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WEYMOUTH TOWN REPORT
1946
PROPERTY OF THE
TUFTS LIBRARY
WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS
April pr 1 1947 W.C.PeA Added
35.2 Author. Weymouth
Class No. 1946 Title Annual report of the town of Weymouth
Presented by
Town of Weymouth - Office
Dec. 16
ANNUAL REPORT
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TOWN OF 1
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 1946-1947
Elected by Ballot
TOWN CLERK
CHESTER L. BOYLE
Term expires March 1949
TOWN TREASURER
HARRY I. GRANGER
Term expires March 1947
SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
JOSEPH A. FERN, Chairman
Term expires March 1947
HARRY CHRISTENSEN,
Term expires March 1947 Term expires March 1947
SANDY ROULSTON
BASIL S. WARREN
Term expires March 1947
JOSEPH CREHAN
Term expires March 1947
ASSESSORS
CHARLES W. BURGESS, Chairman
Term expires March 1949
HARRY E. BEARCE, Clerk
Term expires March 1948
FRANK A. PRAY
Term expires March 1949
FRANCIS A. GUNN
Term expires March 1947
JOHN W. HEFFERNAN
Term expires March 1947
COLLECTOR OF TAXES
FRANK W. HOLBROOK
Term expires March 1947
PARK COMMISSIONERS
EVERETT J. McINTOSH, Chairman
CHARLES W. BURGESS, Clerk
THOMAS A. MCGRATH
Term expires March 1948 Term expires March 1947 Term expires March 1949
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
JOSEPH W. MAHONEY, Chairman
Term expires March 1949 Term expires March 1947
WILLIAM F. SHIELDS
Term expires March 1949
DR. WALLACE H. DRAKE
Term expires March 1947
CLAYTON W. NASH
Term expires March 1948
DR. HAROLD A. SPALDING
Term expires March 1948
WATER COMMISSIONERS
STANLEY T. TORREY, Chairman HARRY I. GRANGER, Clerk ex-officio JOSEPH A. FERN, ex-officio JOHN E. HORACE CLARENCE W. TAYLOR
Term expires March 1947 Term expires March 1947 Term expires March 1947 Term expires March 1948 Term expires March 1949
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ETHEL G. TAYLOR, Clerk
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS LIBRARY
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE, Chairman
FRANKLIN N. PRATT, Clerk
DR. WALLACE H. DRAKE
Term expires March 1948
FRANCIS N. DROWN
Term expires March 1947
FRANCIS C. HAVILAND
Term expires March 1948
PHILLIP T. JONES
ALICE E. FULTON
H. FORREST WILSON
Term expires March 1947
LEIGHTON S. VOORHEES
Term expires March 1948
HARRY I. GRANGER, Treas. ex-officio
BOARD OF SELECTMEN, ex-officio
Term expires March 1947
BOARD OF HEALTH
THOMAS J. MacDONALD, Chairman DR. LEWIS W. PEASE, Clerk
DR. HAROLD A. SPALDING
Term expires March 1949 Term expires March 1948 Term expires March 1947
PLANNING BOARD
THOMAS J. KELLEY, Chairman
Term expires March 1950
FRANCIS A. FARR
Term expires March 1949
HENRY R. SARGENT, Clerk
Term expires March 1949
CHARLES GRIFFIN
Term expires March 1950
WALTER B. HEFFERNAN
Term expires March 1948
ROY H. ROSEWELL
Term expires March 1947
RICHARD E. MATHEWSON
Term expires March 1951
TREE WARDEN
V. LESLIE HERBERT
Term expires March 1947
ANNUAL MODERATOR
DANIEL L. O'DONNELL
Term expires March 1947
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS
Precinct 1, Term expires 1947
JOHN L. BASTEY
E. LEO MADDEN
JOHN A. CARTER
PEARSON F. CAZEAULT
HERMAN A. COLLYER
LAUGHTON B. DASHA
WILLIAM B. DASHA
WALLACE H. DRAKE
BRADFORD H. MATHEWSON RICHARD E. MATHEWSON WARREN F. ROULSTON RUSSELL A. STILES STANLEY T. TORREY RUSSELL H. WHITING
Precinct 1, Term expires 1948
ALFRED W. CADMAN
WARREN W. MacCALLUM
DAVID M. EDELSTIEN JAMES F. FITZPATRICK CHARLES C. HEARN THURSTON F. KOOPMAN R. CHESTER LOPAUS RAY E. LOUD
JOSEPH E. MacDONALD ROBERT L. PALMER CARL S. PAULSON ALICE M. SALZGEBER JOHN H. SALZGEBER HENRY O. TUTTY
Term expires March 1949
Term expires March 1949
Term expires March 1947 Term expires March 1949
Term expires March 1947
Precinct 1, Term expires 1949
PERCIVAL A. AMES
JOSHUA P. HOLBROOK
OBERLIN S. CLARK
WILLIAM E. KEZER
GEORGE C. CLEAVES, Jr.
