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Larrabee,
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Maynard, Zoa
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Mead. Charles Henry
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Mead, Effi R.
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Apr. 3.
Middleton, Willis P.
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Pendergast, Frank
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Sept. 22.
Polep, Charles L.
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Robbins, Cora
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Feb. 14.
Sias, Frederick J.
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Jan. 10.
Stevens, Lucinda
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June 25.
Taplin, Emily Cook
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May 15.
Twitchell. Charles Stanley
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Wetherbee, Ellen Augusta
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Wetherbee, Fannie Etta
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Wetherbee, Jonathan Wood
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Whitney, Eliza
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Wood, Nellie Sybilla
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Non-Resident Burials in 1926
Age
No.
Date of Death 1. June 2.
Brown, Nellie M.
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Medfield
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2. Nov. 26. Brown, Wallace Alden
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Groton
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3. Dec. 25. Clark, Belle V. ..
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Worcester
. Woodlawn
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Cullis, Charles A.
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Somerville
Woodlawn
5. May 11.
Downie, Thomas E.
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Waltham
. Mt. Hope
6. Nov. 16.
Davis, Daniel L. ..
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Newton
. Woodlawn
7. Dec. 13.
Dow, Sarah Amanda
85
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Concord
. Woodlawn
8. Sept. 2.
Farwell, Frank
72
6
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Holliston
Woodlawn
9. Aug. 29.
Gardner, George A.
68
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Cambridge
Mt. Hope
10.
Dec. 29.
Hapgood, Eugene .
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Detroit, Mich.
. Mt. Hope
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Feb. 8.
Handley, Emma J.
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Leominster
Woodlawn
12. Oct. 22.
Hutchins, Hattie Ardell
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Winchester
. Mt. Hope
13. Apr. 4.
Lothrop, George .J. ..
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Richmond, Maine
. . Woodlawn
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July 2.
Johnson, Emeline A. Wright
92
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Exeter, N. Il.
. Mt. Hope
15. July 24.
Lincoln, Bertha I.
60
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Worcester
Woodlawn
16. Sept. 16. Partridge, Lulu M.
52
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Clinton
Woodlawn
17. Dec. 11.
Piekens, Carl ..
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Westboro
. Woodlawn
18. Dec. 24.
Richardson, Mary I.
82
10
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Boxboro
. Mt. Hope
19. Feb. 6. Rouillard, Millicent A.
64
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Bangor, Me.
. Woodlawn
20. July 20. Wayne, Everett L.
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Bridgewater
. Woodlawn
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West, Irving C.
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. Mt. Hope
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Mos.
Dys. Place of Death
Place of Burial
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Abstract of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting Held March 8, 1926
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Allen Brooks Parker.
Art. 1. To choose all necessary town officers and commit- tees, and fix salaries of all town officers.
Chose, Charlotte Conant, Trustee of the Goodnow Fund, for three years.
Chose, Clarence D. Cram, Trustee of the Firemen's Relief Fund, for three years.
Chose, Warren H. Jones, Trustee of the Elizabeth White Fund, for three years.
Voted : To fix the salary of the Tax Collector at five-eighths of one per cent of the amount collected.
Voted: That the salary of the chairman of the Selectmen be one hundred dollars per annum and the other members fifty dollars each.
Voted : That the salary of the Moderator be ten dollars per meeting.
Voted : That the salary of the Overseers of the Poor be sey- enty-five dollars per annum for the chairman, and forty dollars each per annum for the other members.
Voted: That the salary of the Town Treasurer be three hundred dollars per annum.
Voted: That the salary of the Town Accountant be three hundred dollars per annum.
Voted : That the salary of the Town Clerk be one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum.
Voted : That the salary of the chairman of the Assessors be three hundred and fifty dollars, the clerk three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and the other member three hundred dollars, per annum, the same to be full compensation for all duties required by law, including clerical work and transportation.
Voted: That the Selectmen be instructed to fix the salaries of all other town officers.
Art. 2. To see if the town will accept the reports of the several town officers.
