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Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to grant to Pine Grove Cemetery Association for Cemetery purposes the land now owned by the Town and formerly owned by Mary D. Crowell and more particularly bounded and described as follows: commencing at a cement bound in the southwest corner of the premises at a Town Road called Division Street and in range of land now or formerly of David R. Ginn, thence sets northerly by said Division Street, 170 feet to a Town Road called Cem- etery Road; thence easterly by said Cemetery Road 750 feet to a stake in range of land of the heirs of Bnjamin Hurst and at a point opposite Stone and Iron Cemetery fence; thence sets southerly by the said Ben- jamin Hurst heirs 170 feet to land now or formerly of the said David R. Ginn; thence westerly 750 feet by the said David R. Ginn land to the first mentioned bound, supposed to contain about 2 acres and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to nominate and elect from the floor a committee of five to make a study of the manager form of town government; so called; said committee to report its findings with recommendations to the Board of Selectmen prior to December 1, 1953 and that a sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) be raised and appropriated for the use of said committee.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to release any interest the town may have in the land now owned by Helen E. McIvor on Uncle Venies Road in South Harwich and to execute the necessary instruments in order to clear the title of said land.
Accepted and adopted as read.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used for group Life Insurance for Town Employees and act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to expend the refunded Dog Tax for the support of Brooks Free Library and act fully thereon. Accepted and adopted as read.
Article 16. To see what actoin the Town will take relative to hold- ing the action on the Town Meeting Warrant in the evening and act fully thereon.
It was voted to accept this article.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to change the name of Cemetery Road in West Harwich to Pine Grove Road and to instruct the Surveyor of Highways to erect a sign "Pine Grove Road" at each end of said Road and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted as read.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to be used under direction of the Selectmen to properly celebrate and observe July 4, 1953.
It was voted to raise and appropriate $1,000.00 for this purpose.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for unpaid bills of 1952 as provided for in Chapter 179 of the Acts of 1941.
It was voted to raise and appropriate $1,400.04 for this article.
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Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to be expended for Recreation and Amusement in the form of Baseball.
Accepted and adopted. Raised and appropriated $500.00.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) to install a Flood Light- ing System in Brooks Park and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of twenty-seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars ($2,779.00) for the purchase of a new Police Cruiser, equipped with radio and all other accessories, said purchase to be made by the Selectmen and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate $2,779.00 for this purchase.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of eleven hundred and fifty dollars ($1,150.00) for the purchase of 500 feet of 21/2-in. treated double jacket fire hose and 500 feet of 11/8-in. forestry hose and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate $1,150.00 for this purchase.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000.00) for the purpose of purchasing a new pumper for the Fire Department. This new truck to replace the 1927 Maxim pumper now in service and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to transfer from unappropriated avail- able funds in the Treasury the sum of $17,000.00, and the Selectmen be authorized to sell or trade the pumper (truck) used by the Town-said amount to be used towards the purchase of a new pumper, said purchase of pumper to be put up for public bid.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) to be used by the Board of Water Commissioners for extending water mains where requested, pro- viding the estimated income is at least six per cent (6%) of the cost of installing.
Accepted and adopted. Voted that $4,000.00 be raised and appro- priated for this article.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of painting and repairing the Elevated Water Tank at Kildee Hill in Harwich Port and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted that $11,000.00 be raised and appropri- ated for this work. On motion of Joshua A. Nickerson it was ordered that any steel parts are to be hot dipped Galvanized.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of painting the new Standpipe at Brooks Park in Harwich and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate $2,500.00 to do this work.
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Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to complete the 6-in. water main on Grey Neck Road in West Harwich and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted that $1,200.00 be raised and appropri- ated for carrying out this work.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) to the Water Department's construc- tion account for extending water mains and appurtenances in such streets and ways, public or private as the Board of Water Commissioners shall determine. Also to determine whether the appropriation shall be pro- vided for by taxation, by transfer from available funds in the treasury or by issuance of a loan.
Accepted and adopted. Voted that the sum of $15,000.00 be trans- ferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury for this article.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) to be used by the Board of Water Commissioners for the lowering of 530 feet of existing 10-in. Water Main in Chatham Road to a depth of 4 feet below the existing surface of the street and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to direct the Water Com- missioners to purchase the necessary equipment and materials in order to provide for the fluoridation of the Harwich water supply and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 32. To see if the Town will accept and adopt the following extension to the Protective By-Law for the Town of Harwich.
By-Law: To extend the Protective By-Law for the Town of Har- wich, originally adopted at the Annual Town Meeting, February 13, 1951, approved by the Attorney General's Office June 15, 1951, with extension amendments and changes adopted at the Annual Town Meeting, Febru- ary 12, 1952, approved by the Attorney General's Office June 2, 1952, and made effective June 23, 1952; to also include the Pleasant Bay area of East Harwich as shown on a revised Protective By-Law map to be filed with the Town Clerk under the same rules and regulations, but with the following additions :-
Under Section 1, first paragraph, page 15, after South Harwich add the following :- "and the Pleasant Bay area of East Harwich," only,
After paragraph 6, top of page 16 add "(7) Pleasant Bay area of East Harwich between Route 28 and Pleasant Bay on the east side and one thousand feet (1,000) west, parallel with west side of Route 28."
