HomeMy WebLinkAbout1952-06-16 Special Town Meeting WarrantT 0 W N A R R A I T
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COAIMONWE;ALTH of MASSACHUSETTS
Middlesex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to
notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified
to vote in elections and town affairs, to meet in Shepardson Hall.,
Junior High School, Temple Street, in said Reading on
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MONDAY the SIXTEENTH'DAY of JUNE, 1952
at eight o'clock in the evening, Daylight Saving Time, to act on
the following articles.-
. Article 1. To hear and act on the reports of Town Officers and
special committees and determine what instructions will be given
Town Officers and special committees.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions
of the Trust created in the Tenth Clause of the Willi of the late
Arthur N. Mansfield, such Fund when received to be held in Trust for
the benefit of the Reading Public Library upon the terms provided
therein and to be known as the "Appleton-Mansfield Fund" and to
authorize and empower the Town Treasurer to execute for and in behalf
of the Town Receipt and such other documents which may be necessary
in connection therewith or what it will. do in relation thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept the Trust
created in the second Paragraph of the Fourth Clause of the Will,
of the late Francis E. Appleton providing for Fund of Five
Thousand (5000.) Dollars to be held in Trust for the benefit of
the Reading Public Library upon the terms provided therein, such
Fund to be known as "The Edward Appleton Fund" and to authorize and
empower the Town Treasurer to execute for and in behalf of the Town
Receipt and such other documents which"may be necessary in connec-
tion therewith or what it will. do in relation thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Article 4. To see if the Town will.vote to acquire by right of
eminent domain, purchase, gift or otherwise, 2634,7 square feet of
land situated on the Northerly side of Haven Street for a permanent
right of way to the Municipal Parking Place situated Westerly of
Main Street and shown as a strip of land approximately fifteen feet
in width running in a general Northerly direction from Haven Street
and designated as Right of Way on Plan of Proposed Municipal Parking
Area, Toga of Reading, dated May 1946, H. Kingman Abbott, Surveyor,
which Plan is duly recorded with the Middlesex South District Deeds
in Book 6933;, Page 87, and to see what sum the Town will transfer
from available funds therefor or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Selectmen
Article 5. To ;see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from
available funds and transfer to the Public Welfare Disability .Assis-
tance Account, or what it will. do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Welfare
Article 6. To see what sum the Town will.vote to transfer from
available funds and appropriate for the alteration and improvement
of one of the Elementary School Buildings by providing for one or
more standard classrooms in said school together with such other al-
terations and improvements which may be necessary in connection
therewith including the drawing of plans and specifications for such
alterations and the original equipment and furnishings for the same
and to authorize the School Committee to make such alterations and
improvements and to contract with respect thereto or what it will do
in relation thereto.
School: Committee
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to approve under Regu-
lation 7, Paragraph (a) of the Wage and Hoar Cl,assif ication. Plan
the exception made by the Personnel Board of & junior clerk enter-
ing the employ of the Municipal Bight Department and the Public
Works Department at a rats greater than the minimum salary estab-
lished by the schedule adopted under the chid Plan, or what it will
do in relation thereto.
Personnel Board.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an attested
copy thereof in at least three public places in eabh precinct of the
Town., not less than seven days prior to June 16, 1952, the date set
for the meeting in said 'Warrant, and to publish this Warrant in the
Rea-ding Chronicle, one day at leas- prior to said date.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your
doings thereon to the Tozer. Clerk, at or before the time appointed
for said meeting.
Given under our hands this fifth daye of June, 1952.
Kenneth C. Latham.
G. Lawrence Roberts
James: E. Calvin
Selectmen of Reading
true copy. Attest
Leon G. Bent
Constable
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
OFFICER'S RETTM
Middlesex, ss. June 13, 1952
By virtue of this warrant, I on June 7, 1952, notified and
warned the inhabitants of the Town of Beading, qualified to vote
in elections and town affairs, to meet in Shepardson Hall,Junior
High School in said Reading at the time specified as the desig-
nated place for the four precincts of the Town, by posting attest-
ed copies of this warrant in the following public places within:
the Town of Reading:
Precinct 1. Austints Lunch Roost., 17 Harnden Street,
Central Fire Station, Police Headquarters.
Precinct 2. Masonic Temple Building, Lyceum Hall Building,
Odd Fellows Building, LT. F. Charles More,
610 Main Street, Boston & Maine R. R. Depot.
Precinct 3.Waterhouse's More, 36 Mineral Street,
Benny's More,. 168 Lowell. Street; Fire Station,
Engine#2
Precinct 4. Municipal Building; Zitzowt s More, 287 Lowell.
Street; McLaughlints Store, 1051 Main Street.
The date.of posting being more than seven days prior to
June 16, 1952, the date set for the meeting in this warrant.
I also caused an attested copy of this warrant to be published
in the Reacting Chronicle in the issue of June 12, 1952, the same
being more than one day.prior to the date of said meeting.
(signed) Leon G. Bent
Constable of Reading