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Hour Service
700.00
Driver of truck
1,800.00
Extra driver one day per week
260.00
Engineers' Salaries
150.00
Unpaid Bills, 1925-1926
215.00
Painting and Repairing Interior of House No. 1
200.00
Rebuilding new and care of Fire
Alar mSystem
450.00
500 feet of hose
525.00
Snow removal expense
225.00
5,775.00
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Schools :
Stetson High School
$16,750.00
Teaching, Grammar Schools
32,935.00
Fuel
4,000.00
Books and Supplies
4,500.00
Care of Rooms
3,800.00
Transportation of Pupils
2,900.00
Superintendent of Schools
1,225.00
School Physician
100.00
School Nurse
1,400.00
Continuation and Trade School
1,800.00
General Expenses
4,000.00
School Committee
300.00
73,710.00
Less estimated revenue from :
Dog Tax
$1,300.00
State Tuition
700.00
Coddington Fund
80.00
Vocational Education
900.00
$2,980.00
Street Lighting
6,103.00
Repairs on Highways
8,600.00
Expenses of Assessors' Department
· 300.00
Insurance on Town Treasurer's Bond '26-'27
100.00
Insurance on Tax Collector's Bond '26-'27
100.00
Medical Attendance on Poor
300.00
Visiting Nurse Association
1,000.00
Gypsy and brown tail moths
1,000.00
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Repairs on Turner Free Library Building
150.00
Care of Clock
20.00
Decoration of Soldiers' Graves
225.00
Survey of Town and making of maps
500.00
Expense of taking 1925 census
300.00
Rebuilding Stetson High School $12,852.32
To be raised by tax levy this year
1,352.32
Purchase of traffic beacon, corner of North Main and Warren Streets
265.00
Services of William J. Good-
Rosetti suit ($557.75)
Repairs to cistern and roadway
764.54
Fire Signal boxes
250.00
Installation of 6 lights on High Street
99.00
Installation of 10 lights on North Main Street
165.00
Installation of 2 lights on Fair- mount Street
33.00
Extension of water main on
Orchard Street
825.00
Extension of water main on Center Street
2,400.00
Extension of water main on No.
Main Street, corner of No. Main and Waldo Streets
700.00
Installation of water on Center Street between Union and South Streets
1,718.25
Extension of water main on Chestnut Street
1,700.00
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Connection of two dead ënds on Grove Street 1,000.00
Purchase of 12 ton road roller Raised by tax levy this year
$5,000.00
1,200.00
Repairs to Canton Street"
1,000.00
Repairs to Canton Street
1,500.00
Rebuilding Lafayette Street
1,000.00
Repairs to and drainage of How- ard Street
2,000.00
Repairs to Mill Street
2,000.00
Repairs to Grove Street, Cross Street and Wales Avenue
1,000.00
$207,021.93
CREDITS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES INCLUDED IN TAX LEVY-1926
Income Tax-1923 Additional
$94.50
Income Tax-1924 Additional
110.70
Income Tax-1925 Additional 355.00
Income Tax-1926
18,191.69
Corporation Business Tax-1925 Additional
137.84
Corporation Business Tax-1926
1,500.00
Public Service Corporation Tax-1926
2,500.00
National Bank Tax-1926
300.00
Dog Tax-1926 1,300.00
Eastern Massachusetts St. R. R. Co. Tax-1926 " 600.00
Interest on Unpaid Taxes
1,750.00
Interest on Bank Balance
300.00
Interest-Coddington Fund-1926
85.00
Board of Health
1 ..
100.00
Poor out of Almshouse
100.00
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Tuition of Children
750.00
Vocational Education
513.69
Division of Sanatoria
122.25
Revenue from Moth Dept.
150.00
Fines from Court-1926
1,000.00
From Stetson School Fund
500.00
Poll Tax
3,400.00
Almshouse
1,500.00
Miscellaneous
500.00
$35,849.67
Water Department
18,500.00
Total Credits-1926
$54,349.67
DETERMINATION OF TAX RATE-1926
Total appropriations
$207,021.93
Plus-obligations not provided for by ap- propriations 400.00
Plus-amount of County Tax in excess of estimate 355.57
Total cost of operating town-1926 Less credits
$207,777.50
54,349.67
Net cost of operating town year 1926
$153,427.83
Plus overlay to cover abatements-1925
1,000.00
Plus overlay to cover abatements-1926
2,976.97
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Total amount to be provided for through tax levy Total assessed valuation Tax rate per $1,000.00
$157,404.80
$4,918,900.00
$32.00
TAX LEVIED AND COMMITTED TO TAX COLLECTOR-1926
Per warrant-October 1926-Tax on real
and personal estate
$157,404.80
Poll Tax
3,358.00
Per warrant-December 1926 for addi-
tional assessments
1,017.20
Total
$161,780.00
VALUATION OF EXEMPTED PROPERTY
Buildings $30,000.00
Land $4,000.00
Total $34,000.00
1st Baptist Church
1st Congregational Church
35,000.00
5,000.00
40,000.00
St. Mary's Catholic Church
40,000.00
5,000.00
45,000.00
Unitarian Church
20,000.00
5,000.00
25,000.00
Episcopal Church
7,000.00
2,500.00
9,500.00
Methodist Church
2,000.00
500.00
2,500.00
Seth Mann 2nd, Home
12,000.00
5,000.00
17,000.00
Boston School for
the Deaf
340,000.00
10,000.00
350,000.00
Total
$523,000.00
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VALUATION OF PROPERTY OWNED BY THE TOWN OF RANDOLPH-1926
Town Hall-Land
Building
$12,500.00 37,500.00
$50,000.00
Schools-Buildings and Land:
Prescott Primary School
10,000.00
Prescott Grammar School
25,000.00
Chestnut Street Primary School 2,500.00
North Randolph Primary School 10,000.00
Belcher Grammar School
15,000.00
Tower Hill Primary School
2,500.00
Stetson High School with new addition 150,000.00
Fixtures, Books and Supplies
50,000.00
$265,000.00
Public Library :
Building and Land
$40,000.00
Fixtures, books, etc. 20,000.00
60,000.00
Fire Department :
Engine House No. 1
$4,000.00
Engine House No. 2 2,000.00
The above values include buildings only as land un-
der No. 1 is included with Town Hall and land under No. 2 is rented.
Pumping Engine 3,000.00
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Combination Fire Truck
2,000.00
Steam Fire Engine
750.00
Ford Truck with Chemicals
500.00
12,250.00
Police Department Motorcycle
$300.00
300.00
Water Department-Entire System
250,000.00
Vacant Land:
Clark Lot in rear of Stetson
Hall on Union Street $1,000.00
1 Lot North Street 300.00
E. Fannie Belcher Lot on Park Street 1,000.00
2,300.00
Highway Department:
1 one ton tractor
$500.00
1 steam roller
3,000.00
Miscellaneous equipment
500.00
4,000.00
Almshouse Property Funds :
12,000.00
Turner High School Medal Fund $1,000.00
Stetson High School Fund 20,000.00
Turner Library Fund
10,000.00
R. W. Turner Library Fund 20,000.00
Coddington Fund
1,900.00
52,900.00
Total
$696,250.00
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INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE TABLE OF AGGREGATES PREPARED AND SUBMITTED TO STATE TAX COMMISSIONER
Number of residents assessed for property 1,781
Number of non-residents assessed for property 713
Total number of persons assessed for property 2,494
Number of residents assessed for poll tax only Total number of persons assessed 3,086
592
Number of male polls assessed
1,679
Number of horses assessed
57
Number of cows assessed
220
Number of neat cattle other than cows assessed
3
Number of swine assessed
190
Number of dwelling houses assessed
1,534
Number of fowl assessed
2,590
Number of automobiles
1,032
We will conclude our report by requesting the citizens of our town to manifest their interest in and desire for lower taxes, in a practical way by attending the Annual Town Meeting and see that economy is practiced in the raising of money by appropriations.
Yours truly,
HENRY V. MORGAN, Chairman,
JAMES H. HURLEY,
JAMES E. FOLEY,
Board of Assessors.
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1927 Town Meeting Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Norfolk, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Randolph, in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Randolph qualified to vote in Elections and Town Affairs to assemble at
STETSON HALL IN SAID TOWN, ON MONDAY, the seventh day of March, 1927 At 5:45 o'clock in the Forenoon
Then and there to act on the following articles, viz:
Article 1. To choose all such Town officers as are required by law to be chosen by ballot, namely: A Mod- erator for one year; a Town Clerk for one year; a Town Treasurer for one year; three Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor for one year; one Member of School Commit- tee for three years; one Trustee of Stetson School Fund for three years; a Collector of Taxes for one year; one Assessor for three years; one Water Commissioner for three years; three Auditors for one year; one Tree War- den for one year; one Highway Surveyor for one year; seven Constables for one year.
