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Section 3. "The Selectmen shall annually, not less than seven days before the annual meeting, cause copies of the town report to be distributed to tax payers at the Town Hall."
Art. 42. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand three hundred thirty-five ($1,335.00) dollars to permit the School Committee to give "instruction in the use of English for adults unable to speak, read or write the same, and in the fundamen- tal principles of government and other subjects adapted to fit for American citizenship," in accordance with the provisions of Sections 9 and 10 in Chapter 69 of the General Laws and Acts in amend- ment thereof and in addition thereto, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 43. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of five thousand nine hundred sixty ($5,960) dollars, to permit the School Committee to secure equipment for and give instruction in Industrial Training at the Swampscott High School, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 44. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take by right of eminent domain for public school pur- poses and to appropriate money for the same a certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon in Swampscott bounded and de- scribed as follows: Beginning at a point at the southwesterly corner thereof at land of the town of Swampscott now occupied by the Hadley School, so called, and land now or formerly of the First Methodist Episcopal Society; thence, northerly by said land of said town 51 feet more or less to a point; thence, easterly approximately at right angles 69 feet more or less to a point; thence, southerly ap- proximately at right angles 51 feet more or less to a point at land of said Methodist Society; thence, westerly approximately at right angles by land of said society 69 feet more or less to the point of beginning, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 45. To see if the town will vote to accept and adopt the rec- ommendations in the report of the Special Committee appointed by the Moderator by virtue of a vote of the town at the adjourned an- nual town meeting of 1924 and appropriate money for the carrying out of the same, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 46. To see if the town will vote to determine a site and erect thereon a public school building and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 47. To see if the town will vote to extend a six (6") inch water main in Magnolia road, a distance of one hundred and eight (108) feet and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 48. To see if the town will vote to lay a six (6") inch water main in Orchard, Nason and Neighborhood roads, a distance of about eight hundred and fifty (850) feet and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 49. To see if the town will vote to extend the sewer through Sargent and Aspen roads, a distance of about nine hundred and sev- enty (970) feet, and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 50. To see if the town will vote to expend the balance left from Stacey brook appropriation to extend Kings Brook culvert as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
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Art. 51. To see if the town will vote to transfer from Excess and Deficiency the sum of four thousand six hundred eighty-three dollars and forty-three cents ($4,683.43), overdrawn appropriations, and carried forward to 1925 by authority of the Department of Cor- porations and Taxation, Division of Accounts.
Art. 52. To see if the town will vote to lay water pipe in Ocean View road, from Sargent road to a point approximately 500 feet east and appropriate money for the same, when said street conforms to line and grade approved by the Board of Survey, as petitioned for by Ernest M. Folger, et als.
Art. 53. To see if the town will vote to build a sewer in Ocean View road from Sargent road to a point approximately 500 feet east and appropriate money for the same, when said street conforms to line and grade approved by the Board of Survey, as petitioned for by Ernest M. Folger, et als.
Art. 54. To see if the town will vote to build a sewer in Pleasant street for a distance of about 300 feet and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by John F. Finnegan, et als.
Art. 55. To see if the town will lay a water main from Essex street as far as Over Hill road on Greenway street, for a distance of about 900 feet, when said street conforms to line and grade approved by the Board of Survey, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Franklin H. Keating, et als.
Art. 56. To see if the town will vote to rescind the vote on Art. 27 at the adjourned annual town meeting of April 3, 1923, appropri- ating twenty-nine hundred ($2,900) dollars for sidewalks and curbing on the north side of Humphrey street from Phillips Beach station to Forest avenue and to transfer the twenty-nine hundred ($2,900) dol- lars appropriated for that purpose to general revenue, as petitioned for by C. Irving Porter, et als.
Art. 57. To see what action the town will take in reconsideration of the vote on that part of Article 17 of the adjourned annual town meeting of April 8, 1924, appropriating six thousand ($6,000) dollars to resurface Humphrey street, as petitioned for by C. Irving Porter, et als.
