Town of Arlington annual report 1920, Part 5

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Act in addition or amendatory thereto, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of the issue of the first note or bond, or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer and Selectmen may determine, and all acts done or performed under authority thereof be and the same are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved."


Article 3 (Selectmen to dispose of certain lands) taken up.


Voted, That the Selectmen shall have the custody, man- agement and sale of all land held by the Town under a Tax Collector's deed, or a taking of land for taxes after the title of the Town has become absolute by the foreclosure of the right to redemption according to law, and they are authorized and empowered in the name and behalf of the Town to sell such land at public auction, or private sale, and to convey the same and to execute, acknowledge and deliver proper deeds for that purpose.


Article 4 (Acceptance of Chapter 576 of 1907) taken up.


Voted, That the Town accept the provisions of Sections 102 to 105 both inclusive of Chapter 576 of the Acts of the year 1907, said Sections of said Act being as follows:


CHAPTER 576


SECTIONS 102 to 105 OF THE ACTS OF THE YEAR 1907 MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS INSURANCE FUNDS


SECTION 102. Any city or town which has accepted the provisions of Chapter one hundred and ninety-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and five or accepts the provisions of this and the three following sections may establish and maintain a municipal building insurance fund, from which any municipal buildings or other municipal property damaged or destroyed by fire, lightning or otherwise, may be repaired, rebuilt or replaced by other buildings or property to be used in lieu thereof.


SEC. 103. Any such city or town may raise money for the purposes set forth in the preceding section, not exceeding in amount in any one year one twentieth of one per cent of its assessed valuation; but no money shall be raised for such pur- pose while the amount of the fund equals or exceeds one per cent of such valuation.


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SEC. 104. The fund established under this act by any city or town shall be managed and administered as provided in section fifteen of chapter twenty-seven of the Revised Laws, by the sinking fund commissioners thereof, if such there be, or by any municipal board of commissioners or trustees having charge of its trust or sinking fund; and if in any such city or town such commissioners or trustees have not been established, sinking fund commissioners shall be elected in the manner provided in section fourteen of chapter twenty-seven of the Revised Laws.


SEC. 105. The provisions of the three preceding sections may be accepted by any city by a concurrent vote of both branches of the city council, and by any town by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon at a meeting duly called for that purpose.


Article 5 (Additional appropriation for sewer extensions) taken up.


Voted, That the sum of $2000 be appropriated for sewer extensions and that said sum be transferred from unexpended sewer assessments now in the treasury, the same to be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works.


All articles in the warrant having been disposed of, the meeting at 9.30 o'clock adjourned.


Number of voters attending the meeting as determined by the constables in charge of the turnstiles, was 257.


A true record, attest:


THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.


TOWN WARRANT


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.


To any of the Constables of the Town of Arlington, in said County: GREETING :


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the


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Town of Arlington, qualified as the Constitution requires, to meet in their respective voting places in said town (Precinct 1) Town Hall; (Precinct 2) Crosby School Hall, Winter Street; on Tuesday, the second day of November next, it being the Tues- day next, after the first Monday in said month, at 5.45 a.m. in the Town Hall, Precinct 1, and at 5.45 a.m. in Crosby School Hall, Precinct 2, to act on the following articles, viz:


ARTICLE 1. To bring in their votes for Presidential Elec- tors, a Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, a Secretary, a Treas- urer, an Auditor, an Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, a Congressman for the eighth Congressional District; a Coun- cillor for the sixth Councillor District; a Senator for the Sixth Middlesex District; a Representative in General Court for the twenty-seventh Middlesex District; two County Commissioners; a Sheriff for Middlesex County.


To vote "Yes" or "No" on the acceptance by the Town of act entitled "An Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of beer, cider and light wines."


To vote "Yes" or "No" on the acceptance by the Town of Chapter 166, Acts of 1920, entitled "An Act to provide for one day off in every eight days for certain police officers."


All the above to be voted for on one ballot. The polls will be open from 5.45 a.m. until 5.00 o'clock p.m. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof in at least, five conspicuous places in each precinct, seven days at least, before the time of said meeting, as directed by vote of the Town. And you are further directed to leave an attested copy of this warrant at every dwelling house in the Town.


Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, on or before said day of Election.


Given under our hands this eighteenth day of October, A.D., 1920.


HORATIO A. PHINNEY, OLVIN H. LUFKIN, CHARLES B. DEVEREAUX, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.


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CONSTABLE'S RETURN


Arlington, November 2, 1920.


MIDDLESEX, SS.


By virtue of the foregoing warrant I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in their respective voting places, for the purposes herein named, by causing a printed attested copy of the warrant to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, by posting attested copies in at least five conspicuous places in each precinct and by posting attested copies at the entrance to each voting place seven days before the election.


(Signed) WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.


In pursuance of the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law directs, to vote in elections and town affairs, met in their respective voting places on Tuesday the second day of November, 1920, at 5.45 o'clock in the forenoon.


The polling places designated were as follows: Precinct 1, Town Hall; Precinct 2, Crosby School, Winter Street.


The following election officers served by appointment of the Selectmen at the precinct voting places as follows:


Precinct 1, George H. Peirce, Warden; Arthur J. Hendrick, Clerk.


Ballot Clerks and Checkers: Frank Y. Wellington, James G. Moir, Herbert Converse, Clarence F. Hill, James E. Doughty, George J. Duncan, Floyd R. Battis, Everett C. Tileston, Chester Hoyt, Joseph W. Moore, Ernest Freeman, William D. Grannan, Frank E. Kenney, Richard M. Healey, Joseph J. Duffy, Roger W. Homer, Herman F. Bucknam, George C. Tewksbury, James E. Sweeney, Edward Cox, Charles A. Dunn, Walter T. Kenney, William E. Robinson, Dennie R. Donahue, Anthony P. Lopez, George F. McCaffrey, George A. Bunton, E. Frederick Evans, David T. Dale, F. Leo Dalton and Henry Trainor.


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Inspectors: Mrs. Carolyn Reed, Mrs. Mary Currier, Miss May Shean and Miss Mary Donahue.


Precinct 2. Harry S. Smith, Warden; George H. Lowe, Clerk.


Ballot Clerks and Checkers: Elmer Buckley, Ernest Beers, Clayton Hilliard, Herbert B. Kellogg, Albert Olson, William H. Nolan, Thomas S. Lawrence, John B. Meany, John J. Roache and Edmund J. Duggan.


Inspectors: Mrs. Elmer Buckley, Mrs. Mary Delaney and Mrs. Josephine Anderson.


The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States granting full suffrage to women having been adopted, the list of registered voters was increased by the addition of 3550 women voters. This made a total list of 7776 voters in the Town, and necessitated numerous changes in the method of voting, particularly at the Town Hall, where arrange- ments had to be made to accommodate 5482 voters. This was done by using four ballot boxes and dividing the voting list into four parts. The precinct officers in each precinct made their returns to the Registrars of Voters who canvassed the same with the following results:


Total number of ballots cast


7014


Ballots cast in Precinct 1. 4933


Ballots cast in Precinct 2. 2081 7014


PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Cox and Roosevelt, Democratic 966


424


1390


Cox and Gillhaus, Socialist


Labor.


11


4


15


Debs and Stedman, Socialist. . 61


55


116


Harding and Coolidge, Repub-


lican.


3752


1551


5303


Blanks 143


47


190


4933


2081


7014


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GOVERNOR


Precinct 1


Precinct 2 1472


Total 5139


Channing H. Cox


3667


Walter S. Hutchins


38


39


77


Patrick Mulligan


12


5


17


John J. Walsh


999


461


1460


Blanks


217


104


321


4933


2081


7014


LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Marcus A. Coolidge


914


408


1322


David Craig.


18


36


54


Alvan T. Fuller


2460


1085


3545


Thomas Nicholson


30


30


60


Robert M. Washburn


1188


375


1563


Blanks


323


147


470


4933


2081


7014


SECRETARY


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Frederick W. Cook ..


3639


1472


5111


Edward E. Ginsburg.


807


360


1167


Anthoney Houtenbrink


16


16


32


Edith M. Williams


61


41


102


Blanks.


420


192


602


4933


2081


7014


TREASURER


Precinct 1


Precinct 1


Total


George H. Jackson


64


29


93


James Jackson.


3570


1401


4971


Louis Marcus.


37


38


75


Patrick O'Hearn


960


441


1401


Albert L. Waterman


6


12


18


Blanks.


296


160


456


4933


2081


7014


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AUDITOR


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Alonzo B. Cook.


3502


1417


4979


Alice E. Cram.


985


439


1424


Stephen J. Surridge.


14


12


26


Herbert H. Thompson.


40


33


73


Blanks


392


180


572


4933


2081


7014


ATTORNEY-GENERAL


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


J. Weston Allen .


3588


1427


5015


Morris J. Becker


12


12


24


John Weaver Sherman


53


35


88


Michael L. Sullivan


930


432


1362


Blanks


350


175


525


4933


2081


7014


CONGRESSMAN, EIGHTH DISTRICT


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Frederick W. Dallinger


3643


1448


5091


John D. Lynch .


