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TOWN OF WEYMOUTH 1919
.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH
Containing the Reports of the
SELECTMEN, TOWN TREASURER, TOWN ACCOUNTANT, TOWN CLERK, ASSESSORS, AND OTHER OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
For the Year Ending December 31
1919
THE CRAWFORD PRESS South Weymouth, Mass.
W.C Ref 352 1919- B
HITUO
MAY 8 1939
Lower Stack Main
INDEX
Town Officers
5
Report of Town Clerk
8
Fire Engineers 162
Town Election
Town Meetings (Special) .
State Primary
31
State Election
38
Precinct Officers
43
Jury List
45
Births
49
Trees
196
Suppression of Moths
196
Fire Department
198
Police Department
204
Health Department
207
Miscellaneous Account 208
Election Expenses
211
Town Offices
213
State and Military Aid
..
214
Soldiers' Relief 214 Printing and Advertising. 215
Electric Lighting 216
Tufts Library
216
Fogg Library Read. Room 216
Memorial Day
216
Alewive Account
217
Abatement of Taxes 218
Interest and Discount 219
Notes Payable
220
State and County Taxes 220
Tax Deed Account
220
Reserve Fund
221
Town Officers
221
Poor Department
223
Statement of Appropria-
tions and Expenditures. 226
Trial Balance .
229
Report of Town Treasurer ..
230
Town Auditors
236
Water Com.
240
Chief of Police
156
Selectmen
159
Town Meeting (Annual) ..
8
Supt. of Streets
163
Planning Board
170
Report of Town Accountant. 172
Schools
172
Street Department
189
Public Parks 195
Preservation
of
Shade
Marriages
52
Deaths
60
School Committee
69
Tufts Lib. Trustees
105
Welcome Home Committee 129
Three Hundredth Anniver- sary Committee 133
Board of Health
134
Burial Agent
134
Public Health Nurse
135
Plumbing Inspector
135
Sealer of Weights & Meas- ures 135
Dairy & Milk Inspector .. 136 Inspector of Slaughter
Houses
137
Inspector of Animals
137
Park Com.
138
Memorial Town Hall Com. 140
Trustees Fore River Bridge 148
Forest Warden
149
Supt. of Moth Work 149
Tree Warden
149
Town Engineer
150
Elec. Lighting Com.
151
Overseers of Poor
152
Assessors
153
Collector of Taxes
154
» Registrars of Voters
155
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1919-1920
Town Clerk.
*JOHN A. RAYMOND CLAYTON B. MERCHANT,
P. O. address, East Weymouth
Town Treasurer.
JOHN H. STETSON,
P. O. address, South Weymouth
Selectmen.
BRADFORD HAWES, Chairman, P. O. address East Weymouth
JOSEPH A. FERN, Clerk, P. O. address, East Weymouth
GEORGE L. NEWTON, JOHN F. DWYER, ALFRED W. HASTINGS
Overseers of the Poor.
BRADFORD HAWES, Chairman, P. O. address, East Weymouth
JOSEPH A. FERN, Clerk, P. O. address, East Weymouth GEORGE L. NEWTON, WILLIAM H. COWING, ALFRED W. HASTINGS
Assessors.
JOHN F. DWYER, Chairman
Term expires 1922
FRANK H. TORREY, Clerk
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1922
CHARLES H. CLAPP
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1920
THERON L. TIRRELL
1920
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT
1921
Engineers of the Fire Department.
BRADFORD HAWES, Chairman
GEORGE L. NEWTON,
JOSEPH A. FERN, Secretary JOHN F. DWYER ..
ALFRED W. HASTINGS, WALTER W. PRATT, Chief
Town Accountant.
CHARLES B. CUSHING, P. O. address, East Weymouth
Collector of Taxes.
WINSLOW M. TIRRELL, P. O. address, East Weymouth School Committee.
ELMER E. LEONARD, Chairman
Term expires 1922
PRINCE H. TIRRELL, Secretary
1921
SARAH S. HOWE
1920
EDWIN R. SAMPSON
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" 1920
THERON L. TIRRELL
1921
FREDERICK D. NICHOLS *Deceased
1922
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Board of Health.
