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3 1 For Committee Report see page 146 . 13 For Sept . 22 , 1927 warrant, see page 138 . TOWN MEETING SEPTEMBER 22 , 1927 W The meeting was called to order by the Moderator , Robert H . Holt , at 7 : 45 P . M . The Town Clerk proceeded to read the Warrant but upon motion the further reading of the '?arrant was dispensed with and the return of the Constable thereon was then read . Art . 2 . Under this article on motion of Theodore A . Custance it was unanimously , " Voted that the report of the Committee New mm ttee on the Z own Office Building , copy of which has been mailed to all the voters . together with the Warrant , be accepted and placed on file . " Committee report . Art . 3 . On motion of Theodore A . Custance it was voted to discuss Articles 3 and 4 together . Under article 3 Mr . Custance offered the following motion : • • " Voted that there be raised and appropriated the sum of $ 106 , 500 , fer . the purpose of constructing and originally equipping and furnishing a new town office building and to meet said appro- priation there be transferred from General Revenue and Surplus Account , the sum of $ 5001 $ 11 , 000 be transferred from the proceeds of the sale of Rindge property and that the treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be authorized to borrow the sum of $ 95 , 000 and to issue bonds or notes of the town therefor , said bonds or notes to be payable in accordance with the provision of Section 19 , Chapter 44 of the General Laws , so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than twenty years or at such earlier dates as the treasurer and Sel -7? ctmen may determine . It is also voted that a Special building Committee , consisting of Theodore A . Custance , Albert H . Burnham , James G Robertson , William H . Ballard , Francis Chamberlain , Albert B . Tenney , Fred H . I,ioulton , Arthur N . Maddison , Edwin B . Worthen , Norman C . Hooper , and George W . Nary shall have full authority to construct and equip said Town Office building as herein authorized within the sums appropriated , said building to be constructed substantially in accordance with the plans recommended by the Special Committee reporting under Article 2 for the warrant of this meeting . " Under Article 4 Mr . Custance offered the following motion : " Voted that the town accept the written proposal of Eugene G . Kraetzer to purchase the Town Hall property for $ 50 , 000 ( Fifty thousand dollars), and that the hoard of Selectmen or a majority of them be and they hereby are authorized to execute and deliver in the name of and on behalf of the Town an agreement for such purchase and sale substantially in the form annexed to the said proposal and to execute and deliver with the counter signature of the Treasurer a deed of the said property pursuant to the said agreement . "