HomeMy WebLinkAbout2940 Warrant (handwritten) for a Town Meeting to be held on March 4, 1895Warrant for a Town Meeting Saturday April 37 1895
To William B. Foster
Constable of Lexington, Greeting: In the name of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to
Notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington,
qualified by law to vote in town affairs to assemble at the
Town Hall on Saturday the twenty seventh day of April AD
1895 at 7.30 oclock P.M. to act on the following articles. Viz
Art 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said Meeting.
Art 2. To see if the town will vote to rescind the votes,
passed at the meeting held April 1st 1895 whereby the
town voted to expend the sum of six thousand dollars for
the purchase of steam and one chemical fire engines; and the
sum of eleven hundred dollars for additional expenses of the
fire department and any and all other votes passed under
the report of the Committee on Fire-Service.
The vote on the foregoing to be taken by ballot with the
use of the check list and the polls to be kept open for such
time as the meeting may direct.
Art 3. To see if the town will vote to adopt the following
additional by-laws of the town.
Section 14. The person, firm or corporation shall engage in or
exercise within the limits of the town of Lexington, the trade
or employment of keeping swine, without having first obtained
a permit therefor in writing from the Board of Health; and
such permit may be revoked at any time by said Board.
Section 15. No person, firm or corporation shall keep any
swine within the town of Lexington, without having first
obtained a permit thereof in writing from the Board of Health,
and such permit may be revoked at any time by said Board
whoever violates this regulation shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars.
Art 4. To see what action the town take in relation
to the purchase of the franchise and property of the
Lexington Water Company: or to a contrast with said
Company for the further supply of votes for hydrant and
town purposes
Art 5. To see if the town will vote to place a signal fire
alarm box on Mount Vernon street or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. 6. To see if the town will adopt the provision of
Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1895 in relation to assessing the
whole or any portion of the cost of watering streets upon the
abutting estate on said streets.
Art 7. To see if the town will accept the report of the
Selectmen on the laying out of a street to be called Winthrop
Road, over land of F.F. Sherburne, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art 8. To see what action the town will take in relation to the
purchase of a stone crusher.
Art 9. To hear the report of any Committee that may be
ready to report and act thereon.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with
your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said
meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington this thirteenth
day of April A D 1895.
Webster Smith
Geo E Muzzey
E. S. Spaulding
} Selectmen
of
Lexington.
A True Copy. Attest:
WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington.
Lexington April 26th 1895
Persuant to the forgoing warrant I have notified
the inhabitants of the town of Lexington by posting a duly
attested copy of the warrant in the Post-offices and other
public places in each village and by leaving a duly
attested copy at every dwelling-house in the town three
days before the time of said meeting
Attest Wm B Foster
Constable of Lexington
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