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Section 5. Whenever any vacancy shall occur in said committee by any cause, said vacancy shall be filled by the Moderator. Five members of the Com- mittee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and if any member is absent from five consecutive meetings of said Committee, except in cases of illness, said Committee may consider his position vacant and report such vacancy to the Moderator who shall proceed to fill the same. The term of office of any person appointed as aforesaid to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term of the person whom he succeeds.
Section 6. The Advisory Board heretofore established by vote of the Townl is discharged upon qualification of the new Committee hereby established. -Advisory Board.
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VOTED: To rescind the By-Laws establishing an Advisory Board and adopt the By-Law submitted in order to comply with the General Laws, Chapter 39, Section 16, Tercentenary Edition. Yes 251. No 8.
Boston, Mass., April 12, 1940.
The foregoing by-law is hereby approved.
PAUL A. DEVER,
Attorney-General.
ARTICLE 14
Will the Town vote to rescind Article 4 of the Special Town meeting January 4, 1908 which reads as follows: Voted to accept Section 339 of Chapter 11 of the revised laws. Beginning at the annual meeting to be held March, 1908, to elect a Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and at each annual meeting thereafter elect one for three years? -James H. Dwyer, et al.
VOTED: To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 15
To see if the Town will vote the membership of the Board of Selectmen be five members instead of three to be voted on annually, each member to have a one year term; to become effective at the annual March meeting in 1941.
James H. Dwyer, et al.
Not a vote.
ARTICLE 16
Will the Town accept the following by-law: If any town official or Board having control of personal property owned by the town deems said property useless to said town for the purpose it was purchased or held by that official or board, said official or Board may sell said property at public or private sale after giving due notice thereof to the public; provided, however, that approval of any proposed sale shall first be obtained from the Board of Selectmen in writing, and if said property is under the control of the Selectmen there must be a unanimous vote of said Board for the sale. -Selectmen.
VOTED: To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 17
Will the Town vote to fix the term of the Highway Surveyor at three years beginning with that of the Highway Surveyor to be elected at the next (1941) annual Town meeting. -Advisory Board, Philip L. Schuyler, Chairman.
VOTED: To fix term of Highway Surveyor at three years beginning with the 1941 election.
ARTICLE 18
To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen with reference to any action toward securing installation of Rural Free Delivery and acquiring a new Federal Post Office in connection therewith. -Selectmen:
Not a vote.
ARTICLE 19
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $20,000.00 to be administered by the Selectmen as a general unemployment relief fund for the Town's share of materials, trucking, and other necessary expenses in connection with Federal
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unemployment projects and for any proper Town improvement approved by the Selectmen who shall make appropriate rules for the employment of citizens of the Town in need thereof, or act thereon. -- Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town do raise and appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 to be administered as a general employment relief fund for the Town's share of materials, trucking and other necessary expenses in connection with Federal un- employment projects.
ARTICLE 20
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $4000.00 to be used in conjunction with such sum as the Department of Public Works shall authorize for General Shore protection. Said costs to be borne equally by the Common- wealth of Massachusetts and the Town of Scituate, or act thereon. - Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $4,000.00.
ARTICLE 21
To see if the Town will assume liability in the manner provided by section 29 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws for all damages that may be incurred by work to be performed by the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts for the improvement, development, maintenance and protection of rivers, harbors, tide waters and foreshores, in accordance with Section 11 of Chapter 91 of the General Laws, and authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a bond of in- demnity therefor to the Commonwealth. -Selectmen.
VOTED: To accept per subject matter of article. Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 22
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $225.00 for a life guard at Peggotty Beach from June 24th to September 8th, inclusive, or take action regarding thereon. -Women's Betterment Club.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $225.00.
ARTICLE 23
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $225.00 for the purchase of twelve (12) trash cans and disposal of contents, said cans to be distributed about Scituate, all under the direction of the Board of Health, or act thereon. -Women's Betterment Club.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $225.00. Yes 154. No 114.
ARTICLE 24
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1000.00 for the eradication of poison ivy and ragweed on Town property under the direction of the Tree Warden. -Women's Betterment Club.
VOTED: To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 25
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $5000.00 for the further improvement of the Scituate Harbor Parking Space, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $5,000.00. Yes 121. No 112.
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ARTICLE 26
Will the Town vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to the Reserve Fund or transfer the whole or any part thereof from any available funds, or act thereon?
-Selectmen.
VOTED: To transfer from overlay surplus fund to the reserve fund.
