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ARTICLE 11
Will the Town vote to establish the salaries and com- pensation of all elected Town Officers, or act thereon?
Voted, Constables, if not regular police officers, $50 to be taken from police appropriation.
Selectmen, $750 for each member and legitimate ex- penses, and $250 additional for Chairman.
Board of Public Welfare, $125 for each member and legitimate expenses.
Assessors, $500 for each member and legitimate ex- penses. $1,500 additional for Chairman, and $650 for clerical assistance.
Highway Surveyor, $2,800, he to furnish his own con- veyance while in the performance of his duties and receive $300 to cover the expense of same.
School Committee, $100 for each member and legitimate expenses.
Town Clerk, $1,200 and legitimate expenses.
Tax Collector, $2,000 and legitimate expenses.
Treasurer, $1,200 and legitimate expenses.
Tree Warden, $500.
Board of Health, that $1,000 be paid to the Board of Health for the full salary for all the members of the Board, and this sum shall include their charges for all services per- formed by them, or either of them, other than inspection of plumbing, inspection of meat, and inspection of cattle, from appropriation for Board of Health.
Park Commission, $100 for each member, if legal.
Moderator, $10 for each meeting.
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ARTICLE 12
To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account the sum of $3.50 to meet the 1926 bill of Litchfield Brothers (Fire Department) ; $8.49 to meet the 1926 bill of the Scituate Water Company (Town Wharf); $21.20 to meet the 1926 bill and $45.38 to meet the 1927 bill of Rothery, Delano and Young; $135.80 to meet the 1926 bill (Fire Department), $13 to meet the 1927 bill (Fire Department), $201.94 to meet the 1926 bill (Police Department), $176 to meet the 1927 bill (Police Depart- ment), $433.88 to meet the 1926 bill (School Department), and $211.50 to meet the 1927 bill (School Department), all of Fred L. Litchfield; $18.75 to meet the 1927 bill of Maurice O'Hern (Fire Department); $106.50 to meet the 1927 bill of Niles Machine Company (street signs); $45.59 to meet the 1927 bill of H. B. Vesper (Police Department) ; $235.65 to meet the 1925 bill and $406.59 to meet the 1926 bill of Front Street Transportation Company (Police Department) ; $21.20 to meet the 1927 bill of Rothery, Delano and Young; $3.50 to meet the 1927 bill of John L. Litchfield (Board of Health) ; $4.50 to meet the 1928 bill of Dr. H. E. Fernald (Board of Health); $20 to meet the 1926 bill, $305 to meet the 1927 bill and $20 to meet the 1928 bill of the American Gas Accumu- lator Company (Police Department) and $27 to meet the 1928 bill of Dr. Harry T. Handy (Public Welfare), or act thereon. Selectmen.
Voted, $2,464.97 from the Excess and Deficiency Account to pay bills mentioned in Article 12.
ARTICLE 13
Voted $5,000 for drainage, eradication of mosquitoes and allied purposes and to act with the State Reclamation Board for a survey of the Town for the purpose of the extermination of the mosquito nuisance, under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 111 with amendments thereto.
ARTICLE 14
Voted, That the Town do instruct the Board of Health to make application to the State Reclamation Board for a
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survey of the Town for the purpose of the extermination of the mosquito nuisance.
ARTICLE 15
Voted, $25,000 for the repairs and rebuilding of highways under the direction of the committee heretofore chosen, and the amount of $25,000 be assessed in the tax levy of the current year.
ARTICLE 16
Voted, $45.60 to pay for the land taken from the premises of Nellie E. Dizer for the layout of Cherry Lane.
ARTICLE 17
Voted, $2,000 for the continuance of the work on the Town Plan.
ARTICLE 19
Voted, That the Town raise, and appropriate the sum of $15,000 from the current tax levy to be expended in con- junction with the sum of $5,000 raised in 1928, for the pur- pose of further dredging of Scituate Harbor, provided that the State appropriate a like amount of $20,000 to be ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen and the State Division of Waterways, Department of Public Works.
ARTICLE 19
In regard to a change in the parking regulations on Glades Road.
Voted, To indefinately postpone.
