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Mary Whelton
83
11
29
John E. Morrison
1
1
25
30
Edward T. Pendergrace
12
0
31 Edward Fay
8
0
11
27
6
9
8 Joseph Hibbert
84
9
11
12 Clarence O. Poland
54
2
24
14
Waty A. Swift
84
0
1
46
14 Elizabeth Sawyer
66
19 John Ainsworth
17
11
23
27 - Peterson
May 14 Ozro C. Clark
23 Josephine L. Harrow
51
29 Thomas and Elizabeth (Weir) Hebron
Pneumonia Pneumonia
Bridget Duran
51
0
Patrick and Catherine (Flaherty) Connelly
8 Albert Janes
DISEASE OR CAUSE OF DEATH. Carcinoma of Stomach Pneumonia Apoplexy
Malnutrition Capillary Bronchitis Apoplexy Carcinoma Bronchitis
14
Fanny Nichols
16 Thomas Jeffrey
85
11 0
11
Jolin and Eleanor (Pringle) Jeffrey
Obstructive Jaundice
17
Fred A. Nason
32
5
22
Timothy and Ellen (Donovan) Leary Daniel and Sallie (Eaton) Damon
31 Jolın De Ronde
63
3
1
George E. and Almira (Currier) Mitchell John B. and Grace (Lyman) Robertson William and Mary (Coggin) Temple
Diabetes Mellitus Valvular Disease of the Heart
Cerebral Hemorrhage Pulmonary Tuberculosis
17
Julia Doucette
55
3
0
Peter and Elizabeth (Copran) Frotton Jonathan and Hannah (Melendy) Cook Millard S. Charles
Acute Brights Disease Carcinoma of Neck
Meningitis
Pulmonary Tubercolosis Old Age Valvular Disease of the Heart Unknown R. R. Accident
Tuberculosis of Abdomen
Apr. 8 Alice V. Hodson
Chronic Nervous Prostration Old Age and Gangrene Cardiac Dilation
Old Age
6
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Aaron and Asenath (Carsley) Brigham Peter and Mary A. (Lucy) Ainsworth
La Grippe Pernicious Auæmia Congenital Valvular Disease of Heart
0
0
3 Arthur and Emily (Mann) Peterson Nathaniel and Abigail Clark
June 6 9 Louisa M. Janes
81
8 27 00 00 5
Cancer of Stomach
0
0
Edward J. and Annie S. White James Nealand
Plithisis Phmonalis Cerebral Hemorrhage
Pneumonia Cardiac disease Phthisis
14 James R. Robertson
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4
69
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Broncho Pneu noma
13 Laura Dennis Carr
Simeon and Hannalı (Roberts) Chadbourne Charles and Margaret (Surette) Carr Jason and Caroline M. (Cutting) Richardson
8 0 George W. and Susan (Pierce) Reed Daniel and Ellen (Quinlan) Lehan William H. and Mary A. (King) Morrison
Thos. F. & Elizabethi (Ridges) Pendergrace Michael and Delia (MeGrath) Fay Alexander and Eliza (Cleaves) Hodson Joseph and Sarah (Parkhurst) Hibbert Osborn and Saralı (F. Lamond) Poland Azel and Lucinda (Hopkins) Rounds
27 Caleb and Nancy (Temple) Wakefield
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John T. and Delia M. (Kane) Wall
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June 27 Isaiah HI. Horton
7
13 25
Isaiah H. and Rebecca (Higgins) Horton Henry and Margaret Ling
“ 30 Theophilus D. Ling
49
10
Warren and Sarah (Abbott) Eaton
Warren E. Eaton
67
6
0
13 James and Mary (Dulan) O'Brien
10 Sarah E. Peabody
12
Susan Alice Dugan
4
.6
13
Sarah M. Milbery
66
23
Stillson H. Dow
27
David G. Richardson
Phthisis
Aug. 2
Charles S. Fisher
5
1
28
Arthur Il. and Lydia M. (Hardy) Jewett Frank F. and Rachel L. (DeGrasse) Stront
Convulsions
14
Charles Frederick Strout
52
5
4
Ephraim G. and Sarah J. A. (Clark) Wallace
24 Otis L. Thurlow
57
11
28
Stephen C. and Lois ( Hewes) Thurlow
25
George E. Skinner
49
8
0
Richard Skinner and unknown
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Elizabeth Howard Porter
6
12
28
Harriet B. Vinall -()'Brien
69
0
0
Sept. 3
4 Joseph R. Morton
74
5
John and Salome ( Farrar) Morton
8
Nancy O. Nichols
80
5
13
Daniel Nichols
Mitral Insufficiency
12
John McGarry
42
Arthmr and Catherine (Garwin) McGarry
Myocarditis
19
William John Flitcroft
27
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Jonn E. and Ane (Sharpt) Fhiteroft
Oct. 3
P. Helen Williams
53
6
26
Micah and Phoebe (Richardson) Williams
Apoplexy
16
Daniel J. O'Leary
34
1
80
24
Mary E. Freeman
67
7
5
Henry Freeman
21
4
12
it
3
0
J. Gilman Lovejoy Augustns Fultz
Apoplexy
11
Jeremiah G. Sargent
83
0
21
George and Sarah (Bnrbank) Sargent
Dec. 1
2
F. Jane Anstin
79
8
Harris Austin
Cerebral Hemorrhage
66
4
Mabel G. Borthwick
69
11
27
Andrew Young
Cerebral Hemorrhage
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6 Elena Mary Testa
30
16
Joseph Testa
Chronie Tuberculosis
8 Ida M. Gillam
46
6
16
Ernest M. Gillam
Pnenmonia
8
Elvira A. F. Clogston
78
J. S. Clogston
28
John G. Hutchinson
81
5
7
Hezekiah and Rachel (Gould) Intehinson
28 Edith E. Sylvester
1
6
17
Fred L. and Addie M. (Baneroft) Sylvester
Apoplexy Chronic Nephritis Septieeamia Typhoid Fever Gastritis
July 2 9 William F. O'Brien
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6 998-1-1 6 3
8
Benjamin Peabody
Thomas Dugan
Cancer of Liver
66
22
Charles W. Milbery
Pneumonia
71
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27 William and Lydia ( Putnam) Richardson
Edward and Ella (streeter) Fisher
Typhoid Fever
13
Elizabeth Herrick Jewett
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Tumors of Brain
17
Alberto B. Wallace
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Hypothetical Alcoholism
Gastritis
Endocarditis
Mary O'Brien
Debility
Myocarditis
Drowning, Accidental
20
Louisa M. Daland
John H. Daland
Gastro Enterlito Tuberenlar Laryngitis
Nov. 2
5
Susan R. Lovejoy
6
Harriet Fultz
72
2
1
R. R. Accident
Nathaniel W. Broad
70
2
Wilder and Elvira W. (Shepard) Broad
Myocarditis
.
Win. and Henrietta (Skidmore) Borthwick
Capillary Bronchitis
5 Sarah A. Young
Henry E. and Elizabeth (Batchelder) Uran
Gastric Hemorrhage
Helen Beatrice Uran
William 11. Porter
George A. W. Vinall
6
Jacob and Sarah (Hassan) Dow
Erysipelas Paralysis Agitans
3
35
8
1
3
Patrick and Mary (O'Neil) O'Leary
Phthisis
Unknown
Apoplexy General Paresis Capillary Bronchitis
Whole number of deaths, 81; Males, 37; Females, +4; Born in United States, Males, 28; Females, 37; Foreign Born, Males, 9; Females, 7.
DOGS LICENSED DURING YEAR 1903
Whole number of licenses issued
261
234 Males at $2.00
$468 00
26 Females at $5.00
130 00
1 Kennel license
25 00
Total receipts
$623 00
Less fees for 261 licenses at 20c. each 52 20
$570 80
June 1, 1903, paid County Treasurer . $275 40
Dec. 1, 1903, paid County Treasurer 295 40
Total paid . $570 80
Number of dogs as returned by the Assessor to Town Clerk, 280
Males
251
Females
29
280
Number of dogs licensed by me not returned by Assessors, 17
Males
15
Females
2
17
Total dogs reported by Assessors
270
Extra dogs reported Town Clerk
17
Total dogs reported for license
287
21
No. of dogs reported of this number as dead or left town 25
Total that should be licensed
262
Total licensed
260
Unlicensed
2
More dogs have been licensed during the past year than ever before and with the co-operation of the Police there is no reason why every dog in town should not either be licensed or killed.
