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Article 12. To see if the Town will appropriate for pay- ment of interest due in 1933 on Water Department Extension Notes the sum of $2,050.60 same to be taken from Water De- partment receipts reserved for appropriation in 1932, or do or act.
Voted unanimously that the sum of $2,050.60 be appro- priated for payment of interest due in 1933 on Water Depart- ment, Main Extension Notes, said sum to be transferred from Water Department receipts reserved for appropriation in 1932.
Article 13. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex as required by law on account of assessments levied on the Town for its share of the principal of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital Funding Loan, Act of 1932, bonds maturing in 1933 issued in compliance with Chapter 10, Acts of 1932; also for any other indebtedness, incurred and outstanding under said Chapter 10; also for the Town's share of interest on said bonds due in 1933; also for the care and treatment of tubercular patients under Acts of 1928, Chapter 385, as amended by Acts of 1932, Chapter 60; also for care, maintenance and repair of said Hospital for 1932 including interest on temporary notes issued therefor in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 111, sections 85 and 85A, and for all other expenses in connection therewith, deter- mine how the money shall be raised, or in any way act thereon.
Voted unanimously that the sum of $1,000.00, this being the Town's share of the principal of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital Funding Loan, Acts of 1932 bonds maturing in 1933, be and the same is hereby appropriated and that a further sum of $524.81 be and hereby is appropriated on account of interest and other charges on account thereof. That a further sum of $803.91 be and hereby is appropriated for the Town's share of the net cost of care, maintenance, and repairs of the Middlesex County Hospital including interest on tempor- ary notes issued therefor and including the Town's share of the cost of care and treatment of tubercular patients up to June 30, . 1932, cared for under Acts of 1928, Chapter 385, as amended.
Article 14. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess the required amount of money and arrange for notes to pay the balance to build an elementary school in Wayland Center as per plans submitted by the building committee, and add two rooms to the Cochituate School, or do or act.
Voted unanimously to pass over the Article.
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Article 15. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess sufficient money to build a High School and arrange for notes to pay the balance as per plans submitted by this committee, or do or act.
Voted unanimously to pass over the Article.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess the sum of $500.00 to be used by the Wayland Water Board to build and install toilet facilities and dressing rooms for bathers at Baldwin's Pond Reservation, as recommended by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 17. To see if the Town will accept the gift of the land substantially triangular in shape bounded approximately as follows: Southerly by the State Road, Northwesterly by Pelham Island Road, Easterly and Northerly by land formerly of Mellen, more recently of Bennett, and Easterly again by Main Street, said land being situated directly West across Main Street from the new Town Hall Lot, formerly the Wayland Inn property, and being sometimes known as the Heater Piece, to be used for a Public Park, and will authorize the acceptance thereof by the Board of Selectmen, or do or act.
Voted unanimously that the Town hereby authorize the Board of Park Commissioners and the Board of Selectmen to accept on behalf of the Town the gift of the following described land to be used for a Public Park ;
A certain parcel of land substantially triangular in shape bounded Southerly by the State Road, Northwesterly by Pelham Island Road, Easterly and Northerly by land formerly of Mel- len, more recently of Bennett, and Easterly again by Main Street, said land being situated directly West across Main Street from the new Town Hall Lot, formerly the Wayland Inn prop- erty, and being sometimes known as the Heater Piece.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to extend a six inch water main with the fire hydrants, gates and fittings along Waltham Road from Concord Road to the residence of Leslie B. Reid, a distance of about 400 feet, or do or act.
Voted to refer the matter to the Water Board for a Report at the next Town Meeting.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to extend the water system down Oxbow Road a distance of about 1500 feet, or do or act.
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Voted to refer the matter to the Water Board for a Report at the next Town Meeting.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the necessary sum of money to extend a six inch water main in Hawthorn Road.
Voted to refer the matter to the Water Board for a Report at the next Town Meeting.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept Castle Gate South as the same has been laid out and filed by the Select- men, work to be done under the Betterment Act, to take by right of Domain such land as may be necessary for doing said work; appropriate or borrow money to pay for the same, or otherwise act thereon.
