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LeROY B. WILSON LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR. ROLAND C. CAMPBELL
Selectmen of Plainville
Index
Animal Inspector's Report 76
Assessors' Report
88
Auditors' Report 146
Board of Health Report 106 64
Board of Public Welfare
Collector of Taxes Report
100
Director of Civil Defense
Dutch Elm Control Report
Fire Engineers' Report
Highway Department 108
Industrial Development Commission Report
119
King Philip Regional School Committee Report
127
Milk and Dairies Report 101
Moth Department Report 106
Park and Playground Commissioners' Report
84
Planning Board 120
Police Department Report
78
Public Library Trustees
81
Regional District School Committee Report
154
School Committee
51
Art Supervisor
64
Attendance Tables
73
Elementary School
63
High School
61
High School Graduation Exercises 70
Instrumental Music 67
List of Teachers 75
Membership by Age and Grade 74
Money Available for Schools
57
Money Received From State 58
Music Supervisor 66
82 80 102
School Calendar
53
School Committee
54
School Committee Budget
School Nurse
School Officials
School Physician
Statistics
Superintendent of Schools
School Building Committee
1958 Estimates
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Selectmen's Report
Current and Incidentals
Welfare Agent
Welfare Categories
Slaughtering Inspector's Report
Town Clerk's Report
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Appointment of Assistant Town Clerk
Births Recorded in Plainville During 1957
Deaths Recorded in Plainville During 1957
Expense of Registrars
Expenses of Town Clerk
Jury List
Licenses and License Fees Received by Town Clerk
48
Marriages Recorded in Plainville During 1957
40
Warrants and Proceedings
8
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1957
8
Town Forest Committee
80
Town Officers
3
Treasurer's Report
89
Tree Warden's Report 79
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1958 147
Water Commissioners' Report 114
Wiring Inspector's Report 118
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ANNUAL REPORT
1958
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
LeROY B. WILSON ROLAND C. CAMPBELL
LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR.
ASSESSORS
SYDNEY J. ANDREWS
Term expires 1959
FRANK V. HENRICH
Term expires 1960
FRANCIS W. SIMMONS
Term expires 1961
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
CHARLES O. PEASLEY
Term expires 1959
CHARLES W. SEMPLE (appointed)
Term expires 1959
HELEN A. SMITH
Term expires 1960
MARY V. PROAL
Term expires 1961
Term expires 1961
WATER COMMISSIONERS
BYRON J. SCHOFIELD
Term expires 1959
JAY L. UNDERHILL FRED PAUL, JR.
Term expires 1960
Term expires 1961
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY
BARBARA P. FLUCK ALICE M. PEASE RALPH L. POWER
Term expires 1959
Term expires 1960
Term expires 1961
RAY FELIX
Term expires 1959
Term expires 1960 Term expires 1961
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TAX COLLECTOR-Three Years
THEODORE A. WICKMAN
Term expires 1959
REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMITTEE
EDWARD H. HEMMINGSEN
ROBERT W. ROOT
Term expires 1960 Term expires 1961
PARK COMMISSIONERS
ROBERT J. FAWCETT
Term expires 1959
Term expires 1960
DANIEL E. HUNT AUSTIN F. GRANT
Term expires 1961
PLANNING BOARD
JOSEPH A. WILLOUGHBY
Term expires 1959
RICHARD D. PLANTE
Term expires 1960
CHARLES G. NOWICK
Term expires 1961
EDWARD A. HENRY
Term expires 1962
FREDERICK M. SHERMAN
Term expires 1963
AUDITOR-One Year LAWRENCE H. CARPENTER
CONSTABLES-One Year
ELMER C. PEASE
CLARENCE P. AVERY
ERNEST J. LaPORTE TREE WARDEN-One Year ALEC H. FREDERICKSON
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 EVERETT W. SKINNER
FRANCIS W. SIMMONS
APPOINTED BY FIRE ENGINEERS Chief of Fire Department CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR.
