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REPORT OF TOWN CLERK 133 to pay therefore, not over $25,000.00 and for that pur- pose, shall be, Appropriated and Assessed $2160.00 Transferred from "Sale of Real Estate Fund" 1840.00 and 21000.00 shall be raised by the sale of notes or bonds of the town issued in accordance with law and payable in not more than five years from the date thereof. Standing vote taken as follows : In Favor 23 61 16 100 Tellers Robert C. Merriam Walter E. Sands Thomas F. Fitzgerald Opposed 4 16 9 29 Carried 10:27 P. M. Selectman Charles E. Ferguson moves to take up Ar- ticle 46, Roger D. Long offering the following: Voted that the town authorize the town meeting mem- bers from each precinct to select from their number three members to serve on a General Executive Com- mittee of Town Meeting Members and appropriate sev- enty-five dollars ($75) to meet the expenses of this com- mittee. The duties of this committee shall be to collect and re- cord pertinent information about town affairs and to report this information to town meeting members in precinct meetings. Members of this committee must be town meeting members in good standing, and shall serve for one year from the time of their election at the next precinct meetings, or until their successors are appointed. Carried 10:31 P. M. Selectman Charles E. Ferguson moves to take up Ar- ticle 47, offering the following: 136 TOWN OP LEXINGTON TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County : Greeting : 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 Cary Memorial Building, in said Lexington, on Monday, the 27th day of September, 1937, at eight o'clock P. M., then and there to act on the following articles : Article 1. To receive the reports of any Board of Town Officers or of any Committee of the Town and to appoint other Committees. Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and transfer money from available funds for engineering work in connection with obtaining bids and preparing speci- fications and construction drawings for Vine Brook Drain- age. Article 3. To see if the Town will authorize the Selectmen to execute and deliver a release of its easement to use for the purpose of Vine Brook improvement the property of the Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank adjoining the site of the Town Office Building in exchange for a grant of full title to a strip of definite width adjoining Vine Brook as shown on a plan by John T. Cosgrove, Town Engineer, dated April 28, 1937, on file in the office of the Town Clerk. Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate and