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Article 8. To see if the town will vote to raise and ap- propriate Thirty-five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) for the pur- pose of constructing a new cement sidewalk on East Main Street, or take any action in relation thereto.
And you are hereby directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at each of the Public Meet- ing Houses and at the Post Office in said town, also cause an attested coyy to be published in the Milford Daily News, a newspaper published in said Town, two Sabbaths at leist be- fore the time set for said meeting.
Hereof Fail Not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Clerk of said Town, at the time of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Milford, this first day of Sep- tember, A. D. 1932.
P. EUGENE CASEY, TIMOTHY W. HANNIGAN, WILLIAM J. HAYES, Selectmen of Milford.
A true copy.
Attest: JOHN J. MOLONEY, Constable of Milford.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Milford, September 13, 1932.
Worcester, ss.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the Town of Milford, herein described, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes within mentioned, by posting up attested copies of this warrant at each of the Pub- lic Meeting Houses, and at the Post Office in, said Town, and
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I have likewise caused attested copies of this warrant to be published in the Milford Daily News, a newspaper printed in said Town, two Sabbaths before the time set for said meeting.
Attest:
JOHN J. MOLONEY, Constable of Milford.
A true copy of the warrant and the officer's return thereon. Attest:
DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1932.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, ss.
Milford, September 13, 1932.
In pursuance to the foregoing Warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Milford, qualified by law to vote in elections and in town affairs, met in Town Hall in said town on Tues- day, the thirteenth day of September, A. D. 1932, punctually at eight o'clock in the evening, and were called to order by the Town Clerk who read the Warrant and the officer's return thereon.
Under Article 1. The meeting made choice of John T. McLoughlin as Moderator, the vote being unanimous.
Article 2. Myron Morey, Secretary of the Finance Com- mittee submitted the following report for the Committee.
Milford, Mass., September 13, 1982. To the Voters of the Town of Milford:
Your Finance Committee have carefully considered Arti- cles two, three, four, five, six, and seven and recommend that favorable action be taken on them.
MILFORD FINANCE COMMITTEE,
MYRON MOREY, Secretary.
Voted: To receive and accept the report of the Finance Committee.
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Voted; That the town raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty-five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($25,500.00) in addition to the amount already raised and appropria- ted for Public Welfare,and appropriate the sum of Four Thou- sand Five Hundred Dollars ($4,500.00) from the amount re- ceived from contributions from town employes, for Public Welfare, said Four Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars ($4,500.00) to be made up by transferring Four Thousand One Hundred Dollars from the School Department, and Four Hundred Dol- lars ($400.00) from the Police Department, and transfer to the appropriation for Public Welfare, the following amounts, from appropriation for Oiling Streets, Two Thousand Three Hun- dred Twenty-one Dollars and Six Cents ($2,321.06), from ap- propriation for land damages on South Main, Elm, Courtland and Prospect Street, Sixteen Hundred Seventy eight Dollars and Ninety four Cents ($1,678 94.)
Voted: To pass over the remainder of the article.
Article 3. Voted: To raise and appropriate the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) in addition to the amount already raised and appropriated for Soldiers' Relief.
Voted: To pass over the remainder of the article.
Article 4. Voted : To raise and appropriate the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for Board of Health.
Voted: To pass over the remainder of the article.
· Article 5. Voted: To construct side walls along Charles River, from Central Street to B. & A. R. R. tracks and trans- fer to the General Appropriation for Highways, for said pur- pose, the following amounts: from appropriation for land dam- ages on South Main, Elm, Courtland and Prospect Streets, Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for the purchasing of materi- als, the construction to be under the supervision of the High- way Surveyor.
Voted: To pass over the remainder of the article.
