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Article 5. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a reserve fund.
Article 6. To see if the Town will designate the Weymouth. Trust Company, the First National Bank of Boston, the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, and the Fourth Atlantic National Bank: of Boston as legal depositories for the funds of the Town, and the First National Bank of Boston as legal depository for the secur- ities of the Town.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $7,195.07 for the payment of Weymouth's por- tion toward the cost of repairs and maintenance of Norfolk: County Hospital for the year 1922.
Article 8. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to- raise and appropriate, or will appropriate, for the payment of un- paid bills for the year 1922.
Article 9. To see what sum of money the Town will vote. to raise and appropriate for the purpose of publishing the History of the Town. The same to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article 10. To see what sum of money the Town will vote. to raise and appropriate for the celebration of the three hun- dredth anniversary of the settlement of the Town of Weymouth.
TOWN SURVEY
Article 11. To see what sum of money the Town will vote- to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of the Town survey system, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of three hundred dollars for the purpose of erecting bound stones on accepted highways.
TAXES and INTEREST
Article 13. To determine in what manner taxes shall be collected the current. year, and to fix the rate of interest on all taxes remaining unpaid after the time fixed for payment.
Article 14. To see whatsum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of interest which may become due during the current year.
PRINTING and ADVERTISING
Article 15. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for printing and advertising.
SHADE TREES and SUPPRESSION of MOTHS
Article 16. 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.
Article 17. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the suppression of gypsy and brown- tail moths, or take any other action in relation thereto.
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STATE and MILITARY AID and SOLDIERS' RELIEF
Article 18. To see what sum of money the Town will ap- propriate for the payment of State and Military Aid and for bur- ials under the provisions of Chapter 115, Section 3, of the Gen -. eral Laws and to determine how much of the same shall be raised by taxation.
Article 19. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen and families of disabled soldiers and seamen under Chap- ter 115, Section 17, of the General Laws.
SCHOOLS
Article 20. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of public schools and for the transportation of pupils to and from school.
Article 21. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise by loan or otherwise, and appropriate for the construc- tion and original equipment of an addition to the Weymouth High School, and for alterations and improvements to the present building, and to determine by vote the manner in which funds for the purpose shall be raised or borrowed, and the terms and con- ditions of any loan or loans necessary to procure such funds, and to authorize the issues of bonds or notes to secure the same, in such sum, not exceeding $300,000, as the Town by vote shall fix, and also to take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 22. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate toward the sinking fund for the pay- ment at maturity of the James Humphrey Schoolhouse bonds.
PUBLIC PARKS
Article 23. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the care and maintenance of the parks of Weymouth, the same to be expended under the super- vision of the Park Commissioners.
Article 24. On petition : To see if the Town will appoint a committee of ten to investigate the needs of a playground and park in Ward 2, raise and appropriate money for the same or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 25. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $100 for the purpose of grading park land at Wessagussett, or Article 26. To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the working of an extension of Bradley Road from the southerly line of Great Hill Park over said park to and around the top of the hill.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Article 27. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the support of the Fire Department. Article 28. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to au- thorize the payment to call men of the Fire Department a yearly salary of twenty-five ($25) dollars, and seventy-five cents per hour for services at fires.
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Article 29. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $300 for the installation of a fire alarm box at or near the corner of West Street and Summer Street in · Weymouth, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 30. On petition : To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the installation of a fire alarm box at Evans and Johnson Roads, North Weymouth, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 31. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the installation of a fire alarm box at the entrance to Idlewell, on Commercial Street, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 32. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the installation of a fire alarm box at the corner of North and Pearl Streets, North Weymouth, or take any other action in relation thereto.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Article 33. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept the pro- visions of Section 85 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws, to pro- vide for pensioning the members of its permanent Police Force.
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) for the building of a garage and the purchase of an automobile, for the Police Department.
TOWN OFFICERS, ELECTION and TOWN OFFICES
Article 36. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of Town officers.
Article 37. To see what sun of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for election expenses.
Article 38. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for rent and expenses of town offices.
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING ROOM
Article 39. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Tufts Library.
Article 40. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the maintenance of a reading-room -in the Fogg Library.
Article 41. On petition : To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for the establishment and main- tenance of a reading-room in East Weymouth, this reading-room to be under the supervision of the Trustees of the Tufts Library.
