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Thomas J. Kelley M. Frank McCarthy Herbert W. Rockwood William H. Doyle J. Herbert Libby Patrick J. O'Toole Michael Sheehy.
Town Meeting Members, Prec. 7, 3 years
Eva Lillian Rea Willie F. Tirrell
Town Meeting Member Prec. 7, (One vacancy) 1 year to fill vacancy
Irwin B. H. Hawes
"Shall licenses be granted for the sale of certain non-intox- icating beverages in this town?"
NO.
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Alfred S. Tirrell Richard Halloran Thomas H. Melville
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"Shall the Town of Weymouth accept the provisions of Sec- tion 32 of the General Laws, to provide for the pensioning of the permanent members of its Police Department?" NO.
C. B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
* Appointed .to fill vacancy.
¡ Resigned.
¿ Deceased.
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WARRANT FOR PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Weymouth, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are quali- fied to vote in Primaries to meet at the polling 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 re- spectively: In Precinct 2, at G. A. R. Hall, in Precinct 4, at the building of the Citizens Association, Inc., on Front street, at Pre- cinct 7, at the Lovell Corner Improvment Association Building on ton Street, on Tuesday the Twenty-ninth day of April, 1924 at two o'clock P. M. for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Elec- tion of Candidates of Political Parties for the following officers:
7 Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Re- publican Party.
7 Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Republican Party.
8 Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Dem- ocratic Party.
8 Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Democratic Party.
2 District Delegates to the National Convention of the Re- public Party, 14th Congressional District.
2 Alternate District Delegates to the National Convention of the Republican Party, 14th Congressional District.
4 District Delegates to the National Convention of the Dem- ocratic Party, 14th Democratic District ..
4 Alternate District Delegates to the National Convention. of the Democratic party, 14th Democratic District.
The polls will be open from two o'clock to eight o'clock P. M. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting at- tested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the town.
Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this seventh day of April, A. D. 1924.
THERON L. TIRRELL WINSLOW M. TIRRELL WILLIAM B. DASHA H. FRANKLIN PERRY FRED E. WAITE Selectmen of Weymouth.
A true copy, Attest : ARTHUR H. PRATT Constable of Weymouth.
April, 1924
Return of Service COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, ss. Weymouth, Mass., April 19, 1924.
Pursuant to the within warrant I have this day notified and
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warned the inhabitants of Weymouth, aforesaid, to meet at their respective places and time, for the purpose set forth in said war- rant, by posting two attested copies of the same in each precinct in said town as therein directed.
ARTHUR H. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth.
REPUBLICAN Delegates at Large
1
2
3
4
5
6 39
7
Total
Channing H. Cox
55
47
69
50
137
42
439
Henry Cabot Lodge
54
47
67
47
135
38
40
429
Frederick H. Gillett
54
46
66
44
127
37
40
414
William M. Butler
54
47
66
46
126
37
37
413
John H. Sherburne
54
46
66
46
125
37
40
414
Anna C. Bird
54
45
66
50
126
37
40
418
Jessie A. Hall
54
45
64
43
126
38
38
408
Blanks
40
34
47
94
106
10
38
369
Totals
420
357
511
420 1008
273
315
3304
Alternate Delegates at Large
Pauline R. Thayer
53
43
60
47
117
37
36
393
Elizabeth Putnam
52
42
59
46
118
36
37
391
Charles H. Innis
51
44
61
45
116
36.
35
388
John Jacob Rogers
52
44
59
45
115
36
36
387
Robert M. Stevens
53
45
60
44
113
37
36
388
Mary B. Browne
51
43
60
45
114
36
34
383
Spencer Borden, Jr.
