1851-07-05Essex, ss. To one of the Constables of the town of Beverly - Greeting.
You are hereby
required in name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn, in the usual manner,
qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall on Saturday the fifth day of July next ensuing
at three o’clock afternoon, for the following purposes: viz.-
1st. To decide the manner of choosing Moderator and to choose the same.
2d. To see if the town will authorize the Selectmen or Town Treasurer to receive the sum for
redemption that was appraised and set off for a certain one third of lot of undivided land situated on
Cabot Street, and bounded on the Raymond, Abbott and Masury heirs, and on Bartlett Street; the
same that was taken on the execution by the town of Beverly for a debt of John Glover: or to see if
the town will authorize the Selectmen or Town Treasurer to sell the same, or to act and do any other
business that may come before the Meeting - per petition of George Masury and others.
3d. To see if the town will adopt an Act passed at the recent session of the Legislature of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts entitled An Act relating to the erection and use of buildings for
Stables and Bowling Valleys, approved May 24,1851.
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 eighth day of the June in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty one.
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
Joseph E. Ober of
John I. Baker Beverly
Beverly June 28,1851. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein
named as therein directed -
C. H. Stocker, Constable.
A true record of the original warrant and of the return thereon.
Attest.
John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly, held (pursuant to the warrant
recorded on the page next preceding,) on Saturday the fifth date July in the year eighteen hundred
and fifty one, at the Town Hall; at three o’clock afternoon -
Voted, To choose Moderator by hand vote:
Edward Pousland was then chosen Moderator but declined; when William D. Crosfield was
chosen and accepted.
Upon the 2d Article, Voted, That the Town Treasurer in behalf of the town, be authorized
to release, within ten days, all the rights, title and interest of the town, in and to a certain piece of land
bounded westerly on Cabot Street, and northerly on Bartlett Street and otherwise bounded by land
of Robert Curry, the heirs of George Abbott deceased and others, to George Masury; he paying
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therefore two hundred and fifty dollars and the interest thereon from the 16 of July 1850, to the time
of payment, deducting the rent which has accrued to the town: said release to be without prejudice
to the right of the town to any other estate set off to the town on an execution against John Glover.
Upon the 3d Article, Voted, To adopt the act entitled “An Act relating to the Erection and
Use of Buildings for Stables and Bowling Alleys.” passed at the recent session of the Legislature.
Approved May 24,1851.
Voted, That this meeting be dissolved and the Moderator so declared it.
Attest,
John I. Baker, Town Clerk