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1,559.62
4,440.38
1,603.35
4,968.10
2,068.11
Building Inspector's Expense
100.00
29.41
70.59
2.35
64.31
12.90
Cemeteries
1,800.00
1,482.30
317.70
1,655.75
1,517.93
1,513.52
Civil Defense
6,431.80
4,956.67
1,475.13
3,068.20
*Community Program
4,000.00
3,999.78
.22
3,499.42
3,487.95
2,941.01
Dental Clinic
1,050.00
1,028.85
21.15
1,028.55
1,008.70
1,299.00
Election Expense
2,359.77
2,359.77
0.00
428.80
1,332.93
363.82
Fire Department
11,865.00
11,862.94
2,06
9,154.61
8,112.23
7,770.62
Forest Warden
700.00
695.88
4.12
733.96
782.52
597.75
*Garbage Collection
5,500.00
4,370.50
1,129.50
4,365.00
4,381.50
3,000.35
*General Relief
6,000.00
3,511.94
2,523.06
6,203.21
4,827.93
3,995.41
Gypsy Moth - Pest Control
1,700.00
1,700.00
0.00
2,503.00
1,264.75
1,403.91
Dead Wood
2,500.00
2,500.00
0.00
1,495.25
1,409.18
1,728.32
Mosquito Control
2,250.00
2,250.00
*Highways
Chapter 81
24,031.73
24,031.51
.22
19,318.27
21,249.49
20,824.91
Chapter 90 Construction
30,213.66
19,226.83
10,986.83
9,786.34
16,768.88
17,229.53
Chapter 90 Construction
So. Main Drainage
4,874.17
4,867.31
6.86
4,725.83
Chapter 90 Maintenance
4,654.38
4,653.44
.94
1,345.62
2,999.14
2,998.93
Chapter 90 - Canal Bridge
8,497.68
4,925.69
3,571.99
41,497.32
12,068.06
8,533.93
*Insurance & Bonding Legal
2,867.70
2,867.70
0.00
2,104.74
1,115.40
2,485.81
1,000.00
325.00
675.00
1,460.95
200.00
1,022.75
of Town Appro.
Miscellaneous
15,275.67
15,275.67
0.00
12,130.68
Account
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* Library
10,421.50
8,131.44
2,290.06
7,217.98 235.01 12,999.95
7,481.08 161.60 15,048.28
225.92
*Old Age Assistance
17,067.55
17,067.55
0.00
Parks
850.00
350.00
500.00
350.00
358.00
350.00
Planning Board
500.00
348.42
151.58
289.66
1,112.13
210.33
Playground
3,830.00
3,118.69
711.31
2,579.75
1,687.75
1,420.30
Police
12,150.00
11,897.38
252.62
10,432.21
731.68
280.30
Printing Town Reports
1,818.80
1,782.82
35.98
1,618.95
1,272.50
1,248.76
Registrar's Expense
600.00
598.26
1.74
131.86
371.94
165.60
Road Machinery Operating Account
3,916.78
3,916.78
0.00
3,223.66
3,223.19
3,384.89
Safety Committee
1,800.00
1,508.00
292.00
1,457.50
1,135.00
1,102.50
*Schools
361,440.00
358,898.06
2,541.94
286,640.57
246,815.23
201,263.58
School Bonds and Interest (1949)
21,885.00
21,885.00
0.00
22,200.00
22,515.00
22,830.00
School Bonds and Interest (1953)
25,985.00
25,985.00
0.00
26,365.00
26,892.63
School Bonds Interest (1956)
1,662.50
1,662.50
0.00
New School (Stony Hill Rd.)
337,090.08
314,196.82
22,893.26
New School Contingency
2,900.00
2,898.80
1.20
Selectmen's Contingent
2,473.75
2,141.83
331.92
1,072.44
1,091.60
829.32
Street Lights
4,440.00
4,176.45
223.55
3,834.44
3,689.32
3,306.21
Town Clerk's Expense
950.00
877.96
72.04
652.94
678.58
635.43
Town Collector's Expense
1,200.00
1,171.99
28.01
899.98
911.19
908.16
Town Officers' and Employees Salaries
22,000.00
20,642.03
1,357.97
19,699.50
18,246.53
14,483.17
Town Office and Buildings Maintenance
3,500.00
3,479.94
20.06
4,752.97
3,117.85
2,785.78
Town Treasurer's Expense
750.00
736.80
13.20
353.54
315.27
896.62
Tree Warden's Expense
1,185.50
1,185.50
0.00
984.95
1,158.17
942.35
*Veteran's Benefits
4,159.81
4,159.81
0.00
2,819.89
716.54
979.45
Water Bonds and Interest (1926)
3,120.00
3,120.00
0.00
3,240.00
3,360.00
3,480.00
Water Bonds and Interest (1955)
7,047.50
7,047.50
0.00
1,050.00
5,739.75
Memorial Day
304.47
304.47
0.00
19,843.71
COMPARATIVE ANNUAL EXPENDITURES OF TOWN APPROPRIATIONS (Continued)
SCHEDULE 1
Account
1956 Appropriations or Transfer from Reserve
1956 Expenditures of Town Appro.
1956 Unexpended Balance
1955 Expenditures of Town Appro.
1954 Expenditures of Town Appro.
1953 Expenditures of Town Appro.
* Water Installations
12,802.14
12,089.72
714.42
9,542.56
8,786.30
8,335.46
*Water Maintenance
21,000.00
17,878.60
3,121.40
19,724.98
19,709.37
14,010.77
Water Notes and Interest (1947)
2,542.20
2,542.20
0.00
2,570.44
3,360.00
3,683.96
Water Notes and Interest (1953)
11,687.50
11,687.50
0.00
11,912.50
14,735.99
Water Main Extension (Main St.)
11,889.84
11,889.84
0.00
113,200.42
Well Child Clinic
900.00
740.10
159.90
536.26
450.70
Wilbraham Contributory Retirement Account
4,773.99
4,773.99
0.00
647.71 5,137.09
2,650.43
1,492.66
* (For accounts with asterisk see Schedule 2)
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Net Cost to the Town of Accounts with Receipts or Offsetting Credits
SCHEDULE 2
1956 Total Expenditures
1956 Receipts from Federal (Available for Expenditures)
Offsetting Credits to Gen. Treasury (Not Available for Expenditures)
Net Cost to the Town
Account
Aid to Dependent Children
$1,737.06
$1,185.73
$599.29
*$48.96
Aid to Disabled
8,503.40
2,131.82
4,260.31
2,111.27
Community Program
3,999.78
1,162.64
2,837.14
Flood Damage Repairs
1,459.45
1,459.45
0.00
Garbage Collection Service
4,370.50
4,347.40
23.10
General Relief
3,511.94
876.04
2,635.90
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Highways
(Chapter 81
Chapter 90 Construction
Chapter 90 South Main Drainage
Chapter 90 Canal and Bridges
Chapter 90 Maintenance
Miscellaneous
Arbor Lane
Brainard Rd.
Brooklawn Rd.
Burt Lane
Decorie Dr.
Dudley St.
Greenwood Rd.
Jewell Lane
Pearl Lane
South Colonial Rd.)