TIMOTHY G. MCCARTHY
RUSSELL DeCOSTE JOHN F. NEWTON
ARTHUR H. DESMOND
MURRAY G. PARKER
RICHAR DOREY
GERALD B. PROCTER
MABELLE L. GLADWIN
BERNICE STILES
GEORGE M. WINTERS
Precinct 2, Term expires 1947
HARRY E. BEARCE
URANIO M. CICCHESE
PAUL V. COFFEY
EDWARD L. CONROY
EVERETT T. GARDNER
FREDERICK V. NOLAN
Precinct 2, Term expires 1948
PRESTON DEPLACIDO
HARRY F. DUNCAN
FRANCIS L. GAUGHEN
WILLIAM J. GAUGHEN
ORAL A. PAGE
FRED W. WEBB
Precinct 2, Term expires 1949
RUSSELL F. COWING
THOMAS J. KELLY
RALPH HASKINS
PETER F. KENDRICK
EDWARD P. HUNT, Jr.
HARRY A. MATTSON
EMILY M. JACKSON
JOSEPH B. NOSIGLIA
OLIVE D. SYLVESTER
Precinct 3, Term expires 1947
CHARLES Y. BERRY
EDWARD A. HUNT
HARRIET S. BERRY
FLURENCE I LYONS GEORGE J. McGLONE
CHARLES A. COYLE
ABBIE W. PEASE
HAROLD A. DAY
FRANK A. PRAY
WILLIAM F. DESMOND
WILLIAM F. SHIELDS THOMAS G. WALLACE
Precinct 3, Term expires 1948
ALBERT E. AHLSTEDT
RICHARD L. TAYLOR
ROBERT J. CASEY SETH H. CUSHING J. RUSSELL HARPER CARL H. PETERSON THOMAS O. SCHULTZ
JOHN F. TRACEY HAROLD J. TRASK
WILBUR F. WEEKS EDMUND WHITE
Precinct 3, Term expires 1949
CORNELIUS M. AHERN JOHN C. HUNT
LAWRENCE E. BICKNELL
JOHN A. HUTCHINS JOHN J. KELLEY
NORMAN E. DOREY
HAROLD F. DOWD
EDWARD M. KEOHAN FRANCIS M. LOUD
GEORGE C. FOSTER
LEO A. HEFFERNAN
HAROLD B. STONE EDMUND L. WARD
WALTER B. HEFFERNAN
Precinct 4, Term expires 1947
HAROLD A. CONDRICK HENRY C. BLENIS, Jr. SIDNEY DeBOER
LOUIS H. ELLS CHARLES H. DeRUSHA JOHN W. HEFFERNAN
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ELLIOT P. THAYER
HARRY L. BLOOM
FRANCIS N. DROWN
HAROLD GOULD JAMES H. O'CONNOR ELLSWORTH J. OUR
CHARLES R. DENBROEDER RODERICK P. ELLS JOHN L. GALLANT
Precinct 4, Term expires 1948
FREDERICK G. BAUER HENRY F. GIGUÈRE JOHN-W. KNOX
ALFRED K. MARTIN CLARENCE C. SANDS FREDERICK G. SPENCER
Precinct 4, Term expires 1949
GERTRUDE C. ANDREWS
CHESLEY CORMACK
WILLIAM F. DWYER
MERTON L. LOUD GEORGE H. MELVILLE MARION L. NASH
Precinct 5, Term expires 1947
WILLIAM M. CHANCE, Sr.
