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TOWN WARRANT
Seal
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reeding 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
Security Mall, ftburn St., in said Reading on
MONDAY
THE TWENTY-~lNINTR DAY
OF MARCH, 1948
at seven forty-five o'clock in the evening 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 what sum the 'T'own will raise and
appropriate or transfer from available funds for the Reserve
Fund under authority of Section 6 of Chapter 40 of the General
Laws, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Finance Com~.ittee.
Article 3. To see w1nat sum the Town will raise and
appropriate to pay into the Teachers' Retirement System for the
benefit of teachers on military leave of absence during the
year 1947, as provided for and under authority of Chapter 419
of the Acts of 1943, or what it will do in relation thereto.
School Committee.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to further amend
Section 2A of Article 1 of the By-laws of the Town by making
the Town Treasurer a Town Meeting member at large, so when
amended said Section s'riall read as follows::
Section 2A. Any representative Town meeting held under
the provisions of Chapter 7, of the Acts of 1943, shall be
:Limited to the voters elected under Section 3 thereof, together
with the following designated as Town meeting members at large namely
any member of the General Court of the Commonwealth, from the
Town, the Moderator, the Town Clerk, the members of the Board
of Selectmen, the Chairman of the School Committee„ the Chairman
of the Finance Committee, the Chairman of the Board of :public
Vuorks, the Chairman of the Municipal Light Board, the Chairman
of the Board of Public Welfare, the Chairman of 'T'rustees of the
Public Library, the Chairman. of the Board_ of Assessors, the
Chairman of the Planning Board,, the Chairman of the Board. of
Cemetery 'Trustees, the Chairman of the Board of Health, the
Town Accountant, the Town Counsel and the Town 'T'reasurer.
Charles W.H. Smith and others.
And you are directed to serve this Gliarran
attested copy thereof in at least three public
precinct of the 'T'own, not less than seven days
29, 1948, the date set for the meetin.r; in said
publish this 'au'arrant in the 'Readin-; Chronicle,
prior to said date.
t by posting an
places in each
prior to Viarch
vaarrant, and to
one day at Least
Hereof fail not and make due return of this 'V`Varrant with
your doin"s thereon, to the Town. Clerk, at or before the time
appointed for said meetins:~.
Special Town Meeting, March29, ' 0
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of March, 1943.
CHAS. E. WILKINSON
KENNETH C. LATHAM
Selectmen of Reading
Officer's Return. Middlesex ss. Reading, March 26,1943
By virtue of the within warrant, I, on March 20th, 1943
notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading,
qualified to vote in town affairs to meet in the place and at
the time specified, by posting asIttested cony thereof in each
of the following places within said Town of =leading.
Precinct 1 Austin's Lunch Room, 17 nar.nden St.;Danforth
Pharmacy, 1 Harnden St.; Central Fire Station.
Precinct Q Masonic Temple Building Lyceum Hall Building;
M.F.Charles & Sons' Store, 610 Main St.; Boston
Maine R.R.Depot; Odd Fellows Building.
Precinct 3 Waterhouse's Neighborhood Store, 36 Mineral St.;
Benny's Neighborhood Store, 163 Lowell St.,.
Fire Station Engine #2.
Precinct #4. Municipal Building; Zitzow's Neighborhood Store,
237 Lowell St.;; McLaughlin's Neighborhood Store,
1051 Main St..
the date of posting being more than seven days
prior to the date set for the meeting in this
warrant.
I also caused an attested copy of this warrant
to be published in the Reading Chronicle, in the
issue of March 25th 1943, the salve being more than
one day prior to the date of the meeting.
Leon G. Bent
Constable of Reading.
Special Town Tweeting
Security Hall March 29,1943
The meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:50
P.T.
The warrant was partially read by the Town Clerk, when on
motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted to dispense with
further reading of the warrant, except the Constable's Return,
which was then read by the Town Clerk.
Article 1. On motion of Charles E. Wilkinson it was voted
that article 1 be Ifid on the table.
~H-Article 2. On motion of Louis Davis it
the sum of fifteen thousand (15,000) dollars
by transferring said sum from the Overlay Su:
the Reserve Fund provided for under Sew°ction
of the General Laws, and the Town Accountant
is authorized and empowered to transfer said
was voted that
be appropriated
rplus Account to
6 of Chapter 40
be and he hereby
sum to said Fund.
Article 3. On lotion of Alexander P. Glover it was voted
that the sum of one hundred twenty (120) dollars be raised and
appropriated to pay into the Teachers' Retirement System for the
benefit_ of teachers on military leave of absence during the year