Art. 58. To see if the town will vote to establish a graduated salary scale for privates in the Police Department, as petitioned for by C. Irving Porter, et als.
Art. 59. To see if the town will instruct the moderator to appoint a committee, not exceeding five in number, to study the by-laws of the town, make such recommendations as they deem for the best interests of the town, relative to amending or revising the same, and make a report, with their recommendations, not later than the next annual town meeting, as recommended by the Board of Select- men.
Art. 60. To see if the town will accept the following by-laws:
Sec. 1. Every roof hereafter constructed in the town of Swamp- scott shall be covered with a fire resistive roof covering satisfactory to the Inspector of Buildings.
Sec. 2. Whenever a roof covering is hereafter replaced in whole or in part the new roof covering shall be of fire resistive material satisfactory to the said inspector.
Sec. 3. All new gutters or renewed gutters shall be metal, or wood, lined with sheet copper and fastened with copper nails, as pe- titioned for by Harry E. Hardy, et als.
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Art. 61. To see if the town will vote to rescind the action taken at a special meeting held April 8, 1924, wherein it is alleged to have accepted Zoning By-laws for the town of Swampscott as petitioned for by Martin E. Nies, et als.
Art. 62. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to revise and amend the said alleged Zoning By-laws and report at an adjourned or special town meeting as petitioned for by Martin E. Nies, et als.
Art. 63. To see if the town will accept Section 3 of Chapter one hundred and forty-three (143) of the General Laws of Massachu- setts, which section is as follows:
Every city, except Boston, and every town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws may, for the prevention of fire and the preser- vation of life, health and morals, by ordinances, or by-laws consistent with law and applicable throughout the whole or any defined part of its territory, regulate the inspec- tion, materials, construction, alteration, repair, height, area, location and use of buildings and other structures within its limits, except such as are owned or occupied by the United States or by the Commonwealth, and except bridges, quays, and wharves, and may prescribe penalties not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars for every violation of such ordi- nances or by-laws, as petitioned for by Harry Edwards, et als.
Art. 64. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars for the purpose of furnishing light and heat and water for the American Legion Headquarters for the year 1925 as petitioned for by E. Stanley Flagg, et als.
Art. 65. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars for the purpose of conducting a series of band concerts during the summer of 1925 for the enjoyment of the townspeople, as petitioned for by E. Stanley Flagg, et als.
Art. 66. To see if the town will vote to widen the easterly corner of Ellis road and Hampden street and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for by the Board of Selectmen.
Art. 67. To see if the town will vote to accept Hemenway road, so called, as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town En- gineer, dated January 30, 1925, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Rocco Zuchero, et als.
Art. 68. To see if the town will vote to accept that portion of Buena Vista street now unaccepted as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated February, 1921, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by C. Sanford Doughty, et als.
Art. 69. To see if the town will vote to accept Essex terrace, ac- cording to plans approved by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and appropriate one hundred ($100) dollars for the same as petitioned for by George D. R. Durkee, et als.
Art. 70. To see if the town will construct a sidewalk on the easterly side of Puritan road from the entrance of Galloupe's Point to the entrance of Little's Point and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Herbert E. Gale, et als.
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Art. 71. To appropriate and raise by borrowing, under any gen- eral or special law which authorizes the town to borrow money, or otherwise, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
The polls will be closed at 8 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Post Offices and three other public and conspicuous places in the town, seven days before the day ap- pointed for said meeting. *
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, as the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this thirtieth day of January, in the year 1925,
FRANK E. MORRISON, JOHN F. LUTHER, NORMAN S. DILLINGHAM, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest: FRANK H. BRADFORD,
Constable.
Return on the Warrant
Pursuant to the within warrant to me directed, I have notified the legal voters of Swampscott, by posting attested copies of said war- rant at the Town Hall, Post Offices and three other public and conspic- uous places in Swampscott, on Saturday, February 7, 1925, the posting of said notices being at least seven days before the time of said meeting.
