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TOWN of LEXINaro Stone Memorial Building, Janitor Superintendent of Streets and Town Engineer Superintendent of Water and Sewer Departments Town Accountant Town Counsel Town Hall Janitor Town Physician Undertakers Water and Sewer Department Clerk Weigher of Beef Public Weighers and Weighers of Coal Weighers of flay and Grain Appropriation Committee Board of Assessors John V. Garmon S. Henry Duffy Charles S. Beandry Charles F. Pierce Robert L. Ryder John E. Kelley Dr. Henry C. Valentine Arthur A. Mansball James F. McCarthy Florence M. Boyd William E. Denham William E. Milliken George Ir. Teague John E. A. Mulldken Albert Bierenbroodspat Andrew Bierenbroodspot William E. Denham Harold L Wellington Moses F. Wilbur Robert E. Hanaatpord (Fred W. Given Robert H. Holt !William C. Stickel James J. Walsh Howard S. C. Nichols Charles P. Nunn William S. &camman Joseph R. Cotton Albert B. Tenney Hallie C. Blake Albert H. Burnham William W. Reed Theodore A Cusrtance George H. Gibson C. Edward Glynn Charles L. Parker fi ANNUAL REPORTS BOARD OF SELECTMEN AND PUBLIC WORKS To THE CITIZENS 05' LEXINGTON:— Herewith is presented the first report of the Board of Selectmen and Public Works, created under the Acts of the Legislature, Chapter 1, Acts of 1922. Into this Board (increased from three to five members) have been consolidated the Board of Selectmen, Health, Road Commissioners, Overseers of the Poor, Sewer and Water Com- missioners, Park Commissioners, Survey, and Tree Warden. In addition, tliis consolidated Board was empowered to ap- point the Assessors and Assistant Assessors, and a Superin- tendent of Public Works, whose duty is to administer such departments as the Board may delegate to him, and for which it is responsible. Coincident with this consolidation and added responsibil- ity, the Finance Committee was abolished and a new Appro- priation Committee established, consisting of five citizens, not officeholders, from whom the Chairman and Secretary are to be chosen, which five, together with the five members of the Board of Selectmen and Public Works and the Chairmen of the School wind Cemetery Committees, are charged with the responsibility theretofore imposed on the Finance Com- mittee of investigating every request for appropriation and submitting same in the form of a budget with recommenda- tions to the Town. The theory ori which this form of government was de- vised being, insofar as possible, by consolidating the many boards, to concentrate the responsibility of raising the znoney and expending it onto one main Board, namely --the Board of Selectmen and Public Works, with the thought in mind, that those who spend the money should be responsible, insofar as possible, for the raising of it. The above form has been in force for nearly nine months, and under the Legislature Act, with the exception of the Ap-