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Mr. George E. Cunniff moved as an amend- ment : That the sum of $5,500.00 be raised and appropriated to pay the garbage con- tract until the expiration of the present contract which is Dec. 31, 1932 at which time the contract expires and that the Selectmen be authorized to advertise for new bids.
After quite a discussion of this question Mr. Cunniff asked unanimous consent of the meeting to withdraw his amendment which was granted.
The motion as offered by Mr. Heffernan was then put before the meeting and it was tentatively adopted.
Item 28. For Charities.
Provided that no part of this sum shall be available for the support for a longer period than three months of any person having a lawful settlement in any other city or town of the Commonwealth, which settlement has been established in any of the ways provided by law, and provided further that in addition to the foregoing sum the further sum of $37,000.00 shall be raised and appropriated for the purpose of providing work under the provisions of General Laws Chapter 117, Section 2 at a rate not greater than $4.00 per day for citizens of the town having a lawful settlement therein who at the time of such employment are actually in receipt of aid from the Town, no person to receive more than enough to give him one-half day's pay in excess of the amount of aid which he was previously receiving per week. Said work shall be performed under the general direction of the Superintendent of Streets who shall detail one or more of the present foremen of the Street De-
$2,000.00
11,749.98
10,243.22
108,750.00
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partment to exercise immediate supervision thereof, whose salaries shall continue to be paid from the regular street department appropriation. Of the sum of $37,000.00 above appropriated not more than $8,000.00 shall be available for materials and the hire of trucks and machinery, and the remain- ing amount shall be used only for reim- bursement for labor by the persons com- ing within the provisions of this vote, ex- cept as hereinafter expressly authorized for easements.
The following items shall be a first charge against said appropriation of $37,000.00, to wit: $1,400.00 for work to be desig- nated by and performed under the direction of the Park Commissioners ;
$1,210.00 for the construction of such drain- age system and catch basins as may be au- thorized under article 32 of the warrant for the present Town Meeting;
$2,000.00 for the construction of such drin- agesystem and catch basins as may be au- thorized under article 33 of the warrant for the present Town Meeting and, pro- vided the several streets hereafter named shall be accepted by the Town and the conditions of the vote under article 23 of the warrant for the present Town Meeting shall be complied with, the following amounts for the construction of the several streets hereinafter named, namely :
Trafalgar Court 1,500.00
Blanchard Roard, including drainage
1,500.00
Roosevelt Circle, including drainage
1,700.00
Harding Avenue from Roosevelt Road to the end of the present accepted portion of Harding Ave.
1,500.00
The street hitherto designated as Glendale Road.
2,000.00
Westminster Road to a point at 165 West- minister Road. 7,000.00
Provided that no part of said sum shall be used for the.construction of any roadway exceeding 20 feet in width and the work done shall be so apportioned that a road- way will be constructed with the money here appropriated over the entire portion of said streets accepted ;
Randall Avenue from the end of the present accepted portion of Whitman Street,
500.00
Lakehurst Avenue,
A proposed street connecting Lovell and North Streets between property now or
3,500.00
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late of Nellies G. Litchfield on the south and property now or late of Joseph Mc- Kinnon and Mary A. Pitts on the north, including the acquisition of the land;
2,000.00
The westerly corner of Webb and Com- mercial Sts. at property now or late of the heirs or devises of Katherine A. Gregg 800.00 The southerly corner of Broad and Essex Sts. at property now or late of Lena A. Donovan, 300.00
Both sides of North Street from Bridge Street to Wessagusset Road, 2,500.00
and no more than the above sums shall be expended on any of said streets. The re- mainder of said fund including all unex- pended balances from any of the foregoing amounts shall be available for such work on the Town's property as the Board of Selectmen may designate, provided, that any sums necessary for the acquisition of land or easements on the street connecting Lovell and North Streets, on the relocation of the westerly corner of Webb and Com- mercial Streets, and on the relocation of the southerly corner of Broad and Essex Streets, over and above the amounts appro- priated for the purpose under the respective articles of the warrant for this meeting may be paid from the sums allotted to those streets and shall be paid before any work is done or liability incurred on the respective streets.
Mr. Thomas J. Terry moved as an amend- ment : That the amount raised and appro- priated for Charities be $60,000.00 and the amount for unemployment to read $85,750.00 and further to strike out the words "$4.00 per day" and "who are actually receiving aid from the town".
This amendment was put before the meet- ing and it was declared not a vote.
The motion as offered by Mr. Heffernan was then put before the meeting and it was tentatively adopted.
Item 29. For Old Age Assistance under Chapter 118 of the General Laws. 32,000.00
Tentatively adopted.
Item 30. For Pensions. 2,490.00
Tentatively adopted.
Item 31. For Soldiers benefits, including State and Military and Soldiers relief and the burial of indigent Soldiers and Sailors. Tentatively adopted.
20,000.00
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Item 32. For the Highway Department.
(a) For salaries, general expenses and maintenance of existing roads
(b) For the removal of snow and ice
(c) For the repair of existing sidewalks and the construction of new permanent sidewalks 4,000.00
Provided that the appropriations for sal- aries and general expenses and for the re- moval of snow and ice may after December 1, of the current year be accounted for and disbursed as one fund, and further pro- vided that no trucks shall be hired at a greater rate than $9.00 per day including the driver.
Tentatively adopted.
Item 33. Mr. John Heffernan, Sec'y. of the Appro- priation Committee moved : For the sup- port of the public schools.
Mr. John Griffin moved as an amendment that the sum of $250.00 be added to put the base ball grounds at the Bicknell School in proper shape.
This amendment was put before the meet- ing and it was declared not a vote.
The motion as offered by Mr. Heffernan was then put before the meeting and it was tentatively adopted.
Item 34. For the maintenance of the Tufts Library and its branches as the same existed on February 28, 1931.
For maintenance of the Fogg Library read- ing room, to be disbursed on vouchers signed by the Librarian thereof.
In addition to the foregoing sums, there are hereby appropriated for the purposes specified by their respective donors, the income during the fiscal year of the Quincy Tufts, Augustus J. Richards, Joseph E. Trask, Susannah Hunt Stetson, Charles Q. Tirrell, Francis Flint Forsaith and Charles Henry Pratt Funds. Tentatively adopted.
Item 35. For the observance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the direction of a commit- tee of nine to be appointed from the several veteran and hereditary organizations by the Moderator, who shall designate the chairman, said amount to be available only in case evidence shall be filed with the Town Accountant that the graves of vet- erans of all was have been decorated with- out discrimination.
Tentatively adopted.
85,000.00 10,000.00
440,000.00
21,058.00
1,500.00
800.00
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Item 36. No action was taken on this article. Tentatively adopted.
Item 37. For Parks and Playgrounds to be dis- bursed under the direction of the Board of Park Commissioners. Tentatively adopted.
7,625.00
Item 38. For Miscellaneous expenses, to be expend- ' ed under the direction of the Board of Selectmen. Tentatively adopted.
2,550.00
Item 39. Unpaid bills : resented for payment after the appropriation made for the purpose was expended.
Health Department :
George E. Emerson, M.D.
51.25
Thomas J. McDonald
155.06
S. Henry Cushing
2.00
West Disinfectant Co.
30.40
Donovan Drug Co.
12.76
Lebossiere's
1.75
Rita Clark
5.50
Hobbs & Warren, Inc.
2.53
City of Quincy
225.00
Joseph Crehan
283.59
Jeremiah Doonvan
215.00
F. L. Doucett, M.D.
498.40
Norfolk County Hospital
443.30
M. L. Loud
13.50
George Marshall
120.90
Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals
75.00
Town of Milton
79.30
Lakeville State Sanatorium
150.00
Lakeville State Sanatorium
40.00
State Infirmary
43.000
Town of Wareham
79.30
Arthur B. Hultman
21.00
C. C. Shepherd
78.00
W. F. Hall
100.00
North Reading State Sanatorium
182.00
Tax Collector-F. W. Holbrook, commis-
sion due
158.15
Sea Wall Account-C. H. Chubbuck, bond for contractor.
97.50
3,174.19
2,918.54
Mr. Alfred Sheehy moved as an amend- ment: To strike out the amount of 97.50, bond for contractor. This amendment was put before the meeting and was so voted. Leaving the amount of
3,076.69
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Mr. Melville F. Cate moved as an amend- ment : That the Selectmen be instructed to direct the Town Counsel to begin proceed- ings against any individual member of the Board of Health for the recovery of any overdraft incurred by him.
