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CLAYTON B. MERCHANT
Justice of the Peace
My commission expires Aug. 16, 1933
Weymouth, March 24, 1933
Upon the above petition the Board of Registrars of voters met at the Selectmen's room and proceeded to recount the ballots cast at the election March 13, 1933, for Town Meeting Members from Precinct 8. the Town Counsel gave a decision that the Registrars were obliged to recount the ballots cast for all candidates and they proceeded to re- count
The result of the recount was as follows :
H. Scott Brown
156
Anthony L. Cassese
118
Benjamin M. Gowan 195
John W. Coyle
217
Edwin R. Hanson
158
Everett L. Leavitt
156
Richard M. Little
133
Paul A. Newsome
168
James H. Phalan
47
Charles S. Sholes
37
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Arthur R. Tilton Fred W. Webb Charles H. Wilder
65 97
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EDWARD P. MURPHY JOHN F. REARDON BASIL S. WARREN
Attest : EMERSON R. DIZER, Ass't Town Clerk
Town Clerk, Clayton B. Merchant
Dear Sir :
Petition to fill vacancy Precinct 8, Town Meeting Member
We, the undersigned Town Meeting Members of Precinct 8. do petition you to fill a vacancy which exists in our Precinct 8 due to a tie vote between Everett E. Leavitt and H. Scott Brown.
We ask you to proceed to call us together under the Representa- tive Town Meeting Laws, Section 7, Chapter 61, Acts of 1931.
The purpose of such a meeting is to vote by ballot to choose one of the above candidates as a Town Meeting Member of Precinct 8. Allan C. Emery - B. M. Gowan - A. H. Hayward - John W. Coyle - Parker T. Pearson - Paul A. Newsome - Harry E. Johnson - Edwin R. Farren - C. H. Wilder - Frederick E. Lunt - Edwin R. Hanson - R. Edward Bates - Prescott Brown.
Notices were sent to all Town Meeting Members of Precinct 8 to meet at the Town Hall Wednesday, May 3, 1933, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of electing a Town Meeting Member for said precinct to fill a vacancy caused by a tie vote in the election of March 13, 1933.
Charles H. Wilder was elected chairman and Paul A. Newsome as Secretary. Wilbur T. Roberts, 447 Commercial Street, was elected to fill the vacancy for 1 year.
Attest : EMERSON R. DIZER, Ass't Town Clerk
WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
To the Constables of the Town of Weymouth in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet in the Weymouth High School Gymnasium (Boy's) on
Wednesday, the Third Day of May, 1933
at seven o'clock and forty-five minutes in the evening, then and there to act on the following articles, namely :
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Article 1. (By direction of the Selectmen and on petition of abutter son the several streets hereinafter named).
To see if the Town will accept the several reports of the Selectmen laying out as Town ways the following designated private ways and parts of ways, or any of them, to wit:
Intervale Road from Glen Road to Lake Shore Drive; Glen Road from Lake Shore Drive near Middle Street to Lake Shore Drive near Mill River ;
Pine Ridge Road from Glen Road to Lake Shore Drive; Lake Shore Drive from Middle Street to land of Howe & French, Inc .. including branch to Mill River ;
Westminster Road from end of 1932 layout to a point near division line between land of Bater and land of Klosson;
Robinswood Road from Pine Circle to Lakewood Road and from Lakewood Road to land of Sargent;
Upland Road from Circuit Avenue near Middle Street, running northwesterly to another part of Circuit Avenue ;
Circuit Avenue from Middle Street to swamp at end of proposed layout as shown on plan filed at Town office ;
Seminole Avenue from Pleasantview Avenue easterly to Trefton Avenue and from Idlewell Boulevard westerly a distance of 140 feet; Hunt Avenue from Central Street 693.86 feet northerly ;
Hibiscus Avenue from Idlewell Blvd. westerly a distance of 290 feet or any portion of said ways and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift or purchase 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 and accepted, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the working of each of the above named streets, including the acquisition of the easements above referred to and for the building of any bridges, drains and conduits which may be necessary in connection therewith and to see whether the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in con- nection with any of said streets or to take any other action in reference thereto.
Article 2. (By direction of the Selectmen and on petition of abut- ters on the street hereinafter named).
