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9011 SPECIAL TOWN MEETING JUNE 18 , 1929 A quorum not being present at 7 : 30 the meeting was called to order by Moderator Robert H . Holt at 7 : 53 P . M . Mr . Holt used a new 'gavel which was designed by Architect Willard D . Brown and made and presented to the Town by Mr . Theodore A . Custance . The gavel was made from pieces of the timbers of the old Parson Estabrook house built in 1689 , on the site of the Cary Memorial Building in which this meeting is held . The Town seal was carved on boxwood by Mr . Carl Hauck of Lexington and set into the end of the gavel . Art . 2 . Under this article on motion of Mr. Sydney R . Wrighting- ton it was unanimously at 7 : 58 P . M . "Voted : That the Town rescind its vote adopted April 8, 1929 authorizing a conveyance to Lillian G . Marshall and Lois M . Marshall and in substitution therefor that the Town sell and convey to Lillian G . Marshall and Lois M . Marshall in consideration of the payment by them of eight hundred fifty dollars ( S850 ) the following described parcel of land : A certain parcel of land situated in Lexington on the south - westerly side of Massachusetts Avenue ' and bounded and described as follows : Beginning at a point in the southwesterly side line of said Massachusetts Avenue at the boundary line between land _of the Town of Lexington and land now or formerly of Lillian G . and Lois M . Marshall , thence running northwesterly by Massachusetts Avenue eight and fifty hundredths ( 8 . 50 ) feet to a point ; thence turning • and running southwesterly by other land of the Town of Lexington sixty-nine and ninety - seven hundredths ( 69 . 97 ) feet more or less , to land now or formerly of Lois M . Marshall ; there turning and running southeasterly eight and twenty - eight hundredths ( 8 . 28 ) feet by said land now or formerly of Lois M . Marshall to said landnow or formerly of Lillign G . and Lois M . Marshall ; there turning and running northeasterly by said Lillian G . and Lois M . Marshall land seventy ( 70 ) feet more or less to the point of beginning . Said parcel of land is shown on a plan entitled " Plan of Land conveyed by the Town of Lexington, Mass . " dated, April 13 , 1929 , by John T . Cosgrove , Town Engineer , and contains , according to said plan , five hundred eighty- seven ( 587 ) square feet of land more or less . • And that. the Board of Selectmen or a majority of them be and they hereby are authorized and directed in the name of and on behalf of the Town to execute , acknowledge and deliver and the Treasurer to countersign and seal with the Town seal a deed thereof to the said Lillian G . Marshall and Lois M . Marshall upon payment to the Town of the said sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars ( $850 ) . " Art . 3. Under this Article on motion of Mr . Howard S . 0 . Nichols at 8 : 05 P . M . it was unanimously ' " Voted : That .the sum of $31 , 000 be appropriated to be spent under the direction of the School Committee for repairs and altera- tions to the High School Building , and that any balance remaining after repairing the damage caused by the fire which occurred in the High School Building ori April 22 , 1929 , may be spent for such repairs or alterations in any of the School Buildings in the Town as the Committee may deem necessary and that to provide the necessary funds , $24 , 714 . 81 be transferred from the Fire Loss High School Account and $ 6 , 285 . 19 be assessed. " This motion was ap 'roved by the Appropriation Committee . Art . 4 . On motion of Mr . Theodore A . Custance it was