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ing the school year. Besides considering matters of general interest we are making a systematic study of McMurray's "Method of the Recitation." The teachers of last year who are now with us attended, on the average, over 88 per cent of the teachers' meetings last year. The professional spirit of your teachers is also reflected by their subscription to teachers' periodicals. The following periodicals devoted to school work are taken by one or more of your teachers : Popular Educator (5) ; Primary Education (5) ; Teachers' World (3); Normal Instructor (3) ; School Physiology Journal (2); Education (1); Journal of Education (1) ; School Review (1) ; Our Times (1) ; Primary School (1) ; Primary Teacher (1); The Educator (1). This shows an average of nearly two papers to each teacher.
Some of your teachers did professional work during the summer. Three took a course of study at a summer school ; two studied by themselves quite extensively along lines of school work in which they were particularly interested ; and nine read one or more professional books. Six have pur- chased Stoddard's Lectures in ten volumes. These books are said to be valuable aids in teaching history and geogra- phy.
With one exception, all of your teachers attended the two day institute at Hyannis last November. This was a most helpful and inspiring meeting, and in the opinion of some who are in a position to know it was one of the best if not the best one held in the State during the fall.
LIBRARY BOOKS AND PICTURES.
Three of your schools purchased books for a school libra- ry last year. The Pleasant Lake Mixed School and the Cen- tre Grammar School purchased about twenty-five volumes
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each. Five schools purchased pictures for wall decoration. The Pleasant Lake School did most in this direction. Your Committee had the walls papered with cartridge paper and the blackboards were repaired. These improvements, com- bined with the mural decorations provided by the school, and aided by the scrupulous care and neatness of the janitor, have rendered the Pleasant Lake school-room one of the most attractive in the town.
GRADING AND PROMOTION.
Grading and promotion should be determined by the teacher subject to the approval of the Superintendent. Each pupil should be placed where he can do the best for himself, whether that be promotion to advanced work or continuation in the same kind of work. No absolute stand- ard for promotion can be established. The fact that John gets 100 per cent. in arithmetic and James only 68 per cent. is no proof that John has done his best or has gotten more benefit from his arithmetic lesson than James. Pos- sibly no two teachers would mark the above papers exactly alike. So long as people differ in ability, heredity, or en- vironment, so long will their standards vary and so long as their standards vary no absolute dependence can be placed upon any marking or ranking system. Superintendent Hervey, of Pawtucket, R. I., says, "the ideal school is by no means the one where all pupils reach the highest mark in every study ; but rather the school where individual dif- ferences are cheerfully recognized, and where each pupil, with no incentive but that which springs from a sense of individual responsibility, without pride and without shame, lives up to the best there is in him. The bright boy who learns with little effort should not be given the occasion to
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feel that, though he has not done much to merit it, he is really a very superior person ; nor should the slow boy, when he reluctantly carries home his report, be forced to the conclusion that, though he has striven as never before to do his best, somehow there is something counted more worthy than faithful effort, and that he, through no fault of his own, has fallen short of it. A system of marking that lays the emphasis upon attainment, rather than upon faith- ful effort, can hardly fail to confuse ethical distinctions in the mind of the child and to discourage those who stand in greatest need of help." Therefore examine carefully the value which the teacher places upon your child's effort. It will be given on his report card each month.
STATISTICS.
By direction of the State Board of Education the statis- tics are to be given for the natural school year, viz., from September to June, instead of from January to December, as formerly. Therefore there are no statistics given in this report for the fall term just completed, except the table of enrollment and average age.
Epidemics in several of the schools had a disastrous effect upon the attendance last year. In the Centre Primary dur- ing the spring term the attendance fell below 70 per cent., and in several others the average was only about 81 per cent. I regret to note that there have been more tardi- nesses and dismissals than during the preceding year. The correction of these evils can be accomplished by parents and teachers working together, but by neither alone. The habit of punctuality is too valuable to be trifled with. Let the co- operation of the home and the school for which the Cape has already received honorable mention be brought to bear upon
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these thieves of opportunity. In many cases parents are the cause of the tardiness of their children. They should not forget that a written excuse for absence or tardiness does not mitigate the harmful effects of the evil upon the child. It simply transfers the blame from the child to the parent or to the proper cause. It is the teachers' duty, ex- pressly stated by statute, to train their pupils in right habits, and it is in virtue of this responsibility that they have the right or rather the obligation of knowing the cause of each absence, tardiness, or dismissal.
Respectfully submitted,
S. H. CHACE.
Harwich, Mass., Jan. 7, 1901.
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REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
To SUPT. S. HOWARD CHACE.
Dear Sir: In accordance with your request, I submit the following report of the Harwich High School for the year ending Dec. 21, 1900 :
The work of the school seems to be progressing in a satisfactory and pleasant manner. Everything seems to indicate a most successful year. The pupils as a whole are apparently putting their very best efforts into their work. Many are regular and punctual in their attendance, and I wish to commend such pupils. I assure them that this habit of persistently performing their duties, even in the face of seemingly great difficulties and discouragements, is one of the most practical tests of their character. This also is the surest pledge of the present to them for a happy, successful and useful career, when their school days are over, and they find themselves in the midst of life's ceaseless struggles and trials.
The school has been most fortunate in the gifts of its friends. Chester Snow, Esq., has presented us with several hundred dollars' worth of very useful apparatus for the illustration of Physics and Chemistry. His gift, together with what already was in our possession, probably gives our school the best collection of Physical apparatus possessed by any school in the county, with the exception of the Falmouth High. Mrs. Wm. H. Underwood has given several books for the library, and Mrs. F. D. Underwood has given over to us about twenty volumes, which she received for distribution from one of our summer residents. Mr. Watson Baker has given the school a number of spec- imens for the herbarium. We are also indebted to Town
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Clerk, J. H. Paine, for a copy of the Acts and Resolves of the General Court for 1900, and for the Massachusetts Year Book for 1899. Hon. D. M. Nickerson has furnished us with a copy of the Manual of the General Court for 1900. Pupils and teachers both appreciate and feel highly grateful for such gifts.
During the winter and part of the spring terms, Miss Mary Smith, a graduate from our school in the class of 1899, very successfully taught one class in Latin. The new assistant and supervisor of drawing, Miss Edith H. Moore, is filling the double position very satisfactorily, so far as the High school is concerned. Miss Harriet O. Paine, of the class of 1900, has taken one of the Latin classes, and appears to be securing good results with the pupils of her class.
Miss Mary Smith, of the class of '99, passed the examina- tions with a mark of "good" for Wesleyan University, and entered upon her work there at the beginning of the present school year. Mr. Chas. J. Kelley, who graduated several years ago, entered school at the beginning of this term, and expects to prepare himself to enter Dartmouth College next fall. Miss Olive E. Tuttle, a graduate of last year's class in the three years' course, has returned this year to complete the fourth year.
During the past year only eight parents have visited the school, and one of these came also as a committeeman. This seems a very small number, and yet so far as I am able to learn from the old registers and school reports, it is the largest number of parents to visit our school, with one exception, for the past ten years. During the same time, so far as I can ascertain, it is probable that there has been no year in which the number of visits by other persons, exclud- ing the official visits of Superintendent and School 'Com-
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mittee, has not exceeded thirty. So I think it safe to say that there certainly have been more than four times as many persons, whose interests in the High school cannot have been as vital as those of the parents, who have visited us each year. If parents fully realized how much help, in- spiration and encouragement it gives their children to have them visit the school, I do not think they would be willing to let a single opportunity for this kind of interest and care of their children to pass unimproved. I think there would soon be four times as many visits from parents as others. We hope parents will feel free to visit our school frequently. They will always be welcome on any, or every day of the week.
