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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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GUSSET 1622
ABORARE
VINCENT
MASSACHUSETTS
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635
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1943
WESSA
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LABORARE VINCERE
MASSACHUSETTS
5.1635.
635
TOWN OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1943-1944
Elected by Ballot TOWN CLERK
JULIAN R. MERCHANT
Term expires March 1946
TOWN TREASURER
GEORGE E. CURTIN
Term expires March 1944
SELECTMEN AND BBOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
HARRY CHRISTENSEN, Chairman
Term expires March 1944
JOSEPH A. FERN
Term expires March 1944
SANDY ROULSTON
Term expires March 1944
BASIL S. WARREN
Term expires March 1944
RALPH P. BURRELL
Term expires March 1944
ASSESSORS
CHARLES W. BURGESS, Chairman
Term expires March 1946
HARRY E. BEARCE, Clerk
Term expires March 1945
FRANK A. PRAY
Term expires March 1946
FRANCIS A. GUNN
Term expires March 1944 '
JOHN W. HEFFERNAN
Term expires March 1944
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
FRANK W. HOLBROOK
Term expires March 1944
PARK COMMISSIONERS
EVERETT J. McINTOSH, Chairman
CHARLES W. BURGESS, Clerk
ARTHUR I. NEGUS
Term expires March 1945 Term expires March 1944 Term expires March 1946
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
JOSEPH W. MAHONY, Chairman
Term expires March 1946 Term expires March 1944
ETHEL G. TAYLOR, Clerk
WILLIAM F. SHIELDS
Term expires March 1946
DR. WALLACE H. DRAKE
Term expires March 1944
CLAYTON W. NASH
Term expires March 1945
DR. HAROLD A. SPALDING
Term expires March 1945
WATER COMMISSIONERS
RALPH P. BURRELL, Chairman
Term expires March 1945
Term expires March 1944
GEORGE E. CURTIN, Clerk ex-officio GEORGE W. PERRY A. WESLEY SAMPSON
Term expires March 1946
Term expires March 1944
HARRY CHRISTENSEN, ex-officio
Term expires March 1944
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TRUSTEES OF TUFTS LIBRARY
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE, Chairman
Term expires March 1946
FRANCIS C. HAVILAND
Term expires March 1945
LEIGHTON S. VOORHEES
Term expires March 1945
JOSEPH KELLEY
Term expires March 1946
FRANKLIN N. PRATT, Clerk
Term expires March 1946
FRANCIS N. DROWN
Term expires March 1944 Term expires March 1944
PHILIP T. JONES
DR. WALLACE H. DRAKE
Term expires March 1945
GORDAN D. PARIS
Term expires March 1944
GEORGE E. CURTIN, Treasurer ex-officio
Term expires March 1944
BOARD OF SELECTMEN, ex-officio
Term expires March 1944
BOARD OF HEALTH
THOMAS. J. MacDONALD
DR. LEWIS W. PEASE, Clerk
DR. HAROLD A. SPALDING, Chairman
Term expires March 1946 Term expires March 1945 Term expires March 1944
PLANNING BOARD
CHARLES GRIFFIN
Term expires March 1945
THOMAS J. KELLY
Term expires March 1945
FRANCIS A. FARR, Secretary
Term expires March 1946
HENRY R. SARGENT
Term expires March 1946
ROY H. ROSEWELL
Term expires March 1944
WALTER B. HEFFERNAN
Term expires March 1944
FRANK G. HALE, Jr., Chairman
Term expires March 1944
TREE WARDEN
V. LESLIE HEBERT
Term expires March 1944
ANNUAL MODERATOR
WILLIAM J. HOLBROOK Term expires March 1944
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS
(In accordance with Chapter 28 of the Acts of 1943, terms of all Town Meeting Members listed below expire in 1944)
Precint 1, Term expires 1944
MARION F. BAILEY ASA OSBORNE
MABELLE F. GLADWIN
RICHARD MATHEWSON
JOHN L. BASTY JOSHUA HOLBROOK
ROBERT H. BUCHAN
E. LEO MADDEN
OBERLIN S. CLARK
WARREN W. MacCULLUM
DAVID EDELSTEIN
RUSSELL H. WHITING ANTHONY S. VEADER
Precint 1, Term expires 1944
PERCIVAL A. AMES
JOSEPH L. KELLEY
QUENTIN PALMER,
GEORGE C. CLEAVES, Jr.
