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1849-03-12Essex, 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 twelfth day of March current, at nine o’clock before noon, for the following purposes, viz: - st 1. To choose a Moderator. d 2. To choose town officers for the year ensuing, and grant them such pay for their services as may be deemed expedient. d 3. To give in their ballots for a County Treasurer. th 4. To see if the Town will pay a bounty of fifty cents, or some other sum, per head, to every person, for each dog running at large within this Town, that such person may Kill, the same not being duly licensed and protected, under the existing Bylaws of the town and pass other Bylaws upon the subject if deemed necessary - per petition H. Standley & others. th 5. To see if the Town will cause Engine No. 5 (Perseverance,) to be altered to an hydraulic Engine, and procure apparatus accordingly - and also, to see if the town will locate and build two cisterns at the Farms, and purchase three hundred feet of new Hose for said Fire Engine - per petition of Dixey Woodberry & others. th 6. To see if the Town will take measures to prevent and restrict the traffic in intoxicating liquors, whether fermented or otherwise, within this town, by the passage of Bylaws, or otherwise - and also, to see if they will cause prosecutions to be instituted, by authority of the town, against the unlawful traffic in such liquors. th 7. To see if the Town will provide a suitable Safe, for the preservation from fire of the Town records and papers, and raise and appropriate money therefore. th. 8 To adopt such measures, grant such sums of money, and make such regulations, respecting Schools within the Town, as may be deemed proper. th 9. To adopt such measures, grant such sums of money, and make such regulations for the repairs and improvement of highways, and town ways throughout the town, as may be deemed expedient. th 10. To grant such sums of money to be raised 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 deemed expedient - and make all necessary regulations and allowances respecting the same. th 11. To see if the Town will approve the Jury List as revised by the Selectmen. Hereof fail not, but make due return of this warrant with the doings thereon, before said time- Given under our hands and seal this second day of March, in the year Eighteen hundred and forty-nine - Wm. H. LovettSelectmen Haskett D. Whitney of John I. Baker Beverly Beverly March 3,1849. 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 return - Attest, John I. Baker, Town Clerk At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly held, pursuant to the foregoing warrant, at the Town Hall in said town on Monday the twelfth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, at nine o’clock before noon, the same being the annual March Meeting - Voted, by ballot, That Albert Thorndike be Moderator. unanimous. Prayers were then offered by Rev. Joseph Abbott, pastor of the Dane Street Society - Voted, by ballot, That John I. Baker be Town Clerk. unanimous. Then John I. Baker aforesaid, forthwith upon being chosen into the office of Town Clerk as aforesaid, was sworn to faithfully and impartially to discharge and perform all the duties of said office for the ensuing year and until another is chosen and qualified in his stead - in open town meeting this twelfth day of March A. D.1849. Before Me, Moderator of said meeting. Voted, by ballot, That William H. Lovett, Edward T. Proctor, Haskett D. Whitney, Josiah Obear and John I. Baker be Selectmen. Voted, by ballot, That John Porter, Francis Lamson, Benjamin Preston Jr., Calvin Tuck and John Prince be Assessors. Voted, by ballot, the Robert G. Bennett be Treasurer, and that he receive twenty dollars for his salary. Voted, by ballot, That Jacob Lunt be Collector of Taxes, and that he receive two percent on all monies collected and paid into the Treasury. Voted, by ballot, That Rev. C. T. Thayer, Rev. J. Abbott, Rev. G. T. Dole, Rev. I. Washburn, Rev. C. W. Reding, Rev. A. Gannett, Rev. J. Chandler, R. Rantoul, W. C. Boyden, E. Pousland, J. E. Ober and Charles Haddock be the School Committee. Voted, by ballot, That Jacob Lunt be Inspector of Police. Voted, That all the other offices be chosen by hand vote, and in accordance therewith, the following persons were chosen to the respective offices designated as follows - Auditors. John Bradshaw, Stephen Woodberry , Joseph E. Ober. Overseers of the Poor. Robert Rantoul, John Safford, Stephens Baker, Henry Larcom, Andrew Ober. Constables. Francis Lamson, Ezra O. Woodberry, Jacob Lunt, C. Horace Stocker, Samuel D. G. Standley, Nathaniel P. Allen. Firewards William H. Lovett, Daniel Foster, Robert Goodwin, Simeon Beckford, in South District - Edward Pousland, Alden Harris, Joshua W. Carrico, John