Motion at Town Meeting for appropriation
of $13,500 for Frost Library passes 90 to 0
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Article 13 was then taken up, and the following motions were made by Mr. David Floyd
Moved –
That he legal voters of Winthrop in town, reading, assembled place on record their appreciation of the generous offer of Mrs. Eliza W Frost proposing to donate to the town, the sum of $10,000 to the cost of a public library building to be known as the Frost Public Library And be a memorial of her husband, the late Morrill Frost.
That the town appropriate $10,000 to be used together with said donation, in the erection of a stone or brick library building to be known as the Frost Public Library and also $3,000 for the purchase of land and grading the same.
That the board of public trustees cause to be prepared plans and specifications for said building contract with the construction of the same in the name, and in the behalf of the town of Winthrop, that the treasurer pay all bills in account of said Frost Public library up to the amount of $23,500 when approved by at least four of said trustees and countersign by the town auditor.
Two-thirds of the legal voters present and voting have voted for that the purpose of procuring loan to and for the use of the town of Winthrop to pay for the purchase of land and the erection of a public library building The town treasure is hereby authorized and directed to borrow from time to time with approval of a majority of the selectman is some in the amount to $13,500 and executed deliver notes of the town therefore payable in ten annual payments of $1,350 each beginning with the year 1899 with interest they’re on and a rate not exceeding 6% per annum.
Mr. Channing Howard, chairman of the library trustees, read a report giving information concerning Mrs. Frost’s offer and the way the trustees had planned to meet the requirements of her proposed gift. The question was then put on a motion, and they were carried by a vote of 90 to 0.
The voters applauded their own action when the vote was announced.,,, |
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