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FRANK M. SMITH, Constable
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING, JANUARY 22, 1932
In the absence of Moderator Alfred E. Stearns, the meeting was called to order by Town Clerk George H. Winslow and the meet- ing proceeded to ballot for a temporary Moderator. Harry A. Ramsdell, 16 Summer Street and Fred H. Eaton, 66 Central Street were nominated from the floor and it was then voted that nominations be closed.
In balloting the check lists were used and the Selectmen acted as tellers. It was voted that the polls be closed after sixty (60) ballots had been cast, the result of which follows:
Harry A. Ramsdell 31
Fred H. Eaton 29
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Harry A. Ramsdell was declared elected and sworn to faithfully and impartially perform the duties of Moderator of this meeting.
Took up Article 1.
Voted: at 8.15 P.M .- not to appropriate $15,000 for expenditure as the voters may decide.
The Moderator being in doubt of the vote by voice called for an indication by rising; 180 Yeas were counted-Nays showed to be in such an overwhelming number that the Moderator declared the motion lost without further counting.
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Took up Article 2.
Voted at 8.30 P.M .- that a committee of five be appointed to consult with Town Officials and Special charitable agencies and to report to the citizens what, if anything should be done in the circumstances.
The Moderator appointed the following: John F. O'Connell, Fred H. Eaton, Maurice J. Curran, *Alfred L. Ripley, Theron H. Lane, *Frank L. Brigham.
*Declined
Voted at 8.37 P.M .- that the meeting be dissolved.
The foregoing is a true copy of the warrant and of the officers' return on the same, also a true record of the doings of the meeting.
Attest:
GEORGE H. WINSLOW, Town Clerk
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Town Warrant
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
ESSEX, SS: To either of the Constables of the Town of Andover,
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs to meet and assemble at the designated polling places in Precinct One, Two, Three and Four, viz: The Town House in Precinct One; the Old School House, Ballardvale, in Precinct Two; the Administration Build- ing, Shawsheen Village, in Precinct Three, and the Phillips Club House, School Street, in Precinct Four, in said Andover on MONDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH, 1932, at 6 o'clock a.m., to act on the following articles:
ARTICLE 1 .- To elect a Moderator for one year, Town Clerk for one year, Treasurer for one year, Collector of Taxes for one year, one member of the Board of Selectmen for three years, one member of the Board of Assessors for three years, three members of the School Committee for three years, one member of the Board of Public Works for three years, one member of the Board of Public Works, for one year, to fill a vacancy, one mem- ber of the Board of Health for three years, three Constables for one year, one Trustee of Memorial Hall Library for seven years, one Trustee of Memorial Hall Library, for five years, to fill a vacancy, one Tree Warden for one year, one member of the Planning Board for five years, one member of the Planning Board for four years, to fill a vacancy, one member of the Planning Board for three years, to fill a vacancy, and all town officers re- quired by law to be elected by ballot.
All to be voted for on one ballot. The polls will be open from 6 o'clock a.m. to 6.30 o'clock p.m.
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After final action on the preceding Article One, the said meet- ing shall stand adjourned by virtue of Section 20, Chapter 39, of General Laws, to Monday, March 14, at 1.30 o'clock p.m. at the Town Hall, then and there to act upon the following articles, namely :
ARTICLE 2 .- To elect all other officers not required by law to be elected by ballot.
ARTICLE 3 .- To determine what sums of money shall be appro- priated for Aiding Mothers with Dependent Children, American Legion, Andover Post, No. 8, Armistice Day, Assessors' Survey, Board of Health, Brush Fires, Damages to Persons and Property, Elections and Registration, Essex Tuberculosis Hospital, Fire De- partment, Highway Maintenance and New Construction, Infirm- ary, Interest, Insurance, Memorial Day, Memorial Hall Library, Municipal Buildings, Old Age Assistance, Parks and Playgrounds, Police, Pomps Pond, Printing, Public Dump, Public Welfare, Retirement of Bonds, Schools, Sewers, Snow Removal and Sand- ing, Soldiers' Relief, Sealer of Weights and Measures, Spring Grove Cemetery, State Aid, Street Lighting, Town Officers, Town Scales, Tree Warden and Moth Suppression, Water Main- tenance and Construction, Wire Inspector, and other town charges and expenses.
