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40 00
Mrs. L. L. Tappan, gift
2 00
Mrs. Stedman, gift
I 00
Miss Cheney, gift .
1 00
Appropriation
200 00
Dog Licenses
298 [I
EXPENDITURES.
$632 67
Willard Small, books . $ 392 75
F. J. Barnard & Co., rebinding books .
45 15
Wright & Fletcher, magazines
52 65
D. Appleton & Co., H. M. Meek and others, sub scription books
29 35
Library Art Club .
5 00
$524 90
Balance
$107 77
REPORT OF LIBRARIAN.
Number of books purchased . 380
Number of books presented .
12
Public documents received from the State
15
Public documents received from the United States
86
Whole number of books added during the year
493
Whole number of books in Library
2
Number of books bought to replace worn-out copies
23
Number of books loaned
14 201
Number of pamphlets added
60
Cash on hand from last year .
$2 19
Fines
8 55
· $10 74
Paid for supplies .
8 97
Balance
$1 77
Number of books lost . IO,153
. 81
GIFTS.
Chauncey Craven Hackett
I volume
Abiel J. Abbot
I
Mrs. C. F. Palmer
I
Cambridge W. C. T. U.
I
J. V. Fletcher
A Friend
Dwight H. Olmstead
D. S. Alexander
I
Miss Kate S. Hamlin
I
Commonwealth Institute Scientists
Association of Christian ·
I
G. F. Millis .
27 unbound volumes
Miss Cheney, of Concord
$I co
Mrs. Stedman
1 00
Mrs. L. L. Tappan
2 00
Allan Cameron
Photograph of Lincoln
. Lithograph of Queen Victoria Westford Dramatic Club 3 photographs
Mrs. Josephine F. Barnard 2 pen and ink sketches Charles Henry Prescott, Still River, Minerva, 2 bas-reliefs, 6 busts
Magazines - Union Signal, Our Message, Ladies' Home Journal, L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Outlook, Land of Sunshine, Literary News, Paradise of the Pacific, Woman's Home Companion.
PAMPHLETS.
Dr. W. J. Sleeper
5 volumes J M. Fle'cher
6
Wm. A. Barnes
I
Dr. J. L. Hildreth, Cambridge
I
Walter G. Chase, Boston
I
66
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3
66
I
66
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LIST OF BOOKS
ADDED TO THE LIBRARY DURING THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1898-9.
A
Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1898 649
Census of Massachusetts, 1895. Manufactures 651
Education, Report of Board, 1896-7 646
Journal of House of Representatives, 1898 647
Journal of Senate, 1898 648
Laws and Resolves of Massachusetts, 1802-3 650
Manual of General Court, 1898
653
Massachusetts Reports. Vols 168, 169, 170 642-4
Massachusetts Special Laws, 1894-97 645
Registration Report, 1897
652
B
Census of United States, 10th, 1880. 5 vols. . . 788-92
Civil Service Commission, 1897 770
Commerce and Navigation in U. S., 1897. 2 vols. 765-6
Commercial Relations of U. S., 1896-7 775 · Congressional Record, 1873-75. 9 vols. . 776-87 .
Education, Report of Commissioner, 1896-7. 2 vols. 771-2
Health Reports. Vol XII. 1997 . 768
Interior Report of Secretary. 1837-99 55 vols 793-847
Interstate Commerce Commission, 1897
769
Introduction of Domestic Reindeer into Alaska, 1897, Sheldon Jackson 767 Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, 6 vols 758-763 Smithsonian Institution, U. S. National Museum. Vol
XIX · 774
Smithsonian Reports, U. S. National Museum, 1895 ·
773
83
C
Capt. Cooks Three Voyages Round the World. M. Jones 505
Castilian Days. John Hay 527
Corner of Spain. Miriam Coles Harris 528 . Edinburgh. R. L. Stevenson 526 Family Flight through Mexico. Rev. E. E. and Susan
Hale . 509
First Crossing of Greenland. Fridtjof Nansen 518
Girls' Wanderings in Hungary. H. Ellen Browning 506 Gondola Days. F. Hopkinson Smith Great Streets of the World. Davis, Story, James, etc 524 510
In the Levant. C. D. Warner .
517
Little Tour in France. Henry James
519
My Winter on the Nile. C. D. Warner 516
Nippur. or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates John Punnett Peters. 2 vols . · 514-15
Northward over the Great Ice. Robert E. Peary. 2 vols 512-13 Notable Voyages from Columbus to Parry. W. H. G. Kingston . 508
Philippine Islands. Dean C. Worcester 51I
Porto Rico of Today. Albert G. Robinson 521
Portraits of Places. Henry James . 520
Puerto Rico and Its Resources. F. A. Ober 523
· Thumb-Nail Sketches. George W. Edwards 529
Tropical Africa. Henry Drummond 507
Two Pilgrims' Progress. J. and E. R. Pennell 525
Yesterdays in the Philippines. Joseph E. Stevens .. 522 .
D
Alexander. History of Origin and Growth of Art of War- fare till 301 B. C. Theodore A. Dodge . 904
Ave Roma. Studies from Chronicles of Rome. F. M. Crawford. 2 vols 909-10
Battlefields of '61. Willis J. Abbot 881
Bay Colony. 1624-1649. Wm. Dummer Northend 887 Bismarck and German Unity. Munroe Smith 927
Border Wars of New England. called King William's
and Queen Anne's Wars. 1688-1711. S. A. Drake 885
Bradford's History of " Plimoth Plantation " 847
Bulfinch Front, The. Centennial of State House 896
84
Cæsar, Commentaries of. Anthony Trollope 892
Cuba and Porto Rico with the Other Islands of the West Indies. Robert T. Hill 902
Deeds That Won the Empire. Historic Battle Scenes.
Rev. W. H. Fitchett 886 De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida. Grace King
924
English Constitution, Origin and Growth of. Part II. Hannis Taylor . 905
Fifteenth Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Infantry, History of. 1861-64. Andrew E. Ford 903
From Manassas to Appomattox. James Longstreet 900
Greece, History of. Adolph Holm. 4 vols 911-14
Herodotus. George C. Swayne 890
Historic Towns of New England. Ed. by Lyman Powell 908
Holland, Story of. J. E. Thorold Rogers 922 Home Life in Colonial Days. Alice Morse Earle . 926 Industry in England. Historical Outlines. H. de B Gibbins 906 Jackson, Stonewall, and American Civil War. G. F. R. Henderson, (2 vols.) 929-30
Livy. Rev. W. L. Collins .
893
Making of the Ohio Valley States. 1660-1837. S. A. Drake 884
Making of Virginia and the Middle Colonies. 1578-1701. S. A. Drake 883
Mankind, History of. Friedrich Ratzel. 2 vols. 879-80
Mexico of Today. The Awakening of a Nation. C. F. Lummis 888
Netherlands, History of People of. Petrus Johannes Blok . 901
New Orleans, the Place and the People. Grace King 925
Papacy, History of, from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. M. Creighton. 6 vols. . 916-21
Perugia, Story of. M. Symonds and L. D. Gordou 928
Philadelphia, the Place and the People Agnes Repplier 923
Portugal and Its People. W. A Salisbury
Revolution, The Story of. Henry Cabot Lodge. 2 vols. 882
Rome, History of, to death of Cæsar. W. W. How 898-9
and H. D. Leigh 915
Tacitus. Wm. Bodham Donne
891
85
Thucydides. Rev. W. L. Collins 894 Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. Wilbur H. Siebert . 907
War in Cuba. Gonzalo de Quesada 895 War Memories of an Army Chaplain. H. Clay Trumbull 931
Xenophon. Sir Alexander Grant 889
E
Alexanders of Maine, The. De Alva Stanwood Alexan-
der
952
Andersen, Hans Christian. Story of My Life . 941
Aristotle. Sir Alexander Grant
929
Bismarck. Some Recent Pages of His History. Moritz
Busch. 2 vols. 953-4
Blackwood, William, and His Sons. Annals of a Publish- ing House. Mrs. Oliphant. 2 vols. 918-19 Brougham, John. Life, Stories and Poems. Ed. by Wm. Winter 927
Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Rev. James Davies 928
Cicero. Rev. W. L. Collins
930 Cicero, Roman Life in Days of. Rev. A. J. Church 926
Demosthenes. Rev. W. J. Brodribb 932
Emerson-Sterling Letters, with Sketch of Sterling's Life. Edward W. Emerson 939
Field, Eugene. Francis Wilson 925
Franklin, Benjamin. Sidney G. Fisher
949
Glimpses of Fifty Years. Frances E. Willard 917
Great Mother, A. Sketch of Madame Willard. F. E. Willard and M. B. Norton 915 Gustavus Adolphus and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence. C. R. L. Fletcher 922
Hugo, Victor. Letters. Series II. Ed. by Paul Meurice 955
Joan of Arc, or the Maid of Orleans . 933
Lee, Robert E, and the Southern Confederacy. 1807-
70. Henry A. White 923
Lincoln, Abraham. Carl Schulz 940 . Memoirs of Early Italian Painters. Mrs. Jameson . .
