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1850-09-09 ElectionEssex, ss. To one of 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 ninth day of September next at nine o’clock, before noon - To give in their ballots for a Representative from District No. Two, in the present Congress of United States. The poll will open at nine o’clock A.M. and close at four 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 thirtieth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and fifty Wm. H. Lovett John I. BakerSelectmen Haskett D. Whitney of Joseph E. Ober Beverly st Beverly August 31, A.D. 1850. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant I have notified the persons therein named, is therein directed- Ezra O. Woodbury, Constable of Beverly. A true record of the original warrant and 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 ninth day of September, being the second 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 No. Two. The whole number of persons of 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 six hundred and sixty-one. And the whole number of votes given in, was sorted, counted, recorded and declaration thereof made as by Law is directed; and said votes were for the following persons; viz.. Charles W. Upham of Salem, three hundred and thirty-nine votes Robert Rantoul Jr. two hundred and fifty-four votes Samuel E. Sewall of Melrose, sixty-four votes Benjamin C. Sumner of Beverly, to votes John I. Baker of Beverly, two votes Wm. H. Lovett Joseph E. OberSelectmen Andrew C. Baker of John I. Baker Beverly Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk.