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Ad,lourned Annual Town Meeting March 18~ 1939.
Article 2. Voted that this article be referred to Selectmen.
Article 3. Voted to accept.
Article 4. Voted that all unexpended balances be turned into ·
the treasury.
Voted that the sum of $4042.78, be appropriated from the surplus
revenue of the town to provide for overlay deficits of 1938.
Voted that the Assessors be authorized to use such sum, not
excecding $20,000.00, from the surplus revenue, toward the reduction
of the 1939 tax rate, as the commissioner will allow.
Article 5. Voted to consider each item separately.
The following is the list of departmental appropriations voted
under this article.
Departments Salaries Expenses
1. Select~en '750.00 270.00
2. Auditor 600.00 1300.00
3. Treasurer * 1050.00 1500.00
4. Collector * 1050.00 1899.50
.'5. Assessors * 1550.00 ?00.00
6. Town Clfirk. 350.00 100.00
V. Election, listing etc. 200,00 2000.00
8. Police Dept. 10416.00 1584.00
9. Fire. Dept. including
Engineers & ambulance13838.00
10. Dog Warrant
ll. Building Inspector 50.00
12. Sealer of Wts. and
Measures 250.00
13. Insect Pest
14. Brush Cutting
15. Tree Warden 300..00
16. Fish Warden 5.00
1V. Board of Health 300.00
Physician 400.00
18. Garbage Disposal
19. Vital Statistics
20. Refuse Disposal
21. Highway Surveyor 3000.00
22. General Maintenance
Street Department
23. Snow Removal
24. Street Lighting
25. Board Pub. Welfare 300.00
26. Supt. & Matron,Outside
Relief & Repa}rs,
(Agents salary $400.00)1600.00
2V., Public Parks and Triangles
28. Discount on Notes
29. School Dept. 90236.00
~'. (Physicians salary $500)
30. State Aid and Soldiers Eelief
31. Stevens ~emorial Library
32. ~1emorial Day
.~3b Board Public Works 300.00
~34~ Maintenance and Const.
Water Department
35. Maintenance ahd Const.
Sewer Department
2662.00
90.00
3000.00
4500.00
25000.00
22000.00
Totals.
$ 1020.00
1900,00
2949.50'
2050.00
450.00
2200.00
12000.00
16500.00
150.00
50.00
340.00
3700.00
500.00
3300.00
5.00
5200.00
1800.00
200.00
3000.00
3000.00
32000.00
5000.00
8500.00
300.00
'26600100
2000.00
1000.00
112236.00
6000.00
6000.00
350.00
300.00
25000.00
4000.00
480
Article 5
~ents.
Amounts forward
36.Contingent Fund
37.Forest Fires
38.Forest Fire Warden
39.Itemized Annual Report
40.Insurance
~Annual Town~ March 18, 1939.
Salarie.____~s Exoenses Totals____.__~
100.00
41.Maintenance County Hospital
42.Maintenance Town Bldg. (including clerks) See Art. 15
43.Town Hall, Janitor 300.00
44.Playgrounds
260.00
100.00.
45.American Legion (rent)
46.Interest on East Side Sewer Notes
47.Redeeming East Side Sewer Notes
48.Interest'on New Schoolhouse Notes
49.Redeeming New Schoolhouse Notes
50.Board of Survey
51.Animal Inspector
52.Expense on Dump
53.Tov~ Forest
54.Bathing Beach
55.0Id Age Assistance
86.Aid for Dependent Children
57.Interest on N. R. A. Water Notes
58.Redeeming N. R. A.' Water Notes
$9.Tax Titles
60.License Commissioners
61;Reserve Fund
62.Armistice Day
200.00
* Item 3 to include bond.
* Item 4 to include bond.
1000.00
500.00
100.00
950.00
7900.00
3467.84
5600.00
300.00
900.00
450.00
1232.50
2000.00
'573.75
3000.00
200.00
260~00
200.00
1150.00
32400.00
8000.00
187.50
1000.00,
500.O0
!00.00
3000.00
100.00
Item 9. A motion for reconsideration of the amount voted under
this item was lost. 183 voted for and 241 voted against.
Item 17. It was voted that the Board of Health be authorized to
appoint one of its members as Board.of Health Physician and that his
salary be fixed at $400.00, to be taken from the appropriation made for
this department.
Item 29. It was voted that the School Committee be authorized~
to appoint one of its members as School Physician and that his salary
be fixed at $500.00, to be taken from appropriation made for the
School Department.
Article 6. Voted: that the Tovm Treasurer, with ~he approval of
the Selectmen, be and hereby is a~8=~ed^~o~orrow mone fro
to time in anticipation of the/financial y~r~$ginning J~n ~ time
and uar 1,1@39,
to issue a note or notes therefor,payable within oue year; and t'o
renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one
year in accordance with s~ction 17, chapter 44, of the General
The vote was unanimous and so declared.
