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TOWN TREASURER.
SECT. 21. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to make, in the annual printed report of the town, a report which shall specifically state the objects, if any, for which the debt of the town may have been in- creased during the preceding year, and recite the votes under which the money was borrowed. The report shall give a classified statement of the indebtedness of the town and the objects for which it was incurred. Said report shall also include : -
First. A list of all notes issued during the year and the purposes for which the money was borrowed, giving the dates, amount, term, rate of interest, time of maturity, the premiums, if any, received thereon, and the names of the parties of whom the funds were borrowed.
Second. A list of all notes paid during the year, and a list of all out- standing notes with the dates on which they will mature.
Third. A full exhibit of all moneys, properties, and securities,
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which may be placed in his charge by virtue of any statute or by-law, or by virtue of any gift, devise, bequest, or deposit.
Fourth. A statement of the amount of money received by the town from other sources than taxation during the preceding year.
Fifth. A list of all insurance policies held by the town, which list shall include a statement of the property covered, the names of the companies, the amount and the date of expiration of every policy in his custody.
SECT. 22. The Treasurer shall keep separate accounts with each appropriation of money voted by the town, and no money shall be paid out except for the purpose for which it was appropriated. Nor shall any transfer be made from one account to another, except by vote of the town. All moneys received by the Treasurer, not specially appro- priated, shall be kept in an account of unappropriated funds, to be disposed of as the town may direct. All notes and obligations of the town, for money borrowed by authority of the town, shall be signed by the Treasurer and Selectmen.
CONTRACTS BY TOWN OFFICERS.
SECT. 23. No town officer or member of any committee chosen by the town, nor any agent of any such officer or committee, shall have any pecuniary interest in any contract or bargain made or approved in behalf of the town, by himself or any board or committee of which he is a member or for which he may act as agent.
PUBLIC DUMPING PLACE.
SECT. 24. On or before May 1, 1899, or as soon thereafter as may be, the Selectmen shall procure and thereafter maintain some suitable place, within a reasonable distance of the village, as a free public dump. upon which the inhabitants of the town shall have the right, under suitable regulations to be made from time to time by the Selectmen, to deposit ashes, cinders, papers, tin cans, and such other rubbish as may be permitted by the Selectmen with the approval of the Board of Health. Said dump shall be under the care and supervision of the Selectmen.
TRUANT CHILDREN.
SECT. 25. All children between the ages of seven and fifteen years residing in the town, who may be found wandering about in the streets or public places, having no lawful occupation or business, not attending school, and growing up in ignorance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
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committed to Norfolk, Bristol, and Plymouth Truant School in Wal- pole, unless otherwise ordered by the court.
It shall be the duty of every Truant Officer, previous to making any complaint under these laws, to notify the truant or absentee from school, also his parent or guardian, of the offence committed and the penalty therefor ; and, if the Truant Officer can obtain satisfactory pledges for the restraint and reformation of the child, he may, at his own discretion, forbear to prosecute, so long as such pledges are faithfully kept.
It shall be the duty of the School Committee, the teachers of the public schools, and the citizens generally, to aid the Truant Officers as far as possible in the discharge of their duties.
Two or more Truant Officers shall be appointed annually, whose duty it shall be to inquire into all violations of the Truant Laws, and of the law relating to compulsory education, and to do all the acts required of them by the laws of the Commonwealth.
PENAL LAWS.
SECT. 26. No person shall drive or allow a horse under his control to go at an immoderate or unreasonable rate in any street or public place within the town, so as thereby to endanger the life, safety, or con- venience of any person properly using such street or public place.
SECT. 27. No person shall permit any horse, cattle, swine, or sheep under his care to go upon any sidewalk in the town, so as to interfere with the convenient use of the same by all passengers.
SECT. 28. No person shall suffer horses, or grazing beasts, or swine to run at large in the town,
SECT. 29. No person shall permit any team under his care or control to stand across any public highway or street in the town, in such a manner as to obstruct the travel over the same, for an unnecessary length of time ; no person shall stop with any team in any such public highway or street so near to another team as to obstruct public travel ; and no person shall stop with any team or carriage upon or across any crossing in any such highway or street.
SECT. 30. No person shall, by any noise, gesture, or other means, wantonly and designedly frighten any horse in any street or other public place in the town.
SECT. 31. No person shall coast upon a sled or ride upon a bicycle upon any of the sidewalks in the town.
SECT. 32. No person shall coast or slide down any of the streets or highways of the town upon any hand-sled, board, jumper, or otherwise, except at such places and under such restrictions and regulations as the Selectmen shall designate and require.
