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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 Wednesday the 2nd day of August A.D. 1950 at 7:30 P. M. then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote taken under Article 4 of the warrant for the Special Town Meeting held April 24, 1950 relating to the installation of an extension of an 8" water main in Adams Avenue.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $2,500.00 for the installation of an extension of the 8" water main in Adams Avenue from its present termin- ation in a northerly direction approximately 500 feet and in order to finance the foregoing to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow the sum of $2,500.00 and to issue notes to be paid in not more than 3 years from the date of issue.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $12,000.00 for the installation of an exten- sion of the sewerage system approximately 1200 feet in Adams Avenue and in order to finance the foregoing to appropriate $1,000.00 from available funds and authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow the sum of $11,- 000.00 and to issue notes therefore to be paid in not 'more than 6 years from the date of issue.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee to transfer into the custody of the Cemetery Commissioners a power lawn mower for the use of the Ceme- tery Department.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to amend Article 7 of the warrant for the Town Meeting held February 9, 1950 so as to read as follows: To raise and appropriate the sum of $17,- 375.00 for the purpose of repairing, painting and constructing a new flat roof on the elementary school.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $2,000.00 from the amount appropriated under Article 7 of the warrant for the Town Meeting held February 9, 1950, said
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sum to be used for the purpose of improving the Athletic Field and the purchase and installation of new equipment in the elementary school.
Article 7. 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;
Richard E. Conrick Lot $100.00
Mary A. Hennahane Lot 100.00
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 25th day of July A.D. nineteen hundred and fifty.
FRANK G. HALEY JOSEPH L. MARCIONETTE WILLIAM E. MCCARTHY
Selectmen of Medfield
COLEMAN J. HOGAN
Constable of Medfield
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS August 2, 1950
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant 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 rescind Article 4 of the warrant for the Special Town Meeting held April 24, 1950, wherein it was voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the ex- tension of the 8" water main in Adams Street.
Article 2. Voted unanimously to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500.00 for the installation of an extension of the 8" water main in Adams Avenue from its present termination in a northerly direction approximately 500 feet and in order to finance the foregoing to authorize the Treasurer with the ap- proval of the Selectmen to borrow the sum of $2,500.00 and to issue notes to be paid in not more than 3 years from the date of issue.
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Article 3. Voted to dismiss this article wherein the sum of $12,000.00 was asked for a 1200 foot extension of the sewerage system in Adams Avenue.
Article 4. Voted to authorize the School Committee to transfer into the custody of the Cemetery Commissioners a power lawn mower for the use of the Cemetery Department.
Article 5. Voted to amend Article 7 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held February 9, 1950, so as to read as follows: Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $14,000.00 for the purpose of repairing, painting, and constructing a new flat roof on the elementary school, and to transfer the balance of $3,375.00 to the Excess and Deficiency Fund.
Article 6. Voted that this article be dismissed wherein the sum of $2,000.00 was asked for the purpose of improving the Athletic Field and the purchase and installation of new equip- ment in the elementary school.
Article 7. Voted 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:
Richard E. Conrick Lot $100.00
Mary A. Hennahane Lot 100.00 Voted that the meeting be dissolved. A true copy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD, Town Clerk.
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, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Medfield on Wednesday the sixth day of September A.D. 1950 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 for Old Age Assistance or do or act anything in relation thereto.
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Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the following by-law:
Be it ordained by the Town of Medfield as follows:
Section 1. Department of Civil Defense. There is hereby established a department of civil defense (hereinafter called the "department"). It shall be the function of the department to have charge of civil defense functions as authorized or di- rected by said chapter or by any and all executive orders or general regulations promulgated thereunder, and to exercise any authority delegated to it by the governor under said Chapter 639.
Section 2. Director of Civil Defense. The department shall be under the direction of a director of civil defense (hereinafter called the "director") who shall be appointed as prescribed by law. The Director shall direct responsibility for the organization, administration and operation of the depart- ment, subject to the direction and control of the appointing authority and shall receive such salary as may be fixed from time to time by the appointing authority. The director may, within the limits of the amount appropriated therefor, appoint such experts, clerks, and other assistants as the work of the department may require and may remove them, and may make such expenditures as may be necessary to execute ef- fectively the purpose of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950.
The director shall also have the authority to appoint dis- trict co-ordinators and may accept and may receive on behalf of the town, services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds by way of gift, grant, or loan, for purposes of civil defense, offered by the Federal Government or any agency or officer thereof or any person, firm or corporation, subject to the terms of the offer and the rules and regulations, if any, of the agency making the offer.
