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Spraying Trees
101.50
Sealer of Weights and Measures
74.50
Dog Officer - Sale of Dogs
78.00
Tax Collector - Municipal Liens and Advertising 119.00
Cemetery - Sale of Scrap Iron
28.12
Police Department - Strike at Fletcher's Quarry
Health Department - Subsidy from State
Highway Department:
Joint Construction - State
33,824.67
Joint Construction - County
15,910.66
Highway Machinery Fund
7,139.50
Chapter 718 Roads
6,250.00
From Individuals
$ 222.90
Town Infirmary
$
143,177.47 882.42 300.00
453.43 4,957.46 260.71
63,347.73 7,760.06
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Reimbursements : From State:
Old Age Assistance
$ 18,572.33
Aid to Dependent Children
2,257.85
Disability Assistance
6,536.96
Veterans' Benefits
951.54
Child Guardianship - Tuition and Transportation
754.35
38,949.90
School Bldg. Assistance Commission From Other Funds :
Old Age Assistance
1,858.23
Tuition - Groton
457.20
Tuition - Tyngsborough
2,134.85
Tuition - Others
796.24
$
74,453.05
School .Department:
Cafeteria
29,482.81
Athletics
1,718.22
Lost or Damaged Books
76.88
Rent of Gym
376.49
Sundry Receipts
228.23
31,882.63
Town Library - Fines
330.67
Wire Inspector
754.50
Cemeteries :
Sale of Lots and Graves
355.00
Care of Lots and Graves
1,182.00
Perpetual Care
1,150.00
Perpetual Care - Interest
102.60
2,789.60
Water Department:
Rates
58,562.13
Service Connections
1,673.19
Guaranty Deposits
9,144.70
69,380.02
Interest:
Deposits in Savings Banks
1,582.21
Deferred Taxes
847.02
Tax Titles Redeemed
11.41
Sale of Lots
79.56
Committed Interest
175.89
Loan for Nabnasset Elementary School
435.00
3,131.09
Premium on Loan - Nabnasset Elementary School Loan :
513.30
Anticipation of Revenue
125,000.00
Nabnasset Elementary School
$ 435,000.00
$ 560,000.00
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Agency and Trust :
Dog Licenses for County
$ 1,273.25
63,808.72
Federal Withholding Taxes State Withholding Taxes Town Reimbursement - State Withholding Taxes County Retirement
4,553.41
29.78
7,326.46
Blue Cross - Blue Shield
2,656.30
$
79,647.92
Insurance Proceeds :
Lightning Fire - Academy
1,173.10
Fire - School Nurse's Car
890.00
Damage to Truck
60.40
2,123.50
Money Withdrawn from Trust Funds :
Library
300.00
Mary Atwood Fund
164.00
Emily Fletcher Lecture Fund
247.11
Whitney Playground
200.00
Whitney Shade Tree Fund
250.00
Metcalf Monument
100.00
Cemetery Perpetual Care Interest
2,775.00
William Wright Fund
$ 16.00
4,052.11
Refunds - Various Departments
2,111.32
Total Receipts
1,746,934.23
Balance - January 1, 1959
193,999.04
$ 1,940,933.27
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EXPENDITURES - 1959
General Government:
Selectmen :
Salaries of Selectmen
$ 1,225.00
Clerk's Salary
1,030.00
Stationery and Postage
75.40
Dues and Meetings
56.50
Law Supplements
45.00
Advertisements
262.88
$
2,694.78
Town Accountant :
Salary
1,560.00
Clerical Help
400.00
Dues
2.00
Stationery and Postage
53.87
Office Supplies
28.19
Binding
25.00
Advertisements
8.25
2,080.91
Town Treasurer:
Salary
3,120.00
Clerical Help
348.16
Dues
5.00
Surety Bond
181.60
Printing and Postage
249.99
Tax Collector :
Salary
3,000.00
Due s
5.00
Advertisements
83.76
Surety Bond
582.20
Printing and Postage
672.77
Prepare Tax Titles
95.00
Telephone
113.40
4,552.13
Assessors :
Salaries
4,998.00
Clerk's Salary
1,019.38
Printing and Postage
325.05
Telephone
124.57
Dues
9.00
Meetings
11.25
Use of Car
300.00
6,787.25
Town Clerk:
Salary
1,400.00
Recording Fees
255.00
Stationery and Postage
63.60
Office Supplies
123.67
Binding Records
36.35
Dues
17.50
Law Service
10.00
Surety Bond
10.00
Oaths to Town Officials
$ 29.50
$ 1,945.62
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3,904.75
Registration and Election: Salaries for Registrars Election Officers
$ 598.25
Listing
1,516.25
Printing Ballots
95.70
Advertisements
32.50
Preparing Material for Elections etc.