O. Foster, Stephen Woodberry, in Grammar - Thomas B. Smith, Emerson Herrick, in Washington - Henry E. Story, Sullivan Brown, in Bass River - Israel Foster 2d - at Cove - Nathaniel P. Allen, at Farms - Board of Health. Augustus N. Clark, James Stone, Samuel Woodberry. Fence Viewers. John Porter, Israel Foster 2d, Stephen Woodberry. Sealers of Leather. Thomas B. Smith, Ezra O. Woodberry. Surveyors of Lumber, Isaac Galloup, William Webber, John Meacom, Robert Goodwin, Richard J. Preston, John Ober. Inspector of Lime. Benjamin C. Sumner. Clerk of Market. James Stone. Surveyors of HighwaysWardField Drivers Walter Rogers1Benjamin C. Sumner, Charles H. Stocker John Prince2John S. Boden Peter Obear3Samuel Ober Jr. Edwin Woodberry4George G. Larcom Samuel D. G. Standley5Jesse Dame Ruben Edwards6Hiram Preston Benjamin Woodberry7Jonathan Moulton Azor Dodge8Richard Fifield Benjamin Stanley9Alvin F. Dodge John F. Trow10Adam Nesmith Benjamin Foster11Asa Brown Seth Friend12John Bell Jr. Perkins Haskell13John G. Smith John P. Putnam14Zachariah Cole Pound Keeper. Joseph Glidden Jr.. The Report of the Board of Auditors was next received exhibiting an aggregate expenditure of 10,225.99 - a balance in the treasury of 727.15 and Taxes due 281.67 - Voted. To accept said report, and to give the thanks of the town to the Auditors - The Report of the Overseers of the Poor was next presented and is as follows: - The Overseers of the Poor of the town of Beverly, for the year ending in March 1849, make the following st report - The number of persons who have been in the Work House, from March 1 1848, to March st 1 1849 is fifty-two - Of whom twenty were men, twenty-one were women, and eleven were children st - There were in the House on the 1 of March current, thirty-seven persons, viz; ten men, nineteen women, and eight children - The average number of persons in the House for the year is nearly thirty- one - There have been two deaths in the course of the year, and much sickness - Only one person has been committed as a common drunkard. The amount of orders drawn on the Town Treasurer, by the Overseers of the Poor, for March stst 1 1848, to the March 1 1849, is twenty one hundred and forty one dollars and forty eight cents - Of this amount, five hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-five cents, has been expended for the relief of persons out of the Work House. To Robt. Rantoul John SaffordOverseers Stephens Baker of the Henry Larcom Poor Beverly March 12th.1849. Voted. To accept said report, and to give the thanks of the town to the Overseers. The Report of the School Committee was next presented as follows: - the School Committee respectfully present their annual report - The Bald Hill Summer School was Kept 6 months by Miss Standley, & did well. Whole number of scholars was 42 - average 33. Winter School - Kept 3 ½ half months by Mr. Swain. Total 66 - average attendance 56 - present at the closing examination 52. Order very good. Classification complete. Improved writing. Common studies well attended to. In history and philosophy 5 did well. Dodge’s Row - Summer school - Kept 3 months by Miss Dodge. Total15 - average 14. Winter School - Kept 3 months by Mr. Herrick. Total 25 - average 21 - present 22. Order very good. Classification im of perfect. Common branches well recited - also history by 6 pupils, & mental philosophy by 1. Both of these schools although small in numbers, appeared creditably. Washington - Summer school - Kept 6 months - by Misses Cole & Smith - Total 85 - average 59 - was orderly, & made good progress. Winter school - Kept 5 months - by Mr. Gallop. Total 113 - average 70 - present 68. Order good. Classification correct. Some deficiency in reading & spelling. General proficiency in the usual studies - also by 14 in history - 9 in philosophy - & several in composition & declamation. Cove - Summer school - Kept 5 1/4 months by Misses Perry & Hammond - Total 120 - average 90 - with good order & progress. Winter school - Kept 4 ½ months - by Mr. & Miss Fairfield. In the latters department, totals 61 - average 46 - present 40 - or orderly & steadily improving. Under the former, total 96 - average 78 - present 76. Order good. Classification exact. The common branches, particularly arithmetic, well learned. Handsome exhibitions in history, philosophy, map drawing, composition & declamation. West Farms - Summer school - Kept 5 months - by Miss Marshall. Total 54 - average 49 - Winter school - Kept 4 months - by Mr. Abbott. Total 71 - average 66 - present 65. Good progress in the regular studies - also in history & mental philosophy, composition, singing & declamation. The recitations were many of them injured by lowness of voice. The regularity of attendance in this & the summer school deserves special commendation. In both were evinced order & a general advance. East Farms - Summer school - Kept 2 ½ months by Miss Foster & 3 1/4 months by Miss Gates. Total 63 - average 56. Though somewhat disturbed at first, it terminated favorably.