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3,500 00
149 44
3,649 44
3,400 75
248 69
Election Expenses
1,300 00
1,300 00
1,055 50
244 50
Town Offices .
800 00
800 00
782 23
17 77
Town Hall
464 71
644 11
1,108 82
903 25
205 57
State and Military Aid, etc.
7,700 00
4 00
7,704 00
7,140 00
564 00
Soldiers' Relief
3,000 -00
228 00
3,228 00
3,530 74
302 74
Abatement and Remittance
2,000 00
5,659 88
7,659 88
4,653 59
Printing and Advertising
1,800 00
1,800 00
1.875 51
75 51
Electric Lighting .
10,700 00
10,700 00
10,487 71
212 29
Tufts Library
2,991 98
2,991 98
2,991 98
Fogg Library Reading Room
750 00
750 00
750 00
Interest and Discount
4,000 00
3,561 75
7,561 71
8,910 85
1,349 10
Notes Payable
11,000 00
11,000 00
16,000 00
5,000 00
Memorial Day
400 00
400 00
400 00
Memorial, Park Avenue
200 00
200 00
200 00
Town Officers
9.525 00
148 81
9,673 81
8,579 02
1,094 79
Poor Account
13,000 00
5,539 40
18,539 40
21,331 66
2,792 26
$225,269 44
$35,827 06
$261,096 50
$257,990 81
$3,672 94
$13,473 43
$14,040 68
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21 88
New Police Station
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6,103 99
Police, New Downer Landing
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3,006 29
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TRIAL BALANCE JANUARY 1, 1915.
Schoolhouses and lots
$241,715 00
Enginehouses and lockups
24,400 00
Tufts Public Library
44,000 00
Fire Apparatus
32,000 00
Street Department, fixtures
4,000 00
Town Farm
17,000 00
Town Farm, personal property .
9,308 00
Water Department, real estate .
800 00
Water Department, personal property
8,817 00
Water Department, rents .
10,909 27
Water Department, labor and material account
1,141 38
Water Department, construction
572,851 81
Water Department, sinking fund James Humphrey schoolhouse, sinking fund
16,261 78
Tax Collector .
115,813 28
State Treasurer
7,385 32
Due from cities and towns
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1,100 46
Tax-deed property
3,717 94
Appropriations in excess
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Town House Lot ·
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226,000 00 200,500 00
Auto, Fire Apparatus, appro- priation
9,774 43
Abatements, appropriation
3,006 29
Schools, appropriation
692 71
Due towns, poor department
456 50
Appropriation, overdrafts
14,040 68
Town of Weymouth
799,451 55
$1,253,922 16
$1,253,922 16
CHARLES B. CUSHING,
Town Accountant.
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Town Treasurer
30,364 50
Water Bonds -
14,040 68
1,000 00
Notes payable
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97,295 74
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
NORFOLK, SS. To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Weymouth aforesaid qualified to vote in elections therein, to meet at the polling places in their respective voting precincts, to wit : In precincts numbered One, Three, Five and Six, in the halls of the Fire Engine Houses located in those precincts respectively, in precinct numbered Two, at the Odd Fellows Opera House, and in precinct numbered Four, at the Hose House at Nash's Corner, on Monday, the second day of March, 1914, at five o'clock and forty-five minutes in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the wardens of their several precincts their votes on one ballot for the following named town officers, to wit: Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, five Selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, two As- sessors for three years, Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, two School Committee for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, one member of the Board of Health for three years, one Park Commissioner for three years, three Trustees of Tufts Library for three years, one Commissioner for the Sinking Fund of the James Humphrey School House for three years, one Tree Warden and ten Constables; and to vote on the same ballot, " Yes " or "No" upon the following questions :
1. " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
2. " Shall this town accept the provisions of section forty-two of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of the year nine- teen hundred and nine, as affected by chapter four hundred and
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ninety-four of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven, which provides that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for city or town employees ?"
3. In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 807 of the acts of the year 1913. "Shall chapter eight hundred and seven of the acts of 1913, being an act to provide for compensating labor- ers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained in public employment, and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay such compensation be accepted by the inhabitants of this town ?"
4. " Shall Chapter 487 of the acts of 1913, being an act rela- tive to the promotion of call men in the fire department of cities and towns be accepted by this town ? "
The polls will be opened at a quarter before six o'clock in the forenoon and may be closed at one o'clock in the afternoon.
You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants qualified to vote as aforesaid to meet at the Town Hall on Monday, the ninth day of March, 1914, at nine o'clock and fifteen minutes in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator for said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose all necessary town officers other than those elected by ballot, viz. : Public Weighers, Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark, two or more Fence Viewers, two or more Field Drivers and one Pound Keeper.
Art 3. To hear and act upon the reports of the several boards of town officers and of any committee appointed at any former meeting, and to choose any committees the town may think proper.
Art. 4. In accordance with the requirement of Chapter 706, Section 2, Acts of 1913 : To see if the town will petition the Director of the Bureau of Statistics for an audit of its accounts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 598, of the acts of the year 1910 and amendments thereof.
Art. 5. To choose a planning board under the provision of Chapter 494, Acts of 1913.
Art. 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
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Art. 7. To see if the town will designate the First National Bank of South Weymouth, the First National Bank of Boston and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston as legal depositories for the funds of the town, and the First National Safe Deposit Company of Boston, Mass., a legal depository for the securities of the town.
Art. 8. To see what action the town will take in relation to the unexpended balances of the several appropriations on Jan. 1,1914.
Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, on or after January 1, 1915, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1915.
Art. 10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the public schools and for transportation of pupils to and from school.
Art. 11. On petition of Kenneth L. Nash, and ten others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000 for the purpose of increasing the maximum salaries of the teachers in the elementary grades of the public schools
Art. 12. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repair of highways, townways and bridges and for the removal of snow.
Art. 13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of street watering and oiling.
Art. 14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief and support of the poor.
Art. 15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for relief of disabled soldiers and seamen and for familles of disabled soldiers and seamen under Chapter 79 of the Revised Laws.
Art. 16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of State and Military Aid and for burials under the provisions of Chapter 468, of the Acts of 1909, and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
Art. 17. On petition of Sidney G. Dunbar and fourteen others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $3500 (thirty-five hundred dollars) for the purchase of a combination
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auto fire truck, to be located in Ward One, and to make such alterations in the present firehouse as may be needed to accomo- date the same.
Art. 18. On petition of Robert S. Hoffman and fifteen others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase a combination auto for the Fire Department of the Town, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 19. On petition of Charles W. Baker and twenty-two others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $900 to be expended under the direction of the Board of Engi- neers of the Fire Department, to employ a permanent man to be stationed in the Fire Station in Ward Three.
Art. 20. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Fire Department.
Art. 21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Art. 22. By request of the Committee on New Police Station : To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $600 to finish the new police station in East Weymouth, except the upper floor, including four additional cells.
Art. 23. On petition of Ralph P. Burrell and twenty-six others : So see if the town will pay the regular police three dol- lars per day.
Art. 24. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for Tufts Library.
By request of the Trustees of Tufts Library the three following articles are inserted :
Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to accept the bequest to it under the will of the late Charles Q. Tirrell, consisting of books to be placed in the Tufts Library, and a fund of $1,000.00, sub- ject to the conditions imposed in said will.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to authorize the trustees of the Tufts Library to execute and deliver a lease of the room or rooms in the Library Building now occupied by the Post Office for a term not exceeding five years, and for such rental as the trustees may deem expedient.
Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to accept the bequest to it under the will of the late Joseph E. Trask, subject to the con- ditions upon which said bequest is made, and to authorize the
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Selectmen to take such action as they may deem expedient in con- nection with the allowance of said will by the Probate Court, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 28. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of a public reading room at the Fogg Library.
Art. 29. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the abatement and remittance of taxes.
Art. 30. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest which may be- come due the ensuing year.
Art. 31. . To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
Art. 32. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for miscellaneous expenses.
Art. 33. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate ror Memorial Day.
Art, 34. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the rent and care of town offices.
Art. 35. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for care and repair of Town Hall.
Art. 36. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50 for the care and maintenance of the town parks.
Art. 37. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths.
Art. 38. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of town officers.
Art. 39. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for election expenses.
Art. 40. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the expenses of the Board of Health.
Art. 41. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the lighting of streets.
Art, 42. To see if the town will appropriate from the revenue of the Water Works for the current year the sum of $32,775 to be expended for the following purposes, viz. : $20,275 for interest on the Weymouth water loan bonds becoming due the ensuing
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year ; $10,000 for Superintendent's salary, maintenance of works and Pumping Station and $2,500 for current expenses, Commis- sioners and Office expenses.
Art. 43. To see if the town will appropriate and direct to be paid to the Trustees of the Sinking Fund out of the income of the water rents for the current year the sum of $10,000 to be set apart and invested as a sinking fund for the payment at maturity of the Weymouth water loan bonds.
