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1853-03-07 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 the qualified voters of said town, (in the usual manner,) to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the seventh day of March next at nine o’clock before noon to give in their votes for delegates to meet delegates from other cities and towns within this Commonwealth in Convention, according to the Act relating to calling a Convention etc. Approved May 7,1852. The poll will open at Nine o’clock A.M. and close at Four o’clock P.M. unless otherwise determined by the meeting. Hereof fail not but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time. Given on our hands and seal this twenty fifth day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty three. Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen Joseph E. Ober of Alpheus Davis Beverly Beverly February 26,1853. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed - Benj. C. Sumner, Constable of Beverly. A true record of the original warrant and the return thereon. Attest.John I. Baker, Town Clerk. The above meeting was duly convened and voted to close the poll at four o’clock afternoon, at which time the votes were duly sorted, counted and recorded and declaration thereof made as follows: viz. - whole number of ballots five hundred and sixty seven - necessary to a choice two hundred and eighty four. Robert Rantoul had three hundred and sixty - Joseph E. Ober had three hundred and fifty five, and they were elected and certificate was made accordingly according to the copy thereof on the next page. The other votes were for Frederick W. Choate, and Levi A. Abbott, two hundred and two votes each - Dean Chapman two votes - and George D. Chapman, Charles G. Loring, Joseph Tracy, William Porter, Calvin Tuck, John L. Goldsbury and Gideon Cole one vote each - Attest.John I. Baker, Town Clerk. Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Essex Pursuant to a law of this Commonwealth, the qualified voters of the town of Beverly, in town meeting, on the seventh day of March instant, for the choice of delegates to the Convention for revising the Constitution of this Commonwealth did elect Robert Rantoul and Joseph E. Ober to represent them in said Convention, to be holden at the State House in Boston on the first Wednesday of May next. Dated at Beverly the seventh day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three. Wm. H. Lovett Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen Andrew C. Baker of Alpheus Davis Beverly Joseph E. Ober Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk.