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"That the sum of $700 be appropriated for tearing down all the buildings other than the Alvin Robbins house now standing on the New Town House Site, grading the lot with ashes and other waste material, covering the same with loam, and putting the whole premises in a presentable condition."
ART. 7. To see if the Town will appoint a Committee of Five to in- vestigate the condition of buildings on the so-called Town House Site, with a view to the repairing or removal of any such buildings in order that the property may become a source of income until such time as the town may decide to build a new Town Hall, and to bring at a subse- quent meeting an estimate to cover the cost of the same, and also the probable income to be obtained.
(Inserted at request of Chas. A. Parsons and others.)
ART. 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use all means of collecting the taxes for the year 1905 which a Town Treasurer may use when appointed a Collector of Taxes.
(Inserted at the request of the Collector of Taxes.)
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ART. 9. To see if the Town will vote to rescind or amend the follow- ing vote passed March 14, 1905, or to take such action relating thereto as may be deemed best. Voted:
"That the sum of one hundred (100) dollars be appropriated to be expended by the Town Clerk, under the direction of the Select- men, for compiling and printing in book form such portion of the Town Records, previous to the year 1904, as they deem best." (Inserted at request of Town Clerk.)
ART. 10. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise such sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes men- tioned in the foregoing articles.
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.
Given under our hands at said Arlington, this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.
JAMES A. BAILEY, JR., WARREN W. RAWSON, S. FREDERICK HICKS, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
A true copy. Attest:
GARRITT BARRY, Constable of Arlington.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
Arlington, June 22nd, 1905.
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes herein named, by causing a printed copy to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by posting an attested copy on the doors of the Town Hall seven days, at least, before said day of meeting.
GARRITT BARRY, Constable.
In pursuance of the foreging 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 Friday, the twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and were called to order at thirty minutes after seven o'clock in the evening by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant calling the meeting and the return of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Article 1 taken up.
"To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting."
Jesse G. Pattee and John A. Bishop were appointed Tellers to receive, sort and count ballots for Moderator, and were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk.
The polls were then declared open for the reception of votes for Moderator and were kept open, by vote of the meeting, for two min- utes, at the expiration of which time they were declared closed and declaration made that six (6) ballots had been cast all bearing the name of Walter A. Robinson, and he was declared elected Moderator and sworn to the faithful performance of his duty by the Town Clerk.
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The Committee of Twenty-one, to whom had been referred all articles in the warrant calling for an appropriation, made their report in print- ed form and said report was distributed to the voters. (File No. 418.)
Article 3 taken up. (To include also Article 4.)
"To see if the Town will appropriate five thousand (5,000) dol- lars for the suppression of the gipsy and brown-tail moths, the same to be expended in accordance with the provisions of Chap- ter 381 of the Acts of 1905."
Voted, unanimously: - On motion of John A. Bishop, that the sum of five thousand (5,000) dollars be appropriated to be expended under the direction and control of the Selectmen in suppression of the gipsy and brown-tail moths in the Town of Arlington, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 381, of the Acts of 1905. That twenty-six hundred (2600) dollars of said sum be raised by general tax the pres- ent year and the balance, twenty-four hundred (2400) dollars, be bor- rowed and the Town Treasurer be authorized to give the Town notes therefor, payable in not exceeding one year, bearing interest, signed by the Treasurer, and countersigned by the Selectmen.
Article 5 taken up.
"To see if the Town will make an appropriation to provide ad- ditional vault room for the safe keeping of all public records as required by law."
On motion of John A. Bishop, that the sum of one hundred and fifty . (150) dollars be appropriated for furnishing additional vault room as required by the State Commissioner of Public Records, the same to be expended under the direction of the Selectmen and raised by general tax the present year.
Articles 6 and 7 taken up.
Voted: - On motion of O. W. Whittemore, that the subject matter of Article 6 be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: -- After a long discussion of the matter, that the considera- tion of Article 7 be indefinitely postponed.
Article 9 taken up.
Voted: - On motion of James A. Bailey, Jr., that the subject matter of Article 9 be referred back to the Committee of Twenty-one.
Article 8 taken up.
"To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Collector of Taxes to use all means of collecting the taxes for the year 1905 which a Town Treasurer may use when appointed a Collector of Taxes."
Voted: - On motion of James A. Bailey, Jr., that the Collector of Taxes be authorized to use all means of collecting the taxes for the year 1905 which a Town Treasurer may use when appointed a Collector of Taxes.
