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1,000.00
Veterans' Benefits
9,500.00
Schools
136,530.00
Vocational Education
1,000.00
Athletics (School)
500.00
Brooks Free Library
2,350.00
Harwich Port Library
900.00
Chase Library
900.00
Park Commission
3,000.00
Recreation Commission
3,000.00
Repairs of Public Buildings
5,000.00
Memorial Services & Armistice Day
700.00
23,319.00
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1,300.00
Herring Committee
300.00
Reserve Fund
8.000.00
Cleaning Beaches & Repairs to Boardwalks
800.00
Planting, Propagation & Protection of Shellfish
1,400.00
Propagation of Fish & Game
100.00
Advertising
500.00
Insurance
7,000.00
Miscellaneous
500.00
Civil Defense
300.00
Cemetery Commission
1,000.00
Water Department
42,850.00
Retirement of Elementary School Bonds
18.000.00
Interest on Elementary School Bonds
5,740.00
Interest on Tax Anticipation Loans
200.00
Total
$475,576.25
Appropriations Under Articles
Article 8 Chap. 90 Road Construction
$18,000.00
Article 10 Band Concerts Brooks Park
500.00
Article 11 Emergency Lighting System Exchange Hall
7,000.00
Article 17 For Use of Committee on Space for Schools
3,000.00
Article 18 Assessor's Maps
3,000.00
Article 19
Laying Out of Town Ways
3,700.00
Article 22
Moth Dept. (Dutch Elm Disease)
500.00
Article 23
Planting Shade Trees
500.00
Article 28
Relocate Street Light in Harwich Port
50.00
Article 29 Increasing Power and adding 2 Lights Rte. 39 & 24
166.50
Article 30
Clearing Brush from Park South of Brooks Academy 100.00
Article
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Herring Pool Purchase of land E. E. Hall
500.00
Article 34
Purchase of Fire Hose
2,500.00
Article 37
Payment of 1951 Unpaid Bills
2.601.47
Article 38
Purchase of new Police Cruiser
1,050.00
Article
47
Hardening Parking area Town Beach
500.00
Article 52
Purchase of Beach land Deep Hole Rd., South Harwich
450.00
Article 53
Recreation in form of Baseball
500.00
Article 59
Extension Water Mains
4,000.00
Article
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Extension of Water Main to residence of Votapka
1,500.00
Article 75
Purchase of Snow Plow, Highway Dept.
650.00
Article 77
Grading, Surfacing & catch basins,
1,000.00
Article 78
Oiling and Hardening Queen Anne Road
2,700.00
Article 79
Grade & Repair Braddock Lane
3,500.00
Article 80
Oil Town Landing, Wychmere Harbor
200.00
Article
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Accepting Layout Flake Tard Road
25.00
Article 87
Accepting Layout Satucket Road
30.00
Article 88
Accepting Layout Quason Lane
30.00
Article
89
Accepting Layout Sequattom Lane
30.00
Article 90
Accepting Layout Long Pond Drive
20.00
Article 91 Accepting Layout Park St., Harwich Port
15.00
Article 92 Accepting Layout Pilgrim Road
40.00
Article 93
Accepting Layout Ayer Lane
30.00
Article
94 Accepting Layout Harbor Road
20.00
Town Reports
Pleasant Bay
Woodbine & Meadow lanes
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Article 95 Accepting Layout Woodland Road
40.00
Article 96 Accepting Layout Bay View Road 40.00
Article 97 Accepting Layout Sea Breeze Avenue 45.00
Article 98 Accepting Layout Zylpha Road
50.00
Article 99 Accepting Layout Ocean Avenue
30.00
Article 100
Accepting Layout Percy Ave. changed to Shaggy Pines Road
35.00
Article 102
Relocation of Brooks Road
15.00
Article 103
Relocation Gorham Road
75.00
Article 104
Accepting Layout Bayberry Lane 40.00
$58,777.97
Appropriations From Available Funds
Article 5 To reduce Budget of 1952
$50,000.00
Article 26
Fund set up for future new Town Office
15,000.00
Article 61 Water Dept. Storage Building
4,000.00
Article 62 Extension Water Mains, Sequatucket Bluffs
10,300.00
Article
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Regrade, Repair, Surface, Flood Lights,
catch basins Old School House Parking area
3,000.00
Article 76
Purchase new Truck (Highway Dept.)
