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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1915-03-01-TE-WARRANT and 1915-03-08-ATM-WARRANTTOWN WARRANT. COMMONWEALTH OP MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLSEX, SS. To either of the Constables of the 'iown of Lexington, in said County, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of L assachusetts , you are directed to notify the inhabitants of qualified to vote in elections and in in the Town Hall in said Lexington, ON MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH, A. D., 1915, at seven o'clock A. M., then and there to act on the following articles: the 'Town of Lexington, torn affairs, to meet Art. 1. To choose by ballot the followin: town officers:- One Town Clerk for the term of one year; three Selectmen for the term of one year; three Overseers of the Poor for the term of one year; three Surveyors of the Highways for the term of one year; one Assessor for the term of three years; one Town Treasurer for the tern of one year; one Collector of Taxes- for the term of one year; one Auditor for the term of one year, one ;eater and Sewer Commissioner for the term of three years; one member of the Cemetery Committee for the term of three years; one member of the School Committee for the tern of three years; one member of the Board of Health for the term of three years; one Park Com- missioner for the term of three years, one Tree Warder_ for the term of one year; two Constables for the term of one year; one Moderator for the term of one year. girt. S. To see if the Town will vote for or against granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer to the question: "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?". Art. 3. To see if the Town will accept Chapter 795, Acts of 1914 being "An Act to provide for the better prevention of fires throw; gout the metropolitan district." The election officers will receive votes under Articles f 1, 2 and 3 on the official ballot prepared by the Town Clerk. The polls will be opened as soon as possible after the organization of the meeting and rill be kept open until five P. M. In compliance with Article III of the By -Laws as amended January 29, 1900, business under the following Articles will be transacted at an adjourned meeting to be held Monday evening, March 8, 1915, unless the adjourned meeting shall by unanimous vote, be ordered for some other specified time. Art. A. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other Committees. Art. 5. To choose such Town Officers as are required by law and are usually chosen by nomination. Art. 6. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the proper observance of 1,=emorial Day, to be expended under the direction of Post 119, Grand Army of the Republic. Art. '7. To provide for the support of the Public Schools the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 8. To provide for the support of the Poor at the Alms House the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 9. To provide for the support of Outside Poor the ensuing. year, and grant money for the same. Art. 10 To provide for the support of the Highways the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 11 To provide for the support of the Street Lights the ensuing year, and grant money for the same. Art. 12. To provide for the support of the -sire Department the ensuing year , and. = rant money for the same. Art. 13 To see if the town will make the appropriations for town expenses the ensuing year, as submitted by the Selectmen, or act lin any manner relating thereto. Art. 14 To see what measures the town will adopt in relation to the collection of taxes the ensuing year, or act in any manner relat- ing thereto. Art. lE To see if the Torn will make an appropriation to construct sidewalks with concrete or other materials where the abutters wi71 pay one-half the expense thereof. Art. 16 To see if the tow -an will maks an appropriation sufficient to meet the exrense of placing new insurance and renewals for the ensu- ing year, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 17 To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the care of the Cemeteries for the ensuing year. Art. 18 To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money for the use of the Finance Committee, or take any action relating thereto. Art. 19 To provide for the support of the Public Parks for the ensuing year and grant money for the same, or act in any manner re- lating thereto. Art. 20 To see if the Town will make further appropriations of money for the suppression of insects, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 21 To see if the To1rn Till accept Chapter 575 of the Acts of 1913, entitled "An Act to authorize Cities and Towns to provide free meals for school children." Art. 22 To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the pur- pose of planting. shade trees in the town, in accordance with the recommendation of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 23 To see if the Town will adopt a plan whereby all Town Labor will be paid on a bdvsis of $2.50 a day of eight hours work and that citizens of the Town of Lexington will have the preference of the Town work, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 2a To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of seven hundred and twelve dollars and forty three cents, ($712.43), the same to be taken from Omitted Assessments of 1914; this to remove- from Tax Liens Account defective or valueless liens accumulated many years prior to the incumbency of present Tax Collector. Art. 25 To see if the town will grant the employees of the Moth Department an increase in wages, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 26 To see if the town will purchase of Richard O. Tower and Fran D. Peirce and make a part of its water distribution system, the eight inch main laid in Follen Road and owned by them, and to this end to authorize the making of a contract with Messrs. Tower and Peirce in substantially the form of the printed draft which accom- parries the warrant for this meeting; or to take any other or further action relative to the purchase and use of said water main. Art. 27 To see if the town will appropriate and assess a sum of money for the purpose of purchasing end erecting a new flag pole on the Common, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 28 To see if the town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to make takings of land for the purpose of extending a street from the Arlington line to a point on Lowell Street in accordance with a plan now on file at the Town Clerk's Office and appropriate and assess money for this purpose, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 29 To see if the Town will vote to appropriate money to widen and deepen the brooks in the Town so as to obtain better surface drain- age, the same to be expended by the Water and Sewer Commissioners, or take any other action relating thereto. Art. 30 To appropriate money for the use of the Tater Department, and vote to issue Bonds or Notes, therefor, or otherwise determine the method of raising the money so appropriated, and to take any other or further action relative thereto as may be deemed best. Art. 31 To receive and consider the report of the committee appointed to prepare a new code of By -Laws for the Town, or to act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof, fail not, and make due return of 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 twelftn day of February, A. D. 1915. SELECTMEN, OF