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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1942-11-03-State-Election-Warrant 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. -2 ( c) If he desires to permit the sale herein of all alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on questions one and two and YES" on question three. (d) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold and in addition other alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on question one and "YES" on questions two and three. (e) If he desires to prohibit the sale herein of any and all alcoholic beverages whether to be drunk on or off the premises where sold, he will vote "NO" on all three questions . 1. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale 'ES therein of all alcoholic beverages (whiskey, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages)? I NO 2. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale. therein of wires and malt beverages (wines and beer, ale I ns and all other malt beverages)? NO 3. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, I YESI not to be drunk on the premises? I NO QUESTION NO. 3 . 1. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed' YES horse races be permitted in this county? I NO 2. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed' ns dog races be permitted in this county? K NO QUESTION NO. 4. QUESTION OF PUBLIC POLICY • "Shall the Representatives in the General Court from this district be instructed to vote to request-the Pres- ident and Congress to call at the earliest possible moment YES a convention of Representatives of all free peoples, to frame a Federal Constitution under which they may unite in NO a Democratic World Government?" The polls will be open at 6 :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. 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 19th day of October, A.- D. 1942. • 1 II an Zvi , ' tett a /0091 / /404a OF 1 QA.acte k XINGTON. ______T—Qt-n--.47iir. i 1 CONSTABLES RETURN o- , tet6 October 26, 1942 To the_Town Clerk: I have notified the inhabitants of Lexington by posting, printed=copies:of. the foregoing Warrant in the Town Office Building, and eight other public places in the Town, and by nailing a printed copy of the same to every registered voter in the Town, eight days before the time of said meeting. __Attest - $leongton