St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-02-19
WARNING
FOR
Annual Town Meeting
TUESDAY, MARCH 4th, 1913.

The citizens of st. Johnsbury who are legal
voters in Town Meeting are hereby notified
and warned to meet at the Town II all, in
the village of St. Johnsbury, in said Town on
Tuesday, the 4th day of March, 1913, at
nine O'Clock in the forenoon, to transact the
ARTICLE /, To elect all Town Officers
ARTICLE 2. To see what action the
Town will take with reference to the United
States deposit money, now held by the
Town.
ARTICLE 3. To see ifthe Town will vote
to pay q certain sum of money from the
treasury not otherwise appropriated to de-
fray in part or in whole, the expenses OF an
appropriate observance of Decoration Day,
so called, as authorized by law, and If any
sum, how much.
ARTICLE A. To see If the Town will vote
of its public schools and to defray all expen-
ses incurred by the School Directors in con-
nection Herewith. and if so, how much.
ARTICLE s. To how much money
the Town will vote to appropriate for high
way purposes under Act No. 125 of the Acts
ARTICLE 6. To see if the TOwn will vote
to raise money in excess of the amount re-
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called Estate Aid Law" and If so, how
much.
to raise money to defray the expenses and
liabilities of said Town, and if so. how
much.
ARTICLE g. To see if the Town will
vote to authorize and instruct its Selectmen
and Treasurer to borrow money, if neees-
sary, for its current expenses prior to the
collection of its taxes.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will
AUTHORIZE the School Directors to purchase
Schools on Summer street, located just east
erly of the girls common there situate, upon
which to erect q school building, and to
If the Town will authorize the School Direc-
tors to erect and equip a school building on
the land so purchased, land and building not
to exceed forty-three thousand dollars and
to see if the Town will appropriate sum of
money, not to exceed forty-three thousand
dollars, to beused to purchase such land and
erect said school house. and to determine
what, if any, amount of bonds, not exceed
ing in the aggregate the sum of forty-three
thousand dollars shall be issued by the
Town to raise money to purchase said land
and build said school house; and if so, at
what time and place the bonds shall be
made payable, and the rate of interest which
the same shall bear, all agreeab1y to the
bly, of the state of VERMONT last in session,
entitled IAN Act to enable the Town of st.
Johnsbury to issue its bonds for the purpose
of raising money to purchase land and to
build a new school house thereon in said
Town" and known as House Bill No. 594.
ARTICLE 10. To see what action the
Town will take upon the following ques-
tions:
Shall license be granted for the sale of in
Shall licenses of the fifth class be granted
in this Town?
vote to accept or reject the proposed articles
of amendment to the Constitution of Vcr-
mont
ARTICLE IL. To see if The Town will
vote to appropriate sum of money TO help
pay the expenses of district nurse, and If
so, how much.
ARTICLE 13, To see if the Town will
vote to instruct the SeIectmen to install cleo
trio lights from point near the house of
Elisha May in Paddock Village where the
present system ends to the junction of the
roads leading to St. Johnsbury Center and
to the farm of Frank n. Carr, provided the
people interested therein will furnish the
poles
ARTICLE IA. To see whether or not the
Selectmen shall be empowered or authorized
to appoint one or two Road Commissioners.
and If so. which mum Der. (Act No. 23S of
the Acts of 1912 requires the insertion of
this article in the warning of all annual
Town M eetings.)
ARTICLE Is. To see if the Town viii
Authorize the Selectmen to remodel an IN
used portion of the Town Farm Honse for
use Hospital for the treatment of conta-
gious diseases. and If so, what SUM the Town
will appropriate for this purpose.
ARTICLE 16. To transact any other
business that may legally come before said
Meeting.
DATED at st. Johnsbnry, Vermont, this
] sth day of February: A d: 1913.
CHARLES WEEKS.
CONRAD r. BECK,
/. Selectmen for the Town of St. Johnsbury. |
St, Johnsbury. VT. Town Clerks Office,
O'Clock. p. M. and recorded in Records Of
Attest: cH1s. G.. BRALEY, Town. cleri,