DR. GEORGE E. EMERSON, Chairman DR. FREDERICK L. DOUCET, Clerk JOHN S. WILLIAMS, Agent
Term expires 1922
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1920
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1921
Park Commissioners.
FRANCIS W. REA, Chairman ** J. HERBERT WALSH JOSEPH KELLY ALONZO M. NEWBERT, Secretary
Term expires 1922
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1921
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1921
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1920
Trustees of Tufts Library.
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE, President
Term expires 1922
FRANCIS M. DROWN, Secretary
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1922
JOSEPH CHASE, JR.
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1922
WILLIAM A. DRAKE
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1920
JOHN B. HOLLAND
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1921
*LOUIS A. COOK
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1921
WILLIAM F. HATHAWAY
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1921
KENNETH L. NASH
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1921
Registrars of Voters.
BENJAMIN F. SMITH, Chairman
Term expires 1921 " "
PATRICK E. CORRIDAN
MARSHALL P. SPRAGUE
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1922
*JOHN A. RAYMOND, Town Clerk (ex-officio)
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk ( ex-officio)
Water Commissioners.
FRANK H. TORREY, Chairman
Term expires 1921 "
GEORGE E. BICKNELL, Clerk
1920
GEORGE W. PERRY
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1922
BRADFORD HAWES, Chairman of Selectmen (ex-officio)
JOHN H. STETSON, Town Treasurer (ex-officio)
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
RUSSELL B. WORSTER
P. O. address, Weymouth
Burial Agent for Indigent Soldiers.
WALDO TURNER
P. O. address, East Weymouth
Chief of Police.
ARTHUR H. PRATT
P. O. address, East Weymouth Constables.
CHARLES W. BAKER EDWARD F. BUTLER THOMAS FITZGERALD GEORGE W. NASH
FRED H. SMITH Deceased. ** Resigned.
GEORGE B. BAYLEY GEORGE W. CONANT ELBERT FORD ARTHUR H. PRATT WILLIE F. TIRRELL
1920
JAMES H. FLINT
1920
1920
JOSEPH E. GARDNER
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Planning Board. Term expires 1920
JAMES W. COLGAN FREDERICK L. DOUCET JOHN B. WHELAN WILLIAM J. HOLBROOK PRINCE H. TIRRELL Term expires 1921
CORNELIUS J. LYNCH EDWARD W. HUNT BRADFORD HAWES DAVID M. KIDDER
WALTER L. BATES
Term expires 1922
RUSSELL H. WHITING
MINOT P. GAREY, Sec'y
GEORGE L. BARNES
FRANCIS W. REA
ALBERT P. WORTHEN, Chairman
Term expires 1923
STANLEY T. TORREY
ROBERT S. HOFFMAN
PATRICK CASEY
ELBRIDGE B. NASH
JOHN L. BEAN
Term expires 1924
WALTER J. SLADEN
GEORGE M. KEENE
WALLACE B. BICKNELL
JOHN REIDY
MATTHEW R. LOUD
Appropriation Committee.
Term expires 1920
RUSSELL H. WHITING GEORGE E. CUNIFF FRANCIS W. REA EDWARD C. BARKER, Sec'y L. LEONARD BICKNELL, Chairman
Term expires 1921
C. EDGAR STILES WILLIAM C. EARLE
WILLIAM H. WALL ELMER W. THAYER
JACOB S. WICHERT
Term expires 1922
J. WALTER HOWLEY FRANK N. CLAPP
FRED L. ALDEN EDWARD I. LOUD
RALPH P. BURRELL
Tree Warden. CHARLES L. MERRITT, P. O. address, Highland Pl., So. Weymouth
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, SS. To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the Inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid qualified to vote in elections therein and in town affairs to meet at the Odd Fellows' Opera House, East Weymouth, on Monday, the third day of March, 1919 at nine o'clock and fifteen minutes in the forenoon, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
General Administration.
Article 2. To choose all necessary town officers other than those elected by ballot, viz: Public Weighers, Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark, two or more Fence Viewers, two or more Field Drivers, one Pound Keeper, and a Planning Board.
Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the several boards of town officers and of any committee appointed at any former meet- ing and to choose any committees the town may think proper.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen, on or after January first 1920, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1920.
Article 6. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for a reserve fund.
Article 7. To see if the town will designate the Weymouth Trust Company, the First National Bank of Boston and the National Shaw- mut Bank of Boston as legal depositories for the Funds of the town, and the First National Safe Deposit Company of Boston as legal depository for the securities of the town.
Article 8. By request. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to procure an audit of the ac-
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counts of the town for the year 1919 by a certified public accountant and that the same be made under the direction of the appropriation committee.
Schools.
Article 9. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools and for the trans- portation of pupils to and from school.
Article 10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate toward the sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the James Humphrey Schoolhouse Bonds.
Public Parks, Etc.
Article 11. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the care and maintenance of its parks and play- grounds, the same to be expended under the supervision of the Park Commissioners.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to re-appropriate the sum of $500.00 to pay for land on Neck and River Streets owned by W. C. Cherrington and Annie K. Jones, to be acquired by purchase or eminent domain for bathing purposes, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to erect thereon a bathing house under the direction and supervision of the Park Commissioners, or act in any manner in relation thereto.
Fire Department.
Article 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Fire Department.
Article 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of forest fires, to be expended under the direction of the Forest Warden.
Article 15. On petition. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of installing a tractor for Hook and Ladder No. 2, to be situated in the Central Station of the Weymouth Fire Department. also a tractor for Hook and Ladder No. 3.
Police Department.
Article 16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Water Department.
Article 17. To see if the town will' vote to appropriate from the revenue of the Water Works for the current year the sum of $43 .- 410.00 to be expended for the following purposes, viz :
Superintendence, Maintenance and Pumping station $18,000
Commissioners, Office and Current Expenses
$4,500
Installation of Meters
$1,500
New service and minor extensions
$3,000
Interest on Sinking Fund 4% bonds
$2,600
Interest on Serial 41/2% bonds
$3,690
Interest on Serial 4% bonds
$620
Principal of Serial bonds due 1919
$9,500
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Article 18. To see if the town will authorize the Water Com- missioners to appropriate from the revenue of the Water Works for the current year and pay to the Sinking Fund Trustees the sum of $3,000 to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the pay- ment at maturity of the Weymouth Water Loan Bonds.
Article 19. On petition. To see if the town will vote to extend the town water system on Canterbury Street as far as the house of Arthur C. Robinson.
Article 20. On petition. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate a sum of money to install water mains in that part of the town known as Cottage Farms.
Health Department.
Article 21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the services and expenses of the Board of Health.
Article 22. On petition. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of purchasing and maintaining an automobile for the use of the nurse employed by the Weymouth Visiting Nurse Association and to act on any matter in relation thereto.
Town Officers, Election and Town Offices.
Article 23. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers.
Article 24. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for election expenses.
Article 25. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for rent and expenses of town offices.
Ways and Bridges.
Article 26. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repair of highways, townways and bridges and for the removal of snow.
Article 27. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of street watering and oiling and to determine what part of the cost of the same shall be assessed upon abutting property.
Article 28. To see if the town will accept the report of the Select- men upon the laying out of alterations on Centre Street.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 for the working of the relocation of a portion . of Centre Street.
Article 30. To see if the town will accept the report of the Se- lectmen upon the laying out of alterations in a portion of Middle Street.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $1.000 for the purpose of replacing the present bridge over the Herring Brook on Commercial Street with a bridge of re-enforced. concrete or other adequate construction.
Article 32. To see if the town will authorize and instruct its Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen to prepare and issue
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notes or bonds of the town to an amount not exceeding $20,000 un- der the provisions of Chapter 719, Section 5, Clause 8, of the year 1913, the same to be payable within five years of the date of issue in such amounts annually as may be determined; the proceeds to be devoted to re-construction of existing town ways with macadam construction.