406


241


647


Whitfield L. Tuck.


578


232


810


Blanks .


306


160


466


4933


2081


7014


COUNCILLOR, SIXTH DISTRICT


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Charles Sumner Smith. 3846


1560


5406


Blanks


: 1087


521


1608


4933


2081


7014


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SENATOR, SIXTH MIDDLESEX


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Lewis Parkhurst


3824


1546


5370


Blanks


1109


535


1644


4933


2081


7014


REPRESENTATIVE, TWENTY-SEVENTH MIDDLESEX


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Charles C. Warren


3929


1578


5507


Blanks


1004


503


1507


4933


2081


7014


COUNTY COMMISSIONERS


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


Alfred L. Cutting


3480


1371


4851


Walter C. Wardwell


3254


1341


4595


Blanks


3132


1450


4582


9866


4162


14028


SHERIFF


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


John R. Fairbairn


3586


1458


5044


Blanks .


1347


623


1970


4933


2081


7014


BEER, CIDER AND WINES


Precinct 1


Precinct 2


Total


"Yes"


1686


807


2493


"No"


2633


1003


3636


Blanks


614


271


885


4933


2081


7014


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DAY OFF IN EIGHT FOR POLICE


Precinct 1.


Precinct 2


Total


"Yes"


3232


1370


4602


"No"


884


346


1230


Blanks


817


365


1182


4933


2081


7014


The ballots cast in both precincts were delivered to the Town Clerk in sealed packages, as were the unused ballots.


The voting lists used at the entrance to the polling places and those in checking at the ballot boxes, together with the tally sheets and copy of the Precinct Record of Election, all properly sealed as required by law, were returned to the Town Clerk.


The returns of the election were filled out on the blanks furnished for the purpose by the Secretary of the Common- wealth, signed by the Selectmen and the Town Clerk and for- warded to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.


Certificates of Election as Representative from the Twenty- Seventh Middlesex District were made out, signed and deliv- ered to Charles C. Warren by Thomas O. D. Urquhart, Con- stable.


A true record of the election, attest:


THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.


TOWN WARRANT


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.


To any of the Constables of the Town of Arlington, in said County: GREETING :


In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the Constitution requires to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall


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in said Town, Tuesday, the thirtieth day of November, 1920, at eight o'clock, p.m., then and there to act on the following articles viz:


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


ART. 2. To hear and act upon the report of the Commit- tee appointed in pursuance of the vote of the Town passed on March 24, 1920, "To consider the Limited Town Meeting, so called, and to report a draft of legislation to provide for Lim- ited Town Meetings," and to see if the Town will direct the Selectmen to petition the General Court for legislation necessary or proper to provide for precinct voting and representative town meetings, substantially in accordance with the report of said Committee or take any other action thereon, or relating thereto.


ART. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of any com- mittees heretofore appointed.


Hereof; fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, on or before said day and hour of meeting.


Given under our hands, at said Arlington, this fifteenth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty.


HORATIO A. PHINNEY, OLVIN H. LUFKIN, CHARLES B. DEVEREAUX, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.


CONSTABLE'S RETURN


. Arlington, November 30, 1920.


MIDDLESEX COUNTY


By virtue of the foregoing warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law requires, to vote in election and town affairs, to assemble at the time and place and for the purposes therein named, by causing a printed, attested copy of the same to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by posting an attested copy at the doors of the Town Hall seven days at least before


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said meeting. A notice of said meeting was also published in the Arlington Advocate.


(Signed) WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.


In pursuance of the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law requires, to vote in elections and town affairs, met in the Town Hall on Tuesday, November 30, 1920, and were called to order at eight o'clock by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.


Article 1 (Choice of Moderator) taken up.


Jacob Bitzer was elected moderator and was sworn to the faithful performance of his duties by the Town Clerk.


Article 2 (Report of Committee on Town Government) taken up.


Under this article, John G. Brackett, chairman of the committee appointed under the vote of the Town passed March 24, 1920, to consider the "Limited Town Meeting" form of government made a verbal report in explanation of the printed report of the committee. This printed report of the committee had been distributed to the citizens with the town warrant. The printed report embodied the bill the committee had prepared to be presented to the legislature for enactment.


The report as presented was received.