RICHARD DOREY
CARLTON CHAMBERS
LAUGHTON B. DASHA
WILLIAM JORGENSEN
WALLACE H. DRAKE
FRANCIS X. KELLEY
BRADFORD H. MATHEWSON
THURSTON KOOPMAN
WILLIAM KEEZER
MURRAY G. PARKER RAYMOND E. STEIN TIMOTHY G. MCCARTHY ROBERT L. PALMER " JOHN H. SALZGABER JOSEPH J. MCKINNON STANLEY T. TORREY GEORGE M. WINTERS WILLIAM A. TAYLOR LEO F. MCKINNON
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Precint 1, Term expires 1944
JOHN A. CARTER
CHARLES C. HEARN
HENRY F. CLAPP
R. CHESTER LOPAUS
HERMAN O. COLLYER
RAY E. LOUD JOHN F. F. MacDONNELL
PEARSON T. CAZEAULT
WILLIAM B. DASHA CARL S. PAULSON EDWARD J. GILL CHARLES GRIFFIN GERALD B. PROCTER WARREN F. ROULSTON BERNICE STILES RUSSELL A. STILES FREDERICK A. BAILEY HENRY O. TUTTY HAROLD W. WHITE PAUL C. CLEAVES
HERBERT H. LESLIE
Precint 2, Term expires 1944
GEORGE L. BATES
HAROLD C. GOULD
WINFRED C. BONNEY
PAUL V. COFFEY
ALVIN K. KING
ALPHE CARRIER
OLIVE D. SYLVESTER
HARRY DUNCAN
Precint 2, Term expires 1944
ARNOLD D'ALLESANDRO
HARRY M. STETSON
JOHN L. GALLANT
HENRY P. TILDEN
RALPH HASKINS
JOHN MacDONALD
WILLIAM M. HUGHES
JOSEPH B. NOSIGLIA
CARL E. LINDQUIST
FREDERICK W. NOLAN
RODERICK P. ELLS
ELSIE SCHOFIELD WALTER GUTTERSON
Precint 2, Term expires 1944
THOMAS A. BOYLE
HERBERT ROWELL
ROBERT F. JOHNSON
AMY HILL DUNCAN
THOMAS A. KELLY
ERNEST A. SMITH
HARRY A. MATTSON
HAROLD E. CLARK
ROBERT E. MITCHELL
CLARENCE R. LYONS
EDWARD H. RIDEOUT ORAL A. PAGE
BENJAMIN B. SYLVESTER
JAMES R. MITCHELL
Precint 3, Term expires 1944
ERNEST S. BARRAUD
WILLIAM SHIELDS
HARRY I. BLOOM
GEORGE P. McGLONE
ARTHUR J. HASSETT, Jr.
ALBERT E. SPENCER
WALLACE L. WHITTLE
WILLIAM E. PRAY
PAUL H. CARLSON HARRY CHRISTENSEN
ROBERT J. CASEY
WILLIAM F. DESMOND
CYRIL J. CONROY HAROLD B. STONE
HAROLD GARDNER
ANDREW SARAKINIS
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE, Jr.
EDWARD M. KEOHAN WILLIAM T. WHITE GEORGE G. DUNNING
Precint 3, Term expires 1944
CHARLES Y. BERRY
JOHN H. COFFEY
CHARLES A. COYLE
FREDERICK J. COYLE
FRANK M. CHUBBUCK
JOHN F. CONDON
ROGER N. BUTLER
JOHN F. DWYER
FRANCIS C. HAVILAND
EDMUND L. WARD
GEORGE C. FOSTER
WILLIAM E. KEEFE EDWARD A. HUNT WALTER B. HEFFERNAN JOHN A. HUTCHINS TIMOTHY G. OSBORN FRANK A. PRAY THOMAS G. WALLACE THOMAS SCHULTZ HARRY DROWN FREDERICK WRIGHT, Jr. JOHN C. HUNT
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PRESTON DePLACIDO EVERETT T. GARDNER PETER F. KENDRICK FRED W. WEBB
JOHN T. GANNON
Precint 3, Term expires 1944
C. LINCOLN ABBOTT
MORRIS BLOOM
WINFRED A. BROWN
FRANCIS N. DROWN
HUGH R. FERGUSON
FLURENCE I. LYONS ABBIE W. PEASE
JOHN J. KELLY
LEO A. HEFFERNAN
LLOYD W. CARTER
GEORGE S. PETERSON RICHARD L. TAYLOR GEORGE H. AUSTIN . JOSEPH J. KEBLIS PAUL L. GOODHUE WALTER C. WIGGIN CHARLES T. WINSLOW NORMAN C. DOREY JOHN E. McCAFFREY HARRIET S. BERRY
Precint 4, Term expires 1944
CHARLES H. DeRUSHA HENRY F. GIGUERE JOHN W. HEFFERNAN
MERTON LOUD CLARENCE C. SANDS ROBERT MORTON
Precint 4, Term expires 1944
GERTRUDE C. ANDREWS
HAROLD A. CONDRICK
JOHN W. KNOX
ALFRED K. MARTIN
ROBERT J. VERGE
ELMER I. WHEELER
Precint 4, Term expires 1944
CHESLEY C. CORMACK
KENNETH O. HANSON
ARTHUR B. TIRRELL
HENRY C. BLENIS, Jr. EDGAR STEPHENSON JAMES T. WILLIAMSON ALVAH RAYMOND
LOUIS H.ELLS
Precint 5, Term expires 1944
MADELINE F. CHANCE
CARL SHERMAN
HARRY FEKKES
PORTER W. THOMPSON SIGVARD MELIN
HENRY R. SARGENT
CLARENCE W. TAYLOR CHARLES JORDAN
ROY M. S. HARTSHORN
Precint 5, Term expires 1944
NILS E. ANDERSON
WILLIAM H. LOUD
FRANK G. HALE, Jr. ARTHUR I. NEGUS MINOT E. HOLLIS REGINALD P. TIRRELL WINSTON A. HOWE CHARLES A. KELLEHER OAKLEY KUNZ
JOSEPH L. JANNELL
CLARENCE WICKERSON
Precint 5, Term expires 1944
EDGAR C. ALGER
WILLIAM H. MATTESON
MILTON A. BARNES IVAN A. NELSON
WILLIAM M. CHANCE, Sr.
ARTHUR B. SHEPHERD
FRANK E. DUNN HOMER C. WADMAN DANIEL P. SULLIVAN
GORDAN D. PARIS
Precint 6, Term expires 1944
EDWARD F. BUTLER
JOHN E. REIDY
RALPH T. CIPULLO
ALFRED C. SHEEHY
LESTER FULTON GERALD P. SULLIVAN GEORGE F. GILMAN FOREST B. HOLT WILLIAM A. HODGES PHILIP T. JONES
Precint 6, Term expires 1944
W. NORMAN BATES GEORGE J. MCCARTHY
CHARLES H. BURKETT FRANCIS H. MAGUIRE EDWARD LEO CONROY DANIEL REIDY
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GEORGE H. MELVILLE MARION L. NASH WILFRED STOWELL
WILLIAM G. B. PARK
ORLINDO GAROFALO LYMAN C. GOODRICH HENRY F. GODIN WILLIAM F. HARRINGTON
GEORGE C. SMITH RUSSELL MAZZOLA CEDRIC D. WATSON EDWARD SHIELDS
Precint 6, Term expires 1944
J. ALBERT AHERN
EUGENE O'LEARY
GEORGE H. BICKNELL
CHESTER L. BOYLE
GEORGE E. CUNNIFF
FREDERICK T. HOFFMAN
FRANK J. PATTISON HENRY C. PRATT JOHN H. REIDY GERALD B. PROCTER, Jr.
