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TOT 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 Memor-
ial Building, in said Lexington, on Monday, the 25th day or April,
1938, at eight o' clock P.M. , then and there to act on the following
articles :
Article 1, To see if the Town will vote to ratify the execution
by the Selectmen of a contract, contingent upon ratification by the
Town, with Charles W. Ryder, Charles W. Ryder and Robert L. Ryder
as Trustees of the Lexington Estates Trust, and Robert L. Ryder as
Trustee of the Lexington Real Estate Trust dated October 26, 1937,
a copy of which is now on file with the Selectmen and open to
public inspection, or take any other action with respect to the
said contract.
Article 2. To see if the Town will adopt any or all of the recom-
mendations of the Vine Brook Drainage Committee which report was
received by the Town at its meeting held September 27, 1937.
Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the execution by the
Selectmen of a contract for the execution of drainage improvements
in and adjacent to Vine Brook for the purpose of carrying out any
or all of the recommendations of the Vine Brook Drainage Committee
contained in the report of that committee received by the Town at
its meeting of September 27, 1937 and authorize the taking by
eminent domain of any lands or easements in lands for the purpose
of carrying out any of the said recommendations, and will make an
appropriation therefor, and meet the said appropriation by direct
assessment or by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town payable
as provided by law.
Article 4, To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
compromise actions now pending against the Town brought by Charles
W. Ryder, and Charles W. Ryder and Robert L. Ryder as Trustees of
the Lexington Estates Trust and Robert L. Ryder as Trustee of Lex-
ington Real Estate Trust, and actions brought by the Town against
them, as provided in an agreement, conditioned upon ratification
by the Town, between the Selectmen and the said Ryders dated
October 26, 1937, a copy of which is now on file with the Board
of Selectmen and open to public inspection, and appropriate money
therefor, and meet the said appropriation by direct assessment, by
transfer from available funds, or by the issue of bonds or notes of
the Town payable in accordance with law, or will authorize the
Treasurer under the provisions of Chapter 49 of the Acts of 1933,
as amended, to borrow against ta.R titles from the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts an amount necessary to meet said appropriation, pay-
ment of the said sum of money and execution of the said settlement
to be subject to such conditions, if any, with respect to perform-
ance by the said Ryders in accordance with the said agreement, as
may be imposed by the Town.
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.
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Given under our hands at Lexington, this 23rd day of February,
A. D. , 1938,
CHARLES E. FERGUSON SELECT=
PHILIP M. CLARK
ARCHIBALD R. GIROUX OF
WILLIAM G. POTTER
ALBERT A. ROSS LEXINGTON
February 28th, 1938,
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 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.
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, quali-
fied to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet in the Cary
Memorial Building, in said Lexington, on. Monday, the twenty-first
day of March, 1938, at 8 :00 P.M. , then, and there to act on the follow-
ing articles :
Article 1, To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way
or accept the layout of as a town way, Taft Avenue, from Massachu-
setts Avenue a distance of approximately 1037 feet southwesterly,
as laid out by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act, and shown
upon a certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated
February 18, 1938, and to take by eminent domain the necessary ease-
ments therefor, and pay for the same in whole or in part by diredt
appropriation, by transfer from available funds or by the issue of
notes or bonds of the town; or actin any manner relating thereto.
Article 2, To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way or accept the layout of as a town way, Cherry Street, from
Taft Avenue a distance of approximately 193 feet westerly, as laid
out by the Selectmen, under the Betterment Act, and shown upon a
certain plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated Febru-
ary 28, 1938, and to take by eminent domain the necessary easements
therefor, and pay for the same in whole or in part by direct appro-
priation, by transfer from available funds or by the issue of bonds
or notes of the Town; or act in any manner relating thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town
way or accept the layout of as a town, Cary Street, from Taft Avenue.
a distance of approximately 250 feet westerly, as laid out by the
Selectmen, under the Betterment Act, and shown upon a certain plan
on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated February 18, 1938,
and to take by eminent domain the necessary easements therefor, and
pay for the same in whole or in part by direct appropriation, by
transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of
the Town; 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 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
March, A. D. , 1938,
CHARLES E. FERGUSON SELECTMEN
ARCHIBALD R. GIROUX
ALBERT A. ROSS OF
WILLIAM,,G. POTTER
LEXITNGTON
March 14, 1938.
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 mailing a printed copy of the same to every
registered voter in the Town nine days before the time of said meet-
ing.
Attest :
John C. Russell
Constable of Lexington.