Questions being asked as to certain provisions of the pro- posed bill it was


Voted, That the recommendations of the committee, in the form of the bill as presented, be taken up, article by article, and that the Town Clerk read the articles. The Clerk read each section or article of the bill, on some of which there was some discussion. On a call for a vote on question of the acceptance of the report and the adoption of the recommendations therein contained it was,


Voted, That the report of the committee on "Limited Town Meetings" be accepted, the recommendations therein contained adopted, the committee discharged and they be given a rising vote of thanks and that the Selectmen be authorized,


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empowered and directed to petition the general court for legis- lation necessary or proper to provide for precinct voting and representative town meetings, substantially in accordance with the draft of the bill presented by the committee at this meeting in their printed report.


Article 3 (Reports of other Committees) taken up.


Under this article no committee desiring to report, the moderator declared the article disposed of.


All business calling the meeting having been transacted, it was voted to adjourn.


Meeting adjourned at 10.05 o'clock.


The number of citizens attending the meeting as determined by the officers in charge of the turnstiles was 219.


A true record, attest:


THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.


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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN


The Board of Selectmen submit the following report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1920:


ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD


At the annual March meeting of 1920 Mr. Charles B. Devereaux was elected a member of the Board for the term of three years and was sworn to the faithful performance of his duties on March 8, 1920. The Board organized with Horatio A. Phinney, Chairman and Thomas J. Robinson, Clerk.


As OVERSEERS OF THE POOR


Horatio A. Phinney, Chairman.


Thomas J. Robinson, Agent.


This report is, in general, confined to the financial condition of the Town. The detailed reports of the departments will be found under the reports of those departments. The overdrafts in the departments were not as large as in the year 1919, with the exception of the amount of money appropriated for elec- tions and Town Meetings, which amount could not be estimated with any degree of accuracy.


The amount of money raised by taxation in 1920 was $668,513.73 and the tax rate was $28.90 per thousand. The increase in valuation as determined by the Assessors and including new buildings is $3,414,490. At the present tax rate this will provide $95,913 additional revenue, an increase of $82,213 over last year.


A year ago this time the housing question in Arlington was quite a serious one. The rents had been increased in some cases fifty per cent. This Board was appointed the local com- mittee on the rent question, and several cases were brought to the attention of the committee. In some of these cases hearings


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were given the tenants and landlords to settle the matter in question. The local committee has co-operated with the state committee, and as far as we know all matters brought to our attention have been satisfactorily adjusted.


The following statement gives the financial condition of the Town:


TOWN DEBT AND TAX RATE


On December 31, 1919 the fixed


debt was


$715,500.00


Amount paid during the year 59,500.00


$656,000.00


Amount added during the year


282,000.00


On December 31, 1920 the fixed debt is $938,000.00


It will be noted that the Town debt shows an increase of $222,500.


The loans authorized and issued in 1920 amounting to $282,000 were as follows:


Water extensions


$24,000.00


Sewer extensions


16,000.00


Highway construction


12,000.00


New Junior High School


230,000.00


$282,000.00


SINKING FUND


The amount of the fund on December 31, 1919 was $195,122.11 Amount added during the year:


For interest on funds


$9,094.55


By appropriation 14,550.00


1


23,644.55


$218,766.66


Amount paid from the fund during the year:


Rent of safety deposit vault $10.00 10.00


$218,756.66


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No notes, bonds or other indebtedness of the Town will be payable from this fund until 1922, when water bonds amounting to $92,000 will become due and payable.


This fund is divided and classified as follows:


Water loans


$163,614.28


Sewer loans


43,517.48


Town House site loans


9,778.90


Park loans


1,846.00


$218,756.66


TAXABLE PROPERTY, STATE AND COUNTY TAXES AND TAX RATES


Personal Property


Real Estate


1919


1920


1919 1920


$2,076,379 $2,358,443


$18,289,714


$21,759,675


These figures show an increase in personal property of $282,064 and an increase in real property of $3,469,961 over the values of 1919, making the total taxable property both real and personal $24,118,118, an increase of $3,752,025 over that of 1919.


The taxes levied for State, Metropolitan and County pur- poses were as follows:


1919


1920


Increase.


