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Lexington Town Records WARRANT FOR A TOWN MEETING. FRIDAY, February 2, 1906. 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 Friday, the second day of February, A. D., 1900, at 7.30 o'clock p. m., to act on the following Articles, viz. :— ART[cLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting ART. 2. To see what action the town will take toward the intro- duction of a sewerage system, or relative to a plan for assessing the cost of constructing the same; and to act in any manner relating to the subject of sewers and to ways and means for meeting the cost thereof. ART. 3. To see if the town will rescind the vote passed at an adjourned town meeting held on April 7th, 1902, under article 27 of the warrant for said meeting (whereby the membership of the School Committee was increased to 6) by adopting the following motion, or acting in any manner relating thereto. "That at the annual meeting for the election of town officers for the years 1906, 1907 and 1908 and annually thereafter, the town shall elect but one member of the School Committee for the term of three years, so that after the annual town election in 1908 there shall be but three members of the School Committee." I❑ ART. 4. To see if the town will confirm the action taken in town meeting, October 23, 1905, authorizing or purporting to authorize the purchase from George W. Spaulding of a lot of land situated on Massachusetts Avenue between the new Cary Library lot and land of Ella R. Jones, appropriating money for such purchase, and author- izing Or purporting to authorize the borrowing on notes of the town of twenty-five hundred dollars to be applied in part payment of the purchase price; or to take such further or other action in the matter of purchasing land lying between said Library lot and land of Ella R. Jones, and providing means for paytnent, whether by borrowing money or otherwise, as may be deemed best. 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 twenty-seventh day of January, A. D., 1906. GEORGE W. TAYLOR, FRANK D. PEIRCE, HENRY A. C. WOOD WARD, Selectmen of Lexington. MEETING FEBRUARY 2, 1906. Meeting called to order at 7.40 p. m. by the Town Clerk, who read the Warrant and the return of the Constable thereon. ARTICLE 1. On motion of Robert P. Clapp it was voted that a Moderator be elected by ballot, the check list to be used, and that the polls be kept open three minutes. At the close of the polls it was found four ballots had been cast, all for Alonzo E. Locke, and he was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk. ART. 3. Edwin A. Bayley offered the following motion : "That at the annual meetings for the election of town officers for the years