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Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Oper. ating Account to defray expenses for the operation and main- tenance of Highway Machinery.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $500.00 to build a retaining wall approximately 100 feet along Hewins Avenue in the old yard of the Vine Lake
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Cemetery or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Cemetery Comms.)
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $200.00 to replace worn out equipment, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Cemetery Commis- sioners.)
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the fol- lowing 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:
Michael English Lot
$100.00
Robert E. Peters Lot
100.00
Hamlet Wight Lot
100.00
Frank E. Day Lot
100.00
Caroline S. Leeds Lot
100.00
Blanche L. Young Lot
150.00
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 27th day of June A.D. Nine- teen Hundred and forty-six.
FRANK G. HALEY,
WILLIAM E. MCCARTHY, Selectmen of Medfield.
LINDSAY N. RIPLEY, Constable of Medfield.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Medfield, Massachusetts, June 27, 1946. NORFOLK, SS:
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elec- tions, to meet at the time and for the purpose named, by post- ing attested copies of said warrant in not less than five public places in the Town at least seven days before the time of hold- ing said meeting.
LINDSAY N. RIPLEY, Constable of Medfield.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING July 8, 1946
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:30 P. M. and after reading the warrant the following action was taken on the articles therein:
Article 1. Voted unanimously to amend the vote passed under Article 26 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting held March 4, 1946 whereby $3,100.00 was raised and appro- priated for the construction of a 6" water main from Main Street down Nebo Street so as to read as follows:
Voted that the sum of $5,100.00 be raised and appropriated for the laying of a 6 inch water main from Main Street down Nebo Street about 1,300 feet to a point opposite a new private road on the property of Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait. To meet such appropriation the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow in accordance with Chapter 44, General Laws, the sum of $5,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor. Such bonds or notes to be paid in not more than five years from date of issue of the first bond or note, or at such earlier time as the Treasurer and the Selectmen may determine. The balance of $100.00 to be paid out of the current taxes of the present year.
Article 2. Voted to transfer the sum of $1,700.00 from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Operating Account to defray expenses for the operation and maintenance of High- way Machinery.
Article 3. Voted to transfer from available funds in the Treasury the sum of $500.00 to build a retaining wall approxi- mately 100 ft. along Hewins Avenue in the old yard of the Vine Lake Cemetery.
Article 4. Voted that this article be dismissed.
Article 5. Voted that the following named sums be accept- ed 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:
Michael English Lot
$100.00
Robert E. Peters Lot
100.00
Hamlet Wight Lot
100.00
Frank E. Day Lot
100.00
Caroline S. Leeds Lot
100.00
Blanche L. Young Lot
150.00
Voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true copy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN WARRANT
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, quali- fied to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Medfield on Monday the 30th day of September A.D. 1946 at 7:30 P. M. then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money from available funds in the Treasury to defray the expense of a regular patrolman, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to sell any surplus loam from the High School Athletic field at their discretion, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,500.00 to defray the expenses of Public Welfare, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Public Welfare Board.)
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,000.00 to defray the expenses of Old Age Assistance, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Public Welfare Board.)
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the follow- ing 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:
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 23rd day of September A.D. Nineteen hundred and forty-six.
D. L. SULLIVAN, FRANK G. HALEY, WM. E. MCCARTHY, Selectmen of Medfield COLEMAN J. HOGAN, Constable of Medfield
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, SS:
Medfield, Massachusetts September 23, 1946
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 meeting.
COLEMAN J. HOGAN, Constable of Medfield
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING September 30, 1946
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:30 P. M. and after reading the warrant, the following action was taken on the articles therein:
Article 1. Voted to appropriate the sum of $750.00 from available funds in the Treasury to defray the expense of a regular patrolman.
Article 2. Voted to lay this article on the table.
Article 3. Voted to appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 from available funds in the Treasury to defray the expenses of Public Welfare.
Article 4. Voted to appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 from available funds in the Treasury to defray the expense of Old Age Assistance.
