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tance of 121.79 feet to a cement bound and point of tangency; thence S51°14'45"E a distance of 110.74 feet to a cement bound at end of said layout. Said cement bound being 30.00 feet distant from and at right angles to the cement bound at the end of the layout of the northerly line of said street.
Said Jacob's Trail will be 40' in width.
Said Prouty Avenue will be 40' from Jacob's Trail to Duncan Drive and 30' to land of Hynes.
Said Duncan Drive will be 30' in width.
Said way or ways are more particularly shown on a plan entitled 'Plan of Part of Jacob's Trail, Prouty Avenue and Duncan Drive, Nor- well, Massachusetts' by W. G. Ford, C. E., Marshfield, Mass., dated Octo- ber 20, 1947, scale 40 feet to an inch, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
Said ways are to be known as Jacob's Trail, Prouty Avenue and Dun- can Drive.
Lacking one vote of being unanimous, it was voted that the layout of certain town ways pursuant to petition of Bertha A. Kees and others made by the Selectmen and filed in the office of the Town Clerk (from A. in preceeding article) be and hereby is accepted and the Selectmen be and they hereby are authorized in the name and behalf of the town to take by eminent domain, or accept deeds of the fee in the land in- cluded within the way or ways to be known as Jacobs Trail, Prouty Avenue and Duncan Drive.
Article 2. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500. to put the ways described in Article 1 in condition to plow, said sum to be spent under the direction of the road surveyor, or act on anything relative thereto. Approved by the Advisory Board.
Unanimously voted to raise and appropriate $500. to put the ways described in Article 1 in condition to plow, said sum to be spent under the direction of the road surveyor.
Article 3. To hear and act upon The Report of The Water Com- mittee. A motion was made, seconded and put to vote to accept the Report of the Water Committee. The Moderator declared the voice vote in favor of accepting the report. Seven voters doubted this decision, whereupon a poll was taken, with the following result.
277 voted to accept and file the Report of the Water Committee.
9 voted not to accept and file the Report of the Water Committee.
Article 4. To determine whether the town will accept Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947 and approved June 4. 1947. being an act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell to Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water."
Voted 382 for and 5 against accepting Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the
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session of 1947 and approved June 4, 1947, being an act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell to Supply Itself and Its Inhabi- tants with Water."
Article 5. To determine whether the town will authorize the incur- ring of debt in the amount of three hundred and fifty thousand ($350,- 000.) dollars or such other amount as may be determined upon at the meeting for the purpose of supplying itself and its inhabitants with water and for the other purposes set forth in Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947 being an Act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Nor- well to Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water" and for the pur- pose of establishing or purchasing a system for supplying the town and its inhabitants with water, for taking or purchasing water sources, or water or flowage rights, or for taking or purchasing land. for the pro- tection of a water system, two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) dollars of such indebtedness to be incurred from time to time pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves of 1947 afore- said and the balance thereof to be incurred from time to time pursuant to the provisions of G.L. (Ter. ed.) Chapter 44 Sec. 8 Clause (3); and to provide for the repayment thereof; and to determine whether the town will authorize the town treasurer with the approval of the selectmen to issue from time to time, notes or bonds of the town in such amount or amounts and upon such terms and conditions as may be determined by the town treasurer with the approval of the selectmen for the purposes of pursuant to and consistently with the statutes aforesaid and the other applicable provisions of G.L. (Ter. ed.) Chapter 44 but not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) dollars or such other amount as may be determined at said meeting, such notes to be payable not more than thirty years from the issue thereof and in such annual payments to begin not later than three years after the date thereof as will extinguish such loan or loans at maturity or as may otherwise be authorized or required by law.
Not approved by the Advisory Board.
Voted 195 for and 202 against authorizing the incurring of debt in the amount of three hundred and fifty (350,000) dollars for the purpose of establishing a water supply system as authorized by Chapter 496 of the Acts of 1947. 397 votes were cast, a 2/3 majority vote or 264 votes were necessary to carry the motion.
Article 6. To raise and appropriate $135,000. for the purpose of establishing a water supply system as authorized by Chapter 496 of the Acts of 1947 and to meet said appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow $135,- 000. and issue bonds or notes of the town therefor, payable in not more than thirty (30) years in accordance with the provisions of said Chapter 496 of the Acts of 1947.
Approved by the Advisory Board
Unanimously voted to amend Article 6 by adding the words "To carry out the alternate plan as proposed by the Water Committee."
Voted 323 for and 39 against, to raise and appropriate $135.000 for the purpose of establishing a water supply system as authorized by
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Chaper 496 of the Acts of 1947 and to meet said appropriation, the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is author- ized to borrow $135,000. and issue bonds or notes of the town therefor, payable in not more than thirty (30) years, in accordance with the pro- visions of said Chapter 496 of the Acts of 1947 to carry out the alternate plan as proposed by the Water Committee.
