Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-10
Adjourned Town Meeting.

The Towns Finances-Usual Appropr1a-
 tfons-The Old Town Farm's Value
 Beaver Pond Drainage.
 The adjourned annual town meeting was held yesterday afternoon at o'clock at Loomis' Temple of Music. The hall was about half filled. Town Clerk Shuster called the meeting to order and Charles R. Whedon presided. The report of the Town Agent, hitherto published, and the report of the Town Treasurer were adopted and lodged on file. The report of the treasurer of the town deposit fund, H. M. Welch, who was reap pointed by the meeting to the trust, was or dered on file and showed that the income from the fund for the year was $1, ,684.29 paid New Haven School district $1;646. 29; paid Westville School district, $3S; total pay ments, $1,694.29. The report showed the number of school children in the New Haven City School district to be 13, ,472 number of Westville school children, 311. The amount of the town deposit fund is $27,424.
 Messrs. Gardner Morse and H. M. Welch, trustees of the old almshouse farm, reported the total fund to be $65, 16O; income the past year, paid to the Town Treasurer, $3, s67.6s. Two pieces of land valued at $5, 300 were in- cIuded in the total The trustees were reap pointed for the coming year.
 The sum of $500 was voted for the salary of the Town Treasurer and treasurer of the town deposit fund for the year beginning next January 1.
 The usual appropriation of $1,0Oo was made to the dispensary for medical aid for the poor.
 The sum of $1,O0o was appropriated to the New Haven Orphan Asylum and the St. Francis Orphan Asylum for supporting poor children of the town.
 The sum of $1 ,OOO was voted to the Town Clerk, in addition to the fees of his office, be- ginning January l.
 The following votes were also passed Voted That the selectmen are hereby authorized to appoint such number of patrolmen as they may deem necessary. not exceeding ten, as provided py act of General Assembly, approved Jan. 28, 1876.
 Voted That a tax of mills on the dollar be and 1s habitants of the town of New Haven and nonresi dents the grand list of 1880 for the purpose or pa
 ing State tax military communication tax interest on
 loans and other necessary and lawful of the town, and that the same be payable on he first day
 Voted, That the selectmen of the town be and they are hereby authorized to borrow sum Of money TOT the purpose paying the necessary expenses of the town and to give obligation of the town therefor provided that the sum sums so borrowed shall not
 in the whole amount to more than $1OoOoo at any one
 Voted, That the whole of the income from the town deposit fund be and is hereby appropriated for the support of the public of the that it be divided between the city school district and the Westvie school district in the proportion as is the money raised for the public schools by the annual town tax.
 propriaed from the treasury of the town for the pay ment of the Town Agent for the year beginning clerk to the Treasurer in distributing State pensions to soldiers orphans without additional compensa- tion.
 George Hotchkiss moved an amendment to make the sum $1, POO when the vote was read concerning the salary of the Town Agent, placing it at. $2, ,OOO. The motion was not seconded and was then tabled unanimously without remark.
 The report of the chattel property of the almshouse farm was adopted with the read ing only of the totals. The total valuation is $15. 633 27, an increase of $1S7.79 over last year.
 MT. Andrews moved to adjourn. Mir. B. Moves interposed. He said he wished to present resolution to the meeting, which was read and was as follows:
 Voted, That the Board of Selectmen of the town of New Haven be and they are hereby empowered to section of the town known the Beaver Ponds as be necessary to subdue the to usefulness and perfect sanitary condition and that said Board of Selectmen be and they hereby au- thorzed to procure of the Legislature such special power shall be necessary to the same into eff feet
 Mr.Noyes supported the matter in alengthy speech, setting forth the reasons why the resolution was introduced and urging that the sanitary work spoken of was greatly l needed and would be very beneficial He had brought this matter to the meeting as the only proper tribunal, the Board of Health not having power to act in the premises. The resolution was adopted, there being but ! a single voice in dissent. The meeting then | adjourned.
 The matter of providing a sinking fund
 was not brought up, it being advisable to | postpone the matter another year.