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VOTED. To be referred to the Selectmen with power to act. $50 appropriated for same.
ART. 37. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money for procuring plans of the real estate in Wakefield for the use of the Assessors, and also to pay for the clerical services of said board, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $250. For plans and clerical services. Plans to be made by street and not by alphabet.
ART. 38. To see if the town will instruct the Fire Engineers to appoint the Volunteer Hose company as enginemen for the cur- rent municipal year, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To so instruct the Fire Engineers.
ARTICLE 6. Voted to take up Article 6.
VOTED. To appropriate $250 additional for the Fire Department. Yes, 99. No, 10.
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ART. 39. To see if the town will raise and appropriate two hundred and fifty dollars to pay for the services of the clerk to the School Committee, including the purchase and delivery of text books and supplies.
VOTED. $250.
ART. 40. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars to grade and repair Emerald street, or what it will do about it.
VOTED. $200. To be expended under the direction of the Road Commissioners.
ART. 41. To see if the town will authorize and instruct the Fish Committee to invest the net proceeds of the income from fish permits in German carp spawners, or some other species of edible fish not found in the waters of Wakefield, and deposit the said fish in Lake Quannapowitt, or what it will do about it. VOTED. To refer to Fish Committee with power to act.
ART. 42. To see if the town will choose an Appropriation Commit- tee to consider the matter of appropriations for the year 1893 and report in the Town Report of that year.
VOTED. That the chair appoint an Appropriation Committee of fifteen, and the chair appointed Wm. G. Strong, Wm. S. Green- ough, Richard Britton, W. E. Cowdrey, S. O. Richardson, Roger Howard, W. E. Rogers, S. W. Flint, Michael Low, A. L. Mans- field, Wm. K. Perkins, H. H. Savage, Thomas Ilickey, Everett Hart and John Winship.
ART. 43. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee upon Sewerage, and to see if the town will raise and appropriate money therefor.
The committee reported verbally on progress made, and also in the Town Report of 1892, p. 212, and their report was accepted.
On motion of Dr. ()'Leary it was
VOTED. "That the sum of $400 be raised and appropriated for the . purpose of preparing the best and most practicable plan for the sewerage and sewerage disposal of the town of Wakefield, the same to be expended under the direction of a committee of five, who shall report at the November town meeting."
Wm. G. Strong, J. A. O'Leary, Geo. W. Harrington, S. W. Abbott and W. E. Cowdrey were chosen on that committee.
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ART. 44. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to confer with the Wakefield Water Company.
The committee presented their report which was accepted.
VOTED. That this report be lodged in the archives of the town, as it . deserves a high place. No other action taken.
ART. 45. To see if the town will raise and appropriate additional money to complete the new Fire Engine house, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $3.000. To be expended under the direction of the same committee as was chosen to take charge of moving and changing the school house into an engine house.
W. S. Greenough, Roger Howard, H. W. Dalrymple, W. B. Daniel, W. G. Strong, J. M. Skully, H. B. Parker, committee.
ART. 46. To see if the town will disapprove of the order of the County Commissioners as to the widening of Main street, from Salem street to the Reading line, or what they will do about it. VOTED. To lay on table until Article 50 has been acted upon.
ART. 47. To see if the town will petition or request the present board of County Commissioners to discontinue the changes of Main street, as proposed by the order of July 30, 1889, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To lay on table until Article 50 has been acted upon.
ART. 48. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars for the bullding of a concrete sidewalk on Main street, water side, to Lowell street, under the direction of the Park Commissioners, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To lay on table until Article 50 has been acted upon.
ART. 49. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money to carry out the order of the County Commissioners in relation to widening and building Church street, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $1,500.
ART. 50. To see if the town will instruct its Selectmen to petition the County Commissioners to rescind their order in relation to widening and building Main street, between Salem street and the Reading town line, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To indefinitely postpone.
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ART. 14. See page 16.
VOTED. To take up this article.
VOTED. That the Board of Selectmen be instructed to petition the Board of County Commissioners to rescind their order of July 30, 1889, in relation to changes of Main street, between Salem street and the Reading line, and that the Board of Selectmen and the Board of Road Commissioners be appointed to carefully prepare a new plan for changes of the main street, from Salem street to the Reading line, and estimate the cost of changing the street according to the new plan, and present a report at the next meeting.