ARTICLE 20
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $250 to defray the expenses of a committee of three citizens to be selected at the Annual Town Meeting to be known as the Water Committee, whose duty it shall be to gather certain information pertaining to public ownership of the Scituate Water Company, and report its findings, etc.
Voted, No.
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ARTICLE 21
Voted, That the Town do vote to create and elect a Planning Board, to serve without pay, in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 41, Sections 70-72.
ARTICLE 22
To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following Planning Board by-laws, or act in any manner thereon.
Voted, Yes. To accept the Planning Board by-laws.
Section 1. A board of five members is hereby created and established, to be known as the planning board. At the annual Town Meeting to be held in the month of March, 1929, there shall be elected one member to serve for one year, one member to serve for two years, one member to serve for three years, one member to serve for four years, and one mem- ber to serve for five years, and thereafter there shall be elected at the annual meeting in each year one member of such board to serve for the term of five years.
Section 2. Vacancies occurring in the board shall be filled as provided in General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 11.
Section 3. The duties of such board shall be such as are provided by law, and further to consider and advise upon municipal improvements either at the request of other offi- cials of the Town or upon its own initiative. It shall con- sider and develop a Town Plan, with special attention to main ways, land developments, playgrounds and parks and sites for permanent school plants. The board shall meet at regular intervals. It may hold public meetings. It shall at all times have access to public documents or information in the possession of any town official or department. It shall ex- amine the plans for the exterior of any public building, monu- ment or similar feature, and for the development and treat- ment of the ground about the same before the adoption thereof, and may make such recommendations thereon as it may deem needful. It may provide for public lectures and other educational work in connection with its recommenda- tions. It may incur expenses necessary to the carrying on of
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its work within the amount of its annual or special appro- priations.
Section 4. All plans for laying out, extending, discon- tinuing or changing the limits of any way, street, public park or square, and every purchase of land for the site of any public building, and all plans for the location, erection or alteration of public buildings, shall be submitted to said board for its opinion at least two weeks in advance of action by the Board of Selectmen or the Town.
Section 5. Such board shall make a report to the Town annually, giving information regarding the condition of the Town and any plans or proposals for the development of the Town and estimates of the cost thereof. Such report shall be sent to the Selectmen not later than such time in January in each year as the Selectmen may prescribe or as may be prescribed by law in force relative to reports, and a copy thereof shall be filed with the Massachusetts Depart- ment of Public Works. Selectmen.
UNDER SECTION 1
Voted, George S. Bailey for one year; Foye M. Murphy for two years; John F. McJennett for three years; Ralph Bergengren for four years; Chester E. Stone for five years.
ARTICLE 23
Voted, $750 for the work of the Planning Board.
ARTICLE 24
To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections 21 to 25 inclusive of Chapter 136 of the General Laws, as appearing in Chapter 406 of the Acts of 1928.
An Act to permit certain sports and games on the Lord's Day.
Voted, No.
ARTICLE 25
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of building a suitable garage as an addition to the present police headquarters, etc.
Voted, To indefinately postpone.
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ARTICLE 26
Voted, That the Town amend Article 1, Section 6 of the Town By-Laws to read as follows: One hundred voters shall be the number of voters necessary to constitute a quorum at Town Meetings except meetings for the election of Town Officers, provided that a number less than a quorum may from time to time adjourn the same.
Boston, Mass., April 24, 1929.
The foregoing amendment to the by-laws of the Town of Scituate is hereby approved.
JOSEPH E. WARNER, Attorney General.
ARTICLE 27
Voted $75 for the care of the old cemetery on Cudworth Road.
ARTICLE 28
Voted, $1,000 for the purchase or maintenance of Town Forest and legitimate expenses of the Committee.
ARTICLE 29
Voted, $300 to be expended under the direction of a Clean-Up Committee, three members to be appointed by the Woman's Club and two by the North Scituate Village Brotherhood.
Voted, To appoint a Committee of seven.
Voted, Mrs. Arthur N. Sampson, Mrs. Willis Parsons, Mrs. Russell J. Wilder, Rev. Allan D. Creelman, Frederic T. Bailey, Stanley H. Blanchard, and John F. McCormick.
