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Art. 10. Voted unanimously: To raise and appropriate the of $600. additional for the Fire Department.
Art. 11. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $9,106.25 for the purchase of a fully equipped Ladder Truck, and the sum of $595 for the salary of a permanent driver for the same.
Art. 12. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $110 for unpaid bills of the Police Department.
Art. 13. To raise and appropriate the sum of $800. to install catch basins and drains on Pond Street, South Weymouth, to take care of the surface water.
Art. 14. Voted unanimously: To accept the report of the Se- lectmen upon the relocation of Pleasant Street, and that the Select- men be authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or to take by right of .eminent domain an easement for all purposes of a public high- way in the following described parcel of land, lying between the pres- ent westerly line of Pleasant Street and the westerly line of Plea- sant Street as thus relocated, said parcel being bounded and des- cribed as follows :
Beginning at a point on the westerly side of Pleasant Street at the division line of William W. Webb and land of the heirs or de- vises of Charles L. Greeley ; thence running in a general northeast- erly direction by a curve to the left with a radius of 945.59 feet, across said land of the heirs or devises of Charles L. Greeley a dis- tance of 772.33 feet to land of Mary E. Hanley; thence running by a continuation of the same curve across said land of Mary E. Han- ley a distance of 166.17 feet to said westerly side line of Pleasant Street; thence running in a general southwesterly direction by said westerly side of Pleasant Street as laid out in 1872 a distance of about 956 feet to the point of beginning, cutting about 14.70 feet on the division line between said land of the heirs and devises of Charles L. Greeley and said land of Mary E. Hanley and taking from the said heirs or devises of said Greeley land about 14,000 square feet, and from the said Hanley about 16 square feet. All of the land en- closed by the above described lines is hereby laid out as a town way and recommended to the town for acceptance. For a further identi- fication of this description and location reference is hereby made to a plan made by Russell H. Whiting, Town Engineer, dated May 28, 1926 approved by us, verified by our signature and adopted as a part of this report. The aforesaid plan, together with the certificate of the Selectmen in laying out this proposed relocation have been duly filed with the Town Clerk. The proprietors of land taken are given until the first day of December 1926 in which to remove their trees, fences or other property. Which laying out is hereby reported to the town, under the provisions of law provided for the assessments of betterments, and when accepted, recorded and constructed is forever to be a part of Pleasant St.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this first day of June 1926. Selectmen of Weymouth, FRED E. WAITE WINSLOW M. TIRRELL WILLIAM B. DASHA H. FRANKLIN PERRY THERON L. TIRRELL
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Art. 15. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $50. for the working of the relocation of Pleasant Street, this sum to include the expenses of acquiring land, and this sum in addition to such amount as the Superintendent of Streets may expend for such work- ing from appropriation heretofore made for the permanent construc- tion of streets.
Art. 16. Voted unanimously: That the board of Selectmen be authorized to acquire by purchase, or take by right of eminent do- main, for park purposes, the property known as the Weston property located in Ward 3 of said town and bounded and described as follows :
Land in Weymouth Weston Park
Beginning at a stone monument on the southwesterly side line of Washington Street distant 98.38 feet northwesterly from land of Carrie C. Virgin; thence running in a general westerly direction by a curve to the left with a radius of 16.05 feet, a distance of 24.90 feet ; thence southwesterly by a tangent line a distance of 57.40 feet to a point of curvature; thence running in a general southwesterly direc- tion by a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 34.92 feet a dis- tance of 33.78 feet; thence running southwesterly by a tangent line a distance of 36.63 feet; thence turning at a right angle and running northwesterly a distance of 31.97 feet; thence turning and running southeasterly a distance of 57.88 feet and all by other land now or formerly of the Linn Reality Service, Inc., to the most westerly cor- ner of said land of Carrie C. Virgin; thence running southeasterly by said land of Carrie C. Virgin, by land of Charles L. Virgin, by land of Mary E. Smith, by land of Harriet