Acting on the report of the selectmen, page 11 of the annua! town report for 1925, relating to the laying out of a town road in West Acton from Massachusetts avenue, following the location of the electric car line to Central street near the house of Sidney R. Richardson, it was
Voted: That the town accept the land, over which the Lowell, Maynard & Acton street railway had a right of way,
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from Massachusetts avenue to Central street, near the residence of Sidney L. Richardson, the same to be used as a public highway when accepted by the town.
Voted : To postpone further action in the matter until the next annual town meeting.
A motion that the annual reports of the town accountant and school committee contain an itemized statement of the pay rolls of the highway department and school expenditures did not prevail.
Voted: To accept the reports of the several town officers. Art. 3. To hear and act upon the reports of any committees chosen at any previous meeting.
Voted: To accept the report of the Nineteenth of April committee.
Voted : To receive the unexpended balance in the hands of the committee, to be invested by the town treasurer as a fund to be used for future observance of the anniversary of this day.
Voted : To discharge the committee.
William Rawister reported for the High School Building committee.
On his motion, it was voted to appropriate $1,689.84 from the town Farm and Hapgood Funds for the use of said building committee.
George A. Richardson, chairman, reported for the committee on by-laws, the following :
BY-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF ACTON
SECTION 1
Article 1. The annual town meeting for the election of town officers shall be held on the first Monday of March in each year.
Art. 2. All business of the annual meeting, except the elec- tion of such officers and the determination of such matters as by law are required to be elected or determined at such meeting, shall be considered at an adjournment thereof, which adjourn- ment shall be held on the second Monday in March, at such hour as decided by the board of selectmen.
Art. 3. The board of selectmen, board of health, fire depart- ment, police department, and the school committee, shall on or before February first of each year, submit to the committee on finance an estimate of the amount of money required for their various departments for the ensuing year and for what purposes.
Art. 4. All bonds, contracts, and written agreements pertain- ing to the several departments shall be placed for safe keeping in the custody of the town clerk, except as otherwise provided by law.
Art. 5. All constructive work (excepting day-work) amount- ing to more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) and except on.
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road work, shall be advertised for bids by posting in the several post-offices at least ten days before contracts are awarded.
SELECTMEN
SECTION 2
Article 1. The borad of selectmen shall have the general direction and management of the property and affairs of the town in all matters not otherwise provided for by law, or by these by-laws.
Art. 2. The selectmen after drawing a warrant for a town meeting shall immediately transmit a copy of such warrant to each member of the committee on finance.
Art. 3. The board of selectmen shall cause to be posted by a constable of the town, a notice of every town meeting by attested copies, calling same, in not less than six public places in the town, to be designated by the selectmen and at least seven days before the day appointed for the meeting.
Art. 4. No person who is a member of the board of select- men shall hold any remunerative office by virtue of an appoint- ment by such board.
Art. 5. No person shall throw in nay manner in any public way in the town, any article, substance, or material which may prove injurious in any respect to the hoofs of animals, or the rubber tires of automobiles and other vehicles.
Art. 6. No person shall place, or cause to be placed, in any of the public streets or sidewalks in the town, without the written license from the selectmen, any material whatever, or any rubbish of any kind and suffer same to remain for twenty-four hours ..
Art. 7. No person shall break or dig up the ground in any street for any purpose whatever, or set or place any fence, post, tree, or edgestone, or alter or change the position or direction of any fence, post, tree, or edgestone, or swing any door or gate, in, upon, or over, or change the grade or width of any public way without the written license of the selectmen, which shall pre- scribe the limitations or restrictions of such license.
Art. 8. The board of selectmen will issue licenses at their discretion as follows: Gas-filling stations, roadside stands, com- mon victuallers, all peddlers and junk dealers. All these subject to the rules and regulations of the board of selectmen.
Art. 9. The board of selectmen shall annually appoint a chief of police and such other officers as they may deem neces- sary and have the general supervision over the police department.
Art. 10. Automobiles and all other vehicles are subject to such rules as are made by the board of selectmen, which rules may be changed from time to time by the board when deemed necessary for the safety of the public.
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COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
SECTION 3
Article 1. There shall be appointed annually (by the board of selectmen) a committee on finance, consisting of six voters of the town, two from each precinct.