55
46
59
43
115
36
34
388
Blanks
53
49
93
105
200
19
67
586
Totals
420
357
511
420 1008
273 315
3304
District Delegates,
14th District
Roger Keith
49
33
56
37
124
30
39
368
George L. Barnes
53
46
66
57
37
35
39
433
Eugene H. Sprague Blanks
14
17
12
24
22
7
11
107
Totals
120
102
146
120
288
78
90
944
Alternate District Delegates, 14th District
Beatrice W. Nichols
52
39
64
39
115
35
31
375
Elwin T. Wright
53
44
66
43
123
36
36
401
Blanks
15
19
16
38
50
7
23
168
Totals
120
102
146
120
288
78
90
944
DEMOCRATIC
Delegates at Large
David I. Walsh
9
6
12
2
10
13
5
57
Arthur Lyman
0
5
8
2
5
6
2
28
Joseph B. Ely
3
5
10
2
5
6
3
34
Helen A. McDonald
1
4
6
2
2
6
3
24
Susan W. Fitzgerald
3
4
5
2
4
5
4
27
Rose Herbert
1
5
7
2
2
5
1
23
Mary E. Meehan
2
3
5
1
2
6
3
22
John F. Doherty
2
5
9
2
4
6
2
30
Charles H. Cole
7
7
12
1
9
9
4
49
Blanks
60
12
30
8
45
66
29
250
Totals
88
56
104
24
88
128
56
544
4
6
12
2
5
6
1
36
42
Alternate Delegates at Large
Arthur J. B. Carthier
1
4
7
2
3
5
3
25
William A. O'Hearn
3
5
8
2
5
6
2
31
Jeremiah J. Healey
3
5
8
2
6
5
3
32
Edward A. Ginsburg
2
5
7
2
3
5
3
27
Dorothy Whipple Fry
2
4
6
2
2
5
3
24
Mary G. Quincy
3
4
6
2
2
5
2
24
Anne O. Heffernan
3
4
7
2
2
6
2
26
Mary Bacigalupo
2
2
1
1
3
5
1
15
William H. Doyle
4
5
11
1
6
5
3
35
Blanks
65
18
43
8
56
81
34
305
Totals
88
56
104
24
88
128
56
544
District Delegates, 14th District
Arthur A. Hendrick
2
4
4
3
3
1
3
. 20
David W. Murray
3
4
5
2
6
4
3
27
John H. O'Connell
3
2
5
2
5
2
4
23
Frank A. Manning
3
5
6
3
7
5
4
33
Christopher M. Clifford 2
1
1
1
1
2
0
8
William L. Gleason
3
2
3
0
0
2
0
10
Patrick F. McMahon
1
0
3
0
0
1
1
6
William H. Powers
0
3
3
1
2
5
1
15
Charles F. Riordan Blanks
25
4
15
0
16
41
11
112
Totals
44
28
52
12
44
64
28
272
Alternate District Delegates, 14th District
Lizzie Gormley
3
4
3
1
4
3
6
24
Kathleen E. Kiggen
2
4
6
2
5
1
3
23
William P. Nickerson
3
5
7
2
2
3
3
25
Joseph W. Ramsey
4
3
5
2
3
4
4
25
Walter C. Russell
3
2
5
1
2
3
1
17
Blanks
29
10
26
4
28
50
11
158
Totals
44
28
52
12
44
64
28
272
WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in of 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 who are qualified to vote in Town affairs to meet at the hall of the Weymouth High School on
MONDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE, 1924, at seven o'clock and forty-five minutes in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To hear the reports of any committees appointed at any previous meeting, and to act thereon.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will appropriate any sum of money under the provisions of the twelfth clause of Section 5 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws and the acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, for the purpose of suitably marking the graves of the soldiers and sailors buried in this town who served in the
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3
7
0
4
1
1
18
1
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War of 1812, and to determine under whose supervision the money shall be expended.
Art. 3. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the installation of a fire-alarm box at or near the corner of Standish Street and Ramblers Way (so called), or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 4. On. petition: To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate a sum of money for the installation of a fire-alarm box on Broad Street, near the laboratory of E. S. Hunt & Sons, Inc., or take any action in relation thereto.
Art. 5. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate the sum of $26,000 for fire protection and water service within Lakewood Grove and the Birches, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 6 .. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote on Article 42 of the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting, held March 3, 1924, whereby it voted to raise by loan and appropriate $50,000 for the laying and relaying of the Town's water mains of six inches or more in diameter.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise by loan and appropriate the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the laying and relaying of the Town's water mains of six (6) inches or more in diameter, under the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, as amended by Chapter 303 of the Acts of 1923, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 8. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate a certain sum of money sufficient for the purpose of properly draining and grading that portion of Webb Street in Ward 3 from a point about at the intersection of Richmond Street, northerly to the intersection of Commercial Street, or take any other action relating thereto.
