Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-03
LAID TOWN TAX OF F IA MILLS
Estimated Expenses Presented Seecmen Voted Without Change-Lively Controversy Over Bean Hill Improve ment Appropriation in Favor of Proposed
 Improvement Passed After Lengthy Discussion Other
 Appropriations Made by Town Voters

library were then accepted as they appear in the printed report.
 The following salaries were then voted: First selectman, $2,100; sec
 ond selectman, $200; third selectman,
 $2OO; town clerk. $200; town treasurer,
 $1, 900; board of assessors. $3,000. The
 tax collectors compensation was fix
 ed at 1 per cent. of the tax collected.
 Joseph T. Tanning presented a res
 olution authorizing the selectmen to
 borrow a sum of money not to ex
 ceed $150,000 in such sums and at
 such times during the twelve months
 ensuing as shall be necessary to de-
 fray the lawful current debts and ob.
 legations of the town which shall ac-
 cfue before the annual town meeting
 to be held in the year 1917. The he's
 olution was passed.
 James c. Macpherson presented a
 resolution appropriating $4,500 to as- sist in maintaining the Otis library and this resolution was passed.
 The next matter was the petition of
 more than twenty legal voters of the
 town asking that the town appropriate
 a sufficient sum. not exceeding $500, for the purpose of improving the pub lie park on the green at Bean Hill. Thomas Shields said that al- though he was not resident of the district he was familiar with the To-
 cation. He called attention to two .
 present condition and the proposed
 changes He understood the original condition of the green was the same as it is now desired to bring about there. He thought Norwich is some what behind in the matters of this | kind He said he understood that the majority of the people in that section are in favor of it and he thought it ought to be done. He presented 8
 resolution in favor of the appropria- tion.
 Ex-Mayor T. c. Murphy seconded ] the resolution and said he was pleas ed to do so. He was sorry the mat l ter hadn't been brought up at q town meeting before. He said our town i parks have not been kept up well in l Chelsea parade and the Bean Hill
 park. He said he thought the appro- | priation should be made part of the l general expense of the town. Dr. Patrick Cassidy spoke in favor l of the appropriation, speaking of the 1 location as a historical spot.
 Fred Vergason took the floor and I presented an amendment to the resolu- ton asking that Vergason avenue or 1 Sylvia lane Dc retained. He said the rejection Of NergaSon avenue is not
 essential to any improvement there. 1 He pointed out that the eliminating of | Vergason avenue would be a perma- l on the street beyond. His main ob- 1 jection was the fact that it would re- l duce the valuation of the real estate on the street beyond by making an in l direct approach out of a now direct approach.
 Corporation Counsel Amos A. Brown i inS questioned the right of the select men to remove public highway. EX-Mayor Murphy said that it was possible Mr. Versasors objection ' of a six foot walk through the green, instead of leaving Vergason avenue as it is.
 Nr Vergas,4 said he would agree to that if the walk be made 12 feet so that teams could pass over it. l Dr. Patrick Cassidy said that it is | only within 20 or 25 years that wagons | and teams have used the highway and 1 he moved the amendment be tabled in definitely.
 Albert Boardman spoke in favor of | the improvement and moved that the 1 amendment be voted down. When put to vote the amendment was lost. Lucius Brown was in favor of defer ring action tr the resolution, as he | feI- that the meeting was not in a | position to vote on it.
 | After considerable more discussion, the resolution was passed by an aye and nay vote.
 The next matter was that of a peti- l tion of more than 70 legal voters of ! the town asking that the town appro pri2te a sufficient sum, not exceeding i the sum of s14,00O, to relieve those pu- pills of the Norwich Free Academy who i are legal residents of the town from l the payment of the usual term fees
 charged to them by the Academy for l the school year of 1916-1917. l Rev. E. s. Worcester presented a
 resolution that the appropriation be
 made, and it was so voted.
 | The matter of a town tax was then
 taken up. Frank H. Smith presented a ] resolution that the tax be F 1-4 mills.