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(Request of H. K. Bartlett and Harold W. Baker)
Recommended that the Town vote to increase the term of the office of Tax Collector, Town Clerk and Town Treasurer, to three years.
Article 27. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to control, regulate or prohibit the taking of eels, and any or all kinds of shellfish and sea worms within the borders of the town of Plymouth and such other authority as is provided in Section 52 of Chapter 130 of the General Laws, as inserted therein by Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1941, or take any action in relation thereto.
Recommended that the Town vote to so authorize the Board of Selectmen.
Note: A recodification of the shellfish laws, in 1941, appears to require a favorable vote by the Town, on this and on the following Article 28, to assure the Selectmen that such authority previously voted to them by the Town cannot be questioned.
Article 28. To see if the Town will authorize the select- men to issue licenses for private shellfish grants in accord with the provisions of Section 57 of Chapter 130.of the Gen- eral Laws, as inserted therein by Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1941, or take any action in relation thereto.
Recommended that the Town so vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen.
Article 29. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to request the State Director of Accounts to audit the books of the Town annually in accordance with Section 35 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws.
Recommended that the Town vote to so authorize the Board of Selectmen.
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Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to erect an honor roll for those serving with the Armed Forces of the United States from Plymouth in World War II, and appoint a Committee of ten members to secure data for same, and appropriate the sum of one thousand (1,000) dollars to de- fray the expenses.
Recommended appropriation of $1,000.00 for an Honor Roll for those serving with the Armed Forces of the United States from Plymouth in World War II, and appointment of a committee.
Article 31. To see if the Town of Plymouth will accept, approve and put into operation the provisions of the General Laws of Massachusetts, Chapter 147, Section 16B, as amended by the Acts of 1938, Chapter 426, Section 2, the provisions of which are as follows:
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepts this section by vote of the town, whether or not section fourteen, fifteen, sixteen or sixteen A has theretofore been operative therein, shall be excused from duty for one day out of every six without loss of pay. (1938, 426, S2 approved June 16, 1938)
(By petition of Amedeo O. Collari et als.)
Recommended that the Town take no action under Art. 31.
Article 32. To see what amount the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the use of the Plymouth Committee on Public Safety, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Recommended appropriation of $4,300.00. This is the amount of the revised budget presented to the Advisory and Finance Committee by the Committee on Public Safety.
Article 33. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of two thousand (2,000) dollars for the Plymouth War Price and Rationing Board No. 249, said appropriation to be ex- pended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Recommended appropriation of $2,000.00.
Article 34. To see what amount the Town will vote to appropriate, from money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- propriated to reduce the 1943 tax rate of the Town of Plymouth.
Recommended that the Town take no action under Art. 34.
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Article 35. To see if the Town will provide for co-opera- tion with the Federal Government on the School Lunch Project and appropriate the sum of one thousand, two hun- dred (1,200) dollars therefor. Said money to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Recommended appropriation of $1,200.00.
Article 36. To see if the Town will authorize the select- men to terminate and cancel the lease and coal handling agreement made by and between the Town of Plymouth and James Millar & Company, dated October 6, 1924, as amended, and assigned to the Millar Coal & Oil Company (now the Cape Fuel Mart by change of name), upon such terms as they may deem expedient.
Recommended that the Town so authorize the Board of Selectmen.
Article 37. To see if the Town will authorize the select- men to make such changes and improvements in the town wharf as will, in their opinion, improve the facilities for the unloading and handling of fish and make an appropriation therefor.
Recommended that the Town so authorize the Board of Selectmen and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 therefor, provided that our recommendation on Art. 36 is accepted.
Article 38. To see if the Town will authorize the Water Commissioners to acquire by purchase or eminent domain, land on the water shed of Little South Pond, for protection of its water supply, and make an appropriation therefor.
Recommended that the Town so authorize the Water Com- missioners and appropriate the sum of $650.00 therefor.
Article 39. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars (2,000) for the purchase of equip- ment consisting of an air compressor, paving breaker and tools, as recommended by the Water Commissioners.
Recommended appropriation of $2,000.00 for the purchase (by the Water Commissioners) of the equipment described in the article, said equipment to be available for other town depart- ments.
Article 40. To see if the Town will authorize the Water Commissioners, to dispose of the buildings on the two parcels of land at Little South Pond acquired in accordance with the vote of the Town at its last Annual Meeting, as the Water
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Commissioners see fit, including the right to grant to the former owners the privilege of removing same.
Recommended that the Town so authorize the Water Com- missioners.
Respectfully submitted,
ADVISORY AND FINANCE COMMITTEE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH
Ralph H. Gilbert, Chairman; Forlong C. Hilton, Walter E. Carr, Hugh L. Garrity, Harold W. Gould, Armelao Maccaferri, George C. Peterson, Lester W. Thurber, Alfred R. Cross, Robertson C. Damrell, Walder J. Eng- strom, E. Fiske Mabbett, John Petrell, Jr.
Mr. Garrity recorded as voting in the negative on the reduction of appropriation for Public Welfare in Art. 6.
Attested: Elmer R. Harlow, Secretary.
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REPORTS of the TOWN OFFICERS
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TOWN OF PLYMOUTH 1943
ANNUAL REPORT
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TOWN OFFICERS
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Town of Plymouth
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For the Year Ending December 31,
1943
Printing and Binding by THE MEMORIAL PRESS Plymouth, Mass.
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1943
Selectmen: James A. White, John A. Armstrong, Wil- liam H. Beever, Howard M. Douglas and James T. Frazier.
Clerk of Selectmen: Norman W. Gray.
Town Clerk: Herbert K. Bartlett.
Town Treasurer: Herbert K. Bartlett.
Collector of Taxes: Harold W. Baker.
Town Accountant: Elmer R. Harlow.
Assessors: Fred A. Sampson, chosen 1941 for three years; James S. Swanton, chosen 1942 for three years; Thomas L. Cassidy, chosen 1943 for three years.
Overseers of Public Welfare: Knowlton B. Holmes, chosen 1941 for three years; A. Rodman Hussey, chosen 1942 for three years. Gordon S. McCosh appointed mili- tary substitute for Mr. Hussey, Sept. 17, 1942; Edmund J. Priestley, chosen 1943 for three years.
Water Commissioners: Richard T. Eldridge and Wil- liam R. Morton, chosen 1941 for three years. William R. Morton resigned July 27, 1942 and Daniel F. Mulcahy, appointed to fill the vacancy, Aug. 6, 1942. Daniel F. Mulcahy, chosen 1943 for one year; John H. Damon and John L. Morton, chosen 1942 for three years. John H. Damon resigned and C. Brooks Hudson appointed to fill the vacancy, Nov. 3, 1943; Edward R. Belcher, chosen 1943 for three years.
School Committee: Francis E. LeBaron and J. Frank- land Miller, chosen 1941 for three years; E. Harold Dono- van and Fannie T. Rowell, chosen 1942 for three years; David A. Cappannari and William E. Curtin, chosen 1943 for three years.
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Cemetery Commissioners: Edward R. Belcher, chosen 1941 for three years; Arthur E. Blackmer, chosen 1942 for three years; Richard T. Eldridge, chosen 1943 for three years.
Burial Hill Committee: Cemetery Commissioners.
Agawam and Halfway Pond Herring Fishery Commit- tee: Emil C. Birnstein, Elmer P. Boutin and Fred E. Morton.
Park Commissioners: John A. Seiver, chosen 1941 for three years; Arthur Sirrico, chosen 1942 for three years; Edward J. E. Hand, chosen 1943 for three years.
Board of Health: Herbert S. Maxwell, chosen 1941 for three years; Paul Bittinger chosen 1942 for three years; Medora V. Eastwood, chosen 1943 for three years.
Planning Board: Arthur E. Blackmer, George L. Good- ing, Francis C. Holmes, Allen D. Russell and Amedeo V. Sgarzi.
