HomeMy WebLinkAbout2953 Warrant (handwritten) for a Town Meeting to be held on March 4, 1899Warrant for a Town Meeting Monday March 4 1889
To Abbott S. Mitchell.
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 fourth day of March
AD 1889 at nine oclock in the forenoon to act on the following
articles viz:
Art 1, To choose a Moderator
Art 2. To hear the report of any Committee that may be ready
to report and act thereon.
Art 3 To choose town officers for the ensuing year including
one member of the school committee for the term of three years
Art 4. To choose one member of the Cemetery Committee for the
term of three years
Art 5. To provide for the support of the Poor the ensuing year
and grant money for the same.
Art 6. To provide for the support of the Highways the ensuing year
and grant money for the same.
Art 7. To provide for the support of the Public Schools the ensuing year
including their several grades and grant money for the same.
Art 8. To provide for the support of the Fire Department the
ensuing year and grant money for the same
Art 9. To provide for the support of the Street Lamps the ensuing year
and grant money for the same.
Art 10. To see if the town will accept the list of Jurors presented by the Selectmen.
Art 11. To see if the town will vote for or against granting licenses for the
sale intoxicating liquors in answer to the following question "Shall
licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the town"!
The vote on the above question shall be by ballot "Yes" of "No" and the
check list and registering ballot box shall be used
as provided by law.
Art 12. To see if the town will make the appropriation for town
expenses the ensuing year as submitted by the
Selectmen or ask in any manner relating thereto.
Art 13. To see what measures the town will adopt in relation to the
Collection of taxes the ensuing year, in any manner relating thereto.
Art 14. To see if the town will authorize their Treasurer under the direction
of the Selectmen to borrow money for any necessary purpose in anticipation
the Collection of taxes the current year the same to be paid directly
from the proceeds of said taxes, or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art 15. To see if the town will make an appropriation of two hundred
Dollars for the proper observance of April 19th 1889, to be expended under
the direction of a Committe of the Lexington Historical Society.
Art 16. To see if the town will make an appropriation to construct
sidewalks with concrete or other materials whom the abuttors will
pay one half the expense therof.
Art 17. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen to draw
from any unappropriate money in the treasury for the payment of
contingent expenses.
Art 18. To see if the town will make an appropriation towards sprinkling
the streets of the two villages during the coming season.
Art 19. To see if the town will provide a reading room for the
East Lexington branch of the Cary Library.
Art 20. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of two hundred
and fifty dollars for instruction in sewing in the schools.
Art 21. To see if the town will appoint a Committee to report
at the April meeting concerning a new School House for
Hancock Schools or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art 22. To see if the town will make an appropriation for the
payment of land damages as awarded by the County Commissioners
on account of improvements on Main Street.
Art 23. To see if the town will instruct the Selectmen to petition
the Legislator to amend the act of Incorporation of Cary Library
so that the town shall have a representative in its Board of Trustees.
Art 24. To see if the will town accept the ten feet on the south
East side of Mount Vernon Street as given by Levi Prosser
making the street fifty feet wide instead of forty feet.
Art 25. To see of the town will pay for placing a water closet in
the Masonic apartment of the Town Hall, or act in any manner
relating thereof.
Art 26. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of
two hundred dollars for care and improvemnet of the Cemetery,
or act in any manner relating thereto.
Art 27. To see if the town will remit the amount due for
rent from the Lexington Savings Bank, or act in any manner
relating thereof.
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 our hands at Lexington this fourteenth day
of Febraury AD 1889.
Webster Smith }
Albert W Bryant }
Charles. T. West } Selectmen of Lexington
The registrars of Voters will be in session on Thursday Feby 21, from
7 to 9 oclock P.M. and on Wednesday July 27 from 7 6-10 oclock P.M.
at the Selectmen Room to prepare the voting list for the foregoing
meeting.
The new copies of the By Laws of the town will be at the Town Hall
for distribution at the above meeting or can be had prior to said meeting
on application to the Town Clerk.
Lexington March 1 1889.
By virtue of the within warrant I have notified
and warned the inhabitants by by posting attested copies
of this warrant in the post officers and two other public
places in the town, and by leaving a printed copy of the
warrant at every dwelling house in the town, not less
than seven days before the day appointed for hold
the within mentioned meeting, and at the same
time distributed the annual town reports, leaving [one?]
at every dwelling house in town.
A.S. Mitchell.
Constable of Lexington
A.S. Mitchell
Constable of Lexington,
113 Devonshire St,
BOSTON