Article 7. To determine whether the town will until further vote of the town rescinding, amending or otherwise modifying its action here- under, vote to authorize the board of selectmen acting as a board of water commissioners until a board of water commissioners is elected and takes office and thereafter the board of water commissioners to per- form all acts and do all other things for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise that may be necessary or proper for the estab- lishment of a water supply system for itself and its inhabitants pursuant to and conformably with Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947 being an act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell to Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water" and to confer upon the board of selectmen acting as a board of water commissioners until a board of water commissioners is elected and takes office and thereafter upon the board of water commissioners full power and authority to act for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise under said Act and to vest in said board or boards as aforesaid all the authority con- ferred upon the town by said Act including specifically full power and authority to make any taking or taking and to enter into any agreements or contracts they deem necessary or appropriate under said Act.
Voted that until further vote of the town rescinding, amending, or otherwise modifying its action hereunder, authorize the board of select- men, acting as a board of water commissioners until, a board of water commissioners is elected and takes office and thereafter the board of water commissioners is authorized to perform all acts and do all other things for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise that may be necessary or proper for the establishment of a water supply system for it- self and its inhabitants pursuant to and conformably with Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947, being an Act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell to Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water" and to confer upon the board of Selectmen acting as a board of water commiss- ioners until a board of water commissioners is elected and takes office and thereafter upon the board of water commissioners full power and author- ity to act for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise under said Act and to vest in said board or boards as aforesaid all the authority conferred upon the town by said Act including specifically full power and authority to make any taking or takings and to enter into any agreements or contracts said board or boards deem necessary or appro- priate under said Act.
Article 8. To determine whether the town will until further vote of the town rescinding, amending or otherwise modifying its action hereunder vote to authorize the board of selectmen until a board of water commissioners is elected and takes office and there- after the board of water commissioners to enter from time to time into an agreement or agreements for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise with the town of Scituate or
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Hanover or either of them for the purchase and sale of water and the establishment by Scituate in Norwell of a water supply and distribution system and to do all other things and perform all other acts and take any action and enter into any agreement or agreements that they deem necessary or appropriate pursuant to and under the authority of Chapter 263 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachu- setts in the year 1943 being entitled "An Act Authorizing the Town of Scituate to Acquire Additional Water Supply" as most recently amended by Chapter 481 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in the year 1947 being entitled "An Act Relative to the Acquisition of Additional Water Supply by the Town of Scituate" for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise to do any and all other things and to enter into any or all contracts and agreements which the town may lawfully do under said acts or either of them or any other statute, act or acts relating to water supply.
Unanimously voted that until further vote of the town rescinding, amending or otherwise modifying this vote, the board of selectmen until a board of water commissioners is elected and takes office and there- after the board of water commissioners be and hereby is authorized to enter from time to time into an agreement or agreements for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise with the towns of Scituate or Hanover or either of them for the purchase and sale of water and the establishment by Scituate in Norwell of a water supply and distribution system and to do all other things and to perform all other acts and take any action and enter into any agreement, pursuant to and under the authority of Chapter 263 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in the year 1943, being entitled "An Act Authorizing the Town of Scituate to Acquire Additional Water Supply" as most recently amended by Chapter 481 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in the year 1947 being entitled "An Act Relative to the Acquisition of Additional Water Supply by the Town of Scituate" and for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise to do any and all other things and to enter into any or all contracts and agreements which the town may lawfully do under said acts or either of them or any other statute, act or acts relating to water supply.
Article 9. To determine whether the town will elect at the next annual town meeting, a board of water commissioners, one for three years, one for two years, one for one year and one for three years each year thereafter or act on anything relative thereto.
Unanimously voted that there be elected at the next annual towil meeting a board of three water commissioners pursuant to and conform- ably with Section 8 of Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves of 1947 and that the Selectmen, The Town Clerk, or such other town officer or officers as may be appropriate or any of them be and hereby are author- ized to do all acts and take all steps they may deem appropriate and necessary in order to provide for the election of a board of water com- missioners as aforesaid.
Article 10. To determine what other action, if any, shall be taken or authorized with reference to water supply or a water distribution system or to the authorization of incurring of indebtedness and the issuance of bonds or notes in connection therewith.
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UTanimously voted to pass over Article 10.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to allow the Fire Engineers to dispose of obsolete or unusable fire department equipment and ap- paratus after adequate replacements have been provided, or act on any- thing relative thereto.
Unanimously voted to allow the Fire Engineers to dispose of obso- lete or unusable fire department equipment and apparatus after adequate replacements have been provided.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,500. for the preparation of Plans and Specifications for a new Elementary School building, to have not less than eight classrooms, together with all or the essential rooms and utilities, or take any other action relative thereto. Approved by the Advisory Board.
