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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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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1938
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TOWN OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1938-1939
Elected by Ballot TOWN CLERK
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT
Term expires March 1940
TOWN TREASURER
GEORGE E. CURTIN
Term expires March 1939
SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
SANDY ROULSTON, Chairman EVERETT E. CALLAHAN, Clerk* RALPH P. BURRELL, Clerk JOSEPH CREHAN
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Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1939
Term expires March 1939
GEORGE E. LANE
Term expires March 1939
ASSESSORS
CHARLES E. BURGESS. Chairman HARRY E. BEARCE, Clerk FRANK A. PRAY FRANCIS A. GUNN
JOHN W. HEFFERNAN
Term expires March 1940 Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1940 Term expires March 1941 Term expires March 1941
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
FRANK W. HOLBROOK
Term expires March 1939
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
PRINCE H. TIRRELL, Chairman ETHEL G. TAYLOR, Secretary
J. HERBERT LIBBY
WILLIAM F. SHIELDS
WALLACE H. DRAKE
Term expires March 1941
CLAYTON W. NASH
Term expires March 1939
PARK COMMISSIONERS
EVERETT J. McINTOSH, Chairman
CHARLES W. BURGESS, Clerk
ARTHUR I. NEGUS
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1941 Term expires March 1940
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1941 Term expires March 1940 Term expires March 1940
WATER COMMISSIONERS
RALPH P. BURRELL, Chairman GEORGE E. CURTIN, Clerk, ex-officio GEORGE W. PERRY BASIL S. WARREN SANDY ROULSTON, ex-officio
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1940 Term expires March 1941 Term expires March 1939
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TRUSTEES OF TUFTS LIBRARY
CLARANCE P. WHITTLE, Chairman GERTRUDE C. ANDREWS, Secretary KENNETH L. NASH
Term expires March 1941
JOHN B. HOLLAND
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1940
LEIGHTON S. VORHEES
JOSEPH KELLEY FRANKLIN N. PRATT FRANCIS N. DROWN JOHN GRIFFIN
Term expires March 1940 Term expires March 1941 Term expires March 1941
BOARD OF SELECTMEN
Ex-officio
GEORGE E. CURTIN, Treasurer
Ex-officio
BOARD OF HEALTH
THOMAS J. MacDONALD, Chairman FREDERICK L. DOUCETT, Clerk
LEWIS W. PEASE
Term expires March 1940 Term expires March 1941 Term expires March 1939
PLANNING BOARD
CHARLES GRIFFIN, Chairman
CHARLES A. JORDAN, Clerk
THOMAS J. KELLY
Term expires March 1939
RAYMOND O. HOLLIS
Term expires March 1940
HENRY R. SARGENT
Term expires March 1940
ROY H. ROSEWELL
Term expires March 1941
RUSSELL H. WHITING
Term expires March 1941
TREE WARDEN
V. LESLIE HEBERT
Term expires March 1939
ANNUAL MODERATOR
DANIEL L. O'DONNELL
Term expires March 1939
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 1, term expires 1939
HENRY T. CALNAN
JOHN A. CARTER
HENRY F. CLAPP
FRED W. CROCKER
EDWARD J. GILL
CHARLES C. HEARN
R. CHESTER LOPAUS
ROLAND T. SEABURY
HENRY O. TUTTY
HERMAN O. COLLYER WILLIAM B. DASHA CHARLES GRIFFIN DeFOREST JONES RAY E. LOUD RUSSELL A. STILES BERNICE STILES
Precinct 1, term expires 1940
JOHN L. BASTY
ROBERT H. BUCHAN
WILLIAM C. CHERRINGTON C. WARREN CLARK OBERLIN S. CLARK PRESTON A. DePLACIDO HARRY J. DOWD GEORGE W. HUNT, Jr. WILLIAM E. KEZER E. LEO MADDEN WILLIAM P. MORGANSTERN WILLIAM M. McDONALD GEORGE L. RAND CHARLES P. SHEPPARD RUSSELL H. WHITING WILLIS M. WIGHT
TOIVO E. MATSON **
ANTHONY S. VEADER
Precinct 1, term expires 1941
PERCIVAL A. AMES GEORGE C. CLEAVES, Jr. RICHARD DOREY DONALD D. HUNT
CARLTON CHAMBERS LAUGHTON B. DASHA WALLACE H. DRAKE FRANCIS X. KELLY
JAMES H. PITTS
Term expires March 1940
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1941
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BRADFORD H. MATHEWSON ARCHIBALD J. MCLELLAN MURRAY G. PARKER RAYMOND E. STEIN RUSSELL D. TUFTS
TIMOTHY G. MCCARTHY ROBERT J. PALMER JOHN H. SALZGEBER STANLEY T. TORREY GEORGE M. WINTER
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS
Precinct 2, term expires 1939
THOMAS A. BOYLE
JOSEPH BRAGOLE, Jr.