MINOT E. HOLLIS CHARLES A. JORDAN
FRANK E. DUNN
HARRY FEKKES
ARTHUR I. NEGUS
WILLIAM G. B. PARK
Precinct 5, Term expires 1948
MADELINE F. CHANCE
HENRY R. SARGENT
WILLIAM H. LOUD
CLARENCE W. TAYLOR PORTER W. THOMPSON
GEORGE S. WILSON
Precinct 5, Term expires 1949
WINSTON A. HOWE
OAKLEY A. KUNZ
SIGVARD C. MELVIN
IVA A. NELSON CARL C. SHERMAN REGINALD P. TIRRELL
HOMER C. WADMAN
Precinct 6, Term expires 1947
EDWARD F. BUTLER
RUSSELL H. MAZZOLA
RALPH T. CIPULLO
GEORGE E. CUNNIFF
HENRY F. GODIN
PHILLIP T. JONES
Precinct 6, Term expires 1948
FRANCIS R. CASHMAN
ROBERT E. MITCHLL
BERNARD S. ERICKSON
GEORGE L. FOSTER
FOREST D. HOLT
CARL H. KLASSON
THOMAS J. PLOURDE EDGAR E. RABIDEAU DANIEL REIDY CLARENCE T. SHERMAN
CEDRIC D. WATSON
Precinct 6, Term expires 1949
WV. NORMAN BATES FREDERICK T. HOFFMAN LESTER L. BELCHER MINOT L. MATHEWSON GEORGE H. BICKNELL GEORGE J. MCCARTHY ROBERT H. GAUGHEN GEORGE C. SMITH GEORGE F. GILLMAN GERALD P. SULLIVAN
THOMAS M. WELCH
Precinct 7, Term expires 1947
WILLIAM B. CHALKE, Jr.
ANDREW A. CHISHOLM
RALPH P. COBB
E. EVERETT FROST KARL G. LOVELL JOHN D. McKENNA
Precinct 7, Term expires 1948
RALPH J. AUSTIN WARREN E. GAREY ELLSWORTH W. CURTIS ELMER F. DeRUSHA GENEVA M. MONTEITH RICHARD F. PATTISON
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EUGENE E. O'LEARY JOHN E. REIDY JOHN H. REIDY ALFRED C. SHEEHY
ERNEST D. MITCHELL
Precinct 7 Term expires 1949
ALBERT BIAGI ALICE W. CHAPLIN NORMAN E. CHAPLIN
ROBERT E. GAULEY IRVING E. JOHNSON EVERETT E. KENERSON
Precinct 8, Term expires 1947
HERBERT ALMQUIST PRESCOTT BROWN ARTHUR A. CICCHESE HAROLD C. SHERWOOD
ALLAN C. EMERY FRANCIS A. FARR GEORGE E. LANE
Precinct 8, Term expires 1948
SIDNEY W. BUCKMAN
ANTHONY L. CASSESE
PAUL COLLINS
WILLIAM H. CORKEY JOSEPH W. COYLE RICHARD O. HOWES
HOWARD PFLAUMER
Precinct 8, Term expires 1949
H. SCOTT BROWN THERON I. CAIN
RAYMOND A. HOLLIS
SIDNEY F. PATRIDGE PULMER E. POPE HERBERT B. SHAFTOE
JAMES F. STEELE
Precinct 9, Term expires 1947
HERBERT W. CAUSER
ALLAN F. CRAWFORD
ALLEN C. FEARING
STANLEY HEALD
JOHN W. FIELD WALTER R. FIELD FRANCIS A. GUNN FRANK NESS
ALBERT VINAL
Precinct 9, Term expires 1948
EDWIN W. BARNARD, Sr.
ELIZABETH PRUDEN
LESTER W. COOCH
JOSEPH W. KOHLER
GEORGE S. NOYES, Jr.
ARTHUR R. TAYLOR
JOHN Q. TORREY
Precinct 9, Term expires 1949
SUMNER P. BOWKER HARRISON I. COLE RALPH A. KLINGMAN
JOSEPH M. LEAHY
EVERETT W. MOXON JOHN WM. O'DONNELL GEORGE E. PRUDEN WILLIAM RALPH
TOWN MEETING MEMBERS BY VIRTUE OF OFFICE Under Prov. of Sec. 3 of Chap. 61 of the Acts of 1921 as amended.
CHESTER L. BOYLE
CHARLES W. BURGESS
DOUGLAS R. BUCHANAN
HENRY F. CLAPP
HARRY CHRISTENSEN
PAUL V. COFFEY
JOSEPH CREHAN EMERSON DIZER
JOSEPH A. FERN
HARRY I. GRANGER
CHARLES GRIFFIN V. LESLIE HEBERT
GEORGE E. LANE THOMAS MacDONALD JOSEPH MAHONEY A. KENNETH MARTIN EVERETT J. McINTOSH KENNETH L. NASH FRANK W. NESS DANIEL L. O'DONNELL TIMOTHY G. OSBORN J. FREDERICK PRICE FREDERIC J. PURDY SANDY ROULSTON
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GEORGE REED HENRY S. STOWERS
RICHARD W. HAWKINS WILLIAM A. HODGES FRANK W. HOLBROOK NEWLAND H. HOLMES, Sr.
BENJAMIN SANTACROSE THOMAS O. SCHULZ RUSSELL A. STILES BASIL S. WARREN
CLARENCE P. WHITTLE
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APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE Term expires 1947
CHARLES GRIFFIN FREDERIC J. PURDY DOUGLAS R. BUCHANAN
A. KENNETH MARTIN PAUL V. COFFEY
Term expires 1948
HENRY F. CLAPP BENJAMIN SANTACROSE
THOMAS O. SCHULZ RUSSELL A. STILES
FRANK W. NESS
Term expires 1949
J. FREDERICK PRICE GEORGE E. LANE WILLIAM A. HODGES
RICHARD W. HAWKINS, Jr.
TIMOTHY G. OSBORN
DEPARTMENT HEADS BY APPOINTMENT
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
JOHN H. REIDY
INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING
GEORGE MARSHALL ANDREW CHISHOLM
BUILDING INSPECTOR
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
ROGER P. LOUD WALTER R. FIELD
J. HERBERT LIBBEY ALFRED S. TIRRELL
OLINDO S. GAROFALO
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
JOHN F. REARDON, Chairman
LAWRENCE P. CORRIDAN
EDWARD C. McINTOSH
CHESTER L. BOYLE, Clerk
Term expires March 1949 Term expires March 1947 Term expires March 1948 Term expires March 1949
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MONDAY, MARCH FOUR, 1946, 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 FOURTH DAY OF MARCH, 1946
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
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
20. Care of Shade Trees
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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 ammended
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, Sectiion 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 Cementeries under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 114, Section 16 and 18
INTEREST AND DEBT REQUIREMENT
45. Interest requirement
46. Bonds and Notes due in 1946
INSURANCE
47. Municipal Buildings Insurance Fund
48. Fire and other insurance
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RESERVE FUND
49. For reserve fund
and to determine in each case how and under whose directiion 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, 1946; to 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. To see what action the Town will take on salaries and wages of offcials and employees.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ARTICLE 3. (By Direction of Selectmen). To take any action the Town may desire upon the reports of the several Town Boards and Commit- tees and to appoint or change any Committee that the Town may think proper.
ARTICLE 4. (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, 1947, to borrow in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1947.
ARTICLE 5. (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 1946 or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. (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; and to see if the Town will vote to author- ize any other department to sell or otherwise dispose of any personal property in its possession and to determine the manner, or condition of such sales, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to authorize its Board of Selectmen to accept conveyances or mortages 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 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.
LEGISLATION
ARTICLE 8. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what action the Town will take in regard to the proposed Laban Pratt Hospital.
STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
ARTICLE 9. (On Petition and 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) Welland Road
(b) Walker Street from Richmond Street to a dead end
(c) Clematis Avenue from Pleasantview Avenue to Idlewell Boule- vard
(d) Twilight Path
or any portion of said ways and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to
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acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain in fee or other- wise 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 build- ing 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 take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 10. (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 :
Broad Street from Middle Street to Jackson Square Washington Street from Commercial Street to Lincoln Square
Pleasant Street from Washington Street to Pine Street or if deemed advisable by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, any other street in the Town, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. 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, provided the State or County or both will appropriate a sum of money to help defray the expenses of such work, to wit :-
Norton Street, Pearl Street and Evans 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 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 take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. (By Direction of Selectmen). 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.
ARTICLE 13. (On Petition of Wallace R. White and Others). To see if the Town will vote to construct an asphalt sidewalk and curbstone on Randolph Street from Pond Street to Hollis Street and a catchbasin east of the railroad crossing, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 14. (On Petition of Warner M. Abbott and Others). To see if the Town will vote to drain Ralph Talbot Street from Pleasant Street to the present drain at the foot of Ralph Talbot Street near Route 128 in such a way as to eliminate surface water from flooding streets, cellars and adjoining lands, or take any other action in relation thereto.
GOVERNMENTAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
ARTICLE 15. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town' will vote to accept General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 115, Section 3A which provides :
"In a city or town which had duly accepted this section, no almoner or member of the board of public welfare, or office perform- ing similar duties, or any agent of any of them, shall directly or in-
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directly act as agent or disbursing officer of the aldermen or select- men for payment of state or military aid or soldiers' relief ; provided, that this section shall not operate to prevent selectmen in towns who are also members of boards of public welfare from acting in their capacity as selectmen or through an agent acting for the selectmen".
ARTICLE 16. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 723 of the Acts of 1945 which is entitled "An Act Authoriz- ing the Establishment and Maintenance of Municipal Departments and of Districts for Furnishing Information, Advice and Assistance to Veterans of World War II or other Veterans".
ARTICLE 17. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1945 which is an act entitled "An Act Providing for Advances of their Vacation Pay to Officers and Employees of the Commonwealth and of certain Counties, Cities and Towns".
ARICLE 18. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote that the Collector of Taxes be elected for a three year term, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 19. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see if the Town will vote to amend Item d, Section 2 of Article 10 of the Zoning By-Laws so as to read as follows: "The stripping of loam completely or partially except for re-use within the Town", or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 20. (By Direction of Selectmen). To see what action the Town will take pertaining to the appropriation of money for a stabilization fund in accordance with Chapter 124 of the Acts of 1945, or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 21. (On Petition of Everett E. Callahan and Others). To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 799, Paragraph 1 of Article VII and Section VII, Paragraph 3 of Article X of the By-Laws by striking out such paragraphs and inserting in place thereof the following:
(a) There shall be a Board of Appeals consisting of the Chairman of the Selectmen, who shall preside; The Town Clerk who shall keep records of all hearings for public inspection; the Chairman of the Planning Board; the Chairman of the School Committee; and the Chairman of the Water Board.
(b) Compensation of each member shall be five dollars ($5.00) per hearing, not to exceed $100.00 yearly for any one member.
(c) When acting as a Board of Appeals under the Building By- Laws, said Board shall have all powers and duties now in force.
(d) When acting under the Zoning By-Laws said board shall not have jurisdiction of appeals under Section III, (Business Zones) or under Section IV, (Industrial Zones).
(e) Special town meetings shall act on all appeals under Sections III and IV.
or take any other action in relation thereto.
SCHOOLS
ARTICLE 22. (At Request of School Committee and the Committee to Study Needs of Vocational Education in the Town of Weymouth). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise, by taxation or otherwise, and appropriate for the purpose of constructing additional facilities for the Vocational School, consisting of a machine shop building and an addition to the present garage, together with necessary equipment,
ARTICLE 23. (On Petition of George E. Lane and Others). To see what sum of money the Town will vote to appropriate for a survey of the public schools:
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WATER DEPARTMENT
ARTICLE 24. (At Request of Board of Water Commissioners). To see if the Town will vote to rescind the action taken under the substitute motion of Article 42 at the Annual Town Meeting held on March 6, 1941 wherein it was voted: "to instruct the Board of Water Commissioners to grant permits for boating and fishing in Weymouth Great Pond to citizens of Weymouth whenever the action taken by the State Department of Public Health on De- cember 10, 1940, because of the present national emergency shall be rescinded", or take any other action in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 25. (On Petition of Everett E. Callahan and Others). To see if the Town will take all necessary steps to enter the Metropolitan Water District as provided under Chapter 587 of the Acts of 1945, and that the Town dedicate the Weymouth Great Pond and all abutting land owned by the Town to the Veterans of World War II, and further that the Town transfer said Pond and land to the jurisdiction of the Park Department for the furtherance of the above described purpose.
ARTICLE 26. (At Request of Board of Water Commissioners). To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commissioners to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain for the pur- poses of the Department such land as may be necessary for construction of a standpipe off Roosevelt Road and a water main thereto off Essex Street and transfer to their supervision such real estate of the Town lying in this vicinity as may be necessary therefore, or take any other action in relation thereto.
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