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Art. 17. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000 for the payment of State and Military Aid and for burials under the provisions of Chapter 115, Section 3 of the General Laws.
Art. 18. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $3,300 for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen and families of dis- abled soldiers and seamen under the provisions of Chapter 115, Section 17 of the General Laws.
Art. 19. Voted unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $278,000 for the support of the public schools and for the transportation of pupils to and from schools, $3,500 of this a- mount to be expended by the School Committee in improving the grounds, and constructing driveways and walks at the new school building in Bicknell Square, North Weymouth.
Art. 20. Voted: No action (for the reason it is taken of in article 19.)
Art. 21. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000 for equipment and furnishings for the new school building at Bicknell Square, North Weymouth, said furnishings and equip- ment to be installed by the present building committee, but in consultation with and in accordance with the needs and require- ments of the School Committee.
Under this article Mr. Charles A. Tobin moved that the town vote to name the new school building at Bicknell Square "Arthur B. Hurley" in honor of a North Weymouth boy who gave his life in the World War.
After quite a discussion Mr. Frank H. Torrey moved and it was voted: That a committee of 5 be appointed by the Moderator to suggest a name for the new school building at Bicknell Square, North Weymouth.
The Moderator appointed on this committee as follows: Ab- bie E. Beals, Patrick J. Derrig, Parker T. Pearson, Edwin R. Sampson and Prince H. Tirrell.
Art. 22. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $499.70 to pay for the installation of water service in the new school build- ing at Bicknell Square, North Weymouth.
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Art. 23. Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to purchase or acquire by right of eminent domain in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 79 of the General Laws for playground purposes, a parcel of land situated in North Wey- mouth adjourning the North Weymouth school grounds at Bick- nell Square, owned by Mary A. Donovan and bounded as follows:
Northerly by land now or formerly of Wallace H. Drake and by land now or formerly of Anna S. Newton.
Easterly by lands now or formerly of Anna S. Newton, by land of Clara L. Neton, Charles H. Williams, Sarah W. Comstock et al, Horace W. Walker, Joshua H. Shaw and Dora W. Spear.
Southerly by land now or formerly of Alberta H. McKenney, by land of Mary A. Murphy and land now or formerly of Leona M. Savage.
Westerly in various courses by land of the Town of Wey- mouth.
Containing about 136,000 square feet; and that the sum of $1,500 be raised and appropriated for the purposes of this article.
The Moderator appointed Charles Y. Berry and Arthur A. Cicchese as tellers, they were sworn to the faithful performance of their duty by the Moderator.
The above question was put before the meeting and the tel- lers reported 82 in favor and none against.
Art. 24. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for grading and improving the play-ground connected with the new school at North Weymouth.
Art. 25. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,250 for the purpose of purchasing land at Pond Plain for school pur- poses, by the School Committee, the same committee to bring in a report at the next annual meeting of school requirements at that place.
Art. 26. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $35,000 for the building, equiping and furnishing a shop or similar build- ing for the use of the Weymouth Day Industrial High School, said building to be constructed by or under supervision of the School Committee.
Art. 27. Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by purchase or to take by the right of eminent domain in accordance with Chapter 79 of the General Laws, for school purposes, a certain parcel of land situated in Weymouth shown as lots numbered 42 to 57 inclusive on a plan entitled "High School Terrace, Plan of Subdivision of land in Weymouth, Mass.," made by Russell H. Whiting, Civil Engineer, dated Sept. 24, 1925, bounded and described as follows:
Northerly by Academy Ave, so called, a proposed street shown on plan, five hundred thirteen and 25-100 (513.25) feet.
Easterly by land of one Knowles and by land now or formerly of Robert G. Orr, one hundred nineteen and 11-100 (119.11) feet and seventy-three (73) feet respectively.
Southerly by land of the town of Weymouth used for High School purposes and by land or formerly of one Mitchell, three hundred eleven (311) feet and one hundred ninety-one and 79-100 (181.79) feet.
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Containing 99.290 square feet more or less.
