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Articles 5 and 6 taken up together. Voted that action under these articles be indefinitely postponed and that the Board of Selectmen cause
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to be inserted in the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting appropriate articles relating to the matter described in these articles.
Voted, Article 7. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
For the purposes specified in Articles 3 and 4 and the votes there- under, which relate to the appropriation of one hundred fifteen thousand. dollars for the erection of a public school building, that six thousand dollars thereof be raised from the tax levy of the current year in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 338 of the Acts of 1923, and. all acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed the remainder, viz: one hundred nine thousand. dollars, and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor; said bonds or notes shall be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and shall be issued payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and all acts in amend- ment thereof and in addition thereto, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years from the date of the issue of the first bond or note or at such earlier dates as the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen may determine; said bonds or notes shall be denominated on the face thereof: "Swampscott - - - School Loan 1929" and shall bear such rates of interest as may be fixed by the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen. For, 74; against, 0 .. (Unanimous.)
Voted to dissolve at 9 P. M. Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk ..
SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE
January 16, 1929.
In accordance with the vote passed at the Special Town Meeting held on the above date, the following were appointed on the Building. Committee for the new school building:
George Mitchell, from the School Committee.
Daniel F. Knowlton, from the Board of Selectmen.
John A. Waldo, from the Finance Committee. Harry E. Hardy, Building Inspector.
John E. Chatman, by the Moderator. Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk ..
APPOINTED TO FILL VACANCY
January 26, 1929. Ralph H. Nutter appointed by Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator,. on Building Committee of new Palmer School, in place of John E. Chatman, who resigned from said committee. Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
RESIGNS FROM COMMITTEE
February 4, 1929.
Resignation of George E. Mitchell, from Building Committee of new Palmer School, received on above date, as his term of office as- School Committee member expires this month, and not being a candi- date for re-election.
Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk ..
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ARTHUR M. WYMAN NAMED
February 12, 1929.
Kendall A. Sanderson, Moderator of the town of Swampscott, ap- pointed Arthur M. Wyman a member of the Building Committee for new Palmer School in place of George E. Mitchell, who resigned from said committee.
Attest:
RALPH D. MERRITT, Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING Monday, February 18th, 1929
Essex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the town of Swampscott in said County: GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the town of Swampscott, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to assemble in their respective precincts, in said Swampscott, on Monday, the eighteenth day of February, at 6 A. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz .:
At the close of the election the meeting shall adjourn to Monday, February 25, 1929, at 7:30 P. M., at the Town Hall.
Article 1. To choose a Moderator for one (1) year.
To choose a Town Clerk for one (1) year.
To choose three members of the Board of Selectmen for one (1) year.
To choose a Town Treasurer for one (1) year.
To choose one member of the Board of Assessors for three (3) years.
To choose a Collector of Taxes for one (1) year.
To choose two members of the School Committee for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the School Committee for one (1) year, to fill vacancy.
To choose one member of the Board of Public Welfare for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Health for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Water and Sewerage Board for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Park Commission for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Trustees of the Pub- lic Library for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Trustees of the Pub- lic Library for one (1) year to fill vacancy.
To choose one Tree Warden for one (1) year.
To choose three Constables for one (1) year.
To choose one member of the Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds for three (3) years.
To choose one member of the Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds for two (2) years, to fill vacancy.
To choose one member of the Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds for one (1) year, to fill vacancy.
To choose six (6) representative town meeting members in each precinct for three (3) years.
To choose one representative town meeting member from Precinct Three for two (2) years, to fill vacancy.
To choose one representative town meeting member from Precinct Four for one (1) year, to fill vacancy.
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To choose one representative town meeting member from Precinct Seven for two (2) years, to fill vacancy.
All to be chosen on one ballot.
Art. 2. To hear and act on the reports of town officials, boards and committees.
Art. 3. To see what amount of bonds will be required of the Town Clerk and Custodian of Trust Funds for the ensuing year.
Art. 4. To see what action the town will take in relation to salaries of town officials for the ensuing year.
Art. 5. 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 January 1, 1929, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, the debt or debts incurred thereby to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Art. 6. To see what action the town will take in relation to the recommendations not calling for the appropriation of money as con- tained in the annual report of the following officers, boards and com- mittees: Committee on Chief of Police, page 168; Board of Appeals, page 228; Board of Selectmen, page 210; Planning Committee, page 231; Purchasing Committee, page 232.
