HomeMy WebLinkAbout1937-12-20-STM-WARRANT 375
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 Cary Memorial Building, in said Lexington, on Monday, the
twentieth day of December, 1937, at 8:00 P . M. , then and there to
act on the following articles :
Article 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and
transfer sums from available funds to the following accounts :
Public Welfare
Removal of Snow and Ice
Law Department - Personal Services & Special Fees
Law Dena-qtment - Expenses
Health Department Expenses
School Maintenance, Other Expenses
Highway Maintenance - Personal Services
Soldier/F. Relief
Police Department - Expenses
Article 3. To see if the Town wild vote to appropriate funds for
labor and materials on public works and for other expenses in
connection therewith, to be expended by the Selectmen for aid
to persons employed on various projects , and provide funds
therefor by transfer from available funds .
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to
be expended under the direction of the Selectmen for the purchase
of materials and equipment and for wages of superintendence on
Public works for which the Town has power to appropriate money
to be designated by the Selectmen, in which works recipients of
welfare aid from the Town may be required to work, and provide
funds therefor by transfer from available funds.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to nay any unpaid bills
for prior years of the various town departments , and provide
money therefor by appropriation and transfer from available
funds .
Article 6. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
install street lights in the following unaccepted streets :
Valleyfield Street ; Preston Road.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and
transfer money from available funds for the installation of a
water main not less then 6' and not more than 16' in diameter
in Raymond Street, from Muzzey Street to Clarke Street.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select-
men to install a sewer in Follen Road from Smith Avenue a distance
of approximately 460 feet, subject to the assessment of better-
ments, and provide funds therefor by appropriation and transfer
from available funds .
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to install underground
cable for the Fire Department and pay for the same by aPpropria-
tion and transfer from available funds .
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to place under the
management of the School Committee the property purchased from
Harriette W. Smith under the provisions of Article 44 of the
Annual Town Meetin7 held in 1937.
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Article 11. To see if the Town will amend the votes passed
under Article 43 of the Warrant for the Annual Town Meeting
held in 1937 and. Article 9 of the Warrant for the Special Town
Meeting held September 27, 1937 by transferring from Available
Funds an amount sufficient to meet the recuirenaents of the
statute to permit borrowing and decreasing the amount to be
borrowed by the amount so transferred.
Article 12. To see if the Town will authorize the selectmen to
settle the action broug'ht by the late Edgar F. Scheibe and the
Petition for assessment of damages brought by the University
Trust Company against the Town, and to provide money for such
settlement by transfer from other accounts.
Article 13. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
compromise and settle a claim against theTownof Theresa B.
Cummings, and to provide money for such settlement by transfer
from other accounts .
Article 14. To see if the Town will establish a PlanningBoard
under General Laws , Chapter 41, sec. 81A, as enacted by tatute
1936, Chapter 211, sec . 4, or act in any manner in relation
thereto.
Article 15 . To see if the Town will accept the Provisions of
Sections 81F, 81 G, 81 H, 811, and 81 J of Chapter 41 of the
General Laws , as enacted by Statute 1936, Chapter 211, Section 4,
or act in any manner in relation thereto.
Article 16. To see if the Town will Provide for a Board of Appeals
under General Laws, Chapter 41, Section 81 I, as enacted by Statute
19364, Chapter 211, Section 4 by amending the General By-laws of
the own by adding a paragraph to that effect to Article XXVI,
or act in any manner in relation thereto.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to release a portion of
Lot C on plan hereinafter referred to from certain restrictions
or rights acquired in an agreement given by Daniel J. O 'Connell
to the Town of Lexington, Warren E. Russell of said Lexington
and Janes J. Walsh and Lucy D. Walsh of said Lexington dated
January 27 1937 and recorded in Middlesex South District Registry
of Deeds , Book 6106, Page 179 which reads as follows:
namely: that so long as any automobile filling station
is maintained on am part of my land in the said Lexington
bounded by Woburn Street, Fletcher Avenue and the Boston
& Maine Railroad, that portion of the said land which is
shown as Lots A and C on a plan of land in Lexington dated
September 15, 1932 by E. N. Montague, C.E. , shall be used
only for the Purposes for which from time to time land in
an District under the Zoning By-Laws of the said
Lexington may be uaed, and the remainder of the said land
shall be used only for one retail gasoline, oil and greas-
ing station and sale andinstallation of tires and other
automobile accessories and for the purposes for which from
time to time land in an R.1 District under the Zoning By-
Law of the said Lexington may be used.
In order to permit the use, in connection with Lot B and for the
purposes for which said Lot B is to be used as set forth in said
agreement, of a portion of Lot C described as follows : Beginning
at a stake on the northerly side of Woburn Street at the dividing
line of Lots B and C on said plan, thence along said line 51.62
feet to an iron bar as shown on saidplan, thence turning and
running through a portion of Lot C 53.37 feet to the northerly
line of Woburn Street, thence turning and running westerly 21.32
feet to the point of beginning and containing 546 square feet.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to accept a deed of a
parcel of land for highway purposes at the corner of Woburn
Street and Fletcher Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts from
Daniel J. O 'Connell, said land being bounded and described as
follows :
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Beginning at a point in the northerly sideline of Woburn
Street, said point being easterly and distant 27 .32 feet
from the intersection of the northerly sideline of
Woburn Street with the southeasterly sideline of Fletcher
Avenue, thence westerly along the northerly sideline of
Woburn Street distant 27.32 feet to said intersection,
thence northeasterly along the southeasterly sideline of
Fletcher Avenue distant 27 .32 feet to a point of tangency,
thence turning to the right and bearing to the left on a
curve of 20.00 feet radius distant 37.54 feet to the
point of beginning containing 171 square feet, all as
shown on a plan entitled Plan of Land in Lexington, Mass . ,
dated Sept. 16, 1932, by E. N. Montague, C.E.
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 on 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 seventh day of
December, A. D. , 1937 .
Charles E. Ferguson
Archibald R. Giroux SELECTMEN
Albert A. Ross OF
William G. Potter LEXINGTON
December 11, 1937 .
To the Town Clerk:
I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting
Printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office, in
the vestibule of the Town Office Building and six other public
Places in the Town, and by mailinga printed copy of the same
to every registered voter in the own eight days before the time
of said meeting.
Attest :
Patrick J. Maguire
Constable of Lexington.