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ANNUAL REPORT
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way Yard, May, 1956. The W. T. Whalen Eng. Co.", which plan is recorded with Norfolk County Registry of Deeds. And to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute, acknowledge and deliver on behalf of the Town such instruments of transfer as may be necessary to consumate said transfer, and, or do or act in any manner relative thereto."
Article 34. To choose any committee and to hear the report of any committee and act thereon.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof in seven (7) Public Places in said town, seven (7) 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, at or before the time and place of said meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty- seven.
ARTHUR W. WASHBURN LEROY B. WILSON LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR.
Selectmen of Plainville
Index
Animal Inspector's Report 74
Assessors' Report 124
Auditors' Report
164
Board of Health Report
122
Board of Public Welfare
64
Collector of Taxes Report
135
Director of Civil Defense
110
Dutch Elm Control Report
106
Fire Engineers' Report
117
Highway Department
137
Milk and Dairies Report 104
Moth Department Report 106
Park and Playground Commissioners' Report
113
Police Department Report
103
Public Library Trustees
107
Regional District School Committee Report 154
School Committee
75
Art Supervisor
89
Attendance Tables
98
High School Graduation Exercises 95
List of Teachers 101
Membership by Age and Grade 99
Money Available for Schools 81
Money Received From State 82
1957 Estimates 82
School Calendar 77
School Committee 78
School Committee Budget 83
School Nurse
94
School Officials 76
School Physician 93
Statistics 97
Superintendent of Schools 84
School Building Committee 80 86
High School
Elementary School 88
Music Supervisor
91
Sealer of Weights and Measures 102
Selectmen's Report 148
Current and Incidentals 150
Welfare Agent 151
Welfare Categories 151
Slaughtering Inspector's Report 74
Town Clerk's Report 7
Appointment of Assistant Town Clerk 59
Births Recorded in Plainville During 1956 60
Deaths Recorded in Plainville During 1956 68
Expenses of Town Clerk
70
Jury List 73
Licenses and License Fees Received by Town Clerk 71
Marriages Recorded in Plainville During 1956 65
Warrants and Proceedings
7
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1957 7
Expense of Registrars 70
Town Officers 3
Treasurer's Report 125
Tree Warden's Report 105
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1956 157
Water Commissioner's Report 144
Wiring Inspector's Report 147
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3 Emergency - Police Call
4 Forest Fire
5 Fire Station
6 Center of Town
7 South & Cottage Sts.
8 South & Maple Sts.
9 South St. & Bacon Square
12 South & Pleasant Sts.
13 Assembly Call
14 South & Bugbee Sts.
15 South & Everett Sts.
16 Spring & School Sts.
17 Spring & Broad Sts.
18 Pleasant & Cottage Sts.
19 Pleasant & East Bacon Sts.
21 Washington St., No. Attle. Line
23 Washington & Bugbee Sts.
24 Washington & East Bacon Sts.
25 Washington & George Sts.
26 Washington & Shepard Sts.
27 Washington & Taunton Sts.
28 Washington & Belcher Sts.
29 Belcher & Madison Sts.
31 South & Fuller Sts.
32 South & Robbins Sts.
34 South & Cross Sts.
35 Lynn Ave. & Wades Road
36 Cross St. & Lynn Ave.
41 West Bacon St. & Bacon Square
42 West Bacon & Fletcher Sts.
43 West Bacon St. & Mathurin Road
45 West Bacon & Walnut Sts.
46 West Bacon & Warren Sts.
47 West Bacon & Zeller Ave.
48 West Bacon & Freemont Sts.
49 Sidney St. & Cooney Ave.
61 Plainville Stock Co. (Private )
62 A & J Tool Co.
63 Glines & Rhodes
64 Whiting & Davis Co.
65 Bugbee & Niles Co.
67 Plainville Coal Co.
68 Rogers Rest Home
71 Plainville Machine & Tool
72 George E. Clentimack Co.
112 Pleasant & Melcher Sts.
113 Out of Town
114 Grove & Brunner Sts.
115 Elementary School (Private)
116 Grove St. & Lincoln Ave.
117 Grove & School Sts.
118 Evergreen Road & School St.
119 Crestwood Ave. & School St.
121 Highland Ave. & East Bacon St.
122 Hillcrest Drive & East Bacon St.
135 High School
145 Methodist Church
151 Dominican Academy (Private)
155 Saint Martha's Church
211 James & East Bacon Sts.
212 George & Messinger Sts.
213 George & East Bacon Sts.
214 Ewald & James Sts.
215 George & Ewald Sts.
216 George & School Sts.
217 George & Wampum
218 Berry St., Wrentham Line
221 Wilkins' Four Corners (Rt. 106 & 152)
223 Taunton & Shepard Sts.
224 Taunton & Mirimichi Sts.
225 Taunton & Cowell Sts.
226 Taunton St., Wrentham Line
231 Messinger St. & Hillside Road
242 Mirimichi St., Treasure Island
243 Mirimichi St., Foxboro Line
311 South & Harvard Sts.
312 Grant St. & Park Ave.
313 Grant St. & Huntington Ave.
314 Garfield St. & Park Ave.
315 South & State Sts.
316 Pearl St. & Park Ave.
317 Pearl St. & Huntington Ave.
318 South & Berry Sts.
321 South St. & Monroe Drive
322 Monroe Drive & Walter St.
323 Laurel & June Sts.
325 South St. & Pineland Drive
331 South & Green Sts.
332 High & Green Sts.
334 High & Chestnut Sts.
335 High & Cross Sts.
411 Walnut & Fuller Sts.
412 Walnut & High Sts.
413 Hancock & High Sts.
414 Hancock & Bow Sts.
415 Hancock St., Wrentham Line
416 High & Rhodes Sts.
417 Rhodes & Bow Sts.
421 Warren & High Sts.
422 Hawkins & High Sts.
423 Hawkins St., Cumberland Line
424 Hawkins St .. North Attleboro Line
612 D. E. Makepeace Co.
613 Fernandes Market
2 RECALL
IN CASE OF A FIRE OR AN EMERGENCY - DIAL MYrtle 9-2311
Chief C. E. Skinner, Jr., Tel. Home MYrtle 5-5762 Deputy Chief David B. Lomasney, Tel. MYrtle 5-9565 Deputy Chief D. E. McAlpine, Tel. Home MYrtle 9-8318 FIRE STATION: For all calls other than fire or emergency Dial MYrtle 5-5252
NO SCHOOL SIGNALS
7:00 A.M. Three double blasts on Fire Alarm System signifies no school for all Regional School pupils for the day.
7:30 A.M. Same signal signifies no school for all Plainville Elementary pupils for the day.
11:45 A.M. Same signal signifies no school in the afternoon and all pupils will stay in school one hour longer than the usual morning session and then be dismissed for the day.
A tribute . . .
Our town has lost three of its out- standing civic leaders during the past year and it is the wish of the Board of Selectmen that a likeness of these esteemed gentlemen be placed in the current annual report.
Plainville is a better place in which to live because of the interest, ability and effort that these civic-minded citi- zens expended in its behalf.
In Memoriam
WILLIAM NASH
Selectman
Moderator
Water Commissioner
In Memoriam
WILLIAM H. BARTON Selectman
In Memoriam
CHESTER A. MEYER
Chief of Police
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TOWN OFFICERS
MODERATOR -- One Year CHARLES O. PEASLEY
TOWN CLERK-One Year ARTHUR W. WASHBURN RAYMOND A. COBB, Assistant Town Clerk TOWN TREASURER-Three Years EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM, Term expires 1959
SELECTMEN, WELFARE BOARD and BOARD OF HEALTH
LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR. LeROY B. WILSON
Term expires 1958
Term expires 1959
ROLAND C. CAMPBELL
Term expires 1960
ASSESSORS
CHARLES J. QUIRK SYDNEY J. ANDREWS FRANK V. HENRICH
Term expires 1958
Term expires 1959
Term expires 1960
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
MELVIN V. CHEVERS
Term expires 1958
MARY V. PROAL
Term expires 1958
ROBERT W. ROOT
Term expires 1959
CHARLES O. PEASLEY
Term expires 1959
HELEN A. SMITH
Term expires 1960
WATER COMMISSIONERS
DONALD E. COOK
Term expires 1958
BYRON J. SCHOFIELD
Term expires 1959
JAY L. UNDERHILL
Term expires 1960
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
RALPH L. POWER
Term expires 1958
BARBARA P. FLUCK
Term expires 1959
ALICE M. PEASE
Term expires 1960
TAX COLLECTOR-Three Years
THEODORE A. WICKMAN Term expires 1959
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REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR.
