1855-10-20Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss:
To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly. Greeting.
You are hereby required and directed to notify and warn in the usual manner the qualified
voters of said Town to meet and assemble at the Town Hall on Saturday the twentieth day of October
instant One o’clock afternoon for the following purposes.
1st. To decide the manner of choosing a Moderator and to choose the same.
2d. To see if the town will accept and allow the laying out of the private way leading from Ober
Street, over lands of G. S. Millett and family and John A. Lowell, for the use of one or more of the
inhabitants of said Town, according to the report of the Selectmen now on file in the Town Clerk’s
office.
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 October Eighteen Hundred and Fifty
Five.
Lawson WalkerSelectmen
Aaron Dodge of
Warren Prince Beverly
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed.
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Beverly October 13 1855.Jacob Lunt, Constable.
A true record of the original warrant in the return thereon.
Attest.James Hill, Town Clerk.
At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly held in pursuance to the above
warrant of the Town Hall on Saturday the twentieth day of October in the Year Eighteen Hundred
Fifty Five at one o’clock afternoon -
Voted. To choose Moderator by hand vote, & Lawson Walker was thus chosen.
Voted. That the report named in the second article of the warrant be indefinitely postponed.
Voted. That this meeting be dissolved, & it was so declared by the Moderator
Attest.James Hill, Town Clerk.