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
Annual Town Meeting, February 16, 1925
In accordance with the foregoing warrant the voters of the town assembled at the voting places in the several precincts, and were called to order at 12 o'clock noon, by the presiding officer. The warrant calling the meeting was read, with the return thereon.
The following were qualified as precinct officers:
Precinct 1-Warden, Harry E. Cahoon (R); Clerk, Robert B. Hegarty (D); Inspectors, William P. Norcross (R), Charles E. Mel- zard (D); Tellers, Frank W. Goodwin (R), Martha F. Duren (R), Alexander Wallace, Jr. (R), Horace R. Parker (R), E. Stanley Flagg (R), Philip B. Warnock (R), Edmund Young, Jr. (R), Charles H. Carroll (D), Chester Lowe (D).
Precinct 2-Warden, Anthony A. Lyons (D); Clerk, Herman E. Story (R); Inspectors, Frank G. Melvin (D), Victor Girardin (R); Tellers, William K. Kehoe (R), George Ledbury (D), John Merchant (R), William H. Gowell (R), Harold C. Snow (R), William P. Bergin (D), Timothy J. Ryan (D), John A. Finnegan (D), Mark Taylor (R), Walter L. Kehoe (R), Arthur C. Eaton (R), Stuart P. Ellis (R), Leo P. Caproni (R), John A. Carroll (D), Irving Curtis (R).
Precinct 3-Warden, William J. Lynch (D); Clerk, William C. Chatman (R); Inspectors, Edward Hoar (D), Ellen Q. Lynch (D); Tellers, Robert L. McNamara (R), Olive E. Flagg (R), John T. Scheurin (D), Louise Miller (D).
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The balloting was started at 12 o'clock M., the count starting at 6 o'clock P.M. There were cast in Precinct 1, 943; Precinct 2, 1177; Precinct 3, 224. Total vote, 2344.
The result of balloting was declared at 11.30 P.M. as follows:
For Moderator:
Pre. 1
Pre. 2 Pre. 3
Total
Kendall A. Sanderson, elected
713
918
184
1,815
Blanks
230
259
40
529
For Town Clerk:
Ralph D. Merritt, elected Blanks
218
258
44
520
For Selectmen:
Harry D. Linscott, elected
589
938
173
1,700
Philip W. Blood, elected
593
911
181
1,685
R. Wyer Greene, elected Howard B. Aborn
243
268
70
581
Julius A. Ulman
322
186
41
549
Samuel K. Walker
256
267
26
549
Edward J. Connelly
160
150
40
350
Alfred B. Jones
179
94
10
283
Blanks
131
121
19
271
For Treasurer:
James W. Libby, elected Blanks
214
233
37
484
For Assessor, three years:
704
903
182
1,789
John B. Earp, elected Blanks
239
274
42
555
For Collector of Taxes:
Philip E. Bessom, elected Blanks
216
234
31
481
For School Committee, three years:
John Vannevar, elected
422
572
84
1,078
Frederic S. Hall
364
459
117
940
Blanks
157
146
23
326
For Overseer of the Poor, three years:
Joseph F. Crowell, elected Blanks
238
276
45
559
For Board of Health, three years:
Harold H. Bartol, elected
711
877
182
1,770
Blanks
·
.
232
300
42
574
For Water and Sewerage Board, three years:
George D. R. Durkee, elected
682
842
176
1,700
Blanks
261
335
48
644
For Park Commissioner, three years:
James T. Lyons, elected
667
799
160
1,626
James J. Finnegan
123
196
35
354
Blanks
153
182
29
364
For Trustee Public Library, three years:
Elihu Thomson, elected
710
921
183
1,814
Blanks
233
256
41
530
·
705
901
179
1,785
727
943
193
1,863
729
944
187
1,860
725
919
180
1,824
356
596
112
1,064
.
·
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For Tree Warden:
Everett P. Mudge, elected Blanks
.
