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in the rear and adjoining property of the Follen Church and pro- perty of the town on which stands the Stone Building, for school and play ground purposes. FRANK D. PEIRCE, Chairman, Board of Selectmen. A true copy. Attest : CHAS. W. SWAN, Town Clerk. LEXINGTON, Mass., Nov. 28, 1911. To THE TOWN CLERK :— Under a vote passed by the town, under Art. 6, at a meeting held Oct. 19, 1911, the Selectmen passed to record at the Registry of Deeds, East Cambridge, on Nov. 27, 1911, two deeds, conveying to the town three parcels of land located in the rear of and adjoining property of the Follen Church and land owned by the town, on which stands the Stone Building. The purchase of this land was for erecting a new school house thereon, and a public play ground. It was also in settlement for the land taken in fee by the Select- men Nov. 13, 1911. A true copy. Attest : FRANK D. PEIRCE, Chairman, Board of Selectmen. 97 CHAS. W. SWAN, . Town Clerk. ACT'S OF THE LEGISLATURE ACCEPTED BY THE TOWN DURING THE YEAR 1911 REVISED LAWS, CHAP. 49, SEC. 43. ACCEPTED ATA TOWN MEETING MaRcti 13, 1911. SECTION 43. If the city council of a city or town, at an annual meeting, accepts the provisions of this section or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the mayor and aldermen or the selectmen or road commissioners may, if in their judgment the public convenience so requires, grade and construct sidewalks and complete partially constructed sidewalks in any street, with or with- out edgestones, may cover the same with brick, flat stones, concrete, gravel or other appropriate material, and may assess not more than one-half of the costs proportionally upon the abutters on such side- walks; but no abutter, if the sidewalk was constructed subsequent to the twenty seventh day of April in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four and in a city if the city council thereof has accepted the provisions of chapter one hundred and seven of the acts of said year, shall be assessed an amount exceeding one per cent of the valuation of his abutting estate as fixed by the last preceeding annual assessment for taxes. The mayor and aldermen, selectmen or road commissioners shall deduct from the assessment for side- walks so constructed with edgestones and covered any amount pre- viously assessed upon the abutting land, and paid for the cost of the construction in any other manner of such sidewalk; such deduction shall be made proportionally from the assessments upon abutters, who are owners of the land in respect of which such former assess- ments were paid. Such sidewalks, when so constructed and covered, shall be maintained at the expense of such city or town. In esti- mating the damage sustained by the construction of such sidewalks, the benefit, if any, to the property of the party by reason thereof shall be allowed in set-off. 98