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WATSON PARK BRANCH
ANNUAL REPORT
TOWN OF
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Printed by PRATT & PRATT The Braintree Observer Braintree, Mass. 1931
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE Receipts and Expenditures OF THE
TOWN OF BRAINTREE
FROM Dec. 31, 1929 to Dec. 31, 1930
TOGETHER WITH THE REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK, SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AND HIGHWAY SURVEYORS, ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, TOWN TREASURER, ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT, WATER COMMISSIONERS, BOARD OF HEALTH, MUNICIPAL LIGHT
BOARD, TRUSTEES OF THE THAYER
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
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Printed by PRATT & PRATT The Braintree Observer Braintree, Mass. 1931
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Report of the Town Clerk
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Norfolk, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Braintree. Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective Precints, to wit:
Polling Place in Precinct 1, Town Hall.
Polling Place in Precinct 2, Legion Building, Hollis Avenue.
Polling Place in Precinct 3, Hose House, Allen Street.
On Monday, the third day of March, 1930, at five forty-five o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring into the Wardens of their respective Precincts their votes on the official ballot for a Moderator, Town Clerk, a Town Treasurer, one Selectman for a term of three years, one member of the Board of Public Welfare for a term of three years, one member of the Board of Assessors for a term of three years, three Auditors, one Water Commissioner and Commissioner of Sinking Funds for a term of three years, two mem- bers of the School Committee for a term of three years, one member of the Municipal Lighting Board for a term of three years, one Park Commissioner for a term of three years, a Tax Collector, a Tree Warden, two members of the Planning Board for a term of three years, and fifteen constables,
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The polls will be opened at five forty-five o'clock in the forenoon, and will be closed at three o'clock in the afternoon.
You are further directed to notify and warn the said inhabitants qualified to vote as aforesaid, to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree on Monday, the tenth day of March, 1930, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose all Town Officers, except those elected by ballot.
Article 2. 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 current financial year.
Article 3. To see if the Town will hold its Treas- urer harmless on his bond for any loss which may arise from the failure of any National Bank or Trust Com- pany in which the funds of the Town may be on de- posit, said Bank or Trust Company being designated by the Selectmen.
Article 4. To see if the Town will hold its Collec- tor harmless on his bond from any loss which may arise from the failure of any National Bank or Trust Company in which the funds of the Town may be on deposit, said Bank or Trust Company being designated by the Selectmen.
Article 5. To hear and act upon the report of the several boards of Town Officers, and any committee, and to choose any committee the Town may think proper.
Article 6. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries of
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Town Officers, Firemen, Policemen, Librarians, In- spectors, Janitors, Sealers, Superintendents and School Teachers, as follows :
Moderator $ 25.00
Selectmen (3)
3,000.00
Town Accountant
2,000.00
Auditors 225.00
Tax Collector
2,000.00
Town Treasurer 1,700.00
Assessors (3)
3,600.00
Town Clerk
1,800.00
Town Counsel
800.00
Registrars (3)
300.00
Election Officers (48)
1,476.00
Election Constables (3)
90.00
Election Janitors (3) 60.00
Town Hall Janitor
1,104.00
Town Hall Assistant Janitor 1,300.00
Overseers of Public Welfare (3) 600.00
Visitor of Public Welfare
1,404.00
Supt. and Matron at Braintree Infirmary
1,200.00
One Girl at the Braintree Infirmary. 480.00
Extra Help at the Braintree Infirmary 300.00
Superintendent of Streets 3,500.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures 500.00
Inspector of Buildings 1,000.00
Inspector of Wires 300.00
Board of Health (3) 900.00
Inspector of Animals 225.00
Inspector of Milk 200.00
Inspector of Plumbing 834.80
Inspector of Meat
350.00
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Caretaker of Dumps 1,400.00
Water Commissioners (3) 300.00
Electric Light Commissioners (3) 300.00
Life Guard at Sunset Lake. 364.00
Thayer Public Library:
Librarian 1,600.00
Assistant Librarians (2 at $2,580; 2 at
$1,180; Part Time Assistant at $100) . ..
3,860.00
Janitor
300.00
Assistant Janitor
120.00
Moth Superintendent
600.00
Engineering Department :
Town Engineer 2,080.00
Transit Man
2,184.00
Rod Man
1,560.00
Chain Man
1,248.00
Fire Department :
Chief
3,000.00
Deputy Chief 2,500.00
Permanent Men (10)
19,855.29
Five New Men (39 weeks)
6,374.55
Regular Call Men
1,555.00
Superintendent of Fire Alarm
225.00
Police Department:
Chief
3,000.00
Sergeants (3 at $2,100)
6,300.00
Regular Patrolmen (5 at $2,000; 2 at $1,950; 4 at $1,700) 20,700.00
New Patrolmen (3 at $1,700 each)
5,100.00
Special Police
1,000.00
Retired Chief, Pension
1,250.00
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School Teachers 205,060.00
Supt. of Plain Street Cemetery 500.00
Article 7. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries of Clerks in the several departments of the Town as follows:
Selectmen's Department, Clerk, 1. $1,400.00
Accountant's Dept., Clerk, 1 for 4 weeks . . 75.00
Tax Collector, 1 Clerk 1,075.00
235.00
Town Treasurer, 1 Clerk Extra Clerical Help 400.00
Assessors' Department, Clerk, 2 2,236.00
Town Clerk's Dept., Clerk, 1 780.00
Board of Health Dept., Secretary, 1 200.00
Article 8. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the various departments of the Town as follows:
Selectmen's Department
$ 973.00
Town Hall: Maintenance . 2,500.00
Telephones 1,475.00
Tax Collector's Department 2,660.00
Town Accountant's Department
275.00
Town Treasurer's Dept., Bond, etc. 983.75
Assessors' Dept. 2,267.00
Town Clerk's Dept. 215.00
Election and Registration
874.00
Town Counsel, Legal Expenses 300.00
Board of Public Welfare, Expenses of Visitor 313.00
Expenses and Maintenance of Town In- firmary 9,030.23
Expenses, Including the Transportation of
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Sealer of Weights and Measures. 600.00
Expenses of Inspector of Buildings 400.00
Expenses of Inspector of Wires 200.00
Expenses of Board of Health, Miscellaneous
800.44
Collection of Garbage
5,400.00
Vital Statistics
75.00
Dental Clinic
1,000.00
Tuberculosis Clinic 100.00
Diphtheria Clinic
2,000.00
Contagious Diseases
5,000.00
Expenses of Fire Department :
General Expenses, Including Hydrant Service 8,235.00
Qualey's Truck and Man 1,500.00
Extra Pay of Men
1,500.00
Maintenance of Buildings 173.00
Expenses of Fire Alarm System .
2,975.00
Expenses of Police Department : New Equipment
1,159.00
General Expenses
3,950.00
Expenses of Engineering Department:
Office Supplies
1,343.00
Field Equipment
2,237.00
Recording Plans, Examination of Titles, Lettering 500.00
Expenses of School Dept., Including Re- pairs on Buildings 87,900.00
Expenses of Thayer Public Library 9,100.00
Expenses of Plain Street Cemetery 877.50
Article 9. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Public Welfare Department for Outside Relief, as follows $13,000.00
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Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended under Chapter 118 of the General Laws, as follows:
Mothers' Aid $6,000.00
Article 11. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of State Aid, Military Aid, Soldiers' Burials and Soldiers' Relief, as follows:
State Aid and Soldiers' Burial $ 950.00
Soldiers' Relief 3,500.00
Military Aid 180.00
Forestry
Article 12. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths, care and planting of trees, and Town Forest, as follows:
For Suppression of Gypsy Moths, etc .... $3,145.00
For the Care and Planting of Trees .... 6,360.37
For Removal of Trees Caused by Con- struction and Repairs of Town Ways and Sidewalks 4,357.00
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,565.95, being the por- tion of the expense incurred and apportioned by the County Commissioners upon the Town for the main- tenance and repairs of the Tuberculosis Hospital, in accordance with Chapter 286 of the General Acts of 1916.
