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Mr. Foley moved: That Article 46 be referred to a committee of twenty-four Town Meeting Members, four members from each precinct, the precincts to select from their delegations the four and announce the names This committee to hold public hearings to ascertain the will of the citizens and the plans of the School Committee and the true cost of the High School addition .- Not carried-8:15.
The Moderator appointed the following to serve as tellers: Messrs. Harkin, Little, Simon, Bartlett, Ewart, Hale, Hitchcock and Sullivan.
On the original motion as offered by Mr. Ralph B. Woodsum, there being 135 in the affirmative and 30 in the negative, the motion was car- ried .- 8:54.
Moved: Reconsideration of Article 46 .- Not carried.
ARTICLE 2.
Mr. Palmer submitted the following report: .
FINAL REPORT OF SCHOOL SURVEY COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Braintree:
The School Survey Committee has now completed its work. Seven hundred copies of the report of the School Survey Staff together with our report have been printed and distributed to each Town Meeting member, to the School Department, to all the teachers, the Finance Committee and to other interested citizens. There are still some copies available which may be had from the secretary of the committee, Mr. Ernest Janssen.
We feel that the survey was decidedly worth while and that we are already feeling the benefits of this study and will continue to do so for some time to come.
We wish to thank all of those who have cooperated in this under- taking and now move that the committee be discharged.
MRS. GEORGE LANE HOWARD B. BLEWETT ARCHIE T. MORRISON ERNEST J. JANSSEN, Secretary RAYMOND P. PALMER, Chairman
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Moved: That the School Survey Committee be discharged .- Carried -8:58.
ARTICLE 45.
Voted: That the following sums of money be raised and appropriated for the support of the Public Schools:
Salary of Superintendent $
4,500.00
Mr. Foley moved: That the principal of job protection for any teacher or others in school departments be applied. That any or all, after return from the service of the United States will resume all their rights as before entering the service. Carried-9:01.
Other Salaries $266,950.00
Text Books and Supplies
18,000.00
Expenses and Repairs 43,850.00
Sprinkler Systems-Jonas Perkins and Monatiquot Schools 2,500.00
To be raised as follows:
From the Tax Levy $333,670 55
From the Dog Tax
2,129.45
$335,800.00
Mr. Woodsum moved: That the sum of $12,000. be raised and appro- priated as a Supplementary Budget, this to be expended as outlined by the School Committee, approximately as follows:
Alteration and Equipment $9,000.00
Materials 1,200.00
Salaries
1,800.00
$ 12,000.00
-Motion carried-9:03.
ARTICLE 47.
Voted: To set aside for school purposes as part of the Highlands School grounds, under the control of the School Committee, such portions of lots A and B, on a plan prepared by the Town Engineer, dated January 15, 1941, and on file in his office, as may be now, or hereafter, acquired by the Town through tax title foreclosure proceedings .- 9:07.
ARTICLE 48.
Voted: No action under Article 48 .- 9:10.
ARTICLE 18.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $8,000.00 for Street Light- ing.
ARTICLE 49.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the following sums of money for the Public Library:
Salaries $ 8,700.00
650.00
Janitors
6,600.00
Expenses
$
15,950.00
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SOLDIERS' BENEFITS
ARTICLE 50.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the following sums of money for Soldiers' Relief, State Aid and Military Aid:
Soldiers' Relief
Salary-Agent
$ 1,560.00
Office Expenses
200.00
Automobile Expenses
240 00
Aid to Recipients
19,000.00
$ 21,000.00
State Aid
900.00
Burials
500.00
Military Aid
1,000.00
$ 2,400.00
ARTICLE 51.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the Observ- ance of Memorial Day .- Carried 9:14.
PUBLIC WELFARE
ARTICLE 52.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the following sums of money for the Public Welfare Deparment, including Aid for Dependent Children, and Adequate Assistance to Certain Aged Persons under the provisions of Chapter 118A, Acts of 1931 :
Welfare Department Administration
Salaries, Board of Welfare
To be allocated $190.68 to each member $ 572.04
Salary, Administrator
2,380.00
Salaries of two Investigators
2,552.00
Clerk
900 00
Clerical Expense
420.00
Bookkeeper
1,526.00
Office Expenses and Supplies
1,163.00
$
9,513.04
Temporary Aid
$ 76,000 00
Aid to Dependent Children
Aid to Dependent Children Administration
Salaries, Board of Welfare 66666666666. . . . 66$ To be allocated $9.32 to each member
27.96
A.D.C. Administration
526.00 $ 553.96
Aid to Dependent Children
$ 26,000.00
Infirmary
Salary-Superintendent $ 1,200.00
Salary-Matron
300.00
Labor
901.00
Expenses
4,540.00
$ 6,941.00
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OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
Mrs. Ellsworth moved: That the Salary of the Supervisor be $2,040 .- Not carried 9:44.
