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Sewer
$28,149.81
Sewer House Connections
16,445.00
$44,594.81
Liabilities and Reserves
Apportioned Sewer Assessment Revenue:
Due in 1946
$5,893.02
Due in 1947
5,241.02
Due in 1948.
4,471.59
Due in 1949
4,382.59
Due in 1950
4,328.59
Due in 1951
3,588.00
Due in 1952
181.00
Due in 1953
32.00
Due in 1954
32.00
$28,149.81
Apportioned Sewer House Connections :
Due in 1946
3,126.00
Due in 1947
2,801.00
Due in 1948
2,437.00
Due in 1949
2,187.00
Due in 1950
1,993.00
Due in 1951
1,798.00
Due in 1952
1,018.00
Due in 1953
675.00
Due in 1954
410.00
16,445.00
$44,594.81
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Assets
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
$398,000.00
Liabilities and Reserves
Police and Fire Station Loan
391,000.00
Sewerage Loans
$398,000.00
$ 7,000.00
$398,000.00
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TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS Assets
Trust and Investment Funds,
Cash and Securities :
In Custody of Town Treasurer
$373,999.21
In Custody of Treasurer of Library Trustees
13,693.41
$387,692.62
Liabilities and Reserves
In Custody of Town Treasurer:
Charles E. French School Fund
$ 2,419.50
Ann Maria Penniman School Fund
500.00
Avis A. Thayer School Fund
500.00
James W. Colbert School Fund.
25,000.00
Nathaniel H. Hunt Library Fund
24,376.99
Charles Thayer Fund.
20,329.06
George W. Kelley Cemetery Fund
200.00
Hannah R. Hollis Cemetery Fund
100.00
Julia A. Minchin Cemetery Fund
100.00
Joseph S. Miller Cemetery Fund
123.66
Charles S. Hill Cemetery Fund .
100.00
Henry H. Musick Cemetery Fund
250.00
Postwar Rehabilitation Funds:
Hollingsworth Bequest $50,000.00
General 250,000.00
300,000.00
$373,999.21
In Custody of Treasurer of Library Trustees:
Foundation Fund
11,020.91
Caleb Stetson Library Fund.
2,500.00
Rachel R. Thayer Library Fund
172.50
13,693.41
$387.692.62
RETIREMENT SYSTEM ACCOUNTS
Assets
Municipal Contributory Retirement System Funds : Cash and Securities:
In Custody of Town Treasurer
$158,210.10
$158,210.10
Liabilities and Reserves
Annuity Savings Fund .
$ 78,114.11
Pension Accumulation Fund
74,400.92
Annuity Reserve Fund.
3,380.98
Expense Fund
340.00
Military Service Fund
1,093.80
Undistributed Income
879.69
$158,210.10
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ENÇOR LATED
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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 in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective Precincts, to wit:
Polling Place in Precinct 1-Noah Torrey School
Polling Place in Precinct 2-Town Hall
Polling Place in Precinct 3-Legion Building, Hollis Avenue
Polling Place in Precinct 4-Penniman School
Polling Place in Precinct 5-Jonas Perkins School
Polling Place in Precinct 6-Thomas Watson School
On Monday, the fourth day of March, 1946, at eight o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the Wardens of the re- spective Precincts, their votes on the official ballot for a Moderator; Town Clerk; a Town Treasurer; one Selectman for a term of three years; one member of the Board of Public Welfare for a term of three years; one member of the Board of Assessors for a term of three years; one Water Commissioner for a term of three years; one Water Commissioner for a term of one year (to fill vacancy) ; two members of the School Committee for a term of three years; one member of the Board of Health for a term of three years; one Sewer Commissioner for a term of three years; one Park Commissioner for a term of three years; a Tax Collector; a Tree Warden; two members of the Planning Board for a term of three years; two Trustees of Thayer Public Library for a term of two years; one member of the Municipal Lighting Board for a term of three years; and ninety Town Meeting Members as follows:
Thirteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 1 for a term of three years :
Two Town Meeting Members in Precinct 1 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy;
Fourteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 2 for a term of three years;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 2 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy;
Fourteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 3 for a term of three years;
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One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 3 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy;
Fourteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 4 for a term of three years;
Two Town Meeting Members in Precinct 4 for a term of two years to fill a vacancy;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 4 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy ;
Thirteen Town Meeting Members in Precinct 5 for a term of three years;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 5 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy;
Twelve Town Meeting Members in Precinct 6 for a term of three years;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 6 for a term of two years to fill a vacancy;
One Town Meeting Member in Precinct 6 for a term of one year to fill a vacancy;
Also to vote on the following question on the same ballot:
"Shall an act be passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and forty-five, entitled 'An Act rela- YES 1 tive to equal pay for men and women teachers,' NO
be in force in this town ?
The polls will be opened at eight o'clock in the forenoon and will close at eight o'clock in the evening.
You are further directed to notify and warn the said inhabitants qualified to vote as Town Meeting Members, to meet at the Town Hall in said Braintree on Monday, the eighteenth day of March, 1946, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely:
Article 1. To choose all Town Officers, except those elected by ballot.
Article 2. To hear and act upon the report of the several boards of Town Officers, and committees, and choose any committee the Town may think proper.
Article 3. 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 beginning January 1, 1946 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 the pro- visions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 4. 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 beginning January 1, 1947, and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may
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be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with the pro- visions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money for general municipal purposes under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933 as amended, or take action relative thereto.
Article 6. To see what further action, in addition to or at vari- ance with that taken at the Special Town Meeting of June 18, 1945, the Town will take upon the subject matter of a document dated June 9, 1945 entitled "Report of the Special Committee Authorized under Article 62 of the Adjourned Town Meeting held April 3, 1944, for a survey of Salary Standardization, Employment Classification, and Department Administration, with reference to employment and man- agement problems," which document was accepted by the Town as a report of said committee.
Article 7. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to cover a 15% increase in salary in excess of 1945 salaries for all Town employees, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote that the Collector of Taxes be elected for a three-year term, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 723 of the Acts of 1945 relative to the establishment of a Department of Vet- erans' Services, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 10. To see what sums the Town will raise by taxation or otherwise to pay interest and maturing debt, and for charges and expenses of the several Town Departments for the ensuing year and to appropriate the same.
Article 11. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the Braintree Post No. 1702, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, for rent of a Hall to conduct meet- ings and other functions of the Post, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to amend Article III of the "Revised By-Laws of the Town of Braintree, 1940" by striking out Section 1A as inserted by the vote under Article 61 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1944 and inserting after Section 4 of said article the following new section:
"Section 4A. The person who is most recent ex-chairman of the Finance Committee shall if no longer a member of said committee by appointment, serve as an additional member thereof during the term or successive terms of the person who succeeds him as such chairman and his presence on the committee shall in no way limit the powers and duties of the Moderator or the committee as set forth in Sections 2, 3 and 4, nor shall said sections apply to him." Or by striking out said section 1A.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to amend Article XIII of the "Revised By-Laws of the Town of Braintree, 1940" by inserting after Section 12 of said Article the following new section:
"Section 12A. No person, except an officer of the law in the performance of his duties, shall enter upon the premises of another or upon any public property with the intention of peeping into the
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windows of a house or other building, or of spying in any manner upon any person or persons therein."
