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1870-11-08 ElectionCommonwealth 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 eighth day of November next, at one quarter before eight o’clock before noon. To take action upon the petition of the City of Salem to the Supreme Judicial Court for the appointment of Commissioners under the Water Act and to act upon laying the town’s water pipes through private grounds, and upon any agreement made or to be made with reference thereto. You are also hereby required by the same authority, and in the same manner to notify said voters to meet at said Hall on the said Eighth day of November at eight o’clock before noon. To give in their votes for a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor and Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for District Number Five, a County Commissioner, County Treasurer, and Clerk of the Courts for the County of Essex; a Register of Deeds for Essex South District; a Senator for the Fifth and Two Representatives to the General Court, for the Tenth Essex District; and a Representative in the next Congress of the United States for District Number Five; these officers will all be voted for on one ballot. The polls to be opened at Eight o’clock A.M.. and close that Four o’clock P.M. 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-ninth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and seventy. John I. Baker N. H. WebbSelectmen Seth Norwood of Beverly Beverly Oct. 29,1870 pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed, by posting notices according to the amended Town Regulations at or near the First Parish, Second Parish and Beverly Farms Meeting Houses; Town Hall; the Post Offices and the several Railroad Stations in town; also at the corner of Hale and Ober Streets; Hale and Foster Streets; Essex and Standley Streets; and at each junction of Rantoul and Cabot Streets and at Dodge’s Mill. William P. Moses Constable of Beverly. At a meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly held at the Town Hall on Tuesday the Eighth day of November at quarter before Eight o’clock before noon, in pursuance of the warrant recorded on the next preceding pages, it was Voted, that the whole subject of the article in the warrant in relation the petition of the City of Salem to the Supreme Judicial Court and also in relation to laying water pipes through private grounds, be referred to Selectmen, with full power to act thereon as they judge expedient. Voted, that the meeting be dissolved. A true record of votes passed at said meeting. 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 required to vote for civil officers, holden at the Town Hall in said town on the Tuesday next after the first Monday November being the eighth day of said month, in the year 1870, 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; a County Commissioner; County Treasurer, and Clerk of the Courts for the County of Essex; a Register of Deeds for Essex South District; a Senator for the Fifth, and Two Representatives to the General Court for the Tenth Essex District; and a Representative in the next Congress of the United States from District Number Five; all ballots given in theirfore were sorted, counted and recorded, and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed and were for the following persons- namely For Governor. William Claflin of Newton three hundred thirty-seven votes Wendell Phillips of Boston three hundred sixteen votes John Quincy Adams of Quincy eighty-one votes For Lieutenant Governor. Joseph Tucker of Lenox three hundred forty votes Henry W. Bishop of Lenox one hundred twenty-five votes James Chattaway of Springfield seventy-four votes Eliphalet Trask of Springfield one hundred ninety-four votes For Secretary of State. Oliver Warner of Northampton three hundred fifty-nine votes Stillman B. Pratt of Randolph one hundred twenty-four votes Luther Stevenson Jr. of Hingham seventy-two votes George S. Ball of Upton one hundred seventy-eight votes For Treasurer & Receiver General. Charles Adams Jr. of North Brookfield three hundred forty-four votes Levi Heywood of Gardner seventy-one votes John I. Baker of Beverly one hundred ninety-one votes N. W. Stoddard of North Bridgewater one hundred twenty-seven votes For Auditor. Charles Endicott of Canton three hundred fifty-one votes Phineas Allen of Pittsfield seventy-two votes Edward C. Peabody of Groveland one hundred twenty-six votes Lyman W. Daggett of Attleboro one hundred eighty-three votes For Attorney General. Charles Allen of Boston three hundred thirty-five votes William W. Warren of Brighton seventy-two votes Charles Cowley of Lowell one hundred twenty-seven votes Whiting Griswald of Greenfield two hundred votes For Councillor for District Number Two. John F. Harris of Marblehead three hundred forty-three votes Israel W. Andrews of Danvers one hundred ninety-six votes Cyrus Story of Gloucester one hundred eighty-four votes For County Commissioner Jackson B. Swett of Haverhill three hundred fifty-two votes Benjamin K. Prentiss of Lynn one hundred eighty-three votes Benjamin A. Ward of land one hundred ninety-eight votes For County Treasurer. Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton four hundred eighty-two votes Charles H. Kidder of Lawrence one hundred seventy-eight votes John Hobbs of Ipswich seventy-one votes For Clerk of the Courts for the County of Essex. Alfred A. Abbott of Peabody three hundred thirty-four votes John W. Berry of Lynn one hundred eighty votes Aretas R. Sanborn of Lawrence eighty-six votes For Register of Deeds for Essex South District. Ephraim Brown of Salem four hundred twenty votes Samuel Porter of Beverly one hundred eighty-nine votes For Representative in the Congress of the United States. Benjamin F. Butler of Gloucester three hundred seventy-six votes William C. Endicott of Salem eighty-seven votes Jonathan H. Orne of Marblehead one hundred and seventy votes John I. Baker of Beverly four votes John G. Whittier of Amesbury three votes For Senator for Fifth Essex District. Frederic Willcomb of Ipswich three hundred forty-one votes Tyler Parsons of Manchester seventy-two votes Daniel W. Friend of Manchester three hundred five votes Daniel E. Safford of Hamilton for a Senator for second Essex District - fifteen votes. For Two Representatives to the General Court for the Tenth Essex District. Nathan H. Webb of Beverly three hundred forty votes William D. Wheaton of Manchester two hundred ninety-six votes John I. Baker of Beverly three hundred sixty-five votes Ezekiel F. Ober of Beverly three hundred & seventeen votes David Crowell of Beverly seventy-two votes John H. Cheever of Manchester sixty-four F. W. Cressy of Beverly one vote George B. Millett of Beverly one vote Joseph A. Kilham of Beverly one vote John I. Baker Nathan H. WebbSelectmen Seth Norwood of Beverly Attest. James Hill Town Clerk.