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TOWN OF LEa1NGTON 29 jourrunent of the Town Meeting of February 18, 1924, was tureen up. Edwin A. 'Bayley raised a point of order that the two meetings could not be taken up together unless one was ad,jou.rned. ator cited the Mass. Reports, eport ,1 and ruled that case. the two meetingsnn`y1be discussed without adjourning one of the meetings. Robert P. Clapp then read the following letter: To the Citizens of Lexington:— February 15, 1824. The Tr ietees of iniac Harris Cary Educational Fund have in their bands a sum approaching $500;000 committed to them in trust by the wills of Mts. Eliza Cary Farnham and Miss Susanna E. Cary and an act of the Massachusetts Legislature (Chapter 249 of the Acts of 1921). It is a little more than two years sine the nronerty was turned over by the individuals who were the Executors and original trustees under the wills. The purnese of the trust, as shown in two circular letters heretofore sent to the inhabit- ants of the Town—one in February, 1922. and the other in Ma~ch, 1923, is broadly speaking. two -fold. First, to use such portion of the fund as in the discretion of the Trust - ccs may be neccssary for nrncaing a suitable site for and erecting, a "fire -proof building to be adapted to and suitable sile, for the safe storing and exhibition of revolationalo' relics and treasures pertaining; to the history' of the Torn_ and to contain a hall adapted to lectures and pr=brie meet- „ s and second, to furnish educational assistance to hors and young men of New England parentage. The trust as a whole is intended as a memorial to the donors' father, Isaac Harris Cary, The Trustees are required. after delermininn the size end location of the Memorial Radio too9"-*' it to the Town. Tncidentallhy the Trustees are to provide for the maintenance of public lecture courses in the bedding, If the project shall be carried forward and com-pleted in the near future. the Trustees now believe that there will available for •t --ns' rrir,rr .always th;rt the Tman shall be wilHnr• to accept and maintain the building—approx- imately "'00,400. The Trustees are not antherized to offer a hnilrling to be used for all purposes of a. Town Hall as that tern) is o"rlirerily understood. but they rrav, tile,' think, without violating the terms of the wills. -rake the building contain SG ANNUAL REPORT public hall available for customary Town Meetings, and for lecture courses and other public gatherings, calculated promote the Town's educational and community life. The present plans of the Trustees contemplate such a build- ing; but they can hardly expect the Town to agree to accept and care for it unless the matter can be so arranged as to fta nish the Town, as a part of the program, an opportunity t o have it municipal offices nearby. Accordingly the "rustees suggest a public hall having a seating capacity or not less than one thousand people to be erected upon a ,t, of liberal size which may be conveyed to the Town along with the building, so that theTown itself may erect upon *e e same land in close proximity thereto a separate struct- eee to contain administrative and departmental offices. if an arrangement acceptable to the Town and one that would result in its taking over and agreeing to main- ain the building, cannot be made. the Trustees will have o erect a much smaller one than now planned—one less • reful and not adequate to accomodate town meetings, since would be necessary- to provide for its care and main- enance out of the income from the trust and leave, as must done in any contingency. a sufficient amount to meet the c`ucational requirements of the trust. . The Trustees, having employed architects upon pre- ''mina.ry studies and obtained sketch plans showing the kind nd approximate size of a building which they rind them- ; elves permitted to erect. if assured of the Town's willing- :ess to accept it, now ask the Town to appoint a Committee to examine the plans in conference with the Trustees, and -"ter conference to report back to the Town full details -'erdrne the project. with recommendations as to the `'.;risibility of its agreeing to accept and maintain a build - r of the character proposed. Respectfully submitted by order of the Board of Trustees ROBERT P. CL APP. President EDWARD P. MERRIAM, Clerk Mr. Clapp's report was accepted and placed on file. Sydney R. Wrighinryton then offered the following mo - tin which was unanimously passed. "VOTED. that in compliance with the request made the communication just received from the Trustees of T<elac Harris Cary Educational Fund. A conference Com- r-i;`tee of eleven be appointed by the Moderator for the nrrpose of conferring with the Trustees, examining their