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Monday, the 12th Day of March, 1928
at five o'clock and forty-five minutes in the forenoon, then and there to bring in to the wardens of their several precincts, their votes on one ballot, for the following named public offices, to wit:
Town Clerk for 3 years; Town Treasurer; 5 Selectmen; 2 As- sessors for 3 years; 2 School Committee for 3 years; Collector of Taxes; I Park Commissioner for 3 years; 1 Water Commissioner for 3 years; 3 Trustees of Tufts Library for 3 years; I Member of the Board of Health for 3 years; Tree Warden; Annual Moderator; and for the election in Precinct 1 of 10 Town Meeting Members for 3 years; in Precinct 2 of 8 Town Meeting Members for 3 years; in Precinct 3 of 12 Town Meeting Members for 3 years; in Precinct 3 of 1 Town Meeting Member for 2 years to fill vacancy; in Precinct 4 of 4 Town Meeting Members for 3 years; in Precinct 5 of 12 Town Meeting Members for 3 years; in Precinct 6 of 10 Town Meeting Members for 3 years; in Prcinct 7 of 4 Town Meeting Members for 3 years; in Precinct 8 of 3 Town Meeting Members for 3 years.
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 the first 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 Tyenty-sixth day of February, 1928.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this 23rd day of January, in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-eight.
FRED E. WAITE WINSLOW M. TIRRELL H. FRANKLIN PERRY EDWIN R. SAMPSON WILLIAM B. CHALKE, Jr. Selectmen of Weymouth.
A true copy. Attest : EDWARD F. BUTLER, Constable of Weymouth.
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RETURN OF SERVICE
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk ss. Weymouth, February, 14, 1928
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 two public places in each voting precinct in said town as therein directed seven days before the time for holding said meeting.
EDWARD F BUTLER Constable of Weymouth
CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify that a copy of the above warrant was mailed to each Town Meeting Member according to the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT
Town Clerk
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the annual meeting of the in- habitants of the Town of Weymouth, represented by its duly elected Town Meeting Mmbers, was held at the hall of the Weymouth High School, East Weymouth, on Monday, the fifth day of March, A. D. 1928.
The meeting was called to order at 7.45 o'clock in the evening by George L. Barnes, Annual Modrator, 165 Town Meeting Members' names being checked by the police stationed at the entrances of the hall. The moderator requested the Town Clerk to read the warrant, after reading the call for the meeting, it was voted that the further reading be omitted, as every Town Meeting Member had a copy of the same mailed to him sevn days previous to the meeting.
The Town Clerk then read the last three paragraphs of the war- rant and the attestation of the constable who served the warrant. Earl M. Hutchinson was sworn as a Town Meeting Member.
Art. 1. Voted: To raise and appropriate for the following pur- poses :
(1) Appropriation Committee,
(2) Planning Board
100.00
(4) Accounting Department 1
5,100.00
(5) Treasurer's Department
2,047.50
(6) Collector's Department
6,650.04
(7) Assessors' Department
10,500.00
(8) Town Survey
2,000.00
(9) Legal Department
1.900.00
(10) Town Clerk's Department
2,350.00
(11) Elecions & Registrations
5,180.00
(12) Town Offices
2,350.00
(13) Police Department
58,335.00
of which $1,000.00 is to be used for the enforce- ment of the liquor law.
$200.00
(3) Selectmen's Department
8,250.00
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(14) Fire Department
(15 Sealers' Department
(16) Moth Department
$1,900.00 of this amount to be expended on Town work and $2,000.00 to be expended for special or private work which the moth department may do and which is assessed on property owners and for other work for which the town is re-imbursed.
(17) Tree Department
(18 Health Department
2,100.00 7,000.00
(19) Nurses
1,800.00
for the employment of district or other nurses, under the provisions of Chapter 40, Section 5 of the General Laws said sum to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen, or under the direc- tion of the Board of Health if authorized so to do by the Selectmen.
(20) Maintenence of Norfolk County Hospital
6,283.43
(21) Highways, appropriate the sum of $457.00 that being the amount received for damage to High- way Department Automobile, and further to raise and appropriate the sum of
(22) Permanent construction of existing highways
(23) Permanent construction of sidewalks
(24) Bound Stones
(25) Street Surveys, etc.
