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(Inserted at the request of the School Committee)
Article 40. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of three thousand three hundred forty -- seven dollars ($3347.00) or any other sum to be expended under the direction of the Park Commissioners for the purpose of con- structing and fencing three hard top tennis courts at Meadow Brook Park on Cemetery Street, determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended, or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the Park and Playground Improvement Committee)
Article 41. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of four thousand four hundred sixty-two dollars ($4462.00) or any other sum to be expended under the di- rection of the Park Commissioners for the purpose of con- structing and fencing three hard top tennis courts suitable for use as an ice skating rink in winter at the Ethel Well- ington Memorial on Grove Street; determine in what man- ner the money shall be raised and expended, or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the Park and Playground Improvement Committee)
Article 42. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one thousand nine hundred twenty-three dollars ($1923.00) or any other sum to be expended under the di- rection of the Park Commissioners, for the purpose of erecting a fence at Reservoir Beach, Arlington Heights; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended ; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the Park and Playground Improvement Committee)
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Article 43. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) or any other sum, to be expended under the direction of the Park Com- missioners for the purpose of purchasing and erecting benches and a back stop; and to change a section of the fence which now hides the Samuel Whittemore tablet in Russell Park, also to do some decorative planting around the tablet; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto. (Inserted at the request of the Park and Playground Improvement Committee)
Article 44. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of two thousand sixty-one dollars and eighteen cents ($2,061.18), or any other sum, for the payment of Vocation- al School Tuition expenses incurred prior to January 1, 1940 ; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or take any action relating thereto.
Article 45. To see if the Town will accept section 13C of chapter 147 of the General Laws as inserted by chapter 419 of the Acts of 1939, which provides that in any town which has a reserve police force under authority of special law, and accepts this section, no person shall after the date of acceptance of this section, be appointed to the reserve police force thereof unless appointments to such force are subject to chapter thirty-one (entitled "Civil Service") and the name of such person shall have been placed, on or be- fore said date, on an eligible list established under chapter thirty-one and the rules made thereunder for such appoint- ments; or will take any action relative thereto.
Article 46. To see if the Town will make an appro- priation for a survey and appraisal of buildings and other property of the Town for insurance or other purpose; de- termine in what manner the money shall be raised and ex- pended; or take any action relative to such survey or ap- praisal.
Article 47. To see if the Town will sell or convey to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or otherwise dispose
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of the rights and easements of the Town in the parcel of land hereinafter described, including among others the rights and easements of constructing and operating a sys- tem or systems of sewers and sewage disposal and of lay- ing, making and maintaining common sewers and main drains and sewers, described in an order of taking by the Board of Public Works dated December 26, 1939 and re- corded with Middlesex So. Dist. Deeds on December 27, 1939, book 6356 page 461; will make an appropriation for the purpose; determine in what manner the money shall be raised and expended; or will take any action relating to said parcel of land, to any rights and easements therein, to any and all sewers, drains, pipes and appurtenances therein or to anything hereinbefore mentioned.
Said parcel of land is shown upon a plan marked "Plan of Land in Arlington, Mass. Taken for Sewer Purposes. Scale 1" = 40', Dec. 14, 1939. James M. Keane, Town En- gineer", recorded with said order of taking, and is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the easterly line of the Metro- politan Sewer Taking 7.5 feet from and at right angles to Metropolitan Manhole at station 32+33.03, and running southeasterly 93.52 feet to a point, thence turning and run- ning in a more southeasterly direction 45.99 feet to a point on the easterly line of the Metropolitan Sewer Taking, thence northwesterly along said Metropolitan Sewer Taking line 137.06 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 834 sq. ft. area.
Article 48. To see if the Town will vote to alter its Zoning By-Law and Map therein referred to so as to change from a General Residence District to a Single Residence District the area bounded and described as follows :
Beginning at a point on the center line of Tufts Street at the division line between the business district and the present general residence district, said point being 100 feet southwesterly of the southwesterly side line of Broadway,
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thence southeasterly by said boundary line of the business district and on a line 100 feet south of and parallel to said southwesterly side line of Broadway through lots 22A, 25, 24A, Bates Road lots 67 and 69 to a point on said boundary line of the business district and on the division line be- tween said lot 69 and lot A (Harlow St.), thence southwest- erly on the southeasterly boundary line of lots No. 67 to 58 inclusive across Raleigh Street and on the southeasterly boundary line of lots of No. 57 to 48 inclusive to a point on the division line between said lot 48 and lot B (Harlow St.), said point being 125 feet northeast of the northeasterly side line of Mass. Avenue and on the division line between the business district and the present general residence district, thence northwesterly by the boundary line of said business district and on a line 125 feet northeasterly of and parallel to the northeasterly side line of Mass. Avenue, through lot 48, Bates Road, lots 43 and 3A to a point on said boundary line of the business district at the center line of Tufts Street, thence northeasterly on said center line of Tufts Street to the point of beginning.