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SECT. 33. No person shall be or remain upon any sidewalk, or upon any doorstep, portico, or other projection of any house or other building in the town, not his own, to the annoyance or disturbance of any person.
SECT. 34. No person shall use any indecent, profane, or insulting language in any public place in the town, or near any dwelling-house or other buildings therein.
SECT. 35. No person shall play at any game of ball, or football, or throw balls or stones or snowballs, within any of the streets or public places of the town.
SECT. 36. No person shall take hold of nor ride upon the hind part of any carriage in the town without leave of the owner or occupant thereof.
SECT. 37. No person shall deposit within any public street or way of the town, or by the side thereof, any ashes, cinders, papers, tin cans, offal, or rubbish, or any waste matter whatsoever.
SECT. 38. No person shall place in any street, roadway, or town way within the town any broken glass, nails, tacks, or other substances liable to injure the feet of persons or animals, or the tires of bicycles or carriages.
SECT. 39. No person shall drive any carriage or other vehicle upon or over any hose-pipe, when placed in any street or highway of the town by order of the Chief Engineer or any other officer of the Fire Depart- ment.
SECT. 40. No person shall fire or discharge any gun, fowling-piece, or fire-arm, or make any bonfire or other fire, in any street or public place in the town.
SECT. 41. No three or more persons shall collect, stand, or be to- gether in a group, or near to each other, on any sidewalk in the town in such a manner as to obstruct a free passage of foot passengers, nor after a request to move on or disperse made by any Selectman, Constable, or police officer of the town.
SECT. 42. No person shall sit upon or occupy any fence or wall bordering upon any sidewalk in the town in such a manner as to obstruct such sidewalk or annoy or disturb any person.
SECT. 43. No person or persons shall obstruct any sidewalk or street or any other public place in the town by idling or lounging thereon, or remain about the doorways of places of business therein, when requested by the owners or occupants of such places to depart therefrom.
SECT. 44. No person shall deposit sputum upon, or spit or expec- torate upon the floor, platform, or steps of any street-car, or upon the floor of any room in any public building, or on the floor of any hall or entrance to any public building within the town.
SECT. 45. No person shall carry any spirituous or intoxicating liquors
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into the Town House, any school-house, the cemetery, or any public grounds within the town, to be drunk on the premises.
SECT. 46. No person shall post or paste or paint any advertisement or notice upon any shade-tree, bridge, fence, wall, guide-post, or poles used for the transmission of electricity in the town.
SECT. 47. No person shall bathe or swim in any public or exposed place in the town in an indecent or nude condition.
SECT. 48. No person shall foul any brook, stream, or other body of water in the town with any substance which shall kill the fish therein or create offensive odors therefrom, so as to injure the public health or annoy the inhabitants of the town.
SECT. 49. No person shall throw the carcass of any dead animal or any other animal substance liable to putrefy into any pond, stream, or other body of water in the town, or leave such carcass or animal sub- stance on the surface of the ground or insufficiently buried.
SECT. 50. No person shall cultivate, plan or plant any land within the limits of any public street or way in the town.
PENALTIES.
SECT. 51. Any person violating any of the provisions of the pre- ceding By-laws shall be punished by a fine of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered by complaint before the District Court of Northern Norfolk, and forfeited and paid into the treasury of the town, unless when different provision is made by the laws of the Commonwealth.
ENACTMENT AND REPEAL.
SECT. 52. These By-laws shall take effect upon their approval by the Superior Court or, in vacation, by a justice of said court, and shall with such approval be entered and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Courts in the County of Norfolk, as provided by law.
SECT. 53. All By-laws heretofore made by the Town of Medfield are hereby repealed.
WILLARD HARWOOD. JAMES HEWINS. HENRY M. PARKER.
STATEMENT OF THE MEDFIELD WATER COMPANY
FROM JAN. 1, 1898, TO JAN. 1, 1899.
TO THE SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF MEDFIELD :
Capital,
$50,000.00
CASH RECEIPTS.
Water rates, .
$96.08
Service-pipe, .
3.50
$99.58
CASH DISBURSEMENTS.
Maintenance, labor, and sundries, .
$162.88
Service-pipe, labor, and material, . 6.49
$169.37
ASSETS.
Construction of plant, .
$24,040.45
Unpaid water rates,
1,882.72
Cash on hand,
621.43
$26,544.60
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock issued,
$24,000.00
H. M. PARKER, Treasurer.
MEDFIELD, MASS., Jan. 1, 1898.
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