The director shall cause appropriate records to be kept of all matters relating to such gifts, grants or loans.
Section 3. Civil defense Advisory Council. There is here- by established a civil defense advisory council (hereinafter called the "council.") Said council shall serve without pay and shall consist of the director of civil defense, such other depart- ment heads and such other persons as the authority appoint- ing said director may deem necessary. Such member of said council as said appointing authority shall designate shall serve as chairman of said council. Said council shall serve subject to the direction and control of the appointing authority and shall advise said appointing authority and the director on matters pertaining to civil defense.
Section 4. Police Aid to Other Cities and Towns in Event of Riots or Other Violence Therein. The police department is hereby authorized to go to the aid of another city or town at
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the request of said city or town in the suppression of riots or other forms of violence therein.
Section 5. Termination of Ordinance (By-Law). This or- dinance (by-law) shall remain in force during the effective period of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950 and any act in amendment or continuation thereof or substitution therefor.
Section 6. Definition. All references to Chapter 639, Acts of 1950 as now in force, shall be applicable to any act or acts in amendment or continuation of or substitution for said Chapter 639.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to adopt the fol- lowing By-Law:
To authorize the Superintendent of Streets or other officer having charge of ways, for the purpose of removing or plow- ing snow or removing ice, from any way, to remove, or cause to be removed, to some convenient place, including in such term a public garage, any vehicle interfering with such work, and for imposing liability for the cost of such removal, and of storage charges if any resulting therefrom, upon the owner of such vehicle.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to approve the following regulations of the Water and Sewerage Board, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Regulations Relative to Sewer Assessments
1. For all future extensions of the common sewers, the Town shall pay not less than 40% of the total cost; and the remaining cost shall be borne by owners of the land, one-half to be assessed according to the frontage of such land on any public way in which a sewer is constructed at a rate per linear foot which shall be equal to approximately 15% of the cost per foot of sewer, and one-half to be assessed according to the area of such land within a fixed depth of 100 feet from such a way at a rate per square foot which shall be equal to approximately 15/100ths of 1% of such cost per foot of sewer; the aforesaid assessments to be modified by such exemptions as are allowed by the Water and Sewerage Board in accord- ance with the General Laws, Chapter 83, Section 14 to 24.
2. Assessments shall be based on the estimated average cost per foot for all sewers constructed in the previous year and to be constructed in the current year. There shall be no double or overlapping assessments; in case of corner lots, all frontage and area assessed on the first street shall be ex- empted in assessing for the second street. No land shall be assessed which by reason of its grade or other cause cannot be drained into the sewer, until such incapacity is removed; the land shall then be assessed as it would have been assessed originally. At the end of a sewer extension, all lots the sewer
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can serve shall be assessed, except that no assessment shall be made beyond a line 100 feet from the last manhole. Ex- emptions from assessments shall be made for property owned by the Town, and for rights of way deeded and dedicated to public use. When an additional building in the rear of the assessment line is connected to the sewer an additonal assess- ment shall be made as determined to be just and equitable by the Board. Common sewers constructed in the ways of a private development, including connection to the Town System in the nearest public way, shall be built in a manner accept- able to the Board and at the sole expense of the owner, and no assessment shall be made.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the follow- ing 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:
Thomas V. Sweeney Lot $100.00
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 hold- ing said meeting.
Herefor 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 29th day of August A.D. Nine- teen hundred fifty.
FRANK G. HALEY WILLIAM E. MCCARTHY JOSEPH L. MARCIONETTE Selectmen of Medfield
COLEMAN J. HOGAN Constable of Medfield
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK, SS:
Medfield, Massachusetts August 30, 1950
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
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING September 6, 1950
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant 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 transfer the sum of $5,000.00 from avail- able funds in the Treasury for Old Age Assistance.
Article 2. Voted unanimously to adopt the following By- Law:
Be it ordained by the Town of Medfield as follows:
Section 1. Department of Civil Defense. There is hereby established a department of civil defense (hereinafter called the "department"). It shall be the function of the department to have charge of civil defense as defined in Section 1, Chapter 639, Acts of 1950 and to perform civil defense functions as auth- orized or directed by said chapter or by any and all executive orders or general regulations promulgated thereunder, and to exercise any authority delegated to it by the governor under said Chapter 639.
Section 2. Director of Civil Defense. The department shall be under the direction of a director of civil defense (hereinafter called the "director") who shall be appointed as prescribed by law. The director shall have direct responsibility for the organ- ization, administration and operation of the department, sub- ject to the direction and control of the appointing authority and shall receive such salary as may be fixed from time to time by the appointing authority. The director may, within the limits of the amount appropriated therefor, appoint such ex- perts, clerks, and other assistants as the work of the depart- ment may require and may remove them, and may make such expenditures as may be necessary to execute effectively the purposes of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950.
The director shall also have authority to appoint district co-ordinators and may accept and may receive on behalf of the town, services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds by way of gift, grant, or loan, for purpose of civil defense, offered by the Federal Government or any agency or officer thereof or any person, firm or corporation, subject to the terms of the offer and the rules and regulations, if any, of the agency making the offer. The director shall cause appropriate records to be kept of all matters relating to such gifts, grants, or loans.
Section 3. Civil Defense Advisory Council. There is hereby established a civil defense advisory council (hereinafter called the "council"). Said council shall serve without pay and shall consist of the director of civil defense, such other department
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heads and such other persons as the authority appointing said director may deem necessary. Such member of said council shall serve subject to the direction and control of the ap- pointing authority and shall advise said appointing authority and the director on matters pertaining to civil defense.
Section 4. Police Aid to Other Cities and Towns In Event of Riots or Other Violence Therein. The Police Department is hereby authorized to go to aid another city or town at the re- quest of said city or town in the suppression of riots or other forms of violence therein.
Section 5. Termination of Ordinance (By-Law). This ordinance (by-law) shall remain in force during the effective period of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950 and any act in amendment or continuation thereof or substitution thereof.
Section 6. Definition. All references to Chapter 639, Acts of 1950 as now in force, shall be applicable to any act or acts in amendment or continuation of or substitution for said Chapter 639.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 11, 1950
The foregoing by-law is hereby approved.
FRANCIS E. KELLY, Attorney General
Article 3. Voted unanimously to adopt the following By- Law:
The Town hereby authorizes the Superintendent of Streets or other officer having charge of ways, for the purpose of re- moving or plowing snow or removing ice, from any way, to ro- move, or cause to be removed, to some convenient place, in- cluding in such term a public garage, any vehicle interfering with such work, and for imposing liability for the cost of such removal, and of the storage charges if any resulting therefrom upon the owner of such vehicle.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 11, 1950
The foregoing by-law is hereby approved.
FRANCIS E. KELLY, Attorney General
Article 4. Voted to approve the following Regulations of the Water and Sewerage Board:
Regulations Relative to Sewer Assessments
1. For all future extensions of the common sewers, the Town shall pay not less than 40% of the total cost; and the re-
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maining cost shall be borne by owners of the land, one-half to be assessed according to the frontage of such land on any public way in which a sewer is constructed at a rate per linear foot which shall be equal to approximately 15% of the cost per foot of sewer, and one-half to be assessed according to the area of such land within a fixed depth of 100 feet from such a way at a rate per square foot which shall be equal to ap- proximately 15/100 of 1% of such cost per foot of sewer; the aforesaid assessments to be modified by such exemptions as are allowed by the Water and Sewerage Board in accordance with the General Laws, Chapter 83, Sections 14 to 24.
2. Assessments shall be based on the estimated average cost per foot for all sewers constructed in the previous year and to be constructed in the current year. There shall be no double or overlapping assessments; in case of corner lots, all frontage and area assessed on the first street shall be exempted in assessing for the second street. No land shall be assessed by reason of its grade or other cause cannot be drained into the sewer, until such incapacity is removed; the land shall then be assessed as it would have been assessed originally. At the end of a sewer extension, all lots the sewer can serve shall be assessed, except that no assessment shall be made beyond a line 100 feet from the last manhole. Exemptions from assess- ment shall be made for property owned by the Town, and for rights of way deeded and dedicated to public use.
When an additional building in the rear of the assess- ment line is connected to the sewer an additional assessment shall be made as determined to be just and equitable by the Board. Common sewers constructed in the ways of a private development, including connection to the Town System in the nearest public way, shall be built in a manner acceptable to the Board and at the sole expense of the owner, and no assessment shall be made.
