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pointed by the Board of Selectmen; and authorize and direct the Board of Park Commissioners or the Board of Selectmen, either or both, to obtain enactment of a Special Act of the Massachusetts Legislature either in the year 1938 or 1939 to authorize the same; said Act to be then placed on the ballot at any subsequent annual or special town meeting for approval by the voters of the Town of Swampscott, or any additional procedure that seems necessary to effect such consolidation as aforesaid, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 48. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to build a field house approximately 52 x 68 feet, as shown by plans of Edward T. Wiley, architect, to be located on Phillips Park and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Park Commissioners or take any action relative thereto.
Article 49. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars ($5000) to be expended as the town's pro- portionate share for such federal projects as the Board of Select- men may supervise or take any action relative thereto.
Article 50. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225) to complete the Val- uation Records of the town as petitioned for by the Board of Asses- sors or take any action relative thereto.
Article 51. To see if the town will vote to resurface Salem street or any portion thereof and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 52. To see if the town will vote to appropriate money with which to carry on a street and/or sidewalk construction pro- gram in the town or take any action relative thereto.
Article 53. To see if the town will vote to change the zone of a lot of land on Bay View avenue, the building on which is num- bered twenty-three (23), shown as Lot 5 on a Plan entitled "Plan of Land in Swampscott, owned by Charles E. Phillips, dated January 1, 1895, C. W. Gay, C. E., recorded with Essex South District Regis- try of Deeds, Book of Plans 36, Plan 21," from the operation of the regulations of District 3, single family residences to the general residence district.
Article 54. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) to be used for a full time police offi- cer to patrol Fishermen's Beach during the bathing season as peti- tioned for by Conrad P. Richardson et al.
Article 55. To see if the town will vote to take by eminent do- main the land shown on Assessors Plan No. 19, lots 108, 110, 112, and 114, for park purposes and to appropriate money therefor as peti- tioned for by Conrad P. Richardson et al.
Article 56. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the purpose of grading the land referred to in the preceding article, so that the same may be suit- able for a parking space as petitioned for by Conrad P. Richardson et al.
Article 57. To see if the town wil vote to change from a resi- dential to a business zone, the premises at 69 Essex street, being lot No. 63 of plate 6 of the Assessors' plans in order that same may be used for the preparation and serving of food, as petitioned for by Thomas J. Smith et al.
Article 58. To see if the town will vote to take by eminent do- main such land at the westerly junction of Cedar Hill terrace and Bay View avenue as may be necessary to properly widen this section and to appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
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Article 59. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen or the Board of Park Commissioners to accept from James Nason a deed to the land shown on Assessors' Plan, plate 20, lot 222, said land to be used for park purposes, as recommended by the Planning Board.
· Article 60. To see if the town will vote to transfer the yard at Stanley School or any portion of the same, from the School Commit- tee to the Park Department, for the purposes of a playground, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 61. To see if the town will vote to grade and equip the land described in the foregoing article as a playground and appro- priate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 62. To see if the town will vote to authorize the trans- fer of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) from the Hawthorne Brook Account to the Excess and Deficiency Fund for the purpose of re- ducing the tax rate, or take any action relative thereto, as petitioned for by Richard S. Tener et al.
Article 63. To see if the town will authorize the moderator to appoint a committee to study the existing zoning laws of the town and submit a report of its recommendations at the next special or annual town meeting. Said committee to consist of eight members, one from each precinct, and to number among its members three citi- zens engaged in real estate, one architect and one engineer. Said committee to be authorized to make use of the Engineering Depart- ment of the town for the preparation of such maps and data as it may require for presentation as petitioned for by Thomas B. Epps et al.
Article 64. To see if the town of Swampscott will vote to re- move the debris and in place thereof, landscape, grade, loam and put in reasonable conditions the embankment and rear of the Phillips High School premises running down to Fuller avenue or take such other action and appropriate such sum as may be reasonably neces- sary therefor, as petitioned for by Robert W. Caverly et al.
Article 65. To see if the town will vote to rezone the premises No. 3-9 Railroad avenue appearing on Assessors' Plans, plate 3, lot 75, so that the entire lot as aforesaid may be used for business pur- poses, and zone the same for business purposes; or take any action relative thereto.
