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INTERMEDIATE NO. 2.
Miss Jennette S. Barton has occupied this place nearly two years. She has well-nigh revolutionized the school. Systematic, conscientious, industrious, the school constant- ly rises intellectually and morally. We sincerely hope she may long occupy this position.
PRIMARY NO. 1.
Miss Millie Burton, the teacher of this school, has been constantly growing in favor since she first entered it. Kind, pleasing and enthusiastic in her work, she is bound to succeed. Her school is large, but no one is neglected. We hope her successor will fill her place.
PRIMARY NO. 2.
Several years Mrs. Nellie Foss has been connected with this school. Several of her scholars are now in the Gram- mar school who show that they were well started. She loved the children, and in turn was regarded as a mother. The year has been pleasant and successful, as have been the former ones, and with many regrets the parents of the scholars part with her services.
PRIMARY NO. 3.
This school was organized last spring under some diffi- culties. Children must be torn from former associations and teachers, which was hard for them and for their par- ents. But we found the parents kind and reasonable and the school was finally organized with Miss Elmie Briggs at its head. Miss Briggs is a most worthy and cultivated lady, and under her direction the school soon assumed the appearance of a bee hive. All were at work, all happy. Miss B. resigned at the close of the fall term, and Miss M. Lizzie Bailey took her place.
Miss Bailey did not in the least disappoint us. At the closing examination we found the school remarkably quiet,
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and the exercises interesting and pleasant. Many parents were present and freely expressed their satisfaction, not on- ly in words, but by a substantial gift which we enjoyed the honor of presenting.
RURAL SCHOOLS. NUMBER 1.
This is the Union District under the charge of Corinna. Eleven of Dexter's scholars are included in this District this year who draw from the school fund fifty-five dollars. It is said they have enjoyed nineteen weeks of. excellent school during the year.
NUMBER 2.
By the unanimous request of the parents, Miss M. Lizzie Bailey taught this school both spring and fall terms. We thought at our first visit here, that there were good ele- ments but they needed arousing. By dint of perseverance Miss B. succeeded in doing this, and left the school in the fall, greatly profited.
Miss Lena Allan, of Corinna, taught the winter term, taking up the work where left, and enjoyed increasing in- terest through the term. I think the parents unanimously regard this one of their best school years.
NUMBER 3.
Like No. 2, we found this school needed arousing. The teacher, to succeed here, must possess two things, fire and perseverance.
The spring term was very pleasant, under the instruction of Miss Alice Cummings, a graduate of Dexter High School. Perfect harmony prevailed throughout the term and a good degree of interest was manifest. At the close of spring term Miss C. resigned to finish her course in Farmington Normal School, and Miss Jennie Danforth taught the fall and winter terms. At the end of seven weeks Miss D. fell sick and the school closed without an examination. The winter term opened auspiciously with thirteen scholars and a good degree of interest manifest ; but mumps and, perhaps indisposition, caused a great falling off, which greatly dis-
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Miss Elouise Proctor has had charge of it from the begin- ning and has succeeded grandly. Improvement from term to term is clearly observable.
A fact worthy of mention is, that only three teachers have been employed out of town, and of these, one is a gradu- ate of Dexter High School. Of the teachers employed, fourteen are Graduates of High School, five have had the advantages of Normal School, and two of College training.
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COMPARATIVE TABLE OF STATISTICS.
Schools. |
Teacher.
Wages of Teacher
No. Scholars in
Attending
School.
Av. No. attending
Cases Tardiness.
Cases Dismissal.
Not absent & day.
No. Daily Rec.
Visits by Citizens
Pr. ct. of av. wh'le No. at. School.
High.
W. W. Allen, M.J. C. Thompson, ~ $ 10.00
25.00
52
47|41
16
93
59
57 29
18
.
68
48:20
2 27
14 46
mar.
f. 15 50
w.
15 50
54
50 18
4|21 14 45
41
39
18 20 26
46 42
13 24 20 95
46 43
19 24 20
Int. No. 2.
Jennette S. Barton, s.
7 00
33
31.46
2 18 20 20
37
34 21
2 9 21 21 90
37
31 23
0
3 |21 14
.
Millie Burton,
S.
7 00
66
59 53 8 18 15 38
52 44 26 20 15 17 25 90
42
39 39
5 31 17 19
Pri. Mrs. Nellie Foss,
s.
