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57 Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $50.00 for the expense account of the Planning Board or take any other action thereon. Action: Article accepted as read. Voted unanimously. Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $2,500.00 to defray the cost of reshing- ling the Town Hall Building roof, or take any other action thereon. Action: Article accepted as read. Voted unanimously. Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate t .e sum of $450.00 for the improvement and removal of seaweed at Seconsett Beach, or take any other action thereon. Action* Amended to read: for the improvement of _ and removal of seaweed from Seconsett Beach. Voted unani- mously. Articl To see if the Town will vote to repeal exist- ing Town By -Laws, and to adopt the following By -Laws in their stead. CHAPTER 1 TOWN MEETINGS AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS ARTICLE I. TOWN MEETINGS Section 1. The annual town meeting for the appropriation of money and all other matters which shall properly come before it shall be held on the first Monday in March at 7:00 P.M. in each year, at such place as the selectmen may determine. -The election of officers shall be held on the succeeding Wednesday. The Selectmen shall insert in, the war- rant for the annual meetings all articles, petitions for which, signed by ten or more legal voters, shall be delivered to the Selectmen, or either of them, or the Town Clerk, on or before the twentieth day of January in each year, but the Selectmen may insert in said warrant any article or articles received by them after said twentieth day of January, if in their judgment it is advisable so to do, and whenever it is possible, shall, before calling a special town meeting, insert in some newspaper Published in town a notice specifying the last day upon which articles to be inserted in the warrant for such meetings shall be presented to Z the Selectmen or Town Clerk. The warrant for the annual meeting shall also designate the town officers who are to be chosen by ballot, and their respective terms of office. Section 2. The Selectmen shall cause to be published in the local newspaper at least seven days before any annual or special Town Meetings the recommendations and estimates of all committees (except the finance committee) relating to the expenditure of money upon which action is to be taken, in addition to the articles included in the warrant.