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Town Clerk, Treasurer, Collector, Water Register-B. Del- mont Locke. Office in the Town Hall Building. Open from 8 A. M. to 12 M .; from 2 to 5 P. M .; from 7 to 8 P. M. On Saturday evenings an hour later.
Assessors-Henry Mott, chairman; T. P. Pierce; B. Delmont Locke, clerk.
. School Committee-Dr. W. A. Winn, chairman; Charles E. Goodwin, secretary; R. J. Hardy, Timothy O'Leary, Rev. Mat- thew Harkins, Henry Swan, W. E. Wood, John H. Hardy, A. W. Damon. Regular meetings are held on the third Monday even- ing in each month at the committee's rooms in the Town Hall Building.
Trustees of the Pratt Fund-Henry Swan, Nathan Robbins, David P. Green, W. G. Peck, J. P. Wyman, B. Delmont Locke, ex officio. This fund was established by the will of Nathan Pratt, who died in 1873, bequeathing $10,000 to the public library, $10,000 to the high school, and $5000 to the Poor Widow's Fund. See sketch of the public library on page
Water Commissioners-Henry Mott, chairman; W. G. Peck, Warren Rawson. Regular meetings are held on the last Friday evening of each month.in the selectmen's rooms.
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Commissioners of Sinking Fund-W. G. Peck, A. D. Hoitt, W. H. Allen.
Auditors-A. R. Proctor, Reuben W. Hopkins. .
Trustees of Public Library-Richard L. Hodgdon, John H. Hardy, John T. Trowbridge. Regular meetings are held in the library room on the second Monday of each month at 7 P. M.
Town Physician-Richard L. Hodgdon.
Superintendent of Streets-George W. Austin.
Sealer of Weights and Measures-D. G. Currier.
Town Weigher-L. C. Tyler.
Overseer of Cemeteries-Fred Lemme.
Police-Station and lockup in the basement of the Town Hall Building, Arlington avenue. Open all day and night. Officers: John H. Hartwell, chief and keeper of the lockup; Patrick J. Shean, Garrett Barry ; Horace B. Johnson, Henry Johnson, specials. Regulations: The chief is supposed to do station duty during the day and a portion of the evening. The regular officers begin work at 7 o'clock P. M., and remain on duty till 5 A. M., during the half of the year commencing with October and ending with March. From April to October the hours of duty are from 7 P. M. to 4 A. M. The three regular officers are also qualified as con- stables.
DISTRICT COURT.
The towns of Arlington and Belmont, together with the city of Cambridge, comprise the Third District Court of East- ern Middlesex, which holds its sessions daily, beginning at 9 o'clock A. M., in the city building at Brattle square, Cam- bridge. William H. Orcutt is the principal justice, with Sam- uel W. McDaniel and Jabez Fox, associates, Emerson W. Law, clerk.
BY-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON.
[Adopted Nov. 9, 1882. Approved by Superior Court, Nov. 11, 1882.]
ARTICLE I.
NOTIFICATION OF TOWN MEETINGS.
Every town meeting shall be notified by posting a copy of the warrant, calling the same, on the doors of the town hall, seven days, at least, before the day appointed for said meeting; and a printed notice, containing the substance of the warrant, shall be left at every dwelling house in the town.
ARTICLE II.
RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF TOWN MEETINGS.
SECTION 1. No final vote shall be re-considered, except upon notice for that purpose, made by one of the majority acting there- on, within fifteen minutes after such vote has been passed; and no article in the warrant shall be again taken into consideration after it has been disposed of, unless ordered by a vote of two-thirds of the voters present.
SECTION 2. No person shall speak more than twice upon any question, without first obtaining leave of the meeting, except for the correction of an error, or to make an explanation; and not until -others who have not spoken upon the question shall speak, if they desire to.
SECTION 3. All questions submitted for the consideration of the town, involving the expenditure of money, shall be in writing, and all other motions shall be reduced in writing, if required by the presiding officer.
SECTION 4. Every person speaking shall address the Chair, standing and uncovered.
SECTION 5. No vote, fixing the period for closing a ballot, shall be re-considered after such ballot shall have commenced; but it may be in order to extend the period without such re-considera- tion.
