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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 their respective voting places in said Town. PRECINCT ONE, ADAMS SCHOOL: PRECINCT TWO, THREE AND FOUR, CARY MEMORIAL BUILDING ON Tuesday the twenty-sixth day of April, A. D. , 1949 at 7:30 o' clock A. M. then and there to act upon the following article: To vote YES or NO by ballot upon the following question presented to the voters at large by the Selectmen, pursuant to a petition for a referendum upon a vote rejecting .a measure at an adjourned session of the 1949 Annual Town Meeting held on March 28, 1949, under Article 37 of the Warrant for said meeting. Voted: To raise and appropriate two-million 02,000,000.00) dollars for the construction and original ,equipping and furnishing of a new high school building on land acquired by the Town for school purposes in June 1946 substantially in accordance with the plans submitted and recommended by the School Committee; to provide for the payment thereof by a transfer of ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars from the Excess and Deficiency Account and the issue of bonds and notes of the Town in the amount of one-million nine- hundred ninety thousand ($1,990,000.00) dollars, and that the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, be and he hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of one-million nine-hundred ninety thousand ($1,990,000.00) dollars, and . to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor payable in not more than twenty years, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 186 of the Acts of 1947, as amended by Chapter 26 of the Acts of 1949. That the School Committee be and it hereby is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction, original equipping and furnish- ing of said building, and that the Moderator be and he hereby is authorized and directed to appoint a High School Building Committee of five members con- sisting of two members of the School Committee and three other citizens to supervise the construction, original equipping and furnishing of said High School Building, provided, however, that no bonds or notes shall be issued and no contracts shall be awarded or entered into hereunder prior to February 1, 1950." The polls will be open at 7:30 A.M. and will YES remain open until 8: 00 P.M. NO And you are directed to serve this warrant seven days at least before the time of said meeting as provided in the By-laws of the Town. Hereof fail not, and make due return on this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, on or before the time of said meeting.