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II MEETING JANUARY 21, 1903. 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 A. C. Stone it was voted, that we elect a Moderator by ballot, that the check list be used and that the polls be kept open for five minutes ; the time was extended five minutes more and at the close of the polls it was found that 44 ballots had been cast all for Edward C. Stone, and he was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk. ART. 2. On motion of James P. Munroe it was voted "that the committee appointed by the town at its meeting held on August 25, 1902, and the Selectmen having made application for the admission of the town into the Metropolitan Water District, which action is hereby ratified and confirmed, be authorized and instructed to ex- ecute acknowledge and deliver in the name and behalf of the town of Lexington an agreement with the Commonwealth and the Met- ropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, that the Board, in furnishing water to the town in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 488 of the Acts of the year 1895, and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, shall deliver water at or near the boundary line be- tween the towns of Lexington and Arlington into the present ten inch main water pipe laid in Massachusetts Avenue, or into such pipe as the town may hereafter lay in said avenue for the purpose of receiving the water and that the Treasurer be authorized and instruc- ted, when so directed by the said Committee and the Selectmen, to pay to the Commonwealth the sum of twenty seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, that amount being required by the Met- ropolitan Water and Sewerage Board upon the admission of said town into said District." The result of this vote was 46 voting in fa- vor and 19 opposed. ART. 3 AND 4. On motion of F. C. Childs it was voted, that for the purpose of providing moneys with which to defray the cost of entering the Metropolitan Water District and expenses incidental I2 thereto, including the cost of procuring and laying new or additional water pipes, the town treasurer is hereby authorized to issue and sell during the current year 1903, a series of twenty negotiable bonds or promissory notes of the town, drawing interest at the rate of three and one half per cent (3) per annum, payable semi-annually, for principal amounts aggregating forty-four thousand dollars, each such bond or note to be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by a majority of the Selectmen, and to be payable, both principal and in- terest, in gold coin of the United States of America, of the present standard of weight and fineness. The indebtedness hereby authori- zed shall be known as the "Lexington Metropolitan Water Loan 1903," and to the end that the same may be extinguished within the period expiring in the year 1923," the town instead of establishing a sinking fund hereby provides that each bond or note of the series shall be for the principal sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, that the first bond or note shall fall due in the year 1904, the second in the year 1905, and so on in regular sequence (one bond or note being made to fall due in each year) and that the one latest ma- turing shall fall due in the year 1923. Vote unanimous. ART. 5. On motion of G. W. Sampson it was voted that the article be indefinitely postponed. Voted to dissolve the meeting. Meeting dissolved at 9.55 p. m. A true record, attest : GEORGE D. HARRINGTON, Town Clerk.