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Voted: That except as hereinbefore provided the salaries of all officers elected by popular vote be the same as in 1928, and! the salaries of all other officers be as fixed by the Selectmen within the limits of the appropriation available therefor.
Article 2. Voted: To take up Articles 23-53 and 55 in con -. junction with this article.
No objection being raised the several reports of the Town, Board and Committees were accepted as printed in the Town Report, according to Section 201 of Article 2 of the Town By- Laws.
$5,357.50.
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Under this article it was voted. That a committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to study and report at the next Town Meeting what additional safeguards should be adopted to protect the Town against unworthy applications for poor relief.
The Moderator appointed Stanley T. Torrey, Frederick L. Alden, Melville F. Cate, Thomas Fitzgerald and Gertrude C. Andrews as members of the above committee.
Under Article 23 which was voted to be taken up under Article 2. The Appropriation Committee moved: That a committee of three be appointed to prepare and submit (to the next Town Meeting) a bill for presentation to the General Court providing for the establishment of a Reserve Police Force. Arthur H. Pratt moved as an amendment that the words "to the next Town Meeting" be stricken out. The amendment was so voted. The motion as amended was so voted.
Under Article 53 which was voted to be taken up under Article 2. The Appropriation Committee moved: That a committee of nine which shall include representatives of the Sons of American Revolution, Susanna Tufts Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution, The Society of the War of 1812, The Weymouth Historical Society and the Appropriation Committee, be appointed by the Moderator to arrange and conduct the Town's participation in the Massachusetts Bay Tercentenary Celebration by means of an old home week and that the sum of $300 be raised and appropriated for the expenses of said committee. This motion was so voted.
The Moderator appointed 011 this committee James M. Hooper, chairman, Frederic Gilbert Bauer, Mrs. Parker T. Pearson, Walter L. Bates, C. Edgar Stiles, John W. Heffernan, H. Franklin Perry, Newland H. Holmes and Olindo Garofalo.
Under Article 55 which was voted to be taken up under Article 2. The Appropriation Committee moved: That the com- mittee of Town Forest be instructed to report at the next Town Meeting the needs of the Town with reference to the conservation and planting of public shade trees and their recommendations regarding same. After debate on this question by Charles L. Merritt, Tree Warden, the motion was lost.
Under Article 2, it was voted: That all Town Committees which have not rendered a final report, 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 vote otherwise.
Article 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, 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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Article 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 beginning January 1, 1930 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.
Article 5. The Appropriation Committee moved: To raise and appropriate the sum of $4,823.45 for the payment of unpaid bills as follows:
Charities
$3,316.19
Soldiers' Relief
124.53
Highways
922.41
Health Department
229.04
Insurance
231.28
$4,823.45
Frederick L. Doucett moved as an amendment that the sum of $2,006.47 be added to the above total sum for unpaid bills of the Health Department.
The question came upon the amendment, the tellers reported 117 voting in the affirmative and 9 in the negative, the amendment was so voted. The motion offered by the Appropriation Committee as amended was so voted. The total amount so voted was $6,829.92.
Article 6. Voted: To appropriate the sum of $40,000. from the surplus for the use of the Assessors in determining the tax rate for the year 1929.
Article 7. Voted: That the salary of the Tax Collector be six mills of the dollar of taxes collected, and that the Selectmen be authorized to insure the Tax Collector in the sum of $15,000. hold-up insurance. The time of payment and rate of interest on unpaid taxes to be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 59, Section 57 of the General Laws.
Article 8. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $1,090. for copying, indexing, preserving and binding the Town Records.
Article 9. Voted: That the Selectmen be authorized to sell all real estate of which the Town may be possessed or seized and for which it has no further use, including all real estate of which the Town has possession or title for non-payment of taxes, and to execute and acknowledge sufficient deeds therefor, all sales to be by public auction unless in the opinion of the Selectmen the fair value of the property does not exceed $100. in which case the sale may be made by public auction or private. sale as the Selectmen deem for the best interests of the Town.
Article 10. 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
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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 ibe paid in not more than fifteen years. .
The tellers reported 131 voting in the affirmative and none in the negative.