3,200.00
$85,500.00
Article 31 Dog Fund, Use for Brooks Free Library
491.74
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to fix salaries of the elected Town Officers for the year 1952 and to appropriate money therefor.
Moderator
$100.00
Selectmen
3,630.00
Chairman (Extra)
100.00
Treasurer
1,870.00
Collector of Taxes
2,530.00
Assessors
3,300.00
Town Clerk
600.00
Surveyor of Highways
3,200.00
Board of Public Welfare
600.00
School Committee
450.00
Water Commissioners
300.00
Totals $16,680.00
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90, Highway Maintenance, or take any action in relation thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used with whatever State and County funds are available under Chapter 90, Road Construction, and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. $18,000.00 raised and appropriated.
Article 9. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the Herring Fisheries for the year 1952 and to act fully thereon.
Voted that the Herring Committee sell at public auction the Herring fiishery's rights to the highest bidder.
$85,991.74
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Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), for Band Concerts to be given by the Chatham Band in Brooks Park in the summer of 1952.
Voted to raise and appropriate $500.00 for this article.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to equip the Exchange Building with an emergency light- ing system and to renovate the existing wiring and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate $7,000.00.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to increase the School Com- mittee Board to five members to take effect by appearing on the annual Town Meeting ballot at the annual meeting in 1953.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the sale at pub- lic auction of obsolete radio equipment of no further use to the Police Department and to act fully thereon.
Voted to authorize the Selectmen to put up for sale at Public Auction said obsolete radio equipment.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to sell the land and buildings in North Harwich known as North Harwich Grade School at public auction under terms as set up by the Board of Selectmen.
By unanimous vote, the motion presented by Oscar J. Cahoon was accepted. Voted "that the Selectmen be instructed to convey by deed and proper description, the land and buildings known as the North Harwich Grade School, for the consideration of $10.00, to the Harwich Men's Portuguese Club, Inc.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the action taken under Article 11 of the 1950 Annual Town Meeting warrant and to fur- ther provide for the selection of the Caleb Chase Fund in some other manner.
It was voted-That this article be accepted and adopted and at each annual town meeting the Moderator is to appoint one Trustee of Caleb Chase Fund to serve for Three Years. One each year to start at the An- nual Town meeting in 1953.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to rededicate the Brooks Academy Building to the School Committee for use for school pur- poses and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted as read.
Article 17. To see what action the Town will take to solve the space needs of the schools and appropriate such sums as may be necessary and to act fully thereon.
Under motion of Channing N. Baker, it was voted: That a com- mittee of five be appointed by the Moderator to bring in a solution to the space needs of the Harwich Schools at the next regular Town meeting and appropriate the sum of $3,00.000 for necessary expenses.
Action-Channing N. Baker, Alva L. Falla, Arthur Preston Doane, Elizabeth W. Mitchell, Brenton I. Wixon.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of making Assessor's Maps and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted and the sum of $3,000.00 was appropriated.
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Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to provide for the expense in the laying out, relocation and alteration of Town Ways.
Accepted and adopted and the sum of $3,700.00 was voted to raise for its use.
Article 20. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to pur- chase for the Town that part of the Old Chatham Road Bed that is in Harwich, and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to release Miss Lucy Ginn from her contract with the Town, requiring her to pay a 6 per cent guarantee on the cost of a short 2-inch extension to her residence on Division Street, and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), to be used by the Moth Department in controlling the Dutch Elm Disease and to act fully thereon.