APPOINTED BY SELECTMEN Acting Chief of Police ELMER C. PEASE
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Superintendent of Streets EVERETT W. SKINNER
Fire Engineers CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR. DAVID B. LOMASNEY DONALD E. McALPINE
Forest Warden CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR.
Official Scaler of Weights and Measures ADRIAN G. WHEELER
Town Burial Agent WESLEY H. BURTON
Director of Veterans' Services HARRY E. COOPER
Director of Civilian Defense CLINTON B. GRIMM, resigned CLARENCE E. SKINNER, JR.
SPECIAL POLICE
SGT. CLARENCE P. AVERY
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
THOMAS R. LAVERTY BURTON MILLER LEON M. PARMENTER
LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR. ALVA PAULUS HARRY F. PAYNE, JR. DONALD J. PECK JOSEPH A. PELLETIER THEODORE A. WICKMAN
EVERET C. DAVIS-Beagle Club Property Only HOWARD G. WHEELER-Wrentham Sportsman's Club HENRY NEVEUX, JR. (Limited) ARTHUR J. PARISEAU (Limited) JOHN F. DEW-D. E. Makepeace Company Only GEORGE E. MOORE, JR .- D. E. Makepeace Company Only ROBERT W. BEATTIE, JR .- D. E. Makepeace Company Only WILLIAM F. SHEA-D. E. Makepeace Company Only CHIEF WALTER HOBBS, Wrentham CHIEF CARL MacDONALD, North Attleboro JAMES SULLIVAN, Cowboy Town
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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
Board of Appeals
DANIEL MALONE ROBERT W. HAYES
Term expires 1959 Term expires 1960
HARRY A. SCHOENING, JR.
Term expires 1961
By-Laws Committee
ROLAND C. CAMPBELL CHARLES R. MASON ARTHUR W. WASHBURN
Elementary School Building Committee
ROLAND C. CAMPBELL
ELTON I. FRANKLIN, JR.
FREDERICK M. SHERMAN LeROY B. WILSON
MARY V. PROAL
Town Hall Disposition Committee
L. BANCROFT AUSTIN FRANK H. GRZENDA
EUGENE E. HAWKINS
HENRY E. HAYNES ROBERT O. MALIN DANIEL T. MALONE
FREDERICK I. STUART
Inspector of Animals EARLE B. THOMPSON
Inspector of Slaughtering EARLE B. THOMPSON
Sanitation Inspector PUTNAM STEELE, East Bridgewater
Dog Officer SGT. HERBERT A. MORSE
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Moth Inspector ALEC H. FREDERICKSON
Inspector of Wires CHARLES G. HAYES
Building Inspector CLINTON E. BARTON
Registrars of Voters
HAROLD L. ANDERSON DACIA A. ANDERSON (deceased) JAMES A. FINLEY (appointed)
RICHARD M. COBB
Term expires 1959 Term expires 1960
Term expires 1960 Term expires 1961
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
ROBERT O. PROAL ALEC H. FREDERICKSON
EVERETT W. SKINNER
Term expires 1959 Term expires 1960 Term expires 1961
Industrial Development Committee
JAMES A. ASPINWALL
ROBERT O. MALIN
S. ROBERT ADAMS
EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM
DONALD E. COOK LYMAN H. PARMENTER, JR. CLARENCE J. GAUTHIER WILLIAM C. STIGALL RAYMOND V. MILLER FREDERICK M. SHERMAN ROBERT J. WINN
FREDERICK I. STUART
JOHN J. DRUMMEY
Finance Committee
STANLEY G. COLE DONALD G. COLLEY (resigned) H. JEFFERSON CHEEVER SAMUEL B. ROBISON
ROBERT C. HASELTINE FRANK KEEGAN EDWARD E. OSTERHOLM LeROY B. WILSON
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TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Monday, March 3, 1958 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 THIRD DAY OF MARCH 1958, 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, 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 two members of School Committee for three years. Five members of Planning Board, one for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, one for five years.
For this purpose the polls will open at 6:30 o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at 6:30 o'clock in the afternoon.
