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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1966-11-08-State-Election-Warrant V • WARRANT FOR STATE ELFCTION 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, 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, on TUESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1966 at 7: 00 o' clock A.M. , to cast their ballots for the following officers: Senator inCbngress; Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Attorney General; Secretary; Treasurer; Auditor; Representative in Congress; Councillor; Senator; One Representative in General Court; District Attorney; Register of Probate and Insolvency; One County Commissioner; County Treasurer. VACANCY County Commissioner 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 aoint session of the two branches held June 11, 1963, received 228 votes in the affirmative and 29 in the negative, YES and in a joint session of the two branches held May 5, 1965,re- NO ceived 225 votes in the affirmative and 24 in the negative? SUMMARY The proposed amendment provides that at state elections candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor shall be grouped on the official ballot according to the party that they represent and that it shall not be possible to vote for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor except as a partisan group. 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 July 16, 1963, received 169 votes in the affirmative and 100 in the negative, YES and in a joint session of the two branches held May 5, 1965, re- NO ceived 200 votes in the affirmative and 61 in the negative? V 2. SUMMARY The proposed amendment provides that the Governor, for the purpose of making certain structural changes in the executive de- partment, may from time to time prepare reorganization plans to be presented to the General Court. If the General Court fails to dis- approve a reorganization plan within sixty days of its presentation and has not prorogued by the end of such sixty days, the plan at that time shall have the force of law. 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 June 11, 1963, received 232 votes in the affirmative and 18 in the negative , YES and in a joint session of the two branches held May 19, 1965,re- NO ceived 159 votes in the affirmative and 91 in the negative? SUMMARY The proposed amendment authorizes the Commonwealth and the cities and towns therein to provide for municipal industrial development in such manner as the General Court may determine. QUESTION NO. 4 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO TEE 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 16, 1963, received 205 votes in the affirmative and 43 in the negative , YES and in a joint session of the two branches held Nay 19, 1965, re- NO ceived 219 votes in the affirmative and 39 in the negative? SUENARY The proposed amendment confers considerable authority upon cities and towns with respect to the conduct of municipal govern- ment, including the authority to adopt, repeal and amend city and town charters and, in accordance therewith, local ordinances and by-laws. The General Court retains general power to act in relation to cities and towns and classes thereof and, in some circumstances, to enact special laws regarding a particular municipality, including laws for its incorporation, dissolution or merger. Cities and towns are not empowered to act with respect to general elections, taxation, pledges of credit, dispostions of park land, general civil relation- ships, the punishment of felonies, or the imposition of imprisonment except as the General Court may lawfully confer such powers upon them. QUESTION NO. 5 LAW SUBMITTED UPON REFERENDUM AFTER PASSAGE Do you approve of a law summarized below, which was approved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 118 in the affirma- tive and 102 in the negative and was approved in the Senate by a YES vote of 21 in the affirmative and 16 in the negative? NO • - 3. SUMMARY The Act imposes a temporary tax upon all retail sales of tangible personal property at the rate of three per cent of the selling price. Sales of certain items are exempted from the tax, including but not limited to sales of food products for human use, articles of clothing, prescription medicines, agricultural machinery and certain publications. The statute contains specific provisions relating to the registration of vendors, the filing of returns and the payment of the amounts collected by such vendors. Vendors may apply to the State Tax Commission for abatements of the amounts owed where they believe such amounts to be excessive, and decisions of the Commission on such applications may be reviewed by the Appellate Tax Board. The Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation shall have the usual powers and remedies provided for tax collection for the collec- tion of the taxes imposed by this section. The State Tax Commission shall issue regulations necessary for proper administration and en- forcement of the section. The Act further imposes a temporary excise upon the storage, use or other consumption in Massachusetts of tangible personal property at the rate of three per cent of the sales price of such property. Sales upon which the retail sales tax described above has been imposed, or which are exempt from the retail sales tax, shall be exempt from the use tax. Sales upon which a tax has been paid in another jurisdiction shall also be exempt. Assessment, abatement and collection of the use tax shall be governed by the provisions which relate to the tax upon retail sales . The tax upon retail sales and the excise upon storage, use or other consumption shall be effective during the period from April 1, 1966 to December 31, 1967. Each qualified taxpayer shall be entitled to a credit of four dollars for himself, four dollars for his spouse and eight dollars for each qualified dependent, but such credit shall not be allowed if the taxable income of such individual and his spouse exceeds five thousand dollars for the year. In addition to the taxes described above, the Act provides for new excises upon certain banks; new taxes upon the income of certain corporations; new taxes upon cigarettes; a room occupancy excise upon rent paid for the use of hotel rooms and other lodging places; and excises upon sales of certain alcoholic beverages. The Act creates the Local Aid Fund for the purpose of providing educational assistance, and authorizes the periodic distribution of amounts from such Fund to the cities and towns. In addition, the Act contains a variety of provisions relating to the program of State aid to public schools, and to its administration. QUESTION NO. 6 Do you approve of an act passed by the General Court in the year nineteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An Act imposing a temporary tax on retail sales, and a temporary excise upon the storage, use or other consumption, of certain tangible personal property, revising and imposing certain other taxes and excises, YES establishing the Local Aid Fund, and providing for the distribu- NO tion of funds therefrom to cities and towns?" 4 . QUESTION NO. 7 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) ? NO C. 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 D. Shall licenses be granted in this town for the sale of all alcoholic beverages by hotels having a dining room YES capacity of not less than ninety-nine persons and lodging NO capacity of not less than fifty rooms? The polls will be open from 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 tenth day of October, A.D. , 1966. 7 j /� • ` sj : t ! �t% .mak' Selectmen •ug- t Yom" �/C.�r yy c of Lexington �J CONSTABLE'S RETURN To the Town Clerk October 2,5; 1966 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 mail, 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 of voters I days before the time of sale election. YC sba l€of Lexonor