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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1927-12-08-STM-WARRANT 1. 40 :r r C TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS . MIDDLESEX , SS . To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington , in said County , Greeting : In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington , qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet in the Town Hall , in said Lexington , kin THURSDAY , THE EIGHTH DAY OF DECEITUk , 1927 , at 8 o ' clock P . M . Art 1 . To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town , and to ars _ oint other Committees . Art . ? . To see if the town will vote to transfer the proceeds from the sale of the Town Hall property , namely q50 , 001 . 00 to the credit of New Tovyn Office Building acc -lunt , or act in any manner relating thereto . • Art . 3 . To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in York Street . • Art . 4 . To see if the Town will vote to sell the schoolhouse lot on Concord Avenue , containing approximately 15 , 650 square feet of land , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 5 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell all or any portion of the Almshouse property and contents , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 6 . To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Selectmen to report to the Annual Town Meeting in March , 1928 , their recommenda - tions as to the purchase of land to be used by the Public ' forks Department for the storage of material and equipment , and as a site for a new building to house the Fire Department , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 7 . To see if the Town will vote to amend the first paragraph of Article III , section 5 of the Code of By- Laws of - 19'‘J? by sub - stituting therefore the following : " The annual meeting of the Town shall be ct.illed for six o ' clock in the morning and thereafter the polls shall be oven continuously for voting until eight o ' clock in the evening . Immediately upon the announcement of the result of the voting , such meeting shall stand adjourned until eight o ' clock in the evening of the following Monday . " Art . 8 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer sums of money from the General Revenue and Surplus Account to the following accounts : Town Treasurer ; Parks & Playgrounds ; Village Hall ; Street Signs ; Highway Maintenance ; Repairing and painting Poor Farm Buildings ; Bedford Street damages ; Selectmen ; Board of Health ; Sidewalks ; Law ; Forest Fires ; Interest ; Soldiers Relief . Art . 9 . To hear the report of the committee appointed under Article 63 of the Town Meeting held MLrch 16 , 191) 5 to investigate and report on the question of establishing a permanent memorial to the Veterans of all Wars . 141 Art . 10 . To see if the Town will vote to rescin.i that part of the vote passed under Article 3 of the Town Meetin r held March 16 , 1925 which reads as follow: : " That the present Commander of George G . -neade Post , Grand Army of the Republic , the present CommE''nder of Staley Hill. Post , the American Legion , and a Veteran of the Spanish War 1 with two other citizens , the last three to be appointed by the bderator , be named as a Committee of five to investigate and report on the question of establishing a permanent :.: em- orial , said Committee to be permanent , any vacancies to be filled by the then Moderator by the selection of a member of the organization or group in wnich the vacancy may occur , and in case no member of the Grrnd Army Post is able to serve , its representative shall be selected from the Sons of Veterans . " Art . 11 . To see if the Tov :n will vote to appoint a committee of five to establish a permanent memorial for the veterans of the late war who went from the Town of Lexington to serve with the colors and hold or are entitled to an honorable discharge from the United States Army , fl aver , or trine Corp . Art . 1 . To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By- Law by establishing; a business district on Massachusetts Avenue beginning at the northwesterly enol of Robbins Cemetery and continuing in a northwesterly direction to a point atnroxitnately 450 feet distant , Mich point is about opposite Oak Street , or act in any manner re - lating thereto . Hereof , fail not , and make due return of this ` ,'arrant , wite your doings thereon , to the Town Clerks on or before the time of said meeting . Given under our hands , at Le irigton , this twenty- second day of November , A . D . Theodore A . Custance Albert H . Burnham . elec t men James G . Robertson of Francis Chamberlain Lexington :':'illi am H . Ballard Lexington , Mass . November 2LO , To the Torn Clerk : - I have notified the inhabitants of Lexi _igton by posting; printed conies of the foregoing V''arrant in the Post Office , in the vestibule of the Town Hall and in six other Public nlaces in the town , and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered v- ter in the town nine days before the time of said meptine . Attest : James J . Sullivan Constable of Lexington .