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To amount of tax levy as per Assessor's
Warrant, as follows:
812 Polls at $2.00 $ 1,624 00
Tax on Personal Property $12,112 11
Tax on Real Estate 24,279 07
Moth & Lead Tax 440 20
$38,455 38
Additions since issue of Warrant, as per
Assessor's and Selectmen's notices . . .. 429 28
Past due interest collected on taxes paid after Nov. 1, 1915 28 58
$38,913 24
Less Abatements for the year, as per Asses- sor's notices 182 23
$38,731 01
By collections to Nov. 2, 1915 32,092 00
By collections from Nov. 2, 1915 to Jan. 5, 1916 3,532 59
Past due interest collected
28 58
35,653 17
Balance to collect $3,077 84
To excise tax to collect, as per Assessor's Warrant, 252 14
By collections
252 14
Leaving no balance to collect
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Town Clerk.
The Town Clerk issued during the year licenses for :
159 male dogs at $2.00 318 00
23 female dogs at $5.00 115 00
433 00
3 licenses at $2.00 for 1914, since last audit 6 00
$439 00
Less Clerk's fee for 185 at 20c . .
37 00
Balance paid to County Treasurer and re- ceipted for by him $402 00
Selectmen.
The Selectmen drew 801 orders on the Treasurer during the year, amounting to $48,174.66. Receipted bills were found on file for nearly all the payments, and in the few cases where these were not in evidence, I found checks on file, as vouchers for the payments.
Town Farm.
Mr. H. W. Barnes, Superintendent.
To balance cash on hand December 31, 1914 $44 57
Total receipts from all sources during the
year 4,964 35
By expenditures for the year
$5,008 92 4,942 64
Balance on hand December 31, 1915 $ 66 28
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Treasurer.
To balance cash on hand January 1, 1915 $ 7,640 32
Receipts from all sources during the year. .. $76,257 17
$83,897 49
By total payments for the year ending December 31, 1915 $78,014 63 Balance cash on hand December 31, 1915 5,882 86
--- $83,897 49
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Statement of Condition
Assets.
1915 taxes remaining uncollected. $3,077 84
Accrued interest on same 38 45
Due from State Aid 460 00
Due from Military Aid 108 00
Due from Vocational School Fund 93 75
Due from Commonwealth on account Acton & Lowell Road. 823 10
Due from County on account Acton &
Lowell Road 864 27
Balance cash on hand with Supt. of Town Farm 66 28
Balance cash on hand with Treasurer 5,882 86
$11,414 55
Liabilities.
Due State Treasurer on School Loan
(William E. Frost School) $7,000 00
Two month's interest on same at 414% . 49 58
Due State Treasurer on School Loan (Cameron School) 1,000 00
Two month's interest on same at 4 %
13 33
Due V. C. B. Wetmore on Firehouse Loan .
1,000 00
Due State Treasurer account Acton & Lowell Road Loan 2,000 00
112 months' interest on same at 4% 10 00
$11,072 91
Balance. $ 341 64
The deficit December 31, 1914 was
193 30
EDWARD T. HANLEY, Auditor.
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Report of Commissioners of Public Burial Grounds.
The following report for 1915 is presented by the Com- missioners of Public Burial Grounds.
The usual care has been given the several Cemeteries- Fairview under the charge of D. L. Greig and son, Charles D. Colburn taking charge of Westlawn, and Wm. H. Pollock, Hillside.
Three additional lots have been placed under the perpetual care of the Town-two in Fairview, and one in Hillside Cemetery, making the whole amount of the Perpetual Care Fund, $7,445.25.
The Commissioners would respectfully recommend that the sum of $200 be raised and appropriated for the care and improve- ment of the cemeteries the coming year.
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AMOUNTS RECEIVED FOR CARE OF LOTS IN
FAIRVIEW.
Residents.
Anderson, Andrew
$ 8 00
Atwood, Miss L. B.
3 50
Baker, Mrs. John
1 00
Bennett, Miss Priscilla
1 00
Bicknell Ai
1 00
Blodgett, W. G.
