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Article 4. VOTED: That the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1940, and to issue "a note or notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, ',Chapter 44, General Laws. Carried Unanimously 8:16 P.lT. Article 5. VOTED: That the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to refund any or all of the revenue notes issued in anticipation of the revenue of the year 1939, in accordance with the provisions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws; any debt so incurred to be paid from the revenue of the year 1939. Carried Unanimously 8:17 P.M. Article 6. VOTED: That the sum of $16,700.00 received from the Highway Fund in 1938 be appropriated for Highway Main- tenance, as provided by 'Chapter 2 of the Acts of 1939. Nathan B. Bidwell presents the following: "That it is the sense of the Town Meeting Members of various precincts that no salary increases be allowed of any Town employee receiving $25.00 per week or more". Selectman Archibald R. Giroux replies that Article 6 contained no amounts in connection with salaries. Article 6 as presented, carried unanimously at 8 :18 P.M. Article 29. VOTED: That the Selectmen be authorized to execute and deliver a lease of some or all of the land of Hildur Sorenson, located at 116 Woburn Street, for the purpose of disposal of refuse for not exceeding three years at a rent not exceeding $100.00 per year, and for this purpose the sum of $100.00 be raised and appropriated for the rent of the first year. Explanations offered by Robert C. Merriam, "Chairman of Appro- priation Committee. Eugene T. Buckley speaks in favor of the article. By voice vote, Article 29 declared lost 8:23 P.M. Article 31, which was voted upon in three parts. Article 31. VOTED: To appropriate the further sum of Nine Thousand Six Hundred Thirty -six Dollars in addition to the amount appropriated under Article 2 of the Warrant for the Town Meeting held August 25, 1938, making $163,636.00 in all, for the purpose of acquiring land and easements and constructing a sanitary sewer, force main and pump - ing station for North Lexington and to enable the Town to secure the benefit of funds granted by the Federal Government under the Public Works Administration Appro- priation Act of 1938, the money so appropriated to be derived from the proceeds of the sale of bonds author- ized in said original appropriation of August 25, 1938 and from funds granted by the Federal Government, and Carried Unanimously 8:30 P.M. FURTHER VOTED: To authorize and direct the Selectmen to accept on behalf of the Town the amended offer of -the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, dated March 9, 1939 for use in carrying out the project for the construction of a sanitary sewer, force main and pumping station for North Lexington, and Carried Unanimously 8:30 P.M.