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Article 22 To see if the Town will vote to direct the Board of Selectmen to place the following question on the next Town election ballot, "Shall the residents of the Town of Mashpee petition the Town's Selectmen requiring that the Town move to return forthwith the remaining undeveloped land parcels identified in the Selectmen's 2015 "Land Disposition Project" to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and to prohibit any future sale, conservation or reserve, and other uses of Mashpee lands identified in the Project?" Submitted by Petition Explanation: The intent of the article is 1) to restore and preserve land, water, wildlife and other natural resources; 2) to oppose and prevent the sale of remaining undeveloped land held in ownership by the Town of Mashpee, within the Town of Mashpee; 3) in accordance with federal and other applicable law, to apply justice long overdue by returning to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, from the Selectmen's "Land Disposition Project", those remaining undeveloped land parcels identified herein, and deem it the single most humane and morally responsible act to do so. In accordance with the 1790 Indian Trade and Non - intercourse Act and the applicable federal law. The Board of Selectmen does not recommend Article. The Finance Committee does not recommend Article. Motion made by Marie Stone Motion: Shall the residents of the Town of Mashpee petition the Town's Selectmen requiring that the Town move to return forthwith the remaining undeveloped land parcels identified in the Selectmen's 2015 "Land Disposition Project" to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and to prohibit any future sale, conservation or reserve, and other uses of Mashpee lands identified in the Project?" And we agree to the existing projects affordable housing, wastewater treatment, transfer station. Motion amended by Marie Stone to indefinitely postpone Article 22. Motion made to indefinitely postponed passes at 9:46 PM. Town meeting adjourned at 9:46 PM. And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, one at the Town Hall, one at the Post Office, and one each on the bulletin boards, thirty days at least before said meeting. Hereof fail not and make return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting. Given under our hands this 28r' day of March in the year two thousand and sixteen. Per order of, Board of Selectmen John J. Cahalan, Chairman Carol A. Sherman, Vice Chairman Andrew R. Gottlieb, Clerk Thomas R O'Hara John J. Cotton 63