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Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to lay a sewer in Paradise road from the manhole at Banks road northeasterly to Franklin avenue and in Franklin avenue from Paradise road to a point near the end of the present sewer in Franklin avenue, a distance of approximately 1,400 feet, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by J. C. Pearson, et als.
Art. 23. To see if the town will vote to lay a 12-inch pipe for the drainage of Orchard circle, with necessary manholes and catch basins, and appropriate money for same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Art. 24. To see if the town will vote to extend King's brook cul- vert, so-called, from its present terminus to Superior street, and ap- propriate money for the same, as petitioned for by John Dalferro, et als.
Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to continue the reconstruc- tion of Essex street with cement from the end of the cement road, near the cemetery in Swampscott, to the Salem line, and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Art. 26. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appropriation of money for permanent street construction.
Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to resurface Middlesex avenue with bituminous macadam from and including the intersection with Norfolk avenue to Burrill street and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 28. To see if the town will vote to resurface Palmer avenue, from Humphrey street to Atlantic avenue, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Herbert A. Johnson, et als.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $700 to change lines and grades and build catch basins at the junction of Humphrey and Redington streets, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Art. 30. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2,000 for street signs, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Art. 31. To see if the town will vote to build a catch basin at the southerly corner of Atlantic avenue and Palmer road, connecting with the drain in said road, and appropriate money for the same, as rec- ommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
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Art. 32. To see if the town will vote to remove the ledge on Buena Vista street to a line corresponding with the street line, so that the full width of the roadway will be available for traffic, as already laid out and accepted by the town, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Harold W. Doughty, et als.
Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to purchase for use of the Highway Department, a crawler tractor of not over 5-ton weight and having a standard maximum engine capacity of not less than 55 H.P .; together with a suitable all-steel, one-man snow plow to fit same and appropriate money for the same in a sum not exceeding $6,000, as petitioned for by Edward A. Terhune, Jr., et als.
Art. 34. To see if the town will vote to rescind the vote under Article 25 of the warrant for the annual town meeting held February 16, 1925, whereby the sum of $975 was appropriated to purchase an open express body automobile for the use of the Surveyor of High- ways.
Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to purchase an automobile for the use of the Surveyor of Highways in connection with his duties, and to appropriate money therefor.
Art. 36. To see if the town will appropriate a sufficient sum of money to permit the moving of furniture from the Hadley school to the annex connected therewith, and to permit also the purchase and installation of new furniture for use in said annex, as recommended by the School Committee.
Art. 37. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee of three voters to serve with the School Committee to investigate the school needs of the Palmer school district, and to appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the School Committee.
Art. 38. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1,100 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 fundamental principles of government and other subjects adapted to it for American citizenship," in accordance with the pro- visions of Sections 9 and 10 of Chapter 69 of the General Laws, and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, as recommended by the School Committee.
Art. 39. To see if the town will vote to increase the membership of the School Committee from three members to five members as recommended by Howard B. Aborn, et als.
Art. 40. To see if the town will vote to accept Neighborhood road, Nason road and a part of Orchard road, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Isabelle D. Nason, et als.
Art. 41. To see if the town will vote to accept Atlantic road, Puritan Park and Puritan avenue as shown on a plan approved by
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the Board of Survey, June 6, 1924, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Charles D. C. Moore, et als.
Art. 42. To see if the town will vote to accept Erie street, from Pine street to the Lynn line, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 43. To see if the town will vote to accept that part of Fuller avenue not yet accepted, namely, from Bond street to Forest avenue, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Dorothy A. Bamforth, et als.
Art. 44. To see if the town will vote to accept the way known as Banks circle, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Edward J. Garity, et als.
Art. 45. To see if the town will vote to accept Fuller terrace, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Archibald Miller, et als.
Art. 46. To see if the town will vote to accept Shelton road and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Pasquale Grieco, et als.
Art. 47. To see if the town will vote to lay a sidewalk with curb- stone on the westerly side of Paradise road, from Franklin avenue to Norfolk avenue, to protect the citizens from the danger of traffic on Paradise road, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Everett C. Sinclair, et als.
Art. 48. To see if the town will vote to lay a curbstone on the south-easterly side of Atlantic avenue for a distance of approximately 450 feet, opposite the A. W. Preston estate, and appropriatae money for the same, as petitioned for by Frances E. Preston, et als.
