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Book 14
1913-1918
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1913.
Warrant for a Town Meeting – Jany. 11, 1913.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, ss.
Warrant for a Town Meeting Jany 11. 1913.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington qualified
to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet
at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on
Saturday, the Eleventh day of January, A.D., 1913,
at 7.45 P. M., then and there to act on the
following articles: —
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any committee of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other committees.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer,
under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow
money for any necessary purposes in anticipation
of the collection of taxes the current year, the
same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of
said taxes, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to reduce the
working time of the employees of the Moth
Department from nine hours to eight hours per
day, or act in any manner relating thereto.
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Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer any
unexpended balances remaining in the treasury
to the credit of any departments the work of
which is practically closed, to other departments
showing an overdraft, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to make an
appropriation to be expended under the direction
of the Board of Survey, or take any action
relating thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail
Moths in accordance with Chapter 381, Acts
of 1905 and amendments thereof; or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 8. To hear the report of the committee appointed
March 25, 1912 to recommend improved systems
for Assessors, and to appropriate and assess such
sums as may be necessary to carry out their
recommendations, or to take my other action
relative thereto.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will authorize the expenditure
of money by the Cemetery Committee in
prosecuting offenders under Chapter 212, section
sixty-six of the Revised Laws or other provisions
of law relating to the protection of burial grounds;
and if so, to make an appropriation of not more
than five hundred dollars to meet the cost of
such prosecution.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of
this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to
the Town Clerk on or before the time of
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said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington,
this twenty-seventh day of December, A. D., 1912.
Frank D. Peirce } Selectmen of
George H. Childs } Lexington
Edward P. Bliss }
Return
of the
Constable
Lexington, January 6, 1913.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have
notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington
by posting a duly attested copy of the warrant
in the post-offices and other public places in
the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy
of the warrant to every registered voter in the
town nine days before the time of said
meeting.
Attest
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return
of the Constable.
Attest: Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1913.
Town Meeting - January 11, 1913.
Meeting opened.
The meeting was called to order at 7.45 P.M.
by the Town Clerk, who read the warrant and
the return of the Constable.
Art. 1. Moderator, election of.
Election of Moderator.
On motion of Edward P. Bliss it was voted to
elect a Moderator by ballot, that the voting list be
used, and the polls kept open two minutes.
At the close of the polls three votes had been
cast, all for Edwin A. Bayley, and he was declared
elected as Moderator, and was sworn by the Town
Clerk.
Art. 2. Committee Reports
Edward P. Merriam, chairman of the Finance
Committee, stated that the committee approved of
the appropriations to be asked for under articles
6, 7, 8 and 9.
Art. 9. Burial Grounds, appropriation for protection of,
To provide for the protection of Burial Grounds.
Under this article Frank D. Peirce
offered the following motion :—
"Voted: that the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars ($250.00) be appropriated and
assessed the ensuing year, the same to be expended
by the Cemetery Committee under the direction
of the Selectmen in accordance with Chapter 212
Section 66 of the Revised Laws."
And the meeting so voted at 8 P.M.
Before the vote was taken, the Moderator read
Sec. 66 of Chapter 212 of the Revised Laws.
Art. 4. Eight hours for Moth Dept.
Eight hour day for employees of the
Moth Department.
Under this article John F. Welch offered the
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following motion : —
"Voted, that hereafter eight hours shall
constitute a days work for all the employees of
the moth department."
And the meeting so voted at 8.03 P.M.
Art. 8. New Office System for Assessors.
Assessors, appropriation for improved Office System.
Under the article Edwin B. Worthen in behalf of
the committee appointed March 25, 1912, offered
the following motion:—
"Voted, that the Town adopt the recommendations
of the Committee appointed March 25, 1912
to report on improved methods for Assessors, and
appropriate and assess the sum of $600.00 for the
purchase and installation of a card system and
filing cabinet ; the money to be expended and the
work to be done under the direction of the
present committee."
And the meeting, so voted at 8.14 P.M.
Art. 7. Moth Dept.
Appropriating for Moth Department.
Under this article Charles H. Bugbee acting
for the Moth Committee, offered the following
motion :—
Committee to have charge
"Voted, that all money appropriated for
suppression of insects for the year 1913 be expended
under the directions of a committee of five to be
appointed by the Moderator of this meeting.
Auditor authorized to credit certain amounts.
That hereafter the Town Auditor be authorized
to credit to the account for the suppression of
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths an amount equal
to the estimated payment to be made to the town
by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on account
of the moth work in Lexington.
And that there be further credited to said Gypsy
and Brown Tail Moth account, such amounts as
may be reported from time to time by the Moth
Committee as having been expended on private
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Moth Dept. continued
property and Elm Leaf Beetle work.
Appropriations
And that the sum of $3242.41 be
appropriated and assessed to cover the "town
liability" for the cost of the suppression of insects
during the year 1913, and that a further sum
of $1900 be appropriated and assessed to continue
the moth work during the year under the
provisions of Chapter 381, Acts of 1905, and
amendments thereto."
And the meeting so voted at 8.39 P.M.
Arthur E. Horton asked if the Moth Committee
had investigated certain improved sprayers now
in use, and criticized the method followed in
this town in destroying egg clusters and nests.
Under the above vote the Moderator appointed
the following Committee.
Committee
William S. Scamman
John A. Sweetser
Alfred E. Robinson
Robert L. Ryder
Edward Wood.
Art. 3. To borrow money in anticipation of Taxes.
Authorizing the Treasurer to borrow money in
Anticipation of Taxes.
Under this article Charles W. Swan offered the
following motion :—
"Voted, that the Town Treasurer with
the approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is
authorized to borrow money from time to time in
anticipation of taxes of the present municipal
year to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate
($100000) One hundred thousand dollars, and to
issue a note or notes therefor payable within one
year. An y debt or debts incurred under this
vote to be paid from the taxes of the present
municipal year."
And the meeting so voted, unanimously,
at 8.40 P.M.
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Art. 6.
Board of Survey Appropriation
Appropriation for Board of Surveys.
Frank D. Peirce explained the establishment of
the Board and its duties and offered the
following motion :—
"Voted, that the sum of Three Hundred
Dollars $300.00 be appropriated and assessed the
ensuing year, the same to be expended under the
direction of the Board of Survey, as provided in
Chapter 191 of Acts of the year 1907."
Art. 5. To transfer balances to cover overdrafts.
To transfer certain balances to cover overdrafts.
Chairman Peirce of the Selectmen stated
that certain departments had over run their
appropriations, while other departments showed a
balance to their credit and to remedy the existing
conditions, offered the following motions : —
First, "Voted, that the sum of two hundred dollars
($200.00) be transferred from Contingent account
to the credit of the Fire Department."
And it was so voted.
Second. "Voted, that the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00)
be transferred from Printing Account to the credit
Elections and Registration."
And it was so voted.
Third. "Voted, that the sum of thirty dollars ($30.00)
be transferred from Printing Acct. to the credit of
the Stone Building."
And it was so voted.
Fourth, "Voted, that the sum of twenty three and
20/100 dollars ($23.20) be transferred from Printing
Account to the credit of Sidewalks."
And it was so voted.
Fifth, "Voted, that the sum of four hundred and
fifty dollars ($450.00) be transferred from the
Street Watering and Oiling Dept. to Insurance."
And it was so voted.
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continued from page 7.
Sixth, "Voted, that the sum of seven hundred
dollars ($700.00) be transferred from the Bank
and Corporation Tax to the credit of the
Highway Department."
And it was so voted.
Art. 2. Auditor authorized to approve in advance of appropriation
Committee Reports.
Edward. P Merriam, chairman fo the Finance
Committee, offered the following motion : —
"Voted, that in order to provide for the
approval and payment of bills incurred by any
of the Town Departments for January, February and
March expenses, prior to the passage by the Town
of the general appropriations for 1913, the Auditor
be and is hereby authorized to approve such bills
provided the total amount of bills so approved for
any department or purpose shall not exceed for any
month one-twelfth of the appropriation made for
such department or purpose for the year 1912.
All bills so approved shall be paid by the Treasurer
out of any unappropriated balances on hand or
from proceeds of notes issued in anticipation of
taxes for the current year."
And the meeting so voted.
Meeting dissolved.
There being no further business, it was voted
on motion of Frank D. Peirce, that the
meeting be dissolved.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1913.
Warrant Annual Meeting Mon. 3rd 1913
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting
March 3rd, 1913.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Middlesex, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of
Lexington, in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the
Town of Lexington, qualified to vote in
elections and in town affairs, to meet at the
Town Hall in said Lexington, on Monday,
the third day of March, A.D. 1913, at seven
o'clock A.M., then and there to act on the following
articles : —
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting
until such time as one is elected and qualified
under the vote of the town of April 24, 1912.
Art. 2. To choose by ballot the following town officers : —
One Town Clerk for the term of one year ;
Three Selectmen for the term of one year :
Three Overseers of the Poor for the term of one year ;
Three Surveyors of the Highways for the term of one year ;
One Assessor for the term of three years ;
One Town Treasurers for the term of one year ;
One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year ;
One Auditor for the term of one year ;
One Water and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years
One Member of the Cemetery Committee for the term of
three years ;
One Member of the School Committee for the term
of three years ;
One Member of the Board of Health for the
term of three years ;
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One Member of the Board of Health for the term
of one year, to fill a vacancy ;
One Tree Warden for the term of one year ;
Two Constables for the term of one year ;
One Moderator for the term of one year.
Art. 3. To see if the town will vote for or against granting
licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in
answer to the question : "Shall licenses be granted
for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
Art. 4. To see if the town will vote "Yes" or "No" in
answer to the following question :
"Shall sections one to fourteen, inclusive, of
Chapter twenty-eight of the Revised Laws, and
any amendments thereof or additions thereto, authorizing
cities and towns to lay out public parks within their
limits, be accepted"?
The election officers will receive votes under
Articles 2, 3 and four on the official ballot prepared
by the Town Clerk.
The polls will be opened as soon as
possible after the organization of the meeting and
will be kept open until five P.M.
In compliance with Article 3 of the By-Laws
as amended January 29, 1900, business under the
following Articles will be transacted at an adjourned
meeting to be held Monday evening March 10,
1913, unless the adjourned meeting shall by
unanimous vote, be ordered for some other specified
time.
Art. 5. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers, or of any Committee of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other committees -
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Art. 6. To choose such Town Officers as are required by
law and are usually chosen by nomination.
Art. 7. To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the proper observance of Memorial Day, to be
expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Art. 8. To provide for the support of the Public Schools
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 9. To provide for the support of the Poor at the
Poor Farm the ensuing year, and grant money
for the same.
Art. 10. To provide for the support of Outside Poor the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 11. To provide for the support of the Highways the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 12. To provide for the support of the Street Lights
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 13. To provide for the support of the Fire Department
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 14. To see if the town will make the appropriations
for town expenses the ensuing year, as submitted
by the Selectmen, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 15. To see what measures the town will adopt in
relation to the collection of taxes the ensuing year,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 16. To see if the town will make an appropriation to
construct sidewalks with concrete or other materials
where the abutter will pay one half the expenses thereof.
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Art. 17. To see if the town will appropriate the sum
of $300.00 for a School Physician, as required
under Chapter 502, Section 1, Acts of 1906.
Art. 18. To hear and act upon the report of the committee
appointed under vote of the town, April 290
1911, for the revising and codification of the
existing By-Laws of the Town.
Art. 19. To see if the town will make an appropriation
sufficient to meet the expense of placing new
insurance and renewals for the ensuing year, or
act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 20. To see if the town will make further appropriations
of money for the suppression of insects, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 21. To appropriate money for the use of the Water
Department, and vote to issue bonds for the
purpose of raising the money so appropriated,
and to take any other or further action relative
thereto as may be deemed best.
Art. 22. To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the care of the Cemeteries for the ensuing year.
Art. 23. To see if the town will vote to purchase a type-writing
machine for the use of the various town
departments located in the Town Hall, make an
appropriation for the same, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 24. To see if the town will vote to employ a permanent
stenographer and typewriter to assist the different
departments having offices in the town hall,
make an appropriation for the same, or take any
action relating thereto.
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Art. 25. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate
any money for further enlarging and improving
the Base Ball Grounds near Parker Street, or take
any other action relating thereto.
Art. 26. To see if the town will vote to light the streets
every night until one o'clock A.M., also from five
oclock A.M. until thirty minutes before sunrise
during the months of November, December, January
and February, make an appropriation for same
or take any action in relation thereto.
Art. 27. To see if the town will vote to make an appropriation
for the purposes of employing an inspector
of wires, or take any action thereon.
Art. 28. To see if the town will vote to employ a Town
Engineer, make an appropriation for same, or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 29. To see if the town will vote to elect a Board of
Park Commissioners consisting of three persons,
one for the term of one year, one for the term of two
years and one for the term of three years, and at
each annual meeting thereafter one for the term of
three years. Such Commissioners to serve without
compensation.
Art. 30. To elect a Board of Park Commissioners consisting
of three persons, one for the term of one year, one
for the term of two years and one for the term
of three years.
Art. 31. To see if the town will hold as a park and as a
public play-ground, and put the same in the care
of the Park Commissioners all that tract of
land purchased by the town from the Lexington
Water Company, excepting therefrom that part
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which has been sold and that which is still
in use in connection with our water supply,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 32. To see if the town will place in the care of the
Park Commissioners, the Common, all open spaces
at the junction of streets, and all other lands
given to or held by it for park purposes, or at
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 33. To see if the town will vote to purchase of the
Lexington Historical Society, twenty copies of the
new History of the Town of Lexington, now being
published by said society and to make an
appropriated for such purchase, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 34. To see if the town will vote to appropriate and
assess a sum of money sufficient to defray the
expense of celebrating the 200th. anniversary of
the incorporation of the town, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to buy a strip of
land in front of Mrs. Valentine's property adjoining
the Town Hall lot on Massachusetts Avenue,
and appropriate money for the same ; or take any
other action in relation to widening the avenue
by the addition of such strip.
Art. 36. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen
to relocate the sidewalk in front of the Town
Hall and extend the relocation to Grant Street,
and appropriate money for the same ; or take
any other action relating thereto.
Art. 37. To see if the Town will request the Selectmen
to petition the County Commissioner for an
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order relocating and widening Massachusetts
Avenue from Grant Street to Woburn Street, on
the northeasterly side of said Avenue ; or take any
action relating to such widening or relocating.
Art. 38. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
money to widen and deepen the brooks in the
Town so as to obtain better surface drainage, the
same to be expended by the Water and Sewer
Commissioner, or take any other actions relating
thereto.
Art. 39. To see if the Town will accept the provisions of
the first Nine Sections of Chapter fifty of the
Revised Lawas, the same relating to the assessment
of betterments ; or take any action with reference
thereto.
Articles 35 to 39 inclusive were inserted at request
of Edward P. Bliss.
Art. 40. To see if the town will rescind the vote passed
March 22, 1909, relating to the appointment
of a Finance Committed or to take any other
action relating thereto.
Art. 41. To see if the town will vote to make a
purchase, sale or exchange of land on or
adjoining Belfry Hill, so called, in accordance
with the report of the Committee heretofore
appointed to consider the purchase of Belfry
Hill for play-ground purposes, and for such
purpose appropriate and assess a sufficient sum
to carry such vote into effect, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 42. To see if the Town, in case it is voted under
the preceding article to purchase, sell or exchange
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any of the land on or adjoining Belfry Hill,
will vote to authorize the Selectmen to make,
execute and deliver a deed or other instrument
in writing to carry the same into effect, or
act in any manner relating thereto.
Hereof, fail not and make due return of
this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the
Town Clerk on or before the time of said
meeting.
Given under our hands at
Lexington, this fourteenth day of February,
A.D. 1913.
Frank D. Peirce } Selectmen
George H. Childs } of
Edward P. Bliss } Lexington
Return of Constable
Lexington Mass. February 25, 1913
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have
notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington
by posting a duly attested copy of the warrant
in the Post Office, Town Hall, also seven
other public places in the town, and by mailing
a duly attested copy of the warrant to every
registered voter in the town eight days before
the time of said meeting.
Attest :
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington.
A true copy of the warrant and the return
of the Constable.
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Annual Town Meeting.
March 3rd, 1913.
The Meeting was called to order at 7.00 o'clock A.M.
by the Town Clerk who proceeded to read the Warrant.
After reading the first four articles, it was voted on
motion Edwin A. Bayley, that the further reading
of the Warrant be omitted.
The Clerk then read the Return of the Constable.
Art. 1. Election of Moderator
On motion of Frank D. Peirce it was voted to
proceed to the election of a Moderator by ballot, that
the voting list be used and the polls kept open
two minutes.
At the close of the polls three votes had been
cast, all for George E. Briggs, and he was
declared elected as Moderator, and was sworn by
the Town Clerk.
Arts 2-3-4. Election of Town Officers
Fred G. Jones, James A. Hurley, George L. Pierce
and Charles G. Hauffmann having been appointed as
Ballot Clerks and Deputy Ballot Clerks, were sworn
to the faithful discharge of their duties by the
Town Clerk. The Moderator gave his receipt
to the Town Clerk for a package said to contain
1500 ballots for male voters and 300 ballots for
female voters and a voting list containing the names
of 1117 male voters and a list containing the names
of 265 female voters.
The ballot box was shown to be empty, then
locked, and the key given to Charles. E. Wheeler,
the Constable in attendance, and the polls declared
open.
At 8.10 A.M., Wesley T. Wadman was appointed
a Deputy Ballot Clerk, and was sworn by the
Town Clerk.
G. Irving Tuttle, William J. Riley, Alston M.
Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Daniel J. Vaughan,
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Election Continued
Edward H. Mara, Nathaniel Nunn and Patrick
F. Dacey were sworn to the faithful discharge
of their duties as Tellers.
At 10.00 A.M. by agreement of the Moderator
and Town Clerk, 300 ballots were taken from
the box. At 2.35 P.M. 300 ballots were
taken out. At 3.00 P.M. on motion of
George H. Childs it was voted to extend the time
for the closing of the polls at 5.35 o'clock.
At 3.15 P.M. the Moderator was obliged to
leave and called Charles H. Bugbee to act as
Moderator.
At 4.10 P.M. 200 ballots were taken from
the box.
At 5.35 the polls were declared closed and
43 ballots were taken from the box, making
a total of 843 ballots which agreed with the
number of names checked on each voting list.
The dial on the ballot box registered 846.
Fourteen ballots were cast by female voters
and this number agreed with the names checked
on each voting list.
After the Tellers had completed the work of
counting the ballots at 7.20 oclock the Town
Clerk announced the result as follows : —
Whole number cast by male voters, 843 ;
by female voters, 14.
Town Clerk for One year.
Charles W. Swan , five hundred ninety two 592
Blanks , two hundred fifty one 251
And Charles W. Swan was declared elected.
Selectmen for One year.
George H. Childs , five hundred twenty three 523
Frank D. Peirce , four hundred sixty five 465
George F. Smith , one hundred forty four 144
Edward W. Taylor , four hundred seventy five 475
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Election continued.
William H. Whitaker , three hundred seventeen 317
Henry A. C. Woodward , one hundred seventy seven 177
Blanks four hundred twenty eight 428
And George H. Childs , Frank D. Peirce, Edward W.
Taylor were declared elected.
Overseers of the Poor — One Year.
George H. Childs , five hundred seventeen 517
Frank D. Peirce , four hundred sixty five 465
George F. Smith , one hundred forty four 144
Edward W. Taylor , four hundred sixty seven 467
William H. Whitaker , three hundred eleven 311
Henry A. C. Woodward , one hundred eighty one 181
Blanks four hundred forty four 444
And George H. Childs, Frank D. Peirce and Edward
W. Taylor were declared elected.
Surveyors of Highways — One Year
George H. Childs , five hundred twelve 512
Frank D. Peirce four hundred sixty one 461
George F. Smith one hundred forty seven 147
Edward W. Taylor four hundred fifty two 452
William H. Whitaker three hundred fourteen 314
Henry A. C. Woodward one hundred seventy two 172
Blanks four hundred seventy one 471
And George H. Childs, Frank D. Peirce and Edward
W. Taylor were declared elected.
Assessor for Three Years.
Olin L. Phelps two hundred eighty 280
Frederick J. Spencer , four hundred eighty five 485
Blanks seventy eight 78
And Frederick J. Spencer was declared elected.
Town Treasurer for One Year
George D. Harrington , seven hundred fourteen 714
Blanks one hundred twenty nine 129
And George D. Harrington was declared elected.
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Election continued
Collector of Taxes — One Year.
Byron C. Earle seven hundred fourteen 714
Blanks one hundred twenty nine 129
And Byron C. Earle was declared elected.
Moderator for One Year
Edwin A. Bayley four hundred twenty eight 428
James P. Prince three hundred sixty seven 367
Fred E. Butters one 1
Blanks forty seven 47
And Edwin A. Bayley was declared elected.
Cemetery Committee — Three Years.
Sidney M. Lawrence six hundred forty three 643
James F. Mc Carthy — one hundred ninety nine 199
Auditor — One Year
Charles F. Pierce — six hundred twenty nine 629
Blanks two hundred fourteen 214
And Charles F. Pierce was declared elected
Board of Health for One Year
to fill vacancy.
William L. Barnes four hundred seventy five 475
William J. Marshall two hundred fifty six 256
Blanks one hundred twelve 112
And William L. Barnes was declared elected
Board of Health — Three Years.
William L. Burrill one hundred forty two 142
James F. McCarthy three hundred thirty one 331
Charles E. Wheeler three hundred six 306
Blanks sixty four 64
And James F. McCarthy was declared elected.
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Election continued
School Committee , Three years
Robert L. Ryder , six hundred twenty nine 629
Frank D. Peirce one 1
Matthew Logan one 1
Blanks two hundred twenty six 226
And Robert L. Ryder was declared elected.
Water and Sewer Commissioner — Three years.
Albert B. Tenney five hundred ninety five 595
Frank D. Peirce one 1
Blanks two hundred forty seven 247
And Albert B. Tenney was declared elected
Constables for One Year
Charles H. Franks , six hundred five 605
Patrick J. Maguire six hundred thirty four 634
All others five 5
Blanks four hundred forty two 442
And Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire were
declared elected.
Tree Warden — One Year.
Norris F. Comley two hundred thirteen 213
Olin L. Phelps two hundred thirty nine 239
Alfred E. Robinson , three hundred fifty four 354
Blanks thirty seven 37
Alfred E. Robinson was declared elected
Acceptance of Park Act Ch. 28 Sec-1-14 R. L.
Shall sections one to fourteen, inclusive, of Chapter
twenty-eight of the Revised laws, authorizing cities
and towns to lay out public parks within their
limits, be accepted ?
Yes four hundred and two 402
No one hundred and sixty 160
Blanks two hundred and eighty one 281
And the town accepted sections one to fourteen,
inclusive, of Chapter twenty-eight of the Revised
Laws.
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1913
Vote on License Question
Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in this town ?
Yes two hundred and ten 210
No five hundred and seventeen 517
Blanks one hundred and sixteen 116
And the town voted "No License"
Adjournment
After the result of the voting had been announced
the Moderator declared the meeting adjourned
to Monday, March 10, 1913, at 7.30 P.M.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Continued on Page 23.
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Adjourned Meeting
March 10, 1913.
The Meeting was called to order at 7.30 P.M.
by the Moderator.
Arts. 29-30 31-32 Park Commissioners Elected
Election of Park Commissioners.
On motion of Dr. J. Odin Tilton, articles 29, 30,
31 and 32 were taken up together.
Under article 32 Dr. Tilton offered the following
motion : — "Voted — To put the Common, all
open spaces at the junction of streets, and all other
lands given to or held by the town for park
purposes, in the care and control of the Park
Commissioners."
Robert P. Clapp expressed the opinion that it
seemed illogical to place these grounds in the
hands of a Board not yet chosen.
By unanimous consent of the meeting, Dr. Tilton
withdrew the above motion.
Under articles 29 and 30, Dr. Tilton then offered
the following motion : — "Voted, that the town,
having duly accepted sections 1 to 14, inclusive,
of chapter 28 of the Revised Laws, authorizing
cities and towns to lay out public parks within
their limits, now proceed to elect, by ballot, a
Board of Park Commissioners, consisting of three
persons, one to serve until the annual meeting
in 1914, one to serve until the annual meeting
in 1915, and one to serve until the annual meeting
in 1916 ; that the check-list be used, and that
the Moderator appoint four tellers to distribute,
receive and count ballots ; and further
Voted, that the Town shall, hereafter, at each
annual meeting, beginning with the year 1914,
elect one member of said Board of Park Commissioners
to serve for three years, and until his successor is
elected and qualified."
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And the meeting so voted, unanimously
The meeting then proceeded to the
election of a Board of Park Commissioners, the
polls being declared open at 7.45 oclock.
Louis L. Crone, Edward H. Mara, George S.
Teague and George E. Foster were appointed by
the Moderator to act as Tellers.
At 7.55 o'clock the Moderator declared the polls
closed and after the votes had been counted, the
Town Clerk announced the results as follows : —
Names of Commissioners
Total Vote 78
J. Odin Tilton for three years received 76
William E. Mulliken for two years received 73
Augustus E. Scott for one year received 64
All others 17
J. Odin Tilton, William E. Mulliken and Augustus
E. Scott were declared elected as Park Commissioners.
Parks &c. placed under charge of Commissioners
Dr. Tilton then renewed the motion previously
offered under Article 32. (See page 23)
And the meeting so voted unanimously, at 8.07
Under article 31, on motion of Dr. Tilton
it was — "Voted to set apart and hold as a Park
and a public play ground all that tract of
land purchased by the town from the Lexington
Water Company, excepting therefrom that part
which has been sold and that which is still
in use in connection with our water supply,
and that it be put in the care and control
of the Park Commissioners.
Art. 40 To rescind vote creating Finance Committee
To rescind the vote passed in March
1909, whereby the Finance Committee
was created.
Under this article William P. Martin offered
the following motion : —
"Voted that the vote passed March
22, 1909, providing for a Finance Committee
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be and hereby is rescinded, such recission to take
effect at the dissolution of the present town
meeting."
Mr. Martin stated that he was opposed to
the present system because the town was drifting
from the old New England form of town meetings,
and that too much power was being given to a
few men.
Edward P. Merriam thought the work of the
Committee had been a benefit to the town, and
that the right of any citizen to be heard in open
town meeting had not been abridged.
William Spalding and William C. Stickel
spoke in favor of a finance committee and in
opposition to the motion.
Robert P. Clapp stated that some years ago
he was in favor of a Finance Committee, but his
views had changed. He thought the present system
tended to change the character of town government
by turning over the administration of affairs
to a committee and has a tendency to keep
people away from a town meeting.
On motion of Mr. Clapp it was —
"Voted that when the vote is taken on this motion
it be taken by ballot and that the check list be used."
Robert L. Ryder claimed that a finance
committee does not abridge the rights of voters,
and that the citizens gain more than they loose.
Rev. Samuel Knowles stated that in his
opinion the present system is a narrowing down
of democratic principles of government.
Alonzo E. Locke argued in support of a
finance committee and claimed that citizens were
often unable to get at the facts in an open
town meeting, and that if the motion was
passed it would be a step backwards.
Edwin B. Worthen stated that it had been
impossible to have the report of the Finance
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Committee printed in time for this meeting and
urged that action be deferred until after the
citizens had had an opportunity to read the
report.
Frank H. Holmes moved to lay the motion
on the table until after the printed report of
the finance committee had been received.
This motion was lost.
A vote was taken on Mr. Martin's motion,
Louis L. Crone and Edward H. Mara acting
as Tellers, and at 10.01 o'clock the result was
announced as follows : —
Whole number of ballots cast — 255
Yes 152
No 103
and Mr. Martin's motion was declared carried.
Alonzo E. Locke immediately gave notice
that he would ask for a reconsideration at the
adjourned meeting.
Arthur E. Horton moved that the Selectmen
notify the voters that the question will come
up for reconsideration at the adjourned meeting.
His motion was defeated.
Adjournment
On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it was voted
at 10.09 oclock to adjourn this meeting to
Monday, March 17. 1913 at 7.30 oclock.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
See page 28
for adjourned meeting.
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Perpetual Care.
Bequest of Estate of Emma V. Whitney.
Office of the Town Treasurer.
Lexington, March 15. 1913
Samuel Phelps Lot. See page 151
$70.81
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November
A.D. 1875, the Town Treasurer hereby
acknowledges the receipt of Seventy and 81/100
(70.81) dollars from Hamilton Mays, Trustee of
the Estate of Emma V. Whitney of Leominster
Mass., the interest of which is to be expended
in accordance with said vote and Chapter 225
of the Acts of 1870 upon the Samuel Phelps lot
old No. 78, new No. 310 in the town Cemetery
near the High School House in said Lexington
in dressing and care of said lot, monuments,
walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
Lexington, March 15, 1913.
Received for Record.
A true copy,
Attest ;
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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From page 26
Adjourned Meeting
March 17. 1913
Meeting called to order by the Moderator
at 7.30 P.M.
Art. 40. To reconsider vote passed Mar. 10.
In accordance with the notice given at the
last meeting to ask for a reconsideration of
the vote passed on Mr. Martins motion under
article 40, Alonzo E. Locke offered the following
motion : — "Voted, that the vote passed by
the Town on March 10th, 1913, rescinding the
vote passed on March 22nd 1909, relating to
the appointment of a Finance Committee, be
reconsidered."
This motion started a general discussion
which lasted more than an hour.
Mr. Locke said that the total vote cast
at the last meeting on Mr. Martins motion
was only about one-seventh of the registered
voters of the town, and was too small to decide
such an important question, and that the
voters seemed to favor a finance committee.
He therefor hoped the motion to reconsider
would prevail. He also stated that if it
was voted to reconsider, he would then offer a
motion providing for a different method of
appointment of members of the committee.
William P. Martin opposed
reconsideration and objected to the committee
being appointed by the Moderator.
On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it
was voted that when the vote is taken on
the motion now pending, it be taken by
ballot, and with the use of the voting list.
Harry F. Fay favored reconsideration
and stated that from his experience the
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finance committee was not objected to by the
heads of the departments.
Rev. Samuel Knowles thought that the citizens
should have the privilege of electing the members.
Fred H. Moulton, Arthur E. Horton and Robert L
Ryder hoped the motion to reconsider would
prevail.
Edward P. Bliss thought that the sessions
of the committee should be open to the public.
The Moderator appointed George E. Smith,
George F. Smith, William J. Riley, Howard
S. O. Nichols and Christopher S. Ryan as Tellers to
distribute, receive and count the ballots, and at
9.04 oclock the polls were declared open for votes
on Mr. Locke's motion to reconsider.
The polls were declared closed at 9.49 oclock,
and after the Tellers had completed the work of
counting, the result was announced as follows
at 10.17 oclock : —
Vote to reconsider
Whole number of ballots cast — 418
Yes 218
No 200
and Mr. Locke's motion to reconsider was declared
carried.
Mr. Martin, by unanimous consent, withdrew
his motion offered at the meeting of March 10,
to rescind the vote passed on March 22, 1909.
Alonzo E. Locke then offered the following
motion : — "Voted, that the vote passed on
March 22, 1909, relating to the appointment
of a finance committee be amended in the
following respect ; namely — that hereafter the
appointment of the members of said finance
committee shall be by the Moderator, the
chairman of the Board of Selectmen, and the
chairman of the finance committee, or a
majority of them acting jointly, and that any
vacancies occurring shall be filled in the same
manner."
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And the meeting so voted.
This vote was doubted by seven or more voters,
whereupon Mr. Locke by unanimous consent
withdrew his motion.
Christopher S. Ryan moved that a committee
of seven be appointed from the floor to consider
the subject of a Finance Committee, and
report at some future meeting.
Mr. Locke moved to amend this motion
by having the matter referred to the committee
on By-Laws, and that they give public
hearings ; This amendment was not seconded,
and Mr. Ryans motion was carried.
Committee to consider question of A Finance Committee
The following nominations were then made
from the floor : —
Edward P. Bliss –
George H. Childs,
Edward P. Merriam,
George E. Briggs,
Robert P. Clapp,
Joseph P. Ryan
John J. Walsh
Rev. Samuel Knowles moved that the
nominations be closed.
See page 157
This motion was defeated.
Howard S. O. Nichols and Edward H. Mara
were then nominated, making a total of
nine names.
On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it was
voted to increase the committee to nine members.
On motion of Rev. Samuel Knowles, it
was voted — That the Town Clerk be
instructed to cast one ballot for the above
named persons.
This was done and they were declared
elected.
Messrs. Bayley, Preston, Ryder, Martin,
Moulton and Horton were nominated, but
declined to serve.
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1913.
Adjournment
On motion of George H. Childs it was voted, —
That when this meeting adjourns, it be adjourned
to Monday, March 24, 1913, at 7.30 P.M.
At 10.47 it was voted to adjourn.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
See page 34 for Adjourned Meeting
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1913.
Appointments made by Selectmen
Lexington March 14, 1913.
To Charles W. Swan,
Town Clerk.
At a meeting held this evening, the Selectmen
made the following appointments : —
Keepers of Lock-ups.
Charles H. Franks —- Thomas C. Buckley
Trustees of Gammell Legacy Income
Acting with Overseers of the Poor.
Miss. Rose M. Tucker, Mrs. Wilham W. Reed.
Librarian Cary Memorial Library
Miss. Marian P. Kirkland
Assistants
Miss. Helen E. Muzzey, Miss. Barbara MacKinnon
Miss. Emma O. Nichols (E. Lex. Branch)
Trustees of Bridge Charitable Fund
Frank D. Peirce
F. Foster Sherburne
John F. Turner.
Measurers of Wood and Bark
Edgar W. Harrod
George S. Teague.
Supervisor of Struts
Robert H. White
Supt. and Matron of Alms House
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. White
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Appointments made by Selectmen continued
Inspector of Animals
(Nominated)
Dr. Harry L. Alderman.
Janitor of Town Hall
Peter T. Gillooly
Janitor of The Stone Building
Peter T. Gillooly
Geroge H. Childs
Chairman of the Selectmen
Recd. for Record
March 21. 1913
A true copy
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1913.
From
page 31
Adjourned Meeting - March 24. 1913.
The meeting was called to order by the
Moderator at 7.37 P.M.
Art. 38.
Brooks,
deepening
Relating to the deepening and
widening of Brooks.
Under this article, Dwight F. Kilgour, chairman
of the Water and Sewer Commissioners, offered
the following written report:-
Report of
Committee
on
deepening
Lexington, Mass. March 17. 1913.
Report of Progress on the Drainage
of the Town Meadows.
In accordance with the conditions under which
the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) was
appropriated for an investigation of the drainage
of the Town brooks, Messrs. McClintock & Woodfall,
engineers, have made a survey and prepared
plans and profiles of the work, and have submitted
a preliminary report.
Your committee have this report before them,
but before submitting same to the Town deem it
necessary to make a further study of the question,
and if necessary give a Public Hearing on this
important subject.
Dwight F. Kilgour
Geo E. Briggs
A. B. Tenney
}Water and
Sewer
Commissioners
On motion of Edward P Merriam, it was voted
that the report be accepted and placed on file.
Mr Kilgour stated that the report of the
engineers had just been received, and the
Commissioners desired further time to consider it
before making any recommendations to the
town. Arthur E. Horton urged that
the report of the engineers be read to the meeting,
but was not successful in his efforts.
35
1913.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was
voted that further action under this article be
indefinitely postponed.
Art. 10
Outside
Air
Appropriation
- Outside Aid -
Under this article, Frank D. Peirce offered the
following motion:-
- "Voted that the sum of $2000.00
be appropriated and assessed the ensuing year
for Outside Aid, carrying with it the unexpended
balance of $696.50" -
Art. 39.
Betterment
Act,
Accepted
- Acceptance of the first Nine Sections
of Chap. 50 of the Revised Laws. -
Under this article, Edward P. Bliss offered the
following motion:-
- "Voted, that the Town accept the
provisions of the first nine Sections of Chapter 50
of the Revised Laws, the same relating to the
assessment of betterments." -
And the meeting so voted, at 7.56 o'clock.
Art. 8
School
Appropriation
- School Appropriation -
Under this article, Jay O. Richards, chairman of
the School Committee, offered the following motion:-
- "Voted, That the sum of $44,500 be appropriated
and assessed for the support of the public schools for
the ensuing year, together with the unexpended
balance of 1805.77" -
And the meeting so voted, at 8.02 o'clock.
Mr. Richards stated that the
School Committee was not ready to make any
recommendations regarding an evening school,
and suggested that no action be taken at
this meeting.
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Arts. 35,
36 & 37.
Mass.
Ave.
widening
&c.
- On widening Massachusetts Avenue
from the Hunt Building to Woburn Street -
Under this article, Edward P. Bliss offered the
following motion:-
"Voted - That $550.00 be appropriated
and assessed to buy a strip of land
6 feet in width of Mrs. Valentine adjoining the
Town Hall lot on Massachusetts Avenue."
Mr. Bliss stated that the avenue is too narrow
and that now that the Valentine property could
be bought at the assessed valuation, he hoped the
town would vote to do so.
Frederick L. Emery and Arthur E. Horton
opposed the motion. Dr. H. C. Valentine stated
that the offer to sell his property is linked in
with the general proposition to widen the avenue
to Woburn Street.
By unanimous consent of the meeting, Mr.
Bliss withdrew his motion, and on motion of
Robert P. Clapp it was voted to take up articles
36 and 37 in connection with article 35.
Under these three articles Mr. Bliss offered the
following motion:-
County Commissioners
called
Voted, that the Selectmen are hereby
requested to petition the County Commissioners
for an order relating and widening Massachusetts
Avenue on the northeasterly side thereof from
the Hunt Block to Woburn street; and that
in connection with and as part of such
widening of the avenue the Selectmen are
authorized and requested to purchase a strip of
land about six feet wide from Mrs. Valentine,
and to set back the curbing in front of the
Town Hall so as to give effect to the widening
at that point. And voted that the sum of
$500.00 in appropriated and assessed for the
making of such purchases."
Vote to buy
Valentine
land.
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Francis H. Holmes moved to divide this motion,
but the meeting refused so to do.
William C. Stickel desired to know the cost of
these improvements, but received no definite answer.
On a rising vote the motion of Mr. Bliss was
declared carried at 9.17 oclock, 121 voting yes,
and 40 voting no.
Art. 21
Water
Dept.
Appropriation
- Appropriation for Water Department. -
Under this article, Dwight F. Kilgour, chairman
of the water Board, offered the following motion:-
- "Voted - That the sum of $10,000 is hereby
appropriated and assessed for the Water Department,
to cover the overdraft for 1912 and to provide for
extensions of mains, take care of maturing loans
and to meet current expenses during the year
1913." -
George E. Briggs of the Water Board
read a long statement explaining the position
of the Board.
Arthur E. Horton criticized the Board for
employing certain engineers.
Alonzo E. Locke urged that this money be
raised by the issue of bonds. Elwyn G. Preston
opposed the issue of bonds and urged that the
money be assessed this year.
After some further decision, Mr. Kilgour's
motion was carried at 9.50 oclock.
Art. 12 & 26.
Street
Lights
Appropriation
Relating to Street Lighting
Under article 12, George H. Childs offered the
following motion:-
Voted, that the sum of $8200.00
be appropriated and assessed for the support
of the Street Lights the ensuing year, carrying
with it the unexpended balance of $282.56."
Edward P. Merriam moved to substitute
the sum of $7300 for $8200. This the
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meeting refused to do.
Mr. Childs stated that the appropriation of
$8200.00 would be sufficient to light the
streets as contemplated in article 26, and
the meeting voted to appropriate $8200.00.
Art. 26
Street
Lights
Additional
hours
On motion of Mr. Childs, article 26 was
laid on the table, and later, on motion of the
same gentleman was taken from the table,
and the following motion was offered:-
- "Voted that the Selectmen be and are
hereby instructed to make a contract with The
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston
to light the streets every night until one o'clock
A.M., also from five o'clock A.M. until thirty
minutes before Sunrise during the months of
November and December 1913 and January and
February 1914." -
And the meeting so voted, at 10.26 o'clock.
Art. 20.
Elm
Beetle
Appropriation
Under this article Robert L. Ryder offered the
following motion:_
- "Voted, that the sum of $600.00 be
appropriated and assessed for the suppression
of the elm leaf beetle and other insects, the
work to be conducted under the direction of the
present Moth Committee." -
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 15
Taxes,
date of
collection
- On Collection of Taxes. -
Under this article Frank D. Peirce offered the
following motion:-
"Voted, That all 1913 taxes shall be
due and payable Dec. 1, 1913; that a discount
of one half of one per cent shall be allowed
for each full month for prior payment;
that interest at the rate of six per cent
per annum shall be charged on all taxes
paid after December 1st and that the
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Tax Collector be and hereby is instructed to
collect all Taxes on or before December 31st, 1913."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 13.
Fire
Dept
Appropriation
- Appropriation for Fire Department. -
On motion of Fred. H. Moulton, it was -
"Voted, that six thousand, five hundred ninety-five
dollars and ten cents ($6595.10) be
appropriated and assessed for the maintenance
of the Fire Department of the ensuing year."
[arrow to move next paragraph here]
Act. 9. Support of Poor
On motion of Frank D. Peirce it was
Voted that the sum of $1000.00 by appropriated
and assessed the ensuing year for Support of
Poor, carrying with it the unexpended
balance.
At 10.30 oclock, on motion of Robert P. Clapp,
it was voted to adjourn to Saturday, April 5,
1913, at 7.30 P.M.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
See page 42 for adjourned meeting
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1913.
Lexington, March, 28. 1913.
To Charles W. Swan. Town Clerk.
At a meeting of the Selectmen held on
the above date, the following appointments were
made:-
Acting Chief of Police Charles H. Franks
Special Police
--------------------- | -----------------------
Frank E. Clarke, 2nd | Mark Dodd
Fred W. Johnson | George L. Pierce [S]
Edward J. Gavin | William F. Fletcher [S]
[S] Harry W. Cobb | Peter T. Gillooly [S]
Frank M. Morgan | George S. Teague [S]
[S] Charles E. Hadley | William S. Scamman [S]
[S] Charles A Manley | Dennis H. Collins
Sealer of Weights and Measures [S] Charles E. Hadley
Constables. [S] Charles E. Wheeler James Irwin
Superintendent of Town Scales and Public Weigher [S] William E. Denham.
Weigher of Hay and Grain [S] Charles F. Spaulding William B. Porter
Weigher at Stone Crusher [S] Miss L. T. Whiting
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Burial Agent
[S] Arthur A. Marshall
George H. Childs
Chairman of Selectmen.
Receive for Record
April 2. 1913
A true copy,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Continued
from
Page 39.
Adjourned Town Meeting
April 5, 1913.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.43 P.M.
Art. 5.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was
voted to accept the printed report of hte
Finance Committee.
Art. 14.
Appropriations
- Appropriations -
On motion of Frank D. Peirce it was, ≠
"Voted that the following amounts be appropriated
and assessed for the various accounts enumerated,
Auditor, Bal. on hand of $9.34 and $625.00
of which $600.00 is to be for salary.
Board of Health,
Bal. on hand of $197.88 and $1800.00
of which $150 is to be used for salaries.
Clerk, Trustees of Public Trusts
Bal on hand of $2.73 and $70.00
of which $50 is to be for salary
Collector of Taxes,
Bal. on hand of $204.17 and $1200.00
of which $1100 is to be for salary.
Finance Committee,
Bal. on hand of $113.43 and $100.00
Inspector of Animals,
Bal. on hand of $25.00 and $7500 [$75.00]
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Appropriation
Slaughter
Licenses
Inspector of Meats and Provisions, $900.00
$428. covering unpaid bill of
1912, and to provide for 1913.
Under the item of Inspector of Meats and Provisions,
on motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was,
"Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to carry out
the wishes of the town as expressed in the vote of
the town passed March 14, 1910 with respect
to granting slaughtering licenses and the number to
be issued all of which is recommended by the
Finance Committee."
Police Department
Bal. on hand of $165.79 and $6800.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Bal. on hand of $87.87 and $75.00
of which $100 is to be for salary.
Selectmen,
Bal. on hand of $145.86 and $900.00
of which $400 is to be for salaries.
Town Treasurer,
Bal. on hand of $179.60 and $1100.00
of which $1000 is to be for salary.
Town Physician,
Bal. on hand of $18.75 and $56.25
Cary Memorial Library,
Bal. on hand of $330.09 and $3600.00
Treasurer, Cary Memorial Library, Salary,
Bal. on hand of $12.50 and $37.50
April 19th,
Bal. on hand of $9.84 and $200.00
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Appropriations
Contingent,
Bal. on hand of $185.75 and $1000.00
Surveyors of Highways,
Ba.l on hand of $75.00 and $225.00
Removal of Snow,
Bal. on hand of 297.79 and $300.00
Under this item, Edward P. Merriam offered
the following motion, - that hereafter no private
contractor take out plows for removal of snow
without ordered from someone in authority.
This motion was defeated.
Ext. Forest Fires
Bal. on hand of $187.94 and $200.00
Tree Warden,
Bal. on hand of $91.95 and $300.00
Town Hall:
Bal. on hand of 29.26 and $1700.00
Stone Building
Bal. on hand of 5.27 and $725.00
Village Hall
Bal. on hand of 41.72 and 350.00
Care of Common
Bal. on hand of 6.50 and 250.00
Hastings Park,
Bal. on hand of 14.52 and 5.00
Clerk of School Committees
Bal. on hand of 12.50 and 37.50
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Appropriations
1913.
Soldier's Relief
Bal. on hand of 102.00 and $100.00
Overseers of Poor,
Bal. on hand of 75.00 and 225.00
Hydrants,
Bal. on hand of 80.00 and 6200.00
Under this item on motion of Edward P. Merriam,
it was:- "Voted, that the Selectmen be and hereby
are requested to insert in the next warrant for a
Town meeting on article to rescind the vote passed
March 26, 1896 whereby $45.00 has been appropriated
for the annual care and maintenance of hydrants."
Watering Troughs,
Bal. on hand of $12.50 and $87.50
Town Debt,
Bal. on hand of 1692.66 and $28632.34
Interest,
Bal. on hand of 1496.28 and $4000.00
Assessors,
Bal. on hand of 288.60 and $1100.00
of which $1100 is to be for salaries.
Election Officials & Registrars of Voters,
Bal on hand 13.41 and $405.00
of which $105 is to be for salaries,
exclusive of Clerk.
Highways,
Bal. on hand of 423.20 and 20000.00
Discount on Taxes, 1050.00
Of which 305.32 is to meet the
overdraft for 1912.
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Appropriation
Town Clerk
And it is also voted:-
For Town Clerk, Bal
Bal. on hand $175.00 and $1100.00
of which $1000 is to be for salary and
that in consideration of this salary the
Town Clerk shall also act as Clerk to
the Selectmen, Overseers of the Poor,
Surveyors of Highways, Board of Health
and Registrars of Voters without additional
compensation; and that all fees collected
by the Town Clerk shall be paid over
the the Town.
This to date from March 1, 1913.
Fees to be
paid to town
Street Watering &
Oiling
And it is also Voted:-
For street watering an oiling,
Bal. on hand 146.80 and $2500.00
And that until the Town shall otherwise
by vote provide, the tax assessed on abutters
for street watering and oiling shall be two
cents per running foot, and not as heretofor.
Art. 16
Sidewalks
- Appropriation for Sidewalks. -
Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the sum of $700.00 be appropriated
and assessed the ensuing year for the purpose of
constructing sidewalks with concrete or other
material where the abutters will pay one-half
of the expense thereof."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 25.
Base
Ball
Grounds.
- Appropriation for Base Ball Grounds. -
William E. Mulliken offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That $1000.00 be appropriated and assessed,
plus the balance on hand of $104.66 for future
enlarging and improving the Base Ball Ground
near Parker street, these amounts to be expended
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1913
under the direction of the Board of Park Commissioners.
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 7.
Memorial
Day
- Memorial Day. -
Charles G. Kauffmann offered the following:-
"Voted, That the sum of $250. be appropriated and
assessed for the proper observance of Memorial Day, the
same to be expended under the direction of Post 119
Grand Army of the Republic."
And the meeting so voted.
Arts.
41 & 42.
Belfry
Hill
Report of
committee
- On purchase of Belfry Hill -
Alonzo E. Locke, on behalf of the committee
appointed June 29. 1912, to consider the purchase of
Belfry Hill made a written report advocating the
purchase of the property.
(See "Committee Reports" Vol. 2. page 32 for report.)
On motion of George H. Childs it was voted to
accept the report.
Vote to
purchase
Mr. Locke then offered the following motion:-
"Voted: That the Selectmen be authorized to purchase
of W. W. Ferguson for play-ground purposes that
portion of Belfry Hill so called, containing about
88305 square feet, provided Mr. Ferguson will
accept in payment for the same $2000 in cash
and a deed of a certain other lot of land containing
about 8679 square feet, being the same lot of land
conveyed to the Town in 1891 by Frederick H. Rindge."
Frank H. Holmes stated that he had
been informed that Mr. Ferguson would not
accept $2000 for the property, and moved to
substitute the sum of $2250 for $2000; this
the meeting voted to do, and then Mr. Locke's
motion as amended by making the amount $2250
was carried.
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1913.
Belfry
Hill -
continued
Selectmen
authorized
to deed
Mr. Locke then offered the following motion:-
"Voted: That the Selectmen be, and they
are thereby authorized to make, execute and
deliver any and all deeds or other instruments in
writing necessary to convey to W. W. Ferguson,
or any person designated by him, said lot covered
by previous vote, and containing about 8679
square feet."
Appropriation
"Voted: That the sum of $2250.00 be
appropriated and assessed to carry into effect the
vote for the purchase of said portion of Belfry
Hill, so called for play ground purposes;
and assessed to meet the cost of surveying said
land and of building a suitable fence under the
direction of Selectmen on the line dividing the
Town Property from that of W. W. Ferguson."
"Voted, That Belfry Hill if purchased by
the Town be placed under the care and control
of the Board of Park Commissioners."
All the above motions were carried unanimously.
Art. 19.
Insurance
Appropriation
- Insurance Appropriation. -
George H. Childs offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the sum of $1050 be appropriated
and assessed the ensuing year, together with the
unexpended balance of $64.25 to meet the
expense of Insurance the present year."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 33.
Town
Histories,
purchase of,
defeated.
- Purchase of Town Histories. -
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion:-
"Voted: That no special appropriation be
made under this article but that each department
be authorized to purchase such copies
of the New History of the Town of Lexington
as necessity required."
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1913.
Alonzo E. Locke offered the following as a substitute
motion:-
"Voted: That $140 be appropriated and
assessed for the purchase of 20 sets of the new
History of the Town of Lexington, now being published
by the Lexington Historical Society, and that
any sets not required by Cary Memorial Library,
the branch library at East Lexington, or the public
schools, be held by the Library Trustees and disposed
of at their discretion."
Mr. Locke's substitute motion was defeated and
the motion offered by Mr. Merriam was carried.
Art. 17.
School
Physician
- School Physician -
Edwin B. Worthen offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the sum of $225 be appropriated
and assessed for the ensuing year carrying with
it the unexpended balance of $75 for a school
physician."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 5
approval
of bills
in advance
of appropriation
- Approval of Bills -
"Voted, That until the Town shall otherwise by
vote provide for the approval and payment of
bills incurred by any of the Town Departments for
the expense of the months of January, February
and March of each year prior to the passage by
the Town of the general appropriations for that year,
the Auditor be and is hereby authorized to approve
such bills provided the total amount of bills so
approved for any department or purpose, shall
not exceed for any month one-twelfth of the
appropriation made for such department or purpose
for the preceding year. All bills so approved
shall be paid by the Treasurer out of any
unappropriated balances on hand or from proceeds
of notes issued in anticipation of taxes for the
current year."
And the meeting so voted.
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1913.
Art 34.
200th
Anniversary
appropriation
- 200th Anniversary Appropriation. -
Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motions:-
"Voted: That the sum of $1500. be appropriated
and assessed for the purpose of celebrating
the 200th anniversary of the Incorporation
of the Town, said appropriation to be expended
by the special Committee appointed to have
charge of such celebration."
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
Art. 18
Revision of
By-Laws.
On motion of the Town Clerk it was
voted to grant the Committee on Revision
of the By-Laws, further time.
Art. 6.
Fence
Viewers
Under this article, the following were elected
as Fence Viewers:-
Robert L. Ryder,
Ernest K. Ballard
William H. Whitaker.
Field Drivers
Elected as Field Drivers:-
Harry W. Cobb
George S. Teague
James S. Smith.
Surveyors of Lumber.
Elected as Surveyors of Lumber.
[S] Frank P Cutler
Edgar W. Harrod.
Art. 23.
Typewriter
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was
voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Art. 24.
Stenographer
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was
voted that this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 27
Wire
Inspector
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was voted
that this article be indefinitely postponed.
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1913.
Art. 28
Town
Engineer
Committee
appointed
(see page 52
" " 155)
- Town Engineer. -
Edward P. Merriam moved that this article be
indefinitely postponed. This the meeting refused
to do. Arthur E. Horton then offered
the following motion:-
"Voted, that a committee be appointed consisting
of the Selectmen, Sewer and Water Board,
six members selected from the Finance Committee
by its chairman; this committee to choose one
member from the citizens making a complete
committee to take this matter up at once and
appoint a town engineer." (See page 52)
And the meeting so voted.
Salary of Engineer
Mr. Horton then offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the matter of salary for a town
engineer be left in the hands of the committee
appointed for the purpose of selecting a town
engineer."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 22
Cemetery
Appropriation
- Cemetery Appropriation. -
Elwyn G. Preston offered the following motions:-
"Voted, That the unexpended balance to the
credit of the cemetery committee be applied for the
expenses of the Department for the current year."
"Voted, That the Cemetery Committee be
instructed to carry out the recommendations of the
Finance Committee with reference to the application
of income from Trust Funds in connection
with the care of Cemetery Lots."
And the meeting so voted.
At 10.46 P.M. on motion of Edward P. Merriam,
it was voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1913.
May 14. 1913.
Finance
Committee
new
members
Mr. Charles W. Swan,
Town Clerk,
Lexington, Mass.
Dear Mr. Swan, -
I have made the following
appointments as the seven new members of the
Finance Committee, to take the place of those
whose terms expired at the last meeting:
namely, -
Hallie C. Blake - Leroy S. Brown
Dr. Howard T. Crawford - Willard C. Hill
Howard S. O. Nichols - Elwyn G. Preston
Frank R. Shepard.
The organization is as follows:-
Edward P. Merriam, Chairman
James J. Walsh, Clerk.
(Signed) Edwin A. Bayley
Town
Engineer,
members of
Fin. Com.
selected for
committee
See page 51
Art. 28.
The Committee selected from the Finance
Committee to serve with the Selectmen and
the Water Commissioners to consider the
question of a Town Engineer is as follows:-
Ernest Ballard
Hallie C. Blake
Leroy S. Brown
Wm C. Stickel
Howard S. O. Nichols
Dr. H. C. Valentine.
A true record,
Attest,
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1913.
Warrant
Meeting
May 15, 1913
Warrant for a Town Meeting, May 15, 1913.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Middlesex, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants of
the town of Lexington qualified to vote in town
affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said
Lexington on
Thursday, the fifteen day of May, A.D.,
1913 at 7.45 P.M., then and there to act
on the following articles:-
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee of the Town for
action therein, and to appoint other committees.
Art. 2. To receive and hear the report of the Committee
on Building-Laws and to see if the Town
will adopt the printed code as a By-Law of
the Town, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will adopt Chapter
635 of the Acts of 1912, known as The
Tenement House Act for Towns, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will vote to make an
appropriation for the purpose of repairing the
fire alarm system, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
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1913.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to move the
building now used as a branch of the Cary
Memorial Library and known as The Stone
Building on to a portion or entirely upon
that part of the land recently purchase for
school purposes called the Garmon lot, make
an appropriation to cover the expense thereof,
or take any action in connection therewith or
relative thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will increase the Police
force by the addition of one regular man,
make an appropriation for some, or act in
any manner relative thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote an incrase
of pay to the regular police officers of the
town, make an appropriation for same, or
take any action relative thereto.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote that the minimum
sum to be accepted by the Town for
the perpetual care of lots of about 16 feet
square in the Cemeteries shall be $100.00, and
that the lot be put in a condition satisfactory
to the superintendent by the owner
before such sums are received.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum
of $800.00 for the support of the Cemeteries
for the ensuing year, or act in any manner
relating, thereto.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
to be expended under the direction of the
Park Commissioners, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
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1913.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the
vote passed at the meeting held March 11, 1901,
whereby the Selectmen were instructed to appoint
a Committee to have the care of the Hayes
Fountain and grounds around it and the use of
two income of the Hayes trust fund for the
purpose.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will vote to put the Hayes
Memorial Fountain and grounds around it
into the care of the Park Commissioners and for
this purpose to pay to them the income of the
Hayes Trust Fund.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to refund to
Minnie M. Ryder the amount paid by her to
the Town of Lexington in overpaid taxes during
the years 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911,
make an appropriation for the same, or act in
any manner relative thereto.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will purchase all or a
portion of the property situated on Hancock and
Bedford Street, Massachusetts Avenue and
Merriam Street, known as the Buckman Tavern
Estate, embracing about 129700 square feet of
land, the land so acquired, less such portion as
may be needed for widening the highway in front
of the property, to be held as a public common
or park; or to take any further or other action
relating to the acquisition or disposition of
said estate.
Art. 15. To authorize an issue of bonds for the purpose
of raising moneys necessary to meet expenditures
authorized under the foregoing article; or to
make provision in any way that may be deemed
best for the raising of such moneys.
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Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this
warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington,
this second day of May, A.D, 1913.
George H. Childs
Frank D. Peirce
Edward W. Taylor
}Selectmen of
Lexington
Return of
Constable
Lexington, Mass., May 10, 1913
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have
notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington
by posting a duly attested copy of the warrant
in the Post Offices and other public places
in the town, and by mailing a duly attested
copy of the warrant to every registered voter in
the town, eight days before the time of said
meeting.
Attest,
Charles E. Wheeler
A true copy of the Warrant and of the return
of the Constable thereon.
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1913.
Town Meeting - May 15, 1913.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.45 P.M.
The warrant and the return of
the Constable thereon, was read by the Clerk.
Arts. 14 & 15.
Buckman
Tavern
Purchase.
- On purchase of Buckman Tavern. -
On motion of Alonzo E. Locke, it was voted to
take up these articles together.
Mr. Locke offered the following motion:-
"Voted, that the Inhabitants of Lexington in town
meeting assembled, authorize and approve the
purchase by the Board of Park Commissioner on
behalf of the Town, at a total cost to it of
$30000.00 to be contributed as a gift by or with
the aid of the Lexington Historial Society, and
the land so acquired, less such strip along
said Massachusetts Avenue, Bedford and Hancock
Streets as the Selectmen and Park Commissioners
shall designate for use in widening the highway,
to be held as a public common or park under
the provisions of Chapter twenty-eight of the
Revised Laws. For the purpose of meeting
such cost the Town Treasurer is hereby
authorized to issue and sell, under the direction
and with the approval of the Selectmen,
negotiable registered or coupon bonds of the
Town in serial form to the aggregate principal
amount of thirty thousand dollars
($30000.00), bearing interest at a rate not
exceeding four and one-fourth per centum (4 1/4%)
per annum payable semi-annually, and
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payable both principal and interest in gold
coin of the United States of America of the
present standard of weight and fineness, such
bonds to be signed by the Treasurers and
countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen,
with the maturities so arranged that $1000
of principal will fall due and payable in
each of the years 1914 to 1943 inclusive.
The Treasurer is hereby authorized to
cause such bonds to be prepared and executed
in such form and with such terms and
provisions therein, not in conflict with the
tenor of this vote, as the Selectmen may approve."
A rising vote was taken on this
motion, and it was carried unanimously
201 voting in the affirmation and 0 in the
negative.
Mr. Locke told of the work of the
Historical Society in securing an option on
this property, and stated that its purchase
would help the growth of the town as well
as protect the common, and urged its purchase.
Dr. John H. Jane, Rev. Samuel Knowles,
Dr. J. Odin Tilton and Arthur E. Horton
made strong pleas for the preservation of
the old Buckman Tavern.
Buckman
Tavern
in charge
of Historical
Socy.
Mr. Locke then offered the following:-
"Voted, that it is the judgement of this meeting
that, if the Town shall acquire the Buckman
Tavern Estate with the assistance of the
Lexington Historical Society as contemplated
by the foregoing vote, it will be just and proper
to place the old Tavern itself (including a
reasonable amount of ground connected therewith)
in the Society's custody, with the right,
in return, for its assuming properly to care for
and maintain the property without expense to
the Town, to have and enjoy whatever revenues
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may be divided therefrom as an historical exhibit;
and the Park Commissioners are hereby authorized
and directed to petition the next Legislature for
an Act authorizing them to assure to the
Society the occupation and control of the Tavern
and the connected plot of land on the terms
here indicated so long as the building shall stand
and be devoted to the historical purposes."
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
Art. 2. William R. Greeley moved to take up article two,
but withdraw his motion at the request of Frank
D. Peirce.
Art. 5
Stone
Building,
in moving
of.
- On moving of "The Stone Building" -
Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion:-
"Voted, that the committee appointed on the
building and furnishing of the New Adams School
House and the grading of the grounds thereof, are
hereby authorized and empowered to move the
building known as The Stone Building on to a
portion or entirely upon that part of the land
recently purchased by the Town for school
purposes, and for that purpose or conditions
required thereby the sum of $1600.00 be appropriated
and assessed."
