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FORTNIGHTLY.
Literary World.
WEEKLIES.
American Architect.
American Bee Journal.
New York Sun. New York Tribune. Patent Office Reports.
Boston Pilot.
Forest and Stream.
Popular Science News.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated.
Puck.
Harper's Weekly.
Scientific American.
Harper's Bazaar.
The Nova Scotian.
Harper's Young People.
Golden Days.
Independent.
Texas Siftings.
Irish World.
Wakefield Citizen and Banner.
Wakefield Record.
Judge. London Graphic. Metal Worker.
Woman's Journal. Youth's Companion.
. DAILIES.
Boston Herald.
Boston Journal.
Congressional Record.
New York Graphic.
The Public Reading Room is open every week-day evening and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, and is
FREE TO ALL .- -
Carpentry and Building. Century. Chambers' Journal.
Chautauquan. Eclectic.
Godey's Lady's Book.
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ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS.
For the convenience of the voters the Auditors present this year, as they did last year, estimates of the amounts the town will be called upon to appropriate at the Annual Meeting, together with the amounts that mmst go into the tax levy of 1888, which by the Treasurer's Report, (page 117) is shown to be $10,628. To this add $1,400, to carry out contract for new road made with M. O'Connell, making in round numbers .
, $12,000 00
Payment of Town Debt, . 3,000 90 . ·
Interest on Town Debt,
. 3,400 00
$18,400 00
DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS.
Support of Schools, . $17,300 00
School Contingent Fund,
· 1,300 00
Text Books and Supplies. ·
· 1,500 00
Poor Department, all receipts and
5,000 00
Fire Department, ..
· 1,800 ,00
Street Lamps, (spent last year)
2,100. 00
Town House Expenses,
· 1,850 00
Highways and Bridges,
· 5,000 00
Concrete sidewalks, crossings and gutters, ·
1,000 00
Salaries of Town Officers, 2,550 00 .
Police 6 ·
- 500 00 Night Watch, . . .
1,500 00
Miscellaneous Expenses, .
3,000 00
Beebe Town Library, the dog tax and
400 00
Reading Room, 175 00
Hydrant service, (as per contract),
3,800 00
Total,
$67,175 00
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AUDITORS' FINAL STATEMENT.
During the year ending February 29, 1888, the Selectmen drew 987 orders on the Treasurer, amounting to $69,977 24. We have examined the vouchers for these payments and made up a balance sheet (as shown on page 103) for the use of the Town Officers, each month. At the end of the year we examined the accounts of the Fish Committee, (page 150), and Collector of Taxes, (page 102), and found them correct. The receipts of the Poor and Highway Depart- ments have also been verified. The figures of the various accounts as consolidated for the perusal of the voters, will be found on pages 50 to 103. The Treasurer's report fol- lows, and we have made a thorough examination of his receipts and payments, and find them correct, with the proper vouchers, and that he has a cash balance of $1,012 27, as shown on page 105. We also certify that he has the $10,000 in town bonds, in which the C. Sweetser Lecture Fund is invested, and $1,000 deposited in Wake- field Savings Bank, for account of the C. Sweetser Burial Lot Fund. For the past year our payments have been made in strict adherence to the system that brings them entirely under the control of the Selectmen, no money being paid out in bulk sums, and the results are wholly pleasing to us, and satisfactory to all concerned. We desire to call especial attention to the recommendations of the Treasurer, on page 117.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN M. CATE, WALDO E. COWDREY, WILLIS S. MASON,
Auditors.
WAKEFIELD, March 19, 1888.
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CONTENTS AND INDEX.
PAGES.
List of Town Officers.
3 and 4
List of Jurors, ·
5
Record of Town Meetings,
6 to 30
Town Clerk's Statistics, .
31 to 49
Auditors' Report, Financial reports and exhib- its of Departments,
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50 to 100
Assessors' Report and Collector's Statement, . 100 to 102
Auditors' Balance Sheet, 103 ·
Treasurer's Report,
. 104 to 117 .