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,
Thomas V. Sweeney Lot $100.00
Voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true copy, attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD,
Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARY
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS NORFOLK, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Medfield, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby re- quired to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in Town Hall, on Tuesday, the Nineteenth Day of September, 1950 at 12:00 o'clock noon for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomination of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices:
GOVERNOR For this commonwealth
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR For this commonwealth
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
For this commonwealth
TREASURER AND RECEIVER-GENERAL For this commonwealth
AUDITOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH
For this commonwealth
ATTORNEY GENERAL For this commonwealth REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS for this 14th congres- sional District
COUNCILLOR for the 3rd Norfolk Councillor District
SENATOR for the Middlesex and Norfolk Senatorial District ONE REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT for the 8th Norfolk Representative District
DISTRICT ATTORNEY for the Norfolk District
COUNTY COMMISSIONER for Norfolk County SHERIFF for Norfolk County
COUNTY TREASURER (to fill vacancy) for Norfolk County
The polls will be open from 12:00 Noon to 8:00 P. M.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this sixth day of September, A.D. 1950.
FRANK G. HALEY, WILLIAM E. MCCARTHY, JOSEPH L. MARCIONETTE Selectmen of Medfield.
A true copy, attest:
COLEMAN J. HOGAN, Constable of Medfield.
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Medfield, Massachusetts September 7, 1950
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 meeting.
COLEMAN J. HOGAN,
Constable of Medfield.
STATE PRIMARIES September 19, 1950
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the meeting was opened at 12:00 noon and after reading the warrant the polls were declared open. The ballot box had been examined and found in good working order, instructions to voters and speci- men ballots were posted as required by law. The following persons were sworn in and assigned to their duties as follows:
Mary Hardie and Alice Ripley, distributing ballots; Abbie Sheahan and Frank Kennedy, checking at the ballot box; Coleman J. Hogan, in charge of the ballot box; and Helen Kennedy, Susan Kennedy, Mildred Lombard, Barbara Lovely, Beatrice Bangs, Mary Hogan, and Edward Sweeney as tellers.
The ballots were counted in open meeting and the polls were declared closed at 8:00 P. M.
The total vote cast was 280; Republican, 262; Democratic, 18.
The final tabulation showed the following results:
REPUBLICAN PARTY
GOVERNOR
Clarence A. Barnes, 79 Rumford Ave., Mansfield 56
Arthur W. Coolidge, 210 Summer Ave., Reading 69
Louis E. Denfeld, 9 Charles St., Westborough 53
Frankland W. L. Miles, 121 Dorset Road, Newton
14
Daniel Needham, 343 Highland St., Newton
65
Edward M. Rowe, 19 Ware St., Cambridge Blanks
4
1
262
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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Laurence Curtis, 84 Beacon St., Boston 149 Warren G. Harris, 6 Summer St., Millbury 8 Daniel McLean, 10 Congress St., Beverly 34
Harris S. Richardson, 15 Mount Pleasant St., Winchester 37 Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., 43 Fletcher Rd., Belmont 25
Blanks 9
SECRETARY
262
John Adams, 15 Stratford Rd., Andover 36 William B. Bailey, 224 School St., Somerville 18
Henry Clay, 30 Sherman St., Springfield 11
Douglas Lawson, 1 West Hill Place, Boston
30
Randall W. (Ranny) Weeks, 58 Berkshire Rd., Newton 39
Russell A. Wood, 11 Whittier St., Cambridge 88 Ada F. York, 703 Boylston St., Brookline 12 Blanks 28
262
TREASURER
Fred J. Burrell, 41 Washington St., Medford
105
Roy C. Papalia, 250 Mount Auburn St., Watertown 137
Blanks 20
262
AUDITOR
William G. Andrew, 472 Cambridge St., Cambridge 185
Warren A. Rodd, 3 Dudley St., Boston 21
Blanks 56
262
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Frederick Ayer, Jr., 57 Walnut Rd., Wenham 119
Edward Robert Butterworth, 3511/2 Nahant Rd., Nahant 30
George Fingold, 37 Lowell Rd., Concord 80
Edwin W. Hadley, 16 Belmont St., Newton
14
Frank F. Walters, 58 Ridgemont St., Boston
4
Blanks 15
262
CONGRESSMAN
Joseph William Martin, Jr., 54 Grove St., No. Attleborough 232
Blanks 30
262
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COUNCILLOR
Otis M. Whitney, Elm St., Concord 224 Blanks 38
SENATOR
Charles W. Olson, West Union St., Ashland 220 Blanks 42
262
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT
Frank D. McCarthy, 50 North St., Medfield Blanks 62
262
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
209
Edmund R. Dewing, 200 Grove St., Wellesley Blanks 53
262
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Frederick A. Leavitt, 166 Tappan St., Brookline
103
Frederick G. Cliff, 14 Brewster Rd., Wellesley 36
Arthur J. Forrest, 121 Walpole St., Norwood 63
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