Edward P. Merriam stated that
the Finance Committee recommended that on
appropriation be made.
Discussion arising as to whether the removal
of the building would affect the Town's title
to the property, or not, it was voted to lay the
article on the table pending an examination of
the records and deeds. It was later voted
to take the article from the table, and Mr. Peirce
explained how the town came into possession of
the property. On motion of Charles B.
Davis, it was voted to indefinitely postpone the
article.
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1913.
Arts.
2 and 3.
Building
Laws
Adopted
See page
73
for Law.
See page 114
for approval
See pages 185
and 213 for
readoption
and approval
- Building Laws. -
William R. Greeley, chairman of the committee on
building laws, presented a set of building-laws
to the meeting, and offered the following motion:-
"Voted: That the printed report of the committee
on Building-Laws as corrected by the additional
paragraphs to Sec. 2 of Art. 7., -- said
additional paragraphs being as follows:- All
buildings except as herein provided and new
walls in alterations, shall have continuous
foundations of brick, stone or concrete. Wooden
buildings not exceeding one story in height and
not used for habitation may be erected upon
masonry piers or wooden posts. --- also the
substitution of "sixty" feet "in place of "seventy"
feet in Sec. 1 of Art. 8, and substituting the
words "the Acts of 1912" instead of "Revised
Statutes" at the end of Section 1 of Art, 10,
be adopted as a By-Law of the Town,
subject to the approval of this Attorney-General."
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
Many questions were asked by the citizens
and were answered by Mr. Greeley, who also
explained the different sections.
The Moderator appointed Robert L. Ryder as a
committee of one to present these By-Laws to
the Attorney-General for his approval.
See Page 73.
Chap. 635
Acts of 1912
adopted.
Mr. Greeley then offered the following motion:-
"Voted: That the Town adopt Chapter 635 of
the Acts of 1912, known as the Tenement House Act,
and that the Inspector of Buildings provided for
under the preceding vote, be authorized to carry
out the provisions of this Act. "
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
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1913.
Art. 8.
Cemetery
Lots
perpetual
care.
- On Perpetual Law of Cemetery Lots. -
Under this article, George W. Spaulding
offered the following motion:-
"Voted, that hereafter until otherwise provided
by vote of the town, the sum of $100.00 shall be
the minimum amount which shall be accepted
for the perpetual care of any burial lot in any
of the cemeteries in this town, provided the lot
be first put in a condition satisfactory to
the Cemetery Committee."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 9.
Cemetery
Appropriation
- Cemetery Appropriation. -
Under this article Sidney M. Lawrence
offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the sum of $400.00 be appropriated
and assessed for the general care of cemeteries,
to be expended under the direction of the Cemetery
Committee."
And the meeting so voted.
Art 6.
Police
On motion of George H. Childs, it was voted to
indefinitely postpone this article calling for an
increase in the police force.
Art. 7.
Police
pay
On motion of George H. Childs, it was - "Voted that
the sum of $345.00 be appropriated and assessed
to pay for an increase in the salaries of the
regular Police Officers."
At 9.55 o'clock, on motion of Rev. Samuel Knowles,
it was voted to adjourn to Thursday, May 22,
at 7.45 P.M.
A true record,
Attest,
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
See page 62 for adjourned meeting.
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1913.
From page 61.
Adjourned Meeting - May 22. 1913.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.53 P.M.
Art. 10.
Appropriation for
Park Dept.
- Appropriation for Park Commissioners. -
Dr. J. Odin Tilton offered the following motion:-
"Voted: That $800 be appropriated and
assessed to be expended under the direction of
the Park Commissioners, $500 for the care
and maintainance [maintenance] of Public Parks and $300,
for the purchase and installation of Playground
Apparatus."
Rev. Samuel Knowles criticized the doings
of the Commissioners and offered an amendment
to strike out that portion calling for
the appropriation of $500.00; his amendment
was not seconded.
Dr. Tilton defended the operations of the
Commissioners and at 8.20 the motion offered
by him was passed.
Arts.
11 and 12.
Hayes
Fountain
in case
of
Park Com.
- Hayes Fountain placed in care of the
Park Commissioners. -
Under article 11, Dr. J. Odin Tilton offered
the following motion:-
"Voted: That the votes passed at the meeting
held March 11, 1901 whereby the Selectmen
were instructed to appoint a committee to have
the care of the Hayes Fountain and ground
around it and the use of the income of the
Hayes Trust Fund for the purpose be here -
by rescinded."
And the meeting so voted.
Under article 12, Dr. Tilton offered the following
motion:- "Voted: That the Town put the
Hayes Fountain and the grounds around it
into the care of the Park Commissioners;
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1913.
the expense of such care to be paid from the
income of the Hayes Fountain Trust Fund."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 4.
Fire
Alarm
Repairs
- Repair of Fire Alarm System. -
William S. Scamman offered the
following motion:- "Voted:- That the sum of
$1600.00 be appropriated and assessed for the
purpose of rebuilding and repairing the Fire
Alarm System, the work the be constructed under
the direction of the present Board of Engineers."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 13. On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was voted
that this article calling for the refunding of
certain overpaid taxes to Minnie M. Ryder, be
indefinitely postponed.
Art. 1
200th
celebration
Alonzo E. Locke made some remarks discouraging
the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the
incorporation of the Town planned to be held on
June 8, 9 and 10. Considerable discussion
following his remarks, and on motion of William
E. Mulliken, it was voted that it is the
sense of this meeting that the committee carry
out the programme as outlined.
Meeting dissolved at 8.55 P.M.
A true record,
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant for a Town Meeting
Thursday, June 12. 1913.
Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables in said County,
Greeting:-
In the name of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the town of Lexington qualified
to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town
Hall, in said Lexington, on Thursday, the
twelfth day of June, A.D. 1913, at 7.45 P.M.,
then and there to act on the following articles:-
Art. 1 To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or any Committee of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will make an additional
appropriation to meet expenses of celebration of
the 200th Anniversary of the Incorporation of
the Town, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote to purchase of
the John D. Bacon Estate for cemetery purposes
a strip of land adjoining the present cemetery
for additional lots and proper walks and drives;
also a strip of land bordering on the upper
entrance to the cemetery for the purpose of
widening said entrances, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 4 To see if the town will make an appropriation
necessary to carry into effect any purchase of
land voted under the preceding article and for
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the purpose of raising money therefor, to issue a
negotiable note or notes of the Town, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will vote to make an appropiation
to meet the expense of completing the
New Adams School-house, to furnish the same,
and to lay out and grade the grounds connected
therewith, including the area purchased for
playground purposes, or take any action relation
thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will rescind that portion
of the vote passed at a Town Meeting held
June 29, 1912, relative to the raising of money
by issuing bonds to the amount of $8000.00 for
the purpose of purchasing a Combination Auto
Pump, and that a substitute vote be framed to
meet said purchase price, or act in any manner
relative thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote to make an appropriation
for the purchase of the Fire Hose or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this
twenty-ninth day of May, A.D, 1913.
George H. Childs
Frank D. Peirce
Edward W. Taylor
}Selectmen
of
Lexington.
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1913.
Return of
Constable
Lexington, June 9. 1913.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have
notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington
by posting a duly attested copy of the
Warrant in the Post Offices, Town Hall, and
in other public placed in the town, and by
mailing a duly attested copy of the Warrant
to every registered voter in the town, eight days
before the time of said meeting.
Attest.
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and Return of the Constable.
Attest,
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1913.
Town Meeting - June 12, 1913.
Town Meeting
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.50 P.M.
The Warrant and the Return of the Constable
thereon were read by the Town Clerk.
Art. 5.
New
Adams
School
- Additional appropriation for New Adams School. -
Under this article, Frank D. Peirce offered the
following motion:-
Additional
appropriation
for completing
furnishing
and grading
"Voted, that for the purpose of meeting the expense
of completing the New Adams School-house, to
furnish the same, and to lay out and grade the
grounds connected therewith, (play-ground in the
rear excepted) the amount of Five thousand
seven hundred dollars ($5700) be appropriated;
seven hundred dollars of which to be assessed the
current year, and to provide for payment of the
balance the Town Treasurer is hereby authorized
to issue and sell at not less than par value and
accrued interest, five negotiable notes or bonds of
the town in serial form to the aggregate principal
amount of five thousand dollars ($5000.00)
bearing interest at the rate of four and one
quarter per cent (4 1/4) per annum payable
semi-annually, and payable both principal
and interest in gold coin of the United States
of American of the present standard of weight
and fineness, such bonds or notes to be signed
by the Treasurer and countersigned by a
majority of the Selectmen, and the maturities
so arranged that one thousand dollars of
principal will fall due and payable in each
of the years 1914 to 1918 inclusive."
Robert P. Clapp offered the
following amendments to be added to the above
motion:- "And that before any of this
appropriation be expended in grading the school
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house grounds, a comprehensive plan covering
the subject in relation to the play-ground,
the land connected with The Stone Building
and other surrounding property be obtained by
the building committee under expert advice;
and that no grading be done or any of said
appropriation be upended for that purpose
save in the procuring of such advice except
in accordance with a general grading schemes
approved by both the building committee and the Board of Park Commissioners"
This amendment was carried by
vote of the meeting at 8.35 P.M., and then
the above motion offered by Mr. Peirce and as
amended by Mr. Clapp, was carried unanimously,
at 8.38 P.M.
In discussing this matter, Dr. J. O. Tilton
urged that he matter of grading be given
considerable study so that all the grounds
around the new school and around The Stone
Building would be paid out under one plan.
Arthur E. Horton supported Dr. Tilton, and
recommended that The Stone Building be
allowed to remain on its present site.
Robert L. Ryder expressed the opinion that
The Stone Building should be moved.
Jay O. Richards said that some extra
expense in construction had been caused by
reason of ledge and quick sand.
Art. 2.
200th Anniversary
additional
appropriation
Additional Appropriation for Celebration
of 200th Anniversary.
Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motion:-
"Voted, that the meet the expense of the celebration
of the 200th Anniversary of the Incorporation of
the Town incurred by the Committee appointed
to take charge of such celebration, there be appropriated
and assessed an additional sum of
$675.00."
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and the meeting so voted unanimously.
Mr. Locke and William C. Stickel spoke in
favor of the appropriation.
Arts.
3 & 4.
Cemetery
on Mass. Ave.
proposed
addition to.
Indef.
postponed
Addition to Cemetery.
Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motion:-
"Voted, that the Cemetery Committee be authorized
to purchase of the John D. Bacon Estate a strip
of land adjoining the present cemetery 60 feet wide
and extending the full width of said estate, about
235 feet, and also a strip of land 10 feet wide
attending along the northwesterly or upper side
of the entrance to the cemetery from Massachusetts
Avenue to the strip of land above described
and being about 270 feet in length.
And, Voted, that to purchase the above described
parcels of land there be appropriated the sum
of $2500, said amount to be raised by issuing
the negotiable note of the Town for $2500, payable
in one year from date with interest at a
rate not exceeding 5 1/2 % per annum, said note
to be sold by the Town treasurer with the
approval of the Board of Selectmen."
On motion of William C. Stickel, it
was voted that the above motion be indefinitely
postponed.
Mr. Locke stated that the committee appointed
to secure a location for a new cemetery was
not ready to report, and that he offered this
motion so that a few burial lots might be
provided for immediate use.
Mr. Stickel stated that the finance committee
was opposed to this plan as it might retard
the purchasing of land for a new cemetery.
Art. 6
Fire Apparatus
Bonds
- Relating to an issue of Bonds for
Acts Fire Apparatus. -
Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion:-
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Auto-pump.
Bonds,
Vote to
rescind.
"Voted, that the portion of the vote passed at
the Town Meeting held June 29. 1912, authorizing
the raising of the sum of $8000 for the
purchase of a Combination Auto Pump by
issuing the coupon bonds of the town for an
amount not exceeding $8000 bearing interest at
the rate of 4% per annum, interest payable
semi-annually, the principal to be paid in
annual instalments, etc., be and the same
hereby is rescinded."
And it was so voted.
Auto-pump.
Bonds
Vote to
issue
Mr. Peirce then offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That for the purpose of completing
the purchase of a Combination Auto Pump
under vote of the town at a meeting held
June 29, 1912, the sum of $8000.00 be appropriated.
That this money be raised by
issuing the coupon bonds of the town for an
amount not exceeding $8000.00 bearing interest
at the rate of 4 1/4% per annum, interest
payable semi-annually, the principal to be
paid in annual instalments of not more than
$1000.00 each beginning 1914. Both principal
and interest shall be payable in gold coin of
the United States of the present standard of
weight and fineness. Said bonds shall be
signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by
at least a majority of the Selectmen and
sold under the direction of the Selectmen."
And it was so voted, unanimously.
Mr. Peirce explained that the vote paused in June
29, 1912, provided for a rate of interest not
exceeding 4%, and that the bonds could not
be sold at that rate, and it was therefor
necessary to increase the rate to 4 1/4%.
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Art. 7
Fire Hose
Appropriation
- Appropriation for Fire Hose. -
Edward W. Taylor offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the sum of $1732.50 be appropriated
and assessed for the purchase of Fire Hose."
And the meeting so voted.
Mr. Taylor stated that the Fire Department did
not have a sufficient amount of hose for its
proper equipment:
George H. Childs thought the engineers should
be authorized to purchase this hose.
William C. Stickel and Willard C. Hill opposed
the motion.
Dissolved
At 9.41 P.M., on motion of Frank D. Peirce
it was voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true record,
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Perpetual
Care
O.G Seeley
#108
Perpetual Care
Bequest of O. Gilbert Seeley.
Town Treasurer's Office.
Lexington, June 20, 1913.
#100.
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 22nd day of November, A.D. 1875.,
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt
of One hundred (100) dollars from O. Gilbert
Seeley of Lexington the interest of which is to be
expended in accordance with said vote and
Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870 upon lot
No. 108 in the Town Cemetery, near the High
School House in said Lexington in dressing
and care of said lot, monuments, walks and
avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
June 20, 1913.
A true copy,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Building
Laws.
See
page 60
for vote on
Adoption
See
page 114 for
Approval of
Atty.
General
See pages
185-213
for vote to
readopt
and approval
Building Laws
for the Town of Lexington.
Article I.
Title
This By-law shall be known and cited as the
Building Law.
Article II.
Authorities
Inspector, appointment, Salary, Etc.
Section 1. The Board of Selectmen shall, within
thirty days after the adoption of these ordinances
and thereafter annually in April, appoint an Inspector
of Buildings, who shall hold office for the term
of one year or until such time as another is
appointed in his place.
He shall be an architect, civil engineer, or builder
of at least ten years' practice or experience.
His compensation shall be regulated by the Selectmen
unless determined by a vote of the town at the
annual March meeting preceding his appointment.
He shall not be interested in any contract or in
the furnishing of materials for any building.
Right to Enter.
Section 2. The Inspector of Buildings may,
so far as it necessary for the performance of his
duties, enter any building or premises within the
town at any reasonable hour.
Duties.
Section 3. He shall keep a record of all
business of the department, which record and all
other books and papers relating to the transaction
of the department shall be open at all times
to the inspection of the Selectmen, and he shall
submit to them a yearly report on such business
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and such other reports as they may require.
He shall receive applications and issue
permits for the erection and alteration of buildings
as hereinafter described and shall keep detailed
and sufficient records of such applications and
permits. He shall not give a permit for
the erection or alteration of any building until he
shall have carefully inspected the plans, specifications
and premises, and ascertained that the
building as proposed will confirm to this by-law.
He shall, as often as practicable, inspect
all buildings in the course of construction or
alteration, and shall make a record of all violations
of these by-laws, with the names of the
owner, occupants, architect, and master mechanic,
and of any other matters pertinent thereto.
He shall grant permits for such erection,
alteration or repair, when the plans and detailed
descriptions are in conformity with this by-law
and the laws of the Commonwealth.
He shall examine all buildings reported
dangerous or damaged by accident or fire, and if
it appears that such structure would be unsafe
or dangerous to life or hint in case of fire, or
meaning thereof, and the Inspector may affix in
a conspicuous place upon its exterior walls a
notice of its dangerous condition, which shall not
be removed or defaced without authority from him.
It shall be the duty of the Inspector to
approve or reject any plans filed with him,
within ten days. No work shall be commenced
until a permit is issued.
See R. L. Chapter 104, Section 4, et. seq.
Appeal.
Section 4. In case the owner of any building
or other structures, or an applicant for a permit
Enforcement.
Section 6. The Inspector of Buildings, in the name
of the town, may take such measures as the public
safety requires to carry this by-law and every section
thereof into effect, and by any expense, not exceeding
$100, incurred in so doing may be recovered by the town
from the owner of the defective property.
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ing directly on the ground.
FOUNDATION. That part of wall below the level of
the sidewalk, or, if a wall is not on a street, that pact
of the wall below the level of the highest ground
next to the wall, and that part of a party or partition
wall, pier or column below the cellar floor.
FRONT OF LOT. The front of a lot is that boundary
- 5A line which borders on the street. In the case of. a
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to erect or alter a building or other structure, is
aggrieved by any order or decision of the Inspector
of Buildings, he may file with the Inspector and
objection in writing, and thereupon the matter
shall be referred to the Selectmen who, within one
week from said reference, shall hear the parties,
and after taking such expert opinion as may seem
to the Selectmen to be necessary, give their decision.
In case the decision of the Inspector of Buildings
be affirmed, the expense of such expert opinion
taken by the Selectmen shall be paid to the town
by the owner or applicant on demand; otherwise
such expense shall be borne by the town.
Penalty.
Section 5. Whoever erects or constructs a building,
or whoever superintends the erection or construction of
a building in violation of the provisions of this
by-law, shall be punished by a fine of not less
than fifty dollars, not more than the cost of
enforcement where the same exceeds fifty dollars,
as defined in Section 6, and in no case more
than 100 dollars for each violation.
Add Sec. 6.
Scope of the Law.
Section 7. No building shall be constructed
or altered except in conformity with the provisions
of their by-law, but nothing in this by-law
shall be constructed to apply to:
Exceptions,
(a) Bridges, quays, wharves or buildings or land
owned or occupied by the United States or the
Commonwealth.
(b.) Ordinary repairs, as defined in Article V,
Section 1, paragraph 1.
(c.) Small wooden buildings not to be used for
habitable purposes, and not more than eight feet
in length or breadth and seven feet in height.
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Article III.
Definitions.
Alteration. Any change or addition.
Apartment House. See "Tenement House."
Assembly Hall. A room in any building other
than dwelling house, used for public or private assembly
having a greater floor area than six hundred
square feet.
Basement. That portion of a building in
which the floor is located at least one-half
the average height from the floor the ceiling of
said portion below the level of the sidewalk or
ground at the principal point of entrance to
the building.
Cellar. A cellar is a story more than one-half
below the level of the adjacent ground.
Corner Lot. A corner lot in a lot situated
at the junction of two streets, each not less than
twenty feet in width. Any portion of the
width of such lot distant more than seventy
feet from such junction shall not be regarded
as part of a corner lot.
Construction. Building of the First Class.
A building of fireproof construction throughout.
Building of the Second Class: A building
not of the first class, the external and party
walls of which are of brick, stone, iron, or
other equally substantial and incombustible
materials.
Building of the Third Class:
Any building not of the first or second class.
Court, a court is an open unoccupied space,
other than a yard, on the same lot with
a tenement house. A court not extending to
the street or yard is an inner court.
A court extending to the street or yard is an
outer court.
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Dwelling. A building used or constructed or
adapted to be used wholly or principally for
human habitation.
Factory. Any premises where steam, water or
other mechanical power is used in aid of any
manufacturing process there carried on.
Footing. That part of any masonry foundations
resting directly on the ground.
Foundation. That part of wall below the level
of the sidewalk, or, if a wall is not on a street,
that part of the wall below the level of the
highest ground next to the wall, and that part
of a party or partition wall, pier or column
below the cellar floor.
Front of Lot. The front of a lot is that
boundary line which borders on the street.
In case of a corner lot, the owner may elect by
statement on his plans either street boundary
line as the front. The rear of the lot is the side
opposite to the front. In the case of a triangular
or gone lot the rear shall be the side not
bordering on a street.
Half Story. The top story included within
a roof.
Height of Building. The vertical distance from
the mean grade of the sidewalks of all abutting
streets or the mean grade of the ground adjoining
the building, to the highest point of the roof
beams, not including in such measurement of
height, cornices which do not extend more
than five feet above the highest point of the
roof beams, nor inclosures for the machinery
of elevators which do not exceed fifteen feet in
height, not inclosures for tanks which do not
exceed twenty feet in height above the roof beams
and do not exceed in united area ten per cent
of the area of the roof.
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Hotel. See "Tenement House."
Loads. Dead Loads. The weight of the
walls, floors, partitions and all permanent
construction.
Live or Variable Loads. All loads other
than dead loads.
Lodging House. See "Tenement House."
Nuisance. The word "nuisance" shall be
held to embrace public nuisance as known at
common law or in equity jurisprudence;
and furthermore, whatever is generous to
human life or detrimental to health;
whatever building or erection or part or cellar
thereof is overcrowded with occupants, or is
not provided with adequate ingress and
egress to and from the same, or the apartment
thereof, or is not sufficiently supported,
ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned or lighted,
in reference to their or its intended or actual
use; and whatever renders the air or human
food or drink unwholesome, are also severally [severely]
in contemplation of this act, nuisances.
Office Building. A building in which rooms
above the first story are used for offices or similar
purposes.
Public Building A building used or constructed
or adapted to be used as a church, chapel,
or other place of public worship, or as a school,
college, or as a hospital, workhouse, public
theatre, public hall, public concert-room, public
ballroom, public lecture-room, public library, or
public exhibition-room, or as a public place of
assembly, or used or constructed or adapted to
be used for any other public purpose.
Schoolhouse. All public school buildings
and any private building in which more than
twenty pupils are or may be assembled in any
one room above the first story.
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Stable. Any building used or intended to be
used for the housing of horses or cattle.
Tenement House. A tenement house is any
house or building, or portion thereof, which is
rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied,
or is occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed
to be occupied as the home or residence of more
than two families (a family may consist of one
or more persons) living independently of each other
and having a common right in the halls, stairways,
yard, cellar sinks, water closets or privies,
or any of them, and includes lodging and boarding
houses, apartment houses, flat houses and hotels.
Dwelling houses built in continuous rows of
more than two houses, occupied or intended
arranged or designed to be occupied as the home
or residence of one family or more having a
common right in or using in common the halls,
stairways, yards, cellars, sinks water closets or
privies, or any of them, shall be deemed to be
tenement houses and shall be subject to all the
provisions of this by-law.
Theatre. A building or portion of a building
in which it is designed to make a business of
the presentation of dramatic, operatic or other
performance or shows for the entertainment
of spectators, and having a permanent stage for
said performances which can be used for
scenery and other stage appliances.
Walls. Bearing Wall. Any wall which
carried any load other than its own weight.
Curtain Wall: Any wall built between piers
or iron or steel columns and which is not a bearing
wall. External Walls: Every outer
vertical enclosure of a building other than a party
wall. Partition Wall: Any interior wall in
a building. Party Wall: A wall that
separates two or more buildings and is used or
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adapted for use of more than one building.
Thickness of Wall. The minimum
thickness of such wall.
Wooden Building. Any building of which
an external wall is constructed wholly or partly
of wood. Wood frames covered with metal
shall be deemed to be wood structures.
Workshop. Any premises, rooms, or place,
not being a factory as above defined, wherein
any manual labor is exercised by way of trade,
or for purposes of gain or as incidental to any
process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting,
finishing or adapting for sale any article or
part of articles and to which or over which
premises, room or place, the employer of the
persons working therein has the right of access
or control; provided however, that the exercise
of such manual labor in a private house or
private room by the family, dwelling therein or
by any of them, or in case of a majority of the
persons therein employed are members of such
family, shall not of itself constitute such house
or room a workshop within this definition.
Article IV.
Quality, Calculated Streets and Strength of Material.
Test and quality.
Section1. New materials of whatever nature
shall be subjected to such tests as the Inspector
shall direct; the tests shall be made under the
supervision of said inspector, or he may direct
the architect or owner to file with him a certified
copy of the results of tests such as he may
direct shall be made.
When second-hand material is to be used,
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that fact shall be stated in the application filed,
and no second-hand material shall be used until
it has been approved by the Inspector.
Brick.
Section 2. All brick used in all buildings shall
be of good quality hard burned. When old
brick are used in any wall they shall be
thoroughly cleaned before being used.
Sand.
Section 3. The sand used for mortars in
all buildings shall be clean, sharp grit sand,
free from loan or dirty, and shall not be finer
than the standard samples kept in the office of
the Inspector.
Lime Mortar.
Section 4. Lime Mortar shall be made of
one part of lime and not more than four parts of
sand. All lime used for mortar shall be
thoroughly burnt, of good quality, and properly
slaked before it is mixed with the sand.
Cement Mortar.
Section 5. Cement Mortar shall be made of
cement and sand in the proportion of one part
of cement and not more than three parts of sand
and shall be used immediately after being mixed.
The cement and sand to be measured and
thoroughly mixed before adding water.
Cements must be very finely ground and free
from lumps. Cement when tested neat,
after one day set in air, shall be capable of
sustaining without rupture a tensile strain of at
least 120 pounds per square inch, and after one
day in air and six days in water be capable of
sustaining without rupture a tensile strain of at
least 300 pounds per square inch.
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Cement and Lime Mortar.
Section 6. Cement and lime mortar mixed
shall be made of one part of lime and one
part of cement and not more than six parts
of sand.
Concrete.
Section 7. Concrete for foundation shall be
made of at least one part of cement, two parts
of sand and five parts of clean broken stone, of
such size so as to pass in any way through a
two-inch ring, or good clean gravel may be
used in the same proportion as broken stone.
The cement, sand and stone or gravel shall
be measured and mixed as is prescribed for mortar.
All cements when in place shall be properly
rammed and allowed to set without being disturbed.
Timber.
Section 8. All timbers and wood beams
used in any building shall be of good sound
material free from rot, large and loose knots,
shakes or any imperfection whereby the strength
may be impaired.
Wrought Iron
Section 9. All wrought iron shall be uniform
in character, fibrous, tough and ductile.
It shall have an ultimate tensile resistance of not
less than 48,000 pounds per square inch, and
an elastic limit of not less than 24,000 pounds
per square inch, and an elongation of twenty per
cent in eight inches, when tested in small
specimens.
Steel.
Section 10. All structural steel shall have
an ultimate tensile strength of from 54,000
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pounds per square inch to 64,000 pounds per
square inch. Its elastic limit shall be not
less than 32000 pounds per square inch and a
minimum elongation of not less than twenty per
cent in eight inches. Rivet steel shall have an
ultimate strength of from 50,000 to 58,000 pounds
per square inch.
Cast Steel.
Section 11. Shall be of open hearth steel, containing
one-quarter to one-half per cent of carbon, not over
eight one-hundredths of one per cent of phosphorous,
and shall be practically free from blow holes.
Cast Iron.
Section 12. Shall be of good foundry mixture,
producing a clean tough, gray iron.
Sample bars five feet long, one inch square, cast
in sound moulds, placed on support four feet
six inches apart, shall bear a central load of
450 pounds before breaking.
Castings shall be free from serious blow holes,
cinder spots, and cold shuts.
Ultimate tensile strength shall be not less than
16,000 pounds per square inch when tested in
small specimens.
Safe Loads for Masonry Work.
Section 13. The safe bearing load to apply to
brickwork shall be taken at eight tons per superficial
foot, when lime mortar is used; eleven and
one-half tons per superficial foot when lime and
cement mortar mixed is used; fifteen tons per
superficial foot when cement mortar is used.
The safe bearing load to apply to rubble-stone
work shall be taken at ten tons per superficial
foot when cement is used; when lime and cement
mortar mixed is used, seven tons per superficial
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foot, and when lime mortar is used, five tons
per superficial foot. The safe bearing load
to apply to concrete shall be taken at fifteen
tons per superficial fort.
Standard of Weights
Section 14. In computing the weights of
walls, a cubic foot of brickwork shall be deemed
to weight 115 pounds. Sandstone, white marble,
granite and other kinds of building stone shall
be deemed to weight 170 pounds per cubic foot.
Dimensions.
Section 15. The dimensions of each piece
or combinations of materials required shall be
ascertained by computation according to the rules
prescribed by law.
Factors of Safety.
Section 16. Where the unit street for any
material is not prescribed in this by-law, the
relation of allowable unit stress to ultimate strength
shall be as one to four for metals subjected to
tension or transverse stresses; as one to six for
timber, and as one to ten for natural or artificial
stones and brick and stone masonry.
But wherever working stresses are prescribed
by this law, varying the factor of safety hereinabove
given, the said working stresses shall be used.
Strength of Columns.
Section 18, In columns or compression members
with flat ends of cast iron, steel, wrought iron or
wood, the stress per square inch shall not exceed
that given in the following tables.
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When the length divided by least radius of gyration equals | Working stresses per square inch of section. | | Cast iron | Steel | Wr. iron | When the length divided by least diameter equals | Working stresses per square inch of section. | | Long leaf yellow pine | White pine Norway pine Spruce | Oak
---------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ----- | -------- | | | | | | | |
120 | | 8240 | 4400
110 | | 8820 | 5200
100 | | 9400 | 6000
90 | | 9980 | 6800
80 | | 10560 | 7600
70 | 9200 | 11140 | 8400
60 | 9500 | 11720 | 9200
50 | 980 | 12300 | 10000
40 | 10100 | 12880 | 10800
30 | 10400 | 13460 | 11600
20 | 10700 | 14040 | 12400
10 | 11000 | 14620 | 13200
30 | 460 | 350 | 390
25 | 550 | 425 | 475
20 | 640 | 500 | 560
15 | 730 | 575 | 645
12 | 784 | 620 | 696
10 | 820 | 650 | 730
| Cast iron | Steel | Wr. iron | When the length divided by least diameter equals | Working stresses per square inch of section. | | Long leaf yellow pine | White pine Norway pine Spruce | Oak
--- | --------- | ----- | -------- | | | | | |
120 | | 8240 | 4400
110 | | 8820 | 5200
100 | | 9400 | 6000
90 | | 9980 | 6800
80 | | 10560 | 7600
70 | 9200 | 11140 | 8400
60 | 9500 | 11720 | 9200
50 | 980 | 12300 | 10000
40 | 10100 | 12880 | 10800
30 | 10400 | 13460 | 11600
20 | 10700 | 14040 | 12400
10 | 11000 | 14620 | 13200
30 | 460 | 350 | 390
25 | 550 | 425 | 475
20 | 640 | 500 | 560
15 | 730 | 575 | 645
12 | 784 | 620 | 696
10 | 820 | 650 | 730
and in like proportion for intermediate ratios.
When the length divided by least diameter equals | Working stresses per square inch of section. |
| Long leaf yellow pine | White pine Norway pine Spruce | Oak
------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | --- | |
30 | 460 | 350 | 390
25 | 550 | 425 | 475
20 | 640 | 500 | 560
15 | 730 | 575 | 645
12 | 784 | 620 | 696
10 | 820 | 650 | 730
| Long leaf yellow pine | White pine Norway pine Spruce | Oak
-- | --------------------- | ----------------------------- | ---
30 | 460 | 350 | 390
25 | 550 | 425 | 475
20 | 640 | 500 | 560
15 | 730 | 575 | 645
12 | 784 | 620 | 696
10 | 820 | 650 | 730
and in like proportion for intermediate ratios. Five-eights the value given for white pine shall also apply to chestnut and hemlock posts. For locust posts use one and one-half the value given for white pine.
Columns and compression numbers shall not be used having an unsupported length of greater ratios than given in the tables.
Any column eccentrically loaded shall have the
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stresses caused by such eccentricity computed and the combined stresses resulting from such eccentricity at any part of the column, added to all other stresses at that part, shall in no case exceed the working stresses stated in this law.
The eccentric load of a column shall be considered to be distributed equally over the entire area of that column at the next point below which the column is securely braced laterally in the direction of eccentricity.
Working Stresses. Section 18. The safe carrying capacity of the various materials of construction (except in the case of columns) shall be determined by the following working stresses in pounds per square inch of sectional area:
Compression (Direct). Rolled steel 16,000 Cast steel 16,000 Wrought iron 12,000 Cast iron (in short blocks) 16,000 Steel pins and rivets (bearing) 20,000 Wrought iron pins and rivets (bearing) 15,000
| With grain | Across grain
----------- | ---------- | ------------
Oak | 900 | 800
Yellow pine | 1000 | 600
White pine | 800 | 400
Spruce | 800 | 400
Locust | 1200 | 1000
Hemlock | 500 | 500
Chestnut | 500 | 1000
Concrete-comemnt 1, sand 2, stone 4 230 Concrete-cement 1, sand 2, stone 5 208 Rubble stone in cement mortar 140 Rubble stone in lime and cement mortar 97 Rubble stone in lime mortar 70
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Brickwork in cement mortar; cement 1, sand 3 250 Brickwork in lime and cement mortar, cement 1, lime 1, sand 6 160 Brickwork in lime mortar; lime 1, sand 4 111 Granite (according to test) 1000 to 2400 Limestone (according to test) 700 to 2300 Marble (according to test) 600 to 1200 Sandstone (according to test) 400 to 1600 Bluestone, North River 2000 Brick (Haverstraw, flatwise) 300 Slate 1000
Tension (Direct). Rolled steel 16000 Cast steel 16000 Wrought iron 12000 Yellow pine 1200 White pine 800 Spruce 800 Oak 1000 Hemlock 600
Shear. Steel web plates 9000 Steel shop rivets and pins 10000 Steel field rivets 8000 Steel field bolts 7000 Wrought iron web plates 6000 Wrought iron shop rivets and pins 7500 Wrought iron field bolts 5500 Cast iron 3000
| With fibre | Across fibre
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Yellow pine | 70 | 500
White pine | 40 | 250
Spruce | 50 | 320
Oak | 10 | 600
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| With fibre | Across Fibre
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Locust | 100 | 720
Hemlock | 30 | 270
Chestnut | | 150
Safe Extreme Fibre Stress (Bending).
Rolled steel beams 16000
Rolled steel pins, rivets and bolts 20000
Riveted steel beams (net flange section) 14000
Rolled wrought iron beams 12000
Rolled wrought iron pins, rivets and bolts 15000
Revited wrought iron beams (net flange section) 12000
Cast iron, compression side 16000
Yellow pine 1200
White pine 800
Spruce 800
Oak 1000
Locust 1200
Hemlock 600
Chestnut 800
Granite 180
Limestone 150
Slate 400
Marble 120
Sandstone 100
Bluestone, North River 300
Concrete-cement 1, sand 2, stone 4 30
Concrete-cement 1, sand 2, stone 5 30
Brick (common) 50
Brickwork (in cement) 30
Article V.
Preliminary Requirements.
Permits Section 1. Before the erection, construction,
demolition or alteration of any building or part
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of any building, structure or part of any structure,
coming under the scope of this by-law, as
defined in Article II, Section 7, and before
the construction or alteration of the plumbing or
drainage system of any building, structure, or
premises is commenced, the owner or lessee, or
agent of either, shall, except for ordinary repairs,
submit to the Inspector, a detailed description of
the location, purpose and construction of the proposed
structure or work, on proper blanks to
be provided by the Inspector, and such full
and complete copies of the plans of such proposed
work, and any structural detailed drawings
as the Inspector may require. Such plans
and detailed drawing shall be furnished in duplicate
and if approved the Inspector, one set shall
be kept at the building during the progress of
the work, open to the inspection of the Inspector
or his representative, and the other shall be kept
on file in the office of the Inspector.
The erection, construction, demolition or alteration
of such building or structure as herein
provided, shall when proceeded with, be constructed
in accordance with such approved plans and
detailed descriptions, unless amended plans are
filed and permit issued therefore.
Any permit which may be issued by the
Inspector pursuant to the provisions of this section,
but under which no work is commenced within
one year from the time of issuance, shall
expire by limitation.
Street Lines and Grades.
Section 2. Every person before proceeding to
erect any foundation, building or wall, or
make any alterations in the external wall of
any structure, any part of which is to be
placed within ten feet of any public street,
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way, square, or other lands dedicated to public
use, shall first apply to the Selectmen for
the lines and grades of such public street,
way, square, or other lands, and the Selectmen
without charge, shall furnish the same together
with the location and grade of sewer if in their
power to do so.
Heights of Buildings.
Section 3. The height of any building or
other structure hereafter erected, shall not be
more than two times the width of the widest
street upon which it stands, but in no case
shall it exceed eighty feet, exception as provided
below.
The limits of heights for all buildings shall
be as follows:
For first-class buildings, not exceeding eighty
feet.
For second-class buildings, not exceeding
sixty feet.
For third-class buildings, not exceeding
forty-eight feet.
In any building of the second or third class,
used as a tenement house, apartment house, hotel
or lodging house if the cellar or basement is fitted
up or used for stores, offices, workrooms, or living
rooms, other than for janitor's use, such cellar or
basement shall be regarded as the first story,
and the height permitted for such building shall
be its measurement from such cellar or basement
floor upwards, and the attic if so fitted up or
used shall be deemed a story within the
meaning of this by-law.
No limitation of the height of buildings
in this by-law shall apply to churches, steeples,
towers, domes, cupolas, or belfries, not used for
human habitation, nor to chimneys, gas holders
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statuary, open balustrades, skylights, ventilators,
flagstaffs, railings, weather vanes, soil pipes,
steam exhausts, or other similar constructions
such as are usually erected above the roof line
of buildings. A permit for the erection of
a spire exceeding eight feet in height, for a
church, or for the erection, location and use
of an elevator for storage or sale of grain or coal,
may be given by the Inspector on the written
approval of the Board of Selectmen.
Article VI.
Repairs and Demolition.
Repairs
Section 1. Ordinary repairs of buildings or
structures, or of the plumbing thereof, may be
made without notice to the Inspector, but such
repairs shall not be construed to include the
cutting away of any stone or brick wall, or any
portion thereof, the removal or cutting of any
beam or support, or the removal, change or
closing of any staircase, or the alteration or
construction of any soil or waste pipe.
When plans or detailed descriptions are filed
with the Inspector for the erection of a new
building, which necessitates the demolition of
any part of an existing building, such fact
shall be stated in the description filed.
Demolition.
Section 2. In demolishing any building,
story after story, commencing with the top story,
shall be completely removed. No material
shall be allowed to remain upon the floor of
any such building, but the brick, timber and
other structural parts of each story shall be
lowered to the ground upon displacement.
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If the building to be demolished is within
fifty feet of a public street or within one
hundred feet of any other building, the material
to be removed shall be properly set down to
lay the dust incident to its removal.
The owner, architect, builder or contractor for
any building, structure, wall, platform or
flooring to be demolished shall give not less than
twenty-four hours' notice to the Inspector of such
intended demolition.
Article VII.
Construction, General Requirements.
Excavation.
Section 1 All excavations for buildings shall
be properly guarded and protected so as to
prevent the same from becoming dangerous to
life or limb, and shall be sheath-ruled by the
person or persons causing the excavations to be
made when necessary to prevent the adjoining
earth from caving in.
Foundations.
Section 2. All foundation walls, if of brick,
shall be not less than four inches thicker than
the first story walls above, with a base brick
or stone not less than eight inches wider than
said brick foundation wall.
Rubble stone foundation walls for buildings
not exceeding twenty five feet in height shall
be not less then eighteen inches thick at
top and twenty-four inches thick at bottom;
for buildings exceeding twenty-five feet in height,
they shall not be less than twenty-four inches
thick at top and thirty inches at the bottom;
and for buildings exceeding forty-four feet in height,
not less than thirty inches thick at top and
thirty-six inches at the bottom.
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If of block stone, laid in horizontal courses, the
foundation walls shall be as follows:
For buildings not over twenty-five feet in height,
not less than eighteen inches thick; over twenty-five
feet and not exceeding forty-five feet, not
less than twenty inches thick; and over forty-five
feet, not less than twenty-four inches thick.
All foundations shall be thick enough in
excess of the above to resist lateral pressure, and
the Inspector may order an increase of thickness
for that purpose.
All buildings except as herein provided and
new walls in alterations, shall have continuous
foundations of brick, stone or concrete Wooden
buildings not exceeding one story in height and
not used for habitation may be erected upon
masonry piers or wooden posts.
Masonry Walls, Thickness.
Section 3. All masonry external and party walls
of buildings used for dwellings, not exeeding
twenty-five feet in height, shall be at least
twelve inches thick in basement, and at least
eight inches above; for buildings exceeding
twenty-five feet and not exceeding sixty feet in
height, not less than twelve inches the whole
height. All masonry external and party
walls of buildings other than dwellings shall be
as follows: For buildings not exceeding
twenty-five feet in height, at least twelve inches
throughout; for buildings exceeding twenty-five
feet and not exceeding forty feet, at least
sixteen inches in basement and in first story,
and twelve inches above; and for buildings
exceeding forty feet and not exceeding sixty
feet in height, twenty inches in basement
and first story and sixteen inches above.
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Vaulted walls shall contain exclusive of withes,
the same amount of material as is required for
solid walls and the wall on the side of the air
space carrying a floor shall be not less than
eight inches thick. Such walls shall be
securely tied together by ties not more than
two feet apart.
External walls may, if approved by the
Inspector, with the consent of the Selectmen, be
built in part of iron or steel, and when so
built, may be of less thickness than is hereinbefore
provided or required, provided that all
constructional parts are thoroughly protected from
fire by brick, terra-cotta, or plastering upon
metal furring, and provided the strength of
all supports is equivalent to that of brick
walls otherwise herein required.
Floor Supports.
Section 4. No building hereafter erected
shall have floor bearing supports over thirty
feet apart which supports may be brick walls,
trusses, columns, or girders.
Of brick walls, they may be four inches less
in thickness than is required by this by-law
for the party walls of the same height, provided
that in no case shall they be less than twelve
inches in thickness. If trusses, columns,
or girders, are used they and their supports
shall be made to conform to the requirements for
strength as provided for an Article IV.
Floors, Strength of.
Section 5, All new or renewed floors shall
be so constructed as to carry safely the weight
to which the proposed use of the building will
subject them, but the least capacity per superficial
foot, exclusive of materials shall be:
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For floors of dwillings, seventy pounds.
For office floors, one hundred pounds.
For floors of public buildings and stores, one
hundred and fifty pounds.
For floors of warehouses, storerooms, and mercantile
buildings of like character, and factories,
two hundred and fifty pounds.
Strength of stairs shall be estimated in like
manner.
Chimneys and Flues.
Section 7. No chimney shall be controlled
from a wall more than the thickness of the
wall, nor be hung from a wall less than
twelve inches thick, nor rest or be supported
in any way by wood.
All chimneys shall be built of stone or other
incombustible material, laid up in best lime or
cement mortar:
All brick chimneys shall have terra cotta fire
lining, except chimneys eight inches or more
thick.
The sectional area of every chimney must be at
least equal to the combined area of all smoke
flues entering it.
All chimneys shall be topped out with brick,
stone or cement, at least four feet above the
highest point of contact with roof.
No woodwork of any kind shall be placed at a
distance less than one inch from the outside wall
of any flue; and no nail shall be driven into
the masonry of any chimney.
Unsafe Chimneys
Section 7 If any chimney flue or heating apparatus
shall, in the opinion of the Inspector be
unsafe, he shall at once notify in writing the
owner, who, upon receiving said notice, shall
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make the same safe to the satisfaction of the
Inspector.
Fireplace and Hearths.
Section 8. The jambs and backs of all fireplaces,
range or grate openings, and the front of chimney
carrying the fireplace, shall be at least eight
inches thick.
Brickwork over such openings shall be supported
by proper iron bars or brick or stone arches.
All hearths shall be laid on masonry trimmer
arches or on bars of iron supporting a proper
bed of masonry, and shall be at least eight inches
longer on either side than the rough fireplace
opening, and at least eighteen inches wide in
front of the chimney breast.
Protection of Woodwork.
Section 9 No smokepipe shall project through
any external wall or window.
No smokepipe shall pass through any wooden
partition without a soapstone ring or safety thimble
of fireproof material of the thickness of the partition.
The top of all heating furnaces set in brick
shall be covered with brick, supported by iron
bars, and so constructed as to be perfectly tight;
said covering to be in addition to, and not less
than six inches from the ordinary covering of
the hot air chambers. The tops of all
heating furnaces not set in brick shall be at
least twelve inches below the nearest wooden
beams of ceiling, with a shield of metal made
tight, suspended not less than two inches below
such beams or ceiling, and extending one foot
beyond the top of the furnace on all sides except
when metal lathing is used.
All hot-air register boxes hereafter placed in the
floor or partition of buildings, shall be set in
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soapstone or equally good incombustible borders not
less than two inches in width, and shall be made
of tin plate and properly fitted.
Hot-air pipes and register boxes set in floors or
partitions shall be at least one inch from any
woodwork, except that register boxes fifteen by
twenty-five inches, or larger, and their connecting
pipes shall be two inches from any woodwork.
The pipes and boxes shall be either double
where they pass through the floors or partitions or
be otherwise thoroughly protected by metal casings
shielding the woodwork and made tight.
No metal pipe used to convey heated air
or steam shall be placed within one inch of
any woodwork, unless it is enclosed in a soapstone
or earthen ring, or in a metal pipe with
air space between, or otherwise shielded with
metal or asbestos, in a manner satisfactory to
the Inspector.
Ash Bins
Section 10. Depositories for ashes in the interior of
any building shall be built of incombustible material.
Conductors.
Section 11. All buildings shall be provided with
leaders sufficient to discharge the roof water in such
a manner as to prevent the floor upon or over a
sidewalk, or on the adjoining property, and said
leaders may project in a public way not more than
seven inches.
No roof shall be so constructed as to discharge
snow or ice on the public way.
Permit for Lathing.
Section 12. No wall or ceiling of any building
shall be lathed or otherwise covered, until the
Inspector has been notified in writing that the
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building is ready for such work, and until he
has given within consent thereof.
The Inspector shall act on such notice within
forty-eight hours of receipt of same.
Roof Coverings.
Section 13. The roofs of all buildings, the top
and sides of all dormer windows, or other projections
from roofs hereafter constructed, except wood
cornices, shall be covered with fire-resisting
material. This shall apply to all
buildings hereafter erected or altered on land laid
out, owned, or plotted into lots or parcels for
building purposes, and on all parcels of land
of less than one acre in extent.
Nothing in this section shall be construed
to prohibit the use of wood shingles in repairing
any roof now covered with wood shingles,
provided the building is not altered in height
or otherwise generally reconstructed.
Fire-resisting material, specified above,
shall include slate, tile, asbestos, cement, tar and
gravel, plastic slate, copper, tin, and heavy
asphalt-felt shingles of which the exposed
surface is composed of slate chips of gravel.
Rain Water.
Section 14. Water from leaders shall not
flow upon the sidewalk, and no part of any
building shall be constructed in such a way
as to discharge water, snow, ice or other material
upon a public way.
Projections.
Section 15. No bay window or other structure,
other than cornices or mouldings, except fire
escapes, shall be placed upon any building
so as to project over only public way without
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the permission of the Board of Selectmen, given
after due notice and hearing, and then only in
such manner as shall be approved by the Inspector.
No base, plinth, or steps, shall project upon
any public way.
Whenever any person is about to erect or alter
the exterior walls of a building, within five feet
of the line of a street, he shall cause the portion
of the site of the building bordering upon the
street to be enclosed by a proper fence, not less
than four feet high and at least five feet from the
line of such buildings, and the fence shall be
made as much higher as the Inspector shall
direct and the same shall be maintained until
all liability to accident from the falling material
ceases, and said person shall maintain proper
lights, if so required by the Inspector at both
ends of such enclosed spaces, from sunset to
sunrise.
Access to Roof.
Section 16. All buildings other than single
dwellings, and all buildings over two stories high,
shall have permanent and convenient mean of
access to the roof from the inside.
The openings in the roof shall be not less than
twenty by thirty inches.
Nuisance.
Section 17. Every nuisance within the scope of
this by-law shall be unlawful and the Inspector
shall take all steps necessary to remove them same.
Article VIII.
Construction, First-Class Buildings.
Scope.
Section 1. Every building hereafter erected or
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altered to be used as a hotel, lodging house,
theatre, jail, police station, hospital, asylum
or institution for the care or treatment of
persons, the height of which exceeds thirty-five
feet to the ceiling of the upper story, and
every other building hereafter erected, altered or
raised to over sixty feet in height shall be
a first-class building, excepting, however, as
is provided for in Article V, Section 3, of
this by-law.
Materials.
Section 2. The following materials shall,
for the purpose of this law, be deemed to be
incombustible, fireproof or fire-resisting
materials:
(a) Brickwork constructed of good bricks or terra
cotta, well burnt, hard and sound, properly
bonded, and solidly put together with good
mortar, compounded of good lime or cement,
or both, and sharp, clean sand.
(b.) Granite and other stone suitable for
building purposes by reason of its solidity and
durability.
(c.) Iron, steel and copper.
(d.) Cement composed of broken brick, stone
chippings, or ballast and lime cement of
calcined gypsum when used for filling in
between joints of floors.
Height.
Section 3. No first-class building shall
exceed eight feet in height.
Details of Construction.
Section 4. Every building erected as a fire-proof
building and every building of iron,
steel or reinforced concrete construction shall in
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all respects not provided for in this by-law conform
to the requirements and regulations in force at
the time, governing the construction of such buildings
in the City of Boston, so far as they may apply.
Fireproof buildings shall be constructed
with walls of brick, stone, cement, concrete, iron,
or steel, in which wood beams or lintels shall
not be placed, and in which the floors and
roofs shall be of materials described in Section
2 of this Article. The stairs and staircase
landings shall be built entirely of brick, stone,
cement concrete, iron or steel.
No woodwork or other inflammable material
shall be used in any of the partitions, furrings,
or ceilings in any such fireproof building,
excepting, however that the doors and windows
and their frames, the trims, the casings, the
interior finish when filled solid at the back
with fireproof material, and the floor boards
and sleepers directly thereunder, may be of
wood, but the space between the sleepers shall
be solidly filled with fireproof materials and
extend up to the underside of the floor boards
All hall partitions or permanent partitions
between rooms in fireproof buildings shall
be built of fireproof material, and shall not
be started and wood sills, nor on wood floor
boards, but be built upon the fireproof
construction of the floor and extend to the
fireproof beam filling above.
The top of hall door and window openings
in such partitions shall be at least
twelve inches below the ceiling line.
In all buildings of the first class
hereafter erected, all partitions shall rest directly
upon the fireproof floor construction and extend
to the fireproof floor slab above.
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Article IX.
Construction, Second and Third Class
Buildings.
Scope.
Section 1. Every building hereafter erected
or altered to be used as a public building,
store office building, factory or mercantile
establishment, shall be of the first or
second class.
All other buildings may be of the third class.
Height.
Section 2. No second class building shall
exceed 60 feet in height and no third class
building 48 feet, except that a wooden spire
for churches may be 80 feet in height.
Frame.
Section 3. Every wooden building of two or
more stories or exceeding five hundred feet in
area, shall have sills, posts, girts, and plates
properly mortised, tenored, joined and braced.
The sectional area of the sills shall not
be less than thirty-two inches, and of the posts
and girts not less than twenty-four inches.
Studding for outer walls and bearing partitions shall
be not less than two by four inches, not placed
more than sixteen inches on centers
Floor timber shall not be less than two inches
thick. No ledger boards shall be used in
place of girts in any building where the posts
exceed fifteen feet in height.
The bottom of the silts of wooden dwellings
shall be placed not less than twelve inches
above the surface of the ground at any point.
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Fire Walls.
Section 4. Frame dwellings built in blocks of
two or more shall have a brick, terra cotta or
concrete party wall, not less than eight inches in
thickness between each single dwelling and the one
adjoining, to extend up to the under side of the
roof boarding which shall be laid in mortar on
the wall.
Fire Stops.
Section 5. All buildings used for dwellings, offices,
or public purposes, hereafter erected, shall have
firestops in the interior composed of cement, plaster
mortar, or some incombustible material, set solid
in mortar in the following manner:
In brick and stone buildings the space between
all furring on walls and between the studding of
all partitions shall be filed solid and flush to
a height of six inches above the floor joists in
each story. The spaces between such parts
of floor joists as rest upon partition heads shall also
be filled to the same width as studding above.
In wooden buildings the spaces between the
floor joists under and above partitions and also
between the studs of each exterior wall and of
partitions at top and bottom of each story shall
be stopped sufficiently to check effectively any
draught from one story to another or from the
horizontal spaces between floor joists to the
vertical spaces in walls and partitions.
In all buildings the space between stringers
of stairs and joists of landings, unless unceiled,
shall be fire-stopped sufficiently to prevent the
passage of air.
The spaces around chimneys inside of
studding or furring making air ducts are to
be thoroughly fire-stopped with suitable
incombustible materials.
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Exceptions.
Section 6. Temporary buildings may be
erected for the use of builders within the limits of
the lots whereon buildings are in course of rerection
or on adjoining vacant lots, and other temporary
structures, including platforms, stands, election
booths, and tents may be erected upon permits
issued by the Inspector and may be maintained
for the period of time stated in the permit.
No observation stand shall be constructed or
maintained except in accordance with plans approve
by the Inspector.
Article X.
Special Buildings.
Uses and Restrictions.
Apartments and Other Tenements.
Section 1. Every building hereafter erected or
altered to be used as a tenement, shall conform
to the requirements of Chapter 635 of the
Acts of 1912.
Billboards.
Section 2. No billboards, advertising boards or
other structure, except buildings and structures
hereinafter specified as excepted from the following
provisions, shall be erected upon or detached to
any land or the exterior of any buildings, except
upon the following conditions:
(a) Plans and specifications of such billboard,
advertising board or structure shall be filed with
the Inspector specificying its proposed location,
material, size, method of construction and use.
(b.) A public hearing shall be given by the
Inspector to determine in what class, as hereinafter
defined, such billboard, advertising board or
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structure comes, and whether it complies with the
requirements for the prevention of fire, and for public
safety and morals, hereinafter set forth.
(c) Notice of the proposed erection and of the
hearing thereon shall be posted for not less than
one week before said hearing in a conspicuous
place on the premises on which such billboard,
advertising board or structure is to be placed, and
shall be given in writing by mail by the Inspector
to each owner of abutting premises, and published
by the applicant as directed by the Inspector, in
a newspaper published in the town, or if there
be no such paper, in one published in the City
of Boston.
(d) If such billboard, advertising board or structure
is to be located at any point within twenty-five
feet of the line of the property of any adjoining
owner, or of any public highway, or to be attached
to the exterior of a building, a permit may be
granted therefor only if the plans and specifications
filed as hereinbefore provided show that such
billboard, advertising board or structure and its
supports and the attachments are to be built
wholly of incombustible material, and securely
fastened to the premises to which it is attached,
and on condition that the same shall be so
built and so maintained and that if it is a
billboard, or advertising-board, it be erected with
an open space of at least three feet between its
lowest point and the level of the ground.
(e) If the location of such billboard, adver-
tising-board or other structure is not at any
point within twenty-five feet of the line of the
property at any adjoining corner or of any public
highway, and is not attached to the exterior
of a building, such permits all be granted
only if the plans and specifications filed as
hereinbefore provided, shall show that such
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billboard, advertising-board or structure, if composed
in whole or in part of wood or other combustible
material is to be sheathed over its entire surface
with metal or other incombustible material, strongly
and securely attached to the same, and supporting
incombustible supports and attachments, and securely
fastened to the premises to which it is attached,
and on condition that it shall be built and
so maintained, and that if it is a billboard or
advertising-board it be erected having an open
space of at least three feet between its lowest
point and the level of the ground.
(f.) No such billboard, advertising-board or
structure shall be erected or maintained after
such erecting, so that the same shall at any
point be nearer to the line of any public highway,
or to the line of the property of any adjoining
owner or to the line of any exterior wall
of any building to which it is not attached
than a distance equal to twice the full height
of such billboard, advertising-board or structure
measured from the lowest point of the same
or its supports whichever may be lower to
the highest point of the same or its supports,
whichever may be higher, except on special
license given in the permit after a finding
by the Inspector that the character, location
and construction of the same are such that
it cannot imperil the safety or person on
the adjoining property or on the public highway
or obstruct the work or imperil the
safety of firemen.
(g) The foregoing provisions shall not apply
to necessary divisions fences and solely
as fences; structure erected and used solely for
she support of vines, shrubbery or vegetation;
flagpoles secured by incombustible supports;
awnings an used solely as such; signs advertising
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solely the letting or selilng of, or business conducted
on the premises to which they are attached,
or billboards, advertising boards or other structures
not exceeding twenty square feet in surface area
unless erected within ten feet of a buliding or other
combustible structure. If any of the foregoing
requirements are found by the Inspector on
heargin to be unnecessary in the case of any other
structure, such requirement shall, by special
provisions in the permit, be remitted or modified in
such manner as is consistent with the dire
protection against fire and loss of life.
Distance from Lot Line
and Percentage of Lot.
Section 3. No external wall of any building or
dwelling of the second or third class shall be less
than seven and one-half feet from the line of any
adjoining lot, nor less than ten feet from any
frame building, unless the side of such
adjoining building is constructed of brick or other
fireproof material, of a thickness and in the manner
prescribed for external walls of fireproof buildings.
All openings in such fireproof wall shall
be protected by standard wire glass windows in
metal frames and sash or standard fire alarm
doors or shutters as provided for by the rules and
regulations of National Board of Fire Underwriters.
No buildings of the third class shall cover
more than sixty per cent of the area of the lot.
All buildings built or altered over for
the purpose of utilizing a part of same for
living purposes and a part for business or
manufacturing purposes, shall be so built or
altered that such portion intended to be utilized
for business or manufacturing shall be separated
entirely from the portion intended for living
purposes by such fireproof materials as may be
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approved by the Inspector.
Drying Rooms.
Section 4. All walls, ceilings and partitions
inclosing drying rooms shall be made of fireproof
materials.
Elevators.
Section 5. In all buildings except dwellings
occupied by not more than two families in which
there shall be any hoistway or freight elevator or
well-hole not enclosed in walls constructed of brick
or other incombustible material and provided
with fire doors, the openings thereof opening
through and upon each floor of such building
shall be provided with and protected by a substantial
guard or gate, and with good and sufficient
automatic trapdoors, covered with tin on
the under side and edges, in accordance with
standard for fire doors, and so constructed as to
form a substantial floor surface when closed.
The guards or gates and railings shall
be of such material and form of construction as
may be approved by the Inspector.
Elevators and hoists for freight which
do not run above the first story may be constructed
without fireproof enclosures.
Freight and passenger elevators may be placed
in aread and hallways where the same are continuous
and unbroken, such elevators to be protected
by metal grills.
Except as above provided and except in dwellings
outside of the fire limits occupied by not more
than two families, all shafts for elevators, hoists,
dumbwaiters, lifts and clothes or dust chutes
shall be constructed of fireproof material.
The tops of all such shafts shall be covered
with incombustible material unless the
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shaft extends above the upper floor of the
building, and in that case the shaft shall be
carried at least three feet above the roof and shall
be covered with a skylight.
Such shafts if for freight or passenger elevators
shall be of brick or terra cotta at least eight inches
thick, or of metal covered on both sides with at
least one inch of plaster applied immediately to
the metal. Outside windows or openings
of every elevator shaft shall have vertical iron rods
equally spaced in such windows or openings but
not over nine inches apart.
All clothes and dust chutes in buildings not
provided for above shall be constructed of or lined
with incombustible materials.
Factories.
Section 6. No building to be used as a factory,
or for the manufacture of explosives, or for chemical
or rendering works or stable in which more than
four horses are kept, shall be erected, and no
steam or gas engine, dynamo or boiler for
motive power, shall be set or erected or moved
without a permit from the Inspector, countersigned
by the Board of Selectmen, and such permit
shall not be granted until after a public hearing
before the Selectmen, who shall give notice of
such hearing by posting a written notice of
such hearing in each post office in the town,
on public bulletin boards in the town, and by
mailing a copy of the same to all the owners of
premises within five hundred feet of the proposed
location of the building, addressed to their
last known residence, or place of business, and
by publishing the same in the newspaper
published in the town, or if there be no such
paper, in one published in Boston.
Notice of hearings required under this
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section shall be sent by the Selectmen to the
Board of Health.
Fire Escapes
Section 7. The owner or owners of a building
upon which a fire escape is erected shall keep
the same in good repair and properly painted.
Fire escapes on the outside of buildings
shall consist of open balconies and stairways
and be constructed in accordance with, or equal
to the requirements of the Massachusetts District
Police. Fire escapes may project not more
than four feet over a public way or beyond a
building line, in which case they shall have a
clearance of not less than eight feet above the
ground. The balcony on the top floor,
except in the case of a front fire escape, shall
be provided with a gooseneck ladder leading
from said balcony to and above the roof.
Garages.
Section 8. Every building hereafter erected or
altered to be used as a garage shall be of fireproof
constructions, shall be properly ventilated
and, on all sides having windows or other
openings, except fireproof doors, shall have
an open space of at least five feet from any
other building, and no building used as a garage
shall have a basement or cellar except as necessary
for a boiler room for the purpose of heating
the building. The floors must be of
concrete or granolithic.
Every garage within which is placed, located
or maintained a pump attached to storage
tank for keeping of volatile inflammable
liquids shall surround the pump with a
guard of wire-mesh screen of not smaller
than No. 6 gauge wire of not more than
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two-inch mesh.
Provided, however, that garages used by not
more than two automobiles and not for business
purposes may be built of frame construction if
plastered throughout on the interior with
improved incombustible material, and located
not less than ten feet from the lot line and not
less than twenty feet from all other buildings
except those of the owner on the same lot.
