HomeMy WebLinkAbout1926-11-02-STATE-ELECTION-WARRANT 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
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Lexington , Mass . ,
October 25 , 1926
To the Town Clerk : -
I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting
printed copies of the foregoing Warrant in the Post Office ,
in the vestibule of the Town Hall , and in six other public
places in the town , and by mailing a printed copy of the
same to every registered voter in the town eight days before
the time of said meeting .
Attest ;
James J . Sullivan ,
Constable of Lexington .