Town annual report of Saugus 1947, Part 6

Author: Saugus (Mass.)
Publication date: 1947
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 184

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Voted to take Art. 104 out of order.

ART. 104. Voted to indefinitely postpone. 9:43 P. M.

Voted to take up Article 106 out of order.

ART. 106. Voted: That the sum of $7,000 be and the same is

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hereby appropriated for Chapter 90 construction; said sum to be used only in conjunction with State and County funds, and said sum to be transferred from the Post-War Rehabilitation fund, and expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen. 10:15 P. M.

Voted to take Article 107 out of order.

ART. 107. Voted to indefinitely postpone. 10:16 P. M.

Voted to take Article 105 out of order.

ART. 105. Voted: That the matter be referred to the Board of Selectmen. 10:18 P. M.

Voted to take Article 101 out of order.

ART. 101. Voted: to indefinitely postpone the matter. 10:20 P. M.

Voted to take up Article 54 out of order.

ART. 54. Voted to lay on the table. 10:21 P. M.

ART. 3. Voted: That this article be referred to a committee of three members to be appointed by the Moderator, one to be a member of the Finance Committee, one to be a member of the Planning Board and the third to be the superintendent of Public Works; that this com- mittee be authorized to add and appoint to it five other citizens for the purpose of making an investigation and bringing in a report in refer- ence to the acceptance of the street betterment act at the next Annual Town Meeting. 10:30 P. M.

Mrs. Dorothy Estabrook gave notice of reconsideration of Art. 107. .

ART. 4 Voted to refer to the committee named under Art. 3. 10:31 P. M.

ART. 5. Voted to refer to committee named under Art. 3. 10:34 P. M. ART. 6. Voted to refer to committee named under Art. 3. 10:35 P. M. ART. 7. Voted for refer to committee named under Art. 3. 10:35 P. M. ART. 8. Referred to committee named under Art. 3. 10:351/2 P. M. ART. 9. Referred to committee named under Art. 3. 10:36 P. M. ART. 10. Referred to committee named under Art. 3. 10:361/2 P. M. ART. 11. Referred to committee named under Art. 3. 10:37 P. M. ART. 12. Referred to committee named under Art. 3. 10:371% P. M. Voted to refer Articles 13, 14, 15, and 16 to the committee named under Art. 3. 10:38 P. M.

ART. 17. Voted: That the Town accept Hobson Street in accord- ance with plan and profile on file with the Town Clerk. 10:381/2 P. M.

Voted to refer Articles 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 to the committee named under Article 3. 10:39 P. M.

ART. 35. Voted: That the Town accept Tuttle Street in accordance with Plan and profile on file with the Town Clerk. 10:44 P. M.

Voted to refer Articles 36 through 45 to the committee named under Article 3. 10:45 P. M.

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ART. 46. Voted to indefinitely postpone. 10:46 P. M.

Voted to refer Articles 47, 48 and 49 to the committee named under Article 3. 10:47 P. M.

ART. 52. Voted to indifinitely postpone. 10:48 P. M.

ART. 53. Voted to indefinitely postpone. 10:481/2 P. M.

ART. 55. Voted to lay on the table. 10:49 P. M.

ART. 60. Pending before the meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:04 P. M. until Monday, April 7, 1947 at 8 P. M.

4 Attest :

VIOLA G. WILSON, Town Clerk.

Adjourned Annual Town Meeting Special Town Meeting April 7, 1947 APRIL 7, 1947

The Adjourned Annual Town Meeting was called to order at 8 P.M. by Laurence F. Davis, Moderator.

There were 129 present, representing a quorum.

The invocation was given by Rev. McDuffee.

The salute to the flag was given.

The reading of the records was waived by unanimous consent.

Voted to recess the adjourned Annual Town Meeting until the Moderator shall call it together again.

The Special Town Meeting was called to order at 8:07 P. M.

The reading of the warrant was dispensed with.

ART. 1. Motion was made to refer the matter of a Town Manager Form of Government to a committee. The motion was lost on a roll call vote.