ROGER N. BUTLER
ROBERT P. JOHNSON
THOMAS J. KELLY
GEORGE B. MARDEN
HARRY E. MATTSON
ROBERT E. MITCHELL
ALBERT R. SCHOFIELD
LAWRENCE E. SCHOFIELD Jr.
BENJAMIN B. SYLVESTER *** ROY A. WHEATON
** MARSHALL T. TIRRELL
Precinct 2, term expires 1940
GEORGE L. BATES
HARRY E. BEARCE
WINIFRED C. BONNEY
CHARLES R. DENBROEDER
EVERETT T. GARDNER
CHARLES E. LANGEN
ABRAHAM NESSON
ARTHUR M. REED
PETER F. KENDRICK HAROLD C. LINCOLN JAMES I. PEERS DOMINICK VENTRE
ROBERT M. WHITE
Precinct 2, term expires 1941
CHARLES F. BUTLER
FRANCIS R. CASHMAN
ARTHUR F. CHAMBERLAIN, Jr.
DANIEL P. CUMMINGS
JOHN L. GALLANT
RALPH H. HASKINS PHILIP T. JONES
WILLIAM M. HUGHES
CARL E. LINDQUIST
JAMES R. MITCHELL
FREDERICK V. NOLAN
JOSEPH B. NOSIGLIA
STEPHEN WELCH
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS
Precinct 3, term expires 1939
C. LINCOLN ABBOTT
WINFRED A. BROWN
NORMAN T. CRAIG
VINCENT G. COYLE SAMUEL F. CUSHING JOHN R. HAVILAND
FLURANCE I. LYONS GEORGE S. PETERSON JOHN F. TRACY
J. EDWARD BATES LEO W. CONDRICK WILLIAM J. COYLE CHARLES F. CREHAN GEORGE T. DOWD EDWARD W. HUNT WILLIAM D. PARKER JOHN E. HUNT DONALD F. WHITTLE
RICHARDS WORTHEN
Precinct 3, term expires 1940
HOWARD D. ABBOTT
CHARLES W. BAKER
FRANK W. BRYANT
HARRY CHRISTENSEN FREDERICK J. COYLE SETH H. CUSHING FRANCIS M. DODGE
BURTON F. JOHNSON CLARENCE M. PRICE
ARTHUR C. ANDERSON HARRY I. BLOOM DOUGLAS R. BUCHANAN A. WARREN CLAPP WILLIAM N. CRAIG HAROLD A. DESMOND RAYMOND O. HOLLIS WILLIAM E. PRAY HAROLD TRASK
WALLACE L. WHITTLE
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Precinct 3, term expires 1941
CHARLES Y. BERRY
JOHN H. COFFEY CHARLES A. COYLE
ALICE J. DALEY
FRANCIS C. HAVILAND
ELIZABETH M. HOUGHTON
EDWARD A. HUNT
WILLIAM H. MILLS
LESTER W. TISDALE
FRANK M. CHUBBUCK JOHN F. CONDON DONALD W. CRAIG JOHN F. DWYER WALTER B. HEFFERNAN ALBERT R. HUMPHREY JOHN A. HUTCHINS TIMOTHY G. OSBORN THOMAS G. WALLACE
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 4, term expires 1939
JAMES J. CANNON
GEORGE H. DeRUSHA
ARTHUR B. TIRRELL
CHESLEY CORMACK EDWARD R. JONES THERON L. TIRRELL
Precinct 4, term expires 1940
CHARLES H. DeRUSHA
FERDINAND A. GOSSELYN
JOHN W. HEFFERNAN
HENRY F. GIGUERE WALLACE S. RAYMOND CLARENCE C. SANDS
HENRY R. SARGENT
Precinct 4, term expires 1941
GERTRUDE C. ANDREWS SIDNEY DeBOER ALFRED K. MARTIN
HAROLD A. CONDRICK JOHN W. KNOX MARION L. NASH
WILFRED L. STOWELL, Jr.