It was voted to raise and appropriate $500.00 for this article.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), to plant shade trees along the Town Roads under the direction of the Tree Warden, and to act fully thereon.
It was voted to raise and appropriate $500.00 for this article and the Moderator appoint a committee of three to see that the article is prop- erly carried out.
Article 24. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the follow- ing extension to the Protective By-Law for the Town of Harwich:
To extend the Protective By-Law for the Town of Harwich adopted at the annual Town Meeting, February 13, 1951, approved by the Attor- ney General's office June 6, 1951, and made effective June 15, 1951; to also include South Harwich as shown on a revised Protective By-Law map to be filed with the Town Clerk, under the same rules and regula- tions but with the following additions:
Under (a) Commercial Districts, page 2, after Harwich Port 2, para- graph 4, page 4, add the following:
South Harwich 5. State Highway Route 28 (Main St.), northeasterly
on both sides from Gorham Road, Harwich Port line, to the South Chatham line.
6. Old County Road from junction of State Highway Route 28 (Main St.) east side only, to Chatham Road, then on South side only of Chatham Road to the junction of State Highway Route 28 (Main St.), to include this entire triangle now separated by Deep Hole Road.
(b.) Residential and Agricultural Districts: Residential and Agricul- tural Districts to consist of all areas in West Harwich, Harwich Port and South Harwich not included in (a) Commercial Districts.
Accepted and adopted. Standing vote 192 in favor, 7 against.
Article 25. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the following amendments and changes in the present Protective By-Law for Town of Harwich, to clarify certain interpretations that have come up during the past period of application.
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To add the following to Section 2, Use Regulations 1, page 3, after the words (and in addition) in 6th line: any use permitted in the Resi- dential and Agricultural Districts and for ... etc., etc.
To repeal all of paragraph 2, including (a) (b) (c) (d), page 4, headed in Residential and Agricultural Districts and substitute the following:
2. In Residential and Agricultural Districts, no buildings, structures or premises hereafter erected or altered may be used for any except (a) Detached one or two family dwelling, with privilege for renting of rooms to summer guests, but shall not extend to include public res- taurant service.
(b) Church
(c) Library
(d) Municipal Use
(e) Educational Use
(f) Woman's Club not operated for profit
(g) Non-profit recreational purpose
(h) Private garage with space for storage of not more than two automobiles, unless authorized by the Board of Appeals.
(i) In addition in the area north of State Highway, Route 28, (Main Street) for any agricultural use except piggeries and fur farms and for uses customarily necessary thereto, and for the following commercial purposes, but no others:
(a) The display and sale ,at roadside stand; or otherwise, of natural products, the major portion of which are raised on the farms of the town.
(b) Greenhouses, storage and sorting buildings in connection with Cranberry bogs.
(c) Dog Kennel or Veterinary Hospital.
(j) In Residential and Agricultural Districts any of the following uses on approval of the Board of Appeals.
(a) The use of a room or rooms in a dwelling may be permitted for a customary home occupations, such as a Lawyer, Doctor, Dentist or similar profession conducted by a resident of the premises.
(b) Cemetery
(c) Hospital, Sanitarium, Institution or Philanthropic use.
(d) Boys or Girls Camp, if housed in permanent buildings.
(e) Boat-building and Storage.
(f) Hotel or Apartment House.
(g) Any other use determined by the Board of Appeals to be similar to one or more of the uses specifically authorized and not more detri- mental to the neighborhood.
To repeal all of Section 4, page 6, Exceptions and Administrations (a) (b) (c) and substitute the following:
Section 4. Non-conforming Uses:
(a) Continuation of Non-Conforming Uses: Any lawful building or use of a building or premises or part thereof at the time this By-Law or any amendment thereto is adopted, may be continued, rebuilt if dam- aged or destroyed, even if not in conformity with the provisions thereof, providing such has not been discontinued for a period of three years.
