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448 • • • • 'SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD JUNE 7, 1965 Meetingtcalled to order by the Moderator, tRobert B. Kent, at 8:06 P. M. Invocation offered by Rev. Floyd J. Taylor at 8:07 P. M. There were 189 Town Meeting Members present. Mary R. McDonough, Town Clerk, read the warrant for the meeting until further reading was waived by the Moderator. 8:08 P. M. Mary R. McDonough read the Constablets Return of the warrant. 8:08 P. M. • Leslie H. York asked that Charles E. Ferguson be escorted to the front of the hall. 'Mr. Kent asked Alan G. Adams to escort Mr. Ferguson. Mr. York presented Mi' Ferguson with the gavel used by Mr. Fergusbn as Moderator from 1949 to 1965. Mr. Ferguson, in' accepting. the gavel, spoke a few words and was escorted back to his seat. 8:13 P. M. Mr. Kent .states that the new gavel to be used by him was made by Cornelius P. Cronin from an old elm tree on the Lexington Common that was knocked down in a hurricane. Article 1. Frank T. Parrish, Jr. moves that the report of the Appropriation Committee be accepted and placed on file. Carried Unanimously 8:13 P. M. Mr. Parrish reads a letter from the Board of Assessors to the Board of .Selectman'relating'to the 1965 Tax Rate which has been set at $L4.00. 8:15 P. M. Van T. Boughton, Jr. gives an informal report of the Long Range Economic Study Committee. . 8:17 P. M. • Article 2. Presented' by Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and they hereby are . authorized to abandon such portions of the sewer easements and temporary sewer construction easements adjacent thereto in land of Evangelical Covenant Church of Cambridge and in land of Anthony R. Cataldo, formerly of Henning W. Swenson, as are no longer re- quired by the Town, said easements in land of Evangelical Covenant Church of Cambridge having been acquired by the Town by eminent domain by order dated April 8, 1963, recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 10260, Page 245, and said easements in land now of Anthony R. Cataldo having • been acquired by the Town by eminent domain by order dated April 8, 1963, recorded in said Deeds, -Book 10260, Page 250; that the minimum amount to be paid for such abandonment shall be $1.00; and that the instrument of abandonment shall be in such form as the Selectmen, by • the execution thereof, shall approve. Carried Unanimously '8:20 P. M.