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216. Use of Hall Req. to scrape Grant St Equip. rental County layout of Admas Street StLt6TMEM MSP arra April 26, 1943 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building on Monday evening, April 26, 1943 at 7:30 P.M. Chairman Rowse, Messrs. Potter, Locke, Sarano and Sheldon were present. The Clerk was also present. Mr. Paxton appeared before the Board at 7:30 P.M. He said that the Trustees of the Children's Museum had requested the use of Estabrook Hall on Friday evening, May 14, 1943 at 8:00 P.M. for an educational lecture to be given by C. Russell Mason. There will be.no admission charge. Mr. Potter moved that the use of the hall be granted free of charge. Mr. Locke seconded the motion, and it was so voted. Mr. Paxton said that Mr. Carlson, 83 East Street, had made a request to have Grant Street scraped. Mr. Sarano moved that Mr: Paxton be authorized to. scrape Grant Street, subject to the usual charge. Mr. Sheldon seconded the motion, and it was so voted. Mr. Paxton stated that construction of a water main in Spencer Street had just been completed and the gas shovel has not yet been removed. Mr. Nardelli, a contractor working on Spencer Street, requested the use of the shovel to dig a cesspool hole. Mr. Potter moved that -.Mr. Paxton be authorized to rent the gas shovel to Mr. Nardelli at the usual rate. Mr. Locke seconded the motion, and it was so voted. Mr. Paxton informed the Board that he had received a request for the layout of Adams Street as a County way. He said that Howard hatch, Middlesex County Engineer, thought that the Board of Selectmen should request the County layout'of the street following the same lines as they are now. The only differences would be getting the distances down to hundreds, and angles to seconds instead of minutes. Mr. Paxton said that both he and Mr. Cosgrove are of the opinion that one of the troubles on all streets is narrowness in width, and that it might be possible to widen this layout from East Street over to the Burlington line. He said that he thought the Town could have a fifty or sixty foot layout without too much expense being incurred It is now a forty foot layout. However, it would be best to request the County to make a layout even if the forty foot layout were kept. Mr. Paxton said that there might be takingof land claims by Mr. Burnham and Mr. Caderio, but that they would be very small. The Board decided to have Mr. Paxton or Mr..Cosgrove contact the abutters and report to the Board next week. 1 1