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Town under tax title procedure, provided that the Selectmen or whomsoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
The Finance Committee recommends adoption of this article.
ART. 11. To see if the Town will vote the money arising from licensing dogs for the ensuing year to aid in support of the Public Library.
The Finance Committee recommends adoption of this article.
ART. 12. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the construction of a sidewalk on Main Street, said money to be spent in conjunction with the Dept. of Public Works, or take any other action relative thereto.
Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $1,000.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds the sum of $1500 for the purchase of a portable pump for pumping out cellars and streets in emergencies, or take any other action relative thereto.
Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $750.00 be raised and appropriated and used with matching funds from Civil Defense.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 to be spent in conjunction with the Mass. Dept. of Public Works to develop the intersection, and install automatic traffic lights at the intersection of Shawsheen Street and Route 38, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $3,000.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $500.00 for the extermination of Termites which have infested the Town Hall, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $500.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for the purchase of 100 chairs for the Town Hall, or take any other action relative thereto. Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $300.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
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ART. 17. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town By-Laws by changing the time of the Annual Town Meeting to 10:00 A.M. on the first Saturday in March. Board of Selectmen
ART. 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from E and D the sum of $5,000.00 for a survey by a recognized public water system engineer, for the purpose of locating new well fields and to make a report at the next Annual Town Meeting. Said sum to be expended by the Water Commissioners. Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $5,000.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50,000.00 for the purpose of new installations of water services to dwellings or other buildings, and including sub-divisions, and provided that the cost of said installations has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated receipts and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money and in the event said entire sum is not required for said installations, the unexpended balance shall likewise be credited to estimated receipts, or take any action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $50,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article with the words " ... and sub-divisions" deleted from the text of the article.
ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the relocation of water pipes in Trull Road, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money. Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,000.00 for the removal of snow from fire hydrants, under the supervision of the Board of Water Commissioners, or take any action in relation thereto. Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $300.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 or any other sum for the purpose of installing a public water main in Pine Street for a distance of approximately 1,000 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
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ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $7,500.00 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Lowe Street for a distance of approximately 1,500 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $731.25 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Kernwood Avenue for a distance of approximately 225 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $975.00 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Columbia Road for a distance of approximately 300 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 26. To see whether the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum not to exceed $45,000.00 for the purpose of extending and improving the water system of the Town by laying and relaying water mains of not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter, by the development of an additional well field, in- cluding wells, pipes and original pumping station equipment, and by the construction of small buildings for pumping stations, and to determine how any such sum shall be raised, whether by taxation, by transfer of available funds, by borrowing or otherwise, and if by borrowing to authorize the issuance of bonds and notes of the Town, and to authorize the Water Commissioners to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto. Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $30,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $4,500.00 or any other sum for the purpose of installing a public water main in Whipple Road for a distance of approximately 900
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feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to expend the sum of $5,600.00, from the Installation Account, for the purpose of installing ap- proximately 1,600 feet of six inch water pipe in Trull Brook Lane, provided that cost of said water installation has been first deposited with the Town Treasurer and applied to estimated receipts and to authorize the Water Commissioners to do such work and expend such money, or take any action in relation thereto.
Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends postponement to the next Town Meeting, pending further information.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Water Commissioners to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain in fee simple the two following tracts of land listed as Parcel 1 and Parcel 2 for a water reservoir and for additional space for an over- flow from the present reservoir and the proposed new reservoir and for any purposes incidental thereto, in accordance with Chapter 40 Section 14 and Chapter 79 of the General Laws as amended and the Acts of 1951 Chapter 61, said two parcels of land being bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point at the easterly corner of the granted premises and at the southeasterly corner of the present reservoir land; thence running southerly 210 feet more or less by land of the Alton Properties, Inc., to a point at other land of said Alton Properties, Inc .; thence turning and running westerly and south- westerly 475 feet more or less by a proposed 50-foot strip of land belonging to said Alton Properties, Inc., to the Tewksbury water easement; thence turning and running northerly and northeasterly 200 feet and 142.76 feet by said water easement to the south- westerly corner of the present water reservoir land; thence turning and running easterly by said present reservoir land 279.64 feet to the point of beginning; containing by estimation 104,239 square feet of land more or less, said land belonging to the Alton Prop- erties, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts and having a usual place of business . in Reading, Massachusetts.
