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Article 3. VOTED: To rescind the balance of $25,000 of a loan 439 of $200,000 authorized for construction of a sanitary sewer in the "Sunnyfield" area under article 51 of the Warrant for the 1952 Annual Town Meeting and now- re- maining unused. Carried Unanimously 8:09 P. M. Article 4, Indefinite Postponement. Carried Unanimously 8:10 P. M. Article 5. VOTED: To appropriate the sum of $60,000 as a supple- mentary appropriation to be used in conjunction with money already appropriated under article 11 of the Warr- ant for the 1953 A nnual Town Meeting for installment of sewer mains and land acquisition therefor, and to provide for payment thereof by a transfer of said sum from the Excess and Deficiency Account, Carried Unanimously 8:13 . P. M. Article 6. VOTED: That in addition to money already appropriated, the-sum of $7,000 be appropriated for Sewer Services - Wages and Expenses for the balance of the year 1953 and that said sum be provided by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried Unanimously 8:15 P. M. Article 7. VOTED: That in addition to money already appropriated, the sum of $4,700 be appropriated for Street Lights Expenses for the balance of the year 1953 and that said sum be provided by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account. Carried by voice vote 8:19 P. M. Article 8® VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are auth- orized to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary for the construction of drains which they are authorized to construct by the vote adopted under article 22 of the Warrant for the 1953 Annual Town Meeting and that the money appropriated under said article 22 be used for such land acquisition. Carried Unanimously 8:20 P. M. Mrs. 3uth Morey moves to take up Article 9. Eobert w. Hunter, under Article 1, presented second 3eport of the Elementary School facilities Committee which was accepted and placed on file. Carried Unanimously 8 :22 P. M. Article 9. VOTED: That the members of the Elementary School Facil- ities Committee appointed under the authority of the vote adopted under article 27 of the Warrant for the 1952 Annual Town Meeting be and hereby are constituted a Fiske School Addition Building Co "fr,ittee and authorized on behalf of the Town to retain architectural services and obtain plans and specifications for the construction, original equipping and furnishing of an addition to the Fiske School; to obtain bids therefor; to enter into a contractor contracts for such construction and original equipping and furnishing; and to supervise the carrying on of the work; and that the sum of $325,000 be and hereby is appropriated for such construction, original equipping and furnishing and that payment be provided by a transfer of $15,000 from the Excess and Deficiency Account and by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town for the balance of $310,000, and that the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and he hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $310,000 under authority of Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1947, as most recently amended by Chapter 203 of the Acts of 1953, 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. Carried Unanimously 8:31 P. M,