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For salary of Moderator $25.00
Salaries of Selectmen .487.50
Clerical help and other expenses 450.00
Salaries of Auditors 150.00
Salary of Treasurer 525.00
Expenses of Treasurer 100.00
Bond of Treasurer 120.00
Salary of Tax Collector 600.00
Expenses of Tax Collector 200.00
Bond of Tax Collector 200.00
Salaries of Assessors . 750.00
Clerical help and other expenses 600.00
Salary of Town Clerk 650.00
Expenses of Town Clerk 250.00
Legal expenses
250.00
Article 7. For salaries of the Board of Registrars $150.00 For Election Officers and other expenses 850.00
TOWN HALL.
Article 8. For salary of Janitor $550.00
For maintenance of Town Hall, plus income of Town Hall 500.00
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Article 9. For salaries $3,751.50
Voted that the Chief of Police act as Night Patrolman on such times as regular patrolmen have vacations.
For other expenses . $300.00
Voted that three extra patrolmen be on duty Sundays
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and holidays, one in each precinct, from April 1 to Octo- ber 31, inclusive, and that there be appropriated for the same $400.00
Article 10. Voted to appropriate for Court ex- penses $50.00
and that all court fees be credited to Police Department.
Article 11. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 12. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 13. Voted to lay this article on the table.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Article 14. For hydrant service $6,850.00 to be applied to the payment of interest coupons accruing on Water Loan Bonds.
Voted to instruct the Water Department to have all hydrants flushed out at least once each year.
For pay of engineers and firemen, including their poll taxes $2,586.00
For general expenses 900.00
Article 15. Extra pay of firemen 600.00
Special appropriation to cover overdraft 343.75
Article 16. For purchase of new hose 600.00
Article 17. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 18.
Indefinitely postponed.
Article 19. Voted that the committee appointed last: year on this subject be continued for further investigation ..
Article 20. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 21. To reimburse F. W. Piercy for loss of horse $200.00.
Article 22. For maintenance of Fire Alarm System 300.00
For repairs of Fire Alarm System 200.00
Article 23. For fire alarm box near junction of Middle and Liberty ` Streets 131.98
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INSPECTION.
Article 24. For salary of Sealer of Weights and Measures $200.00
For other expenses 75.00
Voted all fees revert back to town treasury.
FORESTRY.
Article 25. For suppression of gypsy and
brown tail moths . $2,400.00
For forest fires 400.00
Care and trimming trees
500.00
HEALTH.
Article 26. For salaries of Board of Health .. $300.00 For salary of Secretary, indefinitely postponed.
Other expenses
100.00
Printing 100.00
Fumigation
175.00
Inspection of Animals
100.00
Inspection of Meats and Provisions
300.00
Inspector of Milk 100.00
Vital Statistics 50.00
Contagious diseases
250.00
Inspection of plumbing 300.00
Care of dumps
100.00
Article 27. To assist in defraying the expenses of "clean-up week" to be expended under direction of the Selectmen $100.00
HIGHWAYS.
Article 28. For salaries of Surveyors of High- ways .$487.50
For general repairs on highways, bridges, sidewalks,
stone roads, watering and oiling streets .... $17,500.00
(Plus abutters' tax, excise tax and street railway tax.) $6,000 of which is not to be included in the tax levy. Voted
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to reappropriate the above-named $6,000 now in the town treasury.
For removal of snow $2,500.00
Street lighting 6,282.00
Clerical help and other expenses 175.00
Article 29. To construct a continuance of the State Highway at Braintree Highlands northerly and to indem- nify the Commonwealth against claims for land damages on account of said layout, $5,000 be appropriated, provided the State will spend $10,000 on the same.
Article 30. Voted to accept Hollingsworth Avenue, as laid out by the Selectmen, as a town way, leading from West Street to Franklin Street,
Article 31. Voted to accept the laying out of the south- erly end of Jersey Avenue and of Hunt Avenue, so called, as made by the Selectmen under instructions of the Town.
Article 32. Voted to accept the relocation of Pearl Street as made by the Selectmen under instruction of the Town.
Article 33. Referred to the Selectmen, to be accepted on their approval.
' Article 34. Same action as on Article 33.
Article 35. Voted to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Wyman Road leading northerly from Webster Road.
Article 36. Voted to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Wilmarth Road leading northerly from Webster Road, and report said layout at some future meeting.
Article 37. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Article 38. Voted that the Town accept 386 feet of Elm Knoll Road and appropriate for the same . . .$150.00 Article 39. Indefinitely postponed.