ARTICLE 27
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate $6500.00 for the purchase of land at the Sand Hills so-called for a public bathing beach, playground, and re- creational center, and provide for the administration of said bathing beach, play- ground, and recreational center under the provisions of G. L., Ch. 45, s. 14; said land being bounded and described as follows:
Being the land described in deed dated April 22, 1937 and recorded in the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds, Book 1725, page 138, excepting that portion on the land side of the sea wall adjoining Lots 1 to 30 inclusive, and excepting the Dumping Ground so-called and described therein, said latter parcel to be deeded to the Town by the grantor free of charge, to be used as a parking space for the benefit of the inhabitants of Scituate, and so restricted by said grantor in deed given to Town of Scituate. Gift as mentioned to depend upon the purchase by Town of the first described property; or act thereon.
-Wilson S. Brown, et al.
VOTED: That the town raise and appropriate $6,500.00 for the purchase of land at the Sand Hills so-called for a playground and recreational center, in- cluding bathing beach, to be administered by the Board of Selectmen under the provisions of General Laws, Chapter 45, Section 14; said land being bounded and described as follows:
Being the land described in deed dated April 22, 1937 and recorded in the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds, Book 1725, page 138, excepting that portion on the land side of the sea wall adjoining Lots 1 to 30 inclusive and excepting the Dumping Grounds so-called and described therein, said latter parcel to be deeded to the Town by the grantor free of charge, to be used as a parking space for the benefit of the inhabitants of Scituate, and so restricted by said grantor in deed given to Town of Scituate. Gift as mentioned to depend upon the purchase by Town of the first described property. Yes 183. No 20.
ARTICLE 28
. Will the Town authorize the Selectmen to contract for the part time services of a Public Health Nurse to be employed under the direction of the Board of Health, Board of Public Welfare and the School Committee, and raise and ap- propriate the sum of $1,600.00 for payment of said employment and the sum of $1,280.00 to cover the cost of clerical assistance and transportation necessary in connection with said service, or act thereon? -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $2,880.00 per subject matter of article.
ARTICLE 29
To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to secure detailed plans and specifications for an addition or additions to the present high school building, such an addition or additions to increase the floor space of said building, and to raise and appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the expense of the School Committee for this purpose, or act thereon.
-School Committee.
VOTED: To indefinitely postpone by a vote of 161 to 84.
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ARTICLE 30
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 to meet the cost of operation of the Federal Commodities office or act thereon. -Board of Public Welfare.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $500.00.
ARTICLE 31
To see if the Town will vote to transfer the Dog Fund received from the County to either the Schools or Libraries, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the proceeds of the Dog Fund be divided equally between the Pierce Memorial Library and the Allen Memorial Library.
ARTICLE 32
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 water revenue, to meet the payments for bonds, interest, operation and improvement of the Water Department for the ensuing year, or take action relative thereto. -Water Commissioners.
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 water revenue for the ensuing year, for the use of the Water Department as follows: For payment of bonds, $33,000.00; for interest on water bonds, $22,701.25; for maintenance, operation and improvement of the Water Department, the actual balance of the water revenue to be received, now estimated to be $35,104.72. -Unanimous vote.
It was voted to accept the following resolution:
Resolved that our Selectmen look into the telephone situation regarding the enlarging of the present area for amount paid.
ARTICLE 33
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $1200.00 to provide payment of a pension of $100.00 per month from January 1, 1940 to December 31, 1940, to the widow and child of the late Officer Edward W. Carson as certified by the Selectmen and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 32, Section 89 of General Laws as amended by Chapter 326, Acts of 1936, or act thereon.
-Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $1,200.00. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 34
To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $2000.00 for the purchase of a new ambulance, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $2,000.00.
ARTICLE 35
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of seventeen hundred fifty dollars ($1,750.00) for the care and upkeep of the Civic Center Grounds, under the jurisdiction of the School Board. -School Committee.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $1,750.00.
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ARTICLE 36
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 1940 or act thereon. -Satuit Band, Louis O. Haartz, President.
VOTED: No.
ARTICLE 37
To see what sum the Town will appropriate or what action the Town will take in caring for the graves of veterans in the 'several cemeteries in the Town, in accordance with the provisions of the General Laws, Chapter 115 (Ter. Ed.) Section 22. -Samuel A. Agnew, Pres. Groveland Cemetery Corp.
VOTED: To indefinitely postpone.