Article 2. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the
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financial year beginning January 1, 1927, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Article 3. To see if the Town will appoint the Select- men to be the agents and attorneys of the Town to prose- cute, defend and compromise any and all suits in which the Town may be in any manner interested as a party or otherwise, except so far as the same relate in any manner to the water supply, and to employ counsel if necessary.
Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize and ap- point the Water Commissioners to be the agents and attorneys of the Town, to prosecute, defend, compromise and settle any and all suits and proceedings in which the Town may be interested as a party or otherwise so far as the same in any manner relate to the preserving, taking and use of the water of Great Pond, or to the construction of the water works, either jointly or sepa- rately, as authorized under Chapter 217 of the Acts of 1885, and to employ counsel if necessary.
Article 5. To see if the Town will rescind its vote under articles 36 and 37 of the 1926 Annual Town Meet- ing Warrant authorizing the Treasurer to issue notes for $11,000 to pay for High School equipment and vote to raise $11,000 by current taxation. (Recommended by State Examiner.)
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to refund any or all of the revenue notes issued in anticipation of revenue of the year 1927, in accordance with the pro- visions of Section 17 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws;
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any debt so incurred to be paid from the revenue of 1927. (Recommended by State Examiner.)
Chapter 44, Section 17.
. ; and notes issued under this section and sections four, five and six for a shorter period than one year may be refunded by the issue of other notes maturing within the required per- iod; provided that the period from the date of issue of the original loan and the date of maturity of the refunding loan shall be not more than one year; and provided, further, that no notes shall be refunded under this section except under authority of such vote as is required for the original borrowing."
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate money to defray the general town expenses for the current year, under the following headings: (Rec- ommended by State Examiner.)
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Moderator,
Salary Salaries
Selectmen,
Expenses
Auditors and Accountant,
Salaries
Expenses
Treasurer,
Salary
Expenses (including Treas- urer's bond)
Tax Collector,
Salary
Expenses (including Tax Collector's bond)
Assessors,
Salaries Expenses
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Law Department,
Salary Expenses
Town Clerk,
Salary Expenses Vital Statistics
Salaries (including Regis- trars of Voters')
Town Office,
Expenses Expenses
PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
Police Department,
Salaries
Expenses
Special expenses including traffic signs and beacons
Fire Department,
Salaries
Expenses
New equipment
Fire alarm system
Salaries
Expenses
Sealer of Weights and Measures,
Salary Expenses
Moth Extermination,
Salary
Expenses
Tree Warden Department,
Salary
Expenses
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Health Department,
Salaries and expenses
Inspector of Animals,
Inspector of Milk,
Inspector of Slaughtering,
Employment of health nurse,
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Election and Registration,
Forest Fires,
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HIGHWAYS
Highway Surveyor's salary,
General maintenance and repairs,
New construction,
Sidewalks, etc.,
Snow removal,
Street Lights,
Street Signs,
CHARITIES AND SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
Overseers of the Poor, salaries and expenses
Almshouse, salaries and expenses
Outside Relief (including Medical Attendance on Poor, Poor out of Almshouse, Poor of Other Towns, Moth- ers' Aid) State Aid, Military Aid, Soldiers' Relief,
SCHOOLS
Salaries and expenses (including Conveyance of Pupils, employment of school nurse, etc.)
Special Appropriations
TURNER LIBRARY 1
Repairs,
UNCLASSIFIED
Memorial Day,
Care of Clock in First Congregational Church,
Printing and Distributing Town Reports,
Claims- (land damages, etc.),
Insurance, Fire
Workmen's Compensation
Other items
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Water Department,
Joint Account
Maintenance
New Construction
Main Extensions
Service Construction
Holbrook-Braintree water
rates
Other items
MATURING DEBT AND INTEREST
Maturing Debt, Interest: general reserve
RESERVE ACCOUNT
In accordance with Section 6, Chapter 40, General Laws.
Article 8. To see if the Town will create a Reserve Fund for extraordinary or unforeseen emergencies as per Section 6, Chapter 40, General Laws, and raise and appro- priate money therefor. (Recommended by State Exam- iner.)
Section 6, Chapter 40. "To provide for extraord- inary or unforeseen expenditures, a town may at an annual town meeting appropriate a sum not exceeding five per cent of the tax levy of the preceding year, to be known as the reserve fund. No direct drafts against this fund shall be made, but transfers from the fund may from time to time be voted by the finance or appropriation committee of the town, in towns hay- ing such a committee, and in other towns by the selectmen; and the town accountant in towns having
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such an official, and in other towns the auditor or board of auditors, shall make such transfers accord- ingly."
