1850-03-11Essex, 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
eleventh day of March current at nine o’clock before noon for the following purposes, viz.:-
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1. To choose a Moderator.
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2. To choose town officers for the year ensuing, and grant them such pay for their services as may
be deemed expedient.
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3. To give in their ballots for a County Treasurer.
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4. To take such measures as may be deemed expedient upon an Order of Notice from the County
Commissioners in reference to the petition of Issacher Foster and others for altering, widening and
new locating of highways between Elliott, and Hale Street, as set forth in said petition.
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5. To see if the town will petition the County Commissioners to lay out a new highway in this town
from near Ephraim Harris’ barn on Hale Street to Bartlett Street, in part by the way of Lovett Street,
widening the same; and widening Bartlett Street, from the southerly terminus of the new location to
Lothrop Street, according to the petition of Robert Patch and others.
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6. To see if the town will build a sidewalk with a suitable breastwork on the easterly side of
Knowlton Street, according to the petition of Obadiah Patch and others.
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7. To see if the town will rebuild their Hospital or enclose in whole or in part the Hospital lot; also
to see if they will repair their present Hearse House or build a new one; per request of Board of
Health.
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8. To see if the town will take measures to prevent unrestricted traffic in intoxicating liquors; and
cause prosecutions to be instituted in behalf of the Town, against the unlawful traffic in such liquors.
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9. To adopt such measures, grant such sums of money, and make such regulations respecting
schools within the town, as may be deemed proper.
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10. To adopt such measures, grant such sums of money, and make such regulations for the repair
and improvement of highways and town ways throughout the Town as may be deemed expedient.
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11. To grant such sums of money to be raised and assessed upon the polls and estates within the
town, for defraying any debts of the town, and for the expenses of the coming year, as the town may
deem expedient, - and make all necessary regulations and allowances respecting the same.
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon before said time.
Given under our hands and seal this first day of March in the year eighteen hundred and fifty.
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
John I. Baker of
Josiah Obear Beverly
Edward T. Proctor
Essex, ss. Beverly, March 2d, A.D. 1850. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified
the persons therein named as therein directed -
Ezra O. Woodberry, 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 qualified voters of the town of Beverly held at the Town Hall on
Monday the eleventh day of March in the year eighteen hundred and fifty, at nine o’clock before
noon, pursuant to the warrant recorded on the two next preceding pages; - the same being the annual
March meeting -
Voted, by ballot, That Albert Thorndike be Moderator.
Prayers were then offered up, by Rev. Allen Gannett.
Voted, by ballot, That John I. Baker be Town Clerk.
Then John I. Baker immediately upon his being chosen into the said office of Town Clerk, was
sworn faithfully to discharge the duties of said office for the current year, and until another should
be chosen and qualified in his stead -in open town meeting this 11th. day of March 1850.
Before me
Moderator of said meeting.
Voted, by ballot, That William H. Lovett, John I. Baker, Haskett D. Whitney, Andrew C. Baker and
Joseph C. Ober be Selectmen.
Voted, by ballot, That John Porter, Francis Lamson, Calvin Tuck, John Prince and Charles Perry be
Assessors.
Voted, by ballot, That Robert G. Bennett be Town Treasurer, and that he receive twenty dollars
salary for before his services.
Voted, by ballot, The Jacob Lunt be Collector of Taxes, and that he received two percent on all
monies collected and paid into the Treasury.
Voted, by ballot, Rev. C. T. Thayer, Rev. Jos. Abbott, Rev. C. W. Flanders, Rev. G. T. Dole, Rev.
I. Washburn, Rev. A. Gannett, Rev. C. W. Reding, Robert Rantoul, Wyatt C. Boyden, Joseph E.
Ober, Edward Pousland and Charles Haddock be the School Committee.
Voted, by ballot, The Jacob Lunt be Inspector of Police.
Noon having arrived, the meeting adjourned one hour, when it met at one P.M. and
Voted, that all other town officers be elected by hand vote, & the following were accordingly elected
to the respective offices designated.
Auditors, Thomas Pousland, John B. Hill, Eben H. Moulton.
Overseers of the Poor, Robert Rantoul, John Safford, Stephens Baker, Andrew Ober, Henry Larcom.
