Today In History

Town Meeting Quiet, But Taxes Too Low

Event date: Mar 7, 1873

Town meeting passed off with remarkable quietness. But few voters were in attendance, and the old officers were mostly re-elected with unanimity. The only unsatisfactory feature, (with many) was the vote fixing the amount of taxation for the current year. Forty cents on the dollar was the rate adopted – a sum barely sufficient to defray the ordinary expenses of the town.

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