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, EL.:RY 29 ,l924 .
A regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the
•selectmen' s Hoorn, mown hall , Lexington , on ruesda', January 29 .1924 ,
at F 00 P . :... The following members of the Board were prorent ,
namely .•..essre . Sca nman, Dlake . l.utchinson and Burnham. The Town
Clerk and Arrlt Tov:n Ylerk were also present .
Pitt '. LreT: , President of the ...iidlesex 4- Bor.ton St. Rwy Co.
and Harry h 1,anron, Gencral ,tanager of that company . came before
the 'Board to again discuee the rcgulatione in regard to jitneve .
Mr . Drew felt it war un,7urt for the town to request him to
file a bond in connection with taking up the tracks and all other
towns would probably requei-t him to do the same th_ng and that
would be a ..ardrhip on the company . Lie felt too that the Public
Service Lomn.ievion would throw that part out of the regulations
and was willing to have the flame submitted to thEm for the_ r op nion.
r.e was willing also to Lave a petition prevented to the Public
Service yommienion for lower fares .
He agr ed that when l.•r . Mone returned from the rest he
v, ould take this matter up with him and endeavor to cone to some
final agreement.
Or, the matter of decision to be rendered by ...r. ulapp
relative to Joseph Tani e permit , _he matter was laid over as
Hr . i.lapp did not present his opinion.
the following election officers were appointed to serve at
the annual election, March 3 . 1924 .
Precinct One .
oiloer F. Atwood Leputy Warden
l.dgar o. . Harrod •+arden
,Michael A. Pero clerk
Donald Yameron Deputy Jlerk
Bartlett . harrington Inspector
Thomas i . Joher ty
Mrs . Evelyn C . Brougciall Deputy Inspector
:lizabeth oilkineon
Joseph A. '+.atery Teller
Earle L. 1.adley
Finlay ?:IcI saac
illiam Anderson
Precinct Two .
William S ocamnhn harden
Albert H. .urnham Deputy arden
Patrick �scey ulerc
Lr . John h. r_a} e .Jeputy ' lerk
;a]ph H. `«arehall inepEct:r
John J . :arrity
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i ro . i.urian w . Jackson .weputy -nE'pe etor
u.irP Liereman
Lzra F Breed leper
;amer '. L.cwartty
xl1E3ton Redman
uallace Liller
Jamey L. .:.cLenzie
jamuel 3 . Bigelow
ay 0 . iiichar dr
Charles F . Vaughan
Fred E. Buttery
william :2.uliiken
Z'rancir L . Burke
Edward L. Lelley
The Board signed the warrant for a 2 vn -eeting to be eld
ebruary the rrant c-nt.a_r,ed inl- two articles , one
on receiving the report of the lsaac r.arriv wary _ducational Fund
regarding pr-posed t..emorial Building , the other on the ZonirE7
system.
Votice of a hearing on January 01 . 19L4 at 10 70 ;._ . It the
State noure , on the electrif_ catfan of steam railro dr in the
.::etropoi_tan Jirtrict vas re cei-red.
Letter wan received from ,_)amuel Roar , '..airy,,.:n of the
Boa-d of Selectmen of the town of .,onord, in which he enclosed
cory o _ r.uler and ilegulatior.r it regard to B a_ lboardr , righty
and other adverc,iring devices . :•-r . - oar urged the oelectmen
to have an article inverted in the ,warrant for the annual
town meeting ro that he war trying to get all he towns about
ae intererted an pot sable ro that there regulations could be
adopted by a number of the towns .
Letter war received from oydney : . •,rightin .vtatlng that
he could not be pre ;gent to preric'e as -oderator at the Town
L:eeting on L.onday , iebruary le , out that he had requE oted
Mr . cotton to be prevent if they aenired to have him act as
Moderator .
Maim war received from Lr . Ired o . Piper of 20 Clarke St.
for 410.00 for damage to the top of hip autoiobi_e wrilereturning
from an accident on Lart :Jtreet . He claimed that a large branch
brolc.en from a tree rtruck nir automobile top and tore a hole
about 4 by 10 incher and he felt the town should pay for fame .
t long letter in reply to the letter of the Board to the
Supt . of Public +forks telling him that his work ;s unsatirfactory
war received froca the Supt .
copy of the bill for the F . ... Reed cattle parr which hay
beer filed and iv now in the han..r of the ;.'aye and Leann Com_
mittee war r( ceived frog. t e .r eyentative .
Petition for the removal of rnow on •+ood Street war referred
to the Superintendent of Public ••orkn .
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Petition for three street lights on Burlington Street
,raP received from ailliam . orwin . desired to uee electricity
for watering uir garden anc felt that only three street llghts
were needed to have the electricity extending to hi P place and
he could alio uPe it on his place .
supt . of Public ,lorks war requerted to lock into the
matter and report to the Board the number of lightP needed.
The Board voted to allow helen G . Gallagher the $200 paid
her or the Moth Department for clerical hire , on the Seaectmen' q
4.ccountmaking' the amount paid her from the Selectmen' r . ccpunt,
$1200 per year . .0hcre will there ore be no payment for Clerical
hire On the troth Lepartment .
4-L true record . .i-Lttept