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Disbursements
Payments, Warrants #1 to#30 inclusive
to Jan. 1, 1932
$51,811 94
On deposit Cape Cod Trust Co,, Jan. 1, 1932 5,858 81
Cash and checks on hand, Jan. 1, 1932 1,410 89
$59,081 64
TIMOTHY SMITH FUND
Income
Jan. 1, 1931, Funds and Securities
$14,146 22
Income Boston Safe Deposit Trust Co.
1,090 29
Interest on Loans
17 38
Paid on Loans
13 77
Interest Wellfleet Savings Bank
172 99
Interest Cape Cod Trust Co.
356 51
$15,797 16
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Disbursements
Orders of the Trustee in 1931
$728 00
Jan. 1, 1932, Funds and Securities
15,069 16
$15,797 16
EASTHAM WORLD WAR MEMORIAL FUND
Income
Jan. 1, 1931, On deposit, Wellfleet Savings Bank $324 42
Interest 16 23
$340 65
Disbursements
Care of grounds $7 00
Jan. 1, 1932, On deposit
333 65
$340 65
OLD WIND GRIST MILL FUND
Jan. 1, 1931, On deposit, Wellfleet Savings Bank $511 46
Interest 25 88
$537 34
$537 34
Jan. 1, 1932, On deposit
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CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
Zara Higgins Fund
Income
Jan. 1, 1931, On deposit Wellfleet Savings Bank $116 30
Interest 5 88
$122 18
Disbursements
Care of cemetery lot $1 00
Jan. 1, 1932 on deposit
121 18
$122 18
Frank O. Daniels Fund
Income
Jan. 1, 1931 On deposit Wellfleet Savings Bank $57 29
Interest 2 88
$60 17
Disbursements
Care of Cemetery lot $4 00
Jan. 1, 1932 on deposit 56 17
$60 17
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Mercy Mines Fund
Jan. 1, 1931, On deposit Wellfleet Savings Bank $52 29
Interest 2 63
$54 92
Jan. 1, 1932 On deposit $54 92
BILLINGS LIBRARY FUND
Jan. 1, 1931, Balance
$14,000 00
Income
700 00
$14,700 00
Expended (Deposited in Town Funds)
$700 00
In Trust
14,000 00
$14,700 00
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Treasurer.
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Report of Collector of Taxes
Dr.
Balance due 1929 taxes Jan. 1, 1931 as per warrants
$1,489 22
Taxes of 1929 not committed
52 98
Balance due 1930 taxes Jan. 1, 1931
6,577 72
Balance due 1930 Moth taxes Jan. 1, 1931
78 02
Warrants 1931 taxes
28,023 97
Abatement after payment, refund 1929
8 15
Abatement after payment, refund 1930
54 81
$36,284 87
Cr.
Paid Treasurer taxes of 1929
$1,168 83
Paid Treasurer taxes of 1930
5,975 90
Paid Treasurer Moth tax of 1930
77 02
Paid Treasurer taxes of 1931
18,392 76
Abated taxes of 1929
381 52
Abated taxes of 1930
91 11
Uncollected taxes of 1930
565 52
Uncollected Moth tax of 1930
1 00
Uncollected taxes of 1931
9,631 21
$36,284 87
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Motor Vehicle Excise
Dr.
Balance due 1929 Excise Jan. 1, 1931
$41 81
Balance due 1930 Excise Jan. 1, 1931
309 98
Warrant of March 28, 1931
1,195 89
Warrant of June 20, 1931
427 48
Warrant of Aug. 28, 1931
80 22
Warrant of Nov. 12, 1931
102 34
Warrant of Dec. 30, 1931
25 35
Abatement after payment, refund 1930
15 82
Abatement after payment, refund 1931
123 24
$2,322 13
Cr
Paid Treasurer on account 1929 Excise
$1 19
Paid Treasurer on account 1930 Excise
261 43
Paid Treasurer on account 1931 Excise
1,765 17
Abated
1929 Excise
40 62
Abated
1930 Excise
36 31
Abated
1931 Excise
144 74
Uncollected
1930 Excise
29 06
Uncollected
1931 Excise
44 61
$23,323 13
Less overpayment to Collector
1 00
$23,322 13
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Collector.
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Report of Town Clerk
DOGS LICENSED IN 1931
62 Males @ $2.00
$124 00
7 Females @ $5.00
35 00
$159 00
69 Fees Retained @ $.20
13 80
June 25, 1931 Paid County Treasurer
111 60
Nov. 6, 1931 Paid County Treasurer
33 60
$159 00
STATE OF MASS. DIV. OF FISHERIES & GAME Licenses issued in 1931
Fees
Paid to Div. Fish & Game
85 Resident Citizens' Sporting License @ $2.75
6 Resident Citizens' Sporting License
Age 70
No fee
1 Resident Citizens' Trapping License
@ 5.25
5.25
.25
5.00
1 Non-Res. Citizens' Sporting License @ 10.25
10.25
.25
10.00
2 Non-Res. Citizens' Sporting License @
3.25
6.50
50
6.00
2 Non-Res. Citizens' Sporting License @ 5.35
10.70
.50
10.20
1 Duplicate License
@
.50
.50
50
1 Resident Lobster License
@ 5.00
5.00
.15
4.85
1 Minor Sport'g License (To fish only) @ 1.25
1.25
.25
1.00
$283.20
$23.15
$250.05
$233.75
$21.25
$211.50
BIRTHS RECORDED IN EASTHAM IN 1931
Date
Name of Child
Name of Father
Lemuel Pope, Jr. Raymond Nickerson Joseph L. Peters Elroy Larkin
Lester M. Young
May 3 Earl George Youngren
Earl G. Youngren
May 11 June S. Sherman
May 15
Milton Hamilton Fulcher
Jun. 18 Jun. 20 Male
.Jul. 2 Barbara Ann Walker Charles Gershom Hall
Jul. 7
Jul. 19 Norma Jeanne Clark
Aug. 20 Donald Lincoln Gross
Aug. 21 Ruby Alice Emond Aug. 27 Robert Walker Snow
Sept. 3 Sept. 19 Sept. 24 Jean Harper Masson
Oct. 31 Joanne Barbara Richardson Nov. 12 Albert Thomas Dill'
Dec. 24 |Barbara Jean Knowles
Howard F. Walker Gershom D. Hall Henry E. Clark Carl B. Gross Curtis J. Emond Harry H. Snow Willard G. Smith Theodore R. Nickerson Alexander Masson Charles F. Richardson Herman A. Dill Stanley F. Knowles
Maiden Name of Mother
Jan. 6
Feb. 18
Lucelia Angeline Pope Ann Gardner Nickerson
Mar. 1 Mar. 20
Claire Gertrude Peters
Esther Isabelle Larkin
Mar. 26 Theodore Richard Young
George S. Sherman Robley E. Fulcher
Female
Julia L. Bard Marion Eldredge Alice C. Crowell Emma Fulcher Doris M. Lee Agatha F. Snow Helen E. Parker Louise Harris
Natalie Y. Doane
Mary E. Dyke Dorothy C. Freeman Ellyn S. Richardson Marion E. Southard Adeline Cullum Marion E. Nickerson Blanche W. S. Chase Agnes Harper Dorothy B. Hurd Bertha M. Stone Arline Eugley
Willard Gordon Smith, Jr. Clinton Elwood Nickerson
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN EASTHAM IN 1931
Date Name of Parties Age
Residence
May 2 Vernon Francis Clark 24 Eastham Clara Dennett Stevens 20 Plympton, Mass
May 10 Clifton C. Howes 25
Chatham
Rebecca C. Brown 22 Eastham
June 5 Frederick Paul Houck Dorothy Marion Austin 24 Eastham
26 Williamsburgh, Va.
June 12 Edward B. Fenn 39 Orleans
Margaret Read Cole 36 Eastham
Jul. 2 Stanley F. Knowles Arline P. Eugley 18 Orleans
17 Eastham
Oct. 3 Nehemiah P. Hopkins Edith M. Wood Garfield 46 Readville, Mass.