Article 11. Voted unanimously: That the Board of Water "Commissioners be authorized to acquire by purchase or take by . right of eminent domain under the provisions of Chapter 79 and Section 41 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws for the purpose of preserving the purity of the water supply. a certain parcel of land lying within the watershed of Great Pond and described as follows:
An island containing one acre more or less, bounded on the morth by New Mill River, on the east by Old Mill River, with three rocks for bounds, with holes drilled therein, on the south by Weymouth Great Pond, on the west by Weymouth Great Pond. "Together with a right of way, twelve feet in width and all benefits thereto belonging. Being the premises deeded to George F. Mitchell by Phillip J. Kane on August 10, 1926 and recorded von August 10, 1926 in Norfolk Deeds, Book 1708, Page 12, and that the sum of $3,000. be appropriated from the revenue of the Water Department of the current year for the purpose of acquiring said land. The tellers reported 130 voting in the affirmative and none in the negative.
Article 13. Voted unanimously : That the Board of Select- men be authorized to accept on behalf of the Town deeds of any land adjoining parcels taken by the Town in the vicinity of Great Pond for the protection of the water supply and that any such acquisitions already made are hereby ratified and accepted, and the Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized to convey said lands or any of them in full or partial settlement of any claims for damages for land taken for the purpose of preserving the purity of the water supply or in case they cannot be so disposed of to sell the same in the manner provided in the vote under Article 9 of the warrant for this meeting.
Article 14. The Appropriation Committee moved: To raise and appropriate the sum of $10,000 to complete. the drainage system of Legion Memorial Field, the work to be done under the direction of the Superintendent of the Water Works subject to the super- vision of the Committee in charge of Legion Memorial Field, any surplus remaining to be available for surfacing said field or for other improvements therein as the Committee may direct.
Prince H. Tirrell offered the following substitute motion and it was so voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of $10.000. for the further improvement of Legion Memorial Field the same to be expended under the joint direction of the School Committee and the Superintendent of the Water Department, and that the unexpended balance from the appropriation previously made for like purpose be made available under the same joint direction.
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Article 15. The Appropriation Committee moved: To appro- e the sum of $200,000 for the construction of a school building eplace the old Hunt School, of which sum $30,000. shall be ed in the levy of the present year and to meet the balance aid appropriation the Treasurer with the approval of the ctmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow a sum not to ed $170,000., and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with Section 19 Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole of said shall be due and payable in not more than twenty years i the date of issue of the first bond or note, or at such earlier as the Treasurer and Selectmen may designate, and further the Committee in charge of the erction of the Pratt School tion and the Pond Plain School together with the members he School Committee be a committee to carry out the pro- ons of this vote.
Newland H. Holmes offered the following amendment: By sing out all the words after the words "designate" and adding eto the following "that the building committee be composed he School Committee as organized after March 11, 1929, the erintendent of Schools, and the following citizens: John H. Fer. William J. Fitzsimmons. Louise R. Crawford, Joseph ley, Theron L. Tirrell and C. Lincoln Abbott".
The question on the amendment was put before the meeting, it was so voted. The question on the motion of the Appro- ition Committee as amended was put before the meeting and vas unanimously voted.
The tellers reported 147 voting in the affirmative and none the negative.
George E. Cunniff moved to reconsider Article 14. Not a vote. Article 16. Voted: That the committee designated in the e under the preceding article be instructed to procure plans, cifications and bids for the erection of an addition to the knell School and that the sum of $3,500 be raised and appro- ated for the use of said committee and that said committee further authorized to let a contract for the erection of said lding conditioned upon the Town appropriating the money refor at a future Town Meeting.
Article 17. Voted: That Article 20 be taken up with this icle. The Appropriation Committee moved: To raise and ap- priate the sum of $4.000 for completing the grading and dscaping around the Town Hall, constructing a parking space 1 procuring additional furniture and equipment, and that the n of $1.000 be appropriated from the accumulated income of John B. Rhines Fund for the purchase of clocks, fixtures and Forations for the walls of the Town Hall, such articles to be tably marked as memorials to the late John B. Rhines.
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George E. Cunniff moved to amend by adding to the first part of this motion "that the work on grading and landscaping be done by Weymouth help". Not a vote. The original motion as 'offered by the Appropriation Committee was then put before the meeting and it was so voted.
Voted: That Article 19 be taken up in conjunction with Article 18.
William B. Dasha moved to reconsider the vote whereby it was voted to take up Article 19 with Article 18. The tellers re- ported 60 voting in the affirmative and 46 in the negative.
Voted to take up Article 19.