ARTICLE 30
Voted, $1,914 (firemen's compensation) in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of the General Court on May 14, 1926.
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ARTICLE 31
To see if the Town will vote to change the name of Central Street, between the Country Way and the Norwell line, to First Parish Road.
Voted, Yes.
ARTICLE 32
Voted, To change the name of Boardman Avenue, from its present terminus of Mann Hill Road to the Beaches, to Mann Hill Road.
ARTICLE 33
Voted. To change the name of "Town Way," from Mann Hill Road to Hatherly Road, to Hood Road.
ARTICLE 34
Voted, To change the name of "Causeway," from the junction of Kent Street and First Parish Road to the junction of Edward Foster Road and Peggoty Beach Road, to Edward Foster Road.
ARTICLE 35
Voted, To change the name of Billow Avenue, between Turner Road and Eleventh Avenue, to Ocean Side Drive.
ARTICLE 36
Voted, That the Town accept the layout of the Select- men making Bramble Avenue, from Turner Road to Kenneth Road as recorded at the Town Clerk's office, a Town Way.
ARTICLE 37
To see if the Town will accept the layout by the Select- men making Rebecca Road from its present terminus to the land formerly known as Lighthouse Road, etc.
Voted, No.
ARTICLE 38
Voted, That the Town accept the layout of the Select- men, making Riverview Place from its intersection with.
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Mordecai Lincoln Road to land of Lennity B. Mitchell, as recorded at the Town Clerk's office, a Town Way.
ARTICLE 39
Voted, That the Town accept the layout of the Select- men, making that part of Egypt Avenue located between Priscilla Avenue and the southeasterly side of Alden Av- enue, also that part of Alden Avenue located between Egypt Avenue and Marshall Avenue, as recorded at the Town Clerk's office, Town Ways.
ARTICLE 40
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Select- men, making Wampatuck Avenue from Hatherly Road to a point where it turns southeasterly to connect with Turner Road, thence continuing across private land in a general easterly direction to Oceanside Drive, as recorded at the Town Clerk's office, a Town Way.
Voted, No.
ARTICLE 41
Voted, That the Town accept the layout of the Select- men, making Stone Road from Common Street to Chester Street, Chester Street from Stone Road to Roslin Road, and Roslin Road from Chester Street to First Parish Road, as recorded at the Town Clerk's office, Town Ways.
ARTICLE 42
Voted, That the Town do purchase and install a police alarm box and telephone system, together with signal lights connected therewith, and raise and appropriate the sum of $252.50 to be used in conjunction with $800 raised in 1928 under Article 41.
ARTICLE 43
Voted, That the Town authorize the Selectmen to sell the buildings which were formerly the Greenbush Fire Station.
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ARTICLE 44
Voted, That the Town authorize the Selectmen to sell the Locomobile Fire Truck which has been discarded for fire department use.
ARTICLE 45
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1,800 to purchase a parcel of land containing approx- imately three-fourths of an acre at Humarock Beach for fire and police department purposes.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 46
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $600 to erect on the land described in the preceding article a suitable building to be used by the fire and police department of the Town.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 47
To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 42 of Chapter 48 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, which provides for the Selectmen to appoint a fire chief.
Voted, No.
ARTICLE 48
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of building an addition to the present high school building, such addition or additions to increase the floor space of said building; determine how the money shall be raised, or take any action relative thereto.
Voted, That a committee of five be appointed, to be composed of the Chairman of the School Committee, Super- intendent of Schools, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Chairman of the Board of Assessors, and Town Treasurer, to make a thorough study of the problem covered by Article 48, and report its findings with such recommendations as may seem proper, at a special Town Meeting to be called
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as soon as practicable before June 30, and that the sum of $1,000 be raised and appropriated for the expense of said Committee.
Voted, That four members be added to said Com- mittee, two to be men and two to be women.
Two to be appointed by the School Committee, and two by the Board of Selectmen.
Two appointed by the School Committee - Marion C. Alexander and Belle H. Chaffin. Two appointed by the Board of Selectmen - Philip S. Bailey and Daniel A. Vines.
ARTICLE 49
Voted, $250 for the use of the Plymouth County Trus- tees for County Aid to Agriculture, and choose a Town Director.