Roll Call Vote on Motion to Refer Town Manager Form of Government to a Committee

Pearl E. Belonga Yes

Frank F. Berthold No

Albert C. Day No

Lewis O. Gray No

Frank B. Newhall No

Gordon C. Marr

Ellery E. Metcalf No

George L. Pearce

Alan F. Sawyer No

Harry F. Wentworth No

Bertrand D. Westendarp No

Howard W. Bassett Yes

Walter D. Blossom Yes

Robert F. Griffin Yes

E. Elmer Day No

Henry A. Mccullough No Stanley W. Day Yes

C. Carroll Cunningham Yes

Harold W. Humphrey No

Thomas D. Morse No

John L. Silver Yes

Elmer H. Watson No

Henry H. Calderwood No

Archie C. Cheever No

Charles C. DeFronzo No

George H. Durgin Yes

Elmer R. Emmett .No

Welcome W. Mccullough

A true copy.

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Henry A. B. Peckham .No

W. Charles Sellick Yes

Jesse H. Brown

Earle N. Dudman

Frank Evans, 3rd

Daniel Flynn

Helen L. Meader Yes

Russell R. Peterson No

Olive Stevens

Lawrence J. Lunt Yes

Frank W. Cloudman

Yes

Harold W. Anderson Yes

Kenneth J. Barnes

No

James T. Como

Bartholomew L. Creedon Yes

Alexander S. McCarrier

Yes

Albert J. Moylan No

John J. Sandilands

Yes

Arthur Franklin Spinney Yes

Leon C. Young

No

H. Warren Butler

No

Arthur Dearing Yes

Leroy C. Furbush

Walter I. Hanson No

Charles M. O'Connor

Joseph R. Rossetti

Harold I. Wilkinson No

Thomas F. Quinlan

Nels A. Bloom Yes

Andrew M. Chabra

Yes

Dorothy Drewniany No

Edward R. Galante

George F. Gosselin No

Anthony Grella Frederick J. C. Price, Jr.

