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443 SELECTMEN IS:MEETING 1 APRIL 23, 1935. A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town offices, at 7:30 P.M. Messrs. Ferguson, Lyons, Gilcreast and 'otter were present. The Clerk was -also present. Hearing was declared open at 8:00 P.M. on the application of the Carrigan Construction Co. for permission to maintain Carrigan a one car garage of cement block construction under a house Garage at Lots 91 and pt. of 92, section 2, Farmhurst (28.3 Marrett Applicaticn. Road). Mr. B. F. Selfridge appeared and presented plans of the garage. No persons appeared in opposition and it was voted to grant the permit subject to the approval of the Building Inspector. Hearing was declared open at 8:05 P.M. on the Hultman application of Mrs. Johanna Hultman for permission to Garage maintain a one car garage to be constructed under the house applica- at 246 Lincoln Street. Mrs. Hultman appeared and present- tion. ed plans of the garage. No persons appeared in opposition and it was voted to grant the permit subject to the approval of the Building Inspector. The Board of Assessors appeared before the Board and Tax Rate ' established the tax rate of $33. for 1935. The Chairman for of the Board of Assessors stated that Mr. C. W. Ryder had 1935. been given an abatement of approximately $800. on his taxes in the past two years (each year}, and the Board did not feel that he should be given an abatement this year, and that he could bring the matter before the Board of Tax Appeals if he wished. The Board of Selectmen agreed with the Board of Assessors in the matter. Mr. Clyde E. Steeves requested the Board to have a Police police officer on duty on Mass. Ave. in front of the Officer, Baptist Church on Sundays from 11:45 A.M. to 12:00 Noon,. Baptist and from 1:15 P.M. to 1:30 P.M. The request was approved. Church Mr. Harold B. Needham appeared before the Board in regard to a letter he had received from the Town Counsel Needham on his outstanding water guaranty for East Lexington Farms. Water Mr. Needham stated that shortly after the water main was Guaranty extended that he sold the property, and had a verbal agreement with the man that bought the,property that he would assume the water guaranty, but the man died a short while after. He stated that he was not the owner of the property, that his wife was, but that he signed the bond. He also stated that there was no appropriation covering this extension, that no easements had been taken, and that the Town had no right to extend the main. Mr. Lyons asked 1 Mr. Needham to'agree that he signed the bond, and that therefore he was the one who made the contract with the Town