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MARGARET E. CURRAN
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REPORT OF ATTENDANCE OFFICER
I herewith submit my report as Attendance Officer for the year ending December 31, 1937:
Number of truancies 59
Number of illness cases investigated 125
Lack of shoes or clothing 22
Assisting at home 21
Moved
6
Investigation of cases where children left school
16
Investigation of cases where home permits were desired. 8
Investigation of cases where working permits were desired. 2
Quarantined 3
Absence due to lack of food 4
Miscellaneous cases 95
Total number of investigations 361
Number of children returned to school 40
Prosecutions in court. 2
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY F. BREEN
MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE, OCTOBER 1, 1937
Ages
Grades
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Totals
1
73
119
11
203
2
49
122
19
5
3
198
3
43
94
21
5
163
4
61
117
28
8 .
214
5
39
111
32
12
7
4
205
6
49
113
33
19
3
2
2
221
7
44
113
45
8
7
3
1
221
8
1
55
114
56
19
9
1
255
9
3
36
101
28
20
7
1
196
10
28
153
58
19
5
2
265
11
1
39
120
48
19
1
228
12
11
132
54
13
1
211
Post Graduates
1
5
2
8
Special
3
2
2
6
1
4
18.
Totals
73
168
176
174
182
199
200
218
227
202
252
.223 209
84
18
1
2606
156
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TOWN OFFICIALS For the Year Ending December 31, 1937
Selectmen: CHARLES F. HOLMAN, 1935-1938, Chairman; STURE NELSON, 1935-1938; JOHN M. MUTCH, 1936-1939; HARRY B. BUTTERS, 1936-1939; HERBERT V. BRADY, 1937-1940.
Finance Commission: FRANCIS C. FOLEY, 1935-1938; JOHN R. RUSSELL, 1937-1940; WILLIAM H. CONNOR, 1936-1939 (re- signed July 15, 1937); EDMUND F. MURPHY (elected Sep- tember 13, 1937), to fill unexpired term. -
Moderator: JAMES A. HALLORAN, 1937.
Town Counsel: JAMES A. HALLORAN.
Town Clerk and Accountant: JAMES E. PENDERGAST.
Assistant Town Accountant: WALTER A. BLASENAK.
Treasurer and Collector: EDMUND F. SULLIVAN, 1937.
General Manager: WILLIAM C. KENDRICK.
Superintendent of Public Works: JOSEPH E. CONLEY.
Superintendent of Municipal Light: CYRUS C. CHURCH.
Superintendent of Cemetery: GEORGE ALFRED SMITH.
Town Engineer: ALBERT W. THOMPSON.
Chief of Police: WILLIAM H. SULLIVAN.
School Committee: CHRISTINE L. PROBERT, 1935-1938, Chairman; JOSEPHINE A. CHANDLER, 1935-1938; JOHN JOSEPH CON- LEY, 1936-1939; THOMAS A. KERR, 1937-1940; DENNIS P. O'LEARY, 1937-1940; EDWARD H. THOMPSON, 1937-1940.
Superintendent of Schools: LINCOLN D. LYNCH.
Sealer of Weights and Measures: HARRY M. KING.
Building Inspector: FORREST M. DOUGLASS.
Board of Public Welfare: C. ROGER PEARSON, Chairman; MAR- GARET M. GIINTHNER, JOHN A. ABDALLAH, and DOROTHY L. BEMIS, Clerk.
Board of Assessors: EDWARD A. FLAHERTY, Chairman; WILLIAM J. DALTON; EDWARD H. ALLEN, and JOHN F. O'CONNELL, Clerk.
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Board of Health: CHARLES L. LYNCH, M.D., 1935-1938, Chairman; JOHN J. FEENEY, 1936-1939; HARRY A. SHANNON, 1937- 1940; DOROTHY L. BEMIS, Clerk.
Milk Inspector: LEONARD E. CURRAN.
Inspector of Slaughtering: DR. RONALD H. BRUCE.
Inspector of Plumbing: JOHN A. SHANNON.
Public Health Nurse: NORA C. CURRAN.
Chief of Fire Department: ALONZO N. EARLE.
Inspector of Animals: ALBERT FALES.
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Dog Officer: GEORGE L. LYNCH.
Board of Trustees of Morrill Memorial Library: WILLARD W. EVERETT, 1935-1938; MAUDE A. SHATTUCK, 1935-1938; RICHARD D. NORTHRUP, 1936-1939; MARY E. WILLIAMS, 1936-1939; A. MARION SWAIN, 1937-1940; RALPH W. TAYLOR, 1937- 1940.
Librarian: JANE W. HEWITT.
Registrars of Voters: STEPHEN R. GOOGINS, Chairman, RAYMOND K. MORROW, JOHN P. CROWLEY and JAMES E. PENDER- GAST.
Fence Viewers: WILLIAM P. NICKERSON, FRANCIS J. DUNN, JOHN J. FLAHERTY.
Superintendent of Moth Suppression: WILLIAM C. KENDRICK.
Planning Board: THOMAS U. MAHONY, Chairman, 1935-1938; ROSEWELL A. NORTON, 1935-1938; CHARLES A. NICHOL- SON, 1936-1939; JOHN E. BAMBER, 1936-1939; FRANK B. JENNESS, 1937-1940.
Town Game Warden: JAMES E. BUNNEY.
Carillon Committee: WALTER F. TILTON, FRANCIS J. FOLEY, W. CAMERON FORBES.
Constables: Elected: LAURENCE P. BALDUF, JOHN J. BENNETT' JOSEPH F. BOTEILHO, JOHN L. COLLINS, WALTER E. THEALL, WILLIAM J. TRAVERS.
Board of Appeal: CHARLES E. HOUGHTON, THOMAS M. FLAHERTY, JOHN M. LINDBLOOM.
Contributory Retirement Board: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant, Chairman; FREDERIC W. KINGMAN, July 1, 1937-July 1, 1940; LOUIS D'ESPINOSA, July 1, 1937-July 1, 1938.
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INDEX
Department or Division
Report
Receipts
Expenses
Accountant .
.98
Agency Trust and Investment
96.
126
Assistance to Aged Citizens P. II, 94. .93 111
Assessors
P. II, 95.
.99
Balance Sheet
140
Births .38
Building Inspector P. II, 66 104
Cemetery .
P. II, 69
.95 124
Cemetery Trust Fund.
96.
Certification of Notes
100
Commercial Revenue .
90
Contributory Retirement Board.
101
Deaths
.65.
Dental Clinic .
P. II, 103
92
106
Departmental Revenue
91
Education 113 94
Election and Registration
99
Electric Light Department. . . 157 and P. II, 59.
95. 122
Engineering Department P. II, 56.
100
Finance Commission
P. II, 107 100
Fines and Forfeits
87
Fire Alarm .
103
Fire Department
P. II, 106.
92
103
Forestry Department .
P. II, 53
92. 105
General Manager
P. II, 38 97
98
General Revenue
87-89.
Health P. II, 103
92. 106
Highways.
93 108
Indebtedness, Limitations of
86.
Indebtedness, Municipal .
75-82
96. 125
Interest
96 125
Jury List
P. II, 34
Library
P. II, 71-72
94 116
Licenses and Permits
SS-89
Marriages P. I, 51
91
Memorial Office Building
91
101
Milk Inspector
P. II, 103
92 106
Moth Suppression
92. 105
Pensions .
108
II
Department or Division
Report
Receipts
Expenses
Parks Division.
117
Planning Board.
101
Playgrounds, Public.
P. II, 45. 94
117
Police .
P. II, 48
.92
102
Public Property Account
127
Public Works P. II, 49
108
Recapitulations of Expenditures and Receipts
128
129
Sanitation
.92.
106
School Committee
P. II, 111
Sealer Weights and Measures
P. II, 67 92. 104
.98
Sewer and Drains
.92 107
Sewer Construction
154
.92 107
Sewer Maintenance
Soldiers' Benefits
112
Statement of Borrowed Money
83
Street Lighting
Tax Titles
144
100
Town Clerk and Accountant
.91 .98
Town Counsel .
P. II, 73
100
Town Debt, Classified Statement of .
. . 75-82
125
Town Meeting Records.
3
Town Physician
118
Town Reports, Printing of
118
Trial Balance
151
96.
126
Tuberculosis Clinic P. II, 105 106
Unclassified
118
Water Works
.95
119
Welfare .
P. II, 90
.93
110
W. P. A.
P. II, 43
.97
126
Refunds.
Selectmen .
P. II, 3
107
105
Trust Funds.
Treasurer and Collector
P. II, 98.
91
.99
TOWN REPORT
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NORWOOD MASSACHUSETTS
مجبر مدي
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مسية +جرجـ
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SIXTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF
Town Officials
NORWOOD MASSACHUSETTS
Year Ending December 31, 1938
Ambrose Press, Inc., Norwood 1939
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK AND ACCOUNTANT
ABSTRACTS OF RECORDS OF TOWN MEETINGS AND VITAL STATISTICS
RECORD OF TOWN MEETINGS
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Monday, January 17, 1938, and adjourned to March 28, 1938.
On a warrant duly issued by the Selectmen under date of January 4, 1938 and signed by Charles F. Holman, Sture Nelson, John M. Mutch, Harry B. Butters and Herbert V. Brady, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which warrant was duly attested by John L. Collins, Constable of Norwood.
All the requirements of the statutes and by-laws relating to elections and town meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order, the articles contained in the warrant and the action thereunder being as follows:
Article 1. To choose all necessary Town Officers. The following are to be chosen by ballot; namely, two Selectmen for three years; one Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for one year; one Finance Commissioner for three years; one Moderator for one year; one Member of the Board of Health for three years; two Members of the School Committee for three years; two Trustees of the Morrill Memorial Library for three years; two Members of the Town Planning Board for three years; six Constables for one year.
Two Selectmen for Three Years.
Patrick J. Curran had thirteen hundred and twenty-seven (1327).
John J. Feeney had eight hundred and seventy-one (871).
Emery V. Forrest had eleven hundred and six (1106).
Charles F. Holman had seventeen hundred and forty-two (1742) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Henry T. McAuliffe had one hundred and fifty-one (151).
Sture Nelson had fourteen hundred and ninety-two (1492) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Charles J. Weisul had three hundred and seventy (370).
George F. Willett had thirteen hundred and three (1303).
Blanks, eight hundred and forty-six (846).
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One Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for One Year.
Edmund F. Sullivan had thirty-six hundred and seventy-eight (3678) clected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
One Finance Commissioner for Three Years.
Albert O. Carlson had sixteen hundred and eighty (1680).
Francis C. Foley had twenty-four hundred and sixty-six (2466) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blanks, four hundred and ninety (490).
One Moderator for One Year.
James A. Halloran had thirty-five hundred and seventy-six (3576) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blanks, one thousand and sixty-nine (1069).
One Member of Board of Health for Three Years.
Charles L. Lynch had thirty-five hundred and thirty-nine (3539) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blanks, one thousand and ninety-seven (1097).
Two Members of School Committee for Three Years.
Josephine A. Chandler had thirty-three hundred and forty (3340) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Christine L. Probert had thirty-one hundred and ninety-three (3193) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Two Trustees of Morrill Memorial Library, for Three Years.
Willard W. Everett had thirty-one hundred and fifty (3150) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Maude A. Shattuck had thirty-one hundred and ninety-four (3194) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Two Members of Town Planning Board for Three Years.
Alexander MacIntyre had fourveen hundred and eighty-one (1481).
Thomas U. Mahony had three thousand and thirty-two (3032) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Rosewell A. Norton had twenty-five hundred and eleven (2511) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Blanks, twenty-one hundred and forty-eight (2148).
Six Constables for One Year.
Laurence P. Balduf had three thousand and one (3001) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
John J. Bennett had twenty-six hundred and ninety (2690) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Joseph F. Boteilho had twenty-eight hundred and eighty-six (2886) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
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John L. Collins had three thousand and thirty-six (3036) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Joseph S. Phillips had twenty-two hundred and twenty-five (2225) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
Walter E. Theall had twenty-eight hundred and six (2806) elected, sworn by Town Clerk and Accountant.
James J. Wall had twenty-two hundred and one (2201).
Article 2. To hear and act on the reports of town officers and com- mittees.
Voted: That Article 2 be laid upon the table.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use the same means as a Town Treasurer may use when acting as Collector.
Voted: To so authorize the Treasurer.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1938, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Voted: To so authorize the Treasurer.
Voted: That Articles 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 and 19 be referred to the Finance Commission for consideration and report with recommendations at the adjourned session of this meeting.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to amend the existing Zoning By-Law by altering the district boundaries established under Section 17 of said by-law with respect to a certain portion of an existing General Residence District and establish the same as a Business District with respect to the following area, namely: a portion of a General Residence District lying easterly of Neponset Street and generally southeasterly of State Highway Route No. 1 and having frontage of 450 feet on said Ne- ponset Street and for a depth of 400 feet as shown on a plan on file at the office of the Town Clerk and Accountant, or take any other action in the matter. On petition of John G. Rizzo.