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 5, term expires 1939
EDGAR C. ALGER FRANK E. DUNN
MILTON A. BARNES
HOMER C. WADMAN
WILLIAM M. CHANCE GUY W. C. HARTT IVAN A. NELSON NATHANIEL P. WILLIAMSON
Precinct 5, term expires 1940
MELVILLE C. ALGER
BERTRAM F. COLE
HARRY FEKKES
LIDA MacFEATERS
CHARLES A. JORDAN
MADELINE F. CHANCE WILLIAM L. DITCHETT CHARLES A. KELLIHER WILLIAM G. P. PARK ALBERT L. THIBEAULT
Precinct 5, term expires 1941
NILS E. ANDERSON MINOT E. HOLLIS JOHN R. LINDSAY GEORGE REED
FRANK G. HALE, Jr. WINSTON A. HOWE ARTHUR I. NEGUS REGINALD P. TIRRELL
CLARENCE R. WICKERSON
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 6, term expires 1939
JOHN A. AHERN CHESTER L. BOYLE GEORGE E. CUNNIFF JAMES E. DOWNS FRANK J. PATTISON
JOHN H. REIDY FRANCIS D. ROBINSON
GEORGE H. BICKNELL RALPH M. CHURCH GEORGE E. CURTIN JOHN H. MORAN HENRY C. PRATT AMERICO CASSESE ALEXANDER SAMELA
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Precinct 6, term expires 1940
EDWARD F. BUTLER
EWDARD C. CLARK
CHARLES S. DOBSON
WILLIAM A. HODGES
DAVID F. KEARNS
HAROLD F. LOUD
JOHN T. McISAAC
ADELBERT W. MORRILL
HENRY L. MEYER
VERNON O. NELSON
JOHN E. REIDY
RALPH SALEMME
PASQUALE SANTACROCE
ALFRED C. SHEEHY
WILLIAM A. FOSTER
Precinct 6, term expires 1941
OLINDO S. GAROFALO
HENRY F. GODIN
LYMAN C. GOODRICH
JOHN W. HEDDEN FERDERICK HUMPHREY
HERBERT F. HOLMES
EDWARD C. McINTOSH
ANDREW T. MOORE
WILLIAM M. REAMY
DANIEL REIDY EGBERT V. WARREN
BURGESS H. SPINNEY **
CEDRIC D. WATSON
WALTER WILSON
FRANCIS H. MAGUIRE, Jr.
GEORGE E. DRAPER
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 7, term expires 1939
WARREN E. GAREY
ROBERT L. DOBLE
JAMES H. L. ERDIS
EDWARD L. WILLIAMS
CLYNE W. BIGELOW CHARLES E. EDDY J. EDWARD PETERSON WILLIAM T. WYMAN
Precinct 7. term expires 1940
ALBERT BIAGI
JOHN S. JENNINGS JOHN W. THORP
ROY A. CASS
FORRESTER EISENHAUER ยท KARLE G. LOVELL WILFRED G. CORBETT ARCHIBALD MALETTE
Precinct 7, term expires 1941
WILLIAM B. CHALKE, Jr. E. EVERETT FROST GAROLD E. KELSO
WILLIAM A. FERGUSON IRVING E. JOHNSON ALLSTON A. SHAW
ROLAND M. SMITH
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 8, term expires 1939
BENJAMIN W. COWAN EDWIN R. HANSON ARTHUR L. TILTON
JOHN W. COYLE PAUL A. NEWSOME MABELLE L. GLADWIN
Precinct 8, term expires 1940
H. SCOTT BROWN WALTER R. COPE JAMES IRELAND
PRESCOTT B. BROWN PHILIP W. HENLEY HARRY E. JOHNSON
HERBERT B. SHAFTOE
Precinct 8, term expires 1941
ARTHUR G. BURKETT ALLAN C. EMERY PARKER T. PEARSON
ARTHUR A. CICCHESE ARTHUR H. HEWSON JAMES F. STEELE
FRED W. WEBB
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS Precinct 9, term expires 1939
SUMNER P. BOWKER WALTER R. FIELD
HARRISON I. COLE JOHN E. HORACE
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RITCHIE T. HOWE RICHMOND LITCHFIELD ROY V. NELSON
FRANK E. LOUD EVERETT W. MOXON FRANK W. NESS
** GEORGE REED 1 Vacancy
Precinct 9, term expires 1940
HERBERT W. CAUSER
HAROLD E. DUNN
JOHN W. FIELD
WALLACE W. LYON
JOHN W. O'DONNELL
ROY H. ROSEWELL
ETHEL G. TAYLOR
JAMES F. TOWLE
PRINCE H. TIRRELL ** JAMES B. WEST
Precinct 9, term expires 1941
MELVILLE F. CATE
FRANCIS A. GUNN
GEORGE J. HUSBAND
RALPH A. KLINGEMAN
JOSEPH W. KOHLER
ELIZABETH M. PRUDEN
GEORGE E. PRUDEN
CHARLES H. PUTNAM *** JOSIAH B. REED
ARTHUR R. TAYLOR
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS BY VIRTUE OF THEIR OFFICE Under the provisions of Section 3, of Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921 as amended
FRANK W. BRYANT
CHESTER L. BOYLE
CHARLES W. BURGESS
EVERETT E. CALLAHAN
JOHN H. COFFEY
DANIEL P. CUMMINGS
EMERSON R. DIZER
CHARLES GRIFFIN
ARTHUR J. HASSETT
V. LESLIE HEBERT
JOHN E. HORACE
EVERETT J. McINTOSH
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT
CHARLES B. MITCHELL
KENNETH L. NASH
SANDY ROULSTON
RAYMOND STEIN
PRINCE H. TIRRELL
FRANK W. HOLBROOK THOMAS F. LEARY THOMAS J. MacDONALD A. KENNETH MARTIN GEORGE E. LANE DANIEL L. O'DONNELL A. WESLEY SAMPSON DANIEL P. SULLIVAN CLARENCE P. WHITTLE
