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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 seventh day of June, 1948.
CHAS. E. WILKINSON G. LAWRENCE ROBERTS KENNETH C. LATHAM
A true copy. Attest:
Selectmen of Reading
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
June 16, 1948 Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Officer's Return
Middlesex, ss.
Reading, June 11, 1948
By virtue of the within warrant, I on June 9th, 1948 notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading qualified to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in Security Hall, Woburn St. in said Reading as the designated place of the four precincts of the town, at the time specified in this warrant, by posting attested copies thereof on the following public places within said Town of Reading.
Precinct 1. Austin's Lunch Room, 17 Harnden St .; Central Fire Sta- tion; Police Headquarters, Pleasant St.
Precinct 2. Masonic Temple Building; M. F. Charles and Sons' Store, 610 Main St .; Lyceum Hall Building; Odd Fellows' Building; Boston and Maine Railroad Depot.
Precinct 3. Waterhouse's Neighborhood Store, 36 Mineral St .; Benny's Neighborhood Store, 168 Lowell St .; Engine 2 House, Woburn St.
Precinct 4. Municipal Building; Zitzow's Neighborhood Store, 287 Lowell St .; Mclaughlin's Neighborhood Store, 1051 Main St.
And I caused an attested copy of this warrant to be published in the Reading Chronicle in the issue of June 10th, 1948, the date of posting being seven days prior to the date set for the meeting in this warrant and the date of publication being more than one day prior to said date of meeting.
LEON G. BENT Constable of Reading
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Security Hall
June 16, 1948
The hour named in the warrant having arrived the Moderator, Charles P. Howard declared the meeting in order at 8 P.M. and an- nounced that the regular Town Clerk being absent it would be necessary to elect a clerk to act at this meeting.
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G. Lawrence Roberts nominated William E. Morrison to be clerk of the meeting. Charles E. Wilkinson seconded the nomination and likewise moved that nominations be closed. It was so voted and on motion of Samuel H. Davis the Moderator was instructed to cast one ballot. He did so and declared that William E. Morrison was elected temporary Town Clerk.
William E. Morrison then came forward and was sworn in by the Moderator.
The Clerk then partially read the warrant when on motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that the further reading of the warrant be dispensed with except for the officer's return, which was then read by the Clerk.
Article 3. On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted to take up Article 3.
Kenneth C. Latham moved that the Board of Selectmen be and they hereby are authorized for and in behalf of the Town to convey or abandon for the minimum sum of one hundred (100) dollars and upon such further terms and conditions as they may determine the easement consisting of a right of way for foot travel over a strip of land approximately 8 feet in width running in a general Westerly direction from Main Street to the Municipal Parking Area and through land formerly of Emma I. Chamberlain and land now of Aaron L. Levin and said Board of Selectmen are further authorized to execute for and in behalf of the Town such conveyance or abandonment of such ease- ment together with such other instruments and agreements which may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this vote.
A substitute motion by Roy E. Hatfield that the subject matter of Article 3 be postponed until recommendations could be received from the Planning Board was defeated on a voice vote.
The original motion was defeated on a standing vote of 61 in the affirmative and 48 in the negative, a two thirds vote being necessary to carry the measure.
Article 1. Louis Davis, Chairman of the Salary and Wage Classifi- cation Committee, read a report of progress of the committee.
On motion of G. Lawrence Roberts the report was accepted and placed on file.
Walter D. Berry, Chairman of the Planning Board, read the report and recommendations of the Planning Board with respect to the pro- posed amendment to the Zoning By-Law.
Charles E. Wilkinson moved that the report be placed on file. It was so voted.
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On motion of Chas. E. Wilkinson it was voted that Article 1 be laid on the table.
Article 2. Lester W. Edwards moved that the Zoning By-law and Zoning Map of the Town be and the same hereby are amended by changing the area hereinafter described from the A-2 residence district to the business district:
Beginning on the Easterly side of Pearl Street at the Northwesterly corner of the premises owned by Shirley and George R. Dugan, Jr., thence Easterly 200 feet along the Northerly boundary line of said Dugan's land;
thence turning and running Southerly by a line parallel with and 200 feet distant from the Easterly boundary line of Pearl Street to the Southerly boundary line of the premises owned by the Town of Reading, Pearl Street School property;
thence turning and running Westerly along the Southerly boundary line of the Pearl Street School premises 200 feet to the Easterly boundary line of Pearl Street;
and thence turning and running Northerly along the Easterly boundary line of Pearl Street to the point of beginning so that the above described area shall be rezoned and changed to and become part of the business district.
This motion was defeated by a vote of 2 in the affirmative and 89 in the negative.
