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Trustees of Lincoln Library
ROLAND C. MACKENZIE (Chairman) GEORGE G. TARBELL ALICE G. MERIAM SUMNER SMITH (Chairman Selectmen ex-officio) JOHN W. CARMAN (Chairman School Committee ex-officio)
Registrars Appointed by Selectmen
ANDREW J. DOUGHERTY Term expires 1950
HENRY J. DAVIS Term expires 1948
MANLEY B. BOYCE
Term expires 1949
WILLIAM H. DAVIS (Town Clerk ex-officio)
Finance Committee Appointed by Moderator
F. WINCHESTER DENIO (Chairman) Term expires 1948
JOSEPH L. SNIDER (Secretary) . Term expires 1949
WILLIAM N. PAGE, resigned.
THOMAS J. ROUNER, appointed Term expires 1949
LELAND A. WILDES . Term expires 1948
PAUL E. DODSON Term expires 1950
Population - 1,998 by 1945 census
Town Area - 8,572 acres.
1947 Tax Rate - $33.00 per $1,000.00 valuation.
Annual Town Meeting: - First Monday in March - March 1, 1948.
Annual Election of Town Officers :- On Saturday following Town Meeting - March 6, 1948.
Qualifications for Registration: - Twelve months continuous residence in the State of Massachusetts prior to March 1, 1948, and six months continuous residence in the Town of Lincoln prior to March 6, 1948.
Town Office open daily 9.00 A.M. to 4.30 P.M., Saturdays 9.00 A.M. to 12 noon.
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. TOWN OFFICERS
OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN
Superintendent of Streets - Thomas W. Coan.
Sealer of Weights and Measures - John J. Kelliher.
Forest Warden - Edmund W. Giles, Deputy Warden - Joseph W. Tracey.
Moth Superintendent - John J. Kelliher.
Clerk of Selectmen - M. Elizabeth Causer.
Inspector of Animals - Daniel E. Sherman.
Member of District Nursing Committee - Alberta A. Fradd. Inspector of Slaughtering - John J. Kelliher.
Registrar for three years - Andrew J. Dougherty.
Dog Officers - John J. Kelliher, Edward B. Cunningham.
Member of Board of Appeals for five years - D. Everett Sherman, Jr. Petroleum Inspector - Matthew H. Doherty.
Burial Agent - George E. Cunningham.
Surveyor of Cord Wood - Harold S. Cousins.
Fence Viewers - John J. Kelliher, Thomas W. Coan.
Field Drivers - Clyde Ballou, William Dean, Roland C. Mackenzie.
Bureau of Old Age Assistance - Anthony J. Doherty, John J. Kelliher, M. Elizabeth Causer.
Fire Engineers - Edmund W. Giles, Charles K. Fitts, Andrew J. Dougherty.
Caretaker of Town Hall and Library - Orrin C. Wood.
Constables - John J. Kelliher, George E. Cunningham.
Chief of Police - John J. Kelliher.
Police Officer - Edward B. Cunningham.
Special Police - James V. David, Thomas Dee, Andrew J. Dougherty, Herbert G. Farrar, Frank Gordon, Isaac Langille, Daniel Ryan, Sumner Smith, Francis J. Smith, Joseph Tracey, Henry Warner, Robert H. Booth, Harry B. Knowles, Robert H. Morris, John Gilbert, Lawrence Hallett, Povl Bang, Edward Rooney, Orrin C. Wood, James DeNormandie.
Playground Committee, Ethan Murphy, David Todd.
Veteran's Agent - John Todd.
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TOWN OF LINCOLN
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
Annual Town Meeting Monday, March 3, 1947 WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County: GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, qualified to vote in Town Meeting for the Transaction of Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Lincoln, on Monday, the third day of March next at 7:30 o'clock P.M., then and there to act on the following articles except Article 1 and also to meet in said Town Hall on Saturday the eighth day of March next, at 12 o'clock Noon, then and there to act on the following Article 1, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested in each of the Post Offices, and in some other public place in said Town seven days at least before the third day of March next:
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March eighth, will be open at 12 o'clock Noon, and may be closed at 7 o'clock P.M.
Article 1. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers and any other officers required by law, to be elected by Australian Ballot, Viz:
One Moderator for one year.
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years.
One member of the Board of Assessors for three years.
One Treasurer for one year.
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One Collector of Taxes for three years.