At the close of the year in July, a number of scholars failed of promotion. The previous year many of these were conditioned. This fact, together with the amount of absence on account of the run of diphtheria and measles, caused some to fail who otherwise probably would have passed. All of those who are repeating this year are doing much better work in their studies, and seem to enjoy it far more because they understand it. All of those promoted, with the exception of two, who attend school out of town, have returned this year. Only seven entered from the Grammar grades, there being one from each of Pleasant Lake and West Harwich, and five from Harwich Centre. This makes our numbers smaller than last year, but we have as many as our building will accommodate properly with an assistant teacher.
Respectfully submitted,
HERMAN N. KNOX, Principal.
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REPORT ON DRAWING.
Mr. S. H. Chace, Superintendent of Schools :
MY DEAR SIR : While, at this date, a report of the work in drawing actually accomplished by the Supervi- sor cannot be very extended, an outline of what has been done and of what we hope to do may be desirable. A few remarks, too, on the condition of the schools as regards the subject of drawing may not be amiss.
It seems to me that, considering the short time in which drawing has been included in the school curriculum, the work of the pupils is very good. There are some, as in all towns, who show in their drawings a natural taste for art, and whose work is consequently superior; on the other hand, there are a few to whom this subject is especially diffi- cult. The average child presents work, however, which is, on the whole, gratifying. The position reached by the pu- pils when I first met them last term was satisfactory, the evident progress of the second grade children being espec- ially marked, and showing the good training of last year. Good will, interest, and enthusiasm for the study are indi- cated in the earnest, cheerful efforts for improvement, which are met with in almost all the classes.
The aim in this subject is to educate the child, as far as art, taught under these conditions, can educate him. The cultivation of the eye in its power to see exactly and swiftly, the training of the hand in its ability to express the idea, and above all the development of the mind and soul to feel the beauty of lines, and forms and colors, and so to ap- preciate and love the beautiful in Art and in Nature-this is what we strive for when we give the child a twig of oak to draw, or set him to designing a pattern for a ribbon.
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The work during the autumn consisted of drawing from Nature, twigs, grasses, and berries, placing before the chil- dren the ideal of a beautiful picture, one of good drawing and of good composition. When the fields and woods no longer furnished abundant material for this, a series of more mechanical drawings was started, based on accuracy of measurement, but still lending itself to color, thus drawing on the imagination of the children, and teaching them a bet- ter consideration of harmony in color. This work will be continued, with simple lessons in perspective and shading. In the spring, Nature work will again be taken up, with the addition of design based on the natural forms.
In the High School, the boys have preferred to take me- chanical drawing. In this, they learn, from simple models and machines, to make practical working-drawings, and in geometrical drawings they acquire accuracy.
There is one serious drawback to the progress of the study of drawing. This is the shortness of the time which I can devote to the schools, especially those outside the Centre. These schools, six in number, are visited only once in two weeks, on account of their distance. Fortunately, thanks to the mildness of the weather thus far this year, no lessons have been missed on account of the weather, this success be- ing due, however, to the kindness of the Superintendent, who has lent me his carriage when a bicycle could not be used.
The schools in the Centre I am able to visit each week, thus keeping in closer touch with the work of the individual pupils. The results in the High School among the girls are especially gratifying, also, in the intelligent and quick re- sponse which they give to suggestions for improvement ei- ther in the plan or quality of their work.
Hearty thanks should be here expressed for the earnest
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and cordial co-operation of the teachers, without which little could be done, especially in the outlying schools. To all of them I owe much of whatever has been accomplished.
Very sincerely,
EDITH H. MOORE.
Harwich, Jan. 1st, 1901.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES, 1900.
Four year Classical Course-Harriet Olevia Paine.
Three year Classical Course-Eglantine Nickerson, Olyve Estelle Tuttle, Richard Sparrow Gage.
Three year English Course-Bessie Leonora Bearse, Elsie Leonora Bearse, Eva Mae Handren, Annie Louise Hayward, Imogen Howes Small.
Special Course-Cynthia Baker Kelley.
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ROLL OF HONOR.
The following pupils were not absent from school during the year 1899-1900, for the length of time specified :
HIGH SCHOOL.
Two terms-Cynthia B. Kelley.