Constables, Francis Lamson, Ezra O. Woodberry, Jacob Lunt, Charles H. Stocker, Nathaniel P. Allen,
Charles Holden, Samuel D. G. Standley.
Firewards, Daniel Foster, Robert Goodwin, Andrew W. Standley, William Lamson, for South
District.
Edward Pousland, Joshua W. Carrico, Jeremiah Porter, Alden Harris, John O. Foster, for Grammar
District.
Emerson Herrick, John G. Smith, for Washington District.
Sullivan Brown, Henry E. Story for Bass River District.
Edward Perry for Cove District.
Nathaniel P. Allen for the Farms District.
Board of Health, Augustus N. Clark, James Stone, Samuel Woodbury.
Fence Viewers, John Porter, Israel Foster 2d, Stephen Woodbury.
Sealers of Leather, Thomas B. Smith, Ezra O. Woodberry.
Surveyors of Lumber, Isaac Galloup, John Meacom, William Webber, Robert Goodwin, Richard J.
Preston, John Ober.
Inspector of Lime. Benjamin C. Sumner.
Clerk of Market, James Stone.
Surveyors of Highways.
Ward1. Jeremiah Porter8. Henry E. Story
2. Samuel Foster9. Dudley Dodge
3. Joseph Thissell10. John F. Trow
4. Thomas Preston 2d11. Benjamin Foster
5. S. D. G. Standley12. Seth Friend
6. Reuben Edwards13. Thomas Raymond
7. Benjamin Woodbury14. Samuel White
Field Drivers.
Ward1. Benjamin C. SumnerWard7. Jonathan Moulton
Charles H. Stocker8. Richard Fifield
2. Jeremiah Morse9. Alvin F. Dodge
3. Samuel Ober Jr.10. Adam Nesmith
4. George T. Larcom11. Asa Brown
5. Isaac C. Groce12. William E. Dodge
Jesse Dame13. John G. Smith
6. David Standley14. Samuel White
Pound Keeper. Joseph Glidden Jr..
The report of the Auditors report was next considered. This exhibited the following
recapitulation of expenses - Schools, 3333.46 - Poor 1938.18 - Highways 1883.45 - Assessors Dept.
842.22 - Fire Dept. 484.86 - Lunatics 395.56 - Health Dept. 127.08 - Town Officers 268.74 - Town
Hall 203.67 - Horse hire 40.35 - Bells & Clocks 59.25 - Pumps & Wells 6.66 - Interest Account
53.52 - Incidental 166.32
Total 9810.32.-The Treasurer’s account exhibited Cash on hand 705.63, and the Collector’s 155.28
cts, outstanding taxes - no outstanding orders.
Voted. To accept the Auditors report.
The report of the Overseers of the Poor was then read as follows; The Overseers of the Poor
of the town of Beverly, make the following report to the Inhabitants, at their Annual Meeting, on the
second Monday in March, 1850.
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The number of persons who have been in the Work House from March 1 1849, to March 1
1850, is 72, of this number twenty seven were men, twenty five women and twenty children.-Twenty
were foreigners.
The average number of persons in the House for the year is about thirty seven - There are now
in the House, twelve men, nineteen women, and eight children, being thirty nine in the whole. - Of
these, ten are more or less insane, one is an idiot, one is non-compos, three are State paupers, and
eight were intemperate before they went to house.- There has been one death, and one birth within
the year, in the House. There has been no commitment for drunkenness to the House, but there have
been several persons committed to Houses of Correction in this or in other Counties or to Work
Houses in other towns, for whose support this town has been charged, for this vice.
Drunkenness continues, although somewhat diminished, to be the most fruitful source of
pauperism in this town. - The efforts that have from time to time been made by the municipal officers
to suppress the sale of intoxicating liquors, have, it is confidently believed, been as efficacious to that
end as in any town of as large a population, still there is reason to apprehend that some of the Beer
Shops, Oyster Shops, and other places of entertainment or recreation and amusement which have s
lately grown up or increased amongst us, are perverted from their professed object, to be places of
gambling, immoderate drinking, Sabbath breaking, and dissipation so injurious to the morals of those
who resort to such places, and so fraught with temptation and allurement to the young and
thoughtless. - The unreasonable hours to which these places are kept open at night contributes much
to the occasion of the disorderly noises so frequently heard in the streets in the nighttime.