1 00
Boynton, Mrs. D. L.
1 00
Brooks, Charles.
1 00
Bunce, Miss Mary P.
2 00
Burbeck, John
1 00
Burbeck, William H. H.
2 00
Burnett, William
1 00
Burnham, Arthur H.
1 00
Butterworth, Mrs. J. T.
1 00
Butterworth, William L.
1 00
Calvert, Mrs. Frank.
1 00
Carkin, W. E.
1 00
Carkin, A. W.
1 00
Catchpole, Henry
2 50
Caunter, Frank
2 00
Day, Arthur E.
1 00
Defoe, Mrs. Lizzie
1 00
Deroehn, Mrs. Andrew
1 00
Doucette, Mrs. Martha
1 00
Drew, F. C.
1 00
Fisher, Edward
1 00
Fletcher, H. N.
1 00
Fletcher, John M.
3 00
Fletcher, S. H.
1 00
Amount carried forward
$ 45 00
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Amount brought forward $ 45 00
Frost, Mrs. W. E.
1 00
Gilson, L. S. 2 00
Haley, Frank
1 00
Harris, Mrs. C. A.
1 00
Hawkes, W. O.
5 50
Healey, Mrs. Ruby
1 00
Heywood, Albert W.
1 00
Howard, Calvin L.
8 00
Humiston, Elliot F.
2 00
Hunt, Edmund J.
2 00
Isles, Mrs. Joseph D.
1 00
Johnson, Andrew
1 00
Johnson, W. W.
1 00
Kabele, Henry M.
1 00
Keyes, Mrs. Lucy A.
1 00
Mattson, John.
1 00
McClenna, Mrs. Lillian
2 50
McCoy, Fred L.
1 00
McDougal, Mrs. A.
1 00
Miller, Frank E. 2 00
Millis, Willard
1 00
Mills, Mrs. Hugh
1 00
Morin, Mrs. J. A.
1 00
Mountain, George E.
1 00
Nelson, Mrs. Fannie
1 50
Nesmith, Harry L.
1 00
Orange, W. H.
1 00
Orr, Robert
1 00
Parker, Mrs. Clyde
1 00
Perkins, Joseph
1 00
Perkins, Joseph for Ida Lumbert lot
8 00
Phillips, Mrs. Norman
1 00
Pickering, Charles
5 00
Prescott, Ebenezer
2 00
Amount -carried forward
$108 50
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Amount brought forward $ 108 50
Prescott, Mrs. Frances A.
1 00
Prinn, Alfred 1 00
Pyne, Mrs. J. W.
1 00
Richardson, Mrs. Alma M. 2 00
Richarsdon, Joseph
1 00
Shattuck, Mrs. D. H.
1 00
Shea, Mrs. Frank .
1 00
Sherman, Mrs. David
1 00
Stewart, Mrs. James
1 00
Sutherland, A. H.
1 00
Sutherland, William
1 00
Symmes, Mrs. Thomas E.
4 50
Taylor, S. L.
2 00
Turner, Miss Lizzie
1 00
Tuttle, Mrs. Nelson
1 00
Walkden, James A.
1 00
Walker, George A.
1 00
Weaver, George
1 00
Welch, Mrs. William
2 00
White, William
1 00
Whitney, Mrs. George H.
2 00
Willis, Samuel
1 00
Wilson, Miss Margaret
1 00
Woods, William L.
2 00
Wright, F. C.
1 00
Wright, W. M.
2 00
York, J. Ellsworth
1 00
York, J. A.
1 00
Non-Residents.
Abbot, Mrs. E. S., Boston 5 00
Adams, Mrs. C. L. So. Chelmsford
1 00
Boden, Mrs. E. S., Nashua, N. H.
1 00
Brow, Mrs. L. J., Dunstable
1 00
Amount carried forward
,
$ 154 00
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Amount brought forward $ 154 00
Bucklin, Mrs. Hattie, Wilmot Flab, N. H. 1 00
Carpenter, Eugene, Newton 1 00
Carrick, Mrs. Alice, Worcester 1 00
Caunter, Miss Marion W., W. Fitchburg
1 00
Chamberlain, Mrs. E. H. Cheraw, S. C.
