Town annual reports of Acton, Massachusetts 1901-1905, Part 5

Author: Acton (Mass.)
Publication date: 1901
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$237 63


GINN & Co.


March 22.


12 Prince arithmetics,


$2 00-


$2 00


March 27. 2 Leymann's School Iliad, 6 bks., 3 20


5 Wentworth Ad. Arithmetics, 5 00


8 00


Less 1-6,


1 37-


6 83


Oct. 30. 10 Wentworth new Sch. Algebra,


11 20


1 Beginners' Latin, 1 00


5 Montgomery Eng. His., 5 60


25 Prince Arith., 5 00


7 doz. and 7 vertical writing books, 43 68


66 48


Less 1-6,


11 08


55 40


Credit books returned,


32 33-


23 07


Sept. 20. 9 copies Ten Beyes, Less 1-6,


4 50


75-


3 75


$35 65


Postage,


70


30- 1 13


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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co.


March 27. 20 Riverside Lit. Series, No. 1,


$2 55


Postage,


07-


$2 62


March 29. 7 Fiske Am. Hist.,


5 95-


5 95


March 30. 20 Riverside Lit. Series, No. 2,


2 55


Postage,


04-


2 59


Sept. 19. 5 Fiske Hist. U. S.,


4 25


6 Riverside Lit. Series,


77-


5 02


$16 18


D. C. HEATH & Co.


March 26.


5 Heart of Oak, bk. 2,


$1 75


Less 1-6,


29- $1 46


March 28. 10 Elem. Arith., Walsh,


3 00


5 Inter. Arith., Walsh,


1 75


4 75


Less 1-6,


79-


3 96


March 30.


24 doz. vertical writing books,


18 00


5 Heart of Oak, No. 1,


1 25


10 Heart of Oak, No. 2,


3 50


5 Heart of Oak, No. 3,


2 25


Less 1-6,


4 16-


20 84


April 21. 5 gross Volpenna B. pens, Less 1-3.


1 00


2 00


Postage,


11-


2 11


April 26.


15 Paradise Lost,


6 75


Less 1-6,


1 12-


5 63


May


17. 2 Iliad,


59


Postage,


08-


67


Sept.


7. 20 Inter. Arith., Walsh,


7 00


5 84


Sept.


11. 5 German Grammar,


93-


4 67


Sept.


17. 20 Walsh Elem. Arith., Less 1-6,


6 00


1 00-


5 00


1 16-


Less 1-6,


5 60


Less 1-6,


25 00


3 00


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Sept. 19. 6 copies American Indians, Less 1-6,


$2 70


45- 2 15


Sept.


22. 12 Vicar of Wakefield, 12 Burke Speech in Council, 12 Macbeth,


6 00


2 40


3 50


12 Silas Maxner,


4 20


15 60


Less 1-6,


2 60-


13 00


Oct.


7. 5 Marchen Eng. No. 1 reader,


2 50-


2 50


Nov.


20. 5 gross Volpenna B. pens, Less 1-3,


1 00


2 00


Postage,


13-


2 13


Nov. 26. 9 Super. French readers, Less 1-6,


1 05-


5 25


Feb.


13. 8 Milton's Minor Poems,


2 00


2 00


8 Macauley's Essays on Addison, 8 Macauley's Essays on Milton,


2 00


6 00


Less 1-6,


1 00-


5 00


$80 31


SILVER, BURDETT & Co.


March 21. 12 Chemistry Report Books,


$3 00


Less 1-6,


50- $ 2 50


March 30. 15 Introduction to Economics,


13 50-


13 50


Sept. 8.


5 Music Readers, No. 1,


1 60


5 No. 2, 3 00


4 60


Less 1-6,


76-


3 84


Sept. 17. 8 Music Readers, No. 2, Less 1-6,


4 80


80-


4 00


Sept. 21. 5 Systematic Ex. Blanks, Less 1-6,


1 25


20-


1 05


$24 89


3 00


6 30


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AMERICAN BOOK Co.


March 22. 10 Old Greek Stories,


$4 50


10 Story of the Greeks, 6 00


10 50


Less 1-5,


2 10- $ 8 40


Sept.


7.


25 Nat'l Elem. Geography,


15 00


20 Metcalf Grammar,


12 00


12 Webster Primary Dict.,


5 76


32 76


Less 1-5,


6 55-


26 21


Sept. 10.


10 Webster Primary Dict.,


4 80


10 Metcalf Grammar,


6 00


10 80


Less 1-5,


2 16-


8 64


Sept. 19. 3 Eggleston 1st. History Book Less 1-5,


1 80


36-


1 44


Oct.


1. 5 Carpenter's Asia, Less 1-5,


3 00


60-


2 40


$47 09


ED. E. BABB & Co.


Sept. 7. 10 Wentworth Sch. Algebra,


$5 00-


$5 00


Sept. 8. 8 Boscher Otto French Grammar,


4 72-


4 72


Sept. 20. 4 Avery Elements of Chemistry,


3 08-


3 08


$12 80


P. R. BULLARD.


Dec. 22. 3 Maps Lower New England,


$5 70- $5 70


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C. J. WILLIAMS.


June 5. Stamps and Envelopes,


$1 33- $1 33


GENERAL EXPENSES.


Paid T. Evans, W. D. De Vault,


$1 50


1 60


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Paid C. L. Gouly,


$ 4 40


A. L. Faxon,


40


A. L. Noyes,


14 97


W. S. Warren,


25


$22 12- $22 12


$483 70


By supplies sold pupils,


93


$482 77


The value of supplies now in the supply room is estimated at $60.00.


CHAS. J. WILLIAMS, Purchasing Ageut.


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TOWN WARRANT.


For Annual Meeting March 25, 1901.


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 Common- wealth of Massachusetts, to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Acton, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, in said Town, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of March, A. D. 1901, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles as they may think proper, viz :


ARTICLE I. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.


ART. 2. To see if the Town will accept the reports of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, School Committee, and other Town officers.


ART. 3. To hear and act upon the report of any Com- mittee chosen to report at this meeting.


ART. 4. To choose all necessary Town Officers and Committees, and fix salaries.


ART. 5. To see if the Town will appropriate the sun of twenty-two hundred dollars for providing protection against fire, in the villages of Acton Center, East Acton, North Acton, South and West Action, or do or act anything thereon.


ART. 6. To see if the Town will rescind all action taken on Articles 21 and 22 in Warrant of April 3, 1899, and accept ordinance in relation to burials and Cemetery Trust Funds, or act anything thereon.


ART. 7. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the observance of Memorial Day. 50-


ART. 8. To see if the Town will accept the Jury list as revised by the Selectmen, or take any action thereon.


ART. 9. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the repairing of roads and bridges the present year.


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ART. IO. To see if the Town will authorize its Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for the Town, if necessary, in anticipation of taxes the pres- ent year.


WART. II To vote Yes, or No, in answer to the ques- tion : Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town of Acton the present year.


ART. 12. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the support of Memorial Library the present year.


ART. 13. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the support of schools the present year, and act anything thereon.


ART. 14. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for purchase of school supplies the present year.


ART. 15. To see if the Town will maintain street lamps the present year, or act anything thereon.


ART. 16. To see what action the Town will take rela- tive to the collection of taxes the present year.


ART. 17. To see what amount of money the Town will raise, if any, for Town charges.


ART. 18. To see if the Town wish to further instruct its Selectmen relative to the separation of grade crossings in the Town, or act anything thereon.


ART. 19. To see if the Town will authorize its Select- men to release the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from all claims for damage arising from the change of grade on a sec- tion of proposed State Highway, in the Village of West Acton, or act anything thereon.


ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a suitable building for the Fire Apparatus at South Acton.


ART. 21. To see if the Town will abate the taxes for the year 1900 on the West Acton Citizens Library Associa- tion property, amounting to seventeen dollars, and to exempt the same from taxation, or act anything thereon.


