Petitions - City of Somerville

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The or-der submitted with the foregoing report is as follows:
Ordered:
Pending the.adopt ion of the annual budget the
sum of ten thousand (10,000)- dollars is hereby appropriated for Addition,
Southern Junior High School account, for the purpose of obtaining plans and
specifications for the renovation and building -of additions to said school.
Read twice and adopted.-
Approved by the mayor March 15, 1930.
The Committee on Public Works on the order to construct
ways Artery and Chester avenue, reported recommending its adoption.'
Accepted.
Approved by the mayor March 17, 1930.
Adjourned.
Attest:
Clerk,
About 11:00 o'clock P.M. a request was sent to the Board of
Aldermen that Representative William P. Corbett be allowed to address the
Board on the Pension Bill, known as Senate Bill 506. There was considerable
discussion as to whether he should be allowed to address the Board at this
time: - Alderman.Gobron strenuously opposing same.
Vice-president Crowley moved that the Board should adjourn
its meeting for five minutes.This was put to a vote and.the Board adjourned.
Representative Corbett was then allowed to speak, and Senator Daggett having
entered the chamber, on motion of Alderman Sherman it was agreed that
he should be allowed 'to speak before the Board. Alderman Gobron questioned
the right of the Board of Aldermen to adjourn and expect to re-convene the
same evening, and entered a protest to this effect, a copy of which is in
the files under this date.
President Carr quoted section 73, page 85 of Gushing^ Manual
which is in part: - "When an assembly adjourns to meet on a specified date
simply for the purpose of continuing or completing the discussion of the
"business under consideration, this adjournetJ (or special) meeting is practically
a continuation of the first, and the business interrupted by adjournment
is in order immediately after the reading of the minutes. In either
case the unfinished business, when its reconsideration is resumed, is in
precisely the same posture as when it was interrupted, and any motions which
were then pending are proceeded with as if there had "been no interval."
Section 10, Article 5 of the Rules of the'Board of Aldermen state that,-
"Cushing's Manual shall be the authority on allquestions of debate or parliamentary
usage when the same does not conflict with the rules of the board
of aldermen."
Alderman Gobron having questioned the legality of re-convening,
President Carr then announced from the chair that he was calling
the Aldermen together for the purpose of finishing the work,- treating the
proceedure from this- time on as a special meeting. All members present
acquiesced to this action and in compliance with Gushing's Manual ahove referred
to, the clerk was ordered to read the record of the previous meeting.
Alderman Gobron then stated that proper notice had not been given to the Aldermen
in so far as two aldermen were absent from their seats. These two,
Aldermen Lynch and Grattan returned to the chamber and upon being questioned
reported that they had been notified by the Assistant City Messenger and
that they had received proper notice.
43782;
drive-43797
Order
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