One term-Harriet O. Paine, Susan Smith, Bethia Paine, Blanche Baker, Bernice Chace, Annie T. Nickerson, Alberto E. Atkins, Arthur P. Doane, Wilber E. Stokes.
CENTRE GRAMMAR.
Two terms-Charles Ellis, Blanche Raymond, Laura White.
One term-Edgar Bassett, Sarah Cohen, Susie Gage, Joseph Howes, Florence Larkin, George Moody.
PORT GRAMMAR.
Three terms-Urban Eldredge.
Two terms-Eva M. Allen, Albert C. Kelley, James Sullivan.
One term-Freeman S. Doane, William Sullivan.
WEST GRAMMAR.
Three terms-Clara B. Raymond.
Two terms-Eva Wixon, Mildred Chase, Clarence Tay- lor
One term-Wilton Berry, Florence Chase, Edith Chase, Abbie Ellis, Richard Ginn, Clifton Ginn, Augusta Park.
CENTRE INTERMEDIATE.
Three terms-Ralph U. Brett.
Two terms-Beula Mecarta, Harold Robbins, Mattie Ba- ker, Charles Stevens.
One term-Madalene Jones, Willie Flanagan, Ada Cohen,
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Bursley Nickerson, Bessie Nickerson, John Sutton, Ralph Rogers, Huldah Nickerson, Stanley Mecarta, LeRoy Gage, Allan Cahoon, Ray Bassett, Alice Crabe, Desire Burgess, Katie Burgess, Ida Marks.
CENTRE PRIMARY.
One term-Bernice O. Bassett, Harriet R. Hoxie, Johnnie McKegney, Bennett Larkin, Annie Larkin.
WEST PRIMARY.
Two terms-Clarence Berry, Richie Cummings, Horace F. Wixon, Wallace E. Simmons.
One term-Omer Bearse, Beatrice L. Chase, Earle M. Chase, Harry B. Chase, Simon Kendrick, Jennie McMullen, Abbie E. Ashley, Evelyn R. Chase, Jennie M. Park, Carrie Locke, Geo. F. Wixon, Earle P. Chase, Wm. A. Kelley.
NORTH MIXED.
Three terms-George E. Gray.
Two terms-Lottie M. Barstow, Agnes L. Kelley, Alton P. Hall, Arthur J. Rogers.
One term-Milton M. Gray, Emulous E. Hall, Roy H. Chase, Ina A. Chase, James F. Kelley, Robert E. Chase, Joseph W. Sears.
EAST MIXED.
Three terms-Adele Bassett, Kate B. Nickerson.
Two terms-Morris E. Nickerson.
One term-Neta F. Eldredge, Wallace E. Harding, Thos. L. Kenney, Linwood Nickerson, Josiah Nickerson, Abbott L. Robbins.
SOUTH MIXED.
Three terms-Bennie Walker.
Two terms-Earle Eldredge, (fall and summer) ; Bernard Kendrick, Bernice Sears, Maude Sears, Avery Small, (fall and winter.)
One term-Bennie Bassett, Bernice Bassett, Elsie Bassett, Leroy Cahoon, Clyde Chase, James Chase, Agatha Eldredge, Lydia Higgins, Bennett Larkin, Walter Loveland, Gerald Smith, Dallas Smith, Leo Sutton, Thomas Taylor, Louise Walker.
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STATISTICS OF ATTENDANCE.
Name of School, Teachers and Grades
Term
Enrollment
Average
Average
Percentage of
Half Day
Tardy Marks
Dismissals
Visits by
School Officials
Parents
Visits by Others
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· High School IX-XII . Herman N. Knox, Prin.
Fall
52
50.90-
48.36
95.03- 83.46
296 1046
68
51
9
0
9
Winter
52 50.73
42.34
Spring
49
43.90
38.36
87.38
810 2152
347
96
18
7
31
Year
51
48.51
43.02
88.62
81.32
500
83
8
12
10
9
Year
27
24.07
20.68
85.72
1156
168
36
40
25
18
Port Grammar V-VIII
Fall
14 13.38
12.37
91.85
97
15
21
17
Or
10
Winter
13
15.