Article 66. To see if the town will vote to resurface with bituminous macadam, a portion of Atlantic avenue opposite the Hotel Preston including all necessary gradings, etc., and to appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 67. To see if the town will direct the Board of Selectmen to waive and release to James H. Sisk, all rights which the town might have in and to the following described parcel of land: bounded Southerly on Franklin avenue and Paradise road, sixty-one and ninety-four hundredths (61.94) feet; easterly on land now or for- merly of J. H. McDonough, fifty-eight and nineteen hundredths (58.19) feet; southwesterly on another lot of said Sisk, ninety-two and sixty hundredths (92.60) feet; being a total of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven (1927) square feet, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 68. To see if the town will vote to adopt the following by-law viz: That the Planning Board authorized under Chapter 211 of the Acts of 1936, shall consist of five (5) members, the terms of the members of this board shall be five (5) years each, but at the annual town meeting to be held in the month of February, 1939, there shall be elected by ballot five (5) members as follows: one (1) to be elected for one (1) year; one (1) to be elected for two (2) years;
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one (1) to be elected for three (3) years; one (1) to be elected for four (4) years; one (1) to be elected for five (5) years; and there- after there shall be elected at the annual town meeting of each year such members as are necessary to fill vacancies.
Article 69. To see if the town will vote to authorize the trans- fer of $20,000 or any other amount from the Hawthorne Brook ac- count or the Excess and Deficiency fund, either or both, said sum to be used by the Board of Assessors for the purpose of reducing the tax rate or take any action relative thereto.
Article 70. To see if the town will authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen with the advise of the Town Counsel to com- promise and settle the case of Beatrice F. Curtis vs. the Inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott now pending in the Superior Court in Salem and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 71. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or other- wise, 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 7 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an at- tested copy thereof at the Town Hall, the Post Office, and at least two public and conspicuous places in each precinct in the town, and at or in the immediate vicinity of each railroad station in the town not less than 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 twentieth day of January, A. D., 1938.
ROBERT G. BYRNE, KENNETH W. ULMAN, PHILIP E. BESSOM, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
WAYNE ANDERSON, Constable.
INDEX
274
INDEX
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Index
Reports of Departments and Committees
Appropriations Recommended
PAGE 29-39
Assessors
135
Board of Appeals
131
Building Inspector
124
Cemetery, Superintendent of
126
Contributory Retirement Board
230
Dental Clinic
176
Dog Officer
131
Election, Town
23
Finance Committee, Reports of
27
Fire Engineers
127
Forest Warden
239
Fourth of July
241
Health, Board of
165
Health Officer
167
Health Nurse
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163
Jury List
243
Library, Trustees of
238
Milk Inspector
174
Mortuary Report
240
Park Department
236
Planning Board
153
Plumbing, Inspector of
176
Police Department
232
Public Welfare
215-229
Selectmen, Board of
247
School Census
149
School Enrollment
150
School Committee
141
School Directory
151
Town Clerk's Records
11
Town Clerk's Statistics
68
Town Committees Appointed
6
Town Counsel
231
Town Engineer
152
Town Meeting Members
3
Town Officers Appointed
7
Town Officers Elected
2
Town Warrant, February 23, 1937
21
Town Warrant, October 7, 1937
58
Town Warrant, February 21, 1938
264
Tree Warden
240
Water and Sewerage Board
129
Weights and Measures
125
Town Warrant, February 15, 1937
11
Town Warrant, March 29, 1937
47
Moth Superintendent
172
175
Highway Surveyor
275
INDEX
Financial Reports
PAGE
Accountant's Department
177
Assessors' Department
184
Assets
136
Balance Sheets
88-120-213
Bonds and Notes Payable
155
Borrowing Capacity
160
Cemetery
207
Collector of Taxes
132
County Tax
208
Division of Accounts
64-94
Election and Registration
184
Engineering Department
185
Fire Department
187
Hawthorne Brook
193
Health Department
192
Highway Department
195
Interest and Maturing Debt
208
Law Department
183
Liabilities
135
Library
200
Metropolitan Park Taxes
208
Moth Extermination
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210
New Police Station
191
Old Age Assistance
197-227
Park Department
202
Pensions
198
Permanent Sidewalks
195
Police Department
187
Public Welfare
197
Receipts
177
Recreational Project
203
School Department
199
Sealer of Weights and Measures
190
Selectmen's Department
182
Sewer Department
193
Sewer Notes and Bonds
157
Soldiers' Relief
198
State Tax
208
Statistics (1894-1937)
138
Street Lighting
195
Tax Rate
185
Town Balance
210
Town Budget
35-262
Town Debt
160-213
Town Hall Department
185
Transfers
181-211
Treasurer's Report
154
Treasurer's Department
183
Trust Funds
161-209-213
Valuation
159
Water Debt
130
Water Department
205
Welfare Costs
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221
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188
New High School
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BONS
390
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