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Fred Tyler, labor
5.00
$ 17.60
SUNTAUG PARK :
Henry Gove, labor
1.30
E. M. Fletcher, mowing
8.25
$ 9.55
Total payments
73.90
Unexpended balance Dec. 31, 1919 . .
107.96
$ 181.86
$ 181.86
CEMETERIES
CREDIT
Appropriation March 10, 1919
$ 100.00
Unexpended balance of 1918
93.67
Interest drawn from Trust Funds
146.70
Sale of lot
20.00
86
DEBIT
PRECINCT 1:
General Care:
Seth Russell, labor 104.00
William E. Roundy, labor and
47.00 team
M. Avadanian, gravel
5.30
$ 156.30
CARE OF ENDOWED LOTS :
Seth H. Russell, Forest Hill and Old Cemetery 86.05
Joseph T. Bancroft, West
Cemetery
48.00 $ 134.05
Total payments Precinct 1, $290.35
PRECINCT 2:
General Care:
Willis Peabody, General work .. 8.00
Willis Peabody, endowed lots .. 12.50
$ 20.50
Total Payments Precinct 2, $20.50
Total payments for Department ... $ 310.85
Unexpended balance Dec. 31, '19 49.52
$ 360.37
$
360.37
WELCOME HOME COMMITTEE
CREDIT
Appropriation March 10th, 1919 $ 750.00 Transferred from General Government 1.29
87
DEBIT
A. S. Hoag, Lynn, cigars $ 8.55
Lizzie M. Bancroft, Ice Cream and plates 41.00
Lynn Sporting Goods Co., 4 base balls 6.80
Wm. C. Dorrety, 58 silver, 3 gold Medals 205.63
D'Avinos Band and Orchestra 219.32
G. M. Roundy, Cookies, cakes, etc. 11.67
Jackson & Prentiss, Invitations . . George A. Brouiletti, Decorator 20.00
9.25
D. B. H. Power, Rent of Chairs 20.83
Wardhurst Club, dinner
73.25
Wakefield Garage Co., bus service 35.00
Louise Badaracco, singer 20.00
Harding Emblem Co., badges and Rosettes 13.84
Geo. A. Lambert, programmes
12.00
Wilbert Hayward Transportation from N. Y. 17.15
William C. Dorrety, 4 extra medals
12.00
Atlantic Decorating Company
25.00
$ 751.29
Total payments
$ 751.29
$ 751.29
MISCELLANEOUS
Moth Department (Supervised by State) CREDIT
Appropriation March 11, 1918
$ 603.05
Assessed to private property in 1918
683.64
DEBIT
Payment to State 1,286.69
$1,286.69
$ 1,286.69
88
LIABILITY INSURANCE
1
CREDIT
Appropriation March 10, 1919 $ 350.00
DEBIT
Travelers Insurance Company
350.00
$ 350.00
$ 350.00
MEMORIAL DAY
CREDIT
Appropriation March 10th, 1919 $ 100.00
DEBIT
Isaac H. Mitchell, as per itemized bill
60.00
Edward Q. Moulton, on account
40.00
Total payments
$ 100.00
$ ·100.00
INSTALLATION OF NEW LIGHT
CREDIT
Appropriation May 23, 1919 $ 13.50
DEBIT
Unexpended balance Dec. 31, 1919
13.50
$ 13.50
$ 13.50
89
The following appropriations have never been disposed of and were appropriated at the Annual Meeting, March 11, 1917.
Emergency Fund
$300.00
Rebellion War Record
50.00
Rebuilding Town Hall Walk
150.00
Plans for Town Hall Enlargement
100.00
WAR TABLETS CREDIT
Appropriation June 24, 1919 $ 750.00
DEBIT
Unexpended balance Dec. 31, 1919
750.00
$ 750.00
$ 750.00
APPROPRIATION FOR ENGINE HOUSE
PRECINCT 1
CREDIT
Appropriation March 10, 1919
$ 200.00
DEBIT
Balance December 31, 1919
200.00
$ 200.00
$
200.00
SCHOOL HOUSE PLANS
CREDIT
Appropriation March 10, 1919 $ 200.00
DEBIT
Harlan Perkins, plans
25.00
Kellog and Read, plans
25.00
E. B. Balcomb & Co., plans
150.00
$ 200.00
$ 200.00
1
.