Article 9. To see if the Town will adopt a by-law providing for the appointment of a Finance Committee to control the Reserve Fund, as per Section 16, Chapter 39, General Laws, and appoint such Committee there- under. (Recommended by State Examiner.)
Section 16, Chapter 39, G. L., as amended by Chap- ter 388, Acts 1923, is as follows: "Every town whose valuation for the purpose of apportioning the state tax exceeds one million dollars shall, and any other town may, by by-law provide for the appointment and duties of appropriation, advisory or finance commit- tees, who shall consider any or all municipal questions for the purpose of making reports or recommendations to the town; and such by-laws may provide that com- mittees so appointed may continue in office for terms not exceeding three years from the date of employ- ment."
Article 10. To see if the Town will accept Section 55, Chapter 41, General Laws, and will authorize the Select- men to appoint a Town Accountant thereunder, and will raise and appropriate money for his salary. (Recom- mended by State Examiner.)
Section 55, Chapter 41. "Any town may authorize the selectmen to appoint a town accountant, who shall perform the duties and possess the powers of town auditors as defined in sections fifty to fifty-three, in- clusive. In towns so authorizing the appointment of town accountant the office of town auditor may if the town so vote, be abolished. In towns which have ac- cepted chapter thirty-one or corresponding provisions
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of earlier laws, the appointment of the town account- ant shall be subject to the civil service rules. The town accountant shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties, shall hold no other town office involv- ing the receipt or disbursement of money, shall receive such salary as the town shall vote, and shall hold office for three years and until his successor is qualified; provided, that the town clerk, if he holds no other office involving the receipt or disbursement of money, may be appointed town accountant."
Amended as follows: By Section 8 of Chapter 486 Acts 1921, "Section fifty-five of Chapter forty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the words "shall receive such salary as the town shall vote," in the tenth and eleventh lines.
Article 11. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $8,520.64 for 1926 overdrawn accounts, as follows: (Recommended by State Examiner.)
Treasurer's Bond
$61.50
Tax Collector's Bond
23.00
Assessors' Expense
29.50
Survey, Maps of Town
6.50
Police
39.97
Lock-up Expenses
7.97
Fire
103.48
Tree Warden
149.22
Gypsy Moth Extermination
14.15
Sealer of Weights and Measures
14.30
Board of Health
302.73
Inspector of Slaughtering
25.00
Highways, General
11.62
Highways, Grove and Cross Sts.
13.30
Snow Removal
908.05
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Poor of Other Towns
911.00
State Paupers
873.50
State Aid
942.00
Military Aid
140.00
Water Department:
Holbrook-Braintree "water rates"
997.06
Maintenance
1,150.40
No. Main Street
77.56
Grove Street
183.51
Interest and Discount
1,401.32
County Tax "Interest"
134.00
$8,520.64
Overpayments to be refunded:
Auditors' salaries
$30.00
Assessor's salary
98.50
Article 12. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,388.64 to cover unpaid bills of 1926 in the following Departments: (Recommended by State Examiner.)
Fire Department
$6.46
Almshouse
29.30
Health Department
122.20
Schools (Vocational)
1,726.89
Water Department
503.79
$2,388.64
Article 13. To see what action the Town will take in regard to $400 raised in excess on Article 47 (water main extension on Orchard St.) in the 1926 Town Meeting Warrant. (Recommended by State Examiner.)
Article 14. To hear and act on the report of the Town Officers.
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Article 15. To see if the Town will instruct the Select- men to appoint a Special Police Officer or Officers to en- force the laws.
Article 16. To see what action the Town will take relative to abatement of taxes and raise and appropriate money therefor.
Article 17. To see if the Town will authorize the Tax Collector to use the same means which a Town Treasurer may use when acting as Tax Collector.
Article 18. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the pay of town laborers and others hired by the day or hour.
Article 19. To hear and act on the report of any Committee and choose any committee the Town may think proper.
MISCELLANEOUS
Article 20. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the planting of public shade trees, as petitioned for by the Tree Warden, Sarah C. Belcher, Florence S. Roddan and others.
Article 21. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate money to continue the work of surveying the town and the making of maps, as petitioned for by Henry V. Morgan and James H. Hurley.
Article 22. To see what action the Town will take relative to heating, lighting and providing proper sani- tary conditions at the Tower Hill School, and raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000 for the same, as petitioned for by Frank N. French, Harold W. Macauley, Chester L. Paine and others.
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Article 23. To see if the Town will authorize the pur- chase of an automobile for the use of the Police Depart- ment and raise and appropriate money therefor, as peti- tioned for by E. J. Brady, D. F. Wilbur, Russell Tweed and others.