1 00
Cockroft, Herbert, Ware 1 00
Coggeshall, Dexter E., Danvers 1.00
Coolidge, Miss Annie M., Lowell.
1 00
Craven, Mrs. Emily L., Lowell
1 00
Davie, Wm. L., No Chelmsford
1 00
Davis, Miss Alice L., Somerville
1 00
Drew, Ernest, Boston
4 00
Dugdale, R. J., Anaheim, Calif.
1 00
Dupee, C. F., Lowell
1 00
Felch, Mrs. A. M., Phila., Pa.
1 00
Felch, Samuel, Chelmsford
1 00
Fletcher, F. L., Somerville 1 00
8 00
Garbett, James, N. Y. City
3 00
Guild, Mrs. Carrie & E. M. Mills, Lowell
1 00
Hamlin, George P., Boston
1 00
Harris, George E., Weymouth
1 00
Harrup, Mrs. James E., Providence, R. I
1 00
Hewett, Miss C. E., Medfield
1 00
Heywood, Mrs. Edwin E., Arlington Heights
1 00
Hildreth, Mrs. Ellen A., Pelham, N. H. 1.00
Hildreth, F. A., Malden 2 00
Hildreth, Miss Helen C. Harvard
1 00
Hindle, Frank, Chelmsford
1 00
Holt, Mrs. E. H., Lowell. 1 00
Horne, George F., Somerville 1 00
Howard, Charles D., Concord, N. H.
8 00
Hunt, George W., Tyngsboro 1 00
Hutchinson, H. A., Chelmsford 1 00
Amount carried forward. $ 208 00
Fraser, James, Groton
108
Amount brought forward $ 208 00
Johnson, Miss Almira L., Melrose Highlands 1 00
Kierstead, Sanford, Waltham 1 00
King, Mrs. A. M., Washington, D. C. 1 00
Laws, Mrs. J. H., West Somerville 1 00
Longbottom, Walter, Arlington Heights 1 00
Longley, Albert W., Bishop, Inyo Co., Calif. 1 00
1 00
Moore, Clifford A., Lynn
6 00
Moss, James W., Boston
1 00
Parker, O. A. Chelmsford
2 00
Parker, W. G., Lowell
5 00
Petherick, W. H., Leominister
1 00
Rapson, James, Lowell
1 00
Read, Miss Carrie E. Barre
1 00
Reed, George G., Lowell
1 00
Richardson, M. T., N. Y. City
1 00
Ripley, Mrs. F. K., No. Chelmsford
1 00
Saville, Wm., Boston
1 00
Schworer, Mrs. Louis, Bradford.
1 00
Scrutton, Mrs. E. H., Lowell
1 00
Searles, Mrs. C. J., Lowell
1 00
Smith, Allen G., Littleton
1 00
Spalding, J. F. Melrose
1 00
Stiles, F. O., Littleton
1 00
Sweatt, Miss Jessie M., Boston
1 00
Taylor, A. D., Cleveland, Ohio.
2 00
Waller, Mrs. Nettie J., Chelmsford
1 00
Wheeler, Miss Delia, Westminister
1 00
Wheeler, Isaac G., Allston 1 00
White, Harry, Dorchester 1 00
Willis, Wm. T., Lowell 1 00
Wood, Henry, No. Chelmsford 1 00
Woodbury, Mrs. Emma A., Dracut
1 00
Wright, Mrs. Emma E., Lowell
1 00
Wyman, Wm., Worcester .
1 00
$ 254 00
Martin, Mrs. Josephine, Ayer
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Amount brought forward $ 254 00
Westlawn.
Cutter, Miss M. E. , for Cutter lot 1 00
Day, George T., for Day lot. 2 00
Prescott, Miss Ida L., for Sam'1 L. Pres- cott lot 1 00
$ 4 00
Amount received for care of lots $ 258 00
EXPENSES. Fairview.
Paid William Clements for labor $ 274 75
Alfred Swanson for labor 29 00
Justin Jenkins for labor 5 25
D. L. Greig for loam
32 00
For moss killer and labor cleaning grave stones 27 17
D. L. Greig and others for labor 45 50
For sundries 2 90
Wright & Fletcher for fertilizer
56 25 $ 472 82
Westlawn.
Charles D. Colburn for care of ceme-
tery . $ 12 00
Charles D. Colburn for painting and gilding markers 2 00
Charles D. Colburn for care of lots as per bill 30 00
Wright & Fletcher for fertilizer 6 75
$ 50 75
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Amount brought forward
$ 523 57
Hillside.
Wm. H. Pollock for care of cemetery $ 10 00
Wm. H. Pollock for care of lots as per
bill 9 00
For labor, etc.
4 75
Theodore Pollock for painting and gilding markers 1 50
For lawn mowers, etc. 3 30
Wright & Fletcher for fertilizer 4 50 $ 33 05
General Expenses.
For supplies 9 51
Amount expended. $ 566 13
Amount received from the Town $ 175 31
Amount received for care of lots 258 00
Amount received from Perpetual Care Fund 133 00
Balance in hands of Commissioners, 1914
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Amount received. $ 566 43 Amount expended. $ 566 13
Balance in hands of Commissioners. . . $ 30
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PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS.
Name.
Cemetery.
Fund.
Ephraim Abbot
Fairview
$
100 00
J. W. P. Abbot
100 00
Cyrus Babbitt
50 00
Albert Bailey
50 00
Sally B. Burrill
66
100 00
Mary E. Brigham
66
100 00
Mary E. Brigham (Kittredge lot)
100 00
Susan A. Butterfield.
100 00
Buxton & Parker
66
50 00
Francis Caldwell
50 00
John Carmichael
100 00
John B. Carmichael
66
100 00
Elisha Case
66
50 00
William Chandler
Hillside
100 00
Jonathan Collins
Fairview
50 00
P. G. Collins
50 00
Hiram Dane
50 00
George Davis.
50 00
Joshua C. Decatur
66
50 00
Charles S. Dodge
100 00
Cephas Drew
50 00
George Drew
50 00
Thomas Drew
66
50 00
Edmund L. Dupee
66
50 00
Rachel Dupee
50 00
Wm. Z. Dupee
66
50 00
Daniel Falls
66
50 00
Alvan Fisher lot
66
150 00
Abijah Fletcher lot
50 00
Andrew Fletcher
66
100 00
Charles H. Fletcher
66
50 00
Amount carried forward
$ 2,200 00
66
66
66
66
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Amount brought forward.
$ 2,200 00
Herbert E. Fletcher
66
100 00
Julia A. Fletcher
66
50 00
Lorenzo Fletcher-F. A. Snow, Ex.
66
100 00
Sherman D. Fletcher
66
50 00
Sherman D. Fletcher
Westlawn
50 00
L. A. Folland.
Fairview
50 00
Charles H. Follansbee
Hillside
100 00
George Q. Gilson
Fairview
50 00
Susan E. Green
Fairview
100 00
John Greig
Fairview
100 00
Adams Griffin
66
50 00
Joseph B. Griffin.
100 00
Timothy L. Griffin lot, by Viola Griffin Whitehead 66
50 00
Theodore H. Hamblett
50 00
C. & C. A. Hamlin
100 00
George R. Harrison
66
50 00
Ephraim A. Harwood
66
100 00
M. Hennessey
66
50 00
Henry Herrick.
Westlawn
100 00
George W. Heywood lot
Fairview
50 00
Levi Heywood tomb
66
50 00
Samuel Horne 66
50 00 -
Melbourne F. Hutchins Westlawn
100 00
Samuel M. Hutchins
Fairview
100 00
Hutchins & Blood. Westlawn
50 00
Louisa Joint . Fairview
50 00
Grace Lawrence Westlawn
50 00
Silas Lawrence and Mrs. Drake
100 00
Francis Leighton 66
50 00
Isaiah Leighton
Fairview
100 00
Mazuzan & Whitney
66
200 00
Edwin D. Metcalf
50 00
Amount carried forward
$ 4,600 00
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Amount brought forward. $ 4,600 00
Josiah A. Osgood (John Osgood lot)
50 00
John M. Osgood 66
95 25
James M. Parker
66
50 00
Fletcher Peckens
50 00
Sarah Precious
50 00
Prescott & Babbitt
66
100 00
Abram Prescott tomb Westlawn
50 00
Charles H. Prescott
66
100 00
Joseph F. Prescott 66
50 00
Frances A. Prescott
Fairview
50 00
Nathan P. Prescott
50 00
Mary A. Putnam
Hillside
100 00
Polly Quigg
Fairview
50 00
Abijah C. Reed
50 00
Anan Reed Westlawn
50 00
Sarah S. Reed
100 00
Annie Richardson
Fairview
50 00
Olive A. Richardson
66
50 00
Samuel Richardson.
66
50 00
George E. Burns, Ex. Estate of Sarah Richardson 66
100 00
Sarah Richardson
50 00
Sarah E. Richardson
50 00
Nancy Sargent
66
50 00
C. Frederick Seifer
66
50 00
Clara A. Smith
66
50 00
Levi Snow
100 00
Salmon L. Snow
66
100 00
Ephraim A. Stevens
50 00
Sarah E. P. Wells
Westlawn
100 00
Jacob Wendell
Hillside
100 00
Mary J. Wheeler
Fairview
50 00
Hiram Whitney
100 00
A mount carried forward $ 6,745 25
66
66
66
66
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Amount brought forward. $ 6,745 25
Clara M. Wiley
66
100 00
Luther Wilkins
75 00
M. E. Willard (Hosley lot)
Westlawn 100 00
John Wilson .
Fairview
50 00
W. W. Woodward (Oliver Woodward lot)
100 00
Capt. Ezekiel Wright
Westlawn 50 00
G. J. & A. S. Wright
Fairview
100 00
N. H. Wright
100 00
Varnum B. Wright
66
25 00
$7,445 25
GEORGE T. DAY, Chairman and Secretary, DAVID L. GREIG, WESLEY O. HAWKES,
Commissioners of Public Burial Grounds.
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FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT.
Westford, Mass., January 26, 1916.
To the Voters and Taxpayers of Westford:
The Finance Committee elected at the Annual Town Meeting held February 8, 1915, have held several meetings and carefully considered the various articles of the Warrant for the Annual meeting to be held February 14, 1916.
The officials conducting the several departments of the town government have appeared before the Committee and made statements as to the amount of money their several Boards would require to carry on their work for the coming year in a satisfactory manner.
The Committee has considered each separate request of the officials and has also given careful consideration to the articles of the warrant, wherein an appropriation of money was asked for.
As in the past, it is the aim of your Committee to recommend such appropriations as in their judgment will be sufficient to meet all reasonable requirements and still keep the rate of taxation at as moderate a figure as possible.
The Committee recommends the following sums to be raised and appropriated, action on which will be taken at the Annual Meeting.
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Art. 8 Public Library $ 1,000 00
9 Public Burial Grounds 200 00
66 12 Roads and Bridges 5,000 00
66 13 Town Debts and Charges 7,000 00
66 14 Support of Poor 2,000 00
15 Public Schools 10,450 00
66 16 High School 3,100 00
66 17 School Text-Books and Supplies . 750 00
66 18 Salary of Supt. of Schools 573 75
19 Repairs and maintenance of school- houses 1,000 00
20 Moth Department
970 00
66 21 Fire Department 450 00
66 22 New Hose and Apparatus for Fire Department 450 00
66 26 Electric Lights for Town Hall
400 00
30 Fish and Game Warden
66 33 Sidewalks . 50 00
300 00
66 34 Medical Inspection in Schools 100 00
39 Memorial Day 150 00
100 00
66 40 Distribution of Library Books Electric Lights.
3,290 00
Hydrants
2,000 00
Notes and Interest
3,873 00
State and County Tax
8,595 00
State Highway Repairs
414 00
$52,215 75
Less Income from State Treasurer $11,496 94
Poll Taxes 1,350 00
$12,846 94
$39,368 81
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With reference to Article 24, relating to the installation of a fire alarm system, the Committee recommends that no favorable action be taken at this time.
The valuation of the Town for the year 1915 was $2,426,079.00 Estimating an average yearly increase for 1916, the tax rate will be about $16.00 per thousand, provided you raise the sum of $39,368.81 as recommended. Should the State and County tax be made considerably more than the sum estimated, from necessity the rate of the Town tax would be increased proportionately.
The foregoing report we submit to you for your careful con- sideration.
GEORGE T. DAY,
JULIAN A. CAMERON WESLEY O. HAWKES, ELBERT H. FLAGG, HERBERT V. HILDRETH.
Finance Committee.
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
MIDDLESEX, S. S.
To the Constable 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 four- teenth day of February, being the second Monday in said month at 7.45 o'clock a. m. The polls will be opened at eight o'clock a. m., and may be closed at one o'clock p. m .; and they are then and there to act upon the following articles, to wit:
1st. To choose a Moderator.
2nd. To bring in their votes for one Selectman, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, two School Committee, one Com- missioner of Public Burial Grounds, one Trustee of the Public Library, all for three years; Town Treasurer; Col- lector of Taxes, one Constable, one Auditor, and one Tree Warden, all for one year; also to vote on the following question: "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town?"
3rd. To hear the report of the Finance Committee, and act in relation to the same.
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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, and raise and appro- priate money to meet the expenses 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.
10th. 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.
11th. To see if the Town will determine the compensation of the Tax Collector, 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 support of Poor.
15th. To raise and appropriate money for Public Schools.
16th. To raise and appropriate money for High School pur- poses.
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17th. To raise and appropriate money for School Text-Books and Supplies.
18th. To raise and appropriate money for the salary of the Superintendent of Schools.
19th. To raise and appropriate money for repairs and main- tenance of, and miscellaneous expenses incurred in con- nection with the various schoolhouses.
20th. To raise and appropriate money for destruction of gypsy and brown tail moths and elm tree beetles.
21st. To raise and appropriate money to meet the expense of the Fire Department.
22nd. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate money to purchase new hose and fire apparatus for the fire department, and act in relation to the same.
23rd. To see if the Town will vote to instal an additional hydrant on Maple Street and act in relation to the same.
24th. To hear the report of the Committee chosen to investi- gate and report regarding the installation of a fire alarm system, see if the Town will vote to instal a system, raise and appropriate money therefor and act in relation to the same.
25th. To see what action the Town will take toward securing a site and establishing quarters for the fire department at Westford Centre, and act in relation to the same.
26th. To hear the report of the Committee appointed at the Special Town Meeting held July 15, 1915, to investigate and report concerning the lighting of the Town Hall with
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electricity, to see if the Town will vote to so light the Town Hall, raise and appropriate not exceeding $400 therefor and act in relation to the same.
27th. To hear the report of the Selectmen in regard to estab- lishing a public dump, to see what action the town will take toward establishing the same and act in relation thereto.
28th. To see what action the Town will take to continue the lighting of the streets with electricity, and act in relation to the same.
29th. To see if the Town will vote to instal additional electric lights on Union and Main Streets, and act in relation to the same.
30th. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum not exceeding $50 as compensation for a Fish and Game Warden' in the event one is appointed for the Town.
31st. To see if the Town will vote to sell and convey the Minot's Corner Schoolhouse, so called, situated on the southerly side of the Chelmsford Road, together with all the land owned by the Town and appurtenant thereto, estimated to contain about one-half an acre, and act in relation to the same.
32nd. To see if the Town will vote to sell and convey the Nab- nassett Schoolhouse, so called, situated on the easterly side of the Oak Hill Road, and act in relation to the same.
33rd. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money for the construction and grading of sidewalks in the several villages, and act in relation to the same.
34th. To raise and appropriate money for medical inspection in the Public Schools.
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35th. 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 current financial year.
36th. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the en- suing 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.
37th.
To choose a Finance Committee.
38th To choose all other Town Officers necessary to be chosen by hand vote, and act in relation to the same.
39th. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to commemorate Memorial Day, and act in relation to the same.
40th. By request of the citizens of Graniteville, Forge Village, and Parkerville, to see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred ($100) dollars for the purpose of distributing books from the Public Library in these three villages, and act in relation to the same.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up true and attested copies at the Town House and each Depot in said Westford, eight days at least, before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of holding the meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands, this Twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen.
OSCAR R. SPALDING, SHERMAN H. FLETCHER, FRANK L. FURBUSH, Selectmen of Westford.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
WESTFORD
TOWN
€
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INCORP
1729. c
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T. 23
SEP
OF THE
TOWN OF WESTFORD, MASS.
FOR THE
School Year ending December 31, 1915
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SCHOOL CALENDAR.
THE ACADEMY. 1916.
Mar. 17. Winter term closes. 15 weeks
VACATION-1 WEEK.
Mar. 27. Spring term opens.
June 23. Spring term closes. 13 weeks
SUMMER VACATION. 1916-1917
Sept. 5. Fall term opens.
Nov. 29. Fall term closes.
13 weeks
VACATION-THANKSGIVING AND DAY FOLLOWING.
Dec. 4.
Winter term opens.
CHRISTMAS VACATION-1 WEEK. DEC. 25 TO JAN. 1, 1917. 1917.
Mar. 16. Winter term closes 14 weeks
VACATION-1 WEEK.
Mar. 26. Spring term opens.
June 22. Spring term closes . 13 weeks
Total .
40 weeks
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THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
1916.
Mar. 10. Winter term closes -13 weeks
VACATION-2 WEEKS.
Mar. 27. Spring term opens.
June 9. Spring term closes . 11 weeks
SUMMER VACATION.
1916-1917
Sept. 5. Fall term opens.
Nov. 24. Fall term closes. 12 weeks
VACATION-1 WEEK.
Dec. 4. Winter term opens.
VACATION (DEC. 15-JAN. 1) 2 WEEKS.
1917.
Mar. 16. Winter term closes . 13 weeks
VACATION-1 WEEK.
Mar. 26. Spring term opens.
June 8. Spring term closes 11 weeks
Total 36 weeks
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SPECIAL EXERCISE DAYS AND HOLIDAYS.
1916.
Feb. 11. Lincoln exercises, one hour.
Feb. 21. Washington exercises, one hour.
April 18. Patriots' Day exercises, one hour.
May 29. Memorial Day exercises, one hour.
Oct. 11. Columbus Day exercises, one hour.
Thanksgiving Day exercises, one hour.
1917.
Feb. 12. Lincoln exercises, one hour.
Feb. 21. Washington exercises, one hour.
April 18. Patriots' Day exercises, one hour.
May 29. Memorial Day exercises, one hour.
LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
The words "legal holiday" shall include the twenty-second day of February, the nineteenth day of April, the thirtieth day of May, the fourth day of July, the first Monday of September, the twelfth day of October, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, or the day following when any of the four days- first men- tioned, the twelfth day of October or Christmas Day occurs on Sunday.
Arbor Day occurs on the last Saturday in April, and is not a legal holiday.
Flag Day occurs on June 14, and is not a legal holiday. It should be observed by any school then in session.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
JOHN P. WRIGHT
FRANK L. FURBUSH
JOHN SPINNER
ARTHUR E. DAY, Secretary Term expires 1917.
CHARLES O. PRESCOTT, Chairman Term expires 1918.
T. ARTHUR E. WILSON
Term expires 1916.
Term expires 1916.
Term expires 1917.
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