Art. 7. To see what action the town will take in relation to the recommendations calling for the appropriation, or expenditure of money, the creation of a debt, or the disposition of town property as set forth in the report of officers, boards, and committees in the annual report as follows: Water and Sewerage Board, page 132; Board of Health, page 136; Health Officer, page 138; Trustees of Public Library, page 151; Supt. of Cemetery, page 161; Chief of Police, page 168; Fire Engineers, page 175; Surveyor of Highways, page 179; Board of Selectmen, page 210; Stable Committee, page 233; High School Committee, page 225.
Art. 8. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appropriation of money for departmental and other expenses as recom- mended and set forth on pages 216, 217 and 218 of the annual town report.
Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to permanently surface Frank- lin avenue, from Stetson avenue to Paradise (State) road, with bitumin- ous macadam construction, in accordance with specifications approved by the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Works, and appropriate or raise money therefor, as petitioned for by Harry W. Stanley et als.
Art. 10. To see if the town will vote that sufficient money be appropriated to provide for hard surfacing Puritan avenue and Puritan Park, from Puritan road to Atlantic road, and Atlantic road from Atlantic avenue to Puritan avenue, as petitioned for by Angus H. Mac- Donald et als.
Art. 11. To see if the town will vote that Puritan road, from the westerly intersection with Humphrey street to the way to the beach at the easterly end of Whale's Beach, be reshaped and surfaced, and appro- priate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Art. 12. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appropriation or raising of money for permanent street construction.
Art. 13. To see if the town will vote to request the Board of Selectmen to change the lines of Bay View avenue and Cedar Hill terrace for the purpose of increasing the width of these ways at their northerly junction, and appropriate money therefor.
Art. 14. To see if the town will vote to blast out the ledge which extends out on the sidewalk, on the southern side of Crescent street, a distance of about 25 feet, and appropriate therefor the sum of $250.00, as petitioned for by Ernest Corrado et als.
Art. 15. To see if the town will vote to widen a section of Buena Vista street, a distance of about 300 feet, easterly, starting at a point near Crescent street, and appropriate or raise money therefor, as peti- tioned for by Ernest Corrado et als.
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Art. 16. To see if the town will vote to build a catch basin on Puritan road and drain through the way to the beach at the easterly end of Whale's Beach, for the purpose of caring for surface water on Puritan road, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Art. 17. To see if the town will vote that a catch basin be built to drain land on Cherry street, at the corner of Hillside avenue, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Art. 18. To see if the town will vote to lay a drain to care for surface drainage which accumulates on Humphrey street at and near the corner of Forest avenue, and appropriate or raise money therefor, as petitioned for by Wilmot R. Hastings et als.
Art. 19. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Surveyor of Highways to build a manhole and construct a gate in the outlet to Palmer's pond for the purpose of keeping said outlet clear, and appro- priate money therefor.
Art. 20. To see if the town will vote to lay a drain to care for surface water from Aspen road, and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 21. To see if the town will accept as a public way the follow- ing described way as located and laid out by the Board of Selectmen, and appropriate money therefor; as petitioned for by the School Con- mittee:
Beginning at a point situated on the southerly line of Orchard road. said point being the point of reverse curve; thence curving to the left with a radius of 154.70 feet, for a distance of 100.86 feet; thence running S 76-39-20 W for a distance of 30.00 feet; thence curving to the left with a radius of 200.00 feet, for a distance of 44.05 feet to the land formerly of Maria S. Hastings recently taken by eminent domain by the town of Swampscott; thence N 62-43-50 W by said land formerly of Maria S. Hastings for a distance of 59.26 feet; thence curving to the right with a radius of 250.00 feet for a distance of 90.65 feet; thence N 76-39-20 E for a distance of 30.00 feet; thence curving to the left with a radius of 24.00 feet, for a distance of 42.81 feet, to the southerly line of Orchard road; thence easterly along said southerly line, for a distance of 134.05 feet to the point of beginning.
Art. 22. To see if the town will vote to accept Lewis road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by S. Perry Congdon et als.
Art. 23. To see if the town will vote to accept Prospect avenue as laid out on a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated Jan- uary, 1929, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Ernest C. Sherburne et als.
