2800 Report of Sewer Commissioners Recommending Construction of a Sewerage System, February, 1907

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i ,I LnXINGTON, February, 1907. To the Inhabitants of the Town: Since the sewer report made under date of January 31, 1906, by a Special Committee consisting of the undersigned and others, the Sewer Commissioners, pursuant to instructions from the town, have procured the passage by the legislature of an act embodying the method of assessment which that report recommended; and a further study has been made of the limits which it is deemed best to set for the original installation of sewers. - The new law, which passed the legislature in May, 1906 (being chapter 359 of the Acts of that year), and is now in full force, follows closely the text of the proposed amending act as printed in the Committee's report. There is no change in substance, save that,instead of making it obligatory upon the Sewer Commissioners to construct initially sewers in each and all of the public ways shown on the McClintock & Woodfall plan,the limits of the original construction are left to be deter- mined by the Commissioners in their discretion. We now recommend that the town proceed to exercise its authority to construct a sewerage system, to that end making an adequate appropriation and voting to issue the necessary bonds. Though the previous report shows fully the scheme of assessment, the provisions of the law, to an extent sufficient jto give a clear idea of the plan, are nevertheless repeated here; and there is attached a sketch which shows with approximate accuracy the streets and places where the Commissioners, if the town votes to proceed with the installation, will cause the sewers to be constructed. As was said in the previous report: "It is obviously just and proper that the cost of the trunk and intercepting sewer, the backbone of the system, should be shared by as many as possi- ble of all the estates for whose benefit, present and prospective, they are constructed." In no other way except by installing