ARTICLE 4 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to use the sum of $800.00 of the unexpended bal- ance in the Water Maintenance Department to purchase an auto- mobile for the Superintendent of the Board of Public Works to be used in the performance of his duties, on petition of said Board.
ARTICLE 5 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to use the sum of $700.00 of the unexpended bal- ance in the Highway Maintenance Department to purchase a small truck, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 6 .- To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of $20,000.00 for steam pumping equipment at Haggetts Pond pumping station, on petition of the Board of Public Works.
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ARTICLE 7 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a public way, a way as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, extending from Chestnut Street to Summer Street, between Avon Street and Upland Road, on petition of Daniel A. Hartigan and others.
ARTICLE 8 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2,200.00 for the purpose of installing a 6" water main in way referred to in Article 7, to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Daniel A. Hartigan and others.
ARTICLE 9 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $2,000.00 for the purpose of installing a domestic sewer in way referred to in Article 8, to be expended under the super- vision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Daniel A. Hartigan and others.
ARTICLE 10 .- To see if the Town will vote to adopt the recom- mendations of the State Department of Public Works relating to the placing of a semi actuated installation of traffic signals at or near the junction of North Main and Union Streets, and vote to appropriate a sum not to exceed $1,125.00 to be used to install traffic lights, providing the State Department of Public Works will contribute a like amount, on petition of the Board of Select- men.
ARTICLE 11 .- To see if the Town will vote to authorize and in- struct the Board of Selectmen to take by right of Eminent Do- main for the purpose of creating more sanitary conditions for the protection of the water supply of the Town, the following des- cribed parcels of land, being two in number and known as Parcel I and Parcel II, hereinafter described in detail, and generally known as part of the old Lowell and Andover Railroad location, a plan describing said parcels being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, and the said parcels being more particularly describ- ed according to said plan as follows :
Two certain parcels of land situated in that part of the Town of Andover known as the West Parish bounded and described as follows:
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PARCEL I-Beginning at the southwesterly corner thereof at a point marking the junction of the northerly line of Lowell Street with the westerly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad; thence north 0° 20' 22" west by said location line 769.82 feet to the southerly line of Haggetts Pond Road; thence south 76° 35' 22" east by the southerly line of Haggetts Pond Road 76.44 feet to the easterly line of the Boston & Maine Railroad location; thence south 0° 20'22" east by said easterly location line 751 feet to the northerly line of Lowell Street above mentioned; thence south 89° 09' 38" west by said northerly line of Lowell Street 74.25 feet to point of beginning. Containing 1.3 acres more or less.
Parcel II-Beginning at the southwesterly corner thereof, at a point marking the junction of the northerly line of Haggetts Pond Road with the westerly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad; thence north 0° 20' 22" west by said westerly location line 483.83 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the right of radius 2032.09 feet, a distance of 1105.60 feet to a point; thence north 30° 50' east still by the said westerly location line 2396.84 feet to a point; thence south 59° 10' east still by said location line 4.13 feet to a point; thence north 30° 50' east by said location line 932.25 feet to a point; thence north 11° 40' west 375 feet more or less to a point in the southeasterly line of High Plain Road; thence northeasterly by said southeasterly line of High Plain Road 270 feet more or less to a point; thence northerly a little more easterly still by said southeasterly line of High Plain Road 240 feet more or less to a point marking the junction of said southeasterly line of High Plain Road with the easterly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad; thence south 27° 31' west by said easterly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad 108' more or less to a point; thence by a curve to the right of radius 5498.07 feet a distance of 318.27 feet to a point; thence south 30° 50' west 330 feet more or less to a point; thence south 11° 40' east 2.03 feet to a point; thence south 30° 50' west 3252.57 feet to a point; thence by a curve to the left of radius 1937.84 feet a distance of 1065.20 feet to a point; thence south 0° 20' 22" east 502 feet to a point in the northerly line of Haggetts Pond Road,
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all of said courses being by the easterly location line of the Boston & Maine Railroad; thence north 76° 35' 22" west by said north- erly line of Haggetts Pond Road 76.44 feet to point of beginning. Containing 12.6 acres more or less.
And to appropriate the sum of Five hundred fifty dollars ($550.00) as damages and the expenses incidental to the taking. Upon petition of the Board of Public Works.