Voted unanimously that the report of the Selectmen laying out Castlegate Road, sometimes known as Castle Gate South as a public town way under the Betterment Act in that part of the Town of Wayland called Cochituate from West Plain Street easterly substantially 580 feet as shown on a plan on file in the Town Clerk's Office entitled "Plan of Proposed Taking under the Betterment Act of Castle Gate South in Wayland, Mass." dated February 1933, Barnes & Beal, C. E.'s, be accepted and that said Castlegate Road, sometimes known as Castle Gate South, as so laid out extending from West Plain Street, a dis- tance of substantially 580 feet easterly as thereby established. be approved and allowed, and that the sum of Eleven Hundred Dollars ($1100.00) be and it hereby is appropriated and assessed to pay for the same.
Article 22. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a certain sum of money for six inch water main, with necessary hydrants and valves, running from Old Connecticut Path along Stone Bridge Road, to Riverview Terrace and including Over- look Road, Riverview Circle and Shore Drive, or do or act.
Voted to refer the matter to the Water Board for a Report at the next Town Meeting.
Article 23. To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee or some other Committee to sell the motor and pump in the Center School Building and to dispose of such other appurtenances connected with the old water system, or do or act.
Voted unanimously that the School Committee be author- ized to sell the motor, pump and other appurtenances connected with the old water system in the Center School Building.
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Article 24. To see if the Town will assess and appropriate a sum of money for support of athletics as now carried on for the boys in connection with the high school, or do or act.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 25. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess the sum of $525.25 to reimburse Arthur D. Dooley for expenses incurred : due to an accident to Mary A. Dooley in the Way- land High School Building, or do or act.
Voted to instruct the Selectmen to seek Legislative author- ity to reimburse Arthur D. Dooley in the sum of $525.25 for injuries sustained by his daughter, Mary A. Dooley, in Wayland High School.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to provide a drainage system for the village of Cochituate or any portion thereof ; make provision to carry out the work in such manner as may relieve unemployment or as may otherwise serve the best interests of the Town; authorize the acquirement of any neces- sary land or easements ; and make an appropriation therefor, or do or act.
Voted not to act under this Article.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to improve the junction of Millbrook Road, Plain Road, and Glen Road, authorize the acquirement of any necessary land by purchase or otherwise, and make an appropriation therefor or do or act.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money for the relocation and reconstruc- tion of Cochituate Road from Five Paths, so called, south to the residence of Samuel MacKenna, according to plans to be recommended by the county engineers, or do or act.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money for the relocation and reconstruction of Concord Road from the end of the present Chapter 90 road north, according to plans to be recommended by the county engineers, or do or act.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
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and assess a sum of money for the relocation and reconstruc- tion of Concord Road at Clay Pit Hill, according to plans to be recommended by the county engineers, or do or act.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 31. To see what sum, if any, the Town will vote to transfer from available funds to meet any of the appropria- tions made under the foregoing articles.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Voted to dissolve the meeting at 10.40 P. M.
A true copy. Attest :
M. ALICE NEALE, Clerk of the Town of Wayland.
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VOTES ENACTED AT THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, JULY 17, 1933
Town Clerk's Office Wayland, Massachusetts July 17, 1933.
Warren L. Bishop, Moderator :
Pursuant to the following warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland met this day and did the following business :
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money not to exceed $12,000 for the relocation and reconstruction of a portion of Cochituate Road or Concord Road or both according to plans to be recommended by the County Engineers.
Voted unanimously that the Town appropriate and assess the sum of $6,000.00 to be expended under the direction of tht Selectmen for the purpose of relocating and reconstructing a portion of Cochituate Road from Five Paths in a southerly di- rection and a portion of Concord Road, both according to plans to be recommended by the County Engineers, said sum to be in co-operation with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the County of Middlesex in accordance with the provisions of he General Laws.
Article 2. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess an additional sum of money for the Welfare Department.