7 00
50
43 .. 4 11 20 35
No. 2.
f. 7 00
41 27
3 3 19 20 80
43
35 71 11
1 19 22
Elmie J. Briggs,
S.
7 00
68 40 86 23
9 16 51
Pri.
7 00
51 40 41 20
8 16 52 72
No. 3. M. Lizzie Bailey, w.
7 50
40 34 27 17
9 19:51
Village Schools,
496 348 295
Rural M. Lizzie Bailey,
S.
6 00
7 10
6 9
5 7
5 2 20 25
No. 2.
Lena L. Allan,
W.
6 00
12
11
5
9
1 24 15
Alice R.Cummings,s. 5 00
10
12
9 28 13 26
3
2 39
7
No. 3. Jennie Danforth, f.
5 00
15
2
1 35 780
w.
5 25
11
7 28|10| 0 21|2|
Int. No. 1.
Bessie Nutter,
S.
7 00
f.
7 00
w.
7 75
-
f.
7 00
w.
7 75
Pri. No. 1.
66
f.
7 00
66
W.
7 75
Gram- R. W. Nutter,
S. 16 00
58 46 17
7.28 14 30 80
66
W.
61
56 32
f.
Per Week.
District.
No.
School.
f. 6 00
15
5 5 24 18 90
w.
7 75
f.
50
Wages of Teacher Per Week.
No. of Scholars in
Attending
School.
School.
Cases Tardiness.
Cases Dismissal.
Not Absent & day.
No. Daily Rec.
Visits by Citizens
Pr. ct. ofav. wh'le
No. at'd'g School.
No. 20
16|14| 2|10|24| 6|
No. 4.
f.
6 00 31
22 22
17
2 0
8
8 24 7 20
3
Alice H. Maxim, S.
6 00
16
No. 5.
f.
6 00 22
17
14 17
6
2
3
5 10
6 29 16 29 6 90
66
W.
6 50
21
17
7
3
9 24 17
May H. Hamilton, s. 66
5 50 6 00
22
20
15
: 7
2 .. 15 20 77
66
W.
6 50
10
7 10
0 .
15 6
Minerva M. Marsh, s.
5 00
6
5% 14 62
9
1 .
.
25 10 80
Mae E. Watson,
w.
5 00
12
8
14
2
29
5
Lettie Daggett,
S.
6 00
17
15 16
6
3
2 19
No. 9.
f.
6 00 24
17
9;
2
2 18
.
Mabel Additon, S.
6 00
25
20 29 11 16 16 10
3
0 4 23
5
No.11.
f.
6 00 20
24
20
2
0
4 30
3 85
W.
6 50
28
24
29
Nellie F. Trask, No. 12. Amy M. Lowell,
S.
4 75
5
4
9
3
3 19
10
f 4 50
6
7
6
12
4
1|24
6182
W.
5 00
5
4
5
3
0 19 6
Eloise B. Proctor, s.
5 00
9
6
1
2
13
9
No. 13.
f. 5 50 13
8
7 17
2 17 8 76
66
w.
6 00
12
9
7
23 81
Rural Schools,
220|163|134
Total (including 11 in No. 1,)
716 511 429
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18
.
89
No. 10. Minerva M. Marsh, f.
5 50 35
20
2 25 20 80
W.
6 00
20
16 30
4
8 20
..
Ella A. Jennings, s.
6 00
23
20
1
. .
24 14
No. 8. Mabel Additon,
f.
5 50 11
8
15 11
0 .
18 13
No. 7.
Ella J. Mower, 66
S.
6 00
0 80
w.
6 50
District.
Schools. I
Teachers.
w.
6 50
11
4 4
3
5 24 15
·
-
NOTE .- s. f. w. in the table-spring, fall and winter terms.
f.
18
18
Av.No.Attending
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Here closes the report of the workmen who have been employed in your schools during the past year. But few words of censure will be found, and, from my stand point, I see but little chance for more. Nearly all the teachers I regard par excellence, while only a few have in any degree disappointed me. By reference to the table an idea of the work done by each will be conveyed. Allow me to call the attention to just a few items, as follows :
The whole No. of scholars in Town. 716
Average 66 66 attending school. 511 66 429
Of these, the whole number in the Village, attending, is 348, which is of the whole number in Village 70 per cent. In the Rural Districts the whole number attending is 163, which is of the whole number in Rural Districts 74 per cent. Subtract the number of scholars who come from other districts and from other towns, to the High School, and the per cent of the Village will be decreased and the Rural increased.
