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ART. 13. To see if the Town will authorize the present
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Committee on Street Lighting to increase its number and fill vacancies as it may deem advisable.
Inserted at request of J. Prescott Gage and others.
ART. 14 To see if the Town will authorize the present Committee on Home Rule to increase its number and to fill vacan- cies as it may deem advisable.
Inserted at request of J. Prescott Gage and others.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will set apart a portion of Mount Pleasant Cemetery for the exclusive use of such Roman Catholics of the Town as may purchase lots therein.
Inserted at request of John M. Mulcahy and others.
ART. 16. 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.
Hereof, fail not, and made 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 sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.
WARREN W. RAWSON, JAMES A. BAILEY, JR. 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.
Arlington, May 24, 1904.
By virtue of this warrant I have served the same by posting upon the doors of the Town Hall an attested copy of this war- rant at least seven days before said meeting calling the same. Also notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arling- ton, who are qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble in Town Hall on Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of May current at 7.30 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.
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TOWN MEETING MAY 26, 1904.
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-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen 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 upon the inhabitants.
First Article taken up.
" To choose a Moderator to preside."
Horace A. Freeman and John A. Bishop were appointed Tellers to receive and count ballots for Moderator and were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk.
The polls were declared open and on motion it was voted that they remain open for two minutes, at the expiration of which time all having voted who desired, the polls were declared closed.
The tellers reported 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 duties by the Town Clerk.
Second Article taken up.
" To see if the Town will appropriate sixty-six ($66) dollars being the amount of a bill against the Town and due Francis R. Henderson for use of Mill property for unloading stone for Broadway retaining wall in 1900."
The Committee of Twenty-one, to whom all articles in the warrant requiring an appropriation had been referred, made
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their report in print and distributed said report to the voters present.
Frank W. Hodgdon, as Chairman of the Committee of Twenty-one, offered the following motion under Article 2 of the warrant and it was
Voted :- That the sum of sixty-six ($66) dollars be appro- priated for the payment of the bill of Francis R. Henderson for use of Mill property in 1900, and that the amount be raised by general tax the current year.
Third Article taken up.
" To hear the report of the Selectmen to whom was referred on April 7, 1904, the matter of repairs and fire escapes for the Town Hall Building, and make an appropriation for the same."
On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was voted : -
That the sum of three huudred ($300) dollars be appro- priated for repairs on the Town House, the same to be ex- pended under the direction of and in accordance with the recommendations of the Selectmen, and that said sum be raised by general tax the current year.
On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was voted : -
That the subject of fire escapes on the Town House be referred back to the Selectmen with instructions to obtain estimates for a substantial stair case on the rear of the building reaching from the level of the floor of the hall to the ground, and connecting with a door to be cut in the rear wall of the building.
Fourth Article taken up.
" To hear the report of the special committee appointed April 7, 1904, to whom was referred the repairing and improv- ing the Russell School Building and make an appropriation for the same."
Warren W. Rawson chairman of the committee reported for the committee and on motion it was voted that the report be accepted and placed on file. (File 301.)
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On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was voted, by a two- thirds vote : -
That the sum of twelve thousand five hundred ($12,500) dol- lars be appropriated for repairs to the Russell School Building to be expended in accordance with the recommendations of the committee appointed at the last Annual Town Meeting and under the control and direction of that Committee ; that five hundred ($500) dollars of said sum be raised by general tax the current year and that the balance be borrowed and in pay- ment therefor there be issued twelve negotiable notes or bonds each for the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars, payable one in the year 1905, and one in each of the eleven succeeding years, said notes or bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and counter-signed by the Selectmen, and to be designated on the face thereof " Russell School Loan of 1904 " and to bear inter- est at a rate not exceeding 4 per centum per annum, payable semi-annually.
On motion of Howard W. Spurr it was
Voted : - That when this meeting adjourns it adjourn to meet in Town Hall, Tuesday, May 31, 1904, at 8 o'clock P.M.
Article 6 taken up.
" To see if the Town will make an additional appropriation for Street Lighting."
On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was voted : -
That the sum of fifteen hundred and twenty-six ($1,526) dollars be appropriated for Street Lighting during the current year in addition to the sum appropriated at the annual meeting and that said amount be raised by general tax the current year. Seventh Article taken up.