Art. 9. On petition: To see if the Town will accept the re- port of the Selectmen upon the laying out as a townway the continuance of Babcock Avenue, from Birchbrow Avenue to Wey- mouth Fore River.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate any sum of money for working the same.
Art. 11. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to . raise and appropriate, or will appropriate, for the payment of unpaid bills for the year .1923.
Art. 12. On petition: To amend the By-Laws of the Town by adding thereto the following By-Law: "No public garage, gasoline filling station or oil station shall hereafter be located, built or maintained upon any property bordering upon those por- tions of the highways, streets and ways in the Town devoted for residential purposes."
Art. 13. On petition: To see if the Town will accept the re- port of the Selectmen upon the laying out of a townway the private way known as Pecksuot Road.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate any sum of money for working the same.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to reimburse Angus Montgomery, pertaining to the laying of a cement sidewalk abutting his on Union Street, on a fifty-fifty basis.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to reimburse the Stetson Shoe Company, pertain- ing to the laying of a cement sidewalk abutting on their property
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on Main Street, on a fifty-fifty basis.
Art. 17. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to permanently repair Forest Street and widen the curve near the residence of H. B. Jones.
Art. 18. On petition: To see if the Town will appoint a committee to report upon the advisability of acquiring land for the purpose of widening Madison Square; the Town-Meeting Members of Precinct 2 to act as this committee.
Art. 19. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to drain and grade the Nevin School Playground.
Art. 20. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate $1,000 to repair Randolph Street, from Hale's Corner to Holbrook line.
Art. 21. On petition: To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate $500 for the working of Thicket Street.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate $6,250 for the purchase of a new road-roller.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate $500 for the repair and oiling of East Street, from Union Avenue to North Street.
Art. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate $700 for the repair and oiling of Essex Street, from Lake to Broad Street, and oil Lake Street, form Charles to Middle Street.
Art. 25. To see what additional sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for election expenses ..
Art. 26. To see what additional sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for police service.
Art. 27. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to station a patrolman in the part of the Town known as South Weymouth.
Art. 28. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to install a hydrant for fire pur- poses on the easterly end of Park Road.
Art. 29. On petition: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to install a hydrant at the corner of Weybossett Street and Fore River Avenue.
Art. 30. On petition of the Board of Fine Engineers: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $10,000 for the purchase of a motor hook and ladder truck, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Art. 31. On petition of the Board of Fire Engineers: To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to pay the salary of a permanent chauffeur for the truck.
Art. 32. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse Dr. Karle H. Granger $420 for medicines and professional services rendered Mrs. Hannah C. Orcutt, late of Weymouth.
Art. 33. To see if the Town will vote to accept the bequest to it under the will of the late Walter G. Forsyth, subject to the conditions upon which said bequest is made.
Art. 34. To see if the Town will vote to accept the bequest to it under the will of the late William H. Pratt, subject to the conditions upon which said bequest is made.
Art. 35. By request: To see if the Town will vote to accept the following additions to Article 5 of our present By-Laws:
Sec. 7. No street or way shall be laid out or accepted by the Town of Weymouth of a width less than 40 feet, unless the
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same shall have been actually opened and used for public travel prior to January 1, 1924, or is requested and recommended by the Selectmen and Superintendent of Streets.
Sec. 8. No street or way constructed through lands by the owners thereon shall be laid out or accepted or recommended by the Selectmen or any committee of the Town for acceptance as. a public street or way of the Town of Weymouth, unless previously constructed and completed to sub-grade in accordance with speci- fications set forth in Section 12.
Sec. 9. Any street or way constructed through private land by the owner thereon in accordance with the specifications set forth in Section 12, may be laid out and accepted as a public street of the Town of Weymouth provided such action is taken in accordance with provisions of Laws of Massachusetts; and pro- vided also, that the owners of at least 75 per cent. of the lands through which such street or way passes have signed releases of all property which the Town deem it necessary to acquire for such layout and accepted and have granted sloping privileges and have agreed to pay betterment assessments.
