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Article 72. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate three hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting bound stones on accepted townways.
Article 73. To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out of the relocation of parts of Sea and Bridge Streets at Bicknell Square.
Article 74. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Article 73.
You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants of Weymouth, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the polling places in their respective precincts, to wit: In Precincts One, Three, Five and Six, in the halls of the Fire Engine Houses locat- ed in those precincts respectively, in Precinct Two, at the Odd Fel- lows Opera House, and in Precinct Four, at the Hose House at Nash's Corner, on Monday, the fourteenth day of March, 1921, 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 public officers, to wit: Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, five Selectmen, five Overseers of the Poor, one Assessor for three years, Collector of Taxes, three Auditors, two School Committee for three years, one Water Com- missioner 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 of the Sinking Fund of the James Humphrey Schoolhouse for three years, one Tree Warden and ten Constables; and to vote on the same ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the following questions :
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intoxi- cating beverages in this town?"
The polls will be closed at four o'clock in the afternoon.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting a copy thereof attested by you in writing in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said town seven days at least before the time for holding the first meeting called for in this warrant.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town on or before the fourth day of March, 1921.
Given under our hands at Weymouth. this nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty- one.
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BRADFORD HAWES, WILLIAM H. COWING, GEORGE L. NEWTON, FREDERICK HUMPHREY, ALFRED W. HASTINGS,
Selectmen of Weymouth.
A true copy-Attest : ARTHUR H. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth.
RECORDS OF TOWN MEETINGS
Annual March Meeting
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Wey- mouth qualified to vote in town affairs, held at Odd Fellows Opera House, East Weymouth, on Monday evening, March seventh, 1921, at 7.30 o'clock, under a warrant issued by the Selectmen and dated January 19th, 1921, action was taken upon the following articles in the warrant as follows:
The warrant was read from Article 1 to 4, when it was voted that the further reading of the several articles be dispensed with.
Article 1. Voted, That Bowdoin B. Smith be instructed to cast one ballot bearing the name of George L. Barnes for Moder- ator, and he was declared elected; he was sworn to the faithful performance of that duty by the Town Clerk.
Mr. Barnes accepting the position to which he had been elect- ed, expressed his appreciation of the continued confidence of the voters and his gratitude for their courtesy and support.
He further said, that this annual meeting was unusual in two important respects:
1. For the first time in the history of this ancient town, the women of Weymouth were participating as voters in the meeting. It seemed a fact of which more than passing notice should be tak- en. The moderator therefore stated that he felt he expressed the unanimous sentiment of all the voters present in welcoming to par- ticipation in town meetings the women of this town and also de- sired to express the satisfaction of all the male voters at the real contribution of public service that would be rendered by its female voters.
2. The second important characteristic of this meeting was that it marked a turning point in the history of Weymouth of a momentous character.
The moderator stated that it was probably the last general meeting that the town of Weymouth would ever hold as it seemed probable that the Act of the Massachusetts Legislature establish- ing a new form of town government would probably be accepted by the voters.
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The moderator referred to the fact that the citizens of Wey- mouth had held meetings for the discussion of municipal affairs and the establishment of local self government from 1636, and that from that date to the hour of this meeting, "New England Town Meetings" had been the basis of Weymouth's local govern- ment.
He further said that while he had made mistakes, while there had been errors in judgment, that any one examining the whole record over that period of nearly three hundred years would find written there a record of orderly progress, seldom equalled and never surpassed in municipal affairs.
He also said that the town of Weymouth has all the necessi- ties and many of the luxuries enjoyed by the municipalities in the Commonwealth, it has good roads, a fire department, a police department; the streets are well lighted and its people happy, pros- perous and contented; at the same time it had paid its obligations as they matured. It has never been obliged to borrow outside its debt limit and its tax rate has not been excessive as compared with that of many other towns.
He said it was gratifying that the change in the form of town government was not made necessary of any breaking down of the established form of government, not because of any dishonesty or lack of confidence in public officials but solely because of the fact that the electorate had become too large for any hall in the town.
Article 2. Voted, That a committee of five be appointed by the moderator to bring in a list of Town Officers other than those elected by ballot.
The moderator appointed Stanley T. Torrey, James D. Bos- worth, Joseph Kelly, Theron L. Tirrell and Walter L. Bates.
Article 3. That the several reports of the departments be ac- cepted as in print.
Voted. That the committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to study the question of connecting the water system to the Metropolitan Water System, be given further time to the consideration of this question.
Article 4. Voted. That the Town Treasurer with the ap- proval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1921 and to issue note or notes therefor, payable within one year; any debt or debts incurred un- der this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
This vote was unanimously carried.
Article 5. Voted, That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time n anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1922 and to issue note or notes there- for, payable within one year; any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year.
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This vote was unanimously carried.
