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Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to amend Article III of the "Revised By-Laws of the Town of Braintree, Massachusetts, 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 Section 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, Massachusetts, 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 per- formance of his duties, shall enter upon the premises of another or up- on any public property with the intention of peeping into the windows of a house or other building, or of spying in any manner upon any per- son 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
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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 a 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 des- ignated 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 ap- propriate 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 au- thorize 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 pur- poses, 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 bor- · row 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 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-inch main on West Street, or take any action relative thereto.
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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 exclu- sive control of the Sewer Commissioners a parcel of land on Cleveland Avenue and Union Street between the Monatiquot River and Cleveland Avenue now held by the Town, on tax title foreclosure proceedings, described as follows: Plots 1 and 2, Plan 2018, on file in the Assessors 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 Commissioners.
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 warrant for the year 1946 Annual Town Meeting, and that said sum, together with the income from sales of electricity to private consumers or for cur- rent 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 expenses of the Plant for the fiscal year, as defined in Section 57, Chapter 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 plant 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 ($125,000) 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 authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sums, in accordance with the pro- visions of any general or special acts authorizing the Town to borrow for said purpose; or take any other 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 ($1,000,000), to be used, together with any other available funds, for the purpose of constructing, furnishing, and equipping two Junior High Schools and for the purchase or 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 or special acts authorizing the Town to borrow for said purpose; or to take any 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 pro- poses to lay out and construct through the North and East parts of the Town.
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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 rela- tive 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 feet or take any action relative thereto.
Article 36. ON PETITION. To see if the Town will vote to accept 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 ac- cept as and for a Town Way, St. Michael Road to end, approximately 525 feet; 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 feet; as laid out by the Selectmen; and to appro- priate 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 improvement 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 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 feet easterly from Vine- dale 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.
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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 feet 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 bathhouse at Sunset Lake, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 50. To see what sums in addition to those heretofore 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 Septem- ber 15, 1946, and designated the Department which shall be respon- sible 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 equipping a building for a new Public Library and to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow all or any part of said sum, in accordance with any General or Special Act authorizing 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 con- crete bleachers with locker rooms at the Hollis Field.
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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 Braintree Post
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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 dur- ing 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 memo- rial 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 ap- propriate 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 Postwar 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 the 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.
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.
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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 in- struct the Moderator to appoint a committee of five (5) to look into the possibility of an airport to be located in Braintree; said committee to report to the next annual Town Meeting with recommendations 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 Selectmen to furnish labor from various town departments to any organization 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 appro- priated 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.
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, Mass., February 8, 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, Mass., March 1, 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 articles, 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 approximately 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.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Milton Road from present line of acceptance to proposed Hammond Road for a distance of approximately 870 feet, more or less, as laid out by the Selectmen; and to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the s'ame, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept as and for a Town Way, Virginia Road from Milton Road to Washington Street a distance of approximately 280 feet, more or less, 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 attest- ed 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 suc- cessive 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 twenty-seventh 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
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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 there- 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
Town Election
Braintree, Mass., March 4, 1946.
In accordance with the foregoing Warrant, the voters assembled in their respective Precincts to cast their ballots for the several Town Officers, also to vote for ninety Town Meeting Members.
The polls were opened in all precincts at eight o'clock in the fore- noon and were closed at eight o'clock in the evening.
The following Election Officers served:
PRECINCT ONE-Warden, Frank M. O'Rourke; Deputy Warden, Lena J. Whitman; Clerk, Grace E. Scott; Constable, Patrick L. Dalton; Catherine O'Rourke, C. Warren Barry, John M. Sullivan, Ellen V. Tyler, Harry W. Lindsay, William J. Hughes, Edna M. Ingmanson, Raymond J. Brickley.
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