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SEC. 28. Proper plans shall be prepared under direction of the Selectmen showing a proper numbering of buildings on all streets of the Town and the Inspector shall send to the owner or person having control of every new building a written notice stating the number assigned by the Selectmen to such building, and directing that the said number be affixed or inscribed, in a proper place on said building, and all other num- bers, if any, removed within one week from the receipt of notice. Whenever a building fronting on a street is found not having a number, or having a wrong number affixed or inscribed on it, then Inspector shall send a similar notice to the owner or person having control of it. Any owner or person in control of such building refusing or neglecting to comply with the direc- tions contained in any such notice shall be liable to a fine of not more than twenty dollars.
SEC. 29. All questions as to the intent and meaning of the by-laws relating to the construction of buildings shall be decided by the Inspector, provided that any person dissatisfied with or aggrieved by any requirement or decision of the
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Inspector may appeal to the Selectmen and their decision, after a hearing at which the Inspector shall be given an opportunity to be heard, shall be final.
SEC. 30. In these by-laws the following terms shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them : -
" Alteration" means any change or addition.
"Cellar" means a basement or lower story of which one-half or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the land adjoining.
" Foundation" means that portion of a wall below the level of the street curb, and where the wall is not on a street, that portion of the wall below the level of the highest ground next to the wall; but if under party or partition walls, may be constructed by the Inspector to mean that portion below the cellar floor.
" Chimney" shall apply to any permanent or fixed flues or passages built into any building for conveying away the products of combustion from furnaces, stoves, boilers, ranges or fire-places.
" Inspector" means the Inspector of Buildings of the Town of Arlington.
" Party wall" means every wall used, or built in order to be used, as a separation of two or more buildings.
" Partition wall" means any interior wall of masonry in a building.
" External wall" means every outer wall or vertical enclosure of a building other than a party wall.
" Repairs" means the reconstruction or renewal of any existing part of a building or of its fixtures or appurtenances, by which the strength or fire- risk is not affected or modified, and not made in the opinion of the Inspector for the purpose of converting the building in whole or in part to a new use.
" Tenement house" means a building which, or any portion of which, is occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a dwelling by more than three famni- lies living independently of one another and doing their cooking upon the premises ; or by more than two families above the second floor, so living and cooking.
" Thickness" of a wall means the minimum of thickness of such wall.
SEC. 31. Whoever violates any of the provisions of these by-laws shall be liable to a penalty of not more than one hun- dred dollars unless another penalty is specifically provided herein.
SEC. 32. The provisions of these by-laws shall not apply to buildings and structures owned or occupied by the United States or by the State of Massachusetts, nor to bridges.
FIRE LIMITS.
All buildings hereinafter built or enlarged, fronting on the following street described lines, shall be built of brick, stone
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or other incombustible material. Beginning at the north- easterly corner of Swan and Pleasant streets, thence running north-easterly to the south-easterly corner of Pleasant street and Massachusetts avenue ; thence south-easterly on the south- erly line of Massachusetts avenue, to a point opposite the Sol- diers' Monument. Beginning again at a point in the northerly line of Broadway opposite the Soldiers' Monument and running north-westerly along the north-easterly lines of Broadway and Massachusetts avenue to Central street.
ARLINGTON TOWN RECORDS FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 1904.
TOWN MEETING FEBRUARY 8, 1904.
WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
To Alonzo S. Harriman, a Constable of the Town of Arlington in said County. Greeting : -
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, who are qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, on Monday, the eighth day of February, next, at seven-thirty o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles namely :-
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To hear and act upon the report of the Committee on consolidation of Town Departments, appointed at an ad- journed Town Meeting held November 16, 1903.
ART. 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept' Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1904, being an act to authorize the Town of Arlington to establish a Board of Public Works.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will vote to elect the mem- bers of the Board of Public Works, either annually for the term of one year, or one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and annu- ally thereafter one for the term of three years.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen on or before said day and hour of meeting.
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Given under our hands at said Arlington, this thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.
EDWIN S. FARMER, GEORGE I. DOE, WARREN W. RAWSON, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
A true record,
Attest : THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
Middlesex County.
Arlington, February 6, 1904.
By virtue of this warrant, I have served the within warrant by posting upon the doors of the Town Hall an attested copy of this warrant at least seven days before said meeting calling the same. Also notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, who are qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble in Town Hall, on Monday, the eighth day of February current, at seven-thirty o'clock P. M., by notices containing the substance of this warrant as provided by the Town By-Laws.
ALONZO S. HARRIMAN, Constable of Arlington.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall in said Town on Monday, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four and were called to order at seven-thirty o'clock P.M. by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same on the inhabitants.
