HomeMy WebLinkAbout1949-04-26-Referendum-Warrant 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 their respective voting places
in said Town.
PRECINCT ONE, ADAMS SCHOOL: PRECINCT TWO, THREE AND FOUR, CARY MEMORIAL
BUILDING ON Tuesday the twenty-sixth day of April, A. D. , 1949 at 7:30 o' clock
A. M. then and there to act upon the following article:
To vote YES or NO by ballot upon the following question presented to the
voters at large by the Selectmen, pursuant to a petition for a referendum
upon a vote rejecting .a measure at an adjourned session of the 1949 Annual
Town Meeting held on March 28, 1949, under Article 37 of the Warrant for
said meeting.
Voted: To raise and appropriate two-million 02,000,000.00) dollars
for the construction and original ,equipping and furnishing of a new
high school building on land acquired by the Town for school purposes in
June 1946 substantially in accordance with the plans submitted and recommended
by the School Committee; to provide for the payment thereof by a transfer of
ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars from the Excess and Deficiency Account and
the issue of bonds and notes of the Town in the amount of one-million nine-
hundred ninety thousand ($1,990,000.00) dollars, and that the Treasurer, with
the approval of the Selectmen, be and he hereby is authorized to borrow the
sum of one-million nine-hundred ninety thousand ($1,990,000.00) dollars, and .
to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in not more than twenty
years, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1947,
as amended by Chapter 26 of the Acts of 1949.
That the School Committee be and it hereby is authorized to enter into a
contract or contracts for the construction, original equipping and furnish-
ing of said building, and that the Moderator be and he hereby is authorized
and directed to appoint a High School Building Committee of five members con-
sisting of two members of the School Committee and three other citizens to
supervise the construction, original equipping and furnishing of said High
School Building, provided, however, that no bonds or notes shall be issued
and no contracts shall be awarded or entered into hereunder prior to
February 1, 1950."
The polls will be open at 7:30 A.M. and will YES
remain open until 8: 00 P.M.
NO
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 fourteenth day of
April, A. D., 1949.
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Constable+ s Return
To the Town Clerk April 15 , 1949
I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting printed
copies of the foregoing warrant in the Town Office Building and seven
other public places in the Town, and by mailing a printed copy of the
same to every registered voter in the Town 12 days before the
time of said meeting.
Attest: C ns le of 'Leaxington
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