90
PAINTING AND REPAIRING ENGINE HOUSE PRECINCT 2
CREDIT
Appropriation June 24, 1919
$ 500.00 (Taken from Fire Alarm Extension Ap-
propriation, March 10th, 1919)
DEBIT
Unexpended Balance Dec. 31, 1919
.
.
500.00
$ 500.00
$ 500.00
1
APPROPRIATION FOR LEVEE
%
CREDIT
Appropriation March 10, 1919 ....
$ 300.00
DEBIT
Unexpended balance Dec. 31, 1919
300.00
$ 300.00
$
300.00
REDUCTION OF DEBT
Wakefield Trust Company, Engine Note for House 2 $ 500.00
First National Bank of Boston, South School Note 1,000.00
$ 1,500.00
TAX LOANS 1
Wakefield Trust Company, Note Due July 12
5,000.00
Wakefield Trust Company, Note Due Dec. 5 10,000.00
$15,000.00
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RECAPITULATION
PAYMENTS
General Government
$ 3,764.62
Protection
402.96
Fire Department
999.71
Charities
1,741.73
Highways, General
8,472.16
Street Lights
2,514.24
Schools
13,947.82
Forest Warden
236.29
Tree Warden
37.23
Library
450.29
Parks
73.90
Cemeteries
310.85
State
4,131.20
Moth Work
1,286.69
Tax loans
15,000.00
County tax
2,597.97
Allen's Terrace
199.68
Main Street Sidewalk, special
52.41
Summer Street special
459.87
Main Street, special
1,000.00
Salem Street, special
7,549.18
Fire Alarm Extension
100.00
School House special
11,548.25
Liability Insurance
350.00
Memorial Day
100.00
Welcome Home Committee
751.29
Suntaug Fund, invested by transferring
359.89
School plans
200.00
Nash Fund, Laurel wreath
10.00
Note on Chemical Engine House No. 2
500.00
Total payment
$79,148.23
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RECEIPTS AND CASH ON HAND
Cash on hand January 1st, 1919
3,007.70
Loans in anticipation of revenue 15,000.00
Inn Holder's license
600.00
Club license
1,000.00
Library Department
384.09
Cemetery Department
166.70
Income from Park Department
9.56
General Government
671.43
Charities and Soldiers' Benefits
1,132.31
Moth Work
240.78
Protection
67.50
Essex County for Salem St.
2,500.00
State for Salem Street
2,500.00
Schools
2,365.59
Corporation tax, public
253.91
Corporation tax, business 600.73
General Income Tax of 1919 320.00
585.00
Street Railroad Tax of 1917
308.69
National Bank tax 128.69
Street Railroad Tax of 1919
23.94
Income Tax of 1917
112.00
Income Tax of 1918
196.00
Bay State Street Railroad, Excise tax 1917
757.17
Bay State Street Railroad, Excise Tax 1918
678.95
Tax Sale Redemptions
89.05
Interest on excise tax
90.68
Nash Improvement Fund, withdrawn
10.00
School building loan
15,000.00
Tax of 1919
27,154.00
Tax of 1918
10,458.04
Tax of 1917
2.695.88
Tax of 1916
350.97
Total Receipts
$89,458.36
Total Payments
79,148.23
Cash on hand December 31, 1919
$10,311.13
93
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Schools Income Tax of 1919
UNEXPENDED BALANCES
Protection
$ 194.05
Forest Warden
5.76
Tree Warden
47.96
Main Street Sidewalk
28.08
Charities and Soldiers' Benefits
296.79
School Department
1,302.97
Public Library
214.98
Cemeteries
49.52
Street Lighting
35.76
Highways, general work
14.2-1
Park
107.96
Town Hall walk
150.00
Rebellion War Record
50.00
Plans, Town Hall Enlargement
150.09
Emergency Fund
300.00
Tablet Committee
750.00
Engine House Repairs, Chemical 1
200.00
Engine House Repairs, Chemical 2
500.00
Allen's Terrace
.32
Installing _of new light
13.50
Levee at Suntaug
300.00
Center School loan
4,451.75
Fire Department
.29
Total unexpended
$ 9,163.93
UNPAID BILLS
FIRE DEPARTMENT
George Williams, Janitor $ 18.00
Peabody Light Board, Oct., Nov. & Dec. light .. 10.97
Peabody Light Board for power, Oct., Nov. and Dec. 6.74
Curley Bros., 7,700 lbs. of coal 50.05
Reading Light Board, Dec. light .72
94
I
Wm. H. Griffin, care of battery and Sunday tests 100.70
The Locomobile Co. of Am., repairs to engine 141.34
Harvey's Grocery, supplies 21.27
C. W. H. Moulton Co., ladder catch 4.50
Arthur J. Killam, care of engine from July 16th, 1918 to Jan. 31, 1920 46.80
-
$ 401.09
HIGHWAYS
Arthur T. Locke, lumber for fence 10.40
Pay rolls, labor and teams 271.58
John Hewes, 60 loads gravel
12.00
Mabel Savage, 40 loads gravel 8.00
Geo. M. Roundy, supplies 6.42
Thomas R. Evans, year's repairing
8.80
$ 317.20
MISCELLANEOUS
Travelers Insurance Company
27.98
Memorial Day, Head Rests (balance of bill) .