Article 1 was taken up and it was voted to proceed to the election of a Moderator.
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James M. Mead and Frank Y. Wellington were appointed to receive, sort and count ballots and were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk.
The Town Clerk at thirty-five minutes after seven o'clock declared the polls open for the reception of votes for Moderator.
At forty minutes after seven o'clock, on motion of Warren W. Rawson, the polls were declared closed.
The votes cast were sorted and counted and declaration made by the Town Clerk, as follows : -
Whole number of votes cast five (5).
Walter A. Robinson had five votes and was declared elected Moderator and was sworn to the faithful performance of his duties by the Town Clerk.
On motion of Warren W. Rawson it was voted that Articles two (2) and three (3) be taken up.
Articles 2 and 3 taken up.
ART. 2. " To hear and act upon the report of the Commit- tee on Consolidation of Town Departments, appointed at an adjourned Town meeting held November 16, 1903."
On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon, it was voted that the report of the Committee on Consolidation of Town Departments be accepted as a report of progress.
ART. 3. " To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1904, being an act to authorize the Town of Arlington to establish a Board of Public Works."
On motion of James A. Bailey, Jr., it was voted that the Town accept Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1904, being an act to authorize the Town of Arlington to establish a Board of Public Works.
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On motion of James A. Bailey, Jr., article four (4) was taken up.
ART. 4. " To see if the Town will vote to elect the mem- bers of the Board of Public Works, either annually for the term of one year, or one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and annu- ally thereafter one for the term of three years."
On motion of Edward H. H. Bartlett it was voted that the members of the Board of Public Works be elected annually for the term of one year.
On motion of Edward H. H. Bartlett it was voted to adjourn. Meeting dissolved at 8.25.
A true record.
Attest : THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
CHAPTER 3, ACTS OF 1904. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
AN ACT
To authorize the Town of Arlington to establish a Board of Public Works.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
SECTION 1. The Town of Arlington shall, at its next annual meeting after the acceptance of this act, elect by ballot a Board of Public Works consisting of three members.
SEC. 2. At the meeting at which this act is accepted or at a meeting held at least twenty days before the annual meeting at which this act is to become operative, the town shall vote to elect the members of said Board of Public Works either annu- ally for the term of one year, or one for the term of one year,
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one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, and annually thereafter one for the term of three years.
SEC. 3. The provisions of law relating to the compensation, oath of office, entering upon the performance of duties, tenure of office, change in the term of office, failure in election and vacancies in the office of selectmen are hereby made applicable to the members of said Board of Public Works.
SEC. 4. Upon the election of said Board of Public Works all the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Boards of Surveyors of Highways, Water Commissioners and Sewer Com- missioners in said town shall be transferred to the Board of Public Works created by this act, and the Boards of Surveyors of Highways, Water Commissioners and Sewer Commissioners shall be abolished No existing contracts or liabilities shall be affected hereby, but the board hereby created shall in all re- spects, and for all purposes whatsoever, be the lawful successor of said Boards of Surveyors of Highways, Water Commission- ers and Sewer Commissioners.
SEC. 5. Upon the election of said Board of Public Works, all the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Selectmen in said town now existing or hereafter created by law, relating to highways, townways, the laying out and discontinuance of ways, bridges, sidewalks, guide posts, monuments at the termini and angles of roads, public squares, playgrounds, shade trees, sewers, drains, street watering, street lighting, the assessment of damages or betterments, water pipes, gas pipes, conduits, poles, wires, street railways, the granting of locations, rights or licenses for structures upon, under or over highways, or other ways, shall be exercised, enjoyed, performed and incurred by a board consisting of the Selectmen and the Board of Public Works created by this act sitting jointly as the Board of Survey.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the voters of the Town of Arlington within one year after the pass- age of this act at any regular meeting, or at any special meet- ing called for the purpose.
A true copy of the Act.
Attest : THOMAS J. ROBINSON,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN MEETING MARCH 7, 1904.
WARRANT.
MIDDLESEX, SS.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. - To Alonzo S. Harriman, a Constable of the Town of Arlington in said County. Greeting : -
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, who are qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall on Monday, the seventh day of March, next, at six o'clock, A.M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz. : -
ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To elect a Town Clerk for the ensuing year.
ART. 3. To elect a Town Treasurer for the ensuing year.
ART. 4. To elect a Collector of taxes for the ensuing year. ART. 5. To elect an Auditor for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To elect one Selectman for the term of three years.
ART. 7. To elect one Assessor for a term of three years.
ART. 8. To elect three members of the School Committee for the term of three years.
ART. 9. To elect one member of the Board of Trustees of the " Pratt Fund " for the term of five years.
ART. 10. To elect one member of the Board of Commis- sioners of the " Sinking Fund " for the term of three years.
ART. 11. To elect two Trustees of the Robbins Library for the term of three years.
ART. 12. To elect one member of the Consolidated Board of Trustees of "Soldiers' Monument and Robbins Fund " and of Cemeteries for the term of three years.
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ART. 13. To elect five Constables for the ensuing year.
ART. 14. To elect one Park Commissioner for the term of
three years.
ART. 15. To elect one member of the Board of Health for the term of three years.
ART. 16. To elect a Tree Warden for the ensuing year.
ART. 17. To elect three members of the Board of Public Works for the term of one year.
ART. 18. To elect all other necessary Town officers for the ensuing year.
ART. 19. To bring in their ballots " yes " or " no " in answer to the question, " Shall licenses be granted for the sale of in- toxicating liquors in this Town?"
All Town officers who are by law required to be chosen by ballot, except the Moderator, are to be voted for on one hallot. The polls will be open as soon as possible after the organization of the meeting and kept open until five o'clock P M.
ART. 20. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen and other Town officers and committees heretofore appointed.
ART. 21. To act on the list of Jurors as revised by the Selectmen-
ART. 22. To see if the Town will cause one of the church bells to be rung daily (Sundays excepted) at twelve o'clock M. and nine o'clock, P.M.
ART. 23. To make an appropriation for the Robbins Library for the ensuing year.
ART. 24. To make an appropriation for the public schools for the ensuing year, and determine in what manner the same shall be expended.
ART. 25. To determine in what manner the Town ways, highways, and bridges shall be repaired the ensuing year.
ART. 26. To determine what sum of money the Town will raise by general tax, to defray Town expenses, interest, debt and State aid, and make an appropriation for the same.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary purpose, in anticipation of the collec- tion of taxes for the current year, the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said taxes.
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ART. 28. To see if the Town will appoint the Selectmen agents of the Town, to institute and prosecute actions in favor of the Town, and appear and defend suits and legal proceedings against or involving the interests of the Town, with power to employ counsel therein and when necessary in all other legal matters and business appertaining to Town affairs during the year commencing March 7, 1904.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the observance of Memorial Day, the same to be expended under the direction of Francis Gould Post 36, G. A. R.
ART. 30. To hear and act on the report of the Committee of Five appointed Nov. 24, 1902.
Inserted at the request of said Committee.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will accept the gift of a com- bination ambulance and patrol wagon, together with a harness to be used for the same, for the use of the Police Department, said gift being presented to the Town of Arlington by Mr. E. S. Farmer, agent.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will appropriate $569.50 being the amount of a judgment recovered against the Town by the Town of Weston in the Charles Cunningham small-pox case.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to place fire escapes on Town Hall building and make an appropriation for the same.
ART. 34. To see what action the Town will take in relation to repairing and improving the Russell School building and make an appropriation therefor.
Inserted at the request of the School Committee ..
ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to have the records of the Town Meetings printed in the annual Town Reports.
Inserted at the request of the Town Clerk.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will make an appropriation of $1,500 for the maintenance and care of the sewerage system for the ensuing year.
Inserted at the request of the Sewer Commissioners.
ART. 37. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of seven hundred dollars for the Arlington Park.
Inserted at the request of the Park Commissioners.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will appoint a Committee to investigate and report upon the question of furnishing its own light.
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Inserted at the request of Melvin L. Severy and others.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to annually appoint a Committee of Home Rule and Betterment.
Inserted at the request of Melvin L. Severy and others.
ART. 40. To see if the Town will immediately proceed to the appointment of a Committee of Home Rule and Betterment.
Inserted at the request of Melvin L. Severy and others.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money sufficient to furnish the William E. Parmenter School now being erected at the corner of Academy and Irving streets.
Inserted at request of Committee on Building Wm. E. Par- menter School.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will appropriate a further sum of money for architect's fees, heating and ventilating, and grading the lot, in connection with the Wm. E. Parmenter school.
Inserted at the request of the Committee on Building, Wm. E. Parmenter School.
ART. 43. To see what action the town will take in regard to extension of the water mains, and make an appropriation for the same.
Inserted at the request of Water Commissioners.
ART. 44. To see what action the town will take in regard to paying for water used for fire hydrants, street watering, and public buildings.
Inserted at the request of Water Commissioners.
ART. 45. To see what action the town will take in regard to metering water used for domestic purposes, and make any necessary appropriation.
Inserted at the request of Water Commissioners.
ART. 46. To see if the town will vote to instruct the Col- lector to collect all taxes assessed for polls only, before Oct. 1st of the year in which they are assessed.
Inserted at the request of Committee of Five and the Assess- ors.
