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Lexington Town Records. FROM TOWN CLERK'S RECORD. WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING. WEDNESDAY, January 21st, 1903. To WILLIAM 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 Wednesday the 21st day of January, A. D., 1903, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., to act on the following Articles, viz :— ART. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. ART. 2. To see if the town will authorize the committee appoint- ed at a meeting of the town held on August 25, 1902, and its select- men, to make with the Commonwealth and the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, an agreement relative to the supplying of water to the town, and will authorize the treasurer to pay the sum which may be required for such admission : and to take such other action in the premises as may be deemed necessary or proper. ART. 3. To provide for the procuring and laying of new or ad- ditional water pipes ; to take such further or other action as may be deemed best in the matter of adapting the mains, standpipes or other portions of the existing water works for use in the distribution of I0 water when the town shall have entered the Metropolitan District; and to act in any manner in relation to the town's present or future water supply. ART. 4. To appropriate and provide for the raising of (by taxa- tion or otherwise) such moneys as may be deemed necessary or proper to defray the cost of entering the Metropolitan Water District and expenses incidental thereto, including the cost of procuring and lay- ing new or additional water pipes, and such moneys also as may be requisite in order to carry out the will of the town in reference to all or any of the subject matters of the foregoing articles of this warrant, to these ends authorizing the contracting of such debts and issuing of such notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness as may be thought best; and to make any suitable provision for the payment of such indebtedness as shall be incurred in the premises. ART. 5. To see if the town will provide for a change in the term of office of its assessors by passing a vote in terms substantially as follows, viz : Voted, That, at its annual meeting, to be holden in March of the current year, the town elect one assessor for the tern of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years ; and that at each annual meeting thereafter the town shall elect one assessor for the term of three years as authorized by section three hundred and thirty-nine of chapter eleven of the Revised Laws. 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. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this Thirteenth day of Jan- uary, A. D., 1903. EDWIN S. SPAULDING, JOHN F. HUTCHINSON, GEO. W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington.