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1 <br />L <br />.'BELECTP+EN I S MEETING <br />MARCH 20, 1939. <br />A regular meeting of the Board'of Selectmen was held <br />in the Selectments Room, Town Office Building, at 7:00 <br />P.M. Chairman Giroux, Messrs. Potter, Rowse, Sarano and <br />Locke were present. The Clerk was also present. <br />The Secretary and seven members of the Appropriation <br />Committee appeared before the Board. <br />The Chairman said that he had talked with Senator <br />Cotton who informed him that he believed the Bill to re- <br />register every voter would be repealed almost immediately <br />and would apply to the City of Boston only. He sugested <br />that it might nbt be necessary to appropriate the 600. <br />for the Registrars of Voters. Mr. Rowse moved that the <br />$600. extra compensation in the appropriation be indefin- <br />itely postponed. Mr. Potter seconded the motion and it <br />was so voted. <br />235 <br />Regs. of <br />Voters <br />account. <br />The Chairman stated that a bill in the amount of <br />$791.10 had been received for printing the Town Report. Town <br />It is an unchecked bill, but he suggested that that amount Report. <br />be appropriated. Mr. Potter moved that the sum of $791.10 <br />be approved for this account. Mr. Rowse seconded the <br />motion and it was so voted. <br />The Chairman asked permission to submit to the Tow. <br />Meeting the following resolution: <br />RESOLUTION <br />WHEREAS, at a time when the right of people to select <br />their own rulers and to be governed according to their <br />own desires is being seriously impaired in many parts of <br />the world, it is well for us, the Citizens of Lexington, <br />to pause in the transaction of our own affAirs and give <br />some consideration to the benefits which we enjoy from <br />the perpetuation in this country of that freedom to which <br />the very soil of our Town was dedidated by the first blood <br />shed for freedom on this continent; and <br />WHEREAS, the survival of government with the consent <br />of the governed has guaranteed to every citizen the right <br />to express himself on any question of Public policy without <br />fear of personal harm and with the confidence of respect <br />of his knighbors however they may differ in their own <br />opinions; and <br />' WHEREAS, in this process it has been the privilege <br />of this Town to have its townsman JOSEPH R. COTTON <br />elected for six terms to the Massachusetts Senate, and it <br />is with a great sense of pride that this Meeting records <br />Resolution <br />