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Under a 20 year contract the cost for additional lights will be $64.83 for arcs and $12.99 for incandescents.
We are now paying $73.00 for arcs and $23.50 for incandescents or a total cost of $11,294.50 per year.
The Committee, after considering these prices, arrived at the conclusion that it was wise to recommend the Town's adopting the 20 year contract as per copy attached, and do so recommend.
The attention of the citizens is called especially to clauses in the contract as follows :
1. In Article 8, wherein it says " If, during the continuance of this contract the company's regular prices for arc or incandescent lights furnished to other municipalities are reduced, a like reduction shall be made in the prices of the arc and incandescent lights herein provided for.
2. Also in Article 8, wherein it provides for an appeal once in three years to the Gas and Electric Light Commissioners for a reduction in rates if the Town feel that the prices then paid are unreasonably high.
3. In Article 12, wherein it says " If, during the existence of this contract the Town of Arlington shall decide to establish a municipal electric lighting
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plant in any manner authorized by law, this contract may thereafter be ter- minated by either party thereto on ninety days notice in writing to that effect.
4. In Article 6 for the provisions relative to underground construction.
It should be stated that the form of contract herewith appended applies in full to a twentyyear contract only, and that in the event of a one five or ten year contract the municipal lighting plantclause, and the clause rela- tive to an appeal to the Gas and Electric Light Commissioners shall be stricken out.
Respectfully submitted, S. FREDERICK HICKS, FREDERICK S. MEAD, J. HOWELL CROSBY, PETER SCHWAMB, H. W. HAYES, HENRY HORNBLOWER, PHILIP EBERHARDT, W. B. DOUGLASS,
Committee.
Copy of contract file No. 478.
The report of the committee was accepted.
Voted: On motion of William G. Peck, that the Selectmen of the Town be authorized and empowered in the name and behalf of the Town, to enter into a contract with the Edison Electric Illuminating Company for lighting the streets of the Town for a term of twenty years, the terms of said contract to be substantially in accordance with the terms of the contract set forth and recommended in the report of the committee on street lighting accepted by the Town July 1, 1907.
Voted: That this meeting do now adjourn. Meeting dissolved at thirty minutes after nine o'clock.
A true record. Attest :
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
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TOWN' MEETING-MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1907, AT 7.00 O'CLOCK P. M.
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, who are qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, on Monday, the thirtieth day of September, current, at 7.00 o'clock A. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTCLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To vote by ballot " Yes " or " No" upon the question, " Shall an act passed by the General Court, in the year nineteen hundred and six, entitled, ' An act relative to Town Meetings in the Town of Arlington' and providing for the ratification of certain votes passed at such meetings, be accepted by the Town ?" For this purpose the polls will be opened as soon as possible after the organization of the meeting and kept open until 4 o'clock P. M.
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 fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.
S. FREDERICK HICKS, FREDERICK S. MEAD, J. HOWELL CROSBY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
A true record. Attest :
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, . Town Clerk.
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CHAPTER 168, ACTS OF 1906. .
AN ACT RELATIVE TO TOWN MEETINGS IN THE TOWN OF ARLINGTON Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
SECTION 1. At all Town Meetings held in the Town of Arling- . ton, the Town shall use a system of registering turnstiles for deter- mining the number of persons admitted to each meeting. The Selectmen shall appoint officers to have charge of the turnstiles, and shall determine from them the number of persons admitted to each meeting, and at the adjournment thereof shall make a return to the Town Clerk under oath, which may be administered by him, of the number of persons who have been admitted to such meeting, as regis- tered by such turnstiles. The Town Clerk shall immediately make a record of such return in the records of the meeting, which record shall have the same legal force and effect as the records of the pro- ceedings of the meeting. All such returns shall be preserved by the Town Clerk until at least twenty days after the final adjourn- ment or dissolution of the meeting to which they relate, and shall be open to public inspection.
SEC. 2. Any vote passed at an original or adjourned Town meet- ing to which four hundred or more persons shall have been admitted shall, upon petition, be submitted to the voters at large for ratifica- tion at a subsequent Town meeting, as hereinafter provided, except that votes for the moderator, or for any Town, county, state or nat- ional officer, or any proposition on which by any special or general law of the Commonwealth a yea or nay vote is required to be taken by ballot, shall be final. No vote subject to ratification under the provisions of this act shall take effect until the expiration of the time herein limited for filing a petition for ratification ; nor, if such petition be filed, until after such vote shall be ratified in the man- ner hereinafter provided.
SEC. 3. If within five days after the final adjournment or dis- solution of such Town meeting a petition addressed to the Select- men shall be filed with the Town Clerk, signed by at least fifty legal voters of the Town, requesting that any vote or votes passed at such meeting, except the final votes before mentioned, be sub- mitted to the voters of the Town for ratification, then the Selectmen shall, after the expiration of said five days, fortwith call a Town meeting for the sole purpose of so submitting such vote or votes. In case two or more votes passed at a Town meeting relate to one subject-matter, and a petition is filed as aforesaid for the ratification of one or more such votes, the Selectmen may in their discretion submit, in addition to those for which petitions are filed, any or all of the votes relating to the same subject-matter; and for this pur- pose a vote to borrow money shall be held to relate to the same subject-matter as the vote or votes to appropriate the money to be
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borrowed. The polls shall be opened at two o'clock in the afternoon and shall be closed not earlier than nine o'clock in the evening, and a vote shall be taken by ballot upon the question, "Shall the fol- lowing vote (or votes) passed at the Town meeting (or at the adjourned Town meeting) held on the day of 19 , be ratified? Vote : " Any vote or votes submitted for ratification, as aforesaid, receiving a majority of the votes cast thereon, shall be considered to be ratified, otherwise such vote or votes shall have no force or effect : provided, that if any vote required for its original passage more than a majority of the votes cast, then a like proportion shall be required for ratification.
SEC. 4. Every petition filed as aforesaid shall forwith be examined by the Town Clerk, who shall ascertain therefrom the number of legal voters whose signatures are attached thereto, and shall make a record thereof, and such record, together with a copy of the petition, exclusive of the names affixed thereto, shall be inser- ted in the records of the meeting for ratification of the vote or votes named in the petition, which record shall have the same legal force and effect as the record of the proceedings of such meeting. All such petitions shall be preserved by The Town Clerk until at least twenty days after the final adjournment or dissolution of said meet- ing, and during that period shall be open to public inspection.
SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Selectmen of the Town to prepare the ballots to be used at such Town meetings, and the con- duct of such meetings shall be under their charge, subject to the laws relating to elections, so far as the same may be applicable.
SEC. 6. A meeting shall be held for the purpose of submitting the question of the acceptance of this Act to the legal voters of the Town at some time within two years after the passage hereof. At such meeting the polls shall be open not less than eight hours and the vote shall be taken by ballot as in the case of the annual Town election, in answer to the question, " Shall an Act passed by the General Court, in the year nineteen hundred and six, entitled 'An Act relative to Town meetings in the Town of Arlington,' and providing for the ratification of certain votes passed at such meet- ings, be accepted by the Town ?" and the affirmative votes of a majority of the voters present and voting thereon shall be required for its acceptance. If at any meeting so held this act shall fail to be accepted, it may, at the expiration of three months after any such previous meeting, be submitted again for acceptance, but not after the period of two years from the passage of this Act.
SEC. 7. So much of this Act as authorizes the submission of the question of its acceptance to the legal voters of the Town shall take effect upon its passage, but it shall not take further effect unless accepted by the legal voters of the Town as herein prescribed. [Approved March 16, 1906.
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
ARLINGTON, Sept. 28, 1907.
