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betterment assessment Fales-Walsh properties Nahatan Street extension; opinion re sewer bonds; payment of principal and interest and use of assessments collected and duties of assessors as to levy to cover payments accruing; new highway construc- tion questions; questions as to Washington and Guild Streets; duty to maintain town land; fiscal year law as to payment of salaries; Edison Elec. Illuminating Company conduit petition and questions; sidewalk assessment Bigelow property ques- tions; Chief of Police hearing matters; sewer loan questions; tax title re Everett property and Larned suit; articles for special town meeting warrant re vocational training payment; also collection of taxes, etc .; payment of bills for Chief of Police removal hearings; Foye adoption matter; form as to better- ment assessment and order by Selectmen; advised as to end of present fiscal year and beginning of new fiscal year under recent statute; printing in town report of jury lists; effect of closing books December 31st, 1913; necessity for recording in Registry of Deeds description of property taken for street purposes; financial matters generally; right of town to borrow for purchase of new stone crusher and land; form of notice and committment of betterment assessments; question of ownership Savin Avenue land re plan for assessment purposes; drafting vote under Article 23 of special town meeting warrant re new schoolhouse construction loan; miscellaneous matters.
To the Water Commissioners.
Examination of statutes re use of money from sale of bonds to drive wells and put in filtration system at Westwood; use of money for new filtration plant at Westwood; also, articles for Water Board in annual town meeting warrant; opinion re Water Street and rights of Water Dept. with respect to pipes in portion of street discontinued.
To the School Committee and Superintendent. 1
Article on evening school; rights as to dumping rubbish on school premises; forms for articles in warrant re sale of old Balch School Building.
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To the Building Inspector.
New building by-laws; articles for special warrant and chang- ing building by-laws; revision of by-laws and articles for war- rant re same; opinion re advertising building by-law amend- ments; building by-law amendments and publication confer- ence.
To the Moth Department.
Compensation to injured employee.
To the Fire Department.
Article for town meeting warrant.
To the Park Commissioners.
Duties and control of playground and bandstand lot; Nor- wood Square land taking; form of action and filing description; law examined, papers drafted for record; votes and records for filing drafted re public park location Norwood Square; confer- ence re draft and votes concerning land for park purposes; advised as to article for coming town meeting warrant re park land.
To the Electric Light Department.
Opinion to Superintendent re conduit petition Edison Elec- tric Illuminating Company; advised Superintendent re bicycle claim Babcock accident; drafting release from Dalton re claim; conference re Edison Electric Illuminating Company conduit situation, original petition; conference re Edison Electric Illuminating Company new petition and form of order for con- duits, permit drafted; also covenants; hearings attended.
To the Appropriation Committee.
Advised re action and votes under Articles annual town meet- ing warrant including Park Street betterment assessment suits; advising as to forms of motions for action under articles in annual town meeting warrant submitted by appropriation
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committee; conference and advising re actions under Articles of special town meeting warrant.
To the Tax Collector.
Special town meeting warrant votes; tax collection matters; also claims for water rates; charge for summons by tax collector ; Pipping Bros. bankruptcy claim and payment; Elkerton bankruptcy claim.
To the Town Clerk.
Massachusetts State Highway Commission letter and re- cording Washington Street taking for State highway; sewer bond issue vote; advertising building by-law amendments; advertising adjournment of town meeting re sufficiency under by-laws as affecting sewer bond issue.
To the Town Treasurer.
Suit by trustee processs.
To the Board of Health.
Plumbing work and regulations (Chairman); opinion as to compulsory isolation hospital; hearing by committee on isola- tion hospital.
To the Fence Viewers.
Action as to George Street situation.
To the Stone Crusher Committee.
Form of report, motion, etc .; right of town to borrow money for carrying out recommendations of committee.
Thanks are due to all the officials of the Town with whom the Town Counsel has had business relations for the courtesy and consideration so uniformly extended. It is not unfitting to mention in this connection the watchful care which the Town
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Accountant displays over the entire field of town business and to testify to the value of his assistance and suggestions to this department in the many matters with which his department as well as that of the Town Counsel are concerned.
The members of your Board have given repeated evidence of the confidence which is reposed by you in this department and the work has been rendered the more agreeable in consequence.
Respectfully submitted, JAMES A. HALLORAN, Counsel for Town of Norwood.
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In Board of Selectmen, Norwood, Mass., October 8th, 1913, ordered, notice having been given and a public hearing held as provided by law, that permission be and hereby is granted the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston hereinafter called the " Company," to lay, construct, and maintain under- ground conduits and manholes with the necessary wires and cables therein, including so-called " armored cables " if per- mitted by law, necessary for the transmission of electricity through the Town of Norwood from the Town of Westwood, which adjoins said Town of Norwood, to and into the Town of Walpole, which also adjoins said Town of Norwood, in accord- ance with the provisions of Chapter 509 of the Acts of the Legis- lature of the year 1911, under the surface of the following streets in said Town of Norwood as set forth in the petition of said Company, dated September 22nd, 1913, namely :-
Hill Street as laid out to Railroad Avenue.
Railroad Avenue from Hill Street to Lenox Street.
Lenox Street from Railroad Avenue to Washington Street.
Washington Street from Lenox Street to the Norwood- Walpole line.
This order is made and said permission given on the definite understanding that its sole purpose is to enable said Company
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to reach its existing line of transmission of electricity in the Town of Walpole from its existing underground line of transmis- sion of electricity in the Town of Westwood by an underground line of transmission through the Town of Norwood upon the representation that said underground line of transmission through said Norwood is a necessity to said Company for said purpose, and permission for any other purpose is expressly excluded and denied.
The locations in said streets of said conduits, manholes and armored cables shall be shown on a plan to be filed with the Board of Selectmen on the completion of the work. Said plan shall also show such other details as may be required by the Board of Selectmen.
The foregoing permission is subject to the following condi- tions :---
1st. All work shall be done at all times under the direction of, and to the satisfaction of the Board of Selectmen, or such other officer or officers as the Board of Selectmen may appoint to supervise the work; said supervision shall be at the expense of said Company.
2nd. Said Company shall file with the Town its agreement and obligation to indemnify and save harmless the Town of Norwood from any and all damages, loss, cost and expense of every kind and nature paid, sustained or incurred by said Town or to which the Town may be subjected, due to the presence of the conduits, manholes, armored cables, and the necessary wires of said Company under said streets, or due to the prosecution of any work in connection with the construction and maintenance thereof, and in consequence of any acts or neglect of said Com- pany, its agents or servants, or in any manner arising from the permission hereby granted.
3rd. Said Company shall during the laying and construction of said conduits, manholes and armored cables keep said streets properly lighted by night and protected by day and carry on the work in such a way that public travel shall not be obstructed or incommoded, and shall at all times, with reference to the
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laying, construction, repair and maintenance of said conduits, manholes and armored cables and wires and cables therein, keep said streets protected, safe and passable.
4th. Said Company shall, upon the request of the Board of Selectmen for the time being of the Town of Norwood, after an opportunity has been given to said Company to be heard, make any removal of its conduits, manholes, armored cables, and its wires and cables therein laid and constructed under this order, wherever necessary in the judgment of said Board of Selectmen for any public or municipal purpose, and if it shall fail so to do upon said request, said Board of Selectmen of said Town may remove or cause to be removed said conduits, man- holes, armored cables, and the wires and cables therein at the expense of said Company without any liability upon said Town of Norwood or said Board of Selectmen for any loss or damage sustained thereby-and said Company shall after due notice and a hearing change and remove its conduits and manholes, or armored cables, with the wires and cables therein, covered by this order, and lay and construct the same under any other streets or ways upon order of said Board of Selectmen.
5th. After the construction of said conduits, manholes and armored cables with the necessary wires and cables therein all repairs thereto which require opening said streets shall be done only after a permit from the Board of Selectmen for the time being of the Town of Norwood has been obtained, and shall be done under the direction of and to the satisfaction of the Board of Selectmen.
6th. Said Company shall, before any of said streets are disturbed for the construction of its said conduits, manholes, and armored cables, execute and deliver to the Town of Norwood through the Board of Selectmen, its bond in form satisfactory to said Board of Selectmen in the penal sum of ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars for the faithful performance of its agree- ment and obligation above provided and of all the conditions and requirements of this permit.