All electric dynamos and motors not actually
part of the automobile shall be located not less than
four feet above the floor. All incandescent lights
not less than ten feet from the floor shall be
properly encased in vapor-tight globes protected
by approved wire guards, and all are lamps
shall be located at least ten feet above the floor
and shall be of the enclosed type.
Movable incandescent lights in a garage
shall be protected by vapor-tight globes enclosed
in approved metal cages and shall be fitted with
keyless sockets and all electric switches and plugs
shall be permanently located at least four feet
above the floor.
If electric charging apparatus is installed or
placed in a public garage all such apparatus,
excepting the wires leading to the automobiles to
be charged, shall be placed withing a separate
room, separated from the main garage by
fireproof floors, ceilings and partitions which
shall not be inferior in fire-resisting qualities
to reinforced concrete construction of four inches
in thickness, and any openings from said room
into the main garage shall be protected by
approved fire doors.
The use and occupation of all public and
private garages in the town shall be subject to
the provisions of Chapter 370 of the Acts of the
year 1904 as amended by Chapter 280 of the
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Acts of the year 1905, Chapter 502 of the Acts
of the year 1908 and Chapter 223 of the
Acts of the year 1910, and of any amendments
thereto or additions thereto now or hereafter made ;
and to all rules and regulations from time to
time established in accordance with the said acts
by the district and fire inspection departments
of the Massachusetts district police.
Icehouses.
Section 9. Buildings to be used exclusively
for the storage of ice may be erected in isolated
localities and constructed of such materials and
under such conditions as the Inspector may
prescribe.
Moving Picture Shows.
Section 10. All moving picture shows shall be
subject to the provisions of Chapter 566 of the
Acts of the year 1908 and of any amendments
thereof or additions thereto now or hereafter made.
Public Buildings Egress.
Section 11. In all buildings of a public
character such as hotels, churches, theatres,
restaurants, railroad stations, public halls and
other buildings used or intended to be used for
purposes of public assembly, amusement or
instruction, and including department stores
and other business and manufacturing buildings
where large numbers of people are congregated,
the halls, doors, stairways, seats, passageways
and aisles and all lighting and heating
apparatus shall be arranged to facilitate
egress in case of fire or accident, and to
afford proper accommodation for the public
protection in such cases.
All aisles and passageways in such buildings
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shall be kept free from camp stools, chairs, sofas
and other obstructions, and no person shall be
allowed to stand in or occupy any of said aisles
or passageways, during any performance, service,
exhibition, lecture, concert, ball or other public
assemblage.
Schoolhouses.
Section 12. All school buildings shall have
fire walls of incombustible material satisfactory
to the Inspector and where said Inspector shall
designate. Two at least of teh stairways
shall be enclosed on three sides with fireproof
partitions. In school buildings of second
class construction the walls on three sides of stairways
shall be of brick twelve inches thick, and
two at least of the stairways shall be of fireproof
construction.
Article XI.
Heating, Wiring, Gas Fitting
and Plumbing.
Heating, Ventilating, Wiring.
All regulations relative to the heating, ventilating,
wiring, gas fitting and plumbing of buildings
shall be in accordance with the statutes of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now in force
and from time to time enacted.
See next page for Approval of Attorney General.
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Approval of Building-Laws by
Attorney General.
August 1, 1913.
Building Laws - Approval of Attorney General.
The foregoing building laws of the town
of Lexington are hereby approved, except the
following which I do not approve, namely,
Art. 2. sec. 3. — So much of the third
paragraph as applies to repairs is disapproved
under the decision of Commonwealth V.
Hayden 211 Mass. 296.
See pages 60 and 73.
Art. 2, sec. 6. So much of said section as
reads as follows, "and by any expense, not
exceeding $00, incurred in so doing may be
recovered by the town from the owner of the
defective property."
See pages 185 and 213 for vote to readopt and approval
Art. 8, sec. 4. The first paragraph is disapproved.
Art. 10, sec. 1.
Art 10. sec 10
Art. 11.
(signed) James M. Swift.
Attorney - General.
A true copy of the Building-Laws and of
the letter of the Attorney-General relating
thereto.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant for a Town Meeting
Thursday, Sept. 4, 1913.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Middlesex, SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington qualified to vote in
town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in
said Lexington, on Thursday, the fourth day
of September, A.D., 1913, at 7.45, P.M.,
then and there to act on the following articles : —
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon,
and to appoint other Committees
Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote to make a further
appropriation to be expended in the Street Watering
and Oiling Department, to provide the method of
raising the money for same or act in any manner
relative thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will vote to transfer from the
unexpended balance remaining in other departments,
a sum sufficient to meet an overdraft in the
appropriation for the observance of the 19th of
April, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for
the use of the Water and Sewer Commissioners in
procuring, plans, surveys and estimates for deepening,
widening and otherwise improving the several brooks
of the Town or portions thereof, so as to provide
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better surface drainage ; and to determine the means
of raising the moneys required to meet any appropriation
made under this article, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will authorize the extension
of water mains in Merriam Street and elsewhere,
and to authorize an issue of Bonds for the
purpose of obtaining the money required to
meet this expenditure ; and to make any other
or further provision for the raising of such
money as the Town Hall see fit.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will appropriate one thousand
five hundred ($1500) dollars or any sum, to be
expended by the Park Commissioners for grading
and preparing for a Park and Play Ground,
the land purchased by the Town for this
purpose, situate in the rear of the new Adams
School House. Such appropriations to be
taken from unexpended balance or raised in
any manner which may be deemed expedient,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will appropriate five hundred
($500) dollars, or any sum, to be expended by
the Park Commissioners, in improving the
Buckman Tavern Estate, recently purchased
by the Town. Such appropriation to be
taken from unexpended balances or raised in
any manner which may be deemed expedient,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will accept the Acts and
Amendments of Chapter 209 of the Acts of
1908, entitled "An Act to provide for the Protection
of Forest or Sprout Lands from Fire."
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Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this
twenty-second day of August, A.D., 1913.
George H. Childs
Frank D. Peirce
Edward W. Taylor
Selectmen of Lexington
Lexington, Aug. 28. 1913.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, I have
notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington
by posting a duly attested copy of the Warrant in
the Post Office, Town Hall, and in six other
public places in the town, and by mailing a
duly attested copy of the Warrant to every
registered voter in the town, seven days before
the time of said meeting.
Attest.
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return
of the Constables.
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Town Meeting
September 4, 1913.
The meeting was called to order at 7.50 P.M.
by the Moderator.
The Warrant and the Return of the Constable
thereon was read by the Town Clerk.
Art. 2.
Street
Watering
& Oiling
- Street Watering and Oiling -
This article was brought before the meeting on
motion of George H Childs.
Francis H. Homes moved that the article be
indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Childs offered as an amendment that the
town appropriate $700.00
The Moderator ruled that a motion to indefinitely
postpone could not be amended.
The meeting then voted against indefinite
postponement.
Additional appropriation
Mr. Childs then offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the sum of $700.00 be appropriated
for Street Watering and Oiling, this money to be
expended under the direction of Surveyors of
Highways, and that the Treasurer is hereby
instructed to transfer from the Bank and Corporation
Tax the sum necessary to meet this appropriation."
The Acts of 1895 and 1909 relating to street
watering were read by the Moderator.
Mr. Holmes stated that in his opinion all
votes passed by the Town relative to assessment
for street watering had not been binding, and
that abutters on all streets watered or oiled
should be assessed, and not confine this assessment
to a certain district. Tax Collector
Earle explained to the meeting how this assessment
was committee to him for collection.
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Arts. 1. Reports of Committees.
Edward P. Merriam stated that the Finance
Committee approved of the appropriations to be
called for under the several articles, except article 6.
Art. 3.
19th of April
additional
appropriations
- Deficiency in 19th of April Appropriation. -
George H. Childs offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the sum of $15 67/100 be appropriated
to meet an overdraft in the appropriation for the
observance of April 19th, and that the Treasurer
be instructed and is hereby authorized to transfer
from the Contingent Account the sum necessary
to meet this appropriation."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 5.
Extension of
Water
Mains.
Vote
to issue
Notes.
Extension of Water Mains.
George E. Briggs offered the following motion:-
"Voted: That the Town Treasurer is hereby
authorized and instructed to incur indebtedness in
the sum of $4800.00 for the use of the Board of
Water and Sewer Commissioners in extending
water mains; that four notes of the town, each
for $1200.00, signed by the Treasurer and countersigned
by a majority of the Selectmen, payable,
one in 1914, one in 1915, one in 1916 and one
in 1917 with interest at a rate note to exceed
4 1/2 % per annum, payable semi-annually, be
sold at not less than par, and the proceeds applied
to the purpose aforesaid; such notes shall be
payable, both principal and interest, in United
States gold coin of the present standard of weight
and fineness."
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
Mr. Briggs stated that the Water Commissioners
had received petitions and been urged
to make extensions in Merriam Street, Hayes
and Highland Avenues.
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Art. 4.
Brooks,
lowering of.
Appropriation
for
Survey.
- Lowering of Brooks -
George E. Briggs offered the following motion:
"Voted. That the sum of $131.17 be transferred
from the account of the Sewer Investigation
Fund held by the Board of Water and Sewer
Commissioners for the use of the Board of Water
and Sewer Commissioners in procuring surveys,
levels and estimates for deepening, widening and
otherwise improving the several brooks of the
Town, or portions thereof, so as to provide better
surface drainage."
Francis H. Holmes moved to lay the motion
on the table. This the meeting refused to do,
and the motion submitted by Mr. Briggs was
carried.
Art. 1
Brooks, lowering of.
Report of
Committee
See File #1
- Reports of Committees. -
George E. Briggs presented the report of the
Committee on Lowering of Brooks.
Mr. Briggs moved that the Report by received
and the committee discharged from further duty.
Edward P. Merriam offered as a substitute
motion - That the Report be received and placed
on file. The meeting voted to substitute, and
then the substitute motion was carried.
Arthur E. Horton criticized the report and
the recommendations of the Engineers.
Art. 8.
Brush
fires
On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was voted
that this article relating to the acceptance of
Chap. 209 of the Acts of 1908, and amendments,
be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 6
Adams
School
Play ground,
appropriations
Appropriation for Adams School Playground.
Augustus E. Scott offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the town appropriate $1500
to be extended under the direction of the Park
Commissioners for preparing a park and
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play ground situate in the rear of the New Adams
School House and that the Treasurer is herbey
authorized and instructed to incur indebtedness in
the sum of $1500.00 for this purpose; that a
note of the town for $1500.00, signed by the
Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the
Selectmen, payable one year from dated with
interest at a rate not to exceed 4 1/2% per annum,
payable semi-annually, be sold at not less than
par and the proceeds applied to the purpose aforesaid;
such note shall be payable, both principal
and interest, in United States gold coin of the
present standard of weight and fineness."
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
Art. 7.
Buckman
Tavern
Appropriation
Care of Buckman Tavern Property.
Augustus E. Scott offered to the following motion:-
"Voted, That the town appropriate five hundred
dollars to be expended under the direction of the
Park Commissioners in improving the Buckman
Tavern Estate recently conveyed to the town and
that the Treasurer is hereby authorized and instructed
to incur indebtedness in the sum of five hundred
dollars for this purpose; that a note of the town
for five hundred dollars, signed by the Treasurer
and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen,
payable one year from date with interest at a
rate not to exceed four and one-half per cent
per annum, payable semi-annually, be sold at
not less than par and the proceeds applied to the
purpose aforesaid; such note shall be payable,
both principal and interest, in United States gold
coin of the present standard of weight and fineness."
And the meeting so voted, 28 in the
affirmative and 4 in the negative.
Mr. Scott urged that something be done to
improve the appearance of this property by trimming
trees and shrubs, removing the old fence along
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the street and rebuilding the fence along the
railroad property.
Edward Wood opposed such appropriation
because no definite plan for improvement had
been prepared.
At 9.55 o'clock, on motion of Frank D. Peirce,
it was voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true record.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Perpetual
Care
Harding
Lot.
Town Treasurers Office,
Lexington Sept. 4. 1913.
$150.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting assembled
on the 22nd day of November, A.D. 1875,
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the
receipt of One hundred fifty (150) dollars from
Juliette S. Harding of Antioch, Cal., the interest
of which is to be expended in accordance with
said vote and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870
upon the William Harding lot, No. 79 in the
Town Cemetery near the High School House
in said Lexington in dressing and care of
said lot, monuments, walks and avenue adjacent
thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
Sept. 4. 1913.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant
for a
Primary
Sept. 23. 1913.
Warrant for a Primary
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of
Lexington,
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 the Town Hall in said Lexington
On Tuesday, the Twenty-third day of September,
1913, at Two o'clock P.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:
Government for this Commonwealth.
Lieutenenant Governor " " "
Secretary of the Commonwealth " " "
Treasurers and Receiver General " " "
Auditor of the Commonwealth " " "
Attorney-General " " "
Councillor " 6th Councillor Dis't.
Senator " 5th Senatorial "
One Representative in
General Court " 29th Representative "
County Commissioner " Middlesex County
Two Associate Commissioners " " "
District Attorney " " "
Register of Probate
and Insolvency " " "
Register of deeds (to fill vacancy)
Southern District " " "
And for the Election of the following officers;
District Member of State Committee for each
political party for the 5th Senatorial District.
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Members of the Democratic Town Committee
Members of the Republican Town Committee
Members of the Progressive Party Town Committee
Delegates to State Conventions of Political Parties
All the above candidates and officers are to be voted
for upon the official ballots prepared by the Secretary
of the Commonwealth.
The polls will be open from two o'clock to eight o'clock
P. M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting
attested copies thereof and by mailing attested copies
thereof seven days at least before the time of said
meeting as directed by vote of the town.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant,
with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or
before the times of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington, this Fifth
day of September, A. D. 1913.
George H. Childs } Selectmen of
Frank D. Peirce } Lexington
Edward W. Taylor }
Lexington, Mass. Sept. 15, 1913.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified
the inhabitants of the town of Lexington by posting
duly attested copies of the warrant in several public
places and by mailing a duly attested copy of the
warrant to every registered voter in the town, seven
days before the time of said meeting.
Attest, Charles E. Wheeler,
Constable of Lexington.
A true copy of the Warrant, and the Return
of the Constable.
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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1913
State Primary
State Primary
September 23, 1913.
The meeting was called to order at two oclock
P.M. by George H. Childs, chairman of the
Selectmen. The warrant was read by the
Town Clerk. The Chairman receipted to
the Town Clerk for three packages, one said to contain
900 Republican ballots, another 550 Democratic
ballots, and another 600 Progressive ballots;
The ballot box was shown to be empty, then
locked, and the key given to the Constable.
Frederick G. Jones and James A Hurley were
sworn as Ballot Clerks, and Charles G. Kaufmann, and
Cornelius F. O'Connor as Deputy Ballot Clerks.
Clifton P. Ashley and Lousi H. Lawrance were also
sworn as Deputy Ballot Clerks.
The polls were then declared open.
Allston M. Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Ralph H.
Marshall, Louis L. Crone, Patrick F. Dacey,
Eugene T. Buckley, Nathaniel Nunn and William
C. O'Leary were sworn as Tellers.
At the close of the polls at eight oclock, the
ballot box was opened and 33 Democratics ballots,
51 Progressive ballots, and 187 Republicans ballots
were taken out, making a total of 271 ballots,
which agreed with the member registered on
the ballot box and with the member of names
checked on each voting list.
Upon the completion of the counting of the
ballots of each party, the Town Clerk announced
the results as follows: --
Democratic Party
Governor
David J. Walsh of Fitchberg 30
Blanks 3
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State Primary
(Cont.)
Lieutenant Governor
Edward P. Barry of Boston 16
Richard K. Long of Framingham 15
Blanks 3
Secretary
Frank J. Donahue of Boston 30
Blanks 3
Treasurer
Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston 26
Joseph L.P. St. Coeur of Cambridge 4
Blanks 3
Auditor
Frank H. Pope of Leominster 29
Blanks 4
Attorney General
Thomas J. Boynton of Everett 27
Blanks 6
Councillor, 6th District
John J. Hogan of Lowell 22
Blanks 11
Senator, Fifth Middlesex District
Charles F. McCarthy of Marlborough 29
Blanks 4
Representative in General Court
29th Middlesex District
Daniel J. O'Connell of Lexington 26
Blanks 7
128
1913.
State
Primary
(Cont.)
County Commissioner
Middlesex County
John B. McCloskey of Cambridge 13
Fred H. Rourke of Lowell 4
Henry J. Thompson of Lowell 0
William H. Walsh of Framingham 11
Blanks 5
Associate Commissioners
Middlesex County
Fred H. Rourke 1
William H. Walsh 1
Charles J. Dailey 1
Joseph B. Ryan 1
Dennis Norton 1
Blanks 61
District Attorney
Northern District
William J. Corcoran of Cambridge 25
William R. Scharton of Newton 3
Blanks 5
Register of Probate and Insolvency
Middlesex County
James T. Barrett of Cambridge 22
Blanks 11
Register of Deeds
Middlesex Southern District (To fill vacancy)
J. Frank Facey of Cambridge 27
Blanks 6
State Committee
Fifth Middlesex District.
Bernard W. Stanley of Waltham 26
Blanks 7
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1913.
State
Primary
(Cont.)
Delegates to State Convention
David F. Murphy of Lexington 23
Blanks 10
Town Committee
David F. Murphy 24
Chalres J. Dailey 24
Eugene T. Buckley 25
Joseph P. Ryan 24
James F. McCarthy 25
Bartlett J. Harrington 25
Arthur A. Mitchie 24
James M. Ahearn 23
Bartholomew D. Callahan 24
Daniel J. O'Connell 23
Blanks 89
Progressive Party
Governor
Charles Sumner Bird of Walpole 51
Blanks 0
Lieutenant Governor
Daniel Cosgrove of Lowell 48
Blanks 3
Secretary
Russell A. Wood of Cambridge 47
Blanks 4
Treasurer
Warren R. Keith of Brockton 48
Blanks 3
Auditor
Octave A. La Riviere of Springfield 48
Blanks 3
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State
Primary
(Cont.) [In left margin]
Attorney General
H. Huestis Newton of Everett 49
Blanks 2
Councillor
6th District.
Harrie C. Hunter of Marlborough 46
Blanks 5
Senator
5th Middlesex District
Samuel Knowles 1
John Hinchey 1
Geo. D. Harrington 1
F. P. Glazier 2
Clarence E. Sprague 1
Blanks 45
Representative in General Court
29th Middlesex District
George E. Briggs of Lexington 50
Blanks 0
Dennis Hinchey 1
County Commissioner
Middlesex County
Charles H. McIntire of Lowell 46
Blanks 5
Associate Commissioners
Middlesex County
John Hinchey 1
C. Ed. Glynn 1
H. L. Houghton 1
Blanks 99
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1913.
State
Primary
(Cont.)
District Attorney
Northern District
Philip M. Clark of Cambridge 45
John Hinchey 1
Blanks 5
Register of Probate and Insolvency
Middlesex County
E. F. Saunders 1
Blanks 50
Register of Deeds
Middlesex Southern District
To fill vacancy.
Albin M. Richards of Cambridge 44
Blanks 7
State Committee
5th Middlesex District
Frederick Atherton 12
Wm. S. Bramhall 1
Geo E. Briggs 1
Walter R. Champney 1
Blanks 36
Delegates to State Convention
Samuel Knowles 51
James W. Smith 50
Frederick Atherton 49
Blanks 3
Town Committee
Henry C. Valentine 48
Irving P. Fox 48
Frank W. Herrick 48
Samuel Knowles 47
George C. McKay 48
Ernest W. Martin 48
(over)
132
1913.
State
Primary
(Cont.)
Philip E. Perry 45
George A. Warner 45
Edward Wood 48
James A. Wilson 46
Ezra F. Breed 45
William S. Bramhall 47
Charles H. Harrington 48
George E. Briggs 47
James W. Smith 48
Louis Lawrence 1
John Hinchey 1
Blanks 57
Republican Party.
Governor
Everett C. Benton of Belmont 35
Augustus P. Gardner of Hamilton 146
Blanks 6
Lieutenant Governor
August H. Goetting of Springfield 173
Blanks 14
Secretary
William S. Kinney of Boston 169
Blanks 18
Treasurer
Charles L. Burrill of Boston 155
Maurice Kane of Whitman 14
Blanks 18
Auditor
John E. White of Tisbury 170
Blanks 17
133
1913.
State
Primary
(Cont.)
Attorney General
James M. Swift of Fall River 168
Blanks 19
Councillor
6th District
G. Frederick Simpson of Newton 162
Blanks 25
Senator
5th Middlesex District
John M. Gibbs of Waltham 165
Blanks 22
Representative in General Court
29th Middlesex District
Frank D. Peirce of Lexington 158
George B. Briggs 2
Blanks 27
County Commissioner
Middlesex County
Erson B. Barlow of Lowell 51
Frederic P. Barnes of Newton 28
Joseph Walter Bowers of Lowell 4
George H. Jennings of Cambridge 11
Frank A. Patch of Littleton 39
Joshua Wilson of Cambridge 6
Blanks 48
Associate Commissioners
E. B. Ballow 2
Fred B. Barnes 3
Erson E. Barlow 1
Frank A. Patch 3
Erson B. Barlow 1
George H. Jennings 1
Joseph Walker Bowers 1
Blanks 362
134
1913.
State
Primary
(Cont)
District Attorney
Northern District
John J. Higgins of Somerville 157
Blanks 30
Register of Private and Insolvency
Middlesex County
William E. Rogers of Wakefield 157
Blanks 30
Register of Deeds
Middlesex Southern District
To fill vacancy.
Thomas Leighton, Jr. of Cambridge 160
Blanks 27
State Committee
5th Middlesex District
Adelbert B. Messer of Concord 153
Blanks 34
Delegates to State Convention
Frank D. Peirce 164
Edward P. Merriam 168
George H. Childs 168
Blanks 61
Town Committee
George W. Spaulding 163
William C. Stickel 154
Edward P. Merriam 161
Frederick J. Jones 157
Charles F. Bertwell 153
Everett S. Emery 159
Charles E. Hadley 1523
Arthur W. Hatch 155
Arthur L. Blodgett 158
William S. Scamman 153
135
1913.
State
Primary
(Cont)
Edward W. Taylor 159
George H. Childs 158
Edward L. Child 156
Robert L. Ryder 157
William A. Staples 155
Frank H. Reed 510
Blanks 510
The meeting was dissolved at 12.10 A.M.
A true record:
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
136
Perpetual
Care
Eugene M.
Johnson
Lot
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington Sept. 30, 1913.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting assembled
on the 2nd day of November A.D., 1875
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the
receipt of One Hundred (100) Dollars from
Eugene M. Johnson of Medford, Mass.,
the interest of which is to be expended in
accordance with said vote and amendments thereto
and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870 upon lot
old No. 132, new No. 127 in the Town.
Cemetery near the High School House in said
Lexington in dressing and care of said lot,
monuments, walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
Sept. 30. 1913.
A true copy.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
137
Warrant for State Election
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of
Lexington, in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified
to vote in State and County affairs, to assemble
at the Town Hall in said Lexington, on
Tuesday, the fourth day of November, A.D., 1913,
at six o'clock in the morning to cast their ballots
for the following State and County Officers;--
Governor; Lieutenant-Governor; Secretary;
Treasurer; Auditor; Attorney-General; Councillor
for Sixth Councillor District; Senator for
Fifth Senatorial District; Representative in
the General Court for Twenty-ninth Middlesex
District; County Commissioner for Middlesex
County; Two Associate Commissioners for Middlesex
County; District-Attorney; Register of Probate
and Insolvency; Register of Deeds, Southern District,
(to fill vacancy.)
Also to bring in their votes on the following
Amendments to the Constitution:--
1. --Shall the proposed amendment to the
constitution, making women eligible to
appointment as notaries public, be approved
and ratified?
Said amendment reads as follows: --
"Women shall be eligible to appointment as
notaries public."
2. --Shall the proposed amendment to the consti-
tution, authorizing the referendum, be approved
and ratified?
Said amendment reads as follows: --
138
1913.
Warrant
for
State
Election
Continued
"Full power and authority are hereby given and
granted to the general court to refer to the people
for their rejection or approval at the polls any act
or resolve of the general court or any part or parts
thereof. Such reference shall be by a majority
yea and nay votes of all members of each house
present and voting. Any act, resolve, or part
thereof so referred shall be voted on at the regular
state election next ensuing after such reference
shall become law if approved by the majority of
the voters voting thereon, and shall take effect
at the expiration of thirty days after the election
at which it was approved or at such time after
the expiration of the said thirty days as may
be fixed in such act, resolve or part thereof."
Also to bring in their votes on the following question:-
"Shall Chapter Eight Hundred and Seven
of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen,
being an act to provide for compensating laborers,
workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained
in public employment, and to exempt from legal
liability counties and municipal corporations
which pay such compensation, be accepted by
the inhabitants of this town of Lexington?"
Chap. 807.
An Act to provide for compensating certain
Public Employees for Injuries sustained in the
course of their employment.
Be it enacted, etc. as follows:
Section 1 - the commonwealth shall pay
and any county, city or town, or district having
the power of taxation, may pay the compensation
provided by Part II of chapter seven
hundred and fifty-one of the acts of the year
nineteen hundred and eleven and acts in
amendment thereof and in additon thereto to
139
1913.
Warrant for
State
Election
Continued
such laborers, workmen and mechanics employed
by it as receive injuries arising out of and in
the course of their employment, or, in case of
death resulting from any such injury, may pay
compensation as provided in sections six, seven
and eight of said Part 11, and in any amendments
thereof, to the persons thereto entitled.
Section 2. Procedure under this act and the
jurisdiction of the industrial accident board shall be
the same as under the provisions of said chapter
seven hundred and fifty-one, and the commonwealth
or a county, city, town or district which
accepts the provisions of this act shall have the
same rights in proceedings under said chapter as
the association thereby created.
The treasurer and receiver general, or the treasurer
or officer having similar duties of a county, city,
town or district which accepts the provisions of
this act, shall pay any compensation awarded for
injury to any person in its employment upon proper
vouchers without any further authority.
Section 3. Counties, cities, towns and districts
having the power of taxation, may accept the provisions
of this act by a vote of a majority of those
legal voters who vote on the question of its acceptance
at an annual meeting or election as hereinafter provided.
In towns and districts which have an
annual meeting or election as hereinafter provided.
In towns and districts which have an
annual meeting of the legal voters, this act shall
be submitted for acceptance to the voters of the town
or district at the next annual meeting after its
passage. In cities, and in towns which do
not have annual meetings, this act shall be
submitted to the voters at the next municipal
election, and in counties and in districts which
do not have an annual meeting, at the next
state election after its passage.
At every such election, and at every annual meeting
where ballots are used, the following question
140
1913
Warrant for
State
Election
Continued
shall be printed on the ballot: "Shall chapter 807
of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being
an act to provide for compensating laborers, workmen
and mechanics for injuries sustained in public
employment, and to exempt from legal liability
counties and municipal corporations which pay
such compensation, be accepted by the inhabitants
of this (county, city, town, water district, fire
district, etc.) of Lexington ?" Yes No.
The vote shall be canvassed by the county
commissioners, city council or commission, or
selectmen, or, in case of a district, by the district
commissioners or other governing board of the
district. A notice stating the result of
the vote shall be posted in the county court
house, or city or town hall, or, in the case of
a district, in the public building where the
employees of the district are paid.
Except as provided in section four, a county,
city, town or district which accepts the provisions
of this act shall not be liable in any action
for a personal injury sustained by a laborer,
workman or mechanic in the course of his
employment by such county, city, town or
district, or for death resulting from such
injury.
Section 4. A laborer workman or mechanic
entering or remaining in the service of a county,
city, town, or district, who would, if injured
have a right of action against the county, city,
town or district by existing law, may, if the
county, city, town or district has accepted the
provisions of this act before he enters its
service, or accepts them afterwards, claim or
waive his right of action as provided in
section five of Part 1 of said chapter seven
hundred and fifty-one, and shall be deemed
to have waived such rights of action unless he
141
1913.
Warrant
for
State
Election
Continued
claims it. Section four of said Part 1 shall
apply to actions by laborer, workmen or mechanics
employed by a county, city, town or district
which accepts the provisions of this act.
Section 5 Any person entitled to receive
from the commonwealth or from a county, city,
town or district the compensation provided by
Part 11 of said chapter seven hundred and fifty-one.,
who is also entitled to a pension by reason
of the same injury, shall elect whether he will
receive such compensation or such pension, and
shall not receive both. In case a person entitled
to such compensation from the commonwealth
or from a county, city, town or district receives
by special act a pension for the same injury,
he shall forfeit all claim for compensation, and
any compensation received by him or paid by the
commonwealth or by the county, city, town or
district which employs him for medical or historical
services rendered to him may be recovered back in
an action at law. No further payment shall be
awarded by vote or otherwise to any person who
has claimed and received compensation under
this act.
Section 6. This act shall apply to all
laborers, workmen and mechanics in the service
of the commonwealth or of a county, city or
town, or district having the power of taxation,
under any employment or contract of hire, expressed
or implied, oral or written, including those
employed in work done in performance of
governmental duties as well as those employment
in municipal enterprises conducted for gain
or profit. For the purpose of this
act all labourers, workmen and mechanics paid
by the commonwealth, but serving under boards
or commissioners exercising powers within defined
districts, shall be deemed to be in the service of
142
1913.
Warrant
for
State
Election
Concluded
the commonwealth.
Section 7. The provisions of chapter
seven hundred and fifty-one of the acts of
the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and acts
in amendment thereof and in addition thereto
shall not apply to any persons other than
laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by
counties, cities, towns, or districts having the
power of taxation.
Section 8. This act shall take effect upon
its passages.
(Approved June 16, 1913.)
The election officers will receive votes for the
above all on the official ballot prepared by
the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The polls will be opened immediately after the
organization of the meeting, and will be kept
open until four o'clock P.M., and as much
longer as the meeting may direct, not to extend
beyond eight o'clock P.M.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of
this warrant with your doings thereon to
the Town Clerk on or before the time of said
meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington
this Twentieth day of October, A.D., 1913.
George H. Childs
Frank D. Peirce
Edward W. Taylor
}Selectmen
of
Lexington
143
1913.
Return of Constable.
Lexington, October 29, 1913.
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have
notified the inhabitants of the town of Lexington
by posting a duly attested copy of the warrant
in the Town Hall, in seven other public places in
the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy
of the warrant to every registered voter in the
town seven days before the time of said
meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the warrant, and the return
of the Constable.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
144
1913.
State
Election
State Election, November, 4, 1913.
The meeting was called to order at six o'clock, A.M.
by George H. Childs, chairman of the Selectmen,
and the warrant and the return of the Constable
were read by the Town Clerk.
The chairman gave his receipt to the Town
Clerk for a package said to contain fourteen hundred
ballots, and for two voting lists, each containing
eleven hundred and forty two names.
The ballots and one voting list were given to
Frederick G. Jones and James A. Hurley as Ballot
Clerks, they having been previously sworn to a
faithful discharge of their duties.
Charles G. Kauffmann, Daniel J. Vaughan,
Clifton P. Ashley and Louis H. Lawrence were
sworn as Deputy Ballot Clerks.
The ballot box was shown to be empty, then
locked, and the key given to Charles E. Wheeler, the
Constable in attendance.
The polls were then declared open.
Allston M. Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Ralph
H. Marshall, Louis L. Crane, Eugene J. Buckley,
Nathaniel Nunn, Patrick F. Dacey, and William
A. Ray were sworn to the faithful discharge of
their duties as Tellers.
At 9.45 A.M., 100 ballots were taken from the
box; at 10.25 A.M., 300 were taken out
and at 2.25 P.M., 400 ballots were taken from
the box.
At 3.50 o'clock Frank D. Peirce moved that
the polls be kept open until 4.30 P.M.
This motion was opposed by Daniel J. OConnell
and Rev. Samuel Knowles and supported by
Edward P. Merriam. The motion was put
to vote and declared lost.
At the close of the polls at four oclock
168 ballots were taken from the box, making
145
1913.
State
Election
a total of 968 ballots which agreed with the
number of names checked on each voting list.
The dial on the ballot box registered 969.
After the Tellers had completed the counting of
the votes at 7.25 P.M., the Town Clerk announced
the result as follows:
Whole number of votes, 968.
Governor.
Charles Sumner Bird, three hundred seventy two - 372
Alfred H. Evans one 1
Eugene N. Foss fifty one 51
Augustus P. Gardner, two hundred eighty six 286
Arthur E. Reimer none 0
David I. Walsh, two hundred forty three 243
George W. Wrenn six 6
Blanks nine 9
Lieutenant-Governor.
Edward P. Barry, two hundred forty four 244
Daniel Cosgrove, three hundred twenty eight 328
August H. Goetting, three hundred sixty six 366
Albert J. Orem five 5
Peter O'Rourke three 3
George E. Roewer, Jr five 5
Blanks thirty seven 37
Secretary
Frank J. Donahue, two hundred forty five 245
William S. Kinney, three hundred forty five 345
John A. Nicholls thirteen 13
Fred E. Oelcher nothing 0
Ella M. Roberts seven 7
Russell A. Wood three hundred and six 306
Blanks fifty two 52
146
1913.
State
Election
Treasurer
Charles L. Burrill, three hundred seventy five 375
Charles E. Fenner. nine 9
Thomas A. Frissell six 6
Warren R. Keith two hundred ninety one 291
Frederick W. Mansfield, two hundred twenty 220
Dennis McGoff one 1
Blanks sixty six 66
Auditor
Herbert S. Brown fourteen 14
David Craig one 1
Octave A. La Riviere, two hundred eighty four 284
Samuel P. Levenberg seven 7
Frank H. Pope two hundred fifteen 215
John E. White three hundred sixty nine 369
Blanks seventy eight 78
Attorney-General
Thomas J. Boynton two hundred twenty three 223
Freeman T. Crommett, five 5
John McCarty seven 7
H. Heustis Newton, three hundred and seven 307
Ingvar Paulsen three 3
James M. Swift three hundred fifty four 354.
Blanks 69
Councillor, Sixth District.
John J. Hogan, two hundred and fourteen 214
Harrie C. Hunter, two hundred ninety seven 297
G. Frederick Simpson, three hundred sixty six 366
Blanks ninety one 91
Senator
Fifth Middlesex District
John M. Gibbs, three hundred sixty two 362
Frederick P. Glazier, two hundred sixty nine 269
Charles F. McCarthy, two hundred sixty two 262
Blanks seventy five 75
147
1913.
State
Election
Representative in General Court.
Twenty-ninth Middlesex District.
George E. Briggs, four hundred eight four 484
Daniel J. OConnell, one hundred fifty eight 158
Frank D. Peirce, three hundred seventeen 317
Blanks nine 0
County Commissioner
Erson B. Barlow, three hundred fifty five 355
John B. McCloskey, two hundred thirteen 213
Charles H. McIntire, three hundred eight 308
Blanks ninety two 92
Associate Commissioners.
Charles W. Atkins, two hundred twenty nine 229
Frederic P. Barnes, three hundred thirty three 333
John J. Butler, one hundred seventy seven 177
George W. Enwright, one hundred fifty one 151
Edwin P. Fitzgerald, two hundred twenty six 226
Albert F. Parker, two hundred seventy 270
Blanks, five hundred fifty 550
District Attorney
Northern District
Philip M. Clark, three hundred thirteen 313
William J. Corcoran, one hundred ninety six 196
John J. Higgins, three hundred sixty five 365
Blanks ninety four 94
Register of Probate and Insolvency
Middlesex County
James J. Barrett, two hundred twenty 220
William E. Rogers, five hundred ninety four 594
Blanks, one hundred fifty four 154
148
1913
State
Election
Register of Deeds
Middlesex Southern District
(To fill vacancy)
J. Frank Facey, two hundred thirteen 213
Thomas Leighton, Jr. three hundred ninety one 391
Albin M. Richards, two hundred sixty four 2664
Blanks one hundred 100
Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution,
making women eligible to appointment as notaries
public, be approved and ratified?
Yes, three hundred forty three 343
No. three hundred seventy 370
Blanks two hundred fifty five 255
Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution,
authorizing the referendum, be approved and
ratified?
Yes. three hundred eighty five 385
No. two hundred twenty three 223
Blanks three hundred and sixty 360
Shall Chapter 807 of the Acts of 1913, entitled
"An Act to provide for compensation certain public
employees for injuries sustained in the course of
their employment", be accepted by the inhabitants
of this county ?
Yes. four hundred sixty four 464
No. one hundred eight two 182
Blanks three hundred twenty two 322
A true record:
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
149
1913.
Representation:
Town
Clerk's
Meeting at
Arlington
Lexington, November 14, 1913.
A meeting of the Town Clerks of Arlington and
Lexington, comprising the Twenty-ninth Middlesex
Representative District, was held at Arlington at
twelve o'clock, noon, this day, and on comparing the
returns of votes cast at the Election on November
4, 1913 for Representative from said district the
following was found to be the result: -
Arlington
George E. Briggs of Lexington received 769 votes
Daniel J. Howells " Lexington " 511 "
Frank D. Peirce " Lexington " 569 "
Lexington
George E. Briggs of Lexington received 484 votes
Daniel J. OConnell " Lexington " 158 "
Frank D. Peirce " Lexington " 317 "
Making a plurality of 367 votes for George
E. Briggs of Lexington, and two certificates of
election were filled out for George. E. Briggs, one
of which was sent to the Secretary of the Commonwealth,
and the other to George E. Briggs, and
signed by
Thomas J. Robinson
Town Clerk of Arlington
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk of Lexington
A true record:
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
150
Representative,
Notice to,
Return of
Constable
Lexington Mass.
November 14. 1913.
By virtue of my office as Constable of the
Town of Lexington, I have this day delivered
to George E. Briggs of Lexington the
Certificate of Election as Representative from
the Twenty-ninth Middlesex District in the
General Court to be holden on the First
Wednesday of January in the year nineteen
hundred and fourteen.
Attest:
Charles H. Franks
Constable of Lexington
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
151
Perpetual
Care
See
page 27
Lexington Mass.
Nov. 28, 1913.
Received from Hamilton Mayo Executive of
the estate of Emma V. Whitney, the sum of
$29.19 which in addition to $70.80 received
March 15, 1913 makes $100.00, the interest of which
sum is to be applied to the perpetual care of the
Saml. Phelps lot, old No. 70, new No. 310 in
the Lexington Cemetery near the High School
House
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
152
Warrant
for a
Town
Meeting
Warrant for a Town Meeting
Saturday, January 10. 1914.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington qualified to
vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall,
in said Lexington on Saturday the Tenth day
of January, A.D., 1914, at 7.30 P.M., then
and there to act on the following articles:-
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers
or any Committee of the Town for action thereon,
and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer,
under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow
money for any necessary purposes in anticipation
of revenue for the current year, the same to be
repaid directly from the proceeds of said revenue,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the town will vote to transfer any
unexpended balances remaining in the treasury to
the credit of any departments the work of which
is practically closed, to other departments showing
an overdraft, or act in any manner relat-
ing thereto.
153
Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to employ a permanent
stenographer and typewriter to assist the
different departments having offices in the Town
Hall, make an appropriation for the same, or
take any action relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will employ a Town Engineer,
make an appropriation for the same, or act in
any manner relative thereto.
Act. 7. To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown-Tail
Moths in accordance with Chapter 381, Acts
of 1905, and amendments thereof, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 8. To see if the town will vote to provide some means
to ventilate the reading room at "Cary Memorial
Library" other than open windows creating
draughts and make an appropriation for the
same, or act in any manner relating thereto.
(Above article inserted at the request of Francis H.
Holmes.)
Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to abate the taxes
for the year 1913 on the Buckman Tavern
Property, taxed to the Merriam-Stetson Heirs,
to make an appropriation for the same, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 10. To receive and act upon the report of the special
committee of nine, appointed March 17. 1913, to
consider the subject of a finance committee, copies
of which report are to be mailed to voters with
the present warrant; and to see if the Town
will adopt a By-Law relating to the appointment
and duties of an Advisory or Finance Committee,
under the provisions of Chapter 130 of the Acts
154
of 1910, substantially as recommended by
said special committee, or act in any manner
relating to a Finance Committee, the tenure
and duties thereof.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington,
this twenty-sixth day of December, A.D. 1913.
George H. Childs
Frank D. Peirce
Edward W. Taylor
}Selectmen
of
Lexington
Return of
Constable on
Warrant
Lexington, Jan. 6, 1914.
To the Town Clerk:-
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting duly attested
copies of the foregoing warrant in several
public places in the Town, and by mailing
a duly attested copy of same to every registered
voter in the town, eight days before the time
of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return of
the Constable,
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
155
1914.
Town Meeting, January 10. 1914.
The meeting was called to order at 7.30 P.M.
by the Moderator.
The Warrant and the Return of the Constable
thereon was read by the Town Clerk.
Art. 1.
Report of
Committee
on Town
Engineer
- Committee Reports. -
George H. Childs, chairman of the committee on
Town Engineer, made a written report for the
committee, recommending the appointment of an
engineer and the appropriation of $3000.00 for
the purpose
(See Committee Reports, Vol. 2, Page 34.)
Edward P. Merriam moved that the report be acecpted
and its recommendations adopted.
Refused to
Accept and
Adopt
Recommendations
See
page 51
Arthur E. Horton asked if the committee had
considered the idea of the appointment of the engineer
for a longer term than one year, and also the
amount of salary which the committee expected
to pay. His questions were not definitely
answered. The chairman of the finance committee
stated that the committee approved the appropriation
asked for in the report.
The town voted not to accept the report, and
not to adopt the recommendations of the committee.
156
1914.
to be paid from the revenue of said
financial year."
Frank D. Peirce moved to amend this motion
by making the amount $125,000. This amend-
ment was accepted by the meeting, and then
the original motion offered by Mr. Merriam as
amended by Mr. Peirce, making the amount
$125,000, was carried by vote of the meeting.
Art. 3
Transfer
from
Omitted
Tax Acct
of 1912.
~Transfers of Appropriations~
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion
providing for the transfer of balances to meet
overdrafts in certain accounts:--
"Voted, that the aggregate sum of
$1005.25 be appropriated to cover
certain overdrafts in the accounts of
1913 and that this sum be transferred
from the unexpended balance now to
the credit of Omitted Tax of 1912
account and applied as follows: --
To Contingent Account $300.00
Interest " 275.00
Premium on Bonds " 130.25
Election & Registration " 75.00
Highways " 50.00
Stone Building " 50.00
Town Hall " 75.00
Village Hall " 50.00
$1005.25
Transfer from
Fire Equipment
Acct. to
Fire Dept.
"Voted, that the sum of $400.00 be
appropriated to cover overdraft for the
year 1913 in the Fire Department Account
and to meet this appropriation the sum
of $400.00 be transferred from the unex-
pended balance now to the credit of New
Fire Equipment account."
And the meeting so voted.
157
1914.
Art. 10.
Report
of committee
to Consider
Finance
Committee
- Report of Committee on Finance Committee. -
Under this article Robert P. Clapp, chairman of
the committee, submitted a written report providing
that after the Annual Meeting in March 1914, the
Finance Committee shall consist of fifteen members,
the members to be appointed by the chairman of
the Selectmen, the chairman of the Finance
Committee, and the Moderator, and that a
By-Law to this effect be adopted by the Town.
See
page 3.
On motion of Frank H. Holmes, it was
voted to receive the report.
(See Reports of Committees, Vol. 2, page 36 for report.)
Mr. Clapp then presented the following motion:-
"Voted, that a By-Law in the following
terms be and the same is hereby adopted, viz -
By Law
on Finance
Committee
Adopted
See
page 162
Article Finance Committee
Section 1. - From and after the annual town meeting
in 1914 then shall be an advisory committee, to be
known as the Finance Committee, consisting of fifteen
members and appointed in the manner hereinafter
provided. The terms of office of five members
shall expire each year, but all or any retiring members
may be reappointed. In 1914 five members shall
be appointed for the term of one year, five for two
years, and five for three years; and each succeeding
year five members shall be appointed for the term
of three years.
Section 2. The town moderator, the chairman
of the board of selectmen, and the chairman
of the finance committee at any given time shall
constitute an appointing board. They shall
directly after each annual town meeting, make the
necessary appointments, and any vacancies from time
to time arising in the committee shall be filled by
such board. If at the time of any appointment
the office of chairman of the committee should be
vacant, the person who last held the position
shall act as one of the appointing board.
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Section 3. It shall be the duty of the
finance committees to consider and report to the
town from time to time on matters relating
to its financial and business interests, and espec-
ially to consider and make recommendations con-
cerning matters involving the appropriation of
money.
Voted, that the Selectmen cause the fore-
going By-Law to be submitted to the Attorney
General for approval, and, if approved by him,
to cause the same to be published, all as required
by law; and that upon the appointment of the
Finance Committee in such By-Law provided
for the existence of the present Finance Committee
shall terminate."
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
Art. 8.
Cary
Library
On
Ventilation
of.
~Ventilation of Cary Memorial Library.~
Frank H. Holmes offered the following motion: --
"That the sum of fifty dollars be appropriated
and assessed the ensuing[?] year for the purpose
of installing a steam coil in the open fire
place in the reading room at Cary Memorial
Library, and the same to be expended under
the direction of Trustees of said Library."
On motion of Daniel J. Vaughan, it was
voted to indefinitely postpone the motion presented
by Mr. Holmes.
Art. 7.
Moth
Appropriation
~Moth Appropriation~
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motions:-
1st. Voted, That the sum of $3425.04 be
appropriated and assessed to cover the "town liability"
for the cost of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths
work for the current year and that a further
sum of $1200.00 be appropriated and assessed to
be expended for the same purpose under the
provisions of Chapter 381 Acts of 1905 and
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Moth
App.
Continued
See
page 161
for names
amendments thereto.
2nd - Voted, That all money appropriated for
the suppression of insects for the year 1914 be
expended under the direction of a committee of
five to be appointed by the Moderator of this
meeting."
Arthur E. Horton attacked the whole
question of Moth Work, and after a general discuss-
ion, the above motions as presented by Mr. Merriam
were carried by vote of the meeting.
Art. 9.
Buckman
Tavern
Taxes
Vote to
pay
- Buckman Tavern Taxes -
Alonzo E. Locke offered the following motion: -
"Voted: That to meet the taxes assessed for
1913 on the Buckman Tavern Property, purchased
by the Town in accordance with vote passed at the
Town Meeting held May 15th, 1913, the sum
of $621.01 be appropriated and that said sum
be taken from unexpended balance of Omitted
Tax account of 1912."
J. Alexander Wilson moved that the question be
indefinitely postponed.
This started a general discussion participated
in by several gentlemen.
Mr. Locke stated that by some oversight the
question of payment of taxes was overlooked when
the property was bought by the town.
The meeting voted against indefinite postpone-
ment, and Mr. Locke's motion as above recorded
was carried by vote of the meeting.
Art.9
Building
Inspector
Appropriation
-Appropriation for Building Inspector-
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion: -
"Voted, that the sum of $200.00 be appropri-
ated and assessed to cover the salary and incidental
expenses of the Building Inspector from October 1,
1913 to March 1, 1914."
And the meeting so voted.
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Art. 5
Stenographer
Vote to
Employ
and
appropriation
for.
- Permanent Stenographer -
George H. Childs, chairman of the Selectmen,
offered the following motion: -
"Voted, that the Selectmen be authorized to
employ a permanent stenographer and that the
sum of $425.00 be appropriated, and to meet
the appropriation $250.00 be assessed the
current year owed $175.00 be transferred from
the indicental account of the Town Clerk for
this purpose. And it is further voted that
the stenographer be under the direction of the
Selectmen."
Daniel J. Vaughan moved that the matter
be indefinitely postponed.
Edward W. Taylor of the Selectment read a copy
of a letter, which he had sent to the Chairman
of the Finance Committee, and explained the
reasons why a stenographer was needed in the
office. Frank D. Peirce also advocated
the employment of a stenographer.
Edward P. Merriam stated that the Finance
Committee was opposed to the plan.
The meeting refused to indefinitely postpone
the matter, and the motion of Mr. Childs
was carried by the vote of the meeting.
Meeting
Dissolved
At 10.35 oclock, on motion of Robert P. Clapp,
it was voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1914.
Moth
Committee
Members
See
Page 159
January 15th, 1914.
In pursuance of the vote passed at the Town
Meeting held on the twenty instant, the Moderator
appointed the following citizens "upon the committee
having charge of the expenditure of the appropriation
for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths
in our town: namely, -
Alfred E. Robinson, Edward Wood,
William T. Scamman, H. Ingram Bicknell
Ernest K. Ballard.
_______________
The Moderator appointed F. Foster Sherburne as
a member of the Finance Committee to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of John A. Sylvester.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1914.
By
Law
on
Finance
Committee
See page 157
" " 215
By-Law to provide for a Finance Committee
Article Finance Committee
Section 1. - From and after the annual town meeting in
1914 there shall be an advisory committee, to be known as
the Finance Committee, consisting of fifteen members and
appointed in the manner hereinafter provided.
The terms of office of five members shall expire each year,
but all or any retiring members may be reappointed.
In 1914 five members shall be appointed for the
term of one year, five for two years, and five for three
years; and each succeeding year five members shall be
appointed for the term of three years,
Section 2. - The town moderator the chairman of
the board of selectmen, and the chairman of the
finance committee at any given time shall constitute and
appointing board. They shall, directly after each
annual town meeting, make the necessary appointments,
and my vacancies from time to time arising in the
committee shall be filled by such board. If at the
time of any appointment the office of chairman of
the committee should be vacant, the person who
last held the position shall act as one of the
appointing board.
Section 3. - It shall be the duty of the
finance committee to consider the report to the
town from time to time on matters relating to
its financial and business interests, and especially
to consider and make recommendations concerning
matters involving the appropriation of money.
I, Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk of Lexington,
certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a
By-Law which was duly adopted by the Town
of Lexington, unanimously, at a Town
Meeting duly held for the purpose in January
10, 1014 of which meeting due notice was
given as provided by law and the By-Laws
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of the Town.
[S] Witness the seal of said town hereto
affixed and my official signature,
January 26, 1914.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Approved by
Atty. Gen.
Boston, January 20, 1914.
I approve the foregoing by-laws.
James M. Swift
Attorney-General.
A true copy of the By-Law and the approval
of the Attorney-General
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Publication
of
By-Law
I hereby certify that the foregoing by-law
was published in the Lexington Minute Man
on January 31, F'eby. 7 and F'eby 14, 1914.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1914.
Warrant
for
Annual
March
meeting
Warrant for Annual March Meeting
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables in the Town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified
to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet
in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on
Monday, the second day of March, A.D. 1914,
at seven o'clock, A.M., then and there to act on
the following articles :
Art. 1. To choose by ballot the following town officers:-
One Town Clerk for the term of one year;
three Selectmen for the term of one year;
three Oversees of the Poor for the term of one year;
three Surveyors of the Highways for the term of one year;
one Assessor for the term of one year;
one Town Treasurer for the term of one year;
one Collector of Taxes for the term of one year;
one Auditor for the term of one year;
one Water and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years;
one member of the Cemetery Committee for the term of
three years;
one member of the Board of Health for the term of
three years;
one Park Commissioners for the term of the three years;
one Trustee of Public Trusts for the term of six years;
one Tree Warden for the term of one year;
two Constable for the term of one year;
one Moderator for the term of one year;
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Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote for or against granting
licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer
to the question: "Shall licenses be granted for
the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ? "
Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 807
of the Acts of the year 1913, entitled "An Act to
provide for compensating certain public employees for
injuries sustained in the course of their employment ?"
Art. 4. Shall an Act passed by the General Court in
the year 1908, entitled "An Act to provide for the
protection of forest or sprout lands from fire," and
the amendments thereof, be accepted by this town ?"
Art. 5. Shall Chapter 487 of the Acts of the year nineteen
hundred and thirteen, being "An Act relative to the
promotion of call men in the Fire Department of
cities and towns, "be accepted by this town ?"
Art. 6. Shall this town accept the provisions of Section
42 of Chapter 514 of the Acts of the year 1909
as affected by Chapter 494 of the Acts of the year
1911, which provides that eight hours shall constitute
a days work for city or town employees ?
Note. This article is inserted as provided by
Chapter 822 of the Acts of the year 1913
The election officers will receive votes under Articles
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 on the official ballot prepared
by the Town Clerk.
The polls will be opened as soon as possible after
the organization of the meeting and will be kept
open until five P.M. In compliance with
Article 3 of the By-Laws as amended January
29, 190, business under the following Articles
will be transacted at an adjourned meeting to be
held Monday evening, March 9, 1914, unless
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the adjourned meeting shall be unanimous vote,
be ordered for some other specified time.
Art. 7. To receive the report of any Report of Town Officers
or any any Committee of the Town for action thereon,
and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 8. To choose such Town Officers as are required by
law and are usually chosen by nomination.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the proper observance of Memorial Day, to be
expended under the direction of Post 199, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Art. 10. To provide for the support of the Public Schools
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 11. To provide for the support of the Poor at the
Poor Farm the ensuing year, and grant money
for the same.
Art. 12. To provide for the support of the Outside Poor the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 13. To provide for the support of the Highways the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 14. To provide for the support of the Street Lights
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 15. To provide for the support of the Fire Department
the ensuing year, and grant money for
the same.
Art. 16. To see if the town will make the appropriations
for town expenses the ensuing year, as submitted
by the Selectmen, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
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Art. 17.
To see what measures the town will adopt
in relation to the collection of taxes the ensuing year,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 18.
To see if the Town will make an appropriation
to construct sidewalks with concrete or other
materials where the abutters will pay one-half
the expenses thereof.
Art. 19.
To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of
$300.00 for a School Physician, as required
under Chapter 502, Section 1, Acts of 1906.
Art. 20.
To see if the town will make an appropriation
sufficient to meet the expense of placing new
insurance and renewals for the ensuing year, to
act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 21.
To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the care of the Cemeteries for teh ensuing
year.
Art. 22.
To see if the town will vote to make an appropriation
for the purpose of employing an inspector
of wires, or take any action thereon.
Art. 23.
To see if the town will vote to employ a town
engineer, make an appropriation for some[?], or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 24.
To see if the town will make an appropriation or
appropriations, to be met by the issuance of
Bonds, Notes, or otherwise to meet the requirements
of the Water Department in making extensions
of water mains and for the purchase
and installation of additional equipment, or
act in any other manner relative thereto.
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1914
Art. 25.
To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the purpose of laying a four inch water
main from Massachusetts [unintelligable] into the
cemetery and also for the purpose of laying
extensions of one inch pipe from said proposed
main in various directions so as to provide
for six outlets, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 26.
To see if the town will petition the director of
the bureau of statistics for an audit of its
accounts in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter 598 of the Acts of 1910 and amendments
thereto.
Art. 27.
To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the purpose of installing a fire alarm box at
the head of Oak Street or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 28.
To see if the town will appropriate a sum of
money for the use of the Finance Committee,
or take any action relating thereto.
Art. 29.
To see if the town will again adopt the Building
Laws (embraced in a By-Law containing ten
several articles) which were adopted by vote of the
Town May 15. 1913, the purpose of such re-adoption
being to five [insertion] to [/insertion] said By-Laws the authority
and support of Chapter 655 of the Acts of the year
1913, which took effect November 1, 1913; or
act in any manner in relation to adopting
by-laws under the provisions of that statute.
Art. 30.
To see if the town will vote to repeal the
By-Law or any section thereof adopted at a
town meeting held March 12, 1896 whereby
an annual charge of $45.00 for each
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hydrant was established in the Water Department,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 31. To see if the town will make an appropriation
to purchase an automobile or motor cycle and
provide a place to keep the same, for the use of
the Police Department, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 32. To provide for the expense of street watering, oiling,
or using of any liquid or material suitable for
laying or presenting dust, and preserving the surface
of the streets or for sanitary purposes, or take
any action relating thereto.
Art. 33. To provide for the support of the Public Parks for
the ensuing year and grant money for the same,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 34. To see if the town will make a further appropriations
of money for the suppression of insects, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 35. To see if the town will adopt Chapter 320 of the
Acts of 1912, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 36. To see if the town will vote to increase the pay
of the permanent men in the Fire Department
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 37 To see if the town will vote to grant the permanent
men of the Fire Department one day off
duty in every seven days instead of one day off
duty in every ten days as at present or act in
any manner relating thereto.
170
1914.
Art. 38.
To see if the town will discontinue the practice
of assessing a part of the cost of watering or
oiling streets upon abutting estates; to pass
any votes necessary or appropriate to accomplish
this end; and to provide that hereafter the
sprinkling of streets and public ways whether
with water or oil, shall be done at the public
expense. Or to act in an manner in relation
to the manner in which such work may be
done, and the cost thereof defrayed.
Art. 39.
To see if the town will grant to William W.
Ferguson and his heirs and assigned, the right
to construct and maintain water and sewer pipes
through a narrow strip of land belonging to
the town on Belfry Hill, next adjacent to and
extending along, the Southerly side of the parcel
of land on Forest Street, which was conveyed
to him by the town by deed dated June 2-3, 1913,
recorded with Middlesex South District Deeds,
book 3800, page 442, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant,
with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on
or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this
thirteenth day of February, A. D., 1914.
George H. Childs}
Frank D. Peirce}
Edward W. Taylor}
Selectmen of
Lexington
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Lexington, February 24, 1914
To the Town Clerk: -
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting duly attested copies of the
foregoing Warrant in several (10) public places
in the Town, and by mailing a duly attested
copy of the same to every registered voter in the
town, seven days before the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington.
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1914.
Annual
March
Election
Annual March Election
March 2, 1914.
The meeting was called to order at seven o'clock
A.M. by the Town Clerk who proceeded to read
the warrant. After the first six articles had
been read, on motion of George H. Childs it was
voted that the further reading of the warrant by
dispensed with.
The return of the Constable was then read.
Fred G. Jones, James A. Hurley, Charles G.
Kauffmann, Daniel J. Vaughan, Clifton P.
Ashley and Louis H. Lawrence having been appointed
as Ballot Clerks and Deputy Ballot Clerks, were
sworn to the faithful discharge of of their duties
by the Town Clerk.
The Moderator gave his receipt to the Town
Clerk for a package said to contain 1500 ballots
for male voters and 300 ballots for female voters.
The ballot box was shown to be empty, then
locked, and the key delivered to the Constable in
attendance and the polls declared open.
The Moderator was obliged to learn the
meeting and called Frank D. Peirce to the
chair to preside during his absence.
Louis L. Crane, John J. Garrity, William A.
Ray, Ralph H. Marshall, Samuel B. Bigelow,
Allston M. Redman, Patrick F. Dacey and
Nathaniel Nunn were sworn to be faithful
discharge of their duties as Tellers.
At 10.08 oclock the ballot box was opened
and 150 ballots taken out. At 2.05 oclock
100 ballots were taken out. At 3.30 oclock
100 ballots were taken out. At the close of
the polls at five oclock 51 ballots were taken
out making a total of 401 ballots.
The dial on the ballot box registered 401 and
the number of names checked on each voting
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list was 401.
Twelve ballots were cast by female voters and
this number agreed with the names checked on
each voting list.
After the Tellers had completed the work of
counting the ballots at 6.30 P.M., the Town Clerk
announced the result as follows: -
Whole number of ballots cast by male voters, 401
Whole number of ballots cast by female voters, 12.
Town Clerk, One year .
Charles W. Swan, three hundred twenty eight 328
Blanks seventy three 73
Charles W. Swan was declared elected
Selectmen, One year
George H. Childs, three hundred seven 307
Sidney M. Lawrence, three hundred eleven 311
Edward W. Taylor, three hundred fifty six 356
E. J. Buckley one 1
Blanks two hundred twenty eight 228
George H. Childs, Sidney M. Lawrence and Edward
W. Taylor were declared elected.
Overseers of the Poor; One Year:
George H. Childs - three hundred four 304
Sidney M. Lawrence - three hundred five 305
Edward W. Taylor - three hundred forty seven 347
E. J. Buckley - one 1
Blanks - two hundred forty six 246
George H. Childs, Sidney M. Lawrence and Edward
W. Taylor were declared elected.
Surveyors of Highways, One year
George H Childs - two hundred three
Sidney M. Lawrence - three hundred three 303
Edward W. Taylor - three hundred forty five 345
Blanks two hundred fifty eight 258
George H. Childs, Sidney M. Lawrence and Edward W.
Taylor were declared elected.
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Assessor for Three Years
George H. Jackson - three hundred twenty three 323.
Bill Scamman - one 1
John McLeod one 1
Blanks seventy six 76
George H. Jackson was declared elected.
Town Treasurer, One year.
George D. Harrington - three hundred forty six 346
Blanks fifty five 55
George D. Harrington was declared elected
Collector of Taxes, One year.
Byron C. Earle, three hundred forty six 346
Tom Griffin one 1
Blanks fifty four 54
Byron C. Earle was declared elected
Moderator, One Year.
James P. Prince, two hundred ninety seven, 297
S. Louis Barbour, one 1
W. P. Martin one 1
W. F. Chase one 1
John Devine one 1
Tom Griffin one 1
Blanks ninety nine 99
James P. Prince was declared elected.
Cemetery Committee, Three years
George W. Spaulding, three hundred thirty five 335
Blanks sixty six 66
George W. Spaulding was declared elected.
Auditor, One year
Charles F. Pierce - three hundred eighteen 318
Tom Griffin one 1
Blanks eighty two 82
Charles F. Pierce was declared elected.
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School Committee, Three Years.
Jay D. Richards, three hundred thirty two 332
H. L. Houghton one 1
Tom Griffin one 1
Blanks seventy nine 79
Jay D. Richards was declared elected.