56 Eastham
Nov. 1 William E. Cox, Jr. Ultonia May George 30 Westwood, Mass.
28 Eastham
Nov. 3 Herbert A. Eddy
20
Eastham
Marcella A. Eldredge
19
Orleans
DEATHS REPORTED IN EASTHAM IN 1931
1931
Date
Name
Age Y. M. D.
Cause
Feb. 27
Hannah Clements
88 4 27 Arterio Sclerosis Grippe
Mar. 8
Florence Rogers
54 10
10 Chronic Nephritis Chronic Myocarditis
Mar. 25 Lewis Henry Collins
65 3
3 Cancer of Lungs
Apr. 19 Blanche S. Sparrow
42 7 17
Suicide
June 18 Stillborn
June 20 Stillborn
June 30 Sarah Maria Cobb
65 6
24 Chronic Nephritis, Arterio Sclerosis, Uremic Convulsions
Oct. 5 Sarah Adeline Chase
85 5
16. Arterio Sclerosis
Nov. 3 Lydia P. Anderson
87 9 21 Carcinoma of Colon, Arterio Sclerosis, Gangrene of both feet. 84 2
Nov. 24 Mary Adeline Robbins
14 Arterio Sclerosis, Chronic Nephritis
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TOWN MEETINGS
Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable, ss.
To Harvey T. Moore, Constable of the Town of Eastham, in County aforesaid, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Eastham, on Friday even- ing, Jan. 2, 1931, at 8 o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles.
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To listen to the report of the committee ap- pointed at the last Special Town Meeting concerning heat- ing plant for the Town Hall.
Article 3. To see what action the Town will take re- garding the purchase of a heating plant for the Town Hall, the same to comply with the State Laws pertaining to Pub- lic Buildings, and make an appropriation for the same.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Blacksmith Shop of Charles A. Feltis in So. Eastham, the Post Office in Eastham and the Post Office in No. Eastham, seven days at least before time
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of holding said meeting. Hereof fail not, and make due re- turn of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this Twenty-sixth day of De- cember in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hun- dred Thirty.
ARTHUR W. PARNELL, WILLIAM B. HIGGINS, EDWARD D. PENNIMAN,
Selectmen of Eastham.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Jan. 2, 1931.
Meeting called to order by Town Clerk, James P. Brew- er and Maurice W. Wiley appointed tellers and sworn by Clerk.
Article 1. Elected Ralph A. Chase, Moderator.
Article 2. Manuel Meads of the heating committee appointed at the last Special Town Meeting, reported for that committee relative to the installation of a heating sys- tem which would comply with the State regulations, the committee favored the installation of an oil burning plant, committee's report was accepted.
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Article 3. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2500.00 for the installation of an oil burning, steam heat- ing plant, with heating units, to be paid for as follows, $1500.00 from the taxes of the year 1931 and to issue one note payable of $1000.00 payable in 1932.
Voted to pay the Moderator $3.00 for his services at this meeting.
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
February 2, 1931
Barnstable, ss.
To Harvey T. Moore, Constable of the Town of Eastham, in the County aforesaid, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in the town hall in said Eastham, on Monday, the second day of February next at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to elect all necessary Town Officers for the ensuing year and to meet in the Town Hall in said Eastham, on Tuesday the third day of February next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles :
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Polls will close at 1 o'clock P. M., February 2, 1931.
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To hear the report of the Selectmen and all reports and committees and act thereon.
Article 3. To see if the Town will elect a Town Direc- tor for the Cape Cod Extension Service.
Article 4. To see what sum of money the Town will raise for the Public Library and make an appropriation for the same.
