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Article 3. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray town charges for the ensuing year.
Article 3. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed eight hundred dollars ($800.00) from the free cash in the town treasury for the sole purpose of meeting charges against the cemetery funds in the town treasury.
Article 4. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the cemetery fund or funds paid into the town treasury under the perpetual care statutes, or act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 5. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Select- men to prosecute, compromise or defend suits for or against the Town.
Article 6. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
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Article 7. To see what disposition the Town will make of the dog fund.
Article 7. Recommended by the Finance Committee that it be added to the Library Account.
Article 8. To see what amount the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the use of the Plymouth County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture (Plymouth County Extension Service) and to choose a town director as provided in Sections 41 and 42 Revised Chapter 128 of the General Laws and act thereon.
Article 8. Recommended by the Finance Committee that $100.00 be raised and appropriated.
Article 9. To see what pay the Town will vote the Treasurer, Town Clerk, Collector of Taxes and other Town Officers for the ensuing year.
Article 9. Recommended by Finance Committee as follows :
Moderator: $10.00 for the Annual Town Meeting. $5.00 for each Special Meeting.
Town Clerk: $400.00.
Town Treasurer: $700.00
Collector of Taxes: $700.00
Highway Surveyor: 90 cents per hour
School Committee Members: $2.50 per day as pro- vided by the law of the Commonwealth, plus $2.50 additional per day of eight hours.
Constables and Special Officers : 55 cents per hour. All other officers elected by the Town: 621/2 cents per hour.
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Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the overlay reserve account to 1943 Reserve Account the sum of Seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) or such other sum of money as may be voted the 1943 Re- serve Account by the Town, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 10. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Welfare to use the Federal Govern- ment Reimbursement for administration, and to act any- thing thereon or thereto.
Article 11. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 12. To choose all necessary Town officers not elected by ballot.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the use of the Rationing Board, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 13. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) for the use of the Carver State Guards, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 14. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One hundred dollars ($100.00) to pay outstanding American Legion Rent bill of 1942, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 15. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
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Article 16.
Section 1. To see if the Town will vote to rescind its action taken at the special Town Meeting, October 19, 1942, regarding sirens,-and that the amount of $1,200.00 appropriated be returned to the Treasury. (The article acted upon at the special Town Meeting read as follows :- "To see if the Town will vote to appropriate, or transfer from Available Funds, a sum of money to purchase sirens for the Town of Carver or take any action relative thereto.")
Section 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1200.00) for the purpose of buying and installing a suitable alarm system, and that the Chief of the Fire Department, the Chief of Police, and the Chief Air Raid Warden be given authority to purchase and in- stall such system under the approval of the Select- men and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 16. Recommended by the Finance Committee.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) to offset the overdraft occurring in the By-Laws Committee account of 1941, and act anything thereon or thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Cemetery Commissioners and the Park Commissioners to employ themselves as laborers in the Cemeteries and Parks and determine their compensation, and act any- thing thereon or thereto.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, at the several places designated by vote of the Town seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
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Hereof fail not and make due returns of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 17th day of February in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty Three.
BERNARD W. ROBY, ELLIS D. ATWOOD,
Selectmen of Carver.
Finance Committee, JESSE A. HOLMES, Chairman FRANK H. COLE, Secretary.
SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS, BALANCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SELECTMEN. Tabulated for the Use of the Voters in the Town Meeting, March 2, 1943.
Recommended
Other Sources
12/31/42 Balance
Ret'd to Recommended By Finance By Selectmen Committee
General Government
Appropriation $6,157.00
Spent $5,571.11
Treasury $585.89
$6,787.00
$6,787.00
Unclassified and Memorial Day
400.00
400.00
150.00
150.00
Health
3,761.00
2,822.50
938.50
1,256.50
1,256.50
Public Welfare
9,000.00
8,515.75
484.25
8,800.00
8,800.00
Public Welfare Administration Transferred
425.00
from Reserve Account
93.00
515.57
2.43
500.00
500.00
Work Relief Balance 1/1/42
269.92
127.03
142.89
Old Age Assistance U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/42 U. S. Grant
40.59
6,652.42
Total $16,193.01
15,581.18
31.22
580.61
10,000.00
10,000.00
O. A. A. Administration
300.00
8.43
221.71
431.35
44.25
54.54
250.00
250.00
Aid to Dependent Children U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/42
2,371.00
3.00
450.00
450.00
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U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/42 U. S. Grant Total $530.14
9,500.00
Total $518.00
U. S. Grant Total $3,310.33 A. D. C. Administration U. S. Grant-Bal. 1/1/42 U. S. Grant Total $67.51
Appropriation
Other Sources 936.33
Spent
12/31/42 Balance
Ret'd to Treasury
Recommended Recommended By Finance By Selectmen Committee
2,489.75
103.33
717.25
2,700.00
2,700.00
30.00
13.22
24.29
54.90
12.35
0.26
30.00
30.30
Soldiers' Relief
300.00
5.00
295.00
200.00
200.00
Police
2,500.00
2,415.27
84.73
2,300.00
2,300.00
Police-Unpaid Bills 1941
30.47
30.47
Public Safety
100.00
11.89
88.11
Public Safety-Civilian Defense 3/3/42
300.00
10/19/42
500.00
Trans. from Reserve Acct.
550.00
946.09
403.91
ROADS
Chapter 81
6,500.00
Received from State
4,609.66
Due from State
1,510.44
Total $12,620.10
10,200.17
909.49
6,500.00
6,500.00
*To be returned to Treasury
*1,510.44
Chapter 90
1,000.00
Plymouth County Hospital Assessment
1,711.89
1,711.89
Rationing Board
200.00
200.00
Carver State Guards
300.00
300.00
American Legion Rent
Unpaid Bill 1942
100.00
100.00
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Total $1,350.00
Appropriation
Other Sources
Spent
12/31/42 Balance
Ret'd to Treasury
By Selectmen
Recommended Recommended By Finance Committee
By-Laws Committee Road Machinery
700.00
434.92
265.08
500.00
500.00
Bridges
600.00
105.78
494.22
300.00
300.00
Removial of Snow
1,000.00
Trans. from Reserve Acct.
175.00
Trans. from Reserve Acct. Total $1,245.73
70.73
1,245.73
1,000.00
1,000.00
W. P. A. Balance 1/1/42
362.58
96.75
265.83
Fires
700.00
346.17
353.83
700.00
700.00
Fire Equipment
600.00
74.80
673.81
0.99
875.00
875.00
Cemetery Account
917.00
25.64
941.28
1.36
893.00
893.00
Total $942.64
320.00
318.85
1.15
200.00
200.00
Library
240.00
Plus Dog Fund
Library-Dog Fund Total $561.72
321.72
559.89
1.83
300.00
250.00
Weights and Measures
150.00
146.61
3.39
150.00
150.00
Tree Warden
700.00
699.84
0.16
750.00
750.00
Tree Warden-Unpaid Bills 1941
5.50
5.50
Gypsy Moth
1,250.00
1,249.53
0.47
1,222.88
1,222.88
Schools and Vocational Education
36,154.85
Benj. Ellis Fund
450.00
10.00
10.00
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Trans. from Reserve Acct. Total $674.80
Trans. from Reserve Acct.
Parks
Appropriation
Other Sources 137.89
Spent
12/31/42 Balance
Ret'd to Treasury
Recommended Recommended By Finance By Selectmen Committee
E. T. Pratt Fund Total $36,742.74
36,736.16
6.10
0.48
37,833.94
37,833.94
School Lunch 10/19/42
1,300.00
811.73
488.27
4,900.00
School Dental Clinic
100.00
39.30
60.70
75.00
75.00
No. School Remodeling Balance 1/1/42
16.91
16.91
Notes
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
Interest
80.00
73.12
6.88
100.00
100.00
Aid to Agriculture
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
American Legion Rent
100.00
100.00
50.00
50.00
Old Home Day
175.00
175.00
175.00
175.00
Workmen's Compensation Balance 1/1/42
109.03
Trans. from Reserve Acct. Total $439.61
46.56
439.61
439.61
439.61
Land Damage-Meadow St. Balance 1/1/42
7.27
4.39
2.88
Land Damage-So. Meadow St.
Balance 1/1/42
125.05
111.62
13.43
Tillson Pratt School, Grounds Balance 1/1/42
350.00
190.00
160.00
General Highway
550.00
467.91
82.09
500.00
500.00
Town Hall Vestibule
Approp. from Surplus Cash
100.00
100.00
Fire Truck
Approp. from Surplus Cash
5,000.00
662.00
4,338.00
284.02
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Auxiliary Police
Appropriation 100.00
Other Sources
12/31/42 Balance
Ret'd to Treasury
Recommended Recommended By Finance By Selectmen Committee
New Sprayer
1,050.00
Siren Acct. 10/19/42
1,200.00
1,200.00
Reserve Fund
From Overlay reserve account
750.00
10/19 from surplus revenue
500.00
Total $1,250.00
750.00
750.00
Trans. to Pub. Safety Civilian Defense
$550.00
Trans. to Snow
245.73
Trans. to Fire Equipment
74.80
Trans. to Public Welfare Admin.
93.00
Trans. to Cemetery
25.64
Trans. to Workmen's Comp. Ins.
46.56
Bal. of $214.27 returned to
Overlay reserve acct.
Spent 91.87 1,050.00
8.13
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Index
Appropriations, Summary of 152
Assessors' Report 45
Auditors' Report 27
Births Recorded, 1942 23
Cemetery Funds, Condition of
14
Condition of Treasury
6
Deaths Recorded, 1942 25
Forest Wardens
86
General Government Account
52
Aid to Dependent Children
57
Bridge Account 61
Cemetery Account
61
County Aid to Agriculture 57
Fires Account 64
Fire Equipment 65
Gypsy Moth Account 58
Health Account 59
Highway Dept., Chapter 81
70
Highway, General
73
Interest 74
Library
66
Machinery Account 63
Old Age Assistance 57
Park Account 60
Police 67
Public Safety 71
Public Welfare Account 56
Sealer of Weights and Measures 61 Snow Account 69 61
Soldiers' Relief
Tree Warden Account 66
Unclassified Account 59
W. P.A. 63
Inspection of Animals, Report of 80
Inspection of Slaughtering, Report of 80
Jury List 81
Librarian, Report of 75
Licenses Issued 12
Marriages Recorded, 1942 21
Officers and Committees, 1942 3
Old Home Day, Report of Treasurer
83
Police Department, Report of
82
School Department Report 119
School Committee Report
121
School, Report of Superintendent
127
School, Age-Grade Table
137
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Report of
78
State Audit
87
Service Men 141
Tax Collector's Report 17
Town Clerk's Report 18
Town Warrant and Report of Finance Committee
145
Treasurer's Account
7
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