69,109.18
33,631.55
35,477.63
Library
8,131.44
1,053.53
7,077.91
Old Age Assistance
30,513.53
11,596.49
14,227.43
4,689.61
Planning Board
348.42
225.00
123.42
Police
11,897.38
2,467.60
9,429.78
Schools - (includes New Building)
729,933.80
5,010.99
194,473.21
530,449.62
Veteran's Benefits
4,159.81
1,166.47
2,993.34
Water Department
56,255.36
52,276.86
13,978.50
** Credit
Civil Defense
Your Civil Defense Authority reports excellent progress during the past year. The money allocated at the last Town Meeting has been used to good advantage in assist- ing other departments in Town by purchasing needed equipment through the Matching Funds program. Some of this equipment is as follows: two Electric Generators - one for the Town Office and one for the Fire Depart- ment to give us electrical power for our radio communica- tions and fire siren in the event electric power is inter- rupted during a natural or enemy disaster; Auxiliary Police and Fire uniforms for use by the personnel when called out on duty. The Authority feels that these Departments should be properly equipped, especially since the Auxiliary Departments respond on a volunteer basis and without pay. We have 15 two-way communicators for use in the event of any possible emergency that might exist. These radio sets have been used by our Night Patrol in solving one of their most difficult problems. Our Fire Department has likewise made good use of this equipment during Hallow- een with the assistance of our amateur radio technicians. It is anticipated that additional service in the future will stimulate interest and at the same time be of some assistance to the Town. Supplies for two medical depots have been purchased by our Medical Officer and the supplies are now located in strategic parts of Town. Emphasis during the coming year in this Department is to qualify for a local Medical Unit which will entitle us to receive, free from the State, approximately $1,500 worth of medical supplies for stock piling. This material can be used for any type of an emergency so ordered by your Authority. A report center is now being developed in the basement of the Town Office. This report center will not only be headquarters for our own Civil Defense organization, but the large room will serve as additional conference room for other committees in Town. Much of this work has been done on a volunteer basis and cost of the equipment to the Town only fifty cents on a dollar. The whole Civil Defense Organization has been strengthened and for the future, we plan to have someone in each family represented in some branch of the various services.
For your information, Wilbraham was one of the first towns in the State to develop and publish in simple terms a complete Evacuation Plan and it has received State-wide publicity. The Massachusetts C. D. A. ordered 1,000 copies of this plan for distribution to other cities and towns.
We hope during the coming year to take advantage of the Government Surplus Property Program. Much equip- ment has already been ordered for use by our Fire, Police
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and Highway Departments. As soon as this material is obtainable and other items become available, your Author- ity feels we should take full advantage of this plan.
After our C. D. exercise last year, we discovered several weaknesses in our organization. This year we are concen- trating in developing depth in our organization so that at no time will we be without adequate protection.
It has been a pleasure to be of assistance to the Town in this worthwhile cause and we hope our efforts have not been in vain. The more each and every one of us knows about self-survival, the better. In the eyes of the Sector Director, Wilbraham's Civil Defense Authority has an outstanding record. A record that each citizen should be proud of. We hope you are, because we are at your service.
ROGER T. HINTZE, Director MICHAEL RUDY, Deputy Director WALTER HOWES, JR., Deputy Director
In Memoriam
In the recent death of Mrs. Harry Piper, the town of Wilbraham lost one of its finest citizens. We who have been associated with her in the Wilbraham Women's Club and in the Garden Groups feel that some public recognition should be given to her long and devoted service to the town. We feel sure that Wilbraham is, and forever will be, a better place in which to live because she was among us for more than forty years. In her quiet, unassuming way she was a power for good in our community. We shall miss her greatly. We doubt if the place she held among us will ever be wholly filled.
Bertha Piper was a Vermonter and brought from that State a deep sense of the sanctity of family life, of the value of neighbors who understood one another, of the need that each town should stand on its own feet yet fulfill its obliga- tions to the state and the nation. She was a graduate of Tufts College, Class of 1901, and earned a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois two years later. She brought to Wilbraham a trained mind, capable of grasping the larger aspects of life and human relation- ships.
More important than inheritance or college training, there was within her an inner light that brightened an ever-widening circle. It was this quality of mind and heart
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Mrs. Piper found in her garden "The peace of God which passeth all understanding"
that made for her a lasting place among the women of Wilbraham. It was this inner light that won for her our respect, admiration and affection. She was not a leader because she wanted to be but because we believed in her sincerity and singleness of purpose. She gave much and sought nothing in return.
The Piper family came to live on the Mountain Road on July 5th, 1914. The next day Mrs. Piper planted some
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flower seeds. That was the beginning of a garden of unu- sual charm and originality. It was not a show garden but a quiet bit of earth in which she and Mother Nature worked hand in hand. It was a place we all loved to visit because of its beauty and restfulness. In this garden only the most worth-while things were grown and from it Mrs. Piper gave freely. There are in Wilbraham hundreds of gardens made more lovely, more a source of inspiration to abundant living, because of the plants she had given away. They remain as living testimonials to something which is fine and uplifting.
