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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 Cary Memorial Hall, in said Lexington, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of May, 1952, at 8:00 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles: ARTICLE 1. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees. ARTICLE 2. To see if in connection with the proposal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through its Department of Public Works, to do certain work, including dredging and stream clearance, in and about Kiln Brook in Lexington, the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen in the name and on behalf of the Town to agree to indemnify and save harmless the Commonwealth and its representatives and agents against all claims and demands for damages that may be sustained by any person whose land or any rights or interest therein is taken for or is injured by said work, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 3. To see if in connection with the construction by the Metropolitan District Commis- sion of a main sewer in Lexington from a point near the Arlington-Lexington line to a point approxi- mately 1,000 feet generally easterly of Hayes Lane, so-called, in Lexington, the Town will vote to au- thorize the Selectmen to sell and transfer to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the main sewer ex- tending from the Arlington-Lexington line to a point approximately 1172 feet in Lexington upon such terms and for.such consideration as the Selectmen may determine, or act in any other manner in rela- tion thereto. ARTICLE 4. To see if in anticipation of the consideration to be received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the sale and transfer of the main sewer referred to in Article 3 of this warrant, the Town will vote to provide for payment of part of the $140,000 voted under Article 11 of the 1952 Annual Town Meeting for sewer main installation and land acquisition by an additional transfer from the Excess and Deficiency account of an amount not in excess of the aforesaid consideration to be re- ceived from the Commonwealth and to reduce the borrowing authorization voted under said Article 11 by the same amount, the consideration from the Commonwealth to be restored upon its receipt to said Account, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate an additional sum of money for Health Department — Expenses, for the balance of the year 1952, and provide for payment thereof by transfer from available funds, including unexpended balances in current appropriations, or act in any other man- ner in relation thereto. And you are directed to serve this warrant seven days at least before the time of said meeting as provided in the By-laws of the Town. Hereof fail not, and make due return on this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting. Given under our hands at Lexington this twelfth day of May, A. D., 1952. DONALD E. NICKERSON A true copy, Attest: HASKELL W. REED SELECTMEN James F. Mowat FREDERICK M. GAY OF WILLIAM IL DRISCOLL LEXINGTON Constable of Lexington. GEORGE W. EMERY