Moved: That further time for discussion under Article 52 be granted Mr. Albert E. Roberts .- Not carried.
Old Age Assistance
ยท Salary of Supervisor 1,800.00
Clerk
954.00
Clerical Expense 400.00
Office Expenses 230.00
Automobile Expense-Town Car 150.00
Automobile Expense-Supervisor's Car. . 240.000
Assistance of Recipients 77,000.00
$ 80,774.00
Mr. Woodsum moved: That we take up Articles 66 and 67 at this time -Carried.
ARTICLE 66.
Mr. O'Donnell, Trustee under the will of James W. Colbert, ex- plained Article Fourteen of the will of James W. Colbert, pertaining to the bequest of $25,000.00 referred to under Article 66 of the Town Warrant.
Voted: To accept the bequest under Article Fourteen of the will of James W. Colbert providing a sum of $25,000.00 for the purpose of building a unit to the Josephine B. Colbert School .- Carried 9:50.
ARTICLE 67.
Mr. O'Donnell, Trustee under the will of James W. Colbert, explained Article Sixteen. of the will of James W. Colbert, pertaining to the bequest referred to under Article 67. He explained in detail the terms and con- ditions set forth in said will and stated the bequest would amount to approximately $35,000.00.
Voted: To accept the bequest under Article Sixteen of the will of James W. Colbert providing the residue of said estate to be used for a building, books and other equipment of a public library, to be known as the Colbert Public Library, upon the terms and conditions set forth in said will .- Unanimous vote 10:12.
MISCELLANEOUS
ARTICLE 53.
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the following sum to be expended by the Selectmen to cover the Town's share for materials, trucking, and other necessary expenditures in connection with W.P.A. Activities or other special aid projects in conjunction with State or Federal Government, except as provided in Article 20 and Article 23.
For Miscellaneous Projects and Administration-$11,000 00.
Voted: An additional appropriation of $5,000.00 to establish a fund to purchase Orange Stamps necessary for the operation of the Federal Sur- plus Marketing Administration Stamp Plan .- Carried 10:20.
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ARTICLE 54.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for Land Dam- ages, in addition to that appropriated under any other Article.
ARTICLE 55.
Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,417.80 for the pay- ment of printing and distribution of the Annual Report of the Town of Braintree for 1940 .- Carried 10:20.
ARTICLE 56.
Voted: To make the following distribution of the income of the Charles Thayer Trust Fund:
For the Dyer Hill Cemetery: To be expended under the direction of Otis. . B. Oakman and Charles S. Marshall ... $ 50.00 Thayer Public Library, for purchase of new books 225.00 Park Department
Precinct one and two $75 00
Precinct three and four 75.00 Precinct five and six 75.00 225.00
$500.00
ARTICLE 57.
Voted : To raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 for the expenses of the Planning Board.
ARTICLE 58.
Voted: No action under Article 58 .- Carried 10:22.
ARTICLE 59.
Voted: That the Town accept a bequest of $50,000.00 received under the provisions of Paragraph 3 of Article 8 of the will of the late Ellis Hol- lingsworth and that it be reserved for appropriation .- Carried 10:24.
ARTICLE 60.
Mr. Connell submitted the report of the Committee appointed under Article 75 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1940.
Moved: That there be raised and appropriated, in additin to the other sums appropriated under this article, the sum of $750.00 or the pur- chase or taking by eminent domain of a certain tract of land containing approximately 20.000 square feet of land, together with two ights of way therefrom to Washington Street, said tract being composd of the rear portion of Plots 21, 22A, 22B and 23 on Assessors' Tai No 2028, as shown on a plan prepared by the Town Engineer an- on file, at his office, for the purpose of establishing a public parking place; cald land being owned, presumably, in part by Robert F. Owen, in par'by Smiley Phar- macy, Inc., and in part by Pratt and Sims. And tha there be further raised and appropriated, in addition to the foregoing sum, the sum of $1.762.50 for filling, grading and development of / parking place on said land, making a total of $2,512.50.
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Mr. Gray moved: That Article 60 be laid on the table .- Not car- ried 10:40.
Original motion .- Carried 10:44.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $2,806.40 for the purchase or taking by eminent domain of a certain tract of land, containing approximately 22,230 square feet of land, together with two rights of way therefrom to Washington Street, said tract being composed of Plot No. 47 and a portion of Plot No. 41A on Assessors' Plan No. 1011, as shown on a plan prepared and filed with the Town Engineer for the purpose of establishing a public parking place; said land being owned, pre- sumably, in part by Roger Lakin and in part by Lizzie M. Spring and the heirs of H. Parker Hobart. And that there be further raised and appro- priated, in addition to the foregoing sum, the sum of $1,283.00 for filling, grading and development of a parking place on said land, making a total of $4,089.40 .- Carried 10:51.
Mr. Bartlett moved: That we adojurn until next Monday night, April 7, 1941, at 7:45 P.M .- Carried 10:52.
A true copy, Attest:
ERNEST C. WOODSUM, Town Clerk
Adjourned Town Meeting
Braintree, Mass, April 7, 1941.
The adjourned Annual Town Meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Wm. F. Rogers, at 7:51 P.M. There were 150 Town Meeting Members present.
ARTICLE 61.
Mr. Ernest G. Smith submitted a report on the Building Code as revised by the committee appointed by the Moderator under Article 59 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1940.
Voted: The Amendment of the By-laws by substituting for Article 11A ofthe 1925 revision, a new article to be known as Article 13A of the 1940 revision, an article to be the revised code as reported by this com- mittee tothe Town Clerk .- Unanimous vote 7:58.
Voted: That the sum of $500.00 be raised and appropriated to be expended under the direction of the committee appointed under Article 59 of the Annua Town Meeting for 1940, for advertising and publishing as requned by lay, the building code as revised by said committee .- Car- ried 7:59.
ARTICLE 2.
Voted : That committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to consider the use ald application of the Ellis Hollingsworth bequest ac- cepted by the Towy b's the vow under Article 59 of the Warrant at this Town Meeting; saif conmittee to report to the Town at the next Annual Town Meeting.
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ARTICLE 62.
Voted : That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $2,811.77, the same to be taken from the revenues of the Water Department for the year 1941, for the payment of certain bills contracted by said department prior to January 1, 1941; and that there be further appropriated the sum of $55.90 to be taken from the tax levy to meet the payment of certain bills contracted by other departments prior to January 1, 1941.
ARTICLE 63.
Voted: That the sum of $100.00 be raised and appropriated for the care and maintenance of property acquired by the Town under Tax Title Foreclosure Procedure.
ARTICLE 64.
Voted: That the Assessors be authorized and directed to use a sum not to exceed $50,000.00 from Free Cash toward the reduction of the 1941 tax rate.
ARTICLE 65.
Voted: To authorize and instruct the Selectmen and Town Treasurer to sell and convey a certain parcel of land, including approximately 56,000 feet, as shown on a plan drawn by the Town Engineer and dated January 8, 1941, to James A. Jensen upon receipt from said Jensen of a full and com- plete release of the Town from all liabilities to said Jensen on account of a taking of the County Commissioners for the widening of Liberty Street. --- Carried 8:02.
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ARTICLE 68.
Voted: That a committee be appointed to study the necessity for, and report possible locations, for the establishment of a new Highway Department Garage.
ARTICLE 70.
Voted: To amend Article 13 of the By-Laws by adding thereto the following section:
Section 18: No person or corporation shall erect or maintain a bill- board, sign or other outdoor advertising device, except as provided in Sec- tion 32 of Chapter 93 of General Laws, on any location within three hun- dred feet of any public park or playground or Metropolitan Park or Parkway, if within public view from any portion of such parks, play : grounds or parkways; or within three hundred feet of any other public way and within public view from any portion of the same, if such bill- board, sign or device exceeds five feet in height or eight feet in length, and no billboard, sign or device placed within three hundred feet of any such public way and within public view shall be nearer than fifty feet to any other such billboard, sign or device; or at the corner of any public ways and within the radius of one hundred and fifty feet from the point where the center lines of such ways intersect; or in any place unless the lowest por- tion of such billboard, sign or device is at least three feet from the ground, and the entire structure, including its braces and supports, is maintained in good repair, painted, and free from accumulation of rubbish and filth and from the pupae, eggs and caterpillars of gypsy and brown-tail moths and other tree and shrub destroying pests; provided that this section
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shall not apply to signs or other devices which advertise or indicate either the person occupying the premises in question or the business transacted thereon, or advertise the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let .- Carried 8:05.