" To see if the Town will make an additional appropriation for the Board of Health."
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On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was voted : -
That the sum of three hundred and seventy-five ($375) dol- lars be appropriated for the Board of Health in addition to the sum appropriated at the annual meeting and that said sum be raised by general tax the current year.
Ninth Article taken up.
" To see if the Town will vote to pay to Peter Schwamb, out of the rent received from the Pumping Station Building, the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) to reimburse him for a cash payment made by him in behalf of the Town."
On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was voted : -
That the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) be appropriated to repay Peter Schwamb for money advanced by him, said amount to be paid from the funds of the Water Works.
Eighth Article taken up.
" To see if the Town will vote to ratify the lease of the Pump- ing Station Building and land adjoining, given by the Board of Public Works in behalf of the Town to Charles H. Hoffman, dated April 30, 1904, also the lease of the pasture land about the Great Meadows given by the Board of Public Works in behalf of the Town to Alvin S. Butterfield, dated April 1, 1904, and to see what action the Town will take or what authority the Town will give its Board of Public Works with reference to the leasing of any part or parts of its lands and buildings in or adjoining the Great Meadows."
On motion of Peter Schwamb it was voted : -
That the Town ratify the lease of the Pumping Station Building and land adjoining, given by the Board of Public Works in behalf of the Town, to Charles H. Hoffman, dated April 30, 1904, also the lease of the pasture land about the Great Meadows, given by the Board of Public Works in behalf of the Town, to Alvin S. Butterfield, dated April 1, 1904.
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On motion of Peter Shwamb it was voted :-
That the Board of Public Works, in behalf of the Town, be, and hereby is, authorized to lease any part or parts of its lands and buildings in or adjoining the Great Meadows for terms not exceeding three years and at such rental and on such other terms and conditions as said Board shall deem proper.
Tenth Article taken up.
" To see if the Town will vote to make an appropriation for the construction of a sewer in a portion of Kensington Road."
On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was
Voted : - By a two-thirds vote,
That the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars be appropri- ated for the construction of a sewer in a portion of Kensington Road, under the control and direction of the Board of Public Works and that said sum be borrowed, and in payment there- for there be issued a negotiable bond or note for the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars payable in the year 1910, and that the same be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by the Selectmen, and to bear interest at a rate not exceeding four (4) per centum per annum.
Eleventh and Twelfth Articles taken up.
ART. 11. " To see if the Town will rescind so much of the vote passed at the Town Meeting held November 16, 1903, by which the sum of fourteen thousand ($14,000) dollars was ap- propriated ' for the erection of a primary school building at the corner of Irving and Academy streets,' as relates to the man- ner of raising said sum."
ART. 12. " To see if the Town will vote to borrow the sum of seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars which it has appropri- ated for the construction and furnishing of the Primary School Building at the corner of Irving and Academy streets, and authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to issue the Town's notes or bonds therefor."
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On motion of Henry Hornblower it was
Voted : - That so much of the vote that was passed at the Town Meeting held November 16, 1903, as relates to the man- ner of raising the sum of fourteen thousand ($14,000) dollars, which was appropriated for the erection of a primary school . building at the corner of Irving and Academy streets is hereby rescinded.
On motion of Henry Hornblower it was
Voted : - By a two-thirds vote, that for the purpose of raising the sums which the Town on November 16, 1903, and April 14, 1904, appropriated for the erection and furnishing of a primary school building at the corner of Irving and Academy Streets, the Town borrow the sum of seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars, and in payment therefor issue 17 negotiable notes or bonds each' for the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars, payable one in the year 1905 and one in each of the sixteen succeeding years, said notes or bonds to be signed by the Treasurer and counter-signed by the Selectmen, and to be designated on the face thereof " Primary School Loan of 1904' and to bear interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum payable semi-annually.
Fifteenth Article taken up.
" To see if the Town will set apart a portion of Mount Pleas- ant Cemetery for the exclusive use of such Romas Catholics of the Town as may purchase lots therein."
Rev. John M. Mulcahy offered a motion that the subject matter of Article 15 be referred to a committee of five, said committee to report as some future meeting.
The check list was called for and Horace A. Freeman, James J. Mahoney, J. Prescott Gage and John A. Bishop were appointed tellers and sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk.
