Town annual report of Swampscott 1950, Part 18

Author: Swampscott, Massachusetts
Publication date: 1950
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 216


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Article 30. To see if the town will vote to amend Chapter XIII section 1 of the Plumbing By-laws of the town of Swampscott and add an additional paragraph 27a as follows:


Section 1, paragraph 2, by striking out the following words "for all new work and two dollars for all alteration work" so that the said section 1, paragraph 2 shall read as follows: A fee shall be re- quired for all plumbing permits in the sum of five dollars; the same to be paid to the Plumbing Inspector.


Section 27a. BRANCH WASTES. May be Type L hard copper tubing with long turn cast brass sweat drainage fittings or long turn wrought copper sweat drainage fittings.


Clean Outs. End clean outs shall be extra heavy (Boston Pattern).


Fittings. May be galvanized steel pipe with cast iron or galvanized malleable fittings.


Fittings for iron pipe size brass may be cast iron recessed drainage fittings.


Traps. A separate trap shall be installed for an electric garbage disposer.


A separate trap shall be installed for an electric dish washer.


Vents. May be Type L hard copper tubing with sweat fittings.


A 11/2" vent shall serve not more than three fixtures.


Wet venting of a single fixture will be allowed under certain conditions; with permission of the Plumbing Inspector.


The vent piping from a fixture trap shall be cast iron or non- ferrous materials for a vertical distance of at least 4" above the seal of the trap which it serves.


11/2" vents shall be increased to 2" before passing through the roof.


2" vents shall pass through the roof undiminished in size.


Safety Valves. Tankless heaters heated by either steam or hot water, shall be protected by an approved pressure relief valve in- stalled in the cold water supply between the shut-off valve and heater.


ADDENDA Water Meter. A shut-off valve shall be installed on the house side of the water meter.


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Article 31. To see if the town will vote to purchase a 11/2 ton dump truck for use of the Park Department and appropriate the sum of $2,744.40 or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.


Article 32. To see if the town will vote to purchase chain link fencing to extend the present fence at Abbott Park as a safety meas- ure for children and recommended by the Chief of Police and ap- propriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.


Article 33. To see if the town will vote to reimburse Florence P. Folger for the expense of excavating, blasting and installing water pipe on Lewis Road, thus extending the water main a distance of 250 linear feet, in the amount of $793.80 or take any action relative thereto. Petitioned for by Phoebe E. Kunkel et al.


Article 34. To see if the town will vote to continue the summer recreation project and appropriate the sum of $3,500.00 therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.


Article 35. To see if the town will vote to paint the bleachers at Blocksidge Field and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.


Article 36. To see if the town will vote to construct a surface water drain in Lexington Park for a distance of approximately 160 lin. ft. and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Petitioned for by Elwyn G. Cleary et al.


Article 37. To see if the town will vote to paint the Fish House and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.


Article 38. To see if the town will vote to purchase fill for the parking area at Phillips Park and appropriate the sum of $500.00 therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.


Article 39. To see if the town will vote to extend the sewers in any or all of the following streets - Alden Road, Lewis Road, Pleas- ant Street, Reid Terrace, Walnut Road, Gale Road, Laurel Road, Sar- gent Road and Shelton Road, and in any other streets or sections of the town as the Water & Sewerage Board and the Board of Health deem necessary; and that the necessary money therefor be appro- priated from the unexpended balance of the Outfall Sewer Appro- priation and from the new Sewers Appropriation for 1950 and by borrowing or otherwise or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Health and the Water & Sewerage Board.


Article 40. To see if the town will vote to carry on a sidewalk construction program under the provisions of General Laws, chapter 83 sections 25 and 26, and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.


Article 41. To see if the town will vote to carry on a street con- struction program and appropriate the necessary money therefor by borrowing or otherwise or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.


Article 42. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of placing lights and other decorations on


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Humphrey Street during the 1951 Christmas season or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Swampscott Business Men's Association.


Article 43. To see if the town will vote to grant a pension of $400.00 per year to Willis E. Shephard, the former Dog Officer of the Town, in recognition of his years of faithful service as permitted by an act of the General Court of 1951 and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.


Article 44. To see if the town will vote to construct a surface water drain in Ocean View Road at the corner of Sargent Road and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action rela- tive thereto. Petitioned for by Edward T. Chamberlain et al.


Article 45. To see if the town will vote to enclose Hawthorne Brook, so-called, with a reinforced concrete culvert on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers, and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Petitioned for by Israel Oskervitz et al.


Article 46. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to repair the draft post on Windsor Avenue at Foster's Dam and the draft post on Carson Terrace near Foster's Dam on town owned property and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Petitioned for by the Upper Swampscott Improvement Association.


Article 47. To see if the town will vote to accept Dale Street from Humphrey Street to Sumner Street as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Leon Michelman et al.


Article 48. To see if the town will vote to accept Dennison Avenue as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on con- dition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Eva Englander et al.


Article 49. To see if the town will vote to accept Walnut Road from Forest Avenue as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Charles Drucas et al.


Article 50. To see if the town will vote to accept Lewis Exten- sion as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer. on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Joseph M. Kunkel et al.


Article 51. To see if the town will vote to accept Blaney Circle as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Harold F. Carlson et al.


Article 52. To see if the town will vote to accept part of Pine Hill Road as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Lucy V. Bonaccorso et al.


Article 53. To see if the town will vote to accept Reid Terrace as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn up


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by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Irving Himmel, et al.


Article 54 To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Health to establish and maintain a sanitary land fill on land owned by the town and located as shown on Plate 11 Lots 405, 406, 407, 414, 415, 416, 417, 421, 765, 766, 767, and 768 and Plate 8 Lots 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Assessors' Plans and purchase a tractor and equip- ment for use in maintaining this operation and appropriate the nec- essary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Health.


Article 55. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell or otherwise dispose of Real Estate now or here- after owned by the town and acquired through foreclosure or pur- chased under General Laws (Ter. Ed.), Chapter 60, as amended, for non-payment of taxes and appropriate a sum of money therefor, or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.


Article 56. To see what action the town will take on the matter of transferring certain unexpended balances, as shown on the books of the Town Accountant as of December 31, 1950, to the Excess and Deficiency Fund, or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.


Article 57. 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. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.


And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an at- tested copy thereof at the Town Administration Building, at the Post Office, and in at least two public and conspicuous places in each pre- cinct 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.


The polls will close at 7:00 P.M.


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 twenty-eighth day of February, A.D., 1951.


FREDERICK R. CHAMPION, RALPH I. LINDSEY, ANDREW R. LINSCOTT, Selectmen of Swampscott.


A true copy, Attest:


LEONARD H. BATES, Constable.





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