Reports of
Selectmen, . 118 to 129
Superintendent of Streets, . 130 to 135
Overseers, 136 and 137
Engineers,
138 and 139
Fire Alarm Telegraph Committee,
140 and 141
Police and Night Watch, ·
142
Board of Health, ·
. 143 to 150
Fish Committee, 151 and 152
School Committee, . 153 to 178
Trustees of Library and Reading Room, . 179 to 187
Librarian, 188 and 189
Annual Appropriations, · 191 · . ·
Auditors' Final Statement, -
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THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH
Annual Report
-OF-
The Town Officers
OF WAKEFIELD, MASS.,
--- FOR THE
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FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING FEB. 28, 1889,
----- ALSO,-
THE TOWN CLERK'S RECORD
--- OF THE-
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
During the Year 1888.
WAKEFIELD : PRINTED AT THE CITIZEN AND BANNER OFFICE. 1889.
TOWN OFFICERS, 1888-9.
SELECTMEN AND ROAD COMMISSIONERS. SAM'L K. HAMILTON, Chairman, SOLON O. RICHARDSON, GEORGE E. RICKER, Secretary.
TOWN CLERK-CHARLES F. HARTSHORNE.
TREASURER-THOMAS J. SKINNER.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. SILAS W. FLINT, Chairman, HIRAM EATON, MICHAEL LOW, Secretary.
ASSESSORS. CHARLES F. HARTSHORNE, CHARLES F. WOODWARD, HENRY H. SAVAGE.
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AUDITORS.
WALDO E. COWDREY, WILLIS S. MASON, EVERETT W. EATON.
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COLLECTOR OF TAXES-CHARLES F. WOODWARD.
ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. HORACE W. DALRYMPLE, Chief, ALONZO S. COBB, Supt. Fire Alarm, OWEN CORCORAN, See's ..
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REGISTRARS OF VOTERS.
CORNELIUS DONOVAN,
Term expires 1891. 6 .
EDWARD H. WALTON,
1890. ·
WESLEY T. HARRIS,
1889.
CHAS. F. HARTSHORNE, (ex-officio).
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
EDWARD A. UPTON, Chairman,
Term expires 1891.
PRESTON SHELDON,
66 1891.
MELVIN J. HILL, Sec'y and Treas., .
1890.
SELIM S. WHITE, .
1890.
WILLIAM N. TYLER,
1889.
ASHTON H. THAYER,
.
66
1889.
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY.
OTIS V. WATERMAN,
S. O. RICHARDSON,
JUNIUS BEEBE, R. H. MITCHELL, MICHAEL LOW,
THOS. WINSHIP,
S. K. HAMILTON,
PRESTON SHELDON.
GEO. H. TEAGUE, THOS. KERNAN, WM. N. TYLER,
C. W. EATON,
J. R. MANSFIELD,
HARRY FOSTER,
CHAS. A. DEAN,
WM. E. ROGERS, G. B. SINCLAIR.
* Removed from town.
FISH COMMITTEE.
SAMUEL PARKER, WVM. S. GREENOUGH, WVM. HARRINGTON WILEY.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
JOHN M. CATE, J. BARNARD WILEY, GEO. H. SWEETSER.
FENCE VIEWERS.
R. H. MITCHELL, C. H. STEARNS, G. H. TEAGUE.
R. D. GRANT,*
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POLICE.
CHAS. H. DAVIS, - Successive Chiefs,
WM. H. McCAUSLAND, I. GIL. ROBBINS, CHAS. E. NILES,
JOHN F. ALEXANDER,
GEO. T. LAMONT,
I. A. PARSONS,
WM. H. GOULD,
R. L. COOPER,
A. L. VANNAH, J. A. McFADDEN, W. W. BESSEY, A. W. HUNT, GEO. E. DONALD.
CONSTABLES. MOSES STAPLES, CHAS. H. DAVIS.
I. A. PARSONS,
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SUPT. OF STREETS-GEO. HIRAM SWEETSER.
PARK COMMISSIONERS.
JUNIUS BEEBE, GEO. H. MADDOCK, C. H. HAWES.
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For list of other Town Officers, not chosen by ballot, see report of Annual Meeting.
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LIST OF JURORS,
ACCEPTED BY THE TOWN, NOV. 6TH, 1888.
Aborn, John G. Anguerra, Edward de Bachelder, George Balch, Theodore E. Barker, Edward Bartley, Robert B.
Blanchard, John O.
Knowles, Charles S.
Boardman, Moses
Buckley, Samuel
Burbank, Buchanan B.
Burrill, Alonzo P. Carter, James H. Cate, Albert D.
Connell, Joseph
Connell, Hugh Daly, Denis Daland, Everett G.
