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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1962-11-06-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, 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 their respective voting places in said Town, PRECINCT ONE, BARRINGTON 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 on TUESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1962 at 7:00 o' clock A.M. , to cast their ballots for the following officers: Senator in Congress (To fill vacancy) ; Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Attorney General; Secretary; Treasurer; Auditor; Representative in Congress; Councillor; Senator; Two Representatives in General Court; District Attorney; County Commissioner; Sheriff. VACANCIES County Commissioner; County Treasurer. 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 May 13, 1959, received 143 votes in the affirmative and 118 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held March 29, 1961, received 144 votes in the affirmative YES and 121 in the negative? NO Summary The proposed amendment imposes no new taxes but gives the General Court the power to pass an income tax at graduated or proportioned rates and is a change in the constitutional limitations now in effect on the power of the General Court to pass tax measures. The proposed amendment would add a new Article to the Constitution of the Commonwealth by which full power and authority is granted to the General Court, in the alternative to the power and authority to tax incomes in the manner provided in Article XLIV of the Amendments to the Constitution, to impose a tax on incomes at rates which are proportioned or graduated according to the amount of income received, irrespective of the source from which it may be derived, and to grant reasonable exemptions, deductions and abatements . It further provides that any property the income of which is taxed under the provisions of the proposed Article may be exempted from the imposition and levying of proportional and reasonable assessments, rates and taxes as at present authorized by the Constitution, and that the Article shall not be construed to limit the power of the General Court to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises . -2- QUESTION NO. 2 LAW SUBMITTED UPON REFERENDUM AFTER PASSAGE Do you approve of a law summarized below, which was approved by both branches of the General Court by vote not YES recorded? TSO • Summary This act increases the compensation each member of the General Court shall receive for each regular annual session from fifty-two hundred dollars to sixty-seven hundred dollars and increases the additional compensation the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive from fifty-two hundred dollars to sixty-seven hundred dollars. The act also increases the additional compensation the floor leaders of the major political parties in the Senate and House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means and the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means shall receive from twenty-six hundred dollars to thirty-three hundred and fifty dollars, and provides that a member of the General Court chosen to fill a vacancy, or who resigns his seat during a regular annual session, shall receive a per diem compensation at the increased rate of compensation for each regular annual session. QUESTION NO. 3 A. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, gin, malt YES beverages, wines and 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 YES all other malt beverages)? N" 6. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not YES to be drunk on the premises? NO • QUESTION NO. 1. A. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed horse races be permitted in this county? YES NO B. Shall the pari-mutual system of betting on licensed dog races be permitted in this county? YES No -3- 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 election 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 election. Given under our hands at Lexington, this fifteenth day of October A.D. 1962. CV,9-c444_tic., . �/_..- legs .e i c Th �,,-,,, - j7 ,� Selectmen leftS 4- of 7`� Lexington CONSTABLE'S RETURN To Town Clerk October 2s , 1962 I have served the foregoing Warrant by posting a printed copy thereof in five (5) public places in the Town and also by sending by nail, postage prepaid, a printed copy of such Warrant addressed to every registered voter of the Town at his last residence, as appears from the records of the Board of Registrars /c days before the time of said election. Attest: Cohstable of Lexington