(Inserted at the request of the Planning Board)
Article 49. ยท To see if the Town will vote to alter its Zoning By-Law and Map therein referred to so as to change from a Semi-Residence District to a General Residence Dis- trict the areas bounded and described as follows :
1. Beginning at a point on the center line of Bacon Street, 50.0 feet northwest of the northwesterly side line of Cen- tral Street, thence northeasterly by the industrial district and on a line parallel to and 50 feet northwest of the north- westerly side line of Central Street, to the southwesterly side line of the Boston & Maine Railroad, thence southeast- erly on said southwesterly side line of the Boston & Maine Railroad to the point of intersection of said southwesterly side line of the Boston & Maine Railroad and the westerly division line of the business district, thence southwesterly by said westerly division line of the business district and on a line parallel to and 100 feet northeast of the northeasterly side line of Water Street to a point 150 feet north of the
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northerly side line of Mass. Avenue, thence westerly by the business district and on a line parallel to and 150 feet north of said northerly side line of Mass. Avenue to the center line of Central Street, thence northeasterly on said center line of Central Street and by said business district to the point of intersection of said center line of Central Street and the center line of Bacon Street, thence northwesterly on said Center line of Bacon Street to the point of begin- ning.
2. Beginning at a point on the center line of Decatur Street, said point being 100 feet west of the westerly side line of Gardner Street, and on the present division line be- tween the Semi-Residence District and the General Resi- dence District, thence southwesterly on said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Resi- dence District on a line 100 feet west of and parallel to the westerly side line of Gardner Street to an angle point in said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District, said point being 100 feet west of the westerly side line of Gardner Street and 100 feet northeasterly of the northeasterly side line of Fremont Street, thence northwesterly on said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence Dis- trict on a line 100 feet -northeasterly of and parallel to the northeasterly side line of Fremont Street to an angle point in said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District, said point being 100 feet northwesterly of the northwesterly side line of No. Union Street, thence northeasterly on said division line be- tween the Semi-Residence District and the General Resi- dence District on a -line 100 feet northwesterly of and parallel to the northwesterly side line of North Union Street to an angle point in said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District at a point 300 feet more or less southwesterly of the point of intersection of said northwesterly- side line of North Union Street and the southerly side line of Decatur Street and on the northeasterly boundary line of lot 38, thence
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northwesterly on said division line between the Semi-Resi- dence District and the General Residence District and on said northeasterly boundary line of lot 38 and extension thereof to an angle point in said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District at a point 100 feet south of the southerly side line of De- catur Street, thence westerly on said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence Dis- trict on a line 100 feet south of and parallel to the souther- ly side line of Decatur Street to an angle point in said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District at the center line of River Street, thence northeasterly on said center line of River
Street and the division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District to an angle point in said division line between the Semi-Residence Dis- trict and the General Residence District 100 feet southwest- erly of the southwesterly side line of Mystic Valley Park- way, thence northwesterly on said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District and on a line 100 feet southwest of and concentric with the southwesterly side line of Mystic Valley Parkway to an an- gle point in said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District, said point be- ing 100 feet northwesterly of the northwesterly side line of River Street and 100 feet southwesterly of the southwester- ly side line of Mystic Valley Parkway, thence northeasterly on said division line between the Semi-Residence District and the General Residence District on a line 100 feet north- west of and parallel to the northwesterly side line of River Street to the southwesterly side line of Mystic Valley Park- way, thence southeasterly, northeasterly, easterly and southwesterly on the northerly boundary line of the Semi- Residence District and on the southwesterly side line of Mystic Valley Parkway to an angle point in said boundary line on the center line of Decatur Street, thence westerly on said center line of Decatur Street and on the division line
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between the Semi-Residence District and the General Resi- dence District to the point of beginning.
(Inserted at the request of the Planning Board)
Article 50. To see if the Town will vote to alter its Zoning By-Law and Map therein referred to so as to in- clude in a Business District all of the area now included in a Single Residence District bounded and described as fol- lows :
Beginning at a point on the center line of Mass. Avenue at the present division line between the Business District and the Single Residence District, thence southwesterly on said division line between the Business District and the Sin- gle Residence District to a point on said division line be- tween the Business District and the Single Residence Dis- trict, thence westerly through private lands known as lot B on a line 100 feet south of and concentric with the southerly side line of Mass. Avenue to a point on the east- erly division line of lot D extended southerly, thence north- erly through said lot B, and on said easterly division line of lot D extended southerly to the southerly division line of D, thence westerly on the division line between lot D and lots B and A-2 to the westerly division line of lot D, thence northerly on said westerly division line of lot D, (as shown on a plan by C. H. Gannett Co., dated Sept. 1929 and recorded at the Middlesex Registry of Deeds and being plan No. 1155 of 1929, Book 5398, Page 487) and extension thereof, to a point on the center line of Mass. Avenue at the present division line between the Business District and the Single Residence District, thence easterly on said center line of Mass. Avenue and by said present Business District to the point of beginning.