After quite a discusshion on this subject Mr. Cate was given unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment.
The motion as offered by the Appropriation Committee through Mr. Heffernan was then put before the meeting and it was tenta- tively adopted.
Item 40. For Overdrafts under General Laws, Chap- ter 44, Section 31. Tentatively adopted.
8,103.07
Item 41. For the salaries and other expenses of the Water Department all of which sums shall be paid from the revenue of said Depart- ment at follows:
(a) For minor construction 20,000.00
(b) For maintenance and operation 31,000.00
(c) For replacements 10,000.00
(d) For equipment 4,000.00
(Which sum may be used in part to replace the present motor vehicles of the Department)
(e) For Commercial expenses 8,500.00
(f) For salaries 2,075.00
g) For interest 4,683.75
(h) For debt retirement
17,489.79
Tentatively adopted.
Item 42. For the operation of the Alewife Fishery. Tentatively adopted.
500.00
Item 43. For the care of soldiers' graves under Gen- eral Laws, Chapter 115, Section 22, includ- ing the placing of new markers and replac- ing old ones which have become lost or damaged, provided, however, that all mark- ers hereafter placed shall be set in the ground in such a manner that they cannot readily be removed or displaced, Tentatively adopted.
Item 44. For the care of old cemeteries Mr. Joseph A. Fern moved as an amend- ment : That the Selectmen be instructed to contract with Wessagusset Post No. 1399 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, for the care and maintenance of certain cemeteries in the Town, namely : Old Cemetery off Park Ave, S. Weymouth. Old Cemetery on Pleasant St. opposite Fairmount Cemetery in East Weymouth.
1,450.00
1.00
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Old Cemetery opposite Pine St., So. Wey- mouth and one located off Holbrook St., So. Weymouth, and that the sum of $600.00 be raised and appropriated to be paid to Wes- sagusset Post No. 1399 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars for the care of said ceme- teries during the current year.
The amendment was put before the meet- ing and was declared not a vote. More than seven members having doubted the vote a. recount was thus ordered. The tell- ers proceeded to count and reported 86 voting in the affirmative and 59 voting in the negative the amendment was declared carried.
The motion of the Appropriation Commit- tee as amended was then put before the meeting and it was tentatively adoptea.
Item 45. For interest and discount. 62,000.00 Tentatively adopted.
Item 46. For the retirement of bonds and notes. 104,000.00 Tentatively adopted.
Item 47. For the municipal buildings Insurance Fund. 1.00
Tentatively adopted.
Item 48. For fire insurance on motor vehicles of the town. 200.00
Provided that no money appropriated by the Town shall be available for any fire insurance hereafter placed on any build- ing, except during construction, which con- struction shall not include repairs or al- terations. Tentatively adopted.
Item 49. For a Reserve Fund. Voted further that of the sums herein ap- propriated $100.00 of the appropriation for the Selectmen's Department, $100.00 of the appropriation for the Police Department, $100,00 of the appropriation for the Fire Department, $100.00 of the appropriation for Highway Department, and $50,00 of the appropriation for the Tufts Library shall be aavilable for travelling expenses of the officers and employees of said Department outside the Commonwealth in securing in- formation upon matters which may tend to improve the services in their respective Departments; and further that whenever any official whose compensation is at the rate of $1,000.00 a year or less shall be obliged to leave the Town for the purpose
25,000.00
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of attending otherwise then as a witness any hearing before a court, administrative board or official, the Selectmen, upon the certification of the head of the Town De- partment responsible for the conduct of said hearing that his presence was neces- sary, may allow him not exceeding $10.00 per day for the time so consumed, in addi- tion to the salary or emoluments of his position hereinbefore fixed or otherwise fixed in accordance with law; further pro- vided that except as herein expressly au- thorized and except in so far as salaries may be increased in any department in ac- cordance with a sliding scale which was in force January 1, 1931, no portion of the moneys appropriated under this or any other article shall be used to pay any per- son whose compensation is payable from the tax levy any fixed salary in excess of that which the incumbent of the same office was receiving in the month of January, 1932, not to pay any person the salary or emoluments of two or more appointive of- fices for the same period unless such of- fices were held simultaneously by one per- son on January 1, 1932; provided further, that the salaries of all elective officers shall remain as last fixed by the Town; and further provided that, except as herein expressly provided, no moneys appropri- ated under this or any other article of the warrant shall be available for the pur- chase of any motor vehicles, except that should any moneys be transferred from the Reserve Fund to meet any unforseen ex- penditure for motor vehicles the same may be used for the purchase of such motor vehicles, under such restrictions and limita- tions as the Appropriation Committee may establish; and further provided that no moneys herein appropriated shall be avail- able for the purchase of motor vehicles unless the same are purchased from a dealer living or having an established place of business in the Town of Weymouth. Tentatively adopted.
Voted unanimously : That all motions tentatively adopted be regularly adopted as amended.
Article 2. Mr. John W. Heffernan, Sec'y. of the Appropriation Committee moved : That all committees who have not rendered a final report be continued until the work under their charge is com- pleted.
Mr. Francis A. Gunn moved as an amendment : That the annual
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town report and the report of the Appropriation Committee be placed in the hands of the Town Meeting Members three (3) weeks before the annual town meeting.
Mr. Ronald A. MacDonald moved as an amendment: That these reports be placed in the hands of the Members ten (10) days before the meeting.
Mr. Gunn's motion being the longer time it was put before the meeting and was declared not a vote.
Mr. MacDonald's motion was put before the meeting and was de- clared not a vote.
The motion as offered by Mr. Heffernan was then put before the meeting and it was so voted.
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 finan- cial year beginning January 1, 1932, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew such note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws; any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1932.
Article 4. Voted unanimously: That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized on and after January 1, 1933 to borrow such money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the fiscal year beginning Janaury 1, 1933 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year from the date of issue and that any debt or debts incurred under this vote be paid from the revenue of the fiscal year in which they were contracted.
Article 5. Voted unanimously : To appropriate a sum not ex- ceeding $60,000.00 from Surplus for the use of the Assessors in de- termining the tax rate for the year 1932.
Article 6. Voted unanimously : That the salary of the Tax Collector be six mills on each 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; and further that in any 'case where the Building Inspector certifies to the Tax Collector that the building on any property where taxes are unpaid is not in con- formity with the building laws, the Collector shall instead of selling the property, take the same for the Town under General Laws, Chap- ter 60, Sections 53 and following. The time of payment and rates of interest on unpaid taxes shall be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 59, Section 57 of the General Laws.
Article 7. Voted unanimously : That the Selectmen be authorized · to sell or otherwise. dispose of all real estate of which the town has possession or title, including all property taken for non-payment of 'taxes, and to execute and acknowledge sufficient deeds therefor, all such sales of real estate to be by public auction unless in the opinion of the Selectmen the fair value of the property to be sold in each case does not exceed $100.00 in which case and in the case of all
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sales of personal property the sale may be made by public auction or private sale as the Selectmen may deem for the best interests of the Town, and that the Board or Officer in charge of any other Town Department may, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, sell at public auction or private sale as the Board of Selectmen may ap- prove,any personal property belonging to said department which in the . opinion of the Officer or Board in charge of the Department is no longer needed by the Town and which in the opinion of the Selectmen is not needed by any other Town Department.
Article 8. Voted unanimously: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to accept conveyances or mortgages of any real or personal property belonging to persons receiving poor relief and to dispose or said property under the provisions of Article 7 in such manner as they may judge for the best interests of the Town and where said property is subject to any incumbrance if they consider it for the best interest of the Town to discharge said incumbrance they are hereby authorized to do so and the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of discharging any such incumbrance.
Artricle 9. Voted: That all insurance money which the Town may receive between now and the next Annual Town Meeting for the destruction or damage by fire or lightning of any Town property is hereby appropriated for the purpose of replacing or repairing the property so destroyed or damaged and with the approval of the Board in charge of the Muncipal Buildings Insurance Fund may be paid out for said purpose on the order of the Board or Official in charge of the Department having control of the property so destroyed or damaged. Voted further that in case any Town property not covered by insurance or of which the Town is co-insurer under any provision of the policy shall be destroyed or damaged by fire or lightning before the next Annual Town Meeting, the Board in charge of the Muncipal Buildings Insurance Fund are hereby authorized to pay from said fund and its accumulations of interest for the re- placing or repairing of said property a sum not exceeding the fair replacement value of the uninsured property so destroyed or damaged and not exceeding the Town's proportion of said fair replacement value of any property of which the Town is co-insurer.
