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7 TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: 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 Monday, the twenty-second day of September, 1941 , at eight o' clock P. M. , 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 Building Line as established by the Selectmen across land of George Scott adjoining Massachusetts Avenue between Merriam Street and the northerly driveway leading from Massachusetts Avenue to the Railroad Station in Lexington Center, fifteen feet (15' ) from the present north- easterly boundary of Massachusetts Avenue , in accordance with a plan now on file in the office of the Town Clerk, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the County Commissioners to relocate Mass- achusetts Avenue so as to widen it to the proposed Building Line , or take any action to procure such widening. • Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize the purchase from George Scott of land or an easement in land adjoining Mass- achusetts Avenue between Merriam Street and the northerly driveway leading from Massachusetts. Avenue to the railroad station in Lexington Center for any municipal purpose and provide for the payment there- for by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 5. To see if the Town will authorize a conveyance to George Scott or his nominee of a portion of land recently acquired by the Town from the Boston & Maine Railroad , adjoining the land now owned by the said George Scott, in exchange for a conveyance to the Town by the said Scott of certain land or an easement- in land at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Merriam Street or for any other consideration, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 6. To see if the Town will accept a relocation of the northerly driveway leading to the railroad station at Lexington Center as laid out by the Selectmen, or act in any manner in re- lation thereto. Arti3le 7. To see if the Town will vote to pay any sum of money to george Scott in compensation for any taking by eminent domain of his land or any easement therein or in consideration of a grant by him to the Town of the right to establish the said proposed Building Line , and to widen Massachusetts Avenue to the said Building Line if authorized by the County Commissioners, and provide for the payment of the same by direct aopropriation, by transfer from available funds , or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 8. To see if the Town will authorize the conveyance to George Scott or his nominee of the land on which is located the Fire Station on Merriam Street with or without the building thereon, and will determine the consideration therefor, or act in any manner in relation thereto.