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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1941-09-22-STM-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 the Cary Memorial Building, in said Lexington, on Monday, the twenty-second day of September, 1941, at eight o' clock 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 accept a Building Line as established by the Selectmen across land of George Scott adjoining Massachusetts Avenue between Merriam Street and the northerly driveway leading from Massachusetts Avenue to the Railroad Station in Lexington Center, fifteen feet (15' ) from the present north- easterly boundary of Massachusetts Avenue, in accordance with a plan now on file in the office of the Town Clerk, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 3 . To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the County Commissioners to relocate Mass- achusetts Avenue so as to widen it to the proposed Building Line, or take any action to procure such widening. Article 4. To see if the Town will authorize the purchase from George Scott of land or an easement in land adjoining Mass- achusetts Avenue between Merriam Street and the northerly driveway leading from Massachusetts Avenue to the railroad station in Lexington Center for any municipal purpose and provide for the payment there- for by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 5. To see if the Town will authorize a conveyance to George Scott or his nominee of a portion of land recently acquired by the Town from the Boston & Maine Railroad, adjoining the land now owned by the said George Scott, in exchange for a conveyance to the Town by the said Scott of certain land or an easement in land at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Merriam Street or for any other consideration, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 6. To see if the Town will accept a relocation of the northerly driveway leading to the railroad station at Lexington Center as laid out by the Selectmen, or act in any manner in re- lation thereto. Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to pay any sum of money to George Scott in compensation for any taking by eminent domain of his land or any easement therein or in consideration of a grant by him to the Town of the right to establish the said proposed Building Line , and to widen Massachusetts avenue to the said Building Line if authorized by the County Commissioners, and provide for the payment of the same by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town, or act in any manner in relation thereto. -2- Article 8. To see if the Town will authorize the conveyance to George Scott or his nominee of the land on which is located the Fire Station on Merriam Street with or without the building thereon, and will determine the consideration therefor, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 9. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to provide a temporary location for the fire apparatus and other town property now housed in the Fire Station on Merriem Street and the fire alarm apparatus installed therein, or for the moving of the said Fire Station, and will provide for the expense incident to such temporary location or moving or consequent upon a sale of the said fire house or the land on which it stands, by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 10. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to make alterations in the fire house on Merriam Street and will provide for the payment of the expense incident thereto by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 11. To see if the Town will accept any offer by George Scott or make any contract or authorize any contract with him with reference to the matters set forth in the foregoing articles, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 12. To see if the Town will accept a bequest under the will of Herbert Hilton relating to Munroe Cemetery in trust to expend the income as provided in the said will, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to accept a gift of flags from the late Nelly Littlehale Murphy, or act in any manner inrelation thereto. Article 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate a sum of money for the Lexington Committee on Public Safety, under the authority of Statute 1941, Chapter 487 or otherwise and pro- vide for the payment of the seine by diredt appropriation, by transfer from available funds or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 13. To see if the Town will authorize the purchase of certain land of the Lexington Trust Company adjoining the Center Playground and bounding in part on the Park Drive and Waltham Street for any municipal purpose and provide for the payment therefor by direct appropriation, by transfer from available funds, or by the issue of notes or bonds of the Town and provide for the disposition of said land or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a further sum of money for the construction of granolithic or bituminous concrete sidewalks in accordance with General Laws, Chapter 80, and provide funds for said construction by transfer from available funds, or act in any manner in relation thereto. Article 17. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to install street lights in the following unaccepted streets: Paul Revere Road; Ilillcrest Avenue Article 18. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of Money for Westview Cemetery Maintenance, said funds to be provided 'transfer from available funds, or act in any manner in relation oreto. -3- Article 19. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum op money for School Maintenance Expenses, such appropriation to//met by transfer from available funds or by any other method. Article 20. To see if the Town will appropriate a further sum of money for Fire Department - Expenses, such appropriation to be met by transfer from available funds or by any other method. And you are directed to serve this Warrant seven days at least before the time of said meeting as provided in the By-law 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 me eting. Given under our hands at Lexington, this eighth day of September, 1941. (;) �Q, , +� SELECTMEN i ._l5/ •+ OFCor LEXINGTON