To see if the Town will accept the report of the Selectmen laying out as a Town way the following designated private way or any portion of said way, to wit:
Canacum Road from Cliff Street easterly to land of American Agri- cultural Chemical Co. and from Cliff Street Westerly to land of Bradley,
and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to acquire by gift or pur- chase or take by right of eminent domain an easement for all pur- poses of a public street and highway, and to see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the working of the above named street, including the acquisition of the easement above referred to and for the building of any bridges, drains and conduits which may be necessary in connection therewith and to see whether
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the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in connection with said street, or to take any other action in reference thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Moderator to appoint a Committee of five to petition the General Court at this session for legislation to enable the Town to lay out, construct and maintain a system or systems of mains, drains and common sewers for the disposal of sewage, and to enable the Town to issue notes, bonds or scrip for the purpose of defraying the expense thereof. or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 4. (By direction of the Selectmen) To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repair and improvement of Middle Street between Main Street and Wash- ington Street, provided an appropriation is made and alloted by the Dept. of Public Works, Division of Highways, of the Commonwealth under the provisions of Section 34, Chapter 90 of the General Laws, Tercentenary Edition, to help defray the expense thereof, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 5. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the payment of unpaid bills of prior years, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 6. (By direction of the Selectmen) To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of House Bill No. 1246, or take any other action in relation thereto.
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 said meeting.
Hereof fail not, make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town on or before the first day of May, 1933.
Given under our hands at Weymouth this twentieth day of April. in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty- three.
EVERETT E. CALLAHAN, Chairman JOSEPH A. FERN, Clerk JOSEPH CREHAN, WILLIAM A. CONNELL, H. FRANKLIN PERRY,
Selectmen of Weymouth
A true copy, Attest :
Constable of Weymouth
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
May 3, 1933
Pursuant to the within warrant a special meeting of the in habi- tants of the town of Weymouth, represented by its duly elected and qualified Town Meeting Members, was held at the Boys' Gymnasium of the Weymouth High School on Wednesday evening, May 3, 1933.
The meeting was called to order at 7:50 p. m. by George L. Barnes, annual moderator, presiding and he requested Emerson R. Dizer, as- sistant Town Clerk, to read the warrant. After reading the call for the meeting on motion of Mr. Frank G. Hale Jr. it was voted : that the further reading of the warrant be omitted. The clerk then read the last three paragraphs of the warrant and the attestation of the constable who served the warrant.
The moderator then requested Rev. Dr. Winfield S. Randall, pas- tor of the Congregational Church, East Weymouth, to invoke Divine Blessing upon the deliberations of this meeting.
The following were sworn as Town Meeting Members :
Thomas H. Calnan, John A. Carter, Charles W. Clark, Emerson J. Coldwell, William B. Dasha, Joseph A. Delorey, R. Chester Lopaus, Warren F. Roulston, Edwin R. Sampson, Roland T. Seabury, Henry O. Tutty, Wilbur F. Woodworth, Corydon S. York.
James D. Bosworth, Thomas J. Kelly, Harry A. Mattson, Robert E. Mitchell, Albert R. Schofield, Benjamin B. Sylvester.
C. Lincoln Abbott, George H. Bicknell, Leon P. Bourke, A. Warren Clapp, William J. Coyle, Joseph Crehan, Samuel F. Cushing, Francis M. Dodge, Edward W. Hunt, Flurence I. Lyons, Thomas Sweeney, John F. Tracy.
John F. Pierce, Everett E. Callahan, William A. Connell, Chesley Cormack, Richard Halloran, Arthur B. Tirrell, Theron L. Tirrell.
Edgar C. Alger, Wallace A. Bicknell, William M. Chance, Ernest G. Crowther, Jacob Denbroeder, James C. Fairweather, Frank G. Hale Jr., Arthur W. Harkinson, Guy W. C. Hartt, Phillips B. Hunt, Arthur I. Negus, William G. B. Park, R, Craig Pierce, Wallace S. Raymond, Arthur F. Sargent, Daniel P. Sullivan, Ralph E. Taylor, Porter W. Thompson, Marcus L. Tirrell.
Chester C. Boyle, Louis A. Cipullo, Charles T. Cotter, James E. Downes, Joseph A. Fern, L. Henry Godin, William A. Hannaford, Philip T. Jones, Oakley A. Kunz, Sheldon W. Lewis, John H. Moran, Henry C. Pratt, Robert T. Whitmarsh.
Charles J. Downing, Charles E. Eddy, E. Lillian Rea, Warren E. Garey, William T. Wyman.
