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Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant to the Town Clerk on or before March 20, current.
Given under our hands this tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and nine.
ALFRED T. DEAN, ALBION F. PARMENTER, THOMAS F. MAHONY, Selectmen of Wayland.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, the voters of the town met as therein directed, and the following business was done, viz .:
Voted, that the Finance Committee's report be accepted and adopted (see page 94 of Town Report of 1909).
Voted, that $34,910.43 the sum recommended by the Finance Committee, be assessed.
Voted, that the sum of $400 be appropriated and assessed for police service.
Voted, that a sum not exceeding $900 be appropriated and assessed for fitting a recitation room in the schoolhouse at Way- land Center.
ART. 4. Voted that the Selectmen be and they hereby are authorized to consult counsel on important town cases, and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.
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Article 5 being under ,consideration, it was voted to excuse William S. Lovell and Dolor Cormier from, and the names of John F. Malloy and John M. Curtin were added to the list of jurors as prepared by the Selectmen and the list as so amended was accepted.
Article 6, voted to appropriate one half of the money received from dog licenses for schools, and one half for the library.
Article 7, voted to authorize the treasurer with the approval of the selectmen to borrow $25,000 in anticipation of the taxes of the current year.
Article 8, voted to adopt as the official names of certain un- named streets in the center and north parts of Wayland, a list suggested by the Wayland Village Improvement Society and shown on a plan exhibited in the Annual Town Report of this year; first changing the names of Cochituate Road and Sudbury Road to Main Street, and changing the name of Island Road to Pelham Island Road.
Article 9, voted to accept a bequest under the will of Cynthia C. Roby of $3,155.76, the income of which to be used towards the running expenses of the Public Library.
Article 10, voted that the assessors be instructed to cause to be printed in the official report the names of all persons whose taxes are abated, together with the sums abated.
Article 11, voted that the tax collector cause to be printed in the official report the names of all persons who owe two or more years' taxes with the amount due.
Article 12, voted that of the Selectmen upon investigation find that they can legally do so, they are hereby authorized to permit the use of the Town Hall, free of charge, for church entertain- ments.
Article 13 passed over.
Article 14 voted that the members of the E. W. Marston Con- bination Truck Co. No. 1 be paid twenty-five cents per hour for actual services at all fires.
Article 15 voted that the Overseers of the Poor be, and they hereby are authorized to sell the Town Home property, so called, and the Town Treasurer is authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the town a deed or deeds therefor.
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Article 16 voted to accept the following bequests; $100 from Mrs. S. S. Gray, Mrs. Ellen G. Stowe, Doctors Charles A. and Dwight F. Willis, to be known as the Calvin Rice Fund, the in- come from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Calvin Rice Lots, Nos. 87 and 88, in the North Cemetery, also $400 from Mrs. Cynthia C. Roby, to be known as the "Roby Fund," the income from which to be used for the perpetual care of lots Nos. 40, 42, and 44, standing in the names of E. W. and W. G. Roby, in North Cemetery.
Article 17 voted that the Selectmen be authorized to draw from the Contingent Fund such sums of money as may be neces- sary to carry on the work of exterminating the gipsy and brown- tail moths for the month of December, 1909, and January and February, 1910, but not to exceed the amount of this town's liability for 1910.
Article 18, voted to authorize the Selectmen to install additional street lights at discretion.
Article 19 passed over.
Article 20 passed over.
Article 21 voted that interest be collected at the rate of six per cent per annum on all 1909 taxes remaining unpaid on the first day of October, 1909.
Article 22 voted that the Selectmen, Town Clerk, and Auditor be a committee instructed to revise and publish the Town By-laws.
Article 23 voted that the School Committee, C. W. Dean, Walter B. Henderson, Town Treasurer, and the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen be a Committee to procure plans and estimates for a new schoolhouse to be erected at Cochituate Village at a cost not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars, and report at a special Town Meeting to be held not later than June 1st, 1909, and that a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars be appropriated for the purpose of the procuring by said committee of such plans and estimates.
Article 24 passed over.
Article 25 acted on under Article 3.
Article 26 voted that the Selectmen be instructed to investigate the need of fireproof receptacles for the protection of the town records and report at the next town meeting with recommenda- tions.
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Article 27 voted by separate ballot to accept an act to provide for the protection of forest and sprout land from fire, being Chap- ter 209 of the acts of 1908.
Article 28 voted that the Selectmen be authorized to install on Gleason Road between the Concord Road and the residence of Mr. Hardy such street lights as they may deem necessary.
Voted that the Selectmen and the Water Commissioners be and they hereby are instructed to investigate the matter of sup- plying the center and north parts of the town with water, and report with recommendations at a future town meeting.
Attest :
DANIEL BRACKETT, Town Clerk.
OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF THE
Town of Wayland
FOR ITS
One Hundred and Thirtieth Municipal Year
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BOSTON, MASS. THE TUDOR PRESS 1910
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS
The Committee recommend that existing by-laws be repealed and the following adopted :
SECTION 1
TOWN MEETINGS
1. The Annual Town Meeting shall be held on the first Monday of March in each year, at such time as the Selectmen may appoint, at the Town Hall, or if this is impossible, at such place as the Selectmen may appoint.
2. The Selectmen shall cause notice of every town meeting to be given by posting a copy of the warrant therefor in four or more public places in the town, at least seven days before the time appointed for such meeting.
3. No vote fixing the time for closing a ballot shall be recon- sidered after said ballot shall have begun; but an exten- sion of the time may be had by vote without reconsideration.
4. Every motion or order which is of a complicated nature, or of unusual length, shall be reduced to writing; also all other motions at the pleasure of the presiding officer.
5. The powers and duties of a presiding officer not especially provided for by law, or by these by-laws, shall be determined by the rules and practice contained in Cushing's Manual, so far as they are adapted to the conditions and powers of the town.
6. The warrant for the annual Town Meeting shall include an article providing that on all taxes remaining unpaid after October 1 of the year in which they are assessed, interest shall be charged from that date at the rate of 6% per annum.
7. The annual Town Meeting shall be open for balloting for town officers as announced in the warrant, and on the clos- ing of the polls shall be adjourned without transaction of other business until the following Wednesday at 7.45 P.M., when all re- maining articles in the warrant may be acted upon.
8. At the annual Town Meeting, there shall be chosen by ballot a Treasurer of the Library Funds.
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9. The Town Clerk shall within one week after the final ad- journment of every Town Meeting, or as soon as practicable thereafter, submit to the Selectmen a copy of the official record of such meeting, and the Selectmen shall cause to be published in the next annual Town Report a copy of the warrant and of every vote contained in said record.
SECTION 2 FINANCES
1. The financial year shall begin on the first day of January, and end on the thirty-first day of December, and during the interval between the thirty-first day of December and the time of making the next annual appropriations, the several departments shall have authority to carry on their usual and necessary work. The expense incurred by each department during this period shall be charged against the unexpended balance, if any, of the previous appropriation, and when this is exhausted, against the next annual appropriation; but no department shall incur ex- penses during said period in excess of one sixth of the last annual appropriation without a unanimous vote of the Selectmen approv- ing such expenditure.
2. The Selectmen shall not later than January 1st appoint a Finance Committee of five members, none of whom shall hold any other town office, or hold any contract with the town. Every town department shall annually submit to the Finance Committee, not later than January 15th, an estimate of its re- quirements for the ensuing year, and the Finance Committee shall, not later than February 1st, give a public hearing thereon, and on requests for appropriations made in writing by any ten citizens of the town. Notices of said hearing shall be posted not less than seven days previously, in the same manner as the notices of town meetings. Said Committee shall not later than February 10th submit to the Selectmen a report with recommendations for appropria- tions, grouped in harmony with the recommendations of the State Bureau of Statistics, which shall be printed in the Annual Town Report.
3. All permanent funds belonging to the town, excepting any funds given or created under terms conflicting with this paragraph, shall be held by one board of trustees, who shall be the present Sinking Fund Commissioners, and should their duties as Sinking Fund Commissioners cease through retire- ment of the Town Bonds, the same board or their successors shall continue as Trustees of Permanent Funds.
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4. All bills against the town shall be made out in detail with the proper date for each item and shall be approved by a majority of the board contracting said bill and shall be presented to the Auditor, and if approved by him shall be examined by the Selectmen. If approved by them they shall give an order on the Treasurer to pay the same, said order to specify from what appro- priation the same is to be drawn. No bill shall be paid unless so approved.
5. No town officer or board of officers shall contract any debt
or obligation on behalf of the town, beyond the appropria- tion to which said debt or obligation would be chargeable, except on the unanimous vote of the board so contracting said debt, and the unanimous approval of the Board of Selectmen, and in such case not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in any one year; and the Selectmen shall in their annual report state what emergency required such action. No town officer and no salaried employee of the town, or any agent of any such officer or employee, shall sell materials or supplies to a board of which he is a member, without the permission of the Board, of Selectinen expressed in a vote which shall appear on their records with the reasons therefor. No town officer and no salaried employee of the town or any agent of any such officer or employee shall re- ceive any compensation or commission for work done by him for the town except his official salary and fees allowed by law, with- out the approval of the Selectmen expressed in a vote which shall appear on their records with the reasons therefor. The Auditor in his annual report shall call attention to any apparent violation of this by-law which may come to his notice.
6. The Town Treasurer shall not borrow any money on behalf of the town upon any promissory note or other obligation executed by him, as such Treasurer, nor shall any note be binding upon the town, unless the same is first countersigned by the Selectmen or by a majority of them. All notes issued shall be registered by a national bank or by a trust company organized under Massachusetts laws, and no note shall be valid or binding upon the town unless so registered. Said notes or bonds shall be made payable at the office of, and when paid shall be cancelled by, the Registrar.
7. All bonds issued by the town shall be serial, the first series falling due not more than one year after date of issue, and an equal amount each year thereafter until all are paid. No bond shall be issued for a period exceeding the probable serviceable existence of the improvement for which the loan is made.
8. The Town Treasurer, Town Clerk, Tax Collector, Clerk of the Water Board, Treasurer of Library Funds, Treasurer of Sinking Fund Commission, and any other town official that the
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Selectmen may require, shall furnish bonds to an amount to be determined by the Selectmen. Said bonds shall be issued by a bonding corporation in good standing, and the premium shall be paid by the town.
SECTION 3
RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS
1. All boards of standing town officers shall cause records of their doings and accounts to be kept in suitable books, and the persons having charge of the same shall transmit them to their successors in office. Whenever any vote affecting any town officer or officers is passed, the Clerk shall transmit a copy of the same to such officer or officers, and the said copy shall be kept by said officers and be transmitted to their successors if anything therein contained shall appertain to their duties.
2. All town officers, agents, boards, or committees of the town shall submit to the Selectmen not later than Febru- ary 1st, written annual reports giving an account of the business transacted during the year, which the Selectmen shall prepare for publication in the annual town report. The Highway Com- missioner, Fire Engineers, Water Commissioners, Sealer of Weights and Measures, the Superintendent of the Gypsy and Brown tail Moth work, and any other town officials whom the Selectmen may require, shall include in their annual reports in- ventories of town property in their respective hands at the close of the fiscal year.
3. The Selectmen shall cause a copy of the annual Town Re- port to be left at the residence of every registered voter not less than seven days before the annual town meeting.
4. The town accounts shall be kept by the Town Treasurer in substantial conformity with the schedule of accounts prepared by the Commonwealth for the yearly report of towns to the State. The School Committee shall keep their accounts in the manner recommended by the State Board of Education.
5. Departmental current receipts shall be credited to the department to which they apply, and shall be available for the requirements of that department. All current receipts not applying to any department under the grouping of the Bureau of Statistics shall be Credited to the Revenue Account, and no money shall be drawn therefrom except by vote of the town. All balances of appropriations of the preceding year for purposes other than outlays, remaining unexpended June 1st each year, shall be carried to said account, except the unexpended balances of the poor account, schools, cemetery account and interest on taxes, which shall remain to the credit of said account. The
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Selectmen shall be authorized to draw from the Revenue Account as if specially appropriated, any sums that the town may be required by the State to spend, for which the town is to be re- imbursed by the State. No money received from the sale of town property shall be appropriated for any purpose except for the payment of town debt or for permanent public improvements. Interest on taxes shall be applied to reimbursement of town funds, in accordance with the vote of the town to this effect, until said funds have been invested.
