The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-05-25
OLNEYVILLE.
Question Of Annexation TO Providence
Also Being Voted Upon.
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No. Hartford Avenue.
The special election to vote on the.prop-
osition to annex a portion OF the town of
Johnston to the city of Providence was
opened. in the hall OF the Plainiield street
engine house at % O'Clock this morning.
John j. Harrington wss chosen moderator
and Samuel Brownell clerk.
Only voters qualified to vote upon q
proposition to impose tax are allowed
to vote. The result OF the vote, should II
be, e,favorable to annexation, Is not final,
since committee of conference will be
chosen to confer with the city authori-
ties regarding terms, etc. At IL O'Clock
about 200 had voted. 1t is probable that
most OF the votes on the question will be
cast after the adjournment OF the finan-
cial.meeting, which is being conducted
in the. lower hall in the same building.
and the action OF the financial meeting
will without doubt have an effect on the
vote on the annexation question. The
polls remain open until 9 O'Clock.
FINANCIAL MEETING.
The annual financial meeting of the
town of Johnston was called to order at
10 o'clock by Moderator George +. A.
Beene. About 200 electors were in at
tendance. An officer was stationed at
the door to see that no one entered unless
he was qualified to vote TO impose tax,
DIR. Howard Thornton checking list to
see that this was followed to the letter.
After the opening OF the meeting an order
of business was adopted for the meeting
to follow.
Treasurer Davis read his report which
was published In The News last week.
MIR. Ezra Clifford offered a resolution cal
ling for more fully itemized report OF
the treasurer. After some discussion it
was voted to have future reports in the
same form as at present.
The report OF overseer OF the poor,
George w. White was read, showing a
summary as follows: Receipts, S3S42. ~;
expenditures, s4409.43; payments in ex-
cess OF receipts, S566.64.
Inc school committee, through its
secretary, q. X. Parker, presented his
report which has already been pub
lished.
Report received and ordered printed.
The next on the order of business was
the making of the regular appropriations.
For lights, a resolution calling for an
voted. For police, $1,000 was asked for,
but was lost by vote of "a to 6 and
$1,000 was appropriated. For miscellane-
Gus, 1900 was asked epr.
Paris Mathewson addressed the meet
ing on the expenditure OF the mleoealane-
GUS dppfOSTldtlOH hHu moNcu c>fouO
be made the appropriation for miscellane-
GUS expenses.
lib. Wood proposed an amendment that
no part of the miscellaneous account be
used for highway work. T1oamendment
was voteo and Mr.. Mathe0vbn's motion
to appropriate $4,000 was voted.
sum sufficient for the support of the
poor was voted.
A sum sufficient for the State tax was
voted.
A sum sufficient to maintain the water
supply was appropriated.
For legal expenses sum sufbcient was
appropriated also, for interest on bonds
and notes.
For day schools, s26, 600; high school,
$500; school apparatus. 80; evening
schools, 500; For free t1ot books q sum
sufficient was appropriated.
A resolution calling for S12O0, for a
superintendent of schools was offered by
the committee. DIR. X. A. Twitchell
proposed that the town unite with an
adjoining town and engage a superin-
tendent of schools. Rev. L. B. Cole, the
superintendent OF schools. urged that the
town should have a supervisor of its own
schools and with the large amount just
appropriated for schools should have
man to see to the financial as well as
other school work. Upon proper hn1lot
the motion to appropriate loo wps lost
by vote Of les to 105: 5000 ives then
voted. At O'Clock the meeting was stAl
In session.