ARTICLE 38
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00 for the purpose of providing quarters for the Satuit Post 3169 Veterans of Foreign Wars in accordance with the provisions of General Laws Chapter 40, (Ter. Ed.) Section 9, or act thereon. -Elmer F. Ramsdell, Adjutant.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $350.00.
ARTICLE 39
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00 for the annual clean up and appoint a committee to have charge of same, or act thereon? -Scituate Clean Up Committee.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $250.00 for the annual clean-up and ap- point the following committee to have charge of the same: Rev. Allan D. Creelman, Louise J. Rothery, Philip L. Schuyler.
ARTICLE 40
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health to do ad- ditional work necessary for the eradication of a health menace in and around Musquashicut Pond, as recommended by the State Department of Health and the Department of Public Works, or act thereon? -Board of Health.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $1,000.00.
ARTICLE 41
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $2,400.00 to cover the cost of supervision and control of the clam flats within the Town of Scituate, or act thereon .. -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $2,300.00.
ARTICLE 42
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen, widening the Country Way from a point near the residence of Frederica Wade to a point near the residence of Mrs. Frances S. Lincoln, said widening to be made on the westerly side of the Country Way as on file with the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to pay the costs of land damage occasioned thereby, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
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VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen widening the Country Way from a point near the residence of Frederica Wade to a point near the residence of Mrs. Frances Lincoln as described in plan on file with the Town Clerk and raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 to cover the cost of land damage.
ARTICLE 43
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 to be used in conjunction with such sums as the County of Plymouth and the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts may allocate for the purpose of reconstructing under provisions of Chapter 90 of the General Laws a section of the Country Way lying between the junction of said Country Way with Elm Street and a point near the residence of Frances S. Lincoln, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 to be used in conjunction with such sums as the Department of Public Works and the Plymouth County Commissioners may allocate for the purpose of reconstructing under Chapter 90 of the General Laws a section of the Country Way lying between the junction of said Country Way and Elm Street and a point near the residence of Mrs. Frances Lincoln. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 44
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to be used in conjunction with such sums as the County of Plymouth and the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall allocate in the further maintenance of Gannett Road. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 to be used in conjunction with such sums as the Plymouth County Commissioners and the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts may allocate in the further maintenance of Gannett Road. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 45
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen, of Mary's Lane so called, and a part of Boardman Avenue as Town Ways, in accordance with plans on file with the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to provide for construction of the same, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen of Mary's Lane, so-called, and a part of Boardman Avenue as Town Ways, in accordance with plans on file with the Town Clerk and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,740.00 to cover the cost of construction. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 46
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen as it extends Mitchell Avenue from its present terminus near the Minot Fire Station to connect with Pond View Avenue in accordance with plans on file at the Town Clerk's office, and raise and appropriate a sum of money for the construction of said extension, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen as it extends Mitchell Avenue from its present terminus near the Minot Fire Station to connect with Pond View Avenue as a Public Way in accordance with plans now on file with the Town Clerk and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00 for the purpose of constructing the same. -Unanimous vote.
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ARTICLE 47
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen of a way running southerly from Ann Vinal Road starting at a point near the residence of Harry H. Hardcastle and running in a southerly direction to a point near the right of way of the Old Colony Railroad, all as laid out on a plan on file at the office of the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to cover the cost of construction of said way, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen of a way running Southerly from Ann Vinal Road starting at a point near the residence of Harry H. Hardcastle to a point near the Right of Way of the Old Colony Railroad as a Town Way in accordance with plan on file with the Town Clerk and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 to cover the cost of construction.
-Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 48
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen, of a way starting near the building on Union Street formerly known as the old Webb. store and running in a Northerly direction to and into the land of John S. Fitts, in accordance with plans now on file at the office of the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to cover the costs of land damage and construction, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen of a Public Way starting near the bulding on Union Street formerly known as the Old Webb Store and running in a Northerly direction into the land of John S. Fitts in ac- cordance with plan on file with the Town Clerk and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,600.00 to cover the cost of construction and land damage.
-Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 49
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen at the Easterly end of Greenfield Lane in accordance with plans now on file at the office of the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to cover the costs of land damage and construction, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen widening Green- field Lane at its Easterly terminus as on file with the Town Clerk and raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to cover cost of construction and land damage.
ARTICLE 50
To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to grade the bank in front of the residence of Walter C. Piper. This work made necessary on account of the regrading of Crescent Avenue, or act thereon. -Selectmen. VOTED: To raise and appropriate $200.00.