934
Mitchel, Ormsby Macknight. F. A. Mitchel .
947 My Long Life. Mary Cowden-Clarke 924 Neesima, Joseph Hardy. Life and Letters. A. S. Hardy 946
86
Nineteen Beautiful Years. Frances E. Willard 916 Paul, the Man, Missionary, and Teacher. Orello Cone . 948 Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens. Evelyn Abbott 4,21 Pliny's Letters. Rev. A. J. Church and Rev. W. J Brodribb 931
Renan, Ernest. Madame James Darmesteter . 944 Richardson, William Adams. Frank Warren Hackett 950
Robert the Bruce, and the Struggle for Scottish Inde- pendence. Sir Herbert Maxwell 920
Saint Francis of Assisi, Little Flowers of. Trans. by Abby L. Alger . 935
Savonarola, Girolamo. Life and Times. Pasquale Vil-
lari 95
Shakespeare, William. Sidney Lee 945
Vailima Letters. R. L. Stevenson. 2 vols. 936-7
Washington, George. Horace E. Scudder 938
Wesley, John. J. H. Overton 942
Whittier, John G. Francis H. Underwood 943
F
American Citizen. Charles F. Dole 708
Anglo-Saxon Superiority. Edmond Demolins 721
Aristocracy and Evolution. W. H Mallock 725 Atheism in Philosophy, and Other Essays. F. H. Hedge 715 Causes and Consequences. John Jay Chapman 714
Congressional Government. Woodrow Wilson 707
Control of the Tropics. Benjamin Kidd 713
Darwinism and Other Essays. John Fiske 718
Denizens of the Deep. Dr. G. Hartwig 704
Educational Reform. Charles W. Eliot . 723
Foot-Notes to Evolution. David Starr Jordan 709
Geological Sketches. L. Agassiz. 2 vols. 716-17
How to Name the Birds. H. E. Parkhurst 705 Illustrated Flora of the Northern U. S., Canada, and British Posses- sions. N. L. Britton and A. Brown. Vols. II and III 625-6
Inebriety, Its Source, Prevention and Cure. Charles Fol- len Palmer 702
Laborer and Capitalist, The. Freeman Otis Willey 722 Liquor Problem in its Legislative Aspects. F. H. Wines and John Koren 712
87
Lucretius. W. H. Mallock 706 Metals, Playbook of. John Henry Pepper 700 Political Economy, Science of. Henry George 724 Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee. N. P. Gilman 7.19
Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns. George E. Waring 711
Studies of Good and Evil. Josiah Royce 710 Treasures of the Earth : Mines, Minerals and Metals. : William Jones 701
Winged Life in the Tropics. Dr. G. Hartwig .
.
703
Wonderful Century, The. Alfred R. Wallace 720
Wonderful Inventions. John Timbs
699
G ..
Continuity of Christian Thought. A. V. G. Allen . 348 Evolution of Religion. Edward Caird. 2 vols. 349-50 Freedom of Faith. Theodore T. Munger 346
Hope of Immortality, The. J. E. C. Welldon 347
Human Immortality. William James 344
Lamps and Paths. Theodore T. Munger
345
Manliness of Christ. Thomas Hughes
343
Protestant Faith, or Salvation by Belief. Dwight H.
Olmstead 342 .
Renascent Christianity 351
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures. M. B. G. Eddy 34I
Adventures of Francois. H. Weir Mitchell 2130
Afterwards and Other Stories. Ian Macla en, pseud. 2129
Antigone. Paul Bourget
2137
Battle of the Strong, The. Gilbert Parker
2145 .
Border Lances .
2117
Caleb West : Master Diver. F. Hopkinson Smith
2115
Castle Inn. Stanley J. Weyman 2143
Colonel Starbottle's Client. Bret Harte 2156
Day's Work, The. Rudyard Kipling 2123
Dead Souls. Nikolaï V. Gogol
2135
Despot of Broomsedge Cove. Charles Egbert Craddock, ps.ud. . 2126
Donal Grant. George MacDonald .
. 2118
88
Ebb Tide, The. R. L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne . 2106
Flint. Maud Wilder Goodwin 2149
Free to Serve. E. Rayner 2122
From the Other Side. Henry B Fuller
2155
Girl at Cobhurst, The. Frank R Stockton 2III Golden Age, The. Kenneth Grahame 2157 Sorrow, A. Maria Louise Pool 2132
Great Love, A. Clara Louise Burnham
2150
Helbeck of Bannisdale. Mrs. Humphrey Ward. 2 vols. 2152-3
Her Memory. Maarten Maartens, pseud.
2139
Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories. Abraham Cahan 2154
Island Nights Entertainments. R. L Stevenson 2108
Life is Life, and Other Tales. Zack, pseud. 2131
Little Book of Profitable Tales. Eugene Field 2119
Locke Amsden. D P. Thompson 2113
Lover of Truth, A. Eliza Orne White 2151
Loves of the Lady Arabella, The. . Molly Elliot Seawell 2146
Marjorie Daw and Other People. T. B. Aldrich 2124
Midst the Wild Carpathians. Maurus Jokai 2138
Minister of France, Memoirs of. Stanley J. Weyman · 2144
Mistress of Sherburne, The. A. M. Douglas
2147
On the Eve. Ivan Turgenev
2158
On Many Seas. Frederick Benton Williams 2120
Patty's Perversities. Arlo Bates
2127
Plain Living. Rolf Boldrewood
2114
Pride of Jennico. Agnes and Egerton Castle
2104
Prince Otto. R. L. Stevenson
2107
Puritans, The. Arlo Bates 2128
Rangers, or The Tory's Daughter. D. P. Thompson . 2112
Red-Bridge Neighborhood. Maria Louise Pool 2133
Red Rock. Thomas Nelson Page .
2134
Romance of Old New York, A. Edgar Fawcett . 2164
Rupert of Hentzau. Anthony Hope, pseud. . 2141
Sherburne Girls. A. M. Douglas 2148 .
Shrewsbury. Stanley J. Weyman 2142
Simon Dale. Anthony Hope, pseud. 2140
Sportsman's Sketches. Ivan Turgenev. 2 vols 2161-2
Sprightly Romance of Marsac. Molly Elliot Seawell 2105
Story of Old Fort London. Charles Egbert Craddock, pseud. 2125
Susan's Escort and Others. E. E. Hale. . 2116
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89
Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War. J. C. Harris 212I Taras Bulba. Nikolaï V. Gogol 2136 · Ten Thousand a Year. Samuel Warren. 2 vols. · 2109-10 Torrents of Spring. The. Ivan Turgenev 2163
Virgin Soil. Ivan Turgenev. 2 vols. J
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain, pseud. II24
Among the Forest People. Clara D. Pierson . II25
Among the Meadow People. Clara D. Pierson II26 Bilberry Boys and Girls. Sophie Swett . 1108 · Boy Travellers in Australasia. H. Butterworth II20 .
Boy Travellers in Central Europe. H. Butterworth .
II2I
Boy Travellers in the Levant. H. Butterworth .
I[22
Boy Travellers in Mexico. H. Butterworth 1118 Boy Travellers in Northern Europe. H. Butterworth · 1119
Boy Officers of 1812. E. T. Tomlinson . II29
Boy Soldiers of 1812. E. T. Tomlinson . II28 .
Boys with Old Hickory. E. T. Tomlinson II31
Cæsar, Julius Jacob Abbott .
1091
Charles I. Jacob Abbott
1094
Charles II. Jacob Abbott
1095
Children's Book, The. Collection of Best and Most
Famous Stories in English Language. Chosen by H. E. Scudder . II23
Cleopatra. Jacob Abbott 1096
Conquests of the Seven Hills. Mrs. C. H. B. Laing .
1086
Cortez, Hernando. J. S. C. Abbott .
IIOI
Darius the Great. Jacob Abbott 1087
For Name and Fame, or Through Afghan Passes. G.
A. Henty . III2
Four Hundred Animal Stories. Sel. by Robert Cockrane 1132
Grandpapa's Stories, or Dame Nature. Trans. by X. B. Saintine III4 ·
Heroic Deeds. James Johonnot
1103
Hortense. J. S. C. Abbott 1098
Icelandic Fairy Tales. Trans. and Ed. by Mrs. A. W. Hall . III7
In the Wilds of the West Coast J. M. Oxley III5
Josephine. J. S. C. Abbott 1097
Louis the XIV. J. S. C. Abbott .
IIO2
2159-60
90
March on London Wat Tyler's Insurrection. G. A. Henty 1113
Nero. Jacob Abbott 1092
Patriot Schoolmaster. H. Butterworth 1116
Philip. King J. S. C. Abbott 1100
Pyrrhus. Jacob Abbott 1090
Richard III. Jacob Abbott
1093
Roland, Madame. J. S. C. Abbott . 1099
Romulus. Jacob Abbott .
1089
Rover's Secret. Harry Collingwood
IIIO
Sagacity of Animals-Stories of Cats and Dogs. W. H. G. Kingston . 1107
Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales. Sel. and Ed. by Sir George Douglas 1106 .
Search for Andrew Field. E. T. Tomlinson II27
Seven Kings of Seven Hills. Mrs. C. H B. Laing . 1085
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. E.
Eggleston 1 105
Tecumseh's Young Braves. E. T. Tomlinson
1130
Things in the Forest. M. and E. Kirby 1104 War of Independence, The (Riverside Series). John Fiske II33 Xerxes. Jacob Abbott 1088
Young Colonists. G. A. Henty IIII
Young Macedonian and Army of Alexander the Great.
Rev. A. J. Church 1109
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Æschylus. Reginald S. Copleston 367
Aristophanes. Rev. W. L. Collins 361
Ballads and Barrack Room Ballads. Rudyard Kipling 357
From Sunset Ridge. Julia Ward Howe
373
Greek Anthology, The. Lord Neaves
370
Hesiod and Theognis. Rev. James Davies
359
Historic Ornament. James Ward. 2 vols.
384-5
Homer, the Iliad. Rev. W. L. Collins
365
66 " Odyssey. Rev. W. L. Collins
364
Horace. Theodore Martin 369
How to Enjoy Pictures. M. S. Emery 383
Indian Epigrams, A Century of. Paul Elmer More
372
Juvenal. Edward Walford 360
Legends of the Madonna. Anna Jameson. Ed. by Estelle
M. Hurll 381
91
Life of Our Lord in Art. Estelle M. Hurll 382
Lowell, James Russell. Poems. 4 vols. 377-380 Marston, Philip Bourke. Poems 376
Ovid. Rev. Alfred Church 366
Plautus and Terence. Rev. W. L. Collins 362
Pindar. Rev. F. D. Mori. e 371
Prose Poems. Ivan Tourgueneff
374
Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land. C. G. Leland 358
Sophocles. Clifton W. Collins 368
Talks on Art. W. M. Hunt 386
Virgil. Rev. W. L. Collins
363
What Is Art? Leo Tolstoy
375
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Across the Plains. R. L. Stevenson 930
Amateur Emigrant. R. L. Stevenson 931
American Prose. Ed. by George Rice Carpenter 950 Auld Lang Syne. F. Max Müller 935 Cheerful Yesterdays. T. W. Higginson . 927
Conduct as a Fine Art. N. P. Gilman and E. P Jackson
944
Do-Nothing Days. Charles M. Skinner .
958
English Literature, Short History of. George Saintsbury
947
Essays on Work and Culture. Hamilton W. Mabie 966
Eye Spy. W.m. Hamilton Gibson 936 General Manager's Story, The. Herbert E. Hamblen
Field and Hedgerow. Richard Jefferies . 928 Gleanings in Buddha Fields. Lafcadio Hearn 959
956
Heroes of Asgard. A and E. Keary 967
Heroes of Chivalry and Romance. Rev. A. J. Church 941
Hours with German Classics. F. H. Hedge . 946
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome K. Jerome 952
Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets. Vida D. Scudder 942
Lucian. Rev. W. L. Collins 933
Making and Unmaking of a Preacher. Wm. Jewett
Tucker 949
Martin Luther and Other Essays. F. H. Hedge 945
New England Poets, The. Wm. Cranston Lawton 962
On the Cam. Lectures on the University of Cambridge,
England. Wm. Everett 96 1
92
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid. C. Piazzi Smyth 934
Plato. Clifton W. Collins 932
Railroad, Story of. Cy Warman 948 Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome K. Jerome 953
Silverado Squatters. R. L. Stevenson
Social Forces in German Literature. Kuno Francke
943
929 938 Social Ideals in English Letters. Vida D. Scudder . .
Story of Jesus Christ. E. S. Phelps 926 . Ten No-License Years in Cambridge 937
Treasures of the Humble. M. Maeterlinck 968
University Addresses. John Caird .
940
University Problems in U. S. Daniel C. Gilman
939
What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living? Charles F. Win-
gate 951
With Feet to the Earth. Charles M. Skinner 957
Workers, The. East. Walter A. Wyckoff 954
Workers, The. West. Walter A. Wyckoff
955
World Beautiful. Lilian Whiting. 3 vols. 963-5
World of Green Hills, A. Bradford Torrey
960
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Annual Cyclopædia. 1897 · 194 Biographical Review. Sketches of Leading Citizens of Middlesex Co., Mass. 195
Church Book, Belonging to the Second Church in Chelms- ford, Anno 1727 198
Longfellow, H. W., Complete Works. Illustrated. 3 vols. 191-3
Lowell Suburban Directory. 1898-9 . 196
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of Revolutionary War Vol. IV 199
References for Literary Workers. Henry Matson 197
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Littell's Living Age. 16 vols. · 200-215
PAMPHLETS.
A
Free Public Library Commission of Mass., Report of. 1898 75 Hatch Experiment Station, Report of. 1898 72
High Schools in Mass. 1895. J. W. MacDonald 78 Legislation to Limit Height of Buildings in Boston. J. H. Benton, Jr. 77
Public Reservations, Report of Trustees 1897 76
School Attendance and Truancy in Mass. 1896 79
State Library, Report of Librarian. 1897-98. 2 vols. 73-4
Supervision of Schools in Mass. A. W. Edson 80
Tuberculosis, Prevention of. Jas. B. Russell
81
B
American Tariffs. Speeches of Hon. J. H. Gallinger. 1896 410 Consular Reports. Nos. 210-221. 12 vols. 416-27
66 Special. Soap, Screws, Bolts, Argols, ·
Ramie, etc., in Foreign Countries 423
Education in Alaska. 1895-96. Sheldon Jackson
66 Report of Commissioner. 1897 442
Exports Declared for the U. S. Jan .- Nov. 1898. 4 vols. . 412-15
441
Finance and Commerce of the U. S. Monthly summary. I 2 vols. 429-40
Light-House Board, Report of. 1898 4II
M
Acton, Mass. Catalogue of Memorial Library. 1897 II7
Acton, Mass. Dedication of Monument. 1851 . IOI
Army of the Potomac. Horatio C. King . 104 Brookline, Mass. Public Library Report. 1898 108 Dartmouth College Catalogue, 1897-8 IIO
Fitchburg, Mas .. , State Normal School Catalogue, 1898 From the Perishable the Permanent. Rev. John C. Kim- 109
ball . 113
Hallam, A. H. W. E. Gladstone III
94
How Russia Cares for Her Foundlings. J. L. Hildreth, M. D. 107
How Shall We Keep Sunday? M. J. Savage, etc. . 112 Ipswich, Mass, Exercises at Unveiling of Tablet to the
" Unknown Dead." 1897. Rev. John C. Kimball . II4
Lowell General Hospital, Report of. 1896 TO2
Lowell, Mass. Contributions to Old Residents Historical Association. 1898 103
Mass. Institute of Technology. Catalogue 1897.8 I16
Psychology, Hypnotism, Personal Magnetism and Clair- voyance. Wm. A. Barnes 106
Soldier's Home, Chelsea, Mass. Report of Trustees 1898 105
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Eugene DeRoehn, one of the Constables of the Town of Westford, in said County,
Greeting :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, to notify and warn all the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in elections and also in Town affairs, to meet at the Town House, in said Westford, on Monday, the twentieth day of March, being the third Monday in said month, at eight o'clock A. M. The polls will be opened at 8.15 o'clock A. M., and closed at one o'clock P. M .; and they are then and there to act upon the following articles, to wit:
Ist. To choose a Moderator.
2d. To see if the Town will determine the compensation of the Tax Collector, and act in relation to the same.
3d. To bring in their votes for Town Clerk, for one year; one Selectman, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, two School Committee, one Commissioner of Public Burial Grounds, one Trustee of the Public Library, all for three years; Town Treasurer, Collector of Taxes, two Con- stables, and one Auditor, all for one year; also to vote on the following question: "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?" all on one ballot.
4th. To hear the report of the Selectmen, and act in relation to the same.
5th. To hear the report of the Selectmen on Guide Boards, and act in relation to the same.
6th. To hear the report of the Overseers of the Poor, and act in relation to the same.
7th. To hear the report of the School Committee, and act in relation to the same.
8th. To hear the report of the Trustees of the Public Library, and act in relation to the same.
9th. To hear the report of the Commissioners of Public Burial Grounds, and act in relation to the same.
96
Ioth. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Auditor chosen to audit the accounts of the Town Officers, and act in relation to the same.
IIth. To see if the Town will accept the List of Jurors as reported by the Selectmen, and act in relation to the same.
12th. To raise and appropriate money to repair Roads and Bridges.
13th. To raise and appropriate money for Town Debts and Charges.
14th. To raise and appropriate money for Public Schools.
15th. To raise and appropriate money to pay tuition of High School scholars, residents of the Town, at Westford Academy.
16th. To raise and appropriate money for support of Poor.
I7th. To raise and appropriate money for School Text Books and Supplies.
18th. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the written direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time to meet the demands on the treasury, and act in relation to the same.
I9th. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensu- ing year, also the rate of interest on taxes remaining unpaid at a time to be fixed by vote of the Town, and when and how said taxes shall be paid into the treasury, and act in relation to the same.
20th. To choose all other Town Officers necessary to be chosen by hand vote, and act in relation to the same.
21st. By request of the Veteran Association, to see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50) to com- memorate Memorial Day, and act in relation to the same.
22d. By request of the citizens of Graniteville and Forge Village, to see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50) for the purpose of distributing books from the Public Library in these two villages, and act in rela- tion to the same.
23d. By request of the Committee on New Building at Town Farm, to see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300) for the purchase of material to complete the building at the Town Farm, and act in relation to the same.
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24th. By request of Julian A. Cameron, to see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to purchase enough settees to furnish the Town Hall, and act in relation to the same.
25th. To hear the report of the Committee on Highways, and act in relation to the same.
26th. By request of E. A. Moore and others, to see if the Town will vote to have the Selectmen, in their report on roads, give the amount expended on said roads by School Dis- tricts, and act in relation to the same.
27th. By request of Samuel L. Taylor, to see if the Town will grant the use of the Town Hall free once a month to any organization in Town, for a public meeting where an admission fee is not charged, and act in relation to the same.
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