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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Town of Weymouth
CONTAINING THE REPORTS OF SELECTMEN, TOWN TREASURER, TOWN CLERK TOWN ACCOUNTANT, ASSESSORS AND OTHER OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1936-1937
Elected by Ballot TOWN CLERK
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT
Term expires March 1937
TOWN TREASURER
EDWIN R. SAMPSON
Term expires March 1937
SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
MARSHALL F. SPEAR, Chairman
Term expires March 1937
WILLIAM A. CONNELL, Clerk
Term expires March 1937
JOSEPH CREHAN
Term expires March 1937
JOSEPH A. FERN
Term expires March 1937
EVERETT E. CALLAHAN
Term expires March 1937
ASSESSORS
CHARLES W. BURGESS, Chairman
Term expires March 1937
FRANK A. PRAY
Term expires March 1937
RICHARD HALLORAN
Term expires March 1938
JULIAN R. MERCHANT
HARRY E. BEARCE, Clerk
** Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1939
FRANCIS A. GUNN
Term expires March 1937
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
FRANK W. HOLBROOK
Term expires March 1937
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
PRINCE H. TIRRELL, Chairman
Term expires March 1939
ETHEL G. TAYLOR, Secretary
Term expires March 1938
WILLIAM F. SHIELDS
Term expires March 1937
J. HERBERT LIBBY
Term expires March 1937
WALLACE H. DRAKE
Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1939
PARK COMMISSIONERS
EVERETT J. McINTOSH, Chairman CHARLES W. BURGESS, Clerk
ARTHUR I. NEGUS
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1937
WATER COMMISSIONERS
MARSHALL F. SPEAR, Ex-officio, Chairman EDWIN R. SAMPSON, Clerk GEORGE W. PERRY BASIL S. WARREN RALPH P. BURRELL
Term expires March 1937 Ex-officio Term expires March 1937 Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1938
CLAYTON W. NASH
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TRUSTEES OF TUFTS LIBRARY
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE, Chairman
Term expires March 1937
GERTRUDE C. ANDREWS, Secretary JOSEPH KELLEY FRANKLIN N. PRATT
Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1937
FRANCIS N. DROWN
Term expires March 1937 Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1939
JOHN B. HOLLAND KENNETH L. NASH
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1939
LEIGHTON S. VORHEES
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
EDWIN R. SAMPSON, Town Treasurer
Ex-officio Ex-officio
BOARD OF HEALTH
THOMAS J. MacDONALD, Chairman FREDERICK L. DOUCETT, Clerk
LEWIS W. PEASE
Term expires March 1937 Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1939
PLANNING BOARD
FRANK A. PRAY, Chairman
Term expires March 1937
ARTHUR I. NEGUS, Clerk
Term expires March 1937
DANIEL P. CUMMINGS
Term expires March 1938 Term expires March 1938
CHARLES A. JORDAN
RUSSELL H. WHITING
Term expires March 1938
THOMAS J. KELLY
Term expires March 1939
CHARLES GRIFFIN
Term, expires March 1939
TREE WARDEN
V. LESLIE HEBERT
Term expires March 1937
ANNUAL MODERATOR
DANIEL L. O'DONNELL
Term expires March 1937
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 1, term expires 1937
JOHN L. BASTY
ROBERT H. BUCHAN
CHARLES A. CALDWELL*
WILLIAM C. CHERRINGTON
OBLERIN S. CLARK
HARRY J. DOWD
CHARLES GRIFFIN
WILLIAM E. KEZER
DANIEL F. MacLEAN
E. LEO MADDEN
ROBERT W. PITTS
HAROLD K. PORTER
CLARENCE T. SHERMAN
CHARLES H. TOPHAM RALPH S. WILDER
Precinct 1, term expires 1938
JOSEPH E. BUCKLEY
CARLTON CHAMBERS
LAUGHTON B. DASHA
WALLACE H. DRAKE FRANCIS X. KELLY
ARCHIBALD J. McLELLEN
RUSSELL D. TUFTS ELLIOT C. SABENS
LYNWOOD P. TEAGUE
STANLEY TORREY
IRVING G. WALLING
Precinct 1, term expires 1939
HENRY T. CALNAN HENRY F. CLAPP FRED W. CROCKER EDWARD J. GILL CHARLES C. HEARN R. CHESTER LOPAUS
JOHN A. CARTER HERMAN O. COLLYER WILLIAM B. DASHA CHARLES GRIFFIN DeFOREST H. JONES RAY E. LOUD
JOHN GRIFFIN, Jr.