(Inserted at the request of more than ten (10) registered voters)
Article 51. To see if the Town will vote to alter its Zoning By-Law and Map therein referred to so as to change from a Business District to a General Residence District the area bounded and described as follows :
1. Beginning at a point on the center line of Edgehill
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Road, said point being 100 feet northerly of the northerly side line of Summer Street and on the present division line between the Business District and the General Residence District, thence easterly on said present division line be- tween the Business District and the General Residence Dis- trict and on a line 100 feet northerly of and parallel to and concentric with the northerly side line of Summer Street to a point on said present division line between the Business District and the General Residence District at the center line of Brookdale Road, thence southerly on said center line of Brookdale Road to the point of intersection of said cen- ter line of Brookdale Road and the center line of Summer Street, thence westerly on said center line of Summer Street to the point of intersection of said center line of Summer Street and the center line of Edgehill Road, thence north- easterly on said center line of Edgehill Road to the point of beginning.
2. Beginning at the point of intersection of the center line of Cutter Hill Road and the center line of Summer Street, thence northwesterly on said center line of Summer Street to a point on said center line of Summer Street at the pres- ent boundary line of the General Residence District, thence northeasterly on the present division line between the Business District and the General Residence District to a point at the junction of boundary lines of the Business Dis- trict, the General Residence District and the Single Resi- dence District situated at a point 100 feet northeast of the northeasterly side line of Summer Street, thence southeast- erly on the division line between the Business District and the Single Residence District and the division line between the Business District and the General Residence District on a line 100 feet northeasterly of and parallel to and concen- tric with the northeasterly side line of Summer Street to a point on the division line between the Business District and the General Residence District at the center line of Cutter Hill Road, thence southerly on said center line of Cutter Hill Road to the point of beginning.
(Inserted at the request of more than ten (10) registered voters)
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Article 52. To see if the Town will make an appropria- tion of the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2500) or any other sum, to be used for the proper reception of the National Convention of the American Legion to be held in Boston and vicinity, September 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th, 1940. The same to be expended under direction of Arling- ton Post, No. 39, The American Legion ; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of more than ten (10) registered voters)
Article 53. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to be expended under the direction of the Board of Park Commissioners for the purpose of erecting suitable benches on the town property bordering Massachusetts Avenue and Broadway ; determine in what manner the money shall be raised; or take any action relating thereto.
(Inserted at the request of more than ten (10) registered voters)
Article 54. To see if the Town will pass an act making it mandatory for all departments to purchase only American made tools and materials excepting when said tools and materials do not compete with American Labor.
(Inserted at the request of more than ten (10) registered voters)
Article 55. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars ($400.00) to be expended un- der the direction of the Board of Selectmen, for the pur- pose of providing suitable headquarters for Arlington Post 1775, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 9, under the General Laws of Massachusetts, said sum to be raised by general tax.
(Inserted at the request of more than ten (10) registered voters)
Article 56. To see if the Town will construct a build- ing or buildings to be used for the purposes of the Board of Public Works and any other Town boards, officers, or committees, for use as a Reclamation plant or for the dis- posal of rubbish and waste materials or for any municipal purpose or purposes, upon land of the Town known as the
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Town Yard at Hobbs Court or upon any other land; will alter or add to the present building or buildings on said land; make an appropriation or appropriations for such construction, including the cost of original equipment and furnishings, and for such alterations and additions; deter- mine in what manner the money shall be raised and ex- pended; or take any action relating to all or any of the foregoing.
(Inserted at the request of the Committee Investigating Disposal of Ashes, Rubbish & Offal)
Article 57. To see if the Town will transfer the sum of three hundred and forty (340) dollars from (Mt. Pleas- ant Cemetery) Sale of Lots and Graves Fund, to the (Mt. Pleasant Cemetery) Perpetual Care Fund; or take any action relative thereto.
