1926-11-02-STATE-ELECTION-WARRANT

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TOWN WARRANT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLESEX , SS , To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington , Greeting; In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in Elections to meet in EMERSON BALL , STONE BUILDING , EAST LEXINGTON , ( Precinct I ) and in TOWN HALL , LEXINGTON CENTRE , (Precinct II ) , on TUESDAY , the Second Day of November , 1926 , at Six O ' Clock A . 4. , to cast their ballots for the following officers : Governor ; Lieutenant Governor ; Secretary ; Treasurer and Re - ceiver- eneral • A ito ttoneR enig ; Senato� in n Congress( to fin e � fin n rk 6rpTives in General Court , County Commissioner ; Associate Commissioners ; District Attorney ; Sheriff ; Register of Probate and Insolvency ( to fill vacancy ) ; County Commissioner ( to fill vacancy ) . And to bring in their votes on the following questions ; REFERENDUM Question 1 . Shall an amendment to the constitution which authorizes the General Court to establish in any corporate town containing more than six thousand inhabitants a form of town government pro - viding for town meetings limited to such inhabitants of the town as may be elected for the purpose , which received in a joint session of the two Houses held May 29 , 1924 , 189 votes in the affirmative and 40 in the negative , and at a joint session of the two Houses held March 18 , 1925 , received 262 votes in the affirmative and 4 in the negative , be approved? Question 2 . Shall a law which amends existing law by striking out the provisions that veterans who pass Civil Service examinations shall be placed upon the eligible lists above all other applicants , that disabled veterans shall be placed ahead of all other veterans , and that disabled veterans shall be appointed and employed in prefe erence to all other persons ; and by providing in place thereof , that five points shall be added to the mark of veterans who pass such examinations , and ten points to the mark of disabled veterans , which law was disapproved in the Senate by a vote of 0 in the affirmative and 34 in the negative , and in the House of Representatives by a vote of 11 in the affirmative and 181 in the negative , be approved? The polls will be open from six o ' clock A . M . to eight o ' clock P . M . And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the town . Hereof , fail not , and make due return of this Warrant , with your doings thereon , at the time and place of said meeting . Given under our hands , this nineteenth day of October , A . D . 1926 . Theodore A . Custance Albert H . Burnham Board Charles H . Miles of William H . Ballard Selectmen . James G . Robertson