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25 Sampson moved that the motion be indefinitely postponed. Mr. E. P. Merriam moved that when the vote is taken it be by ballot and that the • check list be used. Mr. E. A. Bayley offered an amendment that the ballots be placed in the hands of the Town Clerk for distribution, and the motion of Mr. Merriam as amended by Mr. Bayley was carried. At the close of the polls the Moderator announced the result as follows, in favor of postponement 218, against postponement 215 and Mr. Clapp's motion was declared lost. On motion of Mr. G. W. Sampson it was Voted, That Article 30 be indefinitely postponed. On motion of Mr. E. P. Merriam it was Voted, That when this meeting do adjourn it adjourn to Monday evening March 23 at 7.30 o'clock P. M. Meeting adjourned at 10.40 o'clock. ADJOURNED MEETING MARCH 23, 1903. Meeting called to order by the Moderator at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. E. A. Bayley moved to take up Article 18 which was carried. ART. 18. Mr. Bayley said he was not in favor of the motion inserted in the article and would yield the floor to some person who was. As nobody did so, Mr. Bayley offered the following motion : "That the town hereby rescind the vote passed at a meeting held January 29, 1900. under Article 2 of said meeting and substitute therefor the following : That at the annual Town Meeting in March 1904, the town shall elect one Selectman for the term of one year, and in March 1905 shall elect two Selectmen for the terra of one year, and in March 1906 shall elect three Selectmen for the term of 26 one year, and thereafter shall annually elect three Selectmen for the term of one year in the manner in which the Selectmen have been elected prior to the election of March 5, 1900." Mr. G. W. Samp- son moved that Article 18 be indefinitely postponed, but afterward withdrew his motion. Mr_ Bayley's motion was then put and declared lost by a voice vote. ART. 4. Under this article Rev. C. A. Staples made a verbal report for the Committee on the publication of Town Records and offered the following resolution which was adopted : " Whereas the State of Mass. proposes to buy 500 copies of the Births, Marriages and Deaths of Lexington recently printed by the town paying there- for one cent per page for the book down to the year 1850, pro- vided the town causes the same to be rebound and a transcript made of the original records, and the copy deposited with the Secretary of the Commonwealth." Resolved, That the Committee on the publication of the Town Records is hereby directed to comply with these requirements, and make the sale according to the above terms. ART. 29. Mr. G. W. Sampson offered the following motion : "That the subject be left to the Surveyors of Highways with full powers." Mr. H. H. Putnam offered the following amendment : " With the request that they give favorable consideration to establishing minimum wages of $2.00 per day for a full days work." After considerable discussion in which Messrs. Sampson, Parker, Corbett, Putnam and Bayley took part, the motion of Mr. Sampson as amended by Mr. Putnam was carried. ART. 4. On motion of Mr. A. E. Locke it was Voted, That the report of the Finance Committee be accepted. ART. 7. On motion of G. H. Cutter it was voted, that $200.00