It is a source of continued amazement to us how she found time and energy to give attention to town affairs in addition to the cares of running a household, bringing up a family of six children, seeing them through school and college and caring for such a garden. Yet the record shows that through more than forty years Mrs. Piper had given consistent support to all movements tending to make Wil- braham a better town, often being the first to see the need. Among the more important of such efforts were support of the Well Child Clinic and our zoning system; and, on the other side of the picture, the control of poison ivy along roadsides and the establishment of a more adequate system of garbage collection. There were many other civic move- ments she supported but these give an idea of the scope of her interests.
Mrs. Piper became a member of the Wilbraham Women's Club forty-one years ago. Soon after that her unique power of unselfish leadership became apparent. One of her early acts was to associate herself with four other members of the Club to form the first of our three Garden Groups. From that small beginning Wilbraham now has the largest number of women gardeners of any place in western Massa- chusetts with the exception of Springfield. The three Gar- den Groups now have a combined membership of about 160. Mrs. Piper was the leader of this original group for more than twenty-five years while it grew in size and importance in the town. Recently she had been the garden consultant for all three groups.
About thirty-five years ago she joined the Springfield Garden Club and became one of its most influential mem- bers. For some time she served as Springfield's representa- tive on the executive board of the State Federation of Garden Clubs. It was from this connection that she re- ceived last year a special recognition from the Federation. It read as follows - "The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts presents this certificate to Mrs. Harry L. Piper of the Springfield Garden Club in recognition and appreciation of her inspired and devoted service in the field of Horticulture over a period of thirty-four years."
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This was the greatest recognition ever given to any home gardener in this region.
Mrs. Piper's work at the Westover and Leeds Hospitals stands out prominently in the record. When the Westover Hospital was first established the garden clubs of Massa- chusetts did their part by establishing gardens around the buildings. Mrs. Piper worked with the Springfield Garden Club in these gardens. Later there was developed a plan of visits once a month by women who made bedside bou- quets for the patients who could not walk and large ar- rangements for the chapel and all public rooms. It was under her leadership that the Wilbraham Garden Groups became a part of this service. Nine months in each year a group of Wilbraham women go to Westover; three months they go to Leeds.
Although the representatives of the Wilbraham Garden Group changed each month it is a matter of record that in all these years Mrs. Piper had never missed one of these monthly trips, in spite of weather and the infirmities of age. Our women were always glad to make these trips. They gave service but received in return a glimpse into one of the stern realities of life.
Such are the rich memories we have shared with our leader and friend, Bertha Piper. We mourn her passing. Yet we believe that she went in the way she would have wished; without any long illness, secure in the love of children and grandchildren, even down to the small great- grandson in far-away Japan; safe in the minds and hearts of neighbors, of friends and associates near and far. She went without any impairment of the faculties, without any lessening of her abiding belief that life is a beautiful privi- lege if we make it so.
In Memoriam
FREDERICK V. GALE
CHARLES E. CHAMBERLIN
ADELBERT J. BROOKS
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Report of Annual Town Meeting MARCH 10, 1956
In accordance with the warrant as posted, the voters of the Town assembled in the Wilbraham Memorial School Auditorium, Wilbraham.
The polls were declared open at 8:30 a. m. by Warden Wesley Holdridge, who had been sworn in by Town Clerk Walter F. Berry. Ballot Clerks and Tellers sworn in by the Town Clerk were : Anna Tupper, Dorothy Reidy, Beulah Wahlberg, Theresa Boden, Helen Laurino, Wanda Gurski, Filomena Gilbert, Alexina Holdridge, Coralie Gray, Helen Panek, William Dempsey, Mae Irwin, Sophie Przybycien, Mildred Brooks, June Rice, Julia Szczebak, Helen Bernard, Helen Workum. Special Police were: Alton McDonald at the meeting and Norman Farnsworth at the voting area.
The meeting was called to order by Moderator Frank Auchter at approximately 10:00 a. m. with a quorum of registered voters present. Mrs. Doris Cochran was unani- mously elected as temporary Town Clerk by a written bal- lot of 33 votes and was duly sworn into office. This proce- dure was necessary because of Mr. Berry's absence.