And to see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of one dollar for such taking or purchase or take any other action in relation thereto.
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $1.00 be raised and appropriated for the taking by eminent domain.
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ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from available funds a sum of money for surveying, ap- praisals, engineering, and legal costs in connection with the preparation and construction of the new proposed reservoir and any duties necessary or proper in connection with the same or take any action in relation thereto.
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of excavating, constructing and building a new buried-concrete water reservoir adjacent to the present Water Department reservoir located on Ames Hill so called, and for originally equiping and completing such reservoir, determine whether the money shall be provided for by appropriation from available funds in the treasury including the Post-War Re- habilitation Fund and/or the Sale of Real Estate Fund, by taxation, or by borrowing under the authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws as amended, or take any action in relation thereto.
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 32. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $975.00 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Pomfret Road for a distance of approximately 300 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $350.00 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Wayside Road for a distance of approximately 100 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and . expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto. Water Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $350.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose. 2 Dissents
ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,500.00 or any other sum, for the purpose of installing a public water main in Rogers Street for a distance of approximately 700 feet, and to authorize the Water Department to do such work and expend such money, or take any other action relative thereto.
Water Commissioners
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The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 35. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following streets as laid out by the Road Commissioners with the boundaries and measurements as shown on a plan on file with the Town Clerk.
Armistice Road Independence Avenue
Birch Street (ext.) formerly Oak Street
Boisvert Road
Laura Road
Cherry Road
Madeline Road
Edgar Avenue
March Road (formerly Lincoln Rd.)
Euclid Road
Memorial Drive
Jay Street
Sunset Road
Road Commissioners
ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,500.00 for the maintenance of Chapter 90 Highways, said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose or take any other action relative thereto, and will further vote to transfer the sum of $3,000.00 from the E & D account in anticipation of re-imbursement from the State and County for the work or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $1,500.00 be raised and appropriated and $3,000.00 be transferred from E and D.
ART. 37. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $22,275.00 from the E and D account in anticipation of the re-imbursement from the State for Highway maintenance under Chapter 81 or take any other action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $22,275.00 be transferred from E and D for this purpose.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $6,250.00 or any other sum for the improvement of Shawsheen Street, said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for the purpose, or take any other action relative thereto and will further vote to transfer the sum of $18,750.00 from the E and D account in an- ticipation of re-imbursement from the State and County for the work, or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $6,250.00 be raised and appropriated and the sum of $18,750.00 be transferred from E and D for this purpose.
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ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to continue the Highway Machinery Fund as established at the last Annual Town Meeting, and to appropriate an additional sum including the unexpended balance of the 1957 Highway Machinery Account to be added to the amount already accredited to this fund for Highway Machinery purposes, or take any other action relative thereto.
Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the adoption of this article and that the sum of $5,184.02 be raised and appropriated, also the transfer of $1,665.58, the unexpended balance of the 1957 Highway Machinery Fund and the accredited amount of $8,150.40 to the High- way Machinery Fund.
ART. 40. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to transfer from the Highway Machinery Fund for the purpose, repair and maintenance of Road Machinery equipment for 1958 or take any action relative thereto. Road Commissioners
The Finance Committee recommends the transfer of $11,000.00 from the Highway Machinery Fund for this purpose.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $400.00 for Poison Ivy Control or take any other action relative thereto. Tree Warden
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $100.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for Nursery Stock or take any other action relative thereto. Tree Warden
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 43. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,000.00 for an Asphlund Chipper for the Tree Dept. or take any other action relative thereto. Tree Warden
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article. 2 Dissents
ART. 44. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following articles to be used by the Fire Department:
One E and J Resuscitator, one Portable Deluge Gun and three Life Jackets purchased by the Tewksbury Firefighters Association. Tewksbury Firefighters Association
ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a piece of fire apparatus or take any
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ART. 50. To see if the Town will authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee to expend the money appropriated for the proper observance of Memorial Day, said committee to be taken from members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Amvets and Disabled American Veterans. Thomas D. Ray
The Finance Committee recommends the adoption of this article.
ART. 51. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate an additional sum of $2,000.00 to cover insurance premiums due in 1958. Insurance Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $2,000.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 52. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00), under the direction of a playground commission of five members to be appointed by the Moderator in accordance with Chapter 45 Section 14 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or take any other action relative thereto. Tewksbury Playground Commission
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $3,000.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose.
ART. 53. To authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Board of Selectmen, to sign, seal, acknowledge, and deliver, for and in behalf of the Town of Tewksbury, a deed in confirmation of an earlier deed from the Town of Tewksbury to Maurice W. Blumsack, dated October 4, 1944, recorded with Middlesex North District Deeds, Book 1014, Page 38, covering property known as Lots 367, 368 and 369 on a "Plan of Land known as Shawsheen River Park," and located on Coolidge Road in Tewksbury, in which deed certain discrepancies exist impairing the validity of the title.
The Finance Committee recommends the adoption of this article.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $17,600.00 to construct the following gravel sidewalk paths:
. a. Patten Road from Shawsheen St. to Whipple Road 2,112 lineal feet;
b. Foster Street from Shawsheen St. to Kevin Street 2,800 lineal feet.
Work to be done under the supervision of the Road Commissioners. Sidewalk Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $6,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of this article.
ART. 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum
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of $14,200.00 to surface with Bituminous Concrete the following sidewalks:
a. Shawsheen Street 3,500 lineal feet
b. Patten Road 2,112 lineal feet
c. Foster Street 2,800 lineal feet
Work to be done under the supervision of the Road Commissioners. Sidewalk Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 56. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the Heath Brook School Account a sum of money to meet the obligations incurred by the 1954 School Building Committee for professional services rendered by Donaldson Ray McMullin Associates or take any other action in relation thereto.
1954 School Building Committee
The Finance Committee recommends the indefinite postponement of this article.
ART. 57. To see what term the Town will determine for the office of director of County Aid to Agriculture as provided in Chapter 319 of the Acts of 1957. Melvin G. Rogers
ART. 58. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 in support of the trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, to be expended by 4-H Club Agent, Home Demonstration Agent and Club Leader in conjunction with the Extension Service and the Town Director. Board of Selectmen
The Finance Committee recommends the sum of $300.00 be raised and appropriated for this purpose. I Dissent
ART. 59. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Select- men to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain in fee simple a tract of land consisting of approximately 55.49 acres for school purposes, namely, the erection of a high school, accessory buildings, playground, and other school facilities connected there- with, in accordance with Chapter 40, Section 14, and Chapter 79 of the General Laws as amended, said parcel of land being shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Tewksbury, Mass., surveyed for the Town of Tewksbury, Mass., Scale 1" = 200 feet, Jan. 21, 1958, Dana F. Perkins and Sons, Inc., Civil Engineers and Sur- veyors, Reading, Mass." which plan is to be recorded at the Mid- dlesex North Registry of Deeds; said land with the buildings there- on being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street in the Town of Tewksbury at a point distant westerly 165.10 feet