13.79
91.94
145
31
34
9
38
Mary E. Ellis, Fall and Winter Terms
Spring
13
17.
15.54
91.37
176
23
31
10
32
Mary E. F. Welch, Spring Term
Year
14
15.12
13.90
91.72
418
69
86
36
17
80
West Grammar V-VIII
Fall
31
29.83
28.39
95.05
101
18
14
17
2
5
Winter
29|
28.01
24.76
88.39
387
70
33
12
3
18
Bessie Stewart. Fall Term
Bertha A. Atkins, Winter and Spring Terms Spring
Year
32
27.94
25.27
90.21
866
174
85
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1
49
Fall
42
41.5
40.63
97.91
97
5
4
12
11
5
Winter
43
40.33
37.50
92.93
348
3
4
6
S
42
Spring
38
34.33
32.50
94.60
227
24
4
3
23
16
Year
43 38.72
36.88
95.15
672
32
12
21
42
63
27
25.4
23.16
91.18
220
27
17
13
S
Winter
24
24.06
20.37
84.66
436
58
11
15
7
Centre Grammar VI-VIII Lillian E. Moore
Spring
24
22.75
Membership
Attendance
Attendance
Absences
149
18
5
6
11
4
1
11
Caroline E. Howe, Asst.
130
27
9
2
26
27
25.98
22.66
87.18
378
86
38
Centre Intermediate III-V Tamson D. Eldredge
Visits by
Fall
18.50
Centre Primary I-II Minerva A. Bearse
Port Primary I-IV Abbie S. Baker
Spring
24
23.66
21.32
90.10x
234
3
7
12
20
52
Year
20
20.61
18.89
91.81
405
17
26
39
52
94
Fall
24|
23.66
23.14
97.78
60
14
7
9
24
23
Winter
24
22.63
20.06
91.61
418
27
4
12
6
14
Spring
24
21.98
20.96
95.31
123
20
11
11
14
29
Year
25
22.76
21.38
94.90
601
61
22
32
44
66
Fall
30
27.88
26.34
94.48
153
19
50
12
4
2
Winter
33
31.25
27.65
88.44
432
19
67
12
4
12
Spring
31
26.16
23.89
91.32
273
3
53
11
15
33
Year
30
28.43
25.96
91.41
858
41
170
35
23
47
Fall
49
46.
42.1
91.53
399
54
10
7
20
2
Winter
43|
38.1
30.23
79.35
788
52
11
10
0
2
Pleasant Lake Mixed I-VIII Josephine E. Marrs
Spring
42
37.33
31.21
83.11
801
97
19
.16
10
25
Year
50
40.48
34.51
84.66
1988
203
40
33
30
29
Fall
29
25.8
22.6
87.75
261
5
3
9
14
17
Winter
23.68
19.86
83.94
624
9
2
4
1
10
Spring
26|
25.66
21.87
88.22
482
10
2
5
19
23
Year
30|
25.04
21.44
86.64
1367
24
7
18
34
49
South Mixed I-VIII
Fall
25
25.55
25.51
99.49
10
10
14
14
7
3
Winter
26 24 73x
23.10
93.38
183
17
13
9
10
Emma F. Watson, Fall Term
Grace M. Parkinson, Winter and Spring Terms
Spring Year
31 24.92
23.93
95.87
355
69
33
38
29
43
Fall
397|364.70 342.95 93.79
. 2061
324
216
145
110
98
Winter
364 349.05 302.54 87.64
5704
581| 204
125
70 205
Spring
360 331.48 289.69, 87.86
4832
642 224
117
141,289
Year
390 348.41 311.72 89.76
12597 1547 644
387
321 592
21
19.50
17.75
91.03
66
6
12
14
14
16
Winter
19
18.66
17.61
94.31x
105
S
1
13
7
4
Year
37
31.81
25.85
92.35 79.29 69.70 80.45
301
83 138
13
12
1
4
Fall
35| 35.30
32.60 25.27
792
6
14
3
15
Winter Spring
33
31.87
31 28.25
19.69
666 1759
121 342
12.
