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District Attorney
William G. Andrew, 472 Cambridge St., Cambridge 81 58 66 82 28 George E. Thompson, 69 Stratford Rd., Melrose .. 218 298 376 294 1186
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Clerk of Courts
Frederick L. Putnam, 288 Main St., Melrose Jesse A. Rogers, 35 Baldwin St., Cambridge
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Register of Deeds
Albert T. Gutheim, 19 Allen St., Arlington
201 269 308 261 1039 William D. Hillis, 71 Chestnut St., Cambridge 49 39 58 57 203
Joseph J. Launie. 26 Vernon St., Medford
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Joseph S. Sappett, 28 Lois St., Hudson 23 16 34 19 92
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County Commissioner
Melvin G. Rogers, Whipple Rd., Tewksbury
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David Fowler Campbell, 68 Old Middlesex Rd., Belmont
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Albert Nelson, 1 Lebanon Terrace, Malden
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Matthew R. Rose, 97 Monument St., Medford
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Edward J. Wright, Jr., Boston Rd., Westford
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County Commissioner (to fill vacancy)
Edwin O. Childs, 340 California Rd., Newton 295 355 425 363 1438 35 45 58 54 192
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·Ballot of The Democratic Party
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Governor
Maurice J. Tobin, 30 Hopkins St., Boston
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Francis D. Harrigan, 300 Bowdoin St., Boston
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Lieutenant Governor
John B. Carr, 91 Prentiss St., Somerville
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Paul A .Dever, 86 Buckingham St., Cambridge
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Daniel J. O'Connor, 9 Spring Park Ave., Boston
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Roger L. Putnam, 216 Central St., Springfield
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Secretary
John J. Concannon, 473 Talbot Ave., Boston
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Benedict F. Fitzgerald. Jr., 399 Broadway, Cambridge
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Leo Moran, 148 Westville St., Boston
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Paul H. Snow, 67 Bloomfield St., Boston
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Treasurer
John E. Hurley, 40 Glenrose Rd., Boston
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Thomas Khoury, 9 Rollins St., Boston
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Auditor
Thomas J. Buckley, 15 Pinckney St., Boston
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Attorney General
Harry E. Casey, 72 Oriole St., Boston
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Michael F. Hourihan, 232 Dana Ave., Boston
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Edward A. Hutchinson, Jr., 238 Savin Hill Ave., Boston
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Francis E. Kelly, 1184 Morton St., Boston
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Joseph M. McDonough, 106 Melville Ave., Boston
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Senator in Congress
David I. Walsh, 35 Day St., Fitchburg
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Congressman - Eighth District
Anthony M. Roche, 32 Clark St., Medford
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James W. Stanton, 20 Elm Sq., Wakefield
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Councillor
John F. Casey, 6 Pleasant Ave., Somervile
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Edward J. Coughlin, 239 Tremont St., Somerville ..
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Francis J. DeWolfe, 25 Belknap St., Somerville
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Clement Gregory McDonough, 727 Bridge St.,
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Senator - Seventh Middlesex District
Francis C. Zacharer, 34 Waverley Ave., Lowell
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Representative in General Court (Two)
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District Attorney
James J. Bruin, 45 Harvart St., Lowell
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Lawrence Edward Corcoran, 19 Wollaston Ave., Arlington
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Eugene H. Giroux, 26 Dartmouth St., Somerville . .
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John F. Kelley, 35 Madison Ave., Cambridge
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Clerk of Courts
John F. Ferrick, 8A Leonard Ave., Cambridge
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Samuel J. Foti, 410 Cambridge St., Cambridge
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Edward L. Harley, 607 Gorham St., Lowell
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Register of Deeds
John J. Butler, 6 Bartley St., Wakefield
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Joseph J. Launie, 26 Vernon St., Medford
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County Commissioner
Thomas B. Brennan, 72 Bower St., Medford
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John C. Dailey, 46 Foster St., Lowell
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Francis R. King, 27 Blossom St., Lowell
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William H. Seabrook, 351 Washington St., Somerville
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William P. Walsh, 84 Washington St., Hudson Blanks
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County Commissioner (to fill vacancy)
Blank - Representative
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The results of the foregoing Primary were declared in open Town Meeting.
On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted to adjourn - 11:15 P.M.
Attest :
GUY W. ELLISON,
Town Clerk
TOWN WARRANT
(Seal) The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading qualified to vote in elections and town affairs to meet in Security Hall, Woburn Street, in said Reading on
Monday, the Twenty-Eighth Day of October, 1946
at eight o'clock in the evening, to act on the following articles :
Article 1. To hear and act on the reports of Town officers and special committees and determine what instructions will be given Town officers and special committees.