EDWARD H. HEMMINGSEN
Term expires 1958 Term expires 1960
PARK COMMISSIONERS
AUSTIN F. GRANT ROBERT J. FAWCETT
Term expires 1958
Term expires 1959
DANIEL E. HUNT
Term expires 1960
AUDITOR-One Year LAWRENCE H. CARPENTER
CONSTABLES-One Year
ELMER C. PEASE
CLARENCE P. AVERY
ERNEST J. LaPORTE
TREE WARDEN-One Year ALEC H. FREDRICKSON
FENCE VIEWERS and FIELD DRIVERS-One Year ELMER C. PEASE CLARENCE P. AVERY
ERNEST J. LaPORTE
MEASURERS OF WOOD, BARK and LUMBER GEORGE H. SNELL HARRY O. PROAL FRANCIS W. SIMMONS EVERETT W. SKINNER
APPOINTED BY FIRE ENGINEERS Chief of Fire Department CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR.
APPOINTED BY SELECTMEN Acting Chief of Police ELMER C. PEASE
Superintendent of Streets EVERETT W. SKINNER
Fire Engineers CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR.
DAVID B. LOMASNEY
DONALD E. McALPINE
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Forest Warden CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR.
Official Sealer of Weights and Measures ADRIAN G. WHEELER
Town Burial Agent WESLEY H. BURTON
Director of Veterans' Services EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM
Director of Civilian Defense CLINTON B. GRIMM
Special Police
SGT. CLARENCE P. AVERY
THOMAS R. LAVERTY
SGT. ERNEST J. LaPORTE
SGT. HERBERT A. MORSE
NORMAN J. BAILEY, JR.
ROLAND E. BOUCHER
BOYD N. CHENEY
ROBERT D. COOK
JOSEPH FOUNTAIN
EDWARD A. GUILLETTE
JAMES E. JOHNSON
THEODORE A. WICKMAN
LeROY F. BRODEUR-Dominican Academy only EVERETT C. DAVIS-Beagle Club Property only HOWARD G. WHEELER-Wrentham Sportsman's Club HENRY NEVEUX, JR. (Limited) HENRY NEVEUX, SR. (Limited) CHIEF WALTER HOBBS, Wrentham CHIEF CARL MacDONALD, North Attleboro
North Attleboro Officers-Special Police in Plainville
HENRY BIBBY DANIEL BRADLEY
LEON CAMPBELL
JOHN CONNOLLY
JOHN COYLE, JR.
STANLEY LYKUS
ROBERT MORSE GEORGE UHLIG
LEO DESAUTEL GEORGE ELLIOTT HENRY IRVINE JOHN O. JOHNSON JOSEPH LaCASSE JOHN J. MCCARTHY WILLIAM NOONAN WILLIAM A. UHLIG
JAMES N. WATTERS
Fire Police
GEORGE A. CLARKE
ALVA PAULUS
ARTHUR W. MacDONALD KENNETH McNEILL BURTON MILLER LEON M. PARMENTER LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR. ALVA PAULUS HARRY F. PAYNE, JR. DONALD J. PECK JOSEPH A. PELLETIER
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Inspector of Animals EARLE B. THOMPSON
Inspector of Slaughtering EARLE B. THOMPSON
Sanitation Inspector PUTNAM STEELE, East Bridgewater
Dog Officer SGT. HERBERT A. MORSE
Moth Inspector ALEC H. FREDRICKSON
Inspector of Wires CHARLES G. HAYES
Registrars of Voters
RICHARD M. COBB HAROLD L. ANDERSON DACIA A. ANDERSON
Term expires 1958 Term expires 1959 Term expires 1960
ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
Night Patrolman SGT. ERNEST J. LaPORTE
Welfare Agent RUTH R. FULTON
Clerk of Selectmen BESSIE BARTON
Town Physician WILLIAM GUILLETTE, M.D.
Town Forest Committee
EVERETT W. SKINNER ROBERT O. PROAL ALEC H. FREDRICKSON
Term expires 1958 Term expires 1959 Term expires 1960
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APPOINTMENT AT ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Industrial Development Committee
JAMES A. ASPINWALL
DONALD G. COLLEY
DONALD E. COOK
CLARENCE J. GAUTHIER
GEORGE R. KNIGHT, JR. EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR. FREDERICK M. SHERMAN
JOHN J. DRUMMEY
Planning Board
ROLAND C. CAMPBELL DAVID B. LOMASNEY ARTHUR H. GLEICHAUF LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR.
LeROY B. WILSON
Board of Appeals
DANIEL MALONE ROBERT W. HAYES HARRY A. SCHOENING, JR.
By-Laws Committee
ROLAND C. CAMPBELL CHARLES R. MASON ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
Water Survey Committee
BYRON J. SCHOFIELD EVERETT W. SKINNER DONALD E. COOK DAVID B. LOMASNEY JAY L. UNDERHILL
Elementary School Building Committee
ROLAND C. CAMPBELL
FREDERICK M. SHERMAN
ELTON I. FRANKLIN, JR. LeROY B. WILSON
MARY V. PROAL
Advisory or Finance Committee
WILLIAM B. GILL (resigned)
DONALD G. COLLEY
MILES E. HOOKER
EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM
ROBERT C. HASELTINE FRANK KEEGAN DAVID B. LOMASNEY LeROY B. WILSON
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Monday, March 4, 1957
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
To Either of the Constables of Plainville, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Plainville qualified to vote in Town Affairs, to meet in the Elementary School Auditorium in said Plainville on
MONDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF MARCH 1957, A.D.
at six-thirty o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following Articles, viz:
Article 1. The following Town Officers to be chosen by ballot viz: One Town Clerk, one Auditor, one Moderator, one Tree Warden, one Water Commissioner, and three Constables for one year. One member Regional School Committee, one Selectman, Board of Public Welfare, one Assessor, one Water Commissioner, one Trustee of the Public Library, one Park Commissioner, and one member of School Committee for three years.
For this purpose the polls will open at 6:30 o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
For the consideration of all other articles in this Warrant the meeting will be adjourned to 7:30 p.m. of said day in the Auditorium of the Elementary School on South Street in said town.
Article 2. To choose all other necessary Town Officers not named in Article 1, for a term of one year.
Article 3. To consider and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Treasurer, and other Town Officers.
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Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 81 of the General Laws.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to fix the salary and compensation of all elective officers of the Town as provided by Sec- tion 108 of Chapter 41, General Laws, as amended, as follows:
Moderator $25.00 each Annual Meeting
15.00 each Special Meeting
Town Clerk
500.00 per year
Town Treasurer
800.00 per year
Selectmen, chairman
500.00 per year
Second Member
400.00 per year
Third Member
400.00 per year
Assessors, chairman
600.00 per year
Second Member
600.00 per year
Third Member
600.00 per year
Tax Collector
800.00 per year
School Committee, chairman
75.00 per year
School Committee, each member
60.00 per year
Water Commissioners, Chairman
150.00 per year
Second Member
150.00 per year
Third Member (Secretary)
300.00 per year
Auditor
200.00 per year
Constables
Tree Warden
1.50 per hour 1.50 per hour
or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 6. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise such sums of money as may be required to defray Town charges for the financial year ending December 31, 1957 and expressly for the following purposes to wit:
1. For the support of the Public Library.
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2. For the Selectmen's current expenses and salaries.
3. For the Treasurer's current expenses and salary.
4. For the Town Clerk's current expenses and salary.
5. For the Assessor's current expenses and salaries.
6. For the Tax Collector's current expenses and salary.
7. For the Board of Registrar's current expenses and salaries.
8. For the salary of Town Auditor.
9. For the Sealer of Weights and Measures' current expenses and salary.
10. For Board of Health current expenses and salaries.
11. For Wire Inspector, salary and expenses.
12. For Fire Department for current expenses and salaries.
13. For Water Department incidentals, pumping and salaries.
14. For support of School and salaries of School Committee.
15. For the payment of Insurance.
16. For Veterans' Benefits.
17. For Highways and Bridges, center of Town.
18. For Memorial Day.
19. For interest on Temporary Loans and Maturing Debt.
20. For Police Department.
21. For Tree Warden.
22. For Removal of Snow.
23. For Park Commissioners.
24. Town Forest Committee.
25. For heating and maintenance of Fire Station and Town Office Building.
26. For maturing debt.
27. For Welfare Agent.
28. For Street Lights.
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29. For Moth Department.
