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23.00|87.46
16
11
16
11
0
0
0
2
0
0 0
West Intermediate IV .- VI.
21
21
42
38.49
34.78|89.44
16
14
16
14
0
0
0
West Grammar ... . . VII .- VIII.
15
16
30
27.31
25.24 92.46
14
14
11
12
1|
0| 0 0
High
.IX.
16
15
31
28.20
23.60|88.60
9
7
9
7 860
0
Total
185|
192
366 325.51|292.67|90.14
160 165 325
131| 123|13 8 0 0 254 21
0
South Upper Primary .. III .- IV.
13
13
25
23.16
20.94 90.26
13
12
13
12
0
South Grammar . . VII .- VIII.
14
16
28
25.00
24.00 92.00
9
10
7
7
4
West Primary .
.. I .- III.
19
21
38
31.87
28.56|89.59
18
20
6
4
01
7
South Intermediate
... . V .- VI.
Boys
Girls
Boys
Boys
Girls
0
30
.
377
Total
Membership
under 5
C
31
High School Statistics
Number graduated from Grammar Schools June, 1912:
Boys Girls
Total
Acton Center
0
8
8
West Acton
7
7
14
South Acton
6
13
Total 14
21
35
No. entering Acton first year high, Sept. 1912
13
22 35
No. promoted to Concord second year high. June, 1912
16
11 27
No. graduated from Concord high school, June, 1912
6
9
15
Concord High School Statistics, February 20, 1913
Courses Seniors Juniors 2nd Year Pupils Total
College Preparatory . 4
7
3
14
Scientific Preparatory, 1
0
1
2
General 8
3
0
11
Commercial 0
7
13
20
Domestic Arts
0
0
3
3
Mechanic Arts
1
0
0
1
-
-
Total 14 17
20
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SCHOOL CENSUS. SEPTEMBER. 1912
Number of boys between 5 and 15
155
Number of girls between 5 and 15 154
Total 309
Number of boys between 7 and 14
105
Number of girls between 7 and 14 107
Total 212 Number of illiterate minors 0
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REPORT OF SIGHT AND HEARING TEST
Number Enrolled
Defective Eyesight
Defective Hearing
Parents Notified
School Examined
High
35
4
0
4
West
81
9
3
12
South
113
5
1
6
Center
85
4
4
4
-
314
22
8
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TRUANT OFFICERS' REPORT
February 1, 1913.
To the School Committee of Acton :
Number of cases of truant children investigated
35
Number of cases brought to trial
0
Respectfully submitted,
ASAPH PARLIN,
THOMAS SCANLON,
ROBERT RANDALL.
INDEX
Town Officers
3
Town Warrant
6
Town Meetings
11
State Election
17 22
Town Clerk's Report
Births
23
Marriages
24
Deaths
26 28
Dog Licenses
29 31
Town Accountant's Report
32
Treasurer's Report
55
Assessors' Report
Collector's Report
Tree Warden
Fire Warden
67
Cattle Inspector's Report
68
Road Commissioner
69
Overseers of the Poor
70
Report of Cemetery Commissioners
73
Trustees Goodnow Fund
79
Acton Memorial Library
80
List of Books Added
85
SECOND SECTION
School Report
1
School Calendar
3
Special Exercises and Holidays
4
School Officers
5
Teachers
6
Standing Rules
7
General Report
8
Financial Statement
10
Superintendent's Report
18
High School Principal
23
Supervisor of Music
24
Supervisor of Drawing
26
Roll of Honor 28
Statistical Tables
30
Board of Health
61 63 65 66
Non-Resident Burials
Selectmen's Report
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Several Boards of Town Officers
OF THE
TOWN OF ACTON
MASSACHUSETTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31
1914
RATED
OONI
1735.
ACTON.
THE NEWS-ENTERPRISE
1914
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Several Boards of Town Officers
OF THE
TOWN OF ACTON
MASSACHUSETTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31
1914
RATED
R
OONI
1735.