8.64
Total of unpaid bills $ 703.61
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
AVAILABLE ASSETS
Suntaug Fund
$ 4,000.00
Suntaug Fund Interest Invested
624.56
State Aid due
564.00
Center School Building Balance
4,451.75
Balance of School appropriation
1,302.97
Excise Tax of 1918 678.95
Tax of 1917 outstanding
9.61
Tax of 1918 outstanding
2,056.67
Tax of 1919 outstanding
12,935.62
Bal. in general fund
3,877.31
$30,501.44
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LIABILITIES
South School Bonds .
$ 4,000.00
Tax Loan, due April 5, 1920
5,000.00
Unexpended balances
9,163.93
Center School House notes
15,000.00
$33,163.93
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TAX COLLECTOR'S STATEMENT
TAX OF 1916
Balance due December 31, 1918
$ 376.21
Received as interest
37.32
1
$ 413.53
Abated by the Assessors $ 25.24
Paid Town Treasurer
388.29
$ 413.53
TAX OF 1917
Balance due December 31, 1918
$ 2,966.44
Received as interest
232.54
$ 3,198.98
Abated by the Assessors
$ 260.95
Paid Town Treasurer
2,928.42
$ 3,189.37
Balance due December 31, 1919
$ 9.61
TAX OF 1918
Balance uncollected December 31, 1918
$12,670.85.
Received as interest
163.03
$12,833.88.
Abated by the Assessors $ 146.05
Error in Warrant
10.09
Paid Town Treasurer
10,621.07
10,777.21
Balance due December 31, 1919
$ 2,056.67
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TAX OF 1919
Amount of Warrant
$39,767.56
Moth tax
386.44
December Warrant
188.34
Received as interest
13.47
$40,355.81
Abated by the Assessors
$ 252.72
Paid Town Treasurer
27,167.47
27,420.19
Balance due December 31, 1919
$12,935.62
F. W. FREEMAN, Collector of Taxes.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
To the Citizens of Lynnfield :
I submit herewith my report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1919, it being my seventeenth annual report.
TRUST FUNDS
The several funds are as follows:
Cemetery Endowments with accrued interest $ 5,144.30
Mary U. Nash Fund with accrued interest 2,332.39
George N. Blake Library Fund 4,000.00
Mary U. Nash Library Fund 1,000.00
George L. Hawkes Library Fund
500.00
Adelia J. Clough Library Fund 300.00
Suntaug Fund with accrued interest
4,624.56
$17,901.25
Report showing how Funds are invested, the Dividends earned and the disposition of same:
GEORGE L. HAWKES LIBRARY FUND
Amount on deposit December 31, 1918 $ 500.00
Dividend for year ending October 1, 1919 20.00
$ 520.00
Dividend withdrawn credited to Library $ 20.00
On deposit Suffolk Sav. Bank Dec. 31, 1919 500.00 ·
$ 520.00
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MARY U. NASH LIBRARY FUND
Amount on deposit December 31, 1918
Dividend for year ending November 1, 1919
$ 1,000.00 45.00
$ 1,045.00
Dividend withdrawn credited to Library . $ 45.00
Deposited Medford Sav. Bank Dec. 31, 1919 .. 1,000.00
$ 1,045.00
GEORGE N. BLAKE LIBRARY FUND
As reported December 31, 1918 $ 4,000.00
Dividend for year ending Dec. 1, 1919 140.00
$ 4,140.00
Dividend credited to Library $ 140.00
City of Boston Registered Bond 4,000.00
$ 4,140.00
ADELIA J. CLOUGH LIBRARY FUND
Amount of Fund received $ 300.00
Dividends 8.13
$ 308.13
Dividends to Library $ 8.13
Liberty Bonds
300.00 $ 308.13
The above fund was received from J. Winslow Perkins, Adm. un- der will of Adelia J. Clough of Wakefield, clause in Will stated that Fund was for use of Lynnfield Public Library.