WILFRED B. MATHEWSON
APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE
Term expires 1939
FRANK W. BRYANT DANIEL P. SULLIVAN
CHARLES B. MITCHELL ARTHUR A. CICCHESE
A. WESLEY SAMPSON Term expires 1940
DANIEL P. CUMMINGS WILFRED B. MATHEWSON THOMAS F. LEARY Term expires 1941
JOHN W. FIELD, Clerk ARTHUR J. HASSETT
CHESTER L. BOYLE JOHN E. HORACE
JOHN H. COFFEY A .. KENNETH MARTIN
RAYMOND E. STEIN
RALPH P. BURRELL ARTHUR A. CICCHESE JOSEPH CREHAN GEORGE E. CURTIN JOHN W. FIELD
WILLIAM RALPH
STANLEY HEALD LEO MCCARTHY
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DEPARTMENT HEADS
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING
BUILDING INSPECTOR
TOWN ENGINEER
TOWN COUNSEL TOWN ACCOUNTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS
SUPERINTENDENT OF TOWN INFIRMARY
JOHN H. REIDY
GEORGE MARSHALL ANDREW T. MOORE RUSSELL H. WHITING KENNETH L. NASH EMERSON R. DIZER THOMAS J. KELLY
FRED P. TOLMAN
ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMITTEE
JOSEPH KELLEY, Chairman DANIEL REIDY
J. HERBERT LIBBY, Clerk ALFRED S. TIRRELL
WALTER R. FIELD
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
EDWARD P. MURPHY, Chairman Term expires March 1940
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Clerk, Ex-officio JOHN F. REARDON LAWRENCE W. CORRIDAN
Term expires March 1939 Term expires March 1941
* Deposed ** Moved from precinct
*** Moved from town
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MONDAY, MARCH, 7, 1938, 7:45 P. M.
Norfolk, ss.
To any of 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 SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH, 1938
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, necessary charges, and for unpaid bills of prior years:
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
1. Appropriation Committee
2. Selectmen's Department
3. Town Accountant's Department
4. Town Treasurer's Department
5. Collector of Taxes
6. Assessors' 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
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19. Gypsy Moth and other Insect Pest Extermination
20. Care of Shade Trees
21. Street Lighting
22. Harbor Master
HEALTH AND SANITATION
23. Board of Health
24. Employment of Nurses
25. Maintenance and Repairs of Norfolk County Tuberculosis
Hospital
26. Garbage Disposal
RELIEF ACTIVITIES
27. Public Welfare
28. Old Age Assistance under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 118A as amended.
29. Pensions
30. Soldiers' Benefits including:
(a) State Aid
(b) Military Aid
(c) Soldiers' 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
32. Schools
33. Libraries
34. Observance of Memorial Day under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 40, Section 5, Clause 12 as amended.
35. Parks and Playgrounds
36. Miscellaneous Expenses
37. Unpaid bills
38. Overdrafts under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 44, Section 31
39. Weymouth Retirement Board
PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISES
40. 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
41. Sewer Construction
42. Alewife Fishery
CARE OF GRAVES
43. Care of Soldiers' Graves
44. Care of Old Cemeteries under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 114, Sections 16 and 18.
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INTEREST AND DEBT REQUIREMENT
45. Interest requirement
46. Bonds and Notes due in 1938
INSURANCE
47. Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund
48. Fire and other insurance
RESERVE FUND
49. 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 General Laws, (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 10, Section 5, Clause 34; to determine what, if any, sums so appropriated shall remain available after December 31, 1938; to fix the terms and con- ditions 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 relation to any of the foregoing subjects.
