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6 Article 8. VOTED: To appropriate $20,000 for the 3eserve Fund 425 5 and to provide for the payment thereof by a transfer of $10,000 from the Overlay Eeserve Fund and the balance of $10,000 to be raised in the current tax levy. Carried Unanimously 9 :16 P. M. Article 9. VOTED: That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to petition the Director of Accounts of the state for an audit for the .year 1953. Carried Unanimously 9 :16 P. M. Article 10. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are auth- orized to install water mains of sixteen inches or more in diameter in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may determine, subject to the assessment of betterments, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; and to appropriate for such installation and land acquisition the sum of $100,000. , and to provide said sum by the issue of bonds, or notes of the Town; and that the .i'reasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and he hereby is, authorized to borrow the sum of $100,000 and issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, within a period not exceeding twenty-five years. Carried Unanimously 9:20 P. M. and further VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are auth- orized to install water mains ,not less than six inches but less than sixteen inches in diameter in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may determine, subject to the assessment of betterments, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land nec- essary therefor; and to , appropriate for such installa- tion.and land acquisition the sum of $85,200.00, of which $19,800.00 is to be transferred from the Water Assessment Fund, and $65,400.00 is to be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 9 :25 P. M. Article 11. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are auth- orized to install sewer mains in such accepted or un- accepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may determine in accordance with Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897 and all acts in amendment thereof and in addition • thereto, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; and to appropriate for such installation and land acquisition the sum of $96,480 of which $31,480 is to be transferred from the Sewer Assessment Fund and the balance of $65,000 is to be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 9:31 P. M. Article 12. Indefinitely postponed. Carried Unanimously 9 :31 P. M. Article 13. VOTED: That the sum of $600 be raised and appropriated for the purchase of one new cruising car, by the Sel- ectmen, for the Police Department, and authority is hereby given to turn in one used cruising car to apply toward the purchase price. Carried Unanimously 9 :32 P. M. Article 14. VOTED: That the sum of $1,000 be raised and appropriated for the purchase of one new car, by the Board of Fire Commissioners, for the Fire Department, and authority is hereby given to turn in one used Fire Department car to apply toward the purchase price. Carried Unanimously 9:32 P. M. Article 15. VOTED: That the sum of $10,160.73 be raised and approp- riated for pensions for retired members of the Police Department, and that the sum of $5,391.48 be raised and appropriated for pensions for retired members of the Fire Department, under Chapter 32 of the General Laws. Carried Unanimously 9:33 P. M.