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appropriated for clearing snow. Mr. 
Kimball explained that this was 
$1000 more than the article called 
for, because since the close of the 
fiscal year over $1000 had been spent 
of the amount wanted due to the 
heavy snow storms of the past 
month. 
Art. 36—On motion of R. C. Lin- 
coln $1350 and the surplus Dog Tax 
amounting to $262.42 were appro- 
priated for the support of the Pub- 
lic Library. 
Art. 33—On motion of F. K. 
Swett $1000 was appropriated for 
the use of the Board of Health. 
(None of the above articles occa- 
sioned any discussion, but the next 
article drew out the most enthusi- 
asm of the evening.) 
Art. 46—Compensation of Town 
Officers, ete Charles “W . "sawyer 
moved that the salary of the chief 
of the fire department be $150 per 
year, that his assistants receive $100 
each per year, and the members of 
the companies receive $50 per year. 
LEGAL NOTICE. 
Feb. 25, 1907. 
To the Honorable County Commissioners: 
We, the undersigned, citizens of the town of 
Manchester, petition you, in consideration of 
contemplated improvements on School street, 
to relocate, widen and straighten that part of 
said street lying between Pleasant and Mill 
streets. 
SAMUEL KNIGHT and others. 
COMMONWEALTH or MASSACHU- 
SETTS. ESSEX, SS. 
Court of County Commissioners, December 
Term, A. D., 1906, to wit: —Feb. 26, 1907. 
On the Petition aforesaid, ordered, ‘That said 
give notice to all persons and 
corporations interested therein that said Com- 
missioners will meet at the Town hall, in said 
Manchester on Friday the fifth day of April 
next, at 9.30 o’clock, a.m.,—by publishing an 
attested copy of said petition and of this order 
thereon, twice in the Manchester Cricket, and 
once in the North Shore Breeze, newspapers 
printed in Manchester in said county, the last 
publication to be fourteen days at least before 
the said fifth day of April. And also by serving 
the town clerk of Manchester with an attested 
copy of said petition and this order thirty days 
at least, and by posting up an attested copy 
thereof in public placesin said town, fourteen 
days at least before the said fifth day of April at 
which time and place said Commissioners will 
proceed to view the premises, and take such 
order in relation to the prayer of said petition, 
as by law they may be authorized to do. 
E. B. Georcer, Clerk. 
A true-copy of petition and order thereon. 
Attest: Jas. P. Hate, Asst. Clerk. 
A true copy of petition and order thereon. 
Attest: Parrick F. ‘TIerRNeEy, 
Deputy Sheriff. 
petitioners 
F. K. Hooper inquired why the 
Finance , Committee “had recom- 
mended that a committee of five be 
appointed to determine matter’ of 
compensation. 
LYMAN W. FLOYD. 
Re-elected on the School Committee. 
E. S. Knight said the committee 
had made the usual recommendation 
on the matter of salaries that it be 
referred to a committee of five. 
Samuel Knight—‘Are we sup- 
posed to sit here and vote for these 
appropriations as they come from 
the various "departments without 
knowing the reason for the in- 
crease? I sometimes think, as I sit 
here and see thousands of dollars 
voted away, that the millennium is 
near at hand. We get whatever we 
want. We do as little as we can 
and get as much as we can. We dip 
our hand in the treasury and if we 
don't get enough—dip in again. I 
don’t think it is right that we should 
vote away this money without 
knowing for what we are doing it. 
Give your reasons.” 
C. O. Howe—“The gentleman 
who last spoke, when he worked on 
the fire department, worked for 
honor. We.work for money. (Mr. 
Knight added Hare sraiti) 2vlo- 
day if a fireman goes to a fire he 
may lose his shoes, his hat or his 
pants. $50 is just about what we 
want.” (Applause.) 
George Hobbs—‘I would like to 
ask if the gentleman who previously 
spoke thinks $150 is too much for 
the chief who has the care of all 
property of the department on _ his 
shoulders?” 
F. K. Hooper—“That was just 
Notice. 
To my many friends and all interested 
with the automobile I most cordially 
invite you to visit space No. 116 c. c. 
when at the Boston show, where I shall 
exhibit and have for sale a full line of 
selected automobile supplies—my “‘lead- 
er” being a new automatic pipe and nut 
wrench. 
Yours truly, 
GeorGcE F. Dyer, proprietor, 
Dyer’s Auto Depot. 
Manchester-by-the-Sea. * 
the point I was after. If you have 
a good cause why not go before a 
competent committee. Reckoning 
the number of fires in the past Io 
years and the amount received, the 
pay would average 60 cents an 
hour. By this increase it. would 
average $1.co an. hour. I don’t 
think the Town of Manchester 
wishes to get out of anything justly 
due any man. I don’t think you will 
lose anything in a fair consideration 
olithe matter « 
C. O. Howe—‘I don’t think there © 
are five men here who can tell us © 
how much we ought to have. If | 
anybody in the department or out — 
of the department wants to come in 
and try us let them come, and if 
they don’t lose their shoes or pants, — 
all right.” 
C. W. Sawyer cited the wages of © 
firemen in Magnolia as $45 a year, 
and Beverly Farms as $70, and the 
engineer in the latter place receives 
$150. 
John Baker thought the town 
wanted to pay the firemen a fair 
compensation, but the matter 
ought to go before the committee. — 
R. C. Lincoln—“‘As the commit- | 
tee would be appointed from _ the 
voters already present, they would 
be instructed as to what was ex- 
pected from what they have heard 
hereu 
George Hobbs—*“I don’t think it 
requires any committee. We now 
get 16 cents a day, but if we get the 
increase it will be 32 cents—a very 
small matter.” 
I. K. Hooper—“I don’t think that 
is a fair remark. You don’t have to 
work every day, but you do have 
365 days to work it in.” 
C. O. Howe—‘We have 365 days 
and 365 nights.” (Applause.) 
Mr. Hooper—‘So much the bet- 
berg 
Curtis B. Stanley—‘There are 
plenty of buildings in this town that 
if there was a fire the firemen would 
more than earn their salary in one 
day.” : 
C. C. Dodge—*You seem to think 
that the only time to be considered 