MARY U. NASH TOWN IMROVEMENT FUND
On deposit December 31, 1918
$ 2,248.01
Dividend Wildey Savings Bank 45.48
Dividend Wakefield Savings Bank
35.53
Dividend Mechanics Savings Bank
13.37
$ 2,342.39
Paid on orders from Selectmen*
10.00
$ 2,332.39
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On deposit Dec. 31, 1919:
Wildey Savings Bank
$1,171.62
Wakefield Savings Bank
853.10
Mechanics Savings Bank
307.67
$ 2,332.39
SUNTAUG PARK FUND
Amount of Fund as reported December 31, 1918
$ 5,359.89
Dividends on Bonds 264.67
$ 5,624.56
Sale of Bond to pay School Bond
1,000.00
$ 4,624.56
Fund as invested December 31, 1919:
Argentine Bonds
$3,000.00
American Tel. & Tel. Bond
1,000.00
Wakefield Savings Bank
624.56
- $ 4,624.56
CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS
Received during the year three hundred fifty dollars as Endow- ments. From C. H. Danforth, executor of Mary W. Hewes, one hun- dred dollars and from C. H. Danforth, money contributed by others one hundred dollars to endow lots of Joshua Hewes and Jacob Wiley in the West Cemetery. By will of Elizabeth Norwood Tenney, one hundred dollars to endow lot of James Norwood in Forest Hill Ceme- tery, and from George Knight of Danvers, Mass., fifty dollars as an addition to endowment of William Skinner.
The endowment reported last year as Mary L. Wiley fund should have been the Warren Bancroft fund for lot in the West Cemetery.
Statement of Funds showing earnings, disbursements, and in- vestment:
Amount of Funds and interest Dec. 31, 1918
$ 4,734.33
Endowments received during year 1919 350.00
Interest received 210.02
$ 5,294.35
Interest withdrawn and paid for care of lots
150.05
$5,144.30
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Investment:
Wakefield Savings Bank
$2,693.84
Mechanics Savings Bank
1,312.44
Wildey Savings Bank
1,037.87
Liberty Bond and Interest
100.15
$ 5,144.30
Income, expense and balance of each Fund:
On deposit Dec. 31, '18
Income 1919
Exp. 1919
On deposit Dec. 31, 1919
Henry Bancroft
$
259.68 $ 11.79 $
4.00 $
267.47
Warren Bancroft
100.00
4.15
4.00
100.15
Thomas D. Blake
110.50
4.72
3.00
112.22
Albert R. Bryant
105.40
4.51
3.00
106.91
John Bryant
81.17
3.67
3.00
81.84
Jonathan Bryant
111.68
4.76
15.00
101.44
Matthew Cox
113.40
4.85
3.00
115.25
Jeremiah Coney
147.09
5.94
3.00
150.03
Sarah J. Coney
106.96
4.30
3.00
108.26
George S. Danforth
101.20
4.34
4.00
101.54
Mary A. Danforth
108.60
4.26
3.00
109.86
Eben and Oliver Downing
202.00
8.67
6.00
204.67
Adelia C. Emerson
65.25
2.78
68.03
Emerson and Orne
82.24
3.51
3.00
82.75
Lucy E. Gowing
51.31
2.32
2.00
51.63
Esther W. M. Gilman
206.48
8.84
4.00
211.32
Endicott Hart
51.31
2.32
2.00
51.63
John E. Hastings
104.40
4.73
3.00
106.13
Mary B. Hawkes
104.60
4.46
3.00
106.06
Joshua Hewes
3.02
3.00
100.02
Jacob Hood
106.28
4.55
3.00
107.83
Joseph Hart
150.00
6.36
6.36
150.00
R. and M. Mansfield
101.62
4.34
3.00
102.96
Daniel Needham
108.74
4.63
3.00
110.37
Helen D. Newcomb
102.20
4.12
3.00
103.32
James H. Newhall
108.08
4.63
3.25
109.46
Joseph C. Newhall
73.10
3.12
76.22
Warren Newhall
100.00
4.55
2.00
102.55
102
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Wright Newhall
103.20
4.42
3.00
104.62
James Norwood
100.00
David F. Parsons
105.98
4.26
3.00
107.24
Israel Parsons
105.98
4.26
3.00
107.24
Ebenezer Parsons
114.19
5.18
3.00
116.37
Esther R. Perkins
103.76
4.71
3.00
105.47
M. C. Pope
101.37
4.34
3.00
102.71
Charlotte Ramsdell
122.27
5.23
2.25
125.25.
