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Article 13. To see if the town will vote to sell the premises taken by it on tax lien against Joseph Raimo, et al, identified as Land Court Foreclosure Case No. 5226.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to transfer the follow- ing unused balances from loan orders viz: High School Committee $1.90 and Stanley School, $41.71, to the account of New High School building.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to appropriate to the Account of Unpaid Bills the sum of $43.67 to cover bills contracted prior to January 1, 1936, and remaining unpaid at the time of clos- ing the books for the year 1935: Soldiers' Relief, $6.95; Tree War- den, $12.11; Fire, $24.61.
Article 16. To see if the town will take action to refund to the chairman of the World War Honor Roll Committee money expended by him over and the above alloted appropriation, and appropriate two hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-four cents ($230.24) for the same.
Article 17. To see if the town will appropriate to the Account of Unpaid Bills the sum of $10,097.14 to cover the remaining unpaid bills of the Public Welfare Department prior to December 31, 1934.
Article 18. To see if the town will appropriate to the Account of Unpaid Bills the sum of $3,591.29 to cover the remaining unpaid
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bills of the Public Welfare Department prior to December 31, 1935.
Article 19. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Pub- lic Welfare to appoint one of its own members as agent and investi- gating officer and fix the salary of such an appointee at $1200 and appropriate money therefor, as provided by Chapter 41, Sec. 4A, of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.).
Article 20. To see if the town will authorize the Board of As- sessors, the Park Commission, the Board of Public Welfare and the Planning Board to appoint a member of such boards to act as secre- tary thereof and receive pay therefor, as provided by Chapter 41, Section 4A of the General Laws, Tercentenary edition.
Article 21. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appropriation or raising of money for permanent street construc- tion.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to resurface Thomas road, from Burrill street to Walker road, Farragut road from Thom- as road to State road and Beach Bluff avenue, from Humphrey street to Atlantic avenue, with bituminus macadam and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to rebuild the iron fence under the Boston & Maine Railroad bridge on Burrill street and ap- propriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of High- ways.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to build a fence on Bay View drive for the protection of the public and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the repair of the rail fence along the wall on Hum- phrey street at Blaney Beach, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 26. To see if the town will appropriate money for re- pairing the roofs of the wooden buildings at the town yard, as rec- ommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to purchase the follow- ing equipment for the Highway Department: one motor driven side- walk plow and one 5-ton truck to take the place of one that has been in service for the past ten years, as recommended by the Sur- veyor of Highways.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1,000_to clean the town beaches, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to accept Sherwood road as a public way as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and to appropri- ate money therefor, as petitioned for by George J. Place, et al.
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way Beverly road, so-called, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated February 4, 1932, now on file in the Town Engineer's office, and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of surfacing, oiling and grading the same, as petitioned for by Thomas S. Bubier, et al.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court for legislation to enable the town of Swampscott to establish a Board of Public Works, as recommended by the Committee on Salaries and Wages, as petitioned for by James W. Santry, et al.
Article 32. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $10,000 to be used by the Board of Selectmen in providing the
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required sponsors' contribution in providing Works Progress Admin- istration projects, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 33. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $200 to be used on Recreational Projects No. 5123.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3,000 or such other sum as may be necessary to install new toilets in the Clarke school, as recommended by the School Commit- tee.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Porter place, a distance of about 184 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 36. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Lawrence terrace, a distance of about 225 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 37. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Stearns street, a distance of about 200 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Aycliffe road, a distance of about 175 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 39. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Mountain avenue, a distance of about 265 feet, and appro- priate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 40. To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Water Available Surplus $5000 to Water Emergency fund, as recom- mended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 41. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $3950 to build a small fireproof building on southwest side of Central Fire Station to house fire alarm apparatus, also to purchase the repeater, transmitter, battery racks, terminal cabinet, etc., and to do all nec- essary work to put same in working order, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Article 42. To see if the town will vote to remodel the building now located on the Highway Department land on Paradise road, known as the Tree Department Locker, so that all equipment of the department may be housed in one place, the building also to furnish a work shop for the department and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Tree Warden and Moth Superintendent.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote to purchase a power sprayer to supplement the one now in use, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Moth Superintendent.
Article 44. To see if the town will vote to purchase a new 11/2 ton truck for the use of the Moth and Tree Warden Departments and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Tree War- den and Moth Superintendent.
Article 45. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the proper observance of the Fourth of July.
Article 46. To see if the town will vote to transfer the yard at the Clarke School or any portion of the same from the School Com- mittee to the Park Department, for the purpose of a playground, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 47. To see if the town will vote to grade and equip as a playground the land described in the foregoing article and to ap- propriate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 48. To see if the town will vote to transfer the yard at the Stanley School or any portion of the same from the School Com- mittee to the Park Department for the purpose of a playground, as recommended by the Planning Board.
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Article 49. To see if the town will vote to grade and equip as a playground the land described in the foregoing article and to appro- priate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 50. To see if the town will vote to transfer the yard at the Machon School or any portion of the same from the School Com- mittee to the Park Department for the purpose of a playground, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 51. To see if the town will vote to grade and equip as a playground the land described in the foregoing article and to appro- priate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 52. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to build 240 linear feet of ten (10) row bleachers as specified by plan drawn by Town Engineer, to be located on one side of the new football field at Phillips park, and appropriate five thou- sand dollars ($5000) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commis- sioners.
Article 53. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to build a locker building, as specified by plan of Town Engineer, to be located on Phillips park, and appropriate ten thousand dollars ($10,000) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 54. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to fill in another strip at Phillips Park, adjacent to east side and the length of the new football field, and appropriate five thousand dollars ($5,000) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 55. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to purchase playground equipment, as recommended by Planning Board, to be located at Jackson and Phillips Parks, and appropriate four hundred eighty dollars ($480) therefor, as recom- mended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 56. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $7,000 from the Cemetery Lots fund and income to the account of Cemetery Improvement, for the purpose of continuing the work at the cemetery.
Article 57. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $500 for the proper observance of Armistice Day, as petitioned for by the American Legion.
Article 58. To see if the town will vote to adopt the following by-law or some modification thereof for the purpose of regulating billboards or other outdoor advertising devices:
Section 1. Authorization. In conformity with the General Laws and lawful state regulations for the proper control and restric- tion of outdoor advertising devices, and without relaxing any re- strictions on said devices imposed by such regulations, said de- vices in the town of Swampscott are hereby further restricted as provided in the following sections:
Section 2. Exemptions. This by-law shall apply exclusively to out- door advertising within public view of any highway, public park or reservation. It shall not apply to signs or other devices con- trolled under the provisions of Section 1, 2 or 8, of Chapter 85, General Laws, or to signs or other devices on or in the rolling stock, stations, subways or structures of or used by common carriers, except advertising devices on bridges or viaducts or abutments thereof; and, except for lawful restrictions as to size and location, it shall not apply to signs or other devices which advertise or indicate either the person occupying the premises in question or the business transacted thereon or advertise the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let and which contain no other advertising matter. It also shall not ap-
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ply to any advertising device legally permitted and maintained on the date of the taking effect of this by-law, until one year af- ter the first day of July next following said date.
Section 3. Definitions:
"Advertising devices" shall mean billboards, painted bulletins, poster panels, signs, placards and other outdoor units designed to call public attention to the matter displayed thereon.
"Advertising sign" or "sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device.
"Sign-board" shall mean any structure designed for displaying an outdoor advertisement.
"Highway" shall mean any public way.
"Public Park" shall mean a piece of public land of at least five thousand square feet set apart for beauty and public enjoyment. "Public reservation" shall mean a piece of public land set apart for recreational use, as a state or municipal forest, as a protec- tion to a public water supply, as a memorial, or cemetery, or as a place of unusual scenic or historical interest.
"Permitted" shall mean authorized by an official permit.
"Display" shall mean to make or maintain visible from any highway, public park or reservation.
"Area" of a sign or signboard shall mean the area of the face view of the entire device, including all attachments except sup- ports and lattice at the base thereof.
"Residential District" shall mean any area zoned as residential. "Non-conforming business" shall mean a business located in a residential or rural district, other than such rural business as farming or the raising and sale on the same premises of farm, garden or orchard products.
"Lawful sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device not prohibited by any provision of law or by any lawful regulation. "Accessory sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device which carries only advertisments strictly incidental and subor- dinate to a lawful use of the premises on which it is located, including signs indicating business transacted or goods sold or produced on the premises or an occupant thereof, but not in- cluding any sign sold or rented to an outside party.
"Sign on a wall" shall mean a sign closely attached throughout to and facing with that wall, or in a window or door therein.
"Lot" shall mean a plot of ground containing and devoted to the purposes of a building, or laid out to contain a building, with all required open spaces; or a larger tract of unbuilt, undivided land under one ownership.