ACTON
THE NEWS-ENTERPRISE
1914
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1913
Selectmen
James P. Brown
. Term expires 1914
Fred S. Whitcomb
Term expires 1915
Edward Z. Stanley
Term expires 1916
Town Clerk Horace F. Tuttle
Town Treasurer Frank W. Hoit
Assessors
William F. Stevens
Term expires 1914
. Term expires 1915
James B. Tuttle William F. Kelley Term expires 1916
Overseers of the Poor
William F. Kelley Edward Z. Stanley Lyman C. Taylor
Collector of Taxes William F. Stevens
Tree Warden James O'Neil
Constables
James Kinsley William F. Stevens
Fence Viewers
James P. Brown Edward Z. Stanley
Fred S. Whitcomb
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Field Drivers
George W. Daniels J. Alfred Goding
Daniel H. Farrar Fred S. Whitcomb
Road Commissioners
William H. Kingsley Albert H. Perkins William B. Franklin
Term expires 1914 Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916
Cemetery Commissioners
Herbert T. Clark Julian Tuttle Horace F. Tuttle
Term expires 1914
Term expires 1915
Term expires 1916
School Committee
Edwin A. Phalen
Term expires 1914
Samuel A. Christie
Bertram E. Hall
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916
Trustees of Memorial Library (Chosen by the Town)
J. Sidney White Lucius A. Hesselton
Horace F. Tuttle
Term expires 1914
Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916
Board of Health
James B. Tuttle Frank E. Tasker Edward C. Page
Term expires 1914 Term expires 1915 Term expires 1916 1
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APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN
Town Accountant William T. Merriam
Registrars of Voters
Samuel A. Guilford
James McGreen
George E. Holton Horace F. Tuttle (ex-officio)
Election Officers
Precinct 1
Warden
John F. Coughlin
Deputy warden Edwin A. Phalen Clerk Horace F. Tuttle
Deputy clerk Moses E. Taylor
Inspector
Arthur F. Davis
Deputy inspector Willis L. Holden
Inspector Elmer C. Cheney
Deputy inspector Moses A. Reed
Inspector William H. Kingsley Deputy inspector John S. White Precinct 2 T. F. Newton
Warden
Deputy warden
Clerk
L. A. Hesselton Abram Tuttle Anson C. Piper
Deputy clerk
Inspector
Louis C. Hastings
Deputy inspector
Frank A. Merriam Constance O'Neil
Inspector
Deputy inspector
Nelson J. Cole
Inspector .J. S. Moore Deputy inspector George E. Clapp Precinct 3
Warden . Charles J. Holton
Deputy warden . Eugene L. Hall Clerk William F. Kelley
Deputy clerk William L. Tenney
Inspector Fred S. Whitcomb
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Deputy inspector S. R. Burroughs Inspector .James Kinsley
Deputy inspector John T. McNiff
Inspector Charles A. Durkee
Deputy inspector Bertram E. Hall
Cattle Inspector Fred S. Whitcomb
Forest Warden William H. Kingsley
Fire Wardens
Daniel H. Farrar John S. White James P. Brown
William H. Kingsley George H. Reed
Surveyors of Lumber, Wood, Hoops and Staves J. W. Dapee Charles E. Smith E. C Cheney Bertram D. Hall F. A. Merriam H. T. Clark
Public Weighers
J. P. Fletcher M. E. Taylor E. C. Cheney E. F. Conant Thomas Hearon George H. Reed William H. Teele
Sealer of Weights and Measures Edward C. Page
Local Superintendent of Moth Work James O'Neil
Police Officers
Edward S. Fobes Herbert R. Moore
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss.
ATED
PONI
1735.
ACTON
To either of the Constables of the Town of Acton, in the County of Middlesex, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are directed 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 thirtieth day of March, 1914, at nine o'clock in the forenoon. Then and there to act on the following articles, to wit:
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To bring in their votes on one ballot for the following town officers: Town clerk for one year, one selectman for three years, one selectman for one year (to fill vacancy), three overseers of the poor, town treasurer, collector of taxes, tree warden, four constables, four field drivers, three fence viewers, all for one year. One assessor, one road commissioner, one trustee of Memorial library, one member of the school committee, one cemetery commissioner,
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and one member of the board of health, all for three years. Also, on the same ballot with the above named officers to vote upon the following question: "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" The polls will be opened at 9.30 a. m., and may be closed at 4 o'clock p. m.
Article 3. To choose all necessary town officers not named in Article 2, and fix salaries.