The number of dogs licensed in Reading the following years are as follows :
1890, 211
1897, 186
1891, 158
1898, 194
1892, 171
1899, 167
1893, 203
1900, 207
1894, 227
1901, 193
1895, 218
1902, 248
1896, 207
1903, 261
Since 1890 the following amounts have been paid by the Town Clerk to the County Treasurer, and the second column shows the amount received by Town for the use of Public Library :
YEAR
PAID C. TREAS.
REC'D BY LIBRARY
1890
$336.60
$305.35
1891
357.60
309.66
1892
393.00
None
1893
434.40
361.56
1894
492.60
408.34
1895
467.40
475.36
1896
453.60
444.03
1897
415.80
430.92
1898
424.20
399.17
.
22
1899
363.60
402.99
1900
441.60
349.20
1901
452.40
464.52
1902
547.40
401.28
MILLARD F. CHARLES,
December 31st, 1903.
Town Clerk.
TOWN MEETINGS IN THE YEAR 1903
PROCEEDINGS OF TOWN MEETING HELD MARCH 2D, 1903
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. George L. Flint was chosen Moderator.
The following election officers were duly appointed and sworn : Ballot Clerks, Charles W. Lee and Wm. H. Perkins; Tellers, Waldo F. Eaton, James C. Nichols, Frank E. Hutchins, Frank A. Bessom, Henry M. Donegan, Joseph S. Robinson, Chester Mc- Dougall, Walter F. Cook, John Connelly, Daniel T. Bickford, Horace E. Eames. Ballot Box was duly inspected and found empty and registered (0000.) Ballots were turned over to Ballot Clerks, they receipting therefor, and polls were duly opened to receive bal- lots at 6.15 A. M.
Art. 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, Assessors, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, School Committee, Water Commissioners, Municipal Light Board, Engineers of the Fire Department, Trustees of the Cemetery, Trus- tees of the Public Library, Auditors, Board of Health, Sewerage Committee, Finance Committee, Tree Warden and Special Com- mittees.
Voted that Art. 2 be laid on table.
Art. 3. To bring in their votes on one ballot for Town Clerk, Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor, one member of Board of Asses-
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sors for three years, Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, one member of Board of Health for three years, two Constables, one Water Com- missioner for three years, one member of the Municipal Light Board for three years, one Trustee of Laurel Hill Cemetery to fill unexpired term of the late Edward F. Brooks, two Trustees of Laurel Hill Cemetery for three years, two Trustees of the Public Library for three years, two members of the School Committee for three years, three Auditors, and Tree Warden for one year ; also on same ballot Yes or No in answer to the following question : "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
Voted that the Polls be closed at 4.45 o'clock P. M.
Voted that the regular Town business in the Warrant be post- poned till seven o'clock P. M.
The Polls were duly closed at 4.45 P. M.
The Ballot Box registered as having voted 2225
The Ballot Clerks reported Names checked 794
The Tellers reported Names checked .
794
(774 Men and 20 Women.)
The Ballot Box therefore registered Blanks 1431
The Ballots were sorted and counted in open Town Meeting with the following result :
TOWN CLERK
Millard F. Charles, 66 Bancroft ave.
557
Alfred W. Danforth, 25 Woburn st.
1
Blanks
216
SELECTMEN
Oliver L. Akerley, 65 Woburn st. 421
Elmer P. Crooker, 51 Prescott st. -
260
James Warren Killam, 16 Arlington st.
488
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A. Chandler Manning, 128 High st.
370
William I. Ruggles, 23 Grand st.
512
Blanks .
271
OVERSEERS OF POOR
Oliver L. Akerley, 65 Woburn st. 414
Elmer P. Crooker, 51 Prescott st.
255
James Warren Killam, 16 Arlington st.
480
A. Chandler Manning, 128 High st.
350
William I. Ruggles, 23 Grand st.
485
Blanks
.
338
ASSESSOR FOR THREE YEARS
George E. Horrocks, 212 Main st.
158
Benjamin Y. Smith, 92 John st.
209
Herbert M. Viall, 88 Prospect st.
335
S. G. Stewart, Bancroft ave.
1
Blanks
71
TREASURER
Edward F. Parker, 3 Salem st.