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The amount of orders drawn on the Treasurer by the Overseers of the Poor from March 1
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1849 to March 1 1850 is nineteen hundred thirty two dollars and ninety nine cents - Of this amount
four hundred sixty two dollars and sixty eight cents has been expended out of the Work House on
account of thirty six different persons.
Robt. Rantoul
John SaffordOverseers
Stephens Baker of the
Andrew Ober Poor
Henry Larcom
Beverly March 11, 1850.
Voted, to accept the report of the Overseers of the Poor and that the thanks of the town be given
them for their services.
The Report of the Board of Firewards was next presented, by E. Pousland Esq. as follows-
The Firewards of Beverly make the following Report - All of the Engines are in good order
for service -
No. 1 is laid up in ordinary at the Hearse House and has no company.
No. 2 has a company of ten.
No. 3 has a full company.
No. 4 has a company of fifteen.
No. 5 has a full company.
Their compensation for their services is three dollars per man.
The town cisterns are full of water and in order.
The Fire Hooks and Ladders are in order.
The number of fires in town the past year, three:
First, Mr. Haven’s, at the Farms.
Second, the Hospital building.
Third, Mr. Brower’s barn.
The first and last caught by accident; the second by incendiary is submitted.
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Beverly March 9 1850.
Voted, That the Report of the Firewards be accepted.
The Report of the School Committee was then submitted as follows;
The School Committee respectfully submit their annual report.
Dodge’s Row. - Summer school - Kept 2½ months - by Miss Standley. Whole number of
scholars 21 - average 18. Winter school - Kept 3 months - by Mr. Herrick. Total 26 - average 24.
The order was good; the attendance was punctual & regular; & creditable progress had been made.
Bald Hill.- Summer School - Kept 6 months, by Miss Perry. Total 52 - average 41. It was
well disciplined, & made good progress. - Winter School - Kept 3 ½ months by Mr. Cole. Total 67 -
average 53. There were exercises in history, mental and natural philosophy, Algebra, map drawing,
bookkeeping, composition & declamation; & the school as a whole did very well.-
West Farms. - Summer school - Kept 6 months, by Miss Haskell. Total 54 - average 47. -
Winter school - Kept 5 months by Mr. Ross. Total 72 - average 60. Order & classification
somewhat imperfect. - In both of the schools, there was considerable advance.
East Farms.- Summer school - Kept 6 months by Miss Gates; & did well. Total 76 - average
68. - Winter school - Kept 4 months by Mr. Dow. Total 91 - average 77. Order good. Writing
much improved. History & mental philosophy, as well as most of the more common branches, well
attended to.-
Washington.- Summer school - Kept 5 months - by Misses Porter & Clark. Total 81 -
average 59.It was under good discipline, & made gratifying proficiency. - Winter school - Kept 4
months by Mr. Folsom & Miss Porter. Total 99 - average 79. Order good. Reading very good.
Some of the scholars were far advanced an arithmetic. In most of the other studies a large space had
been well traversed.
Cove. - Summer school - Kept 6 months by Mrs. Woodbury & Miss Perry. Total 130 -
average 108. These numbers were nearly equally divided between two departments, both of which
did very well. - Winter school - primary division - Kept 4 ½ months - by Mrs. Woodbury - Total 79 -
average 65 - in which the young scholars made a very satisfactory exhibition.- Senior division - Kept
4 months-by Mr. Swain. Total 88 - average 80. Order good. Writing & composition creditable.
Very good recitations in geography. In history, map drawing, singing, declamation, good exhibitions.
Ryal Side. - Summer school - Kept 5 months - by Miss Woodbury. Total 67 - average 56.
Winter school - Kept 4 ½ months - by Mr. Wilkins. Total 74 - average 65 - Order good. Writing
neat & much improved. Arithmetic & Geography very well recited. Attention had been paid to
philosophy, physiology & algebra. This district merits special, commendation for the liberal
expenditure it has made to furnish its school room with maps & charts.
Bass River.-Summer school - Kept 6 months - by Miss Elliott, - & with marked improvement.
Its total was 73 - average 64. - Order school, - Primary - Taught by Miss Wilson, four months. Total
26 - average 22. It consisted of only quite young scholars, who had been faithfully instructed. - The
more advanced school was kept 4 months - by Mr. Willard. Total 73 - average 57. Order good.