Art. 44. To see if the town will appropriate the snm of $5,000 for the purpose of installing meters.
Art. 45. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of making further construction of the water works.
Art. 46. To see if the town will authorize and instruct its Treasurer to prepare and issue from time to time, as the proceeds may be needed, bonds or notes of the town, to be denominated on the face "Town of Weymouth Water Loan, Act of 1913," payable by such annual payments, beginning not more than one year after the respective dates thereof, as will extinguish each loan within thirty years from its date, with interest at a rate not ex- ceeding four and one-half per cent per annum, payable semi- annually, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose expressed and in accordance with such authority as was granted to the town by the legislature of 1913 or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 47. To see what action the town will take in regard to the report of Engineer Hiram A. Miller and the recommendations therein and to see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or to appropriate from the revenue of the water department, to carry said recommendations into effect.
Art. 48. To determine in what manner taxes shall be col- lected the ensuing year and to fix the rate of interest on all taxes remaining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
Art. 49. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the preservation of shade trees, the same to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
Art. 50. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of continuing the survey and plotting of the town.
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Art. 51. To see if the town will authorize its selectmen to commence suit for the recovery of any money or property due it.
Art 52. Tofsee what provisions the town will make for any deficiencies in the appropriations of the current year or for any overdrafts already made.
The six following articles are upon petition of William W. Burke and ten others :
Art. 53. To see if the town will vote to elect a surveyor of highways, fix his salary, or act on anything in relation thereto :
Art. 54. To see if the town will vote to increase or diminish the number of Selectmen, of Overseers of the Poor and of Asses- sors and establish their salaries or act on anything relating thereto.
Art. 55. To see if the town will vote to elect its Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor at the next Annual town election for a term of three, two and one years and thereafter on the expiration of each official's term, elect these officers for terms of three years or act on anything relating thereto.
Art. 56. To see if the town will adopt a just and equitable system of valuation of the property of the town, for purposes of taxation.
Art. 57. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the purposes of improving the old streets and building new ones at the shore resorts in North Weymonth or act on anything relating thereto.
Art. 58. To see if the town will vote to amend its by-laws in regard to the time of holding the Annual election of town officers, and the annual town meeting for the transaction of business or act on anything relating thereto :
The five following articles are upon the petition of the Citizen's Association.
Art. 59. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars $200 to install a new fire alarm box on Commercial street at the foot of Loud's Hill so called.
Art. 60. . To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars $120 to install a new fire alarm box at the corner of Webb and Prospect streets.
Art. 61. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of sixty dollars $60 to install a new fire alarm box on Broad street in front of the house numbered 244.
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Art. 62. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and forty dollars $140 to install a new fire alarm box on Front street in the vicinity of the house num- bered 402.
Art. 63. To see if the town will erect and furnish a 14 or 16 room school building in Ward Three adequate for the use of 560 pupils and will raise by a loan or otherwise and appropriate to those uses a sum sufficient for the purpose and take all other action necessary or proper to carry into effect the foregoing proposition.
Art. 64. On petition of Charles W. Baker and nine others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $100 and appropriate the unexpended balance of 1913 for repairs on the Ward Three engine house for the purpose of installing a heater in said building.
Art. 65. On petition of Arthur W. Davis and nine others : To see if the town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to call all future town meetings in the evening.
Art. 66. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to sell any real estate of which it may be possessed and for which it has no further use.
Art. 67. To see if the town will authorize its Selectmen to contract for the preparation wholly or in part of a history of the town of Weymouth ; or to act in any way in relation to the same.
Art. 68. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise and appropriate toward the sinking fund for the payment at ma- turity of the James Humphrey School House bonds.
Art. 69. Upon request of the Weymouth Historical Society : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars for the purpose of making a permament me- morial of the plot of land on Park Avenue, near the residence of J. F. Martin, whereon are buried several of the early settlers of the South precinct, and also contains the graves of three Revolu- tionary soldiers. The land will be presented to the town by the historical society free, and the appropriation will be for the pur- pose of marking and enclosing the lot.
Art. 70. On petition of Arthur C. Gerstley and nine others : To see if the town will vote to file a request with its representa- tive to the General Court and the Metropolitan Park Commission
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for legislation creating a Metropolitan Park Reservation and driveway around Great Pond.
Art. 71. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate for the suppression of forest fires, to be expended under the direction of the Forest Warden.
Art. 72. To see what sum of money the town will raise and appropriate or will appropriate for the building of permanent sidewalks, the same to be expended under the provisions of the betterment act.
