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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1915-06-14-STM-WARRANTT OWN WARRAN 'T 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 town affairs to meet at the Town Hall, in said Lexington, on MONDAY. THE FOURTEENTH DAY JF :TUE. A. Vii.. 1915 AT 7.45 P. then and there to act on the following articles. - Art. 1. 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. S. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to meet the overdraft in the account of 'Removal of Snow, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 3. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to meet the overdraft in the Forest ?,Tarden's Department, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 4. To see if the Town will ipke an appropriation to :.defray the expense of laying a cork carpet in Cary :iemorial Library, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the town will make an appropriation to defray the expense of maintaining the 'Village Clock" at East Lexington, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to use or apply any part of the amounts now standing to the credit of unappropriated revenue account and omitted assessment account being approximately $20930.00 in the whole, to the payment of the debt of the town, maturing the current year, or make any other application of the same or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the purpose of widening Massachusetts Avenue in accordance with the vote of the town passed March 24, 1913, and to vote to issue Bons for the purpose of raising the money so appropriated, or act in any , manner relating thereto. Art. 8. To see if the Town will accept and allow a town way as laid out by the Selectmen about fifty feet wide, beginning on the southeasterly side of Lowell Street at a point approximately opposite the cottage house owned by Frank H. Reed and extending in a generally southeasterly direction to the Lexington -Arlington line, the same forming a continuation int) Lexington of a new road laid out in Arlington as an extension of Summer Street, orto act in any manner relating to such town. way. The laying out, with the boundaries and measurements of the way, is on file in the office of the Town Clerk of Lexington. Art. 9. To see if the Town will appropriate money to complete the grading of the East Lexington Playground or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 10. To see if the Town will accept and allow a town way as laid out by the Selectmen beginning on the easterly side of T'T1tham Street and running to an extension of Highland Avenue through land of Augustus E. Scott, said way being known as Vine Brook Road, or act in any manner relating to such Town Way. Plan showing lay -out is on file at the office of the Town Clerk. Art. 11. To see if the Ton will accept and allow a town way as laid out by the Selectmen, said vra-.r running easterly and south- erly from Somerset Road to Somerset Road near its junction with Yerriam Street, following substantially the way now known as Olive Road, or act in any manner relating to such town. way. The laying out, 71th the boundaries and measurements of the way, is on file In the office of the Town Clerk. Art. 12. To see if the Town will make an appropriation to be met by the issuance of Bonds or otherwise to meet the recuirenents of the ;Fater Department in making extensions of water mains, or act in any other manner relative thereto. Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to add to the Munroe School four rooms and otherwise re -construct the Present building approximately in accordance with plans submitted by Mr. Uillard D. Brown, and also vote to secure at North Lexington a suitable site and construct thereon a two or three room brick building to be used for school purposes, or take any action in relation thereto. Also, to authorize an issue of bonds for the purpose of raising moneys neceesar°- to meet expenditures authorized under this article; or to make provision in any way that may be deemed best for the raising of such moneys. Art. 14. To see if the TO711 will make an additional appropri- ation to meet the expenses in the account of Outside Poor, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 15. To see if the Ton will vote to instruct the Board of dater and Sewer Commissioners to install a six inch water main in Baker Avenue from its present terminus southerly for a distance of about nine hundred feet, and that the sum of $500.00 be appropriated and assessed for such purpose. Art. 16. To see if the town will vote to abolish, discontinue and cease maintaining the Almshouse and make provision for the support of the inmates elsewhere, or act in any manner relating thereto. (Art. 16, inserted by reouest of Franc ^ E. Holmes, Samuel T. I'i ngsburv, Hiram 1. Janvrin . T. Foster. Hichael Carroll, J no . Hubbell, R. A. Ryder,-'Tilliam 7. Ferguson, W. T. "Tadman, 7, Hutchinson, D. F. Iutcllinson, S. Framer) 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 cur hands, at Lexington, this foarth day of June, A. :. , 1915.