Article 40. Voted to accept Park Avenue, so called, leading from Washington Street to the easterly line of Put- nam Avenue, so called, and appropriate for the same $300.00
Voted that at 10.15 o'clock this meeting stand adjourned to Monday, March 20, 1916, at 7.30 o'clock p.m., unless the business of the warrant is sooner completed.
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Article 41. Voted to indefinitely postpone action under this article.
Mr. Kneeland moved to reconsider the above vote.
Mr. Kelley moved that we reconsider now, which motion was not carried.
At 10.15 o'clock the meeting was declared adjourned to Monday, March 20, at 7.30 p.m.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Town Hall, Braintree, March 20, 1916.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from March 13. Meeting called to order at 7.30 p.m. by Mod- erator.
Voted to take a recess until 7.45 p.m.
Voted to extend the recess 10 minutes.
Article 41. Motion of Mr. Kneeland to reconsider the vote passed at last meeting under this article before the meeting. Point of order raised that the motion of Mr. Knee- land is out of order, the Town having voted on motion of Mr. Kelley at the last meeting not to reconsider now. Mod- erator ruled the point of order not well taken. An appeal from the decision of the Moderator that debate was not in order.
The Town voted to sustain the decision of the Chair.
On Mr. Kneeland's motion to reconsider the vote passed at last meeting, the Town voted No.
Article 28. Taken up. Voted to reconsider the vote ap- propriating $2500 for removal of snow.
Voted to appropriate for removal of snow .... $4,000.00
Article 38. Voted to reconsider the vote passed at the last meeting accepting Elm Knoll Road and appropriating for the same $150.00
Article 42. Voted to build a sidewalk on the east side of Hobart Street, from Prospect Street to the Abraham Lin- coln School, and appropriate for the same $200.00
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Article 43. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
Article 44. Voted to indefinitely postpone.
CHARITIES.
Article 45. Voted to appropriate :
For salaries of Overseers of the Poor $487.50
Clerical help and other expenses 225.00
Maintenance of the Braintree Home .2,000.00
Outside relief 4,000.00
(Plus reimbursements from other cities and towns.)
Article 46. To be expended under Chapter
763, Acts of 1913 .$1,500.00
SOLDIERS' BENEFITS.
Article 47. For State Aid and soldiers' burials $2,500.00 (Not to be included in tax levy.)
For Military Aid (one-half to be included in tax levy) $240.00 Soldiers' Relief 800.00
EDUCATION.
Article 48. Moved by Mr. Fitzgerald that the Moder- ator appoint a committee of two male and one female citizen .of the Town to select a committee of seven not later than April 15, 1916, whose duty it shall be to investigate all mat- ters pertaining to the School System of the Town, and that said committee be instructed, and is hereby authorized to solicit the aid of the State Board of Education in making such investigation, and that said committee be required to submit a report of its findings and recommendations at a special meeting to be called for that purpose, not later than October 1, 1916.
Upon the foregoing motion the Town voted No.
Mr. Fitzgerald gave notice to the Town Clerk that he intended moving a reconsideration. 1
Voted at 10.13 o'clock that this meeting adjourn to Mon- day, March 27, 1916, at 7.45 o'clock p.m.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
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Braintree, March 27, 1916.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from March 20. The meeting was called to order at 7.45 o'clock p.m. Moderator Rogers in the chair.
Motions to limit debate and to continue in session until the completion of the entire business, were defeated.
Article 48. Voted to reconsider the vote passed at the last meeting, rejecting the motion of Mr. Fitzgerald.
Voted to indefinitely postpone all further action on the investigation of the School System.
Voted to appropriate for the support of the Public Schools the sum of .$57,150.00
(Plus Dog Tax and School Fund.)
Voted to abolish the one-mile limit for the transportation of pupils, and leave the same to the judgment of the School Committee.
Voted to appropriate $500 additional for support of Pub- lic Schools, and the School Committee are instructed to carry out the recommendations of the Investigating Committee.
Two points of order were raised on above motion :
First, that the report of the Investigating Committee had not yet been before this meeting.
Second, that the printed report could not be received, as four members of the committee had declined to serve and were, therefore, disqualified from signing a report.
Ruling, that neither point was well taken.
Article 49. Voted to raise and appropriate for kalsomining the walls of the Penniman School and painting their exterior finish $750.00
Article 50. For adjustable seats in the Jonas Perkins, Penniman, and the Abraham Lincoln Schools
.$1,368.00
Article 51. Voted that action under this article be de- ferred for the present.
Article 38. Voted to instruct the Selectmen to lay out Elm Knoll Road. Mr. Abercrombie gave notice of his inten- tion to move a reconsideration under Article 48.