Art. 2. No member of the finance committee shall serve on any other standing committee having the expenditure of town funds.
Art. 3. The committee on finance shall, as soon as possible after February first of each year, give a hearing to the several boards which shall submit to it, an estimate of the amount needed for their departments for the ensuing year.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
SECTION 4
Article 1. The chief of police shall be head of the police department and subject to the general supervision and control of the board of selectmen. He shall have control of the depart- ment, its officers and members, and special police officers when in the service of the department.
Art. 2. The police department shall be governed by the rules and regulations and perform such duties as are prescribed by the board of selectmen, or by the by-laws of the town.
Art. 3. No person having the charge of a vehicle in any street shall neglect or refuse to stop the same when directed by a police officer. No person shall stop his team, carriage, or other- vehicle, or unnecessarily place any obstruction on any foot cross- ing made in or across any public ways in the town.
Art. 4. The police department shall be subject to all the rules and regulations and perform all duties which are now or hereafter prescribed by law, by the by-laws of the town, by the board of selectmen, or the rules and regulations of the police department. Any member of the department may be rmoved or suspended or otherwise disciplined by the board of selectmen, as provided by law.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
SECTION 5
Article 1. The town shall maintain a fire depaprtment and the selectmen shall annually appoint a chief engineer and three assistant engineers (one in each precinct) for the term of one year from the first day of April following. This board of engineers shall have the care and superintendence of all property appertaining to the fire department, as required by law.
Art. 2. No person or persons shall allow combustible rub- bish to accumulate upon any premises where same would
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cause a fire menace to their own or other persons' property. No person shall set, maintain, or increase a fire in the open, except by written permission of the fire warden, or one of his deputies, except as otherwise provided by law.
Art. 4. The fire department under the direction of the chief engineer or an assistant engineer, is hereby authorized to go to aid another town in extinguishing fires therein in accordance with Chapter 48, General Laws, and amendments thereof.
Art. 3. Parking of vehicles is prohibited on any public way within fifteen feet of any hydrant.
BOARD OF HEALTH
SECTION 6
Article 1. The board of health shall make and publish from time to time such regulations as it deems necessary for public health and safety, and shall cause same to be printed in form for public distribution.
Art. 2. The board of health shall annually make a report to be printed in the annual town report, showing in detail, sta- tistics of the health and sanitary condition of the town with recommendations for its improvement, together with a full and comprehensive statement of its work during the previous year. Such report shall also contain a detailed statement of the amount expended by the board during the year.
Art. 3. The board of health shall provide and maintain under their care and supervision some suitable place or places within a reasonable distance of the villages of the town for free public dumping, upon which the inhabitants of the town may dump or deposit ashes, cinders, papers or other refuse and rub- bish in accordance with such rules and regulations as the board of health may from time to time make.
Art. 4. No person unless having the authority so to do shall dump or deposit any ashes, rubbish, refuse, offal, or decayed ani- mal or vegetable matter on any public or private land, contrary to the rules and regulations of the board of health.
Art. 5. All persons keeping hogs within the limits of the town shall be subject to all rules and regulations of the board of health.
Art. 6. These by-laws may be repealed or amended at any annual town meeting, or at any other town meeting specially called for the purpose, an article or articles for such purpose hav- ing been inserted in the warrant for such meeting.
These by-laws shall go into effect upon their acceptance by the town and legal requirements have been complied with.
Any person violating any of these by-laws shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars ($20) for each offence.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the by-laws, adopted by the town of Acton, at the annual town meet- ing, March 8, 1926.
Attest :
HORACE F. TUTTLE, Town Clerk. [SEAL]
Acton, March 12, 1926.
Boston, Mass., March 24, 1926.
The foregoing by-laws are hereby approved.
JAY R. BENTON, Attorney General.
I hereby certify that the foregoing by-laws have been pub- lished in the Acton Enterprise three times in accordance with Chap. 40, Section 32, General Laws.
GEORGE A. RICHARDSON.
Middlesex, ss.
Sibscribed and sworn to this 23rd day of April, 1926. Before me,
GUY C. ROWELL, [SEAL]
Notary Public.
Voted: To adopt the by-laws prepared and presented by the committee.
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Art. 4. To see what sums of money the towns will raise by taxation and appropriate to defray the necessary and usual expenses of the several departments of the town.
Under this article and other articles in the warrant it was voted to appropriate from cash available in the town treasury for
Roads, special work $6,000.00
Roads, general maintenance 10,000.00
Roads, removal of snow
5,500.00
Street lighting
5,000.00
To appropriate for planking railroad bridge, South Acton
1,000.00
Cutting brush
Road bonds
400.00 10,525.00
High School bonds
6,000.00
School bonds, interest
2,960.00
Road bonds interest
1.113.56
Revenue loans interest
1,200.00
Schools
44,000.00 3,000.00
Hight school grounds, grading
Memorial Library, current expenses
Memorial Library, books
700.00 200.00 3,100.00
Forest fires
300.00
Fire department maintenance
1,000.00
Fire department, new hose
350.00 400.00
General government
3,600.00
Enforcement of liquor laws
283.04
Buildings and grounds
800.00
Cemeteries
1.000.00
Moth work
1,269.39
Memorial Day
300.00
Bonds, treasurer's and collector's
225.00
Police department
800.00
Board of health
1,000.00
Military and State aid
200.00
Reserve fund
1,200.00
Unclassified
500.00
Demonstration work in agriculture
300.00
Poor department
1.800.00
Town nurse
2,000.00
Insurance of employes
450.00
Town forest
300.00
Assessors, valation printing
500.00
High school building, from Town Farm and Hap- good funds 1.689.84
$120,965.83
Hydrant service
Shade trees, care of
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Voted : To raise by taxation for town charges $75,000.00
Art. 5. To see what sum of money the town will appropriate for Memorial Day.
Voted : To appropriate three hundred dollars.
Voted : That the moderator be instructed to appoint a com- mittee to take in charge the expenditure of this appropriation and direct the ceremonies of the observance of Memorial Day.
The moderator apponted the following committee : Lowell H. Cram, chairman ; George L. Towne, George B. Parker, Donatus W. Benere, Charlotte Conant.
Art. 6. To see what action the town will take in regard to the collection of taxes.
Voted: That all taxes, other than poll, shall be payable not later than October 15, 1926, and on all taxes remaining unpaid after November 1, 1926, interest shall be charged at the rate of six per cent per annum from October 15, 1926, until such taxes are paid.
Art. 7. To see what action the town will take toward the suppression of the brown tail and gypsy moth.
Voted : To appropriate the sum of $1,269.39 for moth work.
Art. 8. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to insure the employes of the town or act anything thereon.
Voted : To appropriate $450.
Art. 9. To see what amount of money the town will appro- priate for the premiums on treasurer's and collector's bonds or act anything thereon.
Voted : To appropriate $225.
Art. 10. To see if the town will authorize the treasurer with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1926, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Voted : That the town treasurer with the approval of the selectmen, be and is hereby authorized to borrow money from time to time, in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1926, and to issue a note or notes, therefor, payable within one year any debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue of said financial year.
Art. 11. To see if the town will employ a town nurse and appropriate a sum of money for the salary and expense of the same.
Voted : That the town employ a town nurse to be under the supervision of a special committee to include Mrs. Eugene L. Hall, Mrs. William Rawitser and Miss Charlotte Conant, in con- junction with the school committee and board of health and that the sum of two thousand dollars be appropriated for the salary and expense of the same.
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Art. 12. To see if the town will purchase the two snow plows owned by the South Acton Improvement association for the sum of fifty dollars.
Voted: To purchase the two snow plows for the sum of twenty-five dollars.
Art. 13. To see what action the town will take towards removing the fountain from Quimby square and connecting the town water to the old stone fountain and installing a bubbler thereon.
A motion that the selectmen be authorized to remove the fountain in Quimby square, connect the town water with the old stone fountain and instal a bubbler thereon did not prevail.
Art. 14. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars, the same being part of the amount returned to the town, under the provisions of Chapter 480 of the Acts of 1924, for the purpose of placing a raised triangular memo- rial plot in the square at South Acton, conforming with the lines of the street, and place a metal light post using underground wiring for lights and otherwise reconditioning the plot or act anything thereon.
Voted : To pass over the article.
Art. 15. To see if the town will vote to instruct the moder- ator or the selectmen to appoint a finance committee in accord- ance with the provisions of law ; or do or act anything thereon.
Voted: That the selectmen be instructed to appoint a finance committee of six members, two from each precinct.
Art. 16. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the observance of Patriots' Day; or do or act anything thereon.
Voted : To pass over the article.
Art. 17. To see if the town will authorize the selectmen to instruct the Boston & Maine railroad to repair with permanent filling the following railroad crossings: Massachusetts avenue, Arlington street and Central street in West Acton.
Voted : That the selectmen be and are hereby instructed to take such steps as shall secure early action by the Boston & Maine railroad, in establishing a permanent level roadway over their tracks in Acton, at Arlington, Central and Martin streets and Massachusetts avenue crossings, such levelling to be made between the several sets of tracks as well as between each set of rails, as now.
Art. 18. To see if the town will authorize the selectmen to sell a certain parcel of land owned by the town situated on the road from South Acton to Maynard near the Acton-Maynard town line, and formerly used as a gravel pit; or act anything thereon.
Voted: To authorize the selectmen to sell, at their disere- tion, the land described in the article.
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Art. 19. To see if the town will authorize a re-valuation of all taxable property in the town, choose a committee to carry out the provisions of this article and appropriate a sum of money for the expenses of the same ; or act anything thereon.
Voted : To pass over the article.
Art. 20. To see if the town will vote to extend the street lights on Massachusetts avenue from from Kelley's corner, so- called, to Piper road and thence on said Piper road to the resi- dence of Francis B. Farrar.
Voted : To pass over the article.
Art. 21. To see if town will raise by taxation and appropri- ate the sum of $3,000 for the purpose of grading the high school grounds or act anything thereof.
Voted: To appropriate three thousand ($3,000) dollars for grading the high school grounds.
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Voted : To appropriate $300.
Voted: That the selectmen appoint a director.
Art. 23. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of $3,000 to complete the construction of School street to the Concord line providing the State and County will each give a like amount.
Voted: To take up for joint consideration Articles 23 to 34 inclusive.
Voted : To appropriate for general maintenance of roads and bridges $10,000.
Voted: To appropriate for special road work ($2,000 to be expended in each precinct), $6,000 to be expended under the direction of the selectmen.
Art. 24. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $3,000, or any other sum, the same to be ex- pended in resurfacing, draining and oiling Arlington street in West Acton, beginning at Central street and running easterly. See Art. 23.
Art. 25. To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to grade, gravel and oil Carlisle road, from Main street or Lowell road in North Acton by the North cemetery to the Acton-Carlisle town line or take any action thereon.
See Art. 23.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of $7,500 or any other amount by the issue of notes or otherwise to continue the construction of Main street from a
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point opposite the residence of Frank E. Parsons, provided a like sum is allotted the town by the State Department of Public Works and a similar sum by the County of Middlesex, or act any- thing thereon.
Art. 26. Voted: That the selectmen be requested to peti- tion the state and county, to complete Main street, from the resi- dence of Frank E. Parsons to the State highway from Concord to Littleton, two-thirds of the cost to be borne by the state and one- third by the county.
Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro. priate the sum of $2,000 to continue the construction of Willow street in West Acton, provided a like sum is allotted the town by the State Department of Public Works and a similar sum by the County of Middlesex ; or act anything thereon.
See Art. 23.
Art. 28. Tosee if the town will vote to raise and appropri- ate the sum of $2,000 to continue the construction of Central street in West Acton providing a like sum is allotted the town by the State Department of Public Works and a similar sum by the County of Middlesex ; or act anything thereon.
See Art. 23.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $500 to gravel and oil the hill on Sudbury road from the Powder Mill office to the Sudbury and Acton town line.
See Art. 23.
Art. 30. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars to repair Elm street in West Acton from Arlington street westerly to the residence of Ben. DeSousa.
See Art. 23.
Art. 31. To see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended in making repairs on the road leading from th town Common to the residence of Henry L. Priest, called Woodbury lane ; or act anything thereon.
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