Board of Health, Three Years.
William L. Barnes, three hundred three 303
J. O. Tilton one 1
Tom Griffin one 1
John Devine one 1
W. S. Tyler one 1
Blanks ninety four 94
William L. Barnes was declared elected.
Water & Sewer Commissioner, Three Years.
Edward H. Mara, two hundred ninety three 293
A. E. Horton two 2
Tom Griffin one 1
Everett S. Locke one 1
Blanks one hundred four 104
Edward. H. Mara was declared elected.
Constables, One Year
Charles H. Franks, three hundred 300
Parick J. Maguire three hundred twelve 312
Tom Griffin one 1
Blanks one hundred eighty nine 189
Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire
were declared elected.
Tree Warden - One Year
Alfred E. Robinson - three hundred sixteen 316
Tom Griffin one 1
Blanks eighty four 84
Alfred E. Robinson was declared elected.
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Park Commissioner - Three Years
Augustus E. Scott - two hundred thirty eight 238
John Devine two 2
J. O. Tilton one 1
F. L. Emery one 1
Tom Griffin one 1
A. E. Robinson one 1
Blanks one hundred fifty seven 157
Augustus E. Scott was declared elected
Trustee of Public Trusts, Six Years.
F. Foster Sherburne - three hundred fifteen 315
E. G. Preston one 1
Tom Griffin one 1
Blanks eighty four 84
F. Foster Sherburne was declared elected
Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in this town?
Yes - one hundred forty three 143
No. two hundred forty two 242
Blanks sixteen 16
And the town voted "No License."
Shall Chapter 807 of the Acts of 1913, being an Act
to provide for compensating laborers, workmen and
mechanics for injuries sustained in public employment,
and to exempt from legal liability counties
and municipal corporations which pay such compensation,
be accepted by the inhabitants of Lexington?
Yes. one hundred ninety one 191
No. eighty one 81
Blanks one hundred twenty nine 129
And the town accepted Chapter 807 of the Acts
of 1913.
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Ch. 209
Acts 1908
Shall an Act passed by the General Court in the
year 1908, entitled "An Act to provide for the protection
of forests or sprout lands from fire," by accepted by
this Town?
Yes. two hundred twenty seven 227
No. thirty eight 38
Blanks one hundred thirty six 136
And the town accepted the above Act.
Shall Chapter 487 of the Acts of the year 1913, being
"An Act relative to the promotion of call men in
the Fire Department of cities and towns," be accepted
by this Town?
Yes. one hundred eighty one 181
No. seventy one 71
Blanks one hundred forty nine 149
And the town accepted Chapter 487 of the Acts of
the Year 1913.
Shall the town accept the provisions of Section 42
of Chapter 514 of the Acts of the Year 1909, as
affecte dby Chapter 494 of the Acts of the Year 1911,
which provides that eight hours shall constitute a
day's work for city or town employees?
Yes one hundred and eighty 180
No. one hundred and eight 108
Blanks one hundred and thirteen 113
And the town accepted the above Section as affected
by the Acts of 1913.
The Moderator declared the meeting adjourned
to Monday evening, March 9. 1914 at seven oclock.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
See page
178
for
adjourned
meeting
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1914.
Adjourned Annual Meeting.
March 9, 1914.
The meeting was called to order at 7.42 P.M.
by the Moderator, James P. Prince
Art. 7. Edward P. Merriam, Chairman of the Finance
Committee, moved that the printed report of that
committee be accepted and placed on file.
And it was so voted.
Art. 13.
Highways
Appropriation
- Support of Highways. -
George H. Childs offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the sum of $22,031. 42/100 be
appropriated for the maintenance of Highways
during the ensuing year, to be made up as
follows:-
Unexpended balance Jan. 1, 1914,
To be assessed.
And it was so voted.
31.42
22,000.00
________
$22031.42
Art. 14.
Street lights
Appropriation
- Street Lights -
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion:-
Voted, That the sum of $9076.15 be
appropriated to cover expense of Street Lights the
ensuing year, to be made up as follows:-
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1914,
To be assessed
And it was so voted
$241.15
8835.00
_______
$9076.15
Art. 9.
Memorial
Day
Appropriation
- Memorial Day. -
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion:-
Voted, That the sum of $250 be appropriated
and assessed for the proper observance of Memorial
Day, the same to be expended under the direction
of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic.
And it was so voted.
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Art. 33
Public
Parks
_____
Laid on
Table.
- Public Parks -
John F. Welsh offered the following motion:
Voted, that the walk or way [walkway] now extending
through the Common be rebuilt with concrete
beginning at the easterly side near the Hayes
Fountain and running westerly parallel or
nearly so with Massachusetts Ave. to Elm St., a
distance of about 600 ft, more or less and that
the sum of Five Hundred Dollars be appropriated
and assessed for this purpose, the work to be done
under the direction of the Park Commissioners.
See page
191
for
final
action
Edward P. Merriam offered the following
as an amendment:-
Voted that the sum of $3099.81 be appropriated,
together with the accounts receivable, $114.50 and receipts
estimated at $175, making a total of $3389.31,
for the support of the Park Department, to be expended
under the direction of the Board of Park
Commissioners, for the purposes and subject to the
limitations specified in detail as follows:
East Lexington Playground $379.40
Plan for Buckman Tavern Lot,
Common and streets adjacent thereto 200.00
Common, - - fertilizer and repairs
to sidewalks 100.00
Horse Lawn Mower 150.00
Supervision at Parker Street
Playground during summer 100.00
Belfry Hill, Surveying and Fence 78.85
For unsettled bills and care of
Parks and Playgrounds
2381.06
________
$3389.31
the appropriation to be made up as follows:
To be assessed $2150.00
Accounts receivable 114.50
Estimated income 175.00
Transfer from the following accounts,
Care of Common 65.50
Playgrounds 249.83
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1914.
Public Parks $167.88
East Lexington Playground 379.40
Buckman Tavern 8.35
Belfry Hill Survey and Fence 78.85
________
$3389.31
Arthur E. Horton opposed the motion offered by
Mr. Welsh, and also the use of fertilizer on the
Common. Edward P. Merriam suggested
that it would not be advisable to build a concrete
sidewalk until the plan had been determined
upon as provided for in his motion.
William E. Mulliken stated that the chairman
of the Park Commissioners was not present and he
thought it only fair that this matter should not
be considered in his absence, and on motion of
Mr. Mulliken it was voted to lay the article on
the table.
Art. 39.
Ferguson,
permission
to lay
pipes on
Belfry
Hill.
granted.
Permission to maintain Water and Sewer
pipes on Belfry Hill.
Elwyn G. Preston offered the following motion:
Voted: That the town hereby grants to William
W. Ferguson and his heirs and assigns, the right to
construct and maintain water and sewer pipes in
so much of lot B., shown on plan entitled.
"Plan of Belfry Hill and Adjacent Land in
Lexington," drawn by F. P. Cutler, C. E.,
dated June 4th, 1913, recorded with Middlesex
Smith District Deeds, Book of Plans 213, Plan
44, as was not conveyed to the said Ferguson
by deed of the town dated June 23rd, 1913,
recorded with said deeds, book 3800, page 442
(said lot B., being the same premises conveyed
to the town by Frederick H. Rindge in the
year 1891) by deed recorded with said deeds,
book 2163, page 390)
Said grant is on the condition that said
construction and maintenance shall be done in
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a manner satisfactory to the town and upon the
further condition that that the town may terminate
said right at any time upon written notice, provided
it pays to the said Ferguson or his heirs
and assigns the fair and reasonable expense of
relaying said water and sewer pipes through
that portion of said lot B., already conveyed to
said Ferguson as aforesaid.
And the Board of Selectmen are hereby authorized
and empowered to execute and deliver such
instrument in writing as may be deemed necessary
to carry out the provisions of this vote.
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 38
Street
Watering
and
Oiling
Referred to
Committee
Se page
191
for final
action
Street Watering & Oiling.
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion: -
Voted, That the present practice of assessing upon
abutters a portion of the expense of street watering and
oiling be continued and that the assessment of two
cents per running foot adopted last year be
established for the current year and until the town
shall otherwise direct by vote.
George W. Taylor offered the following
as a substitute motion:
Voted - That the town discontinues the
practice of assessing a part of the cost of watering
or oiling streets upon abutting estates; that
hereafter the sprinkling of streets and public
ways whether with water or oil shall be done
at the public expense; that the cost of same
be charged against the appropriation for
maintenance of Highways; and that all
previous votes of the town inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed.
William R. Greeley stated that no one
seemed to understand the situation or the law
in regard to the assessment for watering and
oiling, and moved that the matter be indefinitely
postponed.
Edwin A. Bayley moved
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1914
that the matter be committed to a committee
to consist of the Board of Assessors, the Collector
of Taxes and Robert P Clapp, with the request
that they consider the matter contained in
Article 38 and report to the Town at a later
date.
And it was so voted.
A general discussion was held on this matter, and
the proposition to do away with the assessment on
abutters was supported by Messrs. Gorge W. Taylor,
Blodgett, Holmes, Horton, Edward W. Taylor and
Earle, and opposed by Messrs. Mouton and
Preston.
Art. 11.
Alms
House
Appropriations
Appropriations for Alms House.
S. Myron Lawrence offered the following motion:
Voted, That the sum of $1645.82 be
appropriated for the Support of the Poor at the
Poor Farm for the ensuing year, to be made up
as follows:
Balanced unexpended Jan 1, 1914 $145.82
To be assessed 1500.00
_____________
$1645.82
And the meeting so voted.
Frank H. Holmes criticized the manner in which
the affairs at the Poor Farm had been carried on
in the past.
Art. 12.
Outside
Poor
Appropriations
- Outside Poor -
S. Myron Lawrence offered the following motion:
Voted, That the sum of $2543.09 be appropriated
for teh ensuing year to aid Outside Poor,
to be made up as follows:
Balanced unexpended, Jan 1, 1914 $43.09
To be assessed 2500.00
___________
$2543.09
And the meeting so voted.
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1914
Art. 10.
School
Appropriation
Support of Schools.
Jay O. Richards offered the following motion:
Voted, That the sum of 49087.54 be appropriated
for the support of the Public Schools for the
ensuing year, to be made up as follows:
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1914 $87.54
To be assessed 49000.00
________________
$49087.54
And the meeting so voted.
Frank H. Holmes criticized the plan followed of
issuing tickets at graduation exercises.
Art. 35.
School
Halls,
acceptance
of Act
relative to
- Acceptance of Act relating to School Halls. -
Robert L. Ryder offered the following motion:
Voted that the town accept Chapter 320 of
the Acts of 1912, which reads as follows: -
Section 1. The school committee of any city or
town which accepts the provisions of the act shall
grant the temporary use of rooms or halls in
school buildings upon such terms and conditions
and for such public or educational purposes, as the
said school committee may deem wise: provided,
however, that such use shall not in any way
interfere or be inconsistent with the use of the
halls for school purposes, and that such use
shall not be granted during the regular sessions of
the school unless the means of egress have been
approved for such purpose by an inspector of
public buildings of the district police.
And the meeting so voted.
Before the vote was taken, the Act was read by the
Moderator. Mr. Ryder explained that this
Act allows the school committee to let the hall
for purposes where admission is charged, while
the old Act did not allow them to do this.
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1914.
Art. 27.
Fire Alarm
Box.
Oak St.
Appropriation
Fire Alarm Box at Oak Street.
Edward W. Taylor offered the following motion:-
Voted, That the sum of $150 be appropriated
and assessed to install a fire alarm box on
Oak Street with the necessary wiring.
This expenditure to be made under the direction
of the Board of Fire Engineers.
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 16.
Snow,
Removal of
Appropriation
- Removal of Snow. -
George H. Childs offered the following motion:
Voted, That the sum of $1644.24 be
appropriated for the removal of snow, to be made
up as follows
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1914. $344.24
To be assessed 1300.00
_____
$1644.24
And it was so voted.
Mr. Childs explained that owing to the severe snow
storms in February it became necessary to increase
the appropriation over last year.
Art. 19.
School
Physician
Appropriation
- School Physician -
Arthur L. Blodgett offered the following motion:
Voted. That the sum of $300 be appropriated
and assessed for the ensuing year for a School
Physician.
And it was so voted.
In connection with this matter, Robert P. Clapp
offered the following vote
Voted, that the School Committee is requested
hereafter, if lawful to do so, to provide for the
employment of a school physician out of the
regular appropriation for the support of schools,
and thereby avoid the necessity of a separate
appropriation for the purpose.
And it was so voted.
185
1914.
Art. 30.
Water
Dept.
Amendments
to Hydrant
By-Law
(page 196)
Amendment of Water Dept. By-Law.
Elwyn G. Preston offered the following motion:
That the By Law of the town adopted at a
town meeting held March 2, 1896 whereby an
annual charge of $45 per hydrant was established
in the Water Dept. be amended by substituting
the word "ten" for the word "forty five"
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 29.
Building
Laws.
Voted to
Re-adopt
See page
60-73
114-213
Readoption of Building Laws.
Robert P. Clapp offered the following motion:
"Voted that, for the purpose expressed in Article
29 of the warrant for the present meeting, the
Building Laws therein referred to, which were
adopted by the Town by vote passed May 15, 1913,
be and the same hereby are adopted as by-laws
under the provisions and with the sanction of
Chapter so hundred and fifty-five of the Acts of
the year nineteen hundred and thirteen."
"Voted that the Selectmen, after obtaining the
approval by the Attorney-General of said by-laws,
cause them to be published as provided by law."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 24.
Water Dept.
Loan for
Extension of
Mains authorized
See page 251
Appropriation for Water Department.
George E. Briggs offered the following motion:
Voted: That for the purpose of providing
funds for extension of Water Mains, the Town Treasurer
be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue and
sell, under the direction and with the approval of
the Selectmen, negotiable registered or coupon bonds
of the Town in serial form to the aggregate
principal amount of eight thousand five
hundred dollars ($8500), bearing interest at a
rate not exceeding four per centum (4%) per annum,
payable semi-annually, and payable, with principal
and interest, in gold coin of the United States of
American of the present standard of weight and
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1914.
fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer
and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen,
with maturities so arranged that $1000 of the
principal will fall due and payable in each of
the years 1915 to 1922 inclusive, and $500
of the said principal will fall due in 1923.
And the meeting so voted, unanimously.
Water Dept.
Appropriation
Mr. Briggs then offered the following motion:-
Voted: That the sum of $6724.01 be
appropriated for the maintenance of the Water
Department for the ensuing year, to be made up
as follows:
Unexpended balance Jan. 1, 1914. $2844,01
To be assessed 3880.0
________
$6724.01
And the meeting so voted.
Arthur E. Horton attempted to offer a resolution
that no legislation affecting the town of Lexington
be sought for without first giving notice to the
citizens.
The Moderator refused to entertain the resolution.
Art. 26.
Audit of Accounts
Defeated
- Audit of Town Accounts. -
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was
voted that the article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 7
Schools,
committee
to report
on increased
accommodations
- Committee Reports. -
Arthur L. Blodgett in behalf of the School Committee
called attention to the crowded condition at
the Hancock and Munroe schools and stated that
it would soon be necessary to consider what
should be done to provide increased accommodations.
Mr. Blodgett offered the following motion:-
Voted; That a committee of three citizens
be appointed by the moderator to confer with
the school committee, and otherwise investigate
the matter of providing increased school
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1914.
accommodations, to relieve the Hancock and Munroe
buildings, and to report to the town at an early
date.
And the meeting so voted.
The Moderator appointed the following committee :
Rev. Michael J. Owens — Augustus E. Scott,
Charles H. Clapham.
Art. 34. Elm Beetle, appropriation
Elm Leaf Beetle.
Alfred E. Robinson offered the following motion : —
Voted, That the sum of $800 be appropriated and
assessed for the suppression of the Elm Leaf
Beetle and other insects during the ensuing year,
this appropriation to be expended under the direction
of the present Moth Committee.
Arthur E. Horton moved that the matter
be indefinitely postponed ; this the meeting
refused to do, and the motion offered by Mr.
Robinson was carried.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was voted
that when this meeting is adjourned, it be
adjourned to Monday evening , Mar. 23, 1914
at 7.30 P.M.
At 10.31 oclock , on motion of Robert P. Clapp ,
it was voted to adjourn.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
See page [blank] for adjourned meeting.
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1914.
Lexington Mar. 13. 1914
Appointments made by Selectmen Mar. 13, 1914.
To the Town Clerk
At a meeting of the Selectmen held
March 13, 1914, the following appointments
were made.
Special Police.
Frank E. Clarke George S. Teague
Fred W. Johnson William S. Scamman
Charles E. Hadley William P. Wright
Charles A. Manley Henry J. McNider
Mark Dodd Theodore A. Belyea
George L. Pierce Clifton A. Walker
Thomas F. Griffin Peter T. Gillooly
Constables
Charles E. Wheeler
Keepers of Lock Up.
Charles H. Franks , Thomas C. Buckley
Trustees of Gammell Legacy
Acting with Overseers of the Poor.
Miss. Rose M. Tucker , Mrs. William W. Reed.
Librarian, Cary Memorial Library
Miss. Mariam P. Kirkland
Assistants
Miss. Helen E. Muzzey , Miss. Barbara MacKinnon
Miss. Emma O. Nichols, (Branch)
Superintendent of Scales
William E. Denham
Public Weighers
George S. Teague William E. Mulliken
George F. Teague William E. Denham
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1914.
Weighers of Hay and Grain
Charles F. Spaulding William B. Porter
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Charles E. Hadley.
Weigher at Stone Crusher.
Miss L. T. Whiting
Measurers of Wood and Bark.
Edgar W. Harrod George S. Teague.
Supervisor of Streets
Robert H. White
Superintendent and Matron of Alms House.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. White
Inspector of Buildings
William Gratto
Town Physician
Dr. Henry C. Valentine
Janitor of Town Hall and Stone Building
Peter T. Gillooly
Janitor of Village Hall
William P. Wright
Registrar of Voters
Charles F. Nourse
Burial Agent
Arthur A. Marshall.
George H. Childs
Chairman Board of Selectmen
A true copy, attest : Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk.
190
1914.
Perpetual Care
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, Mass.
March 16, 1914.
Henry Harris Lot
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the second day of November, A.D.,
1875, the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges
the receipt of One hundred (100) dollars from
G. W. Harris of Seattle, Wash.,
the interest of which is to be expended in
accordance with said vote and amendments
thereto and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870
upon the Henry Harris Lot, old No. 2, new
No. 220 in the Town Cemetery near the
High School House in said Lexington in
dressing and care of said lot, monuments,
walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
March 16, 1914.
A true copy,
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
191
1914.
Adjourned Town Meeting, March 23, 1914.
The meeting was called to order at 7.30 P.M.
by the Moderator
Art. 33. Public Parks
Public Parks.
On motion of Dr. J. Odin Tilton it was voted to
take article 33 from the table.
Dr. Tilton then offered the following as an
amendment to the substitute motion offered by
Mr. Merriam at the meeting of March 9 : —
Appropriation
See page 179
"Voted : — That the sum of Three Thousand
Dollars ($3000) be appropriated and assessed for
the support of Public Parks and Playgrounds the
ensuing year, this amount with the unexpended
balances to be expended under the direction of the
Park Commissioners."
The doctor made a strong plea for a
generous appropriation for play-ground purposes.
Howard S. O. Nichols and Elwyn G. Preston
urged a smaller appropriation for the purpose of
keeping the tax rate as low as possible
Dr. Tilton's amendment of Mr. Merriam's
substitute motion was carried by vote of 112 to 46,
and it was then voted that this amendment be
substituted for the motion offered by Mr. Welch
on March 9 by a vote of 119 to 35, and then
this substitute motion, being the motion offered by
Dr. Tilton, was carried by a vote of the meeting.
Art. 7.
Committee Reports.
On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it was voted
that article seven be considered as before the
meeting when no other business is pending.
Arts. 32 & 38
Street Watering and Oiling.
Robert P. Clapp in behalf of the Committee
appointed under this article at the meeting on
192
1914.
Street Watering and Oiling
March 9, made a written report, signed by the
entire committee, recommending the discontinuance of
assessing a part of the cost of Street Watering and
Oiling upon abutters and advocating that the
same shall be done entirely at the public expense
beginning with the year 1914.
Report of Committee adopted and recommendation adopted.
Mr. Clapp then made a statement of
his own views on the question, advocating that
during the year 1914 the assessors shall assess
upon the estates abutting on the section so oiled or
watered two cents per running front fort, vacant
lands not to be assessed, and only those upon which
there are dwelling houses, stores, business blocks or
other buildings, and that no estate shall be
assessed for a greater frontage than 250 feet.
See page 181.
On motion of Edwin A. Bayley it
was voted that the reports be received and placed
on file and that the thanks of the Town be extended
to the Committee.
2-141
See Com. Reports Vol. 2. page 141
Byron C. Earle moved that the recommendations
contained in the majority report be accepted
and adopted, and it was so voted, 76 to 58.
Mr. Earle made a strong argument setting
forth his reasons why the town should bear the
whole cost of Street Watering and Oiling.
Frank H. Holmes also urged the adoption of
the recommendations.
Appropriation
This plan was opposed by Mr. Clapp
Under Article 32, on motion of Edward P.
Merriam, it was voted "that an additional appropriation
of $3919.36 be made for the support
of highways to cover the cost of street watering
and oiling, to be made up as follows : —
To be transferred from Street
Watering and Oiling Acct. 919.36
To be assessed 3000.00
————
3919.36
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1914.
Art. 18 Concrete Sidewalks Appropriation
Concrete Sidewalks
George H. Childs offered the following motion :
"Voted, That the sum of $716.40 be appropriated
the ensuing year for the purpose of constructing
Sidewalks with concrete or other material
where the abutters will pay one-half of the expense
thereof, to be made up as follows :
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1914, $416.40
To be assessed 300.00
————
$716.40
And it was so voted.
Art. 16. Contingent Acct. Appropriation
Contingent.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was,
Voted — that the sum of $1000.92 be appropriated
for Contingent account for the ensuing year,
to be made up as follows : —
Balance unexpended, Jany 1, 1914, .92
To be assessed $1000.00
—————
$1000.92
Balances transferred to Contingent Acct.
Under this article, Edward P. Merriam offered the
following motion : —
"Voted, That the following unexpended balances be
transferred to the credit of Contingent Account :
Committee on New School House $11.77
Fire Alarm Reconstruction 3.18
Two Hundredth Anniversary 2.24
Committee on New Fire Equipment 110.50
————
127.87
And it was so voted
Voted that this meeting be adjourned to
Monday, March 30, 1914, at 7.30 P.M.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
194
1914.
Assistant Town Clerk Appointment
Lexington, March 25, 1914.
This is to certify that I have this day
appointed Helen C. Gallagher Assistant
Town Clerk of Lexington, and that she
has been duly sworn to perform the duties of
said office to the best of her knowledge and
ability.
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Appointments by Selectmen
Lexington, March 20, 1914.
To the Town Clerk.
At a meeting of the Selectmen held
March 20, 1914, the following appointments were made.
Janitor, Cary Memorial Library
Frank E. Clarke
Trustees Bridge Charitable Fund.
F. Foster Sherburne , Frank D. Peirce
John F. Turner.
Weigher of Hay and Grain
Fred Given
George H. Childs
Chairman Board of Selectmen.
195
Perpetual
Care
Eben
Simonds
Lot
Town Treasurers Office,
Lexington, Mar, 28, 1914.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the Inhabitants of
the Town of Lexington in town meeting assembled on
the 2nd day of November, A.D. 1875, the Town
Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of
One Hundred (100) dollars from H. and F. P.
Simonds of Lexington, the interest of which is to be
expended in accordance with said vote and amendments
thereto and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870
upon the Eben Simonds lot, No. 175 in the town
Cemetery near the High School House in said
Lexington in dressing and care of said lot,
monuments, walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
196
1914.
See page
185
for vote to
adopt
Approval of
Hydrant
By Law
by
Atty-General
Amendment of By-Law relating to appropriation
for Hydrants.
Voted, that the By-Law of the town adopted at a
town meeting held March 2, 1896 whereby an annual
charge of $45 per hydrant was established in the
Water Department be amended by substituting the
word "ten" for the word "forty-five."
And the meeting so voted.
The By-Law adopted by the town at a meeting held
March 2, 1896 and approved by Court April 7, 1896
reads as follows:
The Water Board shall cause hydrants to be
a placed where the Selectmen and Engineers may indicate,
and the town shall annually appropriate for the use
of the water department forty-five dollars for each
hydrant in use.
The town shall also pay and annually appropriate
a sufficient sum therefor for the purpose of the water
department:
For the use of water in the public buildings, the
same rates that are charged to individuals.
For the use of water in watering troughs, twenty-five
dollars for each trough.
For water for watering street, twenty-five cents
per thousand gallons.
I, Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk of Lexington,
certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a vote
which was duly adopted by the Town of Lexington,
at a Town Meeting duly held for the purpose on
March 9, 1914 of which meeting due notice was
given as provided by law and the By-Laws of the
Town.
And also a true copy of the By-Law referred
to in said vote.
197
1914
Witness the seal of said town hereto affixed
[seal with an 'S.' inside a circle] and my official signature, March 13, 1914.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Boston, March 27, 1914.
The forgoing By-Law is hereby approved.
Thomas J. Brynton
Attorney-General.
Lincoln Sr
Lexington, Mass. March 27. 1914.
To the Town Clerk.
Deed of
land for
widening
from
Harding
Deed recd.
Book 3871
pg. 325
At a meeting of the Board of Survey held
this day, Marston Harding presented a deed conveying
to the town a strip of land on his premises on
Lincoln Street, also plan showing same.
This land was given for the purpose of widening
Lincoln Street.
The Board passed the following vote:
"Voted that the Board of Survey in the name of
the inhabitants of Lexington hereby accepts for
said inhabitants the tract of land on the northerly
side of Lincoln Street deeded to the town by
Marston Harding by deed dated January 15, 1914.
George H. Childs.
Chairman.
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1914
Adjourned Meeting - March 30, 1914
The meeting was called to order at 7.34 P.M.
by the Moderator.
Arts.
15, 36, 37.
Fire Dept
appropriation
- Fire Department -
Under article 15, Edward W. Taylor offered the
following motions:
1st = Voted, that the sum of $7498.07 be appropriated
for the support of the Fire Department, to
be made up as follows:
Balances unexpended. Jan. 1, 1914, $198.07
To be assessed 7300.00
________
$7498.07
New Fire
How
appropriation
to be expended under the direction of the Board
of Fire Engineers.
And the meeting so voted.
2nd = Voted that the sum of $399 be appropriated
for New Fire Hose, to be made up as follows:
[unintelligable] unexpended balance, Jan. 1, 1914 $99.00
To be assessed 300.00
_______
$399.00
And the meeting so voted.
Firemen
1 day off in 7
defeated
Under article 37, on motion of Edward P. Merriam,
it was - Voted that all action under this article
be indefinitely postponed.
Increase pay
permanent
Fire Men
Under article 36 Edward W. Taylor offered the
following motion: -
Voted that the pay of the permanent men
in the Fire Department be increased from $75
to $82.50 per month.
And it was so voted.
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1914.
Art. 16.
Watering
troughs
appropriation
- Appropriations -
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was
Voted that the following amounts for appropriated
and assessed for the various accounts enumerated, up
to and including the item for Watering Troughs; -
19th of
April
April 19th Celebration $200.00
To be assessed $200.00
Assessor
Dept.
Appropriation
Assessors $1787.27
Voted, That the sum of $1787.27 be appropriated for
the Assessors Department for the purposes and subject
to the limitations specified in detail as follows: -
For salaries of the Assessors,
provided the card system of records
be used, $1400.00
For incidintals, new cards etc 237.27
For clerical work 150.00
_______
$1787.27
to be made up as follows:
Incidentals, Balance unexpended
Jan. 1. 1914 $3.56
Incidentals [ditto] Transfer from New Card
System Account 83.71
Incidentals To be assessed 150.00
Salaries To be assessed 1400.00
Clerical Work To be assessed 150.00
__________
$1787.27
Auditor's
Dept.
appropriation
Auditor.
Salary $700.00
To be assessed, $700.00
Incidentals $32.99
Balance 32.99
Board of
Survey
appropriation
Board of Survey $289.05
Balance 189.05
To be assessed 100.00
200
1914.
Cary
Memorial
Library
Appropriation
Cary Memorial Library
Salaries - $2650.00
To be assessed, $2650.00
Incidentals 1042.42
Balance $242.42
To be assessed 800.00
Treasurer's Salary $50.00
To be assessed $50.00
Tax
Collector
appropriation
Collector of Taxes
Salary $1100.00
To be assessed $1100.00
Incidentals 328.54
Balance 28.54
To be assessed 300.00
Clerk of
School Com.
Clerk of Schools 50.00
To be assessed 50.00
Trustee
Public Trusts
appropriation
Clerk of Trustees of Public Trusts
Salary 50.00
To be assessed 50.00
Incidentals 22.73
Balance 22.73
Discount of
Taxes
Discount of Taxes 1122.21
Balance 322.21
To be assessed 800.00
Elections and
Registration
Election and Registration 577.37
Balance 12.37
To be assessed 565.00
Forest Fires
appropriation
Forest Fires 310.80
Balance 10.80
To be assessed 300.00
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Hydrants
appropriation
Hydrants $1640.00
Balance 130.0
To be assessed 1510.00
Hastings
Park
appropriation
Hastings Park 12.52
Balance 7.52
To be assessed 5.00
Cattle Inspt.
Inspector of Cattle 200.00
To be assessed 200.00
Building
Inspector
Inspector of Buildings
Salary 9 months 250.00
To be assessed 250.00
Incidentals 100.00
To be assessed 100.00
Slaughter
Insp.
Inspector of Meats and Provisions nothing
Balance $112.00
Insurance
Insurance 397.11
Balance 97.11
To be assessed 300.00
Interest
Interest 7009.23
Balance 9.23
To be assessed 7000.00
Overseers of
Poor
Overseers of the Poor
Salaries 300.00
To be assessed 300.00
Police
Police Department 7961.22
Balance 361.22
To be assessed 7600.00
Soldiers
Relief
Soldiers Relief 147.29
Balance 47.29
To be assessed 100.00
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Selectmen
appropriation
Selectmen
Salaries 400.00
To be assessed 400.00
Incidentals 580.98
Balance 180.98
To be assessed 400.00
Stone Bldg.
appropriation
Stone Building 830.13
Balance 5.13
To be assessed 825.00
Highway
Surveyors
Surveyors of Highways
Salaries 300.00
To be assessed 300.00
Sealer,
Weights-& Measures
Sealer of Weights of Measures 187.02
Balances 67.02
To be assessed 120.00
Treasurer
Treasurer
Salary 1000.00
To be assessed 1000.00
Incidentals 287.95
Balance 87.95
To be assessed 200.00
Town
Clerk
Town Clerk
Salary 1000.00
To be assessed 1000.00
Incidentals 338.46
Balance 338.46
Town Hall
Town Hall 1826.02
Balance 1.02
To be assessed 1825.00
Town
Physician
Town Physician 75.00
To be assessed 75.00
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Tree
Warden
Tree Warden 867.43
Balance 67.43
To be assessed 800.00
Town Debt
Town Debt 32750.00
To be assessed 32750.00
Village Hall
Village Hall 204.28
To be assessed 200.00
Watering
Troughs
Watering Troughs $100.00
To be assessed $100.00
Board
of
Health
appropriation
Under the item of Board of Health, Edward P.
Merriam moved that $1503.73 be appropriated for
the use of the Board of Health.
Edward W. Taylor offered the following amendment:-
"And that no portion of that amount be expended
for the payment of any bill or bills for services of
counsel rendered to the Board of Health."
This amendment was carried by vote of the
meeting, and then the motion of Mr. Merriam as
amended was carried at 8.07.
At 8.36 P.M. George H. Childs gave notice
that he intended to ask for a reconsideration of the
question, and later Mr. Childs moved that the
votes passed with reference to the Board of Health
appropriation be reconsidered, and it was so voted:
Robert P. Clapp explained that there is a
bill amounting to $653.00 which William M.
Prest claims is due him for legal services rendered
the Board of Health.
Restriction on
Expenditure
Mr. Merriam moved that $2156.73 be appropriated
for the use of the Board of Health.
This motion was defeated.
In motion of Mr. Merriam as amended: by
Mr. Taylor it was then voted - That the sum
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of $1503.73 be appropriated for the use of
the Board of Health, to be made up as follows:
Balance 3.73
To be assessed 1500.00
and that no portion of that amount be expended
for the payment of any bill or bills for services of
counsel rendered to the Board of Health.
Art. 20.
Insurance
appropriation
- Insurance -
On motion of George H. Childs, it was
"Voted, that the sum of $397.11 be appropriated
for Insurance during the ensuing year,
to be made up as follows:
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1914 $97.11
To be assessed 300.00
_______
$397.11
And it was so voted.
Art. 23
Town Engineer
postponed
- Town Engineer -
On motion of George H. Childs, it was voted
that all action under this article be indefinitely
postponed.
Art. 28.
Finance Com.
appropriation
- Finance Committee Appropriation. -
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was -
Voted, That the sum of $145.41 be appropriated
for incidental expenses of the Finance Committee,
to be made up as follows:
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1914, $95.41
To be assessed 50.00
_______
145.41
Art. 31.
Automobile
for Police
Defeated
- Auto for Police Department -
On motion of Edward P. Merram, it was
Voted that action under this article be indefinitely
postponed.
This article caused considerable discussion.
Patrick J. Kelley strongly criticized certain members
of the police department.
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Mr. Fardy urged that an auto be purchased for
the use of the department so that the outlying
sections of the town might be better protected.
Art. 17. Taxes
Collection of Taxes.
date of payment
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it was
Voted, That all 1914 taxes shall be due and payable
December 31, 1914, that a discount of ½ of one
per cent, shall be allowed for each full month of
prior payment ; that interest at the rate of six per
cent per annum shall be charged on all taxes paid
after December 1st, and that the Tax Collector be
and hereby is instructed to collect all taxes on or
before December 1st, 1914.
Art. 22. Wire Insp defeated
Inspector of Wires.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam , it was
Voted that action under this article be indefinitely
postponed.
Arts. 21 & 25 Cemetery appropriation
Cemetery Appropriation
Edward P. Merriam offered the following motion : —
Voted , That the sum of $1109.08 be appropriated
for the care of Cemeteries during the ensuing
year, to be made up as follows :
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1914. $112.76
To be transferred from "Special Wall Acct." 96.32
To be assessed 900.00
————
1109.08
to be expended under the direction of the Cemetery
Committee for the purposes and subject to the
limitations specified in detail as follows : —
For Water Pipe $600.00
For General Care 509.08
————
1109.08
And it was so voted.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was voted
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Cemetery Care Treasurer to collect
that hereafter the Town Treasurer be instructed
to tender and collect all bills for building foundations,
grading and general care of cemetery
lots, as reported from time to time by the
Cemetery Committee.
Art. 8 Election of Fence Viewers
Minor Town Officers
Under this article the following persons were elected :
Fence Viewers
Robert L. Ryder James A. Bean
Field Drivers
Field Drivers
Phineas W. Graves Oscar Needham
Surv. of Lumber
Surveyors of Lumber
Frank P. Cutter Edgar W. Harrod.
Persons not voters to be excluded from Town Meetings
William R. Greeley stated that he rose to a question
of personal privilege and declared that there were
persons on the floor who were not voters , and made
the following motion : — That the Selectmen
be instructed to take such action at future town
meetings as would prevent the presence on the
floor of those not entitled to vote — and the
meeting so voted.
At 9.13 oclock it was voted that the
meeting be dissolved.
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Selectmen appointments
Appointments by the Selectmen.
Lexington April 3. 1914
To the Town Clerk.
At a meeting of the Selectmen held April 3,
1914, the following appointments were made :
Special Police
John J. Garrity Thomas Burke.
John Campbell.
April 19th Committee
Herbert G. Locke Major Alfred Pierce
George H. Childs
George H. Childs
Chairman Board of Selectmen.
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Town Treasurers Office
Lexington Mass.
April 6, 1914.
Perpetual Care
$100.00
Fessenden Tomb.
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November, A.D.,
1875, the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges
the receipt of one Hundred (100) dollars from
the Estate of Lucy Lee Fessenden, the interest
of which is to be expended in accordance with
said vote and amendments thereto and Chapter
225 of the Acts of 1870 upon the Thomas Fessenden
Tomb in the old Town Cemetery near the
Unitarian Church in said Lexington for care
of said tomb.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
A true copy
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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1914.
Warrant for a Town Meeting — May 11. 1914.
Town Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
in said County Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington qualified to vote in
town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said
Lexington, on Monday the eleventh day of May,
1914, at 7.45 P.M., then and there to act on
the following articles :
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon,
and the appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To see if the town will vote to rescind the action
taken at a Town Meeting held March 14, 1910
or at any later meeting whereby it was voted that
the Selectmen be requested to grant slaughtering
licenses only where the applicants volunteer to
pay the entire cost of inspection, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the town will make an appropriation to
provide for the compensation of Inspectors of
Slaughtering, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of
$1000.00 for the purpose of lowering and widening
Vine Brook, between Massachusetts Avenue and
East Street, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
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Art. 5. To see if the town will vote to instruct all
Boards and Departments employing manual labor
and other help to give the preference for such
employment to citizens of Lexington, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen
and Town Treasurer to sell land it now owns by
Collectors Deed on unredeemed Tax Titles or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington this fourth
day of May, A.D. 1914.
George H. Childs } Selectmen of
S. Myron Lawrence } Lexington
Return of Constable
Lexington, May 8, 1914.
To the Clerk of the Town : —
I have notified the inhabitants of the
Town of Lexington by posting a duly attached
copy of the Warrant in eight public places and
by making a duly attested copy of this warrant
to every registered voter in the town four days
before the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the warrant and the return of
the Constable.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1914
Town
Meeting
Town Meeting - May 11. 1914.
The meeting was called to order at 7.53 oclock. P.M.
by the Moderator.
The Warrant and the Return of the Constable
thereon was read by the Clerk.
Art. 4.
Vine Brook,
lowering of
postponed
- On Lowering of Vine Brook. -
George E. Briggs, Chairman of the Water and Sewer
Board, stated that the Board and those citizens
responsible for having the article placed in the warrant
had agreed that it was advisable to postpone action
at this time, and that at a later meeting the
Board will make recommendations relative to the
lowering of brooks.
On motion of Mr. Briggs it was voted
that action under this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 6
Authority to
sell tax title
lands
unredeemed
- On sale of land moved by town on
Unredeemed Tax Titles. -
Byron C. Earle offered the following motion: -
"That the Selectmen and Town Treasurer be
given the authority to sell and give Quit [?] Claim
Deed on land the Town now owns by Collectors
Deeds on unredeemed Tax Titles."
And it was so voted.
Arts.
2 & 3.
Slaughter
Licenses
- On issuing of Slaughter Licenses. -
William P. Martin, representing the Selectmen,
stated that the Board had received applications from
various butchers for licenses to slaughter, and that
there had been no appropriation made to provide
for payment of Inspector of Slaughtering.
The Selectment had no recommendation to make
but desired to know the wishes of the town in the
matter. If no appropriation to made for the
inspector, the Selectman cannot grant any permits
for the present year.
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1914.
Inspector of
Slaughtering
Appropriation
Charles J. Dailey gave figures relative to the number
of Lexington animals killed and stated that their
value was approximately $100,000, and on motion
of Mr. Dailey, it was - Voted, That the
action taken at a Town Meeting held Mar. 14, 1910
referred to in Article 2 of the warrant be hereby
rescinded and that the sum of $400 be appropriated
and assessed to defray the expense of
inspection of meats during the ensuing year.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was
voted to adjourn at 8.57 oclock.
No action was taken under articles 1 or 5.
A true record.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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By-Law on readoption of Building Laws
Approval of By-Laws on re-adoption
of Building Laws.
"Voted that, for the purpose expressed in Article 29 of
the warrant for the present meeting, the Building
Laws thereon referred to, which were adopted by the
Town by vot passed May 15, 1913, be and the same
hereby are adopted as by-laws under the provisions
and with the sanction of Chapter six hundred and
fifty-five of the Acts of the year nineteen hundred
and thirteen."
Approval of Atty. General.
"Voted that the Selectmen, after obtaining the approval
by the Attorney-General of said by-laws, cause them
to be published as provided by law."
See pages 60 - 73 114 - 185
And the meeting so voted.
I Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk of Lexington certify
that the foregoing is a true copy of a vote which
was duly adopted by the Town of Lexington, at a
Town Meeting duly held for the purpose on March
9, 1914 of which meeting due notice was given
as provided by law and the By-Laws of the Town.
Witness the seal of said town hereto
affixed and my official signature,
March 13, 1914.
{s}
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
Boston, March 27, 1914.
The foregoing by-law is hereby approved.
Thomas J. Boynton
Attorney-General.
A true copy of the By-Law and approval of the
Attorney-General.
Attest :
Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk.
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1914.
Perpetual Care
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, May 26. 1914.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting assembled
on the 2nd day of November, A.D. 1875, the
Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of
One hundred (100) dollars from Lavinia S. Locke
of Lynn Mass., the interest of which is to be
expended in accordance with said vote and amendments
thereto and Chapter 225 of the Acts of
1870 upon the Otis Locke lot No. 328 in
the Town Cemetery near the High School
House in said Lexington in dressing and care
of said lot, monuments, walks and avenues adjacent
thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
May 26, 1914.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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1914.
Financial Committee appointed
Finance Committee appointed under the terms
of the By-Law adopted January 10. 1914.
See pages 157-162
For One year.
Ernest K. Ballard
George Wilson
Ethelbert Smith
Charles J. Dailey
Clarence P. Johnson
For Two years.
Hallie C. Blake
Eugene T. Buckley
David F. Murphy
F. Foster Sherburne
Everett S. Emery.
For Three years
Lester T. Redman
Charles H. Rudd
Ralph L. Stevens
Daniel B. Lewis
Francis S. Dane.
June 2, 1914,
Received for record
Attest :
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant for a Town Meeting June 25 1914
Warrant for a Town Meeting.
Town Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex, SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington qualified to vote in town
affairs, to meet in the Town Hall, in said
Lexington, on
Thursday, the Twenty-fifth day of June,
A.D. 1914, at 7.45 P.M., then and there
to act on the following articles : —
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town officers
or any Committees of the Town for action thereon,
and to appoint other committees.
Art. 2. To see if the town will appropriate and assess
the sum of $2500, to be expended under the direction
of the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners,
for the purpose of deepening, widening and
straightening the several brooks of the town, or
any of them, as recommended in their report to
this town dated August 1, 1913 ; or act in any other manner
relating thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the town will vote to publish the proceedings
and addresses on the 200th Anniversary
of the incorporation of the town and appropriate
money therefor or to act in any manner relative
thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the town will appropriate and assess
the sum of $500 for payment of Town Debt.
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1914.
Art 5. To see if the town will take any action with
reference to the notification of, or approval by the
voters of the Town regarding any proposed legislation
particularly affecting the town or its citizens, or
act in any manner relating thereto.
(Above article inserted at the request of Arthur E. Horton.)
Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen
to increase the number of lights and candle
power of same from Grant Street around the Common,
and make an appropriation for same, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the town will vote to install illuminated
clock dials in the belfry at the Unitarian Church
subject to the approval of the Parish Committee of
the Church, and make an appropriation for the
same, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this Warrant,
with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or
before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this twelfth
day of June, A.D., 1914.
George H. Childs } Selectmen
Edward W. Taylor } of
S. M. Lawrence } Lexington
Return of Constable
Lexington, June 22. 1914.
To the Town Clerk : —
I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington
by posting duly attested copies of the foregoing warrant in
ten public places in the town, and by mailing a duly
attested copys of the same to every registered voter in the
town, three days before the time of said meeting.
Attest, Charles E. Wheeler, Constable of Lexington.
A true copy of the warrant and return of Constable.
Attest. Charles W. Swan,
Town Clerk.
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Town Meeting, June 25, 1914.
The meeting was called to order by James P. Pierce,
the Moderator.
The Warrant and the return of the Constable was
read by the Town Clerk.
Art. 2. Appropriation for deepening Brooks $2000
Appropriation for deepening and
widening brooks.
George E. Briggs, Chairman of the Water and Sewer
Commissioners offered the following motion : —
"Voted, that the sum of $2500 is hereby
appropriated and assessed ; this sum to be spent
under the direction of the Board of Water & Sewer
Commissioners for the purpose of deepening, widening,
and straightening the various brooks of the
Town or any of them."
Clarence P. Johnson, Chairman of the Finance
Committee, offered an amendment that the amount
be made $2000 instead of $2500.
This amendment was carried and the original
motion as amended was carried.
Art. 3. Appropriation for publishing doings at 200th Anniversary $125.00
Page 221 for Committee
Publication of proceedings of the
200th Anniversary of Incorporation.
Dr. Fred S. Piper offered the following motions : —
(1st) "Moved, that the proceedings and addresses
commemorative of the two hundredth anniversary
of the incorporation of the town of Lexington be
published in an edition of five hundred (500)
copies and that $125.00 be hereby appropriated
for that purpose."
(2nd). "Moved, That a committee of three persons
be appointed by the Moderator to have charge
of the publishing and distributing of the proceedings
of the two hundredth anniversary of this town,
and said committee is hereby authorized to distribute
one hundred copies free, with the com-
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pliments of the town, to public libraries and
institutions and to fix a price for the sale of
said proceedings for private purposes."
And the meeting so voted.
Art. 6. Proposal to increase number of lights around common
Increase in number and candle power
of Street lights around the Common.
George H. Childs offered the following motion : —
"Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to contract
with The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. for an
increased number of lights with increased candle power
from Grant Street around the Common and that
the sum of Two Hundred and Thirty ($230.) Dollars
be appropriated and assessed, or act in any manner
relating thereto."
Referred to next Town Meeting
On motion of William C. Stickle it was
voted that action on this article be postponed to the
next Town Meeting.
Mr. Childs stated that the Edison company had
been granted an underground location for its wires
in the streets named and read a letter from the
company stating the additional number of lights
which the company suggested installing , and that
each light would be 100 candle power.
Clarence P. Johnson, of the Finance Committee
stated that owing to the short time that the
committee had had for investigation , he did not
feel like making any recommendation.
Art. 5. On securing legislation without vote.
On securing Legislation without
authority from the town.
Arthur E. Horton offered the following motion : —
"Voted, That it is the sentiment of the citizens
of Lexington, in town meeting assembled that here —
after no legislation affecting the rights of the town of
Lexington or the rights of individual citizens of
said town, otherwise than as it affects generally the
people of the whole Commonwealth, shall be proposed
Indef. post.
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1914.
or introduced for the consideration of the General
Court by any citizen, or representative, directly or
indirectly, except upon a petition ; nor until a
vote has been taken in town meeting requesting
such legislation ; nor shall any bill or resolve
embodying such legislation be proposed or introduced
until proper notice of the proposed legislation
has been given by public advertisement or
otherwise to all parties interested."
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it
was voted that the matter be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 7. Proposal to illuminate clock dials in Unitarian Church Defeated
Illuminating Clock Dials
in Unitarian Church.
Eugene T. Buckley offered the following motion : —
"Voted, That the Selectmen be authorized to
contract with the Edison Electric Illuminating
Company to illuminate the dials in the belfry
of the First Congregational Church, providing
the dials and all other improvements for the
clock are paid for by private subscription, and
that the sum of $40. be appropriated and
assessed for the purpose indicated, or act in any
manner relating thereto."
The motion was defeated.
Dr. Piper and Frank H. Holmes objected to the
appropriation because the clock is so hidden
by trees that it could not be seen to advantage
The Moderator stated , in answer to a
question, that in his opinion the town could
not spend money for this purpose.
Art. 4. Appropriation for Town Debt $500
Appropriation for Town Debt,
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson , it was —
"Voted , That the town appropriate and assess
the sum of $500 for payment of town debt."
Mr. Johnson explained that this appropriation
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was made to cover an oversight under the appropriation
for town debt made at the annual March
meeting.
At 9.40 o'clock it was voted that the meeting be
adjourned.
A true record,
Attest :
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
See page 218
Committee to publish proceedings on the
200th Anniversary of Incorporation in accordance
with vote passed under Art 3. at a town meeting
held June 25. 1914 : —
Dr. Fred S. Piper
Alonzo E. Locke
Miss. Barbara MacKinnon.
A true record,
Attest :
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1914.
Lincoln X
Middle Sts.
Lexington, Mass. April 10, 1914.
To the Town Clerk:
Acceptance of Harding land.
Deed Recorded
June 2. 1914
Book 3887
Page 83
At a meeting of the Board of
Survey held this day, Marston Harding pre-
sented a deed conveying to the town a strip of
land on his premises at the junction of Lincoln and
Middle Streets, also plan showing same.
This land was given for the purpose of
widening Lincoln Street.
The Board passed the following vote: --
"Voted, that the Board of Survey in the name
of the inhabitants of Lexington hereby accepts for
said inhabitants the tract of land at the junction
of Lincoln and Middle Streets deeded to the town
by Marston Harding by deed dated March 27, 1914.
George H. Childs.
Chairman.
Pleasant St.
Mass. Ave.
Lexington, Mass. July 3, 1914.
To the Town Clerk:
acceptance of
Peirce land.
At a meeting of the Board of Survey held June
26 it was voted, in the name of the inhabitants of
Lexington, to accept a parcel of land located at the
corner of Mass. Ave. and Pleasant Street at the
entrance to the new street deeded to the town by
Frank D. Peirce by deed dated June 26, 1914.
George H. Childs
Chairman.
True Copies.
Attest Charles N. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1914.
Warrant.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington
in said County, Greetings:
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, You are directed to notify the inhab-
itants of the Town of Lexington, qualified to vote
in town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in
said Lexington, on -
Thursday, the thirtieth day of July, A. D., 1914,
at 7.45 o'clock P.M., time and there to act on
the following articles:
Act 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committees of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other committees.
Act 2. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess
to defray the expenses of the inspection of meats
the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) or such
other, further or additional sum as may be
necessary or in the opinion of the meeting may
be proper of to act in any manner relating thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will appropriate and assess
any further or additional sums besides those
already appropriated and assessed by the Town
to defray the expense of the inspection of meats
and other necessary expenses of inspection in
connection with the slaughtering of animals
within the town, and particularly such other
and additional sums as may be necessary or
convenient to permit or authorize the Selectmen
to issue other licenses than those already
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issued to carry on the business of slaughtering
neat cattle, sheep or swine or to act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the town will vote to authorize
the Selectmen to increase the number of lights
and candle power of same from Grant street
around the Common, and make an appropriation
for same, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the purpose of widening Massachusetts Avenue
in accordance with the vote of the town
passed March 24, 1913 and vote to issue
Bonds for the purpose of raising the money
so appropriated, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due
return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon
to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said
meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington
this seventeenth day of July, A. D. 1914.
Selectmen of Lexington
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor
S. Myron Lawrence
Lexington, July 23, 1914
To the Town Clerk - I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting daily attested copies of the
foregoing Warrant in eight (8) public places in the
town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the
same to every registered voter in the town, eight days
before the time of said meeting.
Attest Charles E. Wheeler, Constable of Lexington
A true copy. Attest. Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
225
1914.
Town Meeting, July 30, 1914.
The meeting was called ot order by the Moderator
and the Warrant and the Return of the Constable
was read by the Town Clerk.
Acts. 2 & 3.
Mets and Provisional, Insp. of,
Additional Appropriation taken from Board of Health.
Appropriation for Inspection of
Meats and Provisions.
On motion of Eugine J. Burkley, both articles
were taken up together.
Daniel B. Lewis, representing the finance committee,
moved that action made these articles be infinitely
postponed, this the meeting refused to do.
James F. McCarthy offered the following
motion: -- "Voted -- That in addition to the
amount heretofore appropriated to defray, the
expenses of the inspection of meat during the
ensuing year, the further sum of $400 be added
and hereby is appropriated to defray such expense
and other necessary expense of inspection in con-
nection with the slaughtering of animals within
the town,"
William P. Martin raised the point of order
that under the wording of this motion no money
would be available as no source was indicated
from which it might be taken.
The Moderator ruled the point well taken, but
that the motion might properly be put before
the meeting.
Mr. McCarthy then offered an amendment
that the money be taken from any unexpended
balances. On a point of order raised by
Mr. Martin, the Moderator ruled that there
are no unexpended balances until the books are
closed at the end of the year, and the amend-
ment could not be entertained.
Daneil J. O'Connell offered an amendment that
the money be raised by an issue of bonds.
226
1914.
On a point of order raised by Alonzo E. Locke,
the Chair ruled that this amendment could not
be entertained because the article did not call
for an issue of bonds.
Mr. McCarthy then offered an amendment
that the money be taken from the Board of
Health appropriation, and this amendment was
adopted.
And it was finally voted:-
"That in addition to the amount heretofor
appropriated to defray the expense of the
inspection of meat during the ensuing year,
the further sum of $400 be added and hereby
is appropriated to defray such expense and other
necessary expense of inspection in connection
with the slaughtering of animals within the
town, and that they sum of $400 so appropriated
for the support of the Board of
Health."
Art. 5.
Mass. Ave
Widening of Massachusetts Ave.
On motion of Daniel B. Lewis, it was voted
that action under this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art 4.
Street
lighting
increased
Increased Street Lighting
On motion of Daniel B. Lewis, it was
Voted that the plan proposed by the Edison
Company for improved street lighting in the
territory from Grant Street around the Common
be accepted and approved.
Art. 1
New
Cemetery
Committee Reports.
On motion of Alonzo E. Locke, it was voted -
"That the Committee on New Cemetery be
empowered to employ a landscape architect
to report on properties under consideration
227
1914.
for a cemetery and that said Committee be
requested to report in print at the next Town
Meeting.
Meeting dissolved.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
228
1914.
Warrant for
Primary
Warrant for a Primary
Sept. 22, 1914.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
Greeting
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of
the town of Lexington who are qualified to vote
in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, in
said Lexington, on Tuesday the twenty-second
day of September, 1914, at Two O clock P 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 " " "
Secretary of the Commonwealth " " "
Treasurer and Receiver General " " "
Auditor of the Commonwealth " " "
Attorney - General " " "
Representation in Congress 8th Cong. District
Councillor 6th Councillor "
Senator 5th Senatorial "
One Representative in General Court, - 29 Rep. "
County Commissioner Middlesex County
And for the Election of the following officers:
District Member of State Committee for each political
party for the 5th Senatorial District.
Members of the Democratic Town Committee
Members of the Republican Town Committee
Members of the Progressive Party Town Committee
Delegates to SState Conventions of Political Parties.
All the above candidates and officers are to
be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from two to eight P.M.
229
1914.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting
attested copies thereof and by mailing attested copies
thereof at least seven days before the time of said
meeting as directed by vote of the town.
Hereof, fail not, and make return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this
forty day of September, A.D., 1914.
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor
S. Myron Lawrence
}Selectmen of
Lexington.
Lexington, September 16, 1914
To the Town Clerk.
I have notified the inhabitants of
Lexington by posting duly attested copies of the foregoing
Warrant in seven public places in the town,
and by mailing a duly attested copy of the same to
every registered voter in the town, seven days before
the time of said meeting.
Attest.
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return of
the Constable thereon.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
230
State
Primary
State Primary.
September 22. 1914.
The meeting was called to order by George H.
Childs, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, at
two oclock P.M., and the Warrant and Return of
the Constable was read by the Town Clerk.
The Chairman gave his receipt to the
Clerk for three packages said to contain 950 Republican
ballots, 650 Progressive ballots and 600 Democratic
ballots respectively, and also for two voting lists.
The ballots and one list were placed in charge of
Fred G. Jones, James A. Hurley and Clifton P.
Ashley who had been sworn to the faithful discharge
of their duties as Ballot Clerks.
The ballot box was shown to be empty,
then locked and the key given to the Constable
in attendance, and the polls were declared open.
Allston M. Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Patrick
F. Dacey, Cornelius F. O'Connor, Nathaniel Nunn,
Leonard W. Wiley, Fred E. Butters and Louis
H. Lawrence were sworn to the faithful discharge
of their duties as Tellers.
At eight oclock the polls were declared closed
and 188 ballots were removed from the box.
The dial registered 188; and there were 188 names
checked on each list.
After the Tellers had completed the work of
counting, the result was announced as follows:-
Republican Party
Whole number of votes cast - 133
Governnor
Samuel W. McCall of Winchester 126
Blanks 7
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1914.
Lieutenant-Governor.
Grofton D. Cushing of Boston 52
August H. Boething " Springfield 30
Elmer A. Stevens " Somerville 48
Blanks. 3
Secretary
Frank L. Brier of Boston 21
William J. Kinney " Boston 7
Albert P. Langtry " Springfield 96
Blanks 9
Treasurer.
Charles L. Burrill of Boston 80
Frederick E. Pierce " Greenfield 41
Blanks 12
Auditor.
Alonzo B. Cook of Boston 70
Joseph Monnette " Lawrence 46
Blanks 17
Attorney-General.
Henry C. Attwill of Lynn 15
John A. Curtin " Brookline 23
James M. Hallowell " Newton 25
John J. Higgins " Somerville 47
James A. Stiles " Gardner 11
Blanks 12
Congressman, 8th Dist.
Charles L. Baxter of Medford 13
Frederick W. Dallinger " Cambridge 112
Blanks 8
Councillor, 6th Dist.
Henry C. Mulligan of Natick 108
Blanks 25
232
1914.
Senator, 5th Middlesex Dist.
Nathan A. Tufts of Waltham 115
Blanks 18
Representative in General Court.
29th Middlesex Dist.
Jacob Bitzer of Arlington 116
Blanks 17
County Commissioner
Middlesex County
Fredric P. Barnes of Newton 35
Levi S. Gould " Melrose 77
Julius Meyers " Cambridge 3
Blanks 18
State Committee
5th Middlesex Dist.
Adelbert B. Messer of Concord 105
Blanks 28
Delegates to State Convention
Edward P. Merriam 121
Robert L. Ryder 118
Edwin C. Stevens 121
Blanks 39
Town Committee.
Arthur W. Hatch 114
Louis L. Crone 113
Edward W. Taylor 114
George H. Childs 114
J. Myron Lawrence 113
Charles F. Bertwell 110
William S. Scamman 115
Sydney R. Wrightington 114
Howard M. Munroe 113
Clarence H. Cutler 112
233
1914.
Robert L. Ryder 113
Edward L. Child 112
Howard S. O. Nichols 110
Charles E. Hadley 111
Arthur L. Blodgett 112
James J. Walsh 110
Charles F. Nourse 111
Blanks 350
Democratic Party
Whole number of votes cast: 28
Governor.
David I. Walsh of Fitchbury 23
Blanks 5
Lieutenant-Governor.
Edward P. Barry of Boston 23
Blanks 5
Secretary
Frank J. Donahue of Boston 24
Blanks 4
Treasurer.
Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston 23
Blanks 5
Auditor
Frank H. Pope of Leominster 23
Blanks 5
Attorney-General
Thomas J. Boynton of Everett 23
Blanks 5
234
1914.
Congressman - 8th Dist.
Frederick S. Deitrick of Cambridge 22
Blanks 6
Councillor - 6th Dist.
John J. Hogan of Lowell 23
Blanks 5
Senator, 5th Middlesex Dist.
Warren L. Bishop of Wayland 5
Patrick J. Duane " Waltham 19
Blanks 4
Representative in General Court
29th Middlesex Dist
James F. McCarthy of Lexington 24
Blanks 4
County Commissioner
Middlesex County
John J. Butler of Wakefield 3
Charles F. McCarthy " Marlborough 19
John B. McCloskey " Cambridge 0
Peter J. McLaughlin " Cambridge 0
Michael M. OConnor " Cambridge 2
William H. Walsh " Framingham 1
Blanks 3
State Committee
5th Middlesex Dist.
Bernard W. Stanley of Waltham 21
Blanks 7
Delegate to State Convention
David F. Murphy 15
Blanks 13
235
1914.
Town Committee.
Bartholomew D. Callahan 22
Joseph P. Ryan 22
Daniel J. O'Connell 23
Eugene J. Buckley 22
Arthur A. Mitchie 22
David F. Murphy 20
William A. Ray 21
William C. O'Leary 22
James M. Ahearn 21
J. J. Donahue 1
Arthur O'Leary 1
Blanks. 83
Progressive Party.
Whole number of votes cast - 27
Governor:
Joseph Walker of Brookline 27
Blanks 0
Lieutenant-Governor.
James P. Magenis of Boston 25
Blanks 2
Secretary
Russell A. Wood of Cambridge 26
Blanks 1
Treasurer.
Daniel J. Murphy of Lawrence 23
Blanks 4
Auditor
Frederick P. Glazier of Hudson
Blanks 1
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1914.
Attorney-General.
John Hildreth of Holyoke 26
Blanks 1
Congressman - 8th Dist.
Frederick W. Dallinger of Cambridge 7
Henry C. Long " Cambridge 19
Hugh J. McGinness " Cambridge 1
Blanks 0
Councillor, 6th Dist.
Harrie C. Hunter 16
Blanks 11
Senator
5th Middlesex Dist.
Frederick R. S. Mildon of Marlborough 25
Blanks 2
Representative in General Court
29th Middlesex Dist.
Cyrus E. Dallin of Arlington 25
Blanks 2
County Commissioner
Middlesex County
George A. Goodwin of Cambridge 25
Blanks 2
State Committee
5th Middlesex Dist.
Wm. S. Bramhall 1
F. W. Kerrick 1
Phillip E. Perry 1
Blanks 24
237
1914.
