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LEXINGTON TOWN RECORDS. (FROM TOWN CLERK'S RECORD.) WARRANT FOR A 'TOWN MEETING. MONDAY, March 7, 1892. To WIhLIAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING :— ln the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 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 seventh day of March, A. D. 1892, at seven o'clock A. M., to act on the following articles, namely : — AILT. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting, Voted, That the poll for choice of Moderator be kept open two minutes. On ballot with the use of the check list Robert P. Clapp was unanimously chosen as Moderator and sworn by the Clerk. ART. 2. To choose by ballot the following town officers: One town clerk, three selectmen, three over- seers of the poor, three surveyors of highways, three assessors, one town treasurer, one collector of taxes, three members of the Board of Heath, two auditors, two constables all for the term of one year, one mem- ber of the School Committee for the term of three years, one member of the School Committee for the term of one year, one member of the Cemetery Com- mittee for the term of three years. ART. 3. To see if the town will vote for or U against granting licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in answer to the question, Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town? The vote on the above question shall be by ballot " Yes " or « No. " The election officers will receive votes under Arti- cles 2 and 3 on the official ballot prepared by the Town Clerk. The polls will be opened as soon as possible after the organization of the meeting and shall be kept open until five o'clock P. M. ARTS. 2 and 3. The Moderator administered the oath of office to George D. Harrington and Robert J. Elliott, who had been appointed by the Selectmen as ballot clerks, and the town clerk delivered to them a package said to contain one thousand official ballots for the use of male voters and thirty official ballots for the use of female voters, and took their receipt there- for. Cards of instruction and specimen ballots had been posted in the hall as provided by law. The ballot box was then shown to be empty, and locked and the key delivered to the Constable in attendance, the ballot clerks and Moderator furnished with official voting lists and the Moderator declared the polls open and the balloting proceeded. At 11 o'clock A. M. the Moderator appointed Frank P. Cutter and Bartlett Harrington as deputy ballot clerks, and David S. Muzzey, Henry A. C. Wood- ward, Roger I. Sherman, Abram B. Smith, Daniel J. Vaughan and Edwin S. Spaulding as tellers, all of whom took the oath of office.