134.00
Janitor Service
10.50
Office Supplies and Postage
125.07
$
2,512.27
Town Counsel
1,047.50
Board of Appeals
254.19
Enforcement of Zoning
404.75
4-H Clubs
75.00
Survey of Town Lands
500.00
Planning Board
177.75
Misc. Services and Expenses
20.00
Tax Possessions Sales Committee
20.00
License Expense
80.75
Finance Committee
215.00
Envelope Sealing Machine
103.00
Interest on Revenue Loans
1,193.79
Tax Title Expense
435.50
Town Hall :
Salary - Custodian
1,890.00
Town Hall License
25.00
Fuel - Oil
1,139.50
Fuel - Lowell Gas Company
68.78
Electricity
380.25
Telephone
216.22
Water
27.00
Janitor's Supplies
166.81
Repairs
286.51
Post Office Box Rent
3.60
4,203.67
Town Hall - Enlarge Assessors' Office
2,000.00
Town Hall - Painting Offices
324.00
Town Hall - Light Fixtures - Welfare Office
16.75
35,549.36 $
Protection of Persons and Property : Fire and Compensation Insurance
10,096.73
Police Department :
Chief's Salary
5,202.10
Sergeant's Salary
4,810.00
Patrolmen's Salaries
9,350.00
Special Police
5,953.58
Radio Service and Repairs
277.71
Car Repairs
644.74
Gasoline and Oil
2,347.89
Telephone
484.56
Uniforms
585.45
Dues
10.00
Office Supplies
35.00
Departmental Supplies
$ 674.19
3,479.73
$ 30,375.22
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Police Department - New Cruiser $ 994.00 Police Department - Fletcher Quarry Strike 4,957.46
Fire Department:
Wages - Fires
$ 4,923.84
Wages - Ambulance
505.25
Electrical Repairs
583.28
Equipment and Repairs
2,309.36
Gasoline and Oil
659.00
Fuel
1,326.85
Lowell Gas Company
303.56
Electricity
439.41
Telephone
783.09
Building Repairs
306.81
Insurance
2,612.71
Water
110.80
Radio Repairs
193.40
Due s
15.00
15,072.36
Switchboard Operator
950.00
New Fire Hose
1,596.00
New Fire Truck Chassis
6,416.20
Nabnasset Rent
600.00
New Truck Tires
110.00
New Two-Way Radio
528.40
Special Equipment Appropriation
461.91
Hydrants
5,850.00
16,512.51
Forest Fires :
Wages - Fires
1,866.65
Permits
250.00
Fue 1
25.00
2,141.65
Moth Department :
Insurance
53.38
Wages
978.00
Truck Expense
235.81
Equipment and Repairs
55.27
Insecticides
684.39
Garage Rent
36.00
2,042.85
Tree Department:
Insurance
53.38
Wages
3,070.08
Truck Expense
123.55
Equipment and Repairs
173.48
Wire Inspector:
Office Supplies and Expenses
24.63
Permits
78.50
Inspections
$ 561.00
3,420.49
$ 664.13
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Civilian Defense Sealer of Weights and Measures Dog Officer Town Forests
$ 526.12
125.00
697.85
477.75
$ 88,104.12
Health and Sanitation:
Health Department:
Supplies - Medical & Office $
111.37
Telephone
133.50
Advertisements
5.25
Board and Treatment
911.17
Remove Deceased Animals
56.00
Dump - Caretaker
547.50
Dump - Bulldozing
1,449.50
Dump - Expenses
402.46
3,616.75
Nashoba Associated Boards of Health
4,775.31
Cattle Inspector
8,592.06
Highway Department:
Street Lights
Snow and Ice Removal :
Wages
9,201.87
Hired Trucks
3,800.75
Equipment and Repairs
2,765.51
Gasoline and Oil
1,621.64
Salt
3,766.53
Sand
2,931.20
24,087.50
Town Roads Account :
Wages
10,538.69
Sand, gravel, asphalt etc.
