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1865-11-07 Election Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex, ss. 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 Tuesday the Seventh day of November next, at Nine o'clock, before noon. To give in their ballots for a Governor - Lieutenant Governor - Secretary - Treasurer - Auditor and Attorney General of this Commonwealth - for One County Commissioner - Two Special Commissioners - Three Commissioners of Insolvency - and a Sheriff for the County of Essex, a Councillor for District Number Two - a District Attorney for the Eastern District - a Senator for the Fifth Senatorial Dislrict- and Two Representatives to the General Court for the Third Representative District of the County of Essex. The votes for all the above mentioned officers will be received on one piece of paper, and the polls will be closed at Four o'clock, afternoon, unless otherwise determined by the meeting. Hereof fail not, but to make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before the time appointed for said Meeting. Given under our hands and seal this 27th day of October A.D. 1865 Joseph Wilson Lawson Walker Selectmen of Beverly Robert S. Foster James Hill Essex, ss. Oct. 28th 1865. 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, and at other places in town according to the Town Regulations. John R. Tibbetts, Constable Beverly. A true copy of the original warrant and return thereon Attest. James Hill, Town Clerk. Commonwealth of Massachusetts At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Beverly, in the County of Essex, qualified as by the Constitution is required to vote for Civil officers holden on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, being the seventh day of said month, in the year 1865 for the purpose of giving in their votes for a Governor - Lieutenant Governor - Secretary-Treasurer - Auditor - and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Two - one County Commissioner - Two Special Commissioners - Three Commissioners of Insolvency, and a Sheriff of the County of Essex, a District Attorney for the Eastern district, a Senator for the Fifth Senatorial District, and Two Representatives to the General Court for the Third Representative District of the County of Essex. The polls were opened at nine o'clock A.M. and closed at Four o'clock P.M.. All the ballots given in therefore were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made, as by the Constitution is directed, and were for the following persons, namely: For Governor. Alexander H. Bullock of Worcester, two hundred ninety-nine votes Major General Darius W. Couch of Taunton, thirty-seven votes Eliphalet Trask of Springfield, twenty-seven votes For Lieutenant Governor. William Claflin of Newton, two hundred ninety-nine votes Thomas F. Plunkett of Pittsfield, thirty-seven votes William G. Haskell of Beverly, twenty-five votes William B. Spooner of Boston, one vote. For Secretary. Oliver Warner of Northampton, three hundred votes S. O. Lamb of Greenfield, thirty-seven votes Samuel W. Hodges of Boston, twenty-six votes For Treasurer. Jacob H. Loud of Plymouth, three hundred votes Thomas C. Amory Jr. of Boston thirty-seven votes William Meconney of Worcester, twenty-six votes For Auditor. Henry S. Briggs of Pittsfield, three hundred votes A. F. Devereaux of Salem, thirty-six votes James M. Usher of Medford, twenty-seven votes For Attorney General. Chester I. Reed of Taunton, three hundred votes H. G. Parker of Cambridge, thirty-six votes Asahel Huntington of Salem, twenty-six votes For Councillor. Benjamin Evans of Salisbury, Three hundred twenty six votes. For County Commissioner. Abram D. Wait of Ipswich, two hundred eighty-eight votes Nathaniel Shatswell of Ipswich, twenty-seven votes John W. Raymond of Beverly, three votes For Special Commissioners. Nathaniel H. Griffith of Groveland, three hundred votes Moses T. Whittier of Rowley, three hundred votes John R. Longfellow of Newburyport twenty-six votes John W. Berry of Lynn, twenty-six votes For Commissioners of Insolvency. William Howland of Lynn, three hundred votes Nathaniel J. Holden of Salem, three hundred votes Henry L. Sherman of Lawrence, three hundred votes John H. Smith of Newburyport, twenty-six votes Edward P. Tenney of Manchester, twenty-six votes Alfred F. Stickney of Gloucester twenty-six votes For District Attorney Alfred A. Abbott of South Danvers, two hundred thirty-nine Benjamin H. Smith of Gloucester, ninety-nine votes Charles W. Sayward of Ipswich, twenty-five votes For Sheriff. Horatio G. Herrick of Saugus, three hundred & one votes James E. Carey of Lawrence, twenty-six votes For Senator. Frederick W. Choate of Beverly, two hundred & forty-five John Hobbs of Ipswich, thirty-one votes David Choate of Essex, twenty-two votes David Symmes, two votes J. D. Tuck, Stephen H. Nourse, J. S. Todd of Rowley, E. E. Lummus, E. P. Tenney of Manchester, Josiah A. Haskell and Thomas Thissell, John G. Smith, I. H. Edgett & Samuel Dike, one vote each. For Two Representatives to the General Court for the Third Representative District of the County of Essex. John W. Raymond of Beverly, three hundred & forty-four votes John I. Baker of Beverly, two hundred & ninety-five votes R. Frank Dodge of Wenham, thirty-five votes A. A. Galloupe, John H. Chipman Jr., of Beverly and Henry Hobbs of Wenham and Joseph Wilson of Beverly, two votes each. F. N. Dodge, David Lefavour, Frank M. Dodge, Robert R. Endicott, Leonard C. Foss, David Crowell, Daniel Foster, Perkins Haskell, Benjamin O. Peirce, John Pickett, and William Ray of Topsfield one vote each. Joseph Wilson Robert S. Foster Elisha E. Lummus James Hill Selectmen of Beverly Attest. James Hill, Town Clerk.