518 Report of the Middlesex County Commissioners on Middlesex County Districts, August 1857

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camwmatf� of Vamtl tmffi. MIDDLESEX, SS. AT a meeting of the County Commissioners of the County of Middlesex,holden at Cambridge,within and for said County,on the fourth,eleventh,thirteenth and fourteenth days of August,in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. IT IS ORDERED, That the County of Middlesex be divided into the following Districts,for the purpose of choosing members of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. DISTRICT No.1-The first Ward of the City of Charlestown, containing ten hundred and sixty-seven legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number One,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 2.-The second and third Wards of the City of Charlestown,containing twenty-three hundred and forty-four legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Two,and shall be entitled to elect three representatives. DISTRICT No.3.-The town of Somerville, containing nine hundred and sixty-six legal voters, shall form one district to be called District Number Three, and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No.4.-The town of Malden,containing nine hundred and four legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Four,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 5.-The town of Medford, containing eight hundred and twenty-nine legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Five,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 6.-The towns of West Cambridge and Winchester,containing eight hundred and fifty-four legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Kum- . ber Six,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. - DISTRICT No. 7.-The City of Cambridge,containing three thousand one hundred and sixty-one legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Seven, and shall be entitled to elect three representatives. DISTRICT No. 8.-The towns of Newton and Brighton,containing eighteen hundred and nineteen legal voters,shall form one district,to be called District Number Eight, and shall be entitled to elect two representatives. DISTRICT No. 9.-The towns of Watertown and Waltham,containing seventeen hundred and eighty legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Nine, and shall be entitled to elect two representatives. DISTRICT No. 10.-The towns of Concord,Lincoln and Weston,containing eight hundred and thirty-eight legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Ten,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No.11.-The town of Natick,containing ten hundred and seven legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Eleven,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 12.-The towns of Holliston and Sherborn,containing eight hundred and ninety legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Twelve, and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 13.-The towns of Ashland and Hopkinton,containing nine hundred and eighty-two legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Thir. teen,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 14.-The town of Framingham,containing eight hundred and eleven legal voters, shall form one district to be called District Number Fourteen,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 15.-The town of Marlborough,containing seven hundred and eighty-eight legal voters, shall form one district to be called District Number Fifteen,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 16.-The.towns of Stow,Sudbury and Wayland,containing eight hundred and fourteen legal voters,shall form one dirtriet to be called District Number Sixteen,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 17.-The towns of Acton, Boxborough, Littleton and Carlisle,containing eight hundred and forty-three legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number.Seventeen,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No.18.-The towns of Burlington,Bedford and Lexington,containing eight hundred and forty-nine legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Eighteen,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 19.-The town of Woburn,containing eleven hundred and four legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Nineteen,and shall be enti- tled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 20.-The towns of South Reading,Melrose and Stoneham,containing,sixteen hundred and ninety-six legal voters, shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty,and shall be entitled to elect two representatives. DISTRICT No.21.-The towns of Reading and North Reading, containing eight hundred and fifty-five legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty-one,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No.22.-The towns of Wilmington,Tewksbury and Billerica,containing seven hundred and seventy-nine legal voters, shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty-two,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 23.-The first,second and fifth Wards of the city of Lowell,containing two thousand four hundred and thirty-four legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty-three,and shall be entitled to elect three representatives. DISTRICT No. 24.-The thud,fourth and sixth Wards of the city of Lowell, containing two thousand five hundred and sixty-eight legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty four,and shall be entitled to elect three representatives. DISTRICT No. 25.-The towns of Chelmsford,Dracut and Tyngsborough,containing nine hundred and thirty-four legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty-five,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. DISTRICT No. 26.The towns of Shirley,Groton,Dunstable,Westford and Pepperell,containing fifteen hundred and ninety legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty-six,and shall be entitled to elect two representatives. DISTRICT No.27.-The towns of Townsend and Ashby,containing seven hundred and fifty-two legal voters,shall form one district to be called District Number Twenty- seven,and shall be entitled to elect one representative. AND,it is further Ordered by the Commissioners aforesaid,that the places for the meetings of the Clerks of the several Towns and the Ward Clerks of the several Wards,in their respective representative disricts,for the purpose of ascertaining the result of elections shall be as follows,viz: For.DISTRICT NUMBER 2.-At the Ward Room in the Third Ward in Charlestown. FoR DlsrnmT NUMBER 18.-At the Town Hall,in Lexington. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 6.-At the Town Hall,in West Cambridge. i FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 20.-At the Town Hall,in South Reading. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 7.-At the City Clerk's Office,in Cambridge. i FOR Disxnmx NUMBER 21.-At the Town Hall,in Reading. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 8.-At the Town Hall,in Newton. FOE DISTRICT NUMBER 22.-At the Town Hall,in Billerica. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 9.-At the Town Hall,in Waltham. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 23.-At the City Clerk's Office,Lowell. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 10.-At the Selectmen's Room,in Lincoln. FoR DISTRICT NUMBER 24.-At the Ward Room of Ward-"No.3,in Lowell. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 12.-At the Town Hall,in Holliston. i FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 25.-At the Selectmen's Room,in Chelmsford. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 13.-At the Town Hall,in Hopkinton. FoR DISTRICT NUMBER 26.-At the Town Hall,in Groton. For.DISTRICT NUMBER 16.-At the Town Hall,in Sudbury. i Fon DISTRICT NUMBER 27.-At the Town Hall,in Townsend. FOR DISTRICT NUMBER 17.-At the Selectmen's Room,in Acton. LEONARD HUNTRESS, JOHN K. GOING, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. P. H. SWEETSER, A TRur COPY-ATTEST.