ROBERT L. PALMER JOHN F. QUINLAN RAYMOND E. STEIN JOHN THOMSON SAMUEL G. YOUNG
RUSSELL H. WHITING
JOHN GRIFFIN, Jr.
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CHARLES J. ROGERS ROLAND T. SEABURY RUSSELL A. STILES
WARREN F. ROULSTON CHARLES E. STILES HENRY O. TUTTY
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 2, term expires 1937
GEORGE L. BATES
ALTON M. CROCKER
EVERETT T. GARDNER
JAMES I. PEERS
HARRY E. BEARCE CHARLES R. DENBROEDER DAVID F. McMORROW HORACE M. RANDALL
Precinct 2, term expires 1938
JOSEPH J. CONROY
PETER A. GALLANT
CARL E. LINQUIST
JOHN P. LOVELL
FREDERICK V. NOLAN
JOSEPH B. NOSIGLIA
ANDREW T. RYAN
GEORGE W. VENTRE
ERNEST A. SMITH STEPHEN WELCH
Preceinct 2, term expires 1939
THOMAS A. BOYLE
ROGER N. BUTLER
HOBERT F. JOHNSON
*** vacancy FRANCIS H. MAGUIRE, Jr.
GEORGE B. MARDEN
HARRY E. MATTSON
ROBERT E. MITCHELL
ALBERT R. SCHOFIELD
BENJAMIN B. SYLVESTER
MARSHALL T. TIRRELL
THOMAS J. KELLY
ROY A. WHEATON
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 3, term expires 1937
CHARLES W. BAKER
HARRY L. BLOOM
LAWRENCE CORRIDAN
WALLACE H. BICKNELL
FRANK W. BRYANT
FREDERICK J. COYLE
HENRY A. COTE WILLIAM N. CRAIG
FRANCIS N. DROWN
ARTHUR J. HASSETT
RAYMOND O. HOLLIS
BURTON F. JOHNSON
WILLIAM E. PRAY
WALLACE L. WHITTLE
Precinct 3, term expires 1938
CHARLES Y. BERRY
FRANK W. CHUBBUCK
DONALD W. CRAIG
JOHN A. HAYES
EDWARD A. HUNT
R. ROBERT LEVIN WILLIAM H. MILLS
TIMOTHY G. OSBORN THOMAS G. WALLACE JOHN COFFEY
ALBERT R. HUMPHREY JOHN A. HUTCHINS JAMES F. MCGONIGAL FRANCIS E. O'BRIEN LESTER W. TISDALE PAUL J. WORCESTER
Precinct 3, term expires 1939
C. LINCOLN ABBOTT WINFRED A. BROWN NORMAN T. CRAIG SAMUEL F. CUSHING JOHN R. HAVILAND FLURANCE I. LYONS GEORGE S. PETERSON
J. EDWARD BATES WILLIAM J. COYLE CHARLES F. CREHAN GEORGE T. DOWD EDWARD W. HUNT WILLIAM D. PARKER JOHN F. TRACEY
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ALBERT L. JEWELL JOSEPH KELLY CLARENCE M. PRICE
ARNOLD D. CAMPBELL CHARLES A. COYLE WALTER E. GUTTERSON
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DONALD F. WHITTLE JOHN E. HUNT VINCENT G. COYLE
RICHARDS WORTHEN LEO W. CONDRICK
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 4, term expires 1937
CHARLES H. DeRUSHA
JOSIAH F. MARTIN
BLANCHE L. PRICE
FERDINAND A. GOSSELYN IGNATIUS MELVILLE J. FREDERICK PRICE
Precinct 4, term expires 1938
GERTRUDE C. ANDREWS
HENCY C. BLENIS, Jr.
