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Article 7. To see what compensation the Town will allow the members of the Fire Department for the ensuing year.
Article 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Collector to use all means in the collection of Taxes that the Treasurer might if elected to that office.
Article 9. To see how much per hour the Town will allow for work on the Highways for the ensuing year.
Article 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to appoint one of its members as Water Registrar.
Article 11. To see what compensation the Town will allow the Water Regis- trar for the ensuing year.
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Article 12. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate to be used in conjunction with W.P.A. projects, under the direction of the Selectmen, or act in any manner thereto.
Article 13. To hear and act on the Report of the Planning Board instructed under Article 19 of the Annual Town Meeting to study and submit recommenda- tions for Zoning By-Laws to some subsequent meeting for approval.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 for consulting services, maps and printing in regard to the Zoning By- Laws.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the employment of Welfare recipients in any department at any time such labor is available. (Board of Public Welfare)
Article 16. To hear and act on the report of the committee appointed under Article 4 of the Annual Town Meeting of 1937 to investigate the Water Rates charged the Town by the Department of Mental Diseases.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the care of the Town Dump.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of five and authorize it to make arrangements and spend money appropriated under Article 4 for the observance of Memorial Day.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of Chapter 90 Roads, said money to be used in con- junction with any money allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $800.00 for installing a new boiler at the Ralph Wheelock School, or do or act anything pertaining thereto. (School Committee)
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $60.00 for the purchase of a safe for the Collector's Department.
Article 22. To hear and act on the report of the committee appointed under Article 13 of the Annual Town Meeting "To appraise for the purpose of selling, the 16 acres of land formerly used by the Water Department as a source of water supply and have it report its findings at a future meeting."
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a new Police Car.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $396.25 for Public Liability Insurance to cover the following motor vehicles owned by the Town:
1 White truck, 1 International truck, 1 Fordson tractor, 3 Fire Trucks and 1 Police car.
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Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the payment of outstanding bills incurred by the following depart - ments in 1937:
Board of Public Welfare
Medfield Cemetery Department
State Infirmary
$148.00
Moto-Mower Co.
$33.35
Town-Framingham
22.83
F. D. Kennedy
18.12
City of Quincy
228.13
Annie B. Wills
8.00
City of Newton
156.00
Arthur E. Wills
98.68
State Child Welfare
65.71
A. A. Dean 28.00
Medfield Water Department 75.98
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 and transfer the sum of $760.00 from the "Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund" for the maintenance of Vine Lake Cemetery, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 40, Section 12 of the General Laws.
Chapter 40, Section 12, General Laws
A town which accepts this section, or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, by a two thirds vote at an Annual Meeting, may purchase or lease land, and erect, alter, enlarge, repair and improve buildings for public baths and wash houses, either with or without open drying grounds, and may make open bathing places, provide them with the requisite furniture, fittings and con- veniences and provide instructions in swimming. Such towns may establish rates for the use of such baths and wash houses, and appoint officers therefor, and may make by-laws for the government of such officers, and authorize them to be non-residents of said town.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of three to inquire into the feasibility of establishing a bathing place within the Town limits, said committee to submit plans and estimate of cost at a future meeting.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct the Select- men to order the Boston Edison Co. to discontinue the following street lights:
Causeway Street-One light on each pole 34/11, 34/15, 34/18.
South Street-One light on each pole 21 /105, 21 /97, 21 /90, 21 /87, 21 /66.
Spring Street-One light on each pole 21 /50, 21 /43.
Granite Street-One light on each pole 35/14, 35 /20.
Plain Street-One light on each pole 33/13, 33 /4.
Elm Street-One light on each pole 6/17.
Phillips Street- 25 21 9.
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Pound Street-One light on pole 19/6.
Curve Street-One light on pole 28/3.
Brook Street-One light on pole 25/6.
Pine Street-One light on each pole 30/31, 30/9, 30/17, 30/24, 30/33, 30/40, 30/42, 30/45, 30 /58, 30/61, 30/64.