Delegates to State Convention
Samuel Knowles 27
George C. McKay 27
Frederick Atherton 27
Ernest W. Martin 27
Blanks 0
Town Committee
George E. Briggs 26
James A. Wilson 26
Ezra F. Breed 26
George C. McKay 26
Ernest W. Martin 26
Edward Wood 26
Samuel Knowles 26
George A. Warner 26
William S. Bramhall 26
Henry C. Valentine 26
Irving P. Fox 26
Frank W. Herrick 26
Chester P. Cox 26
Louis H. Lawrence 26
Francis J. Leveroni 26
Blanks. 15
Meeting dissolved at 10.35 P.M.
A true record.
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
238
Warrant for
State
Election
Warrant for State Election.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington qualified to vote in
State and County affairs, to assemble at the Town
Hall, in said Lexington, on Tuesday, the third day
of November, A. D. 1914, at six o'clock in the morning
to east their ballots for the following State and County
Officers:
Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary,
Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney-General, Congressman,
Councillor for Sixth Councillor District, Representative
in General Court for Twenty-ninth Middlesex District
Senator for Fifty Senatorial District, County Commissioner
for Middlesex County.
Also to bring in their votes on the following questions :-
Shall Chapter 217, Acts of 1914, entitled "An Act
relative to vacations of labored employed by cities and
towns" be accepted by this town?
Shall Chapter 688, Acts of 1914, entitled "An Act
to make Saturday a half-holiday for laborers, workmen
and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the
Commonwealth and otherwise to regulate their employment"
be accepted by this town?
Shall Chapter 790, Acts of 1914, entitled "An Act
to abolish the enrolment of members of political parties
and to limit the membership of ward and town committees"
be accepted by this town ?
The election offers will receive votes for the
above all on the official ballot prepared by the
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
239
The polls will be opened immediately after the
organization of the meeting, and will be kept open
until four oclock P.M., and as much longer as the
meeting may direct, not to extend beyond eight
o'clock P.M.
Hereof, fail not and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting.
Given made our hands at Lexington, this
sixteenth day of October, A. D. 1914.
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor
S. Myron Lawrence
}Selectmen
of
Lexington
Lexington, October 29. 1914
To the Town Clerk:-
I have notified the inhabitants of
Lexington by posting duly attested attested copies of
the foregoing Warrant in ten public places in the
town, and by mailing a duly attested copy of the
same to every registered voter in the town, seven days
before the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return of
the Constable.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
240
Annual
State
Election
Annual State Election
November. 3, 1914.
The meeting was called to order at six oclock,
A.M. by George H. Childs, Chairman of the
Selectmen.
The warrant and the return of the Constable was
read by the Town Clerk.
Fred G. Jones, James A. Hurley, Walter B. Wilkins
and Louis L. Crone were sworn as Ballot Clerks.
The Chairman gave his receipt to the Town Clerk
for a package said to contain 1400 ballots for use
at this election.
Allston M. Redman, Patrick F. Dacey, Nathaniel
Nunn, Fred E. Butters, Samuel O. Bigelow,
Cornelius F. O'Connor, Leonard W. Wiley and
George L. Harrington were sworn as Tellers.
At 9.30 A.M. 100 ballots were taken from
the box.
At 10.02 A.M. 200 ballots were taken out.
At 11.10 A.M. 200 ballots were taken out.
At 2.15 P.M. 100 ballots were taken out.
At 3.00 P.M. 200 ballots were taken out.
At 3.45 P.M. 100 ballots were taken out.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it was
voted to extend the time of closing the polls until
4.30 P.M.
At the close of the polls 16 ballots were taken
from the ballot box, making a total of 916 votes
cast at the election. This number agreed with
the number of names checked on each voting list
and with the register on the ballot box.
After the votes had been counted the Town
Clerk announced the result at 5.15 P.M. as
follows:
Whole number of votes cast - 916.
241
1914.
Governor.
Alfred H. Evans One 1
Samuel W. McCall, Four hundred ninety 490
Arthur E. Reimer None 0
Samuel C. Roberts Three 3
Joseph Walker One hundred fourteen 114
David J. Walsh Two hundred ninety four 294
Blanks Fourteen 14.
Lieutenant-Governor.
Edward P. Barry, Two hundred sixty four 264
Grafton D. Cushing, Five hundred and three 503
Arthur Howard Six 6
James P. Magenis One hundred eleven 111
Sylvester J. McBride Four 4
Patrick Mulligan Two 2
Blanks Twenty six 26
Secretary
Percy B. Ball Three 3
Frank J. Donahue Two hundred seventy one 271
James W. Holden one 1
Albert P. Langtry Hour hundred sixty eight 468
William G. Merrill Six 6
Russell A. Wood One hundred twenty four 124
Blanks Forty three 43
Treasurer
Charles L. Burrill, Four hundred sixty nine 469
Joseph M. Coldwell, Two 2
Frederick Fosdick One hundred twenty two 122
Thomas A. Frissell Three 3
Karl Lindstrand One 1
Frederick W. Mansfield, Two hundred sixty eight 268
Blanks Fifty one 51
242
1914.
Auditor.
Alonzo B. Cook, Four hundred thirty five 435
Daniel R. Donovan Three 3
John Drysdale Three 3
Frederick P. Glazier, One hundred twenty two 122
Fred E. Oelcher One 1
Frank H. Pope, Two hundred ninety four 294
Blanks Fifty eight 58
Attorney-General
Henry C. Attwill - Four hundred seventy two 472
Thomas J. Boynton, Two hundred sixty eight 268
John Hildreth One hundred twenty three 123
Howard B. Rand One 1
John Weaver Sherman Six 6
William Taylor Three 3
Blanks Forty three 43.
Congressman.
Eighth District
Frederick W. Dallinger, Five hundred sixteen 516
Frederick S. Deitrick Three hundred 300
Henry C. Long Fifty seven 57
Blanks. Forty three 43
Councillor
6th District.
John J. Hogan, Two hundred fifty two 252
Harrie C. Hunter, One hundred forty five 145
Blanks Sixty five 65
Senator
5th Middlesex District.
Patrick J Duane, Two hundred fifty six 256
Frederick R. S. Mildon, One hundred twelve 112
Nathan A. Tufts Five hundred and five 550
Blanks Forty three 43
243
1914.
Representative.
29th Middlesex Dist.
Jacob Bitzer Four hundred twelve 412
Cyrus E. Dallin Two hundred two 202
James F. McCarthy Two hundred eight five 285
Blanks Seventeen 17
County Commissioner
George A. Goodwin, One hundred forty four 144
Levi S. Gould, Four hundred forty 440
Charles F. McCarthy, Two hundred seventy four 274
Blanks Fifty eight 58
Ch. 217,
Acts of 1914
Shall an Act passed by the General Court in the year
nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act relative
to vacations of laborers employed by cities and towns,"
be accepted ?
Yes. Four hundred and five 405
No. Three hundred twenty nine 329
Blanks One hundred eighty two 182
Chtpr
688.
Acts of
1914
Shall an Act passed by the General Court in the
year nineteen hundred and fourteen to make Saturday
a half-holiday, without loss of pay; for laborers, workmen
and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the
commonwealth and otherwise to regulate their employment,
be accepted ?
Yes. Four hundred sixty two 462.
No. Two hundred ninety nine 299
Blanks, One hundred fifty five 155
Ch. 790
Acts of
1914
Shall the Act passed by the General Court in the year
nineteen hundred and fourteen, provided for the abolition of
party enrolment at primary elections, be accepted ?
Yes. Four hundred eighty four 484
No. One hundred ninety eight 198
Blanks Two hundred thirty four 234
A true record, Attest, Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk.
244
1914.
Recount of
Votes for
Councillor
November 12. 1914.
The Registrars of Voters held a meeting on this
date on petition of John J. Hogan for a recount
of votes cast for Councillor at the Election on
Nov. 3, 1914.
The recount resulted as follows:-
John J. Hogan 252
Harrie C. Hunter 150
Henry C. Mulligan 451
Blanks 63
A true record, Attest
Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk.
Representation,
Town
Clerk's
Meeting
Lexington, Nov. 13, 1914
A a meeting of the Town Clerks of Arlington and Lexington
comprising the 29th Middlesex Representative District
was held at Arlington this day, and on comparing the
returns of votes cast at the Election on Nov. 3, 1914
for Representative from said district the following was
found to be the result of the total votes cast in said
towns:
Jacob Bitzer of Arlington received 1372 votes
Cyrus E. Dallin " " " 715 "
James F. McCarthy " Lexington " 810 "
making a plurality of 562 votes for Jacob Bitzer,
and two certificates were filled out for the said
Bitzer, and being sent to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth and the other delivered to Jacob
Blitzer, and signed by the Town Clerks of both
towns.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
245
1914.
Perpetual
Care
Henry E.
Urann
Lot
Town Treasurers Office.
Lexington, Nov. 14. 1914.
$200.
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of
the town of Lexington, in town meeting assembled on
the 2nd day of November, A.D. 1875, the Town
Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of Two
hundred (200) dollars from Henry E. Urann of Boston,
Mass., the interest of which is to be expended in
accordance with said vote and amendments thereto and
Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870 upon lot 455 in
the Town Cemetery and the High School House in
the Town Cemetery near the High School House in
said Lexington in Dressing and care of said lot,
monuments, walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
Nov. 14, 1914.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
246
1914.
Perpetual
Care
Swan -
Harrington
Lot
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, Nov. 21. 194.
$100 =
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting assembled
on the 2nd day of November A.D. 1875, the Town
Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of One
hundred (100) dollars from George D. Harrington
and Charles W. Swan the interest of which is to
be expended in accordance with said vote and
amendments thereto and Chapter 225 of the Acts
of 1870 upon the Harrington-Swan lot,
No. 221 in the Town Cemetery near the
High School House in said Lexington in
dressing and care of said lot, monuments, walks
and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
Nov. 21. 1914
A true copy,
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
247
1915.
Warrant
for a
Town
Meeting
1915.
Warrant for a Town Meeting
Jany. 6, 1915.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington qualified to vote in
town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall in
said Lexington on Wednesday, the sixth day of
January, A.D., 1915, at 7.30 P.M., then and
there to act on the following articles;
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee of the town for
action thereon, and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer,
under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow
money for any necessary purposes, in anticipation
of revenue for the current year, the same to be
repaid directly from the proceeds of said revenue,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the town will vote to transfer any
unexpended balances remaining in the treasury
to the credit of any department the work of
which is practically closed, to other departments
showing an overdraft, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the town will make an appropriation
to meet the expense of preserving the plans or
maps of the town in accordance with the orders
of the Commissioner of Records.
248
1915.
Art. 5. To see if the town will make an appropriation
to provide for the purchase of additional steel
fittings for the town vault.
Art. 6. To see if the town will appropriate and assess
a sum of money to meet the overdraft in the
account for the Extinguishing of Forest Fires,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the town will appropriate and assess
money to meet the expense of the removal of snow.
Art. 8. To see if the town will authorize the Board of
Selectmen to make takings of land for the purpose
of extending a street from the Arlington line to
a point on Lowell Street in accordance with
a plan now on file at the Town Clerks Office
and appropriate and assess money for this purpose,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 9. To see if the town will authorize the Auditor to
approve and the Town Treasurer to pay town
employees for services rendered in anticipation of
receipts or an appropriation, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail
Moths in accordance with Chapter 381, Acts
of 1905 and amendments thereto; or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will accept and allow a new
town way, laid out by the Selectmen, running
from the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and
Pleasant Street, to a point on Middle Street
between the estates of Moulton and Mongeon; and
to take any other or further action in relation to
establishing and naming such new way. The
249
1915.
lay-out of the way, with the boundaries and
admeasurements thereof may be seen at the office
of the Town Clerk.
Art. 12. To see if the town will vote to make a part of
its water distribution system the new 8 inch main
which has been laid at the expense of abutters in
the contemplated new street or way referred to in
the foregoing article, and reimburse them the
cost of said main; to appropriate a sum of money,
not to exceed eleven thousand dollars, necessary for
such reimbursement, and provide for raining the
same by borrowing or otherwise; and to take any
other or further action relative to said water main.
Art. 13. To see if the town will amend the vote passed
by it March 9, 1914, relative to a contemplated
issue of bonds in serial form to the aggregate
principal amount of eight thousand five hundred
dollars ($8500), so as to make the authorized rate
of interest not more than four and one half per
centum (4 1/2%) instead of four per centum (4%)
as in said vote provided, and so as to bring the
maturities of the bonds all within five years as
required by law; or act in any manner by way
of amending said vote and facilitating the issue
and sale of bonds for the purpose therein expressed.
Art. 14. To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum
of money for the Contingent Account, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise the pay of
the call men in the Fire Department and appropriate
and assess money for the purpose,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this
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Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this
twenty-sixth day of December, A.D. 1914.
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor
S. Myron Lawrence
}Selectmen of
Lexington
Lexington, December 31. 1914
To the Town Clerk:-
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting duly attested copies of
the foregoing Warrant in six public places in
the town, and by mailing a duly attested copy
of the same to every registered voter in the town,
seven days before the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return of
the Constable:
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Town Meeting, January 6, 1915.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
and the Warrant and Return read by the Clerk.
Art. 13.
Water Dept
Loan for
Extension
of Manner
See
page 185
Water Department Loan.
On motion of Daniel B. Lewis, the following vote
was passed unanimously :-
"Voted - that the vote passed by the Town March
9, 1914, relative to an issue of bonds in serial form
to the aggregate principal amount of eight thousand
five hundred dollars ($8500) is hereby amended in
the following particulars; first, by changing four
per centum (4%) to four and one-half per centum
(4 1/2%), and, second, by striking out the provision
as to maturities and substituting therefor the following,
viz; "with maturities so arranged that two thousand
dollars ($2000) of principal will fall due and payable
in each of the years 1915 to 1918 inclusive,
and five hundred dollars ($500) of principal in
the upon 1919". - so that said vote will read;
Voted; that for the purpose of providing funds
for extension of Water Mains, the Town Treasurer
be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue and sell,
under the direction and with the approval of the
Selectmen, negotiable registered or coupon bonds of
the Town in serial form to the aggregate principal
amount of eight thousand five hundred dollars
($8500), bearing interest at a rate not exceeding
four and one-half per centum (4 1/2%) per annum,
payable semi-annually, and payable, both principal
and interest, in gold coin of the United States of
America of the present standard of weight and
fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer
and countersigned by a majority of the
Selectmen with maturities so arranged that two
thousand dollars ($2000) of principal will fall
due and payable in each of the years 1915 to
1918 inclusive, and five hundred dollars ($500)
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of principal in the year 1919."
Art. 2.
Temporary Loans.
Loans in anticipation of revenue.
On motion of Edwin A. Bayley it was voted to
lay article two on the table.
Later in the evening on motion of Frank D.
Peirce, the article was taken from the table.
On motion of William C. Stickle, the following
vote was passed:-
"Voted - That the Town Treasurer, with the
approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized
to borrow money from time to time in anticipation
of revenue of the present municipal year to an
amount not exceeding in the aggregate $125000,
and to issue a note or notes therefor payable within
one year. Any debt or debts incurred under
this vote to be from the revenue of the
present municipal year."
Art. 10.
Moth
Liability
Appropriation for Moth work.
On motion of Daniel B. Lewis, the following
vote was passed:-
"Voted, that the Town appropriate the
amount of its liability or $3605.05 for the
suppression of Moths in the year 1915."
Arts.
3-6
7-14
Transfers of
Appropriations
Transfers.
Under these articles, Daniel B. Lewis offered the
following motion:-
"Voted - To transfer the sum of $400 100/100
from the Dept. of Inspection of Meats and Provisions
back to the Board of Health, the transfer
from Omitted Assessments account to the department
for extinguishing Forest Fires of $436.26,
the transfer from Omitted Assessments account
to the department for Removal of Snow of $159.67.
The transfer from Omitted Assessments account
to the Contingent Fund of $150.00"
And it was so voted.
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Arts.
3-6-7
and 14
Cont.
Transfers
Continued
On motion of George H Childs the following
vote were passed:-
1 - "Voted - That the amount of $186.02 be
appropriated to meet an overdraft in Sidewalk
Account in 1914, and to meet this appropriation
the sum of $186.03 be transferred from the
Account of Omitted Taxes for 1912.
2 - "Voted - That the amount of $150.00 be
appropriated to meet an overdraft in 1914 in
Town Hall account, and the meet this appropriation
the sum of $150.00 be transferred from Omitted
Assessments 1913."
3 - "Voted - that the amount of $75.00 be
appropriated to meet an overdraft in Village
Hall Account for 1914, and to meet this appropriation
the sum of $75.00 be transferred from Omitted
Assessments 1913."
4 - "Voted that the sum of $380.61 be
appropriated to cover an overdraft in the Highway
Account for 1914, and the meet this appropriation
the sum of $180.61 be transferred from
Street Watering and Oiling Account, and $300.00
from Account of Omitted Assessments for 1912."
Art. 11
Follen
Road,
acceptance of
Acceptance of Follen Road.
The Chairman of the Selectmen submitted the
following written report:-
Lexington, Jany. 6, 1915.
The Selectmen respectfully report to the Town
the laying out by them of a new street or town
way sixty feet wide and about 4800 in length
running from the junction of Massachusetts Avenue
and Pleasant Street to Middle Street, as shown by
an order of the Selectmen, dated December. 26, 1914,
on file in the office of the Town Clerk, with the
boundaries and measurements of the way. It is
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Follen
Road
Continued
completed to a grade approved by the Board of
Survey; has a traveled way twenty-one feet wide,
of which fifteen feet is of macadam, six inches
thick, bound with Tarvia.
And the Selectmen recommend that said
laying out be accepted and allowed by vote of
the Town, to the end that said street or way be
established as a public way.
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor.
Frank D. Peirce offered the following motion :-
"Voted that the town hereby accepts and allows
the laying out of a new street or town way as
shown by an order of the Selectmen dated December
26, 1914, making the lay out, on file in the office
of the Town Clerk, with the boundaries and measurements
of the way, and reported by the Selectmen to
this meeting, which street or way runs from the
junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Pleasant Street
to Middle Street; and that the way be called
Follen Road."
And the meeting so voted.
Dr. J. O. Tilton, Dr. James J. Walsh, Fred H.
Moulton, J. Alexander Wilson and Arthur E. Horton
objected to the acceptance, and George H. Childs,
Edwin A. Bayley and Robert P. Clapp urged the
town to accept the street.
Frank D. Peirce gave an account of what had
been done by the owners and stated that nearly
$24000 had been spent on the road.
During the discussion a motion was made to
adjourn for one week, but the meeting refused
to do so.
At 10.40 P.M. it was voted to adjourn to Wednesday
Jany 13 at 7.30 P.M.
A true record, Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Adjourned Town Meeting.
January 13, 1915
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.55 P.M.
Art. 12. - Water Main in Follen Road. -
On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was voted that
action under this article be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 1. - Committee Reports. -
Dr Fred S. Piper made a written report for the
Committee having charge of the printing and
distribution of the Proceedings commemoration of the
200th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town.
It was voted that the report be accepted and
the committee discharged.
Art. 3
Transfers
of
Appropriations
- Transfers. -
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson it was -
"Voted, to transfer from Omitted Assessments 1913
to Bank & Corporation Tax $1200.00.
From Omitted Assessments 1913 to Insurance
$161.73; from Discount on Taxes to Insurance $38.27.
From Discount on Taxes to Outside
Aid $200.00
From Discount on Taxes to Interest $20.00
From Publishing Records 200th Anniversary
to Premium on Bonds $10.80; from Discount
on Taxes to Premium on Bonds $5.20/100,"
Art. 11.
Triangle
corner of
Mass. Ave
& Pleasant St
see page 262
William F. Green offered the following resolution:-
Resolved - That the voters of the town of
Lexington in meeting assembled instruct its Park
Commissioners to take such means as are possible
to secure the removal of the triangular park
together with the trees thereon at the junction of
Massachusetts Ave. and Pleasant St.
And that a copy of this resolution be mailed
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by our town clerk to said commissioners."
After some discussion it was voted that
the Moderator appoint a committee of three persons
to investigate and report as to the status of the
triangle, and that the resolution be referred to
that committee.
The Moderator appointed the following as a
Committee:-
Frank D. Peirce
Robert L. Ryder
William Roger Greeley.
Art. 3.
Transfers.
- Transfers. -
On motion of Edward W. Taylor, it was -
"Voted that the amount of $579.65/100 be
transferred to the credit of Fire Department to
meet the balance of the pay-roll due to the call men,
$20 71/100 of this amount to be taken from New Adams
School House Account, $18.32 from Fire Alarm
Box Account, and $540.62 from the New Fire
Equipment Account.
Art. 10.
Moth
Appropriation
and
Committee
- Moth appropriation. -
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson, it was:-
"1st - Voted, That the sum of $3605.05 be appropriated
and assessed to cover the "town liability" for
the cost of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moth work
for the current year and that a further sum of
$1200.00 be appropriated and assessed to be
expended for the same purposes under the provisions
of Chapter 381 Acts of 1905 and amendment
thereto."
2nd "Voted, That all money appropriated for the
suppression of insects for the 1915 to expended
under the direction of a committee of five to be
appointed by the Moderator of this meeting."
The Moderator appointed the following
Committee: (next page)
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Frederick R. Galloupe - Joseph N. Leonard
Wm. S. Scamman Henry L. Wadsworth
Edward Wood.
Art. 4.
Appropriation
for
Plans.
- Preservation of Plans. -
On motion of George H. Childs it was:-
Voted, that the sum of $240 is hereby appropriated
and assessed to meet the expense of preserving plans
of the town as ordered by the Commissioner of
Records.
Art. 9.
Town
Employees
Payment of Town Employees.
Clarence P. Johnson offered a motion intended to provide
for prompt payment of employees in the departments
of Forest Warden and Removal of Snow.
Payment of
on absence
of funds
After some discussion it was voted to lay the article
on the table. Later on it was voted to take
the article from the table and Mr. Johnson offered
the following motion:-
Defeated
"Voted, that the Town Auditor be instructed
to audit and the Treasurer to pay a sum not to
exceed $250 to each of the following departments
namely, the Forest Wardens Department and the
Highways Department for the payment of employees
of these departments in anticipation of receipts or
appropriations for those departments."
On motion of Robert P. Clapp it was voted to
substitute the word "authorized" for "instructed"
The amended motion was then voted on and was
declared lost.
Messrs. Childs and Johnson explained that some
provision should be made to provide for the payment
of men extinguishing Forest Fires and
removing snow after the appropriation has been
exhausted, and not oblige the employees to wait
until the transfers are made in January
The motion was opposed by Messrs. Lewis
and Ryder.
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Art. 5
Steel case
for Vault
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson it was:-
"Voted - that the sum of $165.00 is hereby appropriated
and assessed for the purpose of purchasing
additional steel fittings for the town vault, the
money to be expended under the direction of the
Selectmen."
Art. 8. Extension of a new street known as
Summer Street in Arlington, to a point on
Lowell Street.
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson it was voted
to refer this article to the Selectmen with instructions
to consult with the town officials of Arlington
and with the State Highway Commissioners, and
report at the next town meeting.
Art. 15.
Call Firemen,
Increase of pay -
To March
Meeting
- On increase of pay of
Call Firemen. -
Edward W. Taylor offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the town authorize an increase of
the pay of the call men in the Fire Department
from $50 per year to $75. per year, same to take
effect Jan. 1, 1915."
On motion of Robert P. Clapp, it was voted
that the matter be committed to the Finance Committee
for investigation and with instructions to
determine if it is lawful for the town to fix the
amount of pay, and report at the March meeting.
Art. 1 George H. Childs enquired when the town might expect
a report from the committee on By Laws appointed
some time ago.
Edwin A. Bayley stated that the
committee is making progress, and on motion
of Mr. Bailey as amended by Mr. Childs, it
was voted - "That the committee on new By-Laws
be authorized to have their report printed
and circulated among the voters of the town and
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that the expense incidental thereto be paid out of
the contingent fund, the amount not to exceed
one hundred dollars."
At 9.26 oclock it was voted to dissolve.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Treasurer
pro-tem.
Lexington, Mass. January 18th 1915.
In Board of Selectmen.
Whereas the present Town Treasurer
George D. Harrington is unable to perform his duties,
Now, therefor, we the Selectmen of Lexington
hereby appoint Arthur B. Howe of 34 Hancock St.
Lexington, Treasurer pro-tempore.
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Warrant for
Town Meeting
Feb. 10. 1915
"Sewer
Meeting"
Warrant for a Town Meeting.
February 10. 1915
Town Warrant.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants of
the town of Lexington qualified to vote in town
affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Lexington,
on Wednesday, the Tenth day of February, A.D., 1915
at 7.30 P.M. then and there to act on the following
articles :-
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon,
and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To receive and act upon a report by the Board
of Water and Sewer Commissioners relative to
proposed construction of sewers.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept "An Act relative
to the sewerage system in the town of Lexington",
approved March 21, 1913, the same being Chapter
322 of the Acts of that year.
Art. 4. To authorize the laying out, construction, maintenance
and operation of a sewerage system, and
provide for the raising of the funds therefor by authorizing
the issue and sale of bonds to the aggregate
principal amount of one hundred thousand dollars;
and to take such further or other action relative
to the introduction, construction, maintenance;
operation and use of sewers, the appropriating, of
money and the incurring of indebtedness therefor,
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including the authorization of notes or bonds or both,
as may be deemed best.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk on or before the town of said meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this
twenty-ninth day of January, A.D. 1915.
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor
S. Myron Lawrence
}Selectmen
of
Lexington.
Lexington, February 4, 1915.
To the Town Clerk:-
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting duly attested copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in eight
other public places in the Town, and by mailing
a duly attested copy of the same to every registered
voter in the town, seven days before the time of
said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return of
the Constable.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Town Meeting - February 10, 1915.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.40 P.M. The Warrant and the return
of the Constable was read by the Town Clerk.
Art. 1.
Report on
"Triangle"
at Mass Ave
and Pleasant St.
Com. Reports
Vol. 2. pg 53
Reports of Committees.
Frank D. Peirce, chairman of a committee chosen
January 13 to consider the ownership of a triangular
park at the junction of Pleasant Street
and Massachusetts Avenue, made a report giving
a history of this piece of land and recommending
"the passing of this resolution offered January
13, 1916, which was referred to this committee."
No further action was taken.
Arts. 2-3-4
Sewers.
- Installation of Sewers. -
It was voted that articles 2, 3, and 4 be taken
up together.
Report accepted
Under article 2, on motion of George E. Briggs,
chairman of the Water and Sewer Commissioners,
it was voted to accept the report of the Commissioners
dated Jany. 18, 1915 which had been printed
and distributed to the voters.
See File #200
Committee Reports
This report contained an explanation of the method
of assessment, an estimate of the cost and a map
showing the area in which it is now proposed
to construct the sewer, and to which additions may
be made when occasion requires.
Under article 3, Mr. Briggs made a brief and
comprehensive statement of the sewer question.
Chap. 322
Acts of 1913
accepted
On motion of Mr. Briggs it was voted unanimously
to accept Chapter 322 of the Acts of 1913,
being, "An Act relative to the Sewerages system in
the Town of Lexington,"
Under article 3, Mr. Briggs offered the
following vote:- "Voted that the Board of Water
and Sewer Commissioners is hereby requested, in
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Vote to
Establish
"Sewer
Rentals"
case the town shall have a sewerage system, to
establish, arguably to the provisions of Revised Laws
Chapter 49, Section 6, just and equitable charges
for the use of the common sewers by persons who
enter their particular sewer therein, such annual
rental to be in addition to the betterment assessment
of fifty cents a running front fort upon their
abutting lands; and that until otherwise voted by
the town, the Commissioners are requested to make
the rental approximately 25% of the yearly water-rates
of such persons after making a deduction
therefrom unpresenting the water used through lawn or
garden hose, but with provisions for a minimum
yearly charges of three dollars."
And the meeting so voted.
Voted to construct
Sewer.
and
issue
bonds.
Mr. Briggs then offered under Article Four the following motion:-
"Voted that the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioner
is hereby authorized and requested to proceed,
under the provisions of Chapter 504 of the Acts of
the year 1897 as amended by Chapter 322 of the
Acts of the year 1913 and the acts referred to in
the first section thereof, to lay out, construct, maintain
and operate a sewerage system, constructing
initially the trunk or out-let sewer and lateral
or connecting sewers substantially as and to the
extent recommended by the Commissioners in their
printed report dated January 18, 1915; and that
for said purposes there is hereby appropriated the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100000),
the money to be raised by the issue of negotiable
registered or coupon bonds of the Town is serial
form to the aggregate principal amount of one
hundred thousand dollars ($100000), bearing interest
at a rate not exceeding four and one-half per
centum per annum payable semi-annually,
Both principal and interest shall be payable
in gold coin of the United States of America of
the present standard of weights and fineness.
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with the maturities of principal so arranged that
four thousand dollars ($4000) thereof will fall
due and payable annually in the period beginning
one year after the date of issue and ending ten
years therefrom, and three thousand dollars $3000)
annually in the period beginning eleven years
after said date of issue and ending thirty years
therefrom. Said bonds shall all bear the
same date of issue; they shall when issued state
upon their face that they are exempt from taxation
in Massachusetts, and bear thereon the words
"Town of Lexington Sewer Loan, Act of 1913";
and they shall be signed by the Treasurer of the
Town and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen
and by the Water and Sewer Commissioners.
The Town Treasurer is hereby authorized to cause
the bonds to be prepared and executed in such form
and with such terms and provisions therein, not
in conflict with the provisions of law or of this
vote, as the Selectmen and Water and Sewer
Commissioners shall approve, and to sell the same
at such time or times and upon such terms and
conditions as he and said officers may think best,
but for not less than their par value and agreeably
to all other requirements of law."
On motion of Edward P. Merriam, it
was voted "that when the vote be taken, it be
taken by polling the house with the use of the
check list and that the affirmative and negative
votes be taken separately", and the vote on Mr.
Briggs motion was so taken, 215 voting in the
affirmation and 61 in the negative.
Messr. Kraetzer, Nichols, O'Connell and Locke
acted as Tellers in checking and counting voters.
Previous to the passage of the vote, Dr.
Piper offered a written statement signed by
the practicing physicians in the town testifying
to the urgent mend of sewers and commending
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the adoption of the plans and provisions recommended
in the commissioners report dated Jany. 18, 1915.
Mr. Briggs and Mr. Tenney explained matters
and answered questions.
Arthur E. Horton made extended remarks in opposition
to the plan of the Board
Rev. Samuel Knowles opposed the motion on the
ground of unfairness in method of assessing the cost.
Patrick Flynn thought that the work should
not be undertaken at present.
Arthur F. Hutchinson offered a motion to the
effect that any money in excess be directly assessed
upon the abutters in the sewer district. The
Moderator refused to entertain this motion because
it conflicted with the terms of the Act already
accepted.
Meeting dissolved.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant
for the
Annual
town
meeting
Mar. 1. 1915.
Town Warrant.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified to
vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet in the
Town Hall in said Lexington, on Monday,
the First day of March, A.D., 1915, at seven
o'clock A.M., then and there to act on the following
articles:
Art. 1. To choose by ballot the following town officers:
One Town Clerk for the term of one year; three
Selectmen for the term of one year; three Overseers
of the Poor for the term of one year; three
Surveyors of the Highways for the term of one
year; one Assessor for the term of three years;
one Town Treasurer for the term of one year;
one Collector of Taxes for the term of one year;
one Auditor for the term of one year; one Water
and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years;
one member of the Cemetery Committee for the
term of three years; one member of the School
Committee for the term of three years; one member
of the Board of Health for the term of three years;
one Park Commissioner for the term of three years;
one Tree Warden for the term of one year; two
Constables for the term of one year; one Moderator
for the term of one year.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will vote for or against
granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors,
in answer to the question : "Shall licenses be granted
for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town."
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Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 795, Acts
of 1914 being "An Act to provide for the better
prevention of fires throughout the metropolitan district."
The election officers will receive votes under
Articles 1, 2, and 3 on the official ballot prepared
by the Town Clerk. The polls will be opened
as soon as possible after the organization of the
meeting and will be kept open until five P.M.
In compliance with Article 3 of the By-Laws
as amendment January 29, 1900, business under
the following Articles will be transacted at an
adjourned meeting to be held Monday, evening, March
8, 1915, unless the adjourned meeting shall by unanimous
vote, be ordered for some other specified time.
Art. 4. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon,
and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 5. To choose such Town Officers as are required by
law and are usually chosen by nomination.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the proper observance of Memorial Day, to be
expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Art. 8. To provide for the support of the Poor at the
Alms House the ensuing year, and grant money
for the same.
Art. 9. To provide for the support of Outside Poor the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
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Art. 10. To provide for the support of the Highways
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 11. To provide for the support of the Street Lights the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 12. To provide for the support of the File Department
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will make appropriations
for town expenses the ensuing year, as submitted
by the Selectmen, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 14. To see what measures the town will adopt in
relation to the collection of taxes the ensuing year,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
to construct sidewalks with concrete or other
materials when the abutters will pay one-half the
expense thereof.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
sufficient to meet the expense of placing new insurance
and renewals for the ensuing year, or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 17. To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the care of the Cemeteries for the ensuing
year.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of
money for the use of the Finance Committee, or
take any action relating thereto.
Art. 19. To provide for the support of the Public Parks
for the ensuing year and grant money for the
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same, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will make further appropriations
of money for the suppression of insects, or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 575 of
the Acts of 193, entitled "An Act to authorize
Cities and Towns to provide free meals for school
children."
Art 22. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the purpose of planting shade trees in the
town, in accordance with the recommendation of
the Massachusetts Forestry Association, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will adopt a plan whereby all
Town Labor will be paid on a basis of $2.50 a
day of eight hours work and that citizen of the
Town of Lexington will have the preference of
the Town work, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 24. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the
sum of seven hundred and twelve dollars and forty
three cents, ($712.43), the same to be taken from
Omitted Assessments of 1914; this to remove from
Tax Liens Account defective or valueless liens
accumulated many years prior to the incumbency
of present Tax Collector.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will grant the employees
of the Moth Department an increase in wages,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 26. To see if the Town will purchase of Richard
G. Tower and Frank D. Peirce and make a
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part of its water distribution system, the eight
inch main laid in Follen Road and owned by
them, and to this end to authorize the making
of a contract with Messrs. Tower and Peirce in
substantially the form of the printed draft
which accompanies the warrant for this meeting;
or to take any other or further action relative to
the purchase and use of said water main.
Art. 27. To see if the town will appropriate and assess
a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing
and erecting a new golf pole on the Common,
or action any manner relating thereto.
Art. 28. To see if the Town will authorize the Board
of Selectmen to make takings of land for the purpose
of extending a street from the Arlington line
to a point on Lowell Street in accordance with
a plan now on file at the Town Clerk's Office
and appropriate and assess money for this purpose,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 29. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
money to widen and deepen the brooks in the
Town so as to obtain better surface drainage,
the same to be expended by the Water and Sewer
Commissioners, or take any other action relating
thereto.
Art. 30. To appropriate money for the use of the Water
Department, and vote to issue Bonds or Notes
therefor, or otherwise determine the method of
raising the money so appropriated and to take
any other or further action relative thereto as
many be deemed best.
Art. 31. To receive and consider the report of the com-
mittee appointed to prepare a new code of
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By-Laws for the Town, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of
this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the
Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington,
this twelfth day of February, A.D. 1915.
George H. Childs
Edward W. Taylor
S. Myron Lawrence
}Selectmen
of
Lexington
Lexington, February 23, 915
To the Town Clerk:-
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting duly attested copies of
the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in ten (10)
other public places in the town, and by mailing
a duly attested copy of the same to every registered
voter in the town, nine days before the time of
said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler.
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return
of the Constable.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Annual
town
election
Mar. 1. 1915
Annual Town Election.
March 1, 1915.
The meeting was called to order at 7.00 A.M.
by the Moderator.
The Clerk proceeded to read the warrant, but
upon motion of Louis L. Crone it was voted
that the further reading of the warrant be omitted.
The Return of the Constable was then read by the
Clerk. The Moderator gave his receipt
to the Town Clerk for a package said to contain
1600 ballots for male voters and 600 ballots for
female voters, and also for two voting lists.
The ballots and one list were given to Fred G.
Jones and James A. Hurley who had already been
sworn as Ballot Clerks.
Charles G. Kauffmann, Daniel J. O'Connell,
Eugene G. Kraetzer and Louis L. Lawrence were
sworn as Deputy Ballot Clerks.
The Moderator was obliged to leave the hall
and called Joseph R. Cotton to act as Moderator
pro. tempore.
Patrick F. Dacey, Nathaniel Nunn, William C.
O'Leary, Samuel O. Biglow, Allston M. Redman,
Ralph H. Marshall, Fred E. Butters and Leonard
W. Wiley were sworn to the faithful discharge of their
duties as Tellers.
At 9.10 oclock 350 ballots were taken from the
box; at 11.20A.M. 150 ballots were taken out.
At 2.30 P.M. 250 ballots were taken out.
At four oclock 150 ballots were taken out, and at
the close of the polls at five oclock, 64 ballots were
taken from the box, making a total of 964 ballots,
which agreed with the number recorded on the dial
of the box and also with the number of names
checked on each list
273
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110 ballots were cast by female voters for School
Committee, and this number agreed with the number
of names checked on each list.
After the tellers had counted the votes, the Town
Clerk announced the result at 7.25 oclock as follows;
Total number of votes by male voters, 964
Total number of votes by female voters, 110
Town Clerk.
Charles W. Swan, six hundred sixty three 663
Blanks Three hundred 300
Patrick Doyle One 1
Charles W. Swan was declared elected
Selectmen
George H. Childs four hundred twenty nine, 429
Louis L. Crone three hundred sixty eight 368
S. Myron Lawrence, five hundred five 505
William C. Stickel two hundred fifty three 253
Edward W. Taylor six hundred fifty eight 658
William H. Whitaker, two hundred twenty one 221
Walter B. Wilkins fifty four 54
Patrick Mulvey one 1
Blanks four hundred three 403
George H. Childs, S. Myron Lawrence and Edward
W. Taylor were declared elected.
Overseers of the Poor.
George H. Childs four hundred twenty nine 420
Louis L. Crone three hundred sixty five 365
S. Myron Lawrence four hundred ninety seven 497
William C. Stickel two hundred forty seven 247
William H. Whitaker, two hundred eighteen 218
Walter B. Wilkins sixty two 62
Edward W. Taylor six hundred forty nine 649
Patrick Mulvey one 1
Blanks four hundred twenty four 424
George H. Childs, S. Myron Lawrence and Edward
W. Taylor were declared elected.
274
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Surveyors of Highways
George H. Childs four hundred twenty six 426
Louis L. Crone three hundred fifty five 355
S. Myron Lawrence four hundred ninety three 493
William C. Stickel two hundred fifty 250
Edward W. Taylor six hundred forty five 645
William H. Whitaker, two hundred twenty four 224
Walter B. Wilkins fifty four 54
Patrick Mulvey one 1
Blanks four hundred forty four 444
George H. Childs, S. Myron Lawrence and Edward
W. Taylor were declared elected.
Assessor for three years.
Henry E. Tuttle seven hundred fifty seven 757
Blanks two hundred seven 207
Henry E. Tuttle was declared elected
Town Treasurer.
George D. Harrington, seven hundred ninety one 791
Chas. W. Swan one 1
Blanks one hundred twenty two 172
George D. Harrington was declared elected.
Collector of Taxes.
Byron C. Earle, eight hundred four 804
Blanks one hundred sixty 160
Byron C. Earle was declared elected.
Moderator.
Edwin A. Bayley four hundred seventy five 475
James P. Peirce four hundred twenty four 424
Mr. Horton one 1
Blanks sixty four 64
Edwin A. Bayley was declared elected.
275
1915.
Cemetery Committee
Arthur A. Marshall, seven hundred seventeen 717
Timothy Shea one 1
John Brown one 1
Blanks two hundred forty five 245
Arthur A. Marshall was declared elected.
Auditor
Charles F. Pierce, seven hundred thirteen 713
Blanks two hundred fifty one 251
Charles F. Pierce was declared elected
Board of Health for three years.
William B. Foster six hundred ninety one 691
John McLeod one 1
Blanks two hundred seventy two 272
William B. Foster was declared elected
School Committee for three years
Samuel Lewis Barbour, two hundred nineteen 219
Hallie C. Blake seven hundred forty four 744
Blanks one hundred eleven 111
Hallie C. Blake was declared elected
Water and Sewer Commissioner for three years
George E. Briggs, seven hundred twenty four 724
Clifton P. Ashley one 1
Blanks two hundred thirty nine 239
George E. Briggs was declared elected.
Constables
Charles H. Franks, six hundred ninety nine 699
Patrick J. Maguire, six hundred seventy nine 679
James Walmley one 1
Dennis Reardon one 1
Blanks five hundred forty eight 548
Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire were
declared elected.
276
1915.
Tree Warden
Alfred E. Robinson, six hundred eighty eight 688
Blanks, two hundred seventy six 276
Alfred E. Robinson was declared elected.
Park Commissioner for three years.
William E. Mulliken, six hundred eighty seven 687
Blanks two hundred seventy seven 277
William E. Mulliken was declared elected
Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in this town ?
Yes two hundred eight seven 287
No five hundred seventy three 573
Blanks one hundred four 104
The town voted "no license."
Shall Chapter 795 of the Acts of 1914 being "An Act
to provide for the better prevention of fires throughout
the metropolitan district" be accepted by this Town ?
Yes four hundred seventy five 475
No seventy four 74
Blanks four hundred fifteen 415
And the town accepted the above Act.
The Moderator declared the meeting adjourned
to Monday, March 8, 1915 at 7.30 PM.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
277
1915.
Asst.
Town
Clerk
appointed
Lexington March 4, 1915
This is to certify that I have this day appointed
Helen C. Gallagher assistant Town Clerk of
Lexington, and that she has been duly sworn
to perform the duties of said office to the best
of her knowledge and ability.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Lexington, Mass.
March 2. 1915
In Board of Selectmen
Whereas the present Town Treasurer,
George D. Harrington, is unable to perform his
duties,
Now therefor, we the Selectmen of Lexington,
hereby appoint Arthur B. Howe of 34 Hancock
Street, Lexington, Treasurer pro-tempore to
serve until another is elected or appointed or
until the said George D. Harrington is able to
resume his duties.
Edward W. Taylor
S. Myron Lawrence
George H. Childs
}Selectmen
of
Lexington
A true copy, attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Appointments by Selectmen
Lexington, March 3. 1915.
Town the Town Clerk:
At a meeting of the Selectmen
held March 2, 1915 the following were appointed
to the different offices specified; terms to expire
March 31, 1916:
Constable
Charles E. Wheeler
Keepers of Lock Up.
Charles H. Franks Thomas C. Buckley.
Trustees of Gammell Legacy acting with
Overseers of the Poor
Miss Rose M. Turner Mrs William W. Reed
Librarian of Cary Memorial Library
Miss Marian P. Kirkland
Assistants
Miss. Helen E. Muzzey Miss. Barbara Mackinnon
Miss. Emma O. Nichols, (East Lex. Branch)
Trustees Bridge Charitable Fund.
F. Foster Sherburne, Frank D. Peirce
John F. Turner.
Superintendent of Scales an [and]
Public Weighers
William E. Denham, Supt Town Scales
Geroge S. Teague William E. Mulliken
George F. Teague William E. Denham
Weighers of Hay and Grain
Charles F Spaulding William B. Foster
Fred Given
279
1915
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Charles E. Hadley.
Weigher at Stone Crusher.
Miss. L. T. Whitney.
Measurer of Wood and Bark
Edgar W. Harrod George S. Teague
Supervisor of Streets
Robert H. White
Superintendent and Matron of Almshouse
Mrs and Mrs. Robert H. White
Inspector of Buildings
William Gratto
Town Physician
Dr. Henry C. Valentine
Janitor of Cary Memorial Library
Frank E. Clarke
Janitor of Village Hall
William P. Wright
Burial Agent
Arthur A. Marshall
Inspector of Animals
Dr. Harry L. Alderman
Edward W. Taylor
Chairman, Board of Selectmen
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk.
280
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Adjourned Town Meeting
March 8, 1915.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.34 oclock P.M.
Art. 4.
Additional
School accommodation
Com. Reports
Vol. 2 pg. 56
- Committee Reports -
The committee chosen March 9. 1914 to "investigate
the matter of providing increased school accommodations"
made a report stating that they had held
one meeting with the school committees, and had
made some investigations.
The committee stated that the vacancy in its
membership should be filled.
It was voted that the report be received and
placed on file.
Art. 15.
Sidewalk
Appropriation
- Sidewalk Appropriation. -
On motion of George H. Childs, it was:-
"Voted, That the sum of $574.60 be appropriated
for the purpose of constructing Sidewalks with
concrete or other material where the abutters
will pay one half of the expense thereof, to be
made up as follows: Unexpended balance $75.60
and the sum of $500.00 to be assessed."
Vote passed at 7.42 P.M.
Art 8.
Alms House
Appropriation
Proposal to
sell - defeated
- Alms House appropriation. -
Under this article Henry S. Stone offered the
following motion:- "Voted, That the Almshouse
be abolished, discontinued and no longer
maintained; that the inmates be boarded or
otherwise provided for; and that the Almshouse
property immediately be sold."
The Moderator ruled that this motion
was not in order as it was not in accordance
with the article.
S. Myron Lawrence offered the following motion:-
281
1915.
Alms house
continued
"Voted, That the sum of $1526. 15/100 be appropriated
for the Support of the Poor at the Poor Farm for
the ensuing year, to be made up as follows:-
Unexpended balance $776. 15/100 and the sum of
$750.00 to be assessed."
Mr. Stone offered the following as a substitute
motion:- "Voted, that the town no longer maintain
its poor at the Almshouse, but board them or
make other provisions for their maintenance elsewhere."
On a vote being taken, the substitute motion
was lost, and the motion of Mr. Lawrence providing
for the appropriation of $1526.15 was carried
by vote at 8.22 P.M.
Art. 16.
Insurance
Appropriation
- Insurance Appropriation. -
On motion of George H. Childs it was -
"Voted, That the sum of $1200.00 be appropriated
for Insurance during the ensuing year, to be
made up as follows:- Unexpended balances $11. 61/100
and the sum of $1188. 34/100 to be assessed."
Vote passed at 8.44 P.M.
Art. 9.
Outside
Appropriation
- Outside Poor Appropriation, -
On motion of S. Myron Lawrence, it was -
"Voted, That the sum of $3200.00 be appropriated
for the aid of Outside Poor, to be made up as
follows:- Unexpended balance $109.76, and the
sum of $3090.24 to be assessed."
Voted passed at 8.28 P.M.
Art. 10.
Highway
Appropriation
- Highway Appropriation -
George H. Childs offered the following motion:-
"Voted, That the sum of $27000.00 be appropriated
for the maintenance of Highways during the ensuing year, to be
made up as follows: Unexpended balance $383.06
and the sum of $26616.95 to be assessed.
Frank H. Holmes offered the following as a
substitute motion:- That $15000 be appropriated
282
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and assessed for the Highways."
The substitute motion was defeated, and the
motion of Mr. Childs providing $27000 for the
department was carried at 8.41 P.M.
Art. 23.
Town
Employees
Attempt to
fix wages
Indef. post
- Wages for Town Employees. -
Eugene D. Buckley offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the heads of departments be authorized
that daily labor under the several departments
employing labor shall be paid at the rate of
$2.50 a day of 8 hours and that citizens
of the Town of Lexington will have the preference
of Town work and when the vote be
taken the voters will pass before the chair and
be committed."
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson, it was
voted that action on this article be indefinitely
postponed, 136 voting in favor of postponement
and 86 against.
Art. 27.
Flat Pole
- New Flag Pole. -
Under the article Robert P. Clapp read the
following letter:-
Gift of
G. W. Taylor.
Boston, Mass. March 3, 1915
To the Citizens of Lexington:
As you all know, the flag
pole upon the Common was recently destroyed,
and I notice an Article in the Warrant to
provide funds for the purchase of a new one.
It would give me a great deal of pleasure if the
Town would accept a new flag pole from me
personally. Therfor, if you will have the
Article in the Warrant dismissed, have the new
flag pole erected, and send the bills to me, I
shall appreciate it.
With kind regards, I am
Very Truly Yours,
Geo. W. Taylor.
283
1915
It was unanimously voted to accept the gift, and
the Town Clerk was directed to notify Mr. Taylor
of the action taken by the meeting.
[margin] Art. 19
[margin] Park Dept. appropriation
Parks Appropriation
On motion of William E. Mulliken, it was:
"Voted, That the sum of £3302.59 together
with any income accruing to the Department up
to the amount of $200.00 be appropriated for
the support of the Park Department to be expended
under the direction of the Board of Park
Commissioners." Bal. $2.59 Assessed $3300.00
Voted passed at 9.11 P.M.
Robert L. Ryder urged that a fair portion of
this amount be used on the Adams School
Playground.
[margin] Art. 7
[margin] School appropriation
School Appropriation
On motion of Robert L. Ryder, it was:
"Voted, That the sum of $51417.02 be
appropriated for the support of the Public Schools for
the ensuing year to be made up as follows:
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1915, $1417.02 and
the sum of $50000 to be assessed".
Voted passed at 9.13 P.M.
[margin] Art. 28
New Street off Lowell Street
On motion of George H. Childs, it was unanimously
"Voted that the Town approve the laying out by
the Selectmen of a new street from the Arlington lane
to a connection with Lovell street in substantial
accordance with a plan therefor now on file in
the office of the Town Clerk; and that to meet the
estimated expense of making the necessary takings
of land for such street the sum of five hundred
and one and 47/100 dollars ($501.47) is hereby
appropriated, the same to be assessed the current year."
Voted passed at 9.27 P.M.
284
1915.
Art. 11.
Street
Light
Appropriation
Street Light Appropriation.
On motion of Edward W. Taylor, it was -
"Voted, That the sum of $10144.50/ be appro-
priated to cover expense of Street Lights the ensu-
ing year to be made up as following: Unexpended
balance $44.50 and then sum of $10100.00 to
be assessed.
Vote passed at 9.31 P.M.
Art. 21.
School
Lunch
Act
accepted.
Acceptance of Act to Provide School Lunches.
On motion of Rober L. Ryder it was --
"Voted, That the town adopt chapter 575 of
the acts of 1913, entitled. "An Act to authorize
Cities and Towns to provide free Meals for
School Children."
Vote passed at 9.54 P.M.
Previous to the voting, the Act was read by the
Moderator, and the Town Blerk stated that the
petition had been filed the required thirty days
and contained the necessary member of signers.
Meeting adjourned to Monday evening,
March 15, 1915, at 7.30 oclcok.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
285
1915.
Adjourned Town Meeting
March 15, 1915.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.35 P.M.
Art. 12
Fire
Dept.
appropriation
Appropriation for Fire Department
On motion of Edward N. Taylor, it was -
"Voted, that the sum of $11256.72 be appropriated
for the support of the Fire Department, to be made
up as follows:-
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1915 $204.12
To be assessed $11052.60
Total $11256.72
to be expended under the direction of the Board of
Fire Engineers."
New fire
hose
appropriation
"And further voted, that the sum of $400.00 be
appropriated for the purchase of new fire hose, to
be made up as follows:-
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1915 $18.45
To be assessed $381.55
Total $400.00
Mr. Taylor made a comprehensive statement giving
reasons why the Fire Department appropriation
was overdrawn in 1914, and why the amount
asked for in 1915 is necessary.
Votes passed at 7.45 P.M.
Art. 29
Deepening &
widening
brooks.
Appropriation for deepening brooks:-
"Voted, that the sum of $1522.56 be appropriated,
to be expended under the direction of the Board of
Water and Sewer Commissioners, for the purpose of
deepening, widening, and straightening the various
brooks of the Town or any of them; to be made up
as follows:-
Balance unexpended Jan 1, 191 $22.56
To be assessed $1500.00
[Total] $1522.56
286
1915.
Art. 30
Water Dept.
appropriation
Appropriation for Water Department
On motion of Albert D. Jenney, it was -
"Voted That the sum of $8732.33 be appro-
priated for the maintenance of the Water Depart-
ment for the ensuing year, to be made as follows: -
Balance unexpended, Jan 1, 1915. $6232.33.
To be assessed $2500.00
$8732.33
Vote passed at 8, 12 P.M.
Art.22. This article calling for new appropriation for
the purpose of planting shade trees was indefinitely
postponed on motion of Clarence. P. Johnson.
Art.4.
Committee
on increased
school
accommodations
given
further time.
Commitee Reports.
Under this article, William P. Martin on behalf
of the committe chosen March 9.1914 to consider
the question of increased school accommodations,
offered the following motion: -
"That the committe to investigate and report
on future School accommodations have further
time, and that the vacancy in the committee
caused by the removal from from the Town of
Rev. Michael J. Owens be filled by the Moderator."
And it was so voted, at 8. 15 P.M.
To fill the vacancy the Moderator appointed
Arthur L. Blodgett.
Art.26.
Water Main
in the Follen
Road,
indef. post of
purchase by
the town
On purchase of water main
in Follen Road.
Frank D. Peirce made a statement in explanation
of this article. The agreement which it
was proposed to make between Messrs. Tower and
Peirce with the Town was read by the Moderator.
Mr. Peirce then offered the following motion: -
"Voted that the Board of Water and Sewer
Commissioners are hereby authorized and requested
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1915
in behalf of the Town to enter into an agreement
with Richard G. Tower owed Frank D. Peirce in
substantial accordance with the draft agreement
read at this meeting, the same relating to the
purchase by the Town of the right inch water
main laid in Follen Road, and that to meet the
stipulated initial payment the sum of $721,29
is hereby appropriated, the same to be assessed the
current year."
Clarence P. Johnson moved "That action
on this article for be indefinitely postponed," and the
meeting so voted at 8.59 P. M.
Mr. Peirce's motion was supported by Messrs.
Tenny of the Water Board, Bliss and Clapp, and
opposed by Messrs. Horton and O'Connell.
Art. 25. This article asking for an increase of pay for
the employees of the Moth Department was indef-
initely postponed on motion of John F. Welsh.
Art. 20
Elm
Beetle
appropriation
- Appropriation for Elm Beetle. -
William S. Scamman offered the following motion:
"Voted, That the sum of $800.00 is appropriated
and assessed for the suppression of the Elm Leaf B
eetle, and other insects during the ensuing year,
and that the same be expended under the direction
of the Moth Committee."
Arthur E. Horton moved that the matter be
indefinitely postponed.
The meeting refused indefinite postponement,
and at 9.20 P.M., the above motion offered by
Mr. Scamman was carried by vote of the meeting.
Art. 24. This article relative to Tax Liens was
indefinitely postponed on motion of Clarence
P. Johnson.
288
1915.
Art. 17.
Cemetery
appropriation
Cemetery Appropriation.
On motion of S. Myron Lawrence it was -
"Voted that the sum of $750.00 be appropriated for
the care of Cemeteries for the ensuing year, to be
made up as follows:
Transfer from cemetery Pipe Account $10.96;
Unexpended Balance 86.11.
Sum to be Assessed 652.93.
Vote passed at 9.22 P.M.
Art. 18.
Finance
committee
appropriation
- Appropriations for Finance Committee -
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson, it was -
"Voted, That the sum of $140.28 be appropriated
for incidental expense of the Finance Committee
to be made up as follows -
Balance unexpended Jan. 1, 1915. $10.28;
and the sum of $130.00 to be assessed.
Vote passed at 9.24 P.M.
Art. 14.
Taxes,
date of
payment.
- Collection of Taxes. -
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson it was -
"Voted, That in accordance with the State law
passed May 20, 1913, to take effect January 1, 1915,
all taxes shall be due on October 15th in the
year they are assessed, and paid on November 1st.
If paid on November 1st no interest shall be
charged, but if paid after November 1st, interest at
the rate of six per cent per annum shall be charged
from October 15th. No discount on taxes is
to be allowed. The tax collector is instructed to
collect taxes by December 31, 1915."
Vote passed at 9.39 P.M.
Art. 6.
Memorial Day
appropriation
Memorial Day.
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson, it was -
"Voted, That the sum of $250.00 be appropriated and
assessed for the proper observance of Memorial Day the
same to be expended under the direction of Post 119,
Grand Army of the Republic."
289
Art. 13. Miscellaneous Appropriations.
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson the following
amounts were appropriated for the accounts or
departments specified, viz: -
19th of April
appropriation
April 19th
Voted; That the sum of $200.00 be appropriated
for the April 19th celebration account; said sum to be
made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $27.00
Sum to be assessed 173.00
Assessors
appropriation
Assessors.
Voted; That the sum of $1800.00 be appropriated
for the Assessor Department for the following
purposes; Assessors Salaries $1400.00, provided
the card system is continued, Incidentals $400.00,
to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended blaance $203.33
Sum to be assessed 1596.67
Auditor
appropriation
Auditor. -
"Voted; That the sum of $725.00 be appropriated
for the Auditors' Account, for Salary $700.00
Incidentals 25.00,
to be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance $34.80
Sum to be assessed $690.20
Board of
Health
appropriation
Board of Health.
"Voted; That the sum of $1772.72 be appropriated
for the use of the Board of Health, to be made
up as follows:
Unexpended balance $184.71
Sum to be assessed 1588.01
That no portion of said appropriation be expend-
ed for the payment of any bill or bills for
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1915.
services of counsel rendered to the Board of
Health, and that the appointment of a Health
Officer and a Fumigator to be supported by a
salary at the Town's expense be indefinitely
postponed."
Board of
Survey
appropriation
Board of Survey.
"Voted; That the sum of $257.17 be appro-
priated for the Board of Survey for Incidentals,
to be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance $157.17
Sum to be assessed $100.00
Cary
Library
appropriation
Cary Memorial Library
Voted; That the sum of #3650.00 be appropri-
ated for the Cary Memorial Library Account, for
the following purposes: - Salaries $2650.00,
Incidentals $1000.00, to be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance $235.61
Sum to be assessed $3414.39
Clerk School
Committee
appropriation
Clerk of School Committee
Voted; That the sum of $50.00 be appropriated and
assessed for the Salary of the Clerk of School
Committee.
Clerk of
Trustees of
Public
Trusts
appropriation
Clerk Trustees Public Trusts.
Voted; That the sum of 71.48 be appropriated
for the Clerk of the Trustees of Public Trusts
Account, for Salary $50.00, Incidentals $20.00,
to be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance $1.48
Sum to be assessed $70.00
291
1915.
Collector of
Taxes
appropriation
Collector of Taxes.
Voted; That the sum of $1400.00 be appropriated
for Collector of Taxes Account, for Salary $1100.00,
Incidental $300.00, To be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance $72.82
Sum to be assessed $1327.18
Contingent
appropriation
Contingent
Voted; That the sum of $1300.00 be appropriated
for the Contingent Fund, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $78.35
Sum to be assessed $1221.65
Elections &
Registration
appropriation
Elections and Registrations
Voted; That the sum of $546.60 be appropriated
for Elections & Registrations Account, for Salaries $105.00
Incidentals $441.60, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $46.60
Sum to be assessed $500.00
Exting. Forest
Fires
appropriation
Extinguishing Forest Fires.
Voted; That the sum of $800.00 be appropriated for
the extinguishing of Forest Fires Account, to be made
up as follows: -
Unexpended blaance $305.27
Sum to be assessed $494.73
Hydrants
appropriation
Hydrants.
Voted; That the sum of $1700.00 be appropriated and
assessed for the maintenance of Hydrants for the
ensuing year.
Building
Inspector
appropriation
Inspector of Buildings.
Voted; That the sum of $600.00 for appropriated for
Inspector of Buildings Account, for Salary $500.00
for incidentals $100.00 to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $168.30
Sum to be assessed $431.70
292
1915.
Cattle
Inspector
appropriation
Inspector of Cattle.
Voted; That the sum of $400.00 be appropriated for
Salary of the Inspector of Cattle, to be made up
as follows: -
Unexpended balance $200.00
Sum to be assessed $200.00
Slaughter
Inspector
Inspector of Meats and Provisions.
Voted; That the sum of $450.00 be appropriated for the Inspector fo Meats and Provisions, for Salary $450.00, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $164.00
Sum to be assessed $286.00
Interest
appropriation
Interest.
Voted; That the sum of $6602.05 be appropriated
for Interest Account, to be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance $2.05
Sum to be assessed $6600.00
Overseers of Poor
Salary
Overseers of the Poor.
Voted; That the sum of $300.00 be appropriated
and assessed for Salaries of the Overseers of the
Poor.
Police
appropriation
Police Department.
Voted; That the sum of $8142.39 be appropriated
for the Police Department for the following pur-
poses: - Salaries $7760.00 Incidentals $382.39
to be made up as follows:
Estimated Income $150.00
Unexpended balance 304.38
Sum to be assessed 7688.01
293
1915.
Sealer of
Weights &
Measures
appropriation
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Voted; That the sum of $189.72 be appro-
priated for the Account of Sealer of Weights and
Measures, for Salary $100.00 for new seals and
weights $40.00, for Incidentals $149.72, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $89.72
Sum to be assessed $100.00
Selectmen
appropriation
Selectmen -
Voted; That the sum of $1400.00 be appropriated
for the Selectmen's Account for the following
purposes; Salaries of Selectmen $400.00
Incidentals 480.00
Stenographers Salary 520.00
to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $ 198.32
Transfer from Stenographers Acct. 16.17
Sum to be assessed 1185.51
During the discussion on the appropriation for the
Police Department, Frank H. Holmes made charges of
intoxication against the Chief of Police.