Nathaniel Tilden chosen.
ARTICLE 50
Voted, That the Town accept with thanks a gift from W. Irving Lincoln, Executor, the sum of $4,000 as a fund, the income from which is to be given, under the direction of the Selectmen, for aid of worthy single women of Scituate. Said fund to be known as "The Benjamin T. Ellms Fund" in memory of deceased donor.
ARTICLE 51
Voted, That the Town authorize the Board of Select- men to execute a lease of the "so-called" Lawson Tower off First Parish Road from the Scituate Water Company for a period of ninety-nine years at a nominal consideration of one dollar per year, the Town to become obligated to keep said tower in reasonable repair, and to indemnify the lessor for any damage in consequence of its failure to make such reasonable repairs.
ARTICLE 52
Voted, $1,200 to build a sidewalk on Meeting House Lane connecting the walks that are now there, one at the east end and one at the west end, from the appropriation for sidewalks.
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ARTICLE 53
Voted, $500 to procure the publishing of a Town His- tory, entitled, "The Early Planters of Scituate," a history of the Town of Scituate, Massachusetts, from its establish- ment to the end of the Revolutionary War, and written by Harvey Hunter Pratt.
ARTICLE 54
Voted, That the Town do accept the provisions of Sec- tion 89 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, as amended by the provisions of the Acts and Resolves of the Massachusetts Legislature, year 1928, for the relief of police officers, firemen, and their dependents.
ARTICLE 55
Voted, To appropriate and transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account the sum of $2 to meet the bill of Elmer Hollis.
ARTICLE 56
To see what action the Town will take in the matter of revising, compiling, printing and publishing the By-Laws of the Town, and the rules, regulations and orders of the Board of Selectmen and other Town Officers, and to raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for said purposes.
Voted, To accept Article 56 as worded - no money raised for the purpose.
ARTICLE 57
Voted, That the Town appoint a committee consisting of the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Town Counsel, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Chief of Police and Chief of the Fire Department (last two appointed by the Mod- erator), to act in the matter of revising, compiling, printing and publishing the By-Laws of the Town, and the rules and regulations and orders of the Board of Selectmen and the other Town Officers as described in the preceding article.
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ARTICLE 58
Voted, $500 for the removal of obstructions by the Highway Surveyor within the bounds of the highway known as Jericho Road.
ARTICLE 59
To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following by- laws:
No person, firm, association or corporation shall erect, display or maintain a billboard, sign or other outdoor adver- tising device, except those exempted by Sections 30 and 32 of Chapter 93 of the General Laws.
(a) Within fifty (50) feet of any public way.
(b) Within three hundred (300) feet of any public park, playground or other public grounds, if within view of any portion of the same.
(c) Nearer than fifty (50) feet to any other such bill- board, sign or other advertising device, unless said bill- boards, signs or other advertising devices are placed back to back.
(d) On any location at the corner of any public ways and within a radius of one hundred and fifty (150) feet from the point where the center lines of such ways intersect.
(e) Nearer than one hundred (100) feet to any public way, if within view of any portion of the same, if such bill- board, sign or other advertising device shall exceed a length of eight (8) feet or a height of four (4) feet.
(f) Nearer than three hundred (300) feet to any public way, if within view of any portion of the same, if such bill- board, sign or other advertising device shall exceed a length of twenty-five (25) feet or a height of twelve (12) feet.
(g) In any event if such billboard, sign or other adver- tising device shall exceed a length of fifty (50) feet or a height of twelve (12) feet; except that the (Mayor and Alder- men or the Selectmen) may permit the erection of billboards, signs or other advertising devices which do not exceed forty (40) feet in length and fifteen (15) feet in height if not nearer than three hundred (300) feet to the boundary line of any public way.
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(h) No billboard, sign or other advertising device shall be erected, displayed or maintained in any block in which one-half of the buildings on both sides of the street are used exclusively for residential purposes; except that this pro- vision shall not apply if the written consent of the owners of a majority of the frontage on both sides of the street in such block is first obtained and is filed with the Division of Highways of the Department of Public Works, together with the application for the permit for such billboard, sign or other advertising device.
