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SELECTMENIS MEETING February 11,1930. A regular meeting -of theBoard of Selectmen was held .at the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building,.at 7:30 P.M., Messrs. Burnham, Chamber-:- hamber=laid, laid,Custance and Blake were present. The $upt. of Public Works and the Clerk were _also _present. At 7:45 P.M. Mr. Albert A. floss, member of the American Legion came before the Board and re- quested that an article be inserted in the Warrant ' asking for an appropriation for the use of the ` American Legion to entertain the visitors who Appropriation will come to Lexington owing to the 1930 Legion for American convention which is to be in Boston. The Legion Legion Conven- estimate about $50,000 - $100,000 people will tion. visit the Town during the week of the convention. He stated that the American Legion post in Arlington is asking for $2500 and Winchester, 10001 and that the Legion here felt they should have $2000. He spoke also of the Legion getting..public subscriptions to pay for a float to be in -the, parade, possibly the representation of the Spirit of 1776. He stated that he communicated with Mr. Harold B. Lamont, Chairman of the Tercentenary - Committee, and he did not want to have it forgotton that the American Legion would_like_to have some money, and wanted to have it arranged so that it would either come through the Tercentenary_ Com- mittee or through the Legion itself. Mr. Byron C. Earle, Tax Collector, came before Tax Collector the Board and informed them that he had to Increase re_ appropriation the appropriation $500. owing to the.faet that the State Auditor advised him that he could not pay for the advertising of any property out of the current taxes. The Board of Survey voted to repeal their vote passed August'&,,1929, whereby the layout Proposed Of 1001 was made by the Board of Survey. Street. At 8 P.M., hearing was declared -open on the layout of a road to run from Massachusetts Avenue to Vine Brook Road, along the Viano garage. Various of the owners of property ap-;eared before the Board to view the new layout. Mf;. Custance explained to them that the _layout did not take as much of their property as the 1001 layout, and therefore the damages would be less and at.some later date they would present a state- ment relative to what they felt the damages would be. No persons ap9eared to object to the layout, and the hearing was declared closed. The Board signed the layout of the road from Massachusetts Avenue to Vine Brook Road to a width of 801.