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Lexington Town Records. FROM TOWN CLERK'S RECORD. WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING. TUESDAY, March 1st, 1904. 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 Tuesday, the first day of March, A. D., 1904, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., to act on the following Articles, viz :— ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting. ART. 2. To ascertain what the School Committee recommends in regard to a new primary school building. ART. 3. To consider what the parents want for their children, and what the town can afford to do. ART. 4. To take such preliminary action looking toward the erection of a new primary school building as may be thought ex- pedient, but not to appropriate any money for the purpose. 14 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 Twentieth Day of Feb- ruary, A. D., 1904. t EDWIN S. SPAULDING, GEORGE W. TAYLOR, Selectmen of Lexington. MEETING MARCH 1, 1904. Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.30 o'clock p. m., who read the warrant and the return of the Constable thereon. ARTICLE 1. On motion of A. C. Stone it was voted that we pro- ceed to elect a Moderator, that the check list be used and that the polls be kept open three minutes. At the close of the polls it was found that nine ballots had been cast, all for Edward C. Stone, and he was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk. ARTS. 2, 3, 4. Francis J. Garrison offered a report of the School Committee in regard to a new primary school building (see report of committee, page 552). On motion of Robert P. Clapp it was voted that the report be received and placed on file. The report was generally discussed, and on motion of Edwin A. Bayley it was voted " that it is the sentiment of this meeting that the present school requirement is for a six -room wooden primary building located somewhere between Winthrop road on the north and Percy road on the south." On motion of R. P. Clapp it was voted "that the School Com- mittee is hereby authorized and requested to prepare in conformity with the general recommendations of the report just submitted, a