Article 4. Edward C. Emslie moved that the sum of Four Hundred (400) Dollars be appropriated by transferring said sum from the Garbage Collection Appropriation of 1948 for the purpose of prosecuting or de- fending proceedings before the Department of Public Utilities relative to the price of gas sold and delivered in the Town of Reading and the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to transfer said sum to carry out the purpose of this vote.
This motion was defeated by a vote of 42 in the affirmative and 53 in the negative.
Article 5. On motion of Clarence J. Stalliday it was unanimously voted that the sum of One Hundred Sixty Dollars, ($160.00) be appro- priated under authority of Section 64 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws by transferring said sum from the 1948 Public Welfare General Aid Ac- count for the payment of a certain unpaid account due in 1947, covering professional medical service for an individual aided by the Town, and that the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and em- powered to transfer said sum to carry out the purpose of this vote.
The vote was 101 in favor, none against.
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Article 6. On motion of Boyd H. Stewart it was voted that Article 6 be indefinitely postponed.
On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that Article 1 be taken from the table.
On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that Article 1 be indefinitely postponed.
On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that the meeting adjourn sine die.
Meeting adjourned 10:17 P.M.
Attendance 114.
A true record. Attest:
WILLIAM E. MORRISON
Temporary Town Clerk
TOWN WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARY (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 said Town who are qualified to vote in Primaries 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 Fourteenth Day of September, 1948 at seven o'clock, A.M. for the following purposes: To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the nomination of candidates of Political parties for the following offices:
Governor for this Commonwealth.
Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth.
Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth.
Treasurer and Receiver General for this Commonwealth.
Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth. Attorney General for this Commonwealth.
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Senator in Congress for this Commonwealth.
Representative in Congress for Eighth Congressional District.
Councillor for Sixth Councillor District.
Senator for Seventh Middlesex Senatorial District.
2 Representatives in General Court for Eighteenth Representative Dis- trict.
Register of Probate and Insolvency for Middlesex County.
County Commissioners for Middlesex County (2).
County Treasurer for Middlesex County.
Sheriff for Middlesex County (to fill vacancy).
The polls will be open from 7 A.M. to 8 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at least three public places in each of the four pre- cincts of the town not less than seven days prior to September 14, 1948, the date set for the meeting in said warrant and to cause this warrant to be published in the Reading Chronicle one day at least prior to said date.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your do- ings thereon to the Town Clerk, at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands this sixteenth day of August, A.D., 1948.
CHARLES E. WILKINSON G. LAWRENCE ROBERTS KENNETH C. LATHAM
Selectmen of Reading
A true copy. Attest: Constable of Reading.
Officer's Return
Middlesex, ss. Reading, September 4, 1948
By virtue of the within warrant, I, on September 1, 1948 notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote in the primaries, to meet in the place and at the time specified herein, by posting an attested copy of this warrant in the following places within said town.
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Precinct 1. Austin's Lunch Room, 17 Harnden St .; The Danforth Pharmacy, 1 Harnden St .; Police Headquarters, Pleasant St .; Central Fire Station, Pleasant St.
Precinct 2. Masonic Temple Building; Lyceum Hall Building; M. F. Charles & Sons' Store, 610 Main St .; Boston & Maine Railroad Depot; Odd Fellows Building, Woburn St.
Precinct 3. Waterhouse's Neighborhood Store, 56 Mineral St .; Benny's Neighborhood Store, 168 Lowell St .; Engine House No. 2, Wo- burn St.
Precinct 4. Municipal Building, Zitzow's Neighborhood Store, 287 Lowell St .; Mclaughlin's Neighborhood Store. 1051 Main St.
The date of posting being more than seven days prior to the date set for the meeting in this warrant, and I also caused an attested copy of this warrant to be published in the Reading Chronicle in the issue of September 2, 1948, the date of publication being more than one day prior to the date of the meeting.
LEON G. BENT Constable of Reading
STATE PRIMARY
Odd Fellows Building
September 14, 1948
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant and the Constable's return thereon, a State Election was held at the time and place specified in the warrant.
The meeting was called to order by G. Lawrence Roberts.
The warrant was partially read by the Town Clerk, when on mo- tion of G. Lawrence Roberts it was voted to dispense with the further reading of the warrant except the Constable's return, which was then read by the Town Clerk.
The ballot boxes were examined by the Constable in charge and each found to be empty, and all registered 000.
The polls were declared open by G. Lawrence Roberts.