Article 2. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Moth Department Account, or what it will
do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen
Article 3. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Fire Department Maintenance Account, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Article 4. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from avail- able funds for the purchase of the Civilian Defense fire equipment, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen
Article 5. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from avail- able funds and transfer to the Police Department Maintenance Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen
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Article 6. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from avail- able funds and transfer to the Registrars Expenses, or what it will do in relation thereto. , Board of Selectmen
Article 7. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from avail- able funds for the purpose of holding appropriate celebration in honor of returning Reading veterans who served in the Armed Forces of the United States during World War II, including the placing of a suitable plaque on the Town flag pole on the Common and securing and present- ing appropriate citations for such veterans, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Article 8. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Parks and Playgrounds Account or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works
Article 9. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Highway Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works
Article 10. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to Water Department Maintenance and Construction Account, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works
Article 11. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Aid to Dependent Children Account or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Welfare Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to establish a policy re- quiring all Town Departments to segregate in detail their annual budgets and appropriations, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Finance Committee Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appoint a committee of five members for the purpose of studying job classifications and salaries with a view of establishing a uniform schedule in the Town, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Finance Committee
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 559 of the Acts of 1946, being an Act to increase the amounts of pensions payable to certain former public employees who have been retired, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Contributory Retirement Board
Article 15. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer for the necessary installations and equip- ment to comply with the regulations for the safety of school pupils in school buildings in the Town, or what it will do in relation thereto.
School Committee
Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and instruct the School Committee to transport the school children from the area between the Wakefield-Reading Line and Libby Avenue to the Pearl Street School, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Gertrude Green and others.
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And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at least three public places in each precinct of the town, not less than seven days prior to October 28, 1946, the date set for the meeting in said Warrant, and to publish this Warrant in the Reading Chronicle, one day at least prior to said date.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands this fourteenth day of October, 1946.
KENNETH C. LATHAM HERBERT K. MILLER CHARLES E. WILKINSON
Selectmen of Reading
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
October 28, 1946
Security Hall
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator, Samuel H. Davis. The Warrant was partially read, when on motion of Kenneth C. Latham, it was voted to dispense with the further reading of the Warrant except the Constable's Return which was then duly read by the Town Clerk.
The number in attendance was checked and enough were there for a quorum and the meeting was legally open.
Article 1. On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted to lay Article 1 on the Table.
Article 2. On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted that the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) be appropriated by transferring said sum from the unexpended balance in the Veterans' Benefits Account to the Moth Department Maintenance Account and the Town Ac- countant be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 3. On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that the sum of $700.00 be appropriated by transferring said sum from the unexpended balance in the Insurance Account to the Fire Department Maintenance Account and the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 4. On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that the sum of $500.00 be appropriated by transferring said sum from the unexpended balance in the Welfare General Aid Acount for the purchase of Civilian Defense Fire equipment and that the Town Accountant be
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and he hereby is authorized and empowered to make the transfer to carry out the purpose of this vote.
Article 5. On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted that the sum of $600.00 be appropriated by transferring said sum from the un- expended balance in the Veterans' Benefits Account to the Police De- partment Maintenance Account and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 6. On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that the sum of $250.00 be appropriated by transferring said sum from the unexpended balance in the Veterans' Benefits Account to Registrars Expenses and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 7. On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted that the sum of ($2,500.00) Twenty Five Hundred Dollars, be appropriated by transferring said sum from the unexpended balance in the Welfare General Aid Account for the purpose of holding appropriate celebration in honor of returning Reading veterans who served in the Armed Forces of the United States during World War II including the placing of a suitable plaque on the Town flag pole in the Common and securing and presenting appropriate citations for such veterans and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized to make the transfer to carry out the purpose of this vote.
Article 8. On motion of Harold Putnam it was voted that the sum of Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars be appropriated by transferring said sum from the Insurance Account to the Park and Playground Account and the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and instructed to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 9. On motion of Harold Putnam it was voted that the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred ($1,500.00) Dollars be appropriated by transferring said sum from the Veterans' Benefits Account to the Highway Account and the Town Accountant be and he hereby is author- ized and instructed to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 10. On motion of Harold Putnam it was voted that the sum of Sixteen Thousand ($16,000.00) Dollars be appropriated by trans- ferring said sum from Water Available Surplus to Water Department Maintenance and Construction Account and the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and instructed to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 11. On motion of Joseph D. Knight it was voted that the sum of Fifteen Hundred ($1,500.00) Dollars be appropriated by trans- ferring said sum from the unexpended balance in the Welfare General Aid Account to the Aid to Dependent Children Account and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to transfer said sum to said account.