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to choose a committee to make a survey of and examine into so much of the existing by-laws of the Town as deals with zoning, so-called, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to defray the expenses of such committee, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Comprehensive Study of Drainage Problems within the Town, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map, dated May 2, 1940, by providing that the following described area, originally designated on said map as Resi- dence C District, shall be a Business District; the area on the east side of Washington Street, 75 feet north of President Road, described as the Hill Lot, running in a northerly direction about 126 feet and bounded on the north by land of Catherine K. Brown about 215 feet and on the east by land of Old Colony R. R. 125 feet, south by land of Leopold M. and Della M. Fontana, Mabelle B. Warren, Alfred B. Davis and Adolph S. Danielson 290 feet to Washington Street; or take any action relative thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map, dated May 2, 1940, by providing that Washington Street from Capen's Bridge to Plain Street originally designated on said map as various business and residence districts, shall be a business district, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 18. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for the maintenance and operation of the Water Department, the same to be taken from the revenue of the Department, and the unexpended balance of 1945, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 19. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to appropriate from the income of the Water Department for the salaries of the Water Commissioners.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing a booster station and elevated storage tank and laying water mains at Braintree Highlands and authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow all or any part of the said sum in accordance with the pro- visions of any General or Special Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of replacing the present steam pump at the Great Pond Pumping Station with a centrifugal pump; install an Altitude Valve at the West Street Standpipe and provide pumps and appurtenances for a booster station at Braintree' Highlands and authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow all or any part of the said sum in accordance with the provision of any General or Special Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such purposes or take any action relative thereto.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of improving the water system by laying and relaying water mains of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter; and authorize the Selectmen to borrow all or any part of the said sum in accordance with the provision of
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any General or Special Act authorizing the Town to borrow for such purposes or take any action relative thereto.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to revoke any further or existing right of the Water Commissioners to borrow for the laying of a water main from Great Pond Pumping Station to the 12" main on West Street, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise 'or borrow and appropriate any sum or sums of money, to be expended by the Board of Sewer Commissioners, for the construction of sewers for sanitary purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to place under the ex- clusive control of the Sewer Commissioners a parcel of land on Cleve- land Avenue and Union Street between the Monatiquot River and Cleveland Avenue now held by the Town, on tax title foreclosure pro- ceedings, described as follows: Plots 1 and 2, Plan 2018 on file in the Assessor's Office, containing approximately 3.11 acres and 0.87 acres, respectively, a total of 3.98 acres of land, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department, the sum of three hundred forty-five dollars ($345.00), for the salaries of the Electric Light Com- missioners.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to include in the tax levy for electricity used for street lighting, the sum of eighty-five hundred dollars ($8500) as appropriated under Article 10 of the war- rant for the year 1946 Annual Town Meeting, and that said sum to- gether with the income from sales of electricity to private consumers or for current supplied to Municipal Buildings or for Municipal power, and from the sales of appliances and jobbing during the current fiscal year to be appropriated for the use of the Municipal Light Plant the whole to be expended under the direction and control of the Municipal Light Board for repairs, renewals, new construction and operating ex- penses of the Plant for the fiscal year; as defined in Section 57, Chap- ter 164,General Laws and that if said income shall exceed the expense for the fiscal year such amount of excess as is deemed necessary by the Municipal Light Board shall be transferred to the construction fund of said plan and appropriated and shall be used for such additions to the plant as may thereafter be authorized by the Municipal Light Board and any remaining amount shall be returned to the Town Treasury.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate a sum or sums of money not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in addition to funds already provided, for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, and equipping an addition to the High School, and renovating the present building; and to author- ize 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 pur- pose; or take any action relative thereto.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate a sum or sums of money not to exceed one million dollars, to be used, together with any other available funds, for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, and equipping two Junior High Schools and for the purpose of taking by eminent domain of land or lands upon which one or both of said schools may be erected; 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
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or special acts authorizing the Town to borrow for said purpose; or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 30. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to secure an architect to draw plans and specifications for a new Highway Garage, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 31. To see what action the Town will take upon the matter of the Express Highway which the Department of Public Works proposes to layout and construct through the North and East parts of the Town.
Article 32. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to purchase, take by eminent domain, or lease land in the vicinity of Norfolk Square, in that part of the Town known as East Braintree, for a Parking Place and for the improvement of such parking place if purchased, taken or leased, or take any action rel- ative thereto.
Article 33. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the elimination of ragweed and poison ivy from public ways in the Town and land adjacent thereto, or take any action relative thereto.
Article. 34. To see if the Town will accept a proposed gift from the Smelt Brook Merchants Association as a contribution toward the improvement and maintenance of a Parking Place in the East part of Town and appropriate the amount of such gift for that purpose.
Article 35. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the construction of a drain from the middle of property at 121 Elliott Street to the Smelt Brook, approximately 50', or take any action relative thereto.