Aware that there were many children who ought to be in school, I undertook to enforce the Compulsory school law during the spring term. Our Primary schools were very much enlarged, butat the end of the term they went out not to return. The State Law requires but three months attendance during the year. Let the Town provide for this, and let these scholars enjoy, by compulsion, if necessa- ry, the advantages of the excellent schools that are within their reach.
I am aware that the people of Dexter appreciate the ad- vantages of a good education, and are doing much that their sons and daughters go not out from them without it. My purpose has been to keep abreast with the enterprise of the Town, and have done my utmost to make the schools profitable, and to raise the standard as much as possible. To this end :
1. I instituted a special examination for A classes for promotion.
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Its advantages have already been seen, and at the close of the spring terms the classes will be found much better qualified for promotion.
2. That ourteachers might enjoy the advantages of inter- change of views, and discuss matters pertaining to govern- ment and methods of school work, I instituted a Local Teachers' Institute, embracing Dexter and adjoining towns, to meet once a month. All the teachers are required to be present, and as a rule we have had the hearty co-orporation. of our own and several of the teachers of adjoining towns. Though the Institute is yet in its infancy there can be no. doubt of its advantages to our teachers.
3. In looking over our school books I found them very much worn, and many of them antiquated. Fish Robin- son's Arithmetic has been about eight years in the schools, is too complicated for our Common schools and should be; displaced. The readers, though excellent, have been in use too long. The Geographies are considered too cum- bersome. The Grammars are certainly very much behind the times. The advisability of a displacement of these books for more modern and better ones is unquestionable when we consider that they are very much mutilated, and the expense of exchange, at exchange rates, would not. much exceed that of replenishing them.
Hence the work I have done in this department has been: done in this direction :
In the High School I have displaced F. Robinson's. Arithmetic and adopted Ficklin's.
Displaced Steele's Principles of Natural Philosophy and adopted Avery's.
Displaced Steele's Chemistry and adopted Clarke's.
Displaced Warren's Physical Geography and adopted Monteith's, and added:
Harkness New Latin Reader and Shaw's English Litera- ture.
I consider the books of this school now all first-class, and they are nearly all new. I have furnished several classes
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in the different schools with Munroe's New Readers, which are giving general satisfaction.
According to a recent law I was obliged to introduce a new Physiology into all the schools treating especially the effects of Alcoholic stimulants and narcotics upon the sys- tem. Smith's was introduced, after long and careful con- sideration of the matter, and a diligent study of the differ- ent text books.
Several facts conspire to convince me that no mistake was made, one of which is, every teacher in Town gives their unqualified approval of the work, and the interest manifest on the part of the scholar, and the results pro- duced are simply astonishing.
I have also furnished two classes of Grammar School with Wells' Grammar, displacing Kerl's.
The amount appropriated last year for school books was $300. I have expended $359.48. This will be seen to be but little more than fifty cents per scholar. Any reasona- ble person can see it is not sufficient. I recommend an in- creased appropriation.
The amount appropriated last year for our Common Schools was not sufficient to run them the usual length. The Village Schools, except the Grammar, and all the Ru- ral schools, were shortened one week, and even this neces- sitated an overdraft of $197.37. But here is needed a word of explanation.
Last year there was reported (see Town Report) a defi- ciency of $55.69, when in fact there was an overdraft of $169.39. This mistake was occasioned by unpaid bills not presented until after Town Meeting.
I was not aware of this deficency until near the close of my term of office, and while I supposed the debt would be very nearly liquidated there appears to be a large increase which is not the fact.
To provide for this deficiency and to add one week to each of the schools which this year have suffered loss, re- quires an additional appropriation.
I am satisfied that it is for the advantage of the Town to
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increase the length of the school year; that the Village schools should be thirty-six weeks, and the Rural schools thirty weeks. I recommend that this year a sufficient ap- propriation be made to so increase the Grammar and High Schools, fully persuaded that when the experiment is made there will be an extension ordered all along the line.
SCHOOL HOUSES.
The school buildings in the Rural Districts, generally, are gems. The Town may well be proud of these, but this cannot be said of the Village. Mr. Haines, your agent, has done much by the way of double windows, etc., to make these comfortable, but nothing short of complete ren- ovation, or displacement for new ones can possibly meet the demands of these schools. Let the Town unitedly move in this matter, and the demands will be speedily met.
APPROPRIATIONS RECOMMENDED.