Section 4. General Restrictions. No person, firm, association or cor- poration shall be permitted or allowed to erect, display or main- tain any billboard or other outdoor advertising device, not ex- empted by Section 2 hereof, except those specified in paragraphs (a) (b) (c) (d) and (e) of this section.
(a) In districts not of a residential or rural character, any law- ful sign on or attached to a wall of a building or any law- ful ground or roof sign or sign board no part of which ex- tends over fifteen feet above the part of the ground or roof on which it stands.
(b) In a residential or rural district, any lawful accessory sign or signs not exceeding five square feet in aggregate area on any one building or lot; or any lawful sign or signs ad- vertising only the sale or rental of the premises, not ex- ceeding a total area of ten square feet; or, on the prem- ises of any public building, or of any farm, garden, tree- nursery or forest, any lawful accessory signs not exceed-
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ing all together fifteen square feet in area within the limits of said premises; or any lawful accessory signs on the front wall of any building occupied by a non-conforming business.
(c) Any lawful sign not exceeding thirty-two square feet in area displayed by the town, or any sign displayed by the United States, the state or the county, relative to govern- ment business.
(d) At any boundary line of the town a lawful sign not ex- ceeding five square feet in area indicating the meetings of any civic organization located therein.
(e) On property owned or principally occupied by a religious, civic or charitable organization, association of war veter- ans or the like, any lawful accessory sign displayed by written permission of the Selectmen and approval of the inspector of buildings if any, for a limited period not ex- ceeding sixty days.
Section 5. Set-backs. No advertising sign or signboard shall be per- mitted or allowed to be so located as to obstruct a view between any points on connecting streets within fifty feet of a corner of the rights of way; or to obstruct any door, window or fire escape on a building; or, if on a roof, to be set nearer than one- half its height to the wall thereof on a street front; or, in a res- idential district, to extend more than six inches nearer to any boundary of the lot or premises on which it is located than it would be lawful to maintain a building, except as provided in paragraph (d) of Section 4.
Section 6. Prohibitions. Except signs exempted under Section 2, no person, firm, association or corporation shall be permitted or al- lowed to erect, display or maintain any billboard or other out- door advertising device in any district.
(a) Except the owner or a tenant occupant of the premises where it is located, or a party holding written permission from either to display the device for a limited period, which party's name shall be conspicuously displayed thereon;
(b) Upon any rock, tree, fence or pole;
(c) Within one hundred feet of any church, public building, monument or memorial, or within three hundred feet of any public park, playground, or public reservation, if with- in view from any portion thereof; except that this para- graph shall not apply to accessory signs on the walls of buildings;
(d) If it contains any obscene, indecent or immoral matter; (e) Unless all parts and attachments and the ground about the base thereof are kept in neat and safe condition.
Section 7. Administration. No advertising device for which a permit from any state authority is required shall be erected, displayed or maintained in the town until five days after a permit there- for, or a true copy thereof, has been filed with the Town Clerk. Whenever notice of an application for such a permit is received by the Town Clerk, he shall immediately transmit it to the In- spector of Buildings or other officer, if any, charged with the administration of this by-law. Such officer, or in the lack of such officer, the Town Clerk, shall thereupon make an examination of the case and, as promptly as possible, within thirty days of the receipt of the application by the Town Clerk, shall send written notice to the state authority to whom the application is ad- dressed, stating whether or not the proposed advertising device would violate any provision of this by-law, and, if so, what pro-
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vision. Like notice shall be sent also to the applicant and to the owner or tenant of the proposed location of the device.
At least twenty-five days before an outdoor advertising de- vice not requiring a permit from any state authority and not exempted under Section 2 shall be erected or displayed in the town, a description thereof and of its proposed location shall be filed with the town clerk, after which the procedure shall be the same as prescribed in the preceding paragraph in the case of an application for a state permit, except that notice whether or not the device would violate any provision of the law shall be sent, within twenty days after receipt of the description, only „to the party filing the same and to the owner or tenant of the proposed location.
Section 8. Penalties and Enforcement. Whoever violates any provi- sions of sections 4, 5 or 6 hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemean- or and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and whoever after final conviction for such violation un- lawfully displays such outdoor advertising device for twenty days shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
The Selectmen or any officer charged with the enforcement of this by-law shall cause any such violator to be prosecuted; and shall notify the state regulatory authority of Outdoor Ad- vertising of any and all violations of lawful state regulations.