Excepting some deficiency in reading & grammar, it did very well in the common studies and also in
history & philosophy.
Grammar.-Junior department - Under Miss Worsley - through the year - with a total of 70,
& an average of 55. - Middle department - under Miss Weld, for the year; total 91 - average 56. -
Senior department - in charge of Mr. Perkins, through the year. Total 91 - average 50. - The scholars
in all of them have been thoroughly classed & tasked; & evidently in a manner, not only to divest
school hours of irksomeness, but to make them delightful. The exhibitions in drawing & arithmetic
were particularly excellent. In composition, bookkeeping, philosophy, Latin & Algebra, there were
creditable exercises. Singing has been practiced with taste & great success. -
South. - Primary - taught 5 months - by Miss Picket. Total 61 - average 54. - Senior division
- Kept 6 ½ months - by Mr. Philips. Total 130 - average 84. In both departments, the prescribed
studies were faithfully pursued; & in the first, bookkeeping, drawing, composition, Algebra, Latin,
philosophy & physiology, received a share of attention. It is much to be regretted, that from
deficiency of pecuniary supplies, this well conducted school should not - as it usually has been - have
been continued through the year. A large portion, however, of its pupils have enjoyed the benefits
of a private school, which took the place of the other, in the same commodious House, & with the
same Instructor.
The Schools, as a whole, have clearly improved during the past year. Among the particulars
in which that improvement is obvious, may be specified writing, order, punctual & regular attendance
of scholars, & the interest manifested by parents & friends. Their moral condition also has been
marred by fewer stains than usual, & has evinced positive growth. Still they are far from the point
of excellence, which should be kept constantly in view. There is room for vastly more in the
thoroughness & range in the common branches, & also the uncommon ones, than has yet been
attained. The philosophy of the mind & body, & of the powers and & operations of nature, for
instance, should be - much more than it is - studied & understood. Most of all, should an unwaving
resolution pervade the community, to cherish our schools, as among its chief glories & interests.
Beverly March 11,1850. -C. T. Thayer - Chairman.
Voted, to accept the report of the School Committee, and to give them the thanks of the town for
their services.
The Report of the Board of Health was then submitted as follows -
If The Board of Health submit
the following Report - The whole number of deaths from Jany. 1st 1849 to Jany. 1st 1850, was 82.
Average age 34 - under five years of age - 25, - over 70 years -16,-over 80 - 7, over 90 - 1. Diseases
and causes of death, Consumption 35 - Debility 8 - Old age 6 - Dysentery 5 - Scarlet fever 4 -
Inflammation of lungs 3 - Dropsy 3 - Head Disease 3 - Heart Disease 2 - Inflammation 2 - Jaundice,
Fits, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Canker, Teething, Typhoid fever, Croup, Inflammation of the bowels,
one each, unknown 2.
Assuming our population to be 5000, the mortality will have been a little over 16 to every
1000 inhabitants. Deducting from the whole number of deaths all under 5 years of age, & it will be
seen that nearly two-thirds, or 35 of the 57 remaining, are deaths from consumption of the lungs.
An increasing interest is evidently manifest on the part of our citizens, in relation to the burial
grounds in consequence of the improved manner of laying them out into suitable family lots. This is
evident from the fact that a large part of the most eligible lots in the new yard have already been sold.
The low prices at which these lots have been sold will hardly afford means sufficient to complete the
avenues to the various portions of the grounds - consequently the planting of shade trees, & other
improvements must be left to lot holders & others interested.
The recent purchase by the town for burial purposes of land on Dane St. & adjoining the
burial ground on that St. will connect the three yards in that vicinity, & must be regarded as a
desirable acquisition. It is thought that this land will make a convenient & proper place for the
location of the Hearse House. The present House located upon the common is considerably out of
repair, & its construction is not well adapted to further wants. There is much inconvenience at times
in consequence of snow & the bad condition of the road, in getting to the present House. It is
therefore recommended that if the old building can be disposed of, then that a new building be located
on Dane St.
The Hospital located upon Hospital point has been destroyed by fire during the past year. The
land upon which it stood is the property of the town. It is recommended that to prevent any difficulty
that might otherwise arise concerning the boundary thereof, (the bounds by deed being designated
from a single point,) that a suitable fence be built around said land, or some other plan be adopted,
but which the land may at any time be designated.
