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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. 376 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 : X77 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.