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(b) Change or Extension of Non-Conforming Uses: The Board of Appeals may permit any non-conforming use to be changed to any spe- cified use, or building enlarged, if not substantially different in character or more detrimental or objectionable to a neighborhood.
Top of page 7 add Section 5, Administration, and change letters on paragraphs to (a) (b) (c).
Accepted and adopted. 176 in favor 5 against by standing vote.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to build a new Town Office Building, said build- ing to be built on the site of the old Almshouse and to appoint a building committee of five (5) members to be in charge of the work.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for the purpose of dredging and improving the breakwater at Allen's Harbor, said sum to be used in con- junction with any funds allocated by the Department of Public Works, and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) to relocate the present Street Light in the center of Main Street and Sea Street in Harwich Port, and to increase the wattage from 250 watts to 1,000 watts, and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $50.00.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a certain sum of money to be used in increasing the candlewatt power in the street lights from the parsonage corner to Oak Street corner in- clusive, on Route 39 in Harwich and to include two lights next north from Route 39 on Route 24 or Pleasant Lake Avenue.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $166.50.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to exterminate root and branch, the sprouts and brush from the triangular park belonging to the Town in the rear of the Brooks Academy building; and to place said land under the jurisdiction of the Park Commissioners.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $100.00.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to expend the refunded Dog Tax for the support of Brooks Free Library and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to purchase for the purposes of furnishing a herring pool an the Herring River a parcel of land ap- proximately 1,000 feet on the Herring River and being seven acres more or less as described in a deed recorded in Barnstable County Deeds in Book 363 Page 178 and standing in the name of Emulous E. Hall.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $500.00.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to recommend that the Se- lectmen increase the salary of the combined positions of Fire Chief and Forest Warden from twenty-nine hundred dollars ($2,900.00) per annum to thirty-seven hundred dollars ($3,700.00) per annum, the salaries of Permanent Firemen from twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per an- num to three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum, and the pay of
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Call Firemen from $1.00 per hour or fraction thereof to $1.50 per hour or fraction thereof, and to raise and appropriate the sum of three thousand, fifty dollars ($3,050.00) for this article and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for the purchase of 1,000 feet of treated, double jacket fire hose (21/2 inch) and 600 feet of treated, double jacket fire hose (11/2 inch), and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $2,500.00.
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to recommend that the Selectmen increase the salaries of the Chief of Police from twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars ($2,750.00) per annum to thirty-seven hundred dollars ($3,700.00) per annum, and the Patrolmen of various ranks from twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400.00) per annum to three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum and to raise and appropriate the sum of thirty-four hundred and fifty dollars ($3,450.00) for the same, and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars ($2,750.00) to pay the salary of one extra year round patrolman in the Police Department, and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for unpaid bills of 1951 as provided for in Chap- ter 179 of the Acts of 1941.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $2,601.47.
Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ten hundred and eighty-one dollars ($1,081.00) for the pur- chase of a new Police Cruiser, and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $1,050.00. The Selectmen to sell or trade the cruiser now in use by the Town and the sum received from same to be used towards the purchase of the new cruiser. Said purchase of cruiser to be put up for public bid.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 6B, Chap- ter 40 of the General Laws, which section provides that if a Town accepts this section it may appropriate money for the purchase of uniforms for members of its Police and Fire Departments.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 97A, Chap- ter 41 of the General Laws as amended by Chapter 595 of the Acts of 1948, which reads: "In any Town which accepts this section there shall be a Police Department established by the Selectmen, and such depart- ment shall be under the supervision of an officer to be known as Chief of Police. The Selectmen of any such Town shall appoint a Chief of Police and such officers as they deem necessary and fix their compen- sation, not exceeding in the aggregate, the annual appropriation therefor. In any such Town in which such appointments are not subject to Chap- ter 31, they shall be made annually and the Selectmen may remove such chief or other officers for cause at any time after a hearing. The Chief of Police in any such Town shall from time to time make suitable regu- lations governing the police department and the officers thereof, subject
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to the approval of the Selectmen; provided, that such regulations shall become effective without such approval upon the failure of the Select- men to take action thereon within thirty days after they have been sub- mitted to them by the Chief of Police. The Chief of Police in any such Town shall be in immediate control of all town property used by the department, and of the police officers, whom he shall assign to their respective duties and who shall obey his orders, Section 97 shall not ap- ply in any Town which accepts the provisions of this section. Acceptance of the provisions of this section shall be by vote at an annual Town Meeting."