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 purpose herein named, by causing a printed attested copy of the same to be left at every dwelling house in Town, and also. by posting an attested copy of said warrant on the door of the Town Hall in said Arlington, seven days at least, before said day of meeting.
GARRITT BARRY, 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 Arlington, on Monday, the thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, and were called to order at seven o'clock in the morning, 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.
Article 1 taken up. (Choice of Moderator.)
Horace A. Freeman and James M. Mead who had previously been appointed tellers by the Selectmen, were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and placed in charge of the check list and ballot box for the election of Moderator. Nine ballots were cast all bearing the name of John G. Brackett and he was declared elected Moderator and sworn to the faithful performance- of his duties.
The following ballot clerks and tellers, previously appointed by the Select- men, were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and assigned as follows :
Ballot Clerks-Lindsay K. Foster and John J. Mahoney.
Tellers-Horace A. Freeman, George C. Tewksbury and James M. Mead.
A sealed package of ballots was then delivered to the Moderator who publicly broke the seal and delivered the ballots to the ballot clerks.
Cards of instructions and penalties on voters were posted in prominent places as were also specimen ballots in comformity to law.
All arrangements, required by law for the annual Town election, were com- plied with.
The ballot box was examined by the Moderator and Town Clerk, and found to be empty with the register set at zero.
The box was then locked and the keys delivered into the custody of Con- stable Charles F. Donahue, in whose possession they remained until the close of the polls.
A list of registered voters was supplied by the Registrars of Voters to the Ballot Clerks and Checkers at the ballot box.
The polls were then declared open for the reception of votes in answer to- the question, "Shall an Act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and six, entitled ' An act relative to Town meetings in the Town of Arlington ' and providing for the ratification of certain votes passed at such.
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meetings, be accepted by the Town ?" under article two of the warrant and remained open until four (4) o'clock in the afternoon at which time, after due notice, they were declared closed.
At the close of the polls the ballot box registered fifty (50) votes.
The names checked at the ballot box and those checked by the Ballot Clerks were counted and found to agree with the number registered at the ballot box fifty (50) votes.
The ballots not used were enclosed in a package, sealed and delivered to the Town Clerk.
The ballots cast were then canvassed by the Moderator, Town Clerk and. Tellers and declaration made thereof at eight (8) minutes after four (4) o'clock, as follows :
Whole number of votes cast fifty (50).
Votes cast in the affirmative, forty-four (44).
Votes cast in the negative, six (6) and declaration was made that the Town had accepted Chapter 168, Acts of 1906, entitled " An act relative to Town meetings in the Town of Arlington " and providing for the ratification of cer- tain votes passed at such meetings, by a majority vote of the voters present and voting thereon.
The check list used at the entrance to the polling place together with the list used at the ballot box and the ballots cast were then sealed up in open meeting and indorsed by the election officers. They were then delivered into the custody of the Town Clerk.
The blank forms approved by the Secretary of the Commonwealth were used by the tellers in counting and tabulating the ballots cast.
Voted: That this meeting do now adjourn.
Meeting adjourned at fifteen (15) minutes after four (4) o'clock in the afternoon.
A true record. Attest :
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
ARLINGTON, Oct. 8, 1907.
I hereby certify that I have this day notified William M. Olin, Secretary of the Commonwealth, that the Town of Arlington had accepted Chapter 168, Acts of 1906, at a Town meeting held on September 30, 1907, duly called for that purpose, that the polls were kept open more than eight (8) hours, that the vote was taken by ballot as in the case of annual Town elections, that the Act was accepted by a majority of the voters present and voting thereon, and that said meeting was held within two (2) years from the passage of said Act.
