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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK 81 Mr. Rowse offers the following amendment to Article 31: to read the sum of *2,000 be transferred from Sewer Assess- ment Fund. Motion for re -consideration carried 11 :09 P. M. Unan- imous. Amendment as presented carried 11 :10 P. M. Unanimous. Article 35. Selectman Mr, Trask moves to take up Article 35, offering the following: Voted : That the Selectmen be authorized and instructed to provide for the disposal of surface drainage in Haskell Street, Lowell Street and across private ]ands of the Town of Arlington and the Busa Brothers, a distance of approximate- ly 1550 feet, by constructing drainage channels or conduits and diverting and relocating brooks through said private lands, and to take the necessary easements therefor by eminent domain, and for the purpose of said drainage construction the sum of $4,000 be appropriated and assessed. Unanimously Carried 11:12 P. M. Article 36. Selectman Mr. Trask moves to take up Article 36, offering the following: Voted : That the Selectmen be authorized to purchase, sub- ject to approval of title, from Peter J. and Margaret E. Kin- -neen, a parcel of land comprising approximately five and one- half acres and located on Burlington Street and described as follows : "Beginning at a point in the easterly side of Burlington Street about 280 feet southerly of the southerly side of Simonds Road, thence running northerly by said easterly side of Burling- ton Street distant about 640 feet to a point, thence running easterly by laud of grantor about 430 feet to a point, thence southerly by ]and of said grantor distant about 300 feet to a point, thence running westerly by laud of said grantor distant about 500 feet to the point of beginning." the same to be used for a skating rink or for other park purposes, and that the same be placed in the control of the Board of Selectmen, acting as Park Commissioners, and for the purpose of purchasing said property the sura of .*1,250 be appropriated and assessed. Unanimously Carried 11:15 P. M. 82 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Article 37. Selectman Mr. Trask states Article concerns Planning Board. Article 38. Selectman Mr. Trask moves for indefinite post- ponement this Article. Unanimously- Carried 11:16 P. M. Article 39. Selectman Mr. Trask moves to take up Article 39, offering the following: Voted: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to sell and convey any of the real estate acquired by the Town by fore- closure of tax titles. Unanimously Carried 1.1:17 P. M. Article 40. Under this Article, Mr. Houghton, Chairman of the School Committee offers the following: Voted : Tha t the sum of *90. be appropriated to pay the necessary expenses of the Superintendent of Schools incurred outside the Commonwealth in securing information upon mat- ters in which the Town is interested or which may tend to im- prove the service in the School Department. Unanimously Carried 11 :18 P. M. Article 37. Under this Article Mr. Duffy, Chairman Plan- ning Board asks for indefinite postponement, Unanimously Carried 11 :19 P. M. Selectman Mr. Trask moves meeting be dissolved. Unan- imous 11:20 P. 14i. A true Coln', Attest .JAMES J. CARROL.L, TOW)/ CieFk.