Article 14. PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended on Parks, Playgrounds and Public Lands of the Town, under the direction of the Park Commissioners, and also for the expense of organized play, as follows:
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Precinct 1, for Parks, Playgrounds, etc. $1,348.00
Precinct 2, for Parks, Playgrounds, etc. 2,190.00
Precinct 3, for Parks, Playgrounds, etc. 2,000.00
For Organized Play 900.00
Article 15. ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department the sum of $18,497.17 for Depreciation Fund; the sum of $300.00 for the salaries of the Municipal Light Board; and the sum of $306,202.83, together with the unexpended bal- ance of $2,263.09 of the year 1929 for operating ex- penses, renewals, repairs and new construction.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- sary for the purchase or taking by eminent domain for public purposes in connection with the Municipal Elec- tric Light Plant, of the land on Allen Street, East Brain- tree, adjoining the Municipal Electric Light Plant now owned by Benjamin F. Torrey, as recommended by the Municipal Light Board, and authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums in accordance with the provision of any General or Special Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such purpose, or take any action relative thereto.
Water Department
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of laying a water main not less than six inches in diameter from Little Pond to the yard of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., and from there to Quincy Avenue at a point
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opposite the plant of the Cities Service Co., acquiring land and constructing a Standpipe thereon, and author- ize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sum in accordance with the provisions of any General or Special. Act au- thorizing the Town to borrow for such purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for the maintenance and operation of the Water Department, including interest and debt on Water Loans, the same to be taken from the revenue of the Department and the unexpended balance of 1929.
Municipal Indebtedness
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- sary for the payments due on Municipal Indebtedness and for the payment of interest on Town debt, and on loans in anticipation of revenue, as follows :
Town Hall $ 2,000.00
Norfolk County Hospital 1,000.00
Hollis School 3,000.00
Thomas A. Watson School . 4,000.00
Noah Torrey School, Addition 10,000.00
High School 23,000.00
Penniman School Addition . 7,000.00
Abraham Lincoln School Addition
5,667.00
Braintree Highlands School 7,147.76
Highways (Washington and Union) 17,000.00
Interest as follows :
Schools 30,092.50
Town Hall 200.00
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Highways (Washington and Union) 2,040.00
Norfolk County Hospital 270.00
Anticipation of Revenue 15,000.00
Planning Board
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Zoning Committee and adopt the Zoning By-Laws, as recommended in this report, or take any action with reference thereto.
Article 21. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Zoning Committee, for the preparation of com- prehensive Zoning By-Laws, and for the general ex- penses of the Zoning Committee.
Article 22. To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the purchase or taking by eminent domain for park purposes or other public purposes, of any land on the easterly side of Washington Street between Holbrook Avenue and Union Street, as recommended by the Planning Board, and authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums in accordance with the provisions of any General or Special Act authorizing the Town to bor- row for such purposes, or to take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Planning Board in the preparation of a compre- hensive Town plan, and for the general expenses of the Planning Board.
Education
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to au- thorize and instruct the Selectmen to sell at auction or private sale the school building-South School so-
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called-and land located on the East side of Wash- ington Street, second lot north of the intersection of Standish Avenue with Washington Street, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the School Committee to report at the next Annual Town Meeting its recommendation for securing such additional school sites as may seem advisable.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such additional sums of money as may be necessary for the purpose of constructing, fur- nishing and equipping a grade school building in that part of South Braintree known as Braintree Highlands, as follows :
For Unforeseen Contingencies $7,000.00
Miscellaneous
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,600 for Miscellaneous Expenses.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000 for insurance under the Employees' Compensation Act.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,272.49 to pay premiums of Insurance Policies on Fire and Liability.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept the legacy given to it in the will of the late Julia A. Minchin, upon the terms and for the purposes set forth in said will.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and approprite a sum of money to assist Post 87,
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G. A. R., Braintree Post 86, American Legion, and Vet- erans of Foreign Wars No. 1702, in defraying expenses of Memorial Day, as follows:
Post 87, G. A. R. $200.00
Post 86, American Legion 100.00
No. 1702, Veterans of Foreign Wars. . . 100.00
$400.00
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to ap- propriate the sum of $500 to be expended by the American Legion to pay part of the cost of a fireworks display for a Fourth of July Celebration.
Article 33. To see if the Town will direct the Selectmen to again lease the Legion Building, so-called, to Post 86, American Legion.
Article 34. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Elizabeth Mc- Ewan for injuries received in the Gymnasium Class in the Braintree High School, and reimburse her for her hospital and doctor's expenses. .
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to au- thorize the Selectmen to grant a permit to conduct Amateur Boxing Bouts to be held in the Strand Ball- room, Norfolk Square, East Braintree.
Article 36. To see what sums of money, in addi- tion to that appropriated under any other article, the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Land Dam- ages resulting from taking of any land.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be neces- sary for the purchase or taking by eminent domain of land, and for the purpose of constructing, furnishing
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and equipping a combined Police and Fire Station thereon, and to authorize the Treasurer with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums, in accordance with any general or special act authorizing the Town to borrow money for such purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 38. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for improving the channel of Smelt Brook, and to determine on what con- dition the same shall be available, or take any other action thereto.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the painting of a sign on the roof of the Reclamation Plant.
Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Engineering.
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 6, of the General Laws, as a Re- serve Fund.
Article 42. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of providing public entertainment in connec- tion with the National Convention of the American Legion to be held in Boston the current year.
Article 43. To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate a certain sum of money for the pension of one, Peter Kearney, a laborer, under the provisions of Chapter 32, Section 77 of the General Laws.
Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to au- thorize and instruct its Selectmen to appoint, rather than choose by ballot, from its inhabitants, one or more Constables, commencing in the year 1931, and thereafter.
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Highways
Article 45. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Highway Department, including labor, repairs to highways, Town ways, and bridges; also, for repairs and building sidewalks, stone roads and removal of snow, oiling of streets, purchase of equipment for said department as follows:
General Maintenance, Including Flashlights $14,850.00. Street Cleaning 3,000.00
Tarvia 18,000.00
Drains and Catch Basins 3,500.00
Guard Rails and Fences 1,200.00
Street Signs 1,089.50
Bridges 2,800.00
Snow Removal 10,000.00
New Equipment :
1 Replacement of Supt. Car 1,145.00
Sidewalks as follows:
Academy Street from Washington to Tre- mont Street, 1,350 feet 4,912.50
Washington Street from Thayer to Fred- erick Road, 340 feet, south side. 453.00
Tremont Street from Lakeview Avenue to Academy Street, 600 feet, west side .... 2,152.15
Frederick Road from Hancock to Wash- ington, 1,102 feet 3,576.20
Replacement of Washington Street, op- posite Hobart's Block, 100 feet.
364.00
Washington Street sidewalk from M. E.
