HomeMy WebLinkAbout2912 Warrant for Town Meeting of March 4, 1844To Jonas M. Muzzey, Constable of the Town of
Lexington, ---- Greeting.
You are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, to notify and warn (in manner and form as prescribed
by the By-Laws of the Town) the Inhabitants of the Town of Lex-
ington, qualified by law to vote in Town affairs, to assemble at the
old Meeting House, in said Town, on MONDAY, the fourth day of
MARCH next, at nine o'clock, A. M., to act on the following Arti-
cles, viz.:
Article I. To choose a Moderator.
Article II. To choose Town officers.
Article III. To adopt measures for repairs of Highways, and
grant money for the same.
Article IV. To grant money for the support of the Public
Schools the ensuring year.
Article V. To adopt measures for collecting taxes the ensu-
ing year.
Article VI. To adopt measures for supporting the Poor the
year ensuing.
Article VII. To bring in their votes for a County Treasurer.
Article VIII. To see if the Town will choose a committee to
audit the accounts of the Trustees of the Ministerial Fund, and the
Overseers of the Poor.
Article IX. To see if the Town will authorise the Prudential
School Committee to employ teachers for the schools.
Article X. To see if the Town will choose a Committee to
report to the next town meeting, the expediency of providing for two
annual schools in town, with a plan founded upon a just regard to the
benefit of the various sections of the Town.
Article XI. To see, if the town will instruct the Selectmen
withhold their approbation from all persons who may apply to them
to be approbated as vendors of intoxicating drinks as a beverage.
Article XII. To see if the town will choose a Committee to
appear before the County Commissioners, to object to the licensing of
any individual in the town of Lexington, for the sale of intoxicating
drinks as a beverage.
Article XIII. To hear report of Committees, and act thereon.
Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with your do-
ings theron on or before the time prefixed.
Given under our hands, at Lexington, this thirteen day
February A. D. 1844.
BENJAMIN MUZZEY, }
J. SIMONDS PARKER, }
ALBERT W. BRYANT, }
Selectmen
of Lexingto
Note - The Selectmen will add no names to the voting list after
the polls are opened.