Unanimously voted to raise and appropriate $4,500. for the prepara- tion of Plans and Specifications for a new Elementary School building, to have not less than eight classrooms, together with all or the essential rooms and utilities.
Article 13. To consider and act upon any matter that may properly come before the meeting.
Passed over.
Meeting adjourned.
NELLIE L. SPARRELL, Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
PLYMOUTH SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Norwell, in said County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
GREETINGS:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Norwell, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs to meet at the Cushing Memorial Town Hall in said Norwell on Monday the Fifteenth day of December. 1947 at 7:30 P. M., then and there to act upon the following articles, to wit:
Article 1. To determine whether the town will accept the layout of certain town ways more particularly described below, made by the selectmen pursuant to the petition of Bertha A. Kees and others, and filed in the office of the town clerk and name said way or ways, or act on anything relative thereto.
(a) All the land lying between the side lines and end lines of
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Jacob's Trail, Prouty Avenue and Duncan Drive as next described: The descriptions of the north line of Jacob's Trail, west line of Prouty Avenue, and north line of Duncan Drive, in the town of Norwell, Massachusetts, as laid out by the Selectmen, are as follows: Beginning at a cement bound in the easterly line of Washington Street about 43.49 feet south- easterly from a Massachusetts Highway Bound located opposite Station 103+42.74; thence southeasterly by a curve to the left, radius of which is 12.83 feet, a distance of 19.29 feet to a cement bound and point of tangency; thence N 47°07'E 188.91 feet to a cement bound at Wendall Avenue; thence same course across Wendall Avenue a distance of 40.07 feet to a cement bound; thence same course 200.34 feet to a cement bound at Doris Avenue; thence same course across Doris Avenue 40.07 feet to a cement bound; thence same course 179.13 feet to a cement bound at point of curvature; thence by a curve to the left, the radius of which is 20.00 feet, a distance of 32.58 feet to a cement bound at point of tangency and Prouty Avenue; thence N46°13'35" W a distance of 669.48 feet to a cement bound and point of curvature; thence by a curve to the left, the radius of which is 20.00 feet, a distance of 34.11 feet to a cement bound at the point of tangency; thence N19°30'55"W across Duncan Drive, a distance of 36.37 feet to a cement bound; thence by a curve to the left, the radius of which is 13.10 feet, a distance of 18.81 feet to a cement bound; thence N46°13'35"W a distance of about 189.95 feet to a cement bound and land of one Hynes, thence N36°03'15"E 30.27 feet to a cement bound, thence S46°13'35"W a distance of about 198.95 feet to a cement bound and point of curvature; thence by a curve to the left, the radius of which is 10.00 feet, a distance of 17.06 feet to a cement bound at point of tangency and Duncan Drive; thence N36°03'15"E a distance of 381.02 feet to a cement bound at Judith Street; thence same course across Judith Street 30.28 feet to a cement bound; thence still same course 13.85 feet to a cement bound and angle point; thence N44°59'55"E a distance of 114.24 feet to a cement bound at an angle point; thence N64°55'15"E 258.31 feet to a cement bound; thence S51°14'45"E 47.52 feet to a cement bound; thence same course 150.00 feet to a cement bound at end of the layout. The descriptions of the southerly lines are as follows: Beginning at a cement bound in the easterly line of said Washington Street 64.09 feet southeasterly from the first mentioned bound, thence by a curve to the right, the radius of which is 11.22 feet, a distance of 18.37 feet to a cement bound at point of tangency; thence N47°07'E 541.04 feet to an angle point; thence N69º29'E 150.06 feet to a cement bound; thence N24°24'35"W acrors Jacob's Trail a distance of 45.66 fret to a cement bound thence by a curve to the left, the radius of which is 159.20 feet, a distance of 71.87 feet to a cement bound at point of tangency and Prouty Avenue; thence by the present line of Prouty Avenue N46°13'35"W a distance of 94.47 feet to a cement bound at Leigh Road; thence same course across Leigh Road; 33.30 feet to a cement bound: thence still in the present line of Prouty Avenue N46°13'35"W 254.59 feet to a cement bound at Douglass Avenue; thence same course across Douglass Avenue 42.83 feet to a cement bound; thence same course 256.75 feet to a cement bound at point of curvature; thence by a curve to the right, the radins of which is 26.21 feet. a distance of 37.64 feet to a cement bound at point of tangency and Duncan Drive; thence in the present line of Dun- can Drive N36°03'15"E a distance of 410.11 feet to a coment bound and angle point; thence still by the present line of said Duncan Drive N44°59'55"E 106.62 feet to a cement bound and angle point: thence still by the present line of said Duncan Drive N64°55'15"E 166.26 feet
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to a cement bound at point of curvature; thence by a curve to the right, the radius of which is 109.32 feet, a distance of 121.79 feet to a cement bound and point of tangency; thence S51º14'45"E a distance of 110.74 feet to a cement bound at end of said layout. Said cement bound being 30.00 feet distant from and at right angles to the cement bound at the end of the layout of the northerly line of said street.