(Inserted at the request of the Cemetery Commissioners)
Article 58. To see if the Town will acquire by pur- chase, eminent domain or otherwise, for the extension of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery or for any other lawful purpose, all or any portion or portions of the land within the Town hereinafter described, any interests or easements therein, and any rights or easements of way or otherwise as ap- purtenant thereto, and subject to or with any reservations of any rights or easements therein; provide for such ac- quisition by transfer from (Mt. Pleasant Cemetery) Sale of Lots and Graves Fund or otherwise; determine in what manner any appropriation of money shall be raised and ex- pended; or take any action relating to all or any of the foregoing. Said land is bounded and described as follows: Westerly by land now or formerly of Michael Kelly, (being
premises numbered 95-97 Mystic Street), one hundred thirty-three and 7/10 (133.7) feet, more or less;
Northerly by land now or formerly of Sarah E. Holmes two hundred sixty-three and 14/100 (263.14) feet, more or less ;
Easterly 10.95 feet, Northerly 50.19 feet, Easterly 122.64 feet and 96.40 feet, Northerly 5.00 feet and Easterly 122
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feet, all more or less, by land of the Town of Arlington (Mt. Pleasant Cemetery) ;
Westerly by land now or formerly of Arlington Dye Works, Inc. twenty (20) feet, more or less ;
Southerly by the brook, land of owners unknown, and West- erly and Southwesterly by land now or formerly of High- land Trust Company; containing 76046 square feet of land more or less ;
also the right or easement for the purposes of a way in the passageway twenty-five (25) feet wide extending westerly from said land to Mystic Street. Said land and passageway are shown upon block plan No. 49 on file in the office of the Board of Assessors.
(Inserted at the request of the Cemetery Commissioners)
Article 59. To see if the Town will amend section 19 (relative to "appeals") of its Zoning By-law (a) by strik- ing out the words "to the Selectmen or to the Board of Ap- peals, if any" where they first appear in paragraph "A" of said section and substituting therefor the words "to the Board of Appeals under the Town's building by-laws, being Article 15 of the Town's by-laws known as the Building Code", and (b) by striking out the words "the Selectmen, or such Board of Appeals," wherever they afterwards ap- pear in said section 19 and substituting therefor the words "said Board of Appeals".
(Inserted at the request of the Planning Board)
And you will notify and warn the voters of the Town of Arlington to meet at the times and places herein specified by leaving at every dwelling house in the Town a printed copy of this Warrant and also by posting a copy of the same at the doors of the Town Hall, and in a conspicuous place in each of the fourteen precincts of the Town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting for the election of officers.
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Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk before the day of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at said Arlington, this twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty.
ERNEST W. DAVIS, HAROLD M. ESTABROOK, WILLIAM C. ADAMS, Board of Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
CONSTABLE'S RETURN
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Arlington, February 26, 1940.
Middlesex, ss.
By virtue of this warrant I have notified and warned the legal voters of the Town of Arlington to meet at the times and places and for the purposes herein specified by causing a printed attested copy of said warrant to be left at every dwelling house in the Town previous to the day of the meeting for the election of officers and by posting an attested copy of said warrant at the doors of the Town Hall and in two or more conspicuous places in each of the fourteen precincts of the Town, seven days at least before the day of said meeting. A notice of the times, places and objects of the meetings was published in the local papers.
(Signed) JAMES J. GOLDEN, Jr.,
Constable of the Town of Arlington, Mass.
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Arlington, Mass., March 4, 1940.
In pursuance of the foregoing Warrant the legal voters of the Town of Arlington met in their respective voting places in said Town on Monday the fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty at seven o'clock in the forenoon.
The following places were designated as the voting places for the various precincts.
Precinct One, in the Crosby School Building, entrance on Winter Street; Precincts Two and Four, in the Hardy School Building, entrance on Lake Street; Precincts Three and Five, in the Junior High School Building East, entrance on Tufts Street; Precincts Six and Eight, in the Town Hall; Precincts Seven and Nine, in the Russell School Building; Precinct Seven, entrance on Medford Street; Precinct Nine, entrance on Mystic Street; Precincts Ten and Twelve, in the Cutter School Building, entrance on Robbins Road ; Precinct Eleven, in the Highland Hose House, entrance on Massachusetts Avenue; Precinct Thirteen, in the Peirce School Building, entrance on Park Avenue North, Heights ; Precinct Fourteen, in the Locke School Building, entrance on Park Avenue, Heights.
The following election officers, having been duly ap- pointed by the Selectmen, and sworn to the faithful per- formance of their duties, were assigned for duty at the various precincts as follows :
Precinct 1. John S. Kelley, Warden, 27 Cleveland St., Ruth M. Kelley, Clerk, 30 Cleveland St., Jennie G. Marker, Inspector, 30 Marathon St., Marion K. Keefe, Inspector, 11 Teel St., Walter F. Priest, Inspector, 72 Cleveland St., Doris D. Slade, Inspector, 23 Cleveland St., Ellen J. Collins, Tell- er, 21 Cleveland St., Bertha V. Pichette, Teller, 48 Broad- way, H. Joseph Medeiros, Teller, 84 Trowbridge St., Edith L. Donaldson, Teller, 29 Cleveland St.
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