ARTICLE 12 .- To see if the Town will vote to authorize and in- struct the Board of Selectmen to sell the following school proper- ties, to wit: The Richardson School with land and buildings, and the Bailey District School with land and buildings, for such sum or sums as the Board of Selectmen may deem best, and to auth- orize the Board of Selectmen to give a good and sufficient quit- claim deed in the name of the Town for the aforesaid lands and buildings; or to authorize the Board of Selectmen to make temp- orary repairs of both buildings or to put both of said buildings in good condition. Upon petition of the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 13 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $50.00 to be expended for the purpose of making tempo- rary repairs of the Richardson and the Bailey District School buildings, or to appropriate the sum of $4,000.00 for the purpose of putting both of said school buildings in good condition, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Board of Select- men. Upon petition of the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 14 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of $3,000.00 for the purpose of cutting down the street grade on Carmel Road from Walnut Avenue to the Town Infirmary and establish a new grade adjusted to the grade of the adjoining prop- erties and for the building of a sidewalk in said street, including the expense of lowering the water mains therein, on petition of Ralph L. Draper and others.
ARTICLE 15 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $6,550.00 for the purpose of the construction of a new road in Ferndale avenue and for constructing a drainage system in said street and for curbing said street, on petition of Haywood G. Whiteway and others.
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ARTICLE 16 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Selectmen to petition the Director of Accounts of the Department of Corporations and Taxation for an annual audit of the town's accounts in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, on the petition of the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE 17 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of six hundred fifty dollars ($650.00) for the purpose of providing suitable headquarters for Andover Post No. 2128, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, such quarters to be under the direction and control of said Post and subject to such regulations as the Board of Selectmen may adopt, all in ac- cordance with Chapter 40, Section 9, of the General Laws, on petition of John M. Erving and others.
ARTICLE 18 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift from Andover Post No. 2128, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, a captured German Field Piece (105 mm Howitzer and Carriage), said Trophy to be placed upon suitable founda- tions in the Town lot at the northerly side of Elm Square bounded by High Street, North Main Street, and land of Barnard Estate. Foundations and placing of Trophy, together with the necessary improvement of the lot incidental thereto, to be under the super- vision of Andover Post No. 2128 in cooperation with the Board of Public Works and subject to the approval of the Board of Selectmen, on petition of John M. Erving and others.
ARTICLE 19 .- To see if the Town of Andover will vote to ap- propriate the sum of $30,000.00 for the purpose of widening and straightening Main Street from Chapel Avenue to the State line. A plan of the proposed construction will be presented to the voters at the Annual Town Meeting, on petition of William A. G. Kidd and others.
ARTICLE 20 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $550.00 for the repair and conditioning of the Public Highway known as Topping Road, this appropriation to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Emory Delaney and others.
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ARTICLE 21 .- To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $650.00 for the repair and re-conditioning of Juliette Street, this appropriation to be expended under the supervision of the Board of Public Works, on petition of Marguerite Comeau and others.
ARTICLE 22 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end at the Disbrow Farm on Chandler Road to the property of Daniel Fitzpatrick on Chandler Road, and appropriate the sum of $15,780.00, to care for this work, on petition of Daniel Fitz- patrick and others.
ARTICLE 23 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the present dead end at the Henderson Farm on River Road to the residence of Leon Hardy on River Road, and appropriate the sum of $7,580.00, to care for this work, on petition of Leon Hardy and others.
ARTICLE 24 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main along Beacon Street from the corner of Chandler Road and Beacon Street to a point op- posite the property of Louis Cyr, and appropriate the sum of $7,250.00 therefor, on petition of Peter P. Blanchette an others.
ARTICLE 25 .- To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Public Works to extend the water main from the corner of Stin- son Road and Holt Road along Holt Road to the corner of Orchard Street and Holt Road, and appropriate the sum of $7,375.00 therefor, on petition of Arthur N. Comeau and others.
ARTICLE 26 .- To see if the Town will vote and determine that, forty (40) hours of labor shall constitute and shall be the maxi- mum number of hours for one (1) week, and eight (8) hours per day the maximum number of hours for one (1) day for all labor performed in any department under the supervision and control of the Board of Public Works and the Moth and Tree Depart- ments.
Provided-if an emergency arise, necessitating extra labor, after six o'clock p.m., overtime-allowance, if any, to remain as
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has been customary in the past; but in no case shall any person receive in any one week compensation for more than forty (40) hours labor, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
ARTICLE 27 .- To see if the Town of Andover, Mass., will vote that no person or persons be employed in any department of the Board of Public Works and the Moth and Tree Department who is not a registered voter of the Town of Andover, Mass.
