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at ART. 24. To see if the town will appoint a committee to act with the Selectmen to consider rearranging the town offices, and the room formerly occupied by Cary Library, also to consider the nutter of heating the Town Hall building with steam, and making necessary repairs on same, or act in any manner relating thereto. ART. 25. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the purpose of placing a memorial stone with a suitable inscrip- tion thereon in the monument to be built at Provincetown commem- orating the landing of the Pilgrims, and the signing of the compact in Provincetown harbor, this amount to be taken from the conting- ent grant. ART. 26. To provide for establishing and constructing a sewer- age system, and to provide for the raising of funds for that purpose ; also to vote to issue bonds as authorized by Chapter 504 of the Acts of 1897 and Chapter 3f..9 of the Acts of 1906 amending the same; and to take such further or other action relative to the in- troduction and construction of sewers and to the providing of means with which to pay therefor 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 eighteenth day of Feb- ruary, A. D., 1907. GEORGE W. TAYLOR, FRANK D. PEIRCE, HENRY A. C. WOODWARD, Selectmen of Lexiirgtan. MEETING MARCH 4, 1907. Meeting called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.05 o'clock, a. m,, who proceeded to read the Warrant. After reading Article 1, an 22 motion of Irving Stone it was unanimously voted to dispense with the further reading of the Warrant. The Town Clerk then read the return of the Constable thereon. ARTICLE 1. On motion of George W. 'Taylor it was Voted, To elect a Moderator by ballot ; that the check list be used, and that the polls be kept open one minute. At the close of the polls four ballots had been cast, all for Edwin A. Bayley, and he was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk. ARTS. 2 and 3. .Abram B. Smith and Charles W. Swan having been appointed Ballot Clerks, were sworn by the Town Clerk and receipted to him for a package said to contain 900 official ballots for male voters, and a package said to contain 300 official ballots for female voters, also a check list for male and female voters. • living Stone and James A. Hurley having been appointed Deputy Ballot Clerks, were sworn by the Town Clerk. The ballot box was shown to be empty, then locked, and the key delivered to Charles E. Wheeler, the Constable in charge, and the Moderator then de- clared the polls open. Samuel B. Bigelow, Lucius A. Austin, G. Irving Tuttle, Henry E. Woodward, Daniel J. Vaughan, George L. Pierce, Cornelius F. O'Conner and Bradley C. Whitcher having been appointed Tellers, were sworn by the Town Clerk. At 10.30 o'clock, by order of the Moderator and 'l'own Clerk, the ballot box was opened and 3110 ballots were taken out; at 2.30 o'clock 200 ballots were taken out ; at 3.40 o'clock 100 ballots were taken out ; also 100 ballots of female voters. At 4 o'clock, on motion of Chris- topher S. Ryan it was voted to keep the pods open until 5.30 o'clock. At 4.40 o'clock 50 ballots were taken out. After the close of the polls at 5.30 o'clock 19 ballots of male and 41 ballots of female votes were taken from the boxes. The check list used by the Ballot Clerks showed the natnes of 669 male and 141 female .raters checked. The check Iist used by the Moderator showed the names of 669 males male and 141 female voters checked. The ballot box register stood at 669. After the tellers had completed their work the Town Clerk announced the result as follows :