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Article 17. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing a piece of land in Cochituate known as Griffin's Field, to be used as a Playground. or do or act.
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Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess $1000.00 to re-build and improve Tower Hill Road, as ordered by the County Commissioners, or do or act.
Article 19. To see if the Town will accept the following bequests :-
$100. Received from Mrs. Marion W. Cutting, to be known as the "William B. Braman Fund", income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Wm. B. Braman Lot, No. 211, in the North Cemetery.
$100. Received from the Estate of Mrs. Betsey W. Moore, to be known as the "Francis Moore Fund", income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Francis Moore Lot, No. 174, in the North Cemetery.
$100. Received from the Edmund Rice. (1638) Associa- tion, to be known as the "Edmund Rice Fund", in- come from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Edmund Rice Memorial Stone in the North Cemetery, and for flowers on Memorial Day.
$100. Received from Mrs. Ira Underwood, to be known as the "Ira Underwood Fund", income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Ira Under- wood Lot, No. 59, Sec. A, in Lake View Cemetery.
$200. Received from Theodore S. Sherman, to be known as the "Theodore S. Sherman Fund", income from which to be used for the perpetual care of Lots. No. 223 and 225. in the North Cemetery.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to borrow a sum of money for the purpose of continuing the repairs on Main Street, Cochituate, or do or act.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of continuing
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the repairs on Pond Street, Cochituate, or do or act.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to borrow a sum of money in ar ination of a reimbursement from the County and State for tı. continuing the repairs on Pond Street, Cochituate, ..
Article 23. To see if the Town will authorize the Wayland Water Committee to spend a sum of money not exceeding $500.00 for further investigation for a Water Supply as re- commended by the State Department of Health, said sum of money to be taken from the water rates.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money to build a sidewalk on the south side of the State Road between a point opposite the residence of Thomas F. Mahoney to a point opposite the residence of James Egan, or do or act.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to pay all town laborers three 'dollars and fifty cents per day, or do or act.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to pay seven dollars per day for a double team or do or act.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to build a sidewalk on the southerly side of Plain Street, Cochituate, from Pemberton Road to street leading to Shore Acres.
And you are required to serve this warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall. at each Post Office in town, and at the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said election.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before Feb. 1st, 1919.
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Given under our hands this 13th day of January in the year of our Lord. one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
CHARLES A. BENSON, FRANK HAYNES, NAPOLEON PERODEAU, Selectmen of the Town of Wayland.
Jan.
1919.
A true copy attest :
· Constable of the Town of Wayland.
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ANNUAL TOWN WARRANT
FEBRUARY 4, 1918
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 you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in town elections to meet at their respective polling places on Monday, February 4th, 1918, at six o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring in their ballots for a Moderator, a Town Clerk, three Selectmen, a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, an Auditor, a Treasurer of Library Funds, a Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden, one Assessor to fill vacancy, and seven Constables, all for one year.
One member of the School Committee, one Sinking Fund Commissioner, one Cemetery Commissioner, two Trustees of Public Library, one Overseer of Poor, one Assessor, one mem- ber of Board of Health, one Water Commissioner, all for three years.
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the acceptance of Chap. 23, General Acts of 1917, which is "an act to provide for the licensing of coffee houses, so-called."
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the acceptance of Chap.
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254 General Acts of 191? which is "an act to authorize cities and towns to pay to their employees who enlist in the service of the United States the difference between their military and their municipal compensation."
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot. The polls will be open at 6.15 o'clock in the forenoon and will re- main continuously open for at least four hours, when they may be closed unless the voters otherwise order.
And you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday, February 6th, 1918, at 7.45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles :
Article 1. To hear the reports of town officers, agents, and committees and act thereon.
Article 2. To choose all necessary officers, agents, and committees not elected by official ballot.
Article 3. To grant money for all necessary town pur- poses.
Article 4. To authorize the Selectmen to consult coun- sel on important town cases and to defend the town against any action at law or suit in equity that may be brought against it.
Article 5. To appropriate the money received from dog licenses.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow
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money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Article 7. To see if the town will install an electric light on Shawmut Avenue Extension, near the home of Charles Wright, and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said purpose, or do or act.
Article 8. To see if the town will place a hydrant on Shaw- mut Avenue Extension, near the home of Charles Wright, and to appropriate and assess a sum of money for said pur- pose, or do or act.
Article 9. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $1,000.00 for re-shaping, rolling, gravel- ing and oiling the Old Connecticut Path from Cochituate Road east to State Road, or do or act.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to change the name of the street in Cochituate now known as German Hill Street to its former name, "Pemberton Road," or do or act.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to sell water by meter where requested and fix the price for same or otherwise act.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to discontinue the charge of $2.00 per year for water used in bath tubs or otherwise act.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to raise the pay of the Cochituate firemen from $10.00 to $25.00 per year or otherwise act.