Field Drivers and Fence Viewers: William LaRocque, Lewis Smith and Chester Torrance.
Surveyor of Wood and Bark: Harold E. Giles.
Committee on Inland Fisheries: Frank L. Bailey, War- ren S. Gale and Michael D. Welch.
Committee on Town Forest: Abbott A. Raymond, Frank Thomas and Arthur W. Weston.
Board of Registration: Enrico Ferrari, appointed 1941 for three years; Joseph R. Stefani, appointed 1942 for three years; Walter R. Roberts, appointed 1943 for three years.
Committee on Sewers: Selectmen.
Sexton: William W. Baker. Mr. Baker resigned, and George A. Noddings appointed to fill vacancy.
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Pound Keeper: Russell L. Dickson. Sealer of Weights and Measures: Harold E. Giles.
Superintendent of Streets: Elmer C. Chandler.
Superintendent of Water Works: Theodore Brink.
Beach Committee: Selectmen.
Collector of Water Rates: Addie H. Burgess.
Harbor Master: Elmer P. Boutin.
Members of Retirement Board: Russell P. Dearborn, Herbert K. Bartlett and Elmer R. Harlow.
Superintendent of Oak Grove and Vine Hills Ceme- teries and Burial Hill: Alexander H. P. Besse.
Superintendent of Chiltonville Cemetery: Charles B. Howland.
Superintendent of Manomet Cemetery: Gordon S. McCosh.
Superintendent of Infirmary: Russell L. Dickson.
Fire Commissioner: Henry Walton.
Town Engineer: Edward Chase. Chief of Police: Russell P. Dearborn.
Tree Warden: Abbott A. Raymond.
Forest Warden: Henry Walton.
Local Moth Superintendent: Abbott A. Raymond.
Town Counsel: Alfred P. Richards.
Building Inspector: Thomas A. Bodell. Dog Officer: Hillery J. Bergman.
Inspector of Animals: Frederick Bradley.
Inspector of Slaughtering: Hillery J. Bergman.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 27, 1943
AMEDEO V. SGARZI, Moderator
Article Three:
On motion of Herbert K. Bartlett, Voted: That the reports of the several boards of Officers and Committees of the Town be accepted and placed on file. Article Four:
On motion of Herbert K. Bartlett, Voted: That the Town authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year be- ginning January 1, 1944, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article Five:
Mr. Ralph H. Gilbert moved: That the salary of the Chairman of Selectmen be set at seven hundred and twenty-six (726) dollars.
That the salary of the other Selectmen be set at three hundred and sixty-three (363) dollars, each. That the salary of the Chairman of Assessors be set at twenty-three hundred seventy-one and 60/100 (2,371.60) dollars.
That the salary of the other Assessors be set at
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nineteen hundred and thirty-six (1,936) dollars each.
That the salary of the Town Clerk be set at nineteen hundred and eighty (1,980) dollars.
That the salary of the Town Treasurer be set at nineteen hundred and eighty (1,980) dollars.
That the salary of the Collector of Taxes be set at twenty-nine hundred and seventy (2,970) dollars. That the salary of the Secretary of the Board of Public Welfare be set at four hundred twenty-three and 50/100 (423.50) dollars.
That the salary of the Chairman of the Board of Public Welfare be set at fifty (50) dollars.
Mr. Gilbert's motion was put before the meeting and carried.
Article Six:
Mr. Ralph H. Gilbert moved: That the Town appro- priate the sum of $905,087.68 to defray the expenses of the Town, and for other purposes, as printed in the recom- mendations of the Advisory and Finance Committee, of which sum $408,960.09 shall be for salaries and personal services, and $496,127.59 for other purposes including all labor payrolls.
Mr. Gilbert's motion, as amended, was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article Seven:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $9,800.00, including the dog tax of $1,797.01, in aid of the Plymouth Public Library.
Article Eight:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $3,560.00, to be expended
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by the Plymouth Public Library for the Loring Library. Article Nine:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 in aid of the Manomet Public Library.