Article 5. To see in what manner the Town will dis- pose of its refunded Dog Tax and act thereon.
Article 6. To see in what manner the Town will sup- port its poor for the ensuing year.
Article 7. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $3075.00 provided the State makes satisfactory al- lotment for the upkeep and maintenance of town roads, un- der Chap. 81, Sections 26-29 General Laws, as amended.
Article 8. To see in what manner the Town will re- pair its roads and bridges and appropriate money for the same.
Article 9. To see if the Town will give the Collector of Taxes the same power which the Treasurer has when Col- lector.
Article 10. To raise such sums of money as may be necessary to defray Town Charges for the ensuing year.
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Article 11. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of revenue of the municipal year be- ginning Jan. 1, 1931, an amount not to exceed $16,000.00.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for Memorial Day and the purchase of flags for Soldiers' and Sailors' graves and Monument grounds.
Article 13. To see if the Town will petition the Direc- tor of Accounts of the Department of Corporations and Tax- ation for the installation of an accounting system in accord- ance with the provisions of Chap. 44 of the General Laws, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Sel- ectmen to appoint a 'Iown Accountant in accordance with Chap. 41, Section 55, General Laws, to abolish the office of Town Auditor, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money for forest fire protection.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the purpose of continuing the plotting, surveying and making of Assessors' maps of the Town of Eastham.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to pay a boun- ty of $1.00 each for all woodchucks killed within its limits the ensuing year and appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the same, or do or act anything thereon. (By request).
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to have the spelling of the name of Alfred L. Gill on the World War
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Memorial corrected and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to give the John R. McKay Post, American Legion, the free use of the Town Hall one night each month for the ensuing year, or do or act anything thereon.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed $500.00 for the establish- ment of a free bed in the Cape Cod hospital, Hyannis, Mass., for care and treatment of persons certified by the Select- men to be residents of the Town and unable to pay for such care and treatment, in accordance with Section 74 of Chap. 3 of the General Laws, or take any action relative thereto, and act fully thereon. (By request).
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to have screens and screen doors made for the Town Hall, or do or act anything thereon. (By request).
Article 22. To see what action the Town will take in regards to the purchase of motor driven fire apparatus and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same. (By request).
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to take $2,500.00 of the free cash from the Treasury and use the same for the reduction of the tax levy of 1931.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to rescind that part of the vote made at Special Town Meeting, Jan. 2, 1931, whereby it was voted to borrow $1000.00 on a note payable in 1932.
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Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $1000.00 for heating system.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to sell for the sum of $1.00 to the Eastham Evergreen Cemetery Corp., the old hearse house, or do or act anything thereon.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote made at the Annual Town Meeting, Feb. 3, 1930, where- by it was voted to lay out a road running northerly to Lo- cust Road from near the home of Rose B. Nickerson.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $75.00 for surveying a road from the State Highway near the home of Harvey T. Moore wes- terly to the Old Mill Road near the home of Rose B. Nic- kerson.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one at the Blacksmith shop of Charles A. Feltis, in South Eastham, the Post Office in Eastham and the Post Office at North Eastham, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this war- rant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-second day of Jan- uary in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thity-One.
ARTHUR W. PARNELL, WILLIAM B. HIGGINS, EDWARD D. PENNIMAN,
Selectmen of Eastham.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING February 2, 1931
Elected :
Arthur W. Parnell, Selectman, Assessor, Board of Health, Board of Public Welfare for 3 years.
Leslie E. Chase, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes for 1 year.
Stanley M. Walker, School Committee for 3 years.
Edna M. Hurd, Trustee of the Public Library for 3 years.
Henry E. Clark, Tree Warden, for 1 year.
Nathan A. Nickerson, Road Surveyor for 1 year.
Fred F. Dill, Town Auditor for 1 year.
Harvey T. Moore, Constable for 1 year.
