USA > Massachusetts > Middlesex County > Reading > Town of Reading Massachusetts annual report 1934 > Part 4
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25
"Section 1. The Board of Selectmen shall constitute the Law Committee of the Town".
"Section 2. The Law Committee shall hereafter annually on or before the 15th day of April, and whenever a vacancy shall exist, choose some competent lawyer to act as Town Counsel, who shall be paid such a salary as may be determined by the annual town meeting".
Board of Selectmen.
Article 1. On motion of Albert N. Leman, that the By-Laws of the Town be and the same are hereby amended by striking from Ar- ticle 4, Sections 1 and 2 and inserting in place thereof the following :
"Section 1. The Board of Selectmen shall constitute the Law Committee of the Town".
"Section 2. The Law Committee shall hereafter annually on or before the 15th day of April and whenever a vacancy shall exist, choose some competent lawyer to act as Town Counsel, who shall be paid such salary as may be determined by the annual town meeting".
The same was not voted.
Article 2. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate for the purpose of foreclosing in the Land Court, the right of re- demption to real estate taken by the Town for non-payment of taxes previous to the year 1932, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Selectmen.
Article 2. On motion of Albert N. Leman, it was voted that the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) be raised and appropriated for the purpose of foreclosing in the Land Court the right ,of redemption to real estate taken by the Town for non-payment of taxes previous to the year 1932.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Public Works on the relocating or altering of Franklin St., such highway being relocated or altered in accordance with plan duly approved by the Board of Public Works and filed in the office of the Town Clerk, in accordance with statutory requirements, and to see if the Town will accept the relocation or alteration of Franklin Street as shown on said plan or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works.
39
Article 3. Report of the Board of Public Works on the Relocation or alteration of Franklin Street.
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having de- termined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity re- quire that the public highway be laid out, relocated or altered as and in the location hereinafter described, having complied with all re- quirements of law relating to notice to owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out, relocated or altered as a public highway for the use of the town, Franklin Street. The boundaries and meas- urements of said public highway as so laid out, relocated or altered are as follows :
The northerly side line of said Franklin Street as hereby relo- cated begins at a Massachusetts Highway Stone Bound at land of Elmer R. Batchelder. Thence on a curve to the right with a radius of 39.39 feet, through land of said Batchelder, a length of 57.84 feet to a point of tangent :
From thence the said northerly line runs S. 88 degrees -06'-30" W., partly within the limits of said Franklin Street heretofore used for high- way purposes and partly by land of W. Raymond Emerson, Adm., a distance of 466.70 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right on a radius of 743.94 feet, through land of said Emerson, Adm., a length of 95.85 feet to a point of tan- gent :
Thence N. 84 degrees -30' -30" W., through land of said Emer- son, Adm., a distance of 48.75 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left, on a radius of 987.32 feet, still by land of said Emerson, Adm., and land of Mary C. Emerson, a length of 95.91 feet to a point of tangent.
Thence S. 89 degrees -55' -30" W., through land of said Mary C. Emerson, a length of 117.96 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 69 degrees -59' -30" W., still through land of said Mary C. Emerson, a distance of 80.00 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left, on a radius of 341.00 feet partly by land of said Mary C. Emerson partly within the limits of said Franklin Street heretofore used for highway purposes and land of W. Raymond Emerson, Adm., a length of 393.79 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 43 degrees -50' -30" W., through land of said Emer- son, Adm., a portion of Franklin Street heretofore used for highway purposes, and land of Ralph S. Hills and Eva Hills, a distance of 664.70 feet to a point of curve.
