1948-03-01-TE-Warrant-and-1948-03-022-ATM-Warrant

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- 4 Article 26. To see if' the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint one of its members to the Board of Appeals, in accord- ance with G. L. Chapter 41, Section 4A, or act in any other manner in relation thereto . Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in such unaccepted streets as the Selectmen may determine during the year 1948, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 28. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of equipment for the Department of Public Works and provide for payment therefor by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 265 of the Acts of 1947, authorizing the closing of public offices in cities and towns on Saturdays, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 30. To see if the Town will vote. a supplementary appro- priation to be used in conjunction with money already a ppropriated for the construction of sanitary sewers in that part of North Lexington as shown on a set of plans in the office of the Town Engineer, and to pro- vide' for the payment therefor by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 31. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen, under such regulations and conditions as they shall determine, to use Town equipment and furnish materials and labor for temporary repairs on unaccepted streets in the Town upon application of the abutters and upon agreement of the abutters to pay the total cost for such service, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ' (Inserted at the request of ten or more registered voters . ) Article 32. To see if the Town will vote to establish the salary and compensation of the Town Treasurer, Town Clerk and Town Collector of Taxes, being all the elected officers' of the Town on a salary basis, as provided by Section 108 of Chapter 41, General Laws, as amended, and to provide funds necessary therefor`by direct appropriation, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 33. To see if the Town will vete to ratify and approve payments or liability for the payment for 2110* removal in_ 1947, due to an extreme emergency involving the- safety of persons and property as voted unanimously by the Selectmen, under authority of General Laws, Chapter 44, Section 31, and to provide for the payhent' therefor by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 34. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of . money for the settlement of damages arising out- of the taking by eminent domain for highway purposes of approximately 49,600 square feet of land belonging to James J. Murphy and Bertha J. Murphy by order of the County Commissioners, dated December 6; 1946, and tb provide for the payment thereof by direct appropriation, by a transfer from available funds, by the issue of bonds or notes of the town; and to authorize the Selectmen to enter into an agreement with the- said Murphys to set back at the expense of the town a stone wall on. said land to the remaining land of- said Murphys, if and when the land on which the said wall now rests, is re- quired for the construction of Grove Street, or act in any other manner in relation thereto,