ART. 22. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to sell the North Acton school house and grounds, or act anything thereon.


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ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to close a piece of road on the southerly side of the Davis Monument, leading from Main street to a point near the house of Isaac T. Flagg, or act anything thereon.


ART. 24. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of placing markers at the graves of persons who served in the War of 1812, the Seminole war and the Mexican war.


ART. 25. To see if the Town will appropriate money for the care of Cemeteries the present year, or act anything thereon.


ART. 26. To see if the Town will build a road from the Leland-Stevens road (so called) past the cold storage building of O. W. Mead to the Turnpike, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, or act anything thereon.


ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the provisions of Chap. 264 of the Acts of 1890, relating to pub- lic cemeteries, or act anything thereon.


ART. 28. To see if the Town will rebuild the bridge near the house of O. A. Knowlton, leading to the house of E. H. Cutler, or act anything thereon.


The Polls will be open by 10 o'clock A. M., and may be closed by 2 o'clock P. M.


You are hereby directed to serve this Warrant, by post- ing copies, attested by you, in the following places : One in each of the Postoffices, one at each of the Railroad Stations, one at the stores of C. H. Mead & Co., M. E. Taylor & Co., H. A. Littlefield, Tuttle & Newton, one at the office of A. 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 Town Clerk, on or before the time appointed for holding said meeting.


Given under our hands, in Acton, this eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and one.


WILLIAM F. STEVENS, E. FAULKNER CONANT, DAVID C. HARRIS,


Selectmen of Acton.


ANNUAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


OF THE


Town of Acton, Mass.


FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 12,


1902


TOGETHER WITH THE SCHOOL REPORT.


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ACTON.


HUDSON, MASS .: THE E. F. WORCESTER PRESS. 1902.


ANNUAL REPORTS


OF THE


TOWN OFFICERS


OF THE


Town of Acton, Mass.


FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 12,


1902


TOGETHER WITH THE SCHOOL REPORT.


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HUDSON, MASS .: THE E. F. WORCESTER PRESS. 1902.


Town Officers, 1901-1902.


Town Clerk, Horace F. Tuttie. Selectmen,


William F. Stevens,


E. Faulkner Conant,


Edwin A. Phalen. Assessors,


E. Faulkner Conant, William F. Kelley, Chauncy B. Robbins. Overseers of the Poor,


David C. Harris,


William F. Kelley,


Lyman C. Taylor. Town Treasurer, Jonathan K. W. Wetherbee. Auditor, Frank W. Hoit. Collector of Taxes, William F. Stevens. Constables,


James Kingsley, William H. Kingsley, L. E. Reed.


Cemetery Committee.


Julian Tuttle,


Herbert T. Clark,


Horace F. Tuttle. Road Commissioners,


William H. Kingsley, (term expires 1902), Albert H. Perkins, (term expires 1903), Anson C. Piper, (term expires 1904).


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School Committee, Charles J. Williams, (term expires 1902),


Horace F. Tuttle, (term expires 1903), Frank R. Knowlton, (term expires 1904). Trustees of Memorial Library, (elected by the Town),


Charles J. Williams, (term expires 1902), Lucius A. Hesselton, (term expires 1903), William D. Tuttle, (term expires 1904). Board of Health,


Frank J. Barker, (term expires 1904), Frank E. Tasker, (term expires 1903), Charles J. Williams, (term expires 1902). Fence Viewers,


Daniel H. Farrar,


Reuben L. Reed,*


Oliver W. Mead .*


Surveyors of Lumber, Wood, Hoops and Staves,


Herbert T. Clark, Edgar H. Hall, Jona P. Fletcher,


Edward F. Richardson* James E. Billings,* M. E. Taylor,* Charles E. Smith.


Field Drivers,


James Kinsley,


William H. Kingsley, L. E. Reed.


Tree Warden,


Charles J. Williams. Registrars of Voters (appointed),


Samuel A. Guilford, (term expires 1904), James McGreen, (term expires 1903), David T. Kinsley, (term expires 1902), Horace F. Tuttle, ex-officio.