A vote of thanks was extended to the Moderator for the very able manner in which he has conducted the business of this meeting.
VOTED. To adjourn without date.
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TOWN MEETING, APRIL 11, 1892.
ARTICLE. I. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. Samuel K. Hamilton was elected Moderator.
ART. 2. To see if the town will increase and fix the compensation of the Road Commissioners, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. That the Road Commissioners in addition to the sum voted, as salary to the Board, receive $2.50 per day each, for labor per- formed by them upon the highways, in discharge of their duties. ART. 3. To hear and act upon the report of the committee upon by-laws and ordinances.
Wm. E. Rogers, in behalf of the committee on by-laws, pre- sented their report.
VOTED. To dispense with reading the report.
VOTED. That the report be accepted.
VOTED. That the report be printed in pamphlet form, and dis- tributed.
Motion to adopt the report was lost.
VOTED. That the further consideration of this report be postponed until an adjourned town meeting two weeks from this night, or at a future town meeting. (See page 29, Art. 14.):
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VOTED. That when we adjourn, we adjourn for two weeks from this evening at 7.30 o'clock.
ART. 4. To see if the town will locate a fire alarm box at Boynton- ville and raise and appropriate money therefor, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $200, and the matter was referred to the Selectmen with power to act at their discretion.
Art. 5. To see if the town will raise and appropriate money to com- plete Prospect street in accordance with the order of the County Commissioners.
VOTED. $500.
ART. 6. To hear and act upon the report of the committee appointed at the annual town meeting under Article 26, of the town war- rant, to see if the town will raise and appropriate money to carry out the order of the County Commissioners relative to the widening of Gould street.
W. G. Strong presented the following report :
REPORT.
"Acting under Article 26 of the last annual town warrant, the town chose a committee consisting of W. G. Strong, Henry Davis and I. F. Eaton, to consider the subject matter of said article, which was : 'To see if the town would raise and appro- priate money to carry out the orders of the County Commis- sioners relative to the widening of Gould street.'
Your committee have attended to their duty, and beg leave to report. The committee organized by the choice of W. G. Strong, chairman, and have viewed the new bounds of said street, as located by the County Commissioners, and have care- fully considered the whole matter of widening and straightening said street, to conform to the orders of the County Commis- sioners. The committee found the street in a very bad condi- tion, hardly safe for public travel. The County Commission has ordered a very expensive change, in the widening and straighten- ing of Gould street, which order must be complied with before the close of 1893. Your committee does not think it advisable for the town to comply with the orders fully this year, as our appropriations for highways are already very large ; but would
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recommend that the town do part of the work this year, and a part next year, commencing at the east end of the proposed change of lines, and working westward to completion as far as Converse street, and as much farther as the appropriation will allow ; and taking care that the whole street be made safe for public travel, and for the payment of said work, your committee would recommend that the town appropriate $1,oco, to be expended under the direction of the Road Commissioners."
W. G. STRONG, HENRY DAVIS, I. F. EATON, Committee.
VOTED. To accept the report, and its recommendations were adopted.
VOTED. $1,000. To pay for same.
ART. 7. To see if the town will vote that the sum of five hundred ·dollars be raised and appropriated for the purpose of cleaning out the bed of the Saugus river, from Saugus line to Water street, in manner as follows :- From Saugus line to Vinton street bridge ; the bed to be made twelve feet wide and two feet deeper, and from Vinton street bridge to Water street one foot deeper than it now is. The same to be in charge of the Road Commissioners.
VOTED. To refer to the Board of Health and the Board of Selectmen,
ART. 8. To see if the town will instruct its Board of Road Commis- sioners to let the work on Main street, beside the lake, from Lawrence street to Cordis street, to the lowest responsible bidder.
VOTED. To indefinitely postpone.
ART. 9. To see if the town will grant the free use of the town hall for one evening to the St. Joseph's Total Abstinence society.
VOTED. To do so.
ART. 10. To see if the town will choose a committee to investigate the doings of the Road Commissioners of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, or what they will do about it.
No action taken.
VOTED. To dissolve the meeting.
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TOWN MEETING, JUNE 29, 1892.
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. Samuel K. Hamilton was elected Moderator.
ART. 2. To see if the town will rescind the vote passed at the last annual meeting under Article 20 of the warrant, therefor, whereby it was voted to raise and appropriate $8,000 for the purpose of completing the new school house on Academy hill.
VOTED. To rescind same.
ART. 3. To see if the town will rescind the vote passed at the last annual meeting under Article 45 of the warrant therefor, whereby it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000 for the completion of the new fire engine house.
VOTED. To rescind same.
ART. 4. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $8,000 for the purpose of completing the new school house on Academy hill, ready for occupancy, including furnishing and to grade, fence and improve the grounds and sidewalks surrounding the same.
VOTED. $8,000.
ART. 5. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $3,000 addi- tional money to complete the new fire engine house.
VOTED. $3,000.
ART. 6. To see if the town will authorize its Treasurer to hire money on a term of years and to issue notes or bonds of the town therefor, for the purpose of providing the money appropriated under Articles 4 and 5 of this warrant for completing the new school building on Academy hill and the new fire engine house. VOTED. That the Town Treasurer be authorized, with the approval of the Selectmen, to hire the sum of $11,000 and to issue the notes or bonds of the town therefor :- $3,000 to be made payable in the year 1895, and $8,000 to be made payable in the year 1902, the said amounts to be raised by taxation in the years above named. Yes, 165. No, 3.
ART. 7. To see if the town will vote to purchase a hook and ladder truck and equipments, and to appropriate money therefor.
VOTED. That a committee of six, consisting of the present Boards of Selectmen and Fire Engineers, be authorized to purchase a
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new Ladder Truck and such appliances as they may consider necessary for the same, the whole to cost not over $1,500, and that the sum of $1,500 be appropriated therefor, and the Treasurer be empowered to hire the same for the term of one year, and that this sum be raised in the tax levy of 1893.
ART. 8. To see if the town will appropriate $300 additional for concrete sidewalks, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $300.
ART. 9. To see if the town will appropriate $500 to grade and repair Spring street, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. $500.
ART. IO. To hear and act on the report of the Road Commis- sioners on laying out a way from Pleasant street to Vernon street, as an extension of Wave avenue.
The Road Commissioners presented their report on laying out a new town way from Pleasant street to Vernon street.
VOTED. To accept the report.
VOTED. That the report be adopted.
VOTED. $100. To carry out recommendations of Road Commis sioners.
ART. II. To hear and act on the report of the committee appointed under Article 18 of the warrant of the last annual meeting relating to the removal of obstructions in covered drain leading from Bennett to Water street.
Dr. J. A. O'Leary reported in behalf of the committee that the water course from Nahant street to Water street be thoroughly cleaned out.
VOTED. To accept the report.
VOTED. To lay the report on the table until some one complains of it.
Report (unsigned) placed on file.
ART. 12. To see if the town will place four street lights on Main street, between the Beebe estate and the head of the lake ; also one on the corner of Summer street and Orchard street, and one on the corner of Birch Hill avenue and Summer street, and appropriate money therefor.
VOTED. To do so. $50 appropriated for same.
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ART. 13. To see what action the town will take in relation to claims on account of injuries received from defective highways.
VOTED. To refer to Selectmen with power to act. Damages claimed on Broadway, Prospect street and on Church street near the Congregational church were each and all referred to Selectmen with power to act.
ART. 14. To act.on the report of the committee appointed April 20, 1891, to revise the by-laws of the town of Wakefield.
The committee presented their report on revising the town by-laws, the same having been printed and distributed.
VOTED. That the report be accepted.
VOTED. To amend the report by striking out the word "hand- barrow" in Article 6, Sec. 12, and inserting the word "wheel-
barrow." It was then voted to lay the report on the table until the next meeting.
ART. 15. To see if the town by their vote will allow tax-payers in town to have the privilege, if they so desire, of working on the highways, either by manual labor or by the labor of horse and cart, under the direction of the Road Commissioners of the town of Wakefield, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To refer the subject matter of this article to the Road Commissioners.
