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1850-08-19 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 the qualified voters of said Town, (in the usual manner,) to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the nineteenth day of August current, and Nine o’clock before noon - To give in their ballots for a Representative in the Congress of the United States to supply the vacancy caused by the disease of Hon. D. P. Kane. The poll will open at 9 A.M. and close at 4 o’clock P.M. Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, before said time. Given under our hands and seal this ninth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and fifty. Wm. H. LovettSelectmen John I. Bakerof Haskett D. WhitneyBeverly th Beverly August 10 A.D. 1850. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named as therein directed, Charles H. Stocker, Constable of Beverly. A true record of the original warrant, and of 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 nineteenth day of August, being the third Monday of said month, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, 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- 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 four hundred and twenty-six. And the whole number of votes given in, was sorted, counted, reported, and declaration thereof made as by Law is directed; and said votes were for the following persons; viz.. Charles W. Upham of Salem, one hundred nineteen votes Robert Rantoul Jr. one hundred and seventy-nine votes John Pierpont of Medford, fifty-five votes John I. Baker, one vote Wm. H. Lovett Haskett D. Whitney Selectmen John I. Baker of Beverly Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.