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LEXINGTON TOWN RECORDS. WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING, MONDAY, Jan. 5, 1891. To WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING : — In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the town of Lexington, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at the town hall, on Monday, the fifth day of January, A. D. 1891, at half past one o'clock, P. M., to act on the fol- lowing articles, namely: — ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator to preside at said meeting. ART. 2. To hear the report of the Building Com- mittee of the new school -house for the Hancock schools, and act thereon. AR'r. 3. To see if the town will vote to revoke or rescind so much of the vote passed at the meeting held May 29, 1890, whereby the disposal of the old Hancock school -house lot was left to the School- house. Committee. ART. 4. To see if the town will make an appropri- ation to enable the Selectmen to insure the new school -house building as the work progresses, or act in any manner relating thereto. 6 ART. 5. To see if the town will authorize the Building Committee to use slate instead of shingles, and metal gutters and conductors in place of wood, and to make some other changes in the construction of the new Hancock school -house, and make an appropriation therefor, or act in any manner relating thereto. ART. 6. To see if the town will authorize the Building Committee to purchase a small additional lot of land from the Rindge estate, or act in any manner relating thereto. ART. 7. To see if the town will appropriate and authorize the Building Committee to use the amount received from the insurance of the old Hancock school -house and the amount which may be received from the sale of the land, for using slate and copper upon the roof, and in making other changes in con- struction of the new school -house, and for furnishing the same, and for purchasing additional land, or act in any manner relating thereto. ART. 8. To see what action the town will take in relation to the petition of John P. Reed, and others, to the County Commissioners, for the re -locating and improving of Bedford Street from the Common to the Bedford line. LEXINGTON, MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1891. The meeting in accordance with the foregoing warrant was called to order by the Town Clerk at the specified time, and the warrant and the return of the constable thereon was read, and the business pro- ceeded as follows : —