F. Field and by land of Clinton I. Bates, a total distance of 338.64 feet to land of John B. Whelan; thence running southwesterly by said land of John B. Whelan and by land of James P. Reilly a total distance of 80.18 feet to other land of the said James P. Reilly; thence running southwesterly but more southerly by said other land of James P. Reilly a distance of 73.33 feet; thence turning at a right angle and running southeasterly by said other land of James P. Reilly a distance of 121.72 feet to a point of curvature; thence running in a general southeasterly di- rection still by said other land of James P. Reilly by a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 10 feet a distance of 15.60 feet to the northwesterly side line of Broad Street; thence running southwest- erly by said line of Broad Street a distance of 269.20 feet to a point of curvature; thence running in a general northwesterly direction by a curve to the right forming the junction of said line of Broad Street with the northeasterly side line of Franklin Street, with a radius of 20 feet, a distance of 27.81 feet; thence running northwest- erly by said line of Franklin Street a distance of 88.74 feet; thence running in a general northwesterly direction by said side line of Franklin Street by an irregular line a distance of 102.92 to land of Ellen E. Adlington; thence running northwesterly but more norther- ' y a distance of 49.68 feet ; thence running in a general northwesterly direction but more northerly by an irregular line a distance of 19.57 feet; thence running southwesterly a distance of 70.95 feet; thence running southeasterly a distance of 158.48 feet, the last five courses being by said land of Ellen E. Adlington to said line of Franklin Street ; thence running southwesterly by said line of Franklin Street a distance of 65.51 feet to land of Thomas F. Donovan; thence run- ning northwesterly by said land of Thomas F. Donovan a distance of 161.64 feet; thence running southwesterly by said land of Thomas
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F. Donovan and by land of Elizabeth E. Caulfield a total distance of 122.67 feet to land of Eva P. Perkins; thence running northwesterly by said land of Eva P. Perkins, by land of Gladys A. W. Niles, by land of Francis L. Reilly, by land of Trinity Church, by land of Sara- phine D. Carrier and by land of Charles A. Clapp a total distance of 409.00 feet to other land now or formerly of the Linn Reality Service, Inc., thence running northeasterly a distance of 100.00 feet; thence turning at a right angle and running northwesterly a distace of 55.35 feet to a point of curvature; thence running in a general northwesterly direction by a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 24.70 feet a distance of 30.51 feet to a point of compound curva- ture; thence running in a general northwesterly but more westerly by a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 431.52 feet a distance of 91.18 feet; thence running in a westerly direction by a tangent line a distance of 166.32 feet to a point of curvature; thence run- ning in a general southwesterly direction by a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 10 feet a distance of 15.79 feet, the last six courses being by said land now or formerly of the Linn Reality Ser- vice, Inc., to the easterly side line of Front Street; thence running northerly by said line of Front Street a distance of 60.00 feet to other land now or formerly of said Linn Reality Service, Inc., thence running in a general southeasterly direction by a tangent curve to the left with a radius of 10 feet a distance of 15.71 fet; thence run- ning in an easterly direction by a tangent line a distance of 166.32 feet to a point of curvature ; thence running in a general southeaster- ly direction by a tangent curve to the right with a radius of 471.52 feet a distance of 99.63 feet; the last three courses being by said last mentioned land now or formerly of said Linn Reality Service, Inc., to land of Annie B. Weston; thence running southeasterly by said land of Annie B. Weston a distance of 396 feet to other land now or formerly of the said Linn Reality Service, Inc.,; thence running in a general northeasterly direction by a tangent curve to the left with a radius 157.78 feet a distance of 148.16 feet; thence running northeasterly but more northerly by a tangent line a distance of 63.44 feet to a point of curvature; thence running in a general north- erly direction by a tangent curve to the left a distance of 15.71 feet, the last three courses being by said last mentioned land now or for- merly of the said Linn Reality Service, Inc., to said line of Wash- ington Street; thence running southeasterly by said line of Wash- ington Street a distance of 65.74 feet to the point of beginning, con- taining about 9 1-2 acres more or less.