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Article 12. On motion of Gardner Long it was voted that there be and hereby is established a policy in the Town requiring all de- partments to segregate in detail their annual budgets and appropri- ations, including in such appropriations a separate item showing pay- ments to be made for personal services.
Article 13. On motion of Gardner Long it was voted that there be and hereby is established a committee of five members for the pur- pose of making a comprehensive study of job classifications and salaries with a view of establishing a uniform schedule in the Town, such com- mittee to consist of four members chosen one by and from each of the voting precincts in the Town and the fifth member to be chosen at large, by the four precinct members, such committee to report at the annual Town Meeting to be held in March 1947.
Article 14. On motion of Philip R. White, it was voted unanimously that the provisions of Chapter 559 of the Acts of 1946, being an Act to increase the amounts of pensions payable to certain former public employees who have been retired, be and the same hereby are accepted.
Article 15. On motion of J. Warren Killam, it was voted that the sum of Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Fifteen Dollars ($12,515.00) be appropriated from Overlay Reserve Account and transfer said sum for the necessary installations and equipment to comply with the regulations for the safety of school pupils in school buildings in the Town and the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and instructed to transfer said sum to carry out the purpose of this vote.
Article 16. On motion of George Rogers it was voted that the School Committee be and they hereby are authorized and instructed to transport the school children from the area between the Wakefield- Reading Line and Libby Avenue to the Pearl Street School.
Article 1. On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted to take Article 1 from the table.
Article 1. On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted that Article 1 be indefinitely postponed.
On motion of Kenneth C. Latham it was voted to adjourn Sine Die Adjourned 9:25 P.M.
A true record. Attest :
GUY W. ELLISON,
Town Clerk
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WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION (Sea1) Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in elections to meet in Odd Fellows Building, Woburn Street, in said Reading, as the polling place designated for the four precincts in said Town on:
Tuesday, the Fifth Day of November, 1946, at seven o'clock A. M. for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes to the Election Officers for :
Governor for this Commonwealth.
Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth.
Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth.
Treasurer for this Commonwealth.
Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth.
Attorney General for this Commonwealth. Senator in Congress for this Commonwealth. Representative in Congress for the Eighth Congressional District. Councillor for Sixth Councillor District.
Senator for Seventh Middlesex Senatorial District.
Two Representatives in General Court for Eighteenth Middlesex Representative District.
County Commissioner for Middlesex County.
County Commissioner for Middlesex County. (To fill vacancy).
Also to vote Yes or No in answer to the following questions :
Question No. 1
Law Proposed by Initiative Petition.
Shall this measure, which by amendments of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.), provides for payment by the Commonwealth of adequate pensions to deserving citizens sixty-five years of age or over in need of relief or support, who shall have resided in the Commonwealth not less than five years immediately preceding the date of application for such pension, and who shall have resided in the Commonwealth continuously for one year immediately preceding said date of application, which is further described as follows :-
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The measure by amendments of General Laws (Ter. Ed.), c. 6, provides for an old age pension commission of three persons, one to be a qualified physician, another to be an attorney at law and a third to be a non-professional person, who are to be appointed and may be removed for cause by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Council, and are to serve under the Governor and Council. Not more than two members of said Commission shall be members of the same political party. Original appointments of members shall be for one, two and three years respectively, and thereafter appointments are to be for three years. Such members are to devote their whole time to the work of the Commission during business hours and be engaged in no other business, occupation or profession. One of their number is to be desig- nated as chairman by the Governor and shall receive a salary of $6,000. and each other member $5,500 per year, with their necessary expenses. The commission is empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations as it may deem necessary in the performance of its duties and as may be approved by the Governor and Council.
The measure strikes out chapter 118A of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.), and inserts in its place a new chapter entitled "Adequate pensions for certain aged citizens."
