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TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qualified to vote in elec- tions and town affairs, to meet in Security Hall, Woburn Street, in said Reading on TUESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1939 at seven forty five o'clock in the evening, daylight saving time, to act on the follow- ing articles: Article 1. To hear and act on the reports of Town Officers and special com- mittees and to choose all necessary committees and determine what instructions, if any, shall be given Town Officers and special committees. Article 2. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from available funds for the dedication of the World War Memorial or what it will do in relation thereto. World War Memorial Committee. Article 3. To see what sum the Town will raise by borrowing or otherwise and appropriate for the acquisition by purchase, eminent domain, lease or otherwise of land and buildings suitable for the offices and showrooms of the Electric Light Department and the construction and equipment of the necessary buildings or the remodeling, repair or improvement of such buildings or structures, and to see if the Town will vote to let or lease any portion of the premises so acquired, and what action will be taken relative to the control, operation and management of such premi- ses, or what it will do in relation thereto. Municipal Light Board. Article 4. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate for the Snow and Ice Account, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works. Article 5. To see what sum the Town will appropriate from available funds for the Water Department, or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works. And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof in at least ten public places in the town not less than seven days prior to June 20th the date set for the meeting in said warrant and to publish this warrant in the Read- ing Chronicle one day at least prior to said date. Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at or before the time appointed for said meeting. Given under our hands this twelfth day of June, A. D. 1939. CARL W. GOODRIDGE NEWELL H. MORTON ROBERT E. FOWLE Selectmen of Reading. A true copy. Attest. Finance Committee's Report on Warrant f, Meeting June 20, 1939 Article 2. Recommend the appropriation e $189.57 of the World War Memorial Fund t be transferred to the War Memorial Dedica tion Account. Article 3. Recommend the purchase of th Black's Block property, so called, and the con struction and equipment of a suitable buildin; for the Electric Light Department at a tota cost not to exceed $36,000.00, to be borrowei over a period of twenty years; and to author ize the Municipal Light Board to let or leas4 a portion of the premises so acquired and ti make necessary alterations and repairs t, same, and assume control, operation and improvement of such premises. Article 4. Recommend appropriation of $4,090.0( for the Snow & Ice account, $1,890.72 of same to balance deficit in said account. Article 5. Recommend appropriation of $455.78 the amount received for fire loss on Water ,Department building. Respectfully submitted, Finance Committee of the Town of Reading, John L. Devaney, Chairman.