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Voted: Yes.
Road Committee appointed: James W. Turner, Selectmen John E. Bamber, Advisory Board
Hamilton W. Welch, Planning Board Dennis H. Shea, Moderator
Article 28
Will the Town accept the layout of the County Com- missioners for Gannett Road and raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00 for land damages and $3,750.00 to be expended on said layout with a like sum from the County and fifteen thousand ($15,000.) from the State and de-
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termine whether the same shall be raised by taxation or transfer from available funds.
-Selectmen
Voted: To take from Excess and Deficiency Account the sum of $4,100.00.
Article 29
Will the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen making Garden Road from Norwell Avenue to Tilden Road a Town Highway, plan on file at the Town Clerk's Office, and raise and appropriate $100.00 to pay land damages, or act thereon? Selectmen
Voted: To accept layout and raise and appropriate $100.00 to pay land damages.
Article 30
Will the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen making Cedarwood Road and Fairview Avenue Town Highways, plan on file at the Town Clerk's Office, and raise and appropriate the sum of $1200.00 for the im- provement of same plus $225.00 for land damages, or act thereon?
-Selectmen
Voted: To accept layout and raise and appropriate $1,425.00 for improvement and land damages.
Article 31
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of twenty four thousand two hundred (24,200) dollars for dredging certain areas in Scituate Harbor in accordance with plans on file at the Department of Public Works, said sum to be expended by the Department of Public Works in conjunction with such sum not exceeding sev- enty-two thousand six hundred ($72,600) dollars as has
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or may be appropriated by the Commonwealth for said project, and determine the manner of raising said sum, or take any action thereon? -Selectmen
Voted: That the Town go on record as favoring pro- posed dredging of Scituate Harbor, suitable action to be taken upon said proposal as soon as an enabling act is passed by the Legislature.
Article 31A
Will the Town assume liability in the manner pro- vided by Section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws for damages incurred in the carrying out of any dredging. operations provided for at this meeting.
Not acted upon.
-Selectmen
Article 32
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $950.00 for necessary interior changes and equipment at the Town Hall or act thereon?
-Selectmen
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate $950.00 for necessary interior changes and equipment at the Town Hall and take $950.00 from surplus in E. and D. fund.
Article 33
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $975.00 to construct a fire resisting vault in the Town Hall to protect valuable Town Records, or act thereon? -Selectmen
Voted: To raise and appropriate $400.00 and in addit- ion take $400 from the Excess and Deficiency account, totaling $800.
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Article 34
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00 to meet foreclosure costs on tax titles ?
-Town Treasurer
Voted: To raise and appropriate $350.00
Article 35
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to enlarge the Town Way Parking Space off Front Street, the above amount to include construction of 650 lineal feet of concrete curbing and fill approxi- mately 875 cubic yards and resurface the entire parking space, or act thereon?
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Selectmen
Voted: To take $5,000.00 from Excess and Deficiency Account.
Article 36
To see if the Town of Scituate will raise and appro- priate the sum of $800.00 for improvement of the drain- age condition on Ocean Side Drive at its intersection with 4th Avenue, or act thereon?
-Mary A. Dyer et al.
Voted: To indefinitely postpone
Article 37
Will the Town raise and appropriate Eighteen Hun- dred Dollars to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health for the eradication of a public health nuisance in and around Musquashcut Pond or take any action thereto. -Board of Health
Voted: To raise and appropriate $1,800.00
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Article 38
To see if the Town will appoint a Committee consist- ing of Chairman of Selectmen, Chairman of Water Board, Chairman of Board of Health, to make a study of the Town relative to the installation of a Public Sewer System and proper Sewage disposal, as recommended by the Massachusetts Department of Health; and raise and appropriate three thousand ($3,000.00) for same.
-Board of Health
Voted: Yes and to raise and appropriate $2,500.00
Article 39
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1500. for continuance of work on the Town Plan or act thereon. -Assessors
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
Article 40
To see if the town will raise and appropriate twenty five hundred dollars and authorize and instruct the Selectmen to purchase from William H. Harney and Dennis H. Shea, a certain area of land situated on Kent Street and Edward Foster Road, Scituate, Mass. Land further described as Third Parcel and sixth parcel in deed registered by said Harney and Shea with Plymouth County Registry of Deeds, book 1585 page 365. Property to be used for parking space purposes. Deed on file with Town Clerk. -Thomas A. Quinlan et al
Voted: No. Votes Yes 289 No 159 (2/3 vote re- quired).
