March 23, 1917. 
NORTH SHORE “BREEZE 
thought that some of them must sure- 
lv be good. 
Mr. Reed said he intended no re- 
flection upon the committee, which 
bad worked hard to serve the town, 
but he thought the time involved and 
the present condition of the country 
should be considered. He thought it 
would be better to wait before taking 
action. James Beaton who seconded 
the motion to table the proposed by- 
‘aws declared they were elaborate 
enough for a city of 100,000 and were 
entirely unnecessary. Chester Crafts 
said the committee had done its duty 
it presenting the by-laws to the town 
and that if the by-laws were to be 
picked to pieces and accepted or re- 
jected it should be done at once. The 
motion to table was lost. 
Raymond C. Allen suggested that 
the by-laws be taken up section by 
section and Edwin P. Stanley mace 
a motion to that effect. It was car- 
ried. 
Section 1 of Art. 1 of the proposed 
by-laws had to do with the date of 
annual town meetings. George §. 
Sinnicks wanted to “know what. the 
business of the first Monday evening 
would consist of. George R. Dean 
of the committee on by-laws replied 
that it would be the usual routine 
transacted under the present system 
at the Monday morning session. Mr. 
Sinnicks thought the officers should be 
elected the first day and all business 
and appropriations left until it was 
known who was to spend the money. 
Charles C. Dodge said the principal 
point in favor of holding the meeting 
was to get away from having a small 
gathering of 50 men appropriate 
some $200,000 at the morning session 
when few others were able to be pres- 
ent to discuss matters. Mr. Sinnicks 
said he was in favor of the evening 
sessions, but thought the session at 
which the election of officers was 
held should come before the meeting 
at which appropriations were made. 
Mr. Dean said that in Swampscott 
the first session was held one week 
before officers were elected. He 
thought the system a good one. An 
amendment to the wording of the sec- 
tion, suggested by the moderator was 
accepted by Mr. Dean. As original- 
ly worded the section fixed the hour 
for the annual town meeting and ad- 
journments or special meetings at 
seven o’clock. Amended, the section 
reads, “not earlier than seven o’clock.” 
In that form it was adopted by a vote 
of 37 to 25. 
Another discussion was Pe ied 
by the moving of section 2. The sec- 
tion provides that the warrants for 
all town meetings shall be posted at 
the Town hall, postoffice, police sta- 
tion and engine house seven diys be- 
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fore the meeting. E. P. Stanley 
wanted to know if the town could 
legally designate the postoffice as one 
of the places where the warrant 
should be posted. He said the town 
had no rights upon the government 
property. E. S. Knight said that the 
statutes said the warrant must be 
posted in three or more conspicuous 
places. C. A. Dodge said the com- 
mittee’s idea was to get a sufficient 
number of places so that the voters 
would receive proper notification. 
James Beaton thought it was unneces- 
sary to designate where the warrant 
should be posted. Thomas Baker 
moved the acceptance of the section. 
George S. Sinnicks wanted to know 
if it was necessary to accept the by- 
laws to please the committee. George 
R. Dean said the committee had en- 
deavored not to have anything to con- 
flict with the statutes. A preliminary 
draft of the by-laws had been sub- 
mitted to the Attorney General’s of- 
fice and everything which did not be- 
leng there had been stricken out at 
his suggestion. 
E. P. Stanley thought the question 
must have been covered by statute, 
otherwise he wondered how the 
selectmen had been guided in previous 
years. Daniel O’Brien, who assisted 
the committee in drawing up the by- 
laws, declared that they must be sub- 
mitted to the Attorney General for 
approval when finally adopted. Any- 
thing declaratory of the public sta- 
tutes would be thrown out, he said, 
and anything contrary to the statutes 
would meet a similar fate. By-laws, 
he said were supplementary to the 
statutes. The statutes could say what 
must be done, he said, but they could 
not specify how each individual town 
should carry them out. Charles 
Dodge said one town meeting was 
called over a year ago at which a quo- 
rum was not present because the war- 
rant was not properly posted. He 
thought the means which would se- 
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