Bridge Street-One light on each pole 2/31, 2/4.
Adams Street-One light on pole 11 /30.
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Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Machinery Operating Account to defray expenses for operation and maintenance of Highway Machinery during the year 1938.
Article 31. To see if the Town will instruct the Water Board to amend Section 14 of the Rules and Regulations, Water Rates of the Water Department of the Town of Medfield to read "The minimum rate $16.00 per year." All other rates to remain unchanged.
Article 32. To see if the Town will instruct the Water Board to make a survey of our Water Department and recommend ways and means of placing the Water Department on a self supporting basis, and report at the next Annual Town Meeting.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting Warrants in said Medfield, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 24th day of February A.D. Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-eight.
WILLIAM S. FARMER, FRANK G. HALEY, ALFRED HEWINS, Selectmen of Medfield.
FRED C. CHICK, Constable of Medfield
A true copy attest.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
Medfield, Mass. February 24, 1938.
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield qualified to vote in elections to meet at the time and for the purpose named, by posting attested copies of said Warrant in not less than five public places, at least seven days before the time of holding said meeting.
FRED C. CHICK, Constable of Medfield.
ANNUAL MEETING
March 7, 1938
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, duly warned and notified in the manner prescribed by law, met at the Town Hall on the seventh day of March 1938 at six o'clock in the forenoon to elect their officers for the ensuing year.
Cards of Instructions and Speciman Ballots were posted as required by law.
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The ballot box was examined and found in good working order and at the close of the polls agreed with the check lists in the number of ballots cast.
The following named persons appointed by the Selectmen and sworn by the Town Clerk were assigned to duty as follows:
Ann Young and Charles Bullard to distribute ballots; Coleman J. Hogan, Constable at the ballot box; Harriet Thayer, Alice Spear, Ruth Bryant, Robert Bowley as tellers; and Eugene Munson and Edward Sweeney to check at the Ballot box.
The ballots were counted in open meeting and the total vote cast was seven hundred sixty-six (766).
After the ballots had been counted and tabulated the presiding officer, Frank D. McCarthy, announced the results as follows:
MODERATOR (one year)
Article 1.
Frank D. McCarthy 586 Blanks 180
TOWN CLERK (one year)
Warren C. Keirstead
627 Blanks 139
Bessie L. Hamant
TREASURER (one year) 563 Blanks 203
Amos C. Kingsbury
TAX COLLECTOR (one year) 600 Blanks 166
CONSTABLES (one year)
Fred C. Chick
528
Blanks
635
Daniel C. Hinkley
562
Scattered
1
Coleman J. Hogan 572
TREE WARDEN (one year)
George L. L. Allen
567 Scattered 1
Blanks
198
TRUSTEE OF PUBLIC LIBRARY (two years)
Thomas Whiteside
503 Scattered
2
Blanks
261
TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY (three years)
Frank H. Clough
504
Blanks
471
Anne C. Donlan
556
Scattered
1
A. Ritchie Stagg
BOARD OF HEALTH (three years) 1 Blanks
765
SELECTMEN (three years)
Hugo R. Ehnes
184 Charles W. Haigh
266
Alfred Hewins
294
Blanks
22
ASSESSOR (three years)
Harry E. Conway
548 Scattered 1
Blanks
217
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE (three years)
Talbot Baker
244 Blanks 62
Mignonette Mortimer
282
Scattered 2
William Palumbo
176
CEMETERY COMMISSIONER (three years)
Joseph A. Roberts, Jr.
569
Scattered 1
Blanks 196
WATER AND SEWERAGE BOARD (three years)
Harrison P. Eddy
509
Scattered 1
Blanks
256
PUBLIC WELFARE (three years)
John H. Callow
332
Blanks
86
Frederick Smith
346
PLANNING BOARD (five years)
Phillips Dennett
530
Scattered
1
Blanks
235
Polls closed at 2:00 P.M., meeting adjourned to March 14, 1938 at 7:30 P.M.
