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9,560.57
921.30
$1,957,391.59 $1,957,391.59
Water Loan Sinking Fund
Total Fund January 1, 1922 $12,120.83
Received Interest Weymouth Trust Co. 2.97
Received Interest Weymouth Trust Co. S. D.
60.57
Received Interest, N. Y. N. H. bonds 297.50
$12,481.87
Payments and Charges
Profit and loss, N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. bonds $2,000.00 Transferred to Water Account by vote of the Town: $17,000. N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. 31/2 per cent bonds
7,500.00
Deposit, Weymouth Trust Co, S. D.
2,060.57
Deposit, Weymouth Trust Co. Con. Acc. 921.30
$12,481.87
Respectfully submitted
JOHN H. STETSON, Treasurer.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR
PRECINCT VOTING, REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETINGS, TOWN MEETING MEMBERS, A REFERENDUM AND AN ANNUAL MODERATOR IN THE
TOWN OF WEYMOUTH
(Chapter 61, Acts of 1921.)
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ACTS OF 1921
(Chap. 61.)
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PRECINCT VOTING, REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETINGS, TOWN MEETING MEMBERS, A REFERENDUM AND AN ANNUAL MODERATOR IN THE TOWN OF WEYMOUTH.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Upon the acceptance of this act by the town of Wey- mouth as hereinafter provided the selectmen of the town shall forthwith divide the territory thereof into not less than six nor more than twelve voting precincts, each of which shall be plainly designated. The precincts shall be so established as to consist of compact and contiguous territory. Their boundaries shall be reviewed and, if need be, wholly or partly revised, by the selectmen, in January, once in five years, or in January of any year when directed by a vote of the town meeting. The selectmen shall, within ten days after any establishment or revision of the precincts, file a report of their doings with the town clerk, the registrars of voters, and the assessors, with a map or maps or description of the voters therein. The selectmen shall also cause to be posted in the town hall a map or maps or description of the precincts. as established or revised from time to time, with the names and residences of the registered voters therein; and they shall also cause to be posted in at least three public places in each precinct a map or description of that precinct, with the names and resi- dences of the voters therein. The division of the town into voting precincts and any revision of such precincts shall take affect upon the date of the filing of the report thereof by the selectmen with the town clerk. Whenever the precincts are established or revised, the town clerk shall forthwith give written notice thereof to the secretary of the commonwealth, stating the number and designation of the precincts. The provisions of the General Laws relating to precinct voting at elections, so far as the same are not incosistent with this act, shall apply to all elections and primaries in the town upon the establishment of voting precincts as hereinbefore provided.
Section 2. The voters in every precinct established under this act, shall, at a special town election to be held on May second next ensuing after the acceptance of this act, and at the first ensuing annual town election following any precinct revision and comform- ably to the laws relative to elections not inconsistent with this act, elect by ballot as nearly as may be three per cent of the voters in the precinct, other than the officers designated in section three as town meeting members at large, such elected voters to be town meeting members of the town, one third of whom shall be elected for the term of one year, one third for the term of two years and one third for the term of three years from the day of the annual town meeting; and thereafter, except as otherwise provided here- in, at each annual town election the voters of each precinct in the
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town shall, in like manner, elect as nearly as may be one per cent of their number to be town meeting members of the town for the term of three years, and shall at such election fill for the unex- pired term or terms any vacancies then existing in the number of town meeting members in their respective precincts. Upon every revision of the precincts, or of any of them, the terms of office of all town meeting members from every such revised pre- cinct shall cease upon the election of their successors, and at the first ensuing annual town election there shall be an entirely new election of town meeting members in every precinct so revised, as well as in any new precinct or precincts established. The town clerk shall, after every election of town meeting members, forth- with notify every member by mail of his election.
