REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR ENLARGING THE TOWN HOUSE
Gentlemen : Pursuant to the authority conferred upon us a year ago, we early in the spring of last year proceeded to carry into effect your vote to enlarge the Town House by an addition substantially in accordance with the plans previously prepared under the direction of another committee, and submitted to you. Upon examination of the drawings it was thought advisable to add two feet to the dimension of the structure from front to rear, and to change the doorway from the side to the rear, thus saving one turn at a right angle in the stairway.
| Numerous proposals were submitted, from which we selected that of Messrs. Foster & Dutton, of Maine, and made a contract with them for the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars, | $3,300 00 |
| Which has been paid, and also the additional sum of six and 65/100 dollars for excess of extra work above allowances, | 6 65 |
| $3,306 65 | |
| We also paid for advertising proposals, | 28 75 |
| and for the services of the architect, | 165 60 |
| making in all the sum of | $3,501 00 |
one dollar more than the sum to which we were limited. This excess was occasioned by an error in computation, for which the Chairman of the Selectmen is responsible. The architect has a further claim of thirty-four dollars and forty cents, which we could not pay for want of authority, and there was also a difference of opinion regarding its propriety. We therefore report the matter for your decision upon information which can better be furnished to you verbally than by extending it upon these pages.
Respectfully submitted by
Charles Thompson,
John S. Keyes,
Samuel Hoar,
James C. Melvin,
Charles M. Walcott.