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SELECTMEN'S REPORT. 5 non -fulfilment of its requirements. The matter was brought before the town at a meeting held during the past year, and it was voted that the Selectmen be authorized to settle with Mr. Prosser. This we have done on the following basis: The town to have one year in which to remove all gravel or other material, and leave the premises at a certain grade, described in the agreement ; if not removed in one year from date, then the town to pay one hundred dollars per year until removed, but not to exceed five years. A large quan- tity of the material has already been removed, and it is presumed the remainder will be within the year. We will here state that Mr. Prosser intends, and has com- menced widening Waltham Street the entire length of his land, by giving for public use a strip of land nearly ten feet in width, thus making the street fifty feet in width. TRAMPS. It is gratifying to feel assured that the tramp nui- sance is gradually disappearing. This fact is made ap- parent by comparing the past year with the previous one. There were 404 in iSSo, and t23 in 1881. ENLARGEMENT OF THE CEMETERY. The necessity of enlarging the Cemetery was brought before the town at the last March meeting, and the subject was referred to a committee, with instructions to report at the next town meeting. At a meeting held in April, the committee were unable to report, and asked for further time, which was granted. At a rneet- 6 SELECTMEN'S REPORT. ing held Nov. 7, the committee submitted a report, which was accepted, and on motion passed the following vote : " That the town authorize the Selectmen to take the land of John D. Bacon, as recommended by the committee, as provided by Chap. 69, Sect. r, of the Acts of r877." In accordance with the foregoing vote, a petition was presented to the County Commissioners, requesting them to view the premises and take the Iand of John D. Bacon, as provided by law. On the 28th of No- vember the Commissioners met at the Selectmen's room in the Town Hall building, and have made the following return of their doings : " And now said Commissioners, having viewed the premises and heard the parties interested therein, do adjudge that the com- mon convenience and necessity require the taking of the land of said John D. Bacon for the enlargement of said Cemetery, as prayed for, and the following is a true description of said land as hereby condemned and taken for the purposes as aforesaid : — " Beginning at a point in the southerly location Iine of the Lexington and Arlington branch of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, at the division line between the Cern- etery and land of John D. Bacon, thence northwesterly by said location line of said railroad one hundred eighty-two and sixteen hundredths (182.16) feet to the division line between land of said Bacon and land of Sarah A. Russell, thence westerly by said division line two hundred fifty-nine and sixty-two hundredths (259.62) feet, thence southeasterly two hundred twenty-five and forty-one hundredths {225.4.1} feet to the division line be- tween the Cemetery and land of said Bacon, thence north- easterly by last-mentioned division line three hundred