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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970-11-03-State-Election-Warrant WARRANT FOR STATE ELECTION Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Lexington, in said County, Greetings: In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington qualified to vote in Primaries to meet in their respective voting places in said Town. PRECINCT ONE, HARRINGTON SCHOOL; PRECINCT TWO, ADAMS SCHOOL; PRECINCT THREE, CARY MEMORIAL BUILDING; PRECINCT FOUR, SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL; PRECINCT FIVE, CENTRAL FIRE STATION; PRECINCT SIX, MARIA HASTINGS SCHOOL. PARTIAL BALLOT VOTING FOR SENATOR IN CONGRESS AND REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS ONLY WILL BE HELD IN THE CARY MEMORIAL BUILDING. TUESDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1970 at 7:00 o'clock A.M. , to cast their ballots for the following officers: Senator in Congress For this Commonwealth Governor For this Commonwealth Lieutenant Governor For this Commonwealth Attorney General For this Commonwealth Secretary of the Commonwealth For this Commonwealth Treasurer and Receiver-General For this Commonwealth Auditor of the Commonwealth For this Commonwealth Representative in Congress For 5th Congressional District Councillor For 6th Middlesex Councillor District Senator For 7th Middlesex Senatorial District One Representative in General Court For 7th Middlesex Representative District (Precinct I ) One Representative in General Court For 24th Middlesex Representative District (Precincts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) District Attorney For Northern District Clerk of Courts For Middlesex County Register of Deeds For Middlesex Southern District County Commissioner For Middlesex County VACANCY Sheriff For Middlesex County -2- And to take action on the following questions: QUESTION NO. 1 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below, which was approved by the General Court in a joint session of the two branches held July 15, 1968, received 155 votes in the affirmative and 98 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 14, 1969, received 147 votes in the affirmative Yes and 119 in the negative? No SUMMARY The proposed amendment to the Constitution authorizes the Legisla- ture to classify real property according to uses, and authorizes the assessment, rating and taxation of real property at different rates in the different classes so established, but proportionately in the same class. The amendment further authorizes the granting of reasonable exemptions and abatements. QUESTION NO. 2 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below, which was approved by the General Court in a joint session of the two branches held October 9, 1967, received 237 votes in the affirmative and 0 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 14, 1969, received 262 votes in the affirmative Yes and 4 in the negative? No SUMMARY The proposed amendment to the Constitution abolishes the require- ment that in order to vote in a state election a person must have resided within the Commonwealth one year. If amended, the Constitution would require only that a voter have resided six months in the town or district in which he claims a right to vote. QUESTION NO. 3 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below, which was approved by the General Court in a joint session of the two branches held October 9, 1967, received 142 votes in the affirmative and 102 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 14, 1969, received 222 votes in the affirma- Yes tive and 49 in the negative? No SUMMARY The proposed amendment to the Constitution reduces the minimum age for voting in a state election from twenty-one to nineteen. -3- QUESTION NO. 4 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below, which was approved by the General Court in a joint session of the two branches held July 15, 1968, received 181 votes in the affirmative and 66 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 15, 1969, received 208 votes in the affirmative Yes and 54 in the negative? No SUMMARY The proposed amendment to the Constitution amends the existing con- stitutional provisions which direct the division of the Commonwealth into 240 representative districts and 40 senatorial districts. It provides for a census of the inhabitants of each city and town in the Commonwealth in the year 1971 and in every tenth year thereafter. The census in 1971 is to be the basis for determining the representative and senatorial districts for the ten-year period beginning January I , 1975. Each sub- sequent census shall be the basis for determining the districts for each ten-year period beginning the fourth January following each census, so that the census in 1981 will determine the districts as of January, 1985, etc. The amendment provides that the house of representatives shall con- sist of two hundred and forty members and the senate of forty members. In its first regular session following each census, the Legislature shall divide the Commonwealth into two hundred and forty representative dis- tricts of contiguous territory and forty senatorial districts also of contiguous territory. Each representative district shall contain, as nearly as may be, an equal number of inhabitants according to the census. Each senatorial district shall also contain as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants according to the census. A representative district shall not unite two or more counties, towns, or cities, or parts thereof, or a city and a town, or parts thereof, in one district unless the same is unavoidable. Further, no town of less than six thousand inhabitants shall be divided in forming representative districts. It is also pro- vided that the County of Dukes County and Nantucket County shall each be a representative district, notwithstanding the foregoing. The senatorial districts, each of which shall elect one Senator, shall be formed without uniting two counties or parts of two or more counties, unless the same is unavoidable. Each representative shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he is chosen at least one year immediately preceding his election, and each senator shall be an inhabitant of the district for which he is chosen at the time of his election and shall have been an inhabitant of the Commonwealth for at least five years immediately preceding his elec- tion. Any representative or senator who ceases to be an inhabitant of the Commonwealth shall cease to represent his district. The amendment also provides that the Legislature (I ) may by law limit the time within which judicial proceedings may be instituted call- ing in question any such division and (2) shall prescribe by law the manner of calling and conducting elections for the choice of representa- tives and of ascertaining their election. Finally, the amendment annuls the existing constitutional provisions with respect to apportionment of representative and senatorial districts, although those provisions will remain in effect until January I , 1975. -4- QUESTION NO. 5 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION Which one of the following do you prefer with reference to the future course of action by the United States in Vietnam? To vote on this question mark a cross X in the square at the right of the subdivision you prefer. DO NOT VOTE FOR MORE THAN ONE. A. Win a military victory. B. Withdraw our armed forces in accordance with a planned schedule. C. Withdraw all our armed forces immediately. QUESTION NO. 6 A. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines, and Yes all other alcoholic beverages)? No B. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale therein of wines and malt beverages (wines and beer, ale and all other malt Yes beverages)? No C. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the Yes premises? No D. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale of all alcoholic beverages by hotels having a dining room capacity of not less than ninety-nine persons and lodging capacity of not less than Yes fifty rooms? No E. Shall licenses be granted in the Town of Lexington for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages by clubs and war veterans' Yes organizations? No F. Shall licenses be granted in the Town of Lexington for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages by restaurants having a Yes dining room capacity of not less than ninety-nine persons? No QUESTION NO. 7 "Shall section fifty-eight D of chapter forty-eight of the General Laws, providing for a forty-two hour work week for permanent members of Yes fire departments, be accepted?" No The polls will be open at 7:00 A.M. and will remain open until 8:00 P.M. And you are directed to serve this Warrant seven days at least before the time of said meeting as provided in the By-Laws of the Town. -5- Hereof fail not, and make due return on 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 thirteenth day of October, A.D. , 1970. 7/17a-de-e— Selectmen �t�a 0$an.X E,.i,wS) +y, of pit7 f 6,-_ ,A. c.a Lexington j'aj2C/I)F LP A true copy, Attest: f n Constable of Lexington L.,' CONSTABLE'S RETURN � � ,�. R-12,..v`e--‘ 42 ,3 1970 To the Town Clerk: I have served the foregoing warrant by posting a printed copy thereof in the Town Office Building and in a public place in each of the precincts of the Town and also by sending by mail , postage prepaid, a printed copy of such warrant addressed to every regis- tered voter of the Town at his last residence, as appears from the records of the Board of Registrars , days before the time of said meeting . Attest: /72ti Constable of Lexington