Said Jacob's Trail will be 40' in width.
Said Prouty Avenue will be 40' from Jacob's Trail to Duncan Drive and 30' to land of Hynes.
Said Duncan Drive will be 30' in width.
Said way or ways are more particularly shown on a plan entitled 'Plan of Part of Jacob's Trail, Prouty Avenue and Duncan Drive, Nor- well, Massachusetts' by W. G. Ford, C. E., Marshfield, Mass., dated Octo- ber 20, 1947, scale 40 feet to an inch, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
Said ways are to be known as Jacob's Trail, Prouty Avenue and Duncan Drive.
Article 2. To see if the town will raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 to put the ways described in article 1 in condition to plow, said sum to be spent under the direction of the road surveyor, or act on anything relative thereto.
Approved by the Advisory Board.
Article 3. To hear and act upon the Report of the Water Committee.
Article 4. To determine whether the town will accept Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947 and approved June 4, 1947 being an act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell To Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water."
Article 5. To determine whether the town will authorize the incur- ring of debt in the amount of three hundred and fifty thousand ($350,- 000.) dollars or such other amount as may be determined upon at the meeting for the purpose of supplying itself and its inhabitants with water and for the other purposes set forth in Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947 being an Act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell to Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water" and for the purpose of establishing or purchasing a system for supplying the town and its inhabitants with water, for taking or purchasing water sources, or water or flowage rights, or for taking or purchasing land for the protection of a water system, two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) dollars of such indebtedness to be incurred from time to time pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves of 1947 aforesaid and the balance thereof to be incurred from time to time pursuant to the provisions of G. L. (Ter. ed) Chapter 44 Sec. & Clause (3); and to provide for the repayment thereof; and to determine whether the town will authorize the town treasurer with the approval of the selectmen to issue from time to time, notes or bonds of the town in such amount or amounts and upon such terms and conditions as may
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be determined by the town treasurer with the approval of the selectmen for the purposes of pursuant to and consistently with the statutes afore- said and the other applicable provisions of G. L. (Ter. ed) Chapter 44 but not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) dollars or such other amount as may be determined at said meeting, such notes to be payable not more than thirty years from the issue thereof and in such annual payments to begin not later than three years after the date thereof as will extinguish such loan or loans at maturity or as may otherwise be authorized or required by law.
Not approved by the Advisory Board.
Article 6. To determine whether the town will authorize the incur- ring of debt in the amount of one hundred and thirty-five thousand (135,000) dollars or such other amount as may be determined upon at the meeting for the purpose of supplying itself and its inhabitants with water and for the other purposes set forth in Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947 being an act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell to Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water" and for the purpose of establishing or purchasing a system for supplying the town and its inhabitants with water, for taking or purchasing water sources, or water or flowage rights, or for taking or purchasing land for the protection of a water system, such indebtedness to be incurred from time to time pursuant to the provision of Chapter 496 of the Acts and Re- solves of 1947 aforesaid and to provide for the repayment thereof; and to determine whether the town will authorize the town treasurer with the approval of the selectmen to issue from time to time, notes or bonds of the town in such amount or amounts and upon such terms and condi- tions as may be determined by the town treasurer with the approval of the selectmen for the purposes of pursuant to and consistently with the statutes aforesaid such notes to be payable not more than thirty years from the issue thereof and in such annual payments to begin not later than three years after the date thereof as will extinguish such loan or loans at maturity or as may otherwise be authorized or required by law.
Approved by the Advisory Board.
Article 7. To determine whether the town will until further vote of the town rescinding, amending or otherwise modifying its action here- under, vote to authorize the board of selectmen acting as a board . of water commissioners until a board of water commissioners is elected and takes office and thereafter the board of water commissioners to perform all acts and do all other things for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise that may be necessary or proper for the establish- ment of a water supply system for itself and its inhabitants pursuant to and conformably with Chapter 496 of the Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts during the session of 1947 being an act entitled "An Act to Authorize the Town of Norwell to Supply Itself and Its Inhabitants with Water" and confer upon the board of selectmen acting as a board of water commissioners until a board of water com- missioners is elected and takes office and thereafter upon the board of water commissioners full power and authority to act for and in behalf and in the name of the town or otherwise under said Act and to vest in sald board or boa:ds as aferosaid all the authority conferred upon the
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