31
39
11
23
Fall
13
18
26
West Primary I-IV Mrs. Helen R. Ellis
North Mixed I-VIII Sarah L. Howes
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East Mixed I-VIII Beulah M. Eldridge
31 24.48
23.19
94.74
162
42
12
11
13
30
Average for the Year 1899-1900
NUMBER OF PUPILS BY GRADES AND AVERAGE AGE, DECEMBER, 1900.
Grades
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Totals in Each School
No. of Pupils
12
13
10
2
37
High School
Ave. Age
14-11
15-10
16-7
18-2
No. of Pupils
11
S
6
25
Centre Grammar
Ave. Age
12-1
13-
13-3
No. of Pupils
8
4
5
5
22
Port Grammar
Average Age
10-S
12-4
12-11
13-10
No. of Pupils
6
7
6
7
West Grammar
Ave. Age
12-3
13-4
13-9
15-5
No. of Pupils
14
13
13
Centre Inter.
Ave Age.
8-2
8-11
10-7
No. of Pupils
21 8
Centre Primary
Ave. Age 6-8
7-8
-
.
26
40
29
28
Port Primary
Ave. Age
5-6
7-6
8-1
9-2
No. of Pupils
3
13
6
29
West Primary
Ave. Age
6-2
7-5
8-5
10-7
No. of Pupils
9
5
4
4
5
3
4
2
36
North Mixed
Ave. Age
6-8
7-10
9-2
10-4
11-5
. 13-5 12-10
15-1
No. of Pupils .
19
9
9
6
4
5
52
Pleasant Lake
Ave. Age
7-5
9-10
10-1
13-1
13-10
14-
No. of Pupils
5
3
3
6
3
3
5
3
31
East Mixed
Ave. Age
5-10
7-4
9-3
10-4
12-5
13-3
14-6
15-2
No. of Pupils
2
6
2
6
4
5
South Mixed
6-3
6-6
8-6
9-7
11-2
11-11
No. of Pupils
73
39
52
35
47
32
37
28
12
13
10
2
380
Total by Grades
Ave. Age
6-4
7-8
8-10
9-10
11-5
12-7
13-3
14-6
14-11
15-10
16-7
18-2
10
5
7
6
No. of Pupils
25
Ave. Age
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SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1901.
Winter Term
Spring Term
Fall Term
School
Opens
Closes
Opens
Closes
Opens
Closes
High School All Others
Dec.31'00 Dec.31:00
Mar. 29 Mar. 22
April 8 April 8
June 28 July 19
Sept. 30 Oct. 14
Dec. 20. Dec. 20
There will be a vacation of one week after the close of the fall term.
Schools closed February 22, April 19, May 30, July 4, Thanksgiving day, and the day following.
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL MEETING,
Town of Harwich, for Year 1901.
BARNSTABLE, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Harwich in said
County, GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of Harwich, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs to meet at Exchange Hall, in said Harwich, on Monday, the fourth day of February next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, viz. :
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing.
Art. 2. To determine the rate per cent. to be paid Tax Collector for collecting taxes for the ensuing year and to act fully thereon.
Art. 3. To choose all necessary Town Officers and Com- mittees for the terms of office as the law requires, and to act fully thereon.
Art. 4. To hear the report of all Town officers and committees, and act fully thereon.
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Art. 5. To raise such sums of money as may be neces- sary to defray town expenses for the ensuing year and make appropriations for the same.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of taxes, and act fully thereon.
Art. 7. Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxi- cating liquors ? Vote Yes or No.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept the List of Jurors as prepared by the Selectmen.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote the sum of Fifty Dollars for the suppression of crime, and raise and appropri- ate said sum for the above mentioned purpose:
Art. 10. To hear the report of the Special Committee appointed at the last annual Town Meeting to consider the matter of providing some permanent place for holding future town meetings, and act fully thereon.