* Not sworn.


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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING,


HELD, MARCH 25, 1901.


ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.


Luther Conant was chosen Moderator.


ART. 2. To see if the Town will accept the reports of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, School Committee and other Town officers.


Voted, To accept the reports of the several Town officers as printed.


ART. 3. To hear and act upon the report of any committee chosen to report at this meeting.


No action taken.


ART. 4. To choose all necessary Town officers and com- mittees and fix salaries.


Voted, To fix the salary of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year at one hundred and fifty dollars, the same to include posting tne warrants, enforcing the dog law and all other duties hitherto performed by said officer.


Voted, That the salary of the Road Commissioners be fixed at twenty five cents per hour employed.


Voted, That laborers be paid seventeen and one-half cents per hour employed.


Voted, That a double team and man be paid forty-two and one-half cents per hour employed.


Voted, That travel to and from work shall not be reckoned as time employed.


Voted, To proceed to choose on one ballot a Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, three Selectmen, three Assessors, three Over- seers of the Poor, one member of the School Committee for three years, a Collector of Taxes, four Constables, three members of the Cemetery Committee, three Fence Viewers, seven Survey-


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ors of Lumber, Wood, Hoops and Staves, four Field Drivers, one member of the Board of Trustees of the Memorial Library for three years, one auditor, one Road Commissioner for three years, one Road Commissioner for two years, and a Tree Warden.


The following town officers and committees were chosen :


Town Clerk : Horace F. Tuttle.


Town Treasurer ; Jona K. W. Wetherbee.


Selectmen ; William F. Stevens, E. Faulkner Conant, Edwin A. Phalen.


Assessors ; Job. W. Dupee, Fred S. Whitcomb, William F. Kelley.


Overseers of the Poor ; David C. Harris, William F. Kelley, Lyman C. Taylor.


School Committee for three years ; Frank R. Knowlton.


Collector of Taxes ; William F. Stevens.


Constables ; James Kinsley, William H. Kingsley, L. E. Reed, Daniel H. Farrar.


Cemetery Committee; Julian Tuttle, Herbert T. Clark, Horace F. Tuttle.


Fence Viewers; Daniel H. Farrar, Reuben L. Reed, Oliver W. Mead.


Surveyors of Lumber, Wood, Hoops and Staves ; Herbert T. Clark, Jona P. Fletcher, Edgar H. Hall, Edward F. Richard- son, M. E. Taylor, James E. Billings, Charles E. Smith.


Trustee of Memorial Library; William D. Tuttle for three years.


Tree Warden ; Charles J. Williams.


Field Drivers; James Kinsley, William H. Kingsley, L. E. Reed, Daniel H. Farrar.


Auditor ; Frank W. Hoit.


Road Commissioners; Anson C. Piper for three years, Albert H. Perkins for two years.


ART. 5. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of twenty-two hundred dollars for providing protection against fire in the villiages of Acton Center, East, North, South and West Acton or do or act anything thereon.


Voted, To lay an eight inch cast iron pipe from the factory of Hall Brothers in West Acton to the corner of the store of C. H. Mead & Co., and place one hydrant at said store and properly


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locate another on the line between said points. To purchase one thousand feet of unlined linen or rubber lined cotton hose, as may be decided later and hose carriage for the same.


To purchase for South Acton eight hundred feet of rubber lined hose of same quality as lately purchased for that place at a cost of one hundred and sixty-five dollars. To purchase for one hundred dollars the F. R. R. water supply basin located near the cider mill of Henry Barker, excavate and properly fix said basin for a possible water supply in case of fire. Also, to purchase a small hand tub, and two hundred feet of hose same as is in use of Town at East Acton, for North Acton at a cost of two hundred dollars.


To purchase at a cost of two hundred and ninety-four dollars, twenty-one small fire extinguishers and place three at North Acton, three at East Acton, five each at South Acton, West Acton and Acton Center.