- Winter school - Kept 4 months - by Mr. Foster & Miss Gates. Total 83 - average 69 - present 65. Order good. Attendance more than usually regular. The prescribed studies attended to. There were exercises in history & singing. The 3d class appeared very well. - Ryal Side - Summer school - Kept 5 months - by Miss Kettelle. Total 63 - average 50. Rather deficient in order & general deficiency. - Winter school - Kept 4 ½ months - by Mr. Keen. Total 73 - average 63 - present 56. Order excellent. Reading, spelling, & the exercises generally performed with spirit & accuracy. Writing & arithmetical manuscripts neat & improved. Good specimens of composition exhibited. Considerable done in history, philosophy & physiology. Altogether a fine school - & the character of the district greatly raised. Bass River - Summer school - Kept 6 months - by Miss Elliott, with gratifying results. Total 79 - average 65. - Winter school - Kept 4 ½ months by Mr. Lear - Total 101 - average 75 - present 67. Order & classification imperfect. Much of the reading & recitations in too low a voice. In addition to the common studies, they were exercises in history & philosophy - arithmetical manuscripts - & singing.- South. Primary school - Kept 8 months - by Miss Woodberry & made good improvement. Total 53 - average 38. - Principal school - Kept through the year - by Mr. Phillips. Total 140 - average 87 - present 85. Order very good. Classification complete. Good amount thoroughly learned, in the common branches. Improvement in writing. The exhibition was interesting & highly satisfactory, in History, Philosophy, Physiology, Drawing, Bookkeeping, Composition, Algebra, Latin & Singing. The improved state of the school might well tend to reconcile the inhabitants of the District, to the large draft made on their liberality by the model school house recently erected. - Grammar. - Primary school - Kept and months - by Miss Worsley. Total 78 - average 53 - present 50. It showed excellent training; & the exhibitions in reading, spelling, defining, geography, arithmetic, declamation, & singing - considering the age of the pupils - were quite remarkable. - intermediate school - kept through the year - by Miss Weld. Total 71 - average 57 - present 56. Here st the scholars had all been well classed & tasked. Beside the common branches, all of the 1 class had studied history, & several declaimed & sang. The exhibition was extremely gratifying. - upper school - Kept nearly through the year - by Mr. McGaffey. Total 62 - average 53 - present 45. It had been managed strictly according to the prescribed rules. Most of the scholars appeared well in the usual studies - also in history - as did several in philosophy & Latin. Writing pretty good. Bookkeeping, composition, drawing, map drawing, & singing, very well. The school houses have without exception been neat at the examinations, & nearly all tastefully decorated. The attendance of friends in most of the districts has been larger than usual, while the unnecessary absence of scholars was regretted. Few exceptions on the score of morals, have been reported.- From further experience the Committee are more than ever impressed with the importance of parents & guardians manifesting a deep interest in the schools; of their securing the regular attendance of their children - & furnishing them with the required books; & of their cooperating heartily and fully with the efforts made to train and & procure the best teachers, & both intellectually & morally best educate the young.- C. T. Thayer - Chairman. Beverly March 12,1849.- Voted, To accept said report, and to give the thanks of the town to the Committee. The next report was from the Board of Firewards, as follows - The undersigned, Firewards of Beverly make the following Report - The Town Engines are all in good order. No. 2, No. 3 and five have full companies for which we have agreed to pay 3 dollars per man-No. 4. Has accompanied of 12, for which we pay 3 dollars each-they to keep said Engine good order, and preferred in Dear in case of fire- The public cisterns are in good order and full of water - The Fire Ladders, Hooks etc. are in good order. There has been one fire in the town to call out the Department since the last annual meeting, which was Briscoe Hall, [April 19,1848] and that was extinguished by the promptness of the Department, and the exertions of the citizens generally - Beverly March 12th.1849. Edwd. Pousland H. E. Story John O. Foster Alden Harris Israel Foster 2d Voted. To accept said report, in give the thanks of the town for their services. The next report in order was that of the Board of Health, but it was not presented until the afternoon adjournment. It is however reported here in order to have it with the other reports - it is as follows - Report of the Board of Health. The Board of Health respectfully make the following report - The number of deaths from stst Jany. 1. 