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Lexington Town Records. FROM TOWN CLERK'S RECORD. WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING. MONDAY, January .20th, 1902. To W1LI.IAM B. FOSTER, Constable of Lexington, GREETING: In 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 20th day of January, A. D., 1902, at 7.30 p. m., to act on the following Articles, viz :— ART. 1. `1'o choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. ART. 2. To see if the town desires to substitute stone and metal for wood (in whole or in part) in the exterior finish of the New High School Building, and if so to make an appropriation therefor and to provide for borrowing the money, or act in any manner relating thereto. Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk on or before the time of said meeting. IO Given under our hands, at Lexington, this ninth day of January, A. D., 1902. EDWIN S. SPAULDING, G. W. SPAULDING, Selectmen of Lexington. MEETING JAN. 20, 1902. Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.40 o'clock p. m., who read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon. ART. 1. On motion of E. P. Merriam it was voted that we proceed to elect a Moderator by ballot, that the check list be used and that the polls be kept open five minutes. It was again voted that the time be extended three minutes. At the close of the polls at the time specified it was found 51 ballots had been cast all for Edward C, Stone, who was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk. ART, 2. Mr. R. P. Clapp said the meeting was called by citizens of the town who thought the change in the building should be made and not by the Committee, and gave the increased cost for substituting metal and stone for wood. Mr. B. F. Brown moved that the whole matter be indefinitely post- poned. Mr. G. W. Sampson spoke against appropriating more money. Mr. A. E. Scott moved that the town appropriate $16,500 for substituting metal and stone and spoke in favor of his motion. The Moderator ruled that Mr. Brown's motion took precedence of Mr. Scott's, and put the motion of Mr. Brown which he declared carried. The vote was doubted and the house was polled with the following result : 53 in favor and 23 against, and Mr. Brown's motion was declared carried.