Article 4. To see if the town will accept the reports of the selectmen, overseers of the poor, school committee, library trustees, and other town officers.
Article 5. To hear and act upon the reports of any committees chosen at any previous meeting, that have not already reported.
Article 6. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the due observance of Memorial day.
Article 7. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the repairing and building of roads and bridges, or act anything thereon.
Article 8. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the support of the Memorial library the current year.
Article 9. To see what amount of money the town will appropriate for the care of cemeteries, or act anything thereon.
Article 10. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the maintenance of the fire department, or act anything thereon.
Article 11. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the enforcement of the liquor laws, or act anything thereon.
Article 12. To see if the town will petition the director of the bureau of statistics for an audit of its accounts, in accordance with the provisions of chapter five hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and ten and the amendments thereof.
Article 13. To see if the town will authorize the treasurer, with the approval of its selectmen, to borrow
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money for the town, if necessary, in anticipation of revenue the current year.
Article 14. To see what action the town will take in regard to the extermination of the elm leaf beetle.
Article 15. To see what action the town will take in reference to the extermination of the gypsy and brown tail moth.
Article 16. To see what amount of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of schools, the purchase of school books and supplies, the expense of operating the school plants, repairs and improvements upon school buildings and grounds, the transportation of scholars, and for other expenses relating to the maintenance of the school department, or do or act anything thereon.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to build a High School building the present year, or act anything thereon.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to contribute funds for the erection at Washington, D. C., of a National Civic Hall as a Peace Memorial to the Father of Our Country, or act anything thereon.
Article 19. To see what action the town will take in regard to the collection of taxes.
Article 20. To see what amount of money the town will raise for town charges.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars for the pay- ment of premiums on treasurer's and collector's bonds.
Article 22. To see if the town will raise fifty dollars for an assistant fish and game warden, as recommended by the state, or act anything thereon.
Article 23. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to be expended for setting out shade trees, or act anything thereon.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to have the name of Luther Blanchard placed on the monument, or act anything thereon.
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Article 25. To see if the town will insure its help, or· act anything thereon.
Article 26. To see if the town will vote to put three electric lights on the road leading to W. H. Teele's, one near the residence of Daniel Beach on Central street, one- at the electric road near S. L. Richardson's, and one at the. bridge near the cemetery, all in West Acton; also, two on Stow road, and some on Maynard street, South Acton, or- act anything thereon.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to change the name of the Town Farm to the name of Simon Tuttle Home, or some appropriate name, or act anything thereon.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to change the name of the Town Farm road, or act anything thereon.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to oil the. streets through the villages of Acton. or act anything thereon.
Article 30. To see whether the town will vote to rescind the action providing for the election of selectmen by rotation for periods of three years, and revert to the system of simultaneous elections for the period of one year, as provided under certain acts of the Revised Statutes.
Article 31. To see if the town will contract with the "West and South Water Supply District of Acton" for rental of their hydrants, not to exceed one hundred in number at $25.00 per year, for fire purposes only.
Article 32. To see if the town will pay for fighting brush fires, and fix price, or act anything thereon.
Article 33. To see if the town will vote to have all bills approved by the selectmen before payment, or act anything thereon.
Article 34. To see if the town will rescind the vote passed at their meeting April 3rd, 1899, whereby they voted to choose three road commissioners, and accept the provisions of Section 364, Chapter 560, of the Acts of 1907, relative to the election of a highway surveyor.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to extend its:
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electric street lighting to North Acton, or act anything thereon.
And you are 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., W. E. Whitcomb, M. E. Taylor & Co., Tuttle & Newton, Finney & Hoit, George H. Reed, and one at the Nagog House, seven days at least before the time appointed for holding said meeting.
Given under our hands in Acton this seventeenth day of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.
JAMES P. BROWN, FRED S. WHITCOMB, EDWARD Z. STANLEY, Selectmen of Acton.
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting March 31, 1913
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting.
Allen Brooks Parker was chosen moderator.
Article 2. To bring in their votes on one ballot for town officers.
The following town officers were chosen :
Town Clerk-Horace F. Tuttle.
Selectmen-Edward Z. Stanley, for three years, Fred S. Whitcomb. for two years, (to fill vacancy.)
Assessor-William F. Kelley.