Article 42. To see if the Town will authorize the Trustees. of the Tufts Library to sell such furnishings now in the build- ing as they have no further use for.
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PUBLIC CHARITY
Article 43. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the relief and support of the poor.
Article 44. By request: To see if the Town will authorize the Overseers of the Poor to employ a welfare worker to look after and investigate the needs of the poor under the jurisdiction of the Overseers of the Poor, or take action in any manner re- lating thereto.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to erect a new Almshouse upon the Town Farm at a cost not to exceed forty thousand ($40,000) dollars in substantial conformity to the plans submitted by the committee, and take all further action necessary to carry such vote into effect, including the authoriza- tion of a loan of the aforesaid amount and the appointment of a building committee, which committee we recommend shall con- sist of the Board of Overseers of the Poor for the year 1923.
STREET LIGHTING
Article 46. To see if the Town will authorize the Electric: Light Committee to contract with the Weymouth Light & Power Co. for furnishing lights for the Town, or act in any manner re- lating thereto.
Article 47. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the lighting of streets.
Article 48. On petition : To see if the Town will place three electric lights on Summer Street.
Article 49. On petition: To see if the Town will place three electric lights on Columbian Street, between Forest Street and the Braintree line.
Article 50. On petition : To see if the Town will place two electric lights on Emerson Street.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Article 51. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the services and expenses of the Board of Health.
Article 52. By request: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the employment of dis- trict or other nurses under the provisions of the General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5.
Article 53. By request: To see if the Town will vote to. raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the establishment and support of a Dental Clinic, under the provisions of the General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5.
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WATER DEPARTMENT
Art. 54. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate from. the revenue of the department for the current year, the sum of $51,920, to be expended for the following purposes, viz:
Maintenance of Pumping Station $22,325
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Commissioners and Office 4,500
Replacements 2,500
Princ pal Serial Bonds 7,500
Interest Serial Bonds
3,595
$51,920.00
Art. 55. To see if the Town will authorize the issuance of not to exceed $10,000 in bonds or notes, under the authority of Chapter 44, Section 8, Clause 4, of the General Laws, for de- partment purposes, if same should be necessary.
WAYS AND BRIDGES
Art. 56. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repairs of highways, townways, bridges and street oiling, and for the removal of snow.
Art. 57. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $5,000 for the building of permanent sidewalks, the same to be expended under the provisions of the Betterment Act.
Art. 58. To see if the Town will authorize and instruct its Treasurer, with the approval of its Selectmen, to prepare and issue notes or bonds of the Town to an amount not exceeding $20,000 under the provisions of Chapter 44, Section 7, Clause 8, of the General Laws, the same to be payable within five years of the date of issue in such amounts annually as may be deter- mined; the proceeds to be devoted to reconstruction of existing townways with bituminous macadam construction.
Art. 59. By request : To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate $1,500 for regrading Pond Street, south of Fountain Square, to Abington line, and tarring the same.
Art 60. To see of the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate $250 for the drainage of Pond Street at the property of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., in conjunction with the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., should the railroad company pay an equal amount toward draining Depot Square.
Art. 61. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $800 for properly regrading and redrain- ing Shawmut Street from Broad to Pleasant Streets.
Art. 62. On petition : To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the repairing of Summer Street Northerly from the corner of West Street, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 63. On petition : To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to construct a drain at the junction of Wharf and. Commercial Streets, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 64. On petition: To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the continuation of the working of Emerson Street.
Art. 65. On petition : To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $800 for the purpose of tarring and re-
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pairing the highway on Pine Street from Park Street to the Hingham town line.
Art. 66. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and -appropriate the sum of $2,000 to rebuild and tar Chard Street and Hillside Avenue.
Art. 67. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the grading and tarring of Columb.an Street from the residence of Mr. W. Carleton Barnes to the Braintree line.
Art. 68. By request: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate $1,000 for street signs and guide boards or to take any other action thereto.
Art. 69. On petition of Weymouth Post, No. 79, American Legion: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate an additional sum of money for the erection of signs renaming certain squares as voted at the annual town meeting last year, or to take any other action relating thereto.
Art. 70. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of acquiring drainage rights by purchase or right of eminent domain, through the property of Miss Mary Condrick on Granite Street and the property of Peter, Elizabeth J. and William Ralph Cruikshank on Keith Street. The same to follow from the present culvert on Granite Street along the line of the present drain to Keith Street and to have a width of eight feet; or to take any other action relating thereto.