30. For Vocational Education.
31. For Regional School District Com.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to have the surety of the Collector of Taxes, Deputy Collector of Taxes, Treasurer, Town Clerk, Secretary of the Water Commissioners and Clerk of the Selectmen's bond placed with a fidelity or guarantee company, and appropriate a sum of money to pay for the same.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year, be- ginning January 1, 1958 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for a Reserve Fund to provide for the extraordinary unforeseen expenses, as authorized by Section 6, Chapter 40, General Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the operation of Road Machinery or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, and raise and appropriate or trans- fer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highways, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer, the sum of $1,300 or any other sum for the control of insects and Dutch Elm Disease ($1,000 for Dutch Elm disease and $300 for insect control) as provided for under Chap. 132 of the General
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Laws as amended by Chap. 657 Acts of 1956, and to be expended under the direction of the Moth Superintendent, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,791.25, this being the amount apportioned to Plainville as its share of the cost of the Norfolk County Retirement System, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00, or any other sum, for the use of the athletic de- partment of the schools, as provided for in Chapter 658, Acts of 1950, a revision of Sec. 47, Chapter 71, of the General Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $20,500, for the carrying on of the different categories of Welfare, made up approximately as follows: General Welfare, $2,500; Aid Dependent Children, $1,000; Old Age Assistance, $14,000, and Disabled Persons, $3,000, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise, appropriate, or transfer, from available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highway Construction (to finish the laying out and construction of George Street), or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to lease/rent to Bergh Bros. for a parking lot, a piece of land on the southerly side of West Bacon Street, from the cemetery land westerly to Attleboro & Plainville Coal Co., Inc., property for $100 per year, and that the lessee, Bergh Bros. assume full responsibility for the property. The Town shall not be held liable for any damages or liability through accidents that may occur on said property.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to have the Selectmen appoint a committee of three to have the Town By-Laws brought up to date, and printed in a booklet, and raise and appropriate the sum of $200 or any other sum for the use of this committee. The Town Clerk shall be one member of this committee.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $200 or any other sum, for the purchase and installation of street and traffic signs, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
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Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer, a sum of money to pay the following overdrafts. Snow Account, $1,209.26 and Taunton Street Water Account $138.14, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 or any other sum for the treatment of tuberculosis patients having a legal settlement in this town as provided for by Chap. 270, Acts of 1952, repealing Chap. 562 of the Acts of 1951, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the King Philip Regional School District such equipment, books and educational supplies as the School Committee of the Town of Plainville shall deem of no further use to the Town of Plainville when the proposed King Philip Regional High School for said Regional School District is completed; and for this purpose the Board of Selectmen be author- ized to execute and deliver an instrument in proper form from the Town of Plainville to the King Philip Regional School District thereby confirming such transfer. (Petition of School Committee).
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to renovate, repair, heat and equip the Public Library building and to raise and appropriate $6,000 to pay for said renovations and equipment, or do or act in any manner relative thereto. This amount to be raised by transfer from the Library Stabilization Fund or by taxation. (Trustees Public Library).
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to hire a full time clerk for the Board of Selectmen. Said Clerk shall also do work for any other Town department that the Board of Selectmen shall approve.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise, appropriate, or transfer the sum of $1000 or any other sum for Civilian Defense, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from the Sale of Land account to do some necessary work in and around the new Highway Garage, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Section 8a, Chapter 40 of the General Laws (T. E.) and any amend-
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ments thereto, which section provides for establishment of a Develop- ment and Industrial Commission, to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the use of said commission, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to establish a permanent daytime fire department or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 41, Section 81A of the General Laws (T.E.) and establish a Planning Board of five (5) members under said section, with all the powers and duties therein, and to provide that the Board of Selectmen serve as members of the Planning Board so established until the next annual meeting, and to elect by official ballot at said meeting five (5) members, one for a term of one (1) year, one for a term of two (2) years, one for a term of three (3) years, one for a term of four (4) years and one for a term of five (5) years, and thereafter in accordance with the provisions of statute and to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to defray the expenses of said Board, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to amend the by-laws by establishing a Board of Appeals, as provided for under Section 81Z of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, to consist of three members to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, one for a term of one (1) year, one for a term of two (2) years, and one for a term of three (3) years, and thereafter in accordance with the provisions of statute, or do or act in any manner relative thereto. (2/3 vote).
Article 32. To see whether or not the Town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners of the Town of Plainville :-
1. To lay water mains of not less than 6 inches but less than 16 inches in diameter in Taunton Street from the North Attleborough- Plainville Town line, northerly about 1000 feet, and to raise and appropriate for this purpose a sum not to exceed $10,000.00.
2. To lay water mains 16 inches in diameter in Messenger Street from the North Attleborough-Plainville Town line, easterly, about 3800 feet, and to raise and appropriate for this purpose a sum not to exceed $50,000.00.
And to determine the manner in which the foregoing appropria-
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tions, or either of them, shall be raised, whether by taxation or bor- rowing, by transfer of available funds or otherwise, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
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