Voed unanimously that the Town appropriate and assess the additional sum of $8,000 for the Welfare Department.
Article 3. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess an additional sum of money for Soldiers' Relief.
Voted unanimously that the Town appropriate and assess the additional sum of $1,200 for Soldiers' Relief.
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Article 4. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess an additional sum of money for Interest on Town Notes.
Voted unanimously that the Town appropriate and assess the additional sum of $750 for payment of interest on Town Notes.
Article 5. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum of money not to exceed $100 for the expense of this Town Meeting, or do or act.
Voted unanimously that the Town appropriate and assess the sum of $100 for the expense of this Town Meeting.
Article 6. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess the sum of $449.50 to pay the following unpaid bills of 1932, of the Welfare Department :
Town of Natick
Dr. L. B. Rowe
$306.50 50.00
Leonard Morse Hospital
93.00
$449.50
Voted unanimously that the Town appropriate and assess the sum of $449.50 to pay the following unpaid bills of 1932, of the Welfare Department :
Town of Natick
$306.50
Dr. L. B. Rowe
50.00
Leonard Morse Hospital
93.00
$449.50
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to borrow outside the debt limit with the approval of the Selectmen and of the Emergency Finance Board from the Commonwealth a sum of money on account of Public Welfare and Soldiers' Benefits as authorized by statute and to authorize the Treasurer to petition for such a loan and to issue bonds or notes therefor to mature in not more than five years and to appropriate said funds for any of the purposes permitted by the statute relating to such loans, or do or act.
Voted that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, be and hereby is authorized to borrow under authority of and in accordance with the Provisions of Chapter 307, Acts of 1933, the sum of $5,500, and to issue a note or notes of the Town therefor, said note or notes to be paid in not more than
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five years or at such times as may be directed by the Emergency Finance Board named in Chapter 49, Acts of 1933. The pro- ceeds of the loan shall be applied to meeting the appropriations made for welfare, soldiers' benefits, or maturing debt. The Assessors are authorized to use the amount received as avail- able funds in fixing the tax rate.
Vote: Yes 83, No 3.
A true copy. Attest :
M. ALICE NEALE, Clerk of the Town of Wayland.
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VOTES ENACTED AT THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, NOVEMBER 20, 1933
Town Clerk's Office Wayland, Massachusetts November 20, 1933.
Warren L. Bishop, Moderator :
Pursuant to the following warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland met this day and did the following business :
A Report of the School Building Committee was read by Mr. J. Fred Wheeler. No action was taken and the report was filed with the Town Clerk.
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction and equipping of a High School Building and authorize the Selectmen to petition the Federal Government for a grant of money under the Industrial Recovery Act and accept such grant, and to pro- vide by borrowing or otherwise, any sum of money that is required to be raised by the Town for completing said project. or take any action relative thereto.
Voted not to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a high school.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a tract of land to be used as a site for a High School Building, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a com- mittee for the purpose of building a High School Building and to authorize said committee to purchase land for a site for a High School Building, to employ an architect for the purpose of drawing plans for same, and to authorize said committee to
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make contracts for the building and equipping of said High School Building, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Article 4. To see what action the Town will take, if any, on the question of amending the by-laws of the Town, or authorizing the appointment of a committee to consider the advisability of amending the present by-laws, or the adoption of one or more new by-laws, or a new set of by-laws, or do or act.
Voted that the Board of Selectmen be and it hereby is author- ized to appoint a committee to investigate the present by-laws and to consider what changes or additions they deem desirable, such committee to report at the next annual Town Meeting.
Article 5. To consider and act upon the question of authorizing the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to sell from time to time real estate acquired by the Town by foreclosure of tax titles, or do or act.
Voted that the Selectmen and their successors in office be and the same hereby are authorized to sell at public or private sale any of the property which the Town may have acquired or may hereafter acquire through proceedings based upon non-pay- ment of taxes or under proceedings for the sale of lands of low value, to impose upon the property so sold such restrictions, reservations or conditions as shall be deemed expedient and to execute and deliver in the name and under the seal of the Town quitclaim deeds or other instruments therefor.