SECTION 6. When a question is under debate, motions shall be received to adjourn, to lie on the table the previous question,
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to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a time certain, to commit, or to amend. Which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged. The first four shall be decided without debate.
SECTION 7. The duties of the presiding officer, not specially provided for by law, or by the foregoing rules, shall be determined by the rules of practice contained in Cushing's Manual, so far as they are adapted to the condition and powers of the town.
ARTICLE III.
FINANCIAL YEAR.
The financial year of the town shall begin with the first day of January in each year, and end with the thirty-first day of Decem- ber following.
ARTICLE IV.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
The annual town meeting shall be on the first Monday of March in each year, and all reports of town officers shall be made at that time.
ARTICLE V.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
No action shall be had at any town meeting on the report of any committee previously chosen, unless the same shall be specially notified in the warrant for calling said meeting.
ARTICLE VI.
MEETING OF TOWN OFFICERS.
The selectmen, overseers of the poor, surveyors of highways, treasurer and clerk, shall meet for the transaction of the business of their respective departments, at their rooms in the town hall, on the last Monday evening of each month.
ARTICLE VII.
POWER OF THE SELECTMEN TO BORROW. MONEY.
The selectmen may authorize the treasurer to borrow money temporarily, on the credit of the town, in anticipation of the col- lection of the taxes, should the same be necessary, and to give town notes for the same, signed by him as town treasurer; said notes to be countersigned by the selectmen.
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ARTICLE VIII.
COLLECTION OF TAXES.
SECTION 1. The assessment of all taxes shall be completed and a list of the same delivered to the collector on or before the fifteenth day of July of each year.
SECTION 2. All taxes which may be assessed, except poll taxes, paid on or before the first day of August, shall be entitled to a discount of six per cent .; all single poll taxes shall be paid in fourteen days after demand. „ All taxes shall be paid in full on or before the first day of November. The said dates are those fol- lowing the date of the assessment of taxes. Interest shall be charged on all unpaid taxes after November 1st.
SECTION 3. . The town treasurer shall be collector of taxes.
ARTICLE IX. PUBLIC WAYS.
SECTION 1. All persons intending to erect, repair or take down any building on land abutting on any way which this town is obliged to keep in repair, and who desire to make use of any portion of said way for the purpose of placing thereon building material or rubbish, give notice, in writing, to the selectmen of such wish, and thereupon the selectmen may grant a permit to occupy such a portion of said way to be used for such purpose as in their judgment the necessity of the case demands and the se- curity of the public allows, such permit in no case to be in force longer than ninety days, and to be on such conditions as the se- lectmen may require; and in every case, upon condition that dur- ing the whole of every night, from twilight in the evening until sunrise in the morning, lighted lanterns shall be so placed as effectually to secure all travellers from liability to come in contact. with such building material or rubbish.
SECTION 2. Whoever shall use any portion of any way which the town of Arlington is obliged to keep in repair, without the permit, in writing, of the selectmen, as above provided, or having obtained such permit shall fail to comply with the conditions. thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for each of- fense, and shall also reimburse the town for all damages and ex- penses which the town may be compelled to pay by reason of the way being encumbered.
SECTION 3. Whoever shall move, or assist in moving, any building more than ten feet high, over any way in this town which this town is obliged to keep in repair, without the written permit
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of the selectmen being first obtained, or, having obtained such permit, shall not comply with the restrictions and provisions thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars for every such offense.
SECTION 4. Whoever shall suffer horses, goats, or grazing beasts, or swine to run at large in this town, or to feed by the road-side, either with or without a keeper, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for every such offense.
SECTION 5. Whoever shall drive or draw any coach, cart, or wheelbarrow, hand-cart, velocipede, bicycle, or any carriages of burden or pleasure (excepting children's carriages drawn by hand, or children's velocipedes), upon any sidewalk in the town, or per- mit any horse, cattle, swine, sheep or goats, under his or her care, to go upon any sidewalk in the town so as to interfere with the convenient use of the same by all passengers, shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than two dollars, or more than twenty dollars, for every such offense.