Article 41
To see if the town will vote to restrict and limit the acquiring of land adjoining Peggotty Beach, as author-
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ized by a vote of the town passed under Article 29 of the Warrant for the annual town meeting in 1937 to parcels 1, 2, 3, and 4 as shown on plans filed with the town engineer and town clerk, said plans being referred to in the vote passed under said Article 29, and to authorize the Selectmen to use the unexpended balance of the ap- propriation voted under Article 29 of the Warrant for the annual town meeting held in 1937 for the purpose of improving and maintaining, by grading and otherwise, land already taken by the town comprising parcels 1, 2, 3, and 4 as shown on plans referred to. -Selectmen
Voted: That the Town restrict and limit the acquiring of land adjoining Peggotty Beach, as authorized under Article 29 of the warrant for the Annual Town Meeting in 1937, to parcels 1, 2, 3, and 4 as shown on plans filed with the Town Engineer and Town Clerk and referred to, in the vote passed under said article; and that the Town authorize the Selectmen to use any part of the unexpen- ded balance of the appropriation thereunder, deemed available therefor, to improve and maintain the parcels already taken by them.
Article 42
To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2500.00 for the purpose of maintaining, dur- ing the ensuing year, the mosquito control work as esti- mated and certified to by the State Reclamation Board in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 112, Acts of 1931. -- Selectmen
Not acted upon.
Article 43
Will the Town authorize the Town Accountant to transfer the following unused balances of special appro-
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priations of former years to the Excess and Deficiency Account.
New Town Way
$ 6 94
Civic Center Grounds High School . 222 94
Hydrants-Jenkins School
11 71
Publishing Historical Books
15 99
$ 257 58
-Selectmen
Voted: To transfer to Excess and Deficiency Account.
Article 44
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of fif- teen thousand ($15,000) dollars for dredging the channel in South River, Marshfield and Scituate, from Humarock Bridge to the North River, to be expended by the Depart- ment of Public Works in conjunction with an appropria- tion by the Town of Marshfield and thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars by the State in accordance with plans on file with the Department of Public Works for said project, and determine the manner of raising any sum voted hereunder, or take any action thereon.
-Selectmen Voted: That action upon this article be postponed un- til legislative action has been taken upon the proposal.
Article 45
To see if the Town will appropriate from funds in the Treasury, the amount earned by or appropriated for the Water Department, and a sum of money equal to, but not exceeding the amount of the water revenue, to meet the payments for bonds, interest, operation and improve- ment of the Water Department for the ensuing year, or take action relative thereto.
-- Water Commissioners
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Voted: That the Town appropriate from funds in the Treasury, the amount earned by or appropriated for the Water Department, and a sum of money equal to but not exceeding the amount of the water revenue for the ensu- ing year, for the use of the Water Department as follows: $29,000.00 For payment of bonds
For interest on water bonds 24,631.25
For maintenance, operation and improve- ment of the Water Dept. the actual bal- ance of the water revenue to be received now estimated at 37,050.15
Article 46
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) for care and upkeep of the Civic Center Grounds.
-School Committee
Voted: To raise and appropriate $1,500.00
Article 47
Will the town voted to repeal the so-called zoning by laws adopted in 1936 and now effective, or act thereon. Henry C. Seaverns, et al.
Vote: Yes 104 No 275.
Article 48
Will the town vote to repeal the vote, whereby it cre- ated the so called Planning Board, and abolish said, or act thereon.
-Henry C. Seaverns, et al.
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
Article 49
Will the town vote to modify the zoning by-law adopt- ed March 2, 1936 by amending Section 1 and 2. of said
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by-law by adding the following words at the end of each section:
"except the following parcel of land which shall be considered to be in Zone B. The premises situated at the corner of Chief Justice Cushing Highway (formerly called Briggs Place) and Old Oaken Bucket Road (form- erly called Pond Street) and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the Northerly corner of the grant- ed premises on Chief Justice Cushing Highway, at land now or formerly of Elijah T. Clapp, thence Southeasterly by said Chief Justice Cushing Highway, two hundred fifty-eight (258) feet, more or less, to bound in the high- way; thence by a curve to the right (of a radius of 25 feet) about fifty-nine and 12/100 (59.12) feet to Old Oaken Bucket Road; thence Westerly by Old Oaken Bucket Road two hundred and thirty-eight (238) feet, more or less, to land now or formerly of said Clapp; thence Northwesterly by said land of Clapp two hundred and forty (240) feet, more or less, to the point of begin- ning on Chief Justice Cushing Highway."
