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LEAKS
Service pipes in street, 22 ; gate valve packing 1.
PRESSURE REGULATORS
The pressure regulators on Connecticut Path and North Main Street were taken out giving full pressure to all parts of Cochituate.
PUMPING STATION
One of the Diesel engines was completely over-hauled. No difficulty was had in keeping up the water supply in the summer season as there was no extended dry spell.
Gallons of water pumped with comparison for previous years :
1940
133,183,196
1939
139,638,608
1938
104,738,560
1937
107,747,065
1936
124,624,856
Largest day, July 30, 1940 860,000
Smallest day, Nov. 21, 1940 260,000
Total mains, Dec. 31, 34 miles, 1,048 ft.
Total main gate valves, Dec. 31, 190.
Total hydrants, Dec. 31, street 180, private 6.
Total services, Dec. 31, 1,070; meters in use, 18.
ALFRED A. LAMARINE, Superintendent of Wayland Water Works.
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REPORT OF THE CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS
The Cemetery Commissioners respectfully submit the fol- lowing report for the year 1940.
One perpetual care bequest was received during the year ; a gift of $100.00 from the estate of Sarah Ames to establish the F. F. Ames Fund for the perpetual care of Lot 6, Lake- view Extension. This added gift brings the number of per- petual care funds to 124, amounting to $22,925.00, and pro- viding for the care of 163 lots in the town cemeteries.
Twenty-three paid for extra care of their lots, sums amounting to $89.00. Your Commissioners believe that the care of cemetery lots deeded to individuals should not be a burden on the town; it ought, in all cases, to be provided for by the lot owners, either, through an adequate perpetual care gift, or by means of an annual payment for such care.
Seven lots have been sold during the year, for a total of $220.00. Five of these were in Lakeview and two in the North Cemetery.
The work of restoring the North Cemetery has been con- tinued as rapidly as available funds have permitted. Again a promised W. P. A. project to carry forward the work here failed to materialize but we have been able to remove several partially uprooted and lodged trees, grade several sections and repair roadways. These roadways are poorly adapted to present day use and changes at several points are urgently needed. The entrances should be widened.
In Lakeview cemetery the filling in of the last deep hol- low has been completed with material excavated in the W. P. A. drainage projects, secured through the cooperation of those in charge. This area needs now only the top covering of loam and proper grading, to allow for the laying out of a number of new lots. This will be the last development possible within the present area of the cemetery, and will mark the final limit on the lots available there. Your Commissioners are there- fore investigating other areas to cover needs that cannot be de- ferred beyond a few years.
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Work was started this year on a project that we believe will prove a great future value to the town, a card catalogue of the cemetery lots. The necessary filing cabinets and file cards have been purchased to catalogue all three cemeteries; and sub- stantial progress has been made in covering Lakeview Cemetery. Each lot will be represented by a card in the files, on which will be a chart of the lot drawn to scale, with monuments and graves indicated, together with the name of the owner, and the names, ages, and dates of burial of all interred in the lot. A separate index file will carry all names mentioned, thus gather- ing under one heading for easy reference all obtainable in- formation concerning the cemeteries and those who are buried there. This project will entail a great amount of labor, but spread over several years can be accomplished without undue expense in any one year.
ARTHUR W. BRADSHAW, Chairman, GERTRUDE I. M. PARMENTER, WARREN D. VALENTINE, Clerk.
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INDEX
Assessors' Report 144
Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds, Report of 96
Board of Fire Engineers, Report of the 149
Board of Health, Report of the 152
Board of Public Welfare, Report of the 156
Board of Selectmen, Report of the 93
Cemetery Commissioners, Report of the 205
Chief of Police, Report of the 148
District Vote for Representative
75
Finance Committee, Report of the
Budget for 1941 23
Highway Department, Report of the 155
Inspector of Animals, Report of the 154
Inspector of Slaughtering, Report of the 154
Library Report :
Treasurer's Report 189
Librarian's Report 191
List of New Books 193
Middlesex County Extension Service, Report of 160
Milk Inspector, Report of the
153
Moth Department, Report of the
150
Officers of the Town of Wayland
3
Recount for Governor, November 29, 1940
74
Results of Presidential Primary, April 30, 1940
63
Results of State Election, November 5, 1940
71
Results of State Primary, September 17, 1940
67
Results of the Town Election, March 4, 1940
60
School Department Report :
School Directory 164
School Committee, Report of the 165
Financial Statement 167
Superintendent of Schools, Report of the 170
High School Principal, Report of the 178
School Physician, Report of the 180
Supervisor of Attendance, Report of the 181
Census Returns, October 1, 1940 182
Current Registration 184
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Membership by Age and Grade, October 1, 1940 185
Graduates 1940-Wayland High School 186
Elementary Class Roll 186
Organization of Teaching Staff, January 2, 1941 187
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of the 151
Soldiers' Relief Agent, Report of the
159
State Audit, Report of the
88
Tax Collector, Report of the
138
Town Accountant's Report :
Receipts Itemized 97
Expenditures Itemized 101
1940 Receipts Classified 119
1940 Expenditures Classified
120,
Reserve Fund 1940
121
Water Accounts Receivable 1940
122
Trust Funds
123
1940 Estimated Receipts Classified 124
Excess and Deficiency 126
Net Funded Debt 127
Statement
128
Town Clerk's Report :
Births 76
Marriages
82
Deaths 80
Dog Licenses-1940
85
Dog Licenses of 1939
85
Jury List-1940
86
Town Treasurer, Report of the 130
Votes Enacted at the Annual Town Meeting, March 6, 1940 34
Votes Enacted at the Special Town Meeting, December 4, 1940
58
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
10
Wayland Board of Park Commissioners, Report of the 200
Wayland District Nurse, Report of the 153
Wayland Planning Board, Report of the 147
Wayland Water Board, Report of the 202
Superintendent of Water Works, Report of the 203
Work Projects Administration 95
OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OF WAYLAND
FOR ITS
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SECOND MUNICIPAL YEAR
ED
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EAST SUDBURY 178
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1941
Printed for the Town of Wayland by THE SUBURBAN PRESS Natick, Massachusetts 1942
OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OF WAYLAND
FOR ITS ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SECOND MUNICIPAL YEAR
ED
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D.
1635.
EAST SUDBURY
FOUNDED
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1941
Printed for the Town of Wayland by THE SUBURBAN PRESS Natick, Massachusetts 1942
OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF WAYLAND
Term Expires
MODERATOR
Howard S. Russell 1942
TOWN CLERK
M. Alice Neale
1942
SELECTMEN
William F. Hynes
1942
John W. Leavitt
1942
William A. Loker
1942
TREASURER
Frank G. Mackenna 1942
TAX COLLECTOR
Theodore H. Harrington
1942
TOWN ACCOUNTANT
Mabel T. S. Small
1944
BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE
John W. Seavey
1942
James B. Ames
1943
Carlisle D. Scotland
1944
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Cornelius J. Maguire 1942
Dorothy C. Stone 1943
Ellen B. Ferguson
1944
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Term Expires
ASSESSORS
Willard C. Hunting Daniel Brackett Charles M. Mathews
1942
1943
1944
WATER COMMISSIONERS
Alfred C. Damon
1942
George G. Bogren
1943
Walter S. Bigwood
1944
TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
George G. Bogren
1942
Amos I. Hadley (Resigned )
1942
John B. Wight, Jr. (Appointed to fill vacancy)
1942
James R. Martin
1943
Elizabeth C. Raymond
1943
Arthur C. K. Hallock
1944
J. Sidney Stone
1944
CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS
Warren D. Valentine
1942
Arthur W. Bradshaw
1943
Martin R. Edwards
1944
TREE WARDEN
Charles L. Fullick 1942
HIGHWAY SURVEYOR
Albert E. Potvin
1942
BOARD OF HEALTH
John J. Linnehan
1942
Waldo L. Lawrence
1943
Ernest H. Damon
1944
PARK COMMISSIONERS
Frank S. Tarr
1942
Roger Ela
1943
Elmer W. Bigwood
1944
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Term Expires
PLANNING BOARD
James B. Ames
1942
Gilbert Small
1942
Otto H. Kohler
1943
Howard S. Russell
1943
Arthur D. Dooley
1944
Chester H. Hobbs
1944
CONSTABLES
John P. Butler
1942
George A. Celorier
1942
Wilfred L. Celorier
1942
Ernast H. Damon
1942
Charles F. Dusseault
1942
John J. Linnehan
1942
Frederick H. Perry
1942
COMMISSIONERS OF TRUST FUNDS
J. Reed Morss 1942
J. Sidney Stone 1943
John W. Leavitt
1944
TRUSTEES OF THE ALLEN FUND
John Connelly 1942
Llewellyn Mills
1942
Ernest E. Sparks, M. D.
1942
FENCE VIEWERS
Selectmen
1942
FIELD DRIVERS
Constables
1942
SURVEYORS OF LUMBER
Arthur W. Atwood 1942
Melville Loker
1942
Arthur F. Marston
1942
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Term Expires
MEASURERS OF WOOD AND BARK
Arthur W. Atwood
1942
Joseph Decatur Arthur F. Marston
1942
1942
MEMORIAL DAY COMMITTEE
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
Frank C. Moore
1942
William Hardy, Sr.
1942
WORLD WAR VETERANS
Earl G. Barry
1942
James J. Bennett
1942
Gustave Blomgren
1942
Frank A. Burke
1942
William G. Curley
1942
August Dath
1942
John W. Leavitt
1942
Parker H. Groton
1942
Joe Perodeau
1942
Cornelius J. Maguire
1942
Percy Steele
1942
DOG OFFICER
Harry W. Craig 1942
INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS
Warren F. Lawrence
1942
DISTRICT NURSE
Mary E. McNeil 1942
SUPERINTENDENT MOTH EXTERMINATION Charles L. Fullick 1942
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Albert B. Marchand 1942
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Term Expires
PUBLIC WEIGHERS
Arthur W. Atwood
1942
Henry Vear 1942
FOREST FIRE WARDEN
Theodore H. Harrington 1942
FINANCE COMMITTEE
George C. Lewis (Resigned)
1942
Gerald Henderson (Appointed to fill vacancy) 1942
Thomas F. McManus
1942
Ronald S. Campbell
1943
August Dath
1944
Robert M. Morgan
1944
INSPECTOR OF SLAUGHTERING
Warren F. Lawrence 1942
REGISTRARS OF VOTERS
M. Alice Neale, Rep.
1942
Joe Perodeau, Dem.
1942
Joseph Zimmerman, Dem.
1943
Charles F. Whittier, Rep.
1944
ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT
Theodore H. Harrington, Chief
1942
Albert J. Keach, District Chief 1942
Ernest H. Damon, Clerk
1942
Thomas E. Hynes, Engineer
1942
Homer L. MacDonald, Engineer
1942
BURIAL AGENT
John W. Leavitt
1942
STATE AID AND MILITARY AID
John W. Leavitt 1942
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Term Expires
SOLDIERS' RELIEF AGENT
Frank A. Burke 1942
WPA CO-ORDINATOR
Ernest H. Damon
1942
WPA CLERK
- Fred A. Bemis 1942
ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
Robert M. Morgan
1942
Roger E. Ela
1943
Geogre G. Bogren
1944
INSPECTOR UNDER THE ZONING LAW
Chester H. Hobbs 1942
TOWN COUNSEL
J. Sidney Stone 1942
ELECTION OFFICERS
PRECINCT 1
George F. Dickey, Warden
1942
Anna R. Costello, Clerk
1942
Charles R. Harrington, Inspector
1942
James J. Bolton, Deputy Warden
1942
Ethel H. Edwards, Deputy Clerk
1942
John G. Wheeler, Deputy Inspector
1942
Michael J. Dimodica, Deputy Inspector
1942
PRECINCT 2
Albert B. Marchand, Warden
1942
Mary K. Derrick, Clerk
1942
Alvin B. Neale, Inspector
1942
Charles L. Smith, Inspector
1942
Parker H. Groton, Deputy Warden
1942
Thomas P. Tansey, Deputy Clerk
1942
Arthur E. Peck, Deputy Inspector
1942
Sebastan Selvitella, Deputy Inspector
1942
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WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, SS.
To any of the Constables of the Town of Wayland, in said County:
GREETINGS :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in town election to meet at their respective polling places on
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1942
at six o'clock in the forenoon, there and then to bring in their ballots for a Moderator, Town Clerk, one Selectman, a Treas- urer, a Collector of Taxes, a Surveyor of Highways, a Tree Warden, seven Constables, all for one year.
One Selectman for two years.
One Selectman, one Assessor, one member of the School Committee, one member of the Board of Public Welfare, one member of the Board of Health, one Cemetery Commissioner, one Water Commissioner, one member of the Park Board, two members of the Planning Board, two Trustees of Public Library, one Commissioner of Trust Funds, all for three years.
All the foregoing to be voted on the official ballot. The polls will be open at 6:00 o'clock in the forenoon and will remain open continuously until 6:00 in the afternoon, when they shall be closed.
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, MARCH 4, 1942
at 7: 45 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles.
Article 1. To hear reports of the Town officers, agents and committees, and act thereon.
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Article 2. To choose all necessary Town officers, agents and committees not elected by the official ballot.
Article 3. To grant money for necessary Town purposes. See Finance Committee's Report.
Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1942 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 a year in accord- ance with Section 17, Chapter 44 of the General Laws.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of this article.
Article 5. To see if the Town will appropriate $85 for general improvement in any of the Cemeteries, same to be taken from money in the Town Treasury received from the sale of Burial Lots in 1941 in accordance with Chapter 114, Section 15, of the General Laws, or do or act.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of this article.
Article 6. To see if the Town will appropriate for: (1) Water Main Extension Notes Maturing in 1942-payment of principal-$3,000; (2) Water Main Extension Notes Maturing in 1942-payment of interest due n 1942-$405; (3) Painting of the water tank located on Reeves' Hill-$3,000; (4) Water Department Maintenance-$6,557.21-the entire $12,962.21 to be taken from Water Available Surplus, or do or act.
The Water Department expenses, previously cov- ered by a number of articles, have been combined this year to help shorten the Warrant. The painting of the tank on Reeves' Hill is the only matter requiring com- ment. The Finance Committee, with the Water Board, inspected the tank and found that the interior has not been painted for nine or ten years, with the result that a thorough painting job is needed at this time to avoid rust and deterioration. The job calls for sand-blasting and three coats of special paint. From a tentative bid supplied by a specialist in this type of work, it is esti- mated that the cost will come to between $2,500 and
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$3,000. The work will take about three weeks and it should be done in the spring when water consumption is at a minimum, because the pumps will have to be operated steadily while the tank is empty and the work is in process.
The Finance Committee recommends the approval of this article.
Article 7. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of : (1) a one-half ton pick-up truck, (2) a one and a half ton dump truck, (3) a blade for snow removal-these pieces of equipment to be for the Highway Department, and in connection with the purchase thereof, will authorize the Highway Surveyor, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to sell, trade or otherwise dispose of the 1934 Ford pick-up truck and the 1935 Ford dump truck, the sum of money for the purchase thereof to be taken from Road Machinery Fund, or do or act.
The request for the purchase of this equipment is in accordance with the replacement policy for the High- way Department, jointly arrived at by the Highway Surveyor and the Finance Committee, and is a part of a program by which the trucking equipment will be traded in hereafter on a basis of one truck a year. If the schedule is followed, repair costs should be reduced and regular replacements will keep the equipment up- to-date. The present 1934 pick-up truck has been driven about 90,000 miles and the 1935 dump truck about 70,000 miles. They have out-lived their useful life and the cost of maintenance is disproportionately high. The Finance Committee feels that the two trucks asked for should be purchased at this time, and, based on bids which have been received, feels that both can be purchased for an expenditure of about $2,500. To equip the truck for snow removal work, $400 should be added for a new blade. Rental received from the use of Town-owned machinery while working on Chapter 90 projects, both construction and mainten- ance, in the year 1941 produced a revenue of about $3,000, now in Road Machinery Fund. In other words, an amount equal to about one-half of the total cost of the grader purchased last year has come back into the
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Town Treasury from the joint Town, County and State Chapter 90 work.
The Finance Committee therefore recommends the transfer from Road Machinery Fund the sum of $2,900 for the purchase of the two trucks and plow, as above stated, and in connection therewith, the trade-in of the present equipment, the purchase to be made by the Highway Surveyor, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen.
Article 8. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the defense of the Town, said money to be expended by the Defense Committee under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen, or do or act.
The Finance Committee feels that the Town is indebted in no small measure to the Defense Committee and to all who have assisted in the program of educa- tion and organization of the townspeople in connection with civilian defense. Although there has been a diversity of opinion as to the necessity for some of the various measures being taken, the Defense Committee has steadfastly gone ahead with its preparations and has voluntarily given much time, energy and thought to the matter. The Chairman is to be commended par- ticularly for the job which he is doing. Many towns have been asked for ridiculously large appropriations for defense without adequate explanation as to what the funds will be spent for. In contrast, your Defense Committee has submitted a carefully detailed budget, and after extended conferences with the Finance Com- mittee, the amount here recommended has been mut- ually agreed upon. It would seem that $2,500 would be adequate to cover the expenses as the Defense Com- mittee now sees them. This amount is in addition to and separate from : (1) $1,225 in the budget for cer- tain equipment for the Fire Department; (2) $500 for the maintenance and use of meeting facilities for vari- ous defense activities ; (3) $100 for equipment to con- vert the Town sprayer into auxiliary fire equipment and (4) an extra sum of money held in the Reserve Fund for this use. The Finance Committee feels that there should be appropriated without stint whatever amounts are necessary for the proper protection of the
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Town. The defense plans should, however, be based on the precautons necessary for a sparsely settled country town, rather than on the requirements of a congested, industrial city area, and appropriations for defense should be made accordingly.
