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144 <br />1 <br />,Mosquito <br />Control <br />Meeting <br />Fire <br />,Insurance <br />Held <br />Over <br />Precinct <br />Revision <br />Article <br />Warrant <br />1946 <br />Annual Town <br />Meeting <br />SELECTMEN'S MEETING <br />April 16, 1945 <br />A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was <br />held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Office Building, on <br />Monday evening, April 16, 1945 at 7:30 P.M. Chairman <br />Locke, Messrs. Potter, Rowse, Sarano and Sheldon were <br />present. The Clerk was also present. The members were <br />notified of this meeting by a notice mailed April 13, <br />1945. <br />At 7:30 P.M. Mr. Paxton appeared before the Board. <br />He said that he had received a letter from the State <br />Reclamation Board pertaining to a mosquito control meeting <br />on Tuesday afternoon at City Hall, Cambridge. <br />The Chairman read a letter from the State Board. <br />requesting that a check for the $3,000.00, appropriated <br />at the Annual Town Meeting in connection with the mosquito <br />control project, be made out to the Commonwealth of Mass- <br />achusetts, and sent to the State Reclamation Board. <br />Mr. Stratton, Secretary of the Board, stated that a <br />Lexington citizen would be appointed to represent the Town <br />as one of the Commissioners. <br />The Chairman asked Mr. Paxton if he would attend the <br />meeting on Tuesday, and he agreed to do so. <br />Mr. Paxton stated that he had talked with Mr. Weeks, <br />Supt. of Public Works in Melrose, in an effort to deter- <br />mine what should be done relative to the Town's fire <br />insurance. He said that each Town seems to have a differ- <br />ent system, none of which prove satisfactory insofar as <br />Lexington is concerned. <br />Mr. Rowse and Mr. Sheldon agreed to meet with Mr. <br />Paxton on Saturday morning to discuss this subject and <br />present recommendations to the Board of Selectmen on Monday <br />evening, April 23, 1945. <br />The Chairman called the Board's attention to Mr. <br />Wrightington's letter of October 30, 1944, in which he <br />stated that the precincts should be revised once in five <br />years, or in December of any year, when so directed by a <br />vote of the representative Town Meeting, not later than <br />November 30th of that year. This would indicate that a <br />revision is a matter for the Selectmen in the first instance, <br />or the Town Meeting to decide. <br />Mr. Rowse moved that the vote of April 9, 1945, <br />approving certain precinct revisions submitted by Mr. <br />Paxton, be rescinded, and that an Article be inserted <br />in the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting for 1946 to <br />cover the matter. Mr. Sarano seconded the motion, and it <br />was so voted. <br />1 <br />