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M MEETING MARCH 231 1926. A re oaar meeging of the Board of Selectmen was held at the Select= mens office at 7-:30 P. M. lessrs. Custance, Burnh mp,Miles and Ballard were present. The Superintendent of Pablic Works and the clerk iili$e a -s present. The following were appointed es special police officers of tae Town of Lexington: Theodore A. Custance, John J."Gerrit , Charles E. Moloy, Charles M. Blake, •John E.,Kelly, Edward 9. Taylor, Frank 3. Clark, Bion C. Merry, John C Fitzgerald, Michael A. Pero, Frederick J. Spencer, - Th`bma:s' Griffin, William S. Scamman, William P. Wright, Dennis H. Collins, Charles A. Manley, Jay 0,; Richarla, 'aik Lodd; ,john Campbell, Edward J. Hogan, James G. Robertson, Albert H.,Burnham, William R. S. Eaton, Charles E. Hadley, J, Chester Hutchinson, Edward Loren Fenn. The certificates for the bonds of the Town Treasurer, Town Clerk, and Superintendent of Public Works were signed by the Board. A letter was received from Frederick L. Emery in which he informed the 'Board that the Sewer Bill had passed the House and is now before the Senate to be anted upon within a day or two, and that the Drainage Bill will go forward in Clue course. He also suggested that when these acts passed the House that a report should go forth to the voters giving the told acts with the atzndments and discussing the points of difference, advventages, "etc. He suggested that they together with the Town Counsel, Would be glad to block out the report. He also said that they felt that tto Selectmen should put the same forth to the voters. The Borrd re- plied to Mr. Emery by letter stating that they would be glad to have the Planning Board and Town Counsel to draft the necessary report end submit it to the Selectmen for their approval. The letter was also received from Mr. Emery asking for a time to be set to discuss the matter of street acceptance and lav outs with the Bonrd. A meeting was therefor decided upon on March 30, and Mr. Emery was notified to that effect. Notice was received. from Henry W. B. Cotton stating that he had entered a petition on appeal for abatement of 1924 taxes against the Town of Lexington in the Middlesex Superior Court, and presented the some on list for trial on the.May sitting. Fe also notified the Town Counsel. Letter was received from the Trustees of the Isaac Harris Cary Edu- cational Fund in which they informed the Board that owing to the fact that e. petition to them was signed by over seven hundred petitioners they felt justified in having new plans made for presentation to the Town, and that they would have arrangements made to re-su knit to the 'Mown as soon as possible the question of agreeing to accept and maintain a memor- ial building to be erected by the Trustees under the Farnham and Cary wills, Hearing was held at 8 P. M. upon sites of the iuew Eng. Tel. do Tele. Co. for the location of two poles on Vine Street. Mrs. Ketherine Kinneen of Fine Street came before the Boaxe, to pro- test the locations of one of the poles. She stated that it would be placed directly in front of her house, Mr. Scamman was reauested to take the matter up with the Telephone Company and see if a new location satisfact