JOHN W. KNOX
SIDNEY DeBOER
Precinct 4, term expires 1939
JAMES J. CANNON
CHESLEY CORMACK
RICHARD HALLORAN
EDWARD R. JONES
THERON L. TIRRELL
ARTHUR B. TIRRELL
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 5, term expires 1937
NILS E. ANDERSON
MADELINE M. CHANCE
CHARLES A. JORDAN
WILLIAIM G. B. PARK
ALBERT THIBEAULT
PORTER W. THOMPSON
EDWARD B. WOOD
Precinct 5, Term expires 1938
WALLACE A. BICKNELL
RALPH P. BURRELL
EDWARD J. FOLEY
MINOT E. HOLLIS
FRANK G. HALE, Jr. ARTHUR I. NEGUS
HENRY C. SAWLER ***
RALPH R. TAYLOR
DANIEL B. SANTRY
Precinct 5, term expires 1939
EDWARD C. ALGER
WILLIAM M. CHANCE
FRANK E. DUNN
GUY W. C. HARTT
CARL C. SHERMAN
HOMER C. WADMAN
NATHANIEL P. WILLIAMSON
MILTON A. BARNES
GEORGE H. BELL
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 6, term expires 1937
EDWARD F. BUTLER
EARL W. CUMMINGS
CHARLES S. DOBSON
JOHN T. GRIFFIN
DAVID F. KEARNS
*** PETER KENDRICK
FREDERICK H. LANGHORST
CHARLES C. MacDONALD
JOHN T. McISAAC
RALPH T. SALEMME
ALFRED C. SHEEHY
LEO J. SLACK
THOMAS J. TERRY
Precinct 6, term expires 1938
ALBERT R. DAVIDSON LYMAN C. GOODRICH
FREDERICK HUMPHREY
J. EDWARD MULLIGAN
OLINDO GAROFALO FRANK H. HOLMES ANDREW T. MOORE WILLIAM M. REAMY
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FRANKLIN BLANCHARD HAROLD A. CONDRICK ALFRED K. MARTIN
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DANIEL REIDY BURGESS H. SPINNEY WALTER L. WILSON
MICHAEL R. SCOPPETUOLLO EGBERT V. WARREN HAROLD W. 'ZEOLI
Precinct 6, term expires 1939
JOHN A. AHERN CHESTER L. BOYLE GEORGE E. CURTIN
ARTHUR V. HARPER
JOHN H. MORAN
HENRY C. PRATT
ELIJAH WHITON
THOMAS F. SLATTERY
GEORGE H. BICKNELL GEORGE E. CUNNIFF JAMES E. DOWNS PHILIP T. JONES
FRANK J. PATTISON JOHN' H. REIDY AMERICO CASSESE
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 7, term expires 1937
JOHN C. BROWN RONALD A. MacDONALD
FRANCIS W. REA
WILLIAM B. CHALKE, Jr. HARRY B. QUINN JOHN W. THORP
Precinct 7, term expires 1938
ELMER F. DeRUSHA
E. EVERETT FROST ALSTON A. SHAW
ROLAND M. SMITH
WILLIAM A. FERGUSON IRVING E. JOHNSON BOWDOIN M. SMITH
Precinct 7, term expires 1939
WARREN E. GAREY
EDWARD L. WILLIAMS
ROBERT L. DOBLE
CHARLES E. EDDY
J. EDWARD PETERSON WILLIAM T. WYMAN JAMES H. L. ERDIS CLYNE H. BIGELOW
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 8, term expires 1937
H. SCOTT BROWN WALTER R. COPE
PRESCOTT B. BROWN HARRY E. JOHNSON
Precinct 8, term expires 1938
HAROLD W. BICKFORD
ALLAN C. EMERY
PARKER T. PEARSON
ARTHUR A. CICCHESE ARTHUR H. HAYWARD FRED W. WEBB
Precinct 8, term expires 1939
BENJAMIN W. COWAN JOHN W. COYLE EDWIN R. HANSON PAUL A. NEWSOME ARTHUR L. TILTON MABELLE L. GLADWIN
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS. Precinct 9, term expires 1937
HERBERT W. CAUSER
STANLEY HEALD
JOHN W. O'DONNELL
GEORGE T. PERRY
ALBERT VINAL
JOHN W. FIELD GEORGE MARSHALL FRED H. OLIVER PRINCE H. TIRRELL JAMES B. WEST
Precinct 9, term expires 1938
MELVILLE F. CATE FRANK M. FERNALD
B. JOSEPH CULLINANE FRANCIS A. GUNN
FREDERICK E. LUNT
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GEORGE J. HUSBAND MATTHEW O'DOWD JOSIAH B. REED JOE TAYLOR
JOSEPH W. KOHLER CHARLES H. PUTMAN ARTHUR R. TAYLOR
Precinct 9, term expires 1939
SUMNER P. BOWKER
HARRISON I. COLE
WALTER R. FIELD
JOHN E. HORACE
RITCHIE T. HOWE
FRANK E. LOUD
EVERETT W. MOXON
ROY V. NELSON
FRANK W. NESS
GEORGE REED
RICHMOND LITCHFIELD
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS BY VIRTUE OF THEIR OFFICE Under the provisions of Section 3, of Chapter 61, of the Acts of 1921 as amended
CHARLES W. BURGESS
EVERETT E. CALLAHAN
ARTHUR A. CICCHESE
C. WARREN CLARK
FRANK M. BRYANT
EMERSON R. DIZER
WILLIAM A. HANNAFORD
