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(See Warrant Book - Pa gp 4 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD NOVEMBER 17 , 1952 The meeting was called to order by the Moderator , Charles E. Ferguson at 8:03 P. M. There were 182 Town Meeting Members present. Town Clerk , James J. Carroll , read the Warrant until further reading was waived by vote of the meeting. 8:04 P. M. Town Clerk , James J. Carroll, read the Constable ' s Return for the meeting. 8:05 P. M. Article 1. Leon W. Bateman , Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, presented the Committee's Report for the meeting which was accepted. 8:06 P. M. Article 2. Presented by Donald E. Nickerson, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. VOTED : To appropriate the sum of $10,670.54 to reimburse the United States Housing and Home Finance Agency for the unpaid balance of the cost advanced by that agency to the Town for the preparation of plans for the construction of the Mill Brook Sewer and to provide for payment thereof by a transfer of said sum from the Metropolitan District Sewer Plan Fund. Carried Unanimously 8:08 P. M. Article 3. Presented by Donald E. Nickerson, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. VOTED: That the Selectmen be and hereby are authorized in the name and on behalf of the Town to construct a sanitary sewer in or near Bedford Street from Eldred Street northerly to the proposed terminus of the Bedford force main near Winter Street, subject to the Selectmen obtaining an agreement in form satisfactory to them from the Town of Bedford to reimburse the Town of Lexington for the full cost of such construction including the cost of financing the project and the cost of any land acquisition, and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee , easement or other interest in land necessary therefor ; and to appropriate for such construct- ion and land acquisition the sum of $45 ,000 and to provide said sum by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town ; and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen , be and he hereby is , authorized to borrow the sum of $45 ,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 one year. Carried Unanimously 8:11 P. M. Article 1. Edwin B. Worthen asks to have Article 1 re-opened. 8:11 P.M. There were no objections. Mr. Worthen offered the following resolution: Resolved; That it is the sense of this meeting that the Select- men not enter into any agreement to furnish water to a consumer outside of Lexington , except by a confirming vote of the Town Meeting Members unless it be to meet an emergency and then only for a period not exceeding eight months. 8:15 P. M. The Moderator rules the resolution out of order. 8:19 P. M. Article 4. Report of Veterans Memorial Library Committee presented by A. Edward Rowse , Chairman as follows: REPORT OF VETERANS MEMORIAL LIBRARY COMMITTEE The Committee appointed in accordance with the vote of March 19, 1951 to develop the details and cost of the Veterans Memorial Library in the new High School, presents the following report :