The Finance Committee therefore recommends that there be appropriated and assessed the sum of $2,500 to be used for defense purposes by the Defense Committee, with the approval of the Board of Select- men.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to change the office of Highway Surveyor to that of three Road Commissioners, pursuant to Chapter 41 of the General Laws, the term of each Commissioner to be for three years and to be effective with the annual election in 1943, or do or act.
The operation of the Highway Department is nat- urally followed closely each year by the Finance Com- mittee because it is one of the three principal depart- ments which expends the bulk of all Town money. Under the present arrangement, the full responsibility for the administration of the department lies in the hands of a single person, the Highway Surveyor. In no other department of Town government do we bur- den a single individual with as much responsibility. The amount of money invested in highway equipment is in the vicinity of $30,000 and the amount expended annually for roads varies from about $25,000 to $60,000. The Highway Surveyor is elected annually, and as a result, he is under constant pressure to obtain his own re-election and thereby has difficulty in turn- ing down special requests made not necessarily for the benefit of the Town as a whole. His job is to plan the work of the department, hire the necessary help, see to the maintenance of his equipment and keep the various branches of the department within its budget. In addi- tion, he is supposed to supervise the actual work so that the Town will receive full value for the expenditure of its money. It appears obvious to your Finance Committee that one who has to seek election each year cannot properly carry through this job with the con- tinuity, economy and fair-mindedness which the job really calls for. An examination of the set-up under
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which other departments operate points out clearly the desirability of the department's being supervised by a three-man board. Those boards having charge of the Town's principal expenditures all have at least three members : the Selectnien, the Schools, the Welfare, Water, Cemetery and Park Departments and the Board of Health, and both the Library and Planning Boards have six members each. The actual work of most of these departments is normally carried out by paid employees hired by the departments, operating under the general supervision of the boards. Fully recogniz- ing the fact that several years ago the Town deemed it inadvisable to place control of the highways in the hands of the Selectmen, your Finance Committee feels that the substitution of a three-man board of Road Commissioners in place of a Highway Surveyor would be a step in the direction of good business, would be more apt to produce continuously good administration of the Highway Department and would, without ques- tion, make for cheaper operation. If such an arrange- ment were approved, it would not take effect until March, 1943, at which time the Town would vote for three commissioners, and thereafter vote for but one commissioner a year for a three-year term. The board could be unpaid and could function in much the same
The manner as the other boards now so elected. responsibility of the department would be borne by the board and the work would be done by a superintendent hired by them. The superintendent would have assist- ance in the planning of his work, but would be relieved of any political obligations in connection with an elec- tion and would be free to carry out the highway work on the basis of the best interest of the Town. The Finance Committee has discussed the matter with the present Highway Surveyor who joins the committee in endorsing the matter covered by the article.
The Finance Committee therefore recommends the approval of this article.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess a sum of money to be used for the preparation of Assessors' Maps, the surveying and compilation to be done under the joint supervision of the Planning Board and the Board of Assessors, or do or act.
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This is a matter which has been brought to the attention of the Town on several previous occasions and which has steadily been advocated by the Planning Board and Board of Assessors. A number of problems arising out of the building activity of the last three years have brought forth the necessity for starting on this work at the earliest possible date. The present membership of the Board of Assessors would be unusually helpful in forwarding the progress of the work if begun now and much valuable information not now recorded would probably be lost if the matter is deferred too long. Similar maps have been prepared for many neighboring towns. They are invaluable in the work of the Assessors, the Board of Survey and the Planning Board and would be of real help in the work of certain other departments. In addition, the preparation of them would tend to make for more equitable assessment, and if the experience of other towns is a guide, properties which have been over- looked in assessing would be turned up. The maps would be of permanent value in that they would tie in with recent survey work done by the U. S. Geodetic Survey, the Land Court and the State and County Highway Departments. Estimates of the total cost are in the neighborhood of $15,000. The work should be done over a period of years, and for the initial year, the Finance Committee feels that an appropriation of $2,000 will be adequate.
The Finance Committee therefore recommends that there be appropriated and assessed the sum of $2,000 for the preparation of Assessors' Maps, the work to be done under the joint supervision of the Planning Board and the Board of Assessors.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public town way under the Betterment Act, Lakeview Road from Cochituate Road to Crest Road, in that part of the Town known as Cochituate, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, and as shown on a plan or plans on file with the Town Clerk ; to authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire any necessary land by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise ; and to appro- priate and assess a sum of money to cover the acquisition of such land and the construction of said way or any part thereof, or do or act.
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