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65 Sidewalks, Street Lights, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Street Watering, Town Debt, Treasurer Cary Library, Trimming Trees, Town Clerk, Town 'Treasurer, Town Physician, Watering Troughs, Overdrafts, Closed Accounts 1903, Abatement of Taxes, 800.00 6,200.00 100.00 1,500.00 15,200.00 50.00 1,200.00 300.00 650.00 76.00 75.00 609.32 600.00 $84,924.32 66 REPORT OF THE SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS. To the Citizens of Lexington: Your Surveyors of Highways submit the following as a portion of the work accomplished during the past season in behalf of good roads, as a result of your liberal appropriation for the last three years. While macadamized roads are costly, Lexington has never had so many miles constructed in one season as during the past year. We will mention a part of the work that has been done : Bloomfield street has been made full width and macadamized its entire length making it one of the handsomest streets in the suburbs of Boston. At the corner of Bloomfield street and Massachusetts Avenue the road has always been at a low level, and a large amount of water has occupied the streets near this location. Catch basins and pipes have been put in and the streets raised. Adams street has been macadamized from the junction of Hancock to the foot of the Hill beyond the residence of Mr. Charles H. Bugbee, Hancock street from its junction with Adams to Revere street; Clark street its entire length. Bedford street conies in for a long stretch of this work,—from near the common to North Lexington near the Morton Reed place connecting with the state road. Woburn street between Massachusetts Avenue and the Boston and Maine R. R. has been low, wet, and narrow. The County Com-