ART. 47. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $12,000 for the purpose of wiping out the balance of the defalcation represented in the Suspense Account.
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Inserted at the request of Committee of Five.
ART. 48. To see if the town will vote to comply with the law in regard to the Sinking Fund requirements, by appropria- ting the sum of $20,381 for that purpose.
Inserted at the request of Committee of Five.
ART. 49. To see if the town will vote to reimburse the Auditor in the sum of $200, for money expended by him for clerical assistance during the past year.
Inserted at the request of Committee of Five.
ART. 50. To see if the town will pass the following vote or act in any manner thereto : -
Voted - That at the annual meeting in 1905 the town shall elect one (1) Selectman for the term of one year, and at the meeting in March, 1906, shall elect two (2) Selectmen for the term of one year, and at the meeting in March, 1907, shall elect three (3) Selectmen for the term of one year, and there- after the town shall annually elect three (3) Selectmen for the term of one year. All of said votes and said elections being in accordance with the provisions of Section 365 of Chapter 11 of the Revised Laws.
Inserted at the request of N. J. Hardy and others.
ART. 51. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Water Commissioners to extend the water pipe through Pine street, and make an appropriation for the same.
Inserted at the request of Patrick Mead and others.
ART. 52. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Col- lector of Taxes to use all means of collecting the taxes for the years 1902, 1903 and 1904, which a town treasurer may use when appointed a collector of taxes.
ART. 53. To see if the town will accept the bequest of $100 given by Julia F. Fillebrown for the benefit of the High School.
ART. 54. To appropriate and raise, by borrowing or other- wise, such sums as may be necessary for all or any of the pur- poses mentioned in the foregoing articles, and especially to act upon all or any of the appropriations asked for or proposed by the Selectinen or by any town officers or committees.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, on or before said day and hour of meeting.
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Given under our hands at said Arlington, this twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.
EDWIN S. FARMER, GEORGE I. DOE, WARREN W. RAWSON, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
A true copy.
Attest : ALONZO S. HARRIMAN,
Constable of Arlington.
A true record.
Attest : THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
Middlesex County.
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Arlington, March 5, 1904.
By virtue of this warrant I have served the within warrant by posting upon the doors of the Town Hall an attested copy of this warrant at least seven days before said meeting calling the same. Also notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble in Town Hall on Monday, the seventh day of March current, at six o'clock A. M., by notices containing the substance of this warrant, as provided by the Town By-Laws.
ALONZO S. HARRIMAN, Constable of Arlington.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, met in the Town Hall, in said Town, on Monday, the seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and four, and were called to order at six o'clock in the morning by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant calling the same and the return thereon, of the constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Article 1 taken up.
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On motion it was voted to proceed to ballot for Moderator and that the polls be kept open two minutes.
George H. Peirce and Horace A. Freeman, who had been appointed Tellers by the Selectmen, were sworn by the Town Clerk to the faithful performance of their duties, and put in charge of the check list and ballot box used in the election of Moderator.
The Town Clerk at six (6) o'clock declared the polls open for the reception of votes for Moderator.
At two minutes after six (6) o'clock the polls were declared closed. The votes cast were sorted and counted, and declara- tion made by the Town Clerk as follows : -
Whole number of votes cast, five (5). Walter A. Robinson had five (5) and was declared elected Moderator and sworn to the faithful performance of his duties.
The Ballot Clerks and Tellers appointed by the Selectmen were sworn as follows : -
Ballot Clerks - Edgar Crosby, Frank N. Hurley.
Assistant Clerks - George H. Peirce, Horace A. Freeman.
Tellers-John M. Tierney, John McGrath, John J. Mahoney, Edward H. H. Bartlett, Frank F. Russell, John Gray, Harry Marden, Francis B. Record, Charles R. Ladd, Jr., Arthur L. Marston, Frank Y. Wellington, Frank J. Rowe, William H. Hunton, Andrew Wilson.
A sealed package of ballots was then delivered to the Moder- ator by the Town Clerk. The seal was then publicly broken and the ballots delivered to the Ballot Clerks. Specimen ballots and cards of instructions were posted in conformity to law. The ballot box was examined by the Moderator and Town Clerk and found to be set at zero.
A list of registered voters was supplied by the Board of Registrars of Voters to the Ballot Clerks and Tellers. A list of women voters was also furnished by the Registrars.
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George H. Peirce and Horace A. Freeman were appointed as checkers on the list at the ballot box.
At ten minutes past six o'clock the polls were declared open for the reception of votes for Town officers, under Articles two (2) to nineteen (19) inclusive, and were kept open, until five (5) o'clock in the afternoon at which time, after due notice, they were declared closed.
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