~Article 7. No reports.
Article 8. Voted that the Board of Public Works be a committee
to care for the public parks and triangles.
Article 9. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of five huu~red
dollars to be used by the Planning Board in connection with a W.P.A.
project, also the sum of one hundred dollars for incidental expenenses
of this Board. ,
Article lO.Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred
dollars for cleaning, painting and general repairs of the Town Office
Building.
48:I.
Adjourned ~unual Town Neetin= March 18~ 1939.
A~ticle Il. Voted to raise and appropriate the s~m of seven
hundred dollars for the installation of a separate heating unit
in the police station. That three bids be secured from competent
heating contractors bidding on the~same specifications.
Article 12. Voted to ~aise an~ approprza~e the su~ of twenty-five
thousand ($28,000.00) dollars, to carry on the various projects of
the W. P. A.
Article 13. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of three hundred
fifty dollars ($3S0.00) to purchase a new police car.
Article 14. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of four hundred
($400.00) for the purchase of a new motorcycle, fully equipped, to
replace the present mgtorcycle which is eight years old.
Article 15. Voted to transfer the sum of one thousand two hundred
forty-oight($1245.00) dollars , from the s_mount already appropriated
for Town Building maintenance and clerks, to the Assessors department,
this mone~ to pay for the clerk of the Board Of Assessors.
Article, 16. The town voted to indefinitely postone the matter
of specifying the number of members of the reserve polce force .
Article 17. Voted to indefinitely postpone action which would
petition the Nassachusetts General Court to abolish the reserve force
in the tova2 of No~th Andover, under chapter 147, section l~A of the
General Laws, which the Attorney General says was established in 19~,
but was void because it did not specify in the article, the nuraer of men.
Article 18. Voted to direct the B~ard of Selectmen to petition
the legislature for the enactment of a statute as Follows: "Au Act
to make the provisions of Chapter ~l of the ~eneral ~aws and the
rules and regulations made thereunder to hereafter apply to James'
Hargreaves, the. Chief of the Fire Department of the Town-of North
Andover, witho~trequiring him to take an examination."
;Article !9. Voted'that this article be referred to the Board'''.
of Selectmen'for action.
Article 20. Voted that this article be referred ~o. the Board -~
of SeIectmen for action. - ........
· Article 21. Voted that the town extend its sewer system for
a distance of eight hundred(@00) feet on Massachusetts Avenue From
Linden Avenue and that the sum of a~ thousandI$~000.O0), d61La~s~ba'..
aIlocated from the amount appropriated under Article l~,~ft~is
warrant and that the work be done with the assistance/Works Progress
Administnation.
::Y~vticle S~. It was voted not to make this water extension.
Article S~. It was voted to extend the water system of the
to'~n from Nass~chusetts Avenu?, southerly along Chickering Road'fbV
a distance of ~pprbx'imately one thousand three hundred eighty(l~80)
feet, and that the town raise and appropriate the,sum of one thousand
six hundred ($1800.00) d611ars, and-that a W. P. A. project be drawn
up by ~he Board of Public Works~ provided the petitioner furnishes a
satisf~ct0ry, gua~antee t6 pay 4~ of the cost of this construction
annually,-fo~ a period of ten years and further provided that th~s
guarantee be made on or before July first of the current yea~.
Avtlc~s 24. Voted to extend the water main from $ohnson Street
through Mill Road to the residence of Charles W. Tucker and install
a hydrant;.and that for this purpose the town raise and. appropriate
the sum of on~ thousand, four hundred ($1400.00) dollars and that a
W. P. A. project'be dravm by the Board of Public Works, providing
the petitioner furnishes a satisfarory guarantee.to pay to the to~n
4% of the cost of construction annually, for a period of ten years
and further provided that this guarantee be made on or before ~uly
first of the current year..
Article 2S. Voted that the tovrn raise and appropriate the
sum of three thousand one hundred fifty (~t~$0.00) dollarsr to be
expended with or without the ~a. sistdnce of'the'Works P~6gresa Admins-
t~ntion or other such Federal Agency, in replacing temporary water
lines on Bacon Avenue,Stevens Street and Wood Lane and to provide
necessary additional fire hydrants l~ various parts of the town.
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.Adjourned Annual Tovm Meeting March
Article 26. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of seven
hundred(S?00.00) dollars,to purchase a one-half, ton pick-up truck
for the use of, the Highway Department.
Article 27. Voted to raise and appropriate the. sum of two
thousand ($2000.00) dollars, to finish three hundred feet on Boxford
Street and continue on Salem Street, under Chapter 90, of the General
Laws, said money to be used in conjunction with any money which may
be allotted by the State or County or both, for this purp6se.
Article 28. Voted not to appropriate money for this construction.'