7th. Said Company shall comply with the requirements of existing by-laws and such other by-laws as may hereafter be
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adopted governing the location, construction and maintenance of conduits, manholes, and armored cables with the wires and cables therein.
8th. Said Company shall lay and construct for the Town of Norwood free of expense to said Town and as the property of said Town, upon the request, under the direction and to the satisfaction of the Municipal Light Board of said Town upon proper Town authority obtained by said Municipal Light Board for said purpose, a proper conduit and manholes, suitable for the transmission of electricity therein by said Town, in and under Railroad Avenue and Market Street in said Town from such point on Railroad Avenue at or near Hill Street in said Town to such point at or near the Electric Light Station of said Town on said Market Street as shall be determined by said Municipal Light Board.
With respect to said work said Company shall be under the same obligations to indemnify the Town and save it harmless from all payments, damage, loss and expense and to keep said streets properly lighted by night and protected by day and safe and passable as is provided above in regard to its work on said other streets.
Said Company shall not in or by the construction of said conduit and manholes referred to in this clause acquire any rights in said Town of Norwood.
(Signed), JAMES A. HARTSHORN, JAMES W. CONGER, DANIEL J. SLATTERY, Selectmen of the Town of Norwood.
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Covenants of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston With the Inhabitants of the Town of Norwood.
Whereas the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Bos- ton, hereinafter referred to as the " Company " has petitioned the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Norwood for permission
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to lay, construct and maintain underground conduits and man holes with the necessary wires and cables therein, including so-called " armored cables " necessary for the transmission of electricity through the Town of Norwood from the Town of Westwood which adjoins said Town of Norwood to and into the Town of Walpole which also adjoins said Town of Norwood in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 509 of the Acts of the Legislature of the year 1911 under the surface of the following streets in said Town of Norwood as set forth in its said petition under date of September 22nd, 1913, namely :-
Hill Street as laid out to Railroad Avenue.
Railroad Avenue from Hill Street to Lenox Street.
Lenox Street from Railroad Avenue to Washington Street.
Washington Street from Lenox Street to the Norwood-Wal- pole line, and
Whereas said Company is willing to be bound by covenants defining its obligations to the Town of Norwood by reason of the laying, construction and maintenance of said conduits and manholes with the wires and cables therein or armored cables, said covenants being confirmatory of and in addition to the conditions of the permission given by said Board of Select- men of the Town of Norwood and in addition to such lawful regulations as may be made from time to time by the Board of Selectmen or other authorities acting in behalf of the Town or of the public.
Now therefore, the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston covenants with the inhabitants of the Town of Norwood as follows :-
1st. That all work relating to the laying, construction and maintenance of said conduits and manholes with the wires and cables therein or armored cables shall be done at all times under the direction of and to the satisfaction of the Board of Select- men or such other officer or officers as the Board of Selectmen may appoint to supervise the work, which supervision shall be at the expense of said Company.
Upon the completion of the work of laying and constructing
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said conduits and manholes or armored cables said Company will file with the Board of Selectmen in duplicate a plan of said conduits and manholes or armored cables showing their locations in said streets, the sizes thereof and such other details as may be required by said Selectmen; and in case said conduits and manholes or armored cables are removed and changed from said streets and laid and constructed in other streets, said Com- pany shall file in like manner a new plan or plans showing such new and changed locations of said conduits and manholes or armored cables, and showing such other details as may be re- quired by said Board of Selectmen.
2nd. Said Company will at all times hereafter and by these presents obligates itself to indemnify and save harmless the Town of Norwood from any damages, loss, cost and expense of every kind and nature paid, sustained or incurred by said Town or to which the Town may be subjected due to the presence of the conduits and manholes or armored cables and the necessary wires and cables therein of said Company in and under said streets, or due to the prosecution of any work in connection with the construction and maintenance thereof, and in conse- quence of any acts or neglect of said Company, its agents or servants, or in any manner arising from the permission granted by said Board of Selectmen under said petition.
3rd. Said Company will during the laying and construction of said conduits and manholes or armored cables, with the wires and cables therein, keep said streets properly lighted by night and protected by day and carry on the work in such a manner that public travel shall not be obstructed or incommoded, and will at all times, with reference to the laying, construction, repair and maintenance of said armored cables, conduits and manholes and the wires and cables therein, keep said streets or any other streets, in which said armored cables, conduits and manholes with the wires and cables therein may be hereafter laid and constructed, protected, safe and passable.
