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496 C.71 TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, as. 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, quali- fied to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet in the Cary Memorial Building, in said Lexington, on Thursday, the 27th day of Zuly, 1939 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 vote to appropriate a sum of money to pay the netessary expenses of the Superintendent of Schools incurred outside the Commonwealth in securing inform- ation upon matters in which the Town is interested or which may tend to improve the service in the School Department. Article 3. To see if the Town will accept a gift under the will of Emma I. Fiske to be used for the decoration and/or equip- ment of the Primary Department of the Adams School, consisting of a collection of minerals, an upright piano, and the sum of $500.00. , Article 4. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 91 of the Actipf 1939, of 7hich the following is a copy: Chapter 91 " AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CHANGING OF THE METHOD AND RATE OF ASSESS* MEWS FOR SEWERS CONSTRUCTED BY THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON IN CO-OPER- ATION WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Be it enacted, etc. , as follows: Section 1. The provisions of section one of chapter three hundred and twenty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and tventy-six, with reference to assessment of the cost of sanitary sewers constructed in the town of Lexington in accordance with the provisions of chapter five hundred and four of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as amended, shall not apply to sanitary sewers, as defined in section one of said chapter two hundred and twenty-one, constructed in the said town in co-operation with the Works Progress Administration of the United States. The portion of the cost of such sanit- ary sewers which is not paid or provided by said Works Progress Administration shall be assessed upon the estates specially benefited by such sanitary sewers. The board of selectmen of said town shall determine the amount to be so assessed and shall apportion the same upon the estates that they shall determine to be specially benefited, in the proportion which the area of each such estate, for a depth not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five feet, bears to the total area included in the calculation, but the entire estate shall be subject to the lien for such assessment. No land shall be taxed or assessed hereunder more than once. No assessment hereunder shall be levied upon any estate or part thereof, which by reason of its grade or otherwise cannot be drained into such new construction, until such incapacity