Art. 49. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint an Inspector of Wires, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 50. To see if the town will vote to convey to Wilfred J. Fournier a lot of land numbered 33 on the old plan of Windsor avenue, as petitioned for by Wilfred J. Fournier, et als.
Art. 51. To see if the town will vote to pay James Cogswell, et als., the same price per square foot for land on Capen road, taken for cemetery purposes, as the town paid recently to James Callahan, et als., for land adjacent for a similar purpose, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Frank Cogswell, et als.
Art. 52. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $2,000 to provide band concerts during the summer of 1926, the arrangements for the concerts to be in charge of the Park Commission, as petitioned for by Earl W. Ellis, et als.
Art. 53. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $200 for the use of the American Legion on Memorial Day, as peti- tioned for by Philip R. Babcock, et als.
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Art. 54. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to settle any claim of Joseph Fittingoff for the taking of property by eminent domain at the easterly corner of Redington street and Hum- phrey street, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 55. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell or remove the old Morris house, so-called, on land owned by the town adjoining the Town Hall, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 56. To see if the town will vote to pay to the American Gas Accumulator Company, of Elizabeth, N. J., the sum of $201.49 in full settlement of their invoice dated February 6, 1925, for replacement of traffic beacon furnished the town to replace beacon damaged while in operation at the junction of Paradise road and Burrill street, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 57. To see if the town will vote to establish the following scale of salaries for the permanent officers and men of the Fire De- partment to date from January 1, 1926: Chief, $2,360 per year; Dep- uty Chief, $2,160 per year; Captains, $2,100 per year; Privates, first year, $1,800 per year, second year, $1,900 per year, third year and thereafter, $2,000 per year, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Edward T. Brown, et als.
Art. 58. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to report at the next annual town meeting on the advisability of a pro- posed celebration of the 75th anniversary of the incorporation of the town in the year 1927, as petitioned for by Stuart P. Ellis, et als.
Art. 59. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $1,000 for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of American Independence on July 4th next, as petitioned for by Alfred F. Frazier, et als.
Art. 60. To see if the town will vote to enlarge the garage at the Police Station and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 61. To see if the town will vote to amend the zoning by-law so as to allow the use of the premises on Cedar Hill terrace, owned by Connell & McDermott, as shown on Assessors' map, Plate 19, Lot 101, for business purposes, as petitioned for by John Connell, et als.
Art. 62. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to study the advisability of adopting the plan of limited or repre- sentative town meetings, as petitioned for by Henry A. Sadler, et als.
Art. 63. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the dedication of the German war guns, as petitioned for by Leon E. Abbott Post, 57, American Legion.
Art. 64. To see if the town will vote to limit and establish the amount of explosives that may be stored within the limits of the town, as petitioned for by Clara F. Nies, et als.
Art. 65. To see if the town will vote to set the amount of bonds for all persons using explosives within its limits and regulate the same, as petitioned for by Clara F. Nies, et als.
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Art. 66. To see if the town will accept a grant of a strip of land bordering on Puritan road, now a part of the so-called Puritan Manor property, for the purpose of widening said road in accordance with plans made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 67. To see if the town will vote to rescind the votes under Articles 47, 48 and 52 of the warrant for the annual town meeting held February 16, 1925, whereby the sum of $750 was appropriated to lay a water main in Magnolia road, $2,400 to lay a water main in Orchard, Nason and Neighborhood roads and $1,000 to lay a water main in Oceanview road and to rescind the vote under Article 7 of the warrant for the special town meeting held April 7, 1925, whereby the sum of $950 was appropriated to lay a water main in Puritan Park, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Commissioners.
Art. 68. To see if the town will vote to rescind the votes under Article 71 of the warrant for the annual town meeting held February 16, 1925, whereby the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, was authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed $4,150 for the pur- pose of laying six-inch water mains in Magnolia road at a cost not to exceed $750; in Orchard, Nason and Neighborhood roads at a cost not to exceed $2,400, and in Oceanview road at a cost not to exceed $1,000; also to rescind the vote under Article 11 of the warrant for the special town meeting held April 7, 1925, whereby the Treasurer was authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed $950 for the purpose of laying a six-inch water main in Puritan Park, all as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Commissioners.
Art. 69. 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 6 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 at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-second day of January, in the year 1926.
HARRY D. LINSCOTT, PHILIP W. BLOOD, R. WYER GREENE, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest: FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
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