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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1948-10-18-STM-WarrantTOWN 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 eighteenth day of October, 1948, 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 Committees. Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for Old Age Assistance—Aid and Ex- penses, for the balance of the year 1948, and to provide for the payment therefor by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account, or act in any other manner in rela- tion thereto. Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for Public Welfare—Aid and Expenses, for the balance of the year 1948, and to provide for the payment therefor by transfer from the Excess and De- ficiency. Account, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the Highway Department Road Ma- chinery Account, for the balance of the year 1948, and to provide for the payment therefor by transfer from avail- able funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 341 of the Acts of 1948, authorizing the Town to expend a sum not exceeding $10,000 for alterations and improvements on Buckman Tavern, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for alterations and improvements on Buckman Tavern, under Chapter 341 of the Acts of 1948, and provide for payment therefor by transfer from avail- able funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 7. To see if the Town will vote a supplemen- tary appropriation to be used in conjunction with money already appropriated for the construction of sanitary sewers in that part of Lexington known as North Branch Vine Brook as shown on a set of plans in the office of the Town Engineer, and to provide for the payment therefor by transfer from available funds, or by issue of bonds or notes of the Town, or act in any other manner in re- lation thereto. Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for Interest on Debt, and to provide for payment therefor by transfer from available funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to enter into an agreement for the acquisition, installation and maintenance of parking meters in locations to be determined by the Board of Selectmen, and to provide for the payment therefor by a transfer from available funds, or act in any other manner in rela- tion thereto. Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to accept a bequest under the will of Geneva M. Brown for the speci- fled purposes outlined in said will, or act in any other man- ner in relation thereto. Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to accept a bequest under the will of Everett M. Mulliken for the specified purposes outlined in said will, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to be used in addition to money already appropriated for the widening of the southeasterly side of Waltham Street from Massachusetts Avenue to a point on said Waltham Street opposite the southerly boundary of Vine Brook as shown on a plan of Waltham Street, Lexing- ton, Massachusetts, dated July 1925, by Clarence B. French, Town Engineer, and in compliance with the order of the County Commissioners, dated August 3, 1925, and to pro- vide for the payment thereof by a transfer from available funds, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to amend the Lexington Zoning By-law by adding to the areas desig- nated as M. 1, or light manufacturing districts, the fol- lowing area now designated under said Zoning By-law as an R. 1, or one -family dwelling residence district:— Beginning at a point which is at the intersection of a line 125 feet west of the westerly sideline of Marsh Street and parallel to it and a line 250 feet south of the southerly sideline of land now or formerly of the Boston & Lowell R. R. Corp. and parallel to it, thence running in a south- westerly direction along a line 125 feet west and parallel to the westerly sideline of Marsh Street to a point which is at the intersection of a line 125 feet west of the westerly sideline of Marsh Street and parallel to it and a line 1,000 feet south of and parallel to the southerly sideline land now or formerly of the Boston & Lowell R. R. Corp. thence turning and running in a northwest- erly direction along the above described line to Mellex Road, thence turning and running in a northerly and easterly direction along the east side of Mellex Road to a point which is at the in- tersection of the easterly sideline of Mellex Road and a line 250 feet south of the southerly sideline of land now or formerly of the Boston & Lowell R. R. Corp. and parallel to it, thence along said line in a southeasterly direction to the point of beginning. Article 14. To see if the Town will authorize the Se- lectmen to enter into an agreement with the Veterans Ad- ministration for the extension of water mains to the Bed- ford Line and supplying water therefrom to the Veterans Administration in Bedford, Massachusetts upon such terms as the Selectmen shall determine, and to provide for the payment therefor by a transfer from available funds or by the issue of bonds or notes of the Town, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. And you are directed to serve this Warrant 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 twenty-seventh day of September, A. D., 1948. seven days at least before the time of said meeting as A true copy, ATTEST: John C. Russell, Constable of Lexington. WILLIAM C. PAXTON GEORGE W. EMERY. WILLIAM H. DRISCOLL FREDERICK M. GAY DONALD E. NICKERSON SELECTMEN OF LEXINGTON