Article 24. To see what action the Town will take in regard to raising and appropriating money for the em- ployment of a district nurse, as provided for by Chapter 40, Section 5, General Laws, as amended by Chapter 371, Section 1, Acts of 1921.
Chapter 40, Section 5, G. L., "A town may at any town meeting appropriate money for the following purposes : ... (21) For the employment of district or other nurses; but not more than two thousand dol- lars shall be appropriated for such purpose in any year. Such appropriation may be expended by the selectmen or by the board of health when so author- ized by the selectmen."
Chapter 371, Section 1, Acts of 1921. "Section five of Chapter forty of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out sub-section twenty-one and inserting in place thereof the following:
(21) For the employment of district or other nurses."
Article 25. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate $300.00 for repairs to the clock in the spire of the First Congregational Church.
Article 26. To see what action the Town will take relative to the purchase of a Fordson Tractor, with snow plow and caterpillar equipment, as petitioned for by Wil- liam J. Carroll and others.
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Article 27. To see what action the Town will take under the provisions of the General Laws of the Com- monwealth relative to a division of the town into con- venient voting precincts, as petitioned for by Frank M. Downes, Linwood C. Brown, Ellen A. Farrell and others.
Article 28. To see what action the Town will take relative to instructing the Water Commissioners to re- vise the water rates, heretofore fixed by them, so as to effect a savings to water-takers as petitioned for by Henry V. Morgan and others.
Article 29. To see what action the Town will take relative to diverting such town water courses as are now represented as being a menace to the water supply used by the Town.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to extend the water main along Chestnut Street to the residence of John Stevenson and raise and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by John Stevenson, William H. Quigley, Charles H. Truelson and others.
Article 31. To see what action the Town will take relative to changing the contract for street lighting from the so-called "Moon-light Night Schedule" under which the streets are lighted only on moonless nights and then only for part of the night-to an "All-night basis, every night in the year," as petitioned for by Henry V. Morgan, James E. Foley, Walter L. Hickey and others.
ELECTRIC LIGHT EXTENSIONS
Article 32. To see if the Town will provide two elec- tric lights on South Street between Centre Street and the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. track (the lights to be placed
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in an advantageous position for the abuttors on said part of South St.) also provide a hydrant on the water main on South St. between Centre St. and said R. R. track, and raise and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by L. B. Sanborn, Ernest Young, James H. Hurley and others.
Article 33. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of sixty-six dollars for four (4) electric lights on Old Street between Canton and North Main Streets, as petitioned for by Albert H. Williams, L. B. Prime, Alf Hansen and others.
ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
Article 34. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,000 for the completion of the con- struction of South Street from the residence of Joseph J. McMahon to the Holbrook line, under the direction of the Highway Surveyor, as petitioned for by George Har- ris, Roger T. Perkins, Joseph J. McMahon and others.
Article 35. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,500 to complete the rebuilding of Centre St. as petitioned for by Leon E. Clifford, L. B. Sanborn, Clarence Rowe and others.
Article 36. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate $1,000 to repair Centre St., north of Union St., to Mill St., as petitioned for by George H. Mayo, John Q. Pierce, Maurice B. Elliott and others.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for repairs to Grove St. as petitioned for by Millie E. Randall, William Ludlam, John Lunt and others.
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Article 38. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,000 for continuing the repairs to Mill St. as petitioned for by Michael F. Brady, George Lohr, Walter Ballantyne, and more than 50 others.
Article 39. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,500 to rebuild the street and side- walk of Mt. Pleasant Square and drain the same, as peti- tioned for by Arthur Howard Holbrook, Talmage Mor- row, Thomas Whitty and others.
Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to repair Highland Avenue from junction with Warren Street, 1,000 feet in southerly direction, as petitioned for by Joseph W. O'Mahoney, Fred Herrick, John P. Hanley and others.
Article 41. To see what action the Town will take relative to rebuilding Lafayette Street and raise and ap- propriate the sum of $1,800 for the same, as petitioned for by Chester L. Paine, Harold W. Macauley, Frank N. French and others.
Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to finish Canton Street from where they left off to Canton Line and raise and appropriate the sum of $15,000 with like amounts each from State and County, as petitioned for by C. Wm. Gabel, Charles Beattie, William Sargent and others.
Article 43. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money to permanently construct Pond Street on the lines laid out by the County Engineer and approved by the Norfolk County Commissioners, as peti- tioned for by F. J. Schulz, Frank M. Downes, Frederick Trofatter and others.
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