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Article 5. Presented by William. E. Maloney. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized to obtain on loan six additional voting machines and to appropriate the sum of $460.00 to defray transportation and insurance expenses on such machines and to provide for payment thereof by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried 8:41 P. M. Article 6. Presented by William E. Maloney. MOTION: To establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Asbury Street from Paul Revere Road a distance of 560 feet, more or less, northerly to, Balfour Street as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk dated April 7, 1958 and to authorize the Sel- ectmen Sel ectmen to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in the land necessary therefor, and to provide for payment thereof by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account the sum of $12,000.00. 8:J11i P. M. Rev. Harold T. Handley questions Appropriation Committee - if not in favor, why not offer an amendment. 8:45 P. M. Norman J. Richards, Chairman of the Appropriation Commi- ttee,. presents the following amendment: VOTED: To establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Asbury Street from Paul Revere Road a distance of 560 feet, more or less, northerly to Balfour Street as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk dated April 7, 1958 and to authorize the Sel- ectmen to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in the land necessary therefor, and to raise and appropriate for land acquisition and for construction of the street the sum of $12,000.00. Amendment adopted 8:47. P. M. Main motion as amended voted on and carried unanimously. 8:47 P. M. Article 7. Presented by Austin W. Fisher, Jr. VOTED: That the Standing School Building Committee, appointed under authority of the vote adopted under Art- icle 37 of the warrant for the 1957 Annual Town Meeting, . be and hereby is authorized on behalf of the Town to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of a new junior high school building on land situated easterly of Burlington Street and northwesterly of Adams Street that was acquired for school and playground purposes in 1957, and to prepare plans and specifications, obtain bids and enter into a contract or contracts for the original equipping and furnishing of the same, and to supervise the work; and that the sum of S2,080,000.00 be appropriated therefor and that payment be provided by raising $30,000.00 in the current tax levy, and by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town for the balance of $2,050,000.00; and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and he hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $2,050,000.00 under the authority of Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948, as amended, and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, as amended, within a period not exceeding twenty years. Vincent A. McCrossen started to offer a motion which was declared by the Moderator to be out of order. 8:58 P. M.