Article 6. To consider and act upon the question of authorizing the Board of Public Welfare to appoint a member of the Board as paid investigator; to fix the salary of said investigator at $600 per annum and to ratify and approve any appointment heretofore made of any member of the Board as such investigator and the payment of any portion of the salary paid at any time during the year 1933 to any member of the Board as such investigator, or do or act.
Voted unanimously that the Town authorize the Board of Public Welfare to appoint a member of the Board as paid in- vestigator, whose duty it shall be to investigate properly and thoroughly all applications, to follow up systematically all cases, to keep proper records, and to make necessary reports of the department, salary of said investigator to be $600.00 per
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annum ; and that the Town ratify and approve the appointment of Ronald S. Campbell, heretofore made, as such investigator and the payment of any portion of the salary made to him at any time in the year 1933.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used for repairs on so-called Chapter 90 roads, said sum to be used with sum allotted by the State according to plans to be recommended by the engineers of the State Department of Public Works, or do or act.
Voted to pass over the Article.
Voted not to return to Article 3.
Voted to dissolve the meeting 10.25 P. M.
A true copy. Attest :
M. ALICE NEALE, Clerk of the Town of Wayland.
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VOTES ENACTED AT THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, DECEMBER 27, 1933
Town Clerk's Office Wayland, Massachusetts December 27, 1933.
Warren L. Bishop, Moderator :
Pursuant to the following warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Wayland met this day and did the following business :
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the acquisition of a site for and the construction and equipping of a High School Building and authorize the Selectmen to petition the Federal Government for a grant of money under the Industrial Recovery Act and accept such grant, and to provide by borrowing or otherwise, any sum of money that is required to be raised by the Town for complet- ing said project, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted not to adjourn the meeting.
1. Voted that there be raised and appropriated the sum of $100,000 for the construction and original equipment and furn- ishings of a High School Building, including architect's fees. grading and any and all other expenses incident to the comple- tion of said building ready for occupancy subject to obtaining a Federal Grant under the National Industrial Recovery Act.
Vote : Yes 71, No 24.
2. Voted unanimously that the Board of Selectmen be and they hereby are authorized to petition the Federal Government for a grant of money under the National Industrial Recovery Act and to accept such grant to help to finance the construction and original equipment for a High School Building and that all money received from the Federal Government under the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act on account of such project shall
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be applied to meet the appropriation made for said purpose at this meeting.
3. Voted unanimously that the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and he hereby is authorized to borrow not to exceed $100,00 for the construction and original equipment, as heretofore voted, of a High School Building, from the most advantageous source, either from the Federal Government, or elsewhere, in accordance with Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1933 and Chapter 44 of the General Laws, and to issue notes or bonds therefor to be payable in accordance with the National Industrial Recovery Act, or otherwise, the whole loan to be paid in not more than twenty years, or at such period as may be determined by the Emergency Finance Board referred to in said Chapter 366 of the Acts of 1933.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a com- mittee for the purpose of acquiring a site for and the construc- tion and equipping of a High School Building and to authorize said committee to purchase land for a site for a High School Building, to employ an architect to draw plans for same, and supervise said construction, and to authorize said committee to make contracts for the building and equipping of said High School Building, or take any action relative thereto.
1. Voted that a special building committee of seven per- sons be established to build a new High School Building. Said committee shall be appointed by the Moderator and shall include one member of the school committee, and one member of the finance committee. Said committee is hereby authorized to build a new High School, including the original equipment and fur- nishing thereof, to be built upon the Town playground, near the present High School Building, the exact location to be selected by the committee. The building committee is autho- rized to employ an architect to prepare plans for the new build- ing, including plans for the future expansion thereof, and engin- eers or other experts to assist it in the performance of its duties hereunder, and is authorized to employ a contractor or contrac- tors, to execute a contract with said contractor or contractors in the name and behalf of the Town for the construction and equipment and furnishing of said buildings, and to expend the sum of $100,000 therefor, in accordance with the votes hereto- fore passed at this meeting.