ARTICLE 1. Minor Town officers elected by unanimous vote were:
Pound Keeper Jerry Donahue
Surveyors of Lumber Walter H. Clark Jesse L. Rice
Field Drivers
Jerry Donahue Alvin A. Richmond Leonard F. VonFlatern, Sr.
Weighers of Grain Henry Hyde Jesse L. Rice
Measurers of Wood and Charcoal
Walter H. Clark Henry Hyde
ARTICLE 2. Voted unanimously that the Town accept the reports of the Selectmen, Board of Public Welfare, Treasurer, and other officers or committees, as printed in the Annual Town Report for 1955.
ARTICLE 3. Voted by a majority vote that the compensa- tion for elected Town Officers be fixed as follows: Town Clerk, $2,500.00 per year (all fees to revert to Town treas- ury) ; Town Treasurer, $1,200.00 per year; Moderator, $50.00 Annual Town Meeting, $15.00 Special Town Meet- ings; Town Collector, $2,200.00 per year; Tree Warden, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car) ; Selectmen, 2 mem-
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bers, $500.00 per year, each member, Chairman, $550.00 per year; Assessors, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car when needed) ; Constables, $1.50 per hour (when called on duty by Selectmen, plus fees) ; Auditor, $200.00 per year ; School Committee, no salary; Cemetery Commissioners, no salary, $1.50 per hour (working time) ; Water Commission- ers, $150.00 per year, each member; Library Trustees, no salary; Planning Board Members, no salary.
Poundkeeper, Field Drivers, Weighers of Grain, Survey- ors of Lumber, Measurers of Wood and Charcoal (all Town officers elected otherwise than by official ballot) - fees only as fixed by General Laws.
An amendment on the above Article was made as fol- lows, and defeated, before vote on original motion taken :
Change "Assessors, $1.50 per hour (includes use of car when needed)," to read, "$2.00 per hour (includes use of car when needed) ."
ARTICLE 4. Voted unanimously that the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be authorized to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1956; 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, Chapter 44 of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 5. Motion was made and seconded that action on this Article 5 be postponed until 11:45 a. m., in view of the possibility of larger attendance at that time. A standing vote counted by Mr. Charles I. Bowman, and Mr. Albert Greendale defeated this, as follows:
In favor of postponing 39
Opposed to postponing 67
However, during consideration of Article 5, action on the School budget item was postponed "until after lunch" (1:15 p. m.) by unanimous vote.
Voted unanimously on 49 items, and by a majority vote on 5 items (viz. Playground Expense, Police, Printing Town Reports, Road Machinery Operating Expense, and Safety Committee Expense) to raise and appropriate the following amounts for the fiscal year 1956: Aid to Agricul- ture, $150.00; Aid to Dependent Children, $1,000.00; Aid to Disabled, $6,000.00; Assessors' Expense Account, $3,500.00 ; Board of Health, $6,000.00; Building Inspector's Expense, $100.00; Cemeteries, $1,800.00; Civil Defense, $3,000.00; Community Program - Schools, $4,000.00; Dental Clinic, $1,050.00; Election Expense, $2,000.00; Fire Department, $11,500.00; Forest Warden, $700.00; General Relief, $6,000.00; Insect Pest Control, Chapter 660,
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$1,500.00; Dead Wood, Chapter 761, $1,500.00; Mosquito Control, $2,250.00; Miscellaneous Highways, $15,000.00; Insurance and Bonding, $2,500.00; Interest, $50.00; Legal, $1,000.00; Library Expense, $6,991.42 (Dog tax of 1955 to be added to this amount) ; Memorial Day and Independ- ence Day, $250.00; Old Age Assistance, $17,000.00; Parks, $850.00; Planning Board Expense, $500.00; Playground Expense, $3,830.00 (majority) ; Police, $12,150.00 (major- ity) ; Printing Town Reports, $1,818.80 (majority) ; Regis- trar's Expense, $600.00; Road Machinery Operating Ex- pense, $3,750.00 (majority) ; Safety Committee Expense, $1,800.00 (majority) ; Schools, $361,440.00; School Bonds and Interest, 1949, $21,885.00; School Bonds and Interest, 1953, $2,897.50 (this covers interest only - principal de- ferred until next year) ; School Bonds and Interest, 1956, $1,662.50 (as above - interest only) ; School - Contin- gency for opening New School, $2,900.00; Selectmen's Con- tingency Fund, $1,500.00; Street Lights, $4,400.00; Town Clerk's Expense, $800.00; Town Collector's Expense, $1,200.00; Town Officers and Employees Salaries,
$22,000.00; Town Office and Building Maintenance, $3,500.00; Town Treasurer's Expense, $750.00; Town Treasurer's Expense - Land Court, $250.00; Tree War- den's Expense, $1,000.00; Veterans' Benefits, $4,000.00; Water Bonds and Interest, 1926, $3,120.00; Water Bonds and Interest, 1955, $6,760.86; Water Dept. Maintenance, $21,000.00; Water Notes and Interest, 1953, $11,687.50; Water Notes and Interest, 1947, $2,542.20; Well Child Clinic, $900.00; Wilbraham Contributory Retirement Ac- count, Town's portion, $4,773.99 ; Total, $601,109.77.
