appropriation
1,681 90
Electric lighting, appropriation
2,254 08
Police Department, appropriation
1,629 04
Fire Department, appropriation Health Department, appropria- tion
254 92
Town Officers, appropriation
1,912 49
Printing and advertising, appro- priation
537 88
Pilgrim Road, approprlation
276 26
Holbrook Road, appropriation
28 42
Keith street, appropriation
33 49
Chard street, appropriation
17 43
Broad street, appropriation
15 32
Thomas' Corner, appropriation .
8 36
Public Parks, appropriation
74 65
Tufts Library, appropriation
961 86
Fogg Library Reading Room, appropiration
125 00
Interest and discount, appropria- tion
1,405 91
Town House, appropriation
210 00
Town Offices, appropriation
381 95
Street records, appropriation
75 00
State and military aid, appro- priation
772 84
Soldiers' relief, appropriation ·
1,073 65
Note payable Jan. 1, 1907, ap- propriation .
7,500 00
Storage battery, appropriation .
83
Old Home Week, appropriation
15 00
Poor account, appropriation
841 34
Removing town house, appro- priation
9,128 54
School house, Lovell's Corner, appropriation
11,816 27
Due State, towns and cities, Town of Weymouth
908 11
491,166 72
$1,182,841 80
$1,182,841 80
CHARLES B. CUSHING,
Town Accountant.
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
WARRANT FOR A SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid, qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the Odd Fellows Opera House, in East Weymouth, on Monday, the nineteenth day of February instant, at seven o'clock and forty- five minutes, in the evening, then and there to act on the follow- ing articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator.
Art. 2. On petition of Nelson W. Gardner and eleven others : To see what action the town will take to correct the errors and mistakes of the town officers of the past, and to take such meas- ures as may be necessary to prevent such mistakes in the future.
Art. 3. On petition of Nelson W. Gardner and eleven others : To see if the town meeting will discuss the finances of the town.
Art. 4. On petition of Nelson W. Gardner and eleven others : To see if the town will appoint a committee of five to investigate town affairs.
Art. 5. On petition of Nelson W. Gardner and eleven others : To see if the town will vote to recind the vote whereby they voted to hold the next annual town meeting at the Town House.
Art. 6. On petition of Nelson W. Gardner and eleven others : To see if the town will vote to hold its next annual town meet- ing at East Weymouth, at seven o'clock P. M.
Art. 7. To see what action the town will take to change its By-Laws whereby it may reduce the number of Selectmen, Over-
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seers of the Poor and Assessors from five to three, School Com- mittee six to three, or act on anything relating thereto.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you' in writing, in two public places in each voting precinct in said town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said town, at or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and six.
GORDON WILLIS, BRADFORD HAWES, ROBERT MCINTOSH, EDWARD W. HUNT, GEORGE L. NEWTON,
Selectmen of Weymouth.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Norfolk, ss.
Weymouth, February 9, 1906.
Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified and warned the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid, to meet at the place and time, and for the purpose set forth in said warrant, by posting true and attested copies in two and more public places in each voting precinct in said town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting as within directed.
ASA B. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth.
A true copy, Attest :
JOHN A. RAYMOND, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, a meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Weymouth, was held at Odd Fellows Opera House, on Monday, February 19, 1906, the meeting being called to order at 7.45 o'clock P. M., and the warrant was read by the Town Clerk.
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Art. 1. Hon. Louis A. Cook was elected Moderator, and the oath was administered to him by the Town Clerk.
Voted to take up Article 5.
Article 5. Voted, That the next annual meeting be held in East Weymouth in the evening.
Voted, To take up Article 7.
Art. 7. A motion was made under this article but it was not carried.
Art. 2. Voted, That a committee of five (one of whom shall be Nelson W. Gardner), be appointed by the Moderator, who shall investigate the whole subject under this article, and report at the next annual meeting.
The Moderator appointed the following persons on the com- mittee, viz. : Wm. W. Castle, Nelson W. Gardner, John B. Whelan, J. Clarence Howe, Wm. J. Coleman.
Arts. 3 and 4. Voted, That these articles be referred to the committee appointed under Article 2.
Voted, To adjourn.
