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1847-04-05 ElectionWarrant for Co. Comrs. Election Essex, 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 the qualified voters of said town, (in the usual manner) to assemble at the Town Hall on Monday the fifth day of April next at one o’clock afternoon, to give in their ballots for Three County Commissioners And Two Special Commissioners, within and for our said County of Essex - The poll will close at five o’clock, Afternoon - 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 sixth day of March, in the year 1847 - Wm. H. Lovett Edward T. ProctorSelectmen Haskett D. Whitney of Josiah Obear Beverly John I. Baker Beverly April the 3d A.D. 1847 - Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed - David L. Smith, Constable of Beverly. Commonwealth of Massachusetts At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Beverly, in the County of Essex, held [in pursuance of the foregoing warrant, and] agreeably to law, for the choice of three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners for said County, on the first Monday of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, the qualified voters of said town brought in their written votes upon one ballot for three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners being all inhabitants of different towns in said County, and the Selectmen of said town in open town meeting sorted and counted the votes and the ballots and made public declaration thereof, and the Town Clerk of said Town entered in the Town records the whole number of ballots, the names of all persons voted for, and the number of votes for each, (and the following is a copy of such record, duly signed, attested and sealed up in open town meeting -) The whole number of ballots for County Commissioners was five hundred and fifty-eight. For Asa W. Wildes of Newbury, two hundred and thirty-seven votes Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus, two hundred and fifty-two votes John I. Baker Beverly, two hundred and fifty-four votes Charles Kimball of Ipswich, ten votes Joseph Howe Methuen, two votes Lemuel Gott of Rockport, two votes William Carey of Amesbury, one vote Jesse Putnam of Danvers, one vote John A. Innis of Salem, one vote The whole number of ballots for Special Commissioners was two hundred and fifty-eight. For Dan Weed Jr. of Methuen, two hundred and forty-eight votes Alfred Kittredge of Haverhill, two hundred and fifty-two votes John Safford of Beverly, three votes Royal A. Merriam of Topsfield, two votes Wm. H. Lovett of Beverly, one vote. The poll closed at five o’clock afternoon, and the meeting duly dissolved after the sorting, counting, recording and returning of the same under seal as before said- Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.