Section 3. Any town meeting held under the provisions of this act, except as otherwise provided herein, shall, at and after the first election held under this act, be limited to the voters elected under section two together with the following, designated as town meeting members at large; namely, any member of the general court of the commonwealth from the town, the moderator, the town clerk, the selectmen, the town treasurer, the town counsel, the town collector of taxes, the town accountant, the chairman of the board of assessors, the chairman of the school committee, the chairman of the trustees of Tufts Library, the chairman of the board of health, the chairman of the park commission, the chairman of the water commissioners, the tree warden, the chairman of the planing board, the chairman of the overseers of the poor, members of the approp- riation committee and chairman of any board of town officers hereinafter constituted by law or by the acts of the town. The town clerk shall notify the town meeting members of the time and place at which town meetings are to be held, the notices to be sent by mail at least seven days before the meeting. The town meeting members, as aforesaid, shall be the judges of the election and quali- fication of their members. A majority of the town meeting mem- bers shall constitute a quorum for doing business; but a less number may orgainze temporarily and may adjourn from time to time. Notice of every adjourned town meeting shall be posted by the town clerk in ten or more public places in the town, and he shall notify by mail the members of the town meeting of the adjournment at least twenty-four hours before the time of the adjourned town meet- ing. The notices shall state briefly the business to be acted upon at the meeting, and shall include notice of any proposed reconsider- ation. All town meeting shall be public. The town meeting mem- bers as such shall receive no compensation. Subject to such con- ditions as may be determined from time to time by the members of the representative town meeting, any voter of the town who is not a town meeting member may speak, but he shall not vote. A town meeting member may resign by filing a written resignation with the town clerk, and his resignation shall take effect on the date of such filing. A town meeting member who removes from the town or from the precinct from which he was elected shall cease to be a town meeting member.
Section 4 Nomination of candidates for town meeting members to be elected under this act shall be made by nomination papers, which shall bear no political designation, and signed by not less than ten voters of the precinct in which the candidate resides, and
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filed with the town clerk at least ten days before the election. No nomination shall be valid in respect to any candidate whose written acceptance is not thereon or attached thereto.
Section 5 The articles in the warrant for every town meeting, as far as they relate to the election of town officers, and town meet- ing members, as herein provided, referenda, and all matters to be acted upon and determined by ballot, shall be so acted upon and de- termined by the voters of the town in their respective precincts. All other articles in the warrant for any town meeting shall be acted upon and determined exclusively by town meeting members at a meeting to be held at such time and place as shall be set forth by the selectmen in the warrant for the meeting, subject to the re- ferendum provided for by section eight.
Section 6 A moderator shall be elected by ballot at the first election for the choice of town meeting members and at each annual town election thereafter by the voters and shall serve as moderator of all town meetings, except as otherwise provided by law, until his successor is elected and qualified. If a moderator is absent, a moderator pro tempore may be elected by the town meeting mem- bers.
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Section 7 Any vacancy in the full number of town meeting members from any precinct may be filled until the next annual election by the remaining memebrs of the precinct from among the voters thereof. Upon petition therefor, signed by not less than ten town meeting members from the precinct, notices of the vacancy shall be promptly given by the town clerk to the remaining members from the precinct in which the vacancy or vacancies exist, and he shall call a special meeting of such members for the purpose of filling any vacancy. He shall cause to be mailed to each of such members, not less than four days before the time set for the meet- ing. a notice specifying the object and the time and place of the meeting. At the said meeting a majority of the members shall constitute a quorum, and they shall elect from their own number a chairman and a clerk. The choice to fill any vacancy shall be by ballot, and a majority of the votes cast shall be required for a choice. The chairman and clerk shall make a certificate of the choice and forthwith file the same with the town clerk, together with a written acceptance by the member or members so chosen, who shall thereupon be deemed elected and qualified a town meeting member or members, subject to the right of all the town meeting members to judge of the election and qualification of members as set forth in section three.
Section 8 No measure passed at any representative town meet- ing, except a vote to adjourn or a measure appropriating or bor- rowing money for emergency purposes shall contain a preamble specifying the facts constituting the emergency and requiring for its passage a separate vote of two thirds of the town meeting mem- bers present and voting thereon, shall become operative until the expiration of five days, exclusive of Sundays and Holidays, from the dissolution of the meeting. If, within said five days a peti- tion, signed by not less thon one hundred voters of the town, con-
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taining their names and addresses as appearing on the voting list is filled with the selectmen asking that the question or questions involved in such measure be submitted to the voters of the town at large, then the selectmen, after the expiration of five days, shall forthwith call a special meeting for the sole purpose of presenting to the voters at large the question or questions so involved. The polls shall be opened at two o'clock in the afternoon and shall be closed not earlier than eight o'clock in the evening and all votes upon any questions submitted shall be taken by ballot, and a check list shall be used in the several precincts in the same manner as in the election of town officers. The questions submitted at the said town meeting shall be determined by vote of a majority of the voters at large voting thereon. The questions so submitted shall be stated upon the ballot in the same language and form in which they were stated when presented to said representative town meet- ing by the moderator, and as they appear upon the records of said representative town meeting. If such petition be not filed within the said period of five days, the vote in the representative town meeting shall become operative and effective upon the expiration of said period.