On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was "Voted, that
in consequence of the nature of the charges made by
Frank H. Holmes in open Town Meeting against
Charles H. Franks, acting Chief of Police of this town,
a committee of five citizens be appropriated by the
Moderator to investigation the facts relating to said
charges and to make an early report to the town."
The following committee was appointed: - George E.
Briggs, Edward H. Mara, William P. Martin, Jay
O. Richards and Robert L. Ryder.
See page
294
It was then voted to lay article 13 on the table and
adjourn the meeting to Monday evening, Mar. 22, 1915
at 7.30 oclock.
A true record,
Attest. Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk.
294
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Adjourned Town Meeting, March 22, 1915
The meeting was called to order at 7.35 P.M.
by the Moderator.
Art. 5. Minor Town Officers.
Under this article the following men were elected
to the following offices, respectively: -
Fence Viewers.
Frank P. Cutter - Charles E. Wheeler.
Field Drivers
William F. Fletcher, Patrick J. Maguire
Surveyors of Lumber.
Frank P. Cutter, Edgar W. Harrod.
Art. 4.
See page
293.
Committee Reports.
Under this article Frank H. Holmes presented a
293 written statement to the meeting in which he
apologized for the charges he made against
See Charles H. Franks in open town meeting.
See Com. Reports
Vol. 2, pg 58
George E. Briggs, Chairman of the committee
chosen at the last meeting to investigate these
charges, made a report stating that a hearing
had been held which resoluted in the retraction of
the charges made by Mr. Holmes.
On motion of Mr. Briggs it was unanimously
voted that the statement of Mr. Holmes be
incorporated in the report of the committee and
that the report be received and placed on file.
On motion of Daniel B. Lewis it was voted to
accept the report of the Finance Committee.
Art. 13 - Miscellaneous Appropriations -
By vote of the meeting ARticle 13 was taken
from the table, and on motion of Clarence P.
Johnson it was voted that the following amount
be appropriated for the accounts specified: -
295
1915.
Snow
appropriations
Removal of Snow.
"Voted; That the sum of $502.50 be appropriated
for the Removal of Snow Account, to be made up
as follows: -
Unexpended balance $2.50
Sum to be assessed 500.00
Soldiers
Relief
appropriation
Soldiers Relief.
Voted; That the sum of $136.29 be appropriated
for Soldier's Relief Account, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance, $136.29
Stone
Bldg.
appropriation
Stone Building
Voted; That the sum of $ 848.91 be appropriated
for Stone Buidling Account, for Salaries $425.00,
Incidentals $423.91, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $48.91
Sum to be assessed 800.00
Sur. of
Highways
Salaries
Surveyors of Highways
Voted; That the sum of $ 300.00 be appropriated and
assessed for Salaries of the Surveyors of Highways
Town
Clerk
appropriation
Town Clerk
Voted; That the sum of $1300.18 be appropriated
for Town Clerk for the following purposes; -
Salary $1000.00, Incidentals $300.18
Sum to be assessed 1000.00
provided that all fees received or collected by the
Clerk are turned over by him into the town treasury.
Town Hall
appropriation
Town Hall.
Voted; that the sum of $1725.40 be appropriated for the
Town Hall Account, for Salary $900.00, Incidentals $825.40,
to be made up as follows;
Unexpended balance $75.40
Sum to be assessed 1650.00
296
1915.
Town
Physician
Salary
Town Physician
Voted; That the sum of $75.00 be appropriated and
assessed for the Salary of the Town Physician for
the ensuing year.
Town
Treasurer
Town Treasurer
Voted; That the sum of $1200.00 be appropriated
for the Town Treasurers Account, for Salary $1200.
for Incidentals $200.00, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $53.80
Sum to be assessed 1146.20
Cary Liby.
Treasurer
Treasurer of Cary Memorial Library.
Voted; That the sum of $50.00 be appropriated
and assessed for Salary of the Treasurer of
Cary Memorial Library.
Tree
Warden
appropriation
Tree Warden.
Voted; That the sum of $800.00 be appropriated
for the Tree Warden Account, to be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance $4.80
Sum to be assessed 795.20
$125.00 of this appropriation to be spent for the
planting of trees in such a manner as will permit
the town to enter a contest conducted by the
Massachusetts Forestry Association.
Village Hall
appropriation
Village Hall
Voted; That the sum of $350.00 be appropriated for
the Village Hall Account, to be made up as follows =
Unexpended balance $4.12
Sum to be assessed 345.88
Watering Troughs
appropriation
Watering Troughs
Voted; That the sum of $100.00 be appropriated
and assessed for the Watering Troughs Account,
297
1915.
Hastings
Park
appropriation
Hastings Park.
Voted; That the sum of $17.52 be appropriated for
the Hastings Park Account, to be made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $12.52
Sum to be assessed 5.00
Town
Debt.
After the above votes had been passed, Mr. Johnson
made the following motion: -
appropriation
for, indef.
postponed
"Voted; That the sum of $30.250.00 be appro-
priated for the Town Debt Account, to be made up as
follows:-
Transfer from unappropriated revenues, $11129.21
Transfer from omitted assessments 5870.79
Unexpended balance 106.25
Sum to be assessed 13143.75
Alonzo E. Locke offered the following amendment as
a substitute: - That the sum of $20250.00 be
appropriated for the Town Debt Account, to be
made up as follows: -
Unexpended balance $106.25
Sum to be assessed 30143.75
Elwyn G. Preston offered the following as an
amendment to Mr. Locke's motion:-
That the amount to be assessed shall be
$24121.46, and there shall be transferred from
Omitted Assessments of 1914 $5926.04
A. Ingham Bicknell raised a point of order
that under the article no transfer of money could
be made. The Moderator ruled the point well
taken and his ruling was sustained by the house.
Edward P. Merriam then offered the following
motion: - Voted, that the sum of $30143.75
be appropriated for the payment of the town debt
to be made up as follows: unexpended balance
$106.25, $30037.50 to be assessed during
the current year.
Daniel B. Lewis moved that the matter be
indefinitely postponed, and it was so voted
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1915.
On
Town
Debt
The various motions and amendments regarding
an appropriation for the town debt caused con-
siderable discussion. The proposition to use a
large part of the unappropriated revenue towards
the payment of the town debt was favored by Mr.
Lewis and Mr. Johnson who stated that it
seemed fair that the voters should receive some
benefit from the accumulated funds now in the
treasury and thus reduce the tax rate for the
ensuing year.
Messrs. Locke, Preston, Bicknell and Merriam
felt that this fund should not be disturbed
but be allowed to remain as a working capital.
The Moderator was obliged to leave the meeting
and called upon George E. Briggs to act as
Moderator pro tem.
Art 31.
On motion of Clarence P. Johnson it was voted
that action under this article be indefinitely
postponed.
Alms House
Robert P. Clapp offered the following resolution which
was rejected by vote of the meeting: - "Resolved
that it is expedient to change the present method of
caring for paupers, so that they may be boarded somewhere
at the expense of the town instead of being
maintained at the poor farm."
Frank H. Holmes stated that it is poor policy for
the town to maintain the Alms House as the inmates
could be boarded elsewhere at less expense.
At 9.38 P.M., it was voted to dissolve the meeting.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Indexed
_to here_
299
1915.
Appointments
by
Selectmen
Lexington, Mass, March 26. 1915
To the Town Clerk
Lexington, Mass.
Special
Police
Dear Sir.
At a meeting of the Selectmen held
March 26th, the following were appointed
Special Police of the Town of Lexington for
the year beginning April 1, 1915. -
Frank E. Clarke Henry J. McNider
Fred W. Johnson Theodore A. Belyea
Charles A. Manley Thomas F. Griffin
Mark Dodd Peter T. Gillooly
Geo. L. Peirce George Crawford
George S. Teague Olin L. Phelps
William S. Scanman Clifton E. Walker
William P. Wright John J. Garrity
Very Truly
Edward W. Taylor
Chairman
A true copy,
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
300
Finance
Committee
Lexington, Mass.
May 11, 1915.
New Members
To the Town Clerk:
Your are hereby notified that Messrs.: -
Wm. W. Reed Chas H. Miles
Frank H. Locke A. Ingham Bicknell
and Charles J. Dailey
have been appointed as members of the Finance Committee to serve for three years.
You are also notified that Daniel W. Weeks has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hallie C. Blake.
C. P. Johnson
Chairman.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
301
1915.
Public
Carriage
Regulation
Rules and Orders for the Regulation of
Carriages and Vehicles in the town of Lexington
made by the Selectmen under authority of Section 24
of Chapter 25 of the Revised Laws.
It is hereby ordered that the following Rules and
Orders be established in the town of Lexington, the
same to be in force on and after June 15, 1915.
1 Every hack, coach, omnibus, cab or other vehicle,
whether on wheels or runners, drawn by one or
more horses, or other animal power, and every
automobile, which shall be used in the Town of
Lexington for the conveyance of persosn for hire,
shall be deemed a public carriage, within the
meaning of these regulations.
2. No person shall set up, use or drive in the
Town of Lexington, any public carriage for the
conveyance of persons for hire without a license
from the board of Selectmen, under a penalty
of not more than twenty dollars, every time
such public carriage is used.
3. The Selectmen may from time to time grant
licenses to such person or persons and upon such
terms as they shall deem expedient, to set up,
use or drive public carriages for hire within the
town of Lexington, and they may revoke such
licenses at their discretion.
4. No such license shall be granted to any
person who is not a citizen of the United
States, and who is not of the age of twenty-
one years.
5. All licenses granted shall expire on the
fifteenth day of June next after the date
302
1915.
thereof, and no license shall be sold, assigned or
transferred, without the consent of the Selectmen
endorsed thereon.
6. The person in whose name a license is taken
out for a public carriage, shall, for all the
purposes of these regulations, be considered as the
owner of the same, and liable to all forfeitures
and penalties herein contained, unless upon
the sale of his carriages, notice be given to the
Selectmen, and the license delivered up to them.
7. Each license may specify the location or
stand that shall be occupied by such carriage,
and no license shall allow his carriage to
stand or remain in, nor solicit business in any
place or highway other than that specified in his
license, under a penalty of not more than $20.00
for each violation of this rule.
8 - Every person who may be licensed as aforesaid,
shall pay, for the use of the town, for each public
carriage which such person shall keep for hire, the
sum of $1.00, owed a like sum for the renewal
of the license.
By order of the Selectmen
Edward W. Taylor} Selectmen
S. Myron Lawrence} of
George H. Childs} Lexington
Lexington, May 28, 1915.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
303
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Warrant
for a Town
Meeting
Jun 14, 1915
Town Warrant
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
To either of the Constable of the town of Lexington,
in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the town of Lexington qualified
to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town
Hall, in said Lexington, on Monday the four-
teenth day of June, A. D. 1915, at 7.45 P. M.,
then and there to act on the following articles:-
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other committees.
Art. 2. To see if the town will make an appropriation
to meet the overdraft in the account of Removal
of Snow, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 3. To see if the town will make an appropriation to
meet the overdraft in the Forest Wardens Department,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the town will make an appropriation
to defray the expense of laying a cork carpet in
Cary Memorial Library or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 5. To see if the town will make an appropriaton
to defray the expense of maintaining the "Village
Clock" at East Lexington, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the town will vote to use or apply
any part of the amounts now standing to the
304
1915.
credit of unappropriated revenue account and
omitted assessment account being approximately
$20930.00 in the whole, to the payment of the
debt of the town, maturing the current year, or
make any other application of the same or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the purposes of widening Massachusetts
Avenue in accordance with the vote of the town passed
March 24, 1913, and to vote to issue Bonds
for the purposes of raising the money so appro-
priated, or act on any manner relating thereto.
Art. 8. To see if the town will accept and allow a
town way as laid out by the Selectmen, about
fifty feet wide, beginning on the southeasterly
side of Lowell Street at a point approximately
opposite the cottage house owned by Frank H.
Reed and extending in a generally southeasterly
direction to the Lexington-Arlington line, the
same forming a continuation into Lexington
of a new road laid out in Arlington as an
extension of Summer Street; or to act in any
manner relating to such town way.
The laying out, with the boundaries and
measurements of the way, is on file in the
office of the Town Clerk of Lexington.
Art. 9. To see if the town will appropriate money to
complete the grading of the East Lexington
Playground, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 10. To see if the town will accept and allow a town
way as laid out by the Selectmen beginning on
the easterly side of Waltham Street and running
to an extension of Highland Avenue through land
305
1915.
of Augustus E. Scott, said way being known as
Vine Brook Road, or act in any manner relat-
ing to such Town Way. Plan showing lay-out
is on file at the office of the Town Clerk.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will accept and allow a town
way as laid out by the Selectmen, said way run-
ning easterly and southerly from Somerset Road
to Somerset Road near its junction with Merriam
Street following substantially the way now known
as Ohio[?] Road, or act in any manner relating to
such town way. The laying out, with the
boundaries and measurements of the way, is on
file in the office of the Town Clerk.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
to be met by the issuance of bonds or otherwise to
meet the requirements of the Water Department in
making extensions of water mains, or act in any
other manner relative thereto.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to add to the
Munroe School four rooms and otherwise re-
construct the present building approximately
in accordance with plans submitted by Mr.
Willard D. Brown, and also vote to secure at
North Lexington a sutiable site and construct
thereon a two or three room brick building to be
used for school purposes, or take any action in
relation thereto. Also, to authorize an issue of
bonds for the purpose of raising moneys neces-
sary to meet expenditures authorized under this
article; or to make provision in any way -
that may be deserved best for the raising of
such moneys.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will make an additional
appropriation to meet the expenses in the
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account of Outside Poor, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the
Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners to
install a six inch water amin in Baker
Avenue from its present terminus southerly
for a distance of about nine hundred feet; and
that the sum of $500.00 be appropriated and
assessed for such purpose.
Art. 16. To see if the Town will vote to abolish, discontinue
and cease maintaining the Almshouse and make
provision for the support of the inmates elsewhere,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
(Art. 16 inserted by request of Francis H. Holmes,
Samuel G. Kingsberry, Hiram G. Jarwin, W. Foster,
Michael Carroll, Jno. E. Hubbell, R.A. Ryder,
William W. Ferguson, W. T. Wadman, E.W. Hutchinson,
D.F. Hutchinson, S. Kramer.)
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant
with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk on or
before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington this fourth
day of June, A.D., 1915.
Edward W. Taylor} Selectmen
S.M. Lawrence} of
George H. Childs} Lexington
Lexington, Mass., June 12, 1915.
To the Town Clerk. I have notified the inhab-
itants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing warrant in the Post Office and in eight other
public places in the town, and by mailing a printed
copy of the same to every registered voter in the town s
even days before the time of said meeting. Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler. Constable of Lexington
A true copy, Attest Charles W Swan
Town Clerk
307
1915.
Town Meeting, June 14, 1915.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.49 P. M.
The Warrant and return of the Constable thereon
were read by the Ass't Town Clerk.
Increased
School
accommodation
Report of
Committee
Com. Reports
Vol. 2, p. 60
File #200
It was voted upon motion of Arthur L. Blodgett
that article one be considered before the house
when no other matter was being considered.
Mr. Blodgett in behalf of the Committee
on Increased School Accommodations presented a
written report, copies of which report had been
circulated with the warrant for this meeting.
On motion of Edward P. Merriam it
was voted that the report be accepted and placed
on file.
Arts.
6 & 13
Addition
to
Munroe
School &
New school
at
North Lex.
Arthur L. Blodgett then moved that article
6 and article 13 be taken up together since
they were closely related.
Daniel B. Lewis enquired why they were
related. Mr. Blodgett stated that under Art.
6 they wanted to see if the town desired to
use some of the unappropriated revenue for
school purposes under article thirteen.
It was voted that articles six and thirteen
be taken up together.
Appropriation
Under article 13, Mr. Blodgett offered the
following vote: -
"Voted: that the Town proceed to add to the
Munroe school four rooms and otherwise recon-
struct the present building approximately in
accordance with plans submitted by Mr. Willard
D. Brown; also purchase at North Lexington
a suitable site and construct thereon a two or
three room brick building to be used for
school purposes, and appropriate the sum
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New
School
of Sixty thousand dollars ($60000.) as a
"School House construction appropriation" to
meet the necessary expenditures under this
vote. All the above work to be carried into
effect by a building committee of seven members,
to consist of the School Committee, the
members of the Committees on Increased
School Accommodations reporting at this
meeting, and one member to be appointed by
the moderator.
And it was so voted at 8.05 P.M.
112 in favor and 0 against.
Mr. Blodgett then offered the following vote:-
"Voted: That in order to provide Sixty thousand
dollars ($60,000) appropriated by a previous vote
under this article, designated as a "Schoolhouse
Construction Appropriation", to be used for
adding to and reconstructing the Munroe
School building and to secure a site and
construct a school building at North Lexington,
Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.) be paid
from unappropriated money in the treasury,
namely: from the balance to the credit of
"Special Revenue Account" of $13,129.21,
there be applied on the above appropriation
$8300.00, and from the balance to the credit
of Omitted Assessments 1914" of $7796.83,
the sum of $6700.00.
These accounts as shown on the General
Ledger of the town as of January 1, 1915.
Also, in addition to the above sum of $15000.00
and for the same purpose it is hereby
Voted: That there be issued the negotiable
serial bonds of the town to be designated on
their face "Schoolhouse loan of 1915", in
the principal sum of Forty five thousand
dollars ($45000.00) in coupon or registered
form of one thousand dollar denominations,
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New
School.
or in multiples thereof, bearing interest at the
late of not exceeding four and one-half (4 1/2)
per cent per annum, payable semi-annually,
both principal and without payable in gold
coin of the United States of the present standard
of weight and fineness. Said bonds
are to be made payable $3000, annually in
the years 1916 to 1920 both inclusive, and
$2000, annually in the years 1921 to 1935
both inclusive. These bonds shall
be signed by the Town Treasurer, countersigned
by a majority of the Selectmen, and sold at
public or private sale at not less than par
value and accrued interest by the Treasurer,
under the direction and with the approval
of the Selectmen."
Daniel B. Lewis in behalf of the Finance
Committee, stated that the finance committee
was heartily in favour of the appropriation but
that it was not in favor of the transfer of
$15000 from the Unappropriated Venue Account.
A. Ingram Bicknell stated that he
disagreed with the other members of the finance
committee and that he thought the unappropriated
revenue should not be used or the town dist.
Alonzo E. Locke made a motion that Mr.
Blodgett's vote be decided so that the taking of
the $15000 of the unappropriated revenue could
be voted for under article 6 and the raising of
bonds under article 13.
And it was so voted.
Francis S. Dane then stated that this brought
the vote before the Town in a manner satisfactory
to the Finance Committee and that
it was now in shape so that if the voters
wanted the money for the town debt they
could so vote.
Robert L. Ryder also spoke in favour of using
this money for the school appropriation.
310
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At 8.30 on motion of Mr. Blodgett it was -
Voted. "That in order to provide Sixty
thousand dollars ($60,000) appropriated by a
previous vote under this article, designated
as a "Schoolhouse Construction Appropriation",
to be used for addition to and reconstructing
the Munroe School building and to secure a site
and construct a school building at North Lexington,
Fifteen thousand dollars ($15000.) be paid
from unappropriated money in the treasury,
namely: from the balance to the credit of
"Special Revenue Account" of $13129.21, there
be applied on the above appropriation $8300.00,
and from the balance to the credit of "Omitted
Assessments 1914" of $7796.83, the sum of $6700.00".
These accounts as shown on the General
Ledger of the town as of January 1, 1915.
It was then voted - "That there be
issued the negotiable serial bonds of the town
to be designated on their face" Schoolhouse
loan of 1915", in the principal sum of Forty
five thousand dollars ($45000.) in coupon or
registered form of one thousand dollar denomi-
nations, or in multiples thereof, bearing interest
at the rate of not exceeding four and one-half
(4 1/2) per cent per annum, payable semi-annually,
both principal and interest payable in gold coin
of the United States of the present standard of
weight and fineness. Said bonds are to
be made payable $3000. annually in the years
1916 to 1920 both inclusive, and $2000 annually
in the years 1921 to 1935 both inclusive.
These bonds shall be signed by the Town Treasurer,
countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen
and sold at public or private sale at
not less than par value and accrued interest
by the Treasurer, under the direction and with
the approval of the Selectmen.",
146 in the affirmative and 0 in the negative.
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Town Debt
No action
Under article 6, Mr. Lewis then offered the
following vote:- "Voted, That the sum of
$30250.00 be appropriated for the town debt maturing
in the current year, this appropriation to
be made up as follows;
Balance on Hand $106.25
To be assessed 30143.75
_________
Total $30250.00
James P. Prince raised a point of order that the
motion as offered by Mr. Lewis of the Finance
Committee was not written in accordance with
the article in the Warrant under which he was
offering the motion. The Moderator ruled
the point will taken, and the vote presented by
Mr. Lewis was out of order.
Art. 16.
Sale of
Alms House
Frank H. Holmes moved that article 16 be
taken up.
Under this article Daniel B. Lewis of the
Finance Committee offered the following motion:-
Committee
"Voted; That the Chairman of the Board of
Selectmen, the Moderator and the Chairman of
the Finance Committee be instructed to serve as
a Committee of Appointment; said committee
to choose a committee of three persons to investigate
the affairs at the Almshouse with special reference
to the abolishing of the same and to report to
a future Town Meeting."
And it was so voted at 8.44 P.M.
See page 334
for committee
Art. 8.
Summer St.
acceptance
On motion of George H. Childs, article eight was
taken up.
Com. Rep.
Vol. 2. p. 63
Under this article Mr. Childs had a report of
the Selectmen recommending the acceptance of
Summer Street extension (so called) running from
Arlington line to Lowell Street
Mr Childs then offered the following vote:-
Voted; that the report of the Selectmen be accepted
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Summer St
Continued
and placed on file; and further voted that the
Town accepts as a public way the street therein
mentioned as laid out by them the same being
as street about fifty feet wide, beginning on the
southeasterly opposite the cottage house owned
by Frank H. Reed and extending in a generally
southeasterly direction to the Lexington-Arlington
line, the same forming a continuation into
Lexington of a new road laid out in Arlington
as an extension of Summer Street.
The layout out by the Selectmen of the above
mentioned street was effected by an order signed
by them under date of March 19, 1915, and
the same is hereby referred to and made part
of this vote of acceptance."
And it was so voted at 8.45 P.M.
Under this article Mr. Holmes made inquiries
relative to the maintenance of the road, and the
estimated cost of building said road.
Mr. Childs of the Selectmen, stated that the
total cost would be something like $4000, and
that when the road is built to the trade, the
State will surface and maintain the same as
a state highway.
Art. 9.
Adams
School
Park
appropriation
On motion of William E. Mulliken, article 9
was taken up.
Mr. Mulliken offered the following vote:-
"Voted - that the sum of six hundred $600)
dollars be appropriated and assessed to complete
the trading of the East Lexington play-ground.
The money to be expended under
the direction of the Park Commissioners."
And it was so voted, unanimously, at
8.48 P.M.
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Art. 7.
Mass
Ave.
widening
appropriation
Bonds for $7000
On motion of Mr. Childs, article seven was
taken up.
Mr. Childs offered the following vote:-
"Voted, that the sum of $7000 be appropriated
for the purpose of widening Massachusetts Avenue
on the North East side from the Valentine Building
to Woburn Street in accordance with the vote
passed by the town on March 24, 1913, and in
accordance with the layout as submitted by the
County Commissioners; and that the purpose
of meeting such cost the Town Treasurer is
hereby authorized to issue and sell, under the
direction and with the approval of the Selectmen,
negotiable registered or coupon bonds of the town
in serial form to the aggregate principal amount
of seven thousand dollars ($7000) bearing interest
at a rate not exceeding four per centum (4%) per
annum, payable semi-annually, and payable
both principal and interest, in gold coin of
the United States of America of the present
standard of weight and fineness, such bonds to
be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by
a majority of the Selectmen, with the maturities
so arranged that $1000 of principal will fall
due the payable in each of the years 1916 to
1922 inclusive."
The above vote was passed by two-thirds vote
of the meeting, 71 in the affirmation and 32 in
the negative.
Under the above article a general discussion was
participated in by F. S. Dane, C. B. Davis,
E. P. Bliss, F. H. Holmes, F. F. Shuburne, W. J.
Wadman, F. D Peirce, D. B. Lewis and W. C.
Stickel
Art. 5. Mr. Lawrence removed that article 5 be taken up,
Under article five, Mr. Lawrence offered the
following vote: - (Next page)
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Village
Clock at
East Lex
"Voted, that the sum of $100 be appropriated and
assessed to defray the expense of maintaining
the "Village Clock" at East Lexington for the
ensuing year."
No action
Frank H. Holmes moved that the
article be indefinitely postponed ; this the
meeting refused to do by a vote of 46 to 47.
Francis S. Dane stated that the Finance
Committee did not recommend this appropriation.
Edward P. Bliss then offered the following
amendment : — "provided said clock is duly
presented to and accepted by the Town."
After a general discussion Mr. Bliss asked
unanimous consent to withdraw his amendment,
which was granted.
Mr. Lawrence then asked consent to withdraw
his motion ; and the original motion as offered
by Mr. Lawrence was withdrawn.
Art. 15. Water Main in Baker Ave -
Francis S. Dane moved that article fifteen be
taken up, and it was so voted.
Appropriation for.
Under this article Mr. Dane offered the following
motion : — "Voted : That the Board of Water and
Sewer Commissioners be and they hereby are
authorized to lay a suitable water main in
Baker Avenue for a distance of approximately
nine hundred (900) feet, and connect the same
with the water main in Taft Avenue at an
expense of not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars
($500), and the sum of Five Hundred Dollars
($500) is hereby appropriated and assessed for
that purpose to be expended from the general
appropriations of the Town ; provided that he
laying of said water main shall not be done
until a suitable trench therefor shall have been
excavated without expense to the town and until,
in the opinion of the Board of Water Commissioners,
the Town has received from interested
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property owners satisfactory releases from all
liability for any damages that may result
from the laying and maintenance of said water
main and satisfactory assurances that said
trench will be filled at no expense to the Town.
The aforesaid action, if taken, is not to be
construed as a precedent for like action in the
future."
And it was so voted at 10.09 P.M.
Art. 4. Cary Library
On motion of George H. Childs, article four
was taken up.
Cork carpet
Under this article Mr. Childs offered the following
motion : — "Voted, that the sum of $200.00
be appropriated and assessed to cover the cost
of laying a cork carpet in the Cary Memorial
Library."
Mr. Holmes motion to indefinitely postpone
the above motion was lost.
The motion offered by Mr. Childs was passed
at 10.12 P.M.
Art. 12. Water Mains.
Appropriation for extension
Under article twelve Mr. Briggs offered the
following motion : — "Voted, that for the purpose
of providing funds for the extension of water
mains, the Town Treasurer be, and hereby is,
authorized to issue and sell, under the direction
and with the approval of the Selectmen, negotiable
registered or coupon bonds of the Town
in serial form to the aggregate principal amount
of $4000.00 bearing interest at a rate not
exceeding 4% per annum, payable semi-annually,
and payable, both principal and
interest in gold coin of the United States of
America of the present standard of weight and
fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer
and countersigned by a majority of the
Selectmen, with maturities so arranged that
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$1000 of the principal will fall due and
payable in the years 1916 to 1919 inclusive."
And it was so voted at 10.17 P.M.,
unanimously.
Art. 3.
Forest Warden
Appropriation
Under article three Francis S. Dane offered
the following motion : —
"Voted, that the sum of $1000 be appropriated
and assessed to meet an overdraft and to
provide for the maintenance and support of
the Forest Warden's Department for the balance
of the ensuing year."
And it was so voted at 10.18 P.M.
Art. 2.
Removal of
Snow
Appropriation
Under article two Mr. Childs offered the following
motion : — "Voted, that the sum of $500
be appropriated and assessed to meet an overdraft
and to provide for the removal of snow for the
balance of the ensuing year."
And it was so voted at 10.20 P.M.
Art. 14.
Outside Poor
Additional
Appropriations
Under article fourteen Mr. Lawrence offered
the following motion : — "Voted that the sum of
$2000 be appropriated and assessed for the
support of the Outside Poor."
And it was so voted at 10.23 P.M.
Art. 10.
Vine Brook
Road
On motion of Francis S. Dane, article ten
was taken up.
Acceptance
Under this article, George H. Childs in behalf
of the Selectmen read a report recommending
the acceptance of Vine Brook Road as a public
way from Wattham Street to Highland Avenue
(so called)
Com. Reports
Vol. 2. pg. 65
File 101
Mr. Childs then offered the following motion : —
"Voted that the report of the Selectmen relative
to the lay-out of Vine Brook Road be accepted,
and further voted that said road be accepted and
established as a public way when the same is
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satisfactorily deeded to the town."
Frank H. Holmes moved the indefinite postponement
of this motion.
Edward P. Bliss spoke in favor of the acceptance
of the street.
Mr. Holmes' motion to indefinitely postpone
was lost, and the motion as offered by Mr.
Childs was passed by vote of the meeting at
10.38 P.M.
A deed releasing all claim to the town of
Lexington has been recieved from Mary O. Tuttle,
owner of land through which this road runs.
Art. 11.
Franklin
Road
acceptance
On motion of Francis S. Dane, article eleven
was taken up.
Under this article George H. Childs read a
report of the Selectmen relative to the layout of
Franklin Road and recommending its acceptance
from Somerest Road to Somerset Road.
Com. Reports
Vol 2, pg. 64
File 101
Francis S. Dane then offered the following
vote : — "Voted, that the report of the Selectmen
relative to the lay-out of a town way, said way
running easterly and southerly from Somerset Road
to Somerset Road near its junction with Merriam
Street, following substantially the way now known as
Olive Road, be accepted and that said road be
accepted and established as a public way to be
called Franklin Road when the same is satisfactorily
deeded to the town."
It was so voted at 10.40 P.M.
Meeting dissolved at 10.42 P.M.
Index to here
A true record,
Attest:
Helen C. Gallagher
Asst. Town Clerk.
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Town Treasurers Office
Lexington Mass. June 30, 1915.
$100=
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the second day of November,
A.D. 1875, the Town Treasurer hereby
acknowledges the receipt of One hundred (100)
dollars from Edward A. Robbins of Lexington
Mass., the interest of which is to be expended
in accordance with said vote and amendments
thereto and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870
upon Lot 337 Z in the Town Cemetery
near the High School House in said
Lexington in dressing and care of said
lot, monuments, walks and avenues adjacent
thereto.
Geo. D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
June 30, 1915.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant
for a
Primary
Warrant for a Primary
Sep. 21. 1915.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
The either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington,
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 the Town Hall
Tuesday, the Twenty-first day of September,
1915, at Two Oclock P.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 the Commonwealth
Lieutenant Governor for the 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
Councillor for 6th Councillor Dist.
Senator for 5th Senatorial Dist.
One Representative in General Court, 29th
Representative District.
County Commissioner for Middlesex County
County Treasurer for Middlesex County
Sheriff for Middlesex County
And for the Election of the
following officers : —
District Member of State Committee for each
political party for the 5th Senatorial District.
320
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Members of the Democratic Town Committee
Members of the Republican Town Committee
Member of the Progressive Party Town Committee
Delegates to State Conventions of Political Parties.
All the above candidates and officers are
to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from two to eight P.M.
Andyou are directed to serve this warrant by
posting printed copies thereof and by mailing
printed copies thereof to every registered voter
in the Town, seven days at least before the
time of said meeting as directed by vote of
the town.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of
this warrant, with your doings thereon, at the
time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands, this third day
of September, A.D., 1915.
Edward W. Taylor } Selectmen
S. Myron Lawrence } of
George H. Childs } Lexington
Lexington Mass. Sept. 13. 1915
To the Town Clerk:
I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by
posting printed copies of the foregoing warrant in the
Post-office and in eight other public places in the town,
and by mailing a printed copy of the same to
every registered voter in the town, nine days
before the time of said meeting.
Attest: Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
321
1915.
State Primary
Sept. 21. 1915.
State
Primary
The meeting was called to order at two oclock
by Edward W. Taylor, Chairman of the Board of
Selectmen. The Warrant and the return of
the Constable thereon was read by the Town Clerk.
Frederick G. Jones James A. Hurley, Clifton P.
Ashley and G. Irving Tuttle were sworn as Ballot
Clerks and the polls were declared open.
The pools were declared closed at eight o'clock
P.M. and 338 ballots were taken from the box,
and this number agreed with the number of names
checked on each voting list. The dial on
the ballot box registered 339.
Nathaniel Nunn, Cornelius F. O'Connor, Fred E.
Butters, Allston M. Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow,
Patrick F. Dacey, Harry B. Wiley and Charles G.
Kauffmann having been sworn as Tellers, proceeded
to sort and count the ballots, and at 11.30 oclock
the Clerk announced the results as follows: -
Total of ballots cast by all parties - 338.
Marked as duplicate 1
Republican Party
Total Vote 280
Governor
Grafton D. Cushing of Boston 80
Eugene N. Foss of Boston 10
Samuel W. McCall of Winchester 187
Blanks 3
Lieutenant Governor
Calvin Coolidge of Northampton 152
Guy Andrews Ham of Milton 175
Blanks 13
322
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Secretary
Albert P. Langtry of Springfield 248
Blanks 32
Treasurer
Charles L. Burrill of Boston 246
Blanks 34
Auditor
Edward C. R. Bagley of Boston 74
Alonzo B. Cook of Boston 133
Samuel W. George of Haverhill 50
Blanks 23
Attorney General
Henry C. Attwill of Lynn 241
Blanks 39
Councillor — Sixth Dist.
Henry C. Mulligan of Natick 241
Blanks 39
Senator - Fifth Middlesex Dist.
Nathan A. Tufts of Waltham 250
Blanks 30
Representative
29th Middlesex District.
Jacob Bitzer of Arlington 247
Blanks 33
County Commissioner
John Lathrop Dyer of Cambridge 73
Harry A. Penniman of Cambridge 28
Chester B Williams of Wayland 151
Blanks 28
323
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County Treasurer
Joseph O Hayden of Somerville 215
Harold David Wilson of Somerville 33
Blanks 32
Sheriff
John R. Fairbairn of Cambridge 225
Adelbert B. Messer of Concord 47
Blanks 8
State Committee
5th Middlesex District.
Edwin A. Bayley 3
Allen C. Smith 1
Edward P. Merriam 1
Warren Parks 1
Blanks 274
Delegates to State Convention
Arthur W. Hatch 234
Everett S. Emery 229
Frank D. Peirce 226
Edwin A. Bayley 221
George H. Childs 227
Edward W. Taylor 1
James P. Prince 1
Louis L. Crone 1
Robert L. Ryder 1
Blanks 259
Town Committee.
Robert L. Ryder 229
Charles E. Hadley 223
William S. Seamman 227
Edward L. Child 221
Charles F. Bertwell 220
Louis L. Crone 232
Arthur W. Hatch 232
A. Ingham Bicknell 223
324
1915.
Wesley J. Wadman 219
S. Myron Lawrence 228
Arthur L. Blodgett 228
Lewis C. Sturtevant 226
Sidney R. Wrightington 224
Howard M. Munroe 229
George H. Childs 228
Frank Peirce 1
Blanks 810
Progressive Party.
Total Vote — 10
Governor.
Nelson B. Clark of Beverly 10
Lieutenant Governor.
Guy Ham 1
Blanks 9
Secretary
Blanks 10
Treasurer
Blanks 10
Auditor
Blanks 10
Attorney General
Blanks 10
Councillor — Sixth Dist.
Blanks 10
Senator
5th Middlesex District
Blanks 10
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Representative
29th Middlesex Dist.
Blanks. 10
County Commissioner
George A. Goodwin of Cambridge 10
Blanks. 0
County Treasurer.
David A. Keefe of Cambridge 8
Blanks. 2
Sheriff
Albert Messer 1
Blanks. 9
State Committee
5th Middlesex District
Blanks 10
Delegates to State Convention
Blanks 40
Town Committee
Blanks. 10
Democratic Party
Total Vote, 47.
Governor.
Frederick S. Deitrick of Cambridge 2
David I. Walsh of Fitchburg 42
Blanks. 3
Lieutenant Governor.
Edward P. Barry of Boston 40
Blanks. 7
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Secretary
Edwin A. Grosvenor of Amherst 35
Blanks 12
Treasurer
Henry L. Bowles of Springfield 37
Blanks. 10
Auditor
Jacob C. Morse of Brookline 37
Blanks 10
Attorney General
Joseph Joyce Donahue of Medford 31
Harold Williams Jr. of Brookline 7
Blanks 9
Councillor, 6th Dist.
Joseph H. McNally of Watertown 36
Blanks. 11
Senator.
5th Middlesex Dist.
Patrick Duane 1
Blanks. 46
Representative
29th Middlesex District
James D. Collins 1
Blanks. 46
County Commissioner
Michael M. O'Connor of Cambridge 31
Blanks. 16
County Treasurer
David A. Keefe of Cambridge 34
Blanks. 13
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Sheriff
John J. Donovan of Lowell 30
George A. Ferris of Woburn 7
Blanks. 10
State Committee
5th Middlesex District
Bernard W. Stanley of Waltham 31
Blanks. 16
Delegate to the State Convention
Bartholomew D. Callahan 28
Blanks. 19.
Town Committee
Bartholomew D. Callahan 31
William C. O'Leary 30
James Michael Ahearn 27
David F. Murphy 30
Arthur O'Leary 30
Arthur A. Mitchie 29
John J. Garrity 29
John J. Roach 26
Daniel J. O'Connell 28
Eugene J. Buckley 32
Blanks. 178
Meeting dissolved at 11.35 P.M.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Warrant for State Election
Warrant
for
State
Election.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington
in said County, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the town of Lexington qualified
to vote in State and County affairs, to assemble at
the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on Tuesday,
the second day of November, A.D., 1915 at six
o'clock in the morning to cast their ballots for the
following State and County Officers :
Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General,
Councillor for Sixth Councillor District,
One Representative in General Court for
Twenty-ninth Middlesex District, Senator for
Fifth Senatorial District, County Commissioner
for Middlesex County, County Treasurer,
Sheriff.
Also to bring in their votes on the
following questions :
Shall Chapter 129, Resolves of 1915,
entitled "Resolves to provide for submitting to the
people the article of amendment of the constitution
empowering the general court to authorize the
taking of land to relieve congestion of population
and to provide homes for citizens," be accepted
by this Town ?
Shall Chapter 130, Resolves of 1915, entitled
"Resolves to provide for submitting to the people
the article of amendment of the constitution
striking the word "male" from the qualifications
of voters," be accepted by this town ?
Shall Chapter 140, Resolves of 1915, entitled
"Resolves to provide for submitting to the people
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the article of amendment of the constitution relative
to the authority of the general court to impose
taxes," be accepted by this town ?
The election officers will receive votes
for the above all on the official ballot prepared by
the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The polls will be opened immediately after
the organization of the meeting, and will be kept
open until four o'clock P.M., and as much
longer as the meeting may direct, not to extend
beyond eight oclock P.M.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of
this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington, this
fifteenth day of October, 1915.
Edward W. Taylor } Selectmen
S. Myron Lawrence } of
George H. Childs } Lexington
Lexington, Mass. October 28, 1915.
To the Town Clerk.
I have notified the inhabitants of
Lexington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in
seven other public places in the town, and by
mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the town, ten days (10) before
the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
330
1915.
State
Election
State Election.
November 2, 1915.
The meeting was called to order at six o'clock
in the morning by Edward W. Taylor, chairman
of the Selectmen.
The Warrant and the Return of the Constable
was read by the Town Clerk.
Fred G. Jones, and James A. Hurley were sworn
to the faithful discharge of their duties as Ballot
Clerks, and Clifton P. Ashley, Frank E. Burke
and Charles G. Kauffmann as Deputy Ballot Clerks,
and the polls declared open.
Nathaniel Nunn, Fred E. Butters, Allston M.
Redman, Cornelius F. O'Connor, Samuel B. Bigelow,
Patrick F. Dacey, Louis H. Lawrence and William
C. O'Leary were sworn as Tellers.
The ballot box was opened from time
to time, and ballots taken therefrom as follows : —
9.10 oclock, 200 taken out
10.10 oclock, 200 taken out
11.20 oclock, 150 taken out
12.15 oclock, 50 taken out
2.15 oclock, 200 taken out
3.48 oclock, 100 taken out
4.21 oclock, 50 taken out
At the close of the polls twenty four
ballots were taken from the box, making a
total of 974 ballots cast at the election out of
a registered vote of 1178.
At 11.50 oclock on motion of Arthur W.
Hatch it was voted that the polls be kept open
until 4.30 P.M., and at 12.18 oclock on motion
of George H. Childs it was voted that the time of
closing be extended to 4.45 oclock P.M.
The dial on the ballot box registered 974,
and 974 names were checked on each list.
After the Tellers had completed the work
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of counting, the Town Clerk announced the
result as follows at 5.45 oclock.
Total vote cast 974.
Governor.
Nelson B. Clark thirty two 32.
Walter S. Hutchins three 3
Samuel W. McCall, six hundred fifteen 615
Peter O'Rourke nothing 0
William Shaw twelve 12
David I. Walsh, three hundred six 306
Blanks six 6
Lieutenant Governor.
Edward P. Barry two hundred sixty one 261
Calvin Coolidge six hundred forty nine 649
Alfred H. Evans ten 10
James Hayes one 1
Chester R. Lawrence twenty nine 29
Samuel P. Lurnberg five 5
Blanks nineteen 19
Secretary.
Edwin A. Grosvenor two hundred sixty one 261
Albert P. Langtry six hundred fifty five 655
Thomas J. Maher three 3
Marion E. Sproule four 4
Willard O. Wylie twelve 12
Blanks thirty nine 39
Treasurer.
Henry L. Bowles, two hundred fifty six 256
Charles L. Burrill six hundred forty nine 649
Charles E. Fenner four 4
William E. Marks thirteen 13
Jeremiah P. McNally two. 2
Blanks fifty 50
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Auditor
Alonzo B. Cook six hundred twenty 620
James W. Holden none 0
Henry C. Iram six 6
Jacob C. Morse two hundred sixty eight 268
William G. Rogers thirteen 13
Blanks sixty seven 67
Attorney General,
Henry C. Attwill six hundred sixty eight 668
Frank Auchter seventeen 17
Joseph Joyce Donahue two hundred forth three 243
John McCarthy five 5
William Taylor one 1
Blanks forty 40
Councillor, Sixth District
Joseph H. McNally two hundred sixty four 264
Henry C. Mulligan six hundred thirty nine 639
Edward C. Stone one 1
Blanks seventy 70
Senator, 5th Middlesex District
Patrick J. Duane two hundred seven 207
Nathan A. Tufts six hundred sixty nine 669
Blanks ninety eight 98
Representative
Jacob Bitzer seven hundred twenty seven 727
Dave Murphy one 1
Daniel O'Connell one 1
Blanks two hundred forty five 245
County Commissioner
Alfred L. Cutting six hundred seven 607
John Lathrop Dyer twenty seven 27
George A. Goodwin thirty eight 38
Michael M. O'Connor two hundred fourteen 214
William H. Walsh twenty nine 29
Blanks 59
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County Treasurer
DeWitt Clinton Clapp thirty three 33
Joseph O. Hayden six hundred thirty four 634
David A. Keefe two hundred thirty seven 237
Blanks seventy 70
Sheriff
John J. Donovan two hundred thirty 230
John R. Fairbairn six hundred seven seven 677
Blanks sixty seven 67
Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution,
empowering the general court to authorize the taking
of land to relieve congestion of population and to
provide homes for citizens be approved and ratified ?
Yes for hundred eight eight 488
No two hundred ninety eight 298
Blanks one hundred eighty eight 188
Shall the following proposed amendment to the
constitution, enabling women to vote, be approved
and ratified ?
Article of Amendment
Article three of the articles of amendment to the constitution
of the commonwealth is hereby amended by
striking out in the first line thereof the word "male."
Yes — two hundred eighty 280
No. six hundred thirty eight 638
Blanks fifty six 56
Shall the following proposed amendment to the
constitution, relative to the taxation of incomes
and the granting of reasonable exemptions, be
approved and ratified ?
Article of Amendment.
Full power and authority are hereby given and
granted to the general court to impose and levy a
tax on income in the manner hereinafter provided.
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Such tax may be at different rates upon income
derived from different classes of property, but shall
be levied at a uniform rate throughout the commonwealth
upon incomes derived from the same class
of property. The general court may tax
income not derived from property at a lower
rate than income derived from property, and may
grant reasonable exemptions and abatements.
Any class of property the income from which is
taxed under the provisions of this article may be
exempted from the imposition and levying of
proportional and reasonable assessments, rates and
taxes as present authorized by the constitution.
This article shall not be construed to limit the
power of the general court to impose and levy
reasonable duties and excises.
Yes. five hundred ninety one 591
No. one hundred eight eight 188
Blanks one hundred ninety five 195
Meeting dissolved.
A true record.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
December 10. 1915.
Under article 16 in the town meeting held
June 14. 1915, George H. Childs, Clarence P.
Johnson and Edward H. Mara were appointed
a committee to consider the abolishing of the
Almshouse.
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
See page 311
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Perpetual Care.
Cemetery
Lot
#263
Town Treasurer's Office
Lexington Mass. Feb. 24. 1916.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting assembled
on the second day of November A.D. 1875, the
Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of
One hundred (100) dollars from the estate of
Lucy N. Blodgett, the interest of which is to
be expended in accordance with said vote and
Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870, upon the
James Blodgett lot No. 263 in the town
Cemetery near the High School House in
said Lexington in dressing and care of said
lot, monuments, walks and avenues adjacent
thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
February 24. 1916.
A true copy,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Warrant
for
Annual
Town
Meeting
Warrant for Annual Town Meeting.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of
Lexington, in said County, Greeting: -
In the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified
to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet
in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on
Monday, the Sixth day of March, A.D., 1916,
at seven o'clock, A.M., then, and there to act
on the following articles:
Art. 1 To choose by ballot the following town officers:-
One Town Clerk for the term of one year;
Three Selectmen for the term of one years;
Three Overseers of the Poor for the term of one year;
Three Surveyors of the Highways for the term of one year;
One Assessor for the term of three years;
One Town Treasurer for the term of one year;
One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year;
One Auditor for the term of one year;
One Water and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years;
One member of the Cemetery Committee for the term
of three years
One member of the School Committee for the
term of three years;
One member of the Board of Health for the
term of three years;
One Park Commissioner for the term of three years;
One Trustee of Public Trusts for the term
of six years;
One Three Warden for the term of one year;
Two Constables for the term of one year;
One Moderator for the term of one year.
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Art. 2. To see if the town will vote for or against
granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating
liquors, in answer to the question: "Shall licenses
be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors
in this town ?"
The election officers will receive votes under articles
1 and 2 on the official ballot prepared by the
Town Clerk. The polls will be opened as
soon as possible after the organization of the
meeting and will be kept open until five P.M.
In compliance with article 111 of the
By-Laws as amended January 29, 1900, business
under the following articles will be transacted at
an adjourned meeting to be held Monday evening
March 13, 1916, unless the adjourned meeting
shall by unanimous vote, be ordered for some
other specified time.
Art. 3. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee, of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other committees.
Art. 4. To choose such town officers as are required
by law and are usually chosen by nomination.
Art. 5. To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the proper observance of Memorial Day, to
be expended under the direction of Post 119,
Grand Army of the Republic.
Art. 6. To provide for the support of the Public Schools
the ensuing year, and grant money for the
same.
Art. 7. To provide for the support of the Poor at
the Alms House the ensuing year, and
grant money for the same.
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Art. 8. To provide for the support of the Outside Poor
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 9. To provide for the support of the Highways the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 10. To provide for the support of the Street Lights the
ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 11. To provide for the support of the Fire
Department the ensuing year, and grant
money for the same.
Art. 12. To see if the town will make the usual
appropriations for town expenses the ensuing
year, not specified in other articles, or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 13. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen
to improve the condition of the Town Hall
grounds, and make an appropriation for this
purpose, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 14. To see if the town will make an appropriation
to construct sidewalks with concrete or other
materials where the abutters will pay one-half
the expense thereof.
Art. 15. To see if the town will make an appropriation
sufficient to meet the expense of placing new
insurance and renewals for the ensuing year,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 16. To see if the town will make an appropriation
for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail
Moths in accordance with Chap. 381, Acts of 1906
and amendments thereto, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
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Art. 17. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of
money for the use of the Finance Committee,
or take any action relating thereto.
Art. 18. To take such action as many be deemed best by
the town in relation to the removal of electric
wires, not supported by poles situation in or
along the side of public streets, and the placing
of such wires under ground; and to pass any
vote or votes, adopt any by-law or give any
instructions appropriate to accomplish or facilitate
the undergrounding of such wires.
Art. 19. To provide for the support of the Public Parks
for the ensuing year and grant money for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 20. To see if the town will make further appropriations
of money for the suppression of
insects, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 21. To see if the town will accept and allow
an altering and widening of the town way
known as Revere Street, made by the Selectmen
by an order dated January 19. 1916.
Said order, which shows also the boundaries
and measurements of the street as altered and
evidenced, and a plan therein referred to, are
on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
Art 22. To see if the town will vote to appropriate
money to widen and deepen the brooks in the
town so as the obtain better surface drainage,
the same to be expended by the Water and
Sewer Commissioners, or take any other ation
relating thereto.
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Art. 23. To appropriate money for the use of the
Water Department, and vote to issue bonds or
notes therefor, or otherwise determine the method
of raising the money so appropriated, and to
take any other or further action relative
thereto as may be deemed best.
Art. 24. To see if the town will appropriate the sums
of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the care of
the Cemeteries for the ensuing year, or take
any action relating thereto.
Art. 25. To receive the report of the committee appointed
to prepare and present a new code of by-laws
to the town, and take action thereon.
Art. 26. To see what action the town will take to raise
and appropriate $350.00 for the George Washington
Memorial Building, Washington, D.C.
Art. 27. To see if the town will accept a road
running westerly from Highland Avenue
at its junction with Bloomfield Street to
Highland avenue near its junction with Winthrop
Road, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Plans showing proposed lay-out may be seen
at the office of the Town Clerk.
Art. 28. To see if the town will authorize the Surveyors
of Highways to widen the easterly end
of Vine Brook Road, from forty to sixty feet,
provided it is done without expense to the
town, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 29. To see if the town will authorize their
Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen,
to borrow money for any necessary
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purposes, in anticipation of revenue for the
current year, the same to be repaid directly from
the proceeds of said revenue, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 30. To see if the town will vote to accept Sections
21 to 25, both inclusive, of Chapter 78 of the
Revised Laws and all acts in amendment thereof
and in addition thereto providing for the election
of a Board of Cemetery Commissioners and the
care and management of the public burial
grounds of the town, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 31. To see if the town will accept Chapter 447
of the Acts of 1912 relative to the retirement of
Civil War Veterans, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 32 To receive the report of the committee appointed
to consider the matter of a new cemetery, and
take action thereon.
Art. 33. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen
to establish building lines as recommended in
their annual report, and make an appropriation
for this purpose, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 34. To see if the town will vote to changes the
length of term of office of the members of the
Board of Selectmen and the members of the
Board of Overseers of the Poor from the term
of one year, as at present, to the term of three
years, by providing that at the annual meeting
for the election of Town Officers, to be held
in March 1917, the town shall elect one
member of each of said Boards for the term
of one year; -
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one member of each of said Boards for the term
of two years, and one member of each of said
Boards for the term of three years, and that
thereafter at each annual meeting for the election
of Town Officers, the town shall elect one
member of each of said Boards for the term of
three years, as provided by law, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 35. To see if the town will vote to elect at the
annual election of town officers to be held in
March 1917, three Road Commissioners, one
of whom shall serve for the term of one year,
one for the term of two years and one for the
term of three years, and that at each annual
meeting for the election of town officers thereafter,
the town shall elect one Road Commissioner for
the term of there years, and that at the meeting for
the election of town officers to be held in March 1917,
and thereafter, the town shall elect no Surveyors
of Highways, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 36. To see if the town will instruct the Board of
Water and Sewer Commissioners to extend the six
inch water main from its present terminus on
Cliff Avenue further on said avenue and on
Cummings, Wilson, Melrose, Arcadia and Rawson
Avenues or on any of them, and appropriate and
assess money for this purpose, or at in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 37. To see if the town will adopt a By-Law
regulating and restricting the deposit of ashes
rubbish and other waste material so that the
same may not be left exposed to view within
a specified distance from a public street; and
to take any other or further action, by the
adoption of a By-Law or otherwise, calculated
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to prevent the deposit and accumulation of waste
material in places where it ends to interfere
with the comfort or well being of the inhabitants.
Hereof fail not and make due return of
this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the
Town Clerk, on or before the time of said
meeting.
Given under our hands, at Lexington,
this eighteenth day of February,
A.D., 1916.
Edward W. Taylor
George H. Childs
}Selectmen of
Lexington.
Lexington Mass. March. 1. 1916.
To the Town Clerk.
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting printed copies
of the foregoing warrant in the post-office and
in seven other public places in the town, and
by mailing a printed copy of the same to
every registered voter in the town seven days
before the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington.
A true copy of Warrant and Return.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1916.
Annual
Town
Election
Annual Town Election.
March 6, 1916.
The meeting was called to order at seven
oclock, A.M. by the Moderator.
The first two articles of the warrant were
read by the Town Clerk, following which the
meeting voted that the further reading of the
warrant be omitted. The return of the
Constable was then read by the Clerk.
James A. Hurley and Fred G. Jones were
sworn to the faithful performances of their duties
as Ballot Clerks, and gave a receipt to the
Town Clerk for a package said to contain 1700
ballots for male voters and 500 ballots for female
voters.
Charles G. Kauffmann, and John J. Garrity
were sworn as Deputy Ballot Clerks.
The ballot box was shown to be empty, then
locked and the key given to the Constable.
The polls were then declared open.
Albert I. Carson, Patrick F. Dacey, Ralph H. Marshall,
Samuel B. Bigelow, William C. O'Leary, Cornelius
F. O'Connor, Fred E. Butters, Nathaniel Nunn
and Allston M. Redman were sworn as Tellers.
At 9.15 oclock the ballot-box was opened
and 30 ballots were taken out, leaving the box
empty. The dial also registered 300.
At 11.30 A.M. 100 ballots were taken out.
At 2.30 P.M. 200 ballots were taken out.
At 3.45 P.M. 150 ballots were taken out.
At the close of the polls at five oclock 10
ballots were taken out, making a total of 850
ballots cast at the election. This number
agreed with the number of names checked on
each voting list and with the dial on the box.
Twenty-nine ballots were cast by female
voters for School Committee which number
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agreed with the number of names checked on
both lists.
At 7.20 oclock the Town Clerk announced
the result as follows:-
Whole number of ballots cast by male voters, 850
Whole number of ballots cast by female voters, 29.
Town Clerk - One year.
Charles W. Swan, six hundred three 603.
Charles A. Kauffmann one 1
Blanks two hundred forty six 246
Charles W. Swan was declared elected.
Selectmen - One year.
William B. Foster three hundred seventy five 375
James F. McCarthy two hundred ninety three 293
William S. Scamman three hundred ninety seven 397
Edward W. Taylor five hundred sixty six 566
James A. Wilson three hundred forty five 345
F. D. Peirce one 1
C. P. Ashley one 1
Dwight F. Kilgour one 1
Clarence P. Johnson one 1
Arthur W. Hatch one 1
Blanks five hundred sixty nine 569
Edward W. Taylor, William S. Scamman
and William B. Foster were declared elected.
Overseers of the Poor. One year.
William B. Foster three hundred seventy six 376
James F. McCarthy two hundred ninety three 293
William S. Scamman three hundred ninety one 391
Edward W. Taylor five hundred sixty two 562
James A. Wilson three hundred fifty one 351
Blanks five hundred seventy seven 577
Edward W. Taylor, William S. Scamman
and William B. Foster were declared elected.
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Surveyors of Highways - One year.
William B. Foster three hundred seventy one 371
James F. McCarthy two hundred eighty seven 287
William S. Scamman three hundred ninety two 392
Edward W. Taylor five hundred sixty four 564
James A. Wilson. three hundred fifty six 356
Clarence P. Johnson one 1
Arthur W. Hatch one 1
Blanks five hundred seventy eight 578
William B. Foster, William S. Scamman,
and Edward W. Taylor were declared elected.
Assessor for three years.
Charles E. Hadley two hundred sixty two 262
Frederick J. Spencer five hundred thirty 530
Peter O'Connor one 1
Geo. Young one 1
Blanks fifty six 56
Frederick J. Spencer was declared elected.
Town Treasurer for one year.
George D. Harrington seven hundred twenty nine 729
Charles A. Kauffmann one 1
Blanks one hundred twenty 120
George D. Harrington was declared elected.
Collector of Taxes, one year.
Byron C. Earle seven hundred forty three 743
Blanks one hundred seven 107
Byron C. Earle was declared elected
Moderator for one year.
Edwin A. Bayley. six hundred forty two 642
Edward C. Stone one 1
Edward P. Merriam one 1
Blanks two hundred four 206
Edward A. Bayley was declared elected.
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Cemetery Committee, three years
Lester E. Smith six hundred seventy three 673
Blanks one hundred seventy seven 177
Lester E. Smith was declared elected.
Auditor for one year.
Charles F. Pierce six hundred forty two 642
Blanks two hundred eight 208
Charles F. Pierce was declared elected.
Board of Health for three years.
Charles H. Franks four hundred sixteen 416
Arthur F. Hutchinson three hundred fifty eight 358
Blanks seven six 76
Charles H. Franks was declared elected.
School Committee three years
Robert L. Ryder six hundred fifty two 652
Blanks two hundred twenty seven 227
Robert L. Ryder was declared elected.
Water and Sewer Commissioner, three years.
Albert B. Tenney six hundred twenty six 626
Blanks two hundred twenty four 224
Albert B. Tenney was declared elected.
Constables for one year.
Charles H. Franks five hundred ninety 590
Patrick J. Maguire five hundred ninety six 596.
William Moakley one 1
Patrick Kelley one 1
Blanks five hundred twelve 512
Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire were
declared elected.
Tree Warden one year.
Alfred E. Robinson - six hundred twenty five 625
James E. Crone 1, Blanks 224
Alfred E. Robinson was declared elected.
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Trustee Public Trusts, six years.
Frank D. Peirce six hundred twenty four 624
James. J. Sullivan one 1
Blanks two hundred twenty five 225
Frank D. Peirce was declared elected.
Park Commissioner, three years
J. Odin Tilton five hundred fifty five 555
John J. Garrity one 1
J. Willard Hayden one 1
Walter W. Rowse one 1
W. E. Mulliken one 1
Blanks two hundred ninety one 291
J. Odin Tilton was declared elected.
Park Commissioners, one year.
J. Willard Hayden, Hr. four hundred sixteen 416
Walter W. Rowse three hundred sixty nine 369
Geo. E. Briggs one 1
Blanks sixty four 64
J. Willard Hayden, Jr. was declared elected.
Shall license be granted to for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in this town ?
Yes. two hundred forty two 242
No. four hundred eighty five 485
Blanks one hundred twenty three
The town voted no license.
The Moderator declared the meeting adjourned
to Monday evening, March 13, 1916
at 7.30 P.M.
A true record:
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Annual
Business
Meeting
Annual Business Meeting.
March 13. 1916.
The meeting was called to order at 7.30 P.M.
by the Moderator.
Art. 9.
Highway
Appropriation
Highway Appropriation.
Edward W. Taylor offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the sum of $30000.00 be appropriated
for the maintenance of highways during the
ensuing year, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand. Jan. 1, 1916 $39.19
Amount to be assessed 29960.81
______
$30000.00
It was so voted at 7.47 oclock.
Art. 3.
Alms house
report
deferred
Frank H. Holmes requested that the report of
the Special Committee on Alms House be read.
He was informed that owing to the absence
of the chairman the report would not be presented
this evening.
Art. 37.
Ashes -
Indef post
On motion of Arthur F. Hutchinson it was
voted that this article relative to the regulation of
the deposit of ashes, etc., be indefinitely postponed.
Art. 11.
Fire
Dept.
Appropriation
Fire Department Appropriation.
William S. Scamman offered the following :-
"Voted, that the sum of $11344.00 be appropriated
for the support of the Fire Department
for the ensuing year, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $356.87
Amount to be assessed 10987.13
______
$11344.00
It was so voted at 7.52 oclock.
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Art 10.
Street
Light
Appropriations
Edward W. Taylor offered the following motion:-
"Voted, that the sum of $10785.01 be appropr-
iated to cover expenses of street lights for the ensuing
year, to be made up as follows:-
Balance in hand, Jan 1, 1916 $216.01
Amount to be assessed $10569.00
$10785.01
It was so voted at 7.55 o'clock.
Art. 6
School
Appropriation
Hallie C. Blake offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the sum of $54456.47 be appropri-
ated for support of the Public Schools during
the ensuing year, to be made up as follows:-
Net Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $550.47
Estimated Revenue 900.00
To be assessed 53000.00
$54450.47
It was so voted at 7.58 o'clock.
Art. 13
Town Hall
Grounds
On motion of Edward W. Taylor it was
voted that this article relative to improving con-
ditions in the Town Hall Grounds be indef-
initely postponed.
Art. 14
Sidewalk
Appropriation
Sidwalk Appropriation.
On motion of Edward W. Taylor, it was-
"Voted that the sum of 700.00 be appropriated
for Sidewalks, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan 1. 1916, 357.63
Amount to be assessed 342.37
[total] $700.00
Vote passed at 8.00 oclock.
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Art. 22
Lowering
of Brooks
appropriation
Lowering of Brooks.