Art. 17. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $10,000. for the purchase or acquisition by the right of eminent domain for park purposes of the Weston property described in the vote passed under the foregoing article.
The tellers reported 109 voting in favor and 3 against.
Art. 18. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $5,800. for the purchase of a new tractor for the Street Department, the pur- chase however to be deferred until about Decembr 1, 1926.
Princ H. Tirrell for the committee of the new school building at North Weymouth reported and moved that the name of the build- ing be called "Wessagussett School." The point of order was raised that as no article in the warrant called for any report of committees, no action could be taken.
The Moderator ruled that the point of order was well taken and refused to entertain the motion.
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The police checked 144 Town Meeting Members as being pres- ent.
Voted to adjourn.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, ss
To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in said County. GREETINGS :
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 FIFTH DAY OF JULY 1926
at seven o'clock and thirty minutes in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to accept from William Whitman of Brookline, a deed of a certain parcel of land on Church Street at the site for the hospital to be established under the terms of the will of Laban Pratt deceased, and will vote to accept and comply with the terms and conditions in said deed, or take any other action in regard to the same.
Article 2. To see what sum of money the Town will appropri- ate or raise and appropriate for the pay of a permanent driver of the hook and ladder truck in Ward 5, or take any other action in regard to the same.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropri- ate or appropriate the sum of $1500 for the completion of Pecksuot Road or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 4. On petition. To see if the Town will raise and ap- propriate or appropriate a sufficient sum of money for a night of- ficer at Lovell's Corner from July 5 to October 16, or take any other action in relation "thereto.
Article 5. To hear the report of the committee on the naming of the new school house in North Weymouth or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 6. To receive any communication from the Mayor, Al- dermen and Burgesses of Weymouth, Dorset England, and take any other action in reference to the same.
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 hold- ing said meeting called for in this warrant.
Hereof, fail not, make due return of this warrant with your do- ings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town, on or before the twenty-sixth day of June 1926.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this twenty-first of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.
FRED E. WAITE, WINSLOW M. TIRRELL,
WILIAM B. DASHA, H. FRANKLIN PERRY, THERON L. TIRRELL,
Selectmen of Weymouth, Mass.
A true copy, Attest :
ARTHUR H. PRATT
Constable of Weymouth
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Return of Service
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Weymouth, June 26, 1926
NORFOLK, SS.
I have this day served the within warrant by posting a copy thereof attested by me in writing in each of two public places in each voting precinct in said town of Weymouth seven days be- fore the time of holding said meeting.
ARTHUR H. PRATT, Constable of Weymouth
I hereby certify that a true copy of the above warrant was mailed to each Town Meeting member as provided by Section 3, Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk
Special Meeting
Weymouth, Mass., July 5, 1926
Pursuant to the within warrant, a special meeting of the in- habitants of the town of Weymouth, represented by the Town Meeting members, was held at the hall of the Weymouth High School, East Weymouth, on Monday the fifth day of July, 1926. The meeting was called to order at 7.30 o'clock in the evening by George L. Barnes, Annual Moderator, who requested the Town Clerk to read the call for the meeting, after reading the call for said meeting, it was voted that the reading of the several articles in the warrant be omitted, the Town Clerk then read the last three paragraphs of the warrant and the attestation of the Con- stable who served the warrant.
George L. Barnes, annual Moderator, then stated to the meeting that the chair is informed that Percy J. A'Court, His Worship, the Mayor of Weymouth in England, with Percy Small- man, Esq., Town Clerk of the Town of Weymouth in England, at- tended by a delegation of Councillors of the Council of the said town is in attendance, and that it was the purpose of the chair by unanimous consent of the meeting, to appoint a committee to receive these English guests to this meeting, and escort them to the platform. The chair will appoint Frederick G. Bauer, Esq., chairman of the general committee and the Arthur H. Pratt to act as escort. The committee will form in front of the chair and proceed to the discharge of their duties. Their arrival will be announced by strokes of the gavel and the chair would suggest that when these distinguished guests appear all rise to greet them (at the sound of the gavel the audience arose and the pro- cession entered upon the stage with due formality.
Colonel Bauer. Mr. Moderator, in accordance with the pleasant and honorable duty which you have assigned me I take great pleasure in presenting through you to the legal inhabtants of the town of Weymouth, this delegation from our mother town in England consisting of His Worship, Percy J. A'Court, Justice of the Peace, Mayor of the Borough of Weymouth and Mal- combe Regis, Percy A. Smallman, Town Clerk of the same and Councillors Thomas Moore and William John Peters.
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The Moderator. Mr. Chairman of the committee. The meeting receives with distinguished pleasure the gentlemen whom you have escorted to the platform.
Before proceeding to the business of the evening Matthew O'Dowd, John H. Stetson and Allan C. Emery were sworn as Town Meeting members.
Art. 1 Mr. Arthur I. Negus asked Col. Frederick G. Bauer to read the copy of the deed of a certain parcel of land on Church street given to the town by William Whitman of Brookline as a site for the hospital to be established under the will of the late Laban Pratt (Col. Bauer then read the copy of the deed conveying said parcel of land to the town, with certain conditions therein named ) Mr. Negus then moved as follows: Whereas, William Whitman of Brookline by deed dated the first day of July A. D. 1926 has conveyed to the town a certain parcel of land on Church street, adjoining land of the North Parish and more particularly described in said deed, as a site for the hospital which provision has been made in the will of Laban Pratt late of Boston.
Now therefore Voted: That the town hereby accepts the said deed of gift of William Whitman and the property conveyed thereby, and accepts the conditions which are contained in said deed, and which reads as follows:
Said premises are hereby conveed by way of gift for use of of the grantee as the site for the hospital for which provision has been made by bequest to it under the will of Laban Pratt, late of Boston, Massachusetts, deceased, but upon the condition that it shall within ten years from the date hereof, erect and complete the erection of said hospital thereon, or, if at any time the erec- tion thereon the grantee shall cease to maintain said hospital, up- on condition that it shall thereafter devote and forever continue to dovote said premises to some other public use; and further up- on condition that the grantee within one year from the date here- of, place and thereafter forever maintain upon the granted prem- ises a bronze tablet in a location either within or without the hos- pital biluding where it may be easily read by persons entering the building or premises containing an inscription substantially
as follows:
"This land is a part of a tract which in the year 1642 was alloted by the Town of Weymouth to John Whitman, one of the early settlers in the town and who in the year 1638 was admitted as a freeman to the rights and privileges of a citizen of the town. William Whitman, a citizen of Brookline and a descendent in the eighth generation from John Whitman, in the year 1926 gave the land as a memorial to John Whitman and his descendents. And that if the grantee shall fail to keep and perform said conditions, or any of them, then in such event this deed shall become abso- lutely null and void and all singular the above described premises shall revert to and revest in me, the said grantor and my heirs and assigns as fully, completely and effectually as if these pres- ents had not been executed." And further, Voted: That the Se- lectmen and Town Councils be a committee to report at some fu- ture Town Meeting, but not later than the next annual Town Meeting, a plan for carrying out the conditions in said deed, and further Voted: That the town extends to William Whitman the sincere thanks for his public spirited gift in memory of one of the
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most distinguished of the early settlers of this town, and unites in wishing him a continuation of the long life and prosperous business career which has made him one of the leading figures in the textile industry, and further Voted: That the Town Clerk be instructed to forward to Mr. Whitman an engrossed copy of acceptance under the seal of the town, and further Voted: That the Selectmen be authorized to lease or otherwise manage said property until further order of the town.
After quite a discussion of this question Mr. William B. Dasha moved: That the subject matter of this article be indefi- nitely postponed, the Moderator declared it not a vote.
More than seven members having doubted the vote, the Mod- erator appointed Irving E. Johnson and Emerson R. Dizer as tellers, and they were sworn as such by the Moderator, the ques- ยท tion was again put to the members and the tellers reported 19 in favor of indefinite postponement and 66 against postpone- ment.
The question then came on the recommendation of the Ap- propriation Committee, in accepting the gift with the conditions attached thereto.
Mr. Josiah B. Reed moved that the subject matter be refferr- ed back to the Selectmen for a report at our next town meeting.
It was voted.
Art. 2. Mr. Negus for the Appropriation Committee moved: To raise and appropriate the sum of $560 for the pay of a perma- nent driver of the Hook and Ladder Truck in Ward 5, this appro- priation being in confirmation of, and not in addition to a like appropriation made at the special town meetg held June 7,1926.
John F. Dwyer moved and it was so voted: To indefinitely postpone the subject matter of this article.
Art. 3. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200 for the completion of Pecksuot Road.
Art. 4. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $670 for a night officer at Lovell's Corner, from July 5 to October 1, 1926.
Art. 5. George L. Barnes speaking from the chair stated:
It is the purpose of the chair to ask the Mayor of Weymouth, England, to preside over this meeting while upon the considera- tion of the subject matter of article 5; and as that will consti- tute a unique and historic occasion, not only in the history of this town, but in the history of this Commonwealth and of this nation, it is perhaps fitting that a few words should be said with refreence to it.
Our New England town meetings are themselves unique; they really originated from that Compact signed in the cabin of the Mayflower where those people agreed by that Compact that they would abide by such laws and ordinances as they themselves should adopt; and since then, people in these New England towns have gathered together for the purpose of establishing the laws by which they should govern themselves.
It is the most complete form of democracy. No form of de- mocracy could be more complete than these gatherings in our New England town meetings where the citizens adopt their own laws and regulations for the government of their municipalities.
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Since the soldiers of England vacated Boston, as George Washington marched in from Dorchester, I venture to assert that no official of any political subdivivision of the English Govern- ment has ever directly participated in a governmental function in this country.
Therefore it is a historic occasion, when the highest official of a town in Old England, whose name we bear, comes here and has kindly and graciously consented to participate with us in the capacity of presiding over this meeting, and I venture to suggest that anything of that sort has never occurred in the history of either country, or in the history of any of our towns. It is, there- fore a historic occasion; it is something that we and our succes- sors in the future will look upon with great pride and great satis- faction, that here in Weymouth such an occasion took place for the first time in this country, where a representative of Old Eng- land participated in one of our governmental functions in New England, and you in consenting to do this have further cemented the ties of kinship and friendship between your town and this town and between your country and this country.
It is very gracious of you to do it Sir, and we appreciate very much your courtesy in that regard .. I now, Sir, yield to you the gavel for the performance of your duties in this respect, and would add that this gavel has been made from wood taken out of the Old Fanuel Hall in Boston, known as the "Cradle of Liberty," for it was there that our patriots were so inspired, and where liberty was born and matured, to grow into lusty vigor until the colonies became an independent nation. It is with satisfaction that I hand this to you and ask if you will consent to preside over this town meeting of the town of Weymouth, Massachusetts. (Ap- plause. )
His Worship, the Mayor of Weymouth, England, Percy J. A'Court.
Mr. Moderator: I thank you heartily for the great honor you have done me and my town in asking me to preside over your meeting for a few minutes. As you say, it is a historic event, and Weymouth, England, will never forget it.
Mr. Prince H. Tirrell for the committee on naming the new school building in Bicknell Square, North Weymouth, recommend- ed the name of "Wessagussett School." Mr. Frank H. Torrey moved that we substitute the name "Bicknell" for Wessagussett. Mr. Prince H. Tirrell urged the acceptance of the report of the committee for a name for the new school building.
Mr. Joseph Browne moved that the name of the building be known as "Abigail Adams." George L. Barnes moved by unani- mous consent, that the report of the committee on naming the new school building be accepted. Not a vote. The question then came on Mr. Browne's motion to name the new school building "Abigail Adams" not a vote. The question then came on Mr. Frank H. Torrey's motion to substitute the name "Bicknell" in- stead of Wessagussett. This was declared a vote.
His Worship, Percy J. A'Court then returned the gavel to George L. Barnes, annual Moderator, and as he did so there was great applause.
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