Thence with a curve to the right, on a radius of 480.00 feet, by lands of said Hills and Winthrop S. Buker and Nora E. Buker, a length
40
of 230.53 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 71 degrees-21' -30" W., through land of said Buker, across a private way known as Emerson Street and land of Mary E Whitchurch, a distance of 274.50 feet to a point of curve within the said limits of Franklin Street heretofore used for highway purposes :
Thence with a curve to the left on a radius of 694.05 feet, partly within the limits of said Franklin Street and partly by land of said Whitchurch to a point of tangent within land of said Whitchurch :
Thence S. 51 degrees -35' -30" W., through land of said Whit- church, a distance of 195.52 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right on a radius of 580.00 feet by land of said Whitchurch, a length of 344.43 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 85 degrees -37' -30" W., by land of said Whitchurch, a distance of 374.26 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left on a radius of 500.00 feet by land of Mary Muir, by and through land of David W. Davis, a length of 426.30 feet to a point of tangent within the limits of Franklin Street heretofore used for highway purposes :
Thence S. 36 degrees -46' -30" W., through said limits of Frank- lin Street by lands of said Davis and Hiram J. Philbrook, 1369.13 feet to an angle point :
Thence from an angle 3 degrees -20" to the left, S. 33 degrees -26' -30" W., through land of George J. Fartridge, a distance of 272.38 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right on a radius of 380.00 feet through land of said Partridge a length of 280.65 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 75 degrees -45' -30" W., through land of said Par- tridge to a point of curve situated within the limits of Franklin Street as previously referred to :
Thence with a curve to the left on a radius of 480.00 feet through said limits of Franklin Street a length of 196.94 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 52 degrees -31' - 30" W., still through said limits of Franklin Street and by land of John A. McLeod Estate a distance of 357.19 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left on a radius of 500.00 feet by land of McLeod Heirs a length of 98.61 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 41 degrees -03' -30" W., along the present line of Franklin Street by land of said McLeod Heirs and Ida C. Lucas, a dis- tance of 451.60 feet to a point of curve :
Thence turning and running S. 62 degrees -21' -10" E. across Franklin Street a distance of 46.34 feet to a point of curve located on the southerly line of Franklin Street at its intersections with Grove Street :
41
The last line described is the westerly terminus of said Franklin Street as hereby relocated.
(Southerly Line).
The southerly line of Franklin Street as hereby relocated is bound- ed and described as follows :
Commencing at the point of curve above described, the said south- erly line runs along the present southerly line of Franklin Street a distance of 207.30 feet to a stone bound :
Thence along said southerly line a distance of 237 feet more or less to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right on a radius of 460.00 feet by and through land of Henry E. and Anne L. Robinson and by land of William A. Burns a length of 90.72 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 52 degrees -31' -30" E. through land of said Burns a distance of 357.19 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right on a radius of 440.00 feet, still through land of said Burns, a length of 179.70 feet to a point of tan- gent :
Thence N. 75 degrees -45 ' -30" E., through land of said Burns, by land of Arthur M. and Verlie D. Lane, a distance of 242.77 feet to a point of curve in the limits of Franklin Street heretofore used for highway purposes :
Thence with a curve to the left on a radius of 420.00 feet, through sa'd limits of Franklin Street and land of Carrie Nichols, a length of 310.19 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 33 degrees -26' -30" E., through land of the said Nichols, across a private way known as Van Norden Road, and through land of John J. and Helen F. Cornell, a distance of 272.88 feet to an angle point :
Thence from an angle 3 degrees -20' to the right, running N. 36 degrees -46' -30" E., by and through land of said Cornell, Emma L. Nelson, and said limits of Franklin Street a distance of 1369.13 feet to a point of curve.
Thence with a curve to the right on a radius of 460.00 feet, through land of said Nelson, a length of 392.19 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 85 degrees -37" -30' E., through land of said Nelson, a distance of 374.26 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left on a radius of 620.00 feet through. and by land of William H. Dewsnap and Florence E. Dewsnap, a length of 368.19 feet to a point of tangent located in the previously described limits of Franklin Street :
Thence N. 51 degrees -35' -30" E., through said limits of Frank- lin Street a distance of 195.92 feet to a point of curve :
42
Thence with a curve to the right, on a radius of 654.05 feet, through land of said Dewsnap, a length of 225.65 feet, to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left, on a radius of 520.00 feet through lands of Town of Reading, Anna L. Connor Vickery and Merle N. Con- nor, a length of 249.74 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 43 degrees -50' -30" E., through lands of said Vickery and Connor and Kenneth L. Baker, and by land of Edward Corton and Georgiana Corton, a distance of 664.70 feet to a point of curve located within the previously described limits of Franklin Street :
Thence with a curve to the right, on a radius of 301.00 feet through and by lands of Esther D. Stone, a length of 347.37 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 69 degrees -59' -30" E., through land of said Stone, a distance of 80.00 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left, on a radius of 376.52 feet, by land of said Stone, and Charles M. Fox and Etta D. Fox, a length of 131.98 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 89 degrees -55' -30" E., by land of said Fox and through land of John E. Mansfield and Bessie Jane Mansfield, a dis- tance of 174.08 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right, on a radius of 947.32 feet, through land of said Mansfield, a length of 92.03 feet to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 84 degrees -30' -30" E., through and by land of said Mansfield, a distance of 48.75 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left, on a radius of 783.94 feet, by land of Harold W. Batchelder, a length of 101.02 feet to a point of tan- gent :
Thence N. 88 degrees -06' -30" E., through land of said Batchelder, a distance of 466.70 feet to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right, on a radius of 28.76 feet, across land of said Batchelder, a length of 47.73 feet, to a point of tan- gent, on the easterly line of Main Street :
Thence N. 03 degrees -58' -30" E., along said easterly line of Main Street a distance of 106.99 feet to the Massachusetts Highway Bound marking the point of beginning.
The above-described lines being more fully shown on a Plan en- titled, "Plan of Franklin Street, Reading, Mass., Board of Public Works", made under date of March, 1934, said plan being a part of this description.
We determine that no damages will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement.
No betterments are to be assessed for this improvement.
This laying out, relocation or alteration, so made by us, we here-
43
by report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that when this report is accepted and adopted by the Town, that said public high- way shall thereafter be laid out, relocated or altered in accordance with said plan.
HAROLD W. PUTNAM WILLIAM T. FAIRCLOUGH ROBERT E. FOWLE A. RUSSELL BARNES, JR. ELMER P. CROOKER, JR.
Board of Public Works.
On motion of William T. Fairclough, it was voted that the Town accept the report of the Board of Public Works on the relocating or alteration of Franklin Street and to adopt the recommendation there- in contained.
Article 4: To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Public Works upon the laying out as a public highway of a private way known as County Road, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessments of betterments, such highway being laid out in accordance with plan duly approved by the Board of Survey and filed in the office of the Town Clerk in accordance with the statutory requirements, and to see if the Town will accept the public way laid out by the Board of Public Works as County Road, and to raise and appropriate for the said laying out and the construction of said way the sum of one thousand four hundred twenty-eight and 75-100 dollars ($1,428.75), or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works.
Article 4. Report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of County Road.
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having de- termined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity re- quire the laying out of a town way under the provisions of law au- thorizing the assessments of betterments, substantially in the location hereinafter described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing there- on, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a Town way for the use of the Town, running wester- ly and thence northerly from Howard Street, substantially as and in the location of the private way known as County Road, the bound- aries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows :
The southerly line of said County Road commences at a stone bound set at the present terminus of the southerly line of said Howard Street at land of Wilfred L. and Catherine A. Porter, said point be- ing S. 81 degrees -51' -30', a distance of 731.91 feet from a stone
44
bound set on the said southerly line of said Howard Street at its point of curvature with West Street :
From thence the said southerly line of County Road runs with a curve to the left with a radius of 794.40 feet, a length of 87.81 feet to a point of tangent in land of the heirs of Augusta M. Morse :
Thence S. 75 degrees -31' -30" W., a distance of 222.97 feet through land of the said Morse Heirs to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 20.00 feet, a length of 29.61 feet through land of the said Morse Heirs to a point of tan- gent at land of Merle W. Farr :
Thence S. 80 degrees -42' -20" W., a distance of 40.00 feet through land of the said Farr to an angle. The said southerly line now turns at a right angle and, running in a northerly direction becomes the westerly line.