DISAPPROVED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL JULY 18, 1941 ARTICLE 71.
Mr. Frank L. Heaney submitted the final report of the Planning Board in regard to proposed changes in the Zoning By-Law.
Voted: To amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, as follows :
1. An area bounded easterly by Quincy Avenue; northerly by the Quincy City Line; westerly by Howard and Shaw Streets; and southerly by a line parallel to and 100 feet distant from the northerly side line of Dewey Road .- From Residence B Zone to Business Zone .- Unanimous vote.
2. Voted: No action under this item .- Carried 8:07.
ARTICLE 72.
Voted: No action under Article 72 .- Carried 8:10.
ARTICLE 73.
Voted:
No action under Article 73-Carried 8:14.
ARTICLE 74.
Voted: To amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map dated May 2, 1940, by providing that the following described areas originally designated on said map as a Business District shall be a Residence B District :- the areas on both sides of Granite Street between the Town Line of Braintree and Quincy and a line formed by the northerly side- line of Chickatawbut Road and the projection thereof, said areas being 100 feet in depth except for the portion on the westerly side of Granite Street lying between said northerly sideline of Chickatawbut Road and a line 190 feet northerly thereof and parallel thereto, said portion being 180 feet in depth. Unanimous vote .- Carried 8:17.
ARTICLE 75.
Voted: No action under Article 75.
ARTICLE. 76.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $3,000.00 for the purpose of constructing, and maintaining during the current year, toilet facilities at the bathing beach at Sunset Lake, the same to be erected under the direction and control of the Selectmen, with the approval of the Water Commissioners. Carried-8:21.
ARTICLE 77.
Moved: No action under Article 77.
The Moderator appointed the following tellers: Young, Delorey, Wade, Emerson, Ewart, Hale, Hitchcock and Murphy.
On the motion for "No action under Article 77" there being 80 in the affirmative and 49 in the negative, the motion was carried.
ARTICLE 78.
Voted : No action under Article 78-Carried 8:26.
ARTICLE 79.
Voted : No action under Article 79 .- Carried 8:30.
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ARTICLE 80.
Voted : No action under Article. 80.
ARTICLE 81.
Voted : That Article 81 be referred to the Police Department.
ARTICLE 82.
Mr. Joseph W. Mulcahy submitted the report of the Spanish-Ameri- can and World War Memorial Committee.
Voted: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $4,900.00 for the purpose of purchasing and erecting a Memorial in commemora- tion of the services and sacrifices of the persons from Braintree who served in the armed forces of the United States in the Spanish-American and World Wars, to be located on the large pear-shaped plot of land at the intersection of Washington and Union Streets in South Braintree, and the said Memorial to be purchased and erected under the direction and control of the Committee appointed by the Moderator by vote of the Town under Article 68 of the Annual Town Meeting Warrant of 1937 .- Carried 8:42.
ARTICLE 83.
Voted: That a Committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to consider the matter of improving Hollis Field for Athletic purposes under a W.P.A. project or otherwise and to report at a later special or Annual Town Meeting .- Carried 8:44.
ARTICLE 84.
Voted: To authorize the Selectmen to permit the use of the Allen Street Fire Station by the Braintree Post, V.F.W, after the abandon- ment of said premises by the Fire Department, said premises to be used only at the risk and expense of said Post.
ARTICLE 85.
Voted: No action under Article 85 .- Carried 8:45.
ARTICLE 86.
Mr. Woodsum moved: No action under Article 86 .- Not carried.
Mr. Bartlett moved: That the Town appropriate $3,000.00 to pur- chase this land for Library Purposes. So voted .- Carried by an unques- tioned two-thirds vote 8:55.
Mr. Thomas Huleatt served notice for Reconsideration of Article 83.
ARTICLE 2.
Mr. Ralph B. Woodsum offered the following resolution :
It is hereby resolved that it is the sense of this meeting that the Se- lectmen shall furnish a copy of the Town Meeting warrant to the Finance Committee on or before February 1st preceeding the Annual Town Meet- ing .- Carried 8:56.
ARTICLE 22.
Voted : That we now take Article 22 from the table.
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Mr. Woodsum moved: That there be raised and appropriated the sum of $75,000.00 for the construction of additional sewers for sanitary purposes under the direction of the Sewer Commissioners, and that to meet said appropriation the sum of $2,490.08 shall be taken from sewer receipts reserved for appropriation, the sum of $4,509.92 shall be included in the tax levy of the current year, and the remaining $68,000 00 shall be raised by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town pursuant to Chapter 44 of the General Laws. The Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, is hereby authorized to issue and sell said bonds or notes, payable in ac- cordance with the provisions of Section 19 of said Chapter 44, so that the whole of said loan shall be paid within ten years from the date of the first bond or note or at such earlier date as the Treasurer, with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, may determine.