1,000.00
(26) Street Lighting
31,000.00
(27) Charities
47,495.00
(28) State Aid, Military Aid & Burial of Indigent Soldiers and Sailors
(29) Soldiers' Relief
(30) Support of Schools
(31) Libraries, for the support and maintenance of Tufts Library and its branches, and the income of the Augustus J. Richards, Joseph E. Trask, Susanna Hunt Stetson, Charles Q. Tirrell, Francis Flint Forasith and Charles Henry Pratt funds be used for the purposes designated by the respective donors,
(32) Parks & Playgrounds
which includes a sum for the purchase and extinc- tion of any rights of way claimed by any person in and over Weston Park, so-called.
(33) Pensions
(34) Alewive Fishery
(35) Damages
(36) Memorial Day
said sum to be expended by a committee of three from the Grand Army, two from the American Legion and one from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and their auxiliaries, to be appointed by the moderator, said sum to be used for the Memorial Day expenses of the Grand Army of the Republic, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and for the decorating of marked graves of all soldiers and sailors participating in any wars;
69,825.00 1,585.00 3,900.00
17,526.00 10,750.00
915.00 500.00
3,000.00 900.00
117,063.00 25,000.00 15,000.00 500.00
2,000.00 6,500.00 341,200.00
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$50.00 of said sum to be available for placing new markers and replacing old markers which may be or injured.
(37) Fourth of July
500.00
to celebrate the fourth of July, the moderator to appoint a committee to carry out the purpose of this vote, said committee to include representa- tives of the Board of Selectmen, Weymouth His- torical Society, Mass. Society Sons of American Revolution, and Susannah Tufts Chapter, Daugh- ters of American Revolution.
(38) Incidentals
(39) Water Department, appropriate from the revenue of the water departmnt for current year, for maintenance and operation, bond retirement, minor construction, interest, salaries, replacements, commercial expenses, etc.
2,380.00
(40) Interest and discount, raise and appropriate 41,000.00
(41) Reserve Fund, appropriate from the Overlay Reserve Fund, 16,070.00
82,290.00
and that the salaries of the town officials elected by popular vote be the same as fixed for the year 1927
Art. 2. Voted: That there shall be a committee on Town Forests, consisting of the chairman of the Water Commissioners or a member of the board appointed by him and the Superintendent of the Water Department as membrs ex-officio and three persons appointed by the moderator of whom one shall be appointed for the term expiring at the annual town meeting in 1929, one for the term expiring at the annual town meeting in 1930 and one for the term expiring at the annual town meeting in 1931 and thereafter one member shall be ap- pointed by the moderator each year for the term of three years, which shall have charge of the planting, care and cultivation of forest trees on land acquired by the town for the protection of the water supply and such other land as be set apart by the town thereafter, and that all other special town committees which have not yet rendered a final report shall be continued in office until such time as the work assigned to them shall be completed and a final report made or until the town shall otherwise vote, and that a committee of five be appointed by the moderator to study the salaries of full time town officials and employees, and report at a future town meeting.
Art. 3. Voted unanimously: That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1928 and to issue note or notes therefor, payable within one year; any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Art. 4. Voted unanimously: That the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year begining January 1, 1929 and to issue note or notes therefor, payable within one year; any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
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money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year begining January 1, 1929 and to issue note or notes therefor, payable within one year; any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Art. 5. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Art. 6. Voted unanimously: To raise and appropriate the sum of $6,272.52 for the payment of unpaid bills as follows:
Preservation of Town Records $112.03
Police 112.77
Health
2,896.12
Streets
1,307.83
Charities
1,843.77
$6,272.52
Art. 7. Voted unanimously: To appropriate the sum of $65,000.00 from the surplus for the use of the Assessors in determining the tax rate for the year 1928. -
Art. 8. Voted: That the salary of the Tax Collector be six mills of the dollar of taxes collected, and that the Selectmen be authorized and instructed to insure the Tax Collector in the sum of $15,000.00 hold-up insurance. The time of payment and rates of interest on unpaid taxes to be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 59, Section 57 of the General Laws.