Art. 24. To see if the town will vote to accept Nason road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, and appropriate or raise money therefor, as petitioned for by Frank E. Falkins et als.
Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to accept Cedar road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, and appropriate or raise money therefor, as petitioned for by Frank E. Falkins et als.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to accept Stanley road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by William D. Rowe et als.
Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to accept Francis road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Arthur S. Putnam et als.
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Art. 28. To see if the town will vote to accept Oceanview road as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Henry James Connell et als.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to accept Bay View Drive as laid out by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Caroline R. T. Hobbs et als.
Art. 30. To see if the town will vote to extend the trunk line sewer to Salem street and Beach Bluff avenue, approximately 5300 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sew- erage Board.
Art. 31. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer in Phillips avenue, from Estabrook road to Stanwood road, a distance of 1100 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 32. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer in Bradlee avenue and Atlantic avenue (southwesterly) from Ocean ave- nue, a distance of 1965 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recom- mended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer in Humphrey street and Ocean avenue, a distance of 450 feet, and appro- priate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 34. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer in Bristol avenue for a distance of approximately 400 feet from Stetson avenue, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer in the following named streets :- Sargent road and Prospect avenue, a distance of approximately 400 feet from Aspen road, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 36. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer in Barnstable street for a distance of approximately 225 feet from Stetson avenue, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 37. To see if the town will vote to lay sewer pipes in the way laid out by the Selectmen and described in article number twenty-one, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by the School Com- mittee.
Art. 38. To see if the town will vote to extend the King's Brook Culvert from the railroad to Essex street, a distance of 1250 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sew- erage Board.
Art. 39. To see if the town will vote to lay a six inch water main in Duke street, from Stetson avenue, a distance of about 400 feet, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by James H. Sisk et als.
Art. 40. To see if the town will vote to lay a six inch water main in Plymouth avenue from the end of the main now laid in said avenue, a distance of about 250 feet, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by James H. Sisk et als.
Art. 41. To see if the town will vote to install a water main on a new street to be known as Hoover road, for a distance of about 500 feet northerly from Forest avenue, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by F. E. Morrison et als.
Art. 42. To see if the town will vote to lay water pipes in the way laid out by the Selectmen and described in article number twenty- one of this warrant, and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by the School Committee.
Art. 43. To see if the town will vote to place a fire alarm box near the corner of Kensington lane and Lewis road and appropriate money therefor as petitioned for by S. Perry Congdon et als.
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Art. 44. To see if the town will vote to place a fire alarm box near the corner of Humphrey street and Harrison avenue and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by William J. Hayward et als.
Art. 45. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen and the Chief of Police to make a contract for the erection of a building near, or as an addition to, the present police station, with accommodations for the care and detention of persons arrested by the police department, and appropriate money therefor.
Art. 46. To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by changing from a general residence to a business district the area included between Humphrey street and the sea and Cliffside avenue and Blaney (Fisherman's) beach, so that the said area shall then be subject to the provisions of Article IV of said Zoning By-Law, as petitioned for by Ellen M. Wardwell et als.
Art. 47. To see if the town will vote to amend the Zoning By-Law by changing the word "district" to "districts" and inserting the numeral "1" and the word "and" between the word "district" and the numeral "2" wherever "district 2" appears in the Zoning By-Law, so that the By-Law as amended will then read as follows:
ARTICLE II General Residence District
In districts 1 and 2, except as herein otherwise provided no building shall be used, and no building shall be erected or altered which is in- tended or designed to be used for a store or shop, or for manufacturing or commercial purposes, or any other purpose except one or more of the following:
1. Residence for not more than two families.
2. Boarding, rooming, or lodging house.
3. Church.
4. Public school or other municipal building.
5. Private school, library, museum, or other building of an edu- cational character.
6. Club, except a club which carries on a business or is in the nature of a business.
7. Park, playground, or community purpose.
8. Farm, market garden, nursery or greenhouse.
9. Private garage to be used by the occupants or owners of the premises, except that space in the same for not more than two cars may be rented.
10. Private stable with provision for not more than two horses.
11. Such accessory purposes as are customarily incident to the foregoing purposes, and are not injurious to a neighborhood as a place of residence, but such accessory purposes shall not include any business, industry, trade, manufacturing or commercial purpose.