One Auditor for one year.
One member of the School Committee for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for one year.
One member of the Board of Health for three years.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Trustees of the Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Planning Board for five years.
and also the question :
"Shall the provisions of section forty of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws, as amended, relative to equal pay for men and women teachers be in force in this town?" Yes. No.
Article 2. To bring in their votes for any committees, commissioners, trustees and other officers, required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.
Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
Article 4. To fix the salaries and compensation of the several elective officers of the Town and to determine whether any Department, Board or Committee shall be authorized to employ for additional compensation any of its members and to fix the additional compensation of such members.
Article 5. To raise and appropriate money for the neces- sary and expedient purposes of the Town, and enact anything in relation to the same.
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Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1947, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 7. To see if the Town will rescind the vote adopted at the special meeting in June, 1946, appropriating the sum of $3,250.00 for the use of the Committee for the Ice Hockey and Skating Rink, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will direct that the sum of $5,000.00 voted for the School Building Committee at the Special Town Meeting in June, 1946, be raised from taxation in 1947, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will appropriate $750.00 for the purchase of a sand spreader and $45.00 for the deficiency in the appropriation in 1946 for a sickle mower, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote that the moderator be elected for a three-year term, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to pay the following un- paid 1946 bills.
Fire Department, Fire Engineers $75 56
Doherty's Garage 11 25
Playground,
Horace Partridge 12 50
School Site,
A. A. and S. N. Shurcliff 466 34
School Dept., Philips Paper Co. 29 85
$595 50
or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $200.00 to employ an engineer to draw up specifications for heating the upper hall or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $300.00 to repair the copper gutters and conductors on the Town Hall or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to register its complaints to our representative in the General Court about the nuisance caused by noises from overhead planes and that he proceed to file a bill in the Legislature to curtail said nuisance, or take any other action on the question.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars to place street lights on Concord Road from Baker Bridge northerly to the Concord Town Line, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 16. To determine whether the Town shall au- thorize the Selectmen to employ counsel in all matters relating to the deCordova-Dana Museum and Park with instructions to take such steps either in the legislature or in a court of com- petent jurisdiction, or both, as such counsel may determine to be necessary to bring about to the maximum practicable extent the full intended purposes of the late Julian deCordova as evidenced by the terms of the deed of the said deCordova to the Town dated November 29, 1940, and by the terms of his will and codicil, and to modify such terms insofar as they are impracticable and unworkable including any one or more of the following or other steps as such counsel may deem advisable: (1) by providing that all the annual income from both the trusts created by the will and codicil of the said deCordova, or such amounts thereof as may be lawfully allowed, shall be currently disbursed to the Town for the benefit of said Museum and Park; (2) by obtaining a determination and definition of the rights, duties, powers and responsibilities of the respective parties interested in the upkeep, maintenance and improve- ment of said Museum and Park in the administration thereof
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and in the promotion of educational and recreational purposes which will fulfill the main purposes expressed by the said deCordova in the aforesaid deed, will and codicil; and (3) by forming a corporation under the provisions of G.L. (Ter. Ed.) Ch. 180, as amended or any other act now in force or hereafter enacted, for the purpose of receiving and expending the monies to be paid from time to time to the Town for the benefit of said Museum and Park and managing and operating said Museum and Park; and to determine whether the Town shall take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 17. To determine whether the Town shall au- thorize the Selectmen upon advice of counsel employed by them to execute, acknowledge and deliver proper instruments of conveyance and transfer of all property of the deCordova- Dana Museum and Park held by the Town to a corporation organized under the provisions of G.L. (Ter. Ed.) Ch. 180 as amended or any other act now in force or hereafter enacted for the purpose among other things of holding all the properties comprising said Museum and Park and operating the same, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to reconsider, rescind, or alter in any way the vote or the plan passed under Article 12, at a Special Town Meeting held June 28, 1946, or take any other action on the question.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate money to acquire land for a new school house and, or, other public buildings, or take any other action on the question.