Art 11. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote passed at the annual Town Meeting, held Feb. 6 and 7, 1899, whereby it voted to elect Road Commissioners and abolish the same.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to elect one or more Surveyors of Highways, and act fully thereon.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to give permission to the West Harwich Baptist Society the use of a strip of school house yard-four feet wide-adjoining the ceme- · tery on the north side, said land to be used to plant an arbor vitæ hedge for a fence and protection to said cemc- tery.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of Three Hundred and Twenty-five Dol- lars for the protection of the structure and other necessary
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repairs at the mouth of the Herring River, and act fully thereon.
Art. 15. To see what action the Town will take about regulating the water in the Long Ponds to get the herrings up and down to best advantage. (By request. )
Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of one hundred ($100) dollars for the benefit of the Broad Brooks Free Library, and act fully thereon.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept the offer from Caleb Chase, Esq., of $250, two hundred and fifty dollars, the same to be used in hardening and otherwise improving the road leading from the residence of Anthony Kelley, to Hotel Belmont, and also the road leading from Hotel Belmont to the Baptist church, and to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $100, four hundred dollars, to be used for the same purpose, and also for the hardening the road leading from Baptist church northward, and known as the Depot road, both of said sums to be expended upon the said roads in such proportion as their needs and importance warrant, and to act fully thereon.
Art. 18. To hear the report of the special committee appointed to investigate the matter of schools, and to see if the Town will vote to accept either in part or in whole the recommendations of said Committee, and to raise and appro- priate a sum of money sufficient to carry into effect such recommendations, or any change in the matter of schools the Town may choose to make.
Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to harden with loam or clay the street running from Bank street to house of Cyrus Kelley, and called Parallel street, and to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same, and act fully thereon.
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Art. 20. To see if the Town will vote to apply the un- expended balance of the appropriation made at the last annual Town Meeting for improvement to Allen's Harbor, so called in this Town, in continuing and maintaining the outlet to said harbor, and to act fully thereon. (By re- quest. )
Art. 21. To see what action the Town will take to protect its eel and shell fisheries.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will vote to purchase and act fully thereon, a strip of land situated between the land of Allison S. Doane and new Schoolhouse lot, situated in Harwich Centre. Said land is 1 1-2 rods wide, commences on the County road, and extends in a southerly direction to land of Samuel Moody.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of two thousand dollars, or any part thereof, for the purpose of extending the work of macad- amizing the highway already begun by the State, provided however, the State Highway Commission will for the same purpose allot from the State appropriation of 1901, a sum of money sufficient in the judgment of the Selectmen to war- rant such an appropriation by the Town.
Art. 24. To see if the Town will accept the sum of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars from T. C. Day, Esq., adminis- trator of the estate of Mary Janes, late of Harwich, de- ceased. Said sum of money to be held by the town as a perpetual fund, the town allowing interest on the same at the rate of two per cent. per annum ; said interestonly to be applied annually to the care of the cemetery lot in which said Mary Janes and her husband, Samuel Janes, are buried and, in case any portion of said annual interest is not re- quired for the care of said cemetery lot in any year, the surplus of said interest shall be added to the principal fund ;
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the care of said cemetery lot to be a part of the duty of the Treasurer of this town and his successors in office forever.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will vote to waive all right to contract for the construction of any State Highway that may be built in Harwich under State supervision during the year 1901.
Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars, to be ex- pended in macadamizing the road beginning at Harwich Depot and leading to Harwich Port by the way of Bank street, and to act fully thereon. (By request. )
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, one at each post office in said town, seven days at least before the time for holding said meeting. The polls will be open at 9 o'clock, A. M., and may close at 2 o'clock, P. M. Hereof fail not, and make due returns of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting afore- said.
Given under our hands this twenty-first day of January, in the year one thousand, nine hundred and one.
JOSEPH K. ROBBINS, JOHN H. DRUM, GEORGE T. BASSETT,
Selectmen of Harwich.
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