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250 00
Engineer of Steamer No. 1
20 00
Fireman of Steamer No. 1 15 00
$2,391 00
Voted that a committee of four be appointed by the Moderator to act jointly with the Engineers of he Fire Department who shall consider and investigate the ad- visability of purchasing an auto truck and that the com- mittee report at an adjournment of this meeting on Monday, May 5, 1913, at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
Committee appointed: Timothy Lyons, Frank H. Ja- quith, Winthrop B. Atherton, Eugene L. McAuliffe.
Article 19. Voted that the sum of $2,500 be raised and contributed to the Sinking Fund to meet the pay- ment of the Randolph Water Loan when due.
Article 20. Voted that the sum of $150 be raised and appropriated for that purpose.
Article 21. Voted that three fourths of one per cent be allowed for the collection of taxes.
Article 22. Voted that the sum of $250 be raised and appropriated for said purpose, said sum to be appor- tioned equally among the several Physicians and to be in full for the attendance upon all persons under the care of the Selectmen and Overseers of Poor whose settle- ment and residence is in the town of Randolph for one year from January 1, 1913, that is to say each Physician
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resident in the town on the 1st of March, 1913, shall re- ceive the sum of $50 for his services provided he makes 34 visits during the year; after that he shall receive no compensation for his services but shall attend such of the town's poor as shall call upon him for his services ; those physicians that make less than 34 visits shall re- ceive pay at the rate of $1.50 for each of said visits.
Article 23. Voted that the town instruct the Select- men to appoint a special officer or direct an officer elect- ed by the town to enforce the laws of the Commonwealth and to post all warrants for town meetings and that the sum of $673 be raised and appropriated for said pur- pose, and that the Selectmen be instructed to use all the powers the law gives them to suppress the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors.
Article 24. Voted that each person employed by the town shall receive such sum of money as is equal to the value of his labor and that the laborers residing in town and the residents owning teams shall be employed in preference to any others.
Article 25. Voted that the sum of $1,092 be raised and appropriated for said purpose.
Article 26. Voted that the Collector of Taxes be so authorized.
Article 27. Voted that the Collector of Taxes be so authorized.
Article 28. Voted that the sum of $20 be raised and
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appropriated for the care of the clock in the spire of the First Congregational Church.
Article 29. Voted that this article having been act- ed on under Article 10 no action necessary.
Article 30. Voted that the sum of $150 be raised and appropriated for the same.
Article 31-32. Voted that the Water Commission- ers be and they hereby are authorized to extend the wat- er main from its present terminus on Pond Street to North Main Street and thence to connect with the water main on Old Street and that jointly with the town of Holbrook they be and they hereby are authorized and empowered to purchase a new boiler and pump and in- stall the same at the pumping station and for that, for the expense to the town of Randolph for the provis- ions under these two articles of the Warrant shall not exceed $6,000, and to defray the cost thereof, the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Water Commission- ers be and he hereby is authorized for the purposes and in the manner described in Chapter 478, Acts of 1909, to borrow an amount not exceeding $6,000 and in ac- cordance with the provisions of said statute to issue Bonds, Notes or Scrip of the Town of Randolph there- for payable at such time and in such annual proportion- ate payments beginning not more than five years after the thirty-first day of December, 1909, the date of the first issue of Bonds, Notes or Scrip under the provis-
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ions of Chapter 487, Acts of 1909, as will extinguish the loan authorized hereunder thirty years from the dates of issue of said Bonds, Notes or Scrip all of which shall be approved, signed and countersigned as provided by law.
Article 32. Acted on under Article 31.
Article 33. Voted that the subject matter of this article be deferred to an adjournment of this meeting on Monday, May 5, 1913, at 7.30 o'clock P. M.
Article 34. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Article 38. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Article 39. Voted that a committee of five be ap- pointed by the Moderator to revise the present town By-Laws as they may deem requisite and submit their report at the adjourned town meeting on May 5, 1913, and of such as are approved by the town in order to cause them to take effect to thereafter submit them to the attorney general of the Commonwealth for his approval and to adopt such further measures in the mat- ter as required by law.
