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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 Cary Memorial Hall, in said Town, on Monday, the nineteenth day of November, 1956, at 8x00 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 Towne Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to accept from the Trustees of Lexington Children's Museum a gift of the Museum's col- lections of birds, minerals and shells that are now in the Lexington Schools and to place the same under the care and management of the School Committee; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to accept the bequest to the Town of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ( 25,000.) , that is con- tained in the will of Maud T. Sherburne, late of Lexington, Middlesex County Probate Court No. 336627 , to be held in trust as a permanent fund to be known as the "F. Foster Sherburne and Tenney Sherburne Fund" with the net income to be used for annual awards to educate and assist in the education of deserving young men and women in Lexington, all as provided in said will; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article L4.. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the School Committee, in connection with making the heretofore authorized survey of the Junior High School program of study, facilities, and building needs, to retain architectural services and obtain preliminary plans and cost estimates for possible remodeling of the present Junior High School building; appropriate money therefor and provide for payment by transfer from available funds, including any unexpended balances in current appropriations; or act in any other manner in relation ' thereto. Article 5., To se.e if the Town will vote to accept Chapter 147 of the Acts of the General Court of 1956 entitled "An Act Establish- ing an Historic Districts Commission for the Town of Lexington and Defining its Powers and Duties, and Establishing Historic Districts in the Town of Lexington". Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to reduce the membership of the Planning Board, that was established under Article 52 of the Warrant for the 1948 Annual Town Meeting, from six members to five members; or act in any other manner in relation thereto. Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 3 of Article XXVI of the General By-Laws by striking out the same and in- serting in place thereof a new Section 3 to read substantially as follows; or act in any other manner in relation thereto::