Under (b) Residential and Agricultural District, top of page 16, after South Harwich, add the following :- "and the Pleasant Bay area of East Harwich."
Accepted and adopted by unanimous vote.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for the purpose of making harbor improvements including dredging and groin work at little Round Cove said sum to be used in conjuction with any money contributed by the County and the State Department of Public Works and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for this article.
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Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars($5,000.00) for the purpose of dredging at Wychmere Harbor at Harwich Port said sum to be used in conjunction with any money contributed by the State Department of Public Works and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for this article.
Article 35. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for the purpose of harbor improvements at Allens Harbor, said sum to be used in conjunction with any money contributed by the State Department of Public Works and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 for this article.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of making Assessors' Maps and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for this article.
Article 37. 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 and Surveying Town Property and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500.00 for this article.
Article 38. To see if the Town will accept the layout of Grey Neck Lane leading off Grey Neck Road as reported and recommended by the Selectmen under date of January 30, 1953, and to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase or eminent domain, the lands or interests in the lands within said layout, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Moved that the Town accept the layout of Grey Neck Lane leading off Grey Neck Road as reported and accepted by the Board of Selectmen under date of January 30, 1953, and to authorize and instruct the Select- men to take by purchase or eminent domain the interest or interests within said layout and to raise and appropriate the sum of $35.00 for this purpose.
Article 39. To see if the Town will accept the layout of Earle Ter- race leading off Earle Road as reported and recommended by the Select- men under date of January 30, 1953, and to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase or eminent domain the lands or interests in the lands within said layout and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate $35.00 by unanimous vote.
Article 40. To see if the Town will accept the layout of Joe Lincoln Road leading from Riverside Drive to Belmont Road as reported and recommended by the Selectmen under date of January 30, 1953, and to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase or eminent domain the lands or interests in the lands within said layout and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Accepted and adopted by unanimous vote. Raised and appropriated the sum of $40.00.
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Article 41. To see if the Town will accept the layout of Red River Road leading off Route 28 in a southerly direction as reported and recom- mended by the Selectmen under date of January 30, 1953, and to author- ize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase or eminent domain the lands or interests in the lands within said layout and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Accepted and adopted by unanimous vote. Raised and appropriated the sum of $40.00.
Article 42. To see if the Town will accept the layout of Victory Drive leading off Lower County Road northerly to Sunset Road as re- ported and recommended by the Selectmen under date of January 30, 1953, and to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase or eminent domain the lands or interests in the lands within said layout, and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Accepted and adopted by unanimous vote. Raised and appropriated the sum of $35.00.
Article 43. To see if the Town will accept the relocation and alter- ation of Smith Street leading from Depot Street easterly to North Road as reported and recommended by the Selectmen under date of January 30, 1953, and to authorize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase or eminent domain the lands or interests in the lands within such alter- ation and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 44. To see if the Town will accept the layout of Ocean Ave- nue leading off Uncle Venies Road westerly as reported and recom- mended by the Selectmen under date of January 30, 1953, and to author- ize and instruct the Selectmen to take by purchase or eminent domain the lands or interests in the lands within said layout and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose.
Accepted and adopted by unanimous vote. Raised and appropriated the sum of $40.00.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase or take by eminent domain for the purpose of a public playground and recreation centre the area of woodland, brushland and cleared land located between Harwich Center and Harwich Port and being bounded and described in two parts as follows: 1. Westerly by Grass Pond so called; northwesterly and northerly by swamp land of owners unknown; easterly by land of Helen B. Buck, land of Walter C. Cook, land of Herbert L. Bradford, land of B. Mildred Gray, land of Ralph S. Brown, land of Emma C. Megathlin, land of Margaret E. Sliney, land of William J. Sliney and land described in a deed of Theron C. Homes to Clayton I. Hemeon dated June 17, 1949, and recorded with Barnstable County Deeds in Book 723, page 9; South- erly by land described in a deed of Theron C. Holmes to Edward J. Shaw et ux dated October 24, 1946, and recorded with said deeds in Book 658, Page 424; Easterly again and Southerly again and Easterly again by said land now or formerly of Shaw and land described in a deed of Theron C. Holmes to Theodore Hunt dated October 30, 1943, and re- corded with said deeds in Book 607, Page 381; Southerly again and Southwesterly and Westerly again by cranberry land and swamp land of J. O. Hulse and owners unknown. 2. Also, and as a part of said area, a strip of land thirty feet in width adjoining the northerly side of said land of Margaret E. Sliney and extending from Bank Street westerly to
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the first described part. The said premises being made up of parcels now or formerly of Sidney B. Moody, Gershom D. Hall, Charles Taylor, Theron C. Holmes, Emma C. Megathlin and/or owners unknown.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the fifteen thou- sand dollars ($15,000.00) New Town Office Building Fund established under Article 26 in the 1952 Annual Town Meeting to a Stabilization Fund in accordance with Section 5B, Chapter 40 of the General Laws and act fully thereon.