Article 19. Voted unanimously: For properly commemorating the services and sacrifices of the soldiers, sailors and marines who have gone from Weymouth in the 300 years of her history, there shall be raised and appropriated the sum of $10,000 for the construction under the direction of the committee heretofore charged with that project a wall on the grounds in front of the Weymouth High School and forming a part of the open air auditorium which the committee in charge of the High School addition are planning to construct, which wall shall bear tablets with all ascertainable names of said soldiers, sailors and marines who have served from Weymouth in all wars during the period aforesaid.
Article 18. Voted: For the purpose of properly commemorating the services of those men of Weymouth who have offered their lives for their Country in the several wars since the first settle- ment of the Town, the sum of $5,000 shall be raised and appro- priated for the purpose of preparing and landscaping the knoll adjoining the southerly wing of the Weymouth High School including approaches thereto for the erection thereon of a suitable memorial structure, said sum to be expended under the direction of the committee heretofore charged with that project.
Article 21. The Appropriation Committee offered the follow- ing motion: That a committee of seven, one of whom shall be the Chief of the Fire Department, be appointed by the Moderator to procure plans, specifications and bids for the construction of a new fire station including provisions for the new fire-alarm system in Ward 2 and that the sum of $3,000 be raised and appropriated for the aforesaid purpose.
Alfred C. Sheehy moved as a substitute motion as follows: That a committee be appointed to obtain plans, specifications and bids for the construction of a new fire station in Ward 2 and that the sum of $3,000 be raised and appropriated for procuring plans, specifications and for preliminary work on said fire station, that said committee be authorized to let a contract for the construction of said fire station, suitable for housing the Fire- Alarm System, after competitive bidding, said contract being contingent upon the Town making a sufficient appropriation to
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cover the cost of construction therefor, and that the committee be appointed as follows:
Chief of the Fire Department, Secretary of the Appropriation Committee, Ralph H. Haskins, Edward I. Loud, Selectman-elect Lom Ward 2 (Winslow M. Tirrell) said committee to report to the next Town Meeting.
George E. Cunniff moved as an amendment: That the Fire Station be located on the Franklin School lot". This amendment was so voted.
The motion as offered by Alfred Sheehy as amended was so voted.
Voted: To take up Article 56.
Article 56: Voted: To appropriate the sum of $37,000 for building and equipping a fire engine house in Ward 3 of which sam $10.221.89 shall be raised in the levy of the current year, $8,778.11 is hereby appropriated from insurance money received and to meet the balance of said appropriation the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow a sum not to exceed $18,000 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, said bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with Section 19 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws so that the whole of said loan shall be due and payable in not cmore than twenty years from the date of the first bond or note, er at such earlier date as the Treasurer and Selectmen may designate, and further that this appropriation be disbursed by the present committee, and that the sum herein appropriated be available for the hire of temporary quarters of the Ward 3 fre company until such time as said building is ready for occupancy. The tellers reported 97 voting in the affirmative and 17 in the negative.
Howard M. Clark moved: To adjourn to Thursday evening, March 7, 1929, not a vote.
Frederick G. Bauer moved that Articles 29, 30 and 34 be taken up together and it was so voted.
Article 29. Voted: To accept from the Stetson Shoe Company, Inc. a deed of a strip of land between Front and Main Streets, and to accept the report of the Selectmen laying out same as a town way.
Article 30. Voted unanimously: To accept the report of the Board of Selectmen laying out as Town Ways the following pilvate ways, to wit: Beals Street, Manatee Road, Oakcrest Road.
To accept so much of the report of the Selectmen laying out As a town way Hibiscus Avenue as lays out such town way
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that portion of Hibiscus Avenue lying between Pleasantview Avenue and the easterly side line of a certain private way known as Idlewell Boulevard and situate easterly of said Pleasantview Avenue.
To accept so much of the report of the Selectmen laying out as a town way Lochmere Avenue as lays out as such town way that portion of Lochmere Avenue lying between Delorey Avenue and a line connecting the easterly bounds of property of Andrew Morton with the line dividing property of Rehada X. Hanna from property of Henry I. Durant and Robert C. Morrow
To accept so much of the report of the Selectmen laying out as a town way Randall Avenue as lays out as such town way that portion of said Randall avenue lying between the present southerly end of the accepted portion of Randall Avenue and a line connecting a point on the easterly side of said Randall Avenue 498.98 feet from said southerly bound of the accepted portion of Randall Avenue measured on the easterly line of the said lay-out and a point 451.3 feet from said southerly end measured on the westerly line of said proposed lay-out.
