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Also to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this Town ?"
The polls shall be opened at five forty-five o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at one o'clock p. m.
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You are further directed to notify and warn said in- habitants qualified to vote as aforesaid to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree on Monday, the ninth day of March, 1914, at seven and one-half o'clock in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To choose all other Town Officers except those elected by ballot.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Article 4. To see if the Town will hold its Treasurer harmless on his bond from any loss which may arise from the failure of any National Bank or Trust Company in which the funds of the Town may be on deposit, said Bank or Trust Company being designated by the Selectmen.
Article 5. To hear and act upon the reports of the sev- eral boards of Town Officers and of any committee, and to choose any committee the Town may think proper.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT.
Article 6. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries of the Town Officers and the expenses of the several departments, includ- ing the bond of the Town Treasurer.
Article 7. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of Registration and Elections.
TOWN HALL.
Article 8. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support and mainte- nance of the Town Hall, and for the services of a Janitor.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Article 9. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for its Police and for the neces- sary expenses required for the enforcement of the law.
Article 10. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of Court expenses.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Article 11. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support and mainte- nance of the Fire Department, and for hydrant service.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for extra pay of firemen on the 30-cents-per-hour basis.
Article 13. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money for the purchase of new hose.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of additional fire apparatus.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to build a concrete platform at Hose House No. 2, Hollis Avenue.
Article 16. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support and mainte- nance of the Fire Alarm System.
INSPECTION.
Article 17. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Sealing of Weights and Measures.
FORESTRY.
Article 18. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths, Care of Trees and Forest Fires.
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HEALTH.
Article 19. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the salaries and expenses of the Board of Health, including contagious diseases ; also for Vital Statistics and for the Inspection of Milk, Animals, Slaughtering and Provisions and Plumbing.
SANITATION.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to build a drain in Hobart Avenue and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
HIGHWAYS.
Article 21. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Highway Department, repairs of highways, town ways and bridges, also for repairs and building sidewalks, stone roads, removal of snow, watering and oiling streets, and street lighting.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for building a granolithic sidewalk from South Braintree village to Braintree village, or as much of such sidewalk as said appropriation will com- plete.
Article 23. To see if the Town will accept the laying out of the southerly end of Jersey Avenue and Hunt Avenue, so- called, as a town way as made by the Selectmen and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay out a town way from Robinson Avenue to Mt. Vernon Street, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
CHARITIES.
Article 25. To see what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the support of the Poor and the maintenance of the Braintree Home.
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SOLDIERS' BENEFITS.
Article 26. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of State Aid and Soldiers' Burials, Military Aid and Soldiers' Relief.
EDUCATION.
Article 27. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Public Schools and for transferring pupils to and from same.
' Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise the maximum salary of the grade teachers to $700, and raise and appropriate the sum of $1600 for the same.
LIBRARY.
Article 29. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Thayer Public Library, and for the distribution of books.
RECREATION.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money to be expended on the Town Lands.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $500 to be expended on the Hollis Playground.
UNCLASSIFIED.
'Article 32. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Miscellaneous Expenses.
Article 33. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the abatement of taxes.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to assist Post 87, G. A. R., in defraying expenses Memorial Day:
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT.
Article 35. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for street lighting.
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Article 36. To see if the Town will appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department, the sum of. forty-five hundred eighty-three and 94-100 ($4,583.94) dol- lars for the Depreciation Fund; the sum of six hundred sixty ($660.00) dollars for interest on bonds; the sum of four hun- dred thirty ($430.00) dollars for the Sinking Fund; the sum of three hundred sixty-five and 6-100 ($365.06) dollars for street light extensions, and the sum of three hundred ($300.00) for the salaries of the Municipal Light Board. .
Article 37. To see if the Town will appropriate the re- mainder of the income of the Electric Light Department, to- gether with the remaining balance of the income of 1913, for operating expenses, repairs, renewals and new construction.
Article 38. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money to extend the street lights on French Avenue to Union Street.
Article 39. To see if the Town will raise and appro- priate a sum of money to extend the street lights on Commer- cial Street to the Quincy, line.
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Article 40. To see if the Town will raise and appropri- ate the sum of $4,000 for extending the water main from the Holbrook line (Pine Street) down Liberty Street to a point near the house of Samuel F. Hawes.
Article 41. To see what action the Town will take to al- low Boating and Canoeing on Sunset Lake.
CEMETERY.
Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended on the Plain Street Cemetery.
INTEREST. MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS.
Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the
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payments due on the Municipal Indebtedness and for the pay- ment of Interest on Town Debt and on loans in anticipation of revenue.
Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to borrow a sum not to exceed $20,000 to pay two notes of $10,000 each, dated March 7, 1874, now demand notes outstanding, or act on any- thing relating thereto.
SINKING FUNDS.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary for the Electric Light and Water Loan Sinking Funds.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to charge inter- est on all unpaid taxes after a certain date.
Article 47. To see if the Town will petition the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for an audit of the accounts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910 and amendments thereto.
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay out as town ways, Elmwood Avenue, Sumner Avenue and Sumner Street, also the parts of Academy Street and Hobart Avenue, west of Tremont Street.
Article 49. To see what action the Town will take un- der Chapter 751 of the Acts of 1911, known as the workmen's compensation act, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
Article 50. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay out as a town way Dewey Road, so-called, leading from Quincy Avenue to Shaw Street, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the same.
You are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof in three public places in each precinct in said Town of Braintree, seven days at least before said second day
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of March, 1914, and by publishing the same once in the Braintree Observer-Reporter and Braintree Bee.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk before the twenty-fifth day of February, 1914.
Given. under our hands at Braintree this second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.
ALBION C. DRINKWATER, HENRY M. STORM, B. HERBERT WOODSUM, Selectmen of Braintree.
HORACE F. HUNT, Constable of Braintree.
A true copy. Attest :
Braintree, February 2, 1914.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I hereby notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as therein expressed, to meet at the time and place for the pur- poses therein mentioned.
HORACE F. HUNT, Constable of Braintree.
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INDEX
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Animal Inspector's Report
174
Assessors' Report
65
Auditors' Report
146
Births in 1913 45
Board of Health, Report of 197
Braintree School Fund 141
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Building Regulations, Report of Committee on 182
Deaths in 1913 58
Dog License Account
44
Electric Depreciation Fund
141
Electric Light Department, Report of 241
Fire Department, Report of 172
French Trust 138
Funded Debt of the Town
143
Hunt Trust 137
44
Inspectors' of Plumbing
201
Insurance Account
251
Jury List
257
Library, Report of Trustees of Thayer
228
Marriages in 1913
51
Municipal Light Board
140
Penniman Trust
139
Police Department 202
Recapitulation 121
Receipts and Payments 78
Hunters' License Account
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School Committee, Report of
153
School Fund
141
Sealer of Weights and Measures
177
Selectmen, Report of
63
Shade Tree and Moth Department 252
Sinking Funds Account
133
Superintendent of Schools, Report of 158
Tax Collector's Account 126
Town Clerk's Report 3
Town House Building Committee, Report of 235
Town Officers 254
Town Treasurer's Report 127
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting of 1914 260
Water Commissioners, Report of 207
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