Benjamin M. Gowan, John W. Coyle, Edwin A. Hanson, Paul A. Newsome, Wilbur T. Roberts, Charles H. Wilder.
Sumner P. Bowker, Melville F. Cate, Harrison I. Cole, John W. Field, Walter R. Field, Francis A. Gunn, John E. Horace, Ritchie T. Howe, George J. Husband Jr., John S. Jennings, Joseph W. Kohler, Frank E. Loud, Daniel L. O'Donnell, Matthew O'Dowd, Fred H. Oliver, Charles H. Putnam, George Reed, Josiah B. Reed, Arthur R.
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Taylor, Joe Taylor, Prince H. Tirrell, Albert H. Silvester. James B. West.
Article 1. John W. Heffernan, secretary of the Appropriation Com- mittee, moved :
That the Town accept the several reports of the Selectmen laying out as Town Ways the following designated private ways and parts of ways or any of them, to wit:
Intervale Road from Glen Road to Lake Shore Drive;
Lake Shore Drive from Middle Street to land of Howe and French, Inc., including branch to Mill River ;
Pine Road from Glen Road to Lake Shore Drive; Glen Road from Lake Shore Drive near Middle Street to Lake Shore Drive near Mill River;
Westminster Road from end of 1932 layout to a point near division line of Bater and land of Klosson ;
Robinswood Road from Pine Circle to Lakewood Road and from Lakewood Road to land of Sargent ;
Upland Road from Circuit Avenue near Middle Street, running northwesterly to another part of Circuit Avenue ;
Circuit Avenue from Middle Street to swamp at end of proposed layout as shown on plan filed at Town Office ;
Seminole Avenue from Pleasantview Avenue easterly to Trefton Avenue and from Idlewell Boulevard westerly a distance of 290 feet or any portion of said ways and will authorize the Board of Se- lectmen to acquire by gift or purchase 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 and accepted, and that the appropriation made for the working of the above named streets at the Annual Town Meeting in March, 1933, is hereby re- appropriated for the working of each of the above named streets. including the acquisition of the easements above referred to and for the building of any bridges, drains and conduits which may be nec- essary in connection therewith and to authorize the Board of Select- men to accept deeds of any reservation strips existing in connection with any of said streets.
This question to accept the reports was put before the meeting and it was unanimously voted.
Article 2. John W. Heffernon, secretary of the Appropriation Com- mittee, moved : That no action be taken under this article.
Mr. William B. Dasha moved as an amendment: That the east portion of Canacum Road as laid out by the plans of Russell H. Whiting, Civil Engineer, be accepted as a Town Road. The motion was declared lost. More than seven members doubting the vote a recount was ordered.
The moderator appointed Alfred C. Sheehy and Arthur R. Taylor as tellers and they were sworn as such.
The tellers reported 74 voting in the affirmative and 70 in the negative.
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Mr. Dasha moved that the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropri- ated for the building of the easterly portion of Canacum Road as above voted.
Mr. Marshall F. Spear moved to reconsider Article 2 and it was so voted.
Mr. Melville F. Cate moved : That the subject matter of this arti- cle be indefinitely postponed and it was so voted.
Article 3. Mr. John W. Heffernan, secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : That the subject matter of this article be re- ferred to a committee to be appointed by the moderator and that such committee shall consider the cost of construction and the method of procedure and shall report its recommendation with a draft copy of any proposed legislation to the next Annual Town Meeting and that such report and draft copy shall be printed in the next Annual Town Report.
Mr. Josiah B. Reed moved as a substitute motion : That the Town vote the authority and the action as set forth in Aricle 3 of the warrant, as follows: "That the moderator appoint a committee of five (5) to petition the General Court at this session for legislation to enable the Town to lay out, construct and maintain a sysem or systems of mains, drains and common sewers for the disposal of sewage. and to issue notes, bonds or scrip for the purpose of defray- ing the expense thereof."
Mr. William A. Thurston moved as an amendment: That a com- mittee of 5 be appointed by the Board of Selectmen, each Selectman appointing one member. After quite a long discussion on the subject Mr. Frank G. Hale moved the previous question, so voted.
The first question to be put before the meeting was the motion of the Appropriation Committee, that being a quesion of referring and as Mr. Thurston's amendment was to amend the appointing of the ocinmittee, the amendment was put first and was declared lost.
The question on the motion of the Appropriation Committee, that being a motion to refer (see Section 105 of the By-Laws) taking precedence over Mr. Reed's motion, was put before the meting and was declared lost.
More than seven members having doubted the vote a recount was ordered.
The tellers reported 75 voting in the affirmative and 79 in the negative the motion was declared lost.
The 'next question was on Mr. Reed's substitute motion. That the Town vote the authority and action as set forth in Article 3 of the warrant.
The moderator declared the motion carried.
More than seven members having doubted the vote a recoutn was ordered.
The tellers reported 87 voting in the affirmative and 60 in the negative.
Mr. George E. Cunniff moved as an amendment: That the com- mittee insert in the bill a provision that will provide a referendum by the voters at large, so voted. The motion as amended was so voted.
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Article 4. John W. Heffernan, secretary of the Appropriation Com- mittee, moved : That no action be taken under this article.
Mr. Joseph A. Fern moved as a substitute motion : That the sum of $15,000.00 be raised and appropriated to carry out this article as specified in the warrant. Mr. George E. Cunniff moved as an amend- ment : That the men willing to work out their taxes be employed on that project. The question on Mr. Cunniff's motion to amend was put before the meeting and was so voted.
Mr. Ralph H. Haskins moved to amend by making the sum $5.000 to be raised and appropriated for the purpose specified provided the State will expend the same amount of money.
Mr. George E. Cuniff moved as an amendment: that the sum of $10,000 be raised and appropriated for the purpose specified.
The question of Mr. Fer'ns motion as amended by Mr. Cunniff's first amendment, it being the largest sum in accordance with Section 110 of the By-Laws, was put before the meeting and it was declared not a vote.
More than seven members doubting the vote a recount was ordered.
The tellers reported 92 voting in the affirmative and 47 in the negative, the moderator declared the motion as carried.
This vote for the largest sum nulifies the amendment of Mr. Has- kins and the amendment of Mr. Cunniff.
Article 5. Mr. John W. Heffernan, secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved : To raise and appropriate the sum of $275.55 for the payment of unpaid bills as follows: Insurance $258.60; Street Department $16.95, making a total of $275.55.
Mr. Everett E. Callahan moved as an amendment: That the total amount be $370.55, this to include a bill of $95.00 received from Dr. J. Herbert Libby from January, 1931, to January, 1933. The amend- ment was so voted.
The motion as amended was so voted.
Article 6. Mr. John W. Heffernan, secretary of the Appropriation Committee, moved that the subject matter of this article be referred to the Board of Selectmen, so voted.
Mr. Francis A. Gunn offered the following Resolution:
To the Town Meeting Committee of Weymouth :
Whereas, the Town Meeting of 1924 set up and defined a rule of guidance and instruction to the Board of Selectmen, to wit: That the Town Insurance would be shared equally by all the Weymouth agents, and
Whereas, such definition is ambiguous in meaning and has been the cause of considerable of opinion, as to the exact meaning and in- tention thereof, to the extent that the interests of the Town is jeop- ardized, it now appears necessary to formulate a more exact and def- inite set of rules, which will qualify those who are to participate in the Town Insurance, for the guidance and instruction to the Board of Se- lectmen.
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Therefore, it is moved that the following resolutions be adopted to govern the above mentioned participation in Town Iusurance.
Resolved that all agents and brokers who serves the Weymouth pub- lic with a full line of general insurance of all kinds, shall participate equally in all insurance placed by, or required by contract or terms of employment, by the Town of Weymouth.
It is further resolved, that the list of participating agents and or brokers shall be determined by the following qualifications :
1 Applicant shall be a registered citizen of Weymouth and serv- ing the Weymouth public with insurance of all kinds.
2 Applicant must be spending the major part of his income from the insurance business.
3 Applicant must be duly licensed as an Insurance Broker by the State of Massachusetts.
It is further resolved: that the authority and responsibility of all Town Insurance shall be vested in the Board of Selectmen, subject to the following rule: The Board of Selectmen shall select one agent from the list established by the above qualifications, to act as man- ager for the group. He shall supervise the details and placing and caring for all Town Insurance, including the allotting and acceptance of the proportionable shares of the other agents and or brokers of the selected group and the distribution of the commissions when not written direct by the agent and or broker.
The renumeration of the manager shall be determined by agreement between the other members of the duly qualified list and himself. The term of service of this manager of the Town Insurance shall be the same period as the term of the Town Insurance Schedule.
