ined the exact location of the 
road leading to his property. 
Art. 5. It was voted to appoint 
an appropriating committee. 
Art. 6, highways. G. S. Sinnicks 
of the finance committee said the 
committee was not satisfied that the 
town was getting as good results 
-as it should for the amount of 
money expended. They thought 
better work could be done in the 
line of new construction under the 
supervision of the state. The sup- 
erintendent was handicapped dur- 
ing the early spring and summer in 
new construction in that he had at 
the same time to attend x0 many 
other matters. . 
F. G. Cheever said that it was 
with exactly this purpose in mind 
that the board arranged last year 
to have a man sent here by the state 
to look over the roads, and that the 
board had recommended that ar- 
-rangements be made to get some- 
body here this year to assist in the 
work of new construction. 
E. S. Knight thought that if there 
was to be new construction a spe- 
cial appropriation must be made ac- 
cording to law. 
: ~G. R. Dean did not construe the 
law in this way. He said they did 
_ not propose any new streets, but to 
_ repair existing ones. The chair 
ruled accordingly. 
George S. Sinnicks was of the 
- opinion that Manchester ought to 
build more roads like the state is 
building. He wanted the town to 
get all it could for the money it 
_ spent, and to this end he expressed 
the opinion that it would be weil 
for the town to have new work done 
by contract. He thought fully a 
mile of n ew road ought to be put in 
this spring. 
Supt. Crombie said it would cost 
$15,000 to put in a mile of new road 
like Mr. Sinnicks suggested. 
It was brought out on a question 
by E, S. Knight that of the $25,000 
asked for for highways $4,038.96 
had already been spent, $1706.89 of 
this amount being for snow removal 
the past month. F. P. Knight asked 
if the superintendent objected to 
having assistance from the state. He 
felt that there was a lack of co- 
operation somewhere. Mr, Crombie 
said that it might be a good idea 
to get help from the state. He said 
the town did not have the equip- 
ment to build roads like the state 
was building, and it might be a 
good idea to let the work out on 
contract. Mr. Knight said further 
that if the selectmen felt Mr. Crom- 
bie was not competent to do the 
work they ought to get a new man. 
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Supt, Crombie said further that all 
this talk about Manchester roads 
seemed funny to him when Man- 
chester had only about 16 miles of 
roads as compared to the hundreds 
of miles which motorists have to 
travel over in the vicinity of Man- 
chester, and he did not think Man- 
chester roads were so bad as people 
are making them out to be. 
It was finally voted to appropri- 
ate $25,000 for highways, but no 
action was taken on the recommen- 
dation of the finance committee rel- 
ative to state supervision. 
Art. 7. It was voted to appropri- 
ate $125 for the care of Central 
pond. 
At this time it was voted that the 
town refer the request of the Essex 
County club to lay its pipes across 
a portion of the town land in order. 
to connect with the sewerage sys- 
tem on Lincoln St. to the water com- 
missioners. The vote was unani- 
mous. <A. L. Devens, representing 
the Essex County club, spoke on the 
matter. 
Arts. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 were act- 
ed upon favorably. They called 
for \the following appropriations: 
$25,000 for support of public 
schools; $600 for care and main- 
tenance of playground; $100, med- 
ical inspection of schools; $106 for 
completion of stone curbing at John 
Price school; and $350 for care and 
maintenance of school gardens. 
Art. 14. $5,200 and eredits from 
the use of horses was appropriated 
for use of fire department. 
Art, 15. $8,000 was appropria- 
ted for the maintenance of police. 
The vote to increase the wages 
of patrolmen from $2.75 a day io 
$3 and of the sergeant of police 
from $3.00 to $3.25 passed without 
a dissenting vote. O. T. Roberts 
said he could never remember when 
the police department was run so 
smoothly and nicely as last year; 
he was very much pleased with it, 
and he knew the rest of the citi- 
zens felt as he did. (Applause. ) 
Art. 16. On motion of R. C. Lin- 
coln $2,248.51 was appropriated for 
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maintenance of public library and 
$1,500 for cataloguing. Under Arts. 
17 and 18 $1,650 was appropriated 
for the board of health department 
and $500 for the district nurse 
fund, 
Art. 19. The following sums 
were appropriated for maintenance 
of the several departments of gen- 
eral government: Legislative, $200; 
selectmen’s, $1,500; accountant’s, 
$1,200; treasurer and_ collector, 
$2,150; assessors’, $1,150; town 
clerk’s, $525; law, $1,000; election 
and registration, $400; 
and common, $3,600. 
Under Arts. 20 and 21 $300 was 
appropriated for removal of old 
buildings and $1,000 for care of 
cemeteries; also, $400 to cover the 
cost of buying a new automatic 
control lowering device and for 
painting hearse. 
Under Art. 22 it was voted that 
the salaries of town officials be the 
same as last year, with the excep- 
tion of the police department, just 
voted upon. 
Chairman Swett of the board of 
assessors started quite a heated dis- 
cussion on the matter of the appro- 
priation committee cutting down 
appropriations called for by the var- 
ious departments, with especial ref- 
erence to the $150 cut from the as- 
sessors’ department. He said he 
had been on the board of assessors 
for the past eleven years and had 
seen the valuation of the town grow 
from eight to sixteen million. He 
said there was considerable work to 
be done in his department under 
the new laws, that the stenographer 
last year had worked 300 hours, 
and he did not feel that the officials 
of such a board as this ought to 
be compelled to do this sort of ecler- 
ical work. The board of assessors 
was a judicial board and he did not 
think the appropriation committee 
had any right to cut off part of the 
appropriation if their aim was to 
make the chairman of the board do 
this sort of stenographie work eal- 
led for by the state. E. S. Knight, 
(Continued to page 12. ) 
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