(Westerly Line).
Thence N. 9 degrees -17' -40" W. a distance of 403.98 feet through land of the said Farr to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 560.00 feet a length of 212.91 feet through land of the said Farr to a point of tan- gent :
Thence N. 31 degrees -04' -40" W. a distance of 182.01 feet through land of the said Farr and land of Annie Clements to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 800.00 feet a length of 165.03 feet through land of said Clements and land of Wil- liam J. Steele to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 19 degrees -15' -30" W. a distance of 262.67 feet through land of said Steele and land of Marion Delong to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 340.00 feet a length of 163.24 feet through land of the said Delong to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 8 degrees -15' -00" E. a distance of 145.72 feet through land of the said DeLong and land of Charles C. Johnson to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 400.00 feet a length of 127.68 feet through land of the said Charles C. Johnson and land of W. E. Johnson and land of Herbert Clark to a point of curve:
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 100.00 feet a length of 87.06 feet through land of the said Clark to a point of tan- gent :
Thence N. 60 degrees -12' -30" W., a distance of 171.36 feet through land of the said Clark and land of Mary Garvia to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 146.00 feet,
45
a length of 112.30 feet through land of the said Garvia and land of George and Margaret Agnes White to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 14 degrees -14' -50" W., a distance of 148.50 feet through land of the said White and land of William and Mary J. Rob- erts to an angle and the terminus of this the said westerly line :
From thence the most northerly end of said County Road turns at a right angle and runs N. 75 degrees -45' -10"E ., a distance of 40.00 feet through land of said Roberts to an angle and the easterly line of said County Road.
(Easterly Line)
Thence turning at a right angle and running S. 14 degrees -14'. -50" E., a distance of 148.50 feet through land of the said Roberts and land of the said George and Margaret White to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 100.00 feet, a length of 80.22 feet through land of the said White and land of William E. and Edith M. Meuse, to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 60 degrees-12' -30" E., a distance of 171.36 feet through land of the said Meuse and land of the said Mary Garvia and land of the said Herbert. Clarke to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 140.00 feet, a length of 122.59 feet through land of the said Clark to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 10 degrees -02' -20" E., a distance of 85.66 feet through land of the said Clark to a point of tangent :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 440.00 feet, a length of 140.45 feet through land of the said W. E. Johnson and the land of the said Charles C. Johnson to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 8 degrees -15' -00" W., a distance of 145.72 feet through land of the said Charles C. Johnson and land of the said Marion Delong to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 300.00 feet, a length of 144.03 feet through land of the said Delong to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 19 degrees -15' -30" E., a distance of 262.67 feet through land of the said Delong and the land of the said William J. Steele to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 760.00 feet, a length of 156.78 feet through land of the said Steele and land of the said Annie Clements to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 31 degrees -04' -40" E., a distance of 182.01 feet through land of the said Clements and land of Merle W. Farr to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 600.00 feet, a length of 228.11 feet through land of said Farr to a point of tangent on
46
the dividing line between the land of the said Farr and land of the said Morse Heirs :
Thence S. 9 degrees -17' -40" E., a distance of 312.71 feet along the dividing line between said lands, with the said County Road en- tirely within land of the said Farr, to a point of curve. The said East- erly line now turns and becomes the northerly line.
(Northerly Line.)
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 30.00 feet, a length of 49.84 feet through land of the said Morse Heirs to a point of tangent :
Thence N. 75 degrees -31' -30" E., a distance of 296.33 feet through land of the said Morse Heirs to a stone bound at the present terminus of the northerly line of said Howard Street and the termi- mus of the said northerly line herein described :
Thence S. 9 degrees -29' -30" E., a distance of 45.01 feet along the present westerly terminus of said Howard Street to the stone bound at the point of beginning.