Article 20. To determine whether the Town shall au- thorize the Selectmen to employ counsel to take such steps as may be necessary to enable the Town to erect a school building upon the land owned by the Town by virtue of the will of John H. Pierce, and to use the balance of said land for school, play- ground, educational and recreational purposes, and further to take such steps as may be necessary to enable the Town to use so much of the annual income bequeathed to it by the wills of the said John H. Pierce and Elsie Pierce, including income
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accumulated thereon, as the Selectmen in their discretion shall consider advisable for the foregoing purposes, the balance, if any, of said income to be used for hospital treatment by such inhabitants of the Town as in the opinion of the Selectmen should be in financial need thereof; and further to take such steps as may be necessary to permit the Town to use the sum bequeathed to the Town by the will of Charles S. Smith to- wards the construction of a school house upon said land devised to the Town by said will of said John H. Pierce, or to take any other action in relation to any one or more of the foregoing matters.
Article 21. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen in whole or in part as follows and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto: To take such action as may be necessary, by litigation, by petition for legislation or by other lawful means, (unless legal advice which they shall first secure shall be to the effect that there is no reasonable chance of such action's being successful) to enable the Town to use the annual income under the wills of John H. Pierce and Elsie Pierce and under the decree of the Supreme Judicial Court dated March 8, 1930, and income accumulated thereon to pro- vide (1) medical and hospital care and treatment for such in- habitants of the Town as the Selectmen or the Board of Health may deem to be deserving, (2) such dental care and treatment for inhabitants of the Town of high school age and under as the Board of Health may deem to be reasonable, (3) such other facilities and services as the Board of Health may deem suitable generally to maintain, improve, or maintain and improve, the health of the inhabitants of the Town or a substantial number thereof, and (4) for maintenance of the property as a park, as in their discretion the Selectmen shall consider advisable.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at or before the time for the meeting aforesaid. Given under our hands this 10th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.
SUMNER SMITH, H. BIGELOW HILLS, Selectmen of Lincoln.
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February 21st, 1947.
I have served this Warrant by posting attested copies at both Post Offices, the Railroad Station and Town Hall, seven days before the date of said meeting.
JOHN J. KELLIHER, Constable.
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING Monday, March 3, 1947
In accordance with the above Warrant, the meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7.30 o'clock P.M., the return of the Warrant was read, the Moderator called atten- tion to Article 1, and explained the use of the microphones installed in the upper and lower halls.
Article 2. Voted: That Harold S. Cousins and Joseph R. Tracey be elected Measurers of Wood and Bark for the en- suing year.
Article 3. Under this Article, Mr. George G. Tarbell re- quested the exception of the report of the Board of Assessors and spoke of the outstanding devotional service to the Town of the Chairman of the Board, Philip R. Snelling, in compiling plans of all properties in the Town, and hoped the Town would accept the report with a good loud yes, in response to this appeal a good loud yes was heard in accepting the report. Previously the reports of the Town officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees as printed in the Town Report were accepted.
Article 4. Voted: That the salaries of the elected officers of the Town for the current year be fixed at the following amounts respectively :
Selectmen each . $200 00 Assessors, Chairman $200 00
Treasurer 200 00 Assessors, other members each. 175 00
Collector of Taxes 1,375 00 Auditor 150 00
Town Clerk 250 00
Water Commissioners each 75 00
and that the Water Commissioners be authorized to employ one of their members as Superintendent of the Water Depart- ment at a salary of $400.00 per year, and that one or more Cemetery Commissioners be authorized to work on the Ceme- tery grounds at the rate of .90c per hour, and that the Board of Assessors be authorized to employ one or more of their members at the rate of $1.50 per hour.
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Article 5. Voted: To appropriate the sum of $203,925.00 for several purposes in the manner and from the sources set forth in the Report of the Finance Committee to the Town on pages 67 to 72 (both inclusive) in the Town Report for 1946, read to the meeting to wit as follows, but increasing the appropriation for Planning Board by $50.00 to $330.00.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Selectmen
1. Salaries.
$600 00
2. Clerk, Salary 1,590 00
3. Supplies and Miscellaneous 280 00
$2,470 00
Treasurer
4. Salary
200 00
5. Asst. Treasurer, Salary
200 00
6. Supplies and Miscellaneous
164 00
564 00
Collector of Taxes
7. Salary
1,375 00
8. Supplies and Miscellaneous
325 00
1,700 00
Clerk
9. Salary
250 00
10. Supplies and Miscellaneous
35 00
285 00
Assessors
11. Salaries.
550 00
12. Supplies and Miscellaneous
176 00
726 00
Auditor
13. Salary
150 00
150 00
Legal
14. Counsel
1,000 00
1,000 00
Election and Registration
15. Salaries
200 00
16. Listing
150 00
17. Supplies and Miscellaneous
160 00
510 00
Town Hall
18. Janitor
2,314 00
19. Fuel
400 00
20. Repairs. 550 00
21. Supplies and Miscellaneous
928 00
4,192 00
.