Overseers of the Poor-William F. Kelley, Edward Z. Stanley. Lyman C. Taylor.
Treasurer-Frank W. Hoit.
Collector of Taxes-William F. Stevens.
Constables-James Kinsley, William F. Stevens, James B. Tuttle, William B. Franklin.
Road Commissioner-William B. Franklin.
Field Drivers-George W. Daniels. Daniel H. Farrar, J. Alfred Goding, Fred S. Whitcomb.
Fence Viewers-James P. Brown. Edward Z. Stanley, Fred S. Whitcomb.
School Committee-Bertram E. Hall.
Cemetery Commissioner-Horace F. Tuttle.
Board of Health-Edward C. Page.
Trustee of Memorial Library-Horace F. Tuttle.
Tree Warden-James O'Neil.
On the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town," the vote was:
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Whole number of ballots cast 277
Yes 84 Nc 181
Blanks 12
Article 3. To choose all necessary town officers not named in article 2, and fix salaries.
Voted: That the selectmen be instructed to appoint surveyors of lumber, wood, hoops and staves.
Chose Horace F. Tuttle trustee of the Goodnow fund for three years.
Voted: That the salary of the road commissioners be two and one-half dollars per day, nine hours to constitute a day.
Voted: That the salary of the tax collector be one per centum of the amount collected, and that he perform all the duties hitherto performed by said officer.
Voted: That the salary of the treasurer be two hun- dred dollars per annum.
Voted: That the salary of the chairman of the select- men be $100 per annum, and the other members $50 per annum.
Article 4. To see if the town will accept the reports of the selectmen, overseers of the poor, school committee, library trustees, and other town officers.
Voted: To accept the printed reports of the several town officers.
Article 5. To hear and act upon the reports of any committees chosen at any previous meeting, that have not already reported.
No reports were presented.
Article 6. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the due observance of Memorial day.
Voted: To raise one hundred dollars ($100.)
Article 7. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the repairing and building of roads and bridges, or act anything thereon.
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Voted: To raise four thousand dollars ($4,000), for repairing roads and bridges.
Voted: To appropriate one thousand dollars ($1,000), additional for building roads, provided the town shall receive an allotment of one thousand dollars ($1,000), from the state under the Small Town Act, so called.
Article 8. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the support of the Memorial library the current year.
Voted: To raise the sum of five hundred dollars ($500), for current expenses, and two hundred dollars ($200), for purchasing books.
Article 9. To see what amount of money the town will appropriate for the care of cemeteries, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To appropriate six hundred dollars ($600.)
Article 10. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the maintenance of the fire department, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise four hundred dollars ($400) for maintenance of fire department.
Voted: To raise one hundred eighty-four dollars ($184), for hydrant service in East Acton.
Article 11. To see if the town will contract with the "West and South Water Supply District of Acton" for rental of their hydrants, not to exceed one hundred in number at $25.00 per year, for fire purposes only.
Voted: That the selectmen be instructed to contract with the "West and South Water Supply District of Acton" for the service of not more than one hundred hydrants, for fire purposes only, at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25), each per annum.
Voted : To raise twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500), for the hydrant service covered by this article.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to purchase new hose and hose carriages, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To appropriate five hundred dollars ($500),
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to supply the Acton Center Fire Department with hose and hose carriage.
Article 13. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the enforcement of the liquor laws, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To reappropriate the unexpended balance of the amount appropriated last year for the enforcement of the liquor laws.
Voted: That the selectmen constitute the committee to enforce said laws.
Article 14. 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.
Voted: That the town treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, be and is hereby authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the taxes of the municipal year beginning February 1, 1913, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $15,000. and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debts or debt incurred under this vote, to be paid from the taxes of said municipal year.
Article 15. To see what action the town will take in regard to the extermination of the elm leaf beetle.
Voted: To raise and appropriate four hundred dollars ($400), to be expended by the tree warden.
Article 16. To see what action the town will take in reference to the extermination of the gypsy and brown tail moth.
Voted: To raise the sum of money required by the state law.
Article 17. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $600 to purchase a power sprayer of the state.
Voted: To refer the matter to the selectmen, with power to act.
Voted: To appropriate $600 to provide for the cost of the sprayer, if purchased.