O'Hea, Bartholomew
Oliver, Henry N. Parker, Moses P.
Parsons, William A.
Pitman, Lawrence J.
Pope, Henry W.
Parsons, Israel A.
Prentiss, Joshua
Ricker, William
Ryder, Stephen E.
Sherman, Marcus M.
Seaver, George A.
Southworth, Ezra M.
Travis, Horace G. Ventress, Alphonso W.
Greenough, Arthur Hamm, Mark H.
.
Harris, Wesley T.
Hartshorne, Charles F.
Hawes, Charles H. Hickey, Thomas
Hayden, Frank W. Hickey, James A. Jones, Rollin C. Keliey, Patrick J, Kendall, George W.
Knight, Willard
Knight, Willis H. Lamont, George T. Lewis, Charles A. Mansfield, Edward McAllister, David Merchant, Sidney Murdock, Caleb Nichols, Jefferson J.
Daniels, William B. Eaton, Hiram
Eaton, Isaac F. Eldridge, Everett D.
Emerson, John H. Fish, George E.
Floyd, George G. Flockton, Joseph A.
Garrity, James F. Gibson, Frank L.
Godfrey, Warren H. Gove, M. W. Grace, J. Wallace
Walton, Edward H. Walton, Oliver
Waterman, Otis V.
White, Samuel L. Wiley, J. Barnard
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RECORD OF TOWN MEETINGS
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 28, 1889.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, APRIL 2, 1888.
ARTICLE I. To choose, by ballot, a Moderator to preside in said meeting.
Samuel K. Hamilton received 22 votes and was unanimously elected.
ART. 2. To consider and act upon the acceptance of the reports of Town Officers, as printed under direction of the Town Auditors, either separately or otherwise, as a majority of the voters present, and voting, may determine.
VOTED. To accept the Reports as printed.
ART. 3. To bring in their votes on one ballot, for Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Tax Collector, Park Commissioners, Board of Health, Constables, Fence Viewers, and Fish Committee. Upon a separate ballot to bring in their votes for School Committee, two members of said Committee, each for a term of three years.
To bring in their votes upon a separate ballot, in answer to the question,-" Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
Form of ballot-" Yes " or " No" in answer to that ques- tion ; and these ballots will be received at the same time and in the same box.
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VOTED. To keep the polls open until 5 o'clock P. M.
The Moderator appointed Waldo E. Cowdrey and J. W. Grace to assist in checking names on the voting list, and Will E. Eaton, Henry S. Fisher and Geo. B. Sinclair, as counters.
At 8.45 o'clock P. M. the result of the ballot was declared in open town meeting. Soon after the declaration of the result it became evident to a number of citizens that an errror had been made in the count. A petition for a recount of the votes, signed by ten citizens, was accordingly filed with the Town Clerk, at 11 o'clock P. M., and in pursu- ance of the petition, and by authority conferred by the laws of the Commonwealth, the Moderator im- mediately proceeded to recount the votes, which consumed the time till daylight on the morning of April 3d. The final result of the ballot was de- clared in the adjourned town meeting April 9th, as follows :
TOWN CLERK.
Charles F. Hartshorne,
. (Elected) 622
Scattering,
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TOWN TREASURER.
Thomas J. Skinner,
. (Elected)
625
Scattering, .
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SELECTMEN.
Solon O. Richardson, .
. (Elected) 393
Samuel K. Hamilton, .
66
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385
George E. Ricker,
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35I
J. Warren Poland, Samuel L. White,
264
.
·
236
James F. Emerson, Scattering,
224
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ASSESSORS.
Charles F. Woodward,
. (Elected)
623
Henry H. Savage,
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Charles F. Hartshorne,
· 407
Wm. F. Young,
220
Scattering, .
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OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Hiram Eaton,
. (Elécted)
563
Silas W. Flint,
.
.
.
.
.
558
Michael Low,
392
Horace Gowing,
,
Scattering,
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TAX COLLECTOR.
Charles F. Woodward,
. (Elected)
621
Scattering,
3
PARK COMMISSIONERS.
Junius Beebe,
. (Elected)
568
George H. Maddock,
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.
. 346
Charles H. Hawes,
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.
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22I
Scattering,
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.
I
BOARD OF HEALTH.
John M. Cate, .
(Elected)
572
Samuel W. Abbott,
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412
Winfield C. Jordan,
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.
398
Preston Sheldon,
232
D. S. Coles,
226
Scattering, .
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CONSTABLES.
Israel A. Parsons,
. (Elected)
624
Moses Staples, .
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623
Charles H. Davis, .
· 619
Scattering,
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224
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66
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66
600
Benj. F. Barnard,
66
66
66
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66
622
6:
66
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FENCE VIEWERS.
Reuben H. Mitchell, .
. (Elected) 581
Charles H. Stearns,
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· 577
Scattering, .
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FISH COMMITTEE.
Wm. Harrington Wiley,
. (Elected)
625
Wm. S. Greenough,
624
Samuel Parker, .
. 623
Scattering,
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
3 YEARS.
Preston Sheldon,
. (Elected) 449
Edward A. Upton,
445
Scattering,
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VOTE ON THE QUESTION OF LICENSE.
Yes,
200
No,
.
365
ART. 4. To choose all other needed town officers.
VOTED. That a committee of three be appointed by the Moderator to nominate a committee of thirteen, three from the Centre and two from each of the outer wards, who shall nominate a list of officers not chosen by ballot. Messrs. Michael Low, Rich- ard Britton and A. H. Thayer, were appointed and they reported the following Committee of thirteen :
CENTRE WARD .-. S. O. Richardson, Thos. Winship,
Richard Britton.
North 66 E. E. Emerson, Denis Daly.
South,
H. H. Savage, A. H. Thayer.
East, 6 A. L. Mansfield, J. T. Burditt.
West; 66 George H. Teague, Cornelius Donovan.
Woodville
George E. Donald, Patrick Kenney.
.
581
George H. Teague,
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VOTED. To adopt the report.
At a later hour this Committee made a report which was accepted and adopted as follows :
AUDITORS.
Waldo E. Cowdrey, Willis S. Mason, Everett W. Eaton.
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Otis V. Waterman, Junius Beebe,
S. O. Richardson,
R. H. Mitchell,
Thomas Winship,
S. K. Hamilton,
Preston Sheldon,
C. W. Eaton,
Michael Low,
J. R. Mansfield,
Chas. A. Dean,
R. D. Grant,
George H. Teague,
Thomas Kernan, Wm. N. Tyler,
Harry Foster,
Wm. E. Rogers,
Geo. B. Sinclair.
WEIGHERS OF WOOD AND COAL.
M. C. Evans, Denis Greany,
A. W. Chapman, Geo. W. Aborn, A. L. Mansfield.
Geo. K. Gilman, A. A. Mansfield,
MEASURERS OF WOOD.
Denis Greany, Chas. Gorham,
M. C. Evans,
A. L. Mansfield, L. B. Eaton, E. E. Lee,
A. A. Mansfield, H. N. Oliver, Ira Atkinson.
SURVEYORS OF LUMBER.
C. F. Bickford, David Perkins,*
Roger Howard, C. W. Trow, T. L. Montgomery.
E. I. Purrington, Luther G. Cate,
FIELD DRIVERS.
Geo. H. Wiley, B. F. Shedd,
Henry N. Oliver, Lee S. Morrill, Edward Eaton.
Thos. Gould, John Day,
*Died Oct. 6th, 1888.
VOTED. To postpone further consideration of the town war- rant to 1 o'clock P. M. At that hour the meeting took up
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ART. 5. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to hire money to pay all demands in anticipation of taxes.
VOTED. Such authority with the approval of the Selectmen.
ART. 6. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to hire money on a term of years, and to issue notes of the town therefor, for the purpose of renewing or paying existing loans maturing during the present municipal year.
VOTED. The authority so to do, with the approval of the Selectmen, the term of years not to exceed seven.
ART. 7. To raise and appropriate money for the payment of town debt and interest.
VOTED. $3,400 for interest, and the surplus receipts from other sources than loans and taxes for debt.
ART. 8. To see if the town will provide for the payment of such portion of its indebtedness as has been carried from the year 1875, by voting such annual proportionate payments, to be raised by taxation, as will extinguish the same within twenty years from that date, as provided in Chapter 133 of the Laws and Resolves of 1882.
VOTED. That $4,000 be raised annually by taxation until 1895, for such payment, as required by Chapter 29 of the Public Statutes.
ART. 9. To raise and appropriate money for schools.
VOTED. $17,000 for the support of schools, $1,400 for school text books supplies and $1,300 for school contingent fund.
VOTED. To instruct the School Committee to give in their report the number and amount of text books and supplies delivered to each school.
ART. 10. To raise and appropriate money for the support of Poor. VOTED. $5,000 and all receipts.
ART. II. To raise and appropriate money for the repairs of high- ways and bridges, and determine how it shall be expended. VOTED. $6,000 to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen.
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ART. 12. To raise and appropriate money for the Fire Department.
VOTED. $2,000 and that $150 of this amount be devoted to payment for services with Johnson pumps, buckets etc., of persons (not members of the Fire Depart- ment) recognized as entitled to pay, at prices published, and that the bills for services at forest and grass land fires be approved by the Forest Fire Wards, and at all other fires by the Engineers.
ART. 13. To raise and appropriate money for the Public Library.
VOTED. $300 in addition to the dog tax.
ART. 14. To raise and appropriate money for the Public Reading Room.
VOTED. $175.
ART. 15. To raise and appropriate money for the salaries of Town Officers.
VOTED. To refer to a committee of five to investigate and report. The Moderator appointed Richard Britton, W. S. Greenough, J. H. Carter, O. V. Waterman and J. K. L. Baker.
ART. 16. To raise and appropriate money for the care of Street Lamps.
ART. 36. To see what action the town will take regarding the intro- duction of Electric Lights.
These two articles were taken up together.
VOTED. To refer Art. 36 to a committee of seven to report at an adjournment of this meeting. The Moderator appointed W. S. Greenough, A. S. Atherton, Robert Blyth, E. G. Daland, S. O. Richardson, Wm. F. Young, S. W. Abbott and J. W. Poland. VOTED. To lay Art. 16 on the table until this committee report
ART. 17. To raise and appropriate money for Town House expenses. VOTED. $1.850, and that the janitorship ba let to the lowest' responsible bidder.
At this point W. N. Tyler made a report for the
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Committee on Soldiers' Monument appointed Nov. 14, 1887.
VOTED. To accept the report and discharge the committee.
VOTED. To adjourn to 7.30 o'clock P. M. At that time the Moderator called the meeting to order.
ART. 18. To raise and appropriate money for miscellaneous expenses.
VOTED. $3,000.
ART. 19. To raise and appropriate three thousand eight hundred dollars to pay the annual rental of hydrants.
VOTED. $3,800.
ART. 20. To raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand four hundred dollars to pay for building new road on Cowdrey's Hill, as per contract with M. O'Connell.
VOTED. $1,400.
ART. 21. To see what method the town will adopt for the collection of taxes for the year ensuing.
VOTED. To adopt the method of last year.
ART. 22. To see if the town will authorize their Collector of Taxes, for the year ensuing, to use all means for the collection of taxes which a Town Treasurer when appointed Collector may use.
VOTED. To so authorize the Collector of Taxes.
. ART. 23. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars to be expended in concrete work under the direction of the Selectmen.
VOTED. $1,000 according to the terms of this article, and when the ; abutters voluntarily pay one-half the expense for sidewalks.
ART. 24. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to provide a night watch, and will appropriate money for the pay- ment thereof.
VOTED. To so authorize and $1,500 for payment.
ART. 25. To determine the compensation of enginemen for the year ensuing.
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VOTED. $15 and the poll tax.
ART. 26. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for the purposes of Memorial Day, and will grant the free use of the Town Hall to H. M. Warren Post, No. 12, G. A. R., for that day.
VOTED. $200 and free use of the hall.
ART. 27. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars for the enforcement of the liquor law, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $500.
ART. 28. To see if the town will raise and appropriate five hundred dollars to raise the road bed at the junction of Franklin and Nahant streets, and make a sidewalk from Orrin Stone's house to the Franklin School House.
VOTED. To refer to a committee. The Moderator appointed Wm. G. Strong, S. O. Richardson and S. W. Flint.
ART. 29. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money for macadamizing Main street from the Rockery to Water street, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To refer to a committee. The Moderator appointed O. V. Waterman, Wm. F. Young and D. H. Darling.
ART. 30. To see if the town will raise and appropriate three hundred dollars to repair the culvert under Elm street, and to relay a drain running from Elm street to the B. & M. R. R., across land of John M. Smith, or what they will do about it. VOTED. To indefinitely postpone action. .