Article 10 taken up.
"To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise such sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes men- tioned in the foregoing articles."
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Voted: - On motion of John A. Bishop, that the sum of twenty-seven hundred and fifty (2750) dollars appropriated at this meeting for the purposes indicated be raised by general tax the current year.
Voted: - That this meeting be now dissolved. Meeting dissolved at 9 o'clock, P. M. A true record.
Attest: THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, AUGUST 24, 1905.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX, SS.
To John Duffy, 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 Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of August current at 8 o'clock, P. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :-
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator to preside over said meeting.
ART. 2. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section Eight (8) of the Town By-Laws, relating to the construction of buildings by striking out the following clause: "Such walls shall not be more than thirty (30) feet apart throughout the length of the building."
(Inserted by request of Warren A. Peirce and others.)
ART. 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following provi- sions of Chapter 104 of the Revised Laws relative to the inspection and removal of dangerous structures.
SECTION 4. In a city or town which accepts the provisions of this and the eight following sections or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the superintendent of public buildings or such other officer as the mayor and aldermen of said city or the select- men of said town may designate, shall be inspector of buildings, and, immediately upon being informed by report or otherwise that a build- ing or other structure or anything attached to or connected therewith in said city or town is unsafe or dangerous to life or limb, shall in- spect the same, and if it appears to him to be dangerous, he shall forth- with in writing notify the owner, agent, or any person having an in- terest therein, to remove it or make it safe and secure.
If it appears that such structure would be specially unsafe in case of fire, it shall be deemed dangerous within the meaning hereof, and the inspector may affix in a conspicuous place upon its exterior walls a notice of its dangerous condition, which shall not be removed or de- faced without authority from him.
SECTION 5. Whoever is so notified shall be allowed until twelve o'clock noon of the day following the service of the notice in which to commence the securing or removal of such structure, and he shall em- ploy sufficient labor speedily to secure or remove it; but if the public safety so requires and if the mayor and aldermen or selectmen so order, the inspector may immediately enter upon the premises with the neces- sary workmen and assistants and cause such unsafe structure to be shored up, taken down or otherwise secured without delay, and a proper fence or boarding put up for the protection of passers by.
SECTION 6. If such owner, agent or person interested in such unsafe structure refuses or neglects to comply with the requirements of such
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notice within the time limited, and such structure is not secured or taken down as therein ordered, a careful survey of the premises shall be made by a board consisting in a city, of the city engineer, the chief engineer of the fire department and one disinterested person to be ap- pointed by said inspector, and in a town, of a surveyor, the chief en- gineer of the fire department and one disinterested person to be ap- pointed by said inspector. If there is no city engineer in such city or no chief engineer of the fire department in such city or town, the mayor and aldermen, or selectmen, as the case may be, shall designate one or more officers or other suitable persons in place of the officers so named as members of said board. A report of such survey shall be made in writing and a copy thereof served on such owner, agent or any interested person.
SECTION 7. If such report declares such structure to be unsafe and dangerous, and if the owner, agent or person interested continues such refusal or neglect, the inspector shall cause it to be taken down or otherwise made safe; and the costs and charges incurred shall consti- tute a lien upon the land upon which the building is situated, and shall be enforced within the time and in the manner provided for the collection of taxes on land; and such owner or interested person shall, for every day's continuance of such refusal or neglect after be- ing so notified, forfeit to the city or town in which the structure is situated, not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
SECTION 8. An owner or interested person who is aggrieved by such order may have the remedy prescribed by sections two, three and four of chapter one hundred and one; but the provisions of this section shall not prevent the city or town from recovering the forfeiture provided in the preceding section from the date of the service of the original notice, unless the order is annulled by the jury.
SECTION 9. If an owner or interested person lives out of the com- monwealth, said notices may be served upon him by a notary public, whose certificate of service under his notarial seal shall be sufficient evidence thereof.
SECTION 10. The supreme judicial court or the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain the construction, alteration, maintenance or use of a building or structure in violation of the pro- visions of any ordinance or by-law of a city or town and order its re- moval or abatement as a nuisance; and to restrain the further construc- tion, alteration or repair of a building or structure reported to be un- safe or dangerous under a survey authorized by section six, until the determination of the matter, as provided in section eight.