734
893
187
1,814
209
284
37
530
For Constables:
Willis E. Shephard, elected
641
892
178
1,711
Frank H. Bradford, elected
·
649
824
166
1,639
George J. Place, elected
622
798
157
1,577
Blanks
917
1,017
171
2,105
For Commissioner of Trust Funds, for three years:
Weston K. Lewis, elected
5
1
6
Scattering
37
4
41
Blanks
943
1,135
219
2,297
License Question:
Yes
226
240
70
536
No
483
666
102
1,251
Blanks
234
271
52
557
Adjourned:
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT,
Town Clerk.
Adjourned Annual Town Meeting, February 17, 1925
In accordance with the warrant the voters assembled at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, February 17, 1925. The meeting was called to order by Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator, the necessary number of voters being present.
Voted, to dispense with the reading of the records of the last meeting.
Voted: All articles of the warrant calling for appropriations, ex- cept Articles 9 and 13, be referred to the Finance Committee.
The report of the Finance Committee on Articles 9 and 13 was read by Charles I. Porter, Chairman.
Report of Finance Committee
On Articles 9 and 13 of the warrant of the Annual Town Meeting of 1925
Article 9. To see if the town will authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money, from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning Jan- uary 1, 1925, and to issue a note or notes thereof, payable within one year, the debt or debts incurred thereby to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
We recommend that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, be and hereby is, authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1925, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under any vote in consequence of this recommendation to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
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Article 13. With reference to that part of Article 13 on page 155 of the town report reading as follows: We recommend that the un- expended balances from appropriations for Millett road and Orchard road sewers, amounting to $6,709.24 and the unexpended balances from appropriations from the Emergency Fund for Essex street and Banks road sewers, amounting to $856.88, be transferred to the Emergency Fund under usual conditions.
Through error the amount reading $6,709.24 should read $6,909.24.
We recommend that the unexpended balances from appropriations for Millett road and Orchard road sewers, amounting to $6,909.24, and the unexpended balances from appropriations from the Emergency Fund for Essex street and Banks road sewer, amounting to $856.88, be transferred to the Sewer Emergency Fund under usual conditions.
CHARLES I. PORTER, Chairman, MAURICE YOZELL, WILL B. ANDERSON, JAMES C. SOUTTER, HENRY A. SADLER,
Finance Committee.
Voted, Article 9. To accept the report and adopt the recommen- dation of the Finance Committee as follows:
That the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is, authorized to borrow money from time to time, in antici- pation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1925, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under any vote in consequence of this recommendation to be paid from the revenue of said financial year. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 13. To accept the report and adopt the recommenda- tions of the Finance Committee, in reference to that part of Article 13 on page 155 of the Town Report as follows: That the unexpended balances from Millett road and Orchard road sewers, amounting to $6,909.24, and the unexpended balances from appropriations from the Emergency Fund for Essex street and Banks road sewers amounting to $856.88, be transferred to Sewer Emergency Fund, under usual conditions. (Unanimous.)
Voted, Article 40. That the town amend the Zoning By-laws so as to change the lot at the northeasterly corner of Essex street and Belmont avenue, from a residential locality, as now designated on Zoning map described in Article 6 of the Zoning by-laws, to a business locality, and that said change be indicated in solid black on said map as provided in said by-laws for business localities. (Adopted, unan- imous vote.)
Voted, Article 41. That the town not adopt this article. .
Voted, Article 59. That the town adopt this article.
Voted, Article 60. That this article be referred to the Committee under Article 59.
Voted, Article 61. That Article be amended "to refer" instead of "to rescind" to the committee under Article 59, on motion of Mr. Baldwin.
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Voted to refer Article 61 to committee under Article 59.
Voted, Article 62. To be indefinitely postponed.
Voted, Article 63. Be referred to committee under Article 59.
Voted, that when we adjourn it be to Tuesday evening, April 7, 1925, at 7.45 o'clock.
Voted to adjourn at 9.50 P. M.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
Assistant Tax Collector, February 20, 1925
Ralph D. Merritt was appointed Assistant Tax Collector, by Philip E. Bessom, and qualified for the office.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk. .
Amendment to Zoning By-Laws
"That the town amend the Zoning by-laws so as to change the lot at the northeasterly corner of Essex street and Belmont avenue from a residential locality, as now designated on Zoning map described in Article 6 of the Zoning by-laws, to a business locality, and that said change be indicated in solid black on said map as provided in said by-law, for business localities."
Boston, Mass., March 9, 1925.
The foregoing by-law is hereby approved.
JAY R. BENTON, Attorney General.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
Assistant Town Clerk, March 20, 1925
Nina C. Merritt appointed Assistant Town Clerk, by Town Clerk, and qualified for the office.
Attest: RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
Warrant for Special Town Meeting, Tuesday, April 7, 1925 ESSEX, SS
To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott in said County, GREETINGS:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are di- rected to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, quali- fied to vote in elections and in town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, in said Swampscott, on Tuesday, the seventh day of April, at 7.30 P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz .:
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Article 1. To see if the town will vote to appropriate money re- ceived from Essex County on account of the Tuberculosis Hospital District, the war bonus fund, so-called, and any other sum of money, to the payment of the loan issued in anticipation of the serial loan authorized to pay the amount assessed on the town of Swampscott as its proportionate part of the cost of the Essex County Tuberculo- sis Hospital, or to take any action relative thereto.
Article 2. To see if the town will vote to place the care of the Soldiers' Monument lot, at the junction of Humphrey and Burrill streets, in the hands of the Park Commission, and appropriate the sum of fifty dollars ($50), for such care.
Article 3. To see if the town will vote to build a drain through land formerly of James P. M. S. Pitman, connecting the basin on Essex street with the culvert under the Boston & Maine R. R., and appropriate eight hundred and fifty dollars ($850) for the same as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 4. To see what action, if any, the town will take relative to the building on the property adjoining the Town Hall and com- monly known as "The Morris Estate" as petitioned for by C. W. Horton et al.
Article 5. To see if the town will vote to accept Magnolia road as shown on a plan by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated Dec., 1916, a copy of which is filed with the Town Clerk, Feb. 3, 1917, and accepted by the Selectmen Feb. 2, 1917, as petitioned for by Charles E. Restall et al.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to amend Section 1 of Chapter 2 of the By-laws by striking out the said section and sub- stituting the following:
Section 1. The annual town meeting shall be held on the third Monday in February in each year. For the election of officers, polls shall be open at 6 o'clock in the forenoon and shall remain open until 6 o'clock at night. After the declaration of votes for officers the meeting shall adjourn to the Tuesday next thereafter at 7.45 P.M., when the remaining articles of the warrant shall be acted upon.
Article 7. To see if the town will vote to lay a 6 inch water main in Puritan Park for a distance of 500 feet, under the usual conditions, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by the Water and Sewerage Commissioners.
Article 8. To see if the town, for the purpose of providing suit- able quarters for Leon E. Abbott Post 57 of The American Legion, will lease, under the provisions of Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1923, the building owned by Leon E. Abbott Post 57, American Legion Building Association, at the corner of Burrill street and Thomas road, Swampscott, and appropriate money therefor, and will adopt regulations in connection therewith as provided by said Act.
Article 9. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3,000, the same being part of the amount returned to the town under provisions of Chapter 480 of the Acts of 1924 (An Act Providing for the Return to the Cities and Towns of Certain Surplus Funds Col- lected to Provide suitable Recognition of Those Residents of Massa- chusetts who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War with Germany) for the purpose of acquiring a suit- able memorial monument to be erected on the "World War Veterans" Soldiers' lot at the Swampscott Cemetery, and to provide for the appointment of a commission or committee to accomplish the pur- pose, as petitioned for by E. Stanley Flagg et al.
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Article 10. To see if the town will vote to build a sewer in Sar- gent road from the junction of Aspen road to the junction of Arbutus road for a distance of about 225 feet and appropriate money for the same as petitioned for by E. G. Mitchell et al.
Article 11. To appropriate and raise by borrowing, under any general or special law which authorizes the town to borrow money or otherwise, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall, Post Offices and three other public and conspicuous places in town, seven days before the day appointed for said meeting.
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