Article 33. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the construction of Birchbrow Road.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $2,000 for macadam work on Broad Street.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate $2,000 for macadam work on Washington Street between Lincoln Square and Washington Square.
Article 36. To see if the town will raise and appropriate any sum of money for the purpose of acquiring drainage rights for the dis- posal of surface water on Pleasant Street along land of Gustave B. Bates.
Article 37. On petition. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300 more or less for the purpose of build- ing a sidewalk on Tremont and Keith Streets to the corner of Sum- mit Street.
Street Railway.
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500 for the purpose of reimbursing those who con- tributed to the fund paid the Receiver of the Bay State Street Rail- way Company for the purpose of repairing the tracks in order that service might be resumed on the Pleasant Street and the Main- Front Street lines ; or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 39. To see if the town will vote to appropriate whatever money the Bay State Street Railway Company may pay as taxes now due, toward the expenses of continued operation of street rail- way service in the town, under the provisions of Chapter 288 of the Acts of 1918. or take any action in relation thereto.
State and Military Aid and Soldiers' Relief.
Article 40. To see what sum of money the town will appropriate for the payment of State and Military Aid and for burials under the provisions of Chapter 587 of the Acts of 1914, and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
Article 41. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen and families of disabled soldiers and seamen under Chapter 79 of the Revised Laws and amendments thereto.
Public Charity.
Article 42. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief and support of the poor.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote to raise by a loan and appropriate $45,000 and further appropriate the amount received and insurance on the old Almshouse for the building of a new Almshouse,
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the same to be located on land owned by the town of Weymouth on Essex Street and take all necessary action in regard to building and equipping such Almshouse.
Public Library and Reading Room.
Article 44. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Tufts Library.
Article 45. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of a reading room in the Fogg Library.
Street Lighting.
Article 46. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the lighting of street.
Article 47. On petition. To see if the town will vote to cause street lights to be installed in that part of East Weymouth known as "Cottage Farms," and provide for payment of the same.
Article 48. By request. To see if the town will vote to cause street lights to be installed on Philomena Street and provide for pay- ment of the same.
Town Survey.
Article 49. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of the town survey system, or to take any other action in relation thereto.
Taxes and Interest.
Article 50. To determine in what manner taxes shall be collected the current year and to fix the rate of interest on all taxes remain- ing unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
Article 51. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the abatement and remittance of taxes.
Article 52. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest which may become due the current year.
Shade Trees and Suppression of Moths.
Article 53. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the preservation of shade trees, the same to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
Article 54. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths.
Printing and Advertising.
Article 55. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
Soldiers Memorial, Etc.
Article 56. On petition. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate for the erection of a suitable memorial to the men of Weymouth who served in the war between the United States and the German Government and to provide for the appoint-
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ment of such committee as may be necessary or desirable for the carrying out of the object of this article, or to take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 57. On petition. To see if the town will take any action with reference to public exercises commemorative of the return to Weymouth of the men serving in the armed forces of the United States in the recent war, and make any necessary appropriation therefor.
Three Hundredth Anniversary of the Town.
Article 58. To see if the town will take any action in relation to a celebration in the year 1922 of the three hundredth anniversary of its settlement.
Miscellaneous Account.
Article 59. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.
Miscellaneous Articles.
Article 60. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.
Article 61. To determine in what manner the Alewive Fishery shall be conducted the present year.
Article 62. To see if the town will instruct its Selectmen to in any way control, regulate or prohibit the taking of clams from the shores and flats of the town.
Article 63. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to commence suit for the recovery of any money or property due it, or to prosecute a bill in equity or any other proceedings in court when in their judgment it is expedient in the interests of the town to do so.
Article 64. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to sell any real estate of which it may be possessed and for which it has no further use.
Article 65. To see if the town will accept Chapter 293 of the General Acts of 1916, it being the so called "Jitney Act."
Article 66. Under the provisions of Chapter 286, of the Amaral Acts of the year 1916, providing for the erection and maint Tale of a Tuberculosis Hospital in each county of the state exce Suffolk, Nantucket and Dukes; to see if the town will authorize, Treas- urer, with the approval of its Selectmen, to issue serial notes or bonds of the town to the amount of $20,928.45, the same to be pay- able within twenty years of the date of the issue thereof; the above amount being certified by the County Commissioners of Norfolk County as the approximate apportionment of the town of Weymouth for the purpose of reimbursing the County of Norfolk for the cost of erecting such hospital in the town of Braintree, or take any other action in relation thereto.
You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants of Weymouth, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the polling places in their respective precincts, to wit : In Precincts One, Three, Five and Six, in the halls of the Fire Engine Houses located in those precincts respectively, in Precinct Two, at the Odd Fellows' Opera
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House, and in Precinct Six, at the Hose House at Nash's Corner on Monday, the tenth day of March, 1919 at five o'clock and forty-five minutes in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the wardens of their several precincts their votes on one ballot for the following named public officers to wit: Town Clerk; Town Treasurer ; five Selectmen ; five Overseers of the Poor ; two Assessors for three years ; Collector of Taxes; three Auditors; two School Committee for three years ; one Park Commissioner for three years; one Park Com- missioner for the unexpired term of Louis A. Cook deceased; one Water Commissioner for three years; one member of the Board of Health for three years; three Trustees of Tufts Library for three years; one Trustee of Tufts Library for the unexpired term of Louis A. Cook, deceased; one Commissioner of the Sinking Fund of the James Humphrey Schoolhouse for three years; one Tree Warden and ten Constables ; and to vote on the same ballot, "Yes" or "No" upon the following question :
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
The polls will be closed at one o'clock in the afternoon.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting a copy thereof attested by you in writing in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said town seven days at least before the time for holding the first meeting called for in this warrant.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doing thereon to the Town Clerk of said town on or before the twen- ty-sixth day of February, 1919.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and nineteen.
JOSEPH KELLEY BRADFORD HAWES HENRY E. HANLEY GEORGE L. NEWTON
Selectmen of Weymouth
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. Weymouth, February 12, 1919
Pursuant to the within warrant I have this day notified and warned the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid to meet at the re- spective places and times for the purpose set forth in said warrant by posting true and attested copies of the same in each precinct in said town as therein directed.
ARTHUR H. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth.
A true copy. Attest.
JOHN A. RAYMOND,
Town Clerk.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
March 3, 1919.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the annual meeting of the in- habitants of the town of Weymouth was held at the Odd Fellows' Opera House, East Weymouth, on Monday, March 3, 1919, the meet- ing was called to order at 9.15 o'clock in the forenoon and the war- rant (except the several articles) was read by the Town Clerk.
Article 1. Hon. George L. Barnes was elected as Moderator by ballot, the check list being used in the election, and the oath was administered to him by the Town Clerk.
Article 2. Voted, That a committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to nominate all officers not required to be elected by bal- lot.
The Moderator appointed the following on the committee: Irving W. Morgan, Peter F. Hughes, Thomas Fitzgerald, Charles L. Mer- ritt and John L. Bean.
Article 3. Voted, To accept the reports of the several boards of town officers as printed.
The Moderator appointed Russell B. Worster and Jacob S. Wich- ert as tellers and administered the oath to them.
The question of a quorum being raised, the Moderator ordered a count, and the tellers reported 100 present.
Voted, To adjourn four minutes.
The meeting was again called to order.
Voted, To carry on the business of the meeting acting on such articles that do not call for appropriations of money.
Article 4. Voted, That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year be- ginning January 1, 1919, and to issue note or notes therefor, payable within .one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Article 5. Voted, That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year be- ginning January 1, 1920, and to issue note or notes therefor. payable within one year, any debt or debts under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year.
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Article 7. Voted, To designate the Weymouth Trust Company of South Weymouth, Mass., The First National Bank of Boston, Mass., and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, Mass., as legal deposi- tories for the funds of the town, and the first National Safe De- posit Company of Boston, Mass., as a legal depository for the securi- ties of the town.
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