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The polls were declared open and were kept open until all voters desiring to vote had done so. The ballots were sorted and counted by the tellers and declaration made by the Moder- ator, as follows :-
Whole number of ballots cast 353
In favor of the motion 164
Opposed to the motion . 189
and the Moderator declared the motion to refer not carried. Articles 13 and 14 taken up.
ART. 13. " To see if the Town will authorize the present Committee on Street Lighting to increase its number and fill vacancies as it may deem advisable."
On motion of John S. Lamson it was voted : -
That the present Committee on Street Lighting be author- ized to increase its number and fill vacancies as it may deem advisable.
ART. 14. " To see if the Town will authorize the present Committee on Home Rule to increase its number and fill vacan- cies as it may deem advisable."
On motion of John S. Lamson it was voted : -
That the present. Committee on Home Rule be authorized to increase its number and fill vacancies as it may deem advisable.
On motion it was voted to adjourn.
Adjourned at 11 o'clock P. M.
A true record,
Attest : THOMAS J. ROBINSON,
Town Clerk.
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ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING MAY 31, 1904.
Pursuant to adjournment the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall, Tuesday, the thirty-first day of May, and were called to order at eight (8) o'clock in the evening by the Moderator, Walter A. Robinson.
Fifth Article taken up.
" To see if the Town will make an additional appropriation for Town Insurance."
On motion of Warren W. Rawson it was voted : -
That the subject matter of Article 5 be laid on the table. Third Article taken up.
" The report of the Selectmen to whom was referred the mat- ter of fire escapes for Town House."
On motion of Warren W. Rawson it was voted : - That the subject matter of Article 3 be laid on the table. Sixteenth Article taken up.
" To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise such sums as may be necessary for all or any of the purposes men- tioned in the foregoing articles."
' On motion of Frank W. Hodgdon it was voted : - That the subject matter of Article 16 be laid on the table. On motion it was voted to adjourn. Meeting dissolved at ten (10) minutes after eight (8) o'clock.
A true record,
Attest : THOMAS J. ROBINSON,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN MEETING NOVEMBER 8, 1904.
- WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX SS.
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, qualified as the Constitution requires, to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the eighth day of November, next, at six o'clock A.M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz : -
ARTICLE 1. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for sixteen electors of President and Vice-President of United States to wit: Two electors at large and one elector for each Congressional District in the Commonwealth, a Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, a Secretary, a Treasurer and Receiver- General, and Auditor of Accounts, an Attorney-General for the Commonwealth, a Representative of the Commonwealth in the Congress of the United States for District Number Eight ; 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 Middlesex. a District Attorney for the Northern District, Middlesex County ; a County Commissioner, two Associate Commissioners and a Sheriff for Middlesex County.
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
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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 here- tofore appointed.
ART. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the observance of Patriots Day, April 19,1905.
ART. 5, To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three hundred and fifty ($350) dollars additional for the Fire Department.
ART. 6. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three hundred and thirty-five ($335) for a fire escape from the Town Hall.
ART. 7. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for Treasurer's Incidentals.
ART. 8. To see if the Town will appropriate one thousand ($1,000) dollars for the purchase and teaming of paving stone from the Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.
ART. 9. 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 request of Board of Public Works.
ART. 10. To see what action the Town will take in regard to metering water used for domestic purposes and make any necessary appropriation.
Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will make an appropriation suf- ficient to meet the charges for filling deposited on the Park Land adjoining Mount Pleasant Cemetery in accordance with the vote passed by the Town, May 5, 1902.
Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.
ART. 12. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three thousand ($3,000) dollars to exterminate the Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moths in Menotomy Rocks Park and Meadow Brook Park.
Inserted at request of Park Commissioners.
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ART. 13. To see if the Town will appoint a Tree Warden to serve for not more than one year or until such time as the State may pass a law to allow cities and towns to appoint a Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moth Commission to co-operate with the State Commission.
Inserted at request of B. C. Haskell and others.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will instruct the Tree Warden to adopt all reasonable measures within the limits of the appro- priation therefor, to prevent the spread and secure the exter- mination of the Brown-Tail Moth, the Gypsy Moth and other tree and shrub destroying pests, and to enter upon private lands for this purpose under the authority given by Chapter 57 of the Acts of 1902, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Inserted at request of B. C. Haskell and others.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will appropriate three thousand ($3,000) dollars, or any sum, to defray the cost of exterminat- ing or preventing the spread of the Brown-Tail Moth, the Gypsy Moth and other tree and shrub destroying pests, or act in any manner relating thereto, and will hire money to make the appropriation immediately available on its passage.
