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16 Building By -Laws certain amount of his work, and look over the list of welfare recipients, and if there are men available for work, that he hire them and pay them 30¢ to 359E an hour. He said that they probably could do work clean- ing brooks, dressing up the shoulders of the roads, etc. Mr. Potter thought it was a mistake to mix welfare recipl6nts and regular Town employees. Mr. Paxton said that he would merely have Town employees supervise the work. It was decided to leave the matter entirely to his discretion. The following members of the committee on the re- vision of the Building By-laws appeared before the Boardt Messrs, Gordon D. Richards, Edwin B. Worthen,Jr, Charles E. Ferguson, and Lewis M. Reynolds. The Chair- man said that realizing the amount of building going.on in town now, the Board was very anxious that the new By-laws be completed as soon as possible. He said this was es- pecially important because of the type of work that was going on in town. He asked the committee to consider putting 'teeth" into the By-laws so that the town would be doing everything possible to insure good building. He said that some of the reports the Board had received relative to improper building had bothered the members. Mr. Worthen, chairman of the committee, said that they had arrived at the point where they are planning to hold a hearing soon to which architects, builders, con- • tractors, etc. would be invited to thrash out the pro- posed By-laws. The Chairman said that the Selectmen desired By-laws that guaranteed, as far as possible, an honest deal for the individual. Mr. Ferguson. said that the laws did not mean a thing unless they were enforced and he believed that the town needed a full time inspector. Mr. John Harris, who works for the Boston Globe, appeared before the Board at 9t55 P. M. The Chairman said Mr. Harris has been making a study of the Building By-law actuation in the State. Mr. Ferguson said that the'Building Inspector had the additional problem of enforcing the zoning laws. Mr. Richards said that Winchester had studied the problem of small houses extensively and he was told that a'home could be built in Lexington several hundred dollars cheaper than in Winchester on account of the strict laws there. The Chairman said that it was not the Board's intention to try to do away with small houses, but it wanted to see that the people got value for their money. Mr. Ferguson said that all bu¢lding laws were for was to protect the health and safety of the individ- ual and if the committee got very far away from that principle the By-laws probably would not be passed by the Attorney General 10