It is further resolved, that the above regulations and instruction gov- erning the handling of the Town Insurance shall be effective from the date of the passage of this resolution and shall govern the handling of the Fire Insurance Schedule for the term beginning April 1st 1933, and the Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized and instructed to adjust any prior arrangements accordingly.
The question came on the adoption of this resolution.
Mr. John J. Norton raised the question of a quorum present, the tellers reported 129 members present, as 148 members was necessary for a quorum the moderator declared he could not entertain the motion to adopt the resolution. Voted : at 11 p. m. to adjourn.
Emerson R. Dizer, Assistant Town Clerk
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES SPECIAL TOWN MEETING May 3, 1933
Art. 1 Re-appropriation under article 1, Item 27 Annual Meetings Re-appropriation under article 1
$ 152,980.00
$ 45,000.00
12.00
$152,992.00
Art. 4
Repair and improvement of Middle Street
$ 15,000.00
Art. 5 Payment of unpaid bills
370.55
$ 15,370.55 79
Clayton B. Merchant, Town Clerk
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WARRANT FOR A SPECIAL TOWN MEETING COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Weymouth
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of Weymouth aforesaid, qualified to vote in elections, to meet at the polling places in their re- spective precincts, to wit :
In precinct 1 in the Fire Engine House located in that precinct ; In precinct 2 at the G. A. R. Hall on Commercial Street ;
In precinct 3 at the Hunt School Gymnasium on Broad Street ;
In precinct 4 at the building of the Citizens Association, Inc. on Front Street ;
In precinct 5 at the building of the Pond School, Pond Street ;
In precinct 6 at the new Ward 2 Fire Engine House on the northerly side of Broad Street, which place has been duly designated as the poll- ing place of precinct 6 in acordance with Chapter 54 of the General Laws ;
In precinct 7 at the Lovell's Corner Improvement Association building on Washington Street
In precinct 8 at the Weymouth Heights Club building on North Street ; In precinct 9 at the building of the Norfolk Club on Pleasant Street, on
Monday, the fifth day of June, 1933
at 2:00 P. M. then and there to bring in to the election officers their votes on one ballot to see if the Town will vote to ratify the action of the Special Town Meeting, held May 3, 1933, whereby it voted :
"That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to petition the General Court at this session for legislation to enable the Town to lay out, construct and maintain a system or systems of mains, drains and common sewers for the dissposal of sewage, and to enable the Town to issue notes, bonds or script for the purpose of defraying the expense thereof, and that the committee insert in the bill a provision that will provide a referendum by the voters at large" which vote was passed by 87 voting in the affirmative and 60 in the negative.
The polls will be open from 2 to 8 P. M.
You are directed to serve this warrant by posting a true 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 said meeting, as directed by vote of the Town.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your do- ings thereon to the Town Clerk of said Town on or before the second day of June, A. D. 1933.
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Given under our hands at Weymouth this twenty-fourth day of May, A. D. 1933.
Everett E. Callahan
Joseph A. Fern
Joseph Crehan
William A. Connell
H. Franklin Perry Selectmen of Weymouth
RETURN OF SERVICE Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk, ss.
Weymouth, May 26, 1933
I have this day served the within warrant by posting a true copy thereof attested by me in writing in each of two places in each voting precinct in said Town of Weymouth seven days before the time of holding said election.
Harold Spillane
Constable of Weymouth
REFERENDUM ELECTION June 5, 1933
Shall the Town vote . to ratify the action of the Special Town Meeting, held May 3, 1933, whereby voted :
"That the Moderator appoint a committee of five to petition the General Court at this session for legislation to enable the Town to lay out, construct and maintain a system or systems of mains, drains and common sewers for the disposal of; sewage, and to enable the Town to issue notes, bonds or script for the purpose of defraying the expense thereof, and that the committee insert in the bill a provision that will provide a referendum by the voters at large." Which vote was passed by 87 voting in the affirmative and 60 in the negative.
Yes
97
89
89
36
64
95
34
69 103
676
No
79
84
177
74
81
152
89
44
103
883
Blanks
1
1
Total
176
173
266 110
145 247
124
113 206
1560
John F. Reardon
Basil S. Warren
Attest : CLAYTON B. MERCHANT,
Town Clerk
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WARRANT FOR A SPECIAL STATE ELECTION COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
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