HomeMy WebLinkAbout1925-04-17 Board of Public Works Minutes 2G
Al;ril 17, 1925.
Members present: John 'l. Owen, Joseph 'I+. Booth, Frank C
Carter, William - . Kinsley, DI. Higgins, and the 3u-r.erint(-nde Lit.
`► It was voted that Ellis —ve. be laid out as a public way.
A copy of the vote, with boundaries rn� :iieasureiients were filed with
the Town Clerk, also with the Selectmen, for in,ertion in the next
Town darrant.
The John jt . drain construction wasdiscussed. Barbour
and Dixon are }rep: ring- the -bids which arc to be advertised axil will
be opened on Mac first. _
The wagon loader proposition laid on the table.
3i.-s for shinglin the Highway Department shop were o,)ened
but action was until the next meeting, c:hen additional bids
will be in.
The general plans for the Highway Lepartment were discussed
at len th. It was decided to e.: our ovni men on maintenance vaork
and let the Haven 3t. reconstruction out on contract. '
Mr. Collins reported tax t the estimated cost of sewer
construction on Te; '.ple Jt . would be w3500.00.
Repp.,ctfully submitted,
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Sec ary.
VOTED: That the private way heretofore known as Ellis
Avenue , is hereby laid out as a public way, the
boundaries and measurements of the way so laid
out being as follows , to wit:
ELLIS AVENUE, being a certain street in the Town of
Reading running westerly from a Town Way known as Summer :avenue
to another Town !Jay known as Hillcrest Road, and being bounded
and described as follows:
The SOUTHERLY line of said Ellis Avenue starts at a
point marked with an Iron Rod on the westerly side line of said
Summer Avenue andat land of Irving L. Jewett , said point being
N. 34-54 W. , a distance of 317.24 feet from a Stone Bound situated
on the said westerly side line of Summer :avenue and at a point of
curve with the northerly line of Oak Street. .
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From thence , and turning at a Right angle , the said '
SOUTHERLY line runs S. 55-06 W. , a distance of 159. 93 feet by land
of the said Irvin; L. Jewett and Byron W. Whitney to An Iron Pipe
bound marking an angle in said Ellis :!venue.
Thence S. 80-00 W. , a distance of 256.07 feet , by land
of the said Whitney, land of Hazel W. Sawyer and land of .Joseph R.
Byram, to a Stake on the easterly side line of said Hillcrest Road
and at the end of this layout, said Stake being N. 13-35-30 W. , a
distance of 325. 65 feet, measured along the said easterly line of
Hillcrest Road, from a Spike at the north-easterly corner of said
Hillcrest Road and Oak Street.
The NORTHERLY line of said ELLIS AVENUE is parallel
with and Forty-Five feet distant from the above described Southerly
line and runs by land of Grace A. Dill for it's first described
course and by the remainder of said Dill's land and land of
Fanny a. Hasty and land of Emily J. Hunt for it 's second de-
scribed course.
The above described lines being more fully shown
on a "Plan and Profile of ELLIS AVENUE," made by Davis & Abbott ,
Civil Engineers, Reading, Mass. . under date of Idarch, 1925,
said plan being a part of this /description.
Chairman
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�' Secretary