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P,:EET11G, FEB. 6 , 1923 .
i!eeerry . Ncamnan, eenney, and ,lake Prevent.
hearing having been duly advertised for a Board of Survey
meeting upon petition of Pell LcIntosh for aprroval of plane of
Section 4 , Farmhuret, and L.r. s.cintoeh and ter. uannett, Engineer ,
being present, the meeting war opened for discaeeion .
.:.r. Luffy, town Lngineer, presented plan with considerable
revision of location of etreete to which i..r. L.clntosh objected to
in some instances vert strongly owing to the fact that some of hie
beet property would be cut up for a street. he also objected to
the reduction of the grade as he explained that a hill it desired
by most people when building. . r . Luffy objected on the ground of
expense to the town to maintain roads with a steep grade
r. ieclntoeh was requested to get in touch with Lir. Luffy
and go over the plan to see if a plan which would be agreeable to
both parties could be arrived at .
the hearing therefor war laid over until a later date .
Letter was received from Ezra F. Breed in which he stated
that he examined the hot water boiler at the Chapin house and found
that it was cracked near the top and mould coat ,5,55 .75 to place in
a new 30 gallon pressure copper boiler , also ;6.50 for a safety
' valve , the boiler , however , could be patched for Y6 .75 . The Board
believed that patching would not last for any length of time and
voted to instruct u_r. breed to in:tall a n ,w 'oiler and a ra''ety
valve at the price stated.
The opinion of the Town counsel in reference to by-lawn and
the opinion of ler. Bayley, chairman of the 3y-Law Committee , was
discussed.
Copy of the opinion of the Town counsel war handed to
Lr. hatch, of the Committee , since Mr. Bayley requested a cony, and
a letter also written to ier . .etyley calling hie especial attention
to what the Town counsel said in reference to publication of the
By-Laws .
Application for a gasoline filling station at 110 Lase . Ave .
war received from john P: . Eunino of i.edford. A previous application
having been received for a location at this spot, anc, the Board
having been of the opinion that public convenience an necessity
did not require a station at that point , the Board could see no
further reason at this time , and so informed the applicant.
It war voted to appoi e Francis 6 . ioye ae leegirtrar of
Voter to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clearles F. ,:puree .
This appointment ie provisional as ,er . rove is employed by
the Government and it ie rot quite clear as to eeiether or not he
can :.old the position of hegictrar under the circumstances .
Petition for the acceptance of Farmcreet ti--enue was received
by the Joard.
Petition for streets lights on :ellen btr et wae received
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I from residents of the vicinity.
The 5upt. of Public ++orke was instructed to inform "r]
Lire h1therine 'arroll , one of the petAionere , that t_.e matter
. ould be taken under advisement.
Letter 'ear received by the oupt of Public :. orks from
fff Albert =•oee , accepting the nosi .non of oupt of otreeta . aater
and oewers, at a salary of y1900 pr. year .
Application for a Billboard to be located bet- een t ;e
Rest an.: Calvin •i . Childs automobile shop on ._afle . Avenue was
received.
The Supt. was instructed to write a letter to the rept.
of Public morns , objecting to such sign being erected.
Letter was also received from the Supt. of iuolic aorke
in which he informed the Board that he had attended the hearing
at the tate house on advertising, eigns . ..e suggested, in t}-ie
connection, that the - eeeeeors e notified of the fact that ad-
vertising signs are taxable . The Soard thea- for notified the
asseerorr to that effect.
Letter was received from the Supt of Public ,.arks in con-
nection with the estimates of the year in i.ien he called atten-
tion to the u-unicip.al Finance act.
He suggested that department heads .e no ified of the
contents of this r.ct.
nr . Tenney presented the bid for changing the .atreet
Light at hancock and nedncrd otreete as of $63 .10 .
:..atter was laid on the table until next spring.
highway Lept.
i._r. hose re_ orted that fifteen men it the hihway department
who were entitled tc t o weeks vacoti- r with ^a _. ere now asking
t .it the receive same .
It was voted to allot the men the vacation . it ravine been
found that under .ection 110 and 111 of nhapter 41 laborers are
entitled to two v:eeke vacation if they have performed 32 weekr work.
nr. hoes called attention to the fact that there was an old
horse at the :own Farm wnoch should be disrosed of. he was in-
structed to have .-u1ler diepuee of flame .
- r. hoes suggested that the ton buy another truck, a ford
ton, and diepore of another of th horeee _n .he highway department.
Lot ling was done about the matter .
Parks and Pla;;rrounds .
tide for the corn tructi _n of the nonve.':ience utation on
the Buckman 1avE.rn groun r were a.e follow
.e v eau nrothe re $$0.03
1 . n. .- ' nonner 1550 .0
Uurtarce Droe . 1342 .00
oh.n c1 ay 1150.00
Some of the bide contained provisions wi.i.cc others (lid not.
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The board therefor rceueeted .r . earriron to look them over
for comparison .
hater and aerer kept.
...r . Theodore A. ..ue tante came before the Board to conri er
the matter of her doi F the sever connection -4737k at the house he
ie building ,n Uakorount Lircle .
the )ooard was perfectly wileing that re ehould do the ror -
first fling a b ,nd to protect the torn ,
. r ',urta..ce also called attention to the fact that there
le ere now three men do _-ng work of drilling in the trench on eukmount
circle and that he did not consiLer that this needed to be done .
he wanted to have the w_ter in the house by April let , but
he coaridered that the work could be done in a short time if a
rumoer of men were put on.
,.r . ioee , oupt of , treetr , •ater and ae er , stated `.hat he
could havc the work done in two weeks , and it wary tl erefnr left to
harr_ron to pee that the Teork war done .
In regard to ter . Lcer ' e ealer-- it tsar . ecidec to divede the
a.ount c :arming ore .alf tc the _ treet iiepa.rt :ent and -re nalf to
the eater and .JeYer ..Tpartment iroporticned ae _r . Jeaudrv' r ealery
war in the ,pater and ocher eepartaent.
hr . Denney it rtructed r. i arr_rcn L go through the lint
of per. rorr ordered to make reser cennecti ons making note of those
who have not ar y( t complied weth to orders of the ?oar_. .
A true record, nttert
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