George F. Price

Yes

Rupert K. Stewart

No

Arthur L. White No

Gordon H. Baker

Hubert B. Connolly Yes

Frank J. Drewniany No

Floyd Flower

No

Cornelius J. McHugh Yes

Ernest G. Mitchell . No

Frank L. Perry Yes

George W. Pitman

Yes

John E. Wood

George M. Connell No

Vernon W. Evans Yes

Frank A. Green Yes

Milton E. French Yes

Paul F. Neal Yes

Samuel E. Rice

George E. Robinson No

Harold R. Searles No

Henry Seaver

Reginald Hutton

Mary F. Banks

William C. Banks

Paul Corson

No

Robert L. Davis No

Paul A. Haley

No

Roger C. Rice

.No

Fred C. Smith No

John A. Taylor Yes

Alfred H. Woodward Yes

Newell V. Bartlett

Milton W. Chambers Yes

Wilmer H. Churchill No

William Irby No

Anna V. Jacobs Yes

Walter F. Neal . No

Roy L. Smith

Yes

Mabel C. Willey Yes

Virginia E. Woodward Yes

Gustave A. Anderson Yes

Edward Gibbs, Jr. .No

Charles C. Holt Yes

Harry B. Lancaster No

Horace C. Ramsdell No

Harold P. Rice No

Waldo B. Russell No

James O. Smith . No

Joseph A. White Yes

Paul E. Baldwin . No

Oren O. Bentley Yes

Samuel K. Brown No

Richard Downes No

Francis M. Leander

Stanley B. Harmon

Richard Merrill No

Otto F. Persson No

George E. Pool, Jr. No

F. Dudley Bacon

Joseph Bucherie Yes

Frank H. Chickering No

R. Alfred Delfugo No

Charles W. Donovan Yes

Hollis E. Hogle, Jr. No

Edwin M. Thompson .No

Nathan H. Mallar No

Robert O. Ballard Yes

Roswell W. Abbott No

Francis W. Comey Yes

George B. Dixon Yes

E. Florence Evans

Clement C. Fearns Yes

Chester P. Gibson No

Arthur L. Hawkes Yes

Howard W. Morse .No

A. Willard Moses Yes

Stanley Anderson

Carl E. Chapman No

Charles E. Daniels Yes

William A. Diamond Yes

Edward M. Down Yes

Edward J. Oljey

Yes

N. Jessie O'Neil

Frank L. Platt

Benjamin A. Ramsdell No

Harold E. Welch .No

Philip R. Albee

Yes

James W. Currier

No

Robert C. Davis

Phyllis E. Dodge

Yes

Harold P. Hutchins

No

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Charles S. James Yes

Edwin M. Holmes Yes

David J. Lucey Yes

Melbourne Macleod Yes

Fred W. Mckay No

Stanley L. Murphy . Yes

Edward J. O'Neil Yes

William H. Newhall, Jr. Yes

Ralph H. Sweetser

No

Lawrence R. O'Connor No

Washington L. Bryer Yes

Joseph Oljey Yes

John J. Bucchiere Yes

Agnes B. Dodge Yes

Ralph M. Phillips Yes

Frank Evans, Jr. Yes

Ernest D. Redman

. No

Paul J. Hayes

Yes

Richard H. Stevens Yes

W. Ernest Light

Yes

Donald Walker Yes

Albion R. Rice

Yes

Frank C. Rice

William H. Robinson No

Howard E. Shattuck Yes

Raymond P. Clark . Yes

Nathaniel Diamond Yes

Oscar O. Nygaard No

Ruth P. Sheldon No

Warren O. Sheldon .No

Emmett R. Nichols No

Harold Smiledge

Llyod H. Taylor No

Benjamin Vatcher

Harry A. White Yes

George O. Walker Yes

J. Lowell Goding Yes

Giles S. Bryer

Herman G. Bunker No

Earle W. Cousens . No

Gustaf E. Dahlen

Dorothy Shorey Estabrook No

Susie A. Dahlen

Delmont E. Goding Yes

Laurence F. Davis Yes

M. Edward Hayes Yes

Arthur E. Gustafson

No

Albion L. Hogan

Yes

Harriett A. McAdoo

No

Chester S. Nickerson

. No

Charles H. Popp Yes

Arthur W. Price

Alexander S. Addison No

Frederick Bancroft Willis No

Napoleon B. Corthell . No

Frederick J. England

No

Harold E. Dodge

No

Ernest M. Hatch Yes

Albert R. Magee

Clarence S. Kenerson No

James P. Sullivan Yes

George H. Mason Yes

John W. White Yes

Charles B. McDuffee Yes

William S. Oliver Yes

Laurence E. Richardson . No

Joseph F. Gillis Yes

Total

Yes, 97 Nos, 99

Vote on original motion:

Motion: That the town vote to instruct its representatives in the General Court to petition said General Court forthwith for legislation to require that the question of acceptance of Chapter 17 of the Acts of 1947 be submitted by ballot to the voters of the town at a special town election which shall be called by the selectmen and held within 30 (thirty) days after the passage of such legislation, and to provide that said chapter shall take effect if a majority of the voters voting on said question at said election votes in the affirmative, irrespective of the number of voters voting thereon. Yeas, 114; Nays, 56. 11:09 P. M.

The count was doubted at 11:0912 P. M.

Voted to adjourn the Special Town Meeting of April 7, 1947 until 8 P. M. next Monday evening, April 14, 1947. 11:10 P. M.

Voted to adjourn the Annal Town Meeting until 8:15 P. M. next Monday evening. 11:11 P. M.

. No

John Lewis Martin

Dean W. Means Yes

Samuel E. Gillespie No

Howard S. Heath No

Clarence W. Howard Yes

No

John W. Allan No

A. Randall Bishop . No

Harold W. Crozier Yes

Henry P. Lewis

Hazel K. Addison No

Beatrice L. Holmes

Gilbert Wheeler Yes

William Stewart Braid No

Warren O. Chesley

Viola G. Wilson

Yes

David W. Hanson

Edward E. Berrett Yes

Charles R. Babcock Yes

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A true copy. Attest :

VIOLA G. WILSON, Town Clerk.