Inserted at request of B. C. Haskell and others.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to request the Repre- sentative of this district to urge the Legislature to make a large annual appropriation for a term of years for the purpose of exterminating or preventing the spread of the Brown-Tail Moth, the Gypsy Moth and other tree and shrub destroying pests, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Inserted at request B. C. Haskell and others.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to request the Repre- sentative of this district in Congress to urge legislation for the purpose of exterminating or preventing the spread of the Brown- Tail Moth, the Gypsy Moth and other tree and shrub destroy- ing pests, or act in any manner relating thereto.
. Inserted at request of B. C. Haskell and others.
ART. 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum suffi- cient to partially or wholly control the Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moth or take any action thereon.
Inserted at request of Committee of Investigation.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will set apart a portion of
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery for the exclusive use of such Roman Catholics of the Town as may purchase lots therein.
Inserted at the request of A. S. Malone and others
ART. 20. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the suppression of gambling houses, bar-rooms, piggeries and other nuisances, and for the prosecution of the proprieters of gambling houses, bar-rooms, piggeries and other nuisances, or take any action for such suppression of prosecution.
Inserted at request of James A. Bailey, Jr., and others.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars for Street Lighting.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of fifty ($50) dollars for State Aid.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred ($2,500) dollars for the Abatement of Taxes.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will take any action to regulate the transportation of explosives.
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 twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.
WARREN . W. RAWSON, GEORGE I. DOE, JAMES A. BAILEY, JR. 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, ss.
Arlington, Nov. 3, 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
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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 Tuesday, the eighth day of November current, at six o'clock A.M., by notices con- taining 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 af- fairs, met in the Town Hall in said Arlington, on Tuesday, the eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, and were called to order by George I. Doe, Selectman of the Town of Arlington, at eight minutes after six o'clock in the forenoon.
The presiding officer read Article 1 of the warrant and the return of constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
By unanimous consent of the meeting the reading of the remaining articles in the warrant was deferred until the ad- journed meeting.
Selectman George I. Doe took charge of the meeting and acted as presiding officer.
In conformity with the laws of the Commonwealth in relation to elections the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off and booths or shelves provided for the use of voters to examine and mark their ballots.
Each booth was supplied with suitable facilities for the pur- pose and with cards of instructions.
The following persons having been appointed by the Select- men as ballot clerks, tellers and inspectors were sworn by the Town Clerk to the faithful discharge of their duties and assigned as follows : -
Ballot Clerks - Edgar Crosby, Frank N. Hurley.
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Tellers - Horace A. Freeman, Erving V. Gay, Howard I. Durgin, Daniel W. O'Brien, Edward H. H. Bartlett, M. Fran- cis Mead, George C. Tewksbury, George W. W. Sears, George H. Peirce, Francis B. Records, Lindsay K. Foster, Wm. D. Grannan, John M. Tierney, Daniel J. Buckley, John F. Con- nolly, Frank F. Russell.
Horace A. Freeman and George H. Peirce were assigned as tellers at the ballot box and Edward H. H. Bartlett and Frank F. Russell as inspectors on the floor.
A sealed package of ballots supplied by the Secretary of the Commonwealth was then delivered by the Town Clerk to the presiding officer. The seal was publicly broken and the ballots delivered to the ballot clerks. Specimen ballots and cards of instructions were posted in conformity to law as were also cards of penalties on voters for violation of the law.
The ballot box was examined by the presiding officer and the Town Clerk and was found to be empty and the register set at zero.
A list of registered voters was supplied to the Ballot Clerks and Tellers by the Registrars of Voters.
At fourteen minutes after six' o'clock the polls were declared open for the reception of votes, and were kept open, by vote of the meeting until forty-five minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon, when, after due notice, they were declared closed.
By unanimous consent the ballot box was opened at forty-five minutes after eight o'clock in the morning and at various times during the day for the purpose of removing the ballots to be counted.
The keys of the ballot box were delivered by the presiding officer into the custody of Constable John Duffy and remained in his possession until the polls closed.
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