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TOWN WARRANT 1)5 Commonwealth of Iassachusetts Middlesex, ss . To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greetings In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified to vote in elections and in Town affairs, to meet in the Cary Memorial Building, in said Lexington, on ionda -, the 12th day of June , 1944 at eight o'clock P. iy` . , then and there to act on the following articles : Article 1. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees . Article 2. To see if the Town will accept a gift, in the amount of 82,000.00, under the will of Ellen A. Stone to be used in aiding needy and deserving young women of Lexington in getting a good school education, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase on behalf of the Town, as a site for a school building, Certain land belonging to the William E. Mulliken Estate, consist- ing of approximately eight acres, bounded southerly by land now or formerly of Charles W. and Robert L. Ryder, Trustees; westerly and northerly by land of the Town of Lexington; and easterly by other land of the William E. Mulliken Estate and by Waltham Street, and provide for the payment therefor by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town, by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds ; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to purchase on behalf of the Town, as a site for a school playground, certain land belonging to Warren E. Russell, consisting of approx- imately one and one-third acres , bounded southerly by the Munroe Cemetery; westerly by the High School lot ; northerly by other land of Warren E . Russell; and easterly by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and provide for the payment therefor by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town, by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds ; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Trustees of the Cary Memorial Library to obtain plans, specifications and estimates for the enlargement of and additions to the present library building located on the corner of I;iassachzsetts Avenue and Clarke Street and provide for the payment therefor by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds ; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 6 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain on behalf of the Town for the purpose of erecting a new Central Fire Station, all or a part of the property now belonging to Elizabeth C . Phelps, on the northeaterly side of Bedford Street bounded as follows : Beginning at a point in the northeaterly sideline of Bedford Street, thence by land of Frederic . K. Johnson, Inc. and land of the said Phelps N 72° 281 E distant 275 .00 feet to a point; thence by land of the said Phelps N 17° 32' W distant about 281 feet, to a point in the centerline of the main channel of North Lexington Brook; thence southwesterly along the centerline of said brook distant about 284 feet to Bedford Street; thence by Bedford Street to the point of beginning; containing about 69,160 square feet, with the benefit of and subject to certain mutual rights of way and provide for the payment therefor by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town , by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds ; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to acquire by purchase or take by eminent domain on behalf of the Town for the purpose of erecting a new Central Fire Station, the property at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Fletcher Avenue belonging to Bridget Leary and provide for the payment therefor by the issue of bonds or notes of theTown , by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto.