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Edi Article 3, VOTED: To appropriate the additional sum of $14,400.00 for Payment on Debt - Interest for the year 1963, and to provide for payment of said sum by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 8:20 P. M. Article 4. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are auth- orized to retain engineering services to prepare plans for a system of sanitary sewers to serve principally the Woodhaven area of the. Tom.; and that the sum of $10,000.00 be appropriated therefor and payment provided by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 8:21 P. M. Article 5. VOTED: To transfer the sum of $1,000.00 from the Parking Meter Fund to Parking Meter Maintenance Account for the purchase of additional parking meters. Carried Unanimously 8:22 P. M. Article 6. Presented by William Roger Greeley. VOTED: That there exists in the Town a shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings available for elderly persons of low income at rentals which they can afford; that it is hereby determined that a Housing Authority is needed for the provision of housing for elderly persons of low income; and that the Lexington Housing Authority be organized and established under the provisions of Section 26K of Chapter 121 of the General Laws, as amended. Carried Unanimously 8:34 P. M. Article 7. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are auth- orized and directed to settle the claim of the Town against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for damages arising out of a taking by the Commonwealth of Town land designated as Parcel No. 9-3-T in an order of taking dated August 29, 1961 and recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 9892, Page 517-524, and to execute and deliver a release of all demands against the Commonwealth therefor in the amount of not less than $175.00 and in such form as the Selectmen, by their execution thereof, shall determine. Carried Unanimously 8:35 P. M. Article 8. VOTED: That the sum. of $15,000.00 be, appropriated for the construction of a sewer main or mains in Worthen Road from Bedford Street to Massachusetts Avenue or other land as the Selectmen may determine, subject to the assessment of betterments or otherwise in accordance with Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897, and all acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, or otherwise, and that payment be provided by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried by voice vote. 8:47 P. M. Article 9. VOTED: To accept Section 8C of Chapter 40 of the General Laws which is an Act relating to the establishment, powers and duties of conservation commissions in cities and towns, and establish under the provisions of said Section 8c of Chapter 40 a Conservation Commission consisting of five members. Carried Unanimously 8:49 P. M. Article 10. VOTED: That the sum of $400.00 be and hereby is appro- priated as a supplementary appropriation to be used in conjunction with and in addition to the money appropriated in the vote adopted under Article 4 of the warrant for the Special Town Meeting held on January 28, 1963, for the relocation of fire alarm wires at the Grove Street crossing over Route 128, as authorized in said vote, and provide for payment by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 8:51 P. M.