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Savings Bank Newboury (Note) DIue 12-15- 03 (s Per cent. ).-- 500 00 $2.1033 5( (3) Whalt an1101nut is it esti'llited thait the present license orditiance receitly passed will brilg into the t. esuy CouIcil's estiIiate is ..- 3500 00 (4) To wlat Iurposes is it proposel to apply the anotits realized under the present recently 'assed license ordinance? To supply the present (deficiency be twe'en receipts and <disburseneits and the balance, if any is left to the iost presing debts. AN EXPLANATION. Col. Johnstone, by request of the city clerk stated that the amount of street duty collected showed an increase of about $300, that the present administration had nearly doubled the license as collected un der the old system, that the fines in the mayor's court had been nearly doubled, that $ix3 was still die on rents, and that the dispen sary profits showed aI slight decrease due, the city clerk thought, to the establishlmIelit of the 'rosperily di pelnsary. Ir.% IF. 11 IIolnlicl, s'ttd 0)h1t the city cklk .ake 11I to state to the meet 1* l:tt Ie ilanciK slat' illelit of tie town ';ii Iot beNi nlade pu1blic on elitit i the 1(eL that lte sheriff had dlayed report ing o1 certain tax UxeCItion)s. The report of the conuittee was received as information and the thanks ot the meetinig were exten ded council for its prompt and full report. The rel-ort of the cer ImImiittee made at the previous meeting sub mitting that a license tax such as was in (iestioll was desirable alnd giving a schedule of licenses was then before the house. 1r. F II DoIlnilick ioved tle adoption of tle pist part of the committee repolt sulhiitting" that the licew;e tax vas desired and desirable. A1.1,11 'I 0M ORE CON VINFlCFD I. Coi. Johilistone was all the m1ore coiViiced, since sceing the state munt of coilicil, that the motion ought not to prevail. lie believed ill iniprovilig the Colidition1 of the towi1 alid ill tlie imlovm-elili1 that had beeII made, buIt- le bel ieved tle taxes 1i1v bIcng iaid wtre siflicient to carrv . tlhe goverilneln :1id were all th1at. h111AIt to be piid. mewherry, lie said, was :1 coliltI y cotnnlIity, if ul)>nt fi,o al ahah Itallts, wvilth lileldis-ordet.. C.IIldd 't its .o vern.i. ou. t be mliain .tin.ed n. ith S25,ooo. 11 be hlieved it ouh to anid still mai 'rogr~ ess. Thei courI teous1i clerk had Iive:i inform[iatI ion'i that $-'5 ooo was not all thec re,;e nit.ie n1IO'no Ill :M'cordance with the explaniation lie had -lready imade. ~Not all those who lis ed in the city were yet payinog street dty.~ Wh ly not.t rigidly eltnoreeC the lawpps we have? T he inacomie from license had not all been col lected p)revioulsly. WVhy not go on and collect the balance of it? Re turns had not been made from all tax executions turnied o.'er to the sheriff these executions would no doubt be collected. T1he fines if the mayor's court had been~ molrte rially increased, why not go fur ther? Why not dlouble the burdens of the criminals inusted of hicensinug the rigtlteus and inidustrions? That was aniothier souIrce frolIn which $1,ooo 01r more0 could be (derived T1he fines shoul d be aluflicient to div pe the erimin ials on t of buin ess. The licenlse ordi inancet was a mlove muent towavirds dinvingi holnest ment1 out of business. I )onhle t he bIuden of the crimiinl iustead oif the btir deni of the htonest manlil. A rigidi admin111istraltiod of the goveCrnmenClt wouild inicrease the leenules as muitch aS the estimia ted inicomle fromt the license tax. 1 lut the license tax was a muere shadew.. At $3, 500 a year it would take a long tIlne to lift a debt drawing an annual in crest of $2,000. But counIcil did not. even propose to apply this $3, Soo especially to the floating debt, bIt it was to go for general pur pmss. anld the debt would simliply pile up. Let ns have a m11ore (Coil omical, not parsinonious, adminis tration. and it will furnish this $3, 500. * Mr. Alan Johnstone said the troublesome floating debt must be dealt with heroically. ' It was patent that $3,500 a year, part of which was to be applied to some thing else, would do little towards liquidating a debt of $24,000 with intereat running at the rate of $2, ooo a year. He moved as a substi tute for the motion before the house that a committee, composed of the seven gentlemen heretofore appoint ed by the citizens meeting to obtain information in regard to the floating indebtedneFs and the current expenses, with the addition of the chairman of the Ime-eting, ie apointed to confer with cottncil and, ifte r due deliberatin, t II n -kconommical b :i1,:m-- 1): met( mt of the preseint rev 0u.s the Mr. F. 11. Dominick thought that to adopt the substitute would be practically to go back to the starting point. A com-nittee had been appointed to look into the town's finances and had reported. \\ hy should not the matter be taken up and settled right here? It might take a long time to pay the debt of the town with S3,500 a year, but :a start must he made. iIe thiought the best thim.