To accept so much of the report of the Selectmen laying out as a town way Seminole Avenue as lays out as such town way that portion of said Seminole Avenue lying between Pleasantview Avenue and the westerly side line of a private way known as Idlewell Boulevard. And that the Board of 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 and portions of streets as so laid out and accepted and that the following sums of money be raised and appropriated for the working of said streets in- cluding the acquisition of the foregoing easements, to wit:
For Beals Street
$5,000.00
For Hibiscus Avenue
1,400.00
For Seminole Avenue
1,400.00
For Lochmere Avenue
2,200.00
For Manatee Road
1,690.00
For Oakcrest Road
3,300.00
For Randall Avenue
1,580.00
$16,570.00
which sums shall be expended under the direction of the Super- intendent of Streets, except in so far as the Selectmen may expend a portion of same for the acquisition of easements, provided that no work shall be done on any of said streets until a realease in form satisfactory to the Town Counsel shall be delivered to the Town by the persons owning the fee therein and further provided that any unexpended balances from the appropriations made for any of the foregoing streets shall be available for the construction of any other of said streets 0 for general highway purposes.
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Article 34. Voted unanimously: To accept the report of the Selectmen relocating the intersection of Middle and Com- mercial Streets, that the Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized to take by gift or by right of eminent domain for all purposes of a public street and highway in and over said street as so relocated and that the sum of $3,930 be raised and ap- propriated for the working of said street including the acquisition of the foregoing easements.
Voted on motion of Frederic Gilbert Bauer: That the consideration of the remaining articles in the warrant be post- poned until such time as the Selectmen may decide to call a Special Town Meeting.
Voted: To adjourn at 12 P. M.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT, Town Clerk.
TOWN ELECTION
March 11, 1929
Town Treasurer
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 Total
John H. Stetson 830 Main St.
266
282
435
185
643
254
171
116
2352
Blanks
255
442
575
174
438
606
176
102
276S
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
S6Q
347
218
5120
Selectmen
Walter L. Bates
67 Union St.
85
123
182
73
336
75
85
67
1026
William B. Chalke, Jr.
1194 Washington
156
174
191
148
274
141
258
50
1392
Charles H. Chubbuck
36 Charles St.
188
324
278
81
327
165
90
137
1490
William A. Connell 37 Highland Pl. William B. Dasha 249 North St. Henry E. Hanley 80 Raymond St. Edward A. Hunt 60 Summer St. Arthur I. Negus S1 Thicket St.
90
289
207
68
139
438
73
36
1340
167
181
463
104
295
139
85
94
152S
H. Franklin Perry 104 Front St.
121
251
632
116
280
240
85
6S
1793
Edwin R. Sampson
19 Lincoln St.
393
272
303
134
360
212
118
144
1936
Winslow M. Tirrell
121 Hawthorne St. 172 Fred E. Waite
2 Oakcrest Rd.
168
243
300
169
667
250
134
62
1993
George Ames Blanks
1
1
566 1012 1519
480 1539 1617
485
185
7403
182
321
518
202
292
400
104
68
237
94
117
42
95
100
38
57
79
SS
76
421
84
69
54
958
349
252
102
380
439
111
68
1873
Total
2605 3620 5050 1795 5405 430G 1735 1090 25600
1
38
2 Assessors, 3 years
William L. Doty
28 Pleasant St.
79
61
103
57
439
65
66
39
909
George W. Ecker 11 Fern Rd.
44
35
55
16
156
38
22
15
381
Richard Halloran 466 Main St.
68
225
440
248
279
281
162
47
1758
Minot E. Hollis 30 Lakewood Rd. 149
109
208
65
279
132
73
76
1091
M. Frank Sullivan 1099 Main St.
55
81
166
11
51
143
25
30
562
Otis B. Torrey 239 Pleasant St.
177
181
172
115
407
128
141
72
1393
John D. Walsh
153 Central St.
135
204
292
84
197
261
53
31
1257
Blanks
317
552
584
122
354
682
152
126
2889
Total
1042 1448 2020
718 2162 1720
694
436 10240
1 Assessor, 1 year, vacancy
Harry E. Bearce
41 Laurel St.
164
189
164
87
219
129
92
63
1107
Winfred C. Bonney 1535 Commercial
17
36
24
13
23
24
3
10
150
George E. Cunniff 1289 Pleasant St.
44
102
252
70
123
226
54
22
893
William P. Denbroeder 774 Broad St.
76
72
104
31
153
76
48
43
603
Olindo S. Garofalo 87 Hawthorne St.
6
24
16
3
7
112
5
4
177
Walter I. Peers 17 Sumner Rd.