SECTION 12. Any member of the inspection department of the district police, if called upon by the mayor and aldermen of any city, except Boston, or by the selectmen of a town, shall inspect any building or other structure or anything attached to or connected therewith in such city or town which has been represented to be unsafe or dangerous to life or limb.
SECTION 13. If it appears to such inspector that the building or other structure, or anything attached to or connected therewith, is unsafe or dangerous to life or limb in case of fire or otherwise, he shall cause it to be removed or rendered safe and secure, in the manner pro- vided by sections four to nine, inclusive, and may cause proceedings to be instituted under the provisions of section ten.
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 sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.
JAMES A. BAILEY, JR., S. FREDERICK HICKS, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
A true copy. Attest:
JOHN DUFFY, Constable of Arlington.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
ARLINGTON, August, 24th, 1905.
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet at the time and place and for the purposes herein named, by causing a printed, attested copy to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by posting an attested copy on the doors of the Town Hall, seven days at least before said day of meeting.
JOHN DUFFY, Constable.
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 Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, and were called to order at eight o'clock in the evening 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.
First Article taken up.
"To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting."
Jesse G. Pattee and Roger W. Homer were appointed Tellers to sort and count ballots for Moderator, and were sworn to the faithful per- formance of their duties. The polls were then declared open for the reception of votes for Moderator and were kept open until voters de- siring to vote had done so. Declaration was then made that four (4) ballots had been cast, three (3) bearing the name of Warren W. Raw- son and he was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk.
Second Article taken up.
Voted: - On motion of Warren A. Peirce, that Section 8 of the Town By-Laws be amended by striking out the following words, "Such walls shall not be more than thirty (30) feet apart throughout the length of the building." Said Section 8 as amended to read as follows:
Section 8.
No buildings except a manufactory, railway station, stable. church, schoolhouse, hotel, or hall for public assemblies, shall hereafter be erected, and no existing building shall hereafter be altered or added to, so that they have a frontage of more than fifty (50) feet, without one or more partition walls of brick or some other fire resisting material, extending from the bottom of the cellar, or from a foundation wall to the under side of the roof boarding, which shall be laid and be imbed- ded in mortar upon said wall.
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If said wall is built of brick it shall not be less than eight inches thick for its entire height.
No existing building having a frontage of more than fifty feet shall be converted to a use not excepted by this section, without at least one partition wall, constructed as described in this section. Provided, how- ever, that any single dwelling house intended for one family may be extended more than fifty feet in one direction without such partition wall.
Article 3 taken up.
Voted: - On motion of Horace D. Hardy that the Town accept Sec- tions 4-5-6-7-8-9-10-12 and 13 of Chapter 104 of the Revised Laws as printed in the warrant.
Voted: - On motion that the meeting be adjourned.
Meeting dissolved at 8.15 P. M.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
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TOWN MEETING, NOVEMBER 7, 1905.
GENERAL ELECTION.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX, SS.
To Garritt Barry, 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, qualified as the constitution requires, to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the seventh day of November, next, at 6 o'clock, A. M., then and there to act on the follow- ing articles, viz: -
ARTICLE 1. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for a Governor; a Lieutenant-Governor; a Secretary; a Treasurer and Receiver Gen- eral; an Auditor of Accounts; an Attorney-General for the Common- wealth; a Councillor for the Third Councillor District; a Senator for the Third Middlesex District; a Representative in the General Court for the Thirteenth Representative District in the County of Middle- sex; a Register of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Middlesex, to fill vacancy; a County Commissioner.
All the above to be voted for on one ballot. The polls will be opened immediately after the organization of the meeting, and will be kept open until four o'clock and thirty minutes in the afternoon, and as much longer as the meeting directs, provided that the time shall not be after the hour of sunset.
ART. 2. To bring in their votes to the Town Clerk for a moderator to preside for the transaction of Town business.
ART. 3. To hear and act on the reports of Committees heretofore appointed.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of fifty (50) dollars for the Board of Survey.
ART. 5. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hun- dred (100) dollars for general incidental account.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the pay- ment of unpaid bills of 1904 account, or take any action relating there- to.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hun- dred and fifty (150) dollars to settle the claim of Maryland Casualty Company against the Town for additional premium on liability in- surance account.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of five thou- sand (5,000) dollars to be expended the current year for suppressing the gipsy and brown-tail moths, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 381 of the Acts of 1905.