Committee : Willard C. Hunting, Clarence S. Williams,
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William J. Scotland, Llewellyn Mills, Cornelius J. Maguire, Mrs. J. Sidney Stone, and Paul Davis.
2. Voted that the Board of Selectmen be and it hereby is authorized to petition the General Court for legislation per- mitting the use of such portion of the playground adjoining the present High School as may be necessary for the erection of a new High School Building, and the appurtenances necessary thereto, upon such conditions and with such specific provisions of law relating thereto as to the General Court may seem desirable or necessary.
Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize or instruct the Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court for legis- lation permitting, for drainage and health purposes, the im- provement of brooks and watercourses in various manners, and the taking, by eminent domain or otherwise, of the necessary rights, easements or other property rights, with or without the right to assess betterments and with such other authority or provisions of law as to the General Court may seem desirable or necessary in connection with any such legislation, or do or act.
Voted that the Board of Selectmen be and it hereby is authorized to petition the General Court for legislation per- mitting, for drainage and health purposes, the improvement of brooks and water courses, and the taking by eminent domain or otherwise of the necessary rights, easements, or other prop- erty rights with or without the rights to assess betterments, and with such other rights or provisions of law as to the General Court may seem desirable or necessary.
Voted to Dissolve the Meeting 10:15 P. M.
A true copy. Attest :
M. ALICE NEALE, Clerk of the Town of Wayland.
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RESULTS OF TOWN ELECTION March 6, 1933
Moderator
Prec. 1 Prec. 2 Total
Warren L. Bishop, Nom. Papers
329
547
876
John B. Holt
1
0
1
Town Clerk
M. Alice Neale, Nom. Papers
326
534
860
Selectmen
Pierpoint Blair, Nom. Papers
227
287
514
Harry W. Crooker, Nom. Papers
78
307
385
Willard C. Hunting, Nom. Papers
212
384
596
John W. Leavitt, Nom. Papers
176
359
535
J. Fred Wheeler, Nom. Papers
218
274
492
William S. Lovell
1
0
1
Treasurer
Frank G. Mackenna, Nom. Papers
334
511
845
Collector of Taxes
Theodore H. Harrington, Nom. Papers
329
518
847
Board of Public Welfare
John P. Butler, Nom. Papers
30
126
156
Ronald S. Campbell, Nom. Papers
278
416
694
Edwin L. Hutchings, Nom. Papers
31
43
74
Assessor
Sidney Loker, Nom. Papers
296
413
709
Cecil L. Yeuell, Nom. Papers
48
189
237
School Committee
Cornelius J. Maguire, Nom. Papers
161
382
543
Edward F. McGee, Nom. Papers
142
186
328
58
Water Commissioner
Alfred C. Damon, Nom. Papers William B. Quigley Llewellyn Mills
299
491
790
0
13
13
1
0
1
Trustees of Library
Nellie R. Fiske, Nom. Papers
300
471
771
Amos I. Hadley, Nom. Papers
304
351
655
Board of Health
Philip Burbank, Nom. Papers
186
143
329
John J. Linnehan, Nom. Papers
144
284
428
Annie Pearson Fullick
21
104
125
John E. Linnehan
1
0
1
Park Commissioner
Herman Allen
0
2
2
Philip Burbank
1
0
1
Charles L. Fullick
1
0
1
William Hardy
0
1
1
Chester Hobbs
0
1
1
John J. Linnehan
1
0
1
John E. Linnehan
114
20
134
Israel Lupien
0
1
1
Frank C. Moore
1
0
1
William Read
1
0
1
Gilbert Small
1
0
1
Albert Smith .
0
74
74
John B. Wight
8
22
30
Surveyor of Highways
Arthur Heard Dudley, Nom. Papers
300
475
775
John Phylis, Nom. Papers
48
126
174
Cemetery Commissioner
James M. Bent, Nom. Papers
281
448
729
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