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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK 113 that this amount be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Question by air. Hutchinson if this work completed or in progress. Answered in progress. Carried. Unanimously 8:48 P. M. Article 20. Selectman Mr. Ferguson offers the following motion. Voted : That the suni of '$908.60 be appropriated to pay the bill of Anthony Ross & Son for work done for the Pari: De- partment and Highway Department in 1929 and 1930, and that this amount be transferred from the Excess and Deficien- cy Account. General discussion by the following: Messrs. Hutchinson, Coburn, Cutter, McCabe, representing Anthony Ross & Son. Mr. William Greeley rises for point. of order. Decision by the Moderator the speaker in order. Mr. Hutchinson moves for indefinite postponement. The question of the main motion was carried unanimous- ly at9:01P.M. Article 2.1. Selectman Mr. Ferguson offers the following motion. Voted: That the sura of $22.75 be appropriated to pay an unpaid bill of the Police Department for the year 1934, and that this amount be transferred from the Excess and Deficien- cy Account. Carried Unanimously 9 :02 P. M. Article 24. Selectman Mr. Ferguson offers the following notion. Voted: That the sum of $1450. be appropriated and trans- ferred from the fnsura.nce Account to pay for an appraisal of Town property. Discussion—Messrs. Ryder, Cutter, E. Partridge. E. Partridge moves for indefinite postponement. Indefinite postponen►ent declared carried at 9:0S P. M. Question of doubt. 114 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Moderator states in question of doubt necessary for fifteen doubters to be present. On canvass of doubters eight arose, therefore original decision of Moderator in order. 9:10 P. M. Article 28. Selectman Mr. Ferguson offers the following motion. Voted: That the sum of $1,000.00 be appropriated for the Cary Memorial library Account and that this amount be trans- ferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unan- imously 9 :11 P. M. Article 25. Selectman Mr. ]Ferguson proves to take up Article 25. Mr. J. Henry Duffy, Chairman, Planning Board offers the following motion. Voted: That the Town amend the Lexington Zoning By - Law by adding to Section 4, R.. 1 Districts, paragraph 6. the following paragraph : "e.. Excavation and removal from the premises of any loam, sand, gravel, clay or quarried or crushed stone, except when incidental to and in connection with the construction of a building for which a permit has been issued in accorflance with the Building Hy --Laws, and except when incidental to and in connection with the normal and lawful development of the property concerned." Mr. Duffy reads report as follows: REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD ON PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ZONING BY-LAW RELATIVE TO REMOVAL OF LOAM, GRAVEL, ETC. 'I']re Planning Board is of the opinion that, this amendment should be written into the Lexington Zoning By -Law, so that in the future no wholesale removal of loam, sand, gravel, etc. can take place without: a public bearing and the welt -considered ap- proval of some responsible authority. Strictly speaking, the present By --Law covers situations of this sort, because large- scale removal of loam, sand or gravel is truly a business enter- prise, and as such is prohibited in a residential zone. However, with specific mention of this matter in the text of the By -Law, no excuse will remain for administrative officials to allow such