Together with the right to use said Academy Ave. forty (40) feet in width as shown on said plan for all purposes for which streets are commonly used, and to erect and maintain thereon poles and wires for light, heat and power, and to install and main- tain therein pipes for gas or water supply or for drainage pur- poses, and also, a certain parcel of land situated in Weymouth, Mass., bounded and described as follows:
Northerly by land now or formerly of Michael Sheehy shown as lots numbered 42 to 45 inclusive on a plan entitled “High School Terrace, Plan of Subdivision of land in Weymouth, Mass.," made by Russell H. Whiting, Civil Engineer, dated Sept. 24, 1925, a distance of 191.42 feet.
Easterly by land of the Town of Weymouth used for High School purposes a distance of about 505 feet, extending the en- tire length of the westerly boundary of said land known as the High School lot to other land of said Mitchell.
Southerly by said other land of said Mitchell distance of 189 feet; and Westerly by said other land of said Mitchell a distance of 496 feet; containing about 2.15 acres more or less and also,
A certain parcel of land situated in Weymouth, Mass., bound- ed and described as follows:
Northerly by land of S. Etta Knowles and thereon measur- ing 169 feet.
Easterly by Middle Street and thereon measuring 73 feet.
Southerly by land of the Town of Weymouth used for High School purposes and thereon measuring 169 feet; and Westerly by land now or formerly of Michael Sheehy and thereon measur- ing 73 feet; containing 12,337 square feet more or less. Together with all rights of the grantor, their heirs and assigns, in a cove- nant contained in deeds of Thomas Orr et als, to the Town of Weymouth, recorded with Norfolk Deeds, Book 785 Page 99 and Book 806 Page 531, for the construction of a street fifty (50) feet wide across the northerly end of the High School lot and the construction of side walks, properly graded, travel path for car- riages, erection and maintenance of suitable fence and for the re- moval of a ledge, and any and all other rights authorized to grant a right of way over said lot numbered 42 on said plan and over the northwesterly corner of the secondly above described parcel, the easterly line of which shall begin on the westerly boundary line of the said described parcel at a point 95 feet southerly from the southwesterly corner of said lot 42 and thence run northeast- erly to a point 50 feet distant easterly, measured at a right angle with said easerly line, from said southwesterly corner; thence con- tinuing by a curved line to the left with a radius of 50 feet, using said corner as a centre, until it strikes the easterly side line of said lot 42; and thence continuing norhwesterly along said side line of lot 42 to a proposed street shown as Academy Avenue on said plan.
The westerly line of said last mentioned right of way shall begin at said point 95 feet southerly from the southwesterly cor- ner of said lot 42 and thence run northwesterly by said westerly boundary line to said southwesterly corner of lot 42 and thence continuing northwesterly, but more westerly, by the westerly side line of said lot 42 to said proposed street shown as Academy Ave.,
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and to make such other agreements as may be necessary to secure proper outlets from land adjourning land purchased or taken.
For a further identification of this description and location reference is hereby made to the above mentioned plan.
And be it further voted: That the sum of thirty-four hundred ($3,400) dollars be raised and appropriated for the purposes of this article.
The tellers reported 68 voted in favor and 2 opposed.
Art. 28. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the School Comimttee, they to report at some future meeting.
Art. 29. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the School Committee, they to report at some future meeting. .
Art. 30. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to the School Committee, they to report at soma future meeting.
Art. 31. Motion offered by Arthur I. Negus, chairman of the Appropriation Committee: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,800 for the care and maintenance of parks and play-grounds, said sum to be expended under the direction of Park Commission- ers.
.Carl F. Prescott offered the following amendment, that the amount be increased $200 making the sum $2,000 instead of $1,800. the same to be used pursuant to the last paragraph of the Park Commissioners report of 1925 (page 121) and that the in- creased sum be divided in equal amounts to be used at the follow- school grounds, Nevins at South Weymouth, Hunt at Weymouth, Humphreys at East Weymouth and Beal Park opposite the Athens school at North Weymouth.
The motion as amended was so voted.
Art. 32. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to the Street Departments.
Art. 33. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to the board of Selectmen.
Art. 34. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $31,310 for the support of the Fire Department.
Ar. 35. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $300 7 for the establishment of a fire alarm box at the corner of West and Summer Streets.