The following persons served as Election Officers:
Precinct 1
Ballot Box Ola M. Pomfret
Ballot Clerk John J. Murray
Checkers Catherine L. Doherty
Jessie N. Thaxter
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Counters
M. Gertrude Ballou Mary E. Doran Annie C. O'Malley Margaret J. Curtin
Precinct 2
Ballot Box
George N. Bishop
Ballot Clerk
Catherine E. Riley
Checkers Nellie E. Whelton
Mary C. Barrett
Counters Rose A. Gadbois Ethel D. Gowing Mary A. Painting
Precinct 3
Ballot Box
Gladys R. Dickinson
Ballot Clerk Minnie A. Heselton
Checkers Rebecca T. Emery
Eleanor S. Michelini
Counters
Edith Moses Frank E. Ward
Frances S. Snyder Bertha L. Skinner
Precinct 4
Ballot Box
Bertha A. Perkins
Ballot Clerk Mabel Bennett
Checkers Eva F. Gleason Winifred E. Mcclintock
Counters Mrs. Catherine Wright Elizabeth M. Bates
Catherine G. Doucette
Charles R. Herrick
Tabulators
Walter A. Scanlon
J. Robert Clark
Constable Leon G. Bent A true record. Attest:
GUY W. ELLISON
Town Clerk
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Ballot of the Republican Party
Governor
Pr. Pr. Pr. Pr. Total 1 2 3 4
Robert F. Bradford, 106 Coolidge Hill, Cambridge 216 309 351 321 1197 Edward M. Rowe, 19 Ware Street, Cambridge 35 34 45 39 153
Blanks
5
6
3
6 20
Lieutenant Governor
Arthur W. Coolidge, 210 Summer Ave., Reading
249 336 392 355 1332 7 13 7
11 38
Blanks
1370
Secretary
Frederic W. Cook, 75 Benton Rd., Somerville 251 334 391 360 1336 5 15 8 6 34
Blanks
1370
Treasurer
Laurence Curtis, 15 River St., Boston
249 330 387 357 1323 7 19
Blanks
12 9 47
1370
Auditor
Douglass Lawson, 1 Westhill Place, Boston
35
31 42 47 155
Edwin L. Olander, Jr., 21 Massasoit St., Nor'hamp'n
62 120 144 116
442
Wallace E. Stearns, 110 Gainsborough St., Boston
5 12
9
9 35
Russell A. Wood, 11 Whittier St., Cambridge
135 162 182 172
651
Blanks
19 24 22
22
87
1370
Attorney General
Clarence A. Barnes, 79 Rumford Ave., Mansfield
248 333 387 351 1319 8 16 12
Blanks
15 51
1370
Senator in Congress
Leverett Saltonstall, Smith St., Dover
254 342 395 359 1350 2 7 4
Blanks
7 20
1370
89
1370
Congressman
Angier L. Goodwin, 52 Sheffield Rd., Melrose
151 232 248 234
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Louis Corrado, 445 Essex St., Lynnfield
6
8
3
2 19
Howard K. Jenkins, 9 Wedgemere Rd., Medford Walter E. Lawrence, 74 Warren St., Medford
1
8
9
8 26
90
93 132 115 430
Blanks
8
8
7
7 30
1370
Councillor
Victor A. Friend, 32 East Wyoming Ave., Melrose 243 331 385 348 1307
Blanks
13 18
14 18 63
1370
Senator
George J. Evans, 18 Morningside Rd., Wakefield 248 329 382 346 1305 Blanks 8 20 17
1370
Representative in General Court
Logan R. Dickie, 25 Woodward Ave., Reading
118 199 225 172
714
Irving Appleby, Butters Row, Wilmington
22 34 15 25
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Louis Ellenwood, 46 Pleasant St., Reading
124 134 167 171
596
Blanks
38 42
44 57
181
2740
Register of Probate and Insolvency
Loring P. Jordan, 12 Church St., Wakefield
216 263 296 275 1050
John F. Lombard, 21 Horace Rd., Belmont
28
66
90
75
259
Blanks
12
20
13
16 61
1370
County Commissioners
William G. Andrew, 472 Cambridge St., Cambridge 158 227 261 214
860
Edwin O. Childs, 340 California St., Newton
153 233 263 221
870
Harland J. Barnes, 21 Morey St., Lowell
50 49 84
81 264
Albert L. Sargent, 94 Lincoln St., Melrose
91 92 121 137
441
Blanks
60 99
69 79 305
2740
90
20 65
210 289 347 307 1153 Malcolm S. White, 125 Salem St., Woburn
County Treasurer
Charles P. Howard, 186 Summer Ave., Reading
248 329 378 350 1305 8 20
Blanks
21 16 65
1370
Sheriff
Smith J. Adams, 1053 Middlesex St., Lowell
27
39
31 43
140
Paul J. Allen, 62 Albion St., Medford
16
16
31
19
82
Louis E. Boutwell, 72 Greenleaf St., Malden
146 210 268 208
832
Francis J. Cook, 381 Newtonville Ave., Newton
24
22
15
17
78
Frederick L. Galbraith, 4 Perry Place, Everett
5
9
10
15
39
Francis P. Shea, Jr., 112 Winter St., Belmont
1
5-
3
3
12
Horace H. Walker, 123 Grant Ave., Medford