590
Samuel Brown .
1
Blanks
183
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Herbert M. Viall, 88 Prospect st.
624
George Buck
2
Blanks
148
BOARD OF HEALTH THREE YEARS
Calvert II. Playdon, Salem st.
588
Blanks
186
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CONSTABLES
Frederic D. Merrill, 27 Highland st.
505
John H. Orr, 31 Village st.
380
Henry Stock, Pearl st. 356
Albert J. Francis, Woburn st.
1
B. J. Lehan, Temple st.
1
W. H. Manning, Green st.
1
Blanks 304
WATER COMMISSIONER FOR THREE YEARS
Joseph S. Robinson, 84 Oak st. 226
George A. Shackford, 118 Ash st. .
460
Blanks 88
MUNICIPAL LIGHT BOARD FOR THREE YEARS
William S. Kinsley, Main st. 455
John V. Young, 86 Woburn st. .
217
Blanks 102
Two TRUSTEES LAUREL HILL CEMETERY FOR THREE YEARS Alfred W. Danforth, 25 Woburn st. 559
Henry T. Leavis, 164 Main st. 518
Blanks 471 .
VACANCY TRUSTEES LAUREL HILL CEMETERY ONE YEAR
Frank L. Edgerley, 17 Grove st. 589
George E. Pierce, Haven st. 2
Blanks 183
TRUSTEES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THREE YEARS
Henry G. Kittredge, Cor. Prospect and King st. 541
Harley Prentiss, 44 Linden st. 533
Blanks 473
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Two SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THREE YEARS
Elizabeth H. Brown, 83 Prospect st. 588
Gilman L. Parker, 64 Washington st. . 559
Samuel Brown 1
Blanks
440
THREE AUDITORS
George H. Clough, 60 Lowell st. 549
Albert P. Dane, 16 Mineral st.
554
Edgar N. Hunt, 125 Summer ave. 555
Blanks
664
TREE WARDEN
A. Chandler Manning, 128 High st. 599
Webster Berry
1
Blanks
174
SHALL LICENSES BE GRANTED FOR THE SALE OF INTOXICATING
LIQUORS IN THIS TOWN ?
Yes 153
No
465
Blanks
156
Meeting for Town Business was called to order pursuant to vote at 7 o'clock P. M.
Art. 4. To choose all other necessary Town Officers, and to determine what instructions they will give the Town Officers.
Voted to authorize Selectmen to appoint Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to act as Fence Viewers.
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Voted that Asa Parker, Willard A. Bancroft and John Stock serve as Field Drivers.
Voted that John H. Orr serve as Pound Keeper for the en- suing year.
Voted that the following persons serve as Surveyors of Lum- ber: James A. Bancroft, Samuel Brown, Ora L. Milbury, Wen- dell Bancroft, Burton K. Symonds, Joseph W. Killam.
Voted that the Selectmen be and are hereby instructed to re- quest the Boston & Maine R. R. Co. to discontinue the services of the gateman in the tower at the Main and Ash street crossings of their road and place a gateman on the ground at each of the above named crossings.
Voted that the Selectmen be empowered to settle the matter of claims of Alfred Perkins and Smith P. Burton, Jr., with full power.
Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to appoint a commit- tee of five citizens to report a general plan for expenditure of the Highway Appropriation.
Art. 4. Voted to lay on the table.
Art. 2. Voted to take from the table.
Report of Committee on Taxation was read and their recom- mendation adopted, which follows :
First. We recommend that the Selectmen procure estimates of the cost of the survey and maps of the Town required to intro- duce the so-called Block or District system of assessing and report the same for action by the Town at the earliest possible date, to- gether with a plan for distributing the cost of such survey and maps over a series of years, if they deem this advisable.
Second. We recommend that the question of finding the existing debt be referred to a committee with instructions to con-
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sider the possibility of re-arranging or re-distributing the amounts to be paid annually so as to reduce annual payments, and if this is found possible, the course to be pursued with reference thereto.
A. N. HOWES, Chairman. H. G. WADLIN, Secretary. ALDEN BATCHELDER. H. H. HOWARD. A. H. JEWETT.
Voted that the report of the Committee on Taxation, together with their recommendations, be printed in The Reading Chronicle at price of composition, by a rising vote. 113 voted yea and 3 voted nay.