Provided-That minors who may have dependent parents, eligible to receive Town Relief, or who have lived in the Town continuously six months previous to application for work, may, at the option of the Board of Public Works or Moth and Tree Department be employed, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
ARTICLE 28 .- To see if the Town will vote to give preference to married men with dependents and Real Estate Tax Payers of the Town of Andover, and single men with dependents having a legal claim on them for support, for labor service in any depart- ment of the Board of Public Works and Moth and Tree Depart- ments, in conformity with General Laws, Chapter 149, Section 26, regarding preference for soldiers and sailors, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
ARTICLE 29 .- To see if the Town will require that applicants for work must file a written application blank giving age, place of residence, time lived there, in any department of the Board of Public Works and Moth and Tree Department, said application blanks to be furnished by the Town of Andover. Application must be filed not later than four o'clock p.m. Friday for work following week, on petition of Michael M. Dwyer and others.
ARTICLE 30 .- To see if the Town will place the Captain and eight patrolmen, who make up the regular Police Department on this date, under Civil Service by accepting Section 48, Chapter 31, General Laws. The acceptance of this section would place the police officers under Civil Service but would not give them any pension, on petition of Thomas F. Hendrick and others.
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ARTICLE 31 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, a way as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, extending from Magnolia Avenue to Sherbourne Street and southerly of Shawsheen Village School lot, on petition of John Franklin and others.
ARTICLE 32 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a gift from the American Woolen Company, the following described parcel of land: Beginning at a point in the westerly line of Mag- nolia Avenue at the southerly line of the street first above des- cribed; thence southerly along the westerly line of Magnolia Ave- nue about 90'; thence in a curved line southerly and westerly about 20' to the westerly line of Poor Street produced; thence by line of Poor Street produced about 27' to an angle; thence turning an interior angle of 166° 3' 30" and running northerly 79.66 feet to the southerly side of the street above described; thence about 20' east to the point of beginning. A plan describ- ing said parcel with a deed for same being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of John Franklin and others.
ARTICLE 33 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Sherbourne Street from a point 215.8 feet north of the northerly line of William Street for a distance of 347.79 feet as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, on petition of John Franklin and others.
ARTICLE 34 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept as a Public Way, Stonehedge Road from a point, 474 feet northeasterly from Salem Street for a distance of 241 feet, as laid out and approved by the Board of Survey, on petition of Emery E. Trott and others.
ARTICLE 35 .- To see if the Town will vote to accept, as a gift, from the American Woolen Company, the following described parcel of land : A strip of land 2 feet in width on the easterly side of North Main Street extending from the northerly line of land of Harig to the intersection of the South Union Street line, said strip being approximately 533 feet in length. A plan describing said parcel with a deed for same being on file in the office of the Town Clerk, on petition of John Franklin and others.
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ARTICLE 36 .- To authorize the Town Treasurer to borrow money for the use of the Town in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year, with the approval of the Selectmen.
ARTICLE 37 .- To determine what disposition shall be made of unexpended appropriations and free cash in treasury.
ARTICLE 38 .- To act upon the report of the Town Officers.
ARTICLE 39 .- To transact any other business that may legally come before the meeting.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by positng attested copies and publication thereof, seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by the By-Laws of the Town.
Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given ' under our hands this seventeenth day of February, A.D., 1932.
FRANK H. HARDY ANDREW McTERNEN JEREMIAH J. DALY Selectmen of Andover
MARCH 5, 1932
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, I, the subscriber, one of the Constables of the Town of Andover, have notified the inhabitants of said town to meet at the time and place and for the purposes stated in said warrant by posting a true and attested copy of the same on the Town House, on each Schoolhouse and in no less than five other public places, where bills and notices are usually posted, and by publication in the Andover Townsman. Said warrants have been posted and published seven days.
FRANK M. SMITH, Constable
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ANNUAL TOWN MEETING, MARCH 7, 1932
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Andover qualified to vote in Town affairs convened in Precincts One, Two, Three and Four in said Andover on Monday the Seventh day of March, 1932 at six o'clock in the forenoon, agreeably to the re- quirements of the foregoing warrant, Took up Article One and proceeded to vote for Town Officers.