Mr. William J. Holbrook read resolutions upon the death of Albert P. Worthen.
"Albert P. Worthen served the Town of Weymouth as its counsel and advisor for nineteen years.
"His death occurring on the fifth day of October, 1920, caused a loss to the Town of Weymouth so great that it is deemed suitable that this memorial of appreciation of Mr. Worthen's service to the Town of Weymouth should be perpetuated in its records.
"Albert P. Worthen was a citizen ever mindful that his citi- zenship carried obligations as well as privileges. The record of his service to the town shows that he performed these duties and obligations with a high degree of skill, with a loyalty and faithfulness to the interests of the town of Weymouth, seldom if ever, equalled and never surpassed.
"His reputation for skilled judgement in municipal affairs, as well as his high personal integrity and honesty brought to him unanimous choice of the Town and City Solicitors Association as their president.
"Mr. Worthen as a lawyer had the respect and confidence of the bar and the public. As a man, a citizen and friend, he had the respect, the regard and love of all who knew him. His death has taken from us a sturdy champion of right and a stalwart de- fender of the best interests of the town of Weymouth but the recollection of his service to the town of Weymouth, of his char- acter and attachment to public duty will endure in Weymouth un- til disolution of the mind, and memory of all who knew him.
"For the purpose of recording the unanimous sentiment of the citizens of the town of Weymouth, the foregoing memorial is hereby adopted and ordered to be inscribed on the records of the town of Weymouth and it is further ordered that as an additional tribute of respect to Mr. Worthen a copy of these resolutions suit- ably inscribed and certified by the Clerk of the town be forwarded to Susan R. Worthen."
GEORGE L. BARNES WILLIAM J. HOLBROOK
Article 6. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $8,742.25 and further to appropriate the amounut of the overlay reserve fund of $5,257.75 for a reserve fund.
Article 7. Voted, To designate the Weymouth Trust Com- pany of South Weymouth, Mass., the First National Bank of Bos- ton, Mass., and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, Mass., as legal depositories for the funds of the town, and the First National Safe Deposit Company of Boston, Mass., as a legal depository for the securities of the town.
Article 8. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $6,453.95 for the payment of the cost of repairs and maintenance of the Norfolk County Hospital for the year 1920.
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Article 9. Voted, That no action be taken under this article. Article 11. Voted, That no action be taken under this article. Article 12. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 13. Voted, To appropriate from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $4,047.38 for overdrafts already made.
Article 14. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $140,184.46, and further to appropriate the sum of $1,115.54 being the amount of the 'dog tax collected in 1920, and further to ap- propriate from any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- priated the sum of $24,000.00, a total of $165,300.00, for the sup- port of public schools and for the transportation of pupils.
Article 15. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,900, said money to be paid to the trustees of the James Hum- phrey Schoolhouse Sinking Fund for the payment at maturity of the James Humphrey Schoolhouse Bonds.
Article 16. Voted, To take up Article 17 in conjunction with this article. Voted, That the Town of Weymouth purchase or ac- quire by eminent domain for the purpose of erecting and main- taining thereon a building or buildings to be used as a public school and in fee the following described parcel of real estate situ- ated in Ward 1, North Weymouth, including trees and structures affixed thereto.
(1) Beginning at a point about 130 feet southwesterly from Bridge Street at land of George A. Walker, thence running north- westerly by land of Walker 65 feet; thence westerly by land of Walker 113 feet and by land now or late of Martha E. Goodale about 60 feet; thence northerly by land of said Goodale about 10.25 feet; thence southwesterly by successive parcels by land now or late of Martha J. Nesbet, Mary M. Wilde, Wallace D. Baker, Jacob F. Dizer, L. Vernon Prentiss, Grace H. Prentiss, Leona M. Savage, Mildred L. Morgan, Leona M. Savage, Hugh R. Lang and Leona M. Savage about 690.5 feet; thence southeasterly by successive parcels of land now or late of Leona M. Savage, E. Russell Bailey and said Savage about 238 feet; thence easterly and thence south- easterly by land now or late of Leona M. Savage, Gerald J. Savage and Leona M. Savage about 553 feet; thence northerly and thence northeasterly by land now or late of Mary A. Donovan about 472.49 feet; thence northeasterly by land of Donovan and land now or late of Anna S. Newton to Bridge Street about 50 feet to land of George A. Walker; thence southwesterly bounding northwest- erly on land of said Walker about 130 feet to the point of begin- ning, same being land now or late of said George A. Walker.
(2) A parcel of land adjoining the parcel above described and bounded southeasterly by land now or late of Leona M. Sav- age about 120 feet; southeasterly by Delorey Avenue, so-called, 40 feet; northwesterly by land now or late of Charles T. Bailey about 120 feet and northeasterly by land now or late of George A. Walk- er about 40 feet; and containing approximately 4800 square feet, same being land now or late of Leona M. Savage.
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And that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $5,400 for the purchase or acquisition by eminent domain of the said real estate.
Article 18. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the care and maintenance of Parks and Play Grounds, to be expended under the supervision of the Park Commissioners.
Article 19. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the erection and maintenance of a Convenience Station at Webb Park, to be expended under the supervision of the Park Commissioners.
Article 20, Voted. To raise and appropriate the sum of $19,000 for the support of the Fire Department.
Article 21. Voted, That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed.
Article 22. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $18,775 for the support of the Police Department.
Article 23. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500 for the services and expenses of the Board of Health.
Article 24. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $2000 for the employment of district or other nurses, said sum to be expended by the town through its Selectmen or under the direc- tion of the Board of Health, if authorized so to do, by the Select- men.
Article 25. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $15,350 for the payment of town officers, as follows:
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor $ 3,000
Town Clerk 250
Assessors 3,500
Treasurer
800
Treasurer's Bond
125
Auditors
150
Sealer of Weights and Measures
600
Sealer's expenses
200
Tree Warden
100
Registrars of Voters
450
Town Accountant
1,800
Town Accountant's Clerical Assistance
400
Town Counsel
500
Tax Collector
3,300
Tax Collector, hold-up insurance
125
Appropriation Committee .... . . . 50
$15,350
Article 26. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for election expenses.
Article 27. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,475 for rent and expenses of town offices.
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Article 28. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $49,100 for repairs of highways, town-ways, bridges, street oiling and for the removal of snow; and further to appropriate from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $3,000 for private work which the street department may do and for which the town is to be reimbursed.
Article 29. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 30. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $200 for the working of Filomena Street.
Article 31. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 32. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 33. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $400 for the purpose of constructing a culvert or drain starting from a certain point in the meadow land owned by Mrs. J. F. Otis and Everett Loud, crossing High street and continuing through land owned by S. B. Totman.
Article 34. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the purpose of extending the sidewalk on the southerly side of Lovell street.
Article 35. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 36. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000 for the purpose of making repairs on Union Avenue and East street.
Article 37. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, Section 7, Clause 8 of the General Laws, to be expended for macadam pave- ment or other road material, under specifications approved by the Massachusetts Highway Department, provided an equal amount is obtained from the Highway Department of the State of Massachu- setts, and an equal amount obtained from the County of Norfolk, and further to appropriate from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $10,000, said sums to be ex- pended upon Union Street, South Weymouth.
(See vote following Article 74).
Mr. Stanley T. Torrey for the committee appointed to bring in a list of Town Officers other than those elected by ballot, reported as follows:
Public Weighers
C. B. Proctor, C. Lewis French, Jane J. Lane, Michael Lane, James B. French, John Q. Manuel, F. Cecil Manuel, Archibald Mc- Cullagh.
Clara Mitchell, Charles T. Leavitt, James D. Bosworth, Lor- etta Looney, Wallace D. Cowing, Winfred H. Bartlett, Henry W. Burr, Raymond P. E. Vary, Mary MacDonald.
Robert Condrick, Edward I. Loud, Susan R. Worthen, John F.
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Dwyer, Grace R. Stancomb, Marjorie J. Mace, William H. Mace, Louis Ells, Charles H. Kelly, Rufford A. Balden, Mabel O. Mc- Glune, William G. Codman.
Alvin Hollis, Walter L. Bates, J. Leonard Bicknell, Ernest A. Bowker, James Tirrell, Hattie M. Taylor.
Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark
Russell H. Whiting, John J. Lane, John Q. Manuel, F. Cecil Manuel.
George M. Keene, James P. Haddie, Nicholas J. Grant, Ray- mond P. E. Vary. Henry N. Willoby, Robert A. Condrick, John F. Dwyer, Rus- sell B. Worster, Edward I. Loud.
John L. Maynard, Howard V. Pratt, Mabel D. Duncan, Wil- liam G. Codman, Rufford A. Balden.
J. Leonard Bicknell, Alvin Hollis, James Tirrell, A. Spencer Marsh.
Fence Viewers
Miles P. Keene, H. Frank Holmes, Russell G. Worster, George W. Conant, Walter L. Field, Bowdoin B. Smith.
Field Drivers
George W. Nash, Edward F. Butler, James P. Maguire, Charles W. Baker, Willie F. Tirrell, Elbert Ford.
Pound Keeper
Edward P. Condrick
Planning Board
Cornelius J. Lynch, Edward W. Hunt, Bradford Hawes, Wil- liam L. Swan, J. Herbert Libbey, Susan R. Worthen in place of Albert P. Worthen deceased.
The moderator declared the above elected to the office as above described.