Committee appointed,
John V. Beal, Charles D. Hill, James Fardy, A. L. Chase, H. F. Langley.
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Article 40. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Article 41. No committee to report.
Voted that this meeting adjourn to Monday, May 5, 1913 at 7.30 o'clock p. m.
PATRICK H. MCLAUGHLIN, Town Clerk.
Adjourned Annual Town Meeting.
Randolph, May 5, 1913.
The adjourned annual town meeting from March 17, 1913, was held this evening in Stetson Hall at 7.30 p. m. Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Joseph Bel- cher.
Article 8. The committee appointed at the adjourned meeting, March 17, submitted their report as follows:
Mr. Moderator, your committee have investigated the question of the ventilation of the North grammar school, and beg to submit the following report:
We have found that a modern ventilating system using the indirect method of heating air as installed in the High School building would cost installed in the North Grammar school in the vicinity of $3500. The committee have made a careful inspection of the school building and are of the opinion that the building is in
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very poor condition and that it should be replaced with a new building in a very short time.
We wish that the finances of the town were at present in such condition that we could recommend tonight the erection of a modern building instead of a ventilating system.
We have found that there is a ventilating system called "The Auto Force" which in our opinion will be a very decided improvement over the present method although it will not give the same quantity of air that is recommended in the indirect system.
We are of the opinion, however, that it will be suffi- cient to cover the needs of the school with the present number of pupils and it would seem as if it would also be sufficient for a few years until the town can afford to build a new school house in that vicinity.
This system can be installed for about $325. and we would consider this amount ample to invest in this build- ing, we therefore recommend that the sum of $325 be appropriated and that the "Auto Force" system be in- stalled in this school house under the direction of the school committee in accordance with the plans which have been agreed upon.
We also wish to thank the school committee for the cooperation and assistance which they have been to the other members and also to say to the voters of the town that the recommendation was unanimous, both with the
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members of the school committee and with the mem- bers of the committee which were appointed to act in conjunction with them.
HERBERT F. FRENCH,
JOSEPH A. DEVINE, JAMES H. HURLEY, MARK B. CLAFF, EDWARD LONG,
GEORGE V. HIGGINS, EDWARD K. BELCHER
Voted to accept the report.
Voted that the sum of $325. be raised and appropri- ated to install the "Auto Force" system of ventilation in the North Grammar School and that Herbert F. French and Joseph A. Devine be a committee to act with the school committee.
Articles 10-29 in conjunction.
The committee appointed under articles 10-29 submit- ted a verbal report: voted to accept the report: voted that the Board of Trustees of Stetson School Fund be and hereby are authorized and directed to install a Steam heating and sanitary plant in Stetson Hall building, also to make alterations to provide increased accomodations for the use of town officers in said building, to decorate and repair the interior of Stetson Hall and to paint the building outside, the cost of which shall not exceed the
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sum of $8000. and to defray the expense thereof the Town Treasurer be, and he hereby is authorized with the approval of a majority of the selectmen to issue notes of the town payable one thousand dollars in one year from the date of issue and one thousand dollars in each year thereafter until the entire amount is paid.
Voted to recind the vote on article 11 of the warrant.
Voted that the sum of $21,998.78 be raised and appro- priated under article 11 as voted under said article and $150. additional for miscellaneous expenses be added to the amount under article 11, making the total amount under article 11, $22,148.78.
Article 18. Voted to recind action under article 18.
The committee appointed under article 18 submitted the following report:
That we recommend the purchase of an auto truck. Two propositions have been considered by the committee. A new combination truck, completely furnished will cost $5,500. A chassie can be purchased and the body of our present hose wagon attached to same together with a new chemical tank for $3,500. If either of the prop- ositions be adopted the committee believes the expense of the present department can be reduced at least $1,000 per year.
TIMOTHY LYONS, WINTHROP L. MCAULIFFE, GEORGE A. ROEL, FRANK H. JAQUITH. 196
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Voted to accept the report.
A motion to appropriate $3500 amended by a motion to appropriate $5000 for the purchase of an auto truck was defeated.
Voted to raise and appropriate $2391. for the expen- ses of the Fire Department.
