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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD MARCH 25, 1963
Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Charles E. Ferguson at
8:05 P. M. -
There were 172 Town Meeting Members present.
Invocation offered by Monsignor George W. Casey. 8:07 P. M.
Town Clerk, Janes J. Carroll, read the warrant for the meeting
until further reading was waived by the Moderator. 8:08 P. M.
Town Clerk, James J. Carroll, read the Constable' s Return for
the meeting. 8:08 P. M. -
Article 1. Logan Clarke , Jr. moves that the Appropriation
Committee Report be accepted and placed on file.
Carried Unanimously 8:08 P. M.
Article 2. Presented by Alan G. Adams.
VOTED: That, in connection with the proposal of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through its Department of
Public Works, to dredge and widen Kiln Brook in the Town
of Lexington from the northeasterly side of Route128 for
a distance of approximately 4,500 feet to the Lexington-
Bedford town line, the Selectmen be and hereby are auth-
orized in the name and on behalf of the Town to enter into
a contract with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, rep-
resented by its Department of Public Works, for the pay-
ment by the Town of one-half of the actual cost of said
work and of necessary engineering therefor and to execute
and deliver a bond of indemnity agreeing to indemnify and
save harmless the Commonwealth and its representatives and
agents against all claims and demands for damages that
may be sustained by any person whose land or any rights
or interest therein is taken for or is injured by said
work, and to purchase, take by eminent domain or otherwise
acquire any fee, easement or other interest in land
necessary for said work; and that the sum of $30,000.00 be
appropriated therefor and payment provided by the _transfer
of $20,000.00 from the unexpended balance of the approp-
riation voted for acquisition of land abutting the Great
Meadows under Article 45 of the warrant for the 1958
Annual Town Meeting and by raising the balance of
$10,000.00 in the current tax levy.
Carried Unanimously 8:13 P. M.
Alan G. Adams moves that the Special Town Meeting be dissolved.
8:14 P. M.
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Town Clerk