Voted: That Article 17 be laid on the table and referred to the Town Planning Board for a report at the adjourned session of this meeting.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law so-called with respect to "Construction Regulations A. Height, Section 87 Clause A," by striking out the words "or more than four stories" following the word "district" and preceding the word "or" so that said Clause A as amended will read:
A. No building shall be constructed, altered, enlarged, extended, recon-
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structed or raised more than two and one-half stories or so as to exceed in any part a height of thirty-five feet in the Single Residence Districts and the General Residence Districts or so as to exceed in any part a height of sixty feet in the Business Districts except as hereinafter provided. On petition of William P. Nickerson et al.
On motion that this article be referred to the Town Planning Board pursuant to the provisions of Section 22 of the Zoning By-Law for con- sideration and report at the adjourned session of this meeting, was by voice vote not carried. Motion to indefinitely postpone was offered and with- drawn.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to amend the by-laws relating to regulations governing the acceptance of new streets through private property by adding at the end thereof, the following new sub-division of Section 6, namely:
G. The Selectmen shall have the authority to waive the requirements of removing the soil from that part of a way as laid out on either side of the traveled way as wrought, if in their opinion such removal of soil is not necessary for the proper use of such traveled way, provided however, that all rocks, boulders and other objectionable hazards are removed, and the full width of the taking is graded to approximately the grade of the adjacent traveled way.
Voted: That Article 21 be laid on the table to be taken up at the ad- journed session of this meeting.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to amend the existing Zoning By-Law by striking out the word "five" before the word "districts" in Section 1 and by substituting therefor the word "six" and by adding at the end thereof, the following namely: "6. Residential Business Dis- tricts" and by adding to said Zoning By-Law the following new section designated as Section 4A viz.
Residential Business Districts
Section 4A. In a Residential Business District except as provided in paragraph "B" of Section 3, no new building or structure or part thereof shall be designed, constructed or used and, except as provided in Section 6, no building or structure or part thereof shall be altered, enlarged, extended, reconstructed or used except for one or more of the following purposes: Store or salesroom, for the conduct of the following retail business:
1. Drug store, gasoline filling station, grocery, lunchroom, market.
2. Place of business of a baker, barber, dressmaker, confectioner, hair- dresser, manicurist, newsdealer, shoe repairer, tailor.
3. Such accessory purposes as are customarily incident to the foregoing purposes and are not injurious to a neighborhood as a Residential Business District.
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4. Any uses and accessory purposes authorized in the Single Residence and the General Residence Districts.
In the Residential Business District no new building shall be constructed and no building shall be altered, enlarged, extended, reconstructed, raised or moved so that any external wall is located nearer than twenty (20) feet to any street line nor shall any part of any building designed, intended, arranged, or used for any purpose be constructed, altered, extended, recon- structed, raised or moved so as to be nearer than ten (10) feet to the line of any adjoining lot or nearer than twenty (20) feet to any building located in such district, except that roofs, cornices and other similar projections may extend one (1) foot nearer to the line of an adjoining lot or to another building on the same lot; nor shall any building having a frontage of over forty (40) feet be constructed, altered, reconstructed, or raised upon or moved into a Residential Business District.
And to further amend said Zoning By-Law by altering the district boundaries established under Section 17 of said by-law with respect to a portion of the General Residence District situated on the easterly side of Pleasant Street and northerly of East Cross Street for a distance of about one hundred and eighty (180) feet on East Cross Street and one hundred seventeen (117) feet on Pleasant Street to a depth of one hundred (100) feet, said line of Pleasant Street and East Cross Street being the line as relocated by the County Commissioners of the County of Norfolk and as shown on a plan entitled "Town of Norwood, Mass. Zoning Map supple- mentary to and changing original Zoning Map dated November 1926" by A. W. Thompson, Town Engineer, dated November 1, 1937, and filed in the office of the Town Clerk and Accountant.
Voted: To so amend the existing Zoning By-Law.
Voted: That this meeting adjourn.
Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
March 28, 1938
On a warrant duly issued by the Selectmen and dated March 15, 1938 and signed by Sture Nelson, John M. Mutch, Charles F. Holman, Harry B. Butters and Herbert V. Brady, Selectmen of Norwood, the proper service of which warrant was duly attested by Joseph F. Boteilho, Constable of Norwood.