9
15
16
24
64
Blanks
28
33
25
37
123
1370
Ballot of the Democratic Party
Governor
Paul A. Dever, 86 Buckingham St., Cambridge
24
23
20
20
87
Maurice J. Tobin, 30 Hopkins Road, Boston
11
6
2
4
23
Blanks
2
2
112
Lieutenant Governor
Edward P. Barry, 28 Ledyard St., Wellesley
6
3
6
4 19
Benedict F. Fitzgerald, Jr., 399 Broadway, Ca'bri'ge
12
13
9
10
44
Charles F. Jeff Sullivan, 23 St. Elmo Rd., Wo'ces'er
17
13
8
8
46
Blanks
1
2
3
Secretary
Edward J. Cronin, 61 Cook Ave., Chelsea
25
19
11
13 68
Jerome Patrick Troy, 22 Chase St., Boston
9
9
8
10
36
Blanks
1
1
5
1
8
Treasurer
John E. Hurley, 40 Glenrose Rd., Boston
33
27
23
23 106
Blanks
2
2
1
1
6
112
91
112
112
Auditor
Thomas J. Buckley, 15 Pinckney St., Boston
33
26
23
21 103
Blanks
2
3
1
3
9
Attorney General
Enrico Cappucci, 69 Faywood Ave., Boston
3
5
3
3 14
John F. Kelley, 15 Hollis St., Cambridge
8
5
4
6
23
Francis E. Kelly, 1184 Morton St., Boston
16
6
5
8 35
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan, 92 Codman Hill Ave., B't'n
8
11
10
6 35
Blanks
-
2
2
1
5
Senator in Congress
John I. Fitzgerald, 7 Allen St., Boston
13
13
8
7 41
Francis D. Harrigan, 300 Bowdoin St., Boston
8
3
1
12
Joseph A. Langone, Jr., 190 North St., Boston
2
2
2
6
John D. Lynch, 20 Fairfield St., Cambridge Richard M. Russell, 10 Charles River Sq., Boston
5
1
5
6
17
7
8
10
7
32
Blanks
2
1
1
4
Congressman
Meyer Imperiale, 117 Maple St., Malden Anthony M. Roche, 32 Clark St., Medford
15
16
19
14
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Blanks
4
5
1
1
11
Councillor
John F. Casey, 6 Pleasant Ave., Somerville
14
7
9
12 42
James Michael O'Meara, 9 Dickinson St., So'ervi'e
17
15
10
11
53
Blanks
4
7
5
1
17
112
Senator
None
0
0
0
0
0
Blanks
35
29
24
24
112
Representatives in General Court
Charles Edward Farrey, 2A Brentwood Rd., Wo'u'n
26
20
14
21
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None
0
0
0
0
0
Blanks
44
38
34
27
143
16
8
4
9 37
-
224
92
112
112
112
112
Register of Probate and Insolvency
John J. Butler, 6 Bartley St., Wakefield
30
23
20
22
95
Blanks
5
6
4
2
17
112
County Commissioners
James A. Cullen, 82 Beacon St., Winchester
28
22
14
22
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None
0
0
0
0
0
Blanks
42
36
34
26
138
224
County Treasurer
None
0
0 0 0
0
Blanks
35
29
24
24 112
Sheriff
Patrick J. Brennan, 312 Cambridge St., Cambridge
10
7
7
7 31
Roger Joseph Kane, 84 South Highland St., Lowell
7
8
3
1 19
John W. Kelleher, 94 Viola St., Lowell
13
7
7
7 34
Horace H. Walker, 123 Grant Ave., Medford
3
4
6
8
21
Blanks
2
3
1
1
7
112
The votes were declared in open Town Meeting, sealed in ballot envelopes and transmitted to the Constable to be placed in the vault for safe keeping. Voted to adjourn, sine die, 11:00 P.M. September 14, 1948. Attest:
GUY W. ELLISON
Town Clerk
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING Sept. 27, 1948
TOWN WARRANT (SEAL)
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
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said Reading, on Monday, the Twenty-seventh Day of September, 1948 at seven forty- five 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 vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Water Department, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works
Article 3. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate by borrowing or otherwise for the purpose of laying water mains of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter and for the development of additional wells including the suction mains or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works
Article 4. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Maintenance of Dumps Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works
Article 5. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from the available funds and transfer to the Road Machinery Operating Ac- count, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works.