On motion of George E. Briggs it was -
"Voted that the sum of $500.00 be appropriated for
the care of Brooks, to be made up as follows: -
Bal. on hand Jan 1, 1916. $ 31.27
Amount to be assessed _468.73_
$500.00
Vote passed at 8.13 oclock.
Frank H. Holmes motion to indefinitely postpone
the article was lost.
Art. 19
Parks
appropriation
Park Appropriation
William E. Mulliken offered the following motion: -
"Voted that the sum of five thousand dollars
($5000.00) be appropriated and assessed for the care
and maintenance of the Public Parks and Play-
grounds for the ensuing year. This amount
to be expended under the direction of the Park
Commissioners."
A. Ingham Bicknell, Chairman of the
Finance Committee, offered the following as a
substitute motion: -
"Voted, that the sum of $3500.00 be appropriated
for Public Parks, to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916. $ 103.67
Amount to be assessed _3396.33_
$3500.00
It was voted to substitute the motion offered by
Mr. Bicknell for the one offered by Mr, Mulliken,
and the substitute motion was then passed
by vote of the meeting at 8.29 oclock.
Mr. Mulliken stated that he was responsible
for the overdraft in the account for 1915.
Art. 7
Alms
House
It was voted to lay this article calling for
an appropriation for the Alms House on the
table until after the report of the Special Committee
of investigation had been received.
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Art. 5
Memorial
Day
appropriation
Memorial Day Appropriaton.
On motion of Lester T. Redman, it was -
"Voted, that the sum of $250.00 be appropriated
and assessed for the proper observance of Memorial
Day, the same to be exfunded under the direction
of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic."
Vote passed at 8.36 oclock.
Art. 23
Water
Dept.
appropriaton
Appropriation for Water Department.
On motion of George E. Briggs it was-
"Voted, that there be appropriated for the use of the
Water Department ofr the ensuing year, $7,100.31
to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $4,100.31
Balance of appropriaton to be made
up by the issuing of bonds 3,000.00
Total $7,100.31
Bond
Issue
Voted, that for the purpose of providing bonds for
the extension of water mains, the Town Treasurer
be and hereby is authorized to issue and sell under
the direction and with the approval of the Select-
men, negotiable, registered or coupon bonds of the
Town in serial form to the aggregate principal
amount of $3,000.00 bearing interest at a rate not
exceeding four per centrum per annum, payable
semi-annually and payable both principal and
interest in gold coin of the United States of
America of the present standard of weight and
fineness, such bonds to be signed by the Treasurer
and countersigned by a majority of the Select-
men, so arranged that $1,000.00 of the principal
will fall due and payable in each of the years
1917, 1918, and 1919, includive."
On the above motion, the house was
polled, 127 voting in favor and 0 against.
Vote passed at 8.40 oclock.
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Art. 18.
Wires,
removal
of
Removal of Wires.
On motion of Edward W. Taylor, it was -
"Voted that the Selectmen are hereby requested
to consider the advisability of applying to the
Legislature for the passage of our Act to compel
the gradual placing of electric wires underground;
and to report to a future town meeting their
recomendations in relation thereto."
Vote passed at 8.44 oclock.
Art. 33
Building
Lines
Building Lines.
On motion of Edward W. Taylor, it was voted
that this article be indefinitely postpones, the
town having voted in 1902 to accept the Act
authorizing the Selectmen to establish building
lines.
Art. 24.
Cemetery
Appropriation
Cemetery Appropriation.
On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, it was -
"Voted that the sum of $800.67 be appropriated
for Cemeteries, to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $300.67
Amount to be assessed 500.00
Total $800.67
Vote passed at 8.48 oclock.
Art. 36
Water
Mains
Extension
Extension of Water Mains.
On motion of George E. Briggs, it was voted to
lay this article on the table.
Because of the amount of snow on the ground
the Water Department has been unable to estimate
the kind of digging and probable expense of
the extensions.
Voters living in the locality where the
extensions were asked for urged that the
mains be laid as requested.
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1916
Art. 15.
Insurance
Appropriation
Insurance
On motion of Evertt L. Emery, it was,
"Voted that the sum of $2,850.00 be appropri-
ated for Insurance, to be made up as follows: -
Amount to be assessed $2,850.64
Bal. on hand Jan. 1, 1916 5.35
$2,850.00
Vote passed at 9.02 oclock.
Art. 21
Revere Street
acceptance
of alterations
made by
Selectmen
Revere Street.
Chairman Taylor read the report of the
Selectmen stating that the bounds of this and
many other streets are uncertain, and that the
Board has established new lines for the street.
It was voted to accept the report.
On motion of Mr. Taylor, it was then voted
"that the Town hereby accepts and allows the
altering and widening of Revere Street made
by the Selectmen by an order dated January 19,
1916, and reported to this meeting."
Vote passed at 9.08 oclock.
Art. 17
Finance
Committee
appropriation
Finance Committee Appropriation.
On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, it was
Voted, that the sum of $161.80 be appropriated
for the Finance Committee, to be made up as
follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $11.80
Amount to be assessed 150.00
Total $1161.80
Vote passed at 9.17 oclock
Art. 27
Highland
Ave.
Indef.
postp.
On motion of Edward W. Taylor it was
voted that this article calling for the
acceptance of Highland Avenue be indef-
initely postponed.
Vote passed at 9.18 oclock.
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Art. 28.
Vine Brook
Road
Widening
postponed
Widening of Vine Brook Road.
Edward W. Taylor offfered a vote to authorize the
Surveryors of Highways to widen the easterly end of
the road. On motion of Robert P. Clapp
it was voted to indefinitely postpone action on
this article. Vote passed at 9.23 oclock.
Mr. Clapp stated that the proceedings so
far had not conformed to law.
Art. 29
Temporary
Loans
Temporary Loans.
On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell it was -
"Voted that the Town Treasurer with the approval
of the Selectmen be and hereby is authorized to
borrow money from time to time in anticipation
of revenue of the present municipal year to an
amount not exceedingin the aggregate $125000,
and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable
within one year. Any debt or debts incurred
under this vote to be paid from the revenue of
the present municipal year."
Vote passed at 9:25 oclock.
Arts.
34 & 35
Selectmen
Overseers of
Poor
terms of
office
changed
to 3 years
Terms of office of Selectmen, etc.
Under article 34 Charles H. Spaulding offered the
following motion: -
"That at the annual meeting for the election of
town officers to be held in March, 1917, the Town
shall elect one Selectman for the term of one year,
one Overseer of the Poor for the term of one year, one
Selectman for the term of two years, one Overseer
of the Poor for the term two years, One Selectman
for the term of three years, and thereafter,
at each annual meeting for the election of town
officers, the Town shall elect one Selectman for
the term of three yearsand one Overseer of the
Poor for the term of three years, and any and
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all votes heretofore passed by the Town providing
for the election of Selectmen and Overseers of the
Poor, otherwise than as herein provided, are
hereby rescinded."
Eugene T. Buckley moved that all action
under article 34 be indefinitely postponed.
The motion to indefinitely postpone was lost
by a vote of 13 to 116.
Mr. Spauldings motion was carried by
a vote of 131 to 6. Vote passed at 10.05 oclock.
Messrs. Ryder, Clapp, C.F. Spaulding,
Kauffmann, F.D. Peirce and Stickel urged that
passage of the Spaulding motion.
John F. Welch opposed it.
Under article 35 Mr. Spaulding offered
the following motion: -
Surveyors of
Highways
changed
to Road
Commissioner
3 year term
"That at the annual meeting for the election of
town officers to be held in March, 1917, the town
shall elect no Surveyors of Highways, but in place
thereof the Town shall elect one Road Commissioner
for the term of one yar, one Road Commissioner for
the term of two years and one Road Commissioner f
or the term of three years, and thereafter, at each
annual meeting for the election of Town officers, the
Town shall elect one Road Commissioner for the
term of three years, and any and all notes here-
tofor passed by the town providing for the election
of Surveyors of Highways are hereby rescinded."
The meeting so voted at 10.08 oclock, 119
voting in favor and 2 against.
It was voted that the meeting be adjourned
to Monday, Mar. 20, 1916 at 7:30 P.M.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Adjourned Annual Business Meeting.
March 20, 1916
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.30 P.M.
Art. 12.
Appropriations
General Appropriations.
Under this article the following votes were passed:
April 19th
April Nineteenth
"That the sum of two hundred seventy five dollars
($275.00) be appropriated for the April 19th celebration
account, said sum to be made up as follows:
Unexpended balance 23.50
To be assessed 251.50
$275.00
Assessors
Assessors
That the sum of $2050.00 be appropriated for
Assessors to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $10.85
Amount to be assessed 2039.15
Total $2,050.00
The Chairman of the Board of Assessors made
an unsuccessful attempt to secure an increase
in salary of $300.00 for the Board.
Auditor
--Auditor.--
Voted that the sum of $725.00 be appropriated
for Auditor, to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $14.80
Amount to be assessed 725.20
Total $725.00
Board of
Health
-Board of Health --
Voted that the sum of $1,800 be appropriated for
the Board of Health to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand. Jan. 1, 1916 $5.98
Amount to be assessed 1,794.02
Total 1,800.00
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Board of
Survey
-Board of Survey-
Voted that the sum of $300.00 be appropriated for
the Board of Survey to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand, Jan. 1, 1916 $181.92
Amount to be assessed 118.08
Total $300.00
Cary
Library
Cary Memorial Library -
Voted that the sum of $3,800.00 be appropriated for the
Cary Memorial Library to be made up as follows:
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916, $90.88
Amount to be assessed 3709.12
Total $3,800.00
Clerk
School
Committee
-Clerk of School Committee --
Voted that the sum of $75.00 be appropriated for the
Clerk of School Committee, to be made up as follows:
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $25.00
Amount to be assessed 50.00
Total $75.00
Clerk
Public
Trusts
--Clerk Trusees Public Trusts.--
Voted that the sum of $70.00 be appropriated for
the Clerk of Trustees of Public Trusts, to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $5.48
Amount to be assessed $64.52
Total $70.00
Collector
of Taxes
Collector of Taxes
Voted that the sum of $1,550.00 be appropriated for
the Collector of Taxes. For salary, $1,200.00;
incidentals $350.00, to be made up as follows:
Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1916 $31.40
Amount to be assessed 1518.60
Total $1550.00
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Contingent
Contingent
Voted that the sum of $ 2000.00 be appropriated for
Contingent, to be made up as follows; -
Balance on hand, Jan 1. 1916. 14.01
Amount to be assessed. 1985.99
Total. 2000.00
Election
& REgist.
Elections and Registrations
Voted that the sum of $ 600.00 be appropriated for
Elections and Registrations, to be made up as follows; -
Balance on hand Jan 1, 1919, 37.95
Amount to be assessed 562.05
Total. 600.00
Forest
Fires
Extinguishing Forest Fires
Voted that the sum of $ 500.00 be appropriated for
Extinguishing Forest Fires, to be made up as follows; -
Balance on hand Jan 1 1916 $179.26
Amount to be assessed. $320.74
Total $500.00
Hydrants
Hydrants
Voted that the sum of $1840.00 be appropriated for
Hydrants, to be made up as follows ;-
Balance on hand Jan 1 1919 $20.00
Amount to be assessed $1820.00
Total. $1840.00
Building
Inspt.
Inspector of Buildings
Voted that the sum of $618.33 be appropriated for the
Inspector of Buildings to be made up as follows;-
Balance on hand $118.33
amount to be assessed. $500.00
Total. $618.33
Cattle
Dept.
Inspector of Cattle
Voted that the sum of $416.67 be appropriated for the
Inspector of Cattle, to be made up as follows;-
Balance on hand $216.67
Amount to be assessed. $200.00
Total $416.67
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Inspector
Meats &
Provisions
Inspector Meats and Provisions
Voted that the sum of $400.00 be appropriated for the
Inspector of Meats and Provisions, to be made
up as follows:-
Balance on hand $104.00
Amount to be assessed. $296.00
Total $400.00
Interest
Interest of Town Debt
Voted that thew be appropriated for payment of
Interest on Town Debt $13581.46 to be made
up as follows:-
Transfer from omitted assessments 1914, $394.83
Transfer from discount on taxes $1240.00
Estimated interest on deposits for 1916. $600.00
Esimated interest on defered payments
Taxes for 1916 $800.00
Total. $13581.46
O. of Poor
Salary
Overseer of the Poor
Voted that the sum of $312.50 be appropriated for
the Overseer of the Poor, to be made up as follows;-
Amount to be assessed $312.50
Police
Police Deparment
Voted that the sum of $9179.72 be appropriated
and assessed for the Police Department
Sealer
Weights
& Meas.
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Voted that the sum of $187.09 be appropriated
for the Sealer of Weights and Measures, to be made up as follows;-
Balance on hand Jan 1, 1916. $37.09
Amount to be assessed. $150.00
Total $187.09
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Selectmen
Selectmen
Voted that the sum of $2100.00 be appropriated for
Selectmen, to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916. $263.61
Amount to be assessed 1836.39
Total $2100.00
Snow
Snow Removal
Voted that the sum of $1999.99 be appropriated for
Snow Removal, to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916. $99.99
Amount to be assessed 1900.00
Total $1999.99
Soldiers
Relief
Soldiers Relief
Voted that the sum of $116.29 be appropriated for
Soldiers Relief, to be made up as follows: -
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916. $116.29
Stone
Bldg.
Stone Building
Voted that the sum of $825.00 be appropriate for
Stone Building, to be made up as follows: -
Balance in hand Jan. 1. 1916 $43.52
Amount to be assessed 781.48
Total $825.00
Stone Bldg
Repairs
Stone Building Repairs
Voted that the sum of $400.00 be appropriated
and assessed for repairs for Stone Building.
Surveyors of Highways
Voted that the sum of $312.50 be appropriated
and assessed for the Surveyors of Highways.
See next page
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Town Clerk
Town Clerk
Voted that the sum of $1075.00 be appropriated for
Town Clerk for the following purposes:-
Salary $1000.00
Incidentals 75.00
Total $1075.00
To be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916. $318.96
Amount to be assessed 756.04
Total $1075.00
Provided, however, that the appropriation for Salary
is conditional upon an agreement being entered
into between the Town Clerk and the Broad of
Selectmen acting for and in behalf of the Town
whereby the Town Clerk shall agree to turn over
to the Town all fees received or collected by him.
Town Debt
Town Debt
Voted that the sum of #38250.00 be appropriated
for Town Debt, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916 $995.90
Amount to be assessed 37254.10
Total $38250.00
Town Hall
Town Hall
Voted that the sum of $2500.00 be appropriated
and assessed for the Town Hall.
Repairs
Town Hall Repairs
Voted that the sum of $600.00 be appropriated
and assessed for repairs of Town Hall.
Town
Physician
Town Physician
Voted that the sum of $75.00 be appropriated
and assessed for Town Physician
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Town
Treasurer
Town Treasurer
Voted that the sum of $1250.00 be appropriated
for Town Treasurer, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916 $46.66
Amount to be assessed 1203.34
Total $1250.00
Treasurer
Cary
Library
Treasurer Cary Memorial Library
Voted that the sum of $75.00 be appropriated for
Treasurer Cary Memorial Library, to be made
up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916 $25.00
Amount to be assessed 50.00
Total $75.00
Tree
Warden
Tree Warden
Voted, that the sum of $800.00 be appropriated
for Tree Warden, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916. $36.18
Amount to be assessed 763.82
Total $800.00
Village
Hall
Village Hall
Voted that the sum of $150.00 be appropriated
for Village Hall, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916 $11.13
Amount to be assessed 138.87
Total $150.00
Watering
Troughs
Watering Troughs.
Voted that the sum of $100.00 be appropriated
and assessed for Watering Troughs.
Hastings
Park
Hastings Park.
Voted that the sum of $22.52 be appropriated
for care of Hastings Park, said sum to be made
up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1917. $17.52
Amount to be assessed 5.00
Total $22.52
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Art. 3
68 Alms
House,
Report of
Committee
Alms House Report
George H. Childs, chairman of the investigating
committee, submitted a long report recommending
"that the town continue to maintain its Poor
Farm, but suggest a better system of book-keeping."
On motion of Mr. Childs it was voted -
Com. Reports
Vol. 2 pg.68
"That the report of the Committee appointed to
investigate and report to the Town upon the
advisability of abolishing the Town Farm be
received placed on file and the committee discharged."
The acceptance of the report was advocated
by Daniel J. O'Connell and opposed by Francis
J. Holmes and Henry L. Stone.
Art 36.
Extension of Water Mains
off Wilson Avenue
Extension of Water Mains
Cummings
Wilson
Melrose
Arcadia
Rawson Aves.
William F. Greene offered a motion to authorize
certain extensions of mains and providing for
the raising of money by an issue of bonds.
On a point of order the Moderator ruled
that inasmuch as there is nothing in the
article providing for a bond issue, he felt
that the motion if passed would have no effect.
Mr Greene later withdrew his motion by
unanimous consent.
On motion of George E. Briggs, chair-
man of the Water and Sewer Commissioners,
it was voted:- That the Board of Water and
Sewer Commissioners be and they hereby are
authorized to lay a six inch water main in
Cummings Ave., Wilson Ave., Melrose Ave., and
Arcadia Ave. and Rawson Avenue for a total
distance of approximately 1500 feet, and to
connect same with the main in Cliffe
Avenue at an expense of not exceeding $1875;
and that the sum of $1875.00 is hereby
appropriated and assessed for that purpose;
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provided that the town has received from
interested property owners satisfactory releases
from all liability for any damages that may
result from the laying and maintenance
of said water main.
Vote passed at 10.23 oclock.
On motion of Frank D. Peirce it was voted to adjoun
to Monday evening, March 27,
at 7.30 oclock.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
Asst.
Town
Clerk
Lexington, Mar. 23. 1916
This is to certify that I have this day
appointed Helen C. Gallagher Assistant Town
Clerk of Lexington, and that she has been duly
sworn to perform the duties of said office to the
best of her knowledge and ability.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Adjourned Annual Business Meeting
March 27. 1916.
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.31 oclock.
Art. 16.
Moth Dept
appropriation
-Moth Department Appropriation.-
On motion of William S. Scamman, it was -
"Voted, that the sum of $5366.51 be appropriated
for the Moth Department, to be made up as
follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1.1916 $605.24
Amount to be assessed 4761.27
Total $5366.51
Vote passed at 7.35 oclock.
Art. 20
Elm
Beetle
Appropriation
Art. 20 - Elm Beetle Appropriation.-
On motion of William S. Scamman, it was
"Voted, that the sum of $800.00 be appropriated
and assessed for the suppression of the Elm
Tree Beetle, and other insects during the
ensuing year, and that the sum be expended
under the direction of the Moth Department."
Vote passed at 7.36 oclock.
Art. 7
Alms House
Appropriation
Art. 7 - Alms House Appropriation.-
On motion of William B. Foster it was
voted to take this article from the table.
Mr. Foster then offered the following motion:
"Voted that the sum of $1166.64 be appro-
priated for the support of the Poor at the
Poor Farm, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan 1. 1916. $466.65
Amount to be assessed 700.00
Total $1166.64
It was so voted at 8.27 oclock.
Henry L. Stone offered a substitute motion
providing tha tthe town no longer maintain
its poor at the Alms House, but board them
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elsewhere. The meeting by a vote of
80 to 2 refused to substitute the motion for the
one offered by Mr. Foster.
Art. 8
Outside Poor
appropriation
Art. 8. - Outside Poor Appropriation. -
On motion of William B. Foster it was
"Voted that the sum of $5200.00 be appropriated for
the aid of Outside Poor, to be made up as follows:-
Balance on hand Jan. 1. 1916 $4.84
Amount to be assessed 5195.16
Total $5200 00
Vote passed at 8.25 oclock.
Art. 26.
Geo
Washington
Memorial
Bldg.
Art. 26. - George Washington Memorial.-
On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, as amended
by Alonzo E. Locke, it was: -
"Voted, that there be appropriated towards the
building of the George Washington Memorial
Building at Washington, D.C. $269.00, to be
made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed $269.00
Vote passed at 8.35 oclock.
Art. 31
Civil War
Pensions
Act
Accepted
Art. 31 Grand Army Pension
On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was -
"Voted That the town accept Chapter 447 of the
Acts of the Legislature of 1912 relative to the
retirement of Civil War Veterans now in the
service of the town."
Vote unanimous - Vote passed at 8.41 oclock.
Arts.
25 & 30
By Laws
Cemetery
Commission
On motion of A. Ingham Becknell it was
voted that action on these articles relative to
By-Laws and the acceptance of Sections
21 to 25 of Chapter 78 of the Revised Laws
providing for the election of Cemetery Com-
missioners be postponed to the next Town
Meeting.
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Art. 4.
Minor Town Officers
The following persons were elected to the
offices as designated :-
Fence
Viewers
Fence Viewers
Frank P. Cutter Charles E. Wheeler
Field Drivers
Field Drivers
William F. Fletcher Patrick J. Maguire
Surv. of Lumber
Surveyor of Lumber
Frank P. Cutter Edgar W. Harrod
Art. 32.
New
Cemetery
Alonzo E. Locke stated that the committee
on New Cemetery was not ready to report
It was voted that the article be indefi-
nitely postponed.
Meeting dissolved at 8.55 oclock.
A true record,
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, Mass. April 6. 1916.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting a
ssembled on the 2nd day of November, A. D.,
1875, the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges
the receipt of One Hundred (100) dollars fom
Helen Hilton of Somerville Mass., the interest
of which is to be expended in accordance with
said vote and amendments thereto and Chapter
225 of the Acts of 1879 upon the Helen
Hilton lot No. 42 in the Town Cemetery
near the High School House in said Lexington
in dressing and care of said lots, monuments,
walks and avenue adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
A true copy,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex S.S.
To either of the Constables of the
Town of Lexington, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth
you are hereby required to notify and warn the
inhabitants of said town who re qualified to
vote in Primaries to meet in the Town Hall,
Lexington, Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of
April, 1916, at four oclock P.M. for the
following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary officers
for the Election of Candidates of Political
Parties for the following offices:
4 Delegates at Large to the National Con-
vention of the Republican Party.
4. Alternate Delegates at Large to the National
Convention of the Republican Party.
4 Delegates at Large to the National Con-
vention of the Democratic Party.
4 Alternate Delegates at Large to the National
Convention of the Democratic Party
8 Delegates at Large to the National
Convention of the Prohibition Party
8 Alternate Delegates at Large to the National
Convention of the Prohibition Party,
2 District Delegates to the National Convention
of the Republican Party 8th Congressional Dist.
2 Alternate Distict Delegates to the National
Convention of the Republican Party 8th
Congressional Dist.
2 District Delegates to the National Convention
of the Democratic Party 8th Congressional
Dist.
2 Alternate District Delegates to the National
Convention of the Democratic Party 8th
Congressional Dist.
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1 District Delegates to the National Convention of
the Prohibition Party 8th Congressional Dist
1 Alternate District Delegate to the National Con-
vention of the Prohibition Party 8th Congress-
ional Dist.
All the above candidates and officers are
to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from four to nine oclock,
P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warran
by posting printed copies thereof seven days
at least before the time of said meeting as
directed by vote of the town.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of
this Warrant, with your doings thereon, at
the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this seventh day of
April, A. D. 1916.
Edward W. Taylor} Selectmen
William S. Scamman} of
William B. Foster} Lexington
Lexington Mass. April 20 1916
To the Town Clerk:
I have notified the inhabitants of
Lexington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post-office and in
six other public places in the town, and by
mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the town, nine days before
the time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant
attest
Charles M. Swan
Town Clerk
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Presidential Primary
April 25, 1916.
The meeting was called to order at five oclock
in the afternoon by Edward W. Taylor, chairman
of the Board of Selectmen.
The warrant and the return of the Constable
thereon was read by the Town Clerk.
The Ballots and a voting list were delivered to
James A. Hurley and George E. Foster who had
been previouly sworn to the faithful discharge of
their duties as Ballot Clerks.
The ballot box was shown to be empty and the
polls were declared open.
During the voting it was necessary to open
the box and crowd down the ballots which on
account of their size took up much room and
were hard to get through the registering apparatus
on the box.
Patrick F. Dacey, Nathaniel Nunn, Allston M.
Redman, Samuel B. Bigelow, Fred E. Butters,
Cornelius F. O'Connor, Ralph H. Marshall and
William C. O'Leary were sworn to the faithful
discharge of their duties as Tellers.
At nine oclock the polls were declared closed
and 282 ballots were taken from the box.
The names of 282 voters were checked on each
list. The dial on the box registered 287.
After the Tellers had counted the ballots,
the Town Clerk announced the result at
ten-fifty oclock as follows: -
Whole number 282.
Republican 271
Democratic 9
Prohibition 0
Defective 2
282
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Republican Party
Whole number 271.
Delegates at Large
Grafton D. Cushing, seventy eight 78
Charles Summer Bird eighty 80
Augustus P. Gardner seventy nine 79
Robert M. Washburn sixty seven 67
Samuel W. McCall one hundred seventy nine 179
Henry Cabot Lodge one hundred eighty seven 187
John W. Weeks one hundred seventy four 174
Winthrop M. Crane one hundred seventy one 171
Blanks sixty nine 69
Alternate Delegates at Large
Alexander McGregor seventy one 71
Lombard Williams sixty eight 68
Daniel Cosgrove sixty nine 69
William M. Armstrong seventy one 71
Butler Ames one hundred fifty three 153
Louis A. Frothingham one hundred fifty one 151
Eben L. L. Keith one hundred forty nine 149
Frank W. Stearns one hundred fifty one 151
Blanks two hundred one 201
District Delegates
Eighth District
George B. Wason one hundred twenty two 122
Wilton B. Fay one hundred sixteen 116
Eben H. Googins seventy six 76
Victor A. Friend seventy five 75
Charles H. Brown eighteen 18
Blanks one hundred thirty five 135
Alternate District Delegates
Jay R Benton one hundred six 106
Frederick T. Peabody one hundred three 103
George Ernest Briggs one hundred twelve 112
Curtis L. Sopher one hundred six 106
Blanks one hundred fifteen 115
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Democratic Party
Whole number 9
Delegates at Large:
David J. Walsh nine 9
Joseph H. O'Neil nine 9
Humphrey Sullivan nine 9
Charles B. Streeker nine 9
Alternate Delegates at Large
H. Oscar Rocheleau eight 8
Edmund D. Codman eight 8
Vincent Brogna eight 8
Thomas F. Higgins eight 8
Blanks four 4
District Delegates- Eighth District
J. Edward Barry eight 8
John F. O'Brien eight 8
Blanks two 2
Alternate District Delegates Eighth District
Bartlett J. Harrington two 2
Blanks sixteen 16
No votes were cast under the designation of
Prohibition Party.
Meeting dissolved at 10:57 oclock, P.M.
A true record:
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Town Treasurer Office
Lexington Mass. April 26, 1916
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November A.D. 1875,
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledge the
receipt of One hundred ($100) dollars from
Katherine Whitman of Lexington,
the interest of which is to be expended in accord-
ance with said vote and amendments thereto,
and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870 upon lot
267 in the Town Cemetary near the High
School House in said Lexington in dressing
and care of said lots, monuments walks and
avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
A true copy
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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Town Treasurer Office
Lexington Mass. May 11, 1916.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November, A.D. 1875,
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the
receipt of One Hundred ($100) dollars from the
estate of Emma S. Estabrook, the interest of
which is the be expended in accordance with
said vote and amendments thereto and Chapter
225 of the Acts of 1870 upon the Solomon
Estabrook lot No. 200 in the Town Cemetary
near the High School House in said Lexington
in dressing and care of said lot, monuments,
walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
Reviewed and Entered
May 16, 1916
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant for a Town Meeting.
June 12, 1916.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwelath
of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified
to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet
in the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on
Monday, the twelfth day of June, A.D. 1916,
at seven thirty oclock P. M., then and there to
act on the following articles:-
Art 1 To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee of the Town for
action thereon and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To provide by any appropriate means a sum
of money to meet the estimated cost of acquir-
ing for the purpose herein expressed substantially
the lot of land in this article mentioned, and
to see if the Town will vote to take in fee, by
the right of eminent domain, for the pupose of
ereting thereon a building for a public school,
substantially the following described lot of land,
supposed to belong to Charles F. Smith, situated
on Bedford Street in the Town of Lexington, viz:-
Beginning at the northerly corner thereof
on Bedford Street at the boundary line between
land of Smith and land of Kendall; thence
running southwesterly partly on said land of
Kendall and partly on land of Johnson to
hundred seventy0six and eighty-one one hundredth
(276.81) feet to a bound set in the ground;
thence turning and running in a straight line
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South 27 03' East three hundred eight (308)
feet to a bound set in the ground; thence
turning and running in a straight line
North 63 17 East two hundred six and one
tenth (206.1) feet to Bedford Street; thence
turning and running northerly on Bedford
Street three hundred twenty (320) feet to the
point of beginning - containing about one and
seventy-four one hundredths (1.74) acres.
And to take any other or further action relating
to the acquisition of such lot of land or to the
erection of a school house thereon.
Art. 3. To provide by any appropriate means a sum
of money to meet the estimated cost of acquiring
and preparing for the purpose in this article
expressed, a lot of land, supposed to belong to
Charles F. Smith, containing about three and
eighty-two one hundredths (3.82) acres situated in
Lexington directly in the rear of and adjoining
the lot described in the preceding article (and
herein called "school-house lot;" and to see if the
Town will authorize its School Committee to
take substantially said lot of three and eighty-
two one-hundredths (3.82) acres in fee by the
right of eminent domain, for maintenance and
use as a public playground agreeably to the
provisions of Revised Laws, chapter twenty-eight,
section nineteen, as amended by chapter twenty-
five of the acts of the year 1915, the lot being
bounded northeasterly by said school-house lot,
southwesterly by a way known as Valley Road,
northwesterly by the respective lands of Terra
and Johnson, and southeasterly by the south-
easterly boundary line of said School-house lot
projected as a straight line to said Valley Road.
Also to determine by whom the powers
conferred by said section nineteen of chapter
379
1916.
twenty-eight of the Revised Laws as amended
shall be exercised, so far as the lot so to be
taken is concerned, and to take any other or
further action relative to the acquisition thereof
or to the preparation, maintenance or use of
the same as such playground.
(A blue-print of a plan made by F. P. Cutter, C.E.,
dated Apr. 15 1916, entitled "Land of Charles F.
Smith, at Lexington,' and showing the lots
mentioned in this and the preceeding article, is
on file with the Town Clerk.)
Art. 4. To see if the town will vote to employ a
Town Engineer, and to raise and appropriate
the necessary funds for his compensation and
for any other expenses incidental to such employ-
ment, or act in my manner relating threreto.
Art. 5. To see if the town will make an appropriation
sufficient to meet the estimated expense of
pensions under the provisions of Chapter 447
of the Acts of 1912 which was accepted by
the town on March 27, 1916, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the town will make an additional appro-
priation for the highway department, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 7. To see if the town will adopt a by-law or
by-laws providing for the licensure of persons
to be dealers in and keepers of shops for the
purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals
or second hand articles, or for the licensing
of persons as junk collectors, or for both
such purposes; and to take ay other or
further action relative to junk dealers or junk
collectors and the licensing thereof.
380
1916.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town
Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington,
this twenty-seventh day of May, A. D. 1916.
Edward W. Taylor} Selectmen
William S. Scamman} of
William B. Foster} Lexington
Lexington, Mass. June 6, 1916.
To the Town Clerk:-
I have notified the inhabitants of
Lexington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post-Office and in
seven other public places in the town, and by
mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the town, eight (8) days before
the time of said meeting.
Attest. Charles E. Wheeler,
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the warrant and return thereon.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
381
1916.
Town Meeting, June 12. 1916.
The meeting was called to order at 7.30 P.M.
by the Moderator.
The Town Clerk proceeded to read the
Warrant, but upon motion of George E. Briggs
the further reading was dispensed with.
The Return of the Constable was then read
by the Clerk.
Art. 5.
Veterans
Pensions
- Appropriation for Veterans Pensions.-
On motion of William B. Foster it was:-
"Voted that the sum of $412.00 be appropriated
and assessed for the payment of pensions in
accordance with Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1912."
Vote passed at 7.37 P.M.
Art. 6
Highway
- Appropriation for Highways.-
On motion of William S. Scamman it was
"Voted that the sum of $2000.00 be appropriated
and assessed for the Highway Department to be
used for the work on the Summer Street exten-
sion."
Vote passed at 7.40 P.M.
Art. 2
School lot
at North
Lexington
Taking of land at North Lexington
for a School House Lot.
Hallie C. Blake offered the following motion:-
"Voted, first, that the town take in fee under the
provisions of Sections forty-seven and forty-eight
of chapter twenty-five of the Revised Laws, for the
purpose of erecting thereon a building to be used
for a public school, the following described lot of
land situated on Bedford Street in the town of
Lexington, viz:-
Beginning at the northerly corner thereof
on Bedford Street at the boundary line between
land of Smith and land of Kendall; thence
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running southwesterly partly on said land of
Kendall and partly on land of JOhnson two
hundred seventy-six and eighty-one one-hundredths
(276.81) feet to a bound set in the ground; thence
turning and running in a straight line South
27' 03 East, three hundred eight (308) feet to
a bound set in the ground; thence turning and
running in a straight line North 63 17' East
two hundred six and one-tenth (206.1) feet to
Bedford Street; thence turning and running
northerly on Bedford Street three hundred
twenty (320) feet to the point of beginning -
containing about one and seventy-four one-
hundredths (1.74) acres.
The lot so to be taken is shown on a plan
made by F. P. Cutter, C. E., dated Apr. 15, 1916,
entitled "Land of Charles F. Smith at Lexington,"
and is marked thereon "School House Lot," which
plan is hereby referred to for a fuller description
of the lot.
And voted further that the sum of Two
Thousand dollars is hereby, appropriated to meet
the estimated cost of acquiring said lot, the
the appropriation to be met by a transfer of
said sum from unexpended moneys standing
to the credit of the "School House Construction
Account"; and that the Selectmen are hereby
requested to complete such taking by signing
and causing to be recorded a statement thereof
as provided by law."
The Moderator stated that in his opinion
the appropriation should be made before the
vote to take the land is passed.
The above motion was declared not carried at
8.19 oclock.
Messrs. Richards, Blodgett and Clapp urged
the passage of the motion, and it was opposed by
Messrs. Coffin, Webster, Ballard and Smith.
383
1916.
Art. 1 On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell it was
unanimously voted "That there shall be appointed
by the Moderator a Special Committee of Seven
Citizens, whose duty it shall be to investigate and
report back to a future Town Meeting the advis-
ability of this Town adopting the so-called
Town Manager Form of Government or any other
form of improved town government.
If said Committee shall report favorably, it
shall also suggest and report such recommendations
as it may deem advisable."
Vote passed at 8.24 P.M.
The following Committee was appointed:-
A. Ingham Bicknell Edward H. Mara
George H. Childs Edwin C. Stevens
William R. Greeley Albert B. Tenney
Sidney R. Wrightington.
Art 4. - Town Engineer-
On motion of Frederick L. Emery it was
unanimously voted:- "That the Selectmen be
instructed forthwith to employ a competent
Engineer in the capacity of Town Engineer,
at a salary not to exceed $2000.00 per year,
such Engineer to devote his entire time in
business hours to the service of the Town;
that he be responsible to the Selectmen and
report to them, but that under their direction
he shall perform additionally or be responsible
for all engineering service required by the Sur-
veyors of highways, the Water and Sewer Com-
missioners, Assesors, and other Boards and
Departments of the Town; and that the sum of
$2000.00 be appropriated and assessed to cover
the salary of such engineer, and the necessary
expenses incidental to his work, up to December
31, 1916, the end of the fiscal year of the Town."
Vote passed at 8.47 P.M.
384
1916.
Art. 7 - Junk License By-Law-
William S. Scamman presented the following
By-Law, and the meeting voted that the same
be adopted, and that the Selectmen be requested
to present the By-Law to the Attorney General
for his approval.
Sec. 1- The Board of Selectmen may license
suitable persons to be dealers in and keepers of
shops for the purchase, sale, or barter of junk,
old metals for second hand articles.
Every such license shall contain the name of
the license, the location of his shop. (street and
number) and the date of issue, and shall expire
on the first day of May next following after its
date.
Sec. 2 Every keeper of a junk shop shall
keep a book, in which shall be written at the time
of every purchase of any article mentioned in
section 1, a description thereof, the name, the age
and the residence of the person from whom, and
the day and the hour when, such purchase was
made, and such book shall, at all time, be open
to the inspection of the Board of Selectmen, or
of any person by them authorized to make such
inspection.
Sec. 3. Every keeper of a junk shop shall
put in a suitable and conspicuous place in
his shop a sign having his name and occu-
pation legibly inscribed thereon in large letters,
and such shop and all articles of merchandise
therein may at all times be examined by the
Board of Selectmen or by any person by
them authorized to make such examination.
Sec. 4. No keeper of a junk shop
shall, directly or indirectly, either purchase or
receive by way of barter or exchange any of
the articles mentioned in Sec. 1 of a minor
or an apprentice knowing or having reason to
385
1916.
believe him to be such, and no article purchased
or received by a junk dealer shall be sold until
at least thirty days from the date of its purchase
or receipt have elapsed.
Sec. 5. No junk shop shall be open
after nine oclock in the afternoon, or before seven
oclock in the morning, and no junk keeper
shall purchase any of the articles described in
section 1, excepting during the hours he is
permitted to open his shop.
Sec. 6. The Selectmen may license suit-
able persons to be collectors from place to place in
this Town, by purchase or barter, of junk, old
metals or second hand articles.
Such license shall bear the name and address
of the licenses, the number to be placed on the
badge worn by the licensee, the date of issue of
the license, and such license shall expire on the
first day of May following the date of its issue.
Sec. 7. Every junk collector while
engaged in collecting, transporting or dealing in
the articles mentioned in section 1, shall wear
upon his person, well displayed, a badge circular
in form, of a diameter of not less than two
and one-half inches, which shall bear upon its
face, in plain letters, the words,:- "Lexington,
License, Number, Junk Collector." and the
number assigned him by the Board of Selectmen
He shall also have plainly marked upon both
sides of any vehicle used by him, while so
engaged, the words "junk collector" and the
number assigned him by the Board of Select-
men, in letters and figures not less than three
inches in length.
Sec. 8. NO collector of junk shall, direclty
or indirectly, either purchase or receive, by way
of barter or exchange, any of the article men-
tioned in section 1, of a minor or apprentice,
386
1916.
knowing or having reason to believe him to be
such.
Sec. 9. Every vehicle and receptacle used
by a collector of junk shall at all times, be
open to the inspection of the Board of Selectmen,
or any person by them authorized to make
such inspection.
Sec. 10. Whoever violates any of the
provisions of the foregoing By-Laws shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding $20.00 for
each offense.
Art. 3. On motion of Jay O. Richards it was voted
that this article providing for the taking of land
at North Lexington for a Play-Ground, be
indefinitely postponed.
On motion of William S. Scamman it was
voted at 9.09 oclock that the meeting be
dissolved.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
387
1916.
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, Mass. June 26. 1916.
#100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled, on the 2nd day of November A.D. 1875,
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the
receipt of One hundred (100) dollars from the
estate of Lydia A. Putney, the interest of which
is to be expended in accordance with said vote
and amendments thereto and Chapter 225 of the
Acts of 1870 upon lot No 459 in the Town
Cemetery near the High School House in said
Lexington in dressing and care of said lot,
monuments, walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
Recd & Entered
June 26. 1916
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
388
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington Mass. Aug. 17, 1916.
$200.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants of
the Town of Lexington in town meeting assembled
on the 2nd day of November, A.D. 1875, the
Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt of
Two hundred (200) dollars from the estate of
Laura M. Brigham the interest of which is
to be expended in accordance with said vote and
amendments thereto and Chapter 225 of the Acts
of 1870, upon the William Brigham Lot No. 107
in the Town Cemetery near the High School
House in said Lexington in dressing and care
of said lot, monuments, walks and avenues
adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
Received and entered
Aug 17, 1916.
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
389
1916.
Junk License By-Law as approved by
the Attorney General, Aug. 23. 1916.
Sec. 1. The Board of Selectmen may license
suitable persons to be dealers in and Keepers of
shops for the purchase, sale, or barter of junk,
old metals or second hand articles.
Sec. 2. Every Keeper of a junk shop shall
Keep a book, in which shall be written at the
time of every purchase of any article mentioned
in section 1, a description thereof, the name,
the age, and the residence of the person from
whom, and the day and the hour when, such
purchase was made and such book shall, at all
times, be open to the inspection of the Board of
Selectmen, or of any person by them authorized
to make such inspection.
Sec. 3. Every Keeper of a junk shop shall
put in a suitable and conspicuous place in
his shop a sign having his name and occupation
legibly inscribed thereon in large letters, and
such shop and all articles of merchandise
therein may at all times be examined by the
Board of Selectmen or by any person by them
authorized to make such examination.
Sec. 4. No Keeper of a junk shop shall,
directly or indirectly, either purchase or receive
by way of barter or exchange any of the articles
mentioned in Sec. 1 of a minor or an apprentice
knowing or having reason to believe him to be
such, and no article purchased or received by a
junk dealer shall be sold until at least thirty
days from the date of its purchase or receipt
has elapsed.
Sec. 5. No junk shop shall be be open after
nine o'clock in the afternoon, or before seven
390
1916.
o'clock in the morning, and no junk Keeper
shall purchase any of the articles described
in section 1, excepting during the hours he is
permitted to open his shop.
Sec. 6. The Selectmen may license suitable
persons to be collectors from place or barter, of junk,
old metals or second hand articles.
Sec. 7. No collector of junk shall, directly
or indirectly, either purchase or receive, by way
of barter or exchange, any of the articles
mentioned in section 1, of a minor or apprentice,
knowing or having reason to believe him to be
such.
Sec. 8. Every vehicle and receptacle used by
a collector of junk shall, at all times, be open
to the inspection of the Board of Selectmen
or any person by them authorized to make such
inspection.
Approved by the Atty. General Aug 23. 1916
Published in Lexington Minute Man on
Sep. 2, 9 and 16, 1916
391
1916.
Warrant for a Primary
Sept. 26. 1916.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, SS.
To either of the Constables of the
Town of Lexington, 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 the Town Hall, in said
Lexington on Tuesday, the twenty sixty day of
September, 1916, at three-thirty o'clock P.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 officers: -
Governor for this Commonwealth
Lieutenant Governor " " "
Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth
Treasurer and Receiver General " " "
Auditor of the Commonwealth " " "
Attorney General " " "
Senator in Congress " " "
Representative in Congress " 8th Congressional District
Councillor " 6th Councillor "
Senator " 5th Senatorial "
1 Representative in General Court, 28th Representative
District.
County Commissioner for Middlesex County
Two Associate Commissioners for " "
District Attorney " " "
Clerk of the Courts " " "
Register of Deeds " " "
Register of Probate & Insolvency for Middlesex
County (to fill vacancy.)
And the Election of the following Officers: -
District Member of State Committee for each
political party for the 5th Senatorial District.
392
1916.
Members of the Democratic Town Committee
Members of the Republican Town Committee
Members of the Prohibition Town Committee
Delegates to State Conventions of Political
Parties.
All the above candidates and officers are to hbe
voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from 3.30 to 8.00 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by
posting attested copies thereof seven days at
least before the time of said meeting as directed
by vote of the town.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return
of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, at the
time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this fifty day of
September, A.D., 1916.
Edward W. Taylor
William S. Scamman
William B. Foster
}Selectmen
of
Lexington
A
Lexington, Mass. September 25. 1916
To the Town Clerk:-
I have notified the inhabitants of
Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing
Warrant in the Post-office and in nine other public
places in the town, and by mailing a printed copy
of the same to every registered voter in the town nine
days before the twice of said meeting.
Attest
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of Warrant and Return
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
393
1916.
State Primary
September 26. 1916.
The meeting was called to order at three-thirty
o'clock, P.M. and the warrant was read.
Charles G. Kauffmann and James A. Hurley were
sworn as Ballot Clerks, and Ralph H. Marshall and
Thomas F. Fardy as Deputy Ballot Clerks.
The ballot box was shown to be empty and the
polls declared open.
Samuel B. Bigelow, Patrick F. Dacey, William C.
O'Leary, Clifton P. Ashley, Allston M. Redman,
Cornelius F. O'Connor, Fred E. Butters and Nathaniel
Nunn were sworn as Tellers.
At the close of the polls at eight oclock, two
hundred and eighty ballots were taken from the
box. This number agreed with the dial from the
box, and with the number of names checked on
the voting lists.
At 11.55 P.M. the Town Clerk announced
the result as follows : —
Republican ballots — 240
Democratic ballots — 35
Prohibition ballots — 1
Defective ballots — 4
————
Total 280
Republic Party :
Total vote — 240.
Governor.
Samuel W. McCall, two hundred twenty 220
Blanks twenty 20
Lieutenant Governor
Calvin Coolidge, two hundred twenty one 221
Blanks nineteen 19
394
1916.
Secretary
Albert P. Langry — two hundred seventeen 217
Blanks twenty three 23
Treasurer.
Charles L. Burrill, two hundred seventeen 217
Blanks. twenty three 23
Auditor
Joseph B. Brown, ninety nine 99
Alonzo B. Cook, one hundred twenty 120
Blanks twenty one 21
Attorney General.
Henry C. Attwill, two hundred seventeen 217
Blanks twenty three 23
Senator in Congress
Henry Cabot Lodge, two hundred eighteen 218
Blanks twenty two 22
Congressman
Frederick W. Dallinger two hundred nineteen 219
Blanks twenty one 21
Councillor
James G. Harris eighty nine 89
Henry C. Mulligan, one hundred twenty four 124
Blanks. twenty seven 27
Senator
Charles Sumner Smith, two hundred one 201
Patrick J. Sullivan twenty two 22
Blanks seventeen 17
Representative in General Court.
Jay R. Benton, two hundred eighteen 218
Blanks twenty two 22
395
1916.
County Commissioner
Smith J. Adams. forty three 43
Erson B. Barlow one hundred thirty two 132
Charles H. McIntire, thirty six 36
Blanks twenty nine 29
Associate Commissioners
Frederic P. Barnes, one hundred ninety two 192
H. Harding Hale, one hundred fifty five 155
Blanks one hundred thirty three 133
District Attorney
Nelson P. Brown, forty six 46
Philip M. Clark twenty seven 27
John J. Higgins thirty seven 37
Nathan A. Tufts, one hundred twenty seven 127
Blanks three 3
Clerk of Courts
William C. Dillingham, two hundred thirteen 213
Blanks 27
Register of Deeds.
Thomas Leighton, Jr. two hundred twelve 212
Blanks twenty-eight 28
Register of Probate and Insolvency
William G. Andrew, forty two 42
Roland E. Brown twenty six 26
Frederick M. Esty, one hundred forty seven 147
Blanks twenty five 25
State Committee
Adelbert B. Messer, one hundred seventy eight 178
Edwin A. Bayley one 1
Blanks sixty one 61
396
1916.
Delegates to State Convention
Arthur W. Hatch, one hundred ninety eight 198
Willard C. Hill, one hundred ninety five 195
George E. Briggs, one hundred ninety seven 197
A. Ingham Bicknell, one hundred ninety five 195
Eugene G. Kraetzer, one 1
Edwin B. Worthen one 1
Louis L. Crone one 1
Blanks, two hundred twenty two 222
Town Committee.
Arthur W. Hatch, one hundred ninety six 196
William S. Scamman, one hundred ninety six 196
Louis L. Crone, one hundred ninety 190
Charles F. Bertwell, one hundred eighty eight 188
Wesley J. Wadman, one hundred eighty eight 188
Edward L. Child, one hundred ninety 190
Howard M. Munroe, one hundred ninety four 194
William C. Hill, one hundred ninety one 191
Lewis C. Sturtevant, one hundred ninety one 191
Charles E. Hadley, one hundred eighty seven 187
Arthur L. Blodgett, one hundred ninety four 194
A. Ingham Bicknell, one hundred ninety four 194
Sidney R. Wrightington, one hundred ninety three 193
George H. Childs, one hundred ninety two 192
Robert L. Ryder. one hundred ninety one 191
Blanks seven hundred twenty five 725.
Prohibition Party.
[Chester R. Law]
Governor
Chester R. Lawrence, one 1
Blanks none 0
Lieutenant Governor
Alfred H. Evans one 1
Blanks none 0
No other candidates on Prohibition ballot.
397
1916.
Democratic Party
Governor.
Charles H. Cole, fourteen 14
Frederick W. Mansfield twenty one 21
Blanks none 0
Lieutenant Governor.
Thomas P. Riley, twenty nine 29
Blanks. six 6
Secretary
Leon R. Eyges twenty four 24.
Blanks eleven 11
Treasurer.
Henry N. Teague, twenty eight 28
Blanks seven 7
Auditor
John B. N. Southire, twenty seven 27
Blanks eight 8
Attorney-General
Joseph Joyce Donahue, twenty seven 27
Blanks eight 8
Senator in Congress
John F. Fitzgerald, twenty six 26
Blanks nine 9
Congressman
John F. Daly fifteen 15
Frederick S. Deitrick, twelve 12
Blanks eight 8.
over-
398
1916.
Councillor
No candidate —
Senator
Warren L. Bishop, twenty one 21
Blanks fourteen 14
Representative in General Court.
No candidate. —
County Commissioner
No candidate —
Associate Commissioners
No candidates
District Attorney
William R. Scharton, sixteen 16
Blanks nineteen 19
Clerk of Courts
No candidate
Register of Deeds.
No candidate.
Register of Probate and Insolvency,
Timothy E. Quinn, eighteen 18
Blanks seventeen 17.
State Committee.
John F. Mitchell, thirteen 13
Bernard W. Stanley eleven 11
Blanks eleven 11
on next page.
399
1916.
*
Town Committee.
Eugene J. Buckley twenty five 25
David F. Murphy twenty two 22
Arthur O'Leary, twenty two 22
Bartholomew D. Callahan, twenty four 24.
John J. Garrity, twenty one 21
John J. Roach twenty two 22
Arthur A. Mitchie twenty one 21
Charles E. Moloy twenty one 21
John H. Dacey twenty two 22
Blanks. one hundred fifteen 115.
Meeting dissolved at midnight.
A true record.
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
* Delegates to State Convention
Eugene T. Buckley, twenty nine 29
David F. Murphy twenty six 26
Bartholomew D. Callahan twenty seven 27
Blanks thirty three 33.
400
1916.
Town Treasurers Office.
Lexington Mass. Sept 27, 1916.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting assembled
on the 2nd day of November A.D. 1875, the
Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt
of One hundred (100) dollars from the Estate of
Emily J. Paine, the interest of which is to be
expended in accordance with said vote and amendments
thereto and Chapter 225 of the Acts of 1870
upon the George S. Paine lot No. 17 in the
Town Cemetery near the High School House in
said Lexington in dressing and care of said lot,
monuments, walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
Received and Entered Sept 27. 1916
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
401
1916.
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, Mass. Oct. 17. 1916.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November A.D. 1875,
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the receipt
of One hundred (100) dollars from Everett M.
Mulliken of Lexington, the interest of which
is to be expended in accordance with said vote
and amendments thereto and Chapter 225 of the
Acts of 1870 upon lot No. 330 in the Town
Cemetery near the High School House in
said Lexington in dressing and care of said
lot, monuments, walks and avenues adjacent
thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
Received and Entered Oct. 17. 1916
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
402
1916.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS.
To either of the Constables of the town of Lexington,
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth
you are hereby required to notify and warn the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington who are
qualified to vote in Elections to meet in the
Town Hall, in said Lexington on Tuesday
the Seventh day of November, 1916 at six oclock,
A.M., to cast their ballots for the following
officers :
Presidential Electors ; Governor ; Lieutenant
Governor ; Secretary ; Treasurer ; Auditor ;
Attorney General ; Senator in Congress ; Representative
in Congress ; Councillor ; Senator ; Representative
in General Cour t; County Commissioner ;
Associate County Commissioners ; District Attorney ;
Clerk of Courts ; Register of Deeds and Register
of Probate and Insolvency.
Also to bring in their votes on the following
questions : —
1 — Acceptance of Chap. 98, General Acts of
1916, entitled "An Act to ascertain and carry
out the will of the people relative to the
calling and holding of a constitutional
convention."
2 — Acceptance of Chap. 104, General
Acts of 1916, entitled "An Act to make the
first day of January, known as New Year's
Day, a legal holiday.
3 — Acceptance of Chap. 179, General Acts of
1916, entitled, "An Act to prevent the voters
of one political party from voting in the
primaries of another political party."
The polls will be opened
immediately after the organisation of the
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meeting and will remain open until four
oclock, P.M., and as much longer as the
meeting may direct, but not later than the
hour prescribed by law.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of
this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to
the Town Clerk, on or before the time of
said meeting.
Given under our hands, at
Lexington, this twentieth day of October,
A.D., 1916.
Edward W. Taylor } Selectmen
William S. Scamman } of
William B. Foster } Lexington
Lexington, Mass. Nov. 1. 1916.
To the Town Clerk : —
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in
ten other public places in the town, and by
mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the town nine days before the
time of said meeting.
Attest
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and Return.
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1916
Presidential Election
November 7, 1916.
The meeting was called to order at six oclock,
in the morning by the Chairman of the Board of
Selectmen. The Warrant and the return were
read by the Town Clerk.
James A. Hurley and Ralph H. Marshall were sworn
as Ballot Clerks, and Thomas F. Foudy and Louis
L. Crone as Deputy Ballot Clerks.
The ballot box was shown to be empty, then
locked and the key given to the Constable.
The polls were then declared open.
Nathaniel Nunn, Cornelius F. O'Connor, Allston
M. Redman, Clifton P. Ashley, Samuel B. Bigelow,
Charles B. Kauffmann, Patrick F. Dacey, William
C. O'Leary, William E. Mulliken, Walter B. Wilkiner,
James E. O'Neil and Hubert R. Harrington were
sworn to the faithfull performance of their duties as
Tellers.
At nine o'clock the ballot box was opened and
450 ballots were taken out; at one-thirty oclock
350 ballots were taken out; at four-ten oclock
250 ballots were taken out.
At three-thirty-eight oclock it was voted
that the polls be kept open until four-forty-five
oclock.
At the close of the polls, nineteen ballots were
taken from the box, making a total of ten hundred
and sixty nine ballots cast at the election.
Ten hundred and sixty nine names were checked
on each list. The dial on the ballot box
registered 1067.
After the Tellers had completed the count
the Town Clerk announced the result as
follows, at seven-forty oclock:-
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Total Vote, 1069.
Electors of President and Vice President.
Benson and Kirkpatrick, Socialist.
At large, Louis F. Weiss, six 6
At large, Howard A. Gibbs six 6
Dist 1 , Reuben V. Clark six 6
Dist 2 , Samuel M. Jones six 6
Dist 3 , Victor Annala six 6
Dist 4 , James Cronin six 6
Dist 5 , William A. Chase six 6
Dist 6 , Ralph E. Gardner six 6
Dist 7 , Archibald H. Adamson six 6
Dist 8 , John S. Young six 6
Dist 9 , William Sanborn six 6
Dist 10 , John J. McEttrick six 6
Dist 11 , Moses J. Konikow six 6
Dist 12 , Louis Marcus six 6
Dist 13 , Eugene Hough six 6
Dist 14 , Joel Thibadeau six 6
Dist 15 , Louis Schriever six 6
Dist 16 , Robert Metcalf six 6
Hanly and Landrith, Prohibition.
At large , William Shaw three 3
At large , John B. Lewis three 3
Dist 1 , Oliver L. Bartlett three 3
Dist 2 , William G. Rogers three 3
Dist 3 , Albert C. Brown three 3
Dist 4 , William W. Nash three 3
Dist 5 , Charles W. Leach three 3
Dist 6 , John E. Peterson three 3
Dist 7 , Wilbur D. Moon three 3
Dist 8 , Stuart B. Remick three 3
Dist 9 , William G. Merrill three 3
Dist 10, Franklin S. Sprague three 3
Dist 11, Obed Baker three 3
Dist 12, Solon W. Bingham three 3
Dist 13, Moses D. Monroe three 3.
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Dist 14 , Albert J. Oren Three 3
Dist 15 , John M. Fisher Three 3
Dist 16 , James J. Bartholomew Three 3
Hughes and Fairbanks, Republican
At large , George L. Meyer Six hundred seventy two 672
At large , Edward A. Thurston Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 1 . Kelton B. Miller Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 2 . Gerdon W. Gordon Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 3 . George R. Wallace Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 4 . Webster Thayer Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 5 . Herbert E. Fletcher Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 6 . Isaac Patch Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 7 . Charles Cabot Johnson Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 8 . Arthur Black Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 9 . Charles Bruce Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 10 . Joseph B. Maccabe Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 11 . Grafton D. Cushing Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 12 . George F. Lawley Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 13 . George S. Smith Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 14 . Horace A. Keith Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 15 . Frederick E. Goff Six hundred seventy two 672
No. 16 . Phineas C. Headley Jr. Six hundred seventy two 672
Reimer and Harrison, Socialist Labor.
At large Oscar Kinsalas None 0
At large Ingvar Paulsen None 0
No. 1 . Henry Noffke None 0
No. 2 . Daniel S. Law None 0
No. 3 . John A. Anderson None 0
No. 4 William Taylor None 0
No. 5 John McKinnon None 0
No. 6 Jeremiah P. McNally None 0
No. 7 Ezekiel Hamburger None 0
No. 8 Frederick Roberts None 0
No. 9 Andrew Mortenson None 0
No. 10 Paul E. Anderson None 0
No. 11 Henry C. Hess None 0
No. 12 Harry Keller None 0
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No. 13 Dyer Enger None 0
No. 14 John A. Fredrickson None 0
No. 15 Albert Barnes None 0
No. 16 Jeremiah O'Fihelly None 0
Wilson and Marshall, Democratic.
At large David T. Walsh three hundred fifty one 351
At large Sherman L. Whipple three hundred fifty one 351
No 1 . Harry A. Garfield Three hundred fifty one 351
No 2 . Thomas F Harrington Three hundred fifty one 351
No 3 Marcus C. Coolidge Three hundred fifty one 351
No 4 H. Oscar Rocheleau Three hundred fifty one 351
No 5 Humphrey O'Sullivan Three hundred fifty one 351
No 6 Charles F. Ropes Three hundred fifty one 351
No 7 Simeon Viger Three hundred fifty one 351
No 8 Eugene Wambaugh Three hundred fifty one 351
No 9 Marcus Beebe Three hundred fifty one 351
No 10 William Taylor Three hundred fifty one 351
No 11 Josiah Quincy Three hundred fifty one 351
No 12 John McConnell Three hundred fifty one 351
No 13 Edward E. Ginsburg Three hundred fifty one 351
No 14 Charles M. Hickey Three hundred fifty one 351
No 15 John F. Doherty Three hundred fifty one 351
No 16 Thomas C. Thacher Three hundred fifty one 351
Blanks 666.
Governor.
James Hayes Three 3
Chester R. Lawrence Twelve 12
Samuel W. McCall Seven hundred fifteen 715
Frederick W. Mansfield Two hundred ninety eight 298
Dan A. White Three 3
Blanks Thirty eight 38
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Lieutenant Governor.
Calvin Coolidge Seven hundred forty 740
Alfred H. Evans Fourteen 14
Sylvester J. McBride Six 6
Thomas J. Maher Two 2
Thomas P. Riley Two hundred forty three 243
Blanks Sixty four 64.
Secretary.
Thomas F. Brennan Four 4
Leon R. Eyges Two hundred thirty nine 239
Louise Adams Grout Eight 8
Albert P. Langtry Seven hundred eleven 711
Blanks One hundred seven 107
Treasurer.
Charles L. Burrill Seven hundred twenty six 726
Frederick E. Oelcher Two 2
Elam K. Sheldon Eight 8
Henry N. Teague Two hundred thirty nine 239
Blanks Ninety four 94
Auditor
Joseph Bearak Eight 8
Frank Bohmbach Four 4
Alonzo B Cook Seven hundred 700
John B. N. Soullieu Two hundred thirty eight 238
Blanks One hundred nineteen 119
Attorney - General.
Henry C. Attwill Seven hundred twelve 712
Joseph Joyce Donahue Two hundred forty 240
Joseph Jiskra None 0
John Weaver Sherman Ten 10
Blanks One hundred seven 107
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Senator in Congress.
John F. Fitzgerald Three hundred ten 310
Henry Cabot Lodge Six hundred ninety nine 699
William N. McDonald Twelve 12
Blanks Forty eight 48
Congressman
Frederick W. Dallinger Seven hundred twenty one 721
Frederick S. Deitrick Two hundred seventy nine 279
Blanks Sixty nine 69
Councillor — Sixth District.
James G. Harris Seven hundred forty eight 748
Blanks Three hundred twenty one 321
Senator. Fifth Middlesex Dist.
Warren L. Bishop Two hundred fifty 250
Charles Sumner Smith Seven hundred seventeen 717
Blanks One hundred two 102
Representative in General Court.
28th Middlesex District.
Jay R. Benton Seven hundred sixty five 765
James McCarthy One 1
Blanks Three hundred three 303
County Commissioners
Middlesex County.
Erson B. Barlow Seven hundred thirty five 735
Blanks Three hundred thirty four 334
Associate Commissioners
Frederic P. Barnes Seven hundred one 701
H. Harding Hale Five hundred fifty two 552
Blanks Eight hundred eighty five 885
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District Attorney, Northern District
William R. Scharton Two hundred thirty 230
Nathan A. Tufts Seven hundred thirty seven 737
Blanks One hundred two 102
Clerk of Courts
Middlesex County.