ARTICLE 2. (At the request of the W. P. A. Committee) To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for providing co-operation with the Federal Government in unemployment relief and other projects of direct or indirect benefit to the Town or its inhabitants or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 3. (At the request of the W. P. A. Committee) To see if the Town will vote that of the sum appropriated under Article 2 of this Warrant a definite amount be set apart for the purpose of resurfacing, constructing, altering or repairing sidewalks and curbings throughout the Town or take any other action in relation thereto.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ARTICLE 4. (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 5. (By Direction of the Selectmen) To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1938, and to insure a note or notes therefor, 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 General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 44, Section 17.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize its Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen, on and after January 1, 1939 to borrow in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1939.
ARTICLE 7. 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 1938.
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,
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including 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 relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize its Board of Selectmen to accpet conveyances or mortgages of any real or personal property belonging to persons receiving relief from the Town and to dis- pose of said property in the manner 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.
STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
ARTICLE 10. (By 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:
Newbert Avenue from its intersection with Main Street in an easterly direction a distance of about 900 feet to land of Alice H. Nelson.
Newbert Circle from a point where it intersects Newbert Avenue in a southerly direction about 165 feet thence turning sharply and running in an easterly direction about 300 feet thence turning abruptly and running in a northerly direction about 165 feet to a point where it again intersects Newbert Avenue.
Gibbens Street from its intersection with Summit Street at Webb Park to Commercial 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 relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. (By Direction of the Selectmen) To see what sum of money the Town will vote to 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 de- fray the expenses of said work, to wit:
Commercial Street, North Street, Norton 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, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropirate 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 reservations strips existing in connection with any of said streets, or to take any other action in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 12. (By Direction of the Selectmen) To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift, purchase. or take by right of eminent domain in fee a piece of property containing about 1321 square feet forming the junction of the westerly side line of Pine Street with the southeasterly side line of Pleasant Street and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for this pur- pose, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. (At the request of the Planning Board) 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 of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of widening Broad Street or any portion thereof, or take .any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 14. (At the request of the Planning Board and on Petition as hereinafter may appear) To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to reconstruct, resurface, widen straighten, relocate or work the following streets:
West Street
Winter Street
Federal Street
Forest Street
Pearl and Norton Streets
Sea Street from Thomas' Corner to Bicknell Square
Summer Street from Front Street to Federal Street
Essex Street from Broad Street to Commercial Street North Street near the corner of Neck and Pearl Streets
Front Street from the vicinity of Elliot Street to Federal Street
Pond Street from the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. to Abington Town Line
Whitman Street from Broad Street to the Humphrey School Grounds
Pleasant Street from Police Station to junction of Pleasant and Water Streets
(On Petition)
(On petition of John Daniele and others) Broad Street Place (On petition of Alfred K. Martin and others) Park Avenue from Main Street to Ralph Talbot 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 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 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 relation thereto.
ARTICLE 15. (By Direction of the Selectmen and on Petitions as hereinafter may appear). To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the resurfacing, construction or repair of sidewalks and curbings on the streets of the Town as herinafter set forth or take any other action in relation thereto:
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(On petition of Henry A. Nash and others) On northerly side of Commercial Street from North Street to Church Street.
(On petition of Helen Sybertz and others) On south side of Leonard Road.
(On petition of Ida R. Banck and others) On Commercial Street from Town Barn to Hingham Line.
(On petition of James A. Munroe and others) On Washington Street from number 1215 to Pleasant Street.
(On petition of Arthur E. Heinstrom and others) On easterly side of Pleasant Street from Pratt School to Lovell's Corner.
(On petition of Charles N. Turner and others) On easterly side of Pleasant Street from property of John Hanley to Canterbury Street.
(On petition of Arthur E. Heinstrom and others) On either side of Lakehurst Avenue from Pleasant Street to Washington Street.
(On petition of Harry W. Tabb and others) On Pine Street from number 114 to Elm Street.
(On petition of Arthur E. Heinstrom and others) On the west side of Middle Street from Circuit Avenue to Washington Street.
DRAINAGE
ARTICLE 16. (By Direction of the Selectmen and on Petitions as hereinafter may appear). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of constructing or reconstructing drains and culverts in the locations hereinafter set forth or take any other action in relation thereto.
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