Being the same premises conveyed to John A. Russell by Deed of Rockland Trust Company dated September 10, 1937 and recorded with Plymouth County Registry of Deeds, Book 1730, Page 229. - John A. Russell, et al.
Voted: No.
Article 50
Will the town change its zoning by-laws by the addit- ion of the following provisions for a Zoning Board of Appeals :
A Zoning Board of appeals shall be established and appointed by the Selectmen in accordance with and sub- ject to the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40, Sec- tion 30, as amended. Said Board of Appeals shall have all the powers, privileges and duties as provided by law.
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An appeal to the Board of Appeals by any person ag- grieved by his inability to obtain a permit from an ad- ministrative official under the provisions of said Chapter 40, Section 25 to 30A inclusive, must be taken in writing within fifteen days after notice has been given said per- son of his failure to obtain the desired permit.
Upon the passage of this addition to the town's zon- ing by-laws by the required vote of the town meeting, it shall become effective to the extent of its approval by the Attorney General and after due publication thereof by the Town Clerk. - Philip L. Schuyler et al.
Voted: Yes 289 No 0 Unanimous vote.
Accepted by Attorney General March 29, 1938.
Article 51
Will the town vote, to investigate, and find out How, When, and from whom the so called N. Scituate Im- provement Association, acquired title to the Beach prop- erty of act thereon. - -Henry C. Seaverns, et al.
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
Article 52
To see if the town will vote to authorize and direct the Water Department to grant to the Park Dept. the use of the land located on the southerly side of Henry Turner Bailey Road at North Scituate for the purpose of erecting and maintaining thereon four tennis courts and other recreational facilities and raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00 (four thousand dollars) to defray expenses for same. -Naomi S. Creelman et al.
Voted: To raise and appropriate $4,000.00
Article 53
Will the town authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee to investigate the cost of building
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and maintaining four asphalt tennis courts and a play- ground on land now owned by the town of Scituate loca- ted at North Scituate at the corner of Country Way and Henry Turner Bailey Road, or take any action thereon. -- Louis Panetta et al.
Not acted upon.
Article 54
Will the town raise and appropriate a sum of money necessary for the installation of four street lights on Old Oaken Bucket Road. -H. Turner Fitts et al.
Voted: To take from Electric Light appropriation.
Article 55
Will the Town raise and appropriate a sum of $325 for the necessary repair of Studley Royal Road or act thereon ? ' -- Santina M. Conte, et al.
Voted: To raise and appropriate $325.00
Article 56
To see what sum the town will appropriate or what action the town will take to provide quarters for the "Satuit Post 3169 Veterans of Foreign Wars in accord- ance with the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 40 (Ter. Ed.) Section 9."
-Elmer F. Ramsdell, Commander Voted: To raise and appropriate $350.00
Article 57
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred dollars ($500.00) for a series of seven (7) band concerts, to be given during the summer of 1938, or act thereon?
Scituate Veterans Band, Louis O. Haartz, Pres et al. Voted: No.
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Presented by a committee appointed at the Annual Town Meeting March 7, 1938.
A silence fell over the assembly in Annual Town Meet- ing, and everyone was shocked by the announcement that death had parted us from our esteemed fellow citi- zen, William A. Burton.
A resident of Scituate for many years, and a man of wide interests and varied activities many people came to know, respect and love him. He was very patient with others, sympathetic and friendly and although Scituate will miss him greatly the Town will be better because a part of his life was lived in it. Of him it may be said, "He was a man of humble spirit, kindly disposition, gentle and lovable."
While actively engaged in his extensive work he was called into the life eternal, but his assistance in Town business, his counsel on the Advisory Board, and his gen- eral interest in the welfare of mankind made him a great man, and the inspiration of his memory will remain to all of us a cherished heritage and guide.
PHILIP S. BAILEY, ALLAN D. CREELMAN. JAMES W. TURNER.
Meeting adjourned at 10:50 P. M. Attest: WILLIAM M. WADE, Town Clerk.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS, MARCH 14, 1938 Polls open from 6 o'clock A. M. to 4 o'clock P. M. Presiding Election Officer: William J. Roberts. Ballot Clerks: Lillian M. Finnie, J. George Vollmer. George F. Hennigan, Edna G. Secor.