ARTICLE 51
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen as it widens Old Oaken Bucket Road at the curve near the residence of the late Davis Damon, in accordance with plans on file in the office of the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate the sum of $40.00 to cover the cost of land damage, or act thereon.
-Selectmen.
VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Selectmen as it widens the curve on Old Oaken Bucket Road near the residence of the late Davis Damon in accordance with plan on file with the Town Clerk and raise and appropriate the sum of $40.00 to cover the cost of land damage.
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ARTICLE 52
To see if the Town will accept the layout of the Selectmen at the intersection of Turner and Tilden Roads and the widening of Tilden Road on the Westerly side near said intersection in accordance with plan on file at the office of the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate a sum of money to provide for the costs of construction and land damage, or act thereon. -Selectmcn.
VOTED: That the Town accept the layout of the Sclectmen at the inter- section of Turner and Tilden Roads and the widening of Tilden Road on the Westerly side near said intersection in accordance with plans on file with the Town Clerk, and raise and appropriate the sum of $1,075.00 to cover cost of construction and land damage. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 53
To sec if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 for the improvement of the Minot Parking Space, or act thereon. -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $200.00. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 54
To see if the Town will vote to establish a Road Machinery Account, to which shall be credited all receipts received for the use or rental of road machinery, the proceeds to be appropriated as voted by the Town for road machinery pur- poses, or take any action relative thereto. -- Selectmen.
VOTED: To establish a Road Machinery Account.
ARTICLE 55
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for a road machinery account for the purpose of repairing and operating road machin- ery, said sum to be raised by taxation or transferred from available funds, or take any action relative thereto. -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $500.00. -Unanimous vote.
ARTICLE 56
Will the Town vote to continue the present sidewalk on the Westerly side of Mordecai Lincoln Road and raise and appropriate the sum of $1800.00 to provide for the cost of construction of said continuance and necessary curbing beginning at a point in front of the residence of James E. Otis and running in a Northerly direction to a point near the Old Lincoln Mill, so-called, on said Mordecai Lincoln Road, or act thereon? -Mark Googins, et al.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $900.00.
ARTICLE 57
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) to meet foreclosure costs on tax titles, or act thereon? -Town Treasurer.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $300.00.
ARTICLE 58
Will the Town designate the corner at the junction of First Parish Road and Grove Street to be officially known as Mungos Corner and authorize and instruct the Selectmen to erect an appropriate sign thereat designating said corner?
-Galen Watson, et al.
VOTED: To so designate, cost to be defrayed out of Sign Board appropriation.
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ARTICLE 59
To see if the Town will vote to establish the rate of mileage to be charged for the use of private cars in the performance of duties of Town officers or em- ployees at $.041/2 per mile to conform to the rate now in effect by State Depart- ments, or act thereon. -Advisory Board, Philip L. Schuyler, Chairman.
VOTED: To establish the rate of mileage to be charged for the use of private cars in the performance of duties of Town Officers at .041/2c per mile.
ARTICLE 60
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the maintenance and improvement of the Town Forests, or act thereon?
-Town Forest Committee.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $500.00.
ARTICLE 61
Will the Town authorize the Town Accountant to transfer the following un- expended balances of special appropriations to the Excess and Deficiency Account?
Motor Grader
100.21
Fencing Triangle, Edward Foster Road
52.82
Widening First Parish Road
69.19
Repairing Town Pier
110.20
$332.42
-Selectmen.
VOTED: To so authorize.
ARTICLE 62
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $132.53 for the payment of bills of previous years in the following amounts?
W. J. Dunn & Co.
19.45
Brockton Edison Co.
86.08
William F. Murphy
21.00
Joseph Lelyveld
6.00
$132.53
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $132.53.
ARTICLE 63
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $60.00 for payment of dues for a yearly membership in the Maritime Divisions of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, or act thereon? -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $60.00.
ARTICLE 64
Will the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $75.00 for channel markings and regulations of the usage of North River from Humarock Bridge to the sea, same to be in conjunction with like control by the Town of Marshfield, or act thereon? -Selectmen.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $75.00.
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ARTICLE 65
To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate $100.00 for County Aid to Agriculture and choose a Town Director as provided in Section 41 and 45 of Revised Chapter 128 of the General Laws, or act thereon. -County Treasurer.
VOTED: To raise and appropriate $100.00. Charles E. Mitchell, Director.
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