Article 5. Voted to accept the following named sum as a Perpetual Trust Fund for the care of lot in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
James L. Atherton Lot $100.00 Voted that the meeting be dissolved. A true couy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD, Town Clerk
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS TOWN OF MEDFIELD WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION
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,
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qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Medfield on Tuesday the fifth day of November A.D. 1946 at 6:30 A.M. then and there to bring in their votes for the following officers and questions.
Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary; Treasurer; Attorney General; Senator in Congress; Representative in Con- gress; Councillor; Senator; Representative in General Court (1, 2, or 3); District Attorney; Clerk of Courts; Register of Deeds; County Commissioner (except Nantucket and Suffolk Counties).
QUESTION No. 1.
Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Shall this measure, which by amendments of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.) provides for payment by the Commonwealth of adequate pensions to deserving citizens sixty-five years of age or over in need of relief or support, who shall have resided in the Commonwealth not less than five years immediately preceding the date of application for such pension, and who shall have resided in the Commonwealth continuously for one year immediately preceding said date of application which is further described as follows:
The measure, by amendments of General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 6, provides for an old age pension commission of three persons, one to be qualified physician, another to be an attorney at law and a third to be a non-professional person, who are to be appointed and may be removed for cause by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Council, and are to serve under the Governor and Council. Not more than two members of said commission shall be members of the same political party. Original appointments of members shall be for one, two and three years respectfully, and thereafter appointments are to be for three years. Such members are to devote their whole time to the work of the Commission during business hours and be engaged in no other business, occupation or profession. One of their number is to be designated as chairman by the Governor and shall receive a salary of $6,000 and each other member $5,500 per year, with their necessary expenses. The commis- sion is empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations as it may deem necessary in the performance of its duties and as may be approved by the Governor and Council.
The measure strikes out Chapter 118A of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.) and inserts in its place a new chapter entitled "Ade- quate pensions for certain aged citizens."
It is provided that pensions hereunder shall be paid from the date of application therefor, but in no event before the applicant reaches the age of sixty five. The Commission shall render a decision in not less than thirty days from the date of
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application for a pension or a request for an increase of the amount thereof. Such pension shall, wherever practicable, be paid, to the aged person in his own home or in lodgings or in a boarding home, which for the purpose hereof shall include any ยท institution providing shelter, care and treatment for aged persons which is not supported in whole or in part by public funds; provided, that no inmate of such a boarding home or institution shall be eligible for a pension under this chapter while being cared for under a contract. Such pension shall be paid by check or in cash which shall be delivered to the pen- sioner at his residence, if he so requests, and shall be paid semi- monthly unless the pensioner prefers less frequent payments. Such pension shall be on the basis of need and the amount thereof shall be determined in accordance with budgetary standards established by the Commission. Budgetary standards shall be such as to enable an individual pensioner to maintain a standard of living compatible with decency and health. Such pensions, except as hereinafter provided, shall be at the rate of not less than $48.00 monthly. The pensioner's budget at such times as may be required shall include medical care, if recom- mended by a recognized physician, eye-glasses, if recommended by a recognized optician, dental care and false teeth, if recom- mended by a recognized dentist.
In computing the pensioners payment under this chapter, the Commission shall deduct from the pensioner's budget or the minimum payment, whichever is greater, the amount of income the person paid or to be paid a pension hereunder may be receiv- ing from any source, and may deduct therefrom such reason- able amount as may be deemed to represent the financial value of board, lodging or other assistance which is being furnished to such persons from any source.
Upon the death of a person drawing a pension, whose funeral cost does not exceed the sum of Two hundred and fifty dollars and in whose estate there are insufficient assets to cover the full cost of the funeral, the Commission shall pay to the funeral director the difference between the assets and the cost of the funeral, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty- five dollars.
Expenses for medical, hospital and other services rendered a pensioner, which remain unpaid at the time of his death or commitment to an institution as an insane person, shall be paid directly to the person rendering such services.
No pension under this chapter shall be discontinued nor shall the amount thereof be decreased until the expiration of fifteen days after notice has been given by the Commission to the pensioner.
Provision is made by which a person receiving a pension may be absent from the Commonwealth on a visit without having such pension suspended.