Appointed :
Stanley M. Walker, Sealer of Weights and Measures for 1 year.
Obed A. Fulcher, Inspector of Animals and Slaughter- ing for 1 year.
Samuel H. Brackett, Weigher of Coal for 1 year.
James P. Knowles and Albion F. Rich, Fence Viewers for 1 year.
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William B. Steele, Pound Keeper for 1 year.
Roger D. Cole, Adin L. Gill and Obed A. Fulcher, Field Drivers for 1 year.
Adin L. Gill, Forest Fire Warden for 1 year.
Ommund H. Howes, Joseph W. Ryder and Edwin W. Horton, Fish Wardens for 1 year.
-February 3, 1931-
Meeting called to order and Mrs. Rose B. Nickerson and Mrs. Helen G. Clark appointed tellers and sworn by Town Clerk.
Article 1. Elected Ralph A. Chase, Moderator.
Article 2. The Moderator announced the result of the balloting on Feb. 2nd together with officers appointed by the Selectmen.
Voted to waive the reading of the Town report.
Voted to accept the report of the Selectmen and all other Town Officers and committees as printed, error of printers excepted.
Article 3. Elected Ralph A. Chase, Town Director of the Cape Cod Extension Service for the year 1931.
Article 4. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $25.00 toward the support of the Public Library.
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Article 5. Voted the refunded Dog Tax to be placed to the credit of the schools.
Article 6. Voted the care of the poor be left in the hands of the Board of Public Welfare.
Article 7. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3075.00 for the care and maintenance of Town Roads under Chap. 81, Sections 26-29 of the Geenral Laws, as amended, provided the State will make a satisfactory allotment to the Town for the same.
Article 8. Voted to leave the care of the Town Roads and Bridges in the hands of the Road Surveyor and to ap- propriate the sum of $350.00 for the same.
Article 9. Voted to give the Collector of Taxes the same power which the Treasurer has when Collector.
Article 10. Voted to appoint a committee of five to make recommendations of appropriations to defray town charges for the ensuing year. Committee appointed : Ar- thur W. Parnell, Stanley M. Walker, Fred F. Dill, Maurice W. Wiley and James P. Brewer.
The Committee recommended appropriations as fol- lows which were accepted. Plus appropriations of this meeting.
Interest Account $200 00
Board of Public Welfare
1,200 00
Board of Health 300 00
Miscellaneous Account
400 00
Clearing Snow 300 00
Inspection of Animals and Slaughtering
75 00
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Town Hall Account
1,000 00
Abstracts of Transfer and Probate Records
50 00
Soldiers' and Sailors' Lots
30 00
Weights and Measures
100 00
Officers' Salaries and Expenses
2,900 00
Surety on Bonds
75 00
Assessors' Salaries and Expenses
600 00
Legal Advice 300 00
Schools
13,852 00
Suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths
455 57
Soldiers' Relief 300 00
Town Janitor
1,250 00
Reserve Fund
1,000 00
Certification of Notes
10 00
Town Fires
100 00
Orleans Fire Dept.
100 00
Inspection of Wiring
100 00
Suppression of Crime
100 00
Insurance
175 00
State Aid
200 00
Mosquito Control
500 00
Old Cemeteries
70 00
Town Accounting System
650 00
$26,392 57
Article 11. Voted to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of revenue of the municipal year in an amount not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of $16,000.00. And to issue a note or notes therefor payable in one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the taxes of said municipal year.
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Article 12. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the purpose of observing Memorial Day and the purchase of flags for Soldiers' and Sailors' graves, to be expended under the direction of the Supervisor of Soldiers' and Sailors' lots.
Article 13. Voted to petition the Director of Accounts of the Dept. of Corporations and Taxation for the installa- tion of an accounting system in accordance with Chap. 44 of the General Laws.
Article 14. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to ap- point a Town Accountant in accordance with Chap. 41, Sec. tion 55 of the General Laws.
Article 15. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for Forest Fire Protection.
