1930-11-04-STATE-ELECTION-WARRANT

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• . . 429 WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION . THE 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 HALL , Stone Building , East Lexington ( Precinct 1 ) CARY MEMORIAL BUILDING , Lexington Centre , ( Precint 2 ) ( Precinct 3 ) ( Precinct 4 . ) on TUESDAY , THE FOURTH , DAY OF NOVEMBER , 1930 , at six o ' clock A . M . , to cast their ballots for the following officers : Governor ; Lieutenant Governor ; Secretary ; Treasurer ; Auditor ; Attorney General ; Senator in Congress ; Congressman ; Councillor ; Senator ; Two Representatives in General Court ; District Attorney ; Register of Probate and Insolvency ; County Commissioner ; Two Associate County Commissioners ; County Treasurer . To take action on the following Questions : Acceptance of the following " Proposed Amendment to the Constitution . " Question No . 1 Article XXl - of the articles of amendment is hereby annulled and the following is adopted in place thereof : Article XX1 . In the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five and every tenth year thereafter a census of the inhabitants of each city and town shall be taken and a special enumeration shall be made of the legal voters therein . Said special enumeration shall also specify the number of legal voters residing in each precinct of each town containing twelve thousand or more inhabitants according to said census and in each ward of each city . Each special enumeration shall be the basis for determining the representative districts for the ten year period beginning with the first Wednesday in the fourth January following skid special enumeration ; provided , that such districts as established in the year nineteen hundred and twenty- six shall continue in effect until the first T ednesday in January in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine . The house of representatives shall consist of two hundred 11 and forty members , which shall be apportioned by the general court , at its first regular session after the return of each special enumeration , to the several counties of the com ionwealth , equaly , as nearly as may be , according to their relative numbers of legal voters , as ascertained by said special enumeration ; and the town of Colhasset , in the county of Norfolk , shall , for this purpose , as well as in the formation of districts as hereinafter provided be considered a part of the county of Plymouth ; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of the commonwealth to certify , as soon as may be after it is determined by the general court , the number of representatives to which each county shall be entitled, to the board aut_gorized to divide such county into representative districts . The county commisioners or other body acting as such or , in lieu thereof , such board of special commissioners in each county as may for that purpose be