NEWLAND H. HOLMES
JOSEPH CREHAN ARTHUR R. LOHNES
CHARLES B. MITCHELL
JOSEPH A. FERN
DANIEL L. O'DONNELL
EDWIN R. SAMPSON DANIEL P. SULLIVAN
MARSHALL F. SPEAR
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE
RALPH P. BURRELL DANIEL P. CUMMINGS WILLIAM A. CONNELL GEORGE E. CURTIN JOHN H. COFFEY JOHN W. FIELD V. LESLIE HEBERT LAWRENCE W. HOLBROOK
THOMAS F. LEARY CLAYTON B. MERCHANT KENNETH L. NASH THOMAS MacDONALD A. WESLEY SAMPSON RAYMOND E. STEIN EVERETT J. McINTOSH PRINCE H. TIRRELL
APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE Term expires 1937
C. WARREN CLARK JOHN W. FIELD ARTHUR R. LOHNES
DANIEL P. CUMMINGS THOMAS F. LEARY
RALPH P. BURRELL JOHN H. COFFEY RAYMOND E. STEIN
GEORGE E. CURTIN LAWRENCE W. HOLBROOK
Term expires 1939
FRANK W. BRYANT CHARLES B. MITCHELL DANIEL P. SULLIVAN
ARTHUR A. CICCHESE A. WESLEY SAMPSON
DEPARTMENT HEADS
TOWN ACCOUNTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS BUILDING INSPECTOR
EMERSON R. DIZER THOMAS J. KELLY ANDREW T. MOORE
Term expires 1938
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CHIEF OF POLIICE DEPARTMENT CHIEF OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING
TOWN ENGINEER TOWN COUNSEL SUPERINTENDENT OF TOWN INFIRMARY
EDWARD F. BUTLER J. RALPH BACON CHARLES W. BURGESS JOHN H. REIDY GEORGE MARSHALL RUSSELL H. WHITING KENNETH L. NASH CLIFFORD A. BERRY
ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMITTEE
JOSEPH KELLEY, Chairman
ALFRED S. TIRRELL CHARLES L. GIBSON
J. HERBERT LIBBY, Clerk WALTER R. FIELD
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
EDWARD P. MURPHY, Chairman JOHN F. REARDON
LAWRENCE W. CORRIDAN
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Clerk
* Deceased ** Resigned *** Vacancy
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
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 Town affairs to meet in the hall of the Weymouth High School on
MONDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1936
at seven o'clock and forty-five minutes in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :
BUDGET
ARTICLE 1. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the salaries, operation and expenses during the current fiscal year of each of the following Town Departments and activities, to wit:
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1. Appropriation Committee
2. Selectmen's Department
3. Town Accountant's Department
4. Town Treasurer's Department
5. Collector of Taxes
6. Assessor's Department
7. Legal Department
8. Payment of damages
9. Town Clerk's Department
10. Elections and Registrations
11. Engineering Department, including Town survey, bound stones, street surveys, and such other engineering work as may be authorized by the Board of Selectmen. .
12. Planning Board
13. Maintenance and upkeep of Town Hall and War Memorial.
14. Maintenance and upkeep of Civil War Soldiers Monument and other memorials in charge of Selectmen.
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
15. Police Department
16. Fire Department
17. Building Inspector
18. Sealer of Weights and Measures
19. Gypsy Moth and other Insect Pest Extermination
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20. Care of shade trees
21. Street Lighting
22. Harbor Master
HEALTH AND SANITATION
23. Board of Health
24. Employment of Nurses, including the determination of the way in which such nurses shall be employed, whether by contract or otherwise.
25. Maintenance of Norfolk Tuberculosis Hospital.
26. Garbage disposal.
RELIEF ACTIVITIES
27. Public Welfare
28. Old Age Assistance under Chapter 118A of the General Laws.
29. Pensions.
30. Soldier's Benefits, including:
(a) State Aid.