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It is provided the General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 273, section 20, which relates to the support of parents by chil- dren, shall not apply when parents are eligible to receive a pension.
Provision is made that there shall be set up in the Com- mission a subdivision of appeals under the jurisdiction of a supervisor of appeals. Any person aggrieved by the failure of the Commission to pay an adequate pension under this chapter or by the failure of the Commission to approve or reject an application for a pension or a request for an in- crease in the amount thereof, within thirty days after re- ceiving such application, or request, shall have a right to a fair hearing, after due notice, upon appeal to the subdivision of appeals in the form and manner prescribed by the Commis- sion provided that such appeal is received by the subdivision of appeals within sixty days after official notice of the action taken by the Old Age Pension Commission has been received by the applicant or pensioner. The decision of the subdivision of appeals shall be final and binding upon the Commission.
The Commission or any interested person aggrieved by any decision in any proceedings before the subdivision of appeals may obtain judicial review of such decision by filing within twenty days of the date of mailing of such decision, a petition for review thereof in the District Court within the judicial district wherein the pensoner or the applicant for a pension lives.
In any proceedings for review the findings of the sub- division of appeals as to facts shall be conclusive, such pro- ceedings shall be heard in a summary manner and given pre- cedence over all other civil cases. From the decision of a district court upon review an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Judicial Court.
The possession by an applicant for pension under this chapter of assets consisting of cash, active securities or in- active securities, or any combination of such assets, shall not disqualify him from receiving such pension; provided, that the total of such assets figuring the present cash value of such inactive securities at the sum determined by the Old Age Pension Commission, does not exceed the sum of $300.00
A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pen- sion because of the ownership of an equity in vacant land from which there is insufficient income to provide for his budgetary needs or minimum payments, or the ownership of an equity in real estate by an applicant who resides thereon or who, in the opinion of the Commission is residing elsewhere because of physical or mental incapacity, provided that if such equity on the basis of assessed valuation exceeds an average of $3,000. during the five years immediately preceding application for the pension, the applicant shall execute a bond in the penal sum for the amount of the equity in excess of $3,000. condi-
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tioned on repayment to the Commonwealth of all amounts paid as such pension without interest, such bond to be secured by a mortgage on the applicants real estate. Provision is made for the recording of such bond and mortgage without a fee and the apportionment of the proceeds realized from any of them between the Federal government and the Com- monwealth.
A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pen- sion by reason of a policy of group insurance or a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $1,000. or of a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $3,000. having a cash surrender value not in excess of $1,000. if such policy has been in effect not less than fifteen years. No pension shall be granted to an applicant who at any time within five years immediately prior to the filing of an application for such pension has made an assignment or transfer of property so as to render himself eligible to such pension.
No pension shall be subject to trustees process or assign- ment, and no applicant for a pension, who knowingly makes any false statement or perpetrates any fraud or deception in relation to his application, shall be granted any pension nor be eligible for one during any year thereafter. A person, his executor or administrator shall be liable in contract to the Commonwealth for expenses incurred by it for a pension paid to such person under this chapter if such person or his estate is in possession of funds not otherwise exempted thereunder.
If an application for a pension under this chapter is af- fected by the eliglbility of the applicant to receive aid under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 115, which relates to State and Military Aid and Soldier's Relief, the applicant shall be entitled to exercise such options and execute such waivers as may be necessary to receive the pension which he seeks.
All cities and towns in the Commonwealth shall furnish suitable headquarters for the carrying out of the duties of the commission in such cities and towns.
The measure further provides that there shall be estab- lished and set up on the Books of the Commonwealth a sepa- rate fund, to be known as the Old Age Pension Fund, consist- ing of receipts credited to said fund under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 64B, H.L. Ter Ed.) Chapter 128A, Section 15, as amended, G.L. (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 138, Section 27, as amended and all proceeds of taxes assessed under Acts of 1941, Chapter 729, Section 9 and 9A.
The Old Age Assistance Fund as in force immediately prior to the effective date of this act is hereby continued in existence, but shall hereafter be entitled "The Old Age Pen- sion Fund."
