Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-13

enough to furnish supplies of any sort. In his opinion the school com mtttee needed the amount asked Tor. | The motion was carried.
 MT. Dean also moved a resolution to pay Mrs. Katherine J. Spaulding $100 in addition to what she has already re- ceived for her services as secretary of tho school committee during the past year.
 This was rendered necessary by the fact that the right of the committee to vote compensation to its secretary had been questioned, and Mrs. Spaul- ding had received only half the amount so voted last year. The statute reads | ''the- secretary and other acting school visitors shall receive g a day while actually employed and such fur ther compensation as their respective towns may fix at an annual meeting" :"
 After the passage of the above reso- Wtiun Mr. Dean moved that in future the secretary of the town school com mittee be paid $200 a year in addition to any statutory compensation received as acting school visitor, and presented a resolution to that effect
 in response to a question, the town clerk reuIied that the average paid the acJing school visitor was approximate iy S20C.
 Some of those attending the meet ing seemed to be bothered by the wording of the statute and the ques ton was raised whether this motion did not increase the salary of an offi- cial while in office. The misapprehen sion was no doubt due to the fact that at the time of the passage of the stat ute the body now kn- m as the town school committee was called the board of school visitors. It was eventually explained that this motion was to eS- tablish a salary under the statute, not to increase it, and the vote went through after M E. Lincoln had taken occasion to express his opinion, in which many concur, that the town of Windham should have superintendent of schools.
 A resolution introduced by Hon. Guilford smith appropriadng $950 for St. JOseph's hospital, on condition that the town be charged not to exceed $5 per week for pauper patients, was adopted as was the usual appropria- UiOn of $1G0 for the town missionary.
 The last matter taken up was that of highway appropriation, introduced by Corporation Counsel Thomas J. Kelley. who presented a resolution, in the form prepared by the office of the state highway commissioner. in which the town signifies its intention to ex- pend SEQ ,000 for highways and to ap- prOpriate $5,000 to that end, for the two years next ensuing.
 In reply to a question by Nj. D. Lin- coin. First Selectman R. E, Mitchell etlJfbIfeQ StN GIC1 EOduS WHICH req llISU repairs. but stated that the selectmen had made no choice as yet.
 MT. Lincoln expressed himself as in favor of good roads, but after a brief catalOgUiDg of the extra ordinary eX- penses this year, and in view of the fact that the town ran $15,0o0 behind last year. opposed any further eX- pense.
 Attorney Kelley explained that the expense would probably not exceed $1,25O year. The state would pay three times as much, and annual re- pairs thereafter would be borne by the state.
 Moderator Taylor said he thought it a grand business idea.
 s. Arnold PecSham, who is doing some of the state work, stated that the state maintains all the roads which it constructs.
 The meeting appropriated the amount and instructed the selectmen to apply for the $20.000 from the state.
 Adjournment was taken at o'clock.