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Article 26. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are 42 7 authorized to appoint one of their members to the Board of Appeals in accordance with Section 4A of Chapter of the General Laws. Carried Unanimously 9 :43 P. M. - Article 27. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are author- ized to install street lights in such unaccepted streets as they may determine prior to the final adjournment of the 1954 Annual Town Meeting, Carried Unanimously 9:44 P. M. Article 28. VOTED: To accept Chapter 781 of the Acts of 1951 which provides for an increase in the amounts of pensions and retirement allowances payable to certain former town 'employees, and to appropriate therefor the sum of $1,562.67, this amount to be raised in the current tax levy. Carried Unanimously 9:45 P. M. Article 29. Presented by William G. Potter. VOTED: That the sum of 44,000 be appropriated for road and fence construction and repair in the Sunset Section 'layout in "estview Cemetery, and that said sum be prov- ided by transfer from the Westview Sale of Lots Fund. Carried Unanimously 9:47 P. M. Article 30. Robert T. Person moves for Indefinite Postponement. Carried Unanimously 9 :48 P. M. Article 31. Presented by Robert T. Person. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are authorized on behalf of the Town to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire for playground purposes any or all of the following parcels of land situated on Grassland Street, or on Grassland and Payson Streets in Lexington, being lots numbered 188, 189, 190 and 191, on a plan entitled "Farmhurst Sec. 4 Lexington, Mass. belonging to Neil McIntosh T." dated January 1923, C. H. Gannett, C. E. , 53 State atreet, Bostonrecorded in Middlesex So. District iegistry of Deeds in Plan Book 367 as Plan #20, and to appropriate therefor the sum of $3,000 and that said sum be trans- ferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account. General discussion. Motion by John H. Devine that the article be indefinitely postponed which was carried as being indefinitely postponed, unanimously. 10:12 P. M. Article 32. VOTED: To establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Bartlett Avenue from Lowell Street, a distance of approximately 971 feet westerly 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 January 12, 1953, and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any- easement or other interest in land necessary therefor and for the con- struction thereof, and to appropriate for the construct- ion of said street and for land acquisition the sum of 416,500 and to provide for payment thereof by transfer from the Excess and -Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 10 :16 P. M. Article 33. VOTED: To establish as a town way, and accept the lay- out of as a town way, Gleason Moad from North Hancock Street northerly approximately 760 feet to Fuller goad 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- January 12, 1953, and to take by- eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any easement or other interest in land necessary therefor and for the construction thereof, and to appropriate for the con- struction of said road and for land acquisition the sum of 411,500 and to provide for payment thereof by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 10 :16 P. M.