Adjourned Annual Town Meeting Adjourned Special Town Meeting of April 7, 1947 APRIL 14, 1947

The Adjourned Special Town Meeting was called to order at 8 P.M. by Laurence F. Davis, Moderator.

Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Howard and Mr. Clark were sworn in as tellers.

A count of the members was made and 166 were found to be present, constituting a quorum.

The invocation was given by Mr. McDuffee.

The salute to the flag was given.

The reading of the records was waived by unanimous consent.

Mr. Bucchiere served notice of reconsideration of action taken under Article 1. and moved to reconsider Article 1. Yeas 88, Nays 86.

More than 30 members requested a roll call vote on the yeas and nays on reconsideration.

A roll call was taken and the Yeas were 98 and the Nays were 98. 8:48 P.M.

Roll Call Vote on Reconsideration of Article 1

Pearl E. Belonga Yes

Frank K. Berthold

Albert C. Day No

Lewis O. Gray No

Earle N. Dudman

Gordon C. Marr No

Frank Evans, 3rd

Ellery E. Metcalf No

George L. Pearce No

Alan F. Sawyer No

Harry F. Wentworth No

Bertrand D. Westendarp .No

Howard W. Bassett No

Frank Cloudman No

Walter D. Blossom Yes

L. Elmer Day No

Stanley W. Day

C. Carroll Cunningham Yes

Harold W. Humphrey No

Thomas D. Morse No

Frank B. Newhall No

John J. Sandilands

John L. Silver Yes

Elmer H. Watson . No

Harry H. Calderwood No

Archie C. Cheever No

Charles C. DeFronzo . No

George H. Durgin Yes

Elmer R. Emmett .No

Robert F. Griffin Yes

Henry A. Mccullough No Welcome W. Mccullough

Bartholomew L. Creedon No

Alexander S. McCarrier Yes

Albert J. Moylan No

Arthur Franklin Spinney Yes

Leon C. Young Yes

H. Warren Butler No

Arthur Dearing Yes

Leroy C. Furbush

Yes

Walter I. Hanson No

Charles M. O'Connor

Joseph P. Rossetti

Harold I. Wilkinson

No

Thomas F. Quinlan

No

Henry A. B. Peckham .No

W. Charles Sellick Yes

Jesse H. Brown Yes

Daniel Flynn Yes

Helen L. Meader Yes

Russell R. Peterson .No

Olive Stevens Lawrence J. Lunt Yes

Harold W. Anderson

Kenneth J. Barnes No

James T. Como

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Nels A. Bloom Yes

Andrew M. Chabra Yes

George E. Pool, Jr. .No

Dorothy Drewniany No

F. Dudley Bacon No

Joseph Bucherie Yes

George F. Gosselin No

Anthony Grella

Frederick J. C. Price, Jr. Yes

George F. Price .Yes

Rupert K. Stewart No

Edwin M. Thompson

No

Arthur L. White

Nathan H. Mallar No

Robert O. Ballard

Yes

Hubert B. Connolly Yes

Frank J. Drewniany No

Francis W. Comey

Yes

George B. Dixon Yes

E. Florence Evans

Clement C. Fearns

Chester P. Gibson No

Arthur L. Hawkes

. Yes

Howard W. Morse No

A. Willard Moses Yes

Stanley Anderson . No

Carl E. Chapman No

Charles Daniels Yes

William A. Diamond Yes

Edward M. Down

George E. Robinson No

Harold R. Searles No

N. Jessie O'Neil

Frank L. Platt .No

Benjamin A. Ramsdell .No

Harold E. Welch

No

William C. Banks Yes

Philip R. Albee

Paul Corson

No

Robert L. Davis

No

Paul A. Haley

Roger C. Rice No

Fred C. Smith No.