The ballot boxes were found to be empty and registered 0000. The polls opened at 6 o'clock A.M. and closed at 6.30 o'clock P.M. The total number of ballots cast was 3796 viz:
Precinct One-1867 Precinct Two-408 Precinct Three-954 Precinct Four-567
Precincts
1 2 3 4
MODERATOR-One Year
1301
282
752
466
Alfred E. Stearns 2801
566
126
202
101
Blanks 995
TOWN CLERK-One Year
987
211
430
228
Charles W. Bowman 1856
845
185
506
323
George H. Winslow 1859
35
12
18
16
Blanks 81
TOWN TREASURER-One Year
458
59
381
102
J. Everett Collins- 1000
1347
320
513
445
Thaxter Eaton 2625
62
29
60
20
Blanks 171
COLLECTOR OF TAXES-One Year
1428
346
822
500
William B. Cheever
3096
1
Joseph Hickey 1
1
Thaxter Eaton 1
438
61
132
67
Blanks
698
22
SELECTMAN-Three Years
284
46
75
43
John P. Alexander
448
606
178
321
157
Matthew Burns
1262
883
168
515
339
· Frank H. Hardy
1905
52
6
9
15
Pearl E. Wilson
82
42
10
34
13
Blanks
99
ASSESSOR-Three Years
291
46
78
44
John P. Alexander
459
580
175
315
154
Matthew Burns
1224
857
162
505
332
Frank H. Hardy
1856
64
5
14
13
Pearl E. Wilson
96
75
20
42
24
Blanks
161
SCHOOL COMMITTEE-Three Years
833
137
375
354
H. Gilbert Francke
1699
1003
284
370
237
Mary E. C. Geagan
1894
652
170
517
172
Roy W. Hall
1511
738
86
246
344
Allan V. Heely
1414
807
193
640
229
Frederick C. Smith
1869
1
Joseph Levi
1
1568
354
713
365
Blanks
3000
BOARD OF HEALTH-Three Years
1009
241
548
327
George G. Brown
2125
336
131
170
97
Howell F. Shepard
734
522
36
236
143
Blanks
937
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS-Three Years
408
91
187
80
Michael M. Dwyer
766
1096
207
490
420
Walter I. Morse
2213
244
71
173
22
George M. Squires
510
119
39
104
45
Blanks
307
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS -- One Year to fill a vacancy
547
94
152
110
William T. Ledwell
903
1135
261
722
409
John H. Playdon
2527
185
53
80
48
Blanks 366
23
TRUSTEE OF MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY-Seven Years
.
1259
270
708
462
Claude M. Fuess 2699
608
138
246
105
Blanks
1097
TRUSTEE OF MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY-Five Years
(to fill a vacancy)
1251
265
691
442
Henry G. Tyer
2649
616
143
263
125
Blanks
1147
CONSTABLES-One Year
1127
254
600
377
James Napier
2358
1170
258
685
386
Frank M. Smith
2499
1255
341
637
400
George N. Sparks
2633
2049
371
940
538
Blanks
3898
TREE WARDEN-One Year
1138
274
388
390
Ralph T. Berry
2190
198
42
58
43
George B. Brown
341
123
16
24
33
Harry W. Martin 196
329
54
439
66
Thomas D. Taylor
888
79
22
45
35
Blanks
181
PLANNING BOARD-Five Years
1
1
Henry A. Bodwell
1
1
Willis H. Tewksbury
1
1
John M. Stewart
1
1
David S. Burns
1
1
William J. Burns
1
Daniel Dugan
1
Paul M. Rice
1
1
Roy E. Hardy
1
1864 407
952
564
Blanks
3787
PLANNING BOARD-Four Years (to fill a vacancy)
1
David S. Burns 1
1
John H. McDonald 1
1865 408 954 567
Blanks 3794
24
John O'Connell 1
1
1
PLANNING BOARD-Three Years (to fill a vacancy)
1 1
Augustine P. Sullivan 1
John Leary, Jr. 1
1865 408
954 567 Blanks 3794
All the foregoing officers were voted for on one ballot and the check lists were used.
REPORT OF CLERK-PRECINCT ONE
MARCH 7, 1932 Polls opened at 6 A.M. Warden in charge L. D. Pomeroy. Ballot box registered when polls opened 0000. Polls closed at 6.30 P.M. Ballot box registered when polls closed 1867. Number of ballots received 2430. Number of ballots returned 563- Number of ballots cast 1867-Police Officer, Frank M. Smith. Voted to count ballots at 7.30 A.M. All precinct officers sworn by warden who had not previously been sworn.
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