HomeMy WebLinkAbout2920 Warrant for Town Meeting of March 7, 1870Warrant for a Town meeting
Monday - March 7th 1870
To Oliver W. Kendall, Constable of
Lexington, Greeting.
In the name of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are
hereby required to notify and warn the
inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified
by law to vote in Town affairs, to assemble
at the Town Hall on Monday the seventh
day of March next at one o'clock, P.M.
to act on the following Articles, viz:
Art. I. To choose a Moderator.
Art. II. To choose Town Officers for the
ensuing year, including one School Committee
man for the term of the three years.
Art. III.
To adopt measures for the repairing
of the Highways the ensuing year, and
grant money for the same.
Art. IV. To provide support for the
Poor the ensuing year.
Art. V. To raise money for the support
of the Public Schools, including their
several grades, or act in any manner
relating thereto.
Art. VI. To adopt measures for collecting
taxes the ensuing year.
Art. VII. To see if the Town will authorize
and empower the Collector of
taxes to use any and all, measures of
collecting the taxes, committed to him
to collect, which may be lawfully
used by the Town Treasurer when acting
as Collector.
Art VIII. To see if the Town will
authorize the Town Treasurer (under the
direction of the Selectmen) to borrow
such sum or sums of money as may
be necessary to defray Town expenses
the ensuing year, in anticipation of the taxes
of 1870.
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Art IX. To see if the Town will
choose a Board of Auditors to audit
the accounts of the year ending March
1st 1870.
Art X. To see what action the Town
will take relating to a suit brought
by Nathaniel Pierce, Peletiah P.
Pierce, David Hall, Sidney Lawrence
A. Childs, Otis H. Dana, Jonas
Gammell, Cornelius Wellington,
R.T. Bryant, and T. G. Hovey
against the town of Lexington,
and certain of its officers or
agents.
Art XI. To hear the report of the Committee
chosen to publish and put on sale the Town
History, and act thereon.
Art XII. To hear the report of the Committee
chosen in November last to examine the
proposal to see a portion of the land bought
of the heirs of John Mulliken for a cemetery
and act thereon.
Art XIII. To see if the Town will provide
Blackboards for the school houses or act
in any manner relating thereto.
Art XIV. To hear reports of Committees and
act thereon
Hereof fail not and make return
of this Warrant and your doings thereon
to the Town Clerk on or before the time
of said meeting.
Given under our hands at
Lexington this eighteenth day of February
one thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Charles Nunn }
Alonzo Goddard }
Walter Wellington }
Selectmen
of
Lexington
The Selectmen will be in session at the Town
Hall on Monday the 7th day of March from 2 to
1 o'clock P.M. to correct and revise the Voting
List, and no name will be inserted on the
list after the meeting is opened.
Lexington Feby 26 1870
Pursuent to the within warrant, I have notified the
inhabitants, of the Town of Lexington herein described
to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within
mentioned by leaving an attested of the within warrant
to the families.
Oliver W. Kendall
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