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Church to Whitman's Block, 126 feet. . Mt. Vernon Avenue from Washington to 3,281.80
410.00
Mt. Vernon Street, 976 feet, south side Storrs Avenue from Abbott to Washington Street, 875 feet, north side 2,653.15
Cedar Street from Elm to Washington, east side, 1,175 feet 3,784.00
Stedman Avenue from Elm to School, east side, 775 feet
2,500.00
Shaw Street from Mill Lane to Norfolk Square, 1,400 feet, east side
5,408.50
Quincy Avenue from 25 Commercial Street to R. R. tracks, 325 feet. 433.50
Quincy Avenue from Gas Company to
Bridge, 325 feet 541.50
Liberty Street from Union to Lincoln
Heights, 1,650 feet 4,487.00
Bellevue Road from Commercial to Stetson Street, 1,475 feet 4,865.75
Front Street from Hobart to Commercial, 1,500 feet
5,440.50
Washington Street from Monatiquot School to St. Francis Church, 2,620 feet. 11,790.00
Pond Street from Noah Torrey School to Town Street, 1,325 feet 4,314.00
Washington Street from K. C. Hall to Han- cock Street, 1,000 feet 1,333.50
Washington Street from Wynot Road to Monatiquot School, 1,065 feet, east side 4,581.00 Charles Street, 475 feet, west side. . . 1,150.00 Washington Street from Sheppard Avenue to State Bridge, west side, 1,200 feet ... 2,901.00 Lakeview Avenue from Tremont to Frank- lin Street, 800 feet 2,181.55
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Corner of Tremont and Summer Street .. . 125.00
Presidents Road from School to Washing- ton, 735 feet, east side 2,200.00
West Street from Five Corners, 2,580 feet, east 7,239.00
Resurfacing as follows:
Hollingsworth Boulevard from Academy to Franklin Street 3,200.00
Pearl Street from Monatiquot River Bridge to Fountain Street, 600 feet 3,300.00
Hawthorn Road from Elm to Home Park Road, 1,545 feet 7,132.50
Intersection of Cedar and Washington Streets
250.00
Union Street from Liberty Street, 1,200 feet west
11,594.40
Commercial Street from Adams to Union Street, 2,660 feet
4,434.00
Commercial Street from Union to Shaw Street, 1,850 feet
10,792.50
Dyer Hill, 1,800 feet
4,000.00
Boscobel Street, 500 feet
1,300.00
Adams Street from Drinkwater Lane to Commercial Street, 2,400 feet 4,000.00
Drainage as follows:
Washington Street from 321 Washington Street to Brook 950.00
Pond Street from Dewey Avenue to Farm River, 1,450 feet 5,628.00
Charles Street, 475 feet
750.00
West Street, 1,000 feet 1,850.00
Reconstruction as follows :
River Street, south side, 76 feet
5,689.85
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Hancock Street 52,268.85
Washington Street from Hollis Avenue to West Street 27,710.31
Hayward Street from Commercial to North Bowditch, 1,700 feet 39,696.10
Edgemont Road, 675 feet 2,921.69
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,300 for repairs and maintenance of the Quincy Avenue Bridge over the Monatiquot River.
Article 47. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Street Lighting, as follows : $14,274.37
Article 48. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the installation of Traffic Signal Lights as follows:
Five Corners $1,352.00
South Braintree Square 1,300.00 '
North Braintree Square 1,300.00
East Braintree Square
1,300.00
$5,252.00
Article 49. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way DEWEY AVENUE, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or other- wise. Estimated $3,550.00
Article 50. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way FAIRVIEW AVE-
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NUE, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise. Estimated $3,275.00
Article 51. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way WALNUT STREET EXTENSION, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the im- provement of said way, to be expended under the pro- visions of law authorizing the assessment of better- ments, or otherwise. Estimated $7,503.75
Article 52. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way BOWERS ROAD, so- called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law au- thorizing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise. Estimated $5,552.00
Article 53. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way BURROUGHS ROAD EXTENSION, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise. Estimated . .. . $700.00
Article 54. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way EDGEMONT ROAD EXTENSION, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise. Estimated $1,687.70
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Article 55. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way BELLEVUE ROAD, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of said way. Estimated $500.00
Article 56. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way PARK AVENUE, so-called, as laid out by the Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended for the improvement of said way.
Article 57. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Town Way, as laid out by the Selectmen, the fol- lowing streets : ELMKNOLL ROAD, PLEASANT VIEW AVENUE, STORRS AVENUE, WALDRON ROAD, ELMLAWN ROAD, EDGEMONT ROAD, BICKFORD ROAD, RIVER STREET, CLEVELAND AVENUE, MARSHALL STREET, EDGEHILL ROAD, WILDWOOD AVENUE, BEECHWOOD ROAD EX- TENSION, TALBOT ROAD, AND NORTON ROAD, ARBUTUS AVENUE, LIBERTY PARK AVENUE, and a portion of POND STREET ; and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the development of said way, to be expended under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, or otherwise.
Sewerage
Article 58. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 17 of the Acts of 1930, the same being an act author- izing the Town of Braintree to construct and operate a system of sewerage and to borrow money for such purpose in excess of the statutory limit, or will take any action relative thereto.
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