1942-11-03-State-Election-Warrant

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WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss. To the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, 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 the Adams School, East Lexington (Precinct One) and Cary Memorial Hall, Lexington Center ( Precincts Two , Three, and Four) , on TUESDAY, the THIRD DAY of NOVEMBER, 197+2- at 6:00 o' clock A. M. , to cast their ballots for the following officers: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary; Treasurer; Auditor; Attorney General; Senator in Congress; Representative in Congress; Councillor; Senator; Three Representatives in General Court; District Attorney; Register of Probate and Insolvency; County Commissioner; County Treasurer, and to take action on the following questions: QUESTION NO. 1. LAW PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION. Shall the proposed measure which provides that the present statutes which make it a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment knowingly to advertise , print, publish, distribute or circulate any matter containing reference to any person from whom or place where any drug, instrument or means whatever, or any advice or information may be obtained, for the purpose of preventing preg- nancy, or to sell, lend, give away, exhibit , offer or advertise any drug, medicine, instrument or other article for the prevention of conception, or to write or print information of any kind stating when, where, how, of whom, or by what means such article can be obtained, or to manufacture or make such article, shall not apply to treatment or prescription given to married persons for protection of life or health by or under the direction of registered physicians nor to teaching in chartered medical schools nor to publication or sale of medical treatises or journals, which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 77 in the affirmative and 133 in. the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 16 lyEs in the affirmative and 18 in the negative, be approved? INO QUESTION NO. 2. To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions: - (a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this town of any and all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where. sold, he will vote "YES" on all three questions. (b) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages only to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on question one, "YES" on question two and "NO" on question three.