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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1957-03-04-TE-Warrant-and-1957-03-18-ATM-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, EAST LEXINGTON FIRE STATION; PRECINCT THREE, CARY MEMORIAL BUILDING ; PRECINCT FOUR, SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL; PRECINCT FIVE, CENTRAL FIRE STATION; PRECINCT SIX, MARIA HASTINGS SCHOOL on Monday the lath day of March, A. D., 1957 at 7 :30 o'clock A. M., then and there to act on the following articles : ARTICLE 1. To choose by ballot the following Town Officers : Two Selectmen for the term of three years; One member of the School Committee for the term of three years; One Cemetery Commissioner for the term of three years; One member of the Planning Board for the term of five years; One Moderator for the term of one year; One Collector of Taxes for the term of one year; One Town Clerk for the term of one year; One Town Treasurer for the term of one year; Two Constables for the term of one year; Eleven Town Meeting Members in each Precinct for the term of three years; One Town Meeting Member in Precinct One to fill the unexpired term ending March, 1958; -. One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Two to fill the unexpired term ending March, 1958; One Town Meeting Member in Precinct Three to fill the unexpired term ending March, 1958; Two Town Meeting Members in Precinct Four to fill the unexpired terms ending March, 1959; To vote Yes or No by ballot on the following question: Shall an Act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-six entitled "An Act to provide for the filling of vacancies in the number of Town Meeting Members in the Town of Lexington" be accepted? Of YES f NO r - J -2- The polls will be open at 7:30 A.M. and will remain open until 8::0o P.M. You are also to notify the inhabitants aforesaid to meet in Cary Memorial Hall in said Town on Monday, the eighteenth day of March, 1957, at 8:00 P.M., at which time and place the following articles are to be acted upon and determined exclusively by the Town Meeting Members in accordance with Chapter 215 of the Acts of 1929, as amended, and subject to the referendum provided for by Section eight of said Chapter, as amended, ARTICTF 2. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town. ARTICLE 3. To appoint or provide for the appointment of the Committee on Lectures under the wills of Eliza Cary Farnham and Susanna E. Cary. ARTICLE 4. To see if the Town will make appropriations for expendi- tures by departments, officers, boards and committees of the Town for the ensuing year and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, including any special funds, or by any combination of these methods, or act in any other manner in relation thereto, ARTICLE 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in antici- pation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1958, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17 of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, ARTICT,F 6. To see if the Town will establish the salary and compen- sation of the Town Treasurer, Town Clerk and Town Collector of Taxes, being all the elected officers of the Town on a salary basis, as provided by Section 108 of Chapter 41 of the General Laws, and raise and appropriate the funds necessary therefor, or act in any other manner in relation thereto, ARTICLE 7. To see if the Town will transfer unexpended appropriation balances in any of the accounts to the Excess and Deficiency Account , or to other accounts suitable for such transfer under Chapter 44 of the General Laws, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. -3- ARTICLE 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money to pay any unpaid bills rendered to the Town for prior years, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 9. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the Reserve Fund as provided by Section 6 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 10. To: see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to petition the Director of Accounts of the State for an audit for the year 1957, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 11. To see if the Town will vote to install new or replace- ment water mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may determine, subject to the assessment of betterments or other- wise, and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for such installation and land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by t ransfer from available funds, including any special water funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of other these methods; or act in any/manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 12. To see if the Town will vote to install sewer mains in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may de- termine, subject to the assessment of betterments or otherwise, in accor- dance with Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897, as amended, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for such installation and land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds, includ- ing any special sewer funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods ; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF. 13. To see if the Town will make supplementary appropriations to be used in conjunction with money appropriated in prior years for the installation or construction of water mains, sewers, drains, streets or buildings, that have heretofore been authorized, and determine whether the yt ._ -4- money -money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate funds for the payment of pensions to retired members of the Police and Fire Depart- ments and their dependents under Chapter 32 of the General Laws, or act in any other manner in relation thereto, ARTICLE 15. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for highway maintenance under the authority of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 16. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for highway construction under the authority of Chapter 90 of the General Laws, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto, ARTICLE 17. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for permanent street construction and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 18. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to con- struct concrete, bituminous concrete or other sidewalks where the abutting owner pays one-half of the cost or otherwise; appropriate a sum of money for such construction, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any com- bination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. -5- ARTICLE 19. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to install curbing at such locations as they may determine; appropriate a sum of money for such installation, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combina- tion of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 20. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate money for the improvement of lowlands and swamps and the eradication of mosquitoes under Chapter 252 of the General Laws or for the eradication of mosquitoes by the Board of Health of Lexington; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 21. To see if the Town will vote to install drains in such accepted or unaccepted streets or other land as the Selectmen may determine in accordance with Chapter 263 of the Acts of 1926, as amended, or otherwise, and to take by eminent domain, purchase or otherwise acquire any fee, ease- ment or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for such installation and land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods ; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 22. to see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purchase by or with the approval of the Selectmen of equipment for the Department of Public Works, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, including the Road Machinery Fund, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 23. To see if the Town will vote to enlarge the scope of the Road Machinery Fund by crediting to said fund an amount based on hourly rental for the use of motorized equipment of the Public Works Department when used on various projects carried on under the direction of said Depart- ment or other Town Departments, the amount of said credit not to exceed the amount allowed by the State for the use of similar equipment; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. _6_ ARTICTF 24. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint one of its members to the Board of Appeals, in accordance with Section 4A of Chapter 41 of the General Laws; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 25. To see if the Town will vote to install street lights in such unaccepted streets as the Selectmen may determine prior to the final adjournment of the 1958 Annual Town Meeting, or act in any other manner in relation thereto. AR IEIC7,F 26. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to sell and convey all or any part of the land on Meriam Street known as the Old Fire Station Site, upon such terms and conditions as they deem proper; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 27. To see if the Town will authorize the Planning Board to obtain options for land or rights therein that it desires to recommend be acquired by the Town as locations for future streets or for playground and recreational purposes and will authorize the Selectmen to acquire the land or rights therein that are recommended for street purposes; appropriate money for such options and for acquisition of such land for street purposes and determine whether the same shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 28. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the development of Westview Cemetery, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, including the Westview Sale of Lots Fund, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purchase or lease of voting machines; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. l"J ..7, ARTICLE 30. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to abandon the drainage easement extending from Winter Street along the common boundary between Lots 8 and 9 on Winter Street that was granted to the Town by deed of Alexander R. MacLean and Emeline MacLean dated August 31, 1948 and recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds in Book 7339, Page 504, and that is no longer needed by the town, and will set the minimum amount to be paid for such abandonment; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE. 31. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the purchase by or with the approval of the Selectmen of a water billing machine, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, including any special water funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto„ ARTICLE 32. To see if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 401 of the Acts of 1956 which is an Act extending to certain Civil Defense volunteers the provision of law applicable to municipal employees for indemnification of damages sustained through the operation of publicly owned vehicles. ARTICLE 33. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the installation of traffic lights on Massachusetts Avenue at suchpoint as may be determined by the Board of Selectmen between Pleasant Street and Curve Street, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto, -8- ARTICI,F 34. To see if the Town will provide for and authorize a committee to make a study of the needs of the residents of the Town for hospital ser- vices, the hospital facilities that are available to them and whether there is need for a hospital to be established in the Town and report thereon at a subsequent Town Meeting, and raise and appropriate money for the expenses of the committee; or act in any other manner in relation thereto, ARTICLE 35, To see if the Town will provide for and authorize a com- mittee to study Chapter 32B of the General Laws, which authorizes munici- palities to purchase policies of group life, accidental death and dis- memberment insurance covering employee's and group insurance providing hospital, surgical and medical benefits covering employees and their dependents, with half the premiums to be paid. by the municipality and half by the employees and to file a report at the next Town Meeting as to whether or not it recommends the Town adopt such a plan and if so what plan it recommends and its cost to the Town; and raise and appropriate money for the expenses of the committee; or act in any other manner in relation thereto, ARTICLE 36. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to retain engineering services and prepare plans and specifications for a possible street from Justin Street to Grove Street and raise and appropriate money therefor; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 37. To see if the Town will provide for a Standing School Building Committee to be available when authorized by the Town to retain architectural services, prepare plans and specifications , obtain bids, let contracts and supervise the construction of school buildings and additions thereto and the original equipping and furnishing of the same and also the making of alterations in and renovations to school buildings; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. i ,„„„ S -9- ARTICLE 38. To see if the Town will provide for and authorize a committee to prepare final plans and specifications, to obtain bids and to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction, original equipping and furnishing of an addition to the Maria Hastings School Building, and to supervise the work; and appropriate a sum of money for such purposes and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 39, To see if the Town will provide for and authorize a com- mittee to prepare final plans and specifications, to obtain bids and to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction, original equipping and furnishing of an "addition to the Harrington School Building and to supervise the work; and appropriate a sum of money for such purposes and de- termine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 404; To receive the report of the School Committee as to preliminary plans and cost estimates for possible remodeling of the present Junior High School Building and to see if the Town will provide for and authorize a committee to prepare final plans'' and specifications for remodeling the present Junior High School Building, and for furnishing and equipping it, to obtain bids and to enter into a contract or contracts for such remodeling and for such furnishing and equipping, and to supervise the work; and appropriate a sum of money for such purposes and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, or by transfer from available funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 41. To see if the Town will provide for and authorize a committee to prepare final plans and specifications and to obtain bids for the construction and original equipping and furnishing of a new Junior High School Building; appropriate a sum of r:._;-;c:_ _10- money for the expenses of the committee and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICT,P 42. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the purchase of a new ambulance and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 43. To receive the report of the Additional Fire Station Committee and to see if the Town will authorize the acquisition of any necessary land and will provide for and authorize a committee to prepare final plans and specifications, to obtain bids and to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction and furnishing of an additional fire station and to supervise the work; and appropriate a sum of money for such purposes and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLF 111j . To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to reimburse the Boston and Maine Railroad for the cost of installing warning signs and automatic flashing signals at the grade crossing on Fottler Avenue , pursuant to the order of the Department of Public Utilities consenting to the construction of such crossing at grade; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 45. To see if the Town will vote to designate the land on Wyman Road acquired from Frances May Baskin, for playground and recreational purposes, as the W. John Baskin Playground and appropriate a sum of money for the development and improvement thereof and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. _11_ ARTICLE 46, To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Lincoln Terrace from Lincoln Street, a distance of 515 feet more or less northwesterly, as laid out by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated October 17, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; and raise and appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 47. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Longfellow Road from Burlington Street, southeasterly and northeasterly 990 feet more or less to Hawthorne Road, as laid out by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated January 10, 1957 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; and raise and appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICT,F 48. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Hawthorne Road from Burlington Street, southeasterly 687 feet more or less to Longfellow Road, as laid out by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, to dated January 10, 1957 and/take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; and raise and appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 49. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way and accept the relocation and alteration of as a town way, Allen Street from Waltham Street southeasterly 1620 feet more or less to a point on Allen Street which is 120 feet more or less southwesterly of Clematis Road as relocated and altered by the Selectmen and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk dated October 1, 1956, and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary -12- therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition, and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 50. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Boulder Road from Blake Road easterly approximately 395 feet as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated March 7, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 51. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Webb Street from Woburn Street a distance of 485 feet, more or less, northerly to Dunham Street as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated 'November 6, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 52. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Hillcrest Street from end of accepted portion a distance of 390 feet easterly as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated November 21, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor;, -13- appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 53. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Harding Road from Williams Road, a distance of approximately 140 feet northerly as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated August 7, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICIF 54. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Blake Road from Preston Road southerly approximately 260 feet as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated July 18, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 55. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Leonard Road from Woburn Street a distance of 193 feet more or less northerly as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated November 5, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise -14- acquire 'U-acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 56. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Utica Street from Woburn Street northeasterly a distance of 505 feet more or less as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated October 27, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 57. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Moreland Avenue from Fern Street a distance of 375 feet more or less westerly as laid out by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated June 21, 1956 and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 58. To see if the Town will vote to establish as a town way, and accept the layout of as a town way, Moon Hill Road from Moreland Avenue a distance of approximately 1750 feet southerly and southwesterly as laid out -15- by the Selectmen under the Betterment Act and shown upon a plan on file in the office of the Town Clerk, dated October 18, 1958- and to take by eminent domain or otherwise acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land necessary therefor; appropriate money for the construction of said street and for land acquisition and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy, by transfer from available funds or by borrowing, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICLE 59. To see if the Town will vote to change the names of the following streets as herein set forth, or act in any other manner in relation thereto: a. To change to Cooke Street the name Cary Street, an accepted way extending from Taft Avenue to Charles Street. b. To change to Frances Road the name Oak Avenue, an unaccepted way extending from Eastern Avenue to Deering Avenue, c. To change to Jay Street the name Oak Terrace, a partly accepted and partly unaccepted way extending from Oak Street to Hillside Street. d. To change to Davis Road the name William Avenue, an unaccepted way extending from Moreland Avenue to Oakland Avenue, e, To change to Servis Road the name Oakland Avenue, an unaccepted way extending southwesterly from Swan Lane. f. To change to Camden Street the name Smyth Street, an unaccepted way extending from Charles Street to Sutherland Avenue. g. To change to Tidd Street the name Hillcrest Street, a partly accepted and partly unaccepted way extending easterly from Winter Street. h. To change to King Street the name Independence Road, an unaccepted way extending northerly from Fern Street. -16- ARTICLE 60. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to acquire for school and playground purposes a parcel of land consisting of about 2.9 acres, abutting the Maria Hastings School lot, and shown as lot "C" on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Lexington-Mass,", dated June 2, 1956, Albert A. Miller, Wilbur C. Nylander, Civil Engineers & Surveyors, which is recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds as Plan No. 7 of 1957, said lot when acquired, together with lots "A" and "B" as shown on said plan and already acquired by the Town, to he added to and made a part of the Maria Hastings School lot; appropriate a sum of money therefor and determine whether the same shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds, or by any combination of these methods; or act in any other in relation thereto. ARTICLE 61. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen, however constituted, at any time and from time to time to sell all or any part or parts of a certain small parcel of land hereinafter described that is a portion of the land that was acquired by the Town, in connection with the laying out of a portion of Grant Street, by an order of taking by eminent domain adopted by the Selectmen on June 2, 19147 and recorded in Middlesex South District Registry of Deeds, Book 711+2, Page 457 and by confirmatory deed from Charles G. Richards et ux dated June 18, 1917 and recorded in said deeds, Book 7147, Page 126, and that is no longer required for public purposes , and will specify the minimum amount to be paid for such conveyance or conveyances , or act in any other manner in relation thereto; said small parcel of land being situated on Grant Street near its intersection with Hayes Lane and being located between the northwesterly line of Grant Street, as laid out by the Selectmen and shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Grant Street Lexington Mass. " dated January 15, 1947, John T. Cosgrove, Town Engineer, and recorded in said deeds as plan No. 545 of 191+7 in Book 7125 Page 309, and the southeasterly line of Grant Street as it existed as an unaccepted street prior to said layout, all as shown on said plan. -17- ARTICT.F 62. To see if the Town will approve the settlement of or will authorize the Selectmen to settle the claim against the Town by William L. Barnes and Bertha L. Barnes for damages arising out of the taking by eminent domain of easements for sewer purposes in land situated on Bedford Street in Lexington for the so-called Sunnyfield sewer, which claim is now pending as a suit against the Town in the Superior Court, Middlesex County; and approp- riate money for such settlement and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds; or act in any other manner in relation thereto, ARTICLE 63. To see if the Town will approve the settlement of or will authorize the Selectmen to settle the claim against the Town by Daniel H. Freeman and Beatrice H. Freeman for damages arising out of the taking by eminent domain of an easement in land situated on Massachusetts Avenue and Stratham Road in Lexington for purposes of a town way known as Worthen Road, which claim is now pending as a suit against the Town in the Superior Court, Middlesex County; and appropriate money for such settlement and determine whether the money shall be provided by the current tax levy or by transfer from available funds; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. ARTICTF 64. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for keeping street lights burning until dawn and determine whether the additional money shall be included in the future expenditures of the Highway Department; or act in any other manner in relation thereto, (Inserted at the request of ten or more registered voters. ) ARTICLE 65. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money from available funds toward the reduction of the 1957 tax rate, or act in any other manner in relation 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 tine of said meeting. Given under our hands at Lexington this eleventh day of February, A . D. , 1957 . 2 ken 7. Selectmen / `¢'al., LtiCit1/4_ of Lexington CONSTABLE'S RETURN To the Town Clerk February ' , 1957 I have served the foregoing warrant by posting a printed copy thereof in five (5) public places in the Town and also by sending by mail, postage prepaid, a printed copy of such warrant addressed to every registered voter of the Town at his'. last residence, as appears from the records of the Board of Registrars of Voters /' 7 days before the time of said meeting. 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