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Article 25 Purchase or take land-Allens Harbor Creek
500.00
Article 26 Dredging Allens Harbor
5,000.00
Article 27 Harbor improvements at Little Round Cove- E. Harwich
3,000.00
Article 28 Harbor improvements and dredging Wychmere Harbor-Harwich Port 5,000.00
Article 29 Town office building Christmas decorations 200.00
Article 30 Baseball
500.00
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Article 33
Cranberry Harvest Days 5,00.00
Article 34 Skating facilities 250.00
Article 38 Purchase new snow plow-Highway Departemnt 725.00
Article 39 Drainage system at Cross, Pleasant, and Freeman
Streets
1,000.00
Article 43 Purchase of new tractor-Highway Department
6,900.00
Article 44 Extend sidewalk-Sisson Road 400.00
Article 49 Widening and resurfacing Parellel St .- Harwich
2,800.00
Article 51 Surfacing Long Road-Harwich
3,300.00
Article 52 Resurface Colonial Way-Harwich Port
600.00
Article 53
Widening and hardening Robbins Road
1,100.00
Article 55
Build additional tennis court-Brooks Park
500.00
Article 58
Purchase new truck-Water Department Extending water mains
4,000.00
Article 61
Extend and maintain water mains to and along
8,225.00
Article 62 Extend water mains to and on Joe Lincoln Rd .- W. Harwich 6,675.00
Article 63 Install and maintain water mains Green Needle Lane and Pine Needle Lane-West Harwich
4,075.00
Article 75 Aerial control work (pests) 3,000.00
Article 76 Payment of unpaid bills for previous years
2,093.51
Article 78 Accept layout of Railroad Ave .- Harwich Center
1,000.00
Article 80 Purchase or take land-East Harwich 8,000.00
Total raised under articles $138,318.51
Article 65 Transfer to Water Dept. construction account $ 10,657.98
Article 81 For reducing 1957 tax rate 116,000.00
Article 13
Dog tax refund for Brooks Free Library 714.29
Article 82
Transfer to surplus revenue 2,867.04
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate 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 ..
Accepted and Adopted. Voted the sum of $1,000,00 be raised and appropriated to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter #90 Highway maintenance and that in addi- tion, the sum of $2,000 be raised and appropriated to meet the State's and County's share of the cost of the work, the reimbursement from the State and County to be restored upon their receipt to unappropriated available funds in the Treasury.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money to be used with whatever State and County funds are available under Chapter 90, Road Con- struction and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and Adopted. Voted the sum of $6,000.00 be raised and appropriated to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter #90 Road Construction and that in addition the
3,000.00
Article 59
Article 60
Extend water mains Mandeville Road
3,350.00
First Avenue (Sequatton Road from Pleas. Lake Ave.)
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sum of $24,000.00 be raised and appropriated to meet the State's and County's share of the cost of the work the reim- bursement from the State and County to be restored upon their receipt to unappropriated available funds in the Treas- ury.
Article 8. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the Herring Fisheries for the year of 1957 and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- priate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of holding Band Concerts in the summer of 1957 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $600.00.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to be used under the direction of the Board of Selectmen to properly celebrate and observe July 4, 1957 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) to be expended under the direction of the library trustees for fur- niture and furnishings in the west room of Brooks Free Library on the second floor of Brooks Block, this room to be used for the children's and young people's library and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of nine hundred and twenty-five dollars ($925) to be expended under the direction of the library trustees for the necessary carpentry work, painting, lighting and furnishings for the south room in Brooks Free Library on the second floor of Brooks Block, this room to be used as the Art Room for the Rogers Groups and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $925.00.
Article 13. 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 as read.
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Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of nine hundred and fifty dollars ($950) to purchase a new police cruiser and equipment and to author- ize the Selectmen to trade the 1956 Buick cruiser now owned by the town, the sum received from said trade to be used toward the purchase of the new car and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $950.00.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of nine hundred and fifty dollars ($950) to purchase a new police cruiser and equipment and to au- thorize the Selectmen to trade the 1956 Buick cruiser now owned by the town, the sum received from said trade to be used toward the purchase of the new car and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $950.00.
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of seventy-five hundred dollars ($7,500) for the purpose of purchasing a power wagon type truck for the Fire Department, said truck to replace the 1935 Ford tank truck now in service and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,500.00.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) for the purchase of 300 feet of 21/2 inch double jacket fire hose and 500 feet of 11/2 inch double jacket fire hose and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,200.00.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to establish a committee which will study and recommend to the Town the way or ways for meeting the problem of school space needs; the committee shall consist of the five members of the School Committee, as it is constituted from time to time, and five other members, to be appointed within thirty days of this meeting by the Selectmen; and that the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) be raised and appropriated for the expenses of this committee and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00.