Article 44 was acted on after Article 5, and as this re- quired a two thirds vote tellers were appointed by the Moderator, and duly sworn in, as follows: Dr. William G. Dale, Douglas M. Trevallion, Charles I. Bowman, and E. Ray Pease.
ARTICLE 6. Voted unanimously that the sum of $7,500.00 be raised and appropriated to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 81 Highway work, and that in addition the sum of $13,750.00 be transferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury to meet the State's share of the cost of the work, the reimbursements from the State to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated avail- able funds in the treasury.
ARTICLE 7. Voted unanimously that the sum of $1,000.00 be raised and appropriated to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Highway Maintenance, and that in addition the sum of $2,000.00 be transferred from unappro-
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priated available funds in the treasury to meet the State and County's share of the cost of the work, the reimburse- ments from the State and County to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury.
ARTICLE 8. Voted unanimously that the sum of $5,000.00 be raised and appropriated to meet the Town's share of the cost of Chapter 90 Highway Construction, and that in addition the sum of $15,000.00 be transferred from unap- propriated available funds in the treasury to meet the State and County's share of the cost of the work; the reimburse- ments from the State and County to be restored, upon their receipt, to unappropriated available funds in the treasury.
ARTICLE 9. Voted unanimously that the sum of $10,000.00 be appropriated and transferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury to be spent by the Water Department for additional household and business installa- tions for water service; the cost of which is to be collected by the Town from the individuals or concerns requesting the installations and returned to surplus funds.
ARTICLE 10. Voted unanimously that the sum of $12,000.00 be transferred from the Overlay Surplus Ac- count for a Reserve Fund.
ARTICLE 11. Voted unanimously that the sum of $5,500.00 be appropriated and transferred from unappropriated available funds in the treasury to pay the garbage collector, with receipts from garbage collection subscribers to be restored as received by the Town Collector to unappropri- ated available funds in the treasury.
Mr. Hintze suggested that Articles 12 through 22, with the exception of 17, be acted on simultaneously ; to which there was no objection. All streets listed have been re- viewed by Planning Board and Town Engineer.
ARTICLE 12. Voted unanimously that the Town accept as a public way the private way known as Decorie Drive, as shown on Plan of William and Lillie Decorie, June, 1952, Smith & Wallen, Engineers; beginning at Delmor Circle and running westerly to Leemond Street for a dis- tance of 1,565.30 feet, more or less, and that the sum of $2,384.00 be raised and appropriated for construction of said Decorie Drive, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 13. Voted unanimously that the Town accept as a public way the private way known as Dudley Street, as shown on plan of George W. Robbins and Sons Company, Plan Book J, Page 2, beginning at Boston Road and run-
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ning northerly to Verge Street for a distance of 527.17 feet more or less, and that the sum of $1,370.00 be raised and appropriated for construction of said Dudley Street, and that betterment assessments be levied in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 80 of the General Laws.
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