Art. 73. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Select- men to take action in court or otherwise, as they may deem expe- dient, to secure to the town such rights as it may have in the ale- wive fishery.
Art. 74. To see if the town will take any action in regard to furnishing and equipping a hospital or dispensary for the treat- ment of tuberculosis patients and will raise and appropriate any sum of money therefor.
Art. 75. On petition of P. J. Derrig and eight others : To see what action, if any, the town will take in regard to unlicensed peddlers doing business in this town.
Art. 76. On petition of Nelson J. Gay and nine others : To see if the town will vote to prohibit the digging of clams for the purpose of sale from any of the shores and flats within the limits of the town without a permit.
Art. 77. On petition of John J. Gourley and fourteen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to extend the water system of the town from its present terminal point opposite the residence of Ernest G. Clark on West street to the junction of West and Summer streets, thence continuing along Summer street to the residence of Uno Kron- man, on said street, or take any action in regard thereto.
Art. 78. On petition of Frank J. Bartlett and fifteen others : To see if the town will appropriate a sufficient sum to lay a six- inch pipe from the water main to the premises of the Boston Ice Company, or act in any way in relation to the same.
Art. 79. On petition of Fletcher W. Howe and nine others :' To see if the town will vote to appoint a committee of seven, to consist of the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Chairman of the Water Board and the Presidents of our Improvement Societies, to take into consideration the subject of our becoming part of the
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Metropolitan Water System, the probable expense of the same, for use of the water or anything appertaining to the question, and report at some future meeting, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 80. On petition of C. B. Mowry and nine others : To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $75 for the purpose of installing a fire alarm box near the upper end of Union street, at about number 549.
Art. 81. On petition of Frank L. Whalen and thirteen others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for a fire alarm box to be placed on the pole in front of Lorenzo Souther's, on Commercial street, between the railroad crossing and the Hingham line.
Art. 82. On petition of the Pond Plain Improvement Asso- ciation : To see if the town will construct a sidewalk on the easterly side of Pond street, from the estate of James Cushman to Fountain square, and raise and appropriate the sum of $250 for the same.
Art. 83. On petition of the Pond Plain Improvement Asso- ciation : To see if the town will construct a concrete sidewalk 42 feet wide, 1200 feet long, on the westerly side of Pond street from the railroad crossing to the top of Pond street hill, and raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the same.
Art. 84. On petition of Henry W. Brown and others : To see if the town will instruct its Fire Department to place 200 feet of fire hose in the care of the fire department of the Pond Plain Improvement Association, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the same.
· Art. 85. On petition of William H. Trask and twelve others : To see if the town will vote to place a light at the junction of Prospect and Phillips streets.
Art. 86. On petition of Joseph O. Severance, Jr., and twenty- seven others: To see if the town will vote to properly light East street between Green street and Union avenue.
Art. 87. On petition of Carmine Garafalo and ten others : To see if the town will vote to place a light on Shawmut Avenue, East Weymouth.
Art. 88. On petition of Robert S. Gilmore and seven. others : To see if the town will vote to place a light at the first angle of Wessagussett Road about 350 feet from Sea Street.
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Art. 89. On petition of Patrick J. Sheehan and eleven others : To see if the town will vote to place a light on the pole in front of the residence numbered 359 East Street, East Weymouth.
Art. 90. On petition of Michael Guidice and twenty-four others : To see if the town will vote to properly light Iron Hill street, East Weymouth.
Art. 91. On petition of Andrew Culley and nine others : To - se if the town will vote to place an electric light on Pratt Avenue, North Weymouth.
Art. 92. On petition of Joseph B. Vinal and ten others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to extend the electric light system from the residence of Nathaniel R. Ells on Main Street to the junction of said street and Washington Stteet or take any action in relation thereto.
Art. 93. On petition of W. H. Farrar and eleven others : To see if the town will vote to install two lights on Hill street extension, East Weymouth.
Art. 94. On petition of Peter E. Sullivan and thirty-six others : To see if the town will vote to raise the wages of the town employees from $2.25 per day for eight hours work to $2.50 per day for eight hours work.
Art. 95. On petition of Alvah M. Thompson and ten others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money, not to exceed nine hundred dollars ($900.) to be expended on Green Street to make it safe and passable.
Art. 96. On petition of Henry S. Stowers and ten others : To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500. or such other sum as may be necessary for proper execution of the work, to build a continuation of the gravel sidewalk on the southerly side of Columbian Street, westerly about 1200 feet from its present termination opposite the entrance to the estate of E. B. Nevin.
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