1849-01-01 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 (in the usual
manner,) the qualified of said Town to meet at the Town Hall on Monday the first day of January
next, at nine o’clock A.M. to give in their ballots for a Representative in the next Congress of United
States, for District Number Two
Hereof fail not, but make due
return of this warrant with your doings thereon
Given under our hand and seal
this twenty-first day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Wm. H. LovettSelectmen
John I. Baker of
Haskett D. Whitney Beverly
rd
Beverly December 23 A. D 1848. Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I have notified the
persons therein named, is therein directed -
Francis Lamson,
Constable of Beverly.
A true record of the original warrant, and the return thereon -
To test,
John I. Baker, Town Clerk.
At a legal meeting of 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 first day of January, being the first Monday of said month, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, 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 five hundred and seventy-four,
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.:-
Daniel P. King of Danvers, three hundred and thirty-one votes.
Robert Rantoul Jr. of Beverly, one hundred and seventy-three votes.
Benj. F. Newhall of Saugus, seventy votes
Wm. H. Lovett
Edward T. Proctor
Haskett D. WhitneySelectmen of Beverly
Josiah Obear
John I. Baker
Attest.
John I. Baker, Town Clerk