For Common Schools
$2700 00
High Schools 1000 00
66 School Books 500 00
CONCLUSION.
I come to the conclusion of my official duties with many pleasant memories. My work has been somewhat onerous, but the kindness and consideration of teachers, parents and scholars have been both cheering and relieving. I have done the best I could under the circumstances. With many thanks for favors conferred, I retire from the office.
Respectfully,
E. H. BOYNTON,
SUPERVISOR.
ORDINANCES
OF THE TOWN OF DEXTER :
PASSED MARCH 19, 1855. SECTION I.
Be it ordained by the inhabitants of the Town of Dexter, at their annual town meeting assembled; that the town of Dexter hereby avails itself of, and adopts the provisions of the fourteenth section in Article 1st of an act to provide for the education of youth passed in the year 1850, and as amended and approved March 30, 1853.
SECTION II.
Be it further ordained, that all children between the ages of four and twenty-one years, residing it the town of Dex- ter, and not attending any school, without any regular and lawful occupation, and growing up in ignorance, shall, un- less there be some sufficient reason to the contrary, be re- quired regularly to attend some public or private school, or suitable institution of instruction.
SECTION III.
Be it further ordained, that all children in said town, be- tween said ages, and all persons attending any of the pub- lic schools in said town, who shall be habitual truants there- from, shall be liable to pay a sum not less than one nor more than twenty dollars, upon conviction of either of the offences described in this ordinance.
SECTION IV.
Be it further ordained, that any person belonging to any of the public schools in this town, who shall, without suffic-
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ient excuse therefore, be absent from said school six or more times in the course of any one term, shall, for the purposes of this ordinance, be deemed and taken to habit- ual truant therefrom.
SECTION V.
Be it further ordained, that any persons belonging to any of the public schools in said town, or any child between the ages of four and twenty-one years, being found by ei- ther of the persons who shall be chosen by said town un- der the provisions of the fifteenth section in article first of said act, to make complaints and carry into execution judgments for the violations of this ordinance, during school hours, in or near any street, square, pond, lane, store, shop or any public place of resort or amusement in said town be apprehended and taken by said person ap- prehending said scholar to such public school in said town as he may deem proper; and shall there be detained as a scholar by the teacher of said school during school hours, and notice of such apprehension and detention shall forth- with be given to the parent, master or guardian of the per- son or child so taken and detained; every person or child so apprehended, shall for the third offence be liable to pay a sum not less than one nor more than twenty dollars.
SECTION VI.
Be it further ordained, that in place of the penalties and fines aforesaid, the judicial officer or Justice of the Peace who has jurisdiction thereof, may order the offender to be placed, for such period of time as he may judge expedient, in the State Reform School, situated in the town of Cape Elizabeth, Me., which is hereby assigned and provided as the institution of instruction, house of reformation, or suit- able situation named in the sixteenth section in article first in the Act aforesaid.
SECTION VII.
Be it further ordained, that the town of Dexter at this annual town meeting shall choose three persons, who alone shall be authorized to make complaints in every case of
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the violation of this ordinance, and shall alone have author- ity to carry into execution the judgment of the Justice or Judicial Officer, and shall execute all duties required by this ordinance.
SECTION VIII.
Be it further ordained, that all penalties and fines for the violation of provisions of this oridnance, shall be recovered by complaints by said three persons named above, before a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Penob- scot.
Provided this ordinance shall not take effect, and be in force until it shall have been approved by the County Com- missioners for the County of Penobscot.
March 23d, 1855.
A true copy.
Attest, W. S. CILLEY, Town Clerk.
Approval of County Commissioners.
DEXTER, June 11, 1860.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Dexter, held on Monday, the 11th day of June, A. D. 1860, at one o'clock, P.M., pursuant to adjournment, the following business was enacted :
Voted to accept the report of the Committee appointed to present a code of By-laws to prevent fast driving in the village of Dexter; who reported the ordinance.
AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT FAST DRIVING IN THE VILLAGE OF DEXTER.
Be it ordained by the legal voters of the Town of Dexter, in Town Meeting assembled, as follows :
SECTION I.
That no person shall ride on horse back, or drive a horse or horses attached to a carriage of any discription, or cause them to be driven through any street or public way within the distance of one-half mile from the Stone Factory, in the village of Dexter, at speed exceeding six miles per hour.
SECTION II.