Article 33. Voted unanimously that the Water Com- missioners be and hereby are directed to extend the water main on North Main street in a northerly direction from the intersection of said North Main street and Old street a distance of 750 feet at an expense to the town not to exceed $1000 and to defray the expense thereof the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Water Commisioners be and he hereby is authorized for the purposes and in the manner described in chapter 487 acts of the Legislature of 1909 to borrow an amount not exceeding $1000 and in accordance with the provisions of said Statute to issue bonds, notes or scrip of the town of Randolph there- for payable at such time and in such annual proportion- ate payments beginning not more than five years after the thirty-first day of December,1909, the date of the first issue of bonds, notes or scrip under the provision of Chapter 487 of the Acts of 1909 as will extinguish the loan authorized hereunder within 30 years from the date of issue of said bonds, notes or scrip, all of which shall be approved, signed, and countersigned as provided by law.
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Articles 31-32. Voted that we reconsider the vote in Article 31-32 which relates to the year of the act.
Voted that the number of the legislative act dated in the vote as 478 be changed so as to read 487.
Article 39. The commtitee appointed under Article 39 submitted the following By-Laws which were adopted.
By-Laws Adopted by the Town of Randolph at its Meet- ing on May 5, 1913, by Adjournment from March 3, 1913.
I. No person except the Selectmen, the Surveyors of Highways in the lawful performance of their duties, or those acting under their orders, shall break or dig up the ground in any street or public way in the town with- out first obtaining a written permit from the Selectmen; and all persons acting under such permit shall put up and maintain a suitable railing or fence around the part of the street so broken up, so long as the same shall remain unsafe or inconvenient for travelers, and he or they shall keep one or more lighted lanterns fixed to such railing or fence, or in some other way, exposed every night from twilight in the evening through the whole night, so long as such street or way shall be or remain unsafe or incon- venient for travelers.
II. No person shall make any indecent figures or write any indecent or obscene words upon any wall, post or building, or in any public place, or commit a nuisance upon any sidewalk or against any tree, building or struc-
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ture adjoining the same.
III. No person shall maliciously deface, remove or de- stroy any bill, notice or advertisement concerning pub- lic affairs, unless the same shall be affixed to premises owned by him, or under his control; nor shall any person remove or deface any notice, advertisement, or hand bill which has been posted up by permission of the Se- lectmen, or of the owners of the property to which the same shall be affixed so as to render it profane or obscene.
IV. The pasturing of cattle or other animals with or without a keeper, in or upon any street or public way in this town, is hereby forbidden.
V. No person shall throw stones, snow balls, sticks or other missiles, or kick a foot-ball, or play at any game in which a ball is used, or fly any kites or balloons, or shoot with, or use a bow and arrow, or shoot with any air rifle, or otherwise throw any missiles in any public ways of the town.
VI. No person shall coast upon or across any sidewalk in the town, nor coast upon any street in the town except such and at such times as the Selectmen shall designate.
VII. No person shall discharge any guns, fowling- piece, pistol, or firearms, or set fire to any material known as fireworks or combustible matter, or throw any such lighted fireworks in any of the public ways or streets of the town, except on such occasions and such character and kind, as the Board of Selectmen may by
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public notice permit. Provided, however, this section shall not apply to any person in the exercise of a duty required or justified by law.
VIII. No person shall swim or bathe in any of the waters within or surrounding the town, so as to be ex- posed to view in a nude state from any dwelling house, or to persons on any public way.
IX. No persons shall behave in a rude or disorderly manner, or use any profane, indecent or insulting lan- guage in any public street or place in the town, nor near any dwelling house or other building therein; nor shall three or more persons continue to stand in a group or near each other on any sidewalk, or in any public place so as to obstruct a free passage for pedestrians after having been requested by a constable or police officer to move on; nor shall any person by any noise, gesture, or other means, wantonly and designedly frighten or start any horse in any street or public place in the town.
X. No person shall drive, wheel or draw upon any sidewalk, any bicycle, wagon, cart, or any carriage of burden or pleasure, except children's carriages, propelled by hand, wheel chairs, or necessary carriages for inval- ids or person unable to walk. No person shall lead or drive any horse, goat, swine, or neat cattle upon any sidewalk so as to interfere with the convenient use of the same by all passengers.