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Registrars: Bertha L. Turner, J. Edward Harney, Jos- eph A. Ward.
In charge of ballot box: Arthur H. Lane.
Tellers: Elwood C. Damon, Nelson W. W. Lee, Ben- jamin H. Curran, Paul A. Reynolds, James B. Dacey, Walter Flaherty, Daniel J. Queeney, John J. Lonergan, George F. Dwyer, Louis G. Keyes, Paul F. Young, Wil- liam M. Wade.
Total Vote: 2093
Moderator for one year:
William H. Bartlett 419
William J. Roberts 469
Dennis H. Shea 1,053
Blanks 122
Selectman for three years:
Philip S. Bailey
1,054
Harry F. Cleverly
914
Henry C. Seaverns
71
Blanks 54
Assessor for Three Years:
Lester D. Hobson 496
W. Irving Lincoln 774
Davie O. Litchfield 136
Donald S. Pitkin 593
Blanks 91
Public Welfare for Three Years:
Ralph S. Brown 949
Harry F. Cleverly 898
Henry C. Seaverns 142
Blanks 104
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Surveyor of Highways for One Year:
Matthew L. Brown
699
Charles M. Wagner
1,143
Edgar W. Whittaker
219
Blanks
32
Constables for One Year:
(Vote for Three)
Walter S. Allen 1,282
Alton H. Curtis 1,413
Ernest M. Damon 1,304
Blanks
2,280
Tree Warden for One Year:
H. Turner Fitts 323
William F. Ford 991
Charles E. Mitchell 605
Thomas H. O'Neil
97
Blanks
77
Board of Water Commissioners for Three Years: Williams B. James 1,267
William Elton Shuttleworth 677
Blanks 149
Park Commissioner for Three Years:
Ralph L. Conte 359
William B. Pepper 419
Charles B. Timpany 238
George V. Yenetchi 899
Blanks 178
Board of Health for Three Years:
William P. Grovestein 1,035
George W. Murphy 878
Blanks 180
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School Committee for Three Years:
Mildred E. Briggs 455
Edward B. McCarthy 439
Peter W. Sharp 909
Lincoln R. Soule
160
Blanks 130
Advisory Board for Three Years: (Vote for Three)
John E. Bamber 713
James G. Clarke 703
Robert Gardner 648
Lyman B. Preston 567
Joseph O. Severance, Jr. 901
Arthur W. Stevens
438
Blanks 2,309
Planning Board for Three Years: (Vote for Two)
Richard A. Levangie 1,180
Stephen C. Webster 1,279
Blanks
1,727
Attest: WILLIAM M. WADE,
Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
JUNE 22, 1938
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Scituate qualified to vote in Elections and Town Affairs held at the Scituate High School Auditorium in said Scitu- ate on Wednesday, the twenty-second day of June, 1938. at 8 o'clock P. M .; the meeting was called to order by Moderator Dennis H. Shea.
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The warrant was read by Town Clerk, William M. Wade.
Tellers appointed by the Moderator and sworn to their duties by the Town Clerk were: Ralph C. Acker- man, C. Harry Driscoll, George F. Dwyer, Eugene H. Lane, Kenmure W. Moffatt, J. George Vollmer.
Article 1
To see if the Town will accept the following by-law:
"The Selectmen are authorized to sell after first giv- ing notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient place in the Town four- teen days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure provided that the Select- men or whomsoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem in- adequate, or take any action relative thereto."
-Selectmen
Voted to accept. Unanimous vote.
Approved Sept. 14, 1938, by Paul A. Dever, Attorney General.
Article 2
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $4,200.30 for snow removal. $3,700.30 to cover an over- draft of the existing account and $500.00 in anticipation of further expenditure before Jan. 1st, 1939, and that said sum of $4,200.30 be taken from the E. & D. Account, or act thereon?
Highway Surveyor
Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $4,200.30 for snow removal; $3,700.30 of which to cover an overdraft in this account and $500.00 to be 1
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made available for further expenditures before January 1, 1939, and that said sum be taken from available sur- plus in the E. & D. account.
Unanimous vote.
Article 3
Will the Town authorize the Selectmen to release any existing title or rights in the so called Ellms gravel pit, situated on the southerly side of Gannett Road, for the sum of twenty-five dollars to W. Irving Lincoln, devisee of the late Benjamen T. Ellms, or act thereon?
-Selectmen
Voted: To indefinitely postpone.
