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(See Warrant Book - Page 11. SPECIAL TOWN MEETING HELD NOVEMBER 19, 1956 Meeting called to order by the Moderator, Charles E. Ferguson. 8:07 P. M. Invocation given by Rev. George W. Casey. There were 176 Town. Meeting Members present. Town Clerk, James J. Carroll, reads warrant for the meeting until motion made that further reading by waived. 8:08 P. M. Constable' s Return read by the Town Clerk. 8:08 P. M. Article 1. Appropriation Committee Report presented byWilliam C. �. Madden, which wasb° voted t o� accepted- and placed on file. Carried Unanimously 8:10 P. M. All articles presented by Haskell W. Reed, Chairman, Board of Selectmen, unless o-therwise noted. Article 2. VOTED: That the Town hereby accepts from the Trustees of Lexington Children's Museum a gift of the Museum' s collection of birds, minerals and shells that are now in the Lexington Schools and places the same under the care and management of the School Committee. Carried Unanimously 8:11 P. N. Article 3. VOTED: That the Town hereby accepts with gratitude the bequest to the Town of Twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.) that is contained 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 Sher- burne 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. Carried Unanimously 8:12 P. M. Article 4. Presented by Mildred B. Marek, Chairman, School Committee. VOTED: That the School Committee be and hereby is author- ized, in connection with making the heretofore authorized survey of the Junior High School program of study, fac- ilities and building needs, to retain architectural ser- vices and obtain preliminary plans and cost estimates for possible remodeling of the present Junior High School building; and that the sum of $2,000.00 be and hereby is appropriated therefor and be provided by transfer from the Excess and Deficiency Account, Carried 8:18 P. M. Article 5. Presented by Wilbur M. Jaquith, VOTED: That the Town hereby accepts Chapter 447 of the Acts of the General Court of 1956 entitled "An Act Estab- lishing an Historic Districts Commission for the Town of Lexington and Defining its Powers and Duties, and Estab- lishing Historic Districts in the Town of Lexington" . Carried Unanimously 8:21 P. M. Article 6. Presented by Donald D. Hathaway, Chairman, Planning Board. VOWED: That the membership of the Planning Board, esta- blished under Article 52 of the Warrant for the 1948 Annual Town Meeting, be and hereby is reduced from six members to five members, effective at the annual election of officers in 1959, except that it shall go into effect prior thereto immediately upon the occurence of aro vacancy in either of the two present terms that expire it 1959. f Carried Unanimously 8:23 P. M.