1868-11-21Commonwealth 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 Saturday the twenty-first day
of November instant at Three o’clock afternoon for the following purposes viz.:
1st. To choose a Moderator.
2d. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, to borrow of the Commonwealth, on the credit
of the Town, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars to fund the existing indebtedness of the
Town and to meet any expenses incurred or to be incurred in the building of School houses and roads
within the Town.
3d. To see if the Town will give any further authority to borrow of other parties, for the purposes
specified in the previous article.
4th. To see if the Town will prescribe any different method to notifying and warning Town meetings,
than that now prescribed by the Town Regulations and votes.
Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon
before said time.
Given under our hands and seal this thirteenth day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
John I. Baker
Saml. Porter Selectmen of Beverly
Seth Norwood
Beverly November 14,1868. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have served the same by posting
notices according to the Town Regulations at or near each of the public meeting houses in Town and
at each of the public school houses in the former Bald Hill, Cove, Dodge’s Row, South, Washington
and West Farms School District.
W. P. Moses, Constable Beverly.
A true copy of original warrant and return thereon.
Attest.James Hill, Town Clerk
At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the Town of Beverly held at the Town Hall on Saturday
the twenty-first day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and Sixty Eight at Three o’clock
afternoon, in pursuance of the warrant recorded on the next preceding page. - it was
Voted, that a Moderator be chosen by hand vote.
Voted, that Robert R. Endicott be Moderator.
Upon the 2d article of the warrant
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Voted, that the Town Treasurer be authorized to borrow of the Commonwealth, on the credit of the
Town, upon notes approved by the Selectmen, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars payable
at the rate of five thousand dollars every five years, with interest at six percent, payable semi-annually.
Voted, that for the purpose of providing for the loans authorized this day, there shall annually be
assessed upon the polls and estates, within the Town, such sum as may be necessary to pay the
interest each year, and also the sum of one thousand dollars, which latter sum shall be invested in a
sinking fund under the direction of the Selectmen and Town Treasurer, and appropriated to the
payment of the principal of said loan as it may mature.
Upon the 3d Article of the warrant.
Voted, that all loans heretofore made by the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, by any
previous authority or votes of the Town, are hereby ratified by the Town.
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Upon the 4 article of the warrant.
Voted, that the First Section of Chapter Two of the Town Regulations be repealed, and the following
Section Substituted therefore.
The usual manner of warning Town Meeting shall be posting notifications of the time
and place of meeting, and of the substance of each article contained in each warrant at or near each
of the following places, viz.:- The First Parish, Second Parish, and Beverly Farms Meeting Houses;
the Town Hall, Post Offices, and the several Railroad Stations in Town, and at the corner of Hale and
Ober Streets, Hale and Foster Street, Essex and Standley Streets, at each junction of Rantoul and
Cabot Street, and at Dodge’s Mill on Elliott Street, seven days at least before the time appointed for
holding such meeting.
Voted that this meeting be dissolved.
A true record.
Attest.
James Hill, Town Clerk.