1848 to Jany. 1. 1849, from the inhabitants of the town is 85 - averaging about 7 in each month & being 17 from every thousand inhabitants, assuming our population to be 5000 - of persons deceased 7 were over 80 years of age 20 were over 70 years of age 34 were under 30 years of the age 24 were under 5 years of age average age 42 years - There has been an unusual proportion of deaths from persons advanced in years, there being 32 of the persons deceased, whose united ages are 2431 years, & whose average age is 76 years - More than usual interests as been taken by our citizens of late, in relation to improving & ornamenting our places of burial, & since the purchase of the new burial ground or cemetery on Hale St & is division into family lots, much has been done by individuals, in grading, fencing, & planting suitable trees & shrubbery around lots that have purchased - Of the 290 lots located within the cemetery, only 90 remain unsold, & a portion of these will be unsalable until further improvements are made, thereby improving the means of access to all parts of the grounds, & furnishing facilities to purchasers, for improving such of these lots is a made buy - At the last annual meeting there was a balance in the Town Treasury received from the sale of burial lots of 147.33 - am’t paid into the treasury the past year 78.95 making a total credit of 226.28 - am’t expended 308.91 - leaving a balance due the treasury of 82.63 - there are however, lots enough sold, & for which deeds have not been delivered, to more than cover the bal. due the treasury. - A large part of the money expended, has been for constructing an entrance to the yard. - th Beverly Mch. 12 1849 A. N. Clark Board of Health James Stone Voted. To accept said report, and to give thanks of the town to the Board. - The report of the Selectmen was presented, (before noon,) as follows - The Selectmen in submitting their annual report would state that the only Guide Posts and Boards in the town that are in good order, are those at the corners of Hale & Cabot Streets - Chapman’s Corner - corners of Hale & West Streets - Essex & Dane Streets -Cabot & Elliott Streets - Elliott & Cressy Streets - Conant, Burley & Liberty Streets - Conant & Cabot Streets - Dodge & Enon Streets: - while those at the following places, part need entire rebuilding, & part new painting & other repairs, viz: at corners of Hale & Ober Streets - Hale & Hart Streets - Essex & Hull Streets - Essex & Church Streets - Dodge & Conant Streets - Elliott & Liberty Streets - Elliott & Conant Streets: - and new ones are needed at corner of Cabot & Trask Streets. The part of these improvements we had commenced making, but finding upon examination, such a general deficiency, we felt in our duty to present a matter to the town; in- and in our wet estimate have a love $50 for the expenditure needed on this account.- We have estimated for Highways, $1300 being $500 less than the appropriation of last year: of this we include $700 for ordinary repairs, and $600 for extra repairs and improvements - such as, blasting the ledges in, and otherwise improving Charnock Street - completing repairs on Essex Street, near the outlet, so-called - completing the widening near Chapman’s Corner at the Cove- resetting culvert near S. Mascoll’s - do, near Josiah Trask’s - building a new and large culvert on Hale Street, near Peter Pride’s, to save the road there from the repeated washing & injury consequent upon the great flow of water at that place; - also, raising Dodge Street near Trow’s Corner, and various other matters and contingencies which are constantly arising, besides the clearing of snow etc.- Our other estimates are based on what we believed to be just and true grounds - we include $150 for Health Department for fencing etc., which we deem absolutely necessary - we have also made such arrangements as will ultimately secure to the town a parcel of land for burial purposes, (two acres more or less,) adjoining upon the Parish Burial Ground on Dane Street, and extending to the town burial ground, by which, these may be connected together, when the parties interested agreed thereto: - all this we expect to secure at a merely nominal price to the town, except the expense of fencing.- Under the vote of the town we have felt called upon to institute prosecutions against the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors: the details and results thus far, are well known to the town, and we believe that good results have followed these efforts.