Voted: On motion of Col. Frederick G. Bauer that article 86 be taken up at this time.
Art. 86. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000 for the celebration of the Fourth of July, 1926, it being the 150th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States.
Voted: On recommendation of the committee on the celebra- tion of the 150th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States, the Moderator be and hereby is authorized to appoint not exceeding ten additional members of said commitee, and to fill any vacancies that may occur.
The Moderator appointed the following additional committee: Frank Chubbuck, Rev. John B. Holland, Rev. Francis A. Poole, Allan C. Emery, Carl F. Prescott, Newland H. Holmes, Joseph
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A. Fern, Edward I. Loud, Edwin Mulready and Alfred C. Sheehy.
Art. 36. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $43,716 for the support of the Police Department; $250 of this amount to be used as a Suspense Account.
The committee appointed to choose minor town officers re- ported as follows:
Public Weighers
C. Lewis French, James B. French, Thomas McCue, Kenneth Holbrook, Raymond E. Stein, Michael A. Lane, Michael F. Dwyer, F. Cecil Manuel, John Q. Manuel, Clara Mitchell, Charles T. Lea- vitt, Wilfred H. Bartlett, Thomas Slattery, James D. Bosworth, Wallace D. Cowing, Ernest F. Bumpus, Judah Wrightington, Her- bert K. Cushing, Ella D. Davidson, Walter L. Bates, Mabel D. Har- low, Grace Stancomb, Robert A. Condrick, Edward Rayborn, Lor- etta A. Cope, Susan R. Worthen, Louis H. Ells, J. Leonard Bick- nell, Ernest A. Bowker, Evelyn Grundstrom, Edna Payne, August Virta and William H. Mace.
Surveyors of Wood, Lumber and Bark
F. Cecil Manuel, John Q. Manuel, Henry N. Willoby, Robert A. Condrick, Walter L. Bates, Bowdoin B. Smith, Herbert W. Ray- mond, Thomas H. Hanaford.
Pound Keeper
Barrett R. Wheeler.
Fence Viewers
Miles P. Keene, James I. Peers, Harrison P. Randall, George W. Conant, Irwin B. H. Hawes.
Field Drivers
George W. Nash, James P. Maguire, Charles A. Coyle, Ralph Smith, Eibert Ford.
Planning Board
Russell H. Whiting, Ralph H. Haskins, Lewis W. Callahan for 3 years: Frank A. Pray, Arthur I. Negus for 2 years; Thomas J. Kelley for 1 year.
Electric Light Committee
J. Herbert Libbey, Joseph A. Fern, Arthur R. Lohnes, Al- fred S. Tirrell, Matthew O'Dowd.
Voted : That the list as presented by the committee be elected.
Art. 37 Voted : To raise and appropriate the sum of $23,260 for the payment of Town Officers as follows:
Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor
Clerk $1,800
Chairman 800
3 other members 2,100
$4,700
Welfare Worker
350
Advisor to the Selectmen
500
Assessors
4,800
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Treasurer
80€
Treasurers bond
125
Auditors
150
Town Counsel
500
Town Clerk
500
Town Accountant
2,700
Town Accountant's assistant
600
Tax Collector
4,800
Tax Collector's bond
250
Tax Collector's hold-up insurance
185
Tree Warden
100
Registrars of Voters
900
Appropriation Committee
100
Sealer of Weights and Measures
850
Sealers transportation
350
$23,260
Voted: To take up article 53
Art. 53 Voted: On motion of John J. McDonald: That the Selectmen be instructed to petition the County Commissioners to lay out a public way across the South Shore branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, at or near the location of the present Idlewell bridge.
The tellers reported 82 in favor and 9 opposed.
Art. 38. Voted To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,180 for election expenses.
Art. 39. Voted To raise and appropriate the sum of $2,350 for rent and expenses of town officers.
Art. 40. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $31,835 for the support and maintenance of Tufts Library and its branches, and for a reading room at Fogg Library, and that the income from the Augustus J. Richards, Joseph E. Trask, Su- Sanna Hunt Stetson, Charles Q. Tirrell, Francis Flint Forsaith and Charles Henry Pratt funds be used for the purposes designa- ted by the respective donors.