Article 16. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of continuing the plotting, sur- veying and making of Assessors' maps for the Town of Eastham.
Article 17. Voted to pay a bounty of $1.00 for each woodchuck killed within the limits of the town and to raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the same.
Article 18. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $25.00 for the purpose of correcting the spelling of the name of Alfred L. Gill on the World War Memorial, the work to be completed before the 30th day of May next.
Article 19. Voted to accept this article as printed.
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Article 20. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the purpose of establishing a free bed in the Cape Cod Hospital at Hyannis, Mass., for those persons cer- tified by the Selectmen as residents of the town and who are unable to pay for hospital service.
Article 21. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $150.00 for the purpose of screening all necessary windows and doors in the Town Hall, screens to be full length and of copper screen wire, the work to be done on or before May 1st, 1931, under direction of the Selectmen.
Article 22. Voted to allow Mr. Lincoln Crowell, State Fire Warden, the privilege of addressing the meeting under this article. His remarks were to the effect that it is getting to a point where every town should have some fire protec- tion of its own, at this time the Town of Eastham and the Town of Mashpee are the only towns on the Cape that have no such equipment. Mr. Crowell estimated the cost of a pumper adaptable to our town to be approximately $3,000 .- 00.
Voted to appoint a committee of three to investigate fire apparatus adaptable to use of this town and to report at a Special Town Meeting not later than May 1931. Commit- tee appointed : Adin L. Gill, Edward D. Penniman and Ar- thur A. Clark.
Article 23. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 24. Voted to rescind that part of a vote made at a Special Town Meeting Jan. 2, 1931, whereby it was vot- ed to hire $1000.00 on a note payable in 1932.
Article 25. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for a heating plant.
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Article 26. Voted to sell the old hearse house to the Eastham Evergreen Cemetery association for the sum of $1.00, to be removed before May 15, 1931.
Article 27. Voted on the question of rescinding the vote made at the Annual Town Meeting February 3, 1930, whereby it was voted to lay out a road from a point near the home of Rose B. Nickerson, northerly to Locust Road. Voted-No 14-Yes 10, the vote is not rescinded.
Article 28. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $75.00 for the survey of a road from the State Highway near the home of Harvey T. Moore westerly to the Old Mill Road near the home of Rose B. Nickerson.
Voted to pay the Moderator $10.00 for his services at this meeting.
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
May 11, 1931
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barnstable, S. S.
To Harvey T. Moore, Constable of the Town of Eastham in the County aforesaid, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Eastham, on Monday eve- ning, the Eleventh day of May at 8 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles :
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meet- ing.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to lay a plank walk from the parking space at the Nauset Coast Guard sta- tion to the top of the bank and make an appropriation for the same. The walk to be taken up and housed during the winter months, and appoint someone to look after said housing. (By request.)
Article 3. To see if the town will release to Eastham Grange, all claims that the Town may hold upon silverware and dishes now on hand in the Town Hall building or do or act anything thereon. (By request.)
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Article 4. To see if the town will vote to purchase a Ford Pumping Engine and proper equipment for the same, appropriate money for such purchase and act anything thereon.
Article 5. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to take care of the deficit in the Snow Removal Ac- count.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $180.00 to pay for the snow plough.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $200.00 for Office Supplies for the year 1931. (Through an oversight this item was not included in the recommendations at the last Annual Town Meeting).
Article 8. To see if the town will take any action re- garding the Moderator under Chap. 39, Sec. 14 of the Gen- eral Laws.
Article 9. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for Military Aid for the year 1931.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof, one at the Blacksmith shop of Chas. A. Feltis in South Eastham, the Post-Office in Eastham and the Post-Office in North Eastham, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of holding said meeting.
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Given under our hands at Eastham, this Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-One.
ARTHUR W. PARNELL,
WILLIAM B. HIGGINS,
EDWARD D. PENNIMAN, Selectmen of Eastham.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
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