John A. Taylor

Yes

Alfred H. Woodward Yes

Newell V. Bartlett Yes

Milton W. Chambers . Yes

Wilmer H. Churchill No

William Irby

No

Anna V. Jacobs Yes

Walter F. Neal No

Roy L. Smith Yes

Mabel C. Willey

Virginia E. Woodward .Yes

Gustave A. Anderson Yes

Edward Gibbs, Jr. No

Charles C. Holt . Yes

Harry B. Lancaster No

Horace C. Ramsdell No

Harold P. Rice .No

Waldo B. Russell No James O. Smith

Joseph O. White Yes

Paul E. Baldwin

No

Oren O. Bentley

Samuel K. Brown No

Richard Downes No

Francis M. Leander

Stanley B. Harmon

No

Dorothy Shorey Estabrook

No

Delmont E. Goding Yes

No

Edward J. O'Neil

Ralph H. Sweetser No

Washington L. Bryer . Yes

John J. Bucchiere Yes

Agnes B. Dodge No

Frank Evans, Jr. Yes

Yes

W. Ernest Light

Yes

Albion R. Rice Yes

Frank C. Rice No

William H. Robinson No

Howard B. Shattuck

Yes

Raymond P. Clark . No

Nathaniel Diamond Yes

Samuel E. Gillespie No

Howard C. Heath

No

Clarence W. Howard Yes

Emmett R. Nichols No

Lloyd H. Taylor No

Harry A. White No

J. Lowell Goding Yes

Hazel K. Addison No

Earle W. Cousens

Richard Merrill

Frank H. Chickering

R. Alfred Delfugo No

Charles W. Donovan

Yes

Gordon H. Baker

Roswell W. Abbott

Floyd Flower No

Cornelius J. McHugh Yes

Ernest G. Mitchell No

Frank L. Perry Yes

George W. Pitman Yes

John E. Wood

George M. Connell No

Vernon W. Evans Yes

Frank A. Green Yes

Milton E. French Yes

Paul F. Neal Yes

Samuel E. Rice No

Edward J. Oljey

Henry Seaver Yes

Reginald Hutton Yes

Mary F. Banks Yes

James W. Currier No

Robert C. Davis

Phyllis E. Dodge Yes

Harold P. Hutchins . No

Charles S. James Yes

David J. Lucey

Yes

Fred W. Mckay

Paul J. Hayes

Otto F. Persson No

Edward R. Galante

Hollis E. Hogle, Jr.

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M. Edward Hayes Yes

Henry P. Lewis . Yes.

Albion L. Hogan Yes

John Lewis Martin

Harriett A. McAdoo .No

Dean W. Means Yes

Chester S. Nickerson

No

Oscar O. Nygaard No

Gilbert Wheeler Yes

Alexander S. Addison

No

No

Harold A. Smiledge Yes

Napoleon B. Corthell

Frederick J. England

No

Ernest M. Hatch

Yes

Clarence S. Kenerson .No

Yes

Charles B. McDuffee

Yes

Susie A. Dahlen

Joseph F. Gillis Yes

Arthur E. Gustafson Yes

Melbourne Macleod Yes

Beatrice L. Holmes Yes

Stanley L. Murphy Yes

William H. Newhall, Jr. Yes

Lawrence R. O'Connor No

Frederick B. Willis

No

Joseph Oljey Yes

Warren O. Chesley

Yes:

Charles R. Babcock

Viola G. Wilson

Yes

Ralph M. Phillips Yes

Ernest D. Redman No

Albert R. Magee No

Richard H. Stevens Yes

James P. Sullivan Yes

Donald Walker Yes

John W. White Yes

John W. Allan Yes

William S. Oliver Yes

A. Randall Bishop Yes

Edward E. Berrett

Yes

Harold W. Crozier Yes

Voted to adjourn without date at 8:49 P.M.

The adjourned Annual Town Meeting was called to order at 8:491/2- P.M.

ART. 60. The previous question was moved. Yeas 97, Nays 6.

Mr. Diamond was sworn as a teller.

Notice of Hearing

ART. 60. On February 26 at 7:30 P.M. o'clock, a public hearing will be held at the office of the Planning Board, Town Hall, Saugus, Mass., in reference to the petition of the Planning Board asking to have changed the zoning ordinance and boundary lines of the zoning map at the premises starting at the Saugus-Lynnfield Line and running in a southerly direction along the Newburyport Turnpike and for a. depth of 500. feet on both the easterly and westerly sides to the junction of Main Street and the Newburyport Turnpike. Thence start- ing at the junction of Essex Street and the Newburyport Turnpike- and running in a southerly direction on the westerly side for a depth of 500 feet to the Saugus-Melrose Line, from a residence and business. zone to an industrial zone.

For the Planning Board, J. A. Meeker, Secretary

March 10, 1947.

To the Town Meeting Town Hall, Saugus, Mass.

Gentlemen: In reference to the petition of the Planning Board asking for a change in the zoning ordinance and boundary lines of the zoning map at premises Newburyport Turnpike from a Residence and Business zone to an Industrial and Business zone the Planning:

Ruth P. Sheldon Yes

Warren O. Sheldon

William Stewart Braid

Benjamin Vatcher

George O. Walker Yes

Giles S. Bryer

Herman, G. Bunker

No

George H. Mason

Gustaf A. Dahlen

Laurence E. Richardson No

Laurence F. Davis . Yes:

Edwin M. Holmes Yes

David W. Hanson No

Charles H. Popp Arthur W. Price

Yes

Harold E. Dodge No

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Board recommends that the petition be granted for depth of 300 feet. Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD E. BERRETT, Chairman JACK A. MEEKER, Secretary H. WARREN BUTLER

ART. 60. Voted: To change the Zoning By-Law and the Zoning Map of the Town of Saugus so that the following described property may hereafter be zoned for business purposes:

Starting at the Saugus-Lynnfield Line and running in a southerly direction along the Newburyport Turnpike and for a depth of three hundred (300) feet on both the easterly and westerly sides to the junction of Main Street and the Newburyport Turnpike; thence starting at the junction of Essex Street and the Newburyport Turnpike and running in a southerly direction on the westerly side for a depth of three hundred (300) feet.

Voted to take Article 55 from the table.

ART. 55. Voted to dedicate for highway purposes the parts of Lots A-3 and A-4 of Assessors' Plan 2011, shown on a plan filed herewith, said land being now town owned, so as to provide a connec- tion between Raddin Terrace and Staff Road (formerly Ash Street). 9:47 P.M.

Art. 67 was taken out of order.

Notice of Hearing

ART. 67. On February 26 at 7:30 o'clock, a public hearing will be held at the office of the Planning Board, Town Hall, Saugus, Mass., in reference to the petition of Roger F. E'Sperance, Byrant St., Saugus, Mass., asking to have changed the zoning ordinance and boundary lines of the zoning map at the premises Lots A-138; 139, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, Plan 1008 from a single residence zone to a business zone.

For the Planning Board, J. A. Meeker, Secretary

March 10, 1947

To the Town Meeting Town Hall, Saugus, Mass.

Gentlemen:

In reference to the petition of Roger L. Esperance asking for a change in the zoning ordinance and boundary lines of the zoning map at premises Woodbury Ave. from a Single Residence zone to a Business zone the Planning Board recommends that the petition be granted.

Respectfully submitted,

EDWARD E. BERRETT, Chairman JACK A. MEEKER, Secretary H. WARREN BUTLER

ART. 67. Voted to amend the Zoning By-Laws and Zoning Map by rezoning for business purposes the property owned by Roger L'Esperance located at Woodbury Avenue and Hesper Street now zoned as single residence and described as follows:

1st Parcel. Beginning at the intersection of the Easterly line of the new County Road and the southerly line of Woodbury Avenue; thence running easterly along said Woodbury Avenue about 34.0 feet to land now zoned for business purposes; thence turning at a right angle

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and running southerly about 14.0 feet to the easterly line of said County Road; thence turning and running northwesterly by said easterly line about 38.0 feet.

2nd Parcel. Beginning at the intersection of the easterly line of the new County Road and the northerly line of Wormstead Street, thence running easterly along said Wormstead Street a distance of 74.15 feet to Hesper Street; thence turning and running northerly along said Hesper Street a distance of 94.78 feet; thence turning and running northwesterly a distance of about 127.0 feet to the easterly line of said County Road; thence turning and running southeasterly along said easterly line about 133.0 feet to point of beginning; the same being the whole of Lots 560, 561, 572, 573, 574, 575 and 576 as shown on Assessors' Plan 1008. Yeas 123, Nays 1. 9:50 P.M.

