1860-05-07Essex, SS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly. Greeting.
You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth to notify and warn in the usual
manner the qualified voters of said town, to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the Seventh day of
May next at one o'clock in the afternoon, to give in their votes by ballot for or against the following
Articles of Amendment of the Constitution, agreed to by the last and present General Courts and
published in the manner required by the Constitution and herewith submitted to the people for their
ratification and adoption.
Article First. Any vacancy in the Senate shall be filled by Election by the people of the
unrepresented district upon the order of the majority of the Senators elected.
Article Second. In case of a vacancy in the Council from a failure of election, or other cause, the
Senate and House of Representatives, shall by a concurrent vote, choose some eligible person from
the people of the district wherein such vacancy occurs, to fill that office. If such vacancy shall occur
when the Legislature is not in session, the Governor with the advice and consent of the Council may
fill the same by appointment of some eligible person.
Each of said articles shall be considered as a distinct amendment to be adopted in the
whole or rejected in the whole as the people shall think proper. And every person may express his
opinion on each article as designated by its appropriate number without specifying in his ballot the
contents of each article, and by annexing to each number the word Yes or No or any other words of
like import, but the whole shall be written or printed on one ballot in substance as follows: to wit;
Amendments: Article first. Yes or No. Article Second. Yes or No. The poll will be closed at four
o'clock unless otherwise ordered by the meeting.
Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time.
Given under our hands and seal this twenty-seventh day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen
Hundred & Sixty.
William H. Lovett Selectmen
A. T. Dodge of
R. S. Foster Beverly
Beverly April 28th 1860. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the persons
therein named, as therein directed by posting notifications thereof at or near each of the public
meeting houses in town according to the Town Regulations.
Israel W. Wallis, Constable.
A true copy of the original warrant & return thereon. Attest. James Hill, Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Pursuant to Resolves of the General Court, entitled "Resolves relating to the proposed
Amendments of the Constitution," approved by the Governor the fourth day of April in the [year]
the One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty, the inhabitants of the Town of Beverly, "qualified to
vote for Senators and Representatives in the General Court," being duly convened at a meeting
legally warned, and held at the Town Hall on the Seventh day of May instant at one o'clock,
afternoon for the purpose of giving in their votes by ballot for or against two articles of Amendment
of the Constitution of this Commonwealth submitted to the people for their approval or rejection by
said Resolves; and having voted thereon in the manner prescribed, the ballots given were sorted,
counted, recorded and declaration thereof made, as by law is provided and were as follows, to wit:
First Article of Amendment.
Yes Eleven
No Two
Second Article of Amendment
Yes Eleven
No Two
Dated at Beverly aforesaid this Seventh day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred sixty.
Wm. H. Lovett
John Meacom
Charles Moulton
A. T. Dodge
R. S. Foster
Selectmen of Beverly
Attest.
James Hill, Town Clerk.