Voted that the Committee recommended by Committee on Taxation consist of five and be appointed by the Moderator.
The Moderator appointed the following names on the Com- mittee : A. Newell Howes, Horace G. Wadlin, Henry H. Howard, Arthur H. Jewett, Alden Batchelder.
Art. 2. Voted to lay on the table.
Art. 5. To determine how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for Schools, Incidental School Expenses, Superin- tendent of Schools, Repairs of Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks, Removing Snow and Ice, Concrete Sidewalks and Edgestones (provided abutters pay one-half), Fire Department, Forest Fire Wards, Support of Poor, Salaries of Town Officers, State and Military Aid, Soldiers' Relief, Printing, Abatement of Taxes, Town Building, Cemetery, Public Library, Memorial Day, Board of Health, Care of Old South Clock, Interest Account, Care and Improvement of the Common, Mayall Park and Elm Park, Election Expenses, Concrete Gutters, Crosswalks and Paved Gutters, Repairs of Con- crete, for the Committee on Sewerage, Miscellaneous Expenses and Tree Warden.
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Art. 5. Voted that the Town raise and appropriate for regular School Expenses $22,500 00 Voted that the Town raise and appropriate for Inci- dental School Expenses 3,500 00
Voted that the Town raise and appropriate for High- ways, Bridges and Sidewalks 3,000 00
Voted that the Town raise and appropriate for Re- moving Snow and Ice for fiscal year 500 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Concrete Sidewalks and Edgestones (provided abuttors pay one-half ) 200 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for support of the Fire Department for fiscal year . 3,600 00
Voted to appropriate from available assets for use of the Fire Department for a Field Day 150 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Forest Firewards for present fiscal year 150 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Support of Poor for the present fiscal year . 4,000 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Salaries of Town Officers for the present fiscal year 3,500 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Soldiers' State and Military Aid for the present fiscal year 2,800 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Soldiers' Relief for the present fiscal year 1,500 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Printing the pres- ent fiscal year . 750 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Abatement of Tax- es the present fiscal year .
600 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Town Building and Town Office Expenses for the present fiscal year . 300 00
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Voted to raise and appropriate for care of Cemetery (And appropriate the receipts from sale of lots and the unexpended balance of interest on fund for care of lots for the present fiscal year. )
Voted to raise and appropriate for support of Public Library 900 00 ( And to appropriate the receipts of the Dog Tax for the present fiscal year. )
Voted to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day to be expended by Post 194, G. A. R. 175 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Board of Health for the present fiscal year . 600 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for care of the Old South Church Clock for the present fiscal year 50 00 Voted to raise and appropriate for Interest the pres- ent fiscal year . 600 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for care and improve- ment of the Common, Mayall and Elm Parks for the present fiscal year 150 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Election Expenses for the present fiscal year 300 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Concrete Gutters, Cross Walks and Paved Gutters the present fis- cal year 250 00
Voted to raise and appropriate for Repairs of Con- crete the present fiscal year 300 00
Voted that the part of Art. 5 calling for an appropria- tion for Sewers be indefinitely postponed.
Voted to raise and appropriate for Miscellaneous Ex- penses for the present fiscal year 1,000 00
900 00
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Voted to raise and appropriate for general expenses
of the Tree Warden the present fiscal year 200 00
Art. 6. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of eighty-two hundred and eighty dollars for the purpose of maintaining one hundred and thirty-eight arc lights at sixty dollars per light, and appropriate the same together with receipts of Plant for maintenance and interest accounts of the Municipal Light and Power Plant for the year 1903, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 6. Voted that there be raised and appropriated for the maintenance of 138 arc lights at $60 per light, and appropriate the receipts of the plant for maintenance and interest accounts of Municipal Light and Power Plant for the year 1903, $8,280.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars and appropriate the unexpended balance of the year 1902 for construction and extension of the Municipal Light and Power Plant for the year ending December 31st, 1903, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 7. Voted that $3,000 be raised and appropriated and the unexpended balance of 1902 be appropriated for construction and extension of the Municipal Light and Power Plant for the year 1903.
Art. 8. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of erecting an arc light at the corner of Haverhill and Wakefield sts., or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 8. Voted that the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to Board of Electric Light Commissioners.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to install two alternating arc lamps in the centre of the town, and eighty dollars for maintaining same
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from midnight until daylight, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 9. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Art. 10. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of erecting an arc light on South st. between the residences of Wm. Horatio Clarke and Joseph Mar- shall, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 10. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Art. 11. To see what instructions the Town will give the Water Commissioners in regard to the claim for damages made by C. J. Norwood of Hamilton, Mass.
Art. 11. Voted that the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to the Water Commissioners with full powers.
Art. 12. To determine how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for service pipes, hydrant rental, water for drinking fountains, water for street sprinkling, interest on water loan and maintenance of water works.
Art. 12. Voted to raise and appropriate for Service Pipes of the Water Plant for the present fiscal year, $1,000.
Voted to raise and appropriate for Hydrant Rentals, $4,890.
Voted to raise and appropriate for water for Drinking Foun- tains, $300.
Voted to raise and appropriate for water for Street Sprink- ling, $500.
Voted to raise and appropriate $600, and the above amounts for Hydrants, Drinking Fountains, for Street Sprinkling, and $2,440 be appropriated for Interest on Water Loans.
Voted that there be appropriated from receipts of Water Plant for maintenance the present fiscal year, $7,000.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will authorize the Water Com-
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missioners to lay water pipes on Village st. from Green to Wash- ington st., and on Washington st. from Village st. to a point near Elliott st., and authorize the issue of bonds to pay for same, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 13. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Art. 14. To see how much money the Town will raise and appropriate for the laying of a connecting water main from West st. near the Woburn line through South st. to a point near Walnut st., or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 14. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to hire money in anticipation of the taxes of the municipal year.
Voted that for the purpose of procuring a temporary loan, to and for the use of the Town of Reading in anticipation of the taxes of the present municipal year, the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to borrow from time to time with the ap- proval of a majority of the Board of Selectmen, a sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate $86,000, and to execute and deliver the note or notes of the town therefor, payable within one year from the time the loan is made. Any debt or debts incurred by a loan or loans to the town under this vote shall be paid from the said taxes of the present municipal year.
Art. 16. To determine the compensation of the Collector.
Art. 16. Voted that the compensation of the Collector of Taxes be 3-4 of one per cent. on all taxes collected during the fiscal year.
Art. 17. To see what instructions the Town will give the Board of Selectmen in relation to filling vacancies on the Finance Committee of the five members whose terms expire this year.
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Art. 17. Voted that the Board of Selectmen be instructed to fill all vacancies in Finance Committee for the present year 1903.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifty dollars for the purpose of furnishing electricity for lighting Grand Army Hall on Haven street, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 18. Voted to raise and appropriate for electricity for G. A. R. Hall, Haven st., for the present fiscal year, $50.
Art. 19. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifty dollars to furnish electricity for the Home for Aged Women.
Art. 19. Voted to raise and appropriate for electricity for Reading Home for Aged Women for present fiscal year, $50.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-five dollars to furnish water for the Home for Aged Women.
Art. 20. Voted that there be raised and appropriated for water for Reading Home for Aged Women the present fiscal year, $25.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of thirteen hundred and twenty dollars to meet the interest on School House Bonds.
Art. 21. Voted to raise and appropriate to pay interest on School House Bonds due the present fiscal year, $1,320.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred twelve dollars and fifty cents to meet the interest on School House notes.
Art. 22. Voted that there be raised and appropriated to pay interest on School House notes due present fiscal year, $312.50.
Art. 23. To see what action the Town will take to meet pay-
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ment of Electric Light and Power Plant note for fourteen hundred dollars due May 1, 1903.
Art. 23. Voted that for the purpose of paying the Electric Light and Power Plant note for $1,400, due May 1, 1903, the Town Treasurer under direction of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow the sum of $1,400 and issue the note of the Town therefor bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent. per annum, payable within a period of 10 years.
39 voted in favor, none opposed.
Art. 24. To see what action the Town will take to meet pay- ment of Haven street paving note for one thousand dollars due November 27, 1903.
Art. 24. Voted that for the purpose of paying the Haven street paving note for $1,000 due Nov. 27, 1903, the Town Treas- urer under the direction of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow the sum of $1,000, and issue the note of the Town therefor bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent. per annum, payable within a period of 10 years.
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