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. Section 3. Such vacations shall be granted by the heads of the respective departments of the town at such time as in their opinion will cause the least interference with the performance of the regular work of the town.
Petitioned for by John G. McLearn et al.
Article 21. To see if the town will vote to adopt the following by-law :
Section 1. All regular employees of the town, other than those appointed by the School Committee, shall be granted holiday leave without loss of pay on the following legal holidays: January 1, February 22, April 19, May 30, July 4, the first Monday of September, October 12, Novem- ber 11, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, or on the day following when any of the five days first mentioned or Oc- tober 12, November 11 or Christmas Day occurs on Sunday. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to accept Chapter 147, Section 16C of the General Laws as amended by Chapter 346, Acts of 1951, which provides that members of the Police Department shall
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be excused from duty two days out of every seven without loss of pay. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee to revise the building by-laws of the Town of Swampscott; said committee to report to the next Annual Town Meeting. Sponsored by the Planning Board.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase or take by eminent domain for cemetery purposes the premises shown as Plate 13, Lot 2 and Plate 13, Lot 3 of the Assessors' Plans of the Town of Swampscott and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and the Superintendent of Cemetery.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to act upon the report of the committee appointed by the Selectmen to investigate the fire whistle and appropriate the necessary money therefor. Sponsored by the Fire Whistle Committee.
Article 26. To see if the town will vote to paint and repair the Central Fire Engine House and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and Chief of the Fire Department.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to purchase a new car for the Chief of the Fire Department and authorize him to trade or sell the present car and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 therefor, or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and Chief of the Fire Department.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to purchase an auto- mobile to be used as a patrol car for the Police Department and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action rela- tive thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and Chief of Police.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to purchase two Jeeps to be used by the Engineering Department and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen and Town Engineer.
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to lay a drain from Allen Road through Sumner Street to Hawthorne Brook, a distance of approximately 450 feet and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Sur- veyor of Highways.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Sur- veyor of Highways to purchase a front-end shovel loader tractor with rubber tires and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 32. 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 33. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to be used in conjunction with money appropriated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the County of Essex for
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the repair or construction of highways as provided by Chapter 90 of the General Laws. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the proper observance of the Fourth of July or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the proper observance of Memorial Day or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 36. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the proper observance of Armistice Day or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 37. To see if the town will vote to continue the summer recreation project and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to repair the Fish House and appropriate the sum of $4,500 therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.
Article 39. To see if the town will vote to purchase a stake body truck for tree work and appropriate the sum of $3,700.00 there- for or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Commissioners.
Article 40. To see if the town will vote to purchase a small sidewalk roller and appropriate the sum of $1,800.00 therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Park Com- missioners.
Article 41. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to loam, seed and fertilize a section of Phillips Park for additional play space. Sponsored by the Board of Park Com- missioners.
Article 42. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Modera- tor to appoint a committee to investigate and study the wage scales paid to all town employees other than those filled by popular election and those under the direction and control of the School Committee with a view towards classifying said positions into groups doing sub- stantially similar work and having substantially equal responsibilities. Said committee to use all available data including the Griffenhagen Report, and report to the next Annual Town Meeting. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote to purchase chairs for the Old Town Hall and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Select- men.
Article 44. To see if the town will vote to reimburse the Ellen Realty Company for digging and backfilling water pipe trench on Dale Street and appropriate the sum of $236.00 therefor. Sponsored by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 45. To see if the town will vote to authorize and direct the Water and Sewerage Board to establish the hydrant rental charge to the Fire Department at the rate of $10.00 per hydrant per year and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Water and Sewerage Board.
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Article 46. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to install necessary drains and catch basins at Elmwood Road and Thomas Road, at Norfolk Avenue and State Road and at Norfolk Avenue and Middlesex Avenue and on Burrill Street and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 47. To see if the town will vote to authorize the use of the 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 by the Board of Health for the purpose of maintaining a sanitary land fill if, and when, they deem it necessary therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Health.
Article 48. To see if the town will vote to extend the sewers in any or all of the following streets: Puritan Lane, Puritan Road, Winshaw Road, Laurel Road, Nantucket Avenue and Reid Terrace, and in any other streets or sections of the town as the Board of Health deems necessary and that the necessary money therefor be appro- priated or any action taken relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Health.
Article 49. To see if the town will vote to accept Chapter 820, Acts of 1950, providing for a $100.00 increase to pensioners under the Contributory Retirement System and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Contributory Retirement Board.
Article 50. To see if the town will vote to accept Chapter 781, Acts of 1951, providing increases to certain pensioners under the Contributory Retirement System and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Contributory Retirement Board.
Article 51. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute a new lease with the Leon E. Abbott Post No. 57 American Legion Building Association, for a term of five (5) years from April 5, 1952, and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Petitioned for by Alfred B. Jones et al.
Article 52. To see if the town will vote to revise, codify and print the by-laws of the Town of Swampscott and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Spon- sored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 53. To see if the town will vote to amend the zoning by-laws by including all of the premises bounded and described as follows in B-1 section, being a retail business district :
Southerly by Paradise Road, 125 feet;
Westerly by land now or formerly of Young 58.19 feet; Northwesterly in 3 courses by land now or formerly of Young 77.86 feet; 47.47 feet; and 12.76 feet; and
Easterly by land of Eldridge T. Davis, et ux 132.66 feet; con- taining 11,400 square feet more or less.
Petitioned for by Harold F. Carlson et al.
Article 54. To see if the town will vote to amend the building by-laws by adding thereto the following section:
Article III, Section 5A: The slope of any garage driveway shall not be greater than one percent (1%) for a distance of ten (10) feet from the sideline of a private or public way.
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The intersection of the driveway and the sideline shall meet the elevation as approved by the Planning Board of the Town of Swampscott or the elevation as shown on the Town Plans of Accepted Streets.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen, Town Engineer, and Building Inspector.
Article 55. To see if the town will vote to amend the zoning by-laws by adding thereto the following section :
Article 6, Section 7: No member of the Board of Appeals shall act in any case in which he is interested and in case any member is so disqualified, or is absent because of illness or other cause, an associate member shall act in case of such vacancy, inability to act, or interest on the part of a member of said Board. The Board of Selectmen shall designate and appoint two such associate members of the Board of Appeals who shall act in the manner prescribed by General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 30.
Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 56. To see if the voters of the town, by ballot, will vote to amend the By-Laws of the Town of Swampscott by adding to Chapter II-"A" thereof the following section :
Section 2. No article which may, in the opinion of the Finance Committee, require an appropriation in excess of the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars shall be acted upon by the Town Meeting members, but shall be acted upon by ballot by the registered voters of the Town in their respec- tive precincts. This provision shall not apply to the annual budget submitted by any department.
Petitioned for by James W. Buchanan et al.
Article 57. To see if the voters of the town, by ballot, will vote to amend the By-Laws of the Town of Swampscott by adding to Chapter II-"A" thereof the following section :
Section 2. No article which may, in the opinion of the Finance Committee, require an appropriation in excess of the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars shall be acted upon by the Town Meeting members, but shall be acted upon by ballot by the registered voters of the town in their re- spective precincts. This provision shall not apply to the an- nual budget submitted by any department.
Petitioned for by Robert B. Hegarty et al.
Article 58. To see if the town will vote to amend the plumb- ing by-laws of the Town of Swampscott by striking out all provisions of the plumbing by-laws, and amendments thereto now in force and effect, in the Town of Swampscott and adopt in their place a new plumbing by-law as prepared by the committee appointed by the vote under Article 30 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting of 1951. Sponsored by the Committee Appointed to Study, Revise and Submit a New Plumbing Code.
Article 59. To see if the town will vote to adopt the follow- ing by-law: Chapter IIA, Section 2 - All petitions for the laying out and acceptance of public ways shall be filed with the Board of Selectmen on or before the first Thursday of November preceding the Annual Town Meeting. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 60. To see if the town will vote to install curbstones at the corners at the Essex Street Bridge and at the southerly corner of Buena Vista Street and Burpee Road and appropriate the nec- essary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Petitioned for by I. Murray Adams et al.
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Article 61. 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. Peti- tioned for by Maurice Klein et al.
Article 62. To see if the town will vote to resurface Essex Street from Jackson Park to the end of the Swampscott Cemetery and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Upper Swampscott Improvement Associa- tion, Eldridge T. Davis, President.
Article 63. To see if the town will vote to resurface the re- mainder of the accepted portion of Eureka Avenue and appropriate the necessary money therefor or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Upper Swampscott Improvement Association, El- dridge T. Davis, President.
Article 64. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of placing lights and other decorations on Humphrey Street during the 1952 Christmas season or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Swampscott Business Men's Association, Carl R. Perry, Corresponding Secretary.
Article 65. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee to study the parking situation in the Humphrey Street business area of Swampscott, said committee to submit its report and recommendations to the next Annual Town Meeting. Petitioned for by Cynthia B. Sargent et al.
Article 66. To see if the town will vote to accept Deer Cove Road 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 Newton S. Courtney et al.
Article 67. To see if the town will vote to accept Brown Road 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 Imogen G. Morrison et al.
Article 68. To see if the town will vote to accept Linden Avenue from Salem Street to Stanley Road 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 Sidney Stamell et al.
Article 69. To see if the town will vote to accept the balance of Stanley Road as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town En- gineer, on condition that all the abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by the Ellen Realty Corp.
Article 70. To see if the town will vote to accept Dale Street from Sumner Street to Linden Avenue 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 Lilly Brown et al.
Article 71. To see if the town will vote to accept Sherwood Road from Forest Avenue to the line of its present acceptance 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
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the abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Morris Rosenthal et al.
Article 72. To see if the town will vote to accept Pine Hill Road 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 Glosband et al.
Article 73. To see if the town will vote to accept Nason Road from the present point of acceptance to the westerly boundary of Laurel Road as a public way as laid out by the Selectmen in ac- cordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all the abutters sign the necessary waivers. Peti- tioned for by Robert M. Rose et al.
Article 74. To see if the town will vote to accept Laurel Road from Nason Road to Forest Avenue 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 the abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Elinor B. Rose et al.
Article 75. To see if the town will vote to accept an extension of 300 feet of Lewis Road as a public way as laid out by the Select- men in accordance with the plans drawn by Howard L. Hamill, Town Engineer, on condition that all the abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Francis M. Kirkpatrick et al.
Article 76. To see if the town will vote to accept Brewster Terrace 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 the abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Stuart W. Graham et al.
Article 77. To see if the town will vote to accept Bates Road from Muriel Road to the Ross property line 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 the abutters sign the necessary waivers. Petitioned for by Ellis Kalish et al.
Article 78. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to sell or otherwise dispose of Real Estate now or hereafter owned by the town and acquired through forceclosure or purchased 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 Select- men.
Article 79. 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, 1951, to the Excess and Deficiency Fund, or take any action relative thereto. Sponsored by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 80. 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. 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
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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.
The polls will close at 7:00 P.M.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant, with your doing thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this twenty-first day of February, A.D., 1952.
RALPH I. LINDSEY, FREDERICK R. CHAMPION, ANDREW R. LINSCOTT, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy, Attest :
LEONARD H. BATES, Constable.
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A .D. 1629.
INCORPORATED COTT. A. D. 1852 AS SWAMPSCOT
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