(b) Military Aid.
(c) Soldier's Relief and the Burial of Indigent Soldiers and Sailors.
MISCELLANEOUS
31. Highway Department
(a) General Maintenance, including salaries.
(b) Snow and ice.
(c) Construction
(d) Sidewalk construction
(e) Purchase and Maintenance of Equipment.
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32. Schools.
33. Libraries
34. Observance of Memorial Day under General Laws, Tencentenary Edition, Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 12.
35. Parks and Playgrounds
36. Miscellaneous Expenses
37. Unpaid bills
38. Overdrafts under General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 31.
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISES
39. Water Department
(a) Minor Construction
(b) Maintenance and operation
(c) Replacements
(d) Commercial Expenses
(e) Salaries
(f) Interest
(g) Debt
(h) Equipment
(i) Stock Account
(j) · Private Work
40. Sewer Construction
41. Alewife Fishery
CARE OF GRAVES
42. Care of Soldier's Graves
43. Care of old Cemeteries under Sections 16 and 18 of Chapter 114 of the General Laws.
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INTEREST AND DEBT REQUIREMENT
44. Interest Requirement
45. Bonds and Notes due in 1936
INSURANCE
46. Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund
47. Fire and other insurance
RESERVE FUND
48. For Reserve Fund
and to determine in each case how and under whose direction the money shall be expended, to impose any conditions and restrictions thereon which the Town may see fit; to determine how much money so appropriated shall be available for expenditures under Clause (34) of Section 5 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, Tercentenary Edition; to determine what, if any, sums so appropriated shall remain available after December 31, 1936; to fix the terms and conditions of any loan or loans authorized to procure any of such funds and to authorize the issue of bonds or notes for the same, and fix the term and rate of interest of any such bonds or notes; to fix such salaries as require to be fixed by the Town Meeting; and to impose such conditions upon the drawing of compensation from the Town as the Town may see fit; or take any other action in reference to any of the foregoing subjects.
ARTICLE 2. (By Direction of the Selectmen and Committee of E.R.A. or W.P.A. Expenditures). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the purposes of continuing any federal or state relief projects and providing compensation for services performed in reference to such activities by a member of the Board herein- after established and providing that the sum appropriated under this article may be expended for any such purposes under the direction of a Board of Three members, one to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, one by the Planning Board and one by the Moderator or to take any other action in relation thereto.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ARTICLE 3. (By direction of the Selectmen). To take any action that the Town may desire upon the reports of the several Town Boards and Committees and appoint or change any committee that the Town may think proper.
TOWN FINANCES
ARTICLE 4. (By direction of the Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to authorize the town treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1936, and to issue a note or notes there- for, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, of the General Laws, Tercentenary Edition.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen, on and after January 1, 1937 to borrow in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1937.
ARTICLE 6. To see what sum of money the Town will vote from sur- plus for the use of the Assessors in determining the tax rate for the year 1936.
ARTICLE 7. To determine in what manner taxes shall be collected during the current year, and fix the rate of interest on all taxes remaining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
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ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property of which the Town may be possessed or seized and for which it has no further use, includ- ing all real estate of which the Town has possession or title for non-payment of taxes; to see if the Town will vote to authorize any other department to sell or otherwise dispose of any personal property in its possession and to determine the manner or conditions, of such sales, or take any other action in reference thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize its Board of Selectmen to accept conveyances or mortgages of any real or personal property belonging to persons receiving relief from the Town and to dispose of said property in the manner that they may adjudge for the Town's best interest, and to authorize them to discharge any encumbrances on said property if they consider it for the best interest of the Town so to do, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the discharging of such encumbrances.
ARTICLE 10. To see what disposition the Town will make of any insurance money which may be recovered from the loss or damage by fire of any Town property and to see what action the Town will take in reference to paying from the Municipal Building Insurance Fund any such losses on property not covered by insurance.
STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
ARTICLE 11. (By the direction of the Selectmen and on Petition of Abutters on the several Streets Hereinafter Named). To see if the Town will accept the several reports of the Selectmen laying out as Town ways the following designated private. ways and parts of ways, or any of them to wit:
Castle Road from its intersection with Middle Street to the term- ination of a 40 (foot) width.