Article 6. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available funds and transfer to the Snow and Ice Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of Chapter 588 of the Acts of 1948, being an Act Authorizing Increases of the Amounts of Pensions Payable to Certain Former Public Employees who have been Retired, and to Beneficiaries of Certain Retired Public Employees, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Contributory Retirement Board
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Public Welfare to sell or exchange upon such terms and conditions as they may determine the 1940 Ford Station Wagon of the Welfare De- partment; to see what disposition the Town will make of the proceeds thereof and to see what sum the Town will appropriate from available funds for the purchase of a new station wagon for the Welfare Depart- ment, or what it will in relation thereto. Board of Public Welfare
Article 9. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or otherwise and appropriate for extending and enlarging the Municipal Light Plant by the Installation of new feeder switches to replace pres- ent switches of insufficient capacity, rebuild present transformner
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switches, install steel cubicles and switches, install additional cable from the Stoneham-Reading Line to the Power Station and such other appliances and equipment which may be necessary in connection there- with, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Municipal Light Board
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $101.66 by transferring said sum from the remaining balance in the Junior High School Construction Account to the appropriation for the construction of the new elementary school on Summer Avenue and Oak Street, or what it will do in relation thereto. School Committee
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 September 27, 1948, 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 thirteenth day of September, 1948.
CHARLES E. WILKINSON G. LAWRENCE ROBERTS KENNETH C. LATHAM
Selectmen of Reading
Officer's Return
Middlesex, ss. Reading, September 24, 1948
By virtue of the within warrant, I, on September 18th, 1948 notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading qualified to vote in elections and town affairs to meet in the place and at the time specified by posting an attested copy thereof in the following places within said town.
Precinct 1. Austin's Lunch Room, 17 Harnden St .; The Danforth Pharmacy, 1 Harnden St .; Central Fire Station, Pleasant St .; Police Headquarters, Pleasant St.
Precinct 2. Masonic Temple Building; Lyceum Hall Building; M. F. Charles and Sons' Store, 610 Main St .; Boston and Maine Roalroad Depot; Odd Fellows Building.
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Precinct 3. Waterhouse's Neighborhood Store, 36 Mineral St .; Ben- ny's Neighborhood Store, 168 Lowell St .; Fire Station No. 2, Woburn St.
Precinct 4. Municipal Building; Zitzow's Neighborhood Store, 287 Lowell St .; Mclaughlin's Neighborhood Store, 1051 Main St.
the date of posting being more than seven days prior to the date set for the meeting in this warrant, and I caused an attested copy of this Warrant to be published in the Reading Chronicle in the issue of Sep- tember 23, 1948, the date of publication being more than one day prior to date of meeting.
LEON G. BENT
Constable of Reading
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Security Hall
September 27, 1948
In the absence of the Moderator, the Town Clerk, Guy W. Ellison, called the meeting to order at 8 o'clock and asked for nominations for a moderator to act at this meeting.
Charles E. Wilkinson moved that Samuel H. Davis be named mod- erator to act at this meeting. The nomination was seconded by Kenneth C. Latham.
On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that nominations be closed.
On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that the Town Clerk be instructed to cast one ballot for Samuel H. Davis for moderator to act at this meeting.
The Town Clerk then cast one ballot for Samuel H. Davis.
The Town clerk then administered the qualifying oath to Samuel H. Davis.
Article 1. On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted that Article 1 be laid on the table.
Article 2. On motion of Harold W. Putnam it was voted that the sum of Four Thousand Five Hundred ($4,500) Dollars be appropriated by transferring said sum from the Water Available Surplus to the Water Depaartment Account for materials and expenses and the Town Accountant be and he hereby is authorized and instructed to transfer said sum to said account.
Article 3. On motion of Harold W. Putnam it was voted that the sum of Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000) Dollars be raised and appro-
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priated for the purpose of laying Water Mains of not less than six (6) inches but less than sixteen (16) inches in diameter and for the de- velopment of additional Wells including Suction Mains of which sum Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars is for salaries and Fifteen Thousand ($15,000) Dollars is for materials and expenses and to meet said ap- propriation the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen be and he hereby is authorized to borrow Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000) Dol- lars under authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and to issue bonds or notes of the Town, therefor, payable in not more than ten (10) years from the date thereof or at such earlier date as the Treasurer and Selectmen may determine.
100 voted in the affirmative. 0 voted in the negative.
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