A. N. ClarkBoard
James Stone of
Samuel WoodberryHealth
Beverly March 11,1850.
Voted, That the Report of the Board of Health for the past year as aforesaid, be accepted.
The Report of the Selectmen was next submitted, as follows,
The Selectmen submitting
their annual report would state that they have made a pretty general improvement in the Guide
Boards in various parts of the town, according to the wants indicated in our last annual report; a few
yet remain unfinished but are in progress of completion.
Of the expenditures of the past year coming under our department, it will be seen that the
Highways exceed the appropriation: this is mainly at River Head Bridge, which having been
complained of as unsafe and unsuitable for public travel, was examined, and found to be thoroughly
out of repair, so much so that the high walls in each side of the embankments would have to be
almost entirely rebuilt if not quite so. The road at that place being very narrow, and an angle of
considerable acuteness presenting itself at the same point, a more thorough improvement was
suggested by widening and straightening the road, and continuing the culvert upstream farther, taking
the material for filling from the sharp hill beyond, thereby reducing that, and thus making a permanent
improvement which should not ultimately cost but little more than would have cost for sufficient
repairs upon the old structure. In accordance with this view, a petition was presented to the county
commissioners, who without hesitation ordered the suggested improvement to be made, as of real
public utility and of substantial benefit to the town. No town meeting was called by us upon their
order of notice as it seemed to us so plain a case that it would be merely a waste of time and expense
to call the town together, especially as the petition was very numerously and extensively signed. The
other extra highway expenses were principally included in our report of last year, upon which the
grant of the town was founded.
We stated in our report of last June that we expected to secure to the town at a merely
nominal price, except the cost of fencing, some two acres of land connecting the town and parish
burial grounds together: this result we can now state is secured, and the deed recorded conveying the
same to the town, for the purpose of burial lots, in accordance with the system which now prevails
in reference to the last burial ground purchased by the town; the Board of Health for the time being,
to have authority to convey these lots.
In our estimate of expense for the coming year, we set down $1800 for Highways; in this we
include the rebuilding of the bridge over the mill pond on Elliott Street, which is absolutely necessary
to be done; having been complained of as unsafe, it has been pretty thoroughly examined, and all
concur that it must be rebuilt the present season.
We have added $500 to the usual estimate for Schools; this is in accordance with the united
desire of most of the official representatives of the different school districts as well as others, to meet
the wants of their respective schools.
The town voted authority to the Selectmen to purchase a Record Safe, but providing no
means for that purpose, we have deemed it expedient not to incur debt on that account, until the town
should have opportunity to make an appropriation. For this purpose we have included it in our
estimate of the coming year.
We know of no suggestions we can make which can by any possibility tend to reduce our
other estimates; on the contrary, we are of the impression that in order to suppress the tendency to
the violation of law and order, now rather increasing, as we fear, that a more expensive and vigorous
police system may have become necessary, which of course will increase the expenses under that
department.
In regard to the violations of the license law which we were requested to prosecute, we have
been unable to obtain any tangible evidence sufficient to warrant prosecutions to be instituted,
although rumors are prevalent of evasions and violations of the law.
Wm. H. Lovett, for the Selectmen.
Beverly March 11,1850.
Voted, to accept the report of the Selectmen.
Upon the third Article in the Warrant, the votes for a county Treasurer having been duly
received, were sorted in open town meeting by the Moderator thereof, and the Town Clerk, and were
as follows:-
For William F. Wade, forty five votes, that being the whole number.
Upon Article 4. Petition of I. Foster & als. and notice thereon.
Voted, That the town are not opposed to the widening and straightening of way prayed for in said
petition between Elliott and Hale Streets, but are opposed to any new location between Cabot Street
and the house of Peter Clark on Colon Street.
Upon Article 5. Petition of R. Patch & als. for a petition of town to co. coms.
Voted, That the same be indefinitely postponed.
Upon Article 6, petition of O. Patch & als. for sidewalk on Knowlton St.
Voted, That the Selectmen cause the Surveyor to do what they may deem necessary in reference to
the subject matter of said petition.
Upon Article 7, in reference to the Hospital lot, and the Hearse House.