Voted, To authorize the hiring of a competent man at each part of the town where fire apparatus is located to properly care for it, to discharge and refit all the Town chemicals as needed and clean and properly care for the hose after a fire.


Voted, To appropriate the sum of twenty-two hundred dol- lars for the carrying out of these votes, to assess eleven hundred dollars of said amount in the taxes of 1901 and eleven hundred dollars in taxes of 1902.


Voted, To instruct the Selectmen to immediately carry out these instructions except the laying of the pipe in West Acton which is to be done at the earliest possible moment in the spring of 1901.


Voted, To instruct the Selectmen to borrow eleven hundred dollars in anticipation of the assessment of 1902, if necessary.


Voted, That Delette H. Hall and F. C. Hayward be a committee to co-operate with the Selectmen in carrying out these votes, Mr. Hall to act so far as it relates to West Acton and Mr. Hayward for South Acton.


ART. 6. To see if the town will rescind all action taken on Articles 21 and 22 in warrant of April 3, 1899, and accept ordi- nance in relation to burials and Cemetery Trust Funds or act anything thereon.


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Voted, To adopt the following ordinance relative to funds deposited with the town for the care of lots in cemeteries.


TOWN OF ACTON, IN THE YEAR 1901, AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO BURIALS.


SECTION 1. The Town of Acton, Mass., will receive of any person any sum of money not less than Fifty Dollars nor more than Five Hundred Dollars, the interest thereof to be applied to the annual care of such lot in the public burial grounds of the Town of Acton as the person paying the money shall designate. Such deposit may be made perpetual if so desired by the person depositing the same.


SECTION 2. The Town Treasurer shall receive all sums of money paid in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section, giving a proper receipt of the town therefor, and shall annually at such time as the Cemetery Committee of the public burial grounds of said town shall request, pay over to said Com- mittee interest at the rate of three and a half per cent. per an- num upon all sums so paid to and receipted for by him, with a statement of the several lots in the public burial grounds of said town, upon which the interest so paid is to be expended. All of said amounts shall be judiciously and economically expended on each of the variously specified lots, and in addition to keeping the grass cut as many flowers as the money will permit shall be planted, watered and cared for on these lots, also once in every tive years the monuments, markers, corner stones and curbings shall be properly cleaned and repaired, the expense of same to be deducted from the income, if sufficient, of the funds of the lot so cleaned, should the town neglect to faithfully carry out the provisions of this act, the money so deposited shall revert to the heirs of the person so depositing it.


SECTION 3. Said Cemetery Committee shall receipt for and faithfully apply all sums of interest so received by it in accord- ance with the statement so made by the Town Treasurer, and re- port its doings in the premises annually to the town. But no part of said sums shall be used in paying for the official duties of said Committee.


Voted, That the following form of receipt shall be given in behalf of the town by its Tresurer to persons depositing money.


" Received of (A. B.) dollars as a perpetual fund,


the income of which is to be used to pay the expense of keeping in repair and good order lots in the cemeteries of Acton, Mass., as follows: (Description of lots.) This money is received in accordance with an ordinance of the town passed March 25th, 1901.


Town of Acton, by


Treasurer."


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ART. 7. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the observance of Memorial Day.


Voted, To appropriate the sum of fifty dollars.


ART. 8. To see if the Town will accept the jury list as re- vised by the Selectmen, or take any action thereon.


Voted, To accept the jury list as revised by the Selectmen.


ART. 9. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the repairing of roads and bridges.


Voted, To raise forty-four hundred dollars.


ART. 10. To see if the Town will authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for the Town if necessary in anticipation of taxes the present year.


Voted, To authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for the Town, if necessary, in anticipation of taxes the current year.


ART. 11. To vote Yes or No in answer to the question : " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Town of Acton the present year ?"


Whole number of ballots cast, 317


136


Yes, No, 181


Voted, To appropriate $500, to be placed in the hands of the Selectmen to enforce the liquor laws.