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from a county bound at a private way, and at the northwesterly corner of land conveyed to Robert Flucker et ux by Charles Wilson by deed dated June 10, 1941, and recorded at said Registry in Book 961 at Page 519; thence turning and running south 5° 0' east by said Flucker land 275.55 feet to the end of a stone wall; thence turning and running north 5 ° 58' 50" east by the wall, still by said Flucker land 171.88 feet to a drill hole at other land of Flucker and Wilson; thence turning and running south 44° 30' west by said Flucker and Wilson land and land now or formerly of Mark Roper, following the stone wall 387.89 feet to a point; thence continuing by said wall and land of Roper south 9° 42' 20" west 109.74 feet to a point at the end of the wall; thence turning and running south 0° 32' 30" west still by land of said Roper and crossing the twenty-foot easement of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts 330 feet to a stone bound; thence turning and running south 86° 45' 10" east still by said Roper land 212.70 feet to a point which is distant westerly from an old stone bound 35.31 feet; thence turning and running south 13º 31' 40" west by land now or formerly of Edna Small 383.6 feet to a point at land now or formerly of Sy B. Solomont, and being the northerly line of Lot 16 as shown on a plan entitled "Pine Street Park," recorded at said Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 87, Plan 18; thence turning and running north 86° 53' 30" west by the northerly line of Lot 16, Lot 15, Lot 14, Lot 13, the end of Avolon Road, and Lot 12, 452.10 feet to an iron pipe at the northwesterly corner of said Lot 12; thence turning and running south 22º 52' 50" west by the westerly line of said Lot 12, and Lots 11, 10, 9, and 8, all as shown on said Plan of Pine Street Park, 477.79 feet to a drill hole in the wall at land of Louis Small now or formerly; thence turning and rulnning north 88° 29' 30" west by said Small land 370.38 feet to an iron pipe at land now or formerly of Robert L. Innis; thence turning and running north 87º 1' 10" west by said Innis land 884.52 feet to a drill hole at a corner of a stone wall; thence by said stone wall south 89° 9' 20" west 40.76 feet to a drill hole at a second corner in the stone wall, at land now or formerly of John P. and Hugh F. Mahoney; thence turning and running north 4º 3' 10" east by said Mahoney land 164.85 feet to a drill hole in the wall; thence still by said Mahoney land north 4º 53' 20" east 291.18 feet to a drill hole at the commencement of another wall; thence by said wall and still by land of said Maho- ney, north 10° 51' 0" east, crossing the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts water easement 410.89 feet to a drill hole at the junction of three walls and at the southeasterly corner of land now or formerly of Charles and Mary Wilson; thence turning and running south 86° 42' 10" east by land now or formerly of Emil and Avah Bernsson 241.97 feet to a drill hole in the wall at land now or formerly of Howard Whitten; thence turning and running north 1º 35' 30" east still by said Bensson land 249.80 feet to a drill hole in the wall at land of Harold C. Whitten; thence turning and
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running north 73° 6' 0" east 178 feet by said Whitten land to land now or formerly of Agnes M. and Robert N. Aubut; thence turn- ing and running north 8° 13' 10" west still by said Whitten land 401.89 feet to a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street ; thence turning and running north 60° 30' 0" east by the southerly side of said street 198.52 feet to the northwesterly corner of land now or formerly of Edward P. and Doris L. Sweet; thence turning and running south 20° 46' 40" east by said Sweet land 227.59 feet to an iron pipe; thence turning and running north 61° 48' 40" cast 198.20 feet still by said Sweet land to an iron pipe at land of one Sanford; thence turning and running north 46° 2' 40" east by said Sanford land 19.31 feet to a drill hole at the beginning of a wall; thence turning and running south 84° 32' 40" east by the wall and said Sanford land 204.22 feet to a drill hole at the junction of three walls; thence turning and running south 4° 24' 20" east by land now or formerly of Bernard H. and Thelma C. Greene following the wall 34.14 feet to a drill hole at the junction of three other walls; thence turning and running north 84º 14' 10" east by land of said Greene and one Kane and following the stone wall 443.92 feet to a drill hole in the wall at the southeasterly corner of land now or formerly of John C. Kane; thence turning and running north 5° 6' 20" west by said Kane land 313.28 feet to a point on the southerly side of Pleasant Street; thence turning and running south 87° 20' 0" east by the southerly side of said Pleasant Street 164.40 feet to the point of beginning. Excluding from said above- described premises the easement twenty-feet in width owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the operation and main- tenance of its water mains as shown on said plan.
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