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78 Special election March 13, 1944 called by James J. Carroll, Town Clerk, of Precinct 1 Town -deeting members for the election of one pma Town Meeting Member to complete the unexpired term of iary ID. Hatch, caused 17- resignation® There were thirty-five ( 35) Town meeting Members oresent. Nominations from the floor were made for Richard P. Cromwell, Lloyd C . Hardi--1,2: and 7alter L. Chambers, Messrs, Gay, Ripley and Donnelly were appointed and served as tellers. Ballots were cast with the following results : Richard P. Cromwell - 13; Lloyd C . Hardinc - 13; and Walter L. Chambers - 4. A tie being decided upon, ballots were again passed with the following results : Lloyd C . Hardin:: - 16; Richard P. Cromell - 15; and Walter L. Chambers - 3 , Lloyd C . Harding was declared elected for the term expiring March, 1946 . /- .1,11 49' I - To ,n lerk Special election March 13, 1944 called by James J. Carroll, Town Clerk, for Precinct 4 Town Meeting members for the election of one Town meeting Member to complete the unexDired term of Clayton F, Beach, caused by death® There were thirty-seven ( 37) Town Meeting Members °resent, nominations from the floor were made for George L. Wallace. Nominations were closed and George L. Wallace was unanimously elected for unexpired term ending in March, 1945, `I' m Clerk ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING- March 13, 1944 The Town Meeting was called to order at 8:05 P.M. by the Mod- erator, Robert H. bit, There were 178 Town Meeting Members present, The Town Clerk, James J. Carroll, read the warrant until upon motion of George C . Sheldon, duly seconded, farther reading of the warrant was discontinued, The Constable ' s Return of the Warrant was read by the Town Clerk, 8:06 P.M. Unless otherwise noted, all articles were presented by 3-electman„ A. Edward Rowse, Article 2, Lewis L. Hoyt, Chairman of the Acoropriation Comm- ittee , presented the Appro3riation Committee Report which was un- animously accepted and placed on file. 8:07 P.M. Fred C . Newhall presented the retort of Advance Programming and Budgeting Committee which was unanimously accepted and placed on file ,8:07 P.M. William Rojer Greeley presented and read the following report : TO -_The Town Meeting 'embers: At the Town Meeting held march 15 , 1943, the Moderator was directed to appoint a Committee consisting of the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, the new Chairman of tl-,e Approp- riations Committee the Chairman of the Planning Board, together with two citizens with business experience, to study the setup of the var- ious Town departments in the interest of efficience and economy, and make recommendations to the next annual Town Meeting,