Art. 71. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the :sum of $1,000 for the further working of Bradley Road.
Art. 72. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate any sum of money for the purpose of enlarging and rebuilding the culvert across Pleasant Street near its junction with Water Street.
Art. 73. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate a sum of money for the purpose of replacing the present drain on Broad Street, from the store of Frank H. Sylvester to the Herring Brook, with a drain of sufficient capacity to care for the water which is now brought to the depression in front of the Sylvester store, occasioning serious damage whenever there is a heavy rain.
Art. 74. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the grading and tarring of Summer Street from Federal Street to the residence of Carl Everson.
Art. 75. On petition : To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400 to be spent for needed repairs to Hawthorne Street, between Myrtle and Cedar Streets.
Art. 76. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate the sum of $1,000 to complete the sidewalk on the westerly side of Main Street, from Highland Cemetery to In- dependence Square, or act thereon.
Art. 77. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to ac-
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cept the report of the Selectmen upon extending Beals Street: through to Norton Street as a public way.
Art. 78. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate any sum of money for working the same.
Art. 79. On petition : To see if the Town will accept the- report of the Selectmen upon the laying out of a street be -- tween Lovell Street and North Street. 1
Art. 80. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri -- ate any sum of money for working the same.
Art. 81. On petition: To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen upon laying out as a townway the- private way known as Ramblers Way.
Art. 82. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate any sum of money for the working of the same.
Art. 83. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to ac- cept the report of the Selectmen upon making a public way of the private way between 382 and 386 East Street.
Art. 84. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate $500 for the working of the same.
Art. 85. To see if the Town will accept the report of the- Selectmen upon the laying out as a townway of the private way, leading from the easterly side of Union Street, and known as May Terrace.
Art. 86. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate any sum of money for the purpose of working May Terrace as a. townway.
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
Art. 87. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for Memorial Day.
Art. 88. To determine in what manner the alewive fishery shall be conducted the present year, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the said. fishery.
Art. 89. To see if the Town will authorize its Selectmen to. commence suit for the recovery of any money or property due it, or to prosecute a bill in equity or any other proceedings in court when in their judgment it is expedient in the interests of the Town to do so.
Art. 90. 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. 91. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to ra se and appropriate for the miscellaneous. expenses.
Art. 92. On petition : To see if the Town will vote to in- struct the Selectmen to sell at public auction the lockup prop- erty located in Ward Three, including land and buildings.
Art. 93. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to auth- orize the Selectmen to sell the Hose House , and lot on which
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it stands in Ward Four to the Citizens Association, Inc., of Precinct Four, for a suitable sum and other considerations, the Town reserving the use of the building for election or other Town purposes.
Art. 94. On petition : To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate the sum of five hundred (500) dollars, to be paid to the Weymouth Hospital at South Weymouth, for the estab- lishment of a free bed in said hospital, under the provisions of Section 74 of Chapter 3 of the General Laws, or take any action in relation thereto.
Art. 95. On petition : To see if the Town will vote to have building laws in different zones.
Art. 96. On petition : To see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for the collection of garbage in different zones.
Art. 97. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to appoint a committee of citizens to investigate and report at the next Town Meeting on the possibility of establishing a Town forest and to appropriate a sum of money for the use of the committee for this purpose.
Art. 98. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate a certain sum of money to provide a su table bathing place for the inhabitants of the Town of Weymouth to be lo- cated at the south side of Whitman's pond bordering Island View Road.
Art. 99. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate any sum of money for the erection of a sea wall adjacent to Johnson's Beach for the protection of part of Wessagussett Road and abutting property, provided financial assistance can be obtained from the State Department of Public Works, or to take any other action relating thereto.
Art. 100. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate any sum of money for the purpose of acquiring by pur- chase or by taking by eminent domain the beach adjacent to the foot of North Street and that bordering Wessagussett Road, or take any other action relating thereto.
You are further required to notify and warn said inhabitants of Weymouth qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the poll- ing places in their respective precincts, to wit: in Precincts 1, 3, 5 and 6, in the halls of the Fire Engine Houses located in those precincts respectively ; in Precinct 2, at G. A. R. Hall; in Precinct 4, at the building formerly known as the Hose House and now located on Front Street near Nash's Corner; at Precinct 7, at the Lovell's Corner Improvement Association Building on Washing- ton Street,
ON MONDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF MARCH, 1923,
at five o'clock and forty-five minutes in the forenoon; then and there to bring to the wardens of their several precincts, the'r votes on one ballot, for the following named public officers, to wit:
Town Clerk; Town Treasurer; five (5) Selectmen; five (5)
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Overseers of the Poor; two (2) Assessors for three years; Collector of Taxes; three (3) Auditors; two (2) School Commit- tee for three years; one (1) Water Commissioner for three years; one (1) member of the Board of Health for three years; one (1) Park Commissioner for three years; three (3) Trus- tees of Tufts Library for three years; one (1) Trustee of Tufts Library for two years, to fill vacancy; one (1) Comm's- sioner of the James Humphrey Schoolhouse Sinking Fund for- three years; one (1) Tree Warden; ten (10) Constables; an. Annual Moderator; and for the election in Precinct 1, of nine- (9) Town-Meeting Members for three years; in Precinct 2, of eight (8) Town-Meeting Members for three years, and one (1) Town-Meeting Member for one year to fill vacancy ; ; in Pre- cinct 3 of ten (10) Town-Meeting Members for three years; in Precinct 4 of three (3) Town-Meeting Members for one. year, four (4) Town-Meeting Members for two years and four- (4) Town-Meeting Members for three years; in Precinct 5 of. ten (10) Town-Meeting Members for three years; in Precinct 6 of eight (8) Town-Meeting Members for three years. and one (1) Town-Meeting Member for one year to fill vacancy; in Pre- cinct 7 of three (3) Town-Meeting Members for one (1) year, three (3) Town-Meeting Members for two years and three (3) Town-Meeting Members for three years; and to vote on the same: ballot "Yes" or "No" upon the following questions:
1. "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-in toxicating beverages in this Town?"
2. "Shall the Town petition for the installation of an ac- counting system by the Commonwealth?" (This provision is; submitted under the provisions of Chapter 516, Acts of 1922.)
3. "Shall the Town of Weymouth revoke its acceptance of Chapter six hundred and thirty-five of the acts of nineteen hun- dred and twelve, being an act relative to tenement houses in: towns?"
4. "Shall the Town of Weymouth accept the provisions of Sec- tion 85 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws, to provide for pension- ing the permanent members of the Police and Fire Department?"
The polls will be closed at four o'clock in the afternoon.
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 said meeting called for in this warrant.
Hereof, fail not, make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town, on or before the second day of March, 1923.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-three.
WILLIAM B. DASHA, THERON L. TIRRELL. ALFRED W. HASTINGS, FREDERICK HUMPHREY, Selectmen of Weymouth.
A true copy. Attest : ARTHUR H. PRATT,
Constable of Weymouth.
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Return of Service, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
NORFOLK, ss.
Weymouth, February 23, 1923.
Pursuant to the within warrant I have this day notified and warned the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid to meet at the respective places and times for the purposes set forth in said warrant by posting true and attested copies of the same in each precinct in said town as therein directed seven days before the time of holding said meeting.
ARTHUR H. PRATT Constable of Weymouth
A true copy, Attest: CLAYTON R. MERCHANT Town Clerk
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the annual meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Weymouth was held at the Odd Fellows' Opera House, East Weymouth, on Monday, March 5, 1923. The meeting was called to order at 7:45 o'clock in the evening by Hon. George L Barnes, Annual Moderator, who di- rected the reading of the warrant by the Town Clerk. After reading the call for the meeting, it was voted: "That the reading of the articles in the warrant be omitted." The Town Clerk then read the last three paragraphs of the warrant also the service of the Constable who served the warrant.
Article 1. Mr. Thomas P. Vaille moved that a committee be appointed to retire and bring in a list of minor officers, not elected by ballot, including an Electric Light Committee and an Appropri- ation Committee.
The Moderator ruled that under Sec. 1, Art. 3 of the town by-laws the Appropriation Committee should be appointed by the Moderator.
Mr. Vaille appealed from the decision of the chair, and stated that according to the form of Representative Government, this committee should be nominated by a committee appointed by the Moderator.
The Moderator then put the question, "Shall the decision of "the chair stand as the decision of the meeting." It was so voted. Then the question "That a committee be appointed to bring in a list of minor officers" was put before the meeting and was de- «clared a vote.
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