ART. 12. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the support of Memorial Library the present year.


Voted, To raise two hundred dollars for the purchase of books.


Voted, To raise four hundred dollars for running expenses.


ART. 13. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for the support of schools the present year, and act any- thing thereon.


Voted, To raise for common schools,


$3,670


66 High School, 1,700


school supplies, 475


transportation, 1,030


" books for High School, 50


66 salary of Superintendent, 450


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ART. 14. To see what amount of money the Town will raise for purchase of school supplies the present year.


Action taken under Art. 13.


ART. 15. To see if the Town will maintain street lamps the present year, or act anything thereon.


Voted, That the Town take charge of lighting street lamps in the villages of the Town ; the territory to be lighted in each village to be determined by the Selectmen ; and that each person main- taining a lamp outside the villages, approved by the Selectmen, be allowed the amount expended per lamp in the villages.


ART. 16. To see what action the Town will take relative to the collection of taxes the present year.


Voted, That the Collector charge interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum on all taxes remaining unpaid after the first day of November next.


Voted, That all taxes shall be paid on or before the first day of March next, and if any taxes remain unpaid after that date the Collector shall collect according to law.


ART. 17. To see what amount of money the Town will raise, if any, for Town charges.


Voted, To appropriate sixty-two hundred dollars.


ART. 18. To see if the Town wish to further instruct its Selectmen, relative to the separation of grade crossings in the Town, or act anything thereon.


Voted, To defer action for the present.


Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to employ an engineer to make an estimate of the cost of separating the grades between the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. and B. & M. R. R. Co.'s tracks and the Great Road, so called, including land damages.


ART. 19. To see if the Town will authorize its Selectmen to release the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from all claims for damages arising from the change of grade on a proposed section of State highway in the village of West Acton, or act anything thereon.


Voted, To pass over the Article.


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ART. 20. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a suitable building for the fire apparatus at South Acton


Voted, To pass over the Article.


ART. 21. To see if the Town will abate the taxes for the year 1900 on the West Acton Citizens' Library Association pro- perty, amounting to seventeen dollars, and to exempt the same from taxation, or act anything thereon.


A motion to abate the tax and exempt the property from taxation did not prevail.


ART. 22. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to sell the North Acton school house and grounds, or act any- thing thereon.


Voted, That the Selectmen be instructed to sell the property at public auction, provided they shall not accept an offer less than five hundred dollars.


ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to close a piece of road on the southerly side of the Davis Monument, leading from Main Street to a point near the house of Isaac T. Flagg's, or act anything thereon.


Voted, To close and discontinue the piece of road described in the Article.


ART. 24. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of placing markers at the graves of per- sons who served in, the war of 1812, the Seminole and the Mexican wars.


Voted, To appropriate twenty-five dollars to carry out the purpose of the Article.


ART. 25. To see if the town will appropriate money for the care of cemeteries the present year or act anything thereon.


Voted, To appropriate Five Hundred dollars.


ART. 26. To see if the town will build a road from the Leland-Stevens road (so called) past the Cold Storage Building of O. W. Mead to the turnpike, as laid out by the Road Commissioners or act anything thereon


Voted, Not to build the road as laid out.


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ART. 27. To see if the town will vote to adopt the pro- visions of Chap. 264 of the Acts of 1890 relating to public cem- eteries or act anything thereon.


Voted, To adopt the provisions of Chap. 264 of the Acts of 1890 relating to public cemeteries.


ART. 28. To see if the town will rebuild the bridge near the house of O. A. Knowlton, leading to the house of E. H. Cut- ler, or act anything thereon.


Voted, To appropriate One Hundred dollars to repair or rebuild the bridge so that it shall be safe for travel.


It was voted, informally, that with the permission of the Cemetery Committee any person in town may deposit rubbish or refuse on the ground near the southeast corner of Mt. Hope Cem- etery.


Voted, To accept the minutes of the meeting.


Voted, To adjourn without day.


A true record, attest :


HORACE F. TUTTLE, Town Clerk.


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