ART. 16. To see if the town will vote to recommend that nine (9) hours constitute a day's work on the highway and fix the com- pensation therefor, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. That nine (9) hours constitute a day's work on the high- way, and that $2.00 be the compensation per diem., and that citizens of the town only be employed on the highway.
A. H. Thayer was given permission to make the following report :
REPORT.
The committee appointed March 17, 1892 "To investigate as to the necessity of enlarging the Franklin street school house," have attended to the duties assigned them, and beg leave to report as follows :
Your committee believes the town should furnish suitable accommodations for all children of school age. It is evident
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to us that in the near future one or more new school houses will be needed in localities now rapidly filling up. It seems to us possible that district limits may be changed so as to relieve for the present, the over-crowded condition of the Franklin street schools. Should the future growth of the district be as great as the recent past, the proposed addition would, in our opinion, prove inadequate and too expensive for the advantage gained. We therefor think it inexpedient to enlarge the present building.
(signed) A. H. THAYER, J. A. HICKEY, W. K. PERKINS, T. E. BALCH. Committee.
VOTED. To accept the report. No other action taken.
VOTED. To dissolve the meeting.
TOWN MEETING, AUGUST 15, 1892.
ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. William N. Tyler was elected Moderator.
ART. 2. To see if the town will vote that it is expedient for the town to exercise the authority conferred upon towns under the provisions of Chapter 370 of the Acts of the year 1891, in the relation to the construction, purchase, leasing or estab- lishing and maintaining within its limits one or more plants for the manufacture or distribution of gas or electricity for furnishing light for municipal use, and for the use of such of its inhabitants as may require and pay for the same.
VOTED. To proceed to ballot on the question, and that the vote be taken with printed or written ballots.
RESULT OF THE BALLOT.
Whole number of ballots cast,
224
Necessary two-thirds vote, . . 149
Yes, 179 ; No, 45.
The chair declared the question carried by the necessary two-thirds vote in the affirmative.
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ART. 3. To see if the town will appropriate an additional sum of money for miscellaneous expenses.
VOTED. $3,000.
ART. 4. To hear and act upon the report of the road commis- sioners on the laying out of Brook avenue.
VOTED. To accept the same.
VOTED. To adopt the same.
ART. 5. To hear and act upon the report of the road commis- sioners on the laying out of Spring avenue.
VOTED. To accept.
VOTED. To lay on the table the adoption of the report, until next town meeting, the street being only thirty feet in width.
VOTED. To dissolve the meeting.
TOWN MEETING, OCTOBER 3, 1892.
ARTICLE I. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. Jacob C. Hartshorne was elected Moderator.
ART. 2. To see if the town will agree with the Citizens' Gas Light company of Reading, South Reading and Stoneham upon the question of what property said company shall sell the town of Wakefield, under the provisions of Chapter 370 of the Public Laws of 1891, also on the price and terms of sale and delivery thereof in accordance with the provisions of said Act, or what action it will take to determine said questions ; also what action the town will take in reference to the communication and statement of said company filed in the office of the Town Clerk of said town, September 12, A. D. 1892.
Ist. VOTED. On motion of S. K. Hamilton "That the town do not agree with the Citizens' Gas Light company of Reading, South Reading and Stoneham, to purchase the property set forth in the paper by them filed with the Town Clerk, dated September 12, 1892, and purporting to be a schedule of the property which they desire to sell to the town at the price or upon the terms set forth in their offer of that date."
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2nd. VOTED. On motion of S. K. Hamilton " That all mat- ters between the town and the Citizens' Gas Light com- pany of Reading, South Reading and Stoneham, arising under the election of said company to sell its property and plant to the town, be referred to a committee of fifteen, in- cluding the Selectmen, with full power to act and do all things necessary as their judgment in connection therewith."
3rd. VOTED. Unanimously on motion of S. K. Hamilton " That the legal voters of the town of Wakefield hereby assert and declare that the statement and schedule filed in the Town Clerk's office of said town, September 12, 1892, by the Citizens' Gas Light company of Reading, South Reading and Stoneham, purporting to be the schedule required under Chapter 370 of the Public Laws of 1891, is not a sufficient schedule to comply with said laws, and that the town is not bound to purchase the property of said company, under the provisions of said act."
VOTED. That a committee of five be appointed by the chair to retire and nominate a committee of fifteen mentioned in the second vote. Chair appointed W. G. Strong, J. G. Aborn, J. H. Carter, William N. Tyler and William K. Perkins. This committee reported as follows for the committee of fifteen.
COMMITTEE.
S. K. Hamilton, Wm. B. Daniel, Silas W. Flint, Geo. H. Towle, Peter S. Roberts, Wm. F. Young, Wm. K. Perkins. E. A. Rich, James H. Carter. Thomas Hickey, Edward H. Walton, T. J. Skinner, Wm. S. Greenough, S. O. Richard- son, J. C. Hartshorne.
VOTED. To accept the report and elect the fifteen gentlemen reported as the committee of fifteen.
ART. 3. To see whether the town will vote to instruct its Select- men to oppose by all proper proceedings any attempt by the Citizens' Gas Light company of Reading, South Reading and Stoneham, to sell its gas and electric light plant to the - town.
VOTED. On motion of Geo. H. Towle "That the Selectmen are hereby instructed to oppose by all proper proceedings,
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legal or otherwise, any attempt by the Citizens' Gas Light company of Reading, South Reading and Stoneham, to sell its gas and electric light plant to the town."
ART. 4. To see whether the town will vote to instruct the proper officers of the town to remove all poles and wires which are illegally within the limits of the public highways.
VOTED. On motion of Geo. H. Towle " That the Road Com- misioners are hereby instructed to remove all poles and wires which are illegally within the limits of the public highways." ART. 5. To see if the town will rescind the vote whereby it voted that all streets should be laid out not less that forty feet in width.
Motion to rescind was rejected.
ART. 6. To act upon the report of the road commissioners in relation to the laying out of Spring avenue.
VOTED. To lay on the table.
ART. 7. To see if the town will discharge the committee to whom the subject matter of cleaning out the bed of Saugus river was referred to while acting under Article 7 of warrant for the town meeting held April 11, 1892, and choose another " committee with power to hire an engineer to ascertain the levels and the expense to do the work and report on the subject at the next annual town meeting, or what they will do about it.
VOTED. To adopt the article, that a new committee be ap- pointed, and that John Moran be given the privilege of naming one member of the committee. James F. Emerson was named by Mr. Moran and the chair appointed James F. Emerson, James H. Carter and Henry W. Eustis on the committee.
VOTED. To dissolve the meeting.
NATIONAL AND STATE ELECTION AND TOWN MEETING, NOVEMBER 8, 1892.
Pursuant to a warrant duly drawn and served, the voters assembled at seven o'clock in the forenoon to bring in their votes for electors of
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President and Vice President of the United States, and a Represen- tative to the fifty-third congress of the United States ; for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Auditor, and Attorney General of the Commonwealth ; for Councillor for the sixth Councillor District ; for a Senator for the sixth Middlesex Senatorial District; for a Representative to the General Court to represent the Thirteenth Middlesex Representative District ; for County Commissioner ; for two special commissioners ; for a Register of Probate and Insolvency to fill a vacancy and for the remainder of the term of five years from the first Wednesday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine ; for District Attorney, for Sheriff and for three Commissioners of Insol- vency for Middlesex County ; and also to bring in their votes, upon the same ballot, on the following proposed articles of amendment to the Constitution, to wit : Article of Amendment to the Constitu- tion, abolishing the property qualification for the office of Governor. So much of article two of section one of chapter two, of part the second of the Constitution of the Commonwealth as is contained in the following words : "And unless he shall at the same time, be seized in his own right, of a freehold within the Commonwealth of the value of one thousand pounds," is hereby annulled ; the form of the ballot shall be as follows : "Shall the proposed amendment to the Constitution abolishing the property qualification for the office of Governor be approved and ratified? Yes-No."
The votes for all the above named officers, and for the article of amendment to the constitution shall be upon one ballot, and received according to the provisions of Chapter 423, of the Acts of 1890, entitled " The Election Act of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety," or any amendments thereto. The polls will be opened for the choice of the above officers at 7.15 o'clock in the forenoon, and will remain open for four hours at least, and for such longer time as the majority of the voters present shall by vote direct, not later than the hour of sunset.
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