Accepted as read.
Article 47. To see what action the Town will take in regard to a new Town Office Building and appropriate a sum of money therefor and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted as read. Voted to transfer $15,000.00 to the stabilization fund.
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to set the hourly wage for all day laborers working for the Highway Department, Water Depart- ment, Park Department, Moth Department and Forestry Department and all other town departments at the sum of one dollar and fifteen cents ($1.15) per hour, and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted as read. Wages to be $1.15 per hour.
Article 49. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to pay the Tree Warden for services rendered during the year of 1952 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $508.13.
Article 50. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars ($600.00) to be used in controlling the Dutch Elm Disease under Chapter 761 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350.00) to be used in re- pairing the large spraying machine bought by the Town in 1929 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00.
Article 52. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the selling at public sale, one two hundred (200) gallon power sprayer no longer needed by the Moth Department and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted as read.
Article 53. 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 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00.
Article 54. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of thirty-eight hundred dollars ($3,800.00) for the purpose of purchasing a new truck for the Highway Department and authorize the Surveyor of Highways to trade the truck now owned by the Town and the sum from same to be used toward the purchase of a new truck and to act fully thereon.
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Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate $3,000.00 for this purchase.
Article 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600.00) for the purpose of pur- chasing a new Tractor Loader for the Highway Department and to au- thorize the Surveyor of Highways to trade the old Tractor and the sum from same to be used toward the purchase of a new Tractor and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate $1,600.00 for this Article.
Article 56. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing and originally equipping and furnishing an addition to the already existing Elementary School Building; determine whether the money shall be provided for by taxa- tion, by appropriation from available funds in the treasury, by borrow- ing under authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws or Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948 as amended, or take any action in relation thereto.
Voted that the sum of $450,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of constructing and addition to the elementary school building and for originally equipping and furnishing said addition, and that to meet said appropriation the sum of $50,000.00 be appropriated from avail- able revenue funds and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $400,000.00 and issue bonds or notes of the Town there-for payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapt. 44, of the General laws, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years of the date of issue of the first bond or note. Be it further voted that the School Space Needs Committee appointed under Article 17 of the warrant for the annual town meeting of 1952 be designated to the School Building Com- mittee with full authority to enter into all contracts and agreements necessary to construct, equip and furnish the addition to the elementary school.
Article 57. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00 to widen and improve Pleas- ant Bay Road so called in East Harwich from Route 137 to Route 28 and act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 58. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for the purposes of widening and hardening the Town way known as Long Pond Drive in Pleasant Lake and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to take from unappropriated available funds the sum of $4,000.00.
Article 59. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) to widen and improve the Town Way known as Gorham Road and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for this article.
Article 60. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of forty-five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) to construct a new bridge on Lothrop Avenue and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,500.00 for this article.
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Article 61. To see if the Town will vote to place under the juris- diction of the Park Commissioners all Town owned beaches, parking lots and other lands adjacent thereto and act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 62. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen, Park Commissioners and all other Town Officials to desist from issuing licenses for any and all concessions (so called) on Town owned beaches and adjacent parking areas and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted as read.
Article 63. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to perform day labor in the parks, and determine the hourly wage to be paid to such commissioners, all in accordance with the provisions of Section 4A, of Chapter 41 of the General Laws.
Accepted and adopted. Voted the hourly wage be $1.15 per hour.
Article 64. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the payment of outstanding bills in the amount of three hundred and sev- enty-eight dollars ($378.00) for day labor rendered by the Park Commis- sioners in the year 1952 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted that the sum of $378.00 be raised and appropriated.
Article 65. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) for removal of sand, build- ing a wall and hardening with oil and grading of Town Parking space at foot of Bank Street in Harwich Port and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00. Standing vote 75 for, 20 against.
Article 66. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600.00) to fill the old water hole in Brooks Park and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 for loam and seeding.
Article 67. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to further improve and harden with bituminous concrete the Old School House Parking Lot in Harwich Port and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted under the jurisdiction of the Selectmen and that the sum of $4,500.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury for this article.
Article 68. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen on behalf of the Town of Harwich to lease from Cape Interstate Inc. for a public parking area for a term of five years beginning on the first day of April 1953, said lease being terminated on two months written notice from either party to the other, paying rent at the rate of not more than one dollar ($1.00) per annum, a parcel of land in the rear of the Modern Theater, Main Street, Harwich Port and to raise and appropriate the sum of one dollar ($1.00) for payment of rent for the first year.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 69. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to improve and maintain the public parking area described in the motion voted on in the preceding article and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
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Article 70. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select- men on behalf of the Town of Harwich to lease from Chase Street Vil- lage Inc. for a public parking area for a term of five years beginning on the first day of April 1953, said lease being terminated on two months written notice from either party to the other, paying rent at the rate of not more than one dollar ($1.00) per annum, a parcel of land in the rear of the Eldredge Block (so called) on Main Street in Harwich Port and to raise and appropriate the sum of one dollar ($1.00) for payment of rent for the first year.
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