March 30, 1917. 
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article in the warrant. 
Art. 5 of the proposed by-laws was 
next taken up. Edwin P. Stanley 
objected to the passage of the article 
on the ground the duties of the town 
treasurer were already fixed by state 
laws. Chairman Dean of the by- 
laws committee said the committee 
had tried to cover every department. 
If no by-laws were made to fix the 
duties of any official, he said, and 
circumstances later arose for which 
no provision was made in the by-_ 
laws, the by-laws committee would 
be criticized for neglect of the matter. 
Section 1 of the article was passed. 
Under section 2 it was- provided 
that the treasurer should have cus- 
tody of all insurance polices belong- 
ing to the town. Mr. Dean said that 
at present the policies of the various 
departments were at large and no one 
knew where every policy was nor 
who was responsible for the care of 
them. R. C. Allen wanted to know 
what authority the chairman of the 
by-laws committee had for the state- 
ment that the policies were broadcast. 
He said the policies held on schooi 
property were in the custody of the 
school committee and were properly 
looked after. If any policies were 
not being properly cared for, he 
thought the town should know about 
it. He asked if the committee had 
information to that effect. Mr. Dean 
said what he meant was that there 
was no one person who was respon- 
sible for the custody of the policies 
and the committee had felt that the 
treasurer was the logical official to 
_have them in charge. Geo. Willmon- 
ton asked if the policies could not be 
“constructively” in the hands of the 
treasurer and still be in the town 
vaults. The section was adopted. 
Under section 3 the treasurer was 
also designated to have the custody 
of all receipted bills, receipts, notes 
bonds and coupons. E. P. Stanley 
explained that under the accounting 
system laid down by the state no 
receipted bills were filed, the town 
accountant filing the originals. Mr. 
Dean moved the adoption of the sec- 
tion and it was carried by a vote of 
25 to 22. Section 4 was also voted 
on motion of Mr. Dean and the fol- 
lowing section was passed over on 
his motion. Section 6 was adopted. 
Under Art. 5, section I was adopt- 
ed without discussion. The next 
section was adopted with — slight 
change. It had to do with the ap- 
pointment and organization of the 
finance committee. E. S. Knight 
wanted to know why the method of 
appointment of the finance committee 
had been changed. Thomas Baker 
of the committee on by-laws said the 
new method was suggested to avoid 
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the formation of a one-man commit- 
tee. He thought the new method 
would pass around the membership a 
little more. Sections 3 and 4 were 
adopted without discussion. 
Art. 7 was adopted with little 
change. Section 1 was adopted as 
presented and the second section, 
which fixed the conditions of letting 
contracts involving the expenditure 
of more than $500, was amended 
somewhat. Provision was made that 
“in lieu of a bond, a proper deposit 
of cash, certified check or collateral” 
might be accepted. 
It was proposed by George R. 
Dean that the next article provide 
for a planning board and its method 
of election. Thomas Baker immedi- 
ately declared himself against the 
planning board idea. He said it was 
just another scheme to spend money. 
‘We have got enough planning 
boards,” he said, “every board we’ve 
got is planning ways to spend more 
money.” The suggestion not being 
presented in proper form, it was not 
acted upon. 
Under the regtilations for the po- 
lice department, covered in Art. 8, 
the first two sections were passed. 
There was considerable debate about 
the provisions of section 3. Mr. 
Dean said most cities gave the chief 
of police power of temporary suspen- 
sion of subordinates, pending a hear- 
ing. Henry Bingham declared it was 
the duty of the selectmen to appoint 
the police, define their duties and fix 
their salaries and that the section took 
away authority from the board of 
selectmen. Under civil service the 
selectmen may temporarily suspend 
officers for 30 days. ‘The section of 
the by-laws proposed to limit the 
period of ten days. After some dis- 
cussion.it was voted to adopt the sec- 
tion with amendment of the time 
limit of suspension to conform with 
the civil service rules. Section 4 was 
adopted and on motion of Mr. Dean 
section 5 was stricken out. Sections 
© and 7 were adopted. 
The entire subject matter of Art. 
Q was adopted with a few minor 
changes in the wording of various 
sections. It contained the regulations 
of the water department. Articles 
10, I1 and 12, containing 21 sections, 
regulating hawkers and peddlers and 
junk dealers and collectors of junk, 
were passed in about ten minutes, 
without discussion. 
When Art. 13 was reached Patrick 
Boyle remarked that he thought the 
regulation of hackney carriages and 
motor vehicles was unnecessary in a 
town so small as Manchester. - He 
said the horse drawn vehicle was fast 
passing away and that the day of the 
automobile had arrived. He thought 
the automobile was already sufficient- 
ly taxed and registered. He said the 
few drivers of vehicles in Manches- 
ter were known to the police so that 
registration was superfluous. Daniel 
O’Brien said the city of Salem had 
found it necessary to revise its regu- 
lations in regard to hackney carriages 
and bring them up to date. He said 
Manchester was leading in the work. 
John Connors declared Salem was 
dead anyway and was no city for a 
live town like Manchester to pattern 
after. Charles C. Dodge said the by- 
laws were designed to protect rather 
than injure those engaged in the 
livery ‘business. Raymond C. Allen 
remarked that the intent of the by- 
laws should be to protect the public 
and not those engaged in any partic- 
ular business. George S. Sinnicks 
said he thought a lot of by-laws had 
been passed during the evening that 
never would be heard from again. 
One more would do no harm, he 
thought. The section was_ passed. 
On motion of Mr._Sinnicks the next 
section was passed over. Section 3 
was also passed over by motion of 
Mr. Dean. It was proposed to pro- 
hibit the employment of persons un- 
der seventeen to drive any vehicle 
under section 4. After a lengthy de- 
bate the section was passed over on 
motion of George S. Sinnicks. Sec- 
tions 5, 6 and 7 were adopted on mo- 
tion of George R. Dean. It was voted 
to pass over section 9 and to termin- 
ate the article at that point. Several 
new sections, to be known as Art. 14, 
will be submitted at the adjourned 
meeting. It was moved to adjourn 
the meeting until 7.30 o’clock this 
(Friday) evening. 
The attendance at the meeting was 
small, in. fact the last few sections 
were acted upon with no more than 
25 or 30 persons present. 
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