Voted, To refer that Article to the Board of Health to report upon at the adjournment, as to what
they may judge expedient and necessary in each case, and the probable expense.
Upon Article 8, in reference to intoxicating liquor traffic.
Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who
shall sell by retail in this town, spiritous liquors or wine, without a license and contrary to law.
Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons,
who shall, within this town, sell any spiritous or fermented liquor without license, in the open-air, in
any booth or other temporary building, in any house, shop, room or apartment, used for the purpose
of tippling or gaming, or in which to tippling or gaming is allowed, or which is used for the resort of
loose, lascivious, wanton or dissoulte persons.
Voted, that the Selectmen be requested to take efficient measures at the expense of the town, to
suppress rudeness, disorderly noises, and assemblies and collections of persons in the streets and
about public buildings to the disturbance of the peace, and the annoyance of the inhabitants, and in
all suitable ways to enforce the Bylaws of the town.
Upon Article 9, relative to Schools.
Voted, That the sum of thirty five hundred dollars be appropriated for the support of schools
throughout the town the ensuing year and that one eighth part thereof be equally divided among the
several school districts, and that the residue of said sum be apportioned among the same in the
proportion of the inhabitants in each on the first day of May next from the age of five unto fifteen
years.
Upon Article 10, relating to Highways.
Voted, That the sum of eighteen hundred dollars be appropriated for the repair and improvement of
highways and town ways throughout the town for the ensuing year.
Voted, That twelve and one half cents per hour, be allowed for each man, each horse, and each pair
of oxen, for labor on the roads and on snow - and twenty-five cents per day for each cart and each
plough thus used.
Voted, That the Surveyors of Highway so far as practicable, give general opportunity to all legal
voters within their respective limits, to work out their due proportion upon the road repairs.
Upon Article 11, Raising Money.
Voted, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be raised and assessed upon the polls and estates within
the town, to defray the debts of the town, and for the expenses of the coming year.
Voted, That the Collector of Taxes deliver or cause to be delivered, at the last and usual place of
abode of each inhabitant of the town, or to such inhabitant in person, as soon as may be after the
taxes are made, a list of the taxes such person has been assessed, - and that he allow five percent
discount on all town taxes paid on or before the fifteenth day of October next; and, that so far as
practicable, he shall on the first day of January next, put in suit all taxes then due, commencing with
the highest, and so down to the lowest tax, - providing always that said collector shall call once for
his tax, after leaving the bill thereof before putting the same in suit.
Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it be unto Monday the first day of April next at two o’clock
afternoon at this place.
Voted, That we now adjourn, and the Moderator then declared this meeting adjourned unto Monday
the first day of April as aforesaid.
At the adjournment of the foregoing meeting held on Monday the first day of April, 1850, at 2
o’clock P.M.
Voted by ballot, that Edwin Woodbury be of the School Committee instead of Joseph E. Ober
declined.
The following officers were elected by hand vote.
Fence Viewers. - Hezekiah Foster, Edward Pousland instead of
Surveyor of Highways - Ward 11.- Josiah Gray instead of Benj. Foster, removed out of that Ward.
Firewards. - Stephens Baker, Thomas P. Groce instead of Jeremiah Porter & Joshua W. Carrico,
declined.
Aaron Dodge instead of Emerson Herrick declined.
Field Drivers.-Ward 2. Edward Perry, - 3. Elisha Pride, - 4. Timothy M. Standley, - 6. Ansel
Burnham, - 8. Abraham B. Lord, - 10. John F. Trow, - 11. William Webb, - 12. Seth Friend, - 13.
John G. Smith, - 14. Robert Brown.
The Board of Health reported upon the subjects submitted to them as follows. Since the
annual town meeting in March last, the town’s land at Hospital Point has been examined & the
location of the town marked T.B. ascertained, from which the boundary in the deed is described; -
there are no other marks of boundary. The land is ledgy and fencing would be attended with
considerable expense & is thought to be unnecessary unless demanded by those owning lands
adjoining. All that appears to be necessary is the placing of substantial marks at the corners to
prevent any question that might otherwise hereafter arise as to the boundary. The expense of
removing the Hearse House from the Common to the burial ground on Dane St. & putting it in repair,
is estimated at about $40. The construction of a new house 10 by 20 feet, with 16 foot posts of good
materials & painted, will cost from $225 to 250. The present house can be disposed of for about $50.