Art. 9. Motion offered by the Appropriation Committee: To appropriate $11,267.35, this being the sum held as the proceeds of sale of real estate, and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $163,732.65 for the erection of a new Town Office Building and for any other incidental expenses connected therewith.
Mr. Joseph A. Fern moved indefinitely postponement of this arti- cle. The moderator appointed George E. Cuniff, Newland H. Holmes and Walter L. Bates as tellers, who were duly sworn as such.
The tellers reported 37 voting in the affirmative for indefinite postponment and 101 in the negative. The motion offered by the appropriation committee was then put before the meeting and it was so voted.
Art. 10. Voted unanimously: That the town adopt the recommen- dations of the committee to which was referred the subject of a war memorial and that the sum of $6,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of obtaining plans and estimates and the doing of other preliminary work.
Art. 11. Voted: That the town authorize and instruct the Board of Selectmen to take proper legal steps to terminate the town's tenancy of the present town offices at such time as the new town office building is ready for occupancy.
Art. 12. Voted: That the town authorize its Electric Light Com- mittee to contract with the Weymouth Light and Power Co. for furnishing lights to 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. 13. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
Art. 14. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Electric Light Committee.
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Art. 15. Voted: That a committee be appointed by the moderator, one of whom shall be the Chief of Police, to consider the installation of a Police Signal System, said committee to report at a special or the next annual town meeting.
Art. 16. Voted: That a committee of six be appointed by said moderator, one of whom shall be the Chief of the Fire Department, to investigate the matter of a site for a new Fire Station in East Weymouth, they to report their recommendation together with esti- mates of costs, at the next annual town meeting.
Art. 17. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 for the establishment of a fire alarm box at Pleasantview Avenue and Hibiscus Avenue.
Art. 18. Voted unanimously: Indefinite postponement as to Mana- tee Road and Pierce Road, and that the reports of the Selectmen lay- ing out the other ways designated by this article be accepted, provided that no entry shall be made upon Lakewood Road, Ocean Avenue, Roosevelt Road and Sagamore Road until the abutters shall have given to the town releases from all damages, and no entry to be made on Fairlawn Road, Princeton Avenue and Orlando Avenue until the abutters shall have rounded the corners to conform to the town by-laws, and no entry to be made on Academy Avenue until the Town Counsel notified the Selectmen that the suit of Charles D. Sheehy, Administra- tor vs Inhabitants of Weymouth, No. 18412 Norfolk Superior Court has been settled or otherwise disposed of, and that the Selectmen be authorized to acquire by gift or take by right of eminent domain an easement for all purposes of a public street and highway in and over each of said streets as so laid out.
Art. 19. Voted: To raise and appropriate the following sums for the working of the streets accepted under article 18, including the acquisition of easements.
Academy. Avenue
$2,160.00
Elinor Road
711.00
Fairlawn Avenue
1,675.00
Georgia Road
711.00
Kingman Street
600.00
Lakewood Road
1,400.00
Nevin Road
1,706.00
Ocean Avenue
1,057.00
Orlando Road
619.00
Partridge Road
800.00
Princeton 9venue
1,245.00
Roosevelt Road
1,144.00
Sagamore Road
1,200.00
Suwanee Road
600.00
$15,628.00
Art. 20. Voted: That the Town accept the several reports of the Selectmen relocating certain corners of each of the following streets: the northwesterly corner of Broad and Commercial Streets, the north- westerly corner of Cottage and Commercial Streets, the four corners of Middle Street at its crossing with Washington Street, and that the Selectmen be authorized to acquire by gift or purchase or take by right of eminent domain an easement for all purposes of a public way and highway in and over the land included in each of said streets as so relocated and widened, and that for the acquisition of said ease-
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ments and the working of said streets as so laid out, the following sums be raised and appropriated :
Northwesterly corner of Broad and Commercial Streets $2,000.00 Northwesterly corner of Cottage and Commercial Streets 3,000.00 The four corners of Middle and Washington Streets 500.00
Art. 21. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Art. 22. Motion offered by the appropriation committee that no action be taken under this article.
Mr. Arthur A. Cicchese moved as a substitute motion :
That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $700.00 to drain and repair Filomena Street. So Voted.
Art. 23. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Street Department, the cost if any to be taken from the regular street department appropriation.
Art. 24. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Art. 25. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the Street Department, the cost if any to be taken from the Per- manent Sidwalk Appropriation.
Art. 26. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be referred to the street department, the cost if any, to be taken from the regular appropriation of that department.
Art. 27. Voted: To raise and appropriate $600.00 for covering drain and building sidewalk on Tremont Street.
Art. 28. Voted: That no action be taken under this article.
Art. 29. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for leveling and rough grading of the playground adjoining the Bicknell School so as to increase the area of the skating pond, the same to be expended under the direction of the School Committee, provided how- ever, that no work shall be done or liability incurred under this vote until the Town Counsel notified the School Department that final judgment has been entered in the action of Mary A. Donovan vs In- habitants of Wymouth, No. 17234 on the current docket of the Superior Court of Norfolk County, or that in his opinion it is not necessary to retain the property in its present condition for reasons connected with said litigation.
Art. 30. The Appropriation Committee recommended no action be taken under this article.
Ernest L. Saunders moved as a substitute motion: That the Town Acquire by purchase or by the right of eminent domain a certain parcel of land now owned by George A. Walker and bounded sub- stantially as follows:
Northerly by Sea Street.
Easterly by roadway to Bicknell School Lot.
Southerly by Bicknell School Lot.
Westerly by land now or formerly of Perkins.
and that the amount of $3,500.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article.
The tellers reported 140 voting in the affirmative and none in the negative, a unanimous vote.
Art. 31. Voted: That the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to the Park Commissioners, the cost if any, to be taken from the regular appropriation of that department ..
Art. 32. Voted unanimously: That the Board of Park Commis-
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sioners be authorized to acquire by purchase or take by right of eminent domain for park purposes so much of the so-called Tirrell lot located at the northwesterly corner of Broad and Commercial Streets as is not included in the relocation of said corner under article 20; said land bounded and described as follows: Begining at the northerly corner thereof; thence running southeasterly by Commercial Street Eleven and 65-100 (11.65) feet; thence running in a general southerly direction by a curve whose radius is Forty-five (45) feet, One Hundred Eleven and 74-100 (111.74) feet to Broad Street; thence running north- westerly by said Broad Street Eighteen and 10-100 (18.10) feet, to land now or late of Priscilla E. Nash; thence running in a general northerly direction by said land of Nash Fifty (50) feet to land now or late of Robert W. Sheehan, Trustee; thence running southwesterly by said land of Sheehan Six and 60-100 (6.60) feet; thence running north- easterly by said land of Sheehan Forty-eight and 06-100 (48.06) feet to the point of beginning, containing 3842 square feet more or less and supposed to be owned by Julius J. Converse et al. and that the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) be raised and appro- priated for the acquisition of the portion of said land covered by this article.
The tellers reported 113 voting in the affirmative and none in the negative.
Art. 33. Voted unanimously: That the sum of $15,000.00 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 $15,000.00 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 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, so that the whole shall be paid in not more than fifteen years.
The tellers reported 136 voting in the affirmative and none in the negative.
Art. 34. Voted: To appropriate a sum not exceeding $20,000.00 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.
Art. 35. Voted unanimously: That the board of Water Commis- sioners are hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or take by right of eminent domain for the purpose of preserving the purity of the Town's water supply under the provisions of Chapter 79 and of Sec- tion 41 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth, the whole or any part of the following described parcel of land ad- joining Weymouth Great Pond with or without the buildings on said parcel.
Description
Beginning at a point on the easterly line of Weymouth Great Pond, on the division line between land of the Town of Wymouth and land of Percy W. Belcher, thence running easterly by said division line a distance of 7.00 feet to an iron pipe; thence continuing by the same course and still by land of the Town of Weymouth a distance of 37.75 feet to the northeast corner of said land of Percy W. Belcher; thence running southerly by said division line between land of the Town of Weymouth and land of Lizzie M. Hanscom, a distance of 215.12 feet;
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thence by the same course and by land of Ernest L. De Willoughby land of Nathan Sternberg, land of Leroy L. Hall, land of Nathan Sternberg, land of Albert R. Doherty, and land of Nathan Sternberg, a total distance of 700.56 feet to the westerly end of th division line between lots 45 and 46 as shown on "Plan of Land in (South) Wey- mouth, Mass.", (lots on or near Swan Ave.) made for registration in the Land Court by Russell H. Whiting, Civil Engineer, dated Dec. 8, 1926; thence running southwesterly in a straight line a distance of about 485 feet, measuring approximately as follows: about 210 feet across land of said Hanscom and about 275 feet across land of Lucy M. Thomas to the northeast corner of land of Frank O. Houghton and Eveline D. Houghton; thence in a southeast direction by the division line between said land of Houghton and land of Susie E. Poland and land of Marion W. Zerega to a point on said division line between said Houghton and Zerega distant about 330 feet from Thicket Street; thence in a southwesterly direction a total distance of about 1120 feet measured approximately as follows: about 180 feet across land of said Houghton, about 190 feet across land of George H. Bloxham, about 185 feet across land of Sarah A. Russell and Katherine J. Negus and about 565 feet across land of Charles and Emilie Richter (2 parcels) to a point on the division line between land of said Richter and land of Thomas H. Hannaford distant about 360 feet, measured along said division line from the westerly line of Thicket Street; thence by said division line to its intersection with said westerly line of Thicket Street; thence by said line of Thicket Street southerly about 630 feet to its intersection with the division line between land of Thomas H. Hannaford and Edward E. Shaw; thence northwesterly and westerly by said division line to its intersection with the division line between land of Edward E. Shaw and land of Joseph F. Turner; thence south- erly by said division line to its intersection with the westerly line of Thicket Street; thence southwesterly by said line of Thicket Street adjacent land of said Turner and land of Mary V. McPhail, a distance of about 600 feet; thence by an angle of ninety degrees to the right, a distance of 115 feet to a point; thence in a westerly direction, a total distance of about 620 feet measuring approximately as follows: about 145 feet across land of J. F. and W. H. Cushing Co. to a point on the division iine between two parcels owned by said Cushing, as shown on sheet 63 of the town survey sheets revised to April 1, 1927; thence southerly by said division line, a distance of about 540 feet to the westerly line of Thicket Street; thence southerly about 1850 feet along said line of Thicket Street to its intersection with the division line between land of Alan L. Wingate, Trustee and land of William J. Coughlan; thence by said division line, a distance of about 450 feet to its intersection with the division line between land of said Wingate and land of Thomas H. Hannaford; thence by an irregular course by said division line, by division line between land of said Wingate and land of parties unknown and by division line between said land of Wingate and land of Helen S. Tirrell to a corner of lands of Alan L. Wingate, Trustee, Helen S. Tirrell and James Tirrell and land of Helen S. Tirrell and by division line between land of Helen S. Tirrell and land of Wong Shase Tom, a total distance of 1500 feet more or less, to a corner of lands of Helen S. Tirrell, Wong Shase Tom, Isaac R. Jackson and Walter S. Stephens; thence by division line between land
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of said Jackson and land of said Stephens to the Weymouth-Holbrook line; thence by said town line and adjacent lands of said Jackson, of owner or owners unknown, of Alonzo Hooker, of Maria R. Paine and of Edward L. Morrill to its intersection with the southerly line of Randolph Street; thence easterly, northerly and then easterly by said line of Randolph Street and adjacent lands of said Morrill, of Rachel F. Doty, of Elmer E. Blanchard, of William B. and Mary Louise Belcher, of Helen O. and John M. Downey, of Elmer E. Belcher et al. of Mary C. Granger, of Adin C. DeMary, of Elizabeth T. Swift and Sarah A. Clark to the intersection of said line of Randolph Street with the Shore line of Weymouth Great Pond; thence in a general southerly, easterly and northerly direction following the westerly, southerly and easterly shore line of Weymouth Great Pond respective- ly to the point of beginning, and in case any parcel not abutting on a public street are not acquired, to grant to the owners of such parcel with rights of way as may in their opinion be necessary for the con- venient access to said parcels and not detrimental to the purpose for which the land is acquired, and to agree with the owners of such parcels upon restrictions thereof, and the Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized to execute in the name of the Town grants of such easements and agreements covering such restrictions, as the Board of Water Commissioners may approve as aforesaid. (This description covers all land on the shore of the pond from the southern end of the present taking at Swan Avenue to the place where the pond touches Randolph Street.)
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