SECTION 6. Whoever shall behave himself in a rude or dis- orderly manner, or use any indecent, profane or insulting lan- guage, in any public place in the town, or near any dwelling-house or other building therein, or be or remain upon any sidewalk, or upon any doorstep, portico, or other projection of any house or other building not his own, to the annoyance or disturbance of any person, or by any noise, or other means, wantonly and de- signedly frighten any horse in any street or other public place in the town, or shall throw stones, snowballs, sticks or other mis- siles, or kick at foot-ball, or play at any game in which a ball is used, or fly any kite in the public ways in the town, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not less than three dollars and not more than twenty dollars.
SECTION 7. Whoever shall stand in any public way in such a manner as to obstruct a free passage for passengers, or shall make any bonfires in any public way or place in the town, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not less than three dollars and not more than twenty dollars.
SECTION 8. Whoever posts, affixes, or in any way attaches any poster, handbill, notice, advertisement or placard to or upon any post, wall, fence, building or structure not his own, without the permission of the owner or proprietor of such post, wall, fence, building or structure, shall forfeit and pay for each offense not less than three dollars and not more twenty dollars.
SECTION 9. Whoever paints, draws or stamps any letter, notice, figure, advertisement or marks upon or into any wall, fence, post, tree, building or structure not his own, without the permis- sion of the owner of such wall, fence, post, tree, building or struc-
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ture, or without said permission mars, defaces, or disfigures in any way such wall, fence, post, tree, building or structure, shall for- feit and pay for each offense not less than three dollars and not more than twenty dollars.
SECTION 10. Whoever shall place or cause to be placed upon any of the public ways of the town, or shall place or cause to be placed upon any public way, footpath or sidewalk within the town, any lumber, iron, coal, trunks, bales, boxes, crates, casks, barrels, packages or other things, or shall otherwise obstruct such way by placing things therein, for more than fifteen minutes after being notified by a constable, police officer or the selectmen, shall for- feit and pay for each offense not less than two dollars and not more than five dollars.
SECTION 11. Whenever complaint shall be made to the se- lectmen that coasting on any street or sidewalk in the town has become dangerous to the public safety, they may post up a notice in some conspicuous place on the side or corner of any such street or sidewalk, forbidding all persons to coast upon the same; and if any person shall be found coasting upon the same after such no- tice he shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar and not more than five dollars.
SECTION 12. No person shall tie or fasten any horse to or have the same standing by any ornamental or shade tree in or near any of the streets, lanes or places of this town, so near as to injure any unprotected tree, or wrongfully injure or abuse such tree in any manner; and whoever violates the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay not less than one dollar and not more than ten dollars.
ARTICLE X.
PUBLIC HEALTH.
SECTION 1. No person shall drive, or cause to be driven, any cart or wagon containing night-soil or offal, or any cart or wagon used for that purpose, through any public way in the town be- tween the hours of 6 A. M. and 9 P. M., except an odorless tank, nor permit any such wagon or cart to stand between said hours in any street, lane or alley in said town.
SECTION 2. No person shall keep any swine within a distance of fifty feet of any public way or place, or within a distance of one hundred feet of any dwelling-house not his own, or within a dis- tance of twenty-five feet of his own dwelling-house, without a per- mit from the selectmen previously obtained.
SECTION 3. No person shall put or suffer to accumulate on his premises any refuse, animal or vegetable matter, rubbish or filth, whereby any offensive or noxious stench or effluvia shall be
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created, and the health or comfort of the citizens be injuriously affected, or shall throw any such substance into the ponds, streams or brooks of the town, or shall allow the contents of any vault or house drain or the refuse of manufacturing or slaughtering process to drain into such ponds, streams or brooks.
SECTION 4. No person, without the license of the board of selectmen, shall throw into, or leave in, or upon any street, court, square, lane, alley, public square, public enclosure, vacant lot, or any pond or body of water within the limits of the town, any dead animal dirt, manure, oyster, clam or lobster shells, ashes, cinders, waste water, rubbish or filth of any kind, or any refuse animal or vegetable matter whatever.
SECTION 5. No vehicle used for collecting or conveying swill or house offal shall be drawn over or allowed to stand upon any sidewalks in this town.
ARTICLE XI.
TRUANTS AND ABSENTEES.
SECTION 1. Any child between the ages of seven and fifteen years who shall absent himself from the public school to which he is assigned three times within the period of one month, without sufficient excuse from his parent or guardian, shall, in each case, be deemed to be an habitual truant.