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Planning Board
22. Supplies and Miscellaneous
$330 00
$330 00
Finance Committee
23. Supplies and Miscellaneous
30 00
30 00
TOTALS FOR GENERAL GOVERNMENT
$11,957 00
PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
Police
24. Salaries
$4,669 00
25. Radio
500 00
26. Supplies and Miscellaneous
890 00
$6,059 00
Fire Department
27. Salaries.
200 00
28. Labor at fires
1,500 00
29. Operation of equipment
1,150 00
30. Supplies and Miscellaneous
582 00
3,432 00
Tree and Moth Department
31. Labor
2,650 00
32. Supplies and Miscellaneous
1,160 00
3,810 00
Board of Appeals
33. Services and Miscellaneous.
250 00
250 00
Building Inspector
34. Salary and Transportation
200 00
35. Supplies and Miscellaneous
15 00
215 00
TOTALS FOR PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY
$13,766 00
HEALTH AND SANITATION
Board of Health
36. Salary of Nurses
$2,286 00
37. Automobile
800 00
38. Mosquito Control
715 00
39. Well Child Clinic
375 00
40. Supplies and Miscellaneous
522 00
$4,698 00
Inspector of Animals
41. Salary
100 00
100 00
TOTALS FOR HEALTH AND SANITATION
$4,798 00
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HIGHWAYS
General Highway Maintenance
42. Wages.
$11,200 00
43. Supplies and Miscellaneous
8,750 00
44. Street Lights
4,180 00
$24,130 00
Chapter 90
11,000 00
11,000 00
Machinery
45. Repairs and Maintenance
2,700 00
2,700 00
TOTALS FOR HIGHWAYS
$37,830 00
CHARITIES
46. Old Age Assistance 12,500 00
47. Aid to Dependent Children
1,000 00
48. Public Welfare
1,500 00
15,000 00
TOTALS FOR CHARITIES
$15,000 00
VETERAN'S AID
49. Soldiers' Relief
1,000 00
1,000 00
TOTALS FOR VETERAN'S AID
$1,000 00
EDUCATION
Schools
50. Salaries.
33,892 98
51. Transportation
10,388 99
52. Tuition and Vocational Education ... 13,921 00
53. Equipment, Supplies and Miscellaneous
6,293 03
64,496 00
Library
54. Salaries
1,200 00
55. Books
700 00
56. Supplies and Miscellaneous
603 00
1,992 00
TOTALS FOR EDUCATION
$66,488 00
RECREATION
57. Ball Field.
726 00
58. Summer Playground
600 00
1,326 00
TOTALS FOR RECREATION
$1,326 00
CEMETERY
59. Salaries and Wages
1,100 00
60. Supplies and Miscellaneous
400 00
1,500 00
TOTALS FOR CEMETERY
$1,500 00
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UNCLASSIFIED
61. Town Reports
$760 00
62. Memorial Day 75 00
63. Rent of Dump
200 00
64. Insurance
2,450 00
65. Reserve Fund
3,000 00
TOTALS FOR UNCLASSIFIED
$6,485 00
TOWN DEBT
66. Bonds
5,000 00
67. Interest
125 00
5,125 00
TOTALS FOR TOWN DEBT
$5,125 00
TOTAL RECOMMENDATIONS $165,275 00
WATER WORKS
37,650 00
That for the Board of Health $460.00 be received from School Department. For Chap. 90 State and County share of $8,000.00. be taken from Free Cash and returned to Free Cash when received. For Education $225.00 be taken from the DeCordova School Equipment Trust Fund income. For unclassified $3,000.00 be taken from Overlay Surplus. For Town Debt $5,125.00 be received from Water Works, and the Water Works appropriation of $37,650.00 be taken from Water Works Treasury.
Article 6. Voted: That the Town Treasurer with the ap- proval of the Selectmen, be authorized to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1947, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year, in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 7. Voted: That the Town rescind the vote adopted under Article 7 at the meeting of June 28, 1946, appropriating the sum of $3,250.00 for the use of the Committee for the Ice Hockey and Skating Rink, and that the matter of an Ice Hockey Rink be recommitted to the same Committee with instruction to report to the next Town Meeting.