It is provided that pensions hereunder shall be paid from the date of application therefor, but in no event before the applicant reaches the age of sixty-five. The Commission shall render a decision in not less than thirty days from the date of application for a pension or a request for an increase of the amount thereof. Such pension shall, wherever practicable, be paid to the aged person in his own home or in lodgings or in a boarding home, which for the purposes hereof shall include any institution providing shelter, care and treatment for aged persons which is not supported in whole or in part by public funds ; provided, that no inmate of such a boarding home or institution shall be eligible for a pension under this chapter while being cared for under a contract. Such pension shall be paid by check or in cash which shall be delivered to the pensioner at his residence, if he so requests, and shall be paid semi- monthly unless the pensioner prefers less frequent payments. Such pension shall be on the basis of need and the amount thereof shall be determined in accordance with budgetary standards established by the Commission. Budgetary standards shall be such as to enable an individ- ual pensioner to maintain a standard of living compatible with decency and health. Such pensions, except as hereinafter provided, shall be at the rate of not less than $48.00 monthly. The pensioner's budget at such times as may be required shall include medical care, if recommended by a recognized physician, eye-glasses, if recommended by a recognized optician, dental care and false teeth, if recommended by a recognized dentist.
In computing the pensioner's payment under this chapter, the Com-
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mission shall deduct from the pensioner's budget or the minimum payment, whichever is greater, the amount of income the person paid or to be paid a pension hereunder may be receiving from any source, and may deduct therefrom such reasonable amount as may be deemed to represent the financial value of board, lodging or other assistance which is being furnished to such persons from any source.
Upon the death of a person drawing a pension, whose funeral cost does not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars and in whose estate there are insufficient assets to cover the full cost of the funeral, the Commission shall pay to the funeral director the difference between the assets and the cost of the funeral, a sum not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Expenses for medical, hospital and other services rendered to a pensioner, which remain unpaid at the time of his death or commitment to an institution as an insane person, shall be paid directly to the person rendering such services.
No pension under this chapter shall be discontinued nor shall the amount thereof be decreased until the expiration of fifteen days after notice has been given by the Commission to the pensioner.
Provision is made by which a person receiving a pension may be absent from the Commonwealth on a visit without having such pension suspended.
It is provided that General Laws (Ter. Ed.), c. 273, § 20, which relates to the support of parents by children, shall not apply when parents are eligible to receive a pension.
Provision is made that there shall be set up in the Commission a subdivision of appeals under the jurisdiction of a supervisor of appeals. Any person aggrieved by the failure of the Commission to pay an ade- quate pension under this chapter, or by the failure of the Commission to approve or reject an application for a pension or a request for an increase in the amount thereof, within thirty days after receiving such application or request, shall have a right to a fair hearing, after due notice, upon appeal to the subdivision of appeals in the form and manner prescribed by the commission; provided that such appeal is received by the subdivision of appeals within sixty days after official notice of the action taken by the Old Age Pension Commission has been received by the applicant or pensioner. The decision of the subdivision of appeals shall be final and binding upon the Commission.
The Commission or any interested person aggrieved by any de- cision in any proceeding before the subdivision of appeals may obtain judicial review of such decision by filing, within twenty days of the date of mailing of such decision, a petition for review thereof in the district court within the judicial district wherein the pensioner or the applicant for a pension lives.
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In any proceeding for review the findings of the subdivision of ap- peals as to facts shall be heard in a summary manner and given preced- ence over all other civil cases. From the decision of a district court upon review an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Judicial Court.
The possession by an applicant for pension under this chapter of assets consisting of cash, active securities or inactive securities, or any combination of such assets, shall not disqualify him from receiving such pension; provided, that the total of such assets, figuring the present cash value of such inactive securities at the sum determined by the Old Age Pension Commission, does not exceed the sum of $300.
A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pension because of the ownership of an equity in vacant land from which there is in- sufficient income to provide for his budgetary needs or minimum pay- ments, or the ownership of an equity in real estate by an applicant who resides thereon or who, in the opinion of the Commission is residing elsewhere because of physical or mental incapacity, provided that if such equity on the basis of assessed valuation exceeds an average of $3,000 during the five years immediately preceding application for the pension, the applicant shall execute a bond in the penal sum for the amount of the equity in excess of $3,000 conditioned on repayment to the Commonwealth of all amounts paid as such pension without interest, such bond to be secured by a mortgage on the applicant's real estate" Provision is made for the recording of such bond and mortgage without a fee and the apportionment of the proceeds realized from any of them between the Federal government and the Commonwealth.
A person is not to be disqualified from receiving a pension by reason of the ownership of a policy of group insurance or of a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $1,000 or of a policy of insurance in an amount not exceeding $3,000, having a cash surrender value not in excess of $1,000, if such policy has been in effect not less than fifteen years.
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