Article 14. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $375.00 with which to gravel or patch up Pelham Island Road, from concrete bridge over the Sudbury River to the Sudbury town line.
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Article 15. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum not to exceed $2,000.00 to purchase a portable stone crusher.
Article 16. To see if the town will appropriate and assess $150.00 to build a conduit on the Old Sudbury Road near the residences of Frank Moore and Mrs. M. C. Baldwin.
Article 17. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $2,000.00 for the pur- pose of continuing the repairs on Main Street, Cochituate, or do or act.
Article 18. To see if the town will vote to borrow a sum of money in anticipation of a reimbursement from the State and County on account of repairs on Main Street, Cochituate.
Article 19. To se if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $150.00 for the purpose of painting and repairs on the Engine House in Cochituate.
Article 20. To see if the town will accept the following bequest :-
$100.00 received from Mrs. Maggie L. Tuck, to be known as the "Otis Loker Fund," income from which to be used for the petpetual care of the Otis Loker Lot in the Center Cemetery.
Article 21. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of installing four electric lights on Rice Road, between the residence of Alexander Sauer and Old Connecticut Path.
Article 22. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money to rebuild the so-called Dry Bridge on Old Sudbury Road, or do or act.
Article 23. To see if the town will appropriate and raise a
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sum of money for purpose of purchasing a piece of land in Cochituate, called Griffin's Ball Field, or do or act.
And you are required to serve this Warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in town, and on the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said election
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before February 1st, 1918.
Given under our hands this 12th day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
CHARLES A. BENSON, FRANK HAYNES, JAMES FERGUSON, Selectmen of the Town of Wayland.
TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE
February 14, 1918.
And pursuant to said warrant, the inhabitants of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs met and did the following business on 6th February, 1918. ,
Mr. John J. Erwin was elected Moderator pro tem. It was voted to adjourn for one week. Meeting adjourned to 13th February, 1918.
On February 13, 1918, meeting called to order at 7.55. Mr. John J. Irwin in the chair. The following business was trans- acted :
Article 1. Voted to take up the report of the Finance Com- mittee item by item.
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Voted that the report of the Finance Committee be accepted as presented with the exception that under Salaries the word "Treasurer" be inserted after the word "Selectmen," and ex- cluding that paragraph which reads "We recommend that all money received as reimbursements from County and State on account of Highway work be applied to payment of high- way notes, and that all Highway and Bridge notes not other- wise provided for be paid from the revenue account," and sub- stituting therefor the following "We recommend that all High- way and Bridge notes not otherwise provided for be paid from the revenue account," and also by adding after the word "oil- ing" the words "or preserving."
The said report as amended and accepted is as follows :
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Salaries
$3,200.00
Moderator
Selectmen
Treasurer
Auditor
Collector
Assessors
Overseers of the Poor
Town Clerk
Election Officers
Registrars
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Incidentals 1,200.00
Protection of life and property :
Police
$2.000.00
Fire Dept .. Cochituate
900.00
Fire Dept., Wayland
100.00
Tree Warden Dept.
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Health and Sanitation :
Board of Health
500.00
Inspector of Animals, salary
150.00
Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks
4,000.00
Oiling or preserving Highways
2,000.00
Street Lighting
3,000.00
Moth Extermination
941.03
Charities :
Support of Poor
1,200.00
Education
Covering School Committee, Salaries
18,500.00
Teachers and Janitors
Supplies
Transportation
Superintendent
Manual Training
Incidentals
Vocational School Tuition and including reim- bursements 90.00
School Physician
25.00
Library and Reading Room
1,600.00
Memorial Day Celebration
200.00
Soldiers Benefits
450.00
Cemeteries :
Lake View
$250.00
North and Center
250.00
500.00
Sinking Fund
1,408.80
Wayland School House Equipment Bonds
1,400.00
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Cochituate School House Bonds
1,500.00
Interest
5,000.00
Total
$49,914.83
The above appropriations are recommended for the fiscal year ending December 31. 1918. in addition to such balances as appear on the Treasurer's books unexpended from last year's appropriations. We recommend that all Highway and Bridge notes not otherwise provided for be paid from the Revenue Account.
Also, that the money for removing snow, town insurance and surety bonds and requirements for legal claims be drawn from the revenue account.
Also, the overdraft on interest account $1,617.49 and abate- ment of taxes account $2,359.04 be charged to Revenue Ac- count.
Article 2. Isaac Damon, John Connelly, and Walter B. Henderson were elected Trustees of the Allen Fund.
Voted, that the Constables act as Field Drivers.
Voted, that the Constables act as Fence Viewers.
Frank Haynes and Arthur F. Marston were elected Survey- ors of Lumber.
