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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1931-03-02-TE-WARRANT and 1931-03-16-ATM-WARRANT 454's . DO J.r • T0titiN 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 Lex- ington, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs , to meet in thetr respective voting places in said town, ( Precinct One , Emerson Hall ; Precinct Two , Three and Four , Cary i\Lemorial Hall ) , on MONDAY , THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH , A . D . 1931 , at six o ' clock A . M . , then and there to act on the following articles : Art . 1 . To choose by ballot the following town officers : One sown Clerk for the term of one year One Selectman for the term of three years One Town Treasurer for the term of one year One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year One Cemetery Commissioner for the term of three years One Member of the School Committee for the term of three years Two Constables for the term of one year One Moderator for the term of one year Two members of the Planning Board for the term of three years . Seventeen town meeting members in each precinct for three years . Three town meeting members in Precinct two for one year ( to fill vacancy ) . Two town meeting members in Precinct four for two years ( to fill vacancy) . The polls will be open at 6 : 00 A . M . and will remain open until 8 : 00 P .M. You are also to notify the inhabitants aforesaid to meet in Cary Memorial Hall in said Town on Monday , the sixteenth day of March , 1931 at 8 : 00 P . L& . , at which time and place the following articles are to be acted upon and determined exclusively by the Town Meeting members , in accordance with Chapter 215 of the Acts of 1929 and subject to the referendum provided for by section eight of said chapter . Art . 2 . To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town, and to appoint other committees . Art . 3 . To choose such Town officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination. L4 5 ) Art . 4 . To see if the Town will authorize their Treasurer , under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary purposes , in anti - cipation of revenue for the current year , the same to be repaid directly from the proceeds of said revenue , or act in any manner relative thereto . Art . 5 . To see if the Town will make the usual appropriations for Town expenses for the ensuing year , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 6 . To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the Suppression of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths , in accordance with Chapter 132 , General Laws , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 7 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and assess an amount of money to be used as a Reserve Fund as provided by Chapter 40 , section 6 , General Laws , or take any action relating thereto . Art . 8 . To see if the Town will appropriate funds for . the payment of pensions to retired members of the • Police and Fire Departments , under Chapter 32 , General Laws , or act in any manner . relating thereto . Art . 9 . To see if the Town will voteto raise and appropriate the sum of $50 . 1 ~ Arita ' elect 'a director , the money to be expended by and the director to serve in co -operation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the work of the Middlesex County Extension Service , under the provisions of Section 40 to 45 , Chapter 128 , General Laws of Massachusetts . Art . 10 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the use of the Yater Department and payment of water debt , and to provide same by issuance of bonds , notes or by direct appropriation or by transfer from other accounts , or by any or all of such methods , or take any other action relating thereto . Art . 11 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to place curbing and granolithic sidewalks ad- jacen „ to town property . Art . 12 . To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to petition the Dirs) ctor of Accounts of the State for an audit for the year 1931 . Art . 13 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the support of a Posture Clinic , to be expended under the direction of the Board of Health or by a committee appointed by said Board , or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 14 . To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to sell certain parcels of land owned by the Town comprising a part of the area purchased by the Town from the Middlesex & Boston Street Railway 456 )0 C Company , located on Bedford Street , for a Public CC 'Yorks Department . Art . 15 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for Old Age Assistance in accordance with General Laws , Chapter 118A inserted by Acts of 1930 , Chapter 402 or act in any manner relating thereto . Art . 16 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for the alteration and repair of the Public Yorks Department building located on Bedford Street . Art . 17 . To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1719 . 94 to the Cary Library Account , the same being the sum received from the Middlesex County for dog fees . Art . 18 . To see if the Town will purchase a plot of land owned by Charles F . and Harriette W . Smith for school , playground and park purposes in the rcar of the Parker School comprising approximately four acres more or less , and appropriate money for the purchase of said land . Art . 19 . To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate money by the issuance of bonds or notes or by direct appropriation or by any one or more or all of such methods , for the purpose of building , originally equipping and furnishing an addition to the Adams School , and make the necessary alterations caused by this addition according to the plans and recommendations of the Building Committee . Art . 20 . To see if the Town will amend the Zoning By -law by establishing a new residence district , in which will be permitted in addition to the uses now permitted in . an R-2 District , two-storyapartment houses upon the parcel of land on the northwesterly side of Meriam Street between a line represented approximately by an extension of the southwesterly line of Oakland Street , and approximately the location of the fence adjacent to the tracks of the Boston & Maine Railroad , extending back from Meriam Street two hundred ( 200 ) feet more or less , or act in any manner relating thereto . And you are directed to serve this Warrant seven days at least before the time of said meeting as provided in the By-laws of the Town. Hereof , fail not , and :make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting . Given under our hands , at Lexington, this tenth day of February , A . D . 1931 . Albert H . Burnham Theodore A . Uustance Selectmen Robert P . Trask Clarence Shannon of Hallie C . Blake Lexington. 451E February 21 , 1931 . To the Town Clerk : I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed copies of the foregoing V: arrant in the Post Office , in the Vestibule of the Town Office Building and six other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town seven days before the time of said meeting . Attest : Patrick J . Maguire Constable of Lexington . • • • t r: