Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-04-15
TRUSTEES STATEMENT.

To the Voters of Barton Village:
In view of the village meeting called
for Tuesday evening, Apr. 21st, to see
if the voters of the village will vote to
permit F. E. Nelson to enclose the up
per veranda on his block on. Main
street, the trustees desire to make a
brief statement as to the facts leading
up to their position in the matter.
Under article of the village bylaws
the trustees are empowered to direct
any person about to locate any dwell
ing house or other structure in the
limits of the village, in relation to the
location of such house or other struc-
ture, and to give such direction to said
person in writing signed by a majority
of the trustees.
Prior to the summer of 1912, Mr..
Nelson's block stood in the rear of the
block now owned and occupied by Mr..
Mosher. In 1912 Mr.. Nelson moved
the building from back of Mr.. Mosher's
block to the place where it now stands :
at the time he moved it, he proposed to
move the same up even with the line
of the sidewalk, and started to build a
wall at the line of the sidewalk. The
matter was called to the attention of
the trustees and they had a conference
with Mr.. Nelson at which they told
him they would not consent to have the
building placed on the line of the
sidewalk as it would disfgure the
street line, but that they were willing
/, that tie building should be erected in
! line with the buildings just southerly
of that spot and that Mr.. Nelson might
! build an open veranda out to the line
of the sidewalk. Before anything
| further was done on the building Mr..
| Nelson informed the trustees that he
had decided to erect his building as
they suggested. namely, to build out to
a line even with the buildings souther-
ly thereof. and an open veranda on
said building extending out to the
sidewalk. For that reason the trustees
did not give Mr.. Nelson any written
directions as to the location of said
building. This spring Mr.. Nelson
came to the trustees and asked permis-
sion to enclose the upper part of the
veranda of said block. and as the trust
ees considered that it would disfgure
the street line and that it would give
to the property owners south of said
building the right to enclose the
verandas on said buildings out to the
line of the sidewalk they notified Mr..
Nelson not to enclose said veranda.
OlI1CC tuS COllIIONSISy o1OOC dUOuC
this building the trustees have had the
original highway resurveyed. AS
originally laid out Main street was a
street six rods wide, and according to
the best opinion of the surveyor, about
ten feet of Mr.. Nelson's present block,
as we'll as of the buildings southerly of
the same. are in the surveyed limits of
the highway.
The trustees in what they have done
have acted only for the interest of the
village according to their best judg-
ment, and they make this statement
that the voters may understand the
facts from the standpoint of the viii
lage officers.
AS the principle involved in this
matter is of great Importance to the
village the trustees hope that all
voters of the village will make a
special effort to attend this meeting.
I Dated April Is, 1914.
C. A. Barrows,
F. w. Cutting,
J. V. Rowen.
Trustees.