William C. Dillingham Seven hundred twenty nine 729
Blanks Three hundred forty 340
Register of Deeds
Middlesex Southern District.
Thomas Leighton Jr., Seven hundred thirty eight 738
Thomas Griffin One 1
Blanks Three hundred thirty 330
Register of Probate and Insolvency
Middlesex County
(To fill vacancy)
Frederick M. Esty Six hundred eighty seven 687
Timothy E. Quinn Two hundred nine 209
Blanks One hundred seventy three 173
Shall there be a convention to revise, alter or amend
the Constitution of the Commonwealth ?
Yes — Four hundred and thirty 430
No . Two hundred and eighty one 281
Blanks Three hundred and fifty eight 358
Shall an act passed by the General Court in
in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, to
make the first day of January, known as New
Year's Day, a legal holiday, be approved and
become law ?
Yes — Six hundred twenty seven 627
No . Two hundred twenty nine 229
Blanks Two hundred thirteen 213
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1916.
Shall an act passed by the General Court in
the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled
"An Act to prevent the voters of one political party
from voting in the primaries of another political
party" be approved and become law ?
Yes . Five hundred and six 506
No . Two hundred and twenty nine 229
Blanks. Three hundred and thirty four 334.
Meeting dissolved at 7.45 oclock.
A true record,
Attest :
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
November 17, 1916.
Pursuant to law the Town Clerks of Lexington and Belmont
met at Belmont this day at twelve oclock noon, for
the purpose of canvassing the votes cast on the seventh
day of November for a representative to the General Court
of the Commonwealth to represent the twenty
eighth Middlesex District.
The canvas showed the following result of the votes
cast in Lexington and Belmont : —
In Lexington Jay R. Benton had 765 votes
In Lexington James McCarthy had 1 vote
In Belmont Jay. R. Benton had 1096 votes
The returns showed that Jay R. Benton had
a majority of the votes cast in both towns, and a
certificate awas accordingly filled out and signed
by the Clerks of both towns, to be delivered to
Jay R. Benton of Belmont.
A true record.
Attest :
Charles W. Swan Town Clerk
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1917.
Town Treasurers Office.
Lexington Mass. Jan. 27, 1917.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November, A.D.,
1875 the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges
the receipt of One hundred (100) dollars from
Lyman Lawrence of Lexington, the interest
of which is to be expended in accordance with
said vote and amendments thereto and Chapter
225 of the Acts of 1870 upon lot No. 134
in the Town Cemetery near the High School
House in said Lexington in dressing and
care of said lot, momuments, walks and
avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer,
Received and Entered
Jan. 27, 1917
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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Warrant for Annual Town Meeting.
March 5, 1917.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex, SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington,
Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington, qualified to vote in
elections and in town affairs, to meet in the
Town Hall in said Lexington, on Monday,
the Fifth day of March, A.D., 1917, at seven
o'clock A.M., then and there to act on the
following articles : —
Art. 1 To choose by ballot the following town officers : —
One Town Clerk for the term of One year ;
One Selectman for the term of One year ;
One Selectman for the term of Two years ;
One Selectman for the term of Three years ;
One Overseer of the Poor for the term of One year ;
One Overseer of the Poor for the term of Two years ;
One Overseer of the Poor for the term of Three years ;
One Road Commissioner for the term of One year ;
One Road Commissioner for the term of Two years ;
One Road Commissioner for the term of Three years ;
One Assessor for the term of three years ;
One Town Treasurer for the term of one year ;
One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year ;
One Auditor for the term of one year ;
One Water and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years ;
One member of the Cemetery Committee for the term of three years ;
One member of the School Committee for the term of three years ;
One member of the Board of Health for the term of three years ;
One Park Commissioner for the term of three years ;
One Tree Warden for the term of one year ;
Two Constables for the term of one year ;
One Moderator for the term of one year ;
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1917.
Art. 2. To see if the town will vote for or against
granting licenses for the sale of intaxicating
liquors, in answer to the question : "Shall licenses
be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in
this town ?"
Art. 3. To see if the town will accept Chap. 59, General
Acts of 1916, (amending Chap. 284, Sect. 1, General
Acts of 1915,) being an Act entitled "An Act
relative to the holding of Annual Town Meetings."
Art. 4. To see if the town will accept Chap. 153 of the
General Acts of 1916, entitled "An Act relation to
the License Fee for Slaughter houses in towns
having less than ten thousand inhabitants."
Art. 5. To see if the town will accept Chapter 291 of
the General Acts of 1916, entitled, "An Act
relative to the tenure of office of Chiefs of Fire
Departments in the Metropolitan Fire Prevention
District."
Art. 6. To see if the town will accept Chap. 293 of
the General Acts of 1916, entitled, "An Act to
authorize the licensing by cities and towns of
motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire."
Art. 7. To see of the town will vote to accept Chap. 327
of the Acts of 1904, being an Act entitled,
"An Act to provide for the pensioning of
permanent members of Police Departments and
Fire Departments in towns."
The election officers will receive votes under Articles
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on the official ballot
prepared by the Town Clerk.
The polls will be opened as soon as
possible after the organization of the meeting
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and will be kept open until five P.M.
In compliance with Article III of the By-Laws
as amended January 29, 1900, business under the
following articles will be transacted at an adjourned
meeting to be held Monday evening, March 12,
1917, unless the adjourned meeting shall by
unanimous vote, be ordered for some other
specified time.
Art 8 To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 9 To choose such Town Officers as are required
by law and are usually chosen by nomination.
Art. 10 To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the proper observance of Memorial Day to be
expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Art. 11. To provdie for the support of the Public Schools
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art 12. To provide for the support of the Poor at the
Alms House the ensuing year, and grant
money for the same.
Art. 13 To provide for the support of the Outside Poor
the ensuing year, and grant money for the
same.
Art. 14. To provide for the support of the Highways
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 15. To provide for the support of the Street Lights
the ensuing year, and grant money for the
same.
416
1917.
Art. 16. To provide for the support of the Fire Department
the ensuing year, and grant money for the same.
Art. 17. To see if the town will make the usual appropriations
for Town expenses the ensuing year, not
specified in other articles, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen
to improve the condition of the Town Hall
grounded, and make an appropriation for this
purpose, or aact in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 19. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
to construct sidewalks with concrete or other
materials where the abutters will pay one-half
the expense thereof.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
sufficient to meet the expense of placing new
insurance and removals for the ensuing year, or
act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
for the suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail
Moths in accordance with Chap. 381, Acts of
1905 and amendments thereto, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of
money for the use of the Finance Committee, or
take any action relating thereto.
Art. 23. To provide for the support of the Public Parks
for the ensuing year, and grant money for the
same, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art 24. To see if the Town will make further appropriations
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1917.
of money for the suppression of insects, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 25. To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer,
under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow
money for any necessary purposes, in anticipation
of revenue for the current year, the same to be
repaid directly from the proceeds of said revenue,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 26. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections
21 to 25 both inclusive of Chapter 78 of the Revised
Laws and all acts in amendment thereof, and
in addition thereto providing for the election of
a Board of Cemetery Commissioners and the
care and management of the public burial grounds
of the Town, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 27. To receive the report of the committee appointed
to consider the matter of a new cemetery,
and take action thereon.
Art. 28. To receive the report of the committee appointed
to prepare and present a new code of by-laws to
the town, and take action thereon.
Art. 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept the
following streets, or any of them, as laid out by the
Selectmen : Abbott Road, from Merriam Street to
Oakland Street Exension ; Cliffe Avenue, from the
end of Bow Street to Cummings Avenue ; Oak
Street as extended from its present terminue to
Baker Avenue ; Baker Avenue from Oak Street
to Taft Avenue ; Taft Avenue from Baker Avenue
to Charles Street ; Charles Street from Taft Avenue
to Massachusetts Avenue, or act in any manner
relative to the acceptance of any or all of
said streets.
418
1917.
Art. 30. To see if the Town will vote to establish
building lines on any of the streets in the
town, and determine on what streets said building
lines shall be established, and appropriate a sum
of many sufficient for this purpose, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art 31. To see if the town will vote to appropriate money
to widen and deepen the brooks in the Town so
as to obtain better surface drainage, the same to
be expended by the Water and Sewer Commissioners,
or take any other action relating thereto.
Art. 32. To see if the Town will make an appropriation,
not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars, to rebuild
and repair the wall and fence adjoining the
estate of Patrick J. Keenan in the old cemetery,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 33. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
to provide funds for the payment of pensions to
retired town veterans under Chapter 447 of the
Acts of 1912, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 34. To see of the Town will vote to purchase a motor
ladder truck for the Fire Department, and vote to
issue bonds therefor, or otherwise determine the
method of raising the money appropriated for
this purpose, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 35. To see if the Town will vote to purchase a
chassis upon which to place the tanks and
apparatus now on machine known as Chemical
No. 1, and appropriate money for the same, and
vote to issue bonds or otherwise determine the
method of raising the money so appropriated, or
take any other or further action relating thereto.
419
1917.
Art. 36. To see if the town will vote to appropriate
and assess two hundred (200) dollars to pay its
proportionate share towards the building of a
forest fire observation tower to be erected by the
State in Prospect Hill in Wattham.
Art. 37. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
and assess a sum of money sufficient to provide
for the employment of a town engineer in
accordance with the terms of a vote passed
June 12, 1916, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Art. 38. To appropriate money for the use of the Water
Department, and to provide same by the issuance
of Bonds or Notes or by direct appropriation, or to
take any other action relation thereto.
Art. 39. To see if the Town will accept an extension of
Highland Avenue running westerly from its
junction with Bloomfield Street to near the
junction of said avenue with Winthrop Road.
Also an extension of said Highland Avenue
from near its present junction with Winthrop
Road to Vine Brook Road, or act in any
manner relating thereto.
Art. 40. To see if the Town will vote to give to the
Trustee of the Cary Memorial Library, full
and complete charge of the Library, its
employees and all matters of every name and
nature pertaining in any way to the care,
operation and management of said Library.
Art. 41. To see if the Town will purchase the property
situated at # 331 - 335 Massachusetts Avenue,
known as the John D. Bacon Estate containing
about seventy-nine thousand square feet of
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land, the land so acquired to be used for the
purpose of minasing[?] the School facilities of the
Town, or take any other action relating thereto.
Art. 42. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate or raise
by an issue of bonds, the moneys necessary to meet
the expenditures under the foregoing article or make
any other provision for the raising of said moneys.
Art. 43. To see if the Town will vote to establish a
Committee on Increased School Accommodations
to consist of seven members to be appointed by the
Moderator and appropriate a sum of money to be
used by said Committee to purchase plans and
specification for a new school building, or take
any other action relating thereto.
Art. 44. To see if the Town will vote to build a new
school building upon the land to be acquired
for that purpose also to make alterations in
the present High School Building and authorize
an issue of bonds for the purpose of raising the
moneys necessary to build said building and
make said alterations, or make provision in any
way that may be deemed best for the raising
of such moneys.
Art. 45. To see if the Town eill vote to extend the water
main from its present terminus on Arcadia Avenue
along Rawson Avenue from Arcadia Avenue to
Bridge Avenue being a distance of approximately
100 feet, and on Bridge Avenue for a distance
of about 550 feet in the direction of Massachusetts
Avenue, and appropriate and assess money
for the same, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
421
1917.
Art. 46 To see if the Town will take any action
towards securing an improvement in the steam
and trolley transportation service between Lexington
and Boston, or act in any manner relating
thereto.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return
of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to
the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said
meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington
this sixteenth day of February, A.D. 1917.
Edward W. Taylor
William S. Scamman
William B. Foster
Selectmen of Lexington.
Lexington, Mass.
February 28, 1917
To the Town Clerk :
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in
seven other public places in the town, and by
mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the town, nine (9) days
before the time of said meeting.
Attest
Charles E. Wheeler
Cosntable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and the return
thereon.
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1917.
Town Treasurer's Office.
Lexington Mass. March 1, 1917
Perpetual Care
$150.00
James E. Crone
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November A.D. 1875
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the
receipt of One hundred and fifty (150) dollars from
James. E. Crone of Lexington, the interest of
which is to be expended in accordance with
said vote and amendments thereto and Chapter
225 of the Acts of 1870 upon lot No. 167
in the Town Cemetery near the High School
House in said Lexington in dressing and care
of said lot monuments, walks and avenues
adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
Recd and entered
Mar. 2. 1917
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
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1917
Annual Town Meeting
March 5, 1917.
The Moderator called the meeting to order at
seven oclock in the morning.
The first three articles in the Warrant were read
by the Town Clerk, following which the meeting
voted that the further reading of the warrant
be omitted. The return of the Constable
was then read by the Clerk.
Ralph H. Marshall and James A. Hurley were
sworn as Ballot Clerks, and Charles G Kauffmann
as Deputy Ballot Clerk, and the ballots and one
voting list were placed in their charge.
John J. Garrity was afterwards sworn as a
Deputy Ballot Clerk.
William E. Mulliken, Patrick F. Dacey, Samuel
B. Bigelow, Clifton P. Ashley, Harold B. Needham,
Allston M. Redman, Nathaniel Nunn, Fred E.
Outters, Cornelius F. O'Connor, Wallace E. Miller,
John J. Mandigo, James A. O'Neil and James M. Ahearn
were sworn as Tellers.
At 9.45 oclock the ballot box was opened and
350 ballots were taken out. At 11.24 oclock
150 ballots were taken out. At 2.40 oclock 300
ballots were taken out. At 4.17 oclock 100 ballots
were taken out. At the close of the polls at five
oclock 78 ballots were taken from the box, making
a total of 978 ballots cast at the election.
Nine hundred and seventy eight names were
checked on each voting list. The dial on
the ballot box registered 979.
Eight ballots were cast by women for
School Committee.
At 7.08 oclock the Town Clerk announced
the results as follows:-
(see next page)
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Whole number of votes cast by male voters 978
Whole number of votes cast by female voters 8
For Town Clerk
Charles W. Swan eight hundred thirty three 833
Dennis Reardon one 1
Blanks one hundred forty fourt 144
Charles W. Swan was declared elected.
Selectmen for One Year
William B. Foster four hundred eighty eight 488
James Alexander Wilson, four hundred sixteen 416
Blanks seventy fourt 74
William B. Fosster was declared elected.
Selectmen for Two Years
Jay O. Richards six hundred ninety five 695
Herbert Wetherbee one 1
Blanks two hundred eighty two 282
Jay O. Richards was declared elected.
Selectmen for Three Years.
Frank D. Peirce four hundred sixty two 462
William S. Scamman, fourhundred ninety three 493
Blanks twenty three 23
William S. Scammon was declared elected.
Overseer of the Poor - One Year
William P. Foster, four hundred ninety six 496
James Alexander Wilson, three hundred ninety nine 399
Blanks Eighty three 83
William B. Foster was declared elected.
Overseer of the Poor Two Years
Jay O. Richards, six hundred eighty eight 688
Blanks two hundred ninety 290
Jay O. Richards was declared elected
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Overseer of the Poor Three Years
Frank D. Pierce four hundred fifty seven 457
William S. Scamman, four hundred seventy six 476
Blanks forty five 45
William S. Scamman was declared elected.
Road Commissioner - One Year
William B. Foster, four hundred seventy six 476
James Alexander Wilson, four hundred three 403
Blanks ninety nine 99
William B. Foster was declared elected.
Road Commissioner - Two Years
Jay O. Richards - six hundred eighty 680
Blanks two hundred ninety eight 298
Jay O. Richards was declared elected
Road Commissioner - Three years
Frank D. Peirce - four hundred fifty seven 457
William S. Scamman, four hundred seventy one 471
Blanks fifty 50
William S. Scamman was declared elected
Assessor - Three years.
George H. Jackson - seven hundred sixty two 762
Blanks two hundred sixteen 216
George H. Jackson was declared elected
Town Treasurer
George D. Harrington, eight hundred twelve 812
Chas. A. Kaufman one 1
Blanks one hundred sixty five 165
George D. Harrington was declared elected.
Collector of Taxes
Byron C. Earle, eight hundred thirty eight 838
Frank Holmes one 1
Blanks one hundred thirty nine 139
Byron C. Earle was declared elected
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Moderator
Edwin A. Bayley, seven hundred two 702
S. Lewis Barbour one 1
E.W. Taylor one 1
John Devine one 1
Blanks two hundred seventy three 273
Edwin A. Bayley was declared elected.
Cemetery Committee - Three years.
George W. Spaulding - seven hundred sixty 760
Blanks two hundred eighteen 218
George W. Spaulding was declared elected.
Auditor
Charles F. Pierce -- seven hundred twelve 712
Blanks two hundred sixty six 266
Charles F. Pierce was declared elected.
Board of Health - Three years
William L. Barnes - six hundred seventy nine 679
Dennis Reardon one 1
Blanks two hundred ninety eight 298
William L. Barnes was declared elected.
School Committee - Three years.
Edward P. Merriam - seven hundred thirty 730
Fred S. Piper one 1
David S. Murphy one 1
Blanks two hundred fifty four 254
Edward P. Merriam was declared elected.
Water & Sewer Commissioner - Three years.
Edward H. Mara, seven hundred four 704
T. Harrington on 1
Blanks two hundred seventy three 273
Edward H. Mara was declared elected.
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Constables
Charles H. Franks seven hundred nine 709
Patrick J. Maguire six hundred ninety six 696
F.H. Dion one 1
Blanks five hundred fifty 550
Charles H. Franks and Patrick J. Maguire
were declared elected.
Park Commissioner, Three years
Edward Wood - seven hundred forty six 746
Blanks two hundred thirty two 232
Edward Wood was declared elected
Tree Warden
Alfred E. Robison - seven hundred six 706
Blanks two hundred seventy two 272
Alfred E Robinson was declared elected
Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating
liquors in this town ?
Yes two hundred thirty three 233
No six hundred twenty two 622
Blanks one hundred twenty three 123
The town voted "No License".
Shall Chapter 59 of the General Acts of 1916,
(amending Chap. 284, Sec. 1 General Acts of 1915) bring
an Act entitled "An Act relative to the holding of
Annual Town Meetings", be accepted by this town?
Yes. three hundred seventeen 317
No. ninety one 91
Blanks. five hundred seventy 570
The Act was accepted.
Shall Chapter 153 of the General Acts
of 1916, being an Act entitled, "An Act relative
to the License Fee for slaughter houses in towns
having less than ten thousand inhabitants,"
be accepted by this town?
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Yes three hundred fifty one 351
No one hundred thirty fourt 134
Blanks four hundred ninety three 493
The Act was accepted.
Shall Chapter 291 of the General Acts of 1916,
entitled, "An Act relative to the terms of office
of chiefs of Fire Departments in the Metropoli-
tan Fire Prevention District," be accepted by
this town?
Yes three hundred sixteen 316
No one hundred fifty one 151
The Act was accepted.
Shall Chapter 293 of the General Acts of 1916,
entitled, "An Act to Authorize the licensing by
cities and towns of motor vehicles carrying
passengers for hire," be accepted by this town?
Yes four hundred twelve 412
No one hundred eleven 111
Blanks Four hundred fifty five 455
The Act was accepted.
Shall Chapter 327 of the Acts of 1904 bring an
Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the pensioning
of permanent members of Police Departments and
Fire Departments in towns," be accepted by
this town?
Yes three hundred fifty three 353
no two hundred twenty eight 228
Blanks three hundred ninety seven 397
This Act was not accepted, two thirds having
failed to vote in the affirmative.
Meeting adjourned to Monday Mar. 12, 1917
at 7.30 P.M.
A true record, Attest
Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk
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Asst. Town Clerk
Lexington, Mar. 8, 1917
This is to certify that I have this day
appointed Helen C. Gallagher Assistant Town
Clerk of Lexington, and that she has been
duly sworn to perform the duties of said office
to the best of her knowledge and ability.
Attest:
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
Annual Business Meeting
March 12, 1917
The Moderator called the meeting to order at 7.30 P.M.
Arts.
34x35
It was voted to take these article up together
and on motion of William S. Scamman it was
"Voted: That the Engineers of the Fire Department
be instructed to purchase a new motor ladder
truck, the cost not to exceed $6,500.00 and also a
suitable chassis upon which to place the equipment
of Chemical #1 and such other equipment as the
Engineers may deem necessary at a cost not
exceeding $1500.00.
Auto
Ladder
Truck
Auto
Chassis
for
Chemical.
See page 495
And that for this
purpose the Town Treasurer be and hereby is
authorized to issue and sell under the direction
and with the approval of the Sebetmen negotiable
registered or coupon bonds of the Town in serial
form to the aggregate principal amount of
$8000 bearing interest at the lowest rate obtain-
able, payable semi-annually and payable both
principal and interest in gold coin of the
United States of America of the present
standard of weight fineness, such bonds
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1917
to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned
by a majority of the Selectmen, so arranged that
$1000.00 of the principal will fall due and payable
in 1918 and $1,000 annually until 1925."
64 voted in favor and 0 against.
Art. 11.
Annual School Appropriation
Annual School Appropiration.
On motion of Hallie C. Blake, it was
"Voted that there be appropriated for Public
Schools $53151.16 to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed $53000.00
Balance on hand 151.16
Total $53151.16
Art 8 On motion of Frank H. Homlmes it was voted
that this article be considered as before the
meeting when no other business is being considered.
Art. 46
Improved Railroad
Accommodations
Railroad Accommodatons.
On motion of William C. Stickel the following
vote was unanimously passed: -
"That the unsatisfactory steam and electric
passenger service between Lexington and Boston has
become a serious detriment to the development of
Lexington and a great inconvenience and annoyance
to the residents of the town, and that a committee
of seven citizens be appointed by the Moderator to
investigate existing conditions and to see what
can be done to secure an early remedy, and to
this end it is suggested that such committee
confer with the Public Service Commission of
the Commonwealth, the Board of Selectmen of
the Town of Lexington, the proper officials of
the Boston Maine Railroad, the Middlesex
& Boston Street Railway Company and the
Boston Elevated Railway Company, and that
such committee report back to the Town, if
possible, at one of the adjourned sessions of the
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1917
current March meeting."
The Moderator appointed the following committee: -
Willard C. Hill George F. Mead
J. William Hayden, Jr. Daniel J. O'Connell
Charles H. Spaulding William C. Stickel
Frederick O. Woodruff
Art. 45.
This article relative to the extension of Water
mains on Rawson and Rindge Avenues was
indefinitely postponed on motion of A. Ingham
Bicknell.
Art. 21 Moth Dept
Appropriation
Moth Department Appropriation
On motion of William S. Scamman it was
"Voted that there be appropriated for Moth Dept. $5456.47
To be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed $5087.50
Balance on hand 368.97
Total $5456.47
Art. 25
Temporary Loans
Temporary Loans.
On motion of A. Ingham Ricknell it was-
"Voted that the Town Treasurer with the
approval of the Selectmen be and hereby is
authorized to borrow money from time to time
in anticipaton of revenue of the present municipal
year to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate
$15000.00, and to issue a note or notes therefore
payable within one year. Any debt or
debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the
revenue of the present municipal year."
Art. 10
Memorial Day
On motion of William S. Scamman it was voted
that there be appropriated for Memorial Day $250.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed $250.00
Total 250.00
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1917
Art. 14.
Annual
Highway
Appropriation
Highway Appropriation.
John F. Welch offered the following motion:-
"Voted that the sum of $2001.00 be appropriated
and assessed for Highways and that the Selectmen
and Road Commissioners are hereby instructed
to spend $2000.00 of this appropriation for the
improvement of Woburn St. beginning at Utica
Street and continuing to the Woburn line under
the auspices of the State Highway Commission."
A. Ingham Bicknell offered a motion
which the town voted to substitute for the
motion of Mr. Welch. - This substitute motion
was then amended by vote of the meeting so
that the final vote as passed by the meeting
reads as follows:-
"Voted that there be appropriated for
highways $32473.56 - to be made up as
follows:-
Amount to be assessed $32000.00
Balance on hand 473.56
Total $32473.56
and that the Selectmen and Road Commissioners
be instructed to spend $2000.00 of this appropriation
for the improvement of Woburn Street from Utica
Street to the Woburn line."
Art. 8
Committee
on Improved
Highways
On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell as amended
by Robert L. Ryder, it was voted:-
"That a committee of seven, of which the Board
of Selectmen shall be three, be apppointed by the
Moderator to consider the question of the best way
of improving the condition of our highways.
Said Committee shall give particular attention
to the advisability of adopting some definite plan
of their improvement from year to year, the
advisability of putting in a more permanent
form of streets than is now being installed
and whether or not it would be wise for the
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town to borrow a substantial sum of money for
the immediate improvement of Massachusetts
Avenue and other main thoroughfares."
The following committee was appointed.=
George H. Childs Walter W. Rouse
William B. Foster Albert B. Tenney
Jay O. Richards William S. Scar[?]nnan
William H. Whitaker.
Art. 8
Report of
Committee
on
School
House
The Committee on New School House
Accommodations submitted a written report giving
the cost of the recent addition to the Munroe
School as amounting to $38972.65
The report stated that as the town did
not see fit to accept the committee's recommendations
relative to purchase of land at North Lexington
and the erection of a building thereon, the
committee "feel that it is wise to go no futher
with the matter at this time owing to the
changing school conditions that confront the
town."
It was voted that the report be recorded
and placed on file and that the committee
be discharged.
Art. 23.
Parks
appropriation
Park Appropriation
On motion of W. Roger Greeley it was voted
That there be appropriated for Public Parks $3500.00
to be made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed 3484.37
Balance on hand 15.63
Total 3500.00
Art. 43.
Increased
School
Accommodations
Committee
Committee on Increased School Accommodations
On motion of Robert L. Ryder it was-
"Voted - That the Town establish a Committee
on Increased School Accommodations of seven
members to consist of the present School
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1917
Committee and four other members to be appointed
by the Moderator, said Committee to consider
the needs of the Town relative to Increased
School Accommodations and report as soon as
reasonably possible, their findings and recommen-
dations."
The following men were appointed.=
Hallie C. Blake Arthur L. Blodgett
Joh Calder Dwight F. Kilgour
Edward P. Merriam Christopher S. Ryan
Robert L. Ryder.
Art. 31.
Brooks,
Appropriation
for
On motion of George E. Briggs, it was
Voted:- That the sum of $300.00 be appropriated
to be expended under the direction of the Board
of Water and Sewer Commissioners for - the
purpose of deepening, widening and straighten-
ing the various books of the Town, or any of
them; to be made up as follows:-
Balance unexpended December 31, 1916. $50.40
To be assessed 249.60
$300.00
Art. 38
Water
Department
Appropriation
See
page 497
-Water Department Appropriation.-
On motion of George E. Briggs it was unani-
mously voted :- "Voted : That the sum of
$6172.71 be appropriated for the use of the
Water Department for the ensuing year, to be
made up as follows:
Balance on hand December 31, 1916, $2172.71
Balance of the appropriation to be made
up by the issuing of bonds 4000.00
and further 6172.71
Voted: That for the purpose of providing funds
for the extension of water mains, the Town
Treasurer be and hereby is authorized to issue
and sell under the direction and with the
approval of the Selectmen, negotiable registered
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1917
or coupon bonds of the town in serial form to the
aggregate principal amount of $4000.00 bearing
interest [at a rate not exceeding four (4) per cent]
per annum, payable semi-annually, and payable
both principal and interest in gold coin of the
United States of America of the present standard
of weight and fineness, such bonds to be signed
by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority
of the Selectmen, and so arranged that $1000.00
of the principal will fall due and payable in
each of the years 1918 - 1919 - 1920 - 1921 inclusive."
Art 40.
Cary Library,
Trustees to
Control.
On motion of Robert L. Ryder, as amended by
Robert P. Clapp, it was voted - "That the Trustees
of the Cary Memorial Library shall have full and
and[struckthrough] complete charge of the Library, its employees
and all matters of every[?] name and nature pertain-
ing in any way to the care, operation and man-
agement of said Library including the building
in which the Library is established, and that
all other votes of record inconsistent herewith, be
hereby revoked.
At 10.23 P.M. it was voted to adjourn to
Monday evening, March 26. 1917 at 7.30 P.M.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swain
Clerk
Continued on page 438
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1917
Warrant
for a
Constitutional
Primary
Warrant for a Constitutional primary
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex SS
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington,
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 the Town Hall in
said Lexington on Tuesday, the Third day of
April, 1917, at 3:30 oclock P.M., for the
following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary
Officers for the Nomination of Candidates for Delegates to
the Constitutional Convention, -
32 Delegates at Large
8 Delegates from Congressional District,
Eighth Congressional District.
All the above candidates are to be voted for
upon one ballot.
Each voter may vote only for Sixteen candidates
at large, and Four candidates by congressional
district.
The polls will be open from 3.30 to 8.00 p.m.
And you are directed to serve this warrant
by posting printed copies thereof seven days at
least before the time of said meeting as
directed by vote of the town.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this
Warrant, with your doing thereon, at the time and place
of said meeting.
Givin under our hands, this twenty first day of
March, A.D. 1917.
William S. Scamman
William B. Foster
Jay O. Richards
Selectmen of Lexington
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Lexington, Mass March 26, 1917
To the Town Clerk:
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting permitted copies of the
foregoing warrant in the Post Office and in
eight other public places in the Town, and by
mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the town, nine days before the
time of said meeting.
Attest:
Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy of the Warrant and Return,
Attest,
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
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1917
Forward from
page 435
Adjourned Annual Meeting
March 26, 1917
The Moderator called the meeting to order at 7:34 p.m.
Art. 20
Insurance
Insurance Appropriation
On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, it was
voted that there be appropriated for Insurance 2678.00
to be made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed 2538.78
Balance on hand 139.22
Total $2678.00
Art. 22
Fin. Com. appropriation
Finance Com. Appropriation
On motion of W. Roger Greeley, it was
Voted that there be appropriated for Finance Com-
mittee $150.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 109.42
Balance on hand 40.58
Total $150.00
Art. 17
Apr. 19th
Miscellaneous Appropriations.
Under this article the following votes were passed:--
(1) Voted that there be appropriated for April 19 -- $250.00
To be made up as follows: -
Amount to be assessed $250.00
$250.00
Assessors
Appropriation
(2) Voted, That the sum of $2305.60 be appropriated
and assessed for the Assessors Department for the
ensuing year. The above amount $2305.60.
plus the unextended balances of $475 making
a total of $2310.35 being the amount
asked for by the Board of Assessors.
439
1917.
Art 17 (3)
Cont.
Auditor
Voted that there be appropriated for Auditor $850.00
of which sum $800. shall be for the salary of the
Auditor and the balance for the expenses of his
office,
To be made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed 847.05
Balance on hand 2.95
Total $850.00
(4)
Bank &
Corporation
Tax
Voted that there be appropriated for the
defecit in the account of the bank and corporation
tax 2676.54
To be made up as follows:
Transfer from account of Omitted Assessments 675.54
Total 2676.54
(5)
Board of
Health
Voted that there be appropriated for
the Board of Health $2727.52
To be made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed 2100.00
Transfer from acct. of Omitted Assessments 627.46
Balance on hand .05
Total $2727.52
(6)
Board of
Survey
Voted that there be appropriated for the
Board of Survey $218.50
to be made up as follows
Balance on hand 218.50
Total $218.50
(7)
Cary
Library
Voted that there be appropriated for Cary
Memorial Librarya $3800.00
To be made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed 3643.25
Balance on hand 156.75
Total #3800.00
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8
Art 17
Cont.
Cemeteries
Voted that there be appropriated for
Cemeteries $780.32
to be made up as follows
Amount to be assessed 300.00
Balance on hand 480.32
Total 780.32
Clerk of (9)
School
Committee
Voted that there be appropriated for
Clerk School Committee $50.00
to be made up as follows
Amount to be assessed 50.00
Total $50.00
Trustees (10)
Public Trust
Voted that there be appropriated for
Clerk of Trustees Public Trusts $70.00
to be made up as follows
Amount to be assessed 63.00
Balance on hand 7.00
Total $70.00
Collector (11)
of Taxes
Voted that there be appropriated for
Collector of Taxes the sum of $1650.00 of which
sum the amount of $1300 shall be for the
Collectors salary, to be made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed $1610.43
Balance on hand 39.57
$1650.00
(12) Contingent
Voted that there be appropriated for Contingent $2000.00
to be made up as follows-
Amount to be assessed 1436.88
Balance on hand 563.12
Total $2000.00
Elect & 13
Registrations
Voted that there be appropriated for Elections and
Registrations $750.00
to be made up as follows
Amount to be assessed 677.35
Balance on hand 72.65
Total $750.00
441
1917.
Forest &
Fires
Art 17
Cont.
Voted that there be appropriated for
Extinguishing Forest Fires $500.00
to be made up as follows,
Amount to be assessed 272.82
Balance on hand 227.18
Total $500.00
(13)
Hastings Park
Voted that there be appropriated for
Hastings Park $5.00
to be made up as follows
Amount to be assessed 5.00
Total $5.00
(16)
Hydrants
Voted that there be appropriated for Hydrants $1950.00
to be made up as follows -
Amount to be assessed $1950.00
Total $1950.00
(17)
Insp. of
Buildings
Voted that there be appropriated for
Inspector of Buildings $500.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 381.67
Balance on hand 118.33
Total $500.00
Insp (18)
of Cattle
Voted that there be appropriated for
Inspector of Cattle $616.76
to be made as follows:
Amount to be assessed 200.00
Balance on hand 416.67
Total $616.67
Insp 19
Meats & Provisions
Voted that there be appropriated for
Inspector of Meats and Provisions $244.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 184.00
Balance on hand 60.00
Total $244.00
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Town
Debt
Art. 17
Cont.
Voted that there be appropriated for Interest
in Town Debt $12680.31
To be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 10104.71
Estimated interest on bank deposits 1000.00
Estimated interest on deferred payment of taxes 800.00
Transfer from Account of Interest on Taxes 674.30
Balance on hand 101.30
$12680.31
21
Overseers
of Poor
Salary
Voted that there be appropriated for
Overseers of Poor $300.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 300.00
Total $300.00
22
Police
Voted that there be appropriated for
Police Department $9182.81
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 9088.68
Balance on hand 94.13
Total $9182.81
23
Premium
on Bonds
Voted that there be appropriated to cover the
deficit in the account of Premium on Bonds $22.75
to be made up as follows:
Transfer from acct. of Omitted Assessments 22.75
Total $22.75
24
Sealer
Weight of
Measures
Voted that there be appropriated for
Sealer of Weights and Measures $150.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 44.49
Balance on hand 105.51
Total $150.00
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25
Selectmen
Art. 17
Cont
Voted that there be appropriated for
Selectmen $2000.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed $1440.00
Balance on hand 560.00
$2000.00
Removal 26
of Snow
Voted that there be appropriated for
Removal of Snow $2558.46
to be made up as foolows:-
Amount to be assessed 1200.00
Transfer from acct. of Omitted Assessments 1358.46
$2558.46
Soldiers 27
Relief
Voted that there be appropriated for
Soldiers Relief $94.29
to be made up as follows:
Balance on hand 94.29
Total $94.29
28
Stone
Building
Voted that there be appropriated for
Stone Building $825.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 689.37
Balance on hand 135.63
Total $825.00
29
Stone
Building
Repairs
Voted that there be appropriated for
Stone Building Repairs $657.57
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 550.00
Balance on hand 107.57
Total $657.57
30
Road
Commissioners
Voted that there be appropriated for
Road Commissioners $300.00
to be made up as follows
Amount to be assessed 300.00
Total $300.00
444
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31
Town
Clerk
Art 17.
Cont.
Voted that there be appopriated for
Town Clerk $1200.00
of which sum $1100. shall be for the salary of
the Town Clerk,
and the balance for the incidental expenses of
his office - to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 976.09
Balance on hand 223.91
$1200.00
Town 32
Debt
Voted that there be appropriated for Town Debt $38750.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 38750.00
Total $38750.00
Town 33
Hall
Voted that there be appropriated for Town Hall $2500.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 2454.79
Balance on hand 45.21
Total $2500.00
Town 34
Hall
Repairs
Voted that there be appropriated for the
Repair of Town Hall $850.00
to be made up as follows:-
Amount to be assessed 775.99
Balance on hand 74.01
Total $850.00
35
Town
Physician
Voted that there be appropriated for
Town Physician $75.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 75.00
Total 75.00
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Town Treasurer 36
Art. 17
Cont.
Voted that there be appropriated for
Town Treasurer $1450.00 - of which sum
$1100 shall be for the salary of the Town Treasurer
and the balances for the expenses of his office, to be
made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed $1405.75
Balance on hand 44.25
Total 1450.00
Treas. Cary Library
37
Voted that there be appropriated for
Treasurer Cary Memorial Library $50.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 50.00
Total $50.00
Tree Warden
38
Voted that there be appropriated for
Tree Warden
to be made up as follows: $800
Amount to be assessed 745.73
Balance on hand 54.27
Total $800.00
Village Hall
39
Voted that there be appropriated for
Village Hall $250.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 231.67
Balance on hand 18.33
Total $250.00
Watering Troughts
40
Voted that there be appropriated for
Watering Troughs $100.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed $100.00
Total 100.00
446
41
Art 17 Cont.
Mass. Ave.
Widening
Voted that there be appropriated for
Widening Massachusetts Ave. $5071.31
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 3859.51
Balance on hand 1211.80
Total $5071.31
Art. 8
Improved Railroad
Transportation
Committee Reports.
William C. Stickel, Chairman of the committee on
Improved Railroad Accomodations reported that
the committee had held a meeting with the
officials of the Middlesex and Boston Street
Railway Company, and that the committee
expected to be given a hearing by the Public
Service Commission at an early date. All
citizens were urged to attend this meeting.
Improved Town
Government
(?)
Com. Reports Vol. 2, pg 74
A. Ingham Bicknell, chaiman of the committee
on Improved Town Government made a written
report stating that a bill is now before the
Legislature providing for a Town Manager
form of government, and advising that no
action be taken by the town until the
Legislature acts upon this bill.
It was voted that the report be accepted
and placed on file.
Art. 32
Old Cemetery Fence
Old Cemetery Fence
On motion of George W. Spaulding it
was voted that the sum of $100.00 be appropriated
and assessed to rebuild and repair the wall
and fence in the Old Cemetery adjoining the
estate of P.J. Kennan, said sum being one-
third of the total cost of the work.
447
1917
Art. 16
Fire Dept
Fire Department
Voted that there be appropriated for
Fire Dept $11873.00 - to be mae up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 11385.22
Balance on hand 487.78
Total 11873.00
Art. 29
Charles Sr.
Acceptance of Charles Street.
William S. Scamman, Chairman of the
Selectmen read a report recommending the
acceptance of Charles Street.
Com. Reports
Vo. 2 pg. 76
Street Sanitaton
Vol. 1 pg 20
On motion of Mr. Scamman it was
voted that the report of the selectmen relative
to the laying out and acceptance of Charles Street
be accepted, and further voted that the town
hereby accepts and approves the laying out of
Charles Street as made by the Selectmen on
December 22, 1916, and that Charles Street,
from Massachusetts Avenue to Taft Avenue, is
hereby accepted and made a public highway
of the Town of Lexington.
Art. 15
Street Lights
Street Lights
Voted that there be appropriated for
Street Lights $11340.28 to be made up
as follows:
Amount to be assessed $11043.36
Balance on hand 296.92
Total $11340.28
Art. 33
Veterans Pensions
Veterans Pensions
On motion of A. Ingraham Bricknell, it
was Voted that there be appropriated for
Pensions $852.40
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 851.60
Balance on hand .80
Total $852.40.
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Art. 37
Town Engineer
Town Engineer
On motion of William S. Scamman, it
was Voted that there be appropriated for
Town Engineer $2,000
to be made up as follows:
Balance on hand $2,000
Total $2000
Art. 19
Sidewalks
Sidewalks
On motion of A. Ingham Bicknell, it
was - Voted that there be appropriated for
Sidewalks -- $1461.71
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 482.69
Balance on hand 979.02
Total $1,461.71
Art. 12
Alma House
Alma House
On motion of William B. Foster it was
Voted that there be appropriated for
Support of Poor. $1091.14
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 500.00
Balance on hand 591.14
Total $1091.14
Resolutions on
European War
J. Rowe Webster offered the following Resolution:-
Whereas We, citizens of Lexington, Massachusetts,
in town meeting assembled, are ever mindful
of the unremitting vigilance and fearless
action of those who dwelt there in 1775; and
Whereas we desire to fulfill our responsibility
of remaining true and loyal to their memory;
and
Whereas, although bearing no malicious hatred
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towards any rules, class, raw, or nation, we yet
determinedly and advisedly condemn the cuase
of a government whose present policy is flag-
rantly abhorrent to American principle; and
Whereas we would not seem ungrateful to
those governments which serve our highest
interests and the highest interests of mankind:-
Therefore be it resolved :
I That we do hereby express our entire and hearty
sympathy with the cause of liberty against
tyranny, the cause for which the Allied
Governments of the Entente are now fighting;
II. That we thankfully acknowledge whatever
debt we already owe to the armies and to the
navies of the said governments;
III. That we cordially favor serving the said
governments by granting them loans of money
on such favorable terms as shall show our
gratitude for their help in the past and in
the present;
IV. That we openly challenge the attention of
such inhabitants of the United States of America
as are not, even at this late hour, fully alive to
the dangers that threaten the life of the nation;
a challenge uttered to these ends:
(a) That sleeping patriotism may
everywhere awaken to an intelligent
and loyal public spirit, which shall
actively carry out whatever measures
are most conducive to the national
welfare;
(b) That the foundations of our government,
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as laid by the men of old, be not shaken, but
that the President and the Congress of the United
States of America be consistenly supported;
and
(c) That the American People, which in
1775 had no difficulty in seeing across
the Atlantic Ocean, may have less diffi-
culty in determining its duty while
endeavoring to serve, to the extent of its
power, the righteous interests of democracy
as aganist autocracy throughout the
entire world.
The above resolution was unanimously adopted by
rising vote.
Jay O. Richards offered the following resolution:-
Whereas the Government of the United
States is soon to increase the strength of its Navy
by the construction of new battleships,
Resolved, That the citizens of Lexington,
Massachusetts, in Town Meeting assembled,
mindful of the great events which have made the
name of our Town dear to the hearts of all
patriotic Americans and to lovers of liberty and
free government the world over, respectfully
request and urge the Honorable Secretary of
the Navy that the name "Lexington" be given
to one of the new battleships soon to be constructed
by our government; and that a copy of this
resolution be transmitted to Honorable Henry
Cabot Lodge and Honorable John W. Weeks,
United States Senators from Massachusetts, and
to Honorable Frederick W. Dallinger Congressman
from the Eighth Massachusetts Congressional
District, with the earnest request that they use
their influence to secure the carrying out of this
resolution.
It was unanimously voted to adopt this resolution.
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Art. 13
Outside
Aid
On motion of William B. Foster it was
Voted that there be appropriated for Outside
Aid $6256.43 -
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 5700.00
Balance on hand 556.53
Total $6256.53
Art. 18
Town Hall
Grounds
This article requesting an appropriation for the
improvement of the town hall grounds was indefinitely
postponed, on motion of Mr. Bicknell.
Art. 24.
Insects
On motion of William S. Scamman it was
Voted that there be appropriated for Suppression
of Insects - $800.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed 800.00
Total $800.00
To be expended under the direction of the
Moth Department.
Art 36.
Fire
Tower
On motion of William S. Scamman, it was
Voted that there be appropriated for the Construction
of a Fire Observation Tower - $200.00
to be made up as follows:
Amount to be assessed $200.00
Total $200.00
Art. 30
It was voted that this article be indefinitely
postponed.
At 10.02 oclock it was voted to adjourn to
Monday evening Apr. 16, at 7.30 oclock.
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
Continued on page 455
452
1917
Constitutional Convention Primary
April 3, 1917.
The meeting was called to order by the Chairman
of the Board of Selectman, and the warrant was
read by the Town Clerk.
The Chairman gave his receipt to the Town
Clerk for a package said to contain fifteen hundred
ballots and also for two voting lists.
Charles G. Kauffmann and James A. Hurley
were sworn as Ballot Clerks.
Nathanel Nunn, Cornelius F. O'Connor, Fred E.
Butters, William F. Young, Charles F. Vaughan,
Samuel B. Bigelow, Clifton P. Ashley and James
A. Hurley were sworn as Tellers.
At the close of the polls at eight oclock
278 ballots were taken from the box. The deal
on the box registered 278.
At 11.20 P.M. the Clerk announced the
result as follows:
Delegates at Large,
Charles Francis Adams two hundred twenty nine 229
George W. Anderson ninety one 91
William G. Andrew twenty three 23
Albret S. Apsey one hundred fifty eight 158
Charles J. Barton one hundred twenty four 124
John L. Bates two hundred one 201
Addison P. Beardsley fifteen 15
William H.Brooks one hundred twenty five 125
Walter A. Buie[?] forty four 44
Harvey S. Chase forty three 43
Charles F. Choate, Jr. one hundred seventy two 172
Charles W. Clifford one hundred sixteen 116
George W. Coleman ninety 90
Louis A. Coolidge one hundred seventy eight 178
John W. Cummings one hundred thirty seven 137
Edwin U. Curtis one hundred seventy eight 178
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Samuel R. Cutler twenty four 24
Arthur W. DeGoosh eight 8
Daniel E. Denny one 21
Daniel R. Donovan twenty six 26
George H. Doty ninety nine 99
Hugh P. Drysdale eleven 11
Frank E. Dunbar one hundred nine 109
Samuel J. Elder one hundred ninty five 195
Wilmot R. Evans Jr. one hundred eleven 111
Eugene N. Foss sixty five 65
Harry A Garfield sixty two 62
Ralph W. Gloag five 5
Gurdon W. Gordon twenty five 25
Matthew Hale eighty five 85
Arthur D. Hill seventy three 73
Walter S. Hutchins fourteen 14
Patrick H. Jennings fourty seven 47
Lewis J. Johnson fifty three 53
Abbot Lawrence Lowell one hundred seventy seven 177
Nathan Matthews one hundred fifty 150
James T. Moriarty forty nine 49
Joseph C. Pelletier sixty seven 67
Josiah Quincy one hundred eight 108
Clarence W. Rowley ten 10
John Weaver Sherman thirteen 13
James A. Stiles thirteen 13
Moorfield Storey one hundred five 105
Charles B Streeker thirty seven 37
Wendell Phillips Thore seven 7
Whitfield L. Tuck thirty one 31
Joseph Walker eighty nine 88
David J. Walsh eighty nine 89
Robert M. Washburn fifty 50
Sherman L. Whipple one hundred eleven 111
Lombard Williams twenty two 22
George H. Wrenn forty three 43
Blanks three hundred twenty 320
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Delegates 8th Congressional District
Claude L. Allen one hundred one 101
Everett C. Benton one hundred sixty nine 169
John J. A. Brackett one hundred sixty two 162
Lawrence G. Brooks sixty two 62
James A. Cotting thirty one 31
Theodore Eaton thirty nine 39
Wilton B. Fay seventy one 71
George A. Goodwin twenty seven 27
Albert Bushnell Hart ninety nine 99
Harry A. Penniman twenty 20
Harry N. Stearns ninety nine 99
Charles C. Willard forty three 43
Blanks one hundred eighty eight 188
R. P. Clapp one 1
A true record
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
455
1917.
Continued from
page 451
Adjourned Annual Meeting
April 16, 1917.
The meeting was called to order at 7.35 P.M.
Art. 27 New Cemetery
New
Cemetery
Bedford
and
Summer St
Everett S. Emery presented a report for the Com-
mittee recommending the purchase of a tract of
land located at the corner of Bedford and
Summer Streets, containing approximtaely
forty seven acres and assessed for about $8950.00
It was voted on motion of Mr. Emery-
That the report of the Committee on New
Cemetery presented this day be accepted and
placed on file, and that its recommendations
be adopted; and it is further voted that the
selectmen be and they hereby are instructed to
purchase at once the Catherine Wood, Mary
A. Coyle, Norman J. Hingley, Mathias Shelales
and Walter and Mary Wiezbike properties, and
so much of the Frost property as in their
opinion is wise, recommended by the Com-
mittee for cemetery purposes, provided they
can be purchased for a price not more than
twenty-five per cent (25%) higher than their
average assessed valuations during the previous
three years. In the event that the
properties referred to cannot be purchased for
a price not more than twenty-five per cent
(25%) higher than their average assessed
valuations during the previous three years,
the Selectmen be and hereby are instructed
to take the necessary steps as provided by
law to secure by right of eminent domain
the Wood, Coyle, Hingley, Shelales and
Wiezbike properties and so much of the
Frost property as in their opinion is wise."
456
1917.
Art 39. This article relative to the acceptance of
a portion of Highland Avenue was indefinitely
postponed on motion of Jay O. Richards.
Art. 8.
Increased
School
Accommodations
Report
Accepted
Com. Reports
Vol. 2 pg 78
Under this article Hallie C. Blake in behalf
of the Committee on Increased School
Accommodations made a report in which
it was stated that "there is immediate
need of increased school accommodations
in every section of the town."
The report also stated that "the Junior
High School System seems to be the modern
method of education, and it is the unanimous
opinion of the committee that it is advisable
for the town to recommend to the School
Committee that they adopt at this time
that plan."
It was voted that the report be
accepted and placed on file and that the
recommendations relative to a Junior High
School be adopted.
Arts.
41-42-43.
New land
for new
School
Building
Bacon
Estate
purchased
Relative to a location for a New
School Building
On motion of Robert L. Ryder it was
unanimously "Voted - That the sum of
Fifteen Thousand Dollars be appropriated
for the purchase of the premises at #331-335
Massachusetts Avenue known as the John D.
Bacon Estate, containing about seventy-nine
thousand (79000) square feet of land, the
land so acquired to be used as a building
site to provide Increased School Accommo-
dations for the Town; also that a further
sum of Six Thousand Dollars be appro-
priated for the procuring of plans and
specifications and seeming estimates for
a School Building to be built on the
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New
School
Site
Continued
foregoing premises when acquired, the money
so appropriated to be provided by transfer
from the fund entitled "School House
Construction appropriation", which fund
was duly established by a vote of the Town,
June 14, 1915, and all provisions of the
vote establishing said fund inconsistent
with the transfer herein proposed, are hereby
rescinded."
This matter caused much discussion.
Lester T. Redman offered a substitute motion
providing merely for the appropriation of
$6000.00 with which to procure plans and
estiamtes.
William C. Stickel offered a substitute motion
calling for the appropriation of $15000.00 to be
used for the purchase of the Bacon land.
The meeting voted against both of these
substitute motions.
On motion of Robert L. Ryder it was
further voted - "That a Building Committee
of seven members, consisting of the School
Committee and four numbers to be appropriated
by the Moderator, be established to make the
expenditures and carry out the provision of
the foregoing vote."
The following committeewas appropriated:-
Hallie C. Blake Arthur L. Blodgett
Dwight F. Kilgour Edward P. Merriam
Charles H. Miles Timothy H O'Connor
Robert L. Ryder
It was voted to adjourn this meeting for four weeks
to meet at 7.30 P.M., and that written notice of
the adjourned meeting be sent to all voters.
A true record,
Attest Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
458
1917
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex SS
To either of the Constables of the Town of
Lexington, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth
you are hereby required to
notify and warn the inhabitants of said town
who are qualified to vote in Elections to meet
in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on
Tuesday, the First Day of May, 1917,
at 7.00 clerk A.M. to cast their ballots for the
following Delegates to the Constitutional Convention:
16 Delegates at Large
4 Delegates from Eighth Congressional
District.
1 Delegate from Twenty-Eighth Middlesex
Representation District.
All the above candidates are to be voted for
upon one ballot.
Each voter may vote only for Sixteen delegates
at large, and Four delegates by congressional
district, and One delegate from the Representative
District.
The polls will be open from 7.00 oclock
A.M. to 4.00 oclok P.M. Hereof fail not
and make due return of this Warrant with your
doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the
time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington, this
thirteenth day of April, A.D. 1917.
William S. Scamman Selectmen
William B. Foster of
Jay O. Richards Lexington
A true copy, Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
459
1917.
Lexington, Mass. April 24, 1917
To the Town Clerk
I have notified the inhabitants
of Lexington by posting printed copies of the
foregoing Warrant in the Post-office and in
nine other public places in the town, and by
mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the town, seven (7) days before
the time of said meeting.
Attest Charles E. Wheeler
Constable of Lexington
A true copy, Attest:
Charles W. Swan, Town Clerk
Election of Delegates to a
Constitutional Convention
May 1, 1917.
The meeting was called to order at seven
oclock A.M. by William S. Scamman, Chairman
of the Selectmen. The Warrant and the return
thereon was read by the Town Clerk.
Charles G. Kauffmann and James A. Hurley
were sworn as Ballot Clerks and Wallace E.
Miller and John J. Garrity as Deputy Ballot Clerks
The polls were declared open
Cornelius F. OConnor, Fred E. Butters,
Nathaniel Nunn, Allston M Redman, Samuel
B. Bigelow, William E Mulliken, James M.
Ahearn and James E. O'Neil were sworn as Tellers.
At 1.15 oclock 200 ballots were taken from
the box; at 2.48 oclock 100 ballots were taken
out; at 3.30 oclock two hundred ballots were
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removed from the box.
At 3.43 oclock, on motion of George
E. Briggs, it was voted that the polls be
kept open until five oclock.
At the close of the polls two hundred
and thirteen ballots were taken from the box,
making a total vote of seven hundred and thirteen.
This number agreed with the deal on the ballot
box and with the number of names checked on each
voting list.
At 8.14 oclock the Town Clerk announced the
vote as follows:
Total vote 713
Delegates at Large.
Charles Francis Adams, five hundred twenty one 521
George W. Anderson two hundred ninety 290
Albert S. Apsey three hundred fifty two 352
Charles J. Barton three hundred eighteen 318
John Q. Bates four hundred fifty six 456
William H. Brooks three hundred eighteen 318
Walter A. Buie one hundred fifty five 155
Charles F. Choate Jr three hundred eighty eight 388
Charles W. Clifford two hundred eighty two 282
George W. Coleman two hundred sixty nine 269
Louis A. Coolidge three hundred eighty four 384
John W. Cummings three hundred eighty one 381
Edwin U. Curtis four hudnred fourteen 414
Daniel R. Donovan one hundred seventy three 173
Frank E. Dunbar three hundred two 302
Samuel J. Elder four hundred forty two 442
Wilmot R. Evans Jr. two hundred eighty two 282
Eugene N. Foss two hundred fourteen 214
Matthew Hale two hundred eighty seven 287
Arthur D. Hill two hundred forty two 242
Patrick H. Jennings one hundred sixty one 161
Abbott Lawrence Lowell three hundred ninety seven 397
Nathan Matthews three hundred fifty four 354
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James T. Moriarty one hundred forty nine 149
Joseph C. Pelletier two hundred twenty eight 228
Josiah Quincy two hundred seventy 270
Moorfield Storey four hundred sixteen 416
Charles B. Strecker one hundred nineteen 119
Joseph Walker two hundred seventy nine 279
David I. Walsh three hundred twenty six 326
Sherman L. Whipple three hundred forty one 341
George H. Wrenn one hundred ninety one 191
Blanks - seventeen hundred and six 1706
From 8th Congressional District
Claude L. Allen three hundred fifteen 315
Everett C. Burton four hundred ten 410
John Q. A. Brackett three hundred sixty nine 369
Lawrence G. Brooks one hundred eighty eight 188
Theodore Eaton one hundred twenty six 126
Wilton B. Fay three hundred sixty five 365
Albert Bushnell Hart two hundred fifty three 253
Harry N. Stearns three hundred five 305
Edward W. Taylor one 1
Blanks four hundred twenty 520
From 28th Middlesex District
Robert P. Clapp five hundred ninety eight 598
Arthur P. Stone eighty two 82
Blanks thirty three 33
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk
See page 464 for recount of votes for Delegates
from 8th Congressional District
462
1917.
Perpetual
Care
Frank V. Butters
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, Mass. May 11, 1917.
100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington in
town meeting assembled on the 2nd day of Nov-
ember, A.D. 1875, the Town Treasurer hereby
acknowledges the receipt of One Hundred (100)
dollars from the Estate of Frank V. Butters
the interest of which is to be expended in
accordance with said vote and amendments
thereto and Chapter 225 of the Arts of 1870
when lot 403 in the Town Cemetery near
the High School House in said Lexington
in dressing and care of said lot, monuments
walks and avenues adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer
Received and Entered
May 14, 1917
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
463
1917.
Adjourned Annual Meeting - May 14, 1917
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator
at 7.38 oclock.
Art 8 Arthur L. Blodgett of the Committee on
Increased School Accommodations stated that
the committee has secured an option on the Bacon
property and that the property has been sur-
veyed by the Town Engineer.
Art. 44.
Increased
School
Accommodations
Arthur L. Blodgett stated that it had
recently come to the notice of the committee
on increased school accommodations that the
town cannot borrow sufficient funds to
build a new School house without exceeding
the debt limit fixed by law.
Mr. Blodgett offered a motion providing
that the Chairman of the Selectmen and the
chairman of the Building Committee be
authorized to request the Legislature to pass
a special Act authorizing the Town to borrow
outside the debt limit for the construction of
the proposed school, such an amount as may
be found necessary.
On motion of Christopher S. Ryan it was
voted that further action in this matter be
indefinitely postponed.
Art 9.
Fence Viewers
Field Drivers
S. of Lumber
Minor Town Officers
Charles E. Wheeler and Frank P. Cutter were
elected as Fence Viewers
Patrick J. Maguire and William F. Fletcher
were elected as Field Drivers
Edgar W. Harrod and Frank P. Cutter
were elected as Surveyors of Lumber.
(over)
464
1917
Art. 26
Cemetery
Commissioners
On motion of Frank D. Peirce, it was
voted that this article relative to the acceptance
of sections 21 to 26 of Chapter 78 of the
Revised Laws providing for the election of
a Board of Cemetery Commissioners be
indefinitely postponed.
Meeting dissolved at 8.25 oclock,
A true record
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
On Tuesday, May 8, 1917, the Registrars of
Voters recounted the votes cast for Delegates
to the Constitutional Convention from the
Eighth Congressional District, with the
following result:-
Claude L. Allen of Melrose, three hundred fifteen 315
Everett C. Benton of Belmont, four hundred ten 410
John Q. A. Brackett of Arlington, three hundred seventy one 371
Lawrence G. Brooks of Medford, one hundred eighty six 186
Theodore Eaton of Wakefield, one hundred twenty five 125
Wilton B. Fay of Medford, three hundred sixty three 363
Albert Bushnell Hart of Cambridge, two hundred fifty seven 257
Harry N. Stearns of Cambridge, three hundred five 305
Ed. W. Taylor one 1
Blanks five hundred ninetten - 419
A true record,
Attest
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
465
1917.
Town Treasurers Office
Lexington, Mass. June 18, 1907.
$100.00
Pursuant to a vote of the inhabitants
of the Town of Lexington in town meeting
assembled on the 2nd day of November, A.D. 1875.
the Town Treasurer hereby acknowledges the
receipt of One Hundred (100) dollars from the
Estate of S. Myron Lawrence, the interest of which
is to be expended in accordance with said vote
and amendments threreto and Chapter 225 of
the Acts of 1870 upon lot number 337 in the
Town Cemetery near the High School House
in said Lexington in dressing and care of
said lot, monuments, walks and avenues
adjacent thereto.
George D. Harrington
Town Treasurer.
Received and Entered
June 18, 1917.
Attest.
Charles W. Swan
Town Clerk.
466
1917.
Warrant for a Town Meeting
June 28, 1917.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexi-
ington, in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabi-
tants of the Town of Lexington, qualified to
vote in town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall
in said Lexington, on Thursday the twenty-eighth
day of June, A.D., 1916, at seven-thirty oclock
P.M., then and there to act on the following
articles:
Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee of the Town for
action thereon, and to appoint other Committees.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will make an appropri-
ation sufficient to meet the expenses in the
Town Engineer's Department.
Art. 3. To see if the Town will instruct the Board
of Water and Sewer Commissioners to extend
the six inch water main in Rawson Avenue
from Arcadia Avenue to Rindge Avenue, and to
appropriate and assess the sum of $300.00
therefor, or act in any other manner relative
thereto.
Art. 4. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
sufficient to enable the Selectmen to purchase or
take by right of eminent domain for Cemetery
purposes the Katherine H. Wood, Thomas
Coyle, Norman J. Hingley, Matheus Shilalis,
Walter and Mary Wiezbike, and J. Newton
467
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Frost properties, or portions of each or all of
them these properties being the ones referred to
in the report of the Committee on New Cemetery
presented to the Town Apr. 16, 1917, and vote to
issue bonds therefor, or otherwise determine the
method of raising the money so appropriated,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of
money sufficient to meet the expense of removing
and rebuilding the Stone Crusher, or act in
any manner relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation
sufficient to meet its share of the expense caused
by the laying out and construction of a State
Highway, in this town running from Lowell
Street to the Arlington Line, and vote to issue
bonds therefor, or determine how the money
appropriated shall be raised, or act in any
manner relative thereto.
Art. 7. To receive the report of the committee appointed
to prepare and present a new code of By-Laws
to the town, and take action thereon.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will vote to accept Sections
21 to 25 both inclusive of Chapter 78 of the
Revised Laws and all Acts in amendment
thereof and in addition thereto providing for
the election of a Board of Cemetery Commis-
sioners and the care and management of the
public burial grounds of the Town, or act in
any manner relating relating thereto.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will accept an extension
of Highland Avenue running westerly from
its junction with Bloomfield Street to near