- Wm. H. Lovett Edward T. ProctorSelectmen Haskett D. Whitney of Josiah Obear Beverly John I. Baker Upon motion Hon. Robert Rantoul Senior, it was unanimously Voted. That the thanks of the town be given to the Selectmen for their services the past year, and especially for their efforts to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors: - Their report having first been accepted by the town.- Upon the 3d Article in the warrant, the ballots were received for County Treasurer and the results was according to the following form of return thereof - Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Annual meeting of the qualified voters of the Town of Beverly, in the County of Essex, held on the twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight and hundred forty-nine, the votes for a Treasurer of said County, 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 of Ipswich, twenty-eight votes- For Daniel P. King of Danvers, one vote- Whole number of ballots, twenty-nine - Noon having arrived before the meeting were ready to dispose of Article 4th relative to dogs, it was Voted. To adjourn until half past one o’clock, this (Monday,) afternoon, and the meeting adjourned accordingly.- Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk.- At half past one o’clock in the afternoon of Monday March 12th A.D. 1849, qualified voters of the town of Beverly, again assembled in their in accordance with the previous adjournment, and the meeting was called to order by the Moderator, and proceeded to business - The Report of the Board of Health not being presented before noon, was accepted this afternoon as before recorded - th The consideration of the 4 Article in the warrant was resumed, the question being upon a motion of Edward Pousland, Esq. to grant the prayer of the petition, and to pay a bounty accordingly - this motion was discussed by the mover, and Herbert Standley, William Ober & others in favor - and principally by Hon. R. Rantoul against - while various modifications were proposed by others - the vote was finally adopted in the following form. Voted, That a committee consisting of every legal voter and town, shall be chosen by the town, who shall receive a bounty of fifty cents for every dog killed by them, not protected by the Bylaws of the town. An unsuccessful proposition was made to refer the subject to the Selectmen to report upon at the adjournments, and propositions were alike unsuccessful, to confer the grant prayed for to a select committee, and to strike out all relative to muzzling dogs, from our present dog Bylaws.- Upon Article 5, relative to Cisterns, etc. etc. at the Farms, on motion of E. Pousland, no one speaking in favor of the petition, it was - Voted, That the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petition. - Upon Article 6, relative to the traffic in intoxicating liquors, on motion of Capt. Amos Lefavour the following votes were unanimously adopted - Voted, That the Selectmen be requested to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons, who shall sell by retail in this town, spiritous liquor 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 tippling or gaming is allowed, which is used for the resort of loose, lascivious, wanton or dissolute persons.- On motion of Mr. Herbert Standley, the free use of the Town Hall was granted to the Essex County Washingtonian Society for Fast day afternoon and evening [April 12,1849].- Article 7. In reference to a Safe was passed over till April adjournment. - the Selectmen not having completed all the inquiries and examination which they are desirous to make before the subject is acted upon by the town. Upon Article 8th relative to Schools, an unsuccessful attempt having been made to appropriate $3800 and a like attempt to appropriate $3700, having failed it was finally - Voted. That the sum of $3000 be, and the same hereby is appropriated for schools for out the town the current year, and that 1/8 part of said some be divided equally among the several school districts, and that the residue of said some be divided among the same, in proportion to the inhabitants in each on the first eight of Maine next, between the ages of war and 16 years- Upon Article 9th relative to highways etc. propositions having been made to limit the appropriation to one thousand dollars, that being three hundred dollars less than the estimate of the Selectmen - Mr. S. D. G. Standley move the sum of $1500 in this motion was sustained by a vote of 142 to 120, the meeting having been polled to ascertain the result - and this motion was accordingly adopted as follows - Voted, That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated for the repairs and improvement of the highways and town ways of 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 highways and townways, and upon snow - and