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) for the erection of a new building for the housing of the Police Department and comfort sta- tion for the public to be located on Town property known as the School Parking Lot in Harwich Port, and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to pay the Tree Warden a salary and raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift by deed for park purposes from Mr. and Mrs. Joshua A. Nickerson, the following described parcel of land in East Harwich: Bounded on the west by the State Highway (Route 28) 100 feet; on the north by land of Morss Lippin- cott; on the east by the waters of Pleasant Bay 100 feet more or less; and on the south by land of Joshua A. Nickerson, meaning and intending a strip of land 100 feet wide from Route 28 to the waters of Pleasant Bay.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift by deed for park purposes from Morss Lippincott the following described parcel of land in East Harwich: Bounded on the west by the State Highway (Route 28) 100 feet; on the south by land of Joshua A. Nickerson; on the east by the waters of Pleasant Bay 100 feet more or less; on the north by land of Morss Lippincott, meaning and intending a strip of land 100 feet wide from Route 28 to the water of Pleasant Bay.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase or to accept as a gift, by deed, a portion of the land standing in the name of Leslie H. Strong et ux near Bay Road and Route 28 in East Harwich, said land to be used for a park and for parking purposes.
Accepted under the motion of Joshua A. Nickerson "That the Select- men be instructed to enter into negotiations with Leslie & Madge Strong for the purchase of a part or parcel of the land described under this article to be used for parking space in conjunction with the beaches ac -. quired under Articles 43 & 44 and report to the Town at the next an- nual Town Meeting.
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase, take by eminent domain, or other- wise in accordance with the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts the property now or formerly owned by Joshua A. Nickerson
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located in East Harwich on the east side of Route 28 from Bay Road southerly to Muddy Creek, so called, said property to be used for a Town Beach.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 47. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), for hardening a parking area at the Town Beach on Pleasant Bay, Route 28, East Harwich.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated the sum of $500.00.
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase or take by eminent domain in ac- cordance with the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the whole or any part thereof of a certain parcel of land in South Har- wich held in the name of Bowmar Inc. of Bridgewater, Mass., under certificate of title No. 11008 as recorded in Book 74, Page 68 of the Reg- istry Section of the Barnstable Registry of Deeds as shown on Land Court Plan No. 14493C as Lots 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, and 6D, to be used for Public Bathing Beach.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 49. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase or take by eminent domain in ac- cordance with the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the whole or any part thereof of a certain piece of land held under the name of Kales Foundation as recorded under certificate of title No. 4991 as shown on Land Court Plan No. 16896A, to be used for a Public Bathing Beach.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 50. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase or take by eminent domain in ac- cordance with the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the whole or any part thereof of a certain piece of registered property located in West Harwich owned by Clifton B. Russell (formerly Edward- ina Gleason) under certificate of title No. 12238 as shown on Land Court Plan No. 14737A to be used for a Public Beach.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the purchase of or take by eminent domain in accordance with the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, in whole or in part a certain parcel of land in Harwich Port as shown on the Harwich Assessor's Sheet No. 7 as parcel J-2, now held under the name of Douglas P. Allison under deed dated February 3, 1947 and recorded in Book 666, Page 49, Barnstable County Deeds, said parcel to be used for a Public Bathing Beach.
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