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ART. 9. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of sixteen thou- sand, five hundred (16,500) dollars to be expended during the year 1906 for suppressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 381 of the Acts of 1905.
ART. 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Auditor to transfer from the Wm. E. Parmenter School Foundation Account to the Wm. E. Parmenter School Account an unexpended balance of two hun- dred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-six cents.
(Inserted at request of the Auditor.)
ART. 11. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any neces- sary purpose, in anticipation of the collection of taxes for the year 1906, the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said taxes.
(Inserted at the request of the Town Treasurer.)
ART. 12. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hun- dred (100) dollars for an automatic time clock for sounding the daily test signals of the Fire Alarm System.
(Inserted at request of Supt. of Fire Alarm.)
ART. 13. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hun- dred and fifty (150) dollars for the care and removal of trees, the same to be expended under the direction of the Tree Warden.
(Inserted at request of the Tree Warden.)
ART. 14. To see if the Town will vote to transfer to the General Account for School expenses any unexpended balance of Repair Ac- count, if found necessary.
(Inserted at request of School Committee.)
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Collector of Taxes to collect all water rates and all other monies due the Town and to send out all necessary notices in relation thereto.
(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.)
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to empower the Board of Pub- lic Works to lease the land about the Reservoir to William R. Shay for a term of five years.
(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.)
ART. 17. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of twenty thousand (20,000) dollars, or any sum to defray the cost of suppressing or preventing the spread of the gypsy moth and of destroying its nests, eggs and caterpillars; the brown-tail moth; its nests, eggs and caterpil -- lars, and other tree and shrub destroying pests, or act in any manner relating thereto; and will hire money to make the appropriation im- mediately available on its passage.
(Inserted at request of Benjamin C. Haskell and others.)
ART. 18. To hear and act upon any report the School Committee may make, and to discuss and act upon any measures (in so far as they do not require appropriations) pertaining to the educational in- terests of the Town.
(Inserted at request of Melvin L. Severy and others.)
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to insert the following ar- ticle in the warrant for the first fall Town Meeting of each ensuing year, during the life of this vote, if passed.
To hear and act upon any report the School Committee may make, and to discuss and act upon any measure (in so far as they do not require appropriations) pertaining to the educational interests of the Town.
(Inserted at request of Melvin L. Severy and others.)
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ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to request the School Com- mittee to abolish entirely, or materially to shorten, the hours of home study in all grades beyond the eighth, and to make such changes in the curriculum as may result in educating children for life rather than for college.
(Inserted at request of Melvin L. Severy and others.)
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to pay James H. Colprit dam- ages growing out of the change of grade and improvement of Crescent Hill Avenue, and make an appropriation therefor, or take any action in relation to the same.
(Inserted at request of James H. Colprit and others.)
ART. 22. To see what action the Town will take with relation to the lowering of the bed of Sucker Brook, so called, where it passes under Park Avenue, and make an appropriation for the same.
(Inserted at request of Clarence T. Parsons and others.)
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to place edgestone on Mystic Street in front of Russell Park, from end of present edgestone to Chestnut Street, and make an appropriation therefor. -
(Inserted at request of Park Commissioners.)
ART. 24. To see if the Town will make an appropriation sufficient to meet the charges for filling deposited on the park lands adjoining Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, in accordance with the vote passed by the Town, May 5, 1902.
ART. 25. To see what action the Town will take relative to repeal- ing sections five and six of Article XIII of the Town By-Laws, relative to junk dealers and junk shops and substituting therefor the follow- ing:
SECTION 5. The Selectmen of the Town may license suitable persons to be dealers in and keepers of shops for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals or second-hand articles in the Town of Arlington. All licenses shall be granted, according to law, to any persons to be keepers of shops for the purchase, sale, or barter of junk, old metals, or second-hand articles, and to be dealers therein and shall contain the following conditions and restrictions:
First. That every keeper of such shop shall keep a book in which shall be written, at the time of every purchase of any such article, de- scription thereof, the name, age and residence of the person from whom and the day and hour when such purchase was made, and that such book shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Board of Selectmen, and the Chief of Police, or any person by either of them authorized, and of any police officer of the Town.
Second. That every keeper of such shop shall put in some suitable and conspicuous place on his shop a sign having the name and occupa- tion legibly inscribed thereon in large letters.
Third. That such shop and all articles of merchandise therein may be examined by the Board of Selectmen, the Chief of Police, or any police officer of the Town at all times.
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