Article Ten:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $400.00 for the observance of Memorial Day, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Eleven:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the observance of July Fourth, to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Twelve:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the purpose of main- taining during the ensuing year, the Mosquito Control Works constructed in the Town of Plymouth, as estimated and certified to by the State Reclamation Board.
Article Thirteen:
Mr. Ralph H. Gilbert moved: That the Town make no appropriation under Article 13.
Mr. James T. Frazier moved to amend by substituting the following: That the Town appropriate the sum of One Thousand Dollars for the cultivation, propagation and protection of shellfish to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen, and the motion was carried, unanimously.
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Mr. Gilbert's motion, as amended, was put before the meeting and carried.
Article Fourteen:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the employment of one or more district nurses. Said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Fifteen:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $150.00 for the use of the Plym- outh County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, and choose a Town Director.
On motion of Herbert K. Bartlett, Voted: That James S. A. Valler be chosen Town Director for County Aid to Agriculture.
Article Sixteen:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for the further improve- ment of Samoset Street, said money to be used in con- junction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose.
Article Seventeen :
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate, from money in the Town Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000.00 to the Re- serve Account in the hands of the Advisory and Finance Committee and authorize the transfer of the sum of $5,000.00 from the Reserve from Overlayings of Taxes to the said Reserve Account.
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Article Eighteen:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town set the hourly wage of all regular town employees classi- fied as laborers at seventy-five cents an hour for forty hours per week and for all regular town employees classi- fied as truck drivers at eighty cents an hour for forty hours per week.
Article Nineteen:
Mr. Ralph H. Gilbert moved: That the Town appro- priate the sum of $20,000.00 from money in the Town Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be invested in United States War Bonds, under the provisions of Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1943.
Mr. Henry Walton moved to substitute the sum of $50,000.00 in place of $20,000.00, but the motion was lost.
Mr. Gilbert's motion was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article Twenty:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town fourteen (14) days at least before the sale, property taken by the Town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen or whomsoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate.
Article Twenty-one:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the School Committee to sell to the United States Government, if and when requested by the War
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Production Board, school typewriters, and approve the sale of typewriters heretofore made to the Government by said Committee.
Article Twenty-two:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, it was unanimously voted: That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver to Mrs. Eleanor M. Bradford a deed conveying to her a small triangular shaped piece of land on the westerly side of Oak Street and being parcel "A" as shown on a plan entitled "Plan showing proposed exchange of land between Town of Plymouth and Eleanor M. Bradford, Sept. 1, 1942, Delano & Keith, Civil Engineers," a copy of which is on file in the office of the Selectmen, being a portion of the Oak Street school house lot, in exchange for a deed from Mrs. Brad- ford conveying to the Town a small triangular shaped piece of land of the same dimensions and being parcel "B" as shown on said plan.
Article Twenty-three:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town accept section 120A of Chapter 94 of the General Laws relative to additional fees to be paid by holders of licenses to carry on the business of slaughtering neat cattle, sheep, or swine.
Article Twenty-four:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the Board of Health to appoint a member of said Board, Physician to the Board, and hereby fixes the salary to the appointee at $600.00 per annum.
Article Twenty-five:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 for the purchase of two
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automobiles for the Police Department to replace the two that are now in service.
Article Twenty-six:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town vote to increase the term of the office of the Tax Col- lector, Town Clerk and Town Treasurer, to three years, as provided for by the General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 41, Section 1, and provide that at the next Annual Town Meeting the Tax Collector, Town Clerk and Town Treas- urer be elected for the term of three years, and there- after for the term of three years.
Article Twenty-seven:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to control, regulate or prohibit the taking of eels, and any or all kinds of shellfish and sea worms within the borders of the Town of Plymouth and such other authority as is provided in Section 52 of Chapter 130 of the General Laws, as inserted therein by Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1941.
Article Twenty-eight:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to issue licenses for private shellfish grants in accord with the provisions of Section 57 of Chapter 130 of the General Laws, as inserted there- in by Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1941.