25
71
38
12
43
39
13
15
256
Charles P. Reidy 1274 Commercial Blanks
14
163
226
53
256
168
76
37
1093
75
67
186
90
257
86
56
24
841
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
860
347
218
5120
Collector of Taxes
Earl C. Fowler 65 Whitman St. Frank M. Holbrook 181 Pleasant St. Blanks
94
232
224
33
133
334
34
45 1129
349
353
537
274
814
339
279
148
3093
78
139
249
52
134
187
34
25
898
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
860
347
218
5120
39
2 School Committee, 3 years
Edwin R. Sampson 19 Lincoln St.
433
463
649
210
646
451
221
180
3253
Ethel G. Taylor
41 Tower Ave.
303
311
476
197
711
303
189
137
2627
Waitte M. Valin 95 Ralph Talbot St. 57
118
131
69
202
43
GS
43
801
W. C. Bonney
1
1
1535 Commercial Blanks
249
555
764
242
603
853
216
76
3558
Total
1042 1448 2020
718 2162 1720
694 436 10240
Park Commissioner, 3 Years
Charles W. Burgess 32 Pearl St.
414
418
601
217
730
414
227
157
3178
L .E. Keyes
1
1
27 Lochmere Ave. Blanks
106
306
409
142
351
446
120
61
1941
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
860
347
218
5120
Board of Health, 3 Years
Frederick L. Doucett 675 Broad St.
375
472
647
231
749
515
235
140
374
Edward F. Sullivan 666 Commercial Blanks
2
2
146
252
363
12S
332
345
102
76
1744
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
860
347
21S
5120
3 Trustees, Tufts Library, 3 Years
Gertrude C. Andrews 134 West St.
284
298
478
177
569
280
172
113
2371
Wallace H. Drake Ss Sea St.
339
291
446
157
492
300
148
123
2206
Arthur E. Pratt
161 Commercial St. 3
2
71
3
3
1
1
1
Scattering
14
1
9
10
1
1
40
Blanks
923 1579 2033
739 2170 1989
719
416 1956S
Total
1563 2172 3030 1077 3243 2580 1041
G54 15280
1 Water Commissioner, 3 Years
George E. Bicknell 21 Prospect St.
353
384
613
208
707
379
197
116
Il. S. Godfrey 695 Commercial St.
Blanks
168
310
397
151
371
4S1
150
71
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
SGO
347
218
5120
1
1
T
40
3 Members Planning Board, 3 Years Ralph H. Haskins
18 Lafayette Ave. 271
321
421
137
513
290
141
114
2208
Russell H. Whiting 56 Sea St. 346
316
468
160
554
292
163
124
2423
Josiah B. Reed 62 Torrey St.
19
3
3
8
1
34
Scattering
23
3
4
2
9
9
1
10
61
Blanks
923 1512 2134
778 2164 1981
735
406 10634
Total
1563 2172 3030 1077 3243 2580 1041
654 15360
Tree Warden
Charles L. Merritt 46 Highland Pl.
342
383
574
261
737
403
231
137
3068
William N. Craig 326 Front St. Blanks
179
341
436
98
344
457
116
79
2050
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
860
347
218
5120
Annual Moderator
George L. Barnes
830 Main St.
352
379
560
246
780
406
236
137
3096
William B. Dasha
249 North St.
1
1
George Ames,
41 Sea St.
1
1
Blanks
167
345
45
113
301
454
111
81
2022
Total
521
724 1010
359 1081
860
347
218
5120
14 Town Meeting Members 3 Years, Precinct 1
Charles T. Bailey, 22 Delorey Ave.
336
Joseph Buckley, 160 Sea St.
283
Carlton C. Chambers, 35 Bayview St.
250
Fred W. Crocker, 61 Standish St.
275
Wallace H. Drake, 88 Sea St.
353
John Griffin, 21 Fore River Ave.
245
Alton W. Jones, 17 Pearl St.
304
Leslie E. Keyes, 27 Lochmere Ave.
201
Archibald MeCullagh, 96 Green St.
251
Joseph H. McEnroe, 4 King Cove Rd.
186
James H. Pitts, 14 Moulton Ave. Raymond E. Stein, 44 Leonard Rd.
316
John Thomson, 28 Moulton Ave.
327
Stanley T. Torrey, 15 Lovell St.
373
Alfred F. Turner, 31 Princeton Ave.
240
Russell H. Whiting, 56 Sea St.
369
George Ames, 41 Sea St.
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