Article 36. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to ac- cept as and for a Town Way, Thayer Road, East Braintree, so-called; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 37. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Wayne Avenue from Logan Road to St. Michael Road; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 38. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, St. Michael Road to end, approximately 525'; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 39. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Torrey Road from Hoover Road to end, approximately 350'; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 40. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Lakeside Drive, so-called; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improve- ment of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Walnut Street from present point of acceptance to Lake- side Drive; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of
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money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 42. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Trefton Drive, 220' easterly from Vinedale Road; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 43. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Newton Avenue, so-called, from present point of acceptance to Bickford Road; as laid out by the Selectmen and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a sidewalk on Colby Road from Ellsmore Terrace to Ellsmore Terrace, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a sidewalk on the north side of Marshall Street to Hamilton Street, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a sidewalk on the west side of Hamilton Street to Miller Street, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 47. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a sidewalk on Hawthorn Road from Home Park Road, a distance of 300' more or less to the north property line of 142 Hawthorn Road, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of a sidewalk and curbing on the south side of Academy Street from Tremont to Washington Streets, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 49. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to provide adequate sewage for the proposed bath- house at Sunset Lake, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 50. To see what sums in addition to those heretofor ap- propriated, the Town will raise and appropriate for the construction of a comfort station at Sunset Lake, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of chlorinating that portion of Sunset Lake comprising the bathing area between June 1, 1946 and Sep- tember 15, 1946 and designate the Department which shall be re- sponsible for the expenditure of such appropriation, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 52. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to acquire by gift, purchase or eminent domain, a lot of land on the northwesterly corner of Central Avenue and Washington Street, for the purpose of constructing thereon a public library and appropriate a sum of money for said purchase or take any action relative thereto.
Article 53. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, and equip- ping a building for a new Public Library and to authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part
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of said sum, in accordance with any General or Special Act author- izing the Town to borrow money for such purposes, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 54. ON PETITION. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the erection of permanent concrete bleachers with locker rooms at the Hollis Field.
Article 55. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) for Memorial Day observance expenses of the Braintree Post, V.F.W., No. 1702, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 56. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept the conveyance of a lot of land on Railroad Avenue, so-called in that part of Braintree known as South Braintree, from the Brain- tree Post No. 1702 V.F.W. Building Association, Inc., and raise and appropriate such sums of money, by borrowing or otherwise, as may be necessary for the erection of a Veterans of Foreign Wars Building thereon as a memorial to those who gave their lives in the Armed Services during the second World War, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 57. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate by borrowing or otherwise, a sum of money for the purpose of erecting a Veterans of Foreign Wars Building as a memorial to those who gave their lives in the Armed Services during the second World War, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 58. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to appropriate for the purpose of creating a stabilization fund under the authority of Section 5B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws.
Article 58A. To see if the Town will vote to use all or part of the Postwar Rehabilitation Fund established under the authority of Section 1 of Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1943 to meet appropriations voted under any of the articles of this warrant for any purpose per- mitted by said Chapter 5.
Article 59. To see what distribution the Town will vote to make of the income of the Thayer Fund.
Article 60. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to meet the payment of certain bills contracted prior to January 1, 1946, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 61. To see what action the Town will take to provide a program for post-war rehabilitation and/or reconstruction.
Article 62. To determine what amount, if any, of the balance in the Electric Light Operation account at the close of the year 1945, or what amount in the Construction account if the operation balance has been closed, shall be paid into the general funds of the Town, and what disposition shall be made of the amount so paid.
Article 63. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Assessors to use any sum or sums of money from Free Cash toward reduction of the 1946 Tax Rate.
Article 64. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for connecting with the public utilities and managing temporary war housing units for veterans, such units to be set up by the United States and for the improvement of ways giving proper access thereto, or take any action relative to providing housing. for veterans.
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Article 65. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to celebrate the return of men and women who served with any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States in World War II, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 66. ON PETITION. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the planting, setting out and upkeep of flower Plots, garden and shrubs as a Living Memorial to the men and women of the Armed Services who lost their lives in World War II, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 67. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for repairing the present Shaw Street dam over the Monatiquot River, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 68. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to build a bulkhead and public landing on the north side of the Weymouth Fore River for approximately 287 feet easterly from the Quincy Avenue bridge, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 69. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the development of Swift's Beach, so-called at the foot of Edgehill Road, or take any action relative thereto.
· Article 70. To see what sums of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for providing a lifeguard at Swift's Beach so- called, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 71. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Moderator to appoint a committee of five (5) to look into the possibility of an airport to be located in Braintree; said com- mittee to report to the next annual Town Meeting with recommen- dation, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 72. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Town Clerk to have Town reports and similar publications delivered to each Town Meeting Member.