Lakewood Avenue from a point at or near Robinhood Road to a point at or near Westminister Road.
Pierce Road from a point at the present Town way to a point at or near Brook Terrace to include all that portion of Pierce Road which has not heretofore been accepted as a Town Way.
Greenacre from land of Heald and Gridley to its intersection with Pleasant Street.
or any portion of said ways and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street and highway in and over each of said streets as so laid out and accepted, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the working of each of the above named streets including the acquisition of the fee above referred to and for the building of any bridges, drains and conduits or securing easements which may be necessary in connection therewith and to see whether the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in connection with any of said streets, or to take any other action in reference thereto.
ARTICLE 12. (On Petition of the Planning Board). To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate to reconstruct, re- surface, widen, straighten, relocate or work the following streets:
The intersection of Madison and Commercial Streets.
Norton Street and that part of Pearl Street from the end of Norton Street to Evans Street.
Pond Street from New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway tracks in a generally southerly direction to Main Street.
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Front Street from Elliot Street to Federal Street.
North Street from land of one Grandell to Neck Street.
Pleasant Street from a point at or near the Police Station to Water Street.
Removing ledge lying between Main and Front Streets near or at their intersection with Winter Street.
Extention of the drain at the rear of property of Pond Plain Im- provement Association.
or any portion of said ways and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street and highway in and over each of said streets, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the working of each of the above named streets including the acquisition of the fee above referred to and for the buildings of any bridges, drains and conduits or securing easements which may be necessary in connection therewith and to see whether the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept deeds of any res- ervation strips existing in connection with any of said streets, or to take any other action in reference thereto.
ARTICLE 13. (On Petition of the Board of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate to reconstruct, re- surface, widen, straighten, relocate or work the following streets, provided the State or County or both will appropriate a sum of money to help defray the expenses of said work.
Middle Street from a point near Lake Street to a point in the vicinity of Central Square or beyond.
Pond Street from Main Street to the Abington Line.
or any portion of said ways and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift or purchase or take by eminent domain in fee or otherwise acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or otherwise for all purposes of a public street and highway in and over each of said streets, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the working of each of the above named streets including the acquisition of the fee above referred to and for the buildings of any bridges, drains and conduits or securing easements which may be necessary in connection therewith and to see whether the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in connection with any of said streets, or to take any other action in reference thereto.
ARTICLE 14. (On Petition of John V. Donovan and others). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the improvement of Beal Street or to take any other action in refer- ence thereto.
ARTICLE 15. (On Petition of the Planning Board and by Request of the Committee on the Widening of Broad Street). To see if the Town will take any action upon the report of the Committee on the widening of Broad Street made in the Town Report of the year 1931 and to see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of widening Broad Street or any portion thereof, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute agreements with certain abutters on Broad Street to waive damages in case of widening in all future cases where public improvements „are under consideration or take any other action in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 17. (On Petition of the Planning Board). To see what sum: or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the re -. surfacing, construction or repair of sidewalks and curbings on the streets. of the Town as hereinafter set forth or take any other action in reference: thereto:
Academy Avenue.
Broad and Commercial Streets, near Jackson Square.
Commercial Street from Station Street to Genevieve Road.
Front Street from land of Stetson Shoe Co. to Main Street. Front Street from Broad Street to Federal Street.
Lovell Street and Bradley Road.
Madison Street.
Pond Street from N.Y., N.H. & H. R.R. to Main Street.
Putman Street, Chard Street, Hillside Avenue.
Randolph Street.
Rosalind Road. Station Street and Front Steeet.
Summer Street.
Torrey Street.
Broad Street from Clapp Avenue to present premanent walk. Pine and Oak Streets.
Rosemont Road.
Sherwood Road.
Park Avenue from Pleasant Street to Weymouth Fair Grounds. Pleasant Street from Columbian Square to Ralph Talbot Street.
Sycamore Road.
Middle Street from Essex Street to Washington Street.
High Street, Cedar Street and Hawthorne Street. North Street from Pilgrim Road to the beach.
Norton and Pearl Streets from North Street to Evans Street.
ARTICLE 18. (By Request or on Petition as Hereinafter Specified). To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate for the resurfacing, construction or repair of sidewalks and curb- ings on the streets of the Town as hereinafter set forth or take any other action in reference thereto.
(On petition of Winston A. Howe and others). For a permanent curb and sidewalk on the northerly side of Sycamore Road.
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