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Lexington Town Records. WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING. TuEsDAv, January 31st, 1905. To CHARLES E. WHEELER, 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 thirty-first day of January, A. D., 1905, 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 see if the town will accept from the Cary Heirs, the gift of a Library property, on the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Clarke street, the building to house the present Cary Library now in the Town Hall, and to be known as " The Cary Memorial Library," or act in any 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 meeting. Given under our hands, at Lexington, this nineteenth day January, A. D., 1905. GEO. W. TAYLOR, EDWARD C. STONE, Selectmen of Lexington. 12 MEETING JANUARY 31, 1905. Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.35 o'clock, who read the Warrant and the return of the Constable thereon. ARTICLE I. On motion of G. H. Cutter it was voted to elect a Moderator, that the check list be used, and that the polls be kept open five minutes. At the close of the polls four ballots had been cast, all for Edward P. Nichols, 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 Town of Lexington, mindful of the invaluable service rendered by the late Mrs. Maria Hastings Cary in generously establishing a public library for the inhabitants, and deeming the proposed gift of a house for that library an important means of edu- cation and a fitting ornament to the town as well as a proper mem- orial to a family, the members of which have always set a high example of devoted citizenship, accepts most gratefully the gift ten- dered by the Cary Heirs of a library property on the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Clarke street, the building of said prop- erty to be used to house the present Cary Library, now in the Town Hall, and to be known as "The Cary Memorial Library." (The above was taken by a rising vote and was unanimous). On motion of Rev. C. F. Carter it was Poled, That the Moderator and Messrs. James P. Munroe and George 0. Whiting be chosen a committee to wait on Miss Cary and thank her for the timely and munificent gift. On motion of E. A. Bayley it was Voted, That Messrs. George 0. Whiting, George W. Taylor and Alonzo E. Locke be and are hereby constituted a committee to Con-