There being 120 in the affirmative and three in the negative, the mo- tion as offered by Mr. Woodsum was carried 9:07.
ARTICLE 12.
Voted: That we now take Article 12-last three items-from the table.
Mr. Woodsum moved: That the following sums of money be raised and appropriated for Health Administration:
Keeper of Dump (40 weeks) 720.00
Maintenance of Dump 150.00 Lease of Dump Land 40.80
$ 910.80
There being 33 in the affirmative and 96 in the negative, the motion was not carried.
Mr. Cavanaugh moved: That we appropriate $400.00 to buy ten acres of land in the rear of the Infirmary, belonging to Mr. Arnold, to be used for a dump .- Not carried 9:55.
Mr Woodsum moved: Reconsideration of vote taken under Article 12 on Keeper of Dump (40 weeks), Maintenance of Dump and Lease of Dump .- Carried 10:00 P.M.
Mr. Woodsum moved: That the following sums of money be raised and appropriated for Health Administration:
Keeper of Dump (40 weeks) $ 720.00
Maintenance of Dump 150.00
Lease of Dump Land . 40.80
S 910.80
So voted .- Carried 10:01.
Mr. George Anderson moved: That the sum of $500.00 be appro- priated for the purpose of Extinguishing the fire on the Union Street Dump and resurfacing it .- $100.00 to be used to extinguish the fire and $400.00 for resurfacing .- Not carried.
ARTICLE 6.
Mr. Woodsum moved: That we take Article 6 from the table .- So voted.
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Voted: That the sum of $9,500.00 be raised and appropriated for a Reserve Fund for extraordinary and unforeseen expenditures during the current year-to be raised as follows:
Total from Tax Levy $ 5,655.30 From Overlay Reserve 3,844.70
9,500.00
ARTICLE 2.
Moved: That this Town Meeting accept the report of the Com- mittee on Standardized Purchase Order Forms as presented last year, further study has shown that the same conditions existed during 1940 as outlined in this report for the previous year.
Be it further resolved that inasmuch as the Legislature saw fit to postpone action on your petition to set-up and operate a Controller's Department in the Town of Braintree, and that your Committee has given freely of its time on both of the above Motions since March, 1938, it is hereby resolved that this Committee be relieved of its duties .- So voted.
Mr. Cavanaugh moved: That the Selectmen be instructed to make overtures with the owners of land as is described in Article 72 to buy whole or part of said land for the Town and report at the next Annual Town Meeting .- Not carried 10:10.
Mr. Huleatt moved : Reconsideration of Article 83 .- Not carried.
Appropriations to be raised by taxation $1,116,572.37
Appropriations not in tax levy 442,852.13 Total Appropriations $1,559,424.50
Moved: That the Annual Town Meeting be adjourned .- So voted 10:16.
A true copy, Attest:
ERNEST C. WOODSUM, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Braintree.
Greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified to vote as Town Meeting members, to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree, on Monday, the eighteenth day of August, 1941, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely:
Article 1. To hear and act on the report of the Committee appointed under authority of the vote on Article 46, Annual Town Meeting, 1941.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appro- priate a sum or sums of money to be used, together with any other avail- able funds, for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, and equipping an addition to the High School; and to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums, in accordance with the provisions of any general or special acts authorizing the Town to borrow for said purpose; or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 3 To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, to be expended by the Board of Sewer Commissioners for House Connections, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the remaining balance of the sums appropriated for Sewer Department W.P.A. Activi- ties to the Sewer Department 1941 Sewer Construction Account, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 5. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer, for the necessary expenses of equipping and maintaining the State Guard Reserve Company in Braintree, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 6. To see what sum or sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, in addition to funds already appropriated for this purpose, for the construction of a building for toilet facilities at the bathing beach at Sunset Lake, or take any other action relative thereto.
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Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the abandon- ment of that portion of the location of Allen Street which is now covered by a portion of the structure of the house located at No. 4 Allen Street, that being a strip of land varying in width from one to two feet, and thirty feet in length, on the southerly side of said location, by the Select- men; and further authorize the Selectmen to convey said land by deed to Edward T. Dwyer for the sum of $1.00; or take any other action rela- tive thereto.
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