NELS P. JOHNSON ELIJAH WHITON
EDGAR E. RABIDEAU
Precint 7, Term expires 1944
ALICE W. CHAPLIN
ALBERT BIAGGI
RALPH COBB
ALEXANDER ANDERSON ELMER F. DeRUSHA MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN
KARL O. SETTELLE
Precint 7, Term expires 1944
WILLIAM B. CHALKE, Jr.
ARTHUR FRANK HUNT
NORMAN E. CHAPLIN
E. EVERETT FROST
WILLIAM A. FERGUSON
JOHN McKENNA RICHARD PATTISON
Precint 7, Term expires 1944
ANDREW CHISHOLM
ROBERT E. GAULEY
HERBERT J. SULLIVAN
WILLIAM T. WYMAN
GEORGE H. MCKINLEY ALBERT FLATHERS MARGARET L. THOMAS KENNETH M. SARGENT
Precint 8, Term expires 1944
PAUL COLLINS H. SCOTT BROWN
PRESCOTT B. BROWN
ANTHONY L. CASSESE
GEORGE E. LANE GORDON B. COYLE HERBERT B. SHAFTOE FRED B. HAMILTON
PAUL G. THAYER
Precint 8, Term expires 1944
HERBERT ALMQUIST
ARTHUR CICCHESE
ALLAN C. EMERY
ARTHUR H. HEWSON
WILLIAM CORKEY HAROLD SHERWOOD JAMES F. STEELE FRANCIS A. FARR
SIDNEY F. PARTRIDGE
Precint 8, Term expires 1944
BENJAMIN M. COWAN
JOHN W. COYLE ROBERT W. JESSON
RAYMOND O. HOLLIS
HOWARD PFLAUMER ALEXANDER NORRIS GEORGE IMLACH EDWIN R. HANSON
PLUMER E. POPE
Precint 9, Term expires 1944
HERBERT W. CAUSER CARL A. R. LEWIS ALLAN F. CRAWFORD JOHN W. FIELD STANLEY HEALD WALLACE W. LYON
JOHN WM. O'DONNELL ROY H. ROSEWELL HENRY S. STOWERS ETHEL G. TAYLOR PRINCE H. TIRRELL ALBERT VINAL
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ROLAND M. SMITH GENEVA MONTIETH
IRVING E. JOHNSON
Precint 9, Term expires 1944
MELVILLE F. CATE
FRANCIS A. GUNN ROGER D. HAWKES JOSEPH LEAHY RALPH A. KLINGMAN
JOSEPH W. KOHLER
GEORGE E. PRUDEN
ELIZABETH M. PRUDEN
CHARLES H. PUTNAM WILLIAM RALPH
ARTHUR R. TAYLOR FRED OLIVER
WALTER B. MORRISON ALEXANDER JENKINS
Precint 9, Term expires 1944
SUMNER P. BOWKER
'WALTER R. FIELD
HARRISON I. COLE
WALLACE S. RAYMOND
RITCHIE T. HOWE
EVERETT MOXON
WILLARD M. BOND
MAURICE BECKES
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS BY VIRTUE OF OFFICE
Under Prov. of Sec. three of Chap. 61 of the Acts of 1921 as amended.
HARRY CHRISTENSEN
FRANK M. BRYANT
CHARLES W. BURGESS
CHESTER L. BOYLE
RALPH P. BURRELL
KENNETH L. NASH
CHARLES B. MITCHELL
JULIAN R. MERCHANT
WILLIAM J. HOLBROOK
A. KENNETH MARTIN
SANDY ROULSTON
JOSEPH A. FERN
RAYMOND E. STEIN
BASIL S. WARREN
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE
MILTON A. BARNES
NEWLAND H. HOLMES, Sr. ARTHUR A. CICCHESE GEORGE E. CURTIN V. LESLIE HEBERT JOHN H. COFFEY EMERSON R. DIZER FREDERICK PRICE GEORGE E. LANE ARTHUR J. HASSETT, Sr. FRANK W. HOLBROOK JOHN E. HORACE JOSEPH MAHONEY HENRY CLAPP
APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE
Term expires 1946
J. FREDERICK PRICE GEORGE E. LANE
ARTHUR J. HASSETT, Sr. RICHARD W. HAWKINS, Jr.
WILLIAM HODGES
Term expires 1944
JOHN H. COFFEY
CHESTER L. BOYLE JOHN E. HORACE A. KENNETH MARTIN
RAYMOND E. STEIN
Term expires 1945
FRANK M. BRYANT MILTON A. BARNES CHARLES B. MITCHELL HENRY F. CLAPP
ARTHUR A. CICCHESE
FRANK W. NESS GEORGE REED
WINFIELD B. BAKER ALLAN C. FEARING ARTHUR T. HAUSLER
RICHARD HAWKINS DR. HAROLD A. SPALDING EVERETT J. McINTOSH .
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DEPARTMENT HEADS BY APPOINTMENT
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
JOHN H. REIDY
INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING
.GEORGE MARSHALL
BUILDING INSPECTOR ANDREW CHISHOLM
TOWN COUNSEL KENNETH L. NASH
TOWN ENGINEER RUSSELL H. WHITING
TOWN ACCOUNTANT EMERSON R. DIZER
SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS THOMAS J. KELLY
SUPERINTENDENT OF TOWN INFIRMARY FRED P. TOLMAN
WELFARE AGENT THOMAS P. DELAHUNT
SUPERINTENDENT OF WATER WORKS SIDNEY BEANE
ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMITTEE
JOSEPH KELLEY J. HERBERT LIBBEY ALFRED S. TIRRELL
WALTER R. FIELD
ORLINDO GAROFALO
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
JOHN F. REARDON, Chairman
Term expires March 1946
LAWRENCE P. CORRIDAN
Term expires March 1944
EDWARD F. McINTOSH
Term expires March 1945
JULIAN R. MERCHANT, Clerk
Term expires March 1946
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1943, 7:45 P.M.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 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 FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 1943
at seven o'clock and forty-five minutes in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :-
BUDGET
ARTICLE 1. (By Direction of Selectmen). 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. 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
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12. Planning Board
13. Maintenance and upkeep of Town Hall and War Memorial
14. Maintenance and upkeep of Civil War Soldiers' Monument
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
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15. Police Department
16. Fire Department
17. Building Inspector
18. Sealer of Weights and Measures
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 1
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
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(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
INTEREST AND DEBT REQUIREMENT
45. Interest Requirement
46. Bonds and Notes due in 1943
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 40, Section 5, Clause 34; to determine what, if any, sums so appropriated shall remain available after December 31, 1943; 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 com- pensation from the Town as the Town may see fit; or take any other action in relation to any of the foregoing subjects.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ARTICLE 2. (By Direction of Selectmen). To take any action the Town may desire upon the reports of the several Town Boards and Com- mittees and to appoint or change any Committee that the Town may think proper.
TOWN FINANCES
ARTICLE 3. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to authorize its Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, on and after January 1, 1944, to borrow in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1944.
ARTICLE 4. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will vote from surplus for the use of the Assessors in determining the tax rate for the year 1943 or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 5. (By Direction of Selectmen). 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, 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
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property in its possession and to determine the manner or conditions of such sales, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. (By Direction of Selectmen). 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 they may judge for the Town's best interest and to authorize them to discharge any encumbrance 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 7. (By Direction of Selectmen). 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 :-
(a) Raleigh Road from Lambert Avenue to Revere Road
(b) Clematis Avenue from Pleasant View Avenue to Idlewell Boulevard
(c) Epping Street from Jaffrey Street to Candia Street
(d) Jaffrey Street from Commercial Street ta a point shown on plan
(e) Thayer Avenue from Walnut Avenue to Garfield Avenue
(f) Raycroft Avenue
(g) Rucille Avenue
(h) Edgeworth Street from No. 28 to No. 50
(1) Seaver Road
(j) Morningside Path between Lambert Avenue and Greycliff Road
(k) Woodbine Road
(1) Island View Road
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 reserva- tion strips existing in connection with any of said streets, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for resurfacing, repairing or re- construction by the Street Department or under the provisions of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 90 for maintaining, repairing and improving the following streets or any portion thereof :
(a) North Street-from Bridge Street to East Street
(b) Commercial Street-from Commercial Square to the Hingham town line
(c) Front Street-from Elliot Street to Federal Street
(d) Middle Street-Main Street to Washington Street
or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 9. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to acquire by purchase, gift, or take by right of eminent domain in fee, land at the corner of Derby and Pond Streets for the purpose of widening said corner, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 10. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will take any action upon the report of the Committee on the widening of Broad Steret, made in the Town Report of the year 1931, and to see what
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sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of widening Broad Street or any portion thereof.