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING FOR THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS March 14, 1938
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:30 P.M. The remaining articles in the Warrant were taken up and acted on as follows:
Article 2. Voted that Fence Viewers, Field Drivers and Pound Keeper be appointed by the Selectmen.
Article 3. Voted that the reports of the several Town Officers for the past year be accepted.
Article 4. Voted that the following sums be appropriated and raised to defray expenses for the ensuing year:
Executive Department
$ 2,310.00
Treasurer
750.00
Collector
1,600.00
Assessors
700.00
Town Clerk
350.00
Election and Registration
350.00
Town House
2,627.00
Police
3,800.00
Fire
3,000.00
Sealer
150.00
Moth
700.00
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Health and Sanitation Tree Warden:
Cutting Roadside Brush
700.00
Care of Shade Trees
250.00
Spraying Elms Setting out trees
100.00
Sewers
900.00
Highways
8,000.00
Snow
3,500.00
Sidewalks
400.00
Bridges
100.00
Guard Rails
600.00
Street Lighting
5,000.00
Public Welfare
5,500.00
Old Age Assistance
9,000.00
Soldier's Benefits
2,000.00
Aid to Dependent Children
1,500.00
District Nurse
450.00
Schools
30,450.00
Library, plus Dog Tax
1,750.00
Parks
300.00
Memorial Day
225.00
Contingent
650.00
Liability Insurance
850.00
County Hospital
977.96
Reserve Fund
2,000.00
Water
5,500.00
Notes
18,000.00
Interest on notes and bonds 1/1 /38 to 1/1 /39
5,891.25
Interest on Anticipation Loans
808.75
$123,639.96
Article 11. Water Register
$ 50.00
Article 12. W.P.A. Projects
1,500.00
Article 14. Zonings By-Laws Expenses
400.00
Article 17. Care of Public Dump
75.00
Article 19. Maintenance of Chapter 90, Roads
1,000.00
Article 21. Collector's Safe
50.00
Article 23. Police Car
600.00
Article 24.
Public Liability Insurance
396.25
Article 25. Outstanding Bills:
$620.67
Cemetery Department
262.13
Article 26. Cemetery Maintenance
2,000.00
(Voted to transfer $760.00 from sale of Cemetery Lots for new de- velopment only)
Total Appropriations
$130,594.01
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882.80
Public Welfare
1,600.00
300.00
Article 4. Amendments:
(a) Election and Registration-Voted to have the Selectmen appoint a committee to investigate the compensation of the Registrars of Voters.
(b) Fire-Voted to have the Moderator appoint a committee of five (5) to study the advisability of centralizing purchasing with public bidding under the supervision of the Selectmen. Said committee to report at the next special town meeting.
Article 5. Voted that the Town 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, 1938, 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 Chapter 44, Section 17, General Laws.
Article 6. Voted as recommended that the taxes shall be paid in two equal payments, July 1, 1938 and October 1, 1938 and that the Collector receive 1% of the 1938 taxes.
Article 7. Voted that the members of the Fire Department be paid a sum of $19.50 per year and $1.00 per hour while working at fires.
Article 8. Voted to authorize the Collector to use all means in the collection of taxes as the Treasurer might if elected to that office.
Article 9. Voted that the price per hour paid for labor on the Highways be left to the discretion of the Selectmen.
Article 10. Voted as recommended that the Town authorize the Water and Sewerage Board to appoint one of its members as Water Registrar.
Article 11. Voted that the sum of $50.00 be paid to the Water Registrar.
Article 12. Voted as recommended that the sum of $1,500.00 be appropriated for W.P.A. Projects.
Article 13. Voted that the report of the committee on Zoning By-Laws be accepted. Said committee to submit recommendations at the next special town meeting.
Article 14. Voted that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 for consulting services, maps and printing in regard to the Zoning By-Laws.
Article 15. Voted that the Town authorize the employment of Welfare re- cipients in any department at any time such labor is available.
Article 16. Voted to accept the report and extend a vote of thanks to the committee appointed to investigate the Water Rates charged the Town by the Department of Mental Diseases.