- for the Illeeting to do was to take up a i y inqualiti(s. which Imigit he in tile ordiniane and adjust them. lie didn't un derstanid how a Vy real estate OwII could object to the liceise tax. It it did not help thoe real estate owner, lie would like to know whoi it did help. '"he 6 mill tax brought inl about S9.ooo The license tax, as estimated would bring in about $3.50". \\'heh this inicomIte paid the,- debt it was obliged to redice; the property tax if the governiient was enruni all dah inlisteRed. Dr. \\. J.. Pelham ipok ilvw of Mr. Alan Jh11n stonu's uit te. The ovnerniemt hal to btu iport:(1d, but i1v thoughte t vnelt - C; I I: I(I I) Ii s i. it () re r oI t,% Ik )ti, jt I mie; ;linini atte n la st to(ei g bldeiu. liIm daid ntink 1then in!ormti to wite nIa the rquoti w:lier ak hiene ipyw sa i.tuiei ;m itaDr Pnantd asatnwo awysthdl Ce,of. wchg heiwst s chairtan, subittedAlat Jtes meting.1t i)r.i Ptla said nohi had na tau othe oritwithdran. t report IIe pok here iplase lie individ u l)rnd ts a man who alay paid)et Col.ite Geotge Jonse supporitiedo Mr . Alan J ohstoe's moidea was licatestie wat tin bu lit t tax woie thc laoin du. tIett eman rae ee. and prsrdhe to would'i rt tax. I.e e. arlsle believd ~vte MIr. Alani John tstone's idea twii mahte somlCde plnb whioich ethet ton'tdss blig aio tk ae raet whnteycm de h interest Mr. . AI. Calle thoghte ith shouldttg meetititiudtions w~Othn fritter away. An interest could nlot he kept up amloing the citizens. The meeting had enough informa tion before it. Why not act? All that could be accomplished by waiting would be to get po'ssibly exact figures. The result would be the same. Tle expel-.6itures exceeded the revenues. The float ing debt amnounted to about $25,000 and it would take 164 mills to pay it at once. It was his idea to fund it and let it run through a period of, say, ten years The bonded indebtedness was plain. Any body could understand that. The meeting had gone far beyond its scope. It was called at first to consider the license ordinance and had then gone into these other matters. He moved as an aiend ment to the substitute that the "ounittee meet with the town council and memorialize the legis lature to authorize a special tax to meet this floating debt. Col. George johnstonle wanted to know wint they were going to do wAithl the di cit.-Iet it go on: pilingi :un>)ie i o zc :nviih Im1. tir.g. An intellig -nt note Could not be taken unll.x it was known whet her or not there could be found a better method than the license tax. He would vote for a license tax only as a last resort. Mr. Alan Johnstone replied to Mr. Wallace. The first meeting had no information, the second had a little more information, the third a little more, and the next mlieeti,ig would have still imore information. Ie hoped 110 Ole Would lose interest bout if they did it was their own fa Ilt. The peion ought to be set tied NIr. W. 11. Vailice thought six niillm nough a run the towi. lie aild Col. lolstonIe were O old Melt A116 t !e I r eem)ered when 1 IN to IN w:Is run on tw\o mills. Six m1;ils wvoul: run the tovn if the uldo.ting in,deb.dnIss was out of the war. Alr. Alan loistone's substillite Vat ad.,1pted anIId tihe mn lectinlg ad i0lourd subject to the cil of tle c hairm'I an1. Threslinig Cotton Boll's. I Iousn. Texas, J;:. 1. -Te byV p):ntly 'ps ae(i hlls el co:(tt(1 on may he run through al, threshier and the liti (>I).a1Inl' li:as l \Td( suCh a u~lcce:, that it isbeing' adlopted 2ener. ally ini No.L!> rn Tex'N 3 It is no0w to-> ~I atC forYI man farm1ers to t.ake advanita.; of it, bu'It iln fturie yearis th(ottoni c'rp of tihe S3tate will be mnateri ally' inicreased by~ the p)rocess. About SoI per cenlt of (lie 1)01ls open thirough thle action of the sun i after they reach inaturity, and thme liiit is obtained by picking. Ten per cent of them open by action of the frost late in the fall, if the cold is sharp enough and is not ac companied b heavy sogging rains. The remaining ten per cent has heretofore b)eeni a loss. By; thme newr process nearly all of these are miade available, only those so i :uma'.ine as to show no0 sign of cracking being useless. 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