Article 4
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of twelve hundred dollars for the use of the Forest Fire Department of which amount the sum of forty six dollars and seventy-four cents ($46.74) be used to cover an overdraft in said account and the balance to be used for further necessary expenditures by said Department, and that said twelve hundred dollars be transferred from the E. & D. account, or act thereon .- Selectmen
Voted -- Yes-as printed in warrant-$1200.00.
Article 5
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for a series of seven band concerts, to be given during the months of July and August 1938 and authorize the transfer of said sum from the E. & D. Account or act thereon.
-Scituate Veterans Band, Louis O. Haartz, Dir.
Voted-Yes-$500.00 from E. & D. account.
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Article 6
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500.00) for the purpose of further improving the Town Parking Space lying east of Front Street at Scituate Harbor by providing an addit- ional safety island, the completion of the sidewalk on Westerly side of said parking space, the construction of a Comfort Station and to provide necessary draining facilities in conjunction with said improvements and that said sum of $3,500.00 be taken from the E. & D. Account, or act thereon? -Selectmen
Voted: That the Town do raise and appropriate the sum of $3500.00 for the purpose of further improving the Town Parking Space lying East of Front Street, by providing an additional safety island, the completion of the sidewalk on the Westerly side of said parking space, the construction of a comfort station, and to provide necessary drainage facilities in conjunction with said im- provements and that the said sum of $3500.00 be taken from available surplus in the E. & D. account.
Yes 201 No 44
Article 7
To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three thousand ($3,000.00) for the purchase from Howard H. Young of the property at Egypt formerly owned by the Standard Oil Co. for the use of the Highway Department and that said sum be taken from the E. & D. Account, or act thereon? -Highway Surveyor
Voted: Yes $3,000.00 from E. & D. Account. Yes 234, No 5.
Article 8
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,900.00, said sum to be available for Public Welfare.
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purposes and to be taken from the Overlay Surplus Acct., or act thereon? -Board of Public Welfare
Voted-Yes-$4900.00 from Overlay Surplus Ac- count.
Article 9
Gannett Road. Will the Town amend the vote taken under Article 28 of the Annual Town Meeting held on March 7th, 1938 which vote was as follows:
"Voted to accept the layout of the County Commis- sioners for Gannett Road and raise and appropriate the sum$350.00 for land damages and $3,750.00 to be expend- ed on said layout with a like sum from the County and $15,000.00 from the State and that the sum of $4,100.00 be taken from the E. & D. Account for this purpose," by omitting the words, "and $15,000.00 from the State," so that in the amended form this vote shall read: "Voted to accept the layout of the County Commissioners for Gan- nett Road and raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00 for land damages and $3,750.00 to be expended on said layout with a like sum from the County with such sum as the Department of Public Works shall allot for this purpose and that said sum of $4,100.00, made available by the original vote, be used for this purpose."
-Selectmen
Voted: That the Town do amend the vote taken under Article 28 of the Town Meeting of March 7th to read as follows:
"Voted to accept the layout of the County Commis- sioners for Gannett Road and raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00 for land damages and $3750.00 to be ex- pended on said layout and a like sum from the County with such sum as the Department of Public Works shall allot for this purpose and that said sum of $4100.00 made available by the original vote, be used for this pur- pose."
Unanimous vote.
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Article 10
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of Seven Hundred dollars ($700.00) to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health to do additional work necessary for the eradication of a health nuisance in and around Musquashcut Pond as recommended by the State Board of Health and the Department of Public Works, and said sum be taken from the E. & D. Account, or act thereon?
-Board of Health, W. L. Enos, Chairman Voted: Yes $700.00 from E. & D. account.
Article 11
Will the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 406 of the Acts of 1938, which Act reads as follows:
An Act providing for the improvement of Scituate Harbor in the Town of Scituate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Section 1. Subject to the conditions herein imposed, the department of public works is hereby authorized and directed to dredge certain areas in Scituate harbor to a depth of six feet at mean low water. No work shall be be- gun until the town of Scituate has assumed liability, in the manner provided by section twenty-nine of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws, Tercentenary Edition, for all damages that may be incurred hereunder, nor un- til the said town has paid into the treasury of the com- monwealth the sum of twenty-four thousand two hun- dred dollars, which together with such sum not exceed- ing seventy-two thousand six hundred dollars, as may hereafter be appropriated by the commonwealth, shall constitute a fund for the improvements herein authoriz- ed; provided that the total cost of such improvement
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