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21 ART. 7. To see if the Town will vote to erect a new High School Building of sufficient size to accommodate the high school grades alone, or the high school grades together with some of the grades from the two grammar schools, or to act in any manner relating thereto. Mr. E. A. Bayley moved that a committee of 12 be appointed to proceed to erect, construct and equip a new school building. Mr. G. W. Sampson wanted the committee to be reduced to three. Mr. H. G. Janvrin wanted the committee to consist of five. Mr. A. E. Scott disliked to oppose the matter but said we should consider the cost. Mr. B. F. Brown advocated opening primary schools. Mr. J. I. Buck thought the present High school building was not fit for school purposes and could not be used much longer. Mr. R. P. Clapp wanted the committee to hold back a little and moved that the motion of Mr. Bayley be laid on the table, and the town Volga', That the motion of Mr. Bayley be laid on the table. Mr. Clapp moved that when this meeting adjourn it be adjourned to three weeks from tonight (Feby. 18, 1901), and the town so voted. Mr. Clapp then moved that a committee of five be appointed by the Moderator to bring in a report on a High School Building and a Primary School Building, and the town so voted, and the Moderator appointed as such committee : R. P. Clapp, E. A. Bayley, H. A. C. 22 Woodward, H. W. Lewis and R. I. Sherman, with power to fill vacancies. ART. 8. To hear the report of any committee that may be ready to report, and to act thereon. This article was taken up on motion of Mr. H. W. Lewis, who stated that it was for the purpose of hearing the report of Committee on Sewerage. Mr. H. C.Y. Janvrin read the following report :— REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SEWERAGE, CIRCULATED HY ORDER OF THE 'TOWN, JANUARY 28TH, 1901. LEXINGTON, January 28th, 1901. To the Citizens of Lexington:— Your Committee, appointed at the Town Meeting of March 12th, 1900, to consider the subject of Sewerage, and to compare the respective methods of assessments under the Acts of 1897 and 1899 and to take any other and further action relative to a system of Sewerage, or relative to any plan or method of defraying, apportion- ing or assessing the cost of a sewerage system, have given the subject careful consideration, and now submit the following report WE RECOMMEND, That the whole system of Sewerage as shown on the plans of McClintock & Woodfall, Engineers, be built and completed in accordance with the said plans as soon as practicable. That Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 451 of the Acts of 1899, rela- tive to the sewerage system of the Town of Lexington, be adopted. 'That Section, 3, of said Act, shall be amended to read as follows :