Sec. 10. Wherever it is necessary in the opinion of the Superintendent of Streets to construct catch-basins on any such street or way and lay drains to connect with a permanent out- let, such catch-basins and drains may be constructed and laid and the cost of such work shall be considered as a part of the total cost of constructing said street or way.
Sec. 11. Side guttters on any such street or way having a grade of five per cent. or over may, if in the opinion of the Super- intendent of Streets it be necessary, be paved four feet wide, with stone or concrete, the cost of such work shall be considered as a part of the total cost of constructing said street or way.
Sec. 12. A plan and profile on paper or tracing-cloth 19 inches wide by 28 inches long at a scale of not less than one inch to 40 feet of every street shall be filed in the office of the Superin- tendent of Streets who shall fix the grade thereon.
(a) Every such street or way shall be at least forty feet, wide and have a road-bed equal to at least two-thirds of said street. or way.
(b) All loam shall be removed from the limits of the street or way to a depth of at least twelve inches below the finished grade for the roadway and six inches below the finished grade for the sidewalk, or such greater depth as may be required by the Selectmen. All rock or boulders removed from the street or way shall be used in embankment.
(c) The entire area of such street or way shall be first. cleared of all stumps, brush, roots and like material and of all trees not intended for preservation.
(d) All work in excavation or embankment shall be brought. accurately to a sub-grade of not less than eight inches for the roadway and four inches for the sidewalk, below finished grade, or such greater depth as the nature of the sub-soil, in the opinion of the Selectmen may require.
(e) All corners of intersecting streets or ways shall be rounded as approved by the Selectmen.
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
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doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town, on or before the twenty-third day of June, 1924.
Given under our hands at Weymouth, this sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-four. THERON L. TIRRELL, WINSLOW M. TIRRELL,
FRED E. WAITE, H. FRANKLIN PERRY, WILLIAM B. DASHA, Selectmen of Weymouth.
A true copy. ' Attest: ARTHUR H. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth. June 16, 1924.
Return of Service, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Weymouth, Mass., June 20, 1924.
NORFOLK, ss.
I have this day served the within warrant by posting a copy thereof, attested by me in writing in each of two places in each voting Precinct in said town of Weymouth, seven days before the time of holding said meeting.
ARTHUR H. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth.
I hereby certify that a copy of this warrant was mailed to every Town meeting with a copy of the articles printed thereon. CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
Weymouth, Mass., June 30, 1924.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant a special town meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Weymouth, represented by the Town Meeting Members, was held at the hall of the New High School this Monday, the 30th day of June, 1924. The meeting was called to order at 7:45 P. M. by George L. Barnes, the An- nual Moderator, who requested the Town Clerk to read the warrant. After reading the call for the meeting, it was voted that the reading of the several articles be dispensed with. The Town Clerk then read the last paragraphs of the Warrant and the return of the Constable who served the warrant.
Article 1. The committee appointed under Article 24 of the Annual Town Meeting reported progress.
Voted to accept as progressing.
The committee appointed under Article 89 of the Annual Town Meeting reported as follows:
Weymouth, June 30, 1924.
The Committee appointed by the Moderator at the Annual Town Meeting to investigate the matter of a bathing beach on Whitman Pond, have viewed the same, and recommend the pur- chase or taking of land on Lake Street in front of Charles Street. In regard to the southerly side of the Pond we could find no place that we could recommend the town to take as a bathing beach.
Committee, RICHARD HALLORAN, ARTHUR A. CICCHESE, IRVING E. JOHNSON.
Voted to accept the report.
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The committee appointed under Article 78 of the Annual Town Meeting reported progress.
Voted the report be accepted as progressive.
Article 2. Voted: To appropriate from surplus, the sum of $110 under the provisions of clause 12, Section 5, Chapter 40 of the General Laws, for the purpose of suitably marking the graves of soldiers and sailors buried in this town who served in the Ward of 1812; and that the Commander of the local post of the American Legion and the President of the Weymouth His- torical Society be a committee to carry out the provisions of this vote.
