1954-03-01-TE-Warrant-and-1954-03-15-ATM-Warrant

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• -7- their induction into the Armed Services, at a price of $300 per lot; or act in any other manner in relation thereto . ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to sell a portion.of the so-called Poor Farm Tract to the Lexington Golf Club; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 33, To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to sell and convey the land on Meriam Street known as the Old Fire Station Site, upon such terms and conditions as they deem proper; or act in any other man- ner in relation thereto; said land being described as follows ; Beginning at a stone bound on the southeasterly side line of Meriam Street at the property now or formerly of Henry P. Boutelle, thence running northeasterly along Meriam Street a distance of 42.90 feet to a stone bound. Thence turning at an angle of 900 00' and running southeasterly by land now or formerly of Henry P. Boutelle a distance of 79.56 feet to a stone bound. Thence turning at an angle of 90° 20' 30Th and running southwesterly by land now or formerly of Henry P. Boutelle a distance of 42.68 feet to a point. Thence turning at an angle of 89° 49' 30n and running northwesterly by land now or formerly of Henry P. Boutelle a distance of 79.73 feet to the point of beginning and containing 3,407 plus or minus square feet. ARTICLE 34. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and direct the Selectmen to petition the General Court to amend the referendum pro- visions of Chapter 215 of the Acts of 1929, being the act establishing the representative town meeting form of government in Lexington, by striking out Section 8 and inserting in place thereof a new Section B in substantially the following form, or act in any other manner in relation thereto : SECTION 8. A vote passed at any representative town meeting authorizing the expenditure of twenty thousand dollars or more as a special appropriation, or establishing a new board or office or abolishing an old board or office or merging two or more boards or offices, or fixing the term of office of town officers, where such term is optional, or increasing or reducing the number of members of a board, or adopting a new by-law, or amending an existing by-law, shall not be operative until after the expira- tion of five days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, from the dissolution of the meeting. If, within said five days, a petition signed by not less than three per cent of the registered voters of the town, containing their names and addresses as they appear on the list of registered voters, is filed with the Selectmen requesting that the question or questions involved in any such vote which has not become operative as aforesaid be submitted to the voters of the town at large, then the operation of such vote shall be further suspended pending its determination as hereinafter provided, and the Selectmen, within ten days after the filing of the petition, shall call a special meeting, which shall be held within fourteen days after the issuing of the call, for the purpose of presenting to the voters at large the question or questions so involved. All votes upon any questions so sub-.