Article 29. Voted to postpone indefinitely.
At,idle'30. Voted to postpone indefinitely.
Articl~'31Q Voted to postpone.~ifid6finit~y.
Article 32. Voted to accept two hundred feet of Buckingham
Road, running from Herrick Road to Lyman Street, when the require-
ments, of the Planning Board are met.
Article Sa. Voted~. Harwood Street accepted by the town
when the requirements of the Planning Board are met.
Article 34. Vote~ to accept that part of Beverly Street
from the corner of Harold Street, southerly to land o? the town,
a distance of seventy-five feet.
Article 35. Voted to accept the By-Law as outlined in
this article, a by-law kmo~,m as Regulation of Advertising
'Signs and Billboards.
Appropriations voted under other articles in the warPant.
Article 9.
Article 10.
Article 11.
Article 12.
Article
Article 14.
Article 23.
Article 24,
Article 25,
Article 26
Article 27
Aricle 6.
Planning Board; project $$00.00, expenses $100
Town Building; cleaning., painting etc.
Police Station; heatlng'~unit
W. P.A. projects. ~' -~-~
Police car
Police motorcycle
Chickering Rd.. watermain (conditional)
Mill Road water main (conditi0na.1)
'Water m~ins and'hydrants ~
~treet Dept. truck
Boxford and Salem Streets
Ite~ 42 of.A~t. $, Town Building
Art, 15.' Transferred to Assessors Dept.
Item $ of Art. 8 Assessors; Salaries $1550.00
dArticle 1~. From 'Town Building Acct.
Total for Assessors account
$ 600.00
500.00
700.00
23000.00
550.00
400.00
1600.00
1400.00
"3150,00
700.~0
2000,00
$ 6o0.oo
.A 4 .oo $4 2.oo
Expenses $?00.00
1248.00
John W. Hegarty, Alfred Garneau, Leo Murphy, Irving Howes,
Tom Ingram, Lillian Dearden and Alice May checked voters into
the hall.
Russell Dimery, Earle B..Tracy~ C. Mason Tucker, J. Newton Frye,
Leo H. Murphy and RussellChase assisted the Moderator in taking
hand count of voters.
About five hundred fif~yvoters were present.
The meeting adjourned at 4:45 o'clock P. M.
A true copy,
Attest:
wn Clerk.
Additional Town Meetln~ March 18~ 1939.
At two thirty o'clock a recess was declared in the conduct of
business pertaining to the ~nual Meeting to consider articles
in warrant calling for Special Meeting to be held in conjunction
with Annual Meeting of the Town.
Under Article 1 of this warrant it was
Voted to appropriate the sum of six thousand five hundred ($6500.00)
dollars from the Highway Fund, prov£ded by Chapter 2, of the Acts of
1939, for any of the purposes mentioned in said chapter. The town
voted that this amount be appropriated for' General ~aintenance of
the Street Department.. .
Article 2. It was voted not to make this appropriation for the
reason that no authority'was obtained from the town for the purpose
mentioned in this article and that the town does not recognize any
obligation.
A true copy,
Attest:
WARRANT
Essex ss.
To.either of the Constables of. the' Town of North Andover:
Greeting:-
In the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are
hereby directed to notify andwarn the inhabitants of North Audover,
qualified .to vote in Town Affairs, to meet in the Court Room, Town
Building, in said North Andover, on Monday t~e tenth dayof April
19~9, at seven-thirty~..o'clock P. M., then and there to act upon
the following business:
A~ticle !. To see'if the 'town Will vote to raise and'
appropriate a sum not exceeding five thousand ($$000.00)dollars,
for snow removal.
Article 2. To see if the town w~ll'vote to autho~iz~
Town ~reasurer, with the approval of, the Selectmen, to borrow money
from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial
year beginning January 1, 1940, and to~issue~a note or notes
therefor, payable within one yea~, and to renew any note or notes
as may be given'for a period of loss than one yea~ in accordance
with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
And you are directed to serve thlswarrant byposting
true a~d attested copies thereof at the Town Hall and at five
or more publicplaces in eachvoting precinct. Said copies to
be posted not more than fifteen days nor less than ten days
before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant
with your doings thereon~to the Town Clerk, at the time and
place of holding said m~eting.
Givenunder our hands at North Andover,Massachusetts
this twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred thirty-nine.
Am~hur A. Thomson
F~ankLHilton
James P. Hainsworth
Officer,s Return
S~lectmen
of
North Andover
I have notified the inhaoltants of the town of North Andover
qualified to vote in elections and town affairs,by posting true and
attested copies of this warrant at the Town Hall and at five or more
public places~ln each voting precinct;said copies having been posted
not more'than fifteen days nor less than ten days before the time of
holding said meeting.
Augustine J. Walsh,
Constable.