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497 has been removed. No assessment hereunder shall exceed the amount of the special benefit to the estate assessed. No drain or sewer from an estate or part thereof not previously assessed or not presently liable to assessment as herein provided, or as provided in said chapter three hundred and twenty-two, as amended by said chapter two hundred and twenty- one, shall be entered in such a sanitary sewer, as defined as aforesaid, so constructed in co-operation with said Works Progress Administration, except upon the payment of such an assessment or charge and upon such other terms and conditions as the board of selectmen of said town shall determine. The provisions of chapter eighty of the General Laws relative to the apportionment, division, reassessment, abatement and collection of assessments, and to interest, shall apply to assessments made under this act. The cost of such sanitary sewers so constructed shall not be included in future determ- ination of "cost" of se ;rs for the purpose of assessment under said chapter three hundred and twenty-two, as amended by said chapter two hundred and twenty-one. Section 2. This act shall take full effect upon its acceptance within two years after itspassage by the Town of Lexington. Approved March 24, 1939. " Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to transfer unexpend- ded appropriation balances in any of the Accounts to the Excess and Deficiency Account, or take any other action in relation thereto. Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in the following unaccepted street: Aerial Street. Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to make further appropriations for the year 1939 by transfer or otherwise, for the following accounts: Maturing Debt; Law Department - Expenses; State Aid. Article 8. To see if the Town under the authority of Chapter 63 of the Acts of 1939 or under any other authority will authorize the Selectmen to borrow during the current year for the refunding ofloans already lawfully issued for the purpose of meeting in whole or in part appropriations made to repair extraordinary damage to the highways, bridges or other public works of the Town or any combination of such public works as a result of the storm in September, 1938, or to appropriate additional money to meet pay- ment in 1939 of loans issued in 1938 or a combination of the two methods. Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote passed under Article 19 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held on March 20, 1939 to appropriate a sum of money for the improve- ment of Bedford Street, said money to be expended under the direct- ion of the Selectmen and to be used in conjunction with any money which may be allotted by the State or County, or both, for this purpose. Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to ratify the ex- ecution by the Selectmen of a contract, contingent upon ratific- ation by the Town, with Charles W. Ryder of Newton, Massachusetts, Minnie M. Ryder of the said Newton, Robert L. Ryder of Lexington, Massachusetts, the said Charles W. Ryder and Robert L. Ryder as they are Trustees of the Lexington Estates Trust, and 'the said Robert L. Ryder as he is Trustee of the Lexington Real Estate Trust, dated July 10, 1939, for the purpose of settling litiga- tion and other controversies between them and the Town, a copy of which is now on file with the Selectmen and open to public inspection, to appropriate the sum of $41,000.00 for the purpose