State Tax


$44,550.00


$56,700.00 $12,150.00


County Tax


22,888.04


24,843.50


1,954.46


Metropolitan Sewer Tax


18,507.75


18,945.58


437.83


Metropolitan Park Tax


10,948.60


12,968.23


2,019.63


Metropolitan Water Tax


24,320.83


23,603.88


716.95*


Charles River Basin Tax


1,931.54


2,299.90


368.36


Alewife Brook Tax


2,338.60


2,281.31


57.29*


Fire Prevention Tax


270.79


251.49


16.30*


Soldiers' Exemption Tax


71.44


56.96


14.48*


State Highway Tax


123.70


150.37


26.67


Special State Tax


2,673.00


2,673.00


Boston Elevated Deficit Tax 44,936.00


Eastern Massachusetts Street


Railway Deficit Tax


523.47


523.47


$173,554.66 $145,322.69 $28,231.97


*Decreased.


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CORPORATION AND BANK TAX RECEIVED BY THE TOWN


1919


1920


Increase


Corporation and Bank Tax $24,950.44 $33,221.18


$8,270.74


Street Railway Tax


4,403.14


3,731.36


671.78*


Income Tax


38,867.65


49,675.96


10,808.31


School Apportionment of


Income Tax


21,810.13


24,825.50


3,015.37


$90,984.86 $111,454:00 $20,469.14


ANALYSIS OF 1920 TAX RATE


Highways


$4.3144


Sewers and Drains


.3056


Water


.3652


Street Lights


.5161


Engineering


.1640


Fire Department


1.0019


Police Department


1.1586


Wire Department


.1228


Trees and Parks


.3316


Board of Health


.3086


Collection of Ashes and Offal


1.2270


Cemeteries


.1457


Library


.2733


Schools


9.2435


Charities


.5775


Municipal buildings


.2150


Salaries


.5520


Insurance


.3203


Incidentals and Specials


.8598


Pensions


.0158


Debt and Interest


2.3375


State, County and Metropolitan Taxes


4.3965


Overlayings


.1473


$28.9000


*Decrease.


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Total appropriations


$793,220.40


Less credits


96,692.70


To be raised by taxes $696,527.70


Property valuation


$24,106,304.00


From the figures submitted in the foregoing tables the fol- lowing facts are shown:


1. Increase in Town Debt of $222,500.00


2. Increase in taxable property, real and personal 3,752,025.00


3. Increase in appropriations raised by taxation 138,750.07


4. Increase in State, Metropolitan and County taxes 16,675.40


5. Decrease Boston Elevated Tax 44,406.90


6. Increase received from Corporation and Bank Tax 20,469.14


7. Increase in Tax Rate from $27.40 in 1919 to $28.90 in 1920 1.50


8. $6.73 of the $28.90 is for State, Metropolitan and County Taxes, over which the Town has no control and debt and interest.


9. Of the balance $22.17 the Schools required $9.24.


10. Of the remaining $12.93 the Highways re- quired $4.31.


11. From the balance thus left amounting to $8.62, all other activities of the Town are paid. These include Police and Fire Departments, Street Lights, Charities and Health, Salaries, Collection of Ashes and Garbage, Libraries, Insurance, Public Buildings, Sidewalks, Sewers, Water, Trees and Parks, Engineering, Wire Depart- ment, Cemeteries, Pensions, and Inci- dental Accounts of all Departments.


DEPARTMENT REPORTS


The following are brief statements giving the amounts of money expended for each Department, together with the reason


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for the expenditure and such suggestions for the coming year as the Board deems necessary.


OUTSIDE POOR


Amount appropriated in 1920


$14,537.67


Reimbursements from State and other


cities and towns


7,334.26


Total Receipts $21,871.93


Amount expended for care of all classes of aid ren-


dered


20,943.83


Unexpended balance


$928.10


The care of the poor does not vary much from year to year, in fact only in the number aided. The Board has, from year to year, outlined the work done and explained the various laws governing the disbursement of public funds for the relief of the poor and needy. Practically two-thirds of the amount expended comes under the provisions of the Mothers with Dependent Children Act (763 Acts of 1913) and all disburse- ments are made subject to supervision and approval of the State. The number of persons aided does not vary a great deal from year to year and is mainly to widows with children, and the old and infirm.


POLICE DEPARTMENT


The Police Department consists at this time of sixteen patrolmen and three ranking officers, Chief, Lieutenant and Sergeant. The Department has continued to do efficient work during the year.


The Chief has recommended the appointment of three additional patrolmen and the Board is of the opinion that this number should be appointed, to more adequately protect our citizens and their property. As recommended last year the patrolmen of the Department have been placed on the $5.00 per day basis and the salaries of the Chief, Lieutenant and Sergeant established as follows:


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Chief, $2500; Lieutenant, $2200; Sergeant, $2000.


For detail work of the Department see report of the Chief, and for details of expenditures see Auditor's Report.




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