Said County Road to be forty feet in width except as shown on a plan hereinafter mentioned.
Said lines being more fully shown on a plan of "County Road" made under date of March, 1934 by Davis and Abbott, Civil Engineers, Reading, Mass., said plans being a part of this description.
We determine that no damages will be sustained by any person or persons in their property by reason of the taking to be made for this improvement. All acts in connection with said laying out are done under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of bet- terments, and betterments are to be assessed therefor.
This laying out so made by us we hereby report to the Town for acceptance and recommend that said way shall thereafter be known as a public Town way and named County Road and that the sum of one thousand four hundred twenty-eight and 75-100 dollars ($1,428.75) be raised and appropriated for said laying out and for the construc- tion of the said way.
HAROLD W. PUTNAM A. RUSSELL BARNES, JR. WILLIAM T. FAIRCLOUGH ROBERT E. FOWLE ELMER P. CROOKER, JR.
Board of Public Works.
On motion of Harold W. Putnam, it was voted that the Town ac- cept the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of County Road and to adopt the recommendation therein contained and to raise and appropriate for the laying out and the construction of
47
the said way the sum of one thousand four hundred twenty-eight and 75-100 dollars ($1,428.75).
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of Public Works upon the laying out as a public highway of a private way known as Van Norden Road, under the provisions of law authorizing the assessment of betterments, such highway being laid out in accordance with plan duly approved by the Board of Survey and filed in the office of the Town Clerk in accordance with the statutory requirements, and to see if the Town will accept the public way laid out by the Board of Public Works as Van Norden Road, and to raise and appropriate for the said laying out and the construction of said way the sum of two thousand six hundred seventy-five dollars ($2675.00), or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works.
Article 5. Report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of Van Norden Road.
The Board of Public Works of the Town of Reading having de- termined and adjudged that common convenience and necessity require the laying out of a town way under the provisions of law authorizing the assessments of betterments, substantially in the location herein- after described, having complied with all requirements of law relating to notice to the owners of land thereof and of a hearing thereon, and having met at the time and place appointed for such hearing and then and there heard all persons present who desired to be heard, have laid out as a town way for the use of the Town, running in a general south- easterly direction from Franklin Street to Forest Street, substantially as and in the location of the private way known as Van Norden Road, the boundaries and measurements of said way as so laid out are as follows :
The southerly line of said Van Norden Road commences at a point in the wall on the southerly side of said Franklin Street by land of Fannie C. Nichols, said point to be marked eventually with a stone bound :
From thence the said southerly line runs with a curve to the right with a radius of 29 feet, more or less, a length of 35 feet, more or less, over land of said Nichols to a point of tangent in said Nichols' land :
Thence S. 74 degrees -45' E., a distance of 200.00 feet, more or less, over land of said Nichols to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 800.00 feet, more or less, a length of 126.00 feet, more or less, over land of said Nichols and over land of Sarah E. Roder to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 65 degrees -44' -50" E., a distance of 366.65 feet more or less, over land of said Roder to a point of curve :
48
Thence with a curve to the left with a radius of 1240.00 feet, a length of 445.23 feet over land of said Roder, land of William H. Leach, Fred F. and Libbie M. Smith and land of Nathaniel Coles to a point of tangent :
Thence S. 86 degrees -19' -10" E., a distance of 683.72 feet over land of said Coles, land of Bartholomew J. Lehan, Merrick. C. and Amanda M! Adams and land of owner unknown to a point of curve :
Thence with a curve to the right with a radius of 200.00 feet, a length of 219.21 feet over land of said owner unknown, across a pri- vate way known as Harold Avenue, and over land of Sylvester and and Mary Zyskowski to a point of tangent :
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.