Article 10. Voted : That the unexpended balances remaining in the appropriation for the Committee on Ward 2 Fire Station, for construction of Ward 2 Fire Station, for relocating street corners and for widening Bridge Street, be and the same are hereby covered into the Treasury and in case any liability shall in future be es- tablished against the Town which would have been payable from any of said appropriations, the same shall be paid from the appro- priation for the paymentof damages.
Mr. Benjamin F. Smith moved that the meeting do now adjourn until Wednedsay evening as stated in the warrant. The Moderator declared the motion not carried. More than seven members having doubted the vote a recount was ordered. On the recount the tellers reported 85 voting in the affirmative and 75 voting in the negative. The motion to adjourn was so carried. (Adjourned at 11 o'clock.)
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT,
Town Clerk.
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NOTICE OF ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING
I hereby certify that the following notice was posted in ten public places in the town as provided in Section 3 of Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921 and amendments thereof.
NOTICE
Public notice is hereby given that the annual town meeting of the Town of Weymouth, held on March 7, 1932, adjourned to meet at the hall of the Weymouth High School, East Weymouth, March 9, 1932, at 7:45 o'clock.
This notice is given under the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 61 of the Acts of 1921 and amendments thereof.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Town of Weymouth this 8th day of March, A. D. 1932.
CLAYTON B. MERCHANT,
Town Clerk.
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING
March 9, 1932
The time to which the Annual Town Meeting adjourned having arrived as provided in the warrant for said meeting ,the meeting was called to order at 7:50 o'clock by George L. Barnes, Annual Moderator. The Chaplain of the meeting Rev. William G. Sewell offered prayer.
Before proceeding to the business of the evening the Moderator read the following two letters which were addressed to him as Moderator.
March 9, 1932
Honorable George L. Barnes, Moderator,
Town of Weymouth,
Massachusetts.
My dear Mr. Moderator :
For the past twenty years it has been my privilege to attend the town meetings of the Town of Weymouth, and during that time I have not missed a single town meeting, regular or special.
However, tonight I regret that I shall be unable to attend the ad- journed town meeting, as the Legislative Committee of which I have £ the honor to be chairman is travelling this afternoon and evening on urgent state business. Therefore, as I cannot be in both places at the same time, I am unfortunately confronted with two problems :- attending the adjourned town meeting or attending to the urgent business of the Commonwealth. Accordingly, I must forego the pleasure of attending the town meeting, and it is with regret that I do so; as I know of your keen interest and devotion to the duties of your office and to the welfare ef the town, and I know you desire to have as many of the citizens of the town as possible attend these meetings. I trust, however, that I shall be able to continue in the 'future my record of attendance, merely as a good citizen and voter - of our wonderful town.
Sincerly, NEWLAND H. HOLMES.
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Hon. George L. Barnes, Moderator, Town of Weymouth, Weymouth, Mass.
Dear Sir :-
The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, as the largest taxpayer in the Town of Weymouth, is deeply concerned in the present situation which exists with reference to the entry of the town into the South Metropolitan sewerage district. The records of the Supreme Judicial Court show that litigation to determine the complication legal situation which arises out of the passage by the Legistlature of three statutes whose provisions on their face appear to be inconsistent. From the fact that the voters of the Town have by an overwhelming vote rejected the act which provided for the entry of the town into the sewerage district, we assume that the town does not desire to enter the district, and, although we do not wish to interfere in questions of municipal policy, yet, if that is the attitude of the town we are deeply concerned, particularly under present general business conditions, in not having the town unnecessarily incur such a tremedous expense, which apparently the voters do not wish to incur, and of which, in the end, we shall have to pay ap- proximately one-half. It occurs to us that the simplest means of deciding this controversy would be to appeal to the Legislature for an act settling the matter one way or the other, and with some hesi- tation we make the suggestion that if there is an article in the war- rant under which such action might be taken, such course be pursued.
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