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Article 52. Voted to appropriate, for the pur- chase of two lots of land adjoining the Jonas Perkins School $500 00
Article 53. Laid on the table.
Voted that at 10.15 o'clock this meeting stand adjourned to Monday, April 3, 1916, at 7.45 o'clock p.m.
Article 54. Laid on the table.
Article 55. Laid on the table.
LIBRARY.
Article 56. Voted to appropriate for Thayer Public Library; general expenses $1,400.00 For distribution of books (East Braintree) 150.00
Janitor 250.00
At 10.15 p.m. meeting declared adjourned to April 3, 1916, at 7.45 p.m.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Town Hall, Braintree, April 3, 1916.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from March 27. Moderator Rogers in the chair.
Article 53. Taken from the table; a report from the Committee on the Pond School was submitted in writing.
(See files in Town Clerk's office.)
Voted to adopt the recommendation of the Appropria- tion Committee, viz. that the sum of $300 be appropriated for inside repairs, and that a committee of 9 be appointed by the Moderator to select a site acceptable to the School Board, to get plans and estimates for the construction of a 10-room modern schoolhouse with assembly hall, and report at the next annual town meeting.
Article 54. Taken up. A report from the committee to consider the matter of an addition to the Abraham Lincoln School was submitted in writing.
(See file in Town Clerk's office.)
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Voted, as recommended by the Appropriation Commit- tee, that no action be taken this year to enlarge the Abraham Lincoln School, but that the sum of $200 be appropriated for repairs.
Article 55. Taken from the table. A motion to take no action under this article was not carried.
A motion to authorize the Selectmen to sell the Union School building and use the money to grade the lot, was not carried.
No further action taken under this article.
RECREATION.
· Articles 57-58. Voted to take up these articles and con- sider them jointly.
Voted to appropriate, to be expended upon parks,
playgrounds and public lands, under the direction of
the Park Commissioners
.$500.00
UNCLASSIFIED.
Article 59. Voted to appropriate for miscella-
neous expenses
Article 60. Voted to appropriate for Memorial Day 200.00
$2,000.00
Article 61. For insurance under the Employ- ees' Compensation Act 450.00
Article 62. In accordance with Chapter 645, Acts of 1913, indefinitely postponed.
Article 63. Indefinitely postponed.
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT.
Article 64. Voted to appropriate from the income of the Electric Light Department the sum of $3,846.87 for the Depreciation Fund; the sum of $660 for interest on bonds; the sum of $430 for the Sinking Fund; the sum of $1,345.13 for line extensions, and the sum of $300 for the salaries of the Municipal Light Board.
Article 65. Voted to appropriate the remainder of the income of the Electric Light Department for the year 1916,
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together with the remaining balance of the income of 1915 for operating expenses, repairs, renewals and new construc- tion.
Article 66. Voted to appropriate the sum of $131 for the extension of street lights on West Street to the junction of Franklin and Granite Streets (to be taken from the reve- nue of the Electric Light Department).
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Article 67. Moved that the sum of $7,000 be appro- priated to lay a 12-inch water main in Union Street, from a ' point opposite the residence of Mr. Stever to Miss Poor's property, and a 6-inch main up Hillside Road.
After considerable debate, voted to lay this article on the table.
Article 68. Voted to lay this article on the table.
Article 69. Voted to appropriate the sum of $3,500 for the extension of water mains.
. CEMETERY.
Article 70. Voted to appropriate the sum of $200 to be . expended on Plain Street Cemetery.
MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS.
Article 71. Voted to appropriate the following sums : For Payment Liberty St. Water Note, Oct. 4, 1916 .. $2,500.00 Payment Mayflower Pk. Water Note, July 15, 1916 1,000.00 Payment Hunt Trust Note, July 1, 1916 1,000.00 Payment Trustees of Library Note, July 1, 1916 . 750.00 Payment Trustees of Library Note, Oct. 1, 1916 .. 500.00
Payment A. Lincoln School Note, June 1, 1916 2,000.00
Payment Hollis School Bond, July 1, 1916 3,500.00
Payment Hollis Playground Bond, July 1, 1916 500.00 Payment Town Hall Bond, June 1, 1916 3,000.00 Payment add. to G. P. Water Plant Bond, Oct. 1, 1916 1,500.00
(To be paid from revenue of Water Department.)
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INTEREST.