2,221.58
Gasoline and Oil
1,004.95
Equipment Rental
562.50
Pipe and Blocks
344.23
Equipment and Repairs
232.73
Fence
95.32
15,000.00
Drainage of Town Roads :
Wages
2,266.47
Pipe and Culverts
5,051.55
Supplies
140.17
7,458.19
Chapter 90 Maintenance:
Wages
1,499.74
Asphalt
1,337.56
Stone, gravel, sand etc.
1,237.79
Equipment Rental
40.00
Chapter 81 Roads :
Wages
Sand, gravel, stone
2,932.92
Asphalt
8,494.94
Mowing
$ 560.00
4,115.09
20,738.65
$ 32,726.51
80
200.00
8,925.40
Chapter 90 Construction - 1959 : Groton Road:
Wages
$ 4,598.68
Contract Work
17,601.19
Pipe and Culverts
425.07
Fence
1,569.58
Sand, gravel, stone
518.56
Asphalt
243.73
Supplies
43.19
25,000.00 $
Chapter 90 Construction - 1958: Graniteville Road:
Wages
7,666.93
Sand, gravel, stone
2,120.23
Asphalt
1,903.32
Pipe and Culverts
1,833.31
Fence
222.00
Supplies
43.23
13,789.02
Highway Equipment Account :
Equipment and Repairs
2,421.94
Garage Rent
1,110.00
Gasoline and Oil
1,475.63
Insurance
974.74
Tires and Tire Repairs
687.96
Telephone
290.71
Electricity
12.00
6,972.98
Paint Traffic Lines
650.00
Road and Traffic Signs
748.98
Two New Highway Trucks
8,073.50
New Snow Plows
1,842.40
149,389.57 $
Welfare Department: See Report
Temporary Aid - Town
6,325.92
Disability Assistance:
Town
12,032.39
Federal
4,865.21
Old Age Assistance :
Town
34,932.21
Federal
26,379.67
61,311.88
Aid to Dependent Children:
Town
1,979.22
Federal
4,093.10
Administration - Federal :
Old Age Assistance
1,055.38
Disability Assistance
416.35
Aid to Dependent Children
$ 236.23
Town Infirmary
1,707.96 $ 8,262.94
$ 100,578.62
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16,897.60
6,072.32
Veterans' Benefits: General Appropriation:
Salaries Office Supplies
$ 906.00
12.16
Postage Grants
10.10
3,206.00
$ 4,134.26
School Department :
General Appropriation - See Report
$ 456,995.75
New Car - School Nurse
1,902.98
National Defense Education - P. L. 85-864
488.42
Vocational Tuition
6,396.19
School Athletics
5,031.42
School Cafeteria
28,166.74
School Band
810.00
New Six Year High School:
2,505.52
Total Cost of School to date:
1953
$ 102,032.67
1954
582,953.58
1955
214,618.29
1956
12,180.81
1957
47,001.18
1958
3,049.93
1959
2,505.52
$ 964,341.98
Nabnasset Elementary School:
Construction
25,848.00
Architect
23,516.56
Expense of Committee
1,047.37
Bond Expense and Loan Premium 1,343.38
Land
18,000.00
69,755.31
Town Library - See Report Mary Atwood Lecture Fund
220.16
Emily Fletcher Lecture Fund
$
247.11
Recreation and Unclassified:
Town Common :
Wages
702.59
Electricity
15.55
Gasoline and Oil
28.53
Loam and Grass Seed
50.29
Flowers
59.50
Supplies and Repairs
143.54
Metcalf Monument
Whitney Playground :
Wages
1,020.69
Supplies and Repairs
157.22
Water
$ 27.00
1,204.91
Whitney Playground - Hot-Top Tennis Court 1,000.00 Whitney Shade Tree Account 114.00
Memorial Day $ 555.25
572,052.33
7,302.69
1,000.00 115.54
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Unpaid Bills of Previous Years
$ 450.30
1,141.74
900.00
1,000.00
7,481.74 $
Water Department:
Water Department - General - See Report
35,704.47
Plain Road Extension
5,284.25
Pine Ridge Road Extension
1,114.25
Beaver Brook Road Extension
1,529.17
43,632.14
Cemeteries :
Wages
$ 5,037.24
Clerk
200.00
Safe Deposit Box
5.50
Equipment and Repairs
265.93
Seed, Fertilizer etc.
176.30
Insurance
106.76
Mower
98.05
Hot-Top Driveways
393.75
6,283.53
Perpetual Care
1,150.00
Perpetual Care Interest
70.05
Sale of Cemetery Lots
75.00
William L. Wright Fund
16.00
7,594.58
Principal and Interest:
Principal :
School
40,000.00
Water
10,000.00
Water Extensions
5,500.00
Betterments
1,000.00
56,500.00
Interest :
School
14,400.00
Water
6,630.00
Water Extensions
1,695.00
Betterments
$ 382.50
23,107.50
79,607.50
Loan - Anticipation of Revenue
125,000.00
Payments to State: State Parks
2,392.18
State Audit
$ 1,687.15
$
4,079.33
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Printing Town Reports Veterans' Quarters Recreation Commission
Payments to County : Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment County Retirement System Dog Licenses County Tax
$ 2,966.05
4,839.99
1,240.00
17,873.97
$
26,920.01
Payroll Deductions :
Withholding Tax
63,808.72
Retirement System
7,326.46
Blue Cross - Blue Shield
2,584.05
State Withholding Tax
4,553.41
78,272.64
Refunds :
Taxes
1,804.15
Motor Excise
1,216.74
Water
764.99
Tax Title
$ 10.00
3,795.88
Total Expenditures Balance - December 31, 1959
$ 1,342,554.10
598,379.17
$ 1,940,933.27
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TOWN OF WESTFORD
BALANCE SHEET - DECEMBER 31, 1959
GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
Cash in Banks and on Hand
$ 598,379.17
Payroll Deductions :
Blue Cross & Blue Shield $
57.80
Appropriation Balances : New Elmnty. Sch. Nabnasset $ 393,707.99
Tax Title Expense 400.00
Town Hall - Storm Windows 540.00
Town Hall - Generator 200.00
Sidewalks
500.00
Real Estate
234.04
575.44
Highway Equipment Account 27.02
New Six Year High School
1,333.36
Levy of 1958:
Civilian Defense
93.85
396,802.22
Poll
722.00
Personal Property
651.75
Real Estate
7,388.51
8,762.26
School Athletics
187.40
School Cafeteria
1,556.36
1,743.76
Levy of 1959 :
Poll
676.00
Personal Property
1,251.93
Real Estate
26,350.54
28,278.47
Bond Issue - Chapter 718
6,250.00
13,389.50
Motor Vehicle Excise:
Levy of 1957
50.10
Levy of 1958
5,600.99
Levy of 1959
$ 33,496.44
39,147.53
Farm Animal Excise: Levy of 1959
$ 130.13
Federal Grants Disability Assistance Old Age Assistance Assistance 11,455.34
Administration 276.52
11,731.86
Aid to Dependent Children
5,220.48
School Department Public Law 874 9,988.43
Natl Defense Educ 1,917.64
11,906.07
32,043.37
Taxes :
Levy of 1957 :
Poll Tax
$ 84.00
Personal Property
257.40
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Accounts Receivable :
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Revolving Funds :
Highway Funds Reserved: Highway Machinery Fund
7,139.50
3,184.96
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Departmental Revenue :
Temporary Aid
1,785.49
Aid-Dependent Children
590.34
Old Age Assistance
176.62
Infirmary
81.32
School Department
132.45
Highway Department
59.80
Cemetery
115.00
2,941.02
Whitney Shade Tree Account
148.85
474.51
Sale of Cemetery Lots
2,244.03
State Aid-Chapter 81
15,719.31
State Aid-Chap. 90
Sale of Real Estate
1,165.00
Maintenance
1,500.00
County Aid-Chap. 90
Revenue Reserved until Collected :
Maintenance
1,500.00
Departmental
2,941.02
State and County Aid to Highways
37,727.23
Water Department
5,129.74
Farm Animal Excise
130.13
Motor Vehicle Excise
39,147.53
Tax Titles and Possessions 7,520.14
92,595.79
Water Revenue:
Rates
5,348.60
5,952.98
Premium on Water Department Loan Overestimates :
796.02
Overlay Underestimates:
57.40
County Tuberculosis Hospital
2,189.32
Levy of 1959
378.42
435.82
State Parks and Reservations
262.01
2,451.33
Underestimate-County Tax:
415.57
Betterments-Hawthorne Avenue
2,437.25
Water Services and Miscellaneous
4,844.14
Tax Titles and Possessions :
Tax Titles
4,897.56
Tax Possessions
2,622.58
7,520.14
32.55
36.75
5,822.34
Cemetery Perpetual Care Interest Agency - County Dog Taxes Reserve Fund - Overlay Surplus Surplus Revenue : General
162,911.10
Water
10,418.30 173,329.40
$ 730,265.76
$ 730,265.76
State Aid-Chap. 90
Construction
12,671.95
County Aid-Chap. 90
Construction
6,335.97
37,727.23
Trust Fund Income : Library 87.82
Mary Atwood Lecture Fund 24.59
Emily Fletcher Lecture Fund 20.00
Whitney Playground 193.25
State & County Highway Aid:
Guarantee Deposits
604.38
Levy of 1958
TOWN OF WESTFORD
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss.
To the Constable of the Town of Westford, in said County,
GREETINGS :
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth afore- said, to notify and warn all the inhabitants of said Town qualified to vote in elections, and also in Town affairs, to meet at their several polling places, viz:
PRECINCT 1
Town Hall, Westford Center
PRECINCT 2
Legion Hall, Graniteville
PRECINCT 3 Nabnasset School, Brookside
PRECINCT 4
Murray Hall, Forge Village
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1960
