March 16, 1917. 
ing upon the question of granting 
licenses for the sale of intoxicating 
liquors, and for the determination of 
such matters as by law are required 
to be determined at such meeting. 
“The polls shall be opened at six 
o’clock in the morning and shall be 
closed not earlier than five o’clock in 
the afternoon. 
“The annual town meeting, includ- 
ing its adjournment, except the Tues- 
day devoted exclusively to the elec- 
tion of town officers and for voting 
upon the question of granting licenses 
for the sale of intoxicating liquors 
and for the determination of such 
matters as by law are required to be 
determined at such meetings, and all 
special meetings shall be held at seven 
o'clock in the evening.” 
The remaining 21 sections of Arti- 
cle 1 have to do with the calling of 
and procedure during town meetings. 
The duties of town officers are out- 
lined under Article 2. The next arti- 
cle deals with the duties and powers 
of the selectmen. Under this article 
the board is instructed to maintain a 
suitable public dump under the direc- 
tion of the board of health. 
Article 4 deals with the duties of 
the town clerk, which are to be some- 
what increased if the by-laws are 
adopted. He will be required to have 
stated daily hours for the transaction 
of business and shall give public 
notice thereof. He will be required 
to keep a file of all town reports and 
documents, properly indexed for 
reference and examination. Among 
other duties he will be asked to keep 
in books, alphabetically arranged, the 
names of all streets, highways and 
sidewalks, which are now or may be 
hereafter accepted or laid out, with 
all data in connection with them. 
The duties of the town treasurer 
and collector of taxes are summar- 
ized in Article 5. Article 6 deals 
with the personnel and method of ap- 
pointment of the finance committee. 
The following article is taken up 
largely with determining the condi- 
tions under which money may be ex- 
pended by any board or officer of the 
town, if the sum is in excess of $500. 
Competitive bids must be obtained by 
invitation from at least three respon- 
sible bidders or by advertising. Bids 
must be sealed and accompanied by a 
bond. The contract is then to be 
awarded to the lowest “responsible” 
bidder. 
The police department and its regu- 
lations are taken up under Article 8, 
but no new departures are noted. 
Extensive regulations are made for 
the water department under Article 9. 
Article 10 authorizes the board of 
selectmen to grant licenses to hawk- 
ers and pedlers and determines to 
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whom licenses shall be given. The 
character of vehicles and receptacles 
are also specified. Junk dealers are 
regulated in their activities under 
Particle. <I 1 
The regulation of traffic and the 
licensing of carriages and motor vehi- 
cles for hire are taken up under Arti- 
cle 12. Bonds must be filed by oper- 
ators of such vehicles in a form satis- 
factory to the selectmen. The 
amounts are fixed as follows: For 
a licensee who has a motor vehicle or 
vehicles with a total seating capacity 
of ten passengers or less, $2,000; ten, 
but no more than 15, $3,000; 15, but 
hot more than 30, $4,000; over 30, 
$5,000. <A violation of any of the 
provisions of this article is punishable 
by a fine not exceeding $10 for each 
offense. This refers chiefly to the 
traffic regulations embodied in the 
article. 
Amendments to the by-laws may be 
made at an annual town meeting, pro- 
viding an article to that effect has 
been inserted in the warrant. All 
town by-laws in effect today are auto- 
matically repealed by the adoption of 
the new code. 
MANCHESTER 
Mrs. George Silva and sister, Mrs. 
Carty, and Mrs. Jennie Silva return- 
ed on Wednesday of last week from 
a vacation trip South. They were 
away several weeks. 
The initiatory degree was worked 
on a class of ten candidates at the 
meeting of Magnolia lodge of Odd 
Fellows last evening. This is one of 
the largest classes to join the local 
lodge for years. Several other appli- 
cations have been received. 
The ambulance was called out 
twice last Friday, first to take Mrs. 
Ira Sanford of Pine st. to the Bev- 
erly hospital for treatment, and im- 
mediately afterwards to take Mrs. 
Philip Croteau of upper School street 
to the same institution. 
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32 CENTRAL STREET 
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