$360.00
Serial Notes Hunt Trust, $9,000, 4%, 1 year . Serial Notes Library Trustees, $6,750, 4%, 1 year 270.00 Serial Notes Library Trustees, $2,000, 4%, 1 year 80.00
Abraham Lincoln School Notes, $8,000, 31/2%, 6 mos., June 1, 1916 140.00
Abraham Lincoln School Notes, $6,000, 31/2%, 6 mos., Dec. 1, 1916 105.00
Hollis School Bonds, $51,000, 4%, 6 mos., July 1, 1916 1,020.00
Hollis School Bonds, $47,500, 4%, 6 mos., Jan. 1, 1917 950.00
Playground Bonds, $3,000, 4%, 6 mos., July 1, 1916 60.00
Playground Bonds, $2,500, 4%, 6 mos., Jan. 1, 1917 Town Hall Bonds, $41,000, 4%, 6 mos., June, 1916
50.00
820.00 Town Hall Bonds, $38,000, 4%, 6 mos., Dec., 1916 760.00
Liberty St. Water extension, $5,000, 4%, 1 year, 1916 200.00
Anticipation of revenue, 1916 2,000.00
Interest on Water Debt, $274,000 10,760.00 (To be paid from revenue of Water Department, in- cluding hydrants.)
SINKING FUNDS.
Article 72. Voted to appropriate the sum of $2,120.00 for payment of Water Loan Sinking Funds.
At 11.15 o'clock p.m. the meeting adjourned until Mon- day, April 10, 1916, at 7.45 o'clock p.m.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
Town Hall, Braintree, April 10, 1916.
The Town met in accordance with adjournment from April 3. Meeting opened at 7.48 o'clock p.m. Moderator Rogers in the chair.
· Article 73. Voted to charge interest at the rate of 6%
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per annum on all taxes remaining unpaid after November 1, 1916.
Article 74. Referred to the Board of Selectmen.
Article 75. The committee appointed at the last annual meeting to codify the Town By-Laws reported progress.
Voted that the same committee be continued to report at the next annual meeting.
Voted to adopt the following amendment to the By-Laws as recommended by the foregoing committee.
ARTICLE XV.
HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS.
Section 1. No person, except one engaged in the pur- suit of agriculture, shall go about from place to place within this town, carrying or exposing for sale or selling, fruits or vegetables, in or from any cart, wagon, or other vehicle, or in any other manner, without a license therefor from the Board of Selectmen.
Section 2. The Board of Selectmen shall have authority to grant such license to any person of good repute for morals and integrity, who is, or has, declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States. Said licenses, unless sooner revoked by the Board of Selectmen, shall expire one year after the granting thereof, and each person so licensed shall pay therefor a fee of $5.00, to be credited to the Sealer of Weights and Measures Department.
Section 3. No hawker or peddler shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any of the articles enumerated in Section 15, of Chapter 65 of the Revised Laws, or in any acts in amend- ment thereof, or in addition thereto, until he has recorded his name and residence with the Board of Health, or such other board or officer as may be designated by the Selectmen. Every person licensed under the provisions of the preceding section as a hawker or peddler of fruits and vegetables, shall record his name and residence in like manner with such board or officer.
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Section 4. No person hawking, peddling or carrying or exposing for sale, any of the articles enumerated in Chapter 345, Acts of 1906, shall cry his wares to the disturbance of the peace and comfort of the inhabitants of the town, nor shall he carry or convey such articles in any manner that will tend to injure or disturb the public health or comfort, nor otherwise than in vehicles and receptacles which are neat and clean and do not leak.
Section 5. Every hawker and peddler licensed by the Board of Selectmen shall be assigned a number, and shall be provided by the Board of Health with a badge, which shall be conspicuously worn by him; and every other such hawker and peddler as described in Section 3 shall provide himself with a badge of such type and design as may be approved by said Board of Health, which he shall wear in like manner. Who- ever neglects to wear, or wears such badge without authority, shall be punished by the penalty provided in Section 11 of this by-law.
Section 6. Every vehicle or other receptacle used by a licensee as a conveyance for articles offered or exposed for sale by him, shall have attached thereto on each side a num- ber plate, to be furnished by the Town with his license, bear- ing the number and date of expiration of such license.
Section 7. No person shall be registered or assigned a badge or number under the provisions of Sections 3 and 5 of these by-laws, until he presents a certificate from the Sealer of Weights and Measures stating that all weighing and meas- uring devices intended to be used by such person have been duly inspected and sealed, as required by law. The use of, or possession by such person with intent to use, any false or unsealed weighing or measuring devices, shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of his license, or the cancellation of his registration.
Section 8. Any licensee who fails, neglects or refuses to exhibit his license when the same is demanded of him by a selectman, commissioner, or inspector, or sealer of weights and measures, town treasurer or clerk, constable, police offi-
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cer or justice of the peace, shall be subject to the same penalty as if he had no license.
