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Annual Town Report Denmark Maine 1942 The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Town Documents Maine Government Documents 1942 Annual Town Report Denmark Maine 1942 Denmark, Me Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/towndocs This Town Report is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Town Documents by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Annual Report Municipal Officers TOWN OF DENMARK MAINE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 12, 1942 ANNUAL REPORT of the MUNICIPAL OFFICERS of the TOWN OF DENMARK MAINE For the Fiscal Year Ending February 12, 1942 THE WEBB-SMITH PRINTING CO., CORNISH, ME. TOWN OFFICERS Clerk LLOYD E. LIBBY Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor CHARLES E. PINGREE GEORGE W. BUCKLAND NORM AN L. H ALE Treasurer ED ITH HU NT Road Commissioner w i l l a r d s. M cK u s i c k Collector of Taxes LEON H. INGALLS Superintendent of Schools CHARLES A. SNOW Superintending School Committee MYRTLE DEERING LLOYD E. LIBBY HARRY KELLER 3 WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING To Albert F. Wentworth, a constable in the Town of Denmark, County of Oxford and State of Maine, GREETING: In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby re­ quired to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town of Denmark, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at the town house, in said town on Monday, the second day of March, A. D. 1942, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, to vote upon the following articles, to w it: Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting. Art. 2. To choose a town clerk for the year ensuing. Art. 3. To choose a board of selectmen for the year ensuing. Art. 4. To choose a tax collector for the year ensuing. Art. 5. To choose a member of the superintending school committee for a term of three years. Art. 6. To choose one or more road commissioners for the year ensuing. Art. 7. To choose one or more fire wards for the year ensuing. Art. 8. To see if the town will elect or authorize the selectmen to appoint a cemetery commission, consisting of one or more persons, whose duty shall consist of car­ ing for the cemeteries and burial lots, including the graves of old soldiers now in care of town, for the year ensuing. Art. 9. To choose all other officers for the year en­ suing. 4 Art. 10. To vote the compensation of tax collector for the year ensuing-. Art. 11. T o see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the support of poor for the year en­ suing. Art. 12. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the payment of town charges for the year ensuing. Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the support of street lights for the year ensuing. Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the support of roads and bridges for the year ensuing. Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the payment of snow bills for the year ensuing. Art. 16. To see what sum the town will raise and appropriate for State aid road construction (in addition to the amounts regularly raised for the care of ways, highways and bridges), under the provisions of Section 19, Chapter 28, Revised Statutes of 1930, or under the provisions of Section 3, Chapter 229, Public Laws of 1937. Art. 17. To see what sum the town will raise and appropriate for the maintenance of State aid highways for the year ensuing, under the provisions of Sections 9, 18, 36, 38 and 39, Chapter 28, of the Revised Statutes of 1930. Art. 18. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the cutting of bushes on the highways for the year ensuing. 5 Art. 19. To see if the town will grant and raise the sum of $592.00 for the maintenance of third class high­ ways for the year ensuing. Art. 20. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for the support of common schools for the year ensuing. Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for repairs of schoolhouses for the year ensuing. Art. 22. To see what sum the town will grant and raise for the payment of school supplies and textbooks for the year ensuing. Art. 23. To see what sum the town will grant and raise for the support of a free high school for the year ensuing. Art. 24. To see what sum the town will grant and raise for electric lights and power for schoolhouses for the year ensuing. Art. 25. To see if the town will-raise and appropriate $25.00 for public health nursing in Denmark, said sum to be expended by the State Bureau of Health for local services. Art. 26. To see what sum the town will grant and raise for the care of soldiers’ monument for the year ensuing. Art. 27. To see what sum the town will grant and raise for Memorial Day observances for the year ensuing. Art. 28. To see if the town will vote that poll taxes be due and payable May 1st, as under the provisions of Chapter 16 of the Public Laws of 1917. 6 Art. 29. To see if the town wishes to give a discount on taxes and if so to fix the date and amounts of same. Art. 30. T o see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen to procure a temporary loan or loans in antici­ pation of taxes for the purpose of paying obligations of the town, such loan or loans to be paid during the cur­ rent municipal year out of money raised during said current municipal year by taxes. Art. 31. To see if the town will vote to pay the same scale of wages for road work as is paid by the State for the year ensuing. Art. 32. To see what sum of money the town will grant and raise for aid to dependent children. Art. 33. T o see if the town will vote to appropriate and raise $1,000.00 to pay serial note due March 15, 1943. Art. 34. T o see whether or not the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 for advertising our natural resources, advantages and attractions under the provisions of Chapter 5, Section 82, of the Revised Statutes, said money to be expended through the State of Maine Publicity Bureau. Art. 35. To see what sum the town will grant and raise to ofifset the loss caused by uncollected taxes of preceding year. The selectmen give notice that they will be in session at the town house on Monday, the second day of March, 1942, at 9 o’clock A. M. for the purpose of correcting the list of voters. Given under our hands this tenth day of February, A. D. 1942. CH ARLES E. PINGREE, GEORGE W. BUCKLAND, N ORM AN L. HALE, Selectmen of Denmark, 1 SELECTMEN’S REPORT The selectmen of the Town of Denmark submit the following statement of the financial condition of the town for the fiscal year ending February 12, 1942. The value of the taxable property as taxed on the first day of April, 1941: Resident real estate, $181,785.00 Resident personal estate, 32,585.00 Non-resident real estate, 101,175.00 Non-resident personal estate, 5,990.00 Total, $321,535.00 Excise tax, 500.00 Number of polls taxed, 164. Number of polls not taxed, 18. Assessed on each poll, $3.00. Rate, $64.00 on $1,000.00. ASSESSMENTS, 1941 Support of poor, $2,000.00 Town charges, 1.900.00 Street lights, 264.00 Roads and bridges, 1.500.00 Snow bills, 2,000.00 State aid maintenance, 325.50 State aid construction, 799.50 Cutting bushes, 300.00 Third class road maintenance, 551.34 Common schools, 3.525.00 High school, 1.500.00 School repairs, 300.00 School supplies, 400.00 School lights, 50.00 8 Memorial Day, 8.00 Serial note, 1,000.00 Aid for dependent children, 300.00 Money for tar, 400.00 Interest on school fund, 32.80 Soldiers’ monument, 5.00 State tax, 2,802.79 County tax, 1,159.06 Overlay, 447.25 Total, $21,570. Excise tax, $ 500.00 Poll taxes, 492.00 Total tax on real and personal, 20,578.24 $21,570.: TOWN CHARGES Cr. By appropriation, $1,900.00 Porcupine account, from State, 3.50 Bank stock, from State, 2.55 Refund from State dog tax, 31.95 Railroad and Tel. Co., 11.55 Asa O. Pike, refund on insurance, 12.00 Arthur Bucknell, refund on fire, 1.14 Geo. W. Buckland, old iron sold, 26.00 Geo. W. Buckland, error on gas refund, 1.00 Overdrawn, Feb. 12, 1942, 756.77 Total, $2,746. Dr. Chas. A. Snow, salary, $382.44 Chas. E. Pingree, salary, 100.00 Geo. W . Buckland, salary, 75.00 Norman L. Hale, salary, 75.00 Edith Hunt, salary, 100.00 D. C. Towle, sealer of weights and measures, 5.00 Myrtie Deering, salary, 25.00 9 Lloyd Libby, salary, 25.00 Harry Kellar, salary, 25.00 N.
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