being the first Monday in said month, at 12:00 o'clock noon for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes for the following officers :
FOR FIVE YEARS
One Member of the Planning Board
FOR THREE YEARS
One Selectman
One Member of the Board of Public Welfare
One Assessor
Two Members of the School Committee
One Trustee of the J. V. Fletcher Library
One Member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners
One Member of the Board of Public Health
One Member of the Board of Water Commissioners
One Town Clerk
One Moderator
FOR ONE YEAR
One Tree Warden
All on one ballot.
The polls will be open from 12:00 o'clock noon to 8:00 P. M.,
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and to meet in the Town Hall in Westford Center on the following SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1960
at 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to act upon the following Articles, viz:
ARTICLE 1. To hear the reports of Town Officers and Committees; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 2. To fix the salary and compensation of all elected officers of the Town, provide for a Reserve Fund, and to determine what sums of money the Town will raise and appropriate, including appropriation from any available funds, to defray all departmental and incidental charges, expenses and outlays of the Town, including debt and interest, for the ensuing year.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17 of Chapter 44 of the Gen- eral Laws; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 81 Highways; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from unappropriated available funds in the Treasury, a sum of money for Chapter 90 Highways Maintenance; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from available funds, the sum of Eight Hundred Sixty and 50/100 ($860.50) Dollars, or some other sum, to the Highway Machinery Fund, and to transfer or appropriate the sum of Eight Thousand ($8,000.00) Dollars, or some other sum, from said Machinery Fund to the Highway Equipment Account; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or transfer from any available funds, the sum of Seven Thousand ($7,000.00) Dollars, or some other sum, to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Highway construction on Concord and Carlisle Roads, contingent upon the State and County contributing towards the cost thereof; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing a new, tandem 8-12 ton gasoline-powered road roller for the Highway Department, said purchase to be made under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen, and to authorize said Board to transfer by a good and sufficient Bill of Sale title to the roller now being used by said Department and apply the sum received therefrom against the purchase price of the new roller; or act in relation thereto
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ARTICLE 9, To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred Seventy ($670.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of purchasing one new snow plow for the Highway Depart- ment, said purchase to be made under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Fire Engineers to renew the lease of quarters at Nabnasset in which one of the fire trucks is stationed, and raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred ($600.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for rent of said quarters; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions of section 17B of Chapter 147 of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.), as most recently amended, said section providing as follows :
"Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the services of all regular or per- manent police officers of every city and town which accepts this section shall be restricted to five days and to forty hours in any one week; provided, that service in excess of the aforesaid days and hours may be authorized by the police commissioner, chief, superintendent or other officer or board at the head of the police department of any such city or town and the officer performing such additional service shall be compensated at the hourly rate of his regular compensation for his average weekly hours of regular duty or such higher rate as may be determined by the person or persons authorized to establish pay scales in the respective police departments. The compensation payable to any such police officer shall not be reduced by reason of the acceptance of this section. This section shall take effect in a city having a Plan E or Plan D charter when accepted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the city council and in the case of other cities by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of its charter, and in a town by a majority vote at the annual town meeting."
said section, when accepted by the Town, to become effective July 1, 1960; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the purpose of purchasing two new cruisers for the Police Department, said purchase to be made under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen; and to authorize said Board to transfer by a good and sufficient Bill of Sale title to one or both of the cruisers now being used by said Department and to apply the sum or sums received therefrom against the purchase price of the new cruisers; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred Fifty ($650.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of painting traffic lines and signals on the public ways of the Town, said sum to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Selectmen; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Twelve Hundred ($1200.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of paying the balance due for legal services rendered to the Town by Edward L. Monahan, Esquire, in connection with the con- struction of the new Westford Academy; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift made to it during the year 1959 by the Isabel F. Hyams Fund, Inc., formerly known as the Solomon Hyams Fund, Inc .; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Nine Hundred ($900.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of providing suitable quarters for the Nabnasset American Le- gion Post No. 437 and the Auxiliary of said Post, the Veterans of For- eign Wars Post No. 6539 and the Auxiliary of said Post, and the Frederick S. Healy American Legion Post No. 159 and the Auxiliary of said Post; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will vote to accept the gift of a flag, for the Town Hall stage, made to it by the Nabnasset Boosters, Inc .; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from any available funds, the sum of Seventy-Four and 95/100 ($74.95) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of settling a claim made against the Town for damages by Catherine E. Brady, R.N., and in connection therewith, to authorize the Board of Selectmen to take any and all action necessary to effect such settlement and to make such settlement as they, in their discretion, deem to be in the best interests of the Town; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or transfer from any available funds, the sum of Eight Hundred ($800.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of installing two basket- ball backboards with hoops and hot topping the Basketball Court on the present Nabnasset School Playground; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Committee of five members, three of whom shall be the members of the Board of Public Welfare, whose duty it shall be to investigate the advisability of discontinuing the Town In- firmary, to ascertain and determine the most practicable disposition to be made of all property, both real and personal, now being used or maintained in connection with said Infirmary, and to report its find- ings and recommendations to the Town at the next Annual Meeting; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 2 un- der Article XV of the By-Laws amended through March 1, 1958 in the following manner: "Any amendments to the By-Laws shall go into effect upon their acceptance by the Town and their approval in the manner re- quired by law, and all By-Laws or Votes of the Town inconsistent therewith shall thereupon be repealed"; or act in relation thereto.
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ARTICLE 22. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 6 under Article I of the By-Laws amended through March 1, 1958 in the following manner: "At any Town Meeting held for the transaction of Town business, no person whose name is not on the list of voters shall be invited to the floor of the Hall except those who may be invited by the meeting assembled. It shall be the special duty of the Police and Election Officers to enforce this law by use of the check list, but the same shall not apply to the State Election, Primaries or Meetings for the Election of Town Officers, or to be construed to prohibit press report- ers from such admission. The Moderator shall determine the bounds of the floor"; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 5 under Article I of the By-Laws amended through March 1, 1958 in the following manner : "The rules contained in ROBERTS, RULES OF ORDER REVISED shall govern the proceedings of Town Meetings in all cases to which they are applicable, and except as modified by law or by the By-Laws"; or act in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Six Hundred ($600.00) Dollars, or some other sum, for the purpose of defraying the cost of all labor, materials and fixtures, including new light fixtures, in connection with the installation of a new ceiling in the lower portion of the Town Hall; or act in relation thereto.
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