SECTION 2. Any child convicted of offending under the pre- ceding by-law shall be committed to the Institution of Instruction and House of Reformation of Juvenile Offenders, in the city of Lowell, for such time, not exceeding two years, as the court of justice having by law jurisdiction may determine.
SECTION 3. The said Institution of Instruction and House of Reformation of Juvenile Offenders, in the city of Lowell, is hereby provided as the place for the confinement, discipline and instruction of habitual truants.
SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of every truant officer, be- fore making any complaint for offenses under these by-laws, to notify the offending child and his parent or guardian of the offense committed and of the penalty thereof, and if the truant officer can obtain satisfactory pledges for the restraint and reformation of the child, he may, in his discretion, forbear to prosecute so long as such pledges are faithfully observed and kept.
SECTION 5. All children between the ages of seven and fif- teen years wandering about in the streets and public places of this town, having no lawful occupation or business, not attending school, and growing up in ignorance, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or by commitment to any institution
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of instruction, house of reformation, or suitable situation pro- vided for the purpose under the authority of the 10th section of chapter 48th of the public statutes.
ARTICLE XII.
No person shall bathe or swim in Spy Pond, or in any public or exposed place in the town, without wearing a proper covering to the body.
ARTICLE XIII.
Any person who shall violate any provision of these by-laws, or shall refuse or neglect to obey any order of the board of health, duly issued under these by-laws, and directed to him and properly served on him, shall, in cases not otherwise provided for, forfeit and pay for each offense a fine not exceeding twenty dollars.
ARTICLE XIV.
Prosecutions for offenses under these by-laws may be made by any constable or police officer of the town, and all fines shall be paid into the town treasury.
ARTICLE XV. .
Upon the approval of the foregoing by-laws by the Superior Court, all by-laws heretofore existing, except the by-laws relating to the public library, the cemeteries and the fire department, shall be annulled and repealed.
JOHN P. SQUIRE & CO.,
DEALERS IN
PORK, LARD, HAMS,
TRIPE, SAUSAGES, PIGS' FEET,
ALSO MANUFACTURERS OF EXTRA LARD OIL.
Nos. 21, 23 & 25 Faneuil Hall Market and 39 North Market St.,
JOHN P. SQUIRE, FRANK O. SQUIRE.
BOSTON.
ARLINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT.
ESTABLISHED MARCH 26, 1855.
Engineers-Charles Gott, chief; George A. Stearns, William S. Gibson, assistants. Meetings are held regularly on the last Saturday before the last Monday evening in the month at the school committee's room in the Town Hall Building.
EUREKA ENGINE NO. 1.
Special engine; no organized company connected with it. Located in Highland Hose House on Arlington avenue.
HIGHLAND HOSE CO., NO. 2.
House Arlington avenue near Walnut street.
Matthew Rowe, 2d, foreman; James Fermoyle, assistant fore- man; John Mead, clerk; John Nolan, steward; George H. Hill, treasurer. Regular meetings are held in the hose house on the second Wednesday evening before the third Monday in each month.
WILLIAM PENN HOSE CO., NO. 3.
House Broadway corner of Franklin street.
Major Bacon, foreman; J. W. Russell, assistant foreman; Warren Peirce, treasurer; George Russell, clerk; Charles Bacon, steward. Regular meetings on the third Tuesday in each month.
MENOTOMY HOOK AND LADDER CO., NO. 1.
House Broadway corner Franklin street.
John Butler, foreman; Daniel Sweeney, assistant foreman; John Spillane, clerk; William Sweeney, steward. Regular meet- ings on the second Tuesday of each month.
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ALARM BELLS.
The department is notified of a fire by the ringing of the Unitarian bell at the Centre, and the Cutter school-house bell at the upper end of the town.
SPECIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE GOV- ERNMENT OF THE ARLINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT.
ARTICLE 1. Each engine, hose, and hook and ladder com- pany shall have for officers a foreman, an assistant foreman and a secretary, and such other officers, as they may require in accord- ance with their respective constitutions.
ARTICLE 2. The first engine or hose company arriving at a fire, in the absence of an engineer, will proceed to the nearest hydrant or place whence a supply of water may be obtained, and extend their hose in the direction of the fire; all others to report to an engineer. No company shall extend two lines of hose without permission of an engineer, if there be one present.
