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TOWN WARRANT .
Commonwealth of Massachusetts . Middlesex , ss .
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington , in
said County , Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ,
you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town
of Lexington , qualified to vote in elections and in town
affairs , to meet in the Cary Memorial Building, in sdL d
Lexington , on MONDAY, the nineteenth day of May , 1930
at 8 P . M . , then and there to act on the following articles :
Art . 1 . To receive the report of any Board of Town
Officers or of any Committee of the Town , and to appoint
other Committees .
Art . 2 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
additional money for the following accounts : Granolithic
sidewalks , Forest Fires , Waltham Street damages , Street
Signs , Fire Mbpartment , Lowering Brooks , Town Clerk , and
Police Department , or act in any manner relating thereto .
Art . 3 . To consider the further report of the Planning
Board on the drainage and development of the Vine Brook
water shed and the report thereon of Metcalf & Eddy ,
Consulting Engineers , dated September 29 , 1928 , a copy
of which is on file at the office of the Board of Selectmen
and open to public inspection ; and to see if the Town
will approve or adopt all or any of the recommendations
therein. contained , vote to construct , deepen , enlarge
or relocate water ways , drains , sewers , conduits , roads
or parks substantially as described therein ; appropriate
money therefore by the issue of bonds or notes or by
direct appropriation or by transfer from other accounts
or by any or all of such methods , or act in any manner
in relation thereto .
Art . 4 . To see if the Town will appropriate money to
deepen , widen , relocate or clear of obstructions Vine
Brook below Sheridan Street and to alter and reconstruct
the present culvert under East Street .
Art . 5 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen
to install a sewer in Winthrop Road extension from the
present end of Winthrop Road to Waltham Street , a distance
of approximately 1 , 450 feet ; also from a point in
Winthrop Road extension near the present south branch
of Vine Brook across private lands to Vine Brook Road , a
distance of approximately 19 50 feet ; also from Vine * Brook
Road across private lands to Mass . Avenue ; from Mass .
Avenue across Town property to the railroad; from the
railroad across private lands to Sherman Street ; from
Sherman Street across private lands to Sheridan Street ;
thence along Sheridan Street to a point in Grant Street ;
the total distance from Vine Brook Road. to Grant Street ,
as above described , being approximately 2 , 000 feet ;
appropriate money for said construction by direct
appropriation , issue of bonds or. notes , or act in any
manner relating thereto .
Art . 6 . To see if the Town will vote to establish as a
town way , or accept the layout of as a town way a portion
of Tucker Avenue , from Baker Avenue westerly, as laid
out by the Selectmen, and shown upon a certain plan on
file in the office of the Town Clerk , appropriate mone
therefor by the issuance of bonds or notes or by direct
appropriation , or take any action relating thereto .
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Art . 7 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
money to cover the expense of printing and publishing
the report on Vine Brook Drainage and to cover the
Engineering services in connection therewith , as
authorizied by the Town Meeting held March 31 , 1930 .
Art . 8 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro-
priate money for the purpose of purchasing a certain lot
of land located on the Old County Road near Allen Street
known as a portion of the Swenson Brothers Farm contain+
ing approximately eight acres , and erecting thereon a
public school building and originally equipping and
furnishing the samei, and to provide for such appropriation
by the issuance of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation
or by any , one or more or all of such methods , or to
take any action relating thereto .
Art . 9 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate
money for the use of the Stanley Hill Post 38 , American
Legion , the same to be expended under the direction of
the Board of Selectmen for the celebration of the
Tercentenary , or act in any manner relating thereto .
Art . 10 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen
to purchase a portion of the land owned by Lois M . and
Lillian G . Marshall near the Cary Memorial Library , s ^ id
parcel being described as follows : Lot C . bounded south-
westerly by land now or formerly of William E . Denham
50 . 85 feet ; northwesterly by land of Town of Lexington
76 . 84 feet ; northeasterly by land of Town of Lexington
49 . 30 feet ; southeasterly by land of the grantors 76 . 09
feet , all as shown on plan entitled , " Plan of Land in
Lexington , Mass . , Scale 1 " - 10 ' October 14 , 1929 ,
E . N . Montague , C . E . , West Acton , Mass . " appropriate
money for this purpose by direct appropriation , issue of
bonds or notes or otherwise , or act in any manner relating
thereto .
Art . 11 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer the
sum of $850 . from the Account of Sale of Land to purchase
of land of Lois M . and Lillian G . Marshall adjoining the
Cary Memorial Library property .
Art . 12 . To see if the Town will vote to establish
as a town way , or accept the layout of as a town way ,
an extension of Clarke Street , as laid out by the
Selectmen , and shown upon a certain plan on file in the
office of the Town Clerk , appropriate money for the
construction of said street by direct appropriation or
by the issue of bonds , notes or otherwise , and provide
for the transfer of any unexpended balance to Other
construction , or act in any manner relating thereto .
Art . 13 . To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington
Zoning By-Law and zoning map by changing from an Rel
district to a C-1 district the property on the westerly
side of Bedford Street from Valley Road and extending
northerly along property of Harriette W . Smith .
Hereof , fail hot , and make due return of this
Warrant , with your doings thereon , to the Town Clerk ,
on or before the time of said meeting .
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Given under our hands , at Lexington, this sixth day
of May , A . D . , 1930 .
Albert H . Burnham
Clarence Shannon Selectmen
Hallie C ; Blake of
Robert P . Trask Lexington .
Theodore A . qustance
To the Town Clerk : Lexington , Mass . , May 12 , 1930 .
I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting
printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office ,
in the Vestibule of the Town Office Building and in six
other public places in the Town , and by mailing a printed
copy of the same to every registered voter in the town
seven days before the time of said meeting .
Attest :
Patrick J . Maguire .
Constable of Lexington .
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