Respectfully submitted. A. N. Clark, James Stone, Board of Health.- Accepted-
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 first day
of April next ensuing at eight o’clock before noon -
To give in their ballots for three County Commissioners and two Special Commissioners for
the County of Essex.
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-second day of March in the year eighteen hundred
fifty.
Wm. H. Lovett
Edward T. ProctorSelectmen
Haskett D. Whitney of
Josiah Obear Beverly
John I. Baker
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Essex, ss. Beverly March 25 A. D. 1850. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified
the persons therein named as therein directed.
Jacob Lunt,
Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant, and of the return thereon.
Attest,
John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Beverly, in the County of Essex, held agreeably
to law, (in pursuance of warrant recorded on the page next preceding,) 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 fifty, the qualified voters of said Town brought in
their written votes on one ballot, for three County Commissioners, and two Special Commissioners,
being 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 the 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 Commissioner was four hundred and eighteen-
For John I. Baker of Beverly, four hundred sixteen votes
Asa W. Wildes of Newburyport, two hundred seventy-six votes
Benjamin F. Newhall of Saugus, one hundred and forty-eight votes
Benjamin Mudge of Lynn, two hundred and seventy-two votes
Charles Kimball of Ipswich, one hundred and thirty-four votes
Thomas E. Payson of Rowley, two votes
William Carey of Amesbury, one vote
Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton, one vote
The whole number of ballots for Special Commissioners was four hundred and sixteen.
For William Poole of Rockport, three hundred and eighty-nine votes-
Lewis Allen of Danvers, two hundred and seventy-six votes-
Edmund Kimball of Bradford, one hundred and fourteen votes-
Dan Weed Jr. of Florence, twenty-six votes-
Joshua P. Trask of Gloucester, twenty-six votes-
Benjamin Mudge of Lynn, two votes
Lemuel Gott of Gloucester, one vote
John Chapman of Salem, one vote
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen
Andrew C. Baker of
Joseph E. Ober Beverly
John I. Baker
Attest.John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
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 in the usual manner the
qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday the twenty-fourth day of April
instant, at one o’clock afternoon,
To give in the votes for one person as County Commissioner, and for two persons as Special
Commissioners, for said County of Essex.
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, before said
time.
Given under our hands and seal this fifteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and
fifty.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
Haskell D. Whitney of
John I. Baker Beverly
Essex, ss. Beverly April 16, 1850. Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified & warned
the legal voters to appear as therein directed, by posting up notifications.
Francis Lamson, Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant and the return thereon.
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
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 in the usual manner the
qualified voters of said town to meet at the Town Hall on Wednesday the twenty-fourth day of April
instant, at one o’clock afternoon,
To give in their votes for one person as County Commissioner, and for two persons as Special
Commissioners, for said County of Essex.
Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, before said time.
Given under our hands and seal this fifteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and
fifty.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
Haskell D. Whitney of
John I. Baker Beverly
Essex, ss. Beverly April 16, 1850. Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified & warned
the legal voters to appear as therein directed, by posting up notifications.
Francis Lamson, Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant and the return thereon.
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Beverly, in the County of Essex, held agreeably
to law, for the choice of one County Commissioner and two Special Commissioners for said County,
on the twenty-fourth day of April in the hereof our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, the
qualified voters of said Town brought in their written votes on one ballot, for one County
Commissioner, and two Special Commissioners being inhabitants of different towns in said County
and the Selectmen of said Town in open Town meeting sorted and counted the votes on 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 the 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 Commissioner was one hundred and forty-three.
For Asa W. Wildes of Newburyport, one hundred and three votes
Charles Kimball of Ipswich, twenty-eight votes
Edmund Kimball of Bradford, eleven votes
Andrew Dodge of Wenham, one vote
The whole number of ballots for Special Commissioners was one hundred forty-two-
For Lewis Allen of Danvers, one hundred and three votes
William Poole Rockport, seventy-two votes
Thomas E. Payson of Rowley, seventy votes
George D. Hale of Rockport, thirty votes
Edmund Kimball of Bradford, four votes
Wm. H. Lovett
Haskett D. Whitney Selectmen
John I. Baker of
Beverly
Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.