Herbert Richardson
80.18
3.42.
3.00
80.60
Moses Richardson
110.54
4.72
3.00
112.26
Elbridge Russell
211.13
9.59
6.00
214.72
Lois Shute
100.00
4.19
4.19
100.00
George Skinner
100.08
4.29
3.00
101.37
Herbert A. Skinner
104.80
4.75
3.00
106.55.
William Skinner
101.30
54.58
4.00
*151.88
Amanda Wiley
106.26
4.82
3.00
108.08
Jacob Wiley
3.02
3.00
100.02
$4,734.33 $260.02 $150.05 $5,144.30
*Fifty dollars added to Endowment under income. '
TREASURER'S FINANCIAL REPORT :
DR.
Cash balance January 1, 1919
$ 3,007.70
Loans in anticipation of revenue
15,000.00
Loan for Centre School Building
15,000.00
License, Club
1,000.00
License, Innholders
600.00
License, all others
. 38.00
Dog tax refunded by County Treasurer
138.75
County Treasurer for killing dogs
3.00
Interest George N. Blake Library Fund
140.00
Interest Mary U. Nash Library Fund
45.00
Interest George L. Hawkes Library Fund
20.00
Fines collected at Main Library
15.30
Fines collected at Branch Library
16.91
Interest Clough Library Fund .
8.13
Interest Cemetery Trust Funds withdrawn .
146.70
.
.
10.3
Cemetery Commissioners for sale of lot
20.00
Interest from Nash Improvement Fund 10.00
District Court Peabody, court fines 31.36
Rent of South Hall
81.75
O. E. Phillips, sealers' fees
13.64
O. E. Phillips, police badge
.75
Charity Refund
12.86
Town of Danvers, Mothers' Aid Refund
278.94
Bay State St. Ry., excise tax for 1917
757.17
Bay State St. Ry., excise tax for 1918
673.95
Bay State St. Ry., interest on excise tax
90.68
Park Commissioners' income
9.56
Collected by Moth Superintendent
240.78
Tax sale redemption
89.05
Interest on property redeemed
12.50
City of Lynn, tuition
175.00
School Committee for railroad tickets sold
8.01
Treasurer Essex County for Salem St.
2,500.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
For Salem Street
2,500.00
State School Fund
1,037.07
High School transportation
600.76
Salary of Superintendent
187.50
Tu tion
354.75
Industrial School
2.50
State Aid
600.00
Corporation tax, public
253.91
Corporation tax, business
600.73
National Bank tax
128.69
Street Railway tax for 1917
308.69
Street Railway tax for 1919
23.94
Soldiers' exemption
28.01
Inspection barns and cattle
18.75
Income tax for 1917
112.00
Income tax for 1918 -
196.00
Income tax for 1919, general
320.00
Income tax for 1919, school.
585.00
Mothers' Aid
212.50
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Interest on daily bank balance
92.82
Collector of Taxes :
Tax of 1919
27,154.00
Tax of 1918 10,458.04
Tax of 1917
2,695.89
Tax of 1916
350.97
Interest on taxes
446.36
$ 89,459.36
TREASURER'S FINANCIAL REPORT :
CR.
Amount paid on orders
$ 79,148.23
Cash balance on Centre School Building
4,451.75
Cash balance, School Account
1,302.97
Cash balance, Interest Cemetery Trust Fund
.15
Cash balance, General Fund
3,877.31
Cash balance, Excise Tax for 1918
678.95
$ 89,459.36
FRANKLIN W. FREEMAN, Treasurer.
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
I hereby certify that I have examined the various trust funds of the Town, also the accounts of the Collector of Taxes and of the Town Treasurer and find that we agree.
I have also kept an itemized account of all payment and receipts of the Town and have published the result of the same in the Annual Town Report in connection with reports of Departments, and records of Town Clerk, etc.
OSCAR E. PHILLIPS, Town Accountant.
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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE Together with the Articles in the Warrant for the Annual Meeting to be Held March 8, 1920
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To act upon the reports of Town officers as published.
Art. 3. To choose all Town officers not required to be chosen by ballot.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1920, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said . financial year.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money on and after January 1, 1921, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1921, and to issue a note or notes therefor, pay- able within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1921.
Art. 6. To appoint a time when the Collector of Taxes shall settle his account.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will revise and accept the jury list as published by the Selectmen.
Art. 8. To see what disposal the Town will make of the money refunded by the County from the Dog Tax for the year 1919.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the observance of Memorial Day, and determine how the same shall be expended, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $100.
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Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, said sum to be used for maintenance of General Government as follows: Town officers' salaries and expenses, interest on notes, care of municipal buildings, elections and registrations or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $3,500.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars, said sum to be used for charities, and soldiers' benefits for the ensuing year, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $1,000 and unexpended balance.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars, said sum to be used for Police work, Board of Health, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Inspector of Barns and Animals and Slaughtering, for the ensuing year, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $250 and unexpended balance.
Art. 13. To see if the Town ·will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents, as required by the State for the suppression of the Brown Tail and Gypsy Moth, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $688.55.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, to be used for the maintenance of street lights, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $2,550 and unexpended balance. 1
Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, said sum, together with the unexpended balance, for the use of the Cemetery Commissioners in care of the town cemeteries. Cemetery Commissioners.
Recommends $200 and unexpended balance.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars to continue the grading of avenues in Forest Hill Cemetery, or what action it will take thereon. Ceme- tery Commissioners.
Recommends to use regular cemetery funds.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for the maintenance of the Public Library, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $75, unexpended balance and the dog tax.
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Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars to cover expense of making repairs on Chemical Engine House No. 2, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $800.
Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to carry its own liability insurance and appropriate a sum of money therefor to be set aside as a sinking fund, or what action it will take thereon.
Not recommended.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Three Thousand Dollars to be used in reconstructing Sa- lem street, as recommended by the Massachusetts Highway Commis- sion, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $3,000.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars, to repair Main street from the Ed- ward Phillips' Place, northerly, as far as the appropriation will go thoroughly, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $1,000.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars, to pay expense of revaluation of real estate and publishing the same, or what action it will take thereon.
Not recommended.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to increase the Town Clerk's salary to two hundred dollars per year, same to date from January 1, 1920. Oscar Phillips and others.
Recommends $150
Art. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the School Department and the amount re- ceived from the Commonwealth under part 1 of chapter 363 of the General Acts of 1919, for the general expenses of said department, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $14,500 and unexpended balance.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended by the School Committee in grading the Center School grounds.
Recommends $500.
Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred forty-one dollars and sixty-three cents
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($441.63) to be used by the Building Committee in liquidation of bills incurred in excess of the sum of $16,000 appropriated at the Special Town meeting in June, 1919, for the building of an addition to the Center School.
Recommends $441.63.
Art. 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended by the School Committee in improving the ventilating and heating systems at the South School.
No action.
Art. 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for the use of the Fire Department for the ensuing year, or what action it will take thereon. Chief Lewis F. Pope.
Recommends $1,500. -
Art. 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars and the unexpended balance for the use of the Tree Warden, one-half of this sum to be expended in the planting of shade trees, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $50 and unexpended balance, one-half to be used for planting shade trees.
Art. 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars, to be expended to cut bushes along the roadside in the Town, or what action it will take thereon. Lyman H. Twiss.
Not recommended.
Art. 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars, said sum together with the unex- pended balance to be used for suppressing forest fires, or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $200.
Art. 32. To see what action the Town will take for the disposi- tion of the excise tax for 1918.
Recommerds it be given to Highway Department.
Art. 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of eight thousand dollars for the repair of highways and street oiling or what action it will take thereon.
Recommends $7,500 and the 1918 excise tax.
Art. 34. To see if the Town will vote to revise the rate of com-
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pensation to be paid to employees of the Highway Department and for snow plow work.
Recommends highway surveyors, $4.25 per day; highway em- ployes, $4.00 per day; snow plow, $1.50 per hour.
Art. 35. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee to investigate the matter of purchasing a gravel grader and report to the next annual Town meeting with their recommendations.
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TOWN OFFICERS'
ANNUAL REPORT
For the Year Ending December 31, 1920
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