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39 AR'r. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. ART. 2. To receive the report of any Committee for action thereon. ART. 3. To see if the town will make an appropriation or incur indebtedness, by issuing bonds or notes, for the purpose of laying a new water main from Utica street to the residence of Mary A. Morrill, on Lowell street, or act in arty 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 tneeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this Tenth day of June, A. D., 1903. EDWIN S. SPAULDING, JOHN F. HUTCHINSON, GEO. W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. MEETING JUNE 22, 1903. Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 8 o'clock, who read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon. ART, 1. On motion of A. C. Stone 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 3 minutes. At the close of the polls, it was found that 11 ballots had been cast, all for Edward C. Stone, and he was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk. ART. 2. The Committee on the Chandler R. Richardson Trust made the following report, "The committee appointed at an adjourn - 40 ment of the annual Town Meeting of the currant year, to appear before the Probate Court of the County of Middlesex, and request the appointment of two additional trustees for the estate of the late Chandler R. Richardson, are happy to state that without action on our part, the Selectmen, in accordance with the terms of the same vote which appointed the committee, recommended Messrs. Geot-ge H. Reed and Warren M. Batcheller as such trustees, and that the original trustee assented to their appointment, which was duly made by the Judge of Probate. The committee having satisfied them- selves of the facts in the case, beg leave to report that the present trustees now consist of George H. Reed, Warren M. Batcheller and Augustus E. Scott." There appearing to be no further business for the committee, we ask that this report be accepted and the committee be discharged. Respectfully submitted, ABBOTT S. MI'T'CHELL, GEORGE W. SAMPSON, ABRAM C. WASHBURN. June 19, 1903. On motion of G. W. Sampson it was Voted, That the report be accepted and the committee dis- charged. ART. 3. E. S. Locke moved that the sum of Five thousand dol- lars be appropriated to meet the expense of furnishing and laying a six inch water pipe from the termination of the present water pipe on Woburn Street to the residence of Mary A. Morrill on Lowell Street, and that this sum of Five thousand dollars be raised on notes of the town to be made payable one thousand dollars annually for five years, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent per annum, said notes to be sold at private sale by the Selectmen.