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TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS extension of Locust Avenue was indefi- Voted that the Moderator appoint a nitely postponed. Committee of three persons to report at the next meeting on the advisability of deepening and widening Vine Brook from its easterly source to the Hayes Meadows. Art. 53. On motion of William S. Scamman it was voted that the Selectmen be and are hereby authorized to petition the County Commissioners to rebuild, alter, widen and relocate Concord Avenue from the Belmont -Lexington town line to the Lin- coln -Lexington line. Art. 45. On motion of Frank H. Holmes, it was The following Committee was. ap- pointed: John C. Graham, Chairman Joseph Swan Edward Wood Meeting dissolved at 10:46 o'clock. TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County. Greeting:— In reeting:In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Lexington, on Monday, the thirtieth day of June, A. D., 1919, at seven forty-five o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles: Art. 1. To receive the report of any Board of Town Officers or of any Com- mittee of the Town for action thereon, and to appoint other committees. Art. 2. To see if the Town will author- ize the Selectmen to decd to Neil McIn- tosh, Trustee, a certain parcel of land on Waltham Street. Art. 3. To see if the Town will make a further appropriation for the develop- ment of the New Cemetery and issue bonds in payment therefor, or act in any manner relating thereto. Middlesex, as. Art. 4. To see if the Town will appro- priate $200.00 for its proportional ex- pense in endeavoring to secure a favorable distribution of the State Income Tax, or set in any manner relating thereto. Art. 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Survey to take such action as said Board may deem necessary in its endeavors to secure a proper development of any real estate in the Town, or aet in any manner relating thereto. Art. 6. To see if the Town will vote to increase the pay of the Highway Em- ployees and grant money for the same, or act in any manner relating thereto. Art. 7. To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee or the Board of Selectmen or either or both, to purchase or take by eminent domain the following described parcel of land on Bedford Street in North Lexington for school pur- poses under the provisions of Revised Laws, Chapter 28, Section 19 or under the provisions of Chapter 263 of the Acts of 1915 and the additions and amendments to either of said acts and make an ap- • TOWN. OF LEXINGTON propriation therefor or take any other action relative thereto. This lot of land supposed to belong to Charles F. Smith, being substantially de- scribed as follows, viz: Beginning at the northerly corner thereof on Bedford Street at the boundary line between land of Smith and land of Kendall; thence running southwesterly partly on said land of Kendall and partly on land of Johnson two hundred seventy-six and eighty-one one hundredths (276.81) feet to a bound set in the ground; thence turning and running in a straight line South 27 de- grees 03" East three hundred eight (308) feet to a bound set in the ground; thence turning and running in a straight line North 63 degrees 17" East two hundred six and one tenth (200.1) feet to Bedford Street; thence turning and running north- erly on Bedford Street three hundred twenty (320) feet to the point of begin- ning—containing about one and seventy- four one hundredths (1.74) acres. Art. 8. To appropriate money for the purpose of building a school house at North Lexington, and vote to issue bonds or notes therefore, or otherwise determine the method of raising the money so ap- propriated and to take any other or further action relative thereto as may be deemed best. Art. 9. To see if the town will vote to authorise and instruct the water and sewer commissioners to extend the sewer on Merriam Street to Oakland and along Oakland Street to a point that will ac- commodate the factory of M. H. Merri- • am upon the petition of Frederick L. Emery and others, to appropriate money by the issue of bonds or notes or other- wise, or aet in any manner with relation thereto. Art. 10. To see if the town will make 'further appropriation to meet the provi- sions of Chapter 254 of the General Acts of 1917, and to see if the Town will vote whether this money shall be paid to any man who was a Town Employee when he entered the CT. S. Service whether or not such employment was permanent or tem- porary. 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 June A. D., 1919. WILLIAM S. SCAMMAN, JAY O. RICHARDS, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, Selectmen of Lexington. Lexington, June 24, 1919. To the Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lex- ington by posting printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office and in six other public places in the town, and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the town, eight days before the time of said meeting. Attest : CHARLES E. WHEELER, Constable of Lexington.