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Town Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex, SS. To either of the Constables of the Town of Acton, in the County of Middlesex, Greeting :
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Acton, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, in said town, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of March A. D., 1905, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, as they may think proper, viz :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will accept the reports of the Select- men, Overseers of the Poor, School Committee, Library Trustees and other town officers.
Art. 3. To choose all necessary town officers and committees and fix salaries.
Art. 4. To hear and act upon the reports of any committee chosen to report at this meeting.
Art. 5. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for due observance of Memorial Day.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will accept the jury list as revised by the Selectmen.
Art. 7. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for repairing roads and bridges.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen, to borrow money for the Town, if necessary, in anticipation of taxes the current year.
Art. 9. To vote Yes or No in answer to the question: Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in Acton the present year.
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Art. 10. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the support of Memorial Library the present year.
Art. 11. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the support of schools the present year.
Art. 12. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for school supplies.
Art. 13. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for town charges.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the enforcement of the liquor laws.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will maintain street lamps the present year, or act anything thereon.
Art. 16. To see what amount of money the Town will appro- priate for the care of cemeteries the current year, or act anything thereon.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will take any action in regard to Old Home Week.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to straighten the road at the old "school house " lot in South Acton and raise a special amount for the same, or act anything thereon.
Art. 19. To see what amount of money the Town will raise to maintain the Fire Department.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for six band concerts, two in each village, Acton, South Acton, and West Acton, or act anything thereon.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will accept as a private way, the laying out by the Road Commissioners of a private way, for the benefit of Mary T. Coughlin, from the town road near her dwelling house, over the land of Mary O'Neil to land of said Coughlin, northerly of said town road.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will take any action in relation to the speed of automobiles.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will take any action in regard to the extermination of the brown tail moth.
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Art. 24. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the erection of a flag pole at. Acton Center.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will take any action in regard to supplying a public watering trough for the West village.
Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to buy a lockup or take any action thereon.
Art. 27. To see if the Town will build a road across the land of O. W. Mead in West Acton, beginning at the turnpike at the south east corner of the land of Fitchburg R. R. Co., thence northerly on the east side of Fitchburg R. R. Co. land to the road that passes the house of Mrs. G. B. Parker, the road to be built 30 ft. wide, or act anything thereon.
Art. 28. To see if the Town will buy a piano for the town hall.
Art. 29. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a heater for the town hall.
Art. 30. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the collection of taxes the present year.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting copies, attested by you, in the following places: One in each of the Post Offices and Railroad stations, one in each of the stores of C. H. Mead & Co., M. E. Taylor & Co., Tuttle & Newton, Est. of E. Jones, one at the office of F. J. Hastings & Co., and one at the Nagog House, seven days at least before the time appointed for holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen or the Town Clerk, on or before the time of holding said meeting.
Given under our hands in Acton, this thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and five.
FRANK W. HOIT, ARTHUR M. WHITCOMB, EDWIN A. PHALEN,
Selectmen of Acton.
Index to Contents.
Town Officers . .3
Town Meetings, . 5
State Election 13
Town Clerk
17
Births.
18
Marriages 19
Deaths
20
Non-Resident Burials 21
Dogs Licensed
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Report of Selectmen 24
List of Jurors. 49
Report of Treasurer, . 50
Report of Collector 55
Report of Auditor 60
Report of Assessors 61
Report of Road Commissioner 65
Report of Board of Health 66
Report of Overseers of Poor 68
Report of Tree Warden. 73
Report of Cemetery Commissioners. 79
Report of Librarian 82
School Report. 83
School Calendar 85
Organization S6
Committee
Financial Statement 94
Superintendent's Report
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High School Principal
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Supervisor of Music. 107
Commencement Exercises 109
Satistical Tables 110
Roll of Honor 113
Truant Officers 115
Department of School Supplies. 116
Town Warrant 126
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