Putnam patriot., 1930-10-09
VOTES MONEY FOR
 TOWN EXPENSES
Regular Appropriations Made at Annual Town Meeting
 Monday Afternoon
Provides $500 for Care of To~n'i
 Maps

In addition to voting appropria- uons recommended by the board of selectmen to cover current expenses for the ensuing year the voters, in annual town meeting. Monday after noon. appropriated $500 for the care of important maps belonging to the town.
 After the regular appropriations had been made Attorney Archibald Macdonald Jr., called attention to the dilapidated condition and the pres- ent inadeuuate method of keeping maps of plotted land in the town. These maps go back to the organi- zation of the town. Although valu- able the maps are dumped loosely in- to tin box and kept in the vault connected with the town clerks off, ice. In order to find a particular plot it becomes necessary to empty the tin box and then start hunt for the specific map desired. Mir. Mac donald said that the statute provides that the selectmen take care of these maps but that it has never been done. He moved that the sum of S200 be appropriated for having the maps properly arranged and filed.
 Frank Dumas said that the town had a vault in which to keep the maps and he did not see why an ap- propriation should be made.
 Mr Macdonald again explained the situation saving that the maps are kept in the vault of the town but it is the manner of their arrangement. or disarrsngement, that should be remedied. The motion was unani- mouslv carried.
 Not Kept Up
 Mir. Macdonald then called atten- tion to the fact that the maps made and the card index arranged follow ing the reassessment of property values has not been kept up. He sug- gested that if it is allowed to dete- I-iorate the money spent for revalua- ton will become a wasteful expen- diture. He moved that $500 be ap- propriated to have the maps and card index brought up to date. Mir. Dumas again objected to this appropriation. He scored the mem- bers of the board of assessors for not doing anything except to sit and &C., cept lists as brought in by property owners He said they should go out and view the property. What are they paid for? said Mir Dumas
 Mir. Macdonald explained that to bring the maps up to date required peculiar knowledge and was not work for the assessors.
 William Reardon said that under present conditions he thought that the matter could go over another year.
 The motion was put. On an aye and nay vote the moderator was in doubt and called for a rising vote. Eight voted in favor of the motion and seven against. The motion was declared carried.
 Other Apvroprixtions
 Other appropriations were: Repairs of highways. S9,500. an increase of $500: repairs of bridges, s250: for public schools including music and supplies. SIT. 200; for Memorial Day. $500; for Armistiee Day, $50; for the Red Cross. $750; for free bed in the Day Kimball hospital. $1, ,5O0 ; for the Womans' Board of the hos pital, s100; for expenses of the pub lie library. S1.800.
 It was voted that article II, "To lay a tax to defray the expenses of the town". be laid on the table until the adjourned annual meeting the second Monday in March, at 10 O. clock a. m.
 The selectmen were authorized to borrow sufficient funds to meet the expenses of the town until the next annual town meeting and to give the notes of the town therefor.