Article Twenty-nine:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to request the State Director of Accounts to audit the books of the Town annually in accordance with Section 35 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws.
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Article Thirty:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for an Honor Roll for those serving with the Armed Forces of the United States from Plymouth in World War II. Said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Select- men. That the Honor Roll Committee shall consist of the five Selectmen and five members to be appointed by the Moderator.
Article Thirty-one:
Mr. Ralph H. Gilbert moved: That the Town take no action under Article 31.
Mr. Amedeo O. Collari moved a substitute motion: That the Town of Plymouth accept, approve and put into operation the provisions of the General Laws of Massa- chusetts, Chapter 147, Section 16 B, as amended by the Acts of 1938, Chapter 426, Section 2, the provisions of which are as follows:
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepts this section by vote of the town, whether or not section fourteen, fifteen, sixteen or sixteen A has theretofore been operative therein, shall be excused from duty for one day out of every six with- out loss of pay, (1938, 426, S 2 approved June 16, 1938) , and the motion was carried.
Mr. Gilbert's motion as amended, was then put before the meeting and carried.
Article Thirty-two:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $4,300.00 for the use of the Plym- outh Committee on Public Safety, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Select- men.
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Article Thirty-three:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the Plymouth War Price and Rationing Board, No. 249, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Thirty-four:
To see what amount the Town will vote to appropriate, from money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to reduce the 1943 tax rate of the Town of Plymouth.
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town take no action under Article 34.
Article Thirty-five:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town provide for co-operation with the Federal Government on the School Lunch Project, during January, February and March, 1943, and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00 therefor. Said money to be expended under the direction of the Board of Selectmen.
Article Thirty-six:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to terminate and cancel the lease and coal handling agreement made by and between the Town of Plymouth and James Millar & Company, dated Oct. 6, 1924, as amended, and assigned to the Millar Coal & Oil Company (now the Cape Fuel Mart by change of name), upon such terms as they may deem expedient.
Article Thirty-seven:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, Voted: That the Town authorize the Selectmen to make such changes and im- provements in the Town Wharf as will, in their opinion,
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improve the facilities for the unloading and handling of fish, and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 therefor. Article Thirty-eight:
On motion of Ralph H. Gilbert, it was unanimously voted: That the water commissioners be authorized to acquire by purchase or eminent domain, for the pro- tection of the town's water supply, the following described parcels of land, to wit:
Parcel 1. Land near Little South Pond belonging to William W. and Edwin B. Whiting, containing eight acres, more or less, and bounded and described substantially as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe and stones set in the ground at a point 53 feet northeasterly from the road running around Little South Pond, said pipe being in line of land of George T. Paraschos and being the north- easterly corner of land of John J McCarthy; thence run- ning southwesterly by land of McCarthy to land of the Town of Plymouth, thence turning and running north- easterly by land of the Town of Plymouth and land of Adrian Whiting and others to a point in Little Cook's Pond at land formerly of Seth Paty, now of Terry: thence turning and running southeasterly by land of Terry to a heap of stones at the northwesterly corner of land of George T. Paraschos; thence by land of Paraschos southwesterly to the pipe and stone begun at; and appro- priate therefor the sum of $300.00.
Parcel 2. Land at Little South Pond belonging to Al- bert W. Boutin, containing one acre, more or less, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stone bound near the westerly side of a road leading to Little South Pond which stone bound marks the northeasterly corner of land of Lillian F. Paraschos and also marks an angle in line of land of the Town of Plymouth; thence by said road southerly about 341 feet, more or less, to a stone bound near the cross roads, which bound marks a corner of land of the Town of Plymouth; thence run-
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ning southwesterly by land of the Town of Plymouth 132 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe set in the ground on the shore of Little South Pond near high water mark; thence by high water mark northerly to land of Alice E. Card; thence northeasterly by land of Card to the north- east corner thereof, said point being also a corner of land of Lillian F. Paraschos; thence again northeasterly by land of Paraschos to the stone bound begun at; and appropriate therefor the sum of $350.00.
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