1851-01-20 ElectionEssex, ss. To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly, Greeting.-
You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
to notify and warn in the usual manner, the qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall
on Monday the twentieth day of January instant at nine o’clock before noon,-
To give in their ballots for a Representative from District Number Two, in the
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31, and in the 32 Congress of the United States.
The ballots for each Congress will be received upon one piece of paper, and
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 before said time, and with
your doings thereon.-
Given under our hands and seal this tenth day of January in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty one.
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
John I. Baker of
Beverly
Essex, ss. Beverly January 11 A.D. 1851. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified
the persons therein named as therein directed -
Francis Lamson,
Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant and the return thereon.
Attest,
John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Beverly, in the county of Essex, and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, qualified by the Constitution to vote for Representatives in the
General Court, holden on the twentieth day of January being the third Monday of said month, in the
year one thousands eight hundred and fifty one, for the purpose of giving in their votes for a
Representative of said Commonwealth in the Congress of the United States for District Number Two,
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for the 31 and for the 32 Congress.
The whole number of persons who gave in their votes was ascertained, as is directed in the
Revised Statutes, (Chap. 4, Sec.13) by counting the number of separate ballots given in, and the
whole number of ballots was -
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For the 31 Congress, - five hundred and twenty seven votes
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For the 32 Congress, - five hundred and twenty seven votes
And the whole number of votes given in, was sorted, counted, recorded, and declaration
thereof made as by law is directed; and said votes were for the following persons; viz..
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For the 31 Congress.
Charles W. Upham of Salem, two hundred and nine votes
Robert Rantoul Jr. of Beverly, two hundred and fifty two votes
Samuel E. Sewall of Stoneham, sixty votes
George Chapman, Dean Chapman, George Dean, Chapman, Edward Pousland, Joseph T. Haskell and
John I. Baker all of Beverly one vote each -
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For the 32 Congress.
Charles W. Upham of Salem, two hundred and nine votes
Robert Rantoul Jr. of Beverly, two hundred and fifty three votes
Samuel E. Sewall of Stoneham, fifty nine votes -
Albert Thorndike of Beverly, one vote, Benjamin C. Sumner of Beverly one vote - Franklin Dexter
of Beverly two votes - John I. Baker of Beverly, two votes.
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen of
Andrew C. BakerBeverly
John I. Baker
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.