That any person who shall be guilty of a violation of this
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ordinance, shall forfeit, and pay for each offence, the sum of three dollars, to be recovered on complaint made by any person to any Justice of the Peace, for and within the Coun- ty of Penobscot.
Adopted.
Voted to adjourn.
A true record.
B. JENKINS, Town Clerk
No. I.
AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION OF THE DEXTER FIRE DE- PARTMENT, AND FOR THE PREVENTION OF FIRES IN DEXTER VIL- LAGE.
A board of three Fire Wardens shall be chosen annually, of whom, the one first elected shall be styled Chief Engi- neer of the Dexter Fire Department, and the two others in the order of their election shall be styled 1st and 2d Assist- ant Engineers, and this board shall annually render to the Town, at its annual town meeting, a report making an ex- hibit of the amount and condition of material under their control in their department and of services rendered by them and the fire department in extinguishing or prevent- ing fires. In addition to the duties imposed by the Statutes of the State, it shall be the duty of the fire wardens to in- spect in each of the months of February and November of each year (and oftener if they deem it necessary) all fires, stoves, pipes and flues in use for the purpose of heating contained in the buildings located in Dexter Village. The inspection of these buildings to be for the purpose of deter- mining if the fire arrangements in the same are in a safe condition and do not endanger the village with destruction by fire.
Said Fire Wardens, when inspecting said property, shall also see how the ashes made in said buildings are kept. If they shall find any fire arrangements which they do not consider in a safe and proper condition, or if they shall find ashes carelessly and negligently left, they shall direct the persons using the faulty stove, pipe or flue, to abstain from the use of the same, or repair and put the same in
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safe condition, and they shall order such a disposition of ashes as shall be deemed safe and free from danger. For neglect to obey directions of the Fire Wardens in regard in repairing any dangerous heating arrangements, or for the proper disposition of ashes when such directions are given in writing, the party or parties so neglecting shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each offence, as pro- vided by the Statutes of the State.
The Fire Wardens shall also, in the first week of each month, cause to be inspected and tried, the Hydrants loca- ted on Main and Grove streets in Dexter, and the Hose be- longing thereto, that the same may be kept at all times in a serviceable condition.
The Fire Wardens shall also call meetings of the Engine Companies of this Town as often as twice in each year to be held at the building known as the Engine House, and at such meetings they shall inspect the Engines, Hose and other apparatus belonging to said companies, and see that the same are kept in a serviceable condition. They shall also confer with the Fire Companies and adopt some ar- rangements that shall ensure prompt and harmonious action iu case of fire.
No. II.
Voted to accept and establish the following ordinances :
It shall be the duty of the Engineers of the Fire Depart- ment at their regular examinations of stoves, pipes, flues and ashes as provided by ordinance adopted March, 1872, and at such other time as they shall deem necessary, to ex- amine such other matters than those enumerated in the ordinance before mentioned, existing within the limits of their jurisdiction under said ordinance as shall in their judgment peculiarly endanger property within said limits to destruction by fire, by reason of a tendency to cause fire, or to spread fire rapidly, and in every such case that any matter or thing is by them deemed peculiarly danger- ous, as likely to cause or to spread fire, they may give written notice to the owner of such matter or thing, to re-
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move, repair, or remedy the same in such manner as to se- cure the public safety in regard thereto within such time, not less than five days, as they shall deem reasonable, and shall state in said notice, and if not so removed, repaired, or remedied within five or more days as fixed in said notice, then the party so neglecting, shall forfeit the sum of one dollar per day as a penalty for every day of such neglect, and it shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer as Fire War- den, to cause action to recover said penalty, to be com- menced in behalf of the Town against the party so neglect- ing.
No. III.
Voted to amend to read as follows :
It shall be the duty of the Engineers of the Fire Depart- ment at their regular examinations of stoves, pipes, flues and ashes as provided by ordinance adopted March, 1872, and at such other times as they shall deem necessary, to ex- amine such other matters than those enumerated in the or- dinance before mentioned, existing within the limits of their jurisdiction under said ordinance, as shall in their judg- ment peculiarly endanger property within said limits to de- struction by fire, or to spread fire rapidly, and in every such case that any matter or thing is by them deemed pe- culiarly dangerous, as likely to cause or to spread fire, they may give written notice to the owner of such matter or thing to remove, repair, or remedy the same in such man- ner as to secure the public safety in regard thereto within such time, not less than five days, as they shall deem rea- sonable, and shall state in said notice, and if not so re- moved, repaired, or remedied within said five or more days as fixed in said notice, then the property so neglecting shall forfeit the sum of five dollars as a penalty for such neglect, and it shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer as Fire War- den to cause action to recover said penalty to be com- menced in behalf ef the Town against the party so neglect- ing.
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STATE OF MAINE.
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE.
An ordinance of the Municipal Officers of the Town of Dexter, regulating the keeping and transportation of gunpowder and other explosives.
Be it ordained by the Municipal Officers of the Town of Dexter as follows:
All gunpowder, blasting-powder, dualine, dynamite, and nitro-glycerine, which may be kept in the Town of Dexter, or transported from place to place in said town or through said town, shall be subject to the following regulations :
1. No gunpowder or blasting-powder, exceeding the quantity of fifty pounds in the aggregate, shall be kept in any building situated within twenty-five rods of any dwell- ing house, mill, factory or shop.
2. No gunpowder or blasting-powder, exceeding the quantity of ten pounds in the aggregate, shall be kept with- in ten rods of any other place where ten pounds of such powder is kept.
3. No gunpowder or blasting-powder, exceeding the quantity of fifty pounds and less than one ton in aggregate, · shall be kept in any one place within sixty rods of any dwelling-house, mill, factory or shop.
4. No gunpowder or blasting-powder, exceeding the quantity of fifty pounds, shall be kept within twenty rods of any other place where fifty pounds or more of powder is deposited.
5. No gunpowder or blasting-powder, exceeding the quantity of one ton in the aggregate, shall be kept within eighty rods of any dwelling-house, mill, factory or shop.
6. No dynamite exceeding the quantity of one pound, no nitro-glycerine exceeding the quantity of one pound, no dualine exceeding the quantity of one pound (not made in- to cartridges), no quantity of cartridge exceeding fifty pounds into which dualine or dynamite or nitro-glycerine may enter as an ingredient, no quantity of cartridges called
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rend-rock, exceeding fifty pounds, shall be kept within twenty-five rods of any dwelling-house, mill, factory or shop.
7. The transportation of all the aforementioned articles of gunpowder, blasting-powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, dualine and cartridges, from place to place in the Town of Dexter, or through the Town, shall be subject to the follow- ing regulations, viz :
All gunpowder and blasting-powder, exceeding fifty pounds in the aggregate, all dynamite, nitro-glycerine and dualine, exceeding one pound each, all the aforesaid car- tridges, including rend-rock, exceeding one hundred pounds each, shall be taken from the car (if arriving by railroad) or from such other place where they may first stop in town, within twenty-four hours after their arrival, and may be transported, in any usual manner in which other goods are transported, but shall not after said twenty-four hours, be stored in town except in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
Adopted June 18, 1883.
EBEN M. TIBBETTS, G. E. FARMER, ALBERT ELLMS,
Selectmen, being the Municipal Officers of the Town of Dexter.
TOWN OF DEXTER, June 18, 1883.
ORDERED, That the foregoing ordinance be published in the EASTERN STATE, a newspaper published in the Town of Dexter, in Penobscot County, three weeks successively.
E. M. TIBBETTS,
G. E. FARMER,
ALBERT ELLMS,
Selectmen, being the Municipal Officers of the Town of Dexter.
INDEX.
Town Officers Page 3.
Warrant
4.
Assessors' Department
8.
Highway Expenses. 66 9.
Town Farm Report.
17.
Overseers of the Poor
" 20.
Fire Department
“ 22.
Town Charges
" Officers' Bills
" 24.
Errors in tax.
Bills paid for which no appropriations were made.
Extra appropriations
" 27.
Summary of expenses.
" 27.
Liabilities
" 27.
Resources.
Appropriations recommended
Trustees of Dexter Town Library
Treasurer of Dexter Town Library
School Agent " 31.
Town Hall
" 32.
Treasurer of Dexter School Fund “ 32.
Superintendent of Cemeteries " 33.
Town Treasurer " 34.
Greenleaf Committee. " 36.
Engineers of the Fire Department. " 37.
Supervisor of Schools
" 42.
EXPLANATION.
On page 24 the footing to Town Charges should be 2,849 86. Mistake occurred by not adding in percentage and errors in tax.
In Summary of Expenses support of poor should be one hundred dollars more than reported-see page 21.
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Abatements
" 25. " 26. " 26.
28. " 28. " 29. " 30.
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