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
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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.