twenty five cents per day for each cart, and each plough used - Voted, That the Surveyors of Highways, 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 10, relative to raising money - Voted, The sum of eight thousand and seven hundred dollars be raised and assessed upon the polls and estates within the town, for the purpose of the defraying the debts of the town, and for the expenses of the ensuing 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, the list of the taxes such person has been assessed; - and that he allow five percent discount all town taxes paid the 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 than 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 such tax in suit. - Upon Article 11, relative to Jury list - the following report was presented - The Selectmen have prepared the following list of inhabitants of this town, not exempted by law from serving as jurors, and whom we deem well qualified to serve as such, being persons of good moral character, of sound judgment, and free from all legal exceptions, which list numbers seventy-eight, including one for every sixty inhabitants completing the last census, according to the laws of this Commonwealth.- Beverly March 3,1849. Stephen AbbottWilliam G. EnglishPerkins HaskellGeorge S. Millett William BradyJames FriendEmerson HerrickWilliam Moses Israel BrownSeth FriendLuther HerrickAugustus Moulton Zachariah ColeBenjamin L. FosterJames HillJoseph E. Ober Joseph ConantNathan H. FosterEdward KilhamJoseph L. Ober John H. CrossRobert S. FosterAbraham B. LordSamuel Odell William P. CleavesSamuel FosterWilliam LordRichard Pedrick Samuel CoffinAnderson GliddenCharles T. LovettBenjamin F. Perkins Joshua W. CarricoJohn L. GoldsburyJohn Lovett 2dJames Perry Alpheus DavisRobert GoodwinPhilip Lee Jr.Jeremiah Porter John J. DennisJosiah GraySamuel L. LeeJoseph Porter Jr. Albert G. DodgeIsrael GreenBenjamin S. LuntWilliam Porter William D. DodgeEdmund GilesJames MasuryThomas Pousland Joseph K. PrestonJohn L. SmithAbiel WalesBenjamin Williams Edward G. ProctorGeorge SouthwickCaleb WallisEdwin Woodberry John PutnamAndrew W. StandleyEleazar R. WallisElisha Woodberry George RoundySands StandleyJeremiah WallisJoseph Woodberry 3d Daniel SargentJoseph ThissellJohn E. WallisStephen W. Woodberry Edmund SmithSamuel Thissell 2dWilliam D. Webber John G. SmithJoseph D. TuckHaskett D. Whitney Wm. H. Lovett Edward G. ProctorSelectmen Haskett D. Whitney of Josiah Obear Beverly Joseph I. Baker Voted. To accept and approve that list of Jurors. The following vote was brought forward and advocated by Mr. John Tuck 2d and adopted by the meeting, to wit: - while acting upon Article 6. Whereas the Town Hall has been let for purposes of theatrical performances, and other plays and shows, which in the minds of citizens are of doubtful propriety, having a tendency to corrupt the morals of the community, and more especially the young, by leading them to habits of extravagance and dissipation and riotous conduct, which of late has manifested itself to the annoyance and grief of many of the inhabitants especially those who have been during the past winter making great efforts for the suppression of intemperance and its kindred vices among the young - therefore Voted, That this Hall shall not be used for such purposes, or any others of like nature. - Voted, That when this meeting adjourn it be until Monday the second day of April next at two o’clock in the afternoon, and upon motion the meeting was adjourned accordingly, and so declared by the Moderator. Attest. John I. Baker, Town Clerk At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Beverly, held on Monday the second day of April in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the same being an adjournment of the Annual March Meeting, the meeting was call to order by Albert Thorndike, the Moderator, at 2 o’clock P.M. The following gentlemen were then chosen to the respective offices specified to fill vacancies caused by others declining to serve - Rev. Charles W. Flanders, in place of Rev. Joshua Chandler upon the School Committee, by ballot - And by hand vote the following were chosen - Auditors, - Eben H. Moulton, Thomas Pousland, John B. Hill. - Surveyors of Highways,-Ward 4. Joseph Woodbury 2d 5. Chester Hobbs 8. Richard Fifield Field Drivers, - Ward 2. Edward Perry 6. David Standley 12. William D. Dodge 13. Thomas B. Smith 14. Robert Brown Firewards,-South District. Andrew W. Standley Grammar District Jeremiah Porter Washington District. John G. Smith The Selectmen made a report upon a suitable safe for the town records and papers, estimating the cost thereof at three hundred and fifty dollars, which report was accepted, and it was Voted, That the Selectmen procure such a safe for the preservation of the Town Records as they may think expedient. -