Article 6. Voted: To appropriate the sum of One Thou sand Dollars ($1,000.00) to be expended under the direction of the Finance Committee, in conducting an investigation of the Public Welfare and Soldiers' Relief Departments, said money
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to be transferred from the following appropriations: Land damages on South Main, Elm, Courtland and Prospect Streets, Two Hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents, ($259.91), Round Pond Improvements, One Hundred Sixty- nine Dollars and fifty-six cents, ($169. 56) Selectmen's, Four Hundred Forty-four Dollars and fifty-eight cents ($444.58), re- moving abutment on Medway street, One Hundred Twenty- five Dollars and ninety-five cents ($125.95).
Voted: To pass over the remainder of the article.
Article 7. Voted: To pass over the article.
Article 8. A motion to raise and appropriate the sum of Thirty- five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) for the purpose of constructing a new cement sidewalk on East Main Street, un- der the direction of the Selectmen, the work to be done by persons unemployed, and not receiving aid from the town, was defeated by a voice vote.
Voted: To pass over the remainder of the article .;
Voted: To dissolve the Warrant.
A true record. Attest:
DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, Town Clerk.
A true copy of the records. Attest:
DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, Town Clerk.
MEETING TO FILL VACANCY IN BOARD OF HEALTH.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, ss.
Milford, September 26, 1982.
At a joint meeting of the Members of the Board of Health and the Selectmen held on the above date for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the Board of Health caused by the death of Maurice J. Quinlan, the said Members of the Board of Health and Selectmen proceeded as follows:
P. Eugene Casey, chairman, was chosen chairman of the meeting. Dennis J. Sullivan, clerk of the selectmen, was cho-
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sen secretary. A ballot was taken for the choice of a Member of the Board of Health. Clifton Tyler had four votes. Annie J. Lawless had one vote. Total, five votes.
Clifton Tyler was declared as chosen to fill vacancy.
A true record. Attest:
DENNIS J. SULLIVAN,
Town Clerk.
A true copy of the record. Attest:
DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING, NOVEMBER 8, 1932 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, ss.
To either Constable of the Town of Milford, in said County, GREETING :--
In the name of the Commonwealth aforesaid, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town, qualified by law to vote in elections and in town af- fairs, to meet at the Town hall in said Town, on Tuesday, the eighth day of November, A. D., 1932, punctually at 5.45 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the polls will be open for said voters to give in their ballots to the Selectmen of said Town, for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receivor-General, Auditor, and Attorney -Gen- eral of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Congressman (Fourth Congressional District), Councillor (Seventh Council- lor District), Senator, (Fourth Worcester Senatorial District), Two Representatives in General Court, (Eighth Worcester District,) Two County Commissioners (Worcester County), Sheriff (Worcester County), Associate Commissioner ( Worces- ter County), (to fll vacancy), all on one ballot designating the office intended for each person voted for as provided for under the provisions of Chapter 54, General Laws of Massachusetts, and Acts in amendment thereto.
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Also upon said ballots the voters shall give in their votes "Yes" or "No" on the acceptance of the following questions.
Question No. 1.
LAW PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION.
Shall the proposed law which defines and legalizes the practice of chiropractics; establishes a board of registration of chiropractors and defines the number, mode of appointment, tenure, qualification and compensation of its members, and its powers and duties; provides for the preliminary qualifications, examination, certification, original registration and annual license of chiropractors and regulation of their practice, and defines the mode, subjects of and fees for examination, the mode of practice and penalties; and other matters related thereto, which are chiefly as follows:
That chiropractic be "the science or practice of locating and adjusting by hand the malpositions of the articulations of the human spine."
That any person with one preceding year's residence in this Commonwealth and with degree from a qualified chiro- practic school received at least one year prior to the date when the law takes effect, may, within ninety days after such date, be certified by the board at its discretion without exam- ination.
That otherwise no person, except a member of the board of registration, shall practice chiropractic unless, being over twenty-one years of age, of good moral character and gradu- ated from a reputable chiropractic school after personally attending courses of at least twenty-two hundred sixty-min- ute daylight hours given to persons qualified to graduate from a public high school, he shall qualify by examination, pay a fee of twenty-five dollars and be registered and certified; ex- cept that any person licensed in another State maintaining standards equal to those of this Commonwealth may be regis- tered without examination.
That the examination be scientific and practical in char- acter, in subjects including anatomy, physiology, symptomat
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ology, hygiene, sanitation, chemistry, histology, pathology, chiropractic analysis, and the principles and practice of chiro- practic.
That the board may, after hearing, revoke a certificate for cause.
That the board shall make an annual report and shall keep public records of its proceedings and of the names of persons examined or registered by it and of the names and ad- dresses of all registered chiropractors, who shall pay an an- nual license fee, promptly notify the board of any change in address and furnish such other information as the board may require.
That the board consist of three members, residents of the Commonwealth for three years, graduates of a chartered chiropractic school having power to confer degrees in chiro- practic, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for a term of three years.
That the board have authority to administer oaths, sum- mon witnesses and take testimony and adopt reasonable rules and regulations pertaining to their duties, and that they pay into the state treasury fees received by them, and that they receive compensation and reimbursement for expenses in such amounts as may be annually appropriated therefor not exceeding the amount of such fees.
Penalties are provided for practicing chiropractic without holding a certificate or for using the words "Chiropractic Practitioner", the letters "D. C.", or any title or letters indi- cating engagement in such practice, or for buying, selling or fraudulently obtaining any diploma or record of registration.
It is further provided that the present law relating to the registration of physicians and surgeons and providing penal- ties for the unauthorized practice of medicine shall not be held to discriminate against registered chiropractors; but no chiropractor, unless registered as a physician or surgeon, may practice obstetrics, or administer drugs, or perform
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surgical operations by the use of instruments, or hold himself out as and for other than a chiropractor, which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 50 in the affirmative and 151 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 13 in the affirmative YES and 21 in the negative, be approved ?
NO
Question No. 2.
LAW PROPOSED BY INITIATIVE PETITION,
Shall the proposed law which provides for an additional method of nominating candidates for nomination, at the state primaries in September, by members of political parties, for those offices to be filled by all the voters of the Common- wealth at a state election.
It provides that the state conventions of the political parties in each state election year, shall be held before and not after the state primaries, as now, namely, not later than June 15. In order to elect delegates to such party conven- tions, party primaries are established to be held on the last Tuesday in April. Among other things, these state conven- tions may endorse candidates for offices to be filled by all the voters and to be voted upon at the state primaries. Such en- dorsement places a candidate in nomination, at such state primaries, without the necessity of filing nomination papers. The name of the endorsed candidate is to be placed first on the ballot and against his name is to be placed the words "En- doorsed by (the name of the political party) convention" in addition to the eight- word statement now authorized by law. Candidates endorsed by a party convention may accept said endorsement within ten days, and having so accepted may not withdraw.
It also provides for the election of district members of state committees and members of ward and town committees at the proposed party primaries in April, as well as delegates to the state party conventions, instead of at the state primaries in September, as now.
It also provides for the election of delegates to national
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conventions (to nominate candidates for President) at the proposed party primaries instead of at the primaries, now specially held for that purpose, and which existing law re- quires to be held on the last Tuesday in April (the same day proposed for the proposed party primaries).
It also provides for certain other new provisions of law and certain changes in existing laws, relating to holding state conventions and party primaries, the number and election of delegates to state conventions, the number of members at large of a state committee, and other matters, which in more detail chiefly are as follows:
State conventions are to be composed solely of delegates elected at the party primaries, and the number is to be one from each ward and town and one additional for every fifteen hundred votes or major fraction thereof above the first fif- teen hundred votes cast at the preceding state election in such ward or town for the political party candidate for Governor, instead of a number now fixed by the state com- mittee of each party (not less than one from each ward or town) and certain members designated by existing law.
The time, for notice to the State Secretary by aldermen or selectmen of their determination to hold primaries by wards, precincts or groups of precincts; to be March 1, in- stead of August 1, as now.
The names of candidates for election for delegates to a. state convention and for district members of a state commit- tee to be arranged individually by alphabet instead of in groups arranged by lot, as now.
Vacancies in the office of delegate to a state or national convention not be filled except in case of a tie vote, and then by delegates from the same district, within ten days, and if no other delegate or if not so filled, then by a state committee, rather than solely by the remaining members of the delega- tion, and statement of filling of such vacancy to be filed with the State Secretary.
Seating of delegates at state convention to be in groups
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by senatorial districts, and order of business at said conven- tions defined.
Voting on candidates, by a convention, to be by roll call, if more than one candidate for the office, or by groups of delegates unless any member of such group objects.
The number of members at large of a state committee of a political party to be fixed by the state convention of a party instead of by the state committee as now.
The existing provisions as to preparation and filing of nomination papers, objections to nominations, preparation, number, substance, arrangement and form of ballots, hours during which polls shall be open, opening of ballot boxes, canvass and return of votes, return and certification of votes, now applicable to state primaries to be applicable to the pro- posed party primaries.
The power of a state committee to fix the number of dis- trict delegates to a national convention to be continued, but the date, of giving notice to the State Secretary, of such fixa- tion to be March 1 instead of on or before the third Wednes day in March, as now.
The power of city and town committees to fix the num- ber of members of ward and town committees to be contin- ued, but the date, of giving notice to the State Secretary, of such fixation to be March 1 instead of August 1, as now, which was approved in the Senate by a vote of 21 in the affirm- ative and 17 in the negative and was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 62 in the YES affirmative and 138 in the negative, be approved ?
NO
Question No. 3.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Is it desirable that the proposed amendment to the Con- stitution of the United States, -
"ARTICLE- -
"SECTION 1. The terms of the President and Vico President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and
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the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
SEC. 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
"SEC. 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the. be- ginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the VicePresident elect sh ill act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to ast shall be selected, and such person shall act accord- ingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
"SEC. 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
"SEC. 5. Section 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
"SEC. 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Consti- tution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the YES several States within seven years from the date of its submission,"-be ratified by the General Court ? NO
The polls may be closed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon on said day of meeting.
And you are hereby directed to serve this Warrant by
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posting up attested copies thereof at each of the Public Meeting Houses and at the Post Office in said Town, also cause an attested copy to be published in the Milford Daily News, a newspaper published in said Town, Two Sabbaths at least before the time set for said meeting.
Hereof Fail Not, and make due return of this Warrant with your doings thereon to the Clerk of said Town, at the time of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Milford, this 24th day of Oc- tober, A D. 1932.
P. EUGENE CASEY, TIMOTHY W. HANNIGAN, WILLIAM J. HAYES,
Selectmen of Milford.
A true copy. Attest:
JOHN J. MOLONEY. Constable of Milford.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Worcester, ss.
Milford, November 8, 1932.
Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified the in- habitants of the Town of Milford, herein described, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes within mentioned, by posting up attested copies of this warrant at each of the Pub- lic Meeting Houses and at the Post Office in said town, and I have likewise caused an attested copy of this warrant to be published in the Milford Daily News, a newspaper published in said town, two Sabbaths before the time set for said meeting.
Attest:
JOHN J. MOLONEY, Constable of Milford.
A true copy of the warrant and the officer's return there. on.
Attest:
DENNIS J. SULLIVAN, Town Clerk.
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TOWN MEETING, NOVEMBER 8, 1932.
In pursuance to the foregoing warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Milford, qualified by law to vote in elections and in town affairs, met in Dewey Hall in said town, on Tuesday, the eighth day of November, A D. 1932, punctually at 5.45 o'clock in the forenoon, and were called to order by P. Eugene Casey, Chairman of the Selectmen, presiding election officer.