Article 73. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men to furnish labor from various town departments to any organiza- tion in Braintree that offers to sponsor projects such as skating rinks or any projects that the Selectmen determine to be recreational for the youth of today; the sponsors to furnish all materials; the projects sponsored to be under the supervision of the Selectmen, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 74. To see what sums of money, in addition to that ap- propriated under, any other article, the Town will vote to raise or borrow and appropriate for Land Damages.
You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting true and at- tested copies thereof in one or more public places in each Voting Precinct in said Town of Braintree, ten days at least before said fourth day of March, 1946, and by publishing the same once each week for two successive weeks in the Observer, the first publication to be at least eight days before said meeting.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereto, to the Town Clerk, before said meeting.
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Given under our hands at Braintree, this first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.
HENRY D. HIGGINS, Chairman JOHN W. MAHAR, Clerk HENRY H. STORM Selectmen of the Town of Braintree
A true copy. Attest:
EDWARD D. CAHILL Constable of Braintree
Braintree, Massachusetts, February 15, 1946
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I hereby notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as expressed therein, to meet at the time and places mentioned, for the purposes therein mentioned.
EDWARD D. CAHILL Constable of Braintree
Braintree, Massachusetts, February 22, 1946 Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as expressed therein to meet at the time and places mentioned, for the purposes therein mentioned.
EDWARD D. CAHILL Constable of Braintree
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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 Greeting:
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 in Town Affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Braintree, on Monday, the eighteenth day of March, 1946, at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening, to act on the following article, namely:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Harbor Villa Avenue, so-called, for a distance of approxi- mately 508 feet from Quincy Avenue; as laid out by the Selectmen; and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the same, or take any action relative thereto.
You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting true and attested copies thereof in three public places in each voting Precinct in said Town of Braintree ten days at least before said eighteenth day of March, 1946, and by publishing the same once each week for two successive weeks in the Braintree Observer, each first publication to be at least eight days before said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk before said meeting.
Given under our hands at Braintree, this twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-six.
HENRY D. HIGGINS, Chairman, JOHN W. MAHAR, Clerk, HENRY H. STORM, Selectmen of the Town of Braintree.
A true copy. Attest:
EDWARD D. CAHILL, Constable of Braintree.
Braintree, Massachusetts, March 1, 1946.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I hereby notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as expressed therein, to meet at the time and places mentioned, for the purposes therein mentioned.
EDWARD D. CAHILL, Constable of Braintree.
Braintree, Massachusetts, March 8, 1946.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Braintree, qualified as expressed therein, to meet at the time and places mentioned, for the purposes therein mentioned.
EDWARD D. CAHILL, Constable of Braintree.
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Table of Contents
Adjourned Town Meeting
40
Aid to Dependent Children
108
Animal Inspection
107
Annual Town Election
19
Annual Town Meeting
28
Annual Town Warrant, 1945
11
Annual Town Warrant, 1946
203
Births
55
Board of Assessors, Report of.
151
Board of Health Department, Report of.
99
Braintree School Fund.
88
Building Inspector, Report of.
142
Communicable Diseases, Report of
102
Deaths
70
Department of Veterans' Services, Report of.
145
Division of Accounts.
195
Dog Licenses
149
Electric Light Department, Report of.
137
Engineering Department, Report of.
131
Fire Department, Report of
111
Fire Alarm Report.
116
Highway Department, Report of.
144
Inspector of Plumbing
107
Inspector of Slaughtering
106
Jury List, 1946
95
Marriages
61
Meat and Provision Inspection
106
Milk Inspection
110
Old Age Assistance, Report of.
146
Park Commissioners, Report of.
143
Petition for Recount
25
Police Department, Report of.
117
Public Welfare
108
Recapitulation, 1945
152, 170
Report of Selectmen
3
School Dental Clinic
104, 105
School Department, Report of.
75
Sewer Commissioner, Report of.
133
Soldiers' Relief
104
Special Town Meeting
27,50
Table of Aggregates.
155
Tax Collectors' Report.
157
Thayer Public Library, Report of
89
Town Accountant, Report of.
165
Town Clerk, Report of.
11
Town Infirmary, Report of.
109
Town Officers for 1945
5
Town Treasurer's Report.
161
Tree Warden's Report.
147
Visiting Nurses Association, Report of ..
103
Warrant for Special Town Meeting, 1945
48
Warrant for Special Town Meeting, 1946
213
Water Department, Report of
121
215
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