(¿) No billboard, sign or other advertising device shall be erected, displayed or maintained until a permit therefore has been issued by the Division of Highways of the Depart- ment of Public Works pursuant to the following provisions: Upon receipt from said Division of a notice that application for a permit to erect, display or maintain a billboard, sign or other advertising device within the limits of (city or town) has been received by it, the (Board of Aldermen or the Selectmen) shall hold a public hearing on said application in (city or town) notice of which shall be given by posting the same in three or more public places in said (city or town) at least one week before the date of such hearing. A written statement as to the results thereof shall be for- warded to the Division, containing, in the event of a dis- approval of such application, the reasons therefor, within thirty days from the date of notice to the (city or town) that an application for such a permit has been made.
The provisions of (a), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) shall not apply to districts which the (Mayor and Aldermen or Select- men) may determine are of a business character. (This limitation may be omitted from Ordinances or By-Laws, if desired.)
This (Ordinance or By-Law) shall not apply to signs or other devices which advertise or indicate either the person occupying the premises in question or the business trans- acted thereon, or advertise the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let; and provided further that this (Ordinance or By-Law) shall not apply to billboards, signs or other advertising devices legally maintained, at the time
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of its approval by the Attorney-General, until one year from the first day of July following such approval.
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this (Ordi- nance or By-Law) shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred (100) dollars, and whoever, after con- viction for such violation, unlawfully maintains such bill- board, sign or other outdoor advertising device for twenty (20) days thereafter shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred (500) dollars.
If any provision of this (Ordinance or By-Law) is de- clared unconstitutional or illegal by final judgment, order or decree of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Common- wealth, the validity of the remaining provisions of this (Ordinance or By-Law) shall not be affected thereby.
Voted, Yes.
Boston, Mass., May 25, 1929.
The foregoing by-laws are hereby approved.
JOSEPH E. WARNER, Attorney General.
ARTICLE 60
To see if the Town will vote to pay each member of the Park Commission five dollars for attending each meeting of said Commission.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 61
Voted, That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,000 to be expended under the direction of the Park Commis- sioners in establishing the lines of Scituate Common, and grade and seed the same, and place such barriers as may be necessary to prohibit driving across it by teams or auto- mobiles.
ARTICLE 62
To see what action the Town will take in widening the Second Cliff Road to relieve traffic in the summer months.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
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ARTICLE 63
To see if the Town will vote to abolish the requirement. that the garbage and ash collector pay for the privilege.
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Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 64
To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money not exceeding $1,000 out of the Memorial Fund already set aside and known as The Tax Fund, for procuring and dedicating nine gold radiotone portraits of soldiers, sailors or marines of the Town of Scituate whose lives were lost in the World War, the portraits to be hung in a Town Building now known as "Legion Hall."
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 65
Voted, That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $500 for the proper observance of Armistice Day, 1929.
ARTICLE 66
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,225 to purchase the property of Joseph O. Severance, Jr., lying easterly on Front Street, Scituate Harbor, with a frontage of approximately eighty feet on Front Street, to be used for park purposes.
Voted, No.
ARTICLE 67
Voted, That the Town purchase and install a traffic control signal equipment and raise and appropriate $765 for the same.
ARTICLE 68
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000 to be spent under the direction of the Selectmen to secure Federal aid for harbor improvements which are out- side the scope of the State, or act thereon.
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Voted, That article 68 be referred to the Selectmen, in regard to such action as they may deem advisable, no money raised.
ARTICLE 69
Voted, $300 to indemnify Richard A. Nichols for his expenses and loss of time caused by injuries to him while in the performance of his duties as a call fireman in the year 1928, under the provisions of Chapter 157 of the Acts of 1927.
ARTICLE 70
To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to pur- chase or take as they may deem advisable, the meadow and unimproved land at the corner of Kent Street and Edward Foster Road, First Parish Road and Front Street, Front Street and Edward Foster Road, etc.
Voted, To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 71
Voted, That the Town do vote to appropriate tand transfer $500 from the Excess and Deficiency Account for repairs to breakwaters.
ARTICLE 72
Voted, That the Town do appropriate and transfer from the Overlay Surplus the sum of $6,000, for the Reserve Fund.
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