Art. 41. Voted: No action (for the reason taken care of un- der article 40.)
Art. 42. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $33,115 for the relief and support of the Poor.
Art. 43. Voted: That the town authorize its Electric Light Committee to contract with the Weymouth Light and Power Company for furnishing lights for the town, for a period not to exceed one year, any contract to be subject to the approval of the Town Counsel before its execution.
Art. 44. Voted: To raise and appropriate the
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sum of $21,600 for street lighting, and that the matter of installing new lights be left with the Electric Light Committee.
Art. 45. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
Art. 46. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
Art. 47. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $125 for the purpose of installing electric lights on Main St., from junction of Main and Washington streets to Winter street.
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Art. 48. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $6,400 for the services and expenses of the Board of Health.
Art. 49. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500 for the employment of District or other Nurses, under the pro- visions of the General Laws, Chapter 40, Section 5, said sum to be expended by the town through its Selectmen or under the di- rection of the Board of Health, if authorized so to do by the Se- lectmen.
Art. 50. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum $121,700 for the repair of highways, townways, bridges, street oiling, and for the removal of snow; $3,000 of this amount to be for private work which the street department may do, and for which the town is to be reimbursed.
Art. 51. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $25,000 for the permanent construction of existing highways, the same to be expended in continuance of the work on Pleasant St.
Art. 52. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000 for the building of permanent sidewalks, same to be expended under the provisions of the Berretment Act.
(Article 53 already disposed of after article 37.)
Article 54. Voted: . To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500 to complete the work on Pecksuot Road.
Art. 55. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for repairing Randolph Street from Hollis' Corner to the Hol- brook lina.
Art. 56. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500 to finish the sidewalks on Sea Street.
Art. 57. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $6,000 to rebuild the culvert at the junction of Pleasant and Water streets, and to widen the brook north of said culvert.
Art. 58. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $800 for the construction of a sidewalk on Kensington Road.
Art. 59. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to the Street Department, the expense if any, to be taken from the regular appropriation of that department.
Voted : On motion of Melville F. Cate: That the meeting do now adjourn until Friday, March 5, 1926, to meet at the hall of the Weymouth High School at 7.45 o'clock in the evening.
The following notice was sent to every Town Meeting Mem- ber, also posted in ten public places in the town, and also print- ed in the Weymouth Gazette and Transcript Pub. Co. as provided for in Section 3 Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921.
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ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, ss.
To the Town Meeting Members of the Town of Weymouth, in said County, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby notified to meet at the hall of the Weymouth High School, East Weymouth, on Friday, the fifth day of March, 1926, at seven o'clock and forty-five minutes in the evening, then and there to act upon the articles in the Annual Warrant (commencing with article 60.)
Given under my hand at Weymouth, this second day of March, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT,
Town Clerk
ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING WEYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
EAST WEYMOUTH, MARCH 5, 1926
The adjourned annual meeting of the town of Weymouth was called to order at 7.45 o'clock p. m. by George L. Barnes, An- nual Moderator, presiding.
Col. Frederick G. Bauer, for the committee on celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States, read two letters from Percy A'Court, Mayor of Weymouth, Eng- land, accepting the invitation of the Selectmen of Weymouth, Mass., to be guests of the town at the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States, to be held in this town on July 4, 1926. (Copy of these letters are on the records of the town.)
Art. 60. Voted: To accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out as a town way the private way known as Delorey Avenue, running from Statdish Street to Evans Street.
Art. 61. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the working of Delorey Avenue.
Art. 62. Voted: To accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out as a town way the private way known as Fisk Ave. running about 400 feet in between 637 and 639 Commercial Street Art. 63. Voted: To raise and apprporiate the sum of $1,500 for the working of Fisk Avenue.
Art. 64. Voted: To accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out as a town way the private way known as Pierce Road.
Art. 65. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $800 for the working of Pierce Road.
Art. 66. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be in- definitely postponed.
Art. 67. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
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Art. 68. Voted: To accept the report of the Selectmen upon the laying out as a town way the private way known as Narragan- sett Avenue.
Art. 69. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,800 for the working of Narragansett Avenue, provided the abuttors re- move the ledge to grade.