Voted to take Article 80 out of order.

ART. 80. Voted to assign Lot A-43 on Assessors' Plan 3011 to the Public Works Department, said land being located in Franklin Square and being now town owned. Unanimous. 9.53 P.M.

Voted to take Article 85 from the table.

ART. 85. Voted: That the sum of $11,891.53 be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of paying unpaid bills of the year 1946:

Selectmen

$ 12.56

Police Dept

146.68

Town Hall

130.84

Old Age Ass't Aid

31.11

Engineering

1.50

Welfare

4,288.55

Highway

1,023.34

Water Maintenance

627.81

Water Purchase

4,115.12

Street Lighting

1,514.02

$11,891.53

Unanimous. 9:55 P.M.

Mr. Mason moved to take Item 11 of Art. 108 from the table.

Voted to take Item 11 from the table.

Question of reconsideration. Previous question moved. Voted to reconsider. ITEM 11. Voted: That the sum of $8700 be and the same is hereby appropriated for Assessors' Department, including the follow- ing salaries of the Assessors' Department: $600.00 for the Chairman and $400.00 for each of the other members. No part of said sum shall be expended for the installation or maintenance of telephone service in a private dwelling. 11:10 P. M.

Voted to Adjourn until next Monday evening at 8 P.M. 10:55 P.M.

A true copy.

Attest :

VIOLA G. WILSON, Town Clerk.

ESSEX, ss.

To W. Charles Sellick, Constable of the Town of Saugus, GREETINGS:

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In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Saugus, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to assemble in the TOWN HALL on MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5, A.D., Nineteen Hundred and Forty-seven, at 8:00 o'clock, to hear and act on the following articles, viz:

Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the action of the Special Town Meeting of April 7, 1947 whereby it voted to instruct its representatives in the General Court to petition said General Court for legislation to require that the question of acceptance of Chapter 17 of the Acts of 1947 be submitted by ballot to the voters of Saugus at a Special Town Election to be called by the Selectmen and held within 30 (thirty) days after the passage of such legislation, or to see what action the Town will take in the matter agreeable to the petition of Oscar J. Couillard and others.

Article 2. To see if the town will vote to appoint an unpaid com- mittee of fifteen citizens for the purpose of reviewing the operation of the charter of the Town of Saugus and of special laws governing said town, with a view to determining the advisability or necessity of revis- ing said charter and special laws. That said committee also review the provisions of Chapter 17, Acts of 1946 known as the Town Manager Bill, Plan B City form of government and all other forms of city and town governments with a view to determining the advisability of recommend- ing any one in whole or in part. Said committee to be empowered to summons the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers. The committee shall report to the Annual Town Meeting of 1948 the results of its investigations and its recommendations if any, and shall file articles for the 1948 annual town meeting warrant necessary to carry its recommendations into effect or to see what action the town will take in the matter agreeable to the petition of Oscar J. Couillard and others.

You are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the usual places seven days, at least, before the time of holding said meeting.

Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.

Given under our hands and Town Seal this Twenty-first day of April, A.D., Nineteen Hundred and Forty-seven.

JAMES P. SULLIVAN, Chairman WILLIAM S. OLIVER JOHN W. WHITE

A true copy.

Attest:

W. CHARLES SELLICK, Constable.

April. 26 1947.

In compliance with Chapter 55 of the acts of 1928 and also with section 2 of the By-Laws of the Town of Saugus, I hereby certify that today I mailed to all Limited Town Meeting Members a printed copy of the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting of May 5, 1947.

Signed: VIOLA G. WILSON,

Town Clerk.

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TOWN DOCUMENTS

[Dec. 31

April 26, 1947.

Essex, ss.

Pursuant hereunto I have served the within Warrant as directed by posting attested copies at the several precincts at least seven days be- fore said meeting according to the By-Laws.

A true copy. Attest:

W. CHARLES SELLICK, Constable.

Adjourned Annual Town Meeting APRIL 21, 1947

The Adjourned Annual Town Meeting was called to order at 8 P. M. There were 47 members present, not a quorum.

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