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I7 <br />the polls eleven ballots had been cast, all for Edwin A. Bayley, and <br />he was declared elected and was sworn by the Town Clerk. <br />ARTS. 2, 3, 4. Abram B. Smith and Charles W. Swan, having <br />been appointed ballot clerks, were sworn by the Town Clerk and <br />receipted to him for a package said to contain 1,000 official ballots <br />for male voters and a package said to contain 300 official ballots for <br />female voters, also a check list of male and female voters. Irving <br />Stone and John J. Toomey, having been appointed deputy ballot <br />clerks, were sworn by the Town Clerk. The ballot box was shown <br />to be empty, then locked, and the key delivered to Charles E. <br />Wheeler, the constable in charge, and the Moderator declared the <br />polls open. G. Irving Tuttle, Fred G. Jones, Patrick F. Dacey, <br />Bradley C. Whitcher, Samuel B. Bigelow, William H. Ballard, <br />Nathaniel Nunn and Cornelius F. O'Connor having been appointed <br />tellers, were sworn by the Town Clerk. At 9.20 o'clock, by order of <br />the Moderator and Town Clerk, the ballot box was opened. Three <br />hundred ballots were taken out. At 11.50 o'clock 150 ballots were <br />taken out; at 2.30 o'clock 200 ballots were taken out; at 4.15 <br />o'clock 100 ballots were taken out, and at the close of the polls at <br />5 o'clock 59 ballots of mak voters and 29 ballots of female voters <br />were taken from the boxes. The check list used by the Moderator <br />showed the names of 809 male and 29 female voters checked. The <br />check list used by the Ballot Clerks showed the names of 809 male <br />and 29 female voters checked. The ballot box register stood at <br />809. After the Tellers had completed their work the Town Clerk <br />announced the result as follows <br />TOWN CLERK—One Year. <br />George D. Harrington, <br />F. H. Holmes, <br />Blanks, <br />And George D. Harrington was declared elected. <br />499 <br />I <br />309 <br />18 <br />SELECTMEN—One Year. <br />Edward P. Bliss, <br />Frank D. Peirce, <br />George W. Taylor, <br />William H. Whitaker, <br />Henry A. C. Woodward. <br />Blanks, <br />254 <br />423 <br />380 <br />450 <br />425 <br />495 <br />And Frank D. Peirce, William H. Whitaker and Henry A. C. <br />Woodward were declared elected. <br />OVERSEERS OF THE POOR—One Year. <br />Edward P. Bliss, <br />Frank D. Peirce, <br />George W. Taylor, <br />William H. Whitaker, <br />Henry A. C. Woodward, <br />George W. Spaulding, <br />Blanks, <br />And Frank D. Peirce, William H. Whitaker and Henry A. C. <br />Woodward were declared elected. <br />• <br />252 <br />422 <br />353 <br />441 <br />436 <br />1 <br />522 <br />SURVEYORS QF HIGHWAYS ---One Year. <br />Edward P. Bliss, <br />Frank D. Peirce, <br />George W. Taylor, <br />William H. Whitaker, <br />Henry A. C. Woodward, <br />Blanks, <br />243 <br />416 <br />355 <br />449 <br />431 <br />533 <br />And Frank D. Peirce, William H. Whitaker and Henry A. C. <br />Woodward were declared elected. <br />