Art. 70. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be in- definitely postponed.
Art. 71. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Art. 72. Voted: That no action be taken under this article, as same has been taken care of under article 27.
Art. 73. Voted unanimously: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by purchase or by right of eminent do- main, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 79 of the Gen- eral Laws, for street purposes, a strip of land on the easterly side of Washington Street, Weymouth, northerly from Kensington Road to Vine Street, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the northeasterly side line of Wash- ington Street as laid out as a State Highway, distant two hundred forty-six and 27-100 feet southeasterly from a stone monument marked "M. H. B." situated on said line of Washington Street, said point being at the intersection of said side line of Washing- on Street with the southerly line of Vine Street; thence running southeasterly by said line of said Washington Street by land of Mary D. Finch, land of Philip F. Haviland, land of Caroline R. and Otto J. A. Maier, by land of John Haviland, by land of There- sa Dowd, by land of Alice L. Garrity, by land of George T. Dowd, by land of John and Charlotte Ghiorzi, joint tenants, by Loud's Avenue, so called, a private way, by land of Mary L. Silck, a distance of six hundred five and 46-100 (605.46) feet to the northerly line of Kensington Road, thence running easterly by said line of Kensington Road a distance of four and 33-100 (4.33) feet; thence running northwesterly across said land of Silck, across Loud's Avenue across said land of George T. Dowd, across said land of Ghiorzi, across said land of Garrity, across said land of Theresa Dowd, across said land of John Haviland, across said land of Meier, across said land of Philip F. Haviland and a- cross said land of Finch, a total distance of six hundred seven and 67-100 (607.67) feet to said line of Vine Street; thence run- ning southwesterly by said line of Vine Street a distance of thirty- eight hundredths (38-100) feet to the point of beginning.
Containing a total area of 1894 square feet to be taken as follows: From said Finch 34 square feet, from said Philip F. Haviland 64 square feet, from said Meier 155 square feet, from said John Haviland 227 square feet, from said Theresa Dowd 240 square feet, from said Garrity 239 square feet, from said Ghiorzi 277 square feet, from said George T. Dowd 316 square feet, from said Loud's Avenue 71 square feet, from said Silck 270 square feet.
For a further identification of this description and location reference is hereby made to a "Plan in Weymouth, Mass., to be taken for Street purposes, Russell H. Whiting, Civil Engineer, dated Jan. 15, 1926."
And that there be raised and appropriated the sum of $200 for the purposes of this article.
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Art. 74. Voted: That the town will indemnify the Common- wealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out, alteration or reconstruction of State Highway or sec- tion of State Highway on Bridge Street in Weymouth, and that the Selectmen be authorized to sign an Indemnity agreement therefor in behalf of the town indemnifying the Commonwealth as afore- said. (See vote after Art. 75.)
Art. 75. Voted: To appropriate from the revenue of the Water Department for the current year the sum of $78,885 to be expended fo the following purposes:
Maintenance and operation $26,000
Replacement
3,000
Equipment
3,000
Commercial expenses
6,500
Interest
4,685
General salaries
1,200
Bond retirement
12,500
Minor construction
22,000
$75,885
Arthur I. Negus moved and so voted that article 7 + be taken up at this time.
Mr. Negus moved and it was voted to add to the vote passed under Art. 74 the following: That the sum of $21,000 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
Art. 76. Voted unanimously: That the sum of $15,000 be raised by loan and appropriated for the construction of water mains of six inches or more in diameter, and that the Treasurer of the town be and hereby is authorized, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow said sum of $15,000 for said purpose, and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor, said bonds or notes to be payable in accrdance 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.
The tellers reported 72 voting in favor and none against.
Art. 77. Voted unanimously: That the sum of $10,000 be raised by loan and appropriaed for the installation of a stand-by pumping unit at Great Pond, and that the Treasurer of the town be and hereby is authorized, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow said sum of $10,000 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.
The tellers reported 77 voting in favor and none against.
Art. 78. Voted: To appropriate a sum not exceeding $20,000 from the general fund of the Water Department for the purpose of carrying on necessary work for private parties; payment for said work to revert to said general fund.
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