Article 3. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 4. .. Voted : To refer the subject matter of this article to the Fire Engineers.
Article 5. Voted: To refer the the subject matter of this article to the Water Commissioners.
Article 6. Voted: That the Town rescind its vote under . Article 42 in the warrant for annual town meeting held March 3, 1924, whereby it voted to raise by loan and appropriate $50,000 for the laying and relaying of the town's water mains of six inches or more in diameter.
Article 7. Voted: That the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000) be raised by loan and appropriated for the laying and relaying of the Town's water mains of six (6) inches or more in diameter, and that the Treasurer of the Town be and hereby is authorized, with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row said sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000) for said purpose, and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor, said bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Section 19, Chapter 44 of the General Laws, so that the whole shall be paid in not more than fifteen years from its date-
YES, 97. NO, 0.
Article 8. Voted: To appropriate from surplus the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for draining and grading that portion of Webb Street beginning at a point about the intersec- tion of Richmond Street and thence northerly to the intersection of Commercial.
Article 9. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postponed. Article 10. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 11. Voted: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $100 for unpaid bills year 1923.
Article 12. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to a committee of 3. Article 13. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the next Annual Meeting.
Article 14. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 15: Voted: To appropriate from surplus a sum not exceeding $125 for the purpose of reimbursing Angus Montgom- ery for one-half the cost of a cement sidewalk abutting his prop- erty on Union Street.
Article 16. Motion made by the Appropriation Committee to appropriate from surplus a sum not exceeding $795 for the purpose of reimbursing the Stetson Shoe Company for one-half the cost of a cement sidewalk abutting its property on Main Street.
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Voted: That the subject matter of this article be indefinitely postpond.
YES, 57. NO, 21.
Article 17. Motion made by the Appropriation Committee: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $500 for repairs upon Forest Street.
The question was put before the meeting and was declared "not a vote."
Article 18. Voted: That the Town Meeting Members of Precinct 2 be a committee to consider the question upon the ad- visability of acquiring land for the purpose of widening Madison Square, and report at some future meeting.
Article 19. Motion made by the Appropriation Committee: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $3,000 for draining Nevins School playground in accordance with plan recommended by the Superintendent of Streets, and that the Superintendent of Streets do the work.
Amendment made that the subject matter of this article be referred to the next annual meeting, "Not a vote."
The motion of the Appropriation Committee was then put and declared a vote.
Article 20. Motion made by the Appropriation Committee: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $1,000 for repairing Randolph Street from Hale's Corner to the Holbrook line.
An amendment was made to refer this question to the next annual town meeting. Not a vote. YES, 33. NO, 48.
The original motion by the Appropriation Committee was then put and declared a vote.
Article 21. Motion made by the Appropriation Committee: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $500 for the working of Thicket Street.
"Not a vote." Article 22. Voted: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $6,250 for the purchase of a new road roller.
Article 23. Voted: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $500 for the repairing and oiling of East Street from Union Avenue to North Street.
Article 24. Motion made that the sum of $700 be raised and appropriated for the repair and oiling of Essex Street, from Lake to Broad Street, and oil Lake Street, from Charles to Middle Street.
An amendment was offered that the sum of $700 be appro- priated from surplus. Amendment carried. The original motion as amended was so voted.
Article 25. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 26. Voted: To appropriate from surplus the sum of $2,900 for additional police protection, continuing the traffic officers at East Weymouth, Lovell's Corner, Lincoln Square and paying one-half the expense of an officer at the Edison plant, and also protection at the Nevins School during certain hours of the school day.
Article 27. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Article 28. Voted: The subject matter of this article be referred to the Water Commissioners.
Article 29. Voted: The subject matter of this article be referred to the Water Commissioners.
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Article 30. Motion made by the Appropriation Committee: That the Moderator appoint a committee of 3 to consist of one member of the Board of Selectmen, one member of the Board of Fire Engineers, and one member of the Appropriation Com- mittee, to look into the needs of the Fire Department for a new motor hook and ladder truck, the equipment thereof, cost and sale or disposition of any of the apparatus which may be discontinued by the purchase of a new truck, said committee to report at some future town meeting, but not later than the next annual town meeting.
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