ARTICLE 11. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to strike out Section 506, Article 5, of the Town By-Laws pertaining to Acceptance of Streets, and insert in place thereof, the following:
"No street or way shall be laid out or accepted by the Town of Weymouth of a width of less than 40 feet, unless the same shall have been used for public travel prior to January 1, 1941, and proof of such use shall be deemed conclusive if the Board of Selectmen find that six or more houses on said way were occupied on or prior to said date, or unless recommended by the Board of Selectmen and the Superintendent of Streets and any provision of these by-laws, having to do with the acceptance of streets, and inconsistent with the provisions of this section except Section 504 may be suspended by a four-fifths vote of those present and voting at any annual Town Meeting, or take any other action in relation thereto."
DRAINAGE
ARTICLE 12 (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of improving the drainage facilities at Washington Square, Weymouth Landing, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to accept an easement on its behalf for drainage purposes from Alice G. Jones, 266 West Street, in accordance with plan of Russell H. Whiting, Town Engineer, dated April 10, 1942, or take any other such action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 14. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will - vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to accept an easement on its behalf for drainage purposes from Murray S. and Nina J. Langley, at or near 238 Summer Street, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 15. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to accept an easement on its behalf for drainage purposes at or near Lots No. 35 and No. 36 Mt. Vernon Road East, in accordance with plan of Russell H. Whiting, Town Engineer, dated January 4, 1943, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board of Selectmen to accept an easement on its behalf for drainage purposes from George A. Davis, at or near No. 190 Pleasant Street, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 17. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the acquisition of an easement for draingage purposes at or near 755 Pleasant Street in accordance with the plan of Russell H. Whiting, Town Engineer, dated November 14, 1942, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 18. (By Direction of Selectmen). "To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by purchase or gift or take by right of eminent domain in fee for drainage or parking purposes the land abutting the "Bicknell Meadow," so called and being the northerly por- tion of Lot "A" as shown on a "Plan of Land in (East) Weymouth, Mass.," dated January 27, 1931, Russell H. Whiting, C. E., a copy of which is duly recorded with Norfolk Deeds, and being all the land to the north of land marked "Right of Way" .on said plan, which "Right of Way" runs from
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Shawmut Street to Lots A. and B as shown on said plan; and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the said pur- pose or take any other action in relation thereto."
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ARTICLE 19. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the erection of a section of a sea wall along Wessagusset Beach between Station 4x0 and 7x20 as shown on a plan of Russell H. Whiting, Town Engineer, and dated September 23, 1935, entitled "Plan and Profile for proposed Sea and Retaining Wall," or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 20. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what action the Town will take for the Temporary increase in wages for the Town employees.
ARTICLE 21. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what action the Town will take relative to any unexpended balances.
ARTICLE 22. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what action the Town will take in regard to having an honor roll for the men and women en- rolled in the present World War.
ARTICLE 23. (On Petition of Charles L. Gibson and Others). To see if the Town will vote to instruct its Board of Selectmen to invest all or any part of the Laban Pratt Hospital Funds in Victory Bonds or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 24. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $550 for the purpose of maintaining during the ensuing year the mosquito control works as estimated and certified to by the State Reclamation Board in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 112, Acts of 1931.
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