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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK 21 other pests, in accordance with Chapter 132, General Laws, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the Reserve Fund as provided by Chap- ter 40, Section 6, General Laws, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate funds for the payment of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire Departments, under Chapter 32, General Laws, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to petition the Director of Accounts of the State for an audit for the year 1937. Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex, as required by law, the Town's share of the net cost of the care, main- tenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital, as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 111 of the General Laws, and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, or take any action in relation thereto. Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1,438.23 received from Middlesex County for dog fees to the Cary Memorial Library Account. Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to pay the necessary expenses of the Superintendent of Schools incurred outside the Commonwealth in securing information upon matters in which the Town is interested or which may tend to improve the service in the School De- partment. Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to defray the expense incurred in the defense of the cases of Ryder v. Town of Lexington, which pertain to Vine Brook Drainage. Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to transfer unexpended appropriation balances in any of the accounts to the Excess and Deficiency Account, or take any other ac- tion in relation thereto. 22 TOWN OF LEXINGTON Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, or accept the layout of as a town way, Robbins Road, from Locust Avenue to Lexington Avenue, a distance of approximately 790 feet, as laid out by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act, and shown upon a certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated January 16, 1937, and to take by eminent domain the necessary easements therefor, and appropriate money for the construction of said street, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to install sewer mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets as may be applied for during the year 1937 in accordance with St. 1897, Ch. 504, as amended, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain any necessary easements therefor, and to appropri- ate money for said installation of mains by direct appropria- tion or by transfer from other funds. Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to install water mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets as maybe ap- plied for during the year 1937 in accordance with authority contained in the By -Laws of the Town, subject to the assess- ment of betterments, and to take by eminent domain any necessary easements therefor, and appropriate money for said installation of mains by direct appropriation or by trans- fer from other funds. Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to install an 8 inch water main in Watertown Street for a distance of approximately 700 feet, subject to the assessment of better- ments, and provide funds therefor by direct appropriation, or by transfer from other funds. Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to install an 8 inch water main in Shade Street from Weston Street a dis- tance of approximately 800 feet, subject to the assessment of betterments, and to take by eminent domain any necessary easements therefor, and to provide funds for said installa- tion by direct appropriation, or by transfer from other funds. Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for highway maintenance under authority of Chap- ter 90 of the General Laws. Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of Wal-