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ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Collectors, School Committee, Road Commissioners, Engineers of the Fire Depart- ment, Trustees of the Public Library, Trustees of the Cemetery, and Auditors.
ART. 3. To bring in their votes on one ballot for Town Clerk, Selectmen, Assessors, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, Constables, one Road Commissioner for three years; also on separate ballot, two members of the School Committee for three years; also on separate ballots to bring in their votes in
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answer to the question, " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town ? "-each ballot to be received at the same time in separate boxes.
ART. 4. To choose all other necessary Town Officers, and see what instructions you will give said officers.
ART. 5. To determine how much money the Town will raise for schools, incidental school expenses, repairs of highways and bridges, removing ice and snow, fire department, support of the poor, street lights, salaries of town officers, State and mil- itary aid, printing, abatement of taxes, town office, maintenance of the police, cemetery, public library, soldiers' graves, interest on the town debt, reduction of the town debt, deficiencies and miscel- laneous expenses.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to hire money in anticipation of taxes.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will employ nightwatchmen the ensuing year, how much money they will raise for the purpose, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 8. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of laying concrete sidewalks and edge- stones, the ensuing year, provided the abutters pay one-half the expense of laying the same.
ART. 9. To determine the compensation of the Collector.
ART. 10. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the enforcement of the liquor law, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifty dollars for the care of the town clock on the Old South M. E. Church for the ensuing year.
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ART. 12. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the improvement of the common, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to purchase the vacant lots between the ceme- tery and Federal street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 14. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for edgestones and concrete sidewalks around the Centre Primary School building.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate two hundred dollars to paint and repair the Almshouse.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate two hundred dollars to purchase a road roller.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate four hundred dollars to build a bridge across Brook street, or what they will do. .
ART. 18. To see if the Town will instruct the Board of Assess- ors to print the valuation list of 1890, and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the payment of the same.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to grade and build a sidewalk on Linden street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to lay a concrete side- walk with edgestones on the northerly side of Woburn street, from Ash street to the railroad, and how much money they will raise and appropriate for the purpose.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to grade and concrete a sidewalk on the westerly side of Main street, from Minot street to the railroad, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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ART. 22. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate to finish the sidewalk commenced last year on Charles street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate three hundred and fifty dollars for the purpose of extending the side- walk on High street, from J. W. Manning's nursery to the Lowell street school-house.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate three hundred dollars for concrete gutters and cross-walks.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate two hundred and fifty dollars, to repair John street, from Green street to Salem street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will build a new culvert across Green street, a few rods from High street, or take any other measures for removing the water which naturally flows across the location of said Green street, and determine how much money shall be raised and appropriated for the purpose.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars to lower the drain pipe that leads. from the house of Patrick Devaney on Main street, to the brook that runs through the land of Moses Morse, and also lower the brook that runs through the land of said Moses Morse, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a suffi- cient sum of money to build an engine house for the use of the Fountain Engine Company Number Three, on North Main street, the same to be expended under the direction of the Board of Fire Engineers and a Committee from the Fountain Engine Company, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to place a fire alarm box at the junction of Charles and Haverhill streets, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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ART. 30. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the extension of the bridge at the corner of Avon and Main streets, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will authorize the proper officers to lay out and build a sidewalk from West street to the residence of Needham Nichols on the southerly side of Woburn street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will authorize and instruct the Selectmen to appoint a clerk, whose duty shall be to keep a cor- rect record of all meetings of the Board, and all moneyed accounts. of the Town.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will raise the pay of the firemen to fifty cents per hour, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 34. To see if the Town will instruct the Board of Road Commissioners to put in concrete cross-walks on Lincoln and Arlington streets, at Woburn street.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will instruct the Road Commis- sioners to repair the concrete sidewalks whenever needed.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will erect and maintain two street lights on Temple street between the bend in said street and Sum- mer avenue.
ART. 37. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a street light on or near the corner of Pleasant and Middle streets, or what they will do in relation thereto.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will erect and maintain two new street lights, one to be between Warren avenue and Washington street, the other two hundred and fifty feet north of Main street, on Minot street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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ART. 39. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a light on High street, opposite Wendell Bancroft's coal-shed ; also one at the corner of High and Mt. Vernon streets.
ART. 40. To see if the Town will erect and maintain a street light on Lincoln street, midway between Woburn street and the Boston and Main station.
ART. 41. To hear and act on the report of the Road Commis- sioners on extending Mineral street from Summer avenue to Prospect street.
ART. 42. To hear and act on the report of the Road Commis- sioners in relation to guide posts.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will revise and accept the list of names for Jurors as prepared and posted by the Selectmen.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands, this twenty-sixth day of March, A.D. .
1890.
HORACE L. CUMMINGS, Selectmen R. DEXTER TEMPLE, of
STILLMAN M. PRATT, Reading.
A true copy- Attest :
Constable.
LIST OF JURORS.
The subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Reading, have prepared the following list of persons who, in their judgment, are qualified to serve as jurors, and respectfully submit the same for the action of the Town :
Atkinson, George H.
Foss, Jacob K.
Austin, Henry K.
Jones, Oren N.
Bancroft, Frederick
Lovejoy, Eugene L.
Bancroft, Moses
Mckay, James
Barrows, Cyrus M.
Meader, George C.
Bassett, Edwin
Nichols, Henry D.
Batchelder, Howard W.
Nichols, Richard B.
Blood, Edwin W.
Parker, Frank
Boyce, George A.
Parker, Henry F.
Brown, Henry M.
Parker, Stillman E.
Canty, John D.
Perkins, William H.
Coney, Charles S.
Pratt, Charles T.
Cook, Walter F.
Pratt, Harland P.
Davis, William W.
Putnam, George L.
Damon, George H.
Sanborn, Daniel C.
Deadman, Henry
Sargent, George A.
Eaton John H.
Sawyer, Addison A. Smith, Benjamin Y.
Eames, Paul R.
Stoodley, Nathan D. Temple, Arthur W.
Eames, Rufus C.
Emerson, Arthur G,
Twombly, Willie E.
Griggs, James H.
Wardsworth, George F.
Gleason, Junius I.
Weston, Charles A.
Hatch, Frederick W.
Whelton, David
Harrington, Edward B.
Wight, Ephraim
Killam, Joseph W.
Wightman, William H. Young, Samuel C.
Knight, Erastus
HORACE L. CUMMINGS, R. DEXTER TEMPLE, of
Selectmen
STILLMAN M. PRATT. Reading.
Eames, Charles B.
INDEX.
Town Officers, 1889-90. 3
Town Clerk's Report, Births Registered.
5
Marriages Registered 6
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Deaths Registered
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Dogs Licensed. 9
Report of the Overseers of the Poor
10
Assessors' Report, Valuation 16
Selectmen's Account. 17
Road Commissioners' Account and Report 26
Treasurer's Report 38
Collector's Report.
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Collector's Report.
41
Auditors' Report. 42
Report of the Board of Engineers
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Library Report.
Report of School Committee. 55
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Organization of the Committee 56
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Table of Salaries. 61
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Appendix, General Statistics. 62
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Town Warrant
List of Jurors
66 Financial Report.
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Police Report
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