Attest :
JOHN A. RAYMOND,
Town Clerk.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth, in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts yon are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid, qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective voting precincts, to wit: In precincts numbered One, Three, Five and Six, in the halls of the Fire Engine Houses, located in those precincts respectively ; in precinct numbered Two, at the Odd Fellows' Opera House ; and in precinct numbered Four, at the Hose House at Nash's Corner, on Monday, the Fifth Day of March, next, at ffve o'clock and forty-five minutes in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the wardens of their several precincts their votes on one ballot for the following named town officers, to wit : Town Clerk, Town
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Treasurer, five Selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, five Assessors, Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, two School Com- mittee for three years, one School Committee for one year, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Charles H. Willoby, one Park Commissioner for three years, three Trustees of Tufts Library for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one Commissioner for the Sinking Fund of the High School Loan Bonds for three years, one Tree Warden for one year and ten Constables ; and also to vote on the same ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the question "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
The polls will be opened at a quarter before six o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at one o'clock in the afternoon.
You are further required to notify, and warn said inhabitants, qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Odd Fellows' Opera House, East Weymouth, on Monday the Twelfth Day of March, next, at seven o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose all necessary town officers other than those elected by ballot, viz : Public Weighers, Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark, two or more Fence Viewers, two or more Field Drivers and one Pound Keeper.
Art. 3. To hear and act upon the report of the several boards of town officers and of any committees appointed at any former meetings and to choose any committees the town may think proper.
Art. 4. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools.
Art. 5. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the transportation of pupils to and from school.
Art. 6. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repair of highways townways and bridges, and for the removal of snow.
Art. 7. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief and support of the poor.
Art. 8. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen,
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and the families of disabled soldiers and seamen under Chapter 79 of the Revised Laws.
Art. 9. To see what sum of money the town will vote to appropriate for the payment of State and Military Aid and for burials under the provisions of Chapter 79 of the Revised Laws, and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
Art. 10. To see what sum of mony the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Fire Department.
Art. 11. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Art. 12. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Tufts Library.
Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of a public reading room at the Fogg Library.
Art. 14. To see what some of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the abatement and remittance of taxes.
Art. 15. To see what provision the town will make for the payment of a note of seven thousand five hundred dollars which became due January 1, 1906, and for one of the same amount which becomes due January 1, 1907.
Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest which may become due the ensuing year.
Art. 17. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
Art. 18. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses. 1 1
Art. 19. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers.
Art. 20. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for election expenses.
Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.
Art. 22. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the rent and care of town offices.
Art. 23. To see if the town will vote to appropriate from the revenue of the water works for the current year the sum of $27,815 to be expended for the following purposes, viz. : $18,815
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for interest on the Weymouth water loan bonds, becoming due the ensuing year; $7,300 for Superintendent's salary, mainte- nance of works and pumping station, and $1,700 for current expenses, Commissioners' and office expenses.
Art. 24. To see if the town will appropriate and direct to be paid to the Trustees of the Sinking Fund out of the income of the water rents for the current year the sum of $9,320, to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the Weymouth water loan bonds.
Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3,000 for the purpose of making further construction of the water works.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 for hydrants and for the water rents and care of drinking fountains.
Art. 27. Under the provisions of Chap. 381, of the Acts of 1905, to see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate, to be expended by the Selectmen in the suppression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths.
Art. 28. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriute to be expended in the interest of the public health.
Art. 29. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for electric lighting.
Art. 30. To see if the inhabitants will authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow such sums of money in anticipation of taxes as will be found necessary to meet the current expenses of the year.
Art. 31. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate toward the Sinking Fund for the payment at maturity of the High School bonds.
Art. 32. To determine in what manner taxes shall be collected the ensuing year and to fix the rate of interest upon all taxes remaining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
Art. 33. To see if the town will accept the list of jurors sub- mitted by the Selectmen.
Art. 34. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the preservation of shade trees, to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
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Art. 35. On petition of James L. Lincoln and others : to see if the town will vote to reduce the membership of the boards of Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, and Assessors, from five to three, and the membership of the School Committee from six to three, or act on anything in relation to the same.
Art. 36. On petition of Peter F. Hughes and three hundred others : to see if the town will vote to instruct its officers and heads of departments, that all printing pertaining to town affairs shall bear the stamp of the Typographical Union.
Art. 37. On petition of Warren F. Nadell and others : to see if the town will instruct the Electric Light Committee to establish and maintain electric lights on Federal street, between Front and Summer, and that part of Summer street between Federal strect and the residence of John R. Bouldry, the expense of which shall be taken from the electric light appropriation.
Art. 38. On petition of B. A. Bennett and others : to see if the town will vote that the electric light removed from its position near the residence of Ira H. Derby, 246 Union street, South Weymouth, be restored.
Art. 39. On petition of Edw. B. Halligan and others : to see if the town will vote to erect two electric lights on Main street, in the vicinity of Derby street, South Weymouth.
Art. 40. On petition of Joseph Chase, Jr., and others : to ascertain what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate to grade and drain Broad street from the land of John Fennell to the easterly line of J. C. Fraser.
Art. 41. On petition of Henry F. Pratt and others : to see if the town will vote that a sidewalk be built on the northeasterly side of Central street, extending from Union street to White street, and raise and appropriate money for payment of the same.
Art. 42. On petition of J. B: Rhines and others : to see if the town will vote to macadam Commercial street from a point at or near Tremont street to the Tufts crossing, so called, or any portion thereof, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 43. On petition of Thomas Killory and others : to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $500 to be used under the direction of the Board of Health in making provision to carry
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off the stagnant water in the watercourse crossing under Broad street, east of Essex street.
Art. 44. On petition of C. H. Whitman : to see if the town will pay him the sum of $116.11, being the amount paid to the town at a tax sale of property owned by the heirs of Charles Balfour in excess of the amount due the town for taxes, interest and cost of sale.
Art. 45. By request of the Park Commissioners : to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50 for the care and maintenance of public parks.
Art. 46. On petition of J. Edwin Alger and others : to see if the town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to locate one electric light on Pearl street, midway between the cor- ner of Pearl and Norton streets and corner of Pearl and North streets.
Art. 47. On petition of A. W. Baker and others : to see if the town will vote to locate an electric light at the corner of Rich- mond and Phillips streets, in the Third Ward.
Art. 48. On petition of N. R. Ells and others : to see if the town will authorize the placing of three electric lights on Main street, between Nash's Corner and the residence of Nathaniel R. Ells, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 49. On petition of B. B. Sylvester and others : to see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to see that all hawkers, pedlars, and junk dealers are obliged to have a license from this town before doing business herein.
Art. 50. By request of the Weymouth Historical Society : to see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the celebration of Old Home Week and determine in what manner the same shall be expended.
Art. 51. To see if the town will vote to pay Thomas F. Brady for labor at the pumping station for the years 1903 and 1904, Sunday work.
Art. 52. On petition of Alston A. Shaw and others : to see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the pur- pose of gravelling and repairing Pine street from a point opposite the residence of George T. Savage to the Hingham town line.
Art. 53. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to commence suit for the recovery of any money or property due it.
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Art. 54. To see what provision the town will make for any deficiencies in the appropriations of the current financial year, or for any overdrafts already made.
Art. 55. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to contract with the Massachusetts Highway Commission for the construction of a section of the State highway on Main street.
Art. 56. To see if the town will accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out of a relocation of the southerly line of Pleasant street from the division line between land of Charles S. Curtis and land of the town of Weymouth occupied by the Ward Five Engine House, and the northeasterly corner of land of Louis A. Cook.
Art. 57. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $300 for the further working of Wessagussett Road.
Art. 58. On petition of H. Walker Pratt and others: to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $1,000 to be ex- pended for taking the surplus water from Thomas' Corner (so called), in Ward One.
Art. 59. On petition of Bela P. French and others : to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $200 for the pur- pose of laying a drain or renewing the existing bridge under High street, in East Weymouth, from the land of Everett Loud to land of Elijah Hobart : the present bridge having served its day, and being insufficient for the purpose of draining the land south of said High street.
Art. 60. On petition of Austin P. Beard and others : to see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $250 for the working of the east end of Pearl street as laid out by the town.
Art. 61. On petition of Edmund S. Hunt : to see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $200 to build a retaining wall at the foot of the gravel bank situated on the westerly side of the Hunt School yard in Ward Three.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you in writing in two public places in each voting precinct in said town, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the second day of March next.
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Given under our hands at Weymouth, this twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and six.
GORDON WILLIS, BRADFORD HAWES, ROBERT MCINTOSH, GEORGE L. NEWTON, EDWARD W. HUNT, Selectmen of Weymouth.
WEYMOUTH, February 23, 1906.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid to meet at the respective places and time, and for the purpose set forth in said warrant, by posting true and attested copies in two and more public places in each precinct in said town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting, as within directed.
ASA B. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth.
A true copy. Attest :
JOHN A. RAYMOND, Town Clerk.
OFFICE OF SELECTMEN, WEYMOUTH, MARCH 5, 1906.
A meeting of the Board of Registrars of Voters was held at the Selectmen's office this evening for the purpose of canvassing the returns of votes cast in the several Precincts for Town Officers and found that the following persons having received the largest number of votes cast, were declared elected to their respective offices, viz. :
TOWN CLERK. John A. Raymond.
TOWN TREASURER. John H. Stetson.
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