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Minutes of Planning Board Meetings of June 3 and 10, 1920. On June 3 the planning board, the board of survey, the town oounsel and the town engineer, met in joint meeting with similar officers of the town of Arlinston to discuss the question of their mutual interests in the Lexington Great Meadow. The objects to be attained, the mutual in- terests of the towns in the attainment of these objects, the legal and other principles underlying the present situ- ation, were disoussed at length and the joint body request- ed the planning boards representing the two towns, to- gether with the town counsels, to prepare a tentative plan of the proposed takings and a base for an agreement whioh would accomplish the purposes in mind. At the meeting June 10 the planning boards and the town counsel from the two towns met and considered the plan and base of agreement s as a part of this record. At the close of the meeting the Arlington Board agreed to give the matter attention as a board and to consider it with the Arlington authorities whioh have^ cted in the matter and report back to the Lexington Planning Board. The need for prompt action was mutually recognized, mutual interest of the two towns was re -affirmed, and it was agreed that aotion should be taken as promptly as conditions would permit.