It is provided that all Civil Service employees in the De- partment of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth, including
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the Supervisor, referees and employees of the subdivision of appeals in said department or of any city or town, employed in the administration of the Old Age Assistance Law on the effective date of this proposed measure, shall be transferred to the service of the Old Age Pension Commission, retaining their present Civil Service seniority retirement rights and any step increases from the minimum pay of their grade earned during their service in said department or said bureaus.
It is provided that all records and property used in the administration of the Old Age Assistance Law and which are the property of the Commonwealth are to be transferred to the Old Age Pension Commission.
This act shall take effect on March first, Nineteen hun- dred and forty-seven,-
which proposed law was approved in the House of| Representatives by a vote of 125 in the affirmative and 79 in the negative, and on which the Senate did not vote,-be approved?
YES
NO
QUESTION NO. 2
Law Proposed By Initiative Petition
Shall this measure which provides that no labor union may be operated or maintained unless there is filed with the Commissioner of Labor and Industries a statement signed by the President and Treasurer setting forth the union's officers, aims, scale of dues, fees, fines, assessments and the salaries of the officers.
The President and Treasurer of a labor union is required to file annually with the Commissioner of Labor and Indus- tries a detailed statement in writing setting forth all receipts and expenditures of the union which shall be open to the public, and the said Commissioner, is given the power to summons witnesses and records; and there is a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for whoever fails to file a statement or whoever knowingly makes a false statement,- which was disapproved in the House of
Representatives by a vote of 50 in the affirmative and 154 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 6 in the affirmative and 24 in the negative, be approved?
YES
NO
To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions ;-
(a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this city (or town) of any and all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "Yes" on all three questions.
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(b) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages only to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on question 1, "Yes" on ques- tion 2 and "No" on question 3.
(c) If he desires to permit the sale herein of all alco- holic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on ques- tion No. 1 and No. 2 and "Yes" on question No. 3.
(d) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold and in addition other alcoholic beverages, but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on question 1 and "Yes" on questions 2 and 3.
(e) If he desires to prohibit the sale herein of any and all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on or off the premises
1. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages) ?
YES
NO
2. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of wines and malt bever- ages (wines and beer, ale and all other malt bev- erages) ?
YES
NO
3. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic bever- ages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises?
YES
NO
1. Shall the Pari-Mutuel system of betting on licensed horse races be permitted in this county?
YES
NO
2. Shall the Pari-Mutuel system of betting on licensed dog races be permitted in this county?
YES
NO
"Shall the General Court enact legislation requiring| jury service by women, with such reservations as it may prescribe?"
YES
NO
"Shall the senator in the General Court from this District be instructed to vote to request the Presi- dent and the Congress of the United States to direct our delegates to the United Nations to propose or support Amendments to its Charter which will strengthen the United Nations and make it a World Federal Government able to prevent war?"
YES
NO
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"Shall sections one to twenty eight inclusive of Chap- ter 32 of the General Laws authorizing any city or town to establish a contributary retirement system for its employees be accepted by this town as ap-
YES
NO plicable to all its employees except teachers which are eligible for membership in the teacher's retire- ment system?"
The polls shall be open at 6:30 A.M. in the forenoon and shall be kept open until 7:30 P.M. in the afternoon when they shall be closed.
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 28th day of October, A. D. Nineteen hundred and forty six.
A true copy attest:
DANIEL L. SULLIVAN, FRANK G. HALEY, WILLLIAM E. MCCARTHY, Selectmen of Medfield. COLEMAN J. HOGAN, Constable of Medfield
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Norfolk, ss.
Medfield, Massachusetts, October 28, 1946
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield qualified to vote in elec- tions 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 hold- ing the meeting.
COLEMAN J. HOGAN, Constable of Medfield
STATE ELECTION, NOVEMBER 5, 1946
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the meeting was held in the Town Hall on Tuesday, the fifth day of November 1946, at 6:30 A.M. The following persons were appointed election officers, sworn in by the Town Clerk and assigned to their duties as follows: Louise Brennan and Eugene Munson to dis-
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