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
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STATE ELECTION-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1907, AT 6 O'CLOCK A. M.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Arlington, 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, in said Town, Tuesday, the fifth day of November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month at 6.00 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 a Governor ; a Lieutenant-Governor; a Secretary; a Treasurer and Receiver-General; an Auditor of Accounts ; an Attorney-General for the Commonwealth; A Councillor for the Sixth Councillor District; a Senator for the Sixth Middlesex District; a Represent- ative in the General Court for the twenty-ninth Representative Dis- trict in the County of Middlesex; a District Attorney for the Northern District, Middlesex County for three years; a County Commissioner for three years; two Associate Commissioners for three years ; a Sheriff for Middlesex County for three years. Also, to give in their votes, "yes" or " no," as to approving and ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution authorizing the Gov- ernor, with the consent of the Council, to remove Justices of the Peace and Notaries Public.
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 the time shall not be after the hour of sunset.
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 nineteenth day of
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October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven.
S. FREDERICK HICKS, FREDERICK S. MEAD, J. HOWELL CROSBY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
A true record. Attest :
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
ARLINGTON, October 30, 1907.
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 for the purposes herein named, by causing a printed attested copy to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by post- ing an attested copy on the doors of the Town Hall, seven days at least before said day of meeting.
GARRITT BARRY, Constable.
A true copy of the warrant. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
In pursuance of the foregoing warrant the inhabitants of the Town of Arl- ington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven, it being the next Tuesday after the first Monday in said month, and were called to order by S. Frederick Hicks, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, at six o'clock in the forenoon. Mr. Hicks read the war- rant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants. Mr. Hicks then took charge of the meeting and acted as Chairman.
The laws of the Commonwealth governing elections had been complied with, and the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off and booths and shelves provided for the use of voters to examine and mark their ballots.
The following persons having been appointed by the Selectmen as Ballot Clerks, Tellers and Inspectors, were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk, and assigned as follows :
Ballot Clerks-Edgar Crosby and John J. Mahoney.
Tellers-Horace A. Freeman, George H. Peirce, George C. Tewksbury, Lindsay K. Foster, Arthur L. Bridgham, Frank B. Records, Jr., Howard I. Durgin, David T. Dale, William D. Grannan, Frank A. O'Brien, Maurice P. Ahern.
Inspectors-Arthur L. Marston and Frank F. Russell.
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George H. Peirce and George C. Tewksbury were assigned as Checkers at the ballot box.
Horace A. Freeman was assigned to have charge of the ballot box.
A sealed package of ballots, containing two thousand two hundred (2,200) ballots, supplied by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, was then delivered by the Town Clerk to the presiding officer, who publicly broke the seal and delivered the ballots to the Ballot Clerks.
Specimen ballots and cards of instructions were posted in conformity to law as were cards of penalties on voters for violation of the law governing elections.
The ballot box was examined by the presiding officer and 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.
The keys of the ballot box were delivered into the custody of Constable Garritt Barry and remained in his possession until the close of the polls, when they were delivered to the Town Clerk.
The polls were then declared open for the reception of votes and were kept open until thirty (30) minutes after four (4) o'clock in the afternoon, when, after due notice, they were declared closed. By consent of the presiding officer and the Town Clerk, the ballot box was opened at 8.15 A. M., and at various times during the day for the purpose of removing the ballots to be counted.
At the close of the polls the ballot box registered eleven hundred and fifteen (1115) votes. By comparison this number was found to agree with the names checked by the Ballot Clerks and the Checkers at the ballot box.
The unused ballots were counted by the Ballot Clerks and found to number ten hundred and eighty-five (1085) and this number with the eleven hundred and fifteen (1115) cast made the total number twenty-two hundred (2200) as received from the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The election officers canvassed the votes given in and the whole number was found to be eleven hundred and fifteen (1115), which were sorted, counted and declaration made thereof in open meeting, as required by law, at five o'clock as follows : -
GOVERNOR.
Charles W. Bartlett, of Newton, had twelve (12) votes.
Thomas F. Brennan, of Salem, had five (5) votes. John W. Brown, of Worcester, had three (3) votes. Hervey S. Cowell, of Ashburnham, had five (5) votes.
Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston, had seven hundred eighteen (718) votes.
Thomas L. Hisgen, of W. Springfield, one hundred forty-eight (148) votes.
Henry M. Whitney, of Brookline, had two hundred and one (201) votes, divided as follows: Democratic, one hundred sixty (160); Independent Citizens, twenty-four (24); Democratic Citizens, six (6); no designation, eleven (11); total, two hundred and one (201); blanks, twenty-three (23) ; total ballots cast, eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
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LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
E. Gerry Brown, of Brockton, had one hundred eighty-two (182) votes. John T. Cahill, of Lawrence had two (2) votes. Eben S. Draper, of Hopedale, had six hundred ninety-six (696) votes. Walter J. Hoar, of Worcester, had seven (7) votes.
Robert Lawrence, of Clinton, had five (5) votes.
Jonathan S. Lewis, of Stoneham, had six (6) votes.
George A. Schofield, of Ispwich, had one hundred seventy-eight (178) votes. Blanks, thirty-nine (39); total ballots cast eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
SECRETARY.
Solon W. Bingham, of Newton, had eight (8) votes.
Odilon Z. E. Charest, of Holyoke, had one hundred fifty-four (154) votes. John Hall, Jr., of Chicopee, had eight (8) votes. William M. Olin, of Boston, had seven hundred ninety-three (793) votes. Arthur E. Reimer, of Boston, had two (2) votes.
Dennis J. Ring, of Lowell, had eighty-two (82) votes.
Blanks, sixty-eight (68) ; ballots cast, eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
TREASURER.
Albert Barnes, of Fall River, had four (4) votes.
Edward J. Cantwell, of Fall River, had seventy-nine (79) votes.
Arthur B. Chapin, of Holyoke, had seven hundred sixty-seven (767) votes. William P. Connery, of Lynn, had three (3) votes.
Daniel F. Doherty, of Westfieid, had one hundred sixty-four (164) votes.
Charles C. Hitchcock, of Ware, had four (4) votes.
Edward Kendall, of Cambridge, had eighteen (18) votes.
Blanks, seventy-six (76) ballots cast eleven hundred fifteen (1115
AUDITOR.
Joao Claudino, of New Bedford, had five (5) votes. Joseph A. Conry, of Boston, had one hundred sixty-five (165) votes. Thomas E. Finnerty, of Clinton, had seventy-five (75) votes. George G. Hall, of Boston, had eight (8) votes.
James F. Pease, of Merrimac, had seventeen (17) votes. Henry E. Turner, of Malden, had seven hundred fifty-eight (758) votes. Blanks, eighty-seven (87); ballots cast eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
Allen Coffin, of Nantucket, had twelve (12) votes.
Dana Malone, of Greenfield, had seven hundred fifty-two (752) votes. John McCarthy, of Abington, had eight (8) votes. James E. McConnell, of Boston, had one hundred sixty-six (166) votes. William N. Osgood, of Lowell, had eighty-five (85) votes.
Harvey H. Pratt, of Scituate, had two (2) votes.
Gilbert G. Smith, of Lawrence, had seven (7) votes.
Blanks, seventy-nine (79) ; ballots cast eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
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COUNCILLOR.
Alvin S. Bennett, of Westford, had two hundred twenty-four (224) votes. Seward W. Jones, of Newton, had seven hundred fifty-nine (759) votes. William H. Partridge, of Newton, had twenty-five (25) votes.
Blanks, one hundred seven (107) ; ballots cast eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
SENATOR.
Herbert S. Riley, of Woburn, had seven hundred fifty-seven (757) votes.
Whitfield L. Tuck, of Winchester, had two hundred forty-seven (247) votes. Blanks, one hundred eleven (111); ballots cast eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT.
Horace D. Hardy, of Arlington, had eight hundred ninety-seven (897) votes. Blanks, two hundred eighteen (218) ; ballots cast eleven hundred fifteen (1115).
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