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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1930-11-04-STATE-ELECTION-WARRANT • . . 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 413. 0 provided by law , shall , within thirty days after such certification by the secretary of the commonwealth or within such other period as the general court may by law provide , assemble at a shire town of their respective counties , and proceed , as soon ns may be , to divide the same into representative districts of con- tiguoL? sterritory and assign representatives thereto , so that each representative in such county will represent an equal number of legal voters , as nearly as may be ; andsuch districts shall be so formedthat no town containing less than twelve thousand inhabitants according to said census , no precinct of any other town and no ward of a city shall be divided therefor , nor shall any district be made which shall be entitled to elect more than three representatives . The general court may by law limit the time within which judicial proceedings may be instituted calling in question any such apportionment , division or assign- ment . Every representative , for one year at least im -ed.iately preceeding his election , shall have been an inhabitant of the ± istrict for which he is chosen , and shall cease to represent such district when he shall cease to be an inhabitant of the commonwealth . The districts in each county shall be numbered by the board creating the same , and a description of each with the numbers thereof andthe number of legal voters therein , shall be returned by the board , to the secretary of the common- wealth , the county treasurer of such county , and to the clerk of every city or town in such county , to be filed and kept in their respective offices . The manner of calling and conducting the elections for the choice of representatives and of ascertaining their election , shall be prescribed by law . Article XXII of the articles of amendment is hereby annulled. and the following is adopted in place thereof : Article XXll . Each special enumberation of legal voters required in the preceding article of amendment shall likewise be the basis for determining senatorial districts and also the councillor districts for the ten year period beginning with the first 7ied- nesday in the fourth January following such enumeration ; provided , that such districts as established in the year nineteen hundred and twenty- six shall continue in eff ct until the first Wednesday in January in the year nineteen hundred and thirty- nine . The senate shall consist of forty members . The general court shall , at its first regular session after the return of each special enumeration , divide the commonwealth into forty districts of contiguous territory , each district to contain , as nearly as may be , an equal number of legal voters , according to said special enumeration ; provided , however , that no town or ward of a city shall be divided therefor ; and such districts shall be formed , as nearly as may be , without uniting two counties , or parts of two or more counties , into one district . The general court may by law limit the time within which judicial proceedings may be instituted calling in question such division . Each district shall elect one senator , who shall have been an inhabitant of this commonwealth five years at least immediately preceding his election , and at the time of his election shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he is chosen ; and he shall cease to represent such senatorial district when he shall cease to be an inhabitant of the commonwealth . Acceptance of the following " Laws Proposed By Initiative Petition . ' question No . 2 . " An Act to repeal section two A of chapter nne hundred and thirty- eight of the General Laws , inserted by Chapter three hundred and seventy of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty- three . " que tion No . 3 . " An Act to amend Chapter on hundred and thirty- one of the General Laws . " The polls will be oven from 6 : 00 o ' clock A . M . to 6 : 30 O ' clock P . M . . 4 431 And you are directed to serve this (arrant by posting a i . tested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the Town . Hereof , fail not , andmake due return of this 'Warrant , with your doings thereon , to the Town Clerk , on or before the time of said meeting . Given under our hands , at Lexington , this twenty- first day of October , A . D . , 1930 . Albert H . Burnham Theodore A . Custance Selectmen Clarence Shannon of Hallie C . Blake Lexington Robert P . Trask 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 Office Building andsix other public places in the Town , and by mailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in theTown eight days before the time of said meeting . Attest : Patrick J . Maguire Constable of Lexington .