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Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of thirty-eight hundred dollars ($3,800) for the purchase and installation of a new burner at Harwich High School and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,800.00.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to be added to the sum appropriated in 1956 for the purchase and installation of an auxiliary generator and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) to be used in planting shade trees along town accepted ways under Chapter 87 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00.
Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to prepare the proper plans for the purpose of taking by purchase or eminent domain the low lands, lands of low value and where it is necessary for access purposes, the immediate uplands adjoining Andrews River on the south side of Rte. 28 to the ocean for boating and recreational pur- poses and to report at the next annual town meeting of 1958 and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to abandon all and any rights that may have been acquired in a way leading from Pleasant Lake Avenue across and by the residence of John J. Rose, Jr. to the residence of Theodore Canto and Philip Perez and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to purchase or take by eminent domain the land on the south side of Rte. 28 and east of Herring River, said parcel belonging in part to Judith L. Davis and others. Said property is bounded northerly by the State Highway; easterly and southerly by land of James J. Falvey et ux; easterly by Marshall Siebenmann et ux and Margaret L. Forbes et al Mary T. Forbes; southerly by John L. Doherty et ux and westerly by Herring River, meaning and
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intending to purchase or take by eminent domain the Davis property and marshland southerly of the State Highway to the upland of John L. Doherty et ux, said parcel of land to be purchased or taken by eminent domain for the purpose of a town landing and harbor facilities and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted by two-thirds standing vote. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500.00.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to purchase or take by eminent domain certain swampland, lowland and land of low value, and where it is necessary to access purposes, the immediate upland in the vicinity of Allen Harbor Creek, and north of Lower County Road, for the purpose of protecting the Public Health and recreational purposes, said lands being more particularly bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the northerly side line of Lower County Road, which point is 350 feet more or less easterly from the easterly side line of Nehoiden Road, so called; thence running northwesterly 725 feet more or less by lands of Whitehouse Properties Inc. and owners unknown to a point; thence running northeasterly 350 feet more or less by land of owner unknown and land of one Trainer to a point; thence running southeasterly 900 feet more or less by lands of said Trainer, Louis Handler et ux and Frederick Crowell to a point; thence running southerly 500 feet more or less by land of said Crowell and land of Alexander B. Stewart et ux to a point; thence running west- erly by land of said Stewart 250 feet more or less to a point; thence running northwesterly by lands of said Stewart et ux 275 feet more or less to a point; thence running southwest- erly 550 feet more or less by land of said Stewart et ux to Lower County Road; thence running westerly by Lower County Road 200 feet more or less to the point of beginning, as shown on a plan entitled "Proposed Land Taking at Allen's Harbor, Harwich Port", filed with the Board of Selectmen and to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for this purpose and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted by a unanimous vote. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the purpose of dredging Allen's Harbor, being 25% of the cost, providing the State contributes 75% under Chapter 90 or any amendments thereto and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted by a unanimous vote. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00.
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Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) to be used for harbor improvements at Little Round Cove in East Harwich, being 25% of the cost, providing the State con- tributes 75% under Chapter 90 or any amendments thereto and act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted by a unanimous vote. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00.
Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) to be used in harbor improvements, including dredging, at Wychmere Harbor in Harwich Port, being 25% of the cost, providing the State contributes 75% under Chapter 90 or any amendments thereto and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted by a unanimous vote. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) for the pur- pose of purchasing Christmas decorations for the Town Office Building and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00.
Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) to be ex- pended for recreation and amusement in the form of base- ball and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00.
Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to request the Selectmen that no "Off premise" sign permits will be issued for such signs to be on Town Ways except as may be granted by the Appeal Board and then only when actual hardship has been proved and authorized by the Selectmen of the Town-and to see if the Town will vote to request the Select- men to erect, where needed, directional and street identi- fication signs that will be similar to the signs now used by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, and to see what sum of money the Town will raise and appropriate for this purpose and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
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Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of eleven thousand dollars ($11,000) for the purpose of constructing a basement for an assembly room, a central heating system and inside toilet facilities in the Recreation Building on Sisson Road and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) in promoting Cranberry Harvest days at Harwich, said sum to be expended under the supervision of the Harwich Chamber of Commerce and the Harwich Board of Selectmen and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00.
Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) to be used under the direction of the Selectmen to provide skating facilities in the Town of Harwich and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $250.00.
Article 35. Providing that the Town shall previously have voted by ballot in favor of fluoridation, to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money to carry into effect the fluoridation of the Town's water supply and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 36. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to appoint a committee of seven to study the feasi- bility of building a municipal auditorium and police station. Said committee to report its findings and recommendations at the 1958 Annual Town Meeting. Said committee to pro- vide alternate plans as to location and type of construction and that the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) be ap- propriated which may be spent by the said committee for the hiring of architects and the making of plans and for all other incidental purposes and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed by vote of 112 for, 129 against.
Article 37. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of forty-five hundred dollars ($4,500) for the purpose of purchasing a new truck for the Highway Department and to authorize the Highway Surveyor to trade
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the old truck and the sum from same to be used toward the purchase of a new truck and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of seven hundred and twenty-five dollars ($725) for the purpose of purchasing a new snow plow for the Highway Department and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $725.00.
Article 39. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to install a drainage system to take care of the surface water from Cross Street and Pleasant Street and Freeman Street to Route #28 in Har- wich Port and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00.
Article 40. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the sale by the Highway Surveyor to the highest bidder under sealed bids, the Stockland Grader now used in the Highway Department and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 41. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the sale by the Highway Surveyor to the highest bidder under sealed bids, all the iron junk no longer used by the Depart- ment and to act fully thereon.
It was voted to authorize the sale to the highest bidder under sealed bids by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 42. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the sale by the Highway Surveyor to the highest bidder under sealed bids, the Wisconsin Air Cooled Engine now used in the Highway Department and to act fully thereon.
It was voted that the Board of Selectmen be authorized to carry out this article. Accepted and adopted.
Article 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of sixty-nine hundred dollars ($6,900) for the purchase of a new tractor with a front end loader and to authorize the Highway Surveyor to trade the old Ford tractor with the front end loader and the sum from same to be used toward the purchase of the new apparatus and to act fully thereon.
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By changing the wording Highway Surveyor to the Board of Selectmen this article was accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,900.00.
Article 44. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) to extend the sidewalk on the north side of Sisson Road in Harwich from the High School to the residence of Arthur Chase and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00.
Article 45. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Orton Road in South Harwich, leading from South Chatham Road northerly to a turn around and back to South Chatham Road and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 46. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Nevins Lane in West Harwich leading from Depot Road to Arbutus Avenue as approved by the Harwich Planning Board and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 47. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Arbutus Avenue in West Harwich lead- ing from Depot Road to a dead end as approved by the Har- wich Planning Board and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Hudson Lane in West Harwich leading from Lower County Road northerly and westerly by Pleasant Road and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted.
Article 49. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of twenty-eight hundred dollars ($2,800) for the purpose of widening and resurfacing Parallel Street in Harwich from Bank Street to South Street and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,800.00.
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Article 50. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to widen and improve Oak Street in Harwich Center from the residence of Ada Nichols north to Queen Anne Road and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to surface the unsurfaced portion of Long Road in Harwich and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,300.00.
Article 52. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to resurface the street designed on the town map as Colonial Way in Harwich Port and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $600.00.
Article 53, To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of eleven hundred dollars ($1,100) for the purpose of widening and hardening Robbins Road in Harwich Port leading easterly from South Street to Forest Street in Harwich and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,100.00
Article 54. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) to be added to the sum appropriated under Article 40 in the an- nual warrant of 1956 for the erection of a comfort station with plumbing equipment and cesspools on the Old School- house Parking lot in Harwich Port; construction and oper- ation to be under the jurisdiction of the Park Commissioners; booths to be coin operated, all receipts to be returned to the general treasury, and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) to be added to the sum appropriated under Article 38 in the annual warrant of 1956 to build an additional tennis court at Brooks Park and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00.
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Article 56. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to perform day labor in the parks, and to determine the hourly wage to be paid to such commissioners and to act fully thereon.
It was voted that the Park Commissioners be authorized to perform day labor in the Parks and the hourly wage be paid to said commissioners be $1.35 per hour.
Article 57. To see if the Town will vote to rescind all actions taken at previous Town Meetings whereby the Town voted to require that all water extensions have a 6% guarantee and to act fully thereon.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 58. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to be used by the Board of Water Commissioners to purchase a new truck for the Water Department, and to authorize the Board of Water Commissioners to sell or trade in a 1948 truck now in use and to apply the money received against the purchase price of the new truck and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00.
Article 59. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) to be used by the Board of Water Commissioners for extending water mains where requested, provided the estimated income is at least 6% of the cost of installation and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,000.00.
Article 60. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to extend the water mains from Lower County Road along Mandeville Road (a town way) a distance of approximately 575 feet and to act fully theeron.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,350.00.
Article 61. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to extend and maintain water mains to and along First Avenue (Sequattom Road) from Pleasant Lake Avenue, easterly to the end of the town road, and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $8,225.00.
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Article 62. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to extend the water mains to and on Joe Lincoln Road in West Harwich and to act fully thereon.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,675.00.
Article 63. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to install and maintain water mains on Green Needle Lane and Pine Needle Lane in West Harwich, extending from Lower County Road southerly along Green Needle Lane and southerly along Pine Needle Lane and to act fully thereon. Easements are registered in the Land Court Registry of Deeds.
Accepted and adopted. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,075.00.
Article 64. 'To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to connect the water mains along Gorham Road in Harwich Port from the resi- dence of Harold Eldridge to the residence of Arthur Gorham and to act fully thereon.
The Finance Committee recommended that this article be accepted and adopted and that the funds for this purpose be taken from the Water Departments Construction Account. So Voted and Accepted.
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