6. The Auditor or any voter shall, at all reasonable times
have access to the books of the town, and have the right to examine them and take copies thereof. The Auditor shall verify the accounts of the Treasurer and Tax Collector monthly and shall report in writing to the Selectmen each month as to their accounts.
SECTION 4 TAXES
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1. Fach decennial valuation of estates made by the Assessors shall be printed in full in the Annual Town Report for the next year after the same shall be made.
2. A list of all taxes shall, not later than August 1st, be com- mitted to the Collector, who shall within thirty days of the receipt thereof make out and deliver or mail to every person, corporation, or company of persons named in such tax list, a tax bill, specifying the rate of taxation, the assessed value of each item of real estate, and the date from which interest will be charged.
3. The Collector shall make weekly payments to the Treas- urer, provided the sum in his hands amounts to one hun- dred dollars or more. If any taxes remain uncollected on April 1st. they shall be committed to the Collector elected at the pre- ceding annual town meeting.
4. The Collector shall, at the time of his final settlement for the year, but not before, receive as compensation in lieu of salary one per cent of the total sum collected and paid over by him to the Treasurer, to be drawn from salary account.
SECTION 5 SELECTMEN
1. The Selectmen shall hold a regular business meeting at. least once a month, of which a notice shall be posted in four or more public places at least seven days before said meeting.
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2. The Selectmen shall have full authority as agents of the town to employ counsel to appear for and defend suits brought against the town, unless otherwise especially ordered by a vote of the town. They may settle any claims or suits against the town which in their opinion cannot be defended successfully, acting upon the advice of counsel when the amount to be paid exceeds one thousand dollars.
SECTION 6 WATER COMMISSIONERS
1. The Water Commissioners shall appoint a superin-
tendent, who shall not be a member of their body The superintendent, under the direction of the Commissioners, shall have the general superintendence of the out door work connected with the water works. The clerk shall keep the records of the board under its direction, and shall keep a set of books in which he shall enter all receipts and expenditures of the water works. He shall collect all bills for the use of water, and all other money due the Water Department, and shall make weekly payments thereof to the Town Treasurer when the sum in his hands amounts to one hundred dollars or more.
SECTION 7 GENERAL
1. No building shall be moved over any public way without a permit from the Selectmen, and the Selectmen shall not grant such permit, when such removal will cause destruction or serious injury to shade trees standing in said way, or owned by any person and projecting over said way, unless the consent of the · person on whose premises such trees may stand shall first be ob- tained. And any person moving any building through any public way (either with or without a permit) shall, with the owner of said building, be jointly and severally liable to the town for all damages, costs, and expenses which the town may be compelled to pay in consequence of such removal or in consequence of any obstruction, incumbrance, or injury occasioned thereby.
2. No person shall place or cause to be placed in any public way or square, without the written consent of the Select- men, any dirt, wood, timber, or other material to obstruct or mar the appearance of said way or square.
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3. No person shall behave himself or herself in a rude or dis- orderly manner, or use any indecent, profane, or insulting language in any public place in the town or near any dwelling house or other building therein, or be and remain upon any side- walk, doorstep, or other projection from any house or building, so as to annoy or disturb any person or obstruct any passage to the same. No person shall throw any stones, snowballs, base balls, or other missiles, or coast or course upon any sled, or play at base ball or foot ball in any public way, or obstruct in any man- ner the travel upon said way, nor make any alarming noise or outcries to the disturbance of persons in the town.
SECTION S PENALTIES
1. Every violation of the foregoing by-laws, not otherwise provided for, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than two dollars nor more than twenty dollars.
SECTION 9
1. All by-laws existing prior to the adoption of these by-laws are hereby repealed.
These by-laws will become effective immediately on approval of the Court, and will supersede all previous by-laws.
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SPECIAL WARRANT, 1909
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Wayland in said County Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Way- land, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall on Tuesday, June 1 next, at 7.45 o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to act on the following Articles, viz. :-
ARTICLE 1. To hear the report of the committee appointed at the last town meeting to procure plans and estimates for a new schoolhouse in Cochituate Village and act thereon.
ART. 2. To hear the report of the committee appointed to examine into the necessity of better protection for the records and papers of the town and report with recommendations, and act thereon.
ART. 3. To hear the report of the committee appointed to examine and report upon the best method of supplying water to the center and north parts of the town, and act thereon.
ART. 4. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to build the road from the Wayland and Cochituate Road to the Framingham Road, as ordered by the County Commissioners.
ART. 5. To see if the town will appropriate an additional sum of money for the use of the Fire Department.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, a town meeting was held on June 1, 1909, and the following business was done :
Under Art. 1. Dr. Ide read the minutes of the meetings of the committee, Mr. Mahony reported in writing for a majority of
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said committee, asking for further time to prepare final report. No action was had on report. After discussion, it was voted that the committee be discharged.
Under Art. 2. The committee reported verbally that there was need of better facilities for the protection of the records. The report was accepted and adopted and one hundred and fifty dollars was ordered appropriated and assessed for the purpose of carrying out the recommendation of the committee.
No action was had on the remaining Articles in the Warrant.
Adjourned
Attest :
DANIEL BRACKETT, Town Clerk
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TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
SELECTMEN
Term expires
THOS. F. MAHONY
·
1910
EDMUND H. SEARS
1910
RUFUS E. CORLEW
1910
MODERATOR
HENRY G. DUDLEY
1910
CLERK
DANIEL BRACKETT
1910
TREASURER
FRANK E. YEAGER
·
1910
COLLECTOR
J. E. MAHONY
1910
AUDITOR
FREDERICK H. FOWLER
1910
TREASURER OF LIBRARY FUNDS
FRANCIS SHAW
1910
OVERSEERS OF POOR
FRANCIS P. WHITE
1911
CHARLES A. BENSON .
1910
DANIEL W. RICKER
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.
1912
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TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
PHILIP S. IDE
1911
HARRY E. CARSON
1910
FRANK I. COOPER
1912
ASSESSORS
NATHANIEL R. GERALD
1911
ALFRED A. CARTER
1912
DANIEL BRACKETT .
1910
WATER COMMISSIONERS
HENRY G. DUDLEY
1911
CLARENCE S. WILLIAMS
1910
BRYANT M. BAILEY
1912
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
FRANCIS SHAW
1911
ALFRED W. CUTTING
1911
JOHN CONNELLY
1912
AMOS I. HADLEY
1912
ANDREW A. NORRIS
1910
ALFRED A. CARTER
1910
TRUSTEES OF ALLEN FUND
ISAAC DAMON
1910
JOHN CONNELLY
1910
L. K. LOVELL, deceased .
1910
TREE WARDEN
GEORGE W. FAIRBANK 1910
SURVEYOR OF HIGHWAYS
MICHAEL W. HYNES 1910
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS
CHESTER B. WILLIAMS
1911
JOHN CONNELLY
1912
WALTER B. HENDERSON
1910
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BOARD OF HEALTH
THOMAS BRYANT
1912
WILLARD C. HUNTING
·
1910
CHARLES S. BALDWIN
1911
CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS
WALLACE S. DRAPER
1911
ANDREW S. MORSE
1912
RANDALL W. PORTER
1910
CONSTABLES
WALTER F. EVANS
1910
HOWARD R. GEORGE
1910
ERNEST F. LAWRENCE
1910
HENRY E. LEBLANC
1910
JOHN H. MALONEY
1910
JOHN E. LINNEHAN
1910
THOMAS NAYLOR
1910
FENCE VIEWERS
SELECTMEN .
1910
FIELD DRIVERS
CONSTABLES
1910
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
WILLIAM S. LOVELL .
1910
RANDALL W. PORTER
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1910
SURVEYORS OF LUMBER
EVERETT W. SMALL
1910
EDWARD W. MARSTON
1910
MEMORIAL DAY COMMITTEE
DANIEL W. RICKER
. 1910
E. P. BUTLER
1910
MOSES CASWELL .
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1910
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TOWN OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
EZRA G. LEMAY
BENJ. W. DAMON
1912
FRANK HAYNES
1911
DANIEL BRACKETT, ex-officio
1910
ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
WILLIAM S LOVELL
C. S. WILLIAMS
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