HomeMy WebLinkAbout1939-10-17 Town Meeting WarrantCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting:—
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required
to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote in elec-
tions and town affairs, to meet in Security Hall, Woburn Street, in said Reading on
Tuesday, the Seventeenth Day ®f ®ct®ber,
A. Dv 1939
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 com-
mittees and to choose all necessary committees and determine what instructions, if
any, shall be given Town Officers and special committees.
Article 2. To see what sum the Town will vote to appropriate from available
funds and transfer to School Department Maintenance Account, or what it will do
in relation thereto.
School Committee
Article 3. To see what sum the Town will vote to raise, by borrowing or by
transfer from available funds or otherwise and appropriate for Public Welfare
General Aid, Administrative, General Aid and Old Age Assistance, or what it will
do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Welfare
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of
Ten Thousand (10,000) Dollars under authority of Chapter 458 of the Act of 1939
for the purpose of securing the engineering service, surveys and the design of the
drainage system by the State Department of Public Works for draining the low
lands adjacent to Lake Quannapowitt, and determine whether the money shall be
provided by borrowing or by transfer from available funds or otherwise or what it
will do in relation thereto.
Drainage Committee
.Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 195 of the Acts of
1939, being an Act Relative To Charges For Connecting Estates With The Common
Sewers, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report of the Board of
Public Works on relocating or altering a portion of the southerly location line of
Haven Street, between High Street and Gould Street, said location lines being relo-
cated or altered in accordance with plan duly approved by the Board of Public Works
and filed in the office of the Town Clerk in accordance with the statutory requirements
and to see if the Town will accept the relocation or alteration of the said location
line as shown on said plan, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Board of Public Works
Article 7. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate by borrow.
ing, transfer from available funds or otherwise for the repair, alteration and im-
provement of the buildings owned by the Town located on Haven, High and Green
Streets and for the grading and improvement of the grounds surrounding such build-
ings and for the demolition of the dwelling house located thereon and being the
premises known as 8 Green Street, or what it will do in relation thereto.
Municipal Light Board
'W"B&TAR 458 - NOTE OF 1OW59
MET T MR OF MAESAMUSHT211
in the Your one Thau*wm! Me hamna and ThIrty-Na-MR,
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR TRE '-,' 10 T LO L
M4�,T'- IFE' V -1. 1K ITT M ZUR TOWN ON HEADING-
SMOTION 1* DubjOet to the eanditioa te Mein imposed the ddf
partment 0V publlc work% hereinafter Marred to MS the departll
mont Is howely authorizod und d1roatod to eongtruet a system og,
drulnus, or ovA wo s J r aultV QuIning too low lunds lo-
OAK in the town of ReadIng adj=ent to lui] t, ovaitto,
d de rt- t Is hereby authorized 'a day. empowered to oonstruet
aush ditcheso Me, dAmso channals, oanala, pipe 11n es 0
MOP MUM= And to oonetruat and recoastruct such danno',
r$# Oatl*tf-p OUIVOKO or other Works aa SUM depurtmant ma
MOM M=Oary andpOtger Ar carrying out the provialons o.
fir. his a0t*
In CaMlInri'', oat p sions of sectlan on
the department shall have the authority to
establish Kom tim
AM in
this
t* Me the legal h1 9b MtOr level of lake
Quannap*wltt and
provide to CM rOmMal Of the vatar at the lake at all,
times and to ramove ay abstruQjt;q',-, t 0
on a tM,
220V & the Mugu
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ism
regulate VhX'
River In this violnity* Un- 0110
Ju,"Inq, 11' ;0 .loo,,,.*
betuseu the '. r M:v7
--pr"Vn-m
Ing-at lands adjazent to Said lake and tor
the acoamp=-M nazt of
QUI
11a IMUZI, 8
Set
AM in
this
aet* The Town
of 110000:11
ism
regulate VhX'
rlal of the
lake
betuseu the '. r M:v7
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CHAPTER 05
aotabIldhed hevre-unds a the I= Mor n"rk cotablis''he b! ap-
ter five hundred and thirty-nine of tho aetz of n1noteau bustled
a - n. '. " to d *Urtm t sh�'172' so sonstruet the drainage Wark