Section 9. Nothing in these by-laws shall be construed as conflicting with any license issued under the authority of the Commonwealth.
Section 10. Any license granted under these by-laws, or any by-law amendatory or additional thereto, may be re- voked by the Board granting the same.
Section.11. Whoever violates any provision of these by- laws shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars. for each offence.
Section 12. All by-laws or parts of by-laws inconsistent. herewith are hereby repealed.
Article 67. Taken from the table. Voted to appropriate the sum of $7,000 for the purpose of laying a 12-inch water main in Union Street, from a point opposite the residence of Mr. Stever to Miss Poor's property, and a 6-inch pipe up Hill- side Road.
Voted that for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing vote, the Town Treasurer be authorized to issue three notes- one for $2,500 for one year, one for two years for $2,500, one. for three years for $2,000.
Article 5. Voted that the Moderator appoint an Appro- priation Committee of fifteen to consider all warrants calling for the expenditure of money, and that the committee be in- structed to give public notice in advance in the local papers. of the time and place at which meetings will be held, and the. subjects to be considered at each meeting.
Article 48. Voted to reconsider the vote passed at a previous meeting, appropriating $500 for the School Depart- ment to carry out certain recommendations.
Voted to receive the report of the School Investigating Committee as printed in the Town Report, and adopt so much of their recommendations as relate to fire hazard.
Voted to appropriate the sum of $500 with instructions. to the School Committee to carry out such recommendations.
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Voted to appropriate the sum of $325.00 to pay for plans for extension of Abraham Lincoln School.
Article 56. Voted to reconsider the vote passed at a previous meeting appropriating $1400 for general expenses of the Thayer Public Library.
Motion to appropriate the sum of $1,600, $200 of which is to be expended for distribution of books at Braintree, not carried.
Voted to appropriate the original sum of $1400.
Article 68. Motion to take this article from the table, not carried.
Article 76. Voted to indefinitely postpone this article.
Article 77. Voted that boating and fishing will be al- lowed on Sunset Lake, and that the Board of Water Commis- sioners shall grant permits, limited to one year, free of charge, and such persons holding these permits shall be held responsible for the action of person or persons using boats and canoes, holding these permits.
Article 5. Voted that all votes heretofore passed and re- corded in the Records of the Town of Braintree, exacting a guarantee of five per cent., more or less, from applicants for extensions of water mains, be rescinded, and that the matter be left to the discretion of the Board of Water Commission- ers relative to whether or not conditions will warrant the ex- pense likely to be incurred by reason of the extension applied for
Voted that the Water Department be instructed not to supply any other Department of the Town with water free of charge, and that the water consumed by the several De- partments shall be paid for at cost.
Voted to appropriate in the aggregate the sum of $195,- 268.73, and that $160,675.73 of that amount be raised by di- rect taxation.
APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE.
William F. Rogers, Henry F. Arnold, Herbert F. Knee- land, Alfred J. Hixon, Marcus L. Urann, George W. Stevens, Fred L. Hayden, Benjamin H. Woodsum, Jr., I. Wendell
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Gammons, Oakes A. Bridgham, Charles O. Miller, William D. Aitken, Walter E. Thompson, George A. Walker, D. Baxter Hayward.
Article 53. Committee on New Schoolhouse in Precinct One: Edward Shay, Harry L. Chase, John A. Ryan, F. L. Chandler, Walter R. Dickinson, Col. A. C. Drinkwater, H. A. Bryant, Thomas E. Sears, Chester E. Tenney.
A true record. Attest :
H. A. MONK, Town Clerk.
PRIMARY WARRANT.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk, ss. To either of the Constables of the Town of Braintree, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth you are hereby re- quired to notify and warn the inhabitants of said town who are qualified to vote in Primaries, to meet in :
Polling place in Precinct No. 1, Town Hall.
Polling place in Precinct No. 2, Hose House, Hollis Avenue.
Polling place in Precinct No. 3, Hose House, Allen Street.
Tuesday, the 25th day of April, 1916, at 4 o'clock p.m., . for the following purposes :
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Election of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices :
Four Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Republican Party.
Four Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Con- vention of the Republican Party.
Four Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Democratic Party.
Four Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Con- vention of the Democratic Party.
Eight Delegates at Large to the National Convention of the Prohibition Party.
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Eight Alternate Delegates at Large to the National Con- vention of the Prohibition Party.
Two District Delegates to the National Convention of the Republican Party, 14th Congressional District.
Two Alternate District Delegates to the National Con- vention of the Republican Party, 14th Congressional District.
Two District Delegates to the National Convention of the Democratic Party, 14th Congressional District.
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