ART. 6. To determine whether the Town will purchase of Edward W. Emerson, Stedman Buttrick, Prescott Keyes and Richard F. Barrett, the whole or any part of the Middlesex Hotel property, on the corner of Monument Square and Main street, as a permanent memorial of the Concord Fight, for the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of that event; said property to be used hereafter by the Town for the site of a memorial hall or municipal office building, or for other similar municipal purposes, and in the meantime to be used as a public park.

VOTED, To purchase of Edward W. Emerson, Stedman Buttrick, Prescott Keyes and Richard F. Barrett, for the sum of sixty-six hundred and fifty dollars ($6,650.00), as a permanent memorial of the Concord Fight, for the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of that event, the parcel of land hereinafter described, together with the building thereon, said parcel to be used hereafter by the Town for the site of a memorial hall or a municipal office building, or for other municipal purposes, and in the meantime to be used as a public park; said parcel contains about three-quarters of an acre, and is bounded beginning at the corner of Monument Square and Main street, and running thence northerly on said square to the land of John J. Williams; thence westerly on land of said Williams to the Mill Brook; thence southerly on said Brook to land of C. Fay Heywood et als.; thence easterly on said land of said Heywood et als.; thence southerly on said land of said Heywood et als. to a point thirty-one feet from the northwesterly corner of the store building belonging to the heirs of Silas Holden; thence easterly on a line connecting said point with a point on the easterly line of land of Charles E. Brown, extended northerly and distant from Main street seventy feet to the intersection of said line connecting said points with the easterly line of the land of the heirs of said Holden extended northerly; thence southerly on the extension of said easterly line of the heirs of said Holden to land of owners unknown; thence easterly along land of said unknown owners across the County passageway to land of Myrick L. Hatch; thence northerly on the westerly line of land of said Hatch, extended northerly to the intersection of said Hatch line, with said line connecting said points; thence easterly along said line connecting said points to a point on the extension of said line five feet beyond the second of said points; thence southerly to the southeasterly corner of land of said Brown at Main street; thence easterly on Main street to the corner begun at; subject, however to a right of way from Main street through said County passageway to land of Edward W. Emerson et als. and to said land of C. Fay Heywood et als.; and subject to the right of said Brown to build and maintain a cornice on the easterly end of his store building, over a part of said parcel, until such time as the space occupied by said cornice is needed for the construction of a building upon said parcel.

VOTED, By more than a three-quarters vote.