ARTICLE 3. One of the officers of each hose company shall be at the pipe when not otherwise specially engaged, and shall be responsible for the management of the same-look to the safety of losemen, and report any one who wilfully or maliciously causes a stream of water to be thrown upon any person, whether a member of the department or otherwise.
ARTICLE 4. The hook and ladder company will take posi- tion as near the fire as circumstances will admit, one axeman, one rakeman, and an officer, to keep within call of the engineer di- recting operations within a building.
ARTICLE 5. The orders of the chief engineer to the several companies shall be communicated to the commanding officer. And whenever an engineer may be charged with an order for any company, and does not immediately see its commanding officer, he will call the number of the company, which will be responded to by the officer present in command, to whom the order will be given, which shall be immediately executed by such officer, with- out waiting to communicate with his superior, unless it can be done without delay.
ARTICLE 6. All members of the several companies, except when otherwise engaged on special duty, will remain at or about the apparatus to which they are attached; and any member of the department leaving duty without permission from the engineer in command, will be discharged.
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ARTICLE 7. No property shall be placed in the houses used for the purposes of the fire department, neither shall any be re- moved therefrom, other than that furnished by the town, except by the permission of the board of engineers.
ARTICLE 8. Each engine and hose company may have sub- stitutes not exceeding two in number, and each hook and ladder company not exceeding four, to do duty in place of persons absent from duty, viz: in cases of sickness or absence from the town.
ARTICLE 9. In case of proposed absence from the town of any member of a fire company, or inability to perform fire duty in consequence of sickness, he shall, after notifying the foreman, provide a substitute who has been approved by the board of en- gineers, and the clerk shall record the names of all substitutes so approved. Neglect to comply with this requirement for a period of one week shall be sufficient cause for his discharge for neglect of duty. Said substitutes shall not be approved in any other than the above mentioned cases, nor shall said substitutes be employed for more than two weeks without the permission of the board of engineers, nor shall any person be employed who has been dis- charged or rejected from the fire department for cause.
ARTICLE 10. Members of the board of engineers, hose and hook and ladder companies, and those legally acting as substitutes in said companies, shall at all times when on duty wear conspicu- ously placed on the left breast of the coat or vest the fire depart- ment badge, and shall also wear a fire hat; and no member with- out said badge or hat shall enter a building on fire, or within the- lines formed at a fire. Every member, on his appointment, shall receive with his notice of appointment one of the badges referred to; a fire hat and key, for which the sum of ten dollars shall be de- ducted from his first payment for services-said articles not to be loaned on any account whatever, and if lost the loser shall take: proper measures to recover the same, by advertising or otherwise. In all cases of discharge from the department the said articles shall accompany the application for said discharge, and be for- warded with the same to the chief engineer; and said sum of ten dollars shall be refunded to the applicant.
ARTICLE 11. Whenever, after a fire, one company shall find in their possession hose or other fire apparatus belonging to an- other, the stewards shall take measures to have the same promptly returned.
ARTICLE * 12. Monthly meetings of the several hose com- panies shall be held on Wednesday before the last Monday of each
* Since the adoption of these regulations this. article has been altered. The time and places of holding of the regular meetings of the several organ- izations will be found stated on page 65, where each company is treated separately.
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month, and that of the hook and ladder company Tuesday before the last Monday of the month; and the clerks shall severally make return to the chief engineer on the day following said meeting of any business requiring the action of the board of engineers.
ARTICLE 13. The monthly meetings of the board of engi- neers shall be held on the last Saturday before the last Monday of each month.
ARTICLE 14. Hose-belts and spanners, when not in use, are to be kept in the box of the hose carriage, ready for use in case of the absence of hosemen.
ARTICLE 15. Members of the department are strictly en- joined, in proceeding to a fire, to use the utmost care and caution consistent with promptness. Racing between companies is for- bidden under any circumstances.
ARTICLE 16. The use of vulgar or profane language or loud talk, or any indecent or disorderly conduct in or about the several houses occupied by the fire department, or going to, at, or return- bling from a fire, is strictly prohibited.
ARTICLE 17. No cards, dice, or other articles used for gam- ing, shall be brought into or be suffered to remain in any building used by any company in the fire department; nor shall spirituous liquors be used therein.
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