HomeMy WebLinkAbout2922 Warrant for Town Meeting of January 25, 1870Warrant for a
Town Meeting
Apl. [April] 11th 1870.
Lexington April 2d 1870
Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified the
inhabitants, of the Town of Lexington, therein described
to met at the time and place, and for the purposes, within
mentioned, by handing an attested copy to the families.
Oliver W. Kendall
Constable
of
Lexington
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1.
Warrant for a Town Meeting, Tuesday, Jany [January], 25th 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 Tuesday the twenty fifth day
of January 1870, at one o'clock P.M. to act on the following Articles,
viz:
Article I. To choose a Moderator.
Article II. To see if the Town will petition
the Legislature in aid of the petition of John
C. Blasdel and others, to be incorporated for the
purpose of building and operating a rail road
between Lexington and Lowell.
Article III. To see if the Town will present to
the General Court its Remonstrance against granting
the petition of the Lexington and Arlington Railroad
Company, which petition (as published in the Boston
Post) is as follows :
To the Honorable Legislature of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts; The Lexington
and Arlington Railroad Company respectfully
represents that the public good, and the interests
of said Corporation require the extension of
said Railroad, from some point near its present
terminus in Cambridge or Arlington, to some
point on the Boston and Lowell Railroad in
Bedford or Somerville, Said Lexington and
2.
Arlington Railroad Company therefore
prays that authority for such extension
may be granted by the Legislature,
By Authority of the Board of Directors of hte
Lexington and Arlington Railroad Company.
R. D. Blinn, President, Arlington, Nov, 29th, 1869
Article IV. To see if the Town will take
any measures to be represented before the
Committees of the General Court in the matter
of any proposed extension of, or alteration
in the line of the Lexington and Arlington
Railroad.
Article V. To hear the Report of the Committee
chosen in November last, to consider the
subject of erecting a building for a Town Hall,
a Memorial Hall, and a Library Room;
and to adopt any measures that may be
thought expedient towards the object of erecting
and finishing such a building, or procuring
land on which to locate the same,
Hereof fail not and make return of this
Warrant and your doings thereon to the Town Clerk
on or before the time of meeting.
Given under our hands at Lexington this
tenth day of January, A. D. One thousand eight hundred
and seventy.
Charles Nunn.
Alonzo Goddard
Walter Wellington
} Selectmen
of
Lexington
Lexington January 17th 1870 Pursuant to 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 copys of this warrant to the
families of said Lexington.
Oliver W. Kendall
} Constable
of
Lexington
3.
The Selectmen will be in session at the
Town Hall from 12 to 1 o'clock P.M. on the
day of meeting for the purpose of placing on
the Voting List the names of persons qualified
to vote and no names will be inserted
after the meeting is opened.
Warrant for a
Town Meeting
Janu. 25th 1870
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