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I. REGULAR MEETING, APRIL 17, 1928 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held at the Selectmen's office at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Burnham, Custance, Ballard, Robertson, and Chamberlain were present. The Supt. of Public Works and the Clerk were also present. Mr. Randall B. Houghton came before the Board in regard to Payment of bill $149.35 which was rendered to the Board for work done by the Field and Garden Club in 1925, 1926, and 1927. ne Stated that in 1921 and 1922 the Field and Garden Club were made payments by the Town for work done amounting to $56.71 and $60.00 respectively in those years, and since that time nothing has been paid by the town, but a great deal of work has been done by this Club in cleaning up the grass borders that are on the highway. The Board discussed the advisability of having the Field and Garden Club do this work, and Pyr. Houghton stated that the Club was an old one and that it had been the custom of the club to do this, but he was willing to abide by what the Board decided to do, but he did feel that they Zhould pay the bill of•$149.35 inasmuch as this had been the custom in the past and it was simply owing to the negligence of the _ Treasueer that the bill had not been received. After lir. Houghton retired, the Board voted to pay the bill of $149.35 but decided to notify the Field and Garden Club that hereafter the Board would prefer that the Field and Gar- den Club would not do any work on Town property. In regard to the exchange of 1%nd proposed by Robbins & Smith near Harrington Park, Ir. Robertson reported that he and JAr. Chamberlain had viewed the stakes laid out by the Engineer showing the property Robbins & Smith intend to deed to the Town to straighten out the matter of Harrington Park, and they found that the land intended to be deeded would be all right for the Town to accept and the Board decided to authorize the Town Counsel to pvoceed to negotiate lnith Robbins & Smith to complete arrangements for the deeding of this property in exchange for a part.of Harrington Park so that a definite plot of land will be deeded to the Town. The report of the Supt. of Public Works which is as follows was approved: April 17, 1928 The work accomplished by the various departments during the week of April 14th is as follows: Highway Department. The greater part of the work of the week was patching streets in all part's of the town, and cleaning streets in the vicinity of the center,of the town. The work of grading, scrap- ing, and rolling gravel roads was continued. Several stumps and roots of large trees were removed from the new Town Hall grounds. Water Department.