Official reports of the town of Wayland 1923-1924, Part 1

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 386


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OFFICIAL REPORTS


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OFFICIAL REPORTS


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TOWN OF WAYLAND


FOR ITS


One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Municipal Year


FROM JANUARY 1, 1923 TO JANUARY 1, 1924


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PRESS OF THE NATICK BULLETIN NATICK, MASS.


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OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND 1923-1924


Moderator


Edmond H. Sears


Term Expires 1924


Edna F. Bishop


1924


Selectmen


William J. Scotland


1924


J. Sidney Stone


1924


Napoleon Perodeau


1924


Treasurer


Frank G. McKenna


1924


Collector of Taxes


Lester R. Gerald Auditor


1924


Arthur Heard Dudley


1924


Overseers of the Poor


Walter S. Bigwood


1924


Harold S. Loker


1925


Thomas W. Frost


1926


School Committee


Richard Ames


1924


Ernest E. Sparks


1925


Llewellyn Mills


1926


Assessors


Edmund H. Sears


1924


Daniel Brackett


1925


Nathaniel R. Gerald


1926


Town Clerk


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Water Commissioners


James C. McKay Maynard C. Porter


1925


Walter C. Smith


1926


Trustees of the Public Library


John Connelly


1924


Amos I. Hadley


1924


Richard Ames


1925


Lester R. Gerald


1925


Alfred W. Cutting


1926


Francis Shaw


1926


Cemetery Commissioners


Frank F. Ames


1924


William Read


1925


Emma D. Wellington


1926


Tree Warden


Frank F. Ames


1924


Surveyor of Highways


James Ferguson


1924


Board of Health


Thomas J. Dowey


1924


J. Penteado Bill


1925


Waldo J. Lawrence


1926


Board of Park Commissioners


John B. Wight


1924


Robert G. Stearns


1925


Alpheus P. Lucier


1926


Constables


Wilfred L. Celorier


1924


Harry W. Craig


1924


Edward F. Dorsheimer


1924


Charles F. Dusseault


1924


John E. Linnehan


1924


Frank C. Moore


1924


Arthur S. Russell


1924


Trustees of the Allen Fund


Isaac Damon


1924


John Connelly 1924


1924


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Thomas S. Mahoney


1924


Fence Viewers


Selectmen


1924


Field Drivers


Constables


1924


Surveyors of Lumber


Israel A. Lupien


1924


Frank Haynes


1924


William Fullick


1924


Measurer's of Wood and Bark


Israel A. Lupien


1924


Arthur F. Marston


1924


William S. Lovell


1924


Arthur W. Atwood


1924


Frank L. Young


1924


Memorial Day Committee


Warren L. Bishop


1924


Cornelius Maguire


1924


Thomas Magorty


1924


Ernest Damon


1924


George Bogren


1924


William L. Nolan


1924


Edward Gorgette


1924


Marcus M. Fiske


1924


Erwin Schleicher


1924


Frank C. Moore


1924


Thomas W. Frost


1924


John E. Stone


1924


George B. Howe


1924


Warren B. Langmaid


1924


Llewellyn Flanders


1924


And all Veterans of the Civil War


1924


Pound Keeper


Alexander Sauer


1924


Dog Officer


Edward F. Dorsheimer 1924


Inspector of Animals


Burial Agent


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Forest Warden


Howard Haynes 1924


Superintendent of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths Daniel Graham 1924


Sealer of Weights and Measures


Albert Marchant 1924


Chief of Police


Edward F. Dorsheimer Public Weighers


1924


James C. McKay 1924


Arthur W. Atwood


1924


Finance Committee


William S. Lovell


Frank I. Cooper


Frank E. Davis


Ernest F. Lawrence


George W. Bishop


Inspector of Slaughtering


William C. Neal 1924


Registrars of Voters


Edward F. Lee


Republican


Edna F. Bishop


Republican


Meddie H. Rasicot


Democratic


Joseph Zimmerman


Democratic


Engineers Of Fire Department


Alfred A. Lamerine, Chief 1924


John J. Linnehan, District Chief


1924


Edward F. Dorsheimer, Clerk


1924


Election Officers Precinct 1


James I. Bryden, Warden


1924


Mabel T. S. Small, Clerk


1924


Philip S. Ide


1924


John E. Linnehan


1924


John E. Dolan


1924


John F. Cummings


1924


Amy F. Haskins


1924


Harry O'Brien


1924


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Substitutes Joseph Decatur James Bolton James J. Bolton


1924


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1924


Precinct 2


Albert Marchand, Warden


1924


John F. Foley


1924


Benjamin W. Damon


1924


William Morrisey


1924


Joseph Perodeau


1924


George Richardson


1924


Mrs. Joseph Derrick


1924


Ina Smith


1924


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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING


Commonwealth of Massachusetts


Middlesex, ss.


To either of the Constables of the Town of Wayland in said County :


Greeting :


In the name of the Commonwealth you are requir- ed to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said town qual- ified to vote in town elections to meet at their respective polling places on


MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1924


at six o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring in their ballots for a Moderator, a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, a Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden, and seven Constables, all for one year; one member of the School Committee, one Cemetery Commissioner, two trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of the Poor, one Assessor, one member of the Board of Health, one Water Commis- sioner and one Park Commissioner, all for three years.


Three members of Commissioners of Trust Funds, one member for one year, one member for two years and one member for three years.


Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages in this town?"


All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot. The Polls will be open at six fifteen o'clock in the fore- noon and remain continuously open until four o'clock in the afternoon when they shall be closed.


And you are required to notify and warn the in- habitants of said town qualified to vote in town affairs to meet at the Town Hall on


WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5th, 1924


at 7.45 P. M., then and there to act upon the following articles, viz:


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Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers, agents and committees, and act thereon.


Article 2. To choose all necessary officers, agents and committees not elected by official ballot.


Article 3. To grant money for necessary town purposes.


Article 4. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the cur- rent financial year.


Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to au- thorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $8,000.00 in anticipation of re-imbursement from the State and County on account of oiling and repairing State controll- ed roads.


Article 6. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing gift :. $100.00 received from Michael Keith to be known as the "Keith Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Mary A. Beach Lot No. 45 in the Lake View Cemetery.


Article 7. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing bequest: $500 received from Bertha M. Clif- ford, executrix of the will of Granville L. Loker, to be known as the "Granville L. Loker Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the James A. Loker Lot, the Granville L. Loker Lot and the Melville A. Loker Lot all in the Lake View Cemetery.


Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following gift: $100.00 received from the estate of William Stearns to be known as the "William Stearns Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the William Stearns Lot No. 77 in the North Cemetery.


Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept . the following gift: $100.00 received from William Whit- temore to be known as the "William Whittemore Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the family lot in the South Cemetery.


Article 10. To see if the town will accept the fol- lowing gift: $100.00 to establish the "Elisha Wheeler and


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Sarah E. Haynes Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of Lot No. 187 in the North Cem- etery.


Article 11. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing gift: $500.00 received from Herbert H. Dyer, ad- ministrator of the estate of Joseph O. Bullard to estab- lish the "Joseph O. Bullard Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of Willard A. Bullard Lot, Joseph Bullard, Sr. Lot, Herbert C. Wells Lot, Edward Perry Lot, George and Anna Arnold Lot, all in the North Cemetery.


Article 12. To see if the Town will accept the fol- lowing bequest: $100.00 under the will of Mary Jane Hix- son, late of Wayland, to be known as the "Mary Jane Hixson Fund" income from which to be used for the per- petual care of the Mary Jane Hixson Lot in Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland.


Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money for the up-keep of a "Home" for the Charles H. Alward Post No. 133 American Legion Incorporated, or do or act.


Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a sum of money to erect a memorial in honor of those men who served in the World War and other Wars; or two memorials for the World War only- one to be placed in Cochituate and another in Wayland, or do or act.


Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 42A to 42F, inclusive, of Chapter 40 of the Gen- eral Laws providing that water rates and charges for water may be made a lien upon land or take other action in regard thereto.


Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money for the pur- pose of redecorating and painting the interior of the Town Hall or do or act.


Article 17 To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money for the pur- pose of printing the valuation list of the Town for the vear 1924 or do or act.


Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appro-


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priate and assess the sum of $270 to purchase a traffic beacon or do or act.


Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to discon- tinue that part of the Concord Road so called, between Hazelbrook Lane and the Concord Road as now located near what was formerly the North School House which has not been used for public travel since the relocation of the Concord Road by the County Commissioners.


Article 20 To see if the Town will indemnify the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out, construction or reconstuction of any State highway in the town dur- ing the present year, and will authorize the Board of Se- lectmen to sign an indemnity agreement in behalf of the Town, or take any action with respect thereto.


Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Sec. 3 Chapter 143 of the General Laws concerning the regulation of buildings or take other ac- tion in regard thereto.


Article 22. To see if the town will adopt by-laws to further regulate and restrict billboards, signs and other advertising devices within its limits.


Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to install an electric light on pole in front of residence of George H. Newton, Pemberton Road, and appropriate money for same, or do or act.


Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money to purchase land and erect suitable buildings thereon for the housing of the Highway Department Equipment, appoint a com- mittee therefor, or do or act.


Article 25. To see if the Town will instruct the Water Commissioners to extend the water pipe on Old Connecticut Path from Sygamore Road to the Nolan Es- tate and to borrow money for same or do or act.


Article 26. To see if the Town will instruct Water Commissioners to borrow the sum of $3,000.00 for ex- tending water main on Old Connecticut Path and Syga- more Road.


Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to appro-


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priate and assess the sum of five hundred dollars for the purpose of improving the playground at Cochituate or do or act.


Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money to build a side- walk on North Main Street on the westerly side, extend- ing from Edward P. Loker's to Fiske's Corner or do or act.


Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to pay all town laborers $5.00 per day and $5.00 per day for a double team or do or act.


Article 30. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $150.00 to provide money for making a survey in Lake View Cemetery and a plan.


Article 31. To see if the Town will amend its By- laws by adding to Article IV, Section 1, the following paragraph :


"It shall be the duty of this committee to consider all the articles of any warrant for a town meeting here- after issued under which an appropriation of money may be made and it shall be the duty of the Selectmen after drawing a town warrant to transmit immediately a copy of the same to each member of the Finance Committee. A hearing shall be given upon all such articles to the person or persons whose names appear attached to the same, and they shall be notified of the time and place of hearing thereon. The Committee shall after due con- sderation of the subject matter in said articles, report thereon, in print or otherwise, such information and recommendations as it shall deem best. All recommen- dations of the committee made to the town shall be recommendatons of a majority of the entire committee, but this shall not be construed to prevent recommenda- tions by a minority as such.


Article 32. To see what sum if any the Town will vote to transfer from available funds to meet any of the appropriations made under the foregoing articles.


And you are required to serve this Warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in town and on the Engine


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House at Cochituate, seven days at least before the time of holding said election.


Hereof, fail not and make due return of this war- rant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before March 1, 1924.


Given under our hands this 9th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.


WILLIAM J. SCOTLAND NAPOLEON PERODEAU J. SIDNEY STONE Selectmen of the Town of Wayland


Feb. . .. .. , 1924


A true copy, attest :


Constable of the Town of Wayland


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VOTES PASSED AT ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 1923


Town Clerk's Office


March 7, 1923


Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland met this day and did the fol- lowing business :


Voted to adjourn until March 14th.


Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers, agents and committees and act thereon.


Ernest E. Sparks of the committee on Parmenter Hospital Fund made a report. Voted that the report be accepted as a report of progress.


Voted that all reports of Town officers and commit- tees as printed in the Town Report be accepted.


Voted that the recommendations made by the Fi- nance Committee be adopted. The report of the Finance is as follows:


Abatement of Taxes $500.00


General Administration


3,500.00


Salaries of


Moderator


Selectmen


Auditor


Town Clerk


Treasurer


Collector


Assessors


Overseers of Poor


Election Officers


Registrars


Sealer of Weights and Measures Incidentals 1,500.00 400.00


Printing Town Reports


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Protection of Life and Property


Police Fire Department


1,700.00


1,500.00


Health and Sanitation Board of Health Inspection of Animals


450.00


Highways and Bridges


4,000.00


Oiling Highways


6,000.00


Sidewalks


500.00


Street Lighting


4,000.00


Tree Warden


150.00


Park Commissioners


200.00


Moth Extermination


500.00


Charities


Support of Poor


700.00


Education


38,000.00


Covering Salaries


Superintendent


School Committee


Teachers


Janitors


Supplies


Transportation


Manual Training


Incidentals, Fuel, Light, Power


District and School Nurse


1,500.00


School Physician


75.00


Library and Reading Room


3,300.00


Memorial Day Observance


300.00


Soldiers' Benefits


400.00


Playground Note


1,000.00


Interest


3,500.00


Cemeteries


800.00


Lake View, North and Center


Fire Department Equipment Note


1,000.00


Cochituate School House Bond


1,000.00


Total


$76,625.00


The above appropriations are recommended for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1923, in addition to such balances as appear on the Treasurer's books unexpended


150.00


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from last year's appropriations for above accounts.


We recommend that the money for removing snow, town insurance, and surety bonds and requirements for legal claims be drawn from the Revenue Account.


We recommend that the overdraft of (953.90) abate- ment of Taxes account be drawn and paid from the reve- nue account.


We recommend that unpaid bills (1922) of Fire De- partment to amount of $199.91, Incidental amount of $59.24 and School Department (Education) to amount of $942.23 and that these sums be appropriated and as- sessed.


We recommend that the $300 balance in Aid to Agri- culture account be transferred to Demonstration Work in Agriculture and Home Economics Account.


We recommend that the unexpended balance in Main Street, Cochituate, account be transferred to Oiling ac- count.


We recommend that the money received from Dog Licenses be appropriated one-half to the Schools (Edu- cation) and one-half to the Library.


We wish to call the voters' attention to the total amount of appropriations recommended for the ensuing year, $10,698.01 less than last year. Voters should bear in mind that any extra appropriation will add about 25 cents for each one thousand dollars appropriated to your tax rate.


The amounts we have recommended will lessen the tax rate about $2.50 per thousand.


Through the efforts of the Tax Collector $62,000.00 of the $82,000.00 outstanding in notes in 1922 have been paid.


There are now outstanding and past due $20,000 in notes against the taxes of 1921 which under the law must be paid only from the taxes assessed in that year. Uncollected taxes of 1921 amount to $31,149.01.


There are outstanding against 1922 Taxes indebted- ness of $75,000.00, to meet which there are uncollected taxes to amount of $65,369.87 and cash on deposit $17,037.78.


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We wish to call the voters' attention to the State Laws, Sec. 53 of Chapter 44 of General Laws. Under this law the sums mentioned under the items of appro- priation cannot be increased by any receipts.


The increased amounts recommended for several of the Town departments have been necessary under the provision of the above law to provide sufficient funds to cover the regular expenditures of the department.


Article 2. To choose all necessary officers, agents and committees not elected by official ballot.


John Connelly, Isaac Damon and Thomas S. Mahoney were elected trustees of the Allen Fund.


Voted that the Selectmen act as Fence Viewers.


Voted that the Constables act as Field Drivers.


Israel A. Lupien, Frank Haynes and William Fullick were elected Surveyors of Lumber.


Israel A. Lupien, Arthur F. Marston, William S. Lovell, Arthur W. Atwood and Frank L. Young were elected measurers of wood and bark.


Warren L. Bishop, Cornelius Maguire, Thomas Magorty, Ernest Damon, George Bogren, William L. Nolan, Edward Gorgette, Marcus M. Fiske, Erwin Schleicher, Frank C. Moore, Thomas W. Frost, John E. Stone, George B. Howe, Warren B. Langmaid, Llewellyn Flanders, and all Veterans of the Civil War were elected for the Memorial Day Committee.


Article 3. To grant money for all necessary town purposes.


Voted to appropriate and assess the sums of money enumerated in the Finance Committee's report (see Art. 1).


Article 4. To appropriate the money received from Dog licenses.


No action.


Article 5. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the cur- rent financial year.


Voted that the Town Treasurer, with the approval


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of the Selectmen, be and hereby is, authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1923, to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under the following to be paid from the revenue of the said financial year.


Vote: Yes 182, No 0.


Article 6. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $8000.00 in an- ticipation of re-imbursement from the State and County on account of oiling and repairing state controlled roads.


Voted that the Town authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $8000.00 in anticipation of reimbursement from the State and County on account of oiling and re- pairing State controlled roads.


Vote: Yes 185, No 0.


Article 7. To see if the town will accept the fol- lowing bequest: $100.00 received from Mrs. Levina E. Jordan to be known as the "Levina E. Hemenway Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Benjamin S. Hemenway Lot in the Lake View Cem- etery."


Voted to accept the foregoing bequest.


Article 8. To see if the town will vote to accept the following bequest "$100.00 received from the heirs of Josiah W. Parmenter to be known as the 'Josiah W. Parmenter Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual, care of the Moses W. Parmenter Lots No. 135-136 in the North Cemetery and the Herbert F. Par- menter Lot No. 77 in the North Cemetery Extension."


Voted to accept the foregoing bequest.


Article 9. To see if the town will accept the fol- lowing gift. $100.00 received from Chandler C. and Marie L. Leach to be known as the "George A. Leach Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the George A. Leach lot in Lake View Cemetery."


Voted to accept the foregoing gift.


Article 10. To see if the town will accept the gift


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from sixteen subscribers of about 16,000 square feet of land adjoining the library lot on the north and east, to enlarge the lot and protect the property.


Voted to gratefully accept the foregoing gift. This was voted by a rising vote.


Article 11. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of construct- ing a sidewalk on the State Road between Bennett Road and Cochituate Road.


Voted, That the Town appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $2300, in addition to the balance of $1210.27 unexpended from the appropriation for side- walks made in 1922, for the purpose of constructing a sidewalk on the State Road between Cochituate Road and Bennett Road, such sidewalk to be constructed under the direction of the Selectmen, of such materials as they may determine, and the Selectmen are hereby given full authority to make a contract or contracts for the con- struction of said sidewalk, and to make suitable arange- ments as to the location thereof.


Article 12. To see if the town will instruct Water Commissioners to re-lay water pipe on Old Connecticut Path and authorize Water Commissioners to borrow money for same, or do or act.


Voted that the town authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow for the Water Board $3000.00, $1000.00 paya- ble in one year, $1000.00 payable in two years, and $1000.00 payable in three years, for the purpose of re- laying water pipe on Old Connecticut Path.


Vote: Yes 171, No 0.


Article 13. To see if the town will appropriate and assess the sum of $1,000.00 for temporary use of the Board of Health to complete certain drainage work al- ready started, namely the improvement of the drainage of land between Bow Road, Concord Road and Old Sud- bury Road and the cleaning of the Brook leading there- from, as authorized by the vote at Special Town Meet- ing, Nov. 16, 1921; and to re-assess whatever portion for the Board of Health as a betterment, or do or act.


Voted as the article reads.


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Article 14. To see if the town will make the salary of the Superintendent of the Fire Alarm Seventy-five Dollars or otherwise act thereon.


Voted as the article reads.


Article 15. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of building a sidewalk, with curbing, raised above the street level on the East and South side of the building known as Legion Hall in Cochituate, or do or act.


Voted that the town appropriate a sum of money not exceeding $400.00 for the purpose of constructing a sidewalk with a curbing raised above the street level, East and South side of Legion Hall, Cochituate, this to be done with the approval of the County Commissioners, the money for this purpose to be taken from the appropria- tion of the Highway Department.


Article 16. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money for the up- keep of a "Home" for the Charles H. Alward Post No. 133, American Legion, Incorporated, or do or act.


Voted that the sum of $400.00 be appropriated and assessed to be used toward the lease of the quarters of the Charles H. Alward Post No. 133, American Legion Incorporated, of Wayland.


Article 17. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate and assess a certain sum of money for the pur- pose of erecting two Memorials, one to be placed in Way- land Center and one to be placed in Cochituate, in honor of the soldiers and sailors of Wayland who served in the wars of the U. S.


Voted that this matter be refererd to a committee of three to be appointed by the Moderator, said committee to report at a future Town Meeting.


Article 18. To see if town of Wayland will accept and maintain Ridgefield Road, to permit access to property known as Shore Acres.




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