ARTICLE IV Business Districts
In those areas in Districts 1 and 2 and indicated on the accom- panying map in solid black, buildings may be used for business purposes provided that, in each case, after a public hearing of which fourteen days' notice shall be given in such manner as the Board of Selectmen may prescribe, said board shall determine that the purpose for which the building is sought to be used will not be substantially detrimental to the use of the property in the vicinity thereof.
ARTICLE VII Setback Distance in General Residence District
In Districts 1 and 2 no new buildings except those described in Article 4 shall be constructed and no building shall be altered, enlarged, extended, reconstructed, raised, or moved so that any part thereof, except steps, shall be located nearer than ten feet to any street line. 1 And to further amend Article I by inserting between the word viz., and the numeral 2, the following: "1. General Residence District," so that said Article I shall then read as follows:
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ARTICLE I Authorization and Division -
By virtue and in pursuance of the powers delegated by Section 25 to Section 33, inclusive, of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, the town of Swampscott is divided into the following districts, viz., 1, General Resi- dence District; 2, General Residence District; 3, Single Residence Dis- trict.
And to further amend Article VI by adding a second paragraph reading as follows: "A zoning map of district 1, prepared by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated January, 1929, bearing the signatures of the committee under whose direction the district has been laid out, is declared to be a part of this By-Law."
Art. 48. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee, con- sisting of one town meeting member from each precinct, to be named from the floor, to investigate the matter of taking of land on Black Wills Cliff, between Humphrey street and the ocean, and King's beach and Blaney's beach, for park or public purposes, with instructions to report at a later town meeting during the present year, as petitioned for by Henry S. Baldwin et als.
Art. 49. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to investigate the needs of a new Town Hall and report at the adjourned town meeting, as petitioned for by Frank E. Morrison et als.
Art. 50. To see if the town will vote to construct a vault at the Town Hall, and appropriate or raise money for the same.
Art. 51. To see if the town will vote that sufficient money be appropriated for supplying oil and employing other methods to reduce the mosquito breeding in Palmer's pond and surrounding marshes, as petitioned for by Angus H. MacDonald et als.
Art. 52. To see if the town will vote to increase the salaries of the members of the Water and Sewerage Board to the same amount as received by the Selectmen, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 53. To see if the town will vote to increase the pay of the captains in the Police Department two hundred dollars ($200) per year, and appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Edward Tillotson et als.
Art. 54. To see if the town will vote to transfer the following un- expended balances to the Emergency Sewer fund: Walker road sewer, $1,208.03; Franklin avenue sewer, $5,851.36; Fuller avenue sewer, $605.97, and Eastern Intercepting sewer, $9.06, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Art. 55. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $801.90 from the account of Redington Street School to the account of new Palmer School for the preliminary work of the committee appointed to construct said school.
Art. 56. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1000 for the observance of the Fourth of July.
Art. 57. To see if the town will vote to observe the Town Ter- centenary during the summer of 1929, and appropriate money therefor.
Art. 58. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $163.97 for the purpose of paying the final estimate of Contractor P. J. McDermott for work done in Swampscott cemetery during the year 1927.
Art. 59. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $4,755, or such sum as may be assessed by the County Commissioners, as the town's proportion of the deficit caused by the closing of the Tremont Trust Co. in 1921, when and if authorized by the Legislature.
Art. 60. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $400.00 each year for the purpose of heating and lighting the American Legion, Leon E. Abbott Post quarters, as petitioned for by Richard H. Mc- Namara et als.
Art. 61. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $200 for the expenses of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in properly celebrating Memorial Day, as petitioned for by Franklin H. Keating et als.
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Art. 62. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise, under any general or special law which authorizes the town to raise money by borrowing 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 close at 6 P. M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof at the Town Hall, the post offices, at least one public and conspicuous place in each precinct in the town, and at or in the imme- diate vicinity of each railroad station in the town, seven days before the day appointed 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 aforesaid.
HOWARD K. GLIDDEN, R. WYER GREENE, DANIEL F. KNOWLTON, Selectmen of Swampscott.
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of January, A. D. 1929. 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 warrant at the Town Hall, Post Offices, at least one public and conspicuous place in each precinct in the town, and at or in the immediate vicinity of each railroad station in Swampscott, on Monday, February 11, 1929, the posting of said notices being seven days before the time of said meeting.
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