4th. Said Company will, upon the request of the Board of Selectmen for the time being of the Town of Norwood after an
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opportunity has been given to said Company to be heard, make any removal of its conduits and manholes or armored cables and its wires and cables therein, laid and constructed under this order, whenever necessary in the judgment of said Board of Selectmen for any public or municipal purpose, and if it shall fail so to do upon said request, said Board of Selectmen of said Town may remove or cause to be removed said conduits and manholes or armored cables and the wires and cables therein at the expense of said Company without any liability upon said Town of Norwood or said Board of Selectmen for any loss or damage sustained thereby, and said Company will, after due notice and a hearing, change and remove its conduits and man- holes or armored cables with the wires and cables therein cov- ered by this order and lay and construct the same under any other streets or ways upon order of said Board of Selectmen.
5th. After the construction of said conduits and manholes or armored cables with the necessary wires and cables therein all repairs thereto which require opening said streets shall be done only after a permit from the Board of Selectmen for the time being of the Town of Norwood has been obtained, and shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of said Board of Selectmen.
6th. Said Company will, before any of said streets are dis- turbed for the construction of its said conduits and manholes or armored cables, execute and deliver to the Town of Norwood through said Board of Selectmen, its bond in form satisfactory to said Board of Selectmen in the penal sum of ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars conditioned upon the faithful performance on its part of the covenants herein contained.
7th. Said Company will comply with the requirements of the existing by-laws and such other by-laws as may hereafter be adopted governing the location, construction and main- tenance of conduits, manholes and armored cables with the wires and cables therein.
8th. Said Company will lay and construct for the Town of Norwood free of expense to said Town and as the property of
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said Town, upon the. request, under the direction and to the satisfaction of the Municipal Light Board of said Town, upon proper Town authority obtained by said Municipal Light Board for said purpose, a proper conduit and manholes, suitable for the transmission of electricity therein by said Town, in and under-Railroad Avenue and Market Street in said Town from such point on Railroad Avenue at or near Hill Street in said Town to such point at or near the Electric Light Station of said Town on said Market Street as shall be determined by said Municipal Light Board.
With respect to said work said Company shall be under the same obligation to indemnify the Town, and save it harmless from all payments, damage, loss and expense and to keep said streets properly lighted by night and protected by day and safe and passable as is provided above in regard to its work on said other streets.
Said Company shall not in or by the construction of said conduits and manholes (referred to in this clause) and in and by any use thereof acquire any rights in said Town of Norwood.
9th. Said Company does not by virtue of any and all of these convenants and this instrument acquire any rights or obtain any permission to sell electricity in the Town of Nor- wood.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Edison Electric Illuminat- ing Company of Boston has caused these presents to be executed in its name and behalf and its seal hereto attached by William H. Lott, its Superintendent of Right of Way and Street Light- ing, thereunto duly authorized this 8th day of October, A.D., 1913.
The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston.
(Signed)
By W. H. LOTT,
Superintendent, Right of Way and Street Lighting Dept.
CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify that the foregoing Order was adopted after due notice and a public hearing, as prescribed by chapter 509 of
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the Acts of 1911; to wit, after written notice of the time and place of the hearing mailed at least seven days prior to the date of the hearing by the Selectmen, to all owners of real estate abutting upon that part of the way or ways under which the line is to be constructed under said order, as determined by the last preceding assessment for taxation, and a public hearing held on the second day of Oct., 1913, at 8 P. M. in said Town. (Signed),
JAMES A. HARTSHORN, Chairman of Selectmen.
CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Order of the Selectmen of the Town of Norwood, duly adopted on the day of 1913 and of the Certifi- cate of notice and bearing thereon, required by chapter 509 of the Acts of 1911, as the same appear of record.
Attest :
Clerk of the Town of Norwood.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:
I respectfully submit my annual report for the year ending January 31, 1914.
Account of labor, teaming, operation of the crusher, paving, and maintenance of highways.