For the consideration of all other articles in this Warrant the meeting shall stand adjourned to the third Monday in March, at 7:30 p. m. 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.
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ARTICLE 3. To consider and act on the reports of the Selectmen, Treasurer, and other Town Officers.
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
Town Treasurer
500.00 per year 800.00 per year 500.00 per year
Selectmen, chairman
Second Member
Third Member
400.00 per year 400.00 per year 600.00 per year
Assessors, chairman
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)
500.00 per year
Auditor
200.00 per year
Constables
1.50 per hour
Tree Warden
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
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the financial year ending December 31, 1958 and expressly for the following purposes to wit:
1. For the support of the Public Library.
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 the 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.
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26. For maturing debt.
27. For Welfare Agent.
28. For Street Lights.
29. For Moth Department.
30. For Vocational Education.
31. For Regional School District Committee.
32. For Planning Board.
33. For Industrial Development Committee.
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 Select- men's bond placed with a fidelity or guarantee company, and appropri- ate 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, 1959 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 appropri- ate a sum of money for a Reserve Fund to provide for the extraordi- nary 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 appropri- ate 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 prov- isions of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, and raise and appropriate or transfer 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 appro- priate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the treasury,
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a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highways, or take any action in rela- tion thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or transfer, the sum of $1,294.11 or any other sum for the control of insects and Dutch Elm disease ($794.11 for Dutch Elm disease and $500 for insect control) as provided for under Chap. 132 of the General 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 appro- priate the sum of $2,046.50, 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 appro- priate the sum of $200.00, or any other sum, for the use of the athletic department 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 appro- priate the sum of $22,000, 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, $15,000; and Disabled Persons, $3,500, 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 accept from the Guisti Construction Company Lot No. 42 on "Roelridge Acres Plat" or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, a sum of money to cover the cost of additional lighting at the junction of Routes 152 and 106, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
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ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $200 or any other sum for the purchase and installa- tion of street and traffic signs, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer a sum of money for the purchase of a new supple- mentary fire truck or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money 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 raise and appro- priate a sum of money for Civilian Defense, or do or act in any man- ner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or transfer, a sum of money for the purchase of a new truck and snow plow for the Highway Dept., and the money to pay for same to be transferred from Road Machinery Reserve account, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, a sum of money for the purchase of an automatic sand spreader or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the purchase of a motorized sidewalk plow, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,000 or any other sum to continue the new side- walk program, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,200 or any other sum to continue the drainage program, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate, or transfer the sum of $2,175.10, to cover claims filed on the
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Town of Plainville, for assistance at the Forest Fires of May 1 thru 12, 1957, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate or transfer a sum of money for the purchase of a station wagon type cruiser, four door, 8 cylinder, equipped with standard heater and all necessary identification for police cruiser, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 31. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of seven mem- bers, to determine what disposition should be made of the "Town Hall Building" so called, formerly used as a school, and report its findings and recommendations to the Town at the next Town Meeting, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Water Survey Committee or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 33. 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 South Street, northerly from School Street to Berry Street, about 6,900 feet and to raise and appropriate for this purpose a sum not to exceed $85,800.
2. To lay water mains of not less than 6 inches but less than 16 inches in diameter in East Bacon Street and Messenger Street easterly from the present stand pipe to Taunton Street, about 6,300 feet and to raise and appropriate for this purpose a sum not to exceed $78,600.
And to determine the manner in which the foregoing appropria- 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.
ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to acquire on behalf of the Town, by purchase
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or by eminent domain under Chapter 79, Massachusetts General Laws (T. E.), or otherwise, for purposes of the public water supply, the fee in the following described parcel of land :-
Starting at a point on East Bacon Street, 440 feet, more or less, from the intersection of the tangents at the northerly corner of East Bacon and George Streets; then by East Bacon Street in an easterly direction 50 feet, more or less, thence by a stone wall marking the property of the Town of Plainville in a northeasterly direction 155 feet, more or less, thence on the same course 315 feet, more or less to an angle point; thence northewesterly 1090 feet, more or less, to an angle point; thence southwesterly 500 feet to the property of the Town of Plainville; thence by land of the Town of Plainville 1130 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning; containing 13 acres, more or less :- or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $50.00, or any other sum, to cover the additional cost of printing the By-Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto.
ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the follow- ing By-Laws, or do or act in any manner relative thereto. 2/3 vote.
BY-LAWS
ARTICLE I
Town Officers
Section 1. The Town at its Annual Meeting shall when the term of office of any incumbent expires, except when other provision is made by law, choose by ballot from its registered voters the following Town Officers for the following terms of office:
For Terms of One Year - One Moderator, One Town Clerk, One Auditor, One Tree Warden, Three Constables.
For Terms of Three Years (one to be elected each year) - Three Selectmen, acting as Welfare Board and Board of Health, Three Water Commissioners, Three Trustees of the Public Library, Three Assessors, Three Park Commissioners.
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For Terms of Three Years (every year when the term of office of any incumbent expires, and except when provision is made by law)- Five Members of the School Committee, Two Members of the Regional School Committee, One Town Treasurer, One Tax Collector.
For Terms of Five Years (one to be elected each year) - Five Members of the Town Planning Committee in accordance with Article 30 voted and passed at the Town Meeting of March 4, 1957.
Section 1-A. There shall be a Board of Appeals, as provided for under Section 81-Z of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, to consist of three members to be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, one for the terms of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and thereafter in accordance with the provision of statute.
Section 2. All Town officers and any committee not named in Section 1 of this Article shall be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, unless other provision is made by a vote of the Town, or unless other- wise provided for by statute.
Section 3. No members of any elected board or commission shall serve as Superintendent under the Board or Commission of which he is a member.
Section 4. The Annual Meeting for the election of officers re- quired by law, or by these by-laws, to be elected by ballot, shall be held on the first Monday in March of each year.
Section 5. All business except the election of such officers, and the determination of such matters as by law are required, to be elected or determined by ballot, shall be considered by adjournment to the third Monday in March at 7:30 o'clock P. M.
ARTICLE II Government of Town Meetings
Section 1. The number of voters necessary to constitute a quorum at any Town Meeting shall be Sixty (60), provided however that a number less than a quorum may from time to time adjourn the same.
This section shall not apply to such parts of meetings as are de- voted to the election of Town Officers.
Section 2. Warrants for the Town Meetings shall be directed to any Constable of the town or some other person, and it shall be the duty of said Constable or other person to warn the inhabitants of said meeting by posting attested copies of the warrant in not less than six public places seven days at least before the day of said meeting.
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Section 3. The last day for filing of petitions with the Board of Selectmen for insertion of articles in the warrant for the annual town meeting shall be the second Tuesday in December in each year.
All petitioned articles calling for an appropriation of money to be inserted in the warrant shall be submitted to the Town Department in- volved by the petitioners on or before November 15. The department shall examine the request contained in the article and submit a recom- mendation as to the feasibility of the project requested and the reason- ableness of the price stated therein. Said recommendation, in writing, shall be attached to the petition and be returned to the sponsor within ten days for filing with the Board of Selectmen. Failure to obtain the recommendation of the department in question through no fault of the petitioner shall not constitute a bar to the filing of such petition with the Selectmen.
Section 4. The duties of the Moderator not especially provided for by law, or by these by-laws, shall be determined by the rules and practice contained in Cushing's Manuel of Parliamentary Practice, so far as they may be adapted to the circumstances and powers of the Town of Plainville.
Section 5. A motion to reconsider any vote must be made before the final adjournment of the meeting at which the vote was passed, and such motion to reconsider shall not be made at an adjourned meeting unless the voter has given notice of his intention to make such a mo- tion, either at the session of the meeting at which the vote was passed, or by written notice to the Town Clerk within forty-eight hours after the adjournment of such session. There can be no reconsideration of a vote once reconsidered or after a vote not to reconsider.
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