Oscar L. Ames, Arthur F. Marston, and William S. Lovell were elected Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Charles B. Butterfield, Irwin W. Schleicher, James I. Bry- den, Marcus M. Fiske and Thomas W. Frost were elected Memorial Day Committee.
Article 3. Voted that the various amounts specified in the
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Finance Committee's Report as amended be appropriated and assessed and recommendations be adopted.
Article 4. Voted to authorize the Selectmen 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.
Article 5. Voted to appropriate the money received from Dog Licenses one half to the Library and one half to the schools.
Article 6. Voted that the Town Treasurer with the ap- proval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1918, to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, any debt or debts in- curred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the said financial year. Voted unanimously.
Article 7. Voted to pass over.
Article 8. Voted to pass over.
Article 9. Voted to appropriate from the Highway Ac- count $1,000.00 or sum not exceeding same, to reshape, roll, gravel and oil the Old Connecticut Path from Cochituate Road east to State Road.
Article 10. Voted to change the name of the street in Cochituate now known as "German Hill Street" to its former name "Pemberton Road."
Article 11. Voted to pass over.
Article 12. No action.
Article 13. Voted that the pay of the Cochituate Firemen be raised by paying fifty cents per hour to men while in actual
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service in addition to their regular salary of $10.00 per year.
Article 14. Voted to appropriate from the Highway Ac- count a sum not exceeding $375.00 with which to gravel or patch up Pelham Island Road, from Concrete Bridge over the Sudbury River to the Sudbury Town Line.
Article 15. Voted to pass over.
Article 16. Voted to appropriate and assess $150.00 to build a conduit on the Old Sudbury Road near the residences of Frank Moore and Mrs. M. C. Baldwin.
Article 17. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum not ex- ceeding $1,500.00 for the purpose of continuing the repairs on Main Street, Cochituate.
Article 18. Voted that the Town Treasurer be and hereby is authorized with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow th sum of $3,000.00 in anticipation of a reimbursement from the County and State on account of repairs on Main Street, Cochituate. Vote: Yes 43, No. 4.
Article 19. Voted to appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $150.00 for the purpose of painting and repairing the Cochituate Engine House.
Article 20. Voted to accept the following bequest :
$100.00 received from Mrs. Maggie L. Tuck to be known as the "Otis Loker Fund" income from which to be used for the perpetual care of the Otis Loker Lot in the Center Cemetery.
Article 21. Voted to pass over.
Article 22. Voted that the Selectmen be a committee to get estimates in this matter and report at a future town meeting.
Article 23. Voted that the Chair appoint a committee of
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tree to investigate this matter and report at a future meeting. Committee appointed were : Amos I. Hadley, J. Sidney Stone, Ernest E. Sparks.
Voted to dissolve meeting.
Meeting dissolved at 11.45 P. M
A true copy Attest:
WARREN L. BISHOP, Town Clerk of Wayland.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
MAY 21, 1918
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 you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall on Tuesday, the 21st day of May, current at 7.45 P. M., there and then to act on the following articles, viz :
Article 1. To hear any reports of the Town Officers, agents and committees and act thereon.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a cer- tain sum of money to continue gravel sidewalk on southerly side of Plain Street in Cochituate from house of Dana Elkins to Stephen Commo's residence, or do or act.
Article 3. To see if the town will re-consider the vote wherein the Finance Committee's report was accepted, or do or act.
Article 4. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $500.00 for purpose of repairing Main Street, Cochituate, or do or act.
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Article 5. To see if the town will vote to borrow a sum not exceeding $1,000.00 in anticipation of reimbursement from the County and State on account of repairs on Main Street, Cochituate, or do or act.
Article 6. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum not exceeding $800.00 for the purpose of repairing Pond Street, Cochituate, or do or act.
Article 7. To see what action the town will take in regard to the existing By-Laws.
Article 8. To see if the town will appropriate and raise a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing a piece of land in Cochituate known as Griffin's Ball Field, or do or act.
Article 9. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money not exceeding $500.00 for the purpose of making further experiments by the committee on water, or do or. act.
Article 10. To see if the town will extend the Water sys- tem to Woodland Park, or do or act.
And you are required to serve this Warrant by posting copies thereof attested by you at the Town Hall, at each Post Office in town, and on the Engine House in Cochituate seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or before the date of said meeting.
Given under our hands this 7th day of May, A. D. 1918.
CHARLES A. BENSON, FRANK HAYNES, NAPOLEON PERODEAU, Selectmen of the Town of Wayland.
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TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE
May 22, 1918.
And pursuant to the said warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland qualified to vote in town affairs, met and transacted the following business.
Article 1. Committee on purchase of Griffin Ball Field re- ported adversely. Voted to accept the report.
Article 2. Committee on water not complete. No. action. Voted to pass over the article.
Article 3. Voted to reconsider wherein the report of the Finance Committee was accepted at the town meeting Febru- ary 4th, 1918.
Voted that the Finance Committee's report be amended by striking out the figures $4,000 for Highways, Bridges and Sidewalks and inserting the figures $5,200 and striking out the words Oiling Highways and the figures $2000 and inserting Pond Street $800.
Voted the report of the Finance Committee be accepted and adopted as amended.
Article 4. Voted that the town appropriate and assess the sum of five hundred dollars for the purpose of repairing Main Street, Cochituate.
Article 5. Voted that the Town Treasurer be and hereby is with the approval of the Selectmen authorized to borrow the sum of $1.000 in anticipation of a reimbursement from the State and County, and issue a note or notes therefor payable one year from date with interest. Yea 33, No. 9.
Article 6. Voted to pass over the article.
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Article 7. Voted to amend the present By-Laws of the town. (See Proposed By-Laws on next page).
Article 8. Voted to pass over the article.
Article 9. No action taken.
Article 10. Voted to pass over the article.
Voted to adjourn at 9.30 P. M.
A true copy, Attest :
ALFRED A. CARTER, Town Clerk pro tem of Wayland.
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PROPOSED BY-LAWSFOR THE TOWN OF WAYLAND.
Article 1. Town Meetings and Notice Thereof.
Section 1. In the annual Town Meeting, the matters of the election of Town Officers and the matters of the consideration of the question of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, shall be in order only on the first Monday of March in each year, and all matters to be considered at the Annual Town Meeting other than the election of Town Officers and the question of granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors shall be in order only at a Town Meeting held within thirty days after the date of the annual election. The time and place of holding such subsequent meeting shall be stated in the warrant for the annual election and said election, sub- sequent meeting and its adjournments shall be regarded as parts of the annual Town Meeting.
Section 2. Service of the warrant for every town meeting and every annual election shall be made by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, at the voting place in Cochitu- ate, and at each Post Office seven days at least before the time appointed for such meeting.
Article 2. Procedure at Town Meeting.
Section 1. All reports of town officers, agents or commit- tees which are to be considered at any Town meeting, shall be reduced to writing and a copy thereof deposited with the Town Clerk before such report is presented for action.
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Section 2. All motions shall be reduced to writing if so re- quested by the presiding officer or any legal voter.
Section 3. If a vote is doubted, a ballot shall be taken upon the request of one-third of the voters present.
Section 4. There can be no reconsideration of a vote once reconsidered or after a vote not to reconsider it. No article in the warrant shall again be taken into consideration after it has been disposed of by vote unless ordered by a vote of two- thirds of the voters present and voting.
Article 3. Duties of Selectmen.
Section 1. 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 legal claims or suits against the town which in their opinion it is unwise to defend, acting upon the advice of counsel when the amount to be paid exceeds one thousand dollars.
Section 2. Regular meetings shall be held at such times as the Selectmen shall appoint. Special meetings shall be held at any time at the request of any Selectman. Notice of all special meetings shall be sent to all the Selectmen at least twenty-four hours before the time fixed for the meeting, but less than twenty-four hours' notice shall be sufficient, if a reasonable opportunity to be present is given.
Section 3. The Selectmen shall notify the Town Clerk of all appointments and of all licenses and permits issued.
Section 4. The Selectmen shall cause a copy of the annual Town Report to be left at the residence of every registered voter not less than seven days before the annual town meeting.
Article 4. Finances.
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Section 1. The Selectmen shall, not later than December 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 esti- mate of its requirements for the ensuing year, and the Finance Committee shall. not later than February 1st, give a public hearing thereon, and on requests for appropriation made in writing by any ten citizens of the town. Notices of said hear- ing shall be posted not less than seven days previously. in the same manner as the notices of town meetings. Said Commit- tee shall, not later than February 10th, submit to the Select- men a report with recommendations for appropriation, grouped in harmony with the recommendation of the State Bureau of Statistics which shall be printed in the annual Town Report.
Section 2. The head of every department, board or com- mittee authorized to expend money shall. at the close of the fiscal year, furnish the Treasurer, for incorporation in his an- nual report, a list of all outstanding liabilities of such depart- ment, board or committee, showing to whom the same are due, . for what due, and the amounts thereof, together with an in- ventory of all property in his possession belonging to the town.
Section 3. All bills against the town shall be made out in detail with the proper date for each item an i shall be ap- proved by a majority of the board contracting said bill and shall be presented to the Audioi, and if approved by him shall be examined by the Selectmen. If approved by them they shall give an order to the Treasurer to pay the same. said order to specify from what appropriation the same is to be drawn. No bill shall be paid unless so approved, excepting school bills and such others as may be required by statute.
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