Andy Curran, for labor,
$272.15
Festus Lyden, for labor,
485.46
John Kennedy, for labor,
443.44
Martin Curran, for labor,
435.66
Albert Clay, for labor,
194.75
Michael Drummey, for labor,
2.39
James Murphy, for labor,
291.10
Morgan Curran, for labor,
477.75
D. D. Fitzgerald, for labor,
41.29
John McDonald, for labor,
4.89
J. DeEspinosa, for labor, John Hogan, for labor,
15.64
Patrick Stanton, for labor,
257.25
M. J. Burke, for labor,
335.32
Patrick Dillon, for labor,
6.00
M. Gibson, for labor,
265.24
Peter Rich, for labor,
258.27
Peter Lyden, for labor,
233.25
Peter Curran, for labor,
160.64
Mark Flaherty, for labor,
250.83
Jos. Donahue, for labor,
275.79
Coleman Flaherty, for labor,
275.27
Carried forward,
$5,320.31
337.93
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Brought forward,
$5,320.31
John Conolly, for labor,
234.08
Nugent Bros., for labor, 298.89
Timothy Dolliher, for labor,
151.63
John Sullivan, for labor,
275.11
Daniel Keohane, for labor,
28.25
John Butler, for labor,
18.00
H. F. Foster, for labor,
64.20
M. J. Drummey & Son, for labor,
159.50
Jerry Flavin, for labor,
238.25
Patrick Feeney
213.00
Anthony Conolly, for labor,
304.47
J. J. McCauliff, for labor,
381.91
Daniel O'Brien, for labor,
180.85
H. J. Welch, for labor,
408.80
M. DeAlamida, for labor,
139.00
Patrick Flaherty, for labor,
91.75
Andrew Kelly, for labor,
51.75
D. J. McCarthy, for labor,
184.75
F. J. Mahoney, for labor,
178.50
Chas. Ryan, for labor,
21.25
John Mitchell, for labor,
150.00
Coleman Coyne, for labor,
98.75
Samuel Copeland, for labor,
140.00
James Dolliher, for labor,
36.00
E. Letts, for labor,
7.75
George Thompson, for labor,
93.00
Samuel Saunders, for labor,
153.25
F. A. Hartshorne, for labor,
109.25
Edward Morrissey, for labor,
87.00
Chas. McAuliff, for labor,
5.00
Mark Flaherty, 2nd, for labor,
58.00
John Kelleher, for labor,
27.25
B. Gillooly, for labor,
6.75
£ 4
Carried forward,
$9,916.25
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Brought forward,
$9,916.25
James Dower, for labor,
17.25
Thomas Dyer, for labor, 20.25
Festus Lyden, for labor,
7.00
Norman Shackley, for labor,
15.75
Thomas Welch, for labor,
2.25
Bartley Coyne, for labor,
9.00
Morris Curran, for labor,
2.25
Dennis Clifford, for labor,
10.75
Albert Clay, for teams,
306.80
Michael Drummey, for teams,
4.00
James Murphy, for teams,
238.40
D. D. Fitzgerald, for teams,
66.40
John Hogan, for teams,
25.20
M. J. Burke, for teams,
252.00
Peter Curran, for teams,
130.80
John Connolly, for teams,
190.40
Nugent Bros., for teams,
507.40
Daniel Keohane, for teams,
23.40
M. J. Drummey & Son, for teams,
136.80
M. DeAlamida, for teams,
218.80
D. J. McCarthy, for teams,
306.74
F. J. Mahoney, for teams,
285.60
Chas. Ryan, for teams,
11.20
F. A. Hartshorne, for teams,
171.20
Mark Flaherty, 2nd, for teams,
46.40
B. Gillholy, for teams,
10.80
Thomas Dyer, for teams,
33.20
John Kelleher, for teams,
43.60
$13,009.89
Cr. (labor Heaton Ave.),
99.30
Total,
$12,910.59
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The following items show the cost of construction and repairs during the year:
Brook avenue, extending from the new dam to Oak street was graveled at an expense of $43.20.
Railroad avenue, from Washington street to the railroad location was excavated and surfaced at an expense of $207.98, 91 tons of stone was used on this work.
Market street from Railroad avenue to Norwood Square was repaired at an expense of $73.59. 36 tons of stone were used on the repairs.
Walpole street, from Washington street to Beacon street was repaired at an expense of $71.88.
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