XI. No person shall permit any team under his care
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or control to stand across any public highway or street in the town in such a manner as to obstruct the travel over the same for an unnecessary length of time; no per- son shall stop with any team in any such public high- way or street so near to another team as to obstruct public travel, and no person shall stop with any team or carriage upon or across any crossing in any such high- way or street.
XII. No person or persons shall obstruct any side- walk or street or other public place by idling or lounging thereon, or remain about the doors or places of business or residence, when requested by a constable or police officer or the owner or owners or occupants of said places to depart therefrom.
XIII. No person shall place or maintain over any sidewalk, any awning, shade, shade-frame, canopy, sign, or signboard, without a permit from the Board of Select- men, but no such awning, shade, shade-frame, canopy, sign, or signboard shall be less than seven feet from the ground, in the lowest part, nor extend beyond the line of the sidewalk.
XIV. No owner or occupant of property shall permit any gate leading to premises, abutting on any public way in the town, to swing outwardly upon any public way.
XV. No person shall wilfully break any arc lamp or lamp globe or incandescent lamp or any insulators or at- tachments used to carry power for electric street light-
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ing or any part of said lamps or globes or of the fixtures thereof.
XVI. No person shall throw or deposit in any man- ner, upon any public way, place, or square in the town, any article, substance or material which may prove in- jurious in any respect to the hoofs of animals, the tires of bicycles or the rubber tires of automobiles and other vehicles, or be a source of danger or annoyance to any one lawfully passing over or using the same.
XVII. No person shall place or cause to be placed, or empty, or cause to be emptied upon any street way, lane or sidewalk, any house dirt, offal or rubbish, any sewage or the drainage of any sink or stable, or the contents of any cesspool, vault, privy or privy well, or any waste matter whatsoever. No person shall cast any decayed vegetables or dead animal substance, house dirt, offal or rubbish into any cesspool, privy-vault, or into any well, cistern, reservoir, pond or waters within the town; nor drown, nor cause to be drowned, any animal in any of said waters. And the carcasses of animals dead of any disease or killed for any cause, shall be buried at such distance from dwellings, or wells, or other source of wat- er supply, that no danger or nuisance can result; and no person shall establish or maintain any stable, swine pen, privy, privy well, cesspool or sink drain within ten feet of any stream, water course or pond or allow any over- flow from such stable, swine pen, privy well, cess-
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pool or sink drain to enter, any stream, water course or pond in this town without a permit from the Board of Health.
XVIII. No person shall remove or carry through any of the public streets, or ways within the town the offen- sive contents of any cesspool or privy vault, or deposit the same within the limits of the town without a permit from the Board of Health.
XIX. No person shall distribute papers, circulars, or advertisements through the town in such manner as to create a disturbance or litter.
XX. No person shall smoke tobacco in the Town Hall, or spit upon the floor or walls of the Town Hall building, or injure, deface, destroy or mar in any way or manner any part of said building or any of the furniture therein, or carry into said building or upon the grounds connected therewith, any spirituous or intoxicating li- quors for the purpose of drinking or selling the same.
XXI. Not less than twenty per cent. of the registered male voters shall constitute a quorum to transact any business relative to the expenditure of money at any town meeting.
XXII. No child under sixteen years of age shall be, loiter or remain upon any street, highway, park or other public way or place in the town after the hour of nine o'clock in the afternoon of any day unless accompanied by, or under the care of a parent, guardian, or other
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adult person, or unless in some employment or in perfor- mance of some duty directed in writing by said parent, guardian or other adult person, and no such child while in such employment or performance or return from such duty shall loiter upon any street, highway, park, or other public way or place.
The chief of the fire department shall cause three strokes upon the fire alarms to be sounded at eight fifty o'clock in the afternoon.
A constable or police officer may at his discretion simply warn any child violating this By-Law, and in written notice thereof shall there-upon be sent to the parent or guardian of the said child.
The penalty for each offence under this By-Law shall be a fine of not less than two or more than five dollars.
XXIII. The penalty of any violation of these By-Laws shall when not otherwise provided for, be the forfeiture and payment for each offence of a fine not exceeding twenty dollars.
XXIV. These By-Laws may be amended at any an- nal town meeting, an article having been inserted for the purpose in the warrant for such meeting, and upon the approval of these By-Laws, all By-Laws except Truancy By-Laws heretofore passed shall be annulled and re- pealed.
XXV. Except when otherwise provided by law, pro- secutions for offences under the By-Laws of the town
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may be made by any constable or police officer of the town.
The foregoing By-Laws were approved by James M. Swift, Attorney General.
July 14, 1913.
Attest
Patrick H. McLaughlin,
Town Clerk.
Voted that Henry A. Belcher, Joseph T. Leahy, James A. Brennan, John K. Willard, be a committee to act with the Trustees of Stetson School Fund in the repairs and alterations of Stetson Hall.
Voted that Joseph Belcher be paid the sum of $25 for services as Moderator.
At 9.45 it was voted to adjourn.
The Total Appropriations
Article 4 Schools
$17,987 00
8 North Grammar 325 00
9 High School Playground 50 00
11 General Expense
22,148 78
12 Highways
3,000 00
13 Street Lighting
3,800 00
15 Treasurer's Bond
100 00
16 Tax Collector's Bond
50 00
17 Decoration Soldiers' Graves 150 00
18 Fire Department -
2,391 00
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19 Water Loan Sinking Fund
2,500 00
20 Almshouse repairs
150 00
22 Medical Attendance
250 00
23 Special Police
673 70
25 Gypsy Moth
1,092 00
28 Care of Clocks
20 00
30 Turner Library
150 00
State Tax
5,600 00
State Highway Tax
95 00
County Tax
2,345 84
$62,878 32
A true record.
PATRICK H. MCLAUGHLIN,
Town Clerk.
Special Town Meeting Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Norfolk, ss. To either of the Constables of Randolph,
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby re- quired to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Randolph, qualified to vote in Town affairs to assemble in A. O. H. Hall on North Street, in said town of Ran- dolph, on Friday the fifth day of September 1913 at eight o'clock in the evening then and there to act on the following Articles, viz :
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Article 1 To see if the town will vote to accept as a town way the Street as laid out by the Selectmen, run- ning westerly from South Main Street to Highland Ave- nue and known as Fairview, which laying with the boun- deries and measurements of the way is filed in the office of Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate money for the construction of the same.
Article 2 To see if the town will vote to instruct the Water Commissioners to extend the water main from South Main Street to the westerly end of Fairview Ave- nue, and raise and appropriate money for same.
Article 3 To see if the town will vote to instruct the Water Commissioners to extend the water main in an easterly direction from the present terminus on Allen Street to a point 200 feet therefrom, and raise and ap- propriate money for the same.
Hereof fail not and have you this warrant with a re- turn of your doings thereon.
Dated at Randolph this Twenty Ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.
JEREMIAH J. DESMOND, CHARLES H. THAYER, Selectmen of Randolph.
Norfolk. ss. Randolph, Sept. 5, 1913.
Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified the in-
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habitants of the town of Randolph herein described to assemble at the time and place mentioned by posting ten copies of the warrant at ten public places ten days before the hour and day named for holding said meeting.
JAMES McGERIGLE,
Constable.
Randolph, Sept. 5, 1913.
Pursuant to the following warrant the voters of Ran- dolph assembled in A. O. H. Hall on North Street at eight o'clock in the evening. Meeting called to order by Moderator Joseph Belcher, and warrant and return read. Action on several articles taken as follows :
Article 1. Voted not to accept the Street laid out by the Selectmen and known as Fairview, and not to ap- propriate money for its construction, the vote being 110 for 69 against, not a two thirds vote.
Article 2. Voted that the Water Commissioners be instructed to extend the water main from South Main Srreet to the westerly end of Fairview Avenue and to de- fray the expense thereof, that the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Water Commissioners be and he hereby is authorized to borrow therefor in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 487, Acts of 1909, to an amount not exceeding $1000, payable one note for $500, payable not later than December 31, 1914, from date of issue and one note for $500, in two years from date of issue.
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