ART. 31. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money for laying a drain from the south side of land of Eben Wiley estate to land of W. C. Jordan, to be expended under di- rection of the Board of Health, or what they will do about it. VOTED. $400, according to the terms of this article.
ART. 32. To see if the town will take action to have the present seats in the audience room of the Town Hall replaced with more comfortable seats, or what they will do about it.
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VOTED. To indefinitely postpone action.
ART. 33. To see what sum the town will raise and appropriate for the care and improvement of the Common and Public Park, for the year ensuing.
VOTED. $400.
ART. 34. To see if the town will raise and appropriate one hundred and fifty dollars for repairs on the Town House.
VOTED. $150.
ART. 35. To see if the town will raise and appropriate three hundred dollars for premiums on insurance policies now due and falling due the ensuing year.
VOTED. $300.
ART. 37. To see if the town will raise and appropriate two hundred dollars for gutters and sidewalks in Montrose School District.
VOTED. $200.
ART. 38. To see if the town will raise and appropriate fifty dollars to be expended for the removal of brush and trees within the street bounds in Montrose.
ART. 39. To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to raise the road-bed and sidewalks on Centre street, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To indefinitely postpone these two articles.
ART. 40. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money to widen Main street and repair the sidewalk, from Lawrence street to the Beebe estate, or what action they will take in the matter.
VOTED. To refer to the Selectmen and Supt. of Streets.
ART. 41. To see if the town will raise and appropriate three hun- dred dollars to grade Bennett street, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To indefinitely postpone action.
ART. 42. To see if the town will raise and appropriate five hun- dred dollars to grade Melvin street, or what they will do about it.
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ART. 43. To see if the town will raise and appropriate one hundred . and fifty dollars to grade the sidewalk on the south side of Water street, from the hydrant west of Brownell's to the estate of Daniel Coleman, so that all surface water will empty at the Water Street bridge, and also finish about 300 feet of sidewalk on the east side of Valley street, beginning at Water street, and expend one hundred and fifty dollars out of the regular highway appropriation on the grading of the junction of Water, Valley and Melvin streets, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To refer these two articles to the Selectmen.
ART. 44. To see if the town will raise and appropriate fifty dollars to pay the Superintendent of Fire Alarm for the ensuing year, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $50.
ART. 45. To see if the town will raise and appropriate one hundred dollars to be paid Mrs. Mary J. Taylor, widow of Joseph Kelley, late of Co. A, 28th Reg't, Mass. Vols .. , it being the amonnt of bounty due said soldier, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To refer to a comittee. The Moderator appointed Thos. Winship, Jas. F. Emerson, Wm. F. Young and E. J. Gihon.
ART. 46. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen for the laying out of a new town way over the private way known as Bliss Court.
ART. 47. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen for the laying out of a new town way over the private way known as Wave Avenue.
ART, 48. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen for the laying out of a new town way over the private way known as Cedar Hill Ave., from West Chestnut street to Cross street.
ART. 49. To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen for the laying out of new town ways over a, continuation of Sum- mer street to a private way known as Spring street, and over said Spring street from Nahant to Charles street.
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The Selectmen reported in favor of accepting and building the above mentioned streets at an expense of $500, Bliss Court to be named Aborn Ave., and Cedar Hill Ave. to be named Walnut Ave.
VOTED. To accept and adopt the reports.
ART. 50. To see if the town will raise and appropriate three hun- dred and twenty-five dollars for tower striker to go on one of the large bells, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $325 to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen and Engineers.
ART. 51. To see if the town will raise and appropriate one hundred and thirty-five dollars for wire, poles and fire alarm box to be located at or near the gas house, or what they will do about it.
ART. 52. To see if the town will raise and appropriate one hundred and twenty-five dollars for wire, pole and fire alarm box to be located corner of Herbert and Richardson streets, or - what they will do about it.
ART. 53. To see if the town will raise and appropriate forty-five dollars for a fire alarm box to be located on a pole at the junction of Salem and Vernon streets.
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ART. 54. To see if the town will raise and appropriate forty dollars for a fire alarm box to be placed on pole corner of Main and Salem streets, or what they will do about it.
ART. 55. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money for a fire alarm box to be located at or near the town farm buildings in Woodville, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To indefinitely postpone action under the foregoing articles.
ART. 56. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Engineers to sell the old leather hose that is now useless, aud pur- chase cotton hose with the proceeds, or what they will do about it.
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