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13 ART. 11. Voted, That Article 11 be taken up in connection with Articles 3 and 4, so that ballots can be cast on this question at the same time as for town officers. At the close of the polls the ballot -box register stood at :49. On counting the ballots, 345 were found to have been cast on the license question, as follows: --- N o . 115 230 and was so announced by the moderator. (Several ballots that should have been put in other ballot - boxes were deposited in the registering ballot -box by mistake.) ART. 12. The Selectmen submitted a list of amounts required to defray town expenses for the ensuing year, and it was Voted, That the list be acted on item by item, which was done, and the amounts appropriated were as follows: — Town Debt . Constables and Police Salaries of Selectmen Salaries of Assessors Salary of Town Clerk Salaries of Auditors • Salaries of School Committee Salaries of Treasurer and Collector Salary or Treasurer or Cary Library Salary of Superintendent of Schools Salaries of Aiiitors of Town and Village Halls Fuel and Lights of Town and Village Halls . Ringing Bells . • $2,G00 • 2,000 ▪ 800 425 200 45 300 500 50 850 • 500 500 70 JI 14 Printing Hyd rants Interest • Librarian of Cary Library and East Lexington Reading- Rooui . . Registrars of Voters Memorial Day . Abatement of Taxes Discount on Taxes . Care of Common (same committee as hist year) . . (See Arts. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16,18, 20, 22, 25, and 26.) $ 254 1,640 1,500 820• 150• 123 500 400 200• ART. 13. Voted, That all taxes for the current year be made payable on or before Dec. 1, 1889, and that a discount of one half of one per cent per month for all full months prior to said date be deducted for prompt payment, and that all taxes remaining unpaid at that date be subject to interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, and that the collector be instructed to collect all taxes before May 1, 1890. ART. 14. Voted, That the town authorize their Treasurer, under the direction of the Selectmen, to borrow money for any necessary purpose, in anticipa- tion of the collection of taxes the current year, the same to be paid directly from the proceeds of said taxes. ART. 15. Voted, That the sum of two hundred dollars be appropriated from money in the treasury, and that the money be expended under the direction of a committee to be appointed by the Lexington Historical Society. Aim% 16. Voted, That the sum of five hundred dollars be appropriated to build sidewalks with con- crete or other material, where the abutters will pay one half the expense thereof.