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TOWN WARRANT
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, as .
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said.
County, Greeting
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachasetts , yo-a are
directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington,
oualified to vote in elections and in town affairs , to meet in
the Cary Memorial Building, in said. Lexington, on Monday, the
twenty-fifth day of April, 1938, at 8:00 P. M., then and there
to act on the following articles :
Article 1. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers
or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Coromittees .
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to install a trunk line
sewer beginning at the MetropolitRn Sewer near the Arlington-Lex-
ington Line, thence in a general northerly direction for a distance
of approximately 1620 feet to a point in Rindge Avenue about 300
feet southerly of Winn Avenue, and to acquire any necessary lands
or easements by purchase or eminent domain; and to authorize the
Selectmen to cause this to be done as a Federal Works Progress
Administration Project; and provide funds therefor, incIading
land damages, by direct appropriation, by transfer from available
funds , or by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town payable in
accordance with the law, or by borrowing under the provisions of
Chapter 58 of the Acts of 1938.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to install a trunk line
sewer beginning at the Metropolitan Sewer near the Arlington-
Lexington Line, thence in a general northerly direction for a
distance of approximately 1620 feet to a point in Rindge A7-enae
about 300 feet southerly of Vann Avenue, and to acouire any nec-
essary lands or easements by purchase or eminent domain; and
provide funds therefor, including land damages , by direct appro-
priation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of
bonds or notes of the Town Payable in accordance with the law.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to install sewer mains
in the following unaccepted streets, subject to the assessment
of betterments, and to acquire by purchase or by eminent domain
any necessary easements therefor:
Rindge Avenue, from a poin.3. near Rawson Avenue, to Melrose
Avenue, a distance of approsi-r:_tely 950 feet;
Melrose Avenue, from Rindge Avenue northwesterly, a distance of
approximately 20C feet;
Rawson Avenue, between Albermarle Ave. and Rindge Avenue;
Albermarle Avenue, from Rawson Avenue southerly, a distance of
approximately 150 feet, and also from Winn Avenue, a distance
of aPproximately 180 feet southerly;
Winn Avenue , between Albermarle Avenue and Rindge Avenue, a
distance of approximately 360 feet;
and provide funds for said installation by direct appropriation,
by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of bonds or
notes of the Town, payable in accordance with the law.
Article 5 . To see if the Town will vote to install a sewer main
in Bow Street, between Rawson Avenue and a point approximately
800 feet southerly of Rawson Avenue , subject to the assessment
of betterments , and provide funds for said installation by
direct appropriation, by transfer from available fands , or by
the issue of bonds or notes of the Town payable in accordance
with the law.
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Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the
Selectmen, on behalf of the Town, to purchase or take by eminent
domain the land, right or easement to construct at the outlet
of Butterfield' s Fond at Lowell Street a dam to create a Storage
basin for flood flows of Vine Brook and the right to flow the
land under and adjoining the said Butterfield' s Pond and its
tributaries, and that the Selectmen be authorized in the name
of and on behalf of the Town to execute a contract for the con-
struction of such a dam and appurtenant works, and to provide
payment for the same by direct appropriation, by transfer from
available ±Imds, or by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town,
payable in accordance with the law,
Article 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to
construct a conduit to enclose the North_ Branch of Vine Brook
from the west side of Waltham Street to the junction of the North
and South Branches, and to provide payment for the same by direct
appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue
of bonds or notes of the Town, payable in accordPnce with the law.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Select-
men to construct a low level sewer from a point about two handred
and ten feet east of Hayes Lane to a point about two handred and
twenty feet south of Vine Brook Road near the conduit to be con-
structed for Vine Brook as authorized by this meeting and to ac-
quire by purchase or by taking by eminent domain any necessary
easement therefor, and to provide payuent for the same by direct
appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue
of bonds or notes of the Town payable in accordance with the law.
Article 9 . To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money for
services and expenses in the defense of the Ryder drainage cases.
Article 10 , To see if the Town will vote to appropriate an
additional sum of money for the Planning Board, for engineering
purposes .
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 Tour Clerk, on or before the time of
said meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington, this seventh day of
April, A. D, , 1938,
Archibald R. Giroux MAJORITY OF THH
William G. Potter SET7ICTIEN
A. Edward Rowse
OF
Albert A. Ross
LEXINGTON
April 18th, 1938.
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 mailing a printed copy of the same
to every re,fistered voter in the Town seven days before the time
of said meeting.
Attest:
Patrick J. Maguire
Constable of Lexington.