Article 28. Under this article the moderator appointed J. Herbert Libbey and Albert Humphrey as tellers, and they were sworn to the faithful performance of that duty.
Voted, That the sum of $20,000 be raised and appropriated for macadam pavement or other road material, under specifica- tions approved by the Massachusetts Highway Commission, to be used for the reconstruction of existing ways in the town, and the Treasurer be and hereby is authorized with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow said sum of $20,000 for that purpose and is- sue notes of the town therefor, payable in equal installments for five years from the date of issue, to bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per cent. per annum.
The tellers reported that 202 voted in the affirmative and 2 in the negative.
Article 39. Voted, To accept the report of the Selectmen up- on the laying out of a townway from Commercial Street to the railroad bridge in Idlewell. (See records of Roads, page 197).
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Article 40. Voted, To accept the report of the Selectmen up- on the laying out of a townway from East Street northeasterly over a private way formerly known as North Avenue. (See rec- ords of Roads, page 200).
Article 41. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 42. Voted, That the sum of $500 be raised and ap- propriated for the working of Emerson Street, formerly known as North Avenue.
Article 43. Voted, That the town appropriate from the rev- enue of the Water Works for the current year the sum of $53,112.50, to be expended for the following purposes, namely :
Supt., Maintenance and Pumping Station $32,000.00 Commissioners, office -and current expenses 4,500.00
New services, minor extensions and meters
5,000.00
Principal of Serial bonds due 1921 . 7,500.00
Interest on Sinking fund, 4 per cent. bonds, due 1921 600.00
Interest on Serial 41/2 per cent. bonds, due 1921 3,082.50
Interest on Serial 4 per cent. bonds due 1921 430.00
$53,112.50
Article 44. Voted unanimously, That the town for the furth- er construction of the Water System authorize the issue of bonds in the amount of $10,000 under authority of Chapter 276, Acts of 1913, entitled, "An Act to Authorize the Town of Weymouth to Make an Additional Water Loan" as amended or modified by Chapter 44, Section 22 of the General Laws.
Article 45. Voted, That no action be taken under this article. 2. Article 46. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 47. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 48. Voted, To appropriate from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $4500 for the pay- ment of state and military aid, and for burials under the provi- sions of Chapter 115, of the General Laws.
Article 49. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $4,400 for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen, and the fam- ilies of disabled soldiers and seamen, under the provisions of Chapter 115 of the General Laws.
Article 50. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $14,000 and further to appropriate from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $4,000 for the relief and support of the Poor.
Article 51. Voted, That a committee of ten be appointed by the moderator to consider the needs of an Almshouse in this town and to confer with the town of Hingham and other surrounding towns upon the advisability of jointly supporting an Almshouse.
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The moderator appointed on this committee : Bradford Hawes, Henry P. Tilden, Robert S. Hoffman, Edward W. Hunt, Joseph Kelly, Matthew O'Dowd, Theron L. Tirrell, Henry Day, John H. Tower, J. Leonard Bicknell.
Article 52. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $6,400 and further to appropriate from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $1,500 for the support and maintenance of Tufts Library, and that the income from the A. J. Richards, J. E. Trask, Susanna Hunt, C. Q. Tirrell and other funds be used for the purpose designated by the respective donors.
Article 53. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $750 for the maintenance of a reading room at Fogg Library.
Article 54. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $16,000 for street lighting and that the matter of installing new lights be left with the Electric Light Committee.
Article 55. Voted, That this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
Article 56. Voted, That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
Article 57. Voted, That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Lght Committee.
Article 58. Voted, That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
Article 59. Voted, That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
Article 60. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500 for the maintenance of the Town Survey, this money to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen.
Article 61. Voted, That the salary of the Tax Collector be 8 mills on the dollar of taxes actually collected, and that the Select- men be instructed to insure the Tax Collector in the sum of $15,000 hold-up insurance. The time of payment and rate of in- terest an unpaid taxes shall be fixed in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 59, Section 57 of the General Laws.
Article 62. Voted, That no action be taken under this article.
Article 63. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $15,000 for the payment of interest which may become due during the current year.
Article 64. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $4,400 for printing and advertising.
Article 65. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $750 for the preservation of shade trees, same to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
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Article 66. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $4000. for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths, and further to appropriate from any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated the sum of $3,500, for which the Moth Depart- ment may do which is assessed upon property owners, and for other work done for which the town is reimbursed.
Article 67. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $4,250, for muscellaneous expenses.
Article 68. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $400, for Memorial Day.
Article 69. Voted, To raise and appropriate the sum of $250, for the alewive fishery, and that the Selectmen be a Com- mittee of the town to conduct the alewive fishery.
Article 70. Voted, that the Selectmen, be authorized to commence suit for the recovery of any money or property due the town or to prosecute a bill in equity or any other proceeding in Court where in their judgement it is expedient so to do.
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