Article 18. To see if the town will appoint a town
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accountant for the current year, and fix salary of same, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To fix the salary of the town accountant the same as last year, thirty cents per hour employed.
Voted: To raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to pay the same.
Article 19. To see what amount of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of schools, the purchase of school books and supplies, the expense of operating the school plants, repairs and improvements upon school grounds and buildings, the transportation of scholars, and for other expenses relating to the maintenance of the school department, or do or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars ($17,500), and the dog tax for the current year, for the purposes specified in the school committee's estimates for the support of schools for the fiscal year 1913-1914, to be found on page 9 of the annual report of the school committee for the year ending January 31, 1913.
Voted: To allow the committee to transfer any un- expended balance of any appropriation to any other which may become exhausted and have proven insufficient.
Voted: To instruct the school committee to require physiology to be taught in the elementary schools.
Article 20. To see what action the town will take in regard to the collection of taxes.
Voted: That the collector charge interest at the rate of five percent per annum on all taxes remaining unpaid after the first day of November next.
Voted : That poll and personal taxes only be payable on demand.
Voted: That the collector shall issue summons for all poll and personal taxes only remaining unpaid September 1. That the collector shall collect all taxes committed to him within the municipal year in which they are assessed.
. Article 21. To see what amount of money the town will raise for town charges.
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Voted: To appropriate for town charges six thousand dollars ($6,000), to be expended as follows :
Town farm $600.00
Outside poor 1,000.00
Soldiers' aid
100.00
Printing
300.00
Buildings and grounds
300.00
Police
150.00
Board of health
1,000.00
Salaries of town officers and expenses . . 2,000.00
Miscellaneous
550.00
Voted: To raise for street lighting two thousand three hundred dollars ($2,300.)
Article 22. To see if the town will authorize putting water in the school houses and watering troughs, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise and appropriate two hundred fifty dollars ($250), to extend the water service, into the school houses in the town, and to raise and appropriate one hun- dred fifty dollars ($150), to connect the water service with the public watering troughs in the villages, to be expended by the selectmen.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to instruct the school committee to demand of the trustees or managers of institutions having children attending the schools of this town, to pay the tuition or other extra expense incurred by reason of the same, in accordance with section four of chapter 44, of the Revised Laws, as amended by section two of chapter 268, of the Acts of 1911.
Voted: To instruct the school committee to demand of the trustees or managers of institutions having children attending the schools of this town, to pay the tuition or other extra expense incurred by reason of the same in accordance with section four of chapter 44, of the Revised Laws, as amended by section two of chapter 268, of the Acts of 1911.
Article 24. To see if the town will authorize having six more electric lights, three extending from opposite A.
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Merriam company's factory to Lothrop's factory, and three from the corner at Walter Hayward's house to W. A. Flint's.
Voted: That the selectmen be instructed to contract for six additional electric lights, to be located on the streets: as specified in the article.
Article 25. To see if the town will name its streets, · and have the names put up at the street corners in a proper way, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To pass over the article.
Article 26. To see what amount of money the town will raise for the following purposes, namely :
First. For the repair of the engine house in South Acton, or act anything thereon.
Second. For the purchase of an automobile truck for fire protection, or act anything thereon.
Third. For the proper installing of a system of fire alarm, or act anything thereon.
Fourth. For the disposal of the present fire apparatus at South Acton, or act anything thereon.
Voted: Under the first section of the article, to raise one hundred fifty dollars ($150), to repair the fire house in South Acton.
Voted: To pass over the remaining sections of the article.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate money to pay a portion of the expense to be incurred by its villages in the construction and repair of sidewalks during the current year, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To pass over the article.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), for the payment of premiums on treasurer's and collector's bonds.
Voted: To raise the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.)
Article 29. To see what action the town will take on the recommendation of the state to appoint George E ..
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Holton assistant fish and game warden, with a salary of fifty dollars.
Voted: To pass over the article.
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to dispose of the old scraper and other road implements not in use, or act anything thereon.
Voted : That the road commissioners be instructed to dispose of the old scraper and other road implements which have ceased to be used by the road department.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to oil the streets through the villages of Acton, or act anything thereon.
Voted: To raise the sum of three hundred dollars ($300), for oiling the streets through the villages of South and West Acton and Acton Center.
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