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287 SELECTMEN'S MEETING January 3, 1961 A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen' s Room, Town Office Building, on Tuesday, January 3, 1961, at 7:30 P.P1 . Chairman Morey, Messrs . Adams, Ferguson and Richards were present . Mr. Stevens, Town Counsel, Mr . Carroll , Superintendent of Public Works , and the Executive Clerk were also present . Mr. Cole arrived later in the evening . Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to approve the minutes ofthe Selectmen ' s Meeting Minutes held on December 27, 1960 . The Chairman read a letter from Mr. Stevens with Acquisition reference to the Meriam Street parking area. Papers or parking were passed and recorded December 29, 1960 completing area land the acquisition by the Town of the Parking area . Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to petition the County Commissioners for authority to lay out a public way from Edison Way to land of the Petition to Town that was recently purchased from the Boston and County Corrmti . Maine Railroad and is to be used, together with other land of the Town on which it abuts, for a municipal off-street parking area, which public way will cross at grade the tracks of the Lexington branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was voted to sign contract, submitted by Mr . Stevens, between Alarm system. the Town and Hosmer R. Kimball for the installation contract of a remote transmitter alarm system in the amount of $1609. Copy of Mr. Stevens' letter to Anthony D 'Alessandro & Sons, Inc . , relative to a claim filed by Margaret A . McCarthy, was received. Mr. Stevens explained that Mrs . McCarthy claimed a defect in the highway due to the presence of con- Claim struction equipment sticking out and not property lighted. Mr. Carroll reported that the incident occurred on Watertown Street and Mrs . McCarthy hit the shovel ..