All of the requirements of the Statutes and By-Laws relating to Town Meetings having been complied with, the meeting was called to order by
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the Moderator, Judge James A. Halloran, the articles contained in the warrant and the action thereunder being as follows:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes in his capacity as Town Treasurer to sell at public auction or at private sale and convey by appropriate deeds to be executed in behalf of the town the following parcels or tracts of land owned by the town and acquired through tax title at a price or prices not less than the cost to the town of acquiring such parcels of real estate together with such sum or sums as would be the equivalent of taxes that would thereafter be assessed upon the same if the town had not acquired title thereto, namely :
Parcel Acquired under Tax Title
Location of Parcel
Area
Assessors' Plan Reference
No. 376
Plimpton Avenue
4,340 sq. ft.
4-17B-30
No. 377
Plimpton Avenue
4,893 sq. ft.
4-17B-33
No. 378
Plimpton Avenue
4,852 sq. ft.
4-17B-34
No. 379
Plimpton Avenue
8,162 sq. ft.
4-17B-41
No. 380
Plimpton Avenue
9,056 sq. ft.
4-17B-42
No. 381
Plimpton Avenue
7,320 sq. ft.
4-17B-43
No. 382
Plimpton Avenue
5,441 sq. ft.
4-17B-44
No. 383
Morse Street
31,127 sq. ft.
9-10C-1, 2, 3, 10, and
11.
No. 384
Off Morse Street 28,416 sq. ft.
No. 385
Washington Street 7,251 sq. ft.
9-10C-12, 17, 18, 19. 10-9-2A
Voted: To so authorize the Town Treasurer with respect to the above named parcels.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes in his capacity as Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow money for ordinary maintenance expenses under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933 as amended by Section 2 of Chapter 300 of the Acts of 1933 and as further amended by Chapter 281 of the Acts of 1936 and as further amended by Chapter 57 of the Acts of 1938.
Voted: That the Town Treasurer and Collector of Taxes in his capacity as Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow not more than $20,000 for ordinary maintenance expenses under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933 as amended by Section 2 of Chapter 300 of the Acts of 1933 and as further amended by Chapter 281 of the Acts of 1936 and as further amended by Chapter 57 of the Acts of 1938.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept a new town way as laid out and reported by the Selectmen to be known as Curran Avenue and to
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raise and appropriate a sum of money to meet the cost of the laying out and construction of said way or take any other action in the matter.
Voted: To so accept and that the sum of $3,120 be raised by taxation and appropriated to meet the cost of laying out and construction of said way, no damages being claimed, no appropriation for land damages being necessary.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept and allow and establish the exterior lines of a proposed way to be known as Autumn Road, extend- ing from Nahatan Street to a proposed way sometimes known as Irving Street as reported by the Selectmen as a Board of Survey, the plan of which is approved by said Board of Survey or take any other action in the matter.
On motion to accept, motion lost.
Article 5. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to meet the expense of the purchase of eye glasses and spec- tacles for needy school children.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $100.
Article 6. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to meet the expense of the redecorating the face of the clock commonly known as the Town Clock.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $120.
Article 7. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of meeting the cost of acquiring land for play- ground sites during the current year.
Voted: By taxation the sum of $2,000.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee of five to investigate and report to a future Town Meeting to be held not later than January 1, 1939, on the desirability of adopting the Representative Form of Town Meeting Government.
Voted: On motion to so authorize, motion lost.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to name that portion of State Highway Route No. 1 lying between the Westwood-Norwood line and the Walpole-Norwood line as "Veterans of Foreign Wars Highway." Petition of Edward E. Farmer and others.
Voted: So to do, subject to the approval of the Department of Public Works.
Voted: That this meeting be dissolved.
Attest: JAMES E. PENDERGAST, Town Clerk and Accountant
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ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Adjourned Annual Town Meeting of January 17, 1938 to March 28, 1938. Meeting duly called in accordance with the vote of January 17, 1938.
On a notice duly attested by Town Clerk and Accountant, the following articles of the Warrant of the Annual Town Meeting, which were referred to the Finance Commission, were acted upon:
Article 2. To hear and act on the reports of town officers and committees.
Voted: That the sixty-sixth annual report of the town officials of the town of Norwood be received and accepted as printed.
Voted: To accept the printed report of the Finance Commission as submitted.
Article 5. To see what disposition the Town will make of money re- ceived for dog licenses.
See action under Article 6, Item 8, sub-division D.
Article 6. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the current fiscal year, for the following pur- poses, or take any other action in the matter.
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