The Town Clerk read the warrant and the officer's re- turn thereon.
All legal requirements having been complied with, the polls were declared open at 5.55 o'clock a. m.
J. Roy Kerr, William E. Moore, Arthur Vesperi, Alfred B. Caruso, John F. Maher, Harry C. Tilden, Michael J. Col- lins, and William E. Stopp, tellers appointed by the Select- men to check voting lists, and Perley S. Johnson and John F. Adams, ballot clerks, were sworn to a faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk.
Voted: To close the polls at eight o'clock p. m.
Walter B McFarland, John E Burke, Walter A. Vant, Jeremiah J. Murphy, William A. Edwards, Robert Bilsbury, Charles Delfante, Irving W. Joy, Frank A. Bixby, Dennis P. Flynn, Rudolph Introini, Patrick H. Burke, Louis Bonetta, Thomas J. Ryan, Francis D. Cunniff, Frank Calzone, John N. Julian, Francis V. Curran, Frank W. Thrasher, Jeremiah F. Roche, Fred Bethel, Jr., Benjamin W. Smethurst, James E. Dunnigan, Christopher T. May, Charles C. Espanet, Patrick J. Lyons, Elmer C. Adams, William J. Darney, Victor Mainini, John HI. Mclaughlin, John L. Manuel, Nicholas Ruscitti, tellers appointed by the Selectmen were sworn to a faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk at ten o'clock a. m.
The polls were closed at eight o'clock p. m.
During the voting the ballot box was opened by unani- mous consent of the Presiding Election Officer and the Town Clerk, ten times for the purpose of taking out, sorting and counting the ballots, first at. 9.15 o'clock a. m., when the box
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registered 821, then at 11.05 o'clock a. m, when it registered 1692, then at 12 o'clock noon when it registered 1940, then at 1.45 o'clock p. m. when it registered 2539, then at '2.85 o'clock p. m. when it registered 3050, then at 4 o'clock p. m. when it- registered 3686, then at 5.12 o'clock, p. m. when it registered 4280, then at 6.40 o'clock p. m, when it registered 4913, then at 7.20 o'clock p. m. when it registered 5420, and at the close of the polls 8 o'clock p m when it registered 5717.
The ballot box register did not agree with the number of names checked on the voting lists.
The names of those on the lists of voters which were checked and audibly counted were found to be 5710.
George E. Stanley, James J. Connors, Burton N. Hoff « man, Alfred J. Bane, Willard E Day, Edward N. Blain, Isaac W. Ward, Antonio Bonina, Henry M. Murray, Joseph G. Lip- man, Angelo M. Morcone, James R. Smith, George A. Bragdon, David Davoren, Simplici Rizzi, Thomas C. Donovan, Charles Buscone, George Dillon, John A. McCabe, John P. Hannigan, Edward J. O'Sullivan, John F. Matthews, Harry R. Nelson, Richard Foncault, Edward J. Livingstone, Melvin P. Connor, Pierino Tocci, James T. J. McGuire, Thomas Sal- via, Luigi Fusco, Nils Benson, John F. Connors, William H. McGurn, John L. Powers, Charles F. Gillon, Lester Kellett, Bennie Colabello, William E. Condry, Louis Bozzini, John W. Hayes, James H. Garland, James Bartlett, Frederick J. Ca- sey, Louis J. Tredeau, tellers aprointed by the Selectmen were sworn to a faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk, and began their duties at eight o'clock p. m.
The tellers having canvassed the votes given in, and found the whole number of ballots cast to be 5710, the same having been sorted and coanted, declaration thereof was made in open meeting and recorded as follows:
(73 of the number of ballots cast were from absent vor ters.)
The vote was announced at 2.10 o'clock a. m., November 9, 1932.
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FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE- PRESIDENT.
Foster and Ford, Communist Party Hoover and Curtis, Republican . .
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