(a) Voted that the Water and Sewerage Board proceed to collect the sums of money due the Town for water and pipe.
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Article 17. Voted as recommended that the sum of $75.00 be appropriated for the care of the Public Dump.
Article 18. Voted that the following committee of five (5) be authorized to make arrangements and spend money appropriated under Article 4 for the ob- servance of Memorial Day: Julius A. Fitts, Louis Connors, Frank G. Haley, Dr. H. L. Park and Charles Jones.
Article 19. Voted that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 provided the State and County reimburse the like amount for general main- tenance of Chapter 90, Roads.
Article 20. Voted that this article be dismissed.
Article 21. Voted that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the purchase of a safe for the Collector's Department. Said safe to be kept in Collector's home.
Article 22. Voted that the report of the committee be accepted. The land formerly used by the Water Department as a source of water supply was ap- praised at $2,000.00.
Article 23. Voted as recommended that a new Police car be purchased for a sum not exceeding $600.00 and the allowance on the old car. The details of pur- chase and the application of the Town Seal on said car to be left to the Selectmen.
Article 24. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $396.25 for Public Liability Insurance covering motor vehicles owned by the Town.
Article 25. Voted that the Town raise and appropriate a sum of money for the payment of outstanding bills.
Article 26. Voted that the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the maintenance of Vine Lake Cemetery. Also to transfer the sum of $760.00 from the "Sale of Cemetery Lots Fund" for the purpose of developing the new part of the Cemetery.
Article 27. Voted that the Town accept the provisions of Chapter 40, Sec- tion 12 of the General Laws.
Article 28. Voted that the Selectmen appoint a committee of three to inquire into the feasibility of establishng a bathing place within the Town limits. Said committee is to submit plans and estimate of cost at a future meeting.
Article 29. Voted to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to order the Boston Edison Co. to discontinue the Street Lights specified in this article.
Article 30. Voted to transfer the sum $2,562.00 from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Machinery Operating account for the purpose named in this article.
Article 31. This article was voted dismissed.
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Article 32. Voted to have the Water Board make a survey of our Water De- partment and recommend ways and means of placing it on a self supporting basis. Said board to report at the next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 33. Voted that the meeting be adjourned.
Attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL MEETING April 21, 1938 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Medfield, in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth, you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Medfield on Thursday, the 21st day of April, A.D. 1938 at 7:30 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a road grader, determine whether the money shall be raised by taxation or by transfer from available funds in the Treasury, or take any action in relation thereto.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to amend Article 7 of the Annual Town Meeting of March 1938 as follows: "That the members of the Fire Department. be paid a sum of $20.75 per year and $1.00 per hour while working at fires instead of $19.50 per year and $1.00 per hour while working at fires."
Article 3. To see if the Town will hear the report and recommendations of the Planning Board relative to the proposed Zoning By-Laws, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to accept the proposed Zoning By-Law for the Town in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 25 of the General Laws, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize a committee consisting of the Board of Selectmen, the Chairman of the Board of Assessors and the Town Treasurer to sell and convey in behalf of the Town the property belonging to the Town and consisting of the following land and buildings: Lot No. 863 formerly known as the Hannah Blackington Estate consisting of 10,350 square feet of land and buildings thereon situated in the central part of Medfield and bounded as follows: northerly by the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Co., easterly by land of Joseph and Annie Bravo: southerly by town highway known as Friary Street; westerly
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by land of Antoinette Palumbo Estate. Lot No. 907 formerly known as the Chester W. Garfield property consisting of 3.7 acres of land and buildings thereon located in the northwesterly part of Medfield and bounded as follows: Northerly by the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Co., westerly by the N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R. Co., southerly by land of Daniel Warren and easterly by Mill Street. Lot No. 913a, No. 913b and No. 913c formerly known as David C. Williams property situated on the south side of Mill Street. N. Howard Peckham-Lot No. 1279 consisting of 17.6 acres of land known as the Ellis Pasture; part of Lot No. 654 consisting of 12 acres of meadow land known as Draper on Causeway Street and Lot No. 664 consisting of 4.1 acres of meadow land situated near Harbor Island, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a committee of five for the purpose of investigating the immediate needs and arranging a long term program of adequate athletic facilities for the Medfield High School Student body and the citizens of the Town.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Counsel to collect money due from various water takers for the sale of water pipe and ma- terials and to use all lawful means necessary to enforce collection thereof, a fee of 20% of the amount collected to be allowed the Town Counsel for compensation to be paid out of the Contingent Fund, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 8. To hear and act on the report of the committee appointed under Article 4 of the Annual Meeting of March 1938 to investigate and report on the establishment of a Board for the centralization of all purchases of supplies and materials for the town in excess of $50.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following named sums as Perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
Napoleon Duhamel Mary Wheeler Est.
$100.00 200.00
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting Warrants in said Medfield, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 13th day of April A.D., Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-eight.
WILLIAM S. FARMER, FRANK G. HALEY, ALFRED HEWINS, Selectmen of Medfield.
A true copy attest.
FRED C. CHICK,
Constable of Medfield.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Medfield, Massachusetts April 14, 1938
Norfolk, ss.
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield qualified to vote in elections to meet at the time and for the purpose named, by posting attested copies of said Warrant in not less than five public places in the Town at least seven days before the time of holding the meet- ing.
FRED C. CHICK, Constable of Medfield.
SPECIAL MEETING
April 21, 1938
Pursuant to a Warrant issued by the Selectmen, the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, duly warned and notified in the manner described by law, met at the Town Hall on the twenty-first day of April, 1938 at 7:30 P.M. and the follow- ing action was taken on the articles in the Warrant:
Article 1. Voted that the sum of $3,400.00 be raised and appropriated for the purchase of a Road Grader, said appropriation to be provided for as follows: From Machinery Fund $630.00 From Available funds in Treasury $2,770.00 The Selectmen are authorized to trade in the old Grader toward the purchase of the new one.
Article 2. Voted to amend Article 7 of the Annual Town Meeting of March, 1938 as follows: "That the members of the Fire Department be paid a sum of $20.75 per year and $1.00 per hour while working at fires instead of $19.50 per year and $1.00 per hour while working at fires."
Article 3. Voted that the report relative to the proposed Zoning By-Law as read by the Chairman of the Planning Board be accepted.
Article 4. Voted to accept the proposed Zoning By-Law for the Town in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 25 of the General Laws.
Total ballots cast, 379. In favor, 213. Against, 166.
A. Voted to decide this article by written ballot using check lists of voters.
Article 5. Voted to authorize a committee consisting of the Board of Select- men, Chairman of the Board of Assessors and the Town Treasurer to sell and convey in behalf of the Town, the property described in this article.
Article 6. Voted to authorize the Selectmen to appoint a committee of five to investigate the immediate needs and arranging a long term program of adequate athletic facilities for the Medfield High School Student Body and the citizens of the Town.
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Article 7. The Finance Committee recommend that this article be passed. Voted to accept the recommendation of the Finance Committee.
Article 8. Voted to accept the report of the Committee appointed under Article 4 of the Annual Town Meeting of March, 1938. The committee recom- mend as follows:
(1) Inasmuch as any change in method as proposed would involve a revision of the Town By-Law covering purchases which is now in effect that this matter be referred to a committee whose duty shall be to review the town by-laws now in force and propose any revision of these by-laws which they may see fit;
(2) That the Board of Selectmen be appointed as this committee with authority to appoint such additional members or sub-committees as they may think advisable and instructed to report at the next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 9. Voted that this article be accepted in the usual form. Voted that the meeting be dissolved.
Attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD, Town Clerk.
Medfield, Mass. April 27, 1938
I hereby certify that the Zoning By-Law and accompanying Zoning Map as accepted by the Town under Article 4 of the Special Town Meeting held April 21, 1938 were duly presented to the Attorney-General for approval.
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