Any town officer or any interested party may petition the Superior Court in equity to enjoin the erection of maintenance of any outdoor advertising device erected or maintained in vio- lation of any provision of this by-law. Town officials shall have the same right and power to cause the removal of any outdoor advertising device as of any structure or building maintained in violation of a by-law.
Section 9. If any provision of this by-law is declared unconstitution- al or illegal by any court, the validity of the remaining provi- sions shall not be affected thereby.
Section 10. All regulations for outdoor advertising devices hereto- fore adopted by the town and in force at the time of the adop- tion of the foregoing sections are hereby repealed.
Article 59. 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 6.00 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attest- ed 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 immediate 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.
Given under our hands this sixteenth day of January, A.D., 1936.
PHILIP E. BESSOM, LESTER B. MORLEY, R. WYER GREENE, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
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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 con- spicuous place in each precinct in the town and at or in the imme- diate vicinity of each railroad station in Swampscott, on Saturday, February 8, 1936, the posting of said notices being seven days before the time of said meeting.
FRANK H. BRADFORD,
Constable.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1936
In accordance with the foregoing warrant the voters of Swamp- scott, assembled at their several precincts in the Town of Swamp- scott, and were called to order by the presiding officer in each pre- cinct at 6 o'clock A.M. The warrant with the return thereon was read by the Clerk in each Precinct. The polls opened at 6 A.M.
The following were appointed Precinct officers and qualified for same.
Precinct 1. Henry Sadler, Warden; Wilbert J. Arsenault, Clerk; John H. Keating, William H. Dow, Inspectors; Florence M. Child, Lauretta M. Fournier, Josephine Rideout, Ella J. Turner, Beatrice E. Doane, Bertram Thompson, Tellers.
Precinct 2. Louis N. Crocker, Warden; John E. Coville, Clerk; Carl J. Berry, Francis H. McCarron, Inspectors; Martha F. Duren, Richard B. McCarthy, Jr., Laura J. Pollay, Mary B. Doherty, Minnie J. Crowell, Dan F. Nugent, Tellers.
Precinct 3. Charles E. Melzard, Warden; Almer A. Jackson, Clerk; George F. Clay, Donald L. Sawyer, Inspectors; Howard B. Horton, James M. Reardon, Elmer L. Howard, Edward P. Carroll, Lelia S. Tarr, Margaret C. Barter, Tellers.
Precinct 4. Raymond H. Owen, Warden; Thomas McManus, Clerk; Leon W. Howard, Edward A. Sawyer, Inspectors; Bessie F. Maguire, Nellie G. McManus, Alfred L. Chausse, Robert A. LeCounte, Leon L. Pappas, George Piere, Tellers.
Precinct 5. Thomas J. Boyce, Warden; George Devitt, Clerk; Irving A. Curtis, Walter L. Kehoe, Inspectors; John T. Morrison, Alice E. Leslie, Winnifred G. Jacobs, Walter C. Collins, Mary E. Bro- gan, Gladys S. Bates, Tellers.
Precinct 6. Henry E. Acker, Warden; Harvey L. Southward, Clerk; George H. Chaisson, Harry G. Hutchinson, Inspectors; Sel- wyn P. Drown, Catherine Hodges, Anna M. Burke, Vincent B. Eas- terbrook, Margaret V. Freeman, Dan Collins, Tellers.
Precinct 7. Charles D. Addison, Warden; Eustis B. Grimes, Clerk; Lewis A. Coleman, James J. Finnegan, Inspectors; Addie L. Kennedy, Annie C. Ward, Ralph H. Reed, Henry Bufalino, Mary K. Coleman, Edward E. Folsom, Tellers.
Precinct 8. Charles A. Flagg, Warden; Cyril J. Gannon, Clerk; Ellen Q. Lynch, Eleanor T. Hamilton, Inspectors; Sarah J. Conners, Margaret J. Duratti, Grace E. Mills, Ralph Melzard, Dorothy M. Mor- rison, Pauline Duncan, Tellers.
The balloting started at 6 o'clock A.M. and the count started at 2 o'clock P.M. The ballot boxes registered correctly and the checks on the voting list were the same as the vote cast.
There were cast in Precinct 1, 466; Precinct 2, 444; Precinct 3, 436; Precinct 4, 342; Precinct 5, 402; Precinct 6, 397; Precinct 7, 457; Precinct 8, 279. Total vote cast, 3223.
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Precinct 6 was the first to make a return at 6.35 P.M. Precinct 7 the last to report at 8.30 P.M.
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