Article 8. Voted: That the sum of $5,000.00 appropriated at the Special Town Meeting, June 28, 1946, under Article 13 for the expenses of the School Building Committee, be raised
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from taxation in 1947, and that the Treasurer return that sum in this amount to Surplus.
Article 9. Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $750.00 for the purchase of a sand-spreader and $45.00 for the deficiency in the appropriation in 1946 for a sickle mower.
Article 10. Voted: That the moderator be elected for a three-year term.
Article 11. Voted: That the sum of $129.16 be raised and appropriated to pay the following 1946 bills: -
Fire Engineers 1946 Fees $75 56
Doherty's Garage 11 25
Horace Partridge
12 50
Phillips' Paper Company
29 85
$129 16
and that the sum of $466.34 be raised and appropriated to pay the 1946 bill of A. A. and S. N. Shurtcliff.
Article 12. Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to employ an engineer to draw up speci- fications for heating the upper hall.
Article 13. Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to repair the copper gutters and conductors on the Town Hall.
Article 14. Voted: To lay on the table.
Article 15. Voted: That the Town raise and appropriate the sum $160.00 to place street lights on Concord Road from Baker Bridge northerly to the Concord Town Line.
Article 16. Voted: That the Selectmen are hereby author- ized to employ counsel in all matters relating to the de Cor- dova-Dana Museum and Park with instructions to take such steps either in the legislature or in a court of competent juris- diction, or both, as the Selectmen with advice of counsel may determine to be necessary to bring about to the maximum
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practicable extent the full intended purposes of the late Julian de Cordova as evidenced by the terms of the decds of the said de Cordova to the Town dated November 29th, 1930, and by the terms of his will and codicil, and to modify such terms insofar as they are impracticable and unworkable in- cluding any one or more of the following or other steps as such counsel may deem advisable; (1) by providing that all the annual income from both the trusts created by the will and codicil of the said de Cordova or such amounts thereof as may be lawfully allowed, shall be currently disbursed to the Town for the benefit of said Museum and Park; (2) by ob- taining a determination and definition of the rights, duties, powers and responsibilities of the respective parties interested in the upkeep, maintenance and improvement of said Museum and Park, in the administration thereof, and in the promotion of educational and recreational purposes which will fulfill the main purposes expressed by the said de Cordova in the afore- said deed, will and codicil; and (3) by forming a charitable corporation to be incorporated by such incorporators and operated by such trustees and officers, as the de Cordova-Dana Museum and Park Committee with the advice of counsel, may determine for the purpose of receiving and expending the monies to be paid from time to time for the benefit of said Museum and Park, and managing and operating said Museum and Park and for such other purposes connected therewith as said de Cordova-Dana museum and Park Com- mittee with the advice of such counsel may determine; the counsel employed pursuant to this vote, if not otherwise com- pensated, to be paid by the Town out of the funds received from said de Cordova or his estate.
Article 17. Voted: That the Selectmen are hereby au- thorized upon advice of counsel employed by them, to exe- cute, acknowledge and deliver proper instruments of convey- ance and transfer of all the property of the de Cordova-Dana Museum and Park now held or hereafter acquired by the Town to a corporation organized pursuant to the vote passed under Article 16 of the Warrant for this meeting.
Article 18. A motion "that the following motion" be substituted for the main motion, "That the Town rescind the
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vote of the Town under Article 12, at a Special Town Meet- ing held June 28, 1946" was lost, - For 139, Against 314. The following main motion was then voted down, Moved: That the vote passed under Article 12, at the Special Town Meeting held June 28, 1946, be altered and amended by sub- stituting therein a changed description of the land to be ac- quired so that said vote shall read as follows: That the Select- men be and they are hereby authorized and directed to ac- quire within 60 days, or as near thereto as reasonably possible, in fee for school purposes, by purchase, gift, eminent domain or in any other way a certain parcel of land in Lincoln on the westerly side of Lincoln Road adjacent to the ball field, shown in part on a plan entitled "Plan of land in Lincoln, Mass., dated January 18th, 1946, Everett M. Brooks, Civil Engineer, on file in the Town Clerk's office being part of a parcel marked 'A' on said plan, the whole of said parcel to be acquired being further bounded and described as follows:
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