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105 <br /> WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION <br /> Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss . <br /> To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, <br /> Greeting: <br /> In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify <br /> and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in <br /> Elections to meet in their respective voting places in said Town, <br /> PRECINCT ONE, ADAMS SCHOOL; PRECINCT TWO, THREE AND FOUR, CAEY <br /> IYEMORIAL BUILDING, on <br /> TUESDAY, TOE SEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1944 <br /> at 7:00 o< clock A. M. to cast their ballots for the following officers : <br /> Presidential Electors ; Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary; <br /> Treasurer; Auditor; Attorney General; Senator in Congress : ( to <br /> fill vacancy) Representative in Congress ; Councillor; Senator; <br /> Three Representatives in General Court; Two County Commissioners ; <br /> Sheriff <br /> VACANC IES <br /> One County Commissioner <br /> And to take action on the following questions : <br /> QUESTION NO. 1. <br /> PROPOSED ANENDIvENT TO TPE CONSTITUTION. <br /> Shall an amendment to the constitution to provide for a Fair, <br /> Concise Summary, instead of a Description, of Each Proposed Amendment <br /> to the Constitution and Each Law submitted to the People , under the <br /> Initiative and the Referendum, and Certain Changes relative to the <br /> Filing of Initiative Petitions which is farther described as follows:- <br /> This amendment amends Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the <br /> Constitution by striking out section three under the heading "The <br /> Initiative, II. Initiative Petitions" and inserting in place thereof <br /> a new section which provides,-- <br /> That an initiative petition for a constitutional amendment or a <br /> law shall first be signed by ten qualified voters of the Commonwealth <br /> and shall be submitted to the Attorney General not later than the <br /> first Wednesday of the August before the assembling of the General <br /> Court into which it is to be introduced. It may be filed with the <br /> Secretary of the Commonwealth if the Attorney General shall certify <br /> that the measure and its title are in proper form and that it is not, <br /> affirmatively or negatively, substantially the same as any measure <br /> which has been qualified for submission or submitted to the people <br /> at either of the two preceding biennial state elections , and that <br /> it contains only subjects not excluded from the popular initiati re <br /> and which are related or which are mutually dependent . <br /> The Secretary shell provide blanks for the use of subsequent <br /> signers. He shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise <br /> summary of the proposed measure , as determined by the Atorney General <br /> as it will appear upon the ballot, together with the names and res- <br /> idences of the first ten signers. All such petitions, with the first <br /> ten signatures- attached, shallbe filed with the Secretary not earlier <br /> than the first Wednesday of the September before the assembling of <br /> the Legislature into which they are to be introduced, and the remainder <br /> of the required signatures shall be filed not later than the first <br /> Wednesday of the following December. <br /> " Section 3 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading <br /> The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions ." is also amended by <br /> striking out the second sentence of such section and inserting in <br /> place thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for <br /> the use of signers of a referendum petition on a law requesting that <br /> the operation of such law be suspended subsequent to the first ten <br /> signers and shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise <br /> summary of the proposed law as determined by the Attorney General as <br /> it will appear upon the ballot, together with the names and resid- <br /> ences of the first ten signers. <br />
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