harain provided :0� air, town of Reading shall ao maintaln and
operate them that the Vaber level In tho ON eans so gar as
praebloabloo be maintained between z"id murka
SNOTION 3* For t zr 0 par,-,-, ot 0onstructing s- fix; drainaep q,-
St W-1-4 earryIng out the provislons of this aet the said depart'611-
mento acting In behalf of the eammonvealtho may take by ri6it at
eminent domain under tht provislons OT chapte
01 8"Onl!a 0
tho General 0: ar aoquire. bg perWase oar� 0 lan M"
tutor riGhtso rights ok way and - sements within the towns to
el arm go n4keglel, s and Lynnfleld which the department may doe
?-.'0 m rarx the purposos of this aeb*
SECTION 4* The total east of said Vork Shall, not 'e, t- me
kaundIV0 OW twonty-fITA; tj-t told: sp-u -'j' dollars, anul the town of Rftdina
shn -Ip Into the state trenoury the Witlal aum of ton Wulzan
dollma# which a constitute a ftun lfo� e imprvVement
herein nuthDrizedo and be used VIthout 1"c- 0'
rop t"i cr'm
th* 60nWal CoUrto In part Ar the .nom vessary onalnearing sarvioe,
surveys and tho dazig ot the p dra a s7stw4 and n
c0astruetion Wext shall be I Sm lbma nftxi =41 t1bu dvTartzon
boo hold a publla bearing# duly advertleado and thore sha22 bave •
been paid Into the AM traaauVy by tho said town tho turtithe
Omm Of one bumdrod and 211teen thoussad dallaro whiah thall be
addod to oald. 13,,nd,4 surplav or sald fund remainl ftca''r .Xkb.--e-
autborized b7 this an ghall It),
SO SUN &' , «.s = to txw.hw eS+al: town; ; p.. �; �"5..,.Q ., ded ua. ora ver that
no ""` "` o ,> - s-- r1su s of g3f � on uaazenar spa stall be take
OT Purehasod nor Kull any wonstruatlon work be oc:'v'''
�...,,'c si#fkr < been ap �e»� +.>'7r�"'7' , _ 4.,:; ,. � . '.9 �L i E =5. }, t +� cy ^4a; ,.�' a �F e .#t s,'e "�` yt � �
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Of 6* So= tund tun may be o .p k.ada t, wl i wut 1u r� m suero
� :er
,..A a', x.a z3s ;rs.,. t .,.r: a.,. ULMN 10YID, t r0li`',f and, other powleata a may a
r
`fie d ��'� ed by the de`s a wWin,
SECTION 5 For to -pa t forth In this aot, the w
of ReadIng at ter thO We ptan�''✓ theroofo aa hareinatter pr vi: ed,
34. b?r`.,f ,?:r.e.,.k ,r +ss,.,;,`-.'a.,k.a' w1s.2z*'...in -,y period xai .§„k<,i e years
fro
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dell ar o and may aue Undo or 3 ''�,3 M' shall bear
On t r °s
aw 1 . authorized Iss ' shall conotituto a sap , to loan,
SUC <. a na sball be paid In not more than thirty years from.
.ctheI Wee* e Indebtedness N s^s c r rrn x under t I s r e shall "� -
w4eas 'sod the atatutary limit, but 1 uu�
ON* of the keabwita k3 o rQnTu?'4r lne W th first paragraph of sau'Wct:y y'Ygi���,:
- O: authorized -.,, ue, ,a: W e.:.n., h._.w, be'olri
ro lete i «;:',,e eaffirce shall be N: aa��.: ine may. ' d town "' e,r. d
and said toma is hereby authorizod to di g ¢rah, and
ozeavate`., Within'thO limits s.-, t03��r,3-'a°s Of ,ash? fie .d and Lynn,*,..
4
AM any private land w1thIn 1 o ir CC nrW easemont acquired
uVj0T this acto cx-z- an,L ray for Us purposes
a<.,Ctino such Mystem or vowkq-
and to do aaa + U,iuz thST-n-L necesaary or proper Vor any of tth
fbwe2ping PuXPOZ001 provIded that any preu, 2-
110 �w-r Y I t1rm t!", r
-14" ur si clh zu lnt�� --t all 0, work Is dama under tho Pro
visions of thle aet shall bo restored by tuh,,e seal rr town of Mad-
Ing to a oandltloma, s'z tivixE", toa�-jr to the coleatmen of the town 0-11
laheflold. Al lunde or M84ts in land aoqulrod by the depart
sout
In
onnnection with
the WOVE shall, I-
the Own of
Reading'.
be zie-axq�. tem If a
naJority
of the
Ment
tb 5"al,"I" tow,,�"."x o-,14
t g*
voterz
said
vote
SEGTION 6Q ott izz'i,�z,
J
I IUh so
shall
be deamod;
to
Meet an"
,,,
Provislan of d p! r fcnir I d and alghty-eight of the a*ts 00
ninoteen hundrad and two,
SUTION % ThIs aet shall Inx a tte-je to ttl ft,
voters ox the t "Yn"Ta"t 1, e. d, for acceptanee at ang annual or
speeial town I JIM vvmrlt--3 j 'Uhx-,ew years afior Its -p, zza-&;
but suth speel4l town reeting shall not be hold during the perrio
juna f1tteenth to sopteimba flrteexr in any year, in the
fo --I follavIng quaaticax�, wl,; 11,cu be placed an the A91-
cial ballot for the election or officero if at an annual meeting
and an a spoeial bullot if at aspealal town meetingi "Shall id
aet passed the goveral court in tha goar Anateea lh, a a UN
Wrty-M-n batitled i�et no: S.,-JI-J, for .. g� of tim
I-D 1,� z,adjac�
t
to Late
Quannapowitt in
the Own of
Reading'.
be zie-axq�. tem If a
naJority
of the
aX town
voterz
said
vote
jrf ir�,'a Uv * then this act -0 a omxg take full affooto