Section 9 The town of Weymouth, after the acceptance of this act, shall have the capacity to act through and to be bound by its said town meeting members who shall, when convened from time to time as herein provided, constitute representative town meetings; and such representative town meetings shall exercise exclusively, so far as will conform to the provisions of this act, all powers vested in the municipal corporation. Action in conformity with all provisions of law now or hereafter applicable to the transaction of town affairs in town meetings shall, whein taken by any repre- sentative town meeting in accordance with the provisions of this act, have the same force and affect as if such action had been taken in a town meeting, open to all the voters of the town as heretofore organized and conducted.
Section 10 This act shall not abridge the right of the people of Weymouth to hold general meetings; nor shall this act confer upon any representative town meeting in Weymouth the power finally to commit the town to any measure affecting its municipal exist- ance or changing its government, without the action thereon by the voters of the town at large, using the ballot and check list there- for.
Section 11 The question of the acceptance of this act by the town of Weymouth shall be submitted to the registered voters of the town at the annual town election in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one. The vote shall be by ballot, in accordance with the provisions of the General Laws so far as the same shall be applicable and not inconsistent herewith, in answer to the following questions which shall be placed upon the official ballot used for the election of town officers :- "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one, entitled 'An Act to provide for precinct voting, representative town meetings, town meeting members, a referendum and an annual moderator in the town of Weymouth', be accepted by this town?" and the affirm- ative votes of a majority of the registered voters of the town present and voting thereon shall be required for and shall deter-
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mine its acceptance. So much of this act as authorizes its sub- mission to the registered voters of the town shall take effect upon its passage; but this act shall not take further effect unless and until accepted by the town as herein provided. (Approved Feb- ruary 28, 1921. Accepted by the Town Mar. 14, 1921.
INDEX
Town Officers 3
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
9
Annual Town Meeting 19
Report on Proposed Metropolitan Water Supply 21
Adjourned Annual Town Meeting 53
Annual Town Election 58
Warrant for a Special Town Meeting
67
Special Town Meeting
69
Report of Committee on Transportation
70
Financial Report of Eastern Mass. St. Ry. Co.
72
Warrant for State Primary
78
Result of Primary Election
79
Warrant for a State Election 91
94
Jury List
100
Births
104
Marriages
116
Deaths 125
Jurors Drawn During Year
134
Election Officers Appointed 134
Annual Report of School Committee
137
Report of School Superintendent 141
170
Assessors' Report
174
Report of Tax Collector
175
Report of the Selectmen
177
Report on Transportation Service
177
Report of Moth Superintendent 180
Report of Tree Warden 180
Report of Forest Warden 181
Report of Burial Agent
181
Report of the Overseers of the Poor
181
Report of the Committee on Town Alms House
188
Report of Tufts Funds 194
Report of the Inspector of Animals 196
Report of the Chief of Police 196
Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures 200
Report of Committee on Town History 201 202
Report of Park Commissioners
Report of Board of Health
203 203
Report of Inspector of Slaughtering
204
Report of Inspector of Plumbing
204
Report of Weymouth Visiting Nurse Association
205
Report of Electric Light Committee 206
Report of the Town Engineer 207
Report of the Fire Engineer 209
Report of the Registrars of Voters 210
Report of the Superintendent of Streets 210
Report of the Trustees of Tufts Library 217
Report of the Town Accountant 243
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Auditor's Report 310
Trustees of Fore River Bridge
312
Report of Water Commissioners 315
An Act to Provide for Precinct Voting, etc. 343
Report of Milk and Dairy Inspector
Cases of Tuberculosis Reported to Nurse 205
Report of the Town Treasurer
Result of State Election
Report of Town Counsel
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