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James D. Burns, Salem
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RECORDS OF TOWN CLERK
1938]
Precincts
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5
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8 Tot.
For Councillor, Fifth District:
John T. Coan, Swampscott
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William G. Hennessey, Lynn 17
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121
Augustine P. Morrow, Methuen
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John J. Norton, Salem
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Blanks
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For Senator, First Essex District:
Edward J. Dunn, Lynn
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Charles C. O'Donnell, Lynn Blanks
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271
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For Representative in General Court, Twelfth Essex District:
W. Philip Grady, Salem Blanks
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75 147
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For District Attorney, Eastern District:
Joseph Cussell, Lawrence
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Hyman Marcus, Salem
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Alphonsus E'. McCarthy, Lynn
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S. William Stanton, Lynn
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For County Commissioner, Essex County :
Charles M. Boyle
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John J. Cahill, Lawrence
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Louis J. Dion, Lynn
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Richard Frank Walsh, Salem 10
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For Sheriff, Essex County:
Joseph B. Clancy, Lynn
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John Allen Murphy, Salem
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John J. Murphy, Haverhill Blanks
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For Delegate to State Convention:
John D. Malone, Swampscott 41 Christina A. Pearce, Swampscott
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Union Ballot
For Governor:
Joseph M. Heffernan
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For Lieutenant Governor: E. Joseph Harney
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For Secretary:
John E. Gillane
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For Treasurer:
Ralph Jackson
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For Auditor:
Ralph S. Williams
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For Attorney General:
John Joseph Murphy
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TOWN DOCUMENTS
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Precincts
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8 Tot.
For. Congressman: E. Patrick Murry
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For Representative: Helena C. Smith 1
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The Town Clerk was assisted by George J. Place who acted as Tabulator. Precinct 6 came in at 8.23 P.M. and the last, Precinct 5, came in at 10.05 P.M. Dissolved at 11.40 P.M.
Attest: MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR.,
Town Clerk.
October 3, 1938.
RECOUNT OF VOTES
In accordance with a petition filed with the Town Clerk for a Recount of votes cast for Senator, First Essex District, at the State Primaries, September 20, 1938, said recount was held on Monday, October 3, 1938, at 9.00 A.M. by the Board of Registrars assisted by Charles M. Cahoon and George H. Chaisson. The results were as follows:
Original Vote
Recount Vote
Edward J. Dunn
156
155
Charles C. O'Donnell
271
272
Blanks
113
113
Total
540
540
WILLIAM H. HANIFEY, HAROLD R. YOUNG, HERBERT W. ANDREWS,
MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR.,
Clerk.
Attest:
MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR., Town Clerk.
September 26, 1938.
On the above date the following notice was sent out to the Town Meeting Members of Precincts 3 and 4.
"You are hereby notified of a special meeting of the Town Meet- ing Members from Precincts 3 and 4 for the purpose of filling any vacancies which may exist in the list of Town Meeting Members from this precinct. The meeting will be held at the Town Hall on Tuesday, October 4, 1938, at 7.00 P.M. This notice is sent under the provisions of Chapter 43A, Section 9."
Attest:
MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR., Town Clerk.
September 26, 1938.
I hereby certify that on the above date copies of the warrant were mailed to all Town Meeting Members.
Attest: MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR., Town Clerk.
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SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Tuesday, October 4, 1938
Essex, ss.
To either of the Constables in the Town of Swampscott, in the said County, Greeting
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall in said Swampscott on Tuesday, the fourth day of October, 1938, at 7.45 P.M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz .:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing a drain or culvert for surface drainage purposes, in accordance with plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated August, 1938, entitled "Nason Road Drainage Concrete Culvert," and authorize and direct the selectmen to accept on behalf of the Town, for use in carrying out such project, a Federal grant of money pursuant to the Public Works Administra- tion Appropriation Act of 1938; and authorize some person or persons to construct said project and contract with respect thereto; and authorize the treasurer, with the approval of the selectmen, to borrow such sums as may be necessary to meet any appropriation made and to use any other available funds that may be raised by taxation or appropriated for that purpose, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of constructing a drain or culvert for surface drainage purposes in accordance with plan of W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated August, 1938, entitled "Nason Road Drainage Concrete Culvert," or take any action relative thereto.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to lay surface water drains in Beach Bluff Avenue, Manton Road, Bellevue Road and the extension thereof in all or any of said places, and to empty into Hawthorne Brook as a W. P. A. project and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 3a. To see if the Town will vote to lay a water main on Salem Street from the State Road to Humphrey Street connecting with the present water main, a distance of approximately 3700 feet, as a W. P. A. project and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to lay surface water drains from the catch basin on Burrill Street easterly, a distance of about 460 feet, to the old culvert at the property line of Lot 35, Plate 1, as appearing on the Assessors' plans, as a W. P. A. project and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to construct tennis courts at Jackson Park as a W. P. A. project and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to fill and grade a por- tion at the rear of Phillips Park, using coarse fill from the Town's gravel pit, as a W. P. A. project and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended as the Town's proportionate share for such federal projects as the Board of Selectmen may direct, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to build a stone lodge on
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the summit of Jackson Park as a W. P. A. project and appropriate a sum of money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to lay surface water drains in Magnolia Road, Forest Avenue and Lexington Circle to the Whitney Estate, so-called, with necessary catch basins, a distance of about 800 feet, as a W. P. A. project and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended by the Bureau of Old Age Assistance to assist those persons legally entitled thereto, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the authoriza- tion to borrow money for school purposes made at special town meetings held on June 11, 1935, and December 10, 1935, so far as the the same applies to the balance of $136,000.00 now standing in the account entitled "Loans Authorized But Not Used," or take any action relative thereto.
Article 12. To see if the Town will authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to waive, convey and release to James H. Sisk, all right, title and interest of the Town in and to the following de- scribed parcel of land: bounded Southerly on Franklin Avenue and Paradise Road, sixty-one and ninety-four hundreths (61.94) feet; Easterly on land now or formerly of J. H. McDonough, fifty-eight and nineteen-hundreths (58.19) feet; Southwesterly on another lot of said Sisk, ninety-two and sixty hundreths (92.60) feet; being a total of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven (1927) square feet; and authorize and direct said Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver all necessary deeds or other instruments in connection therewith, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 13. To see what action the Town will take relative to the compromise and settlement of the case of Ada S. Lewis vs. Inhabi- tants of the Town of Swampscott, now pending in the Superior Court at Salem; and to see if it will appropriate money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 14. To see what action the Town will take relative to the compromise and settlement of the case of Sarah Gould vs. Inhabi- tants of the Town of Swampscott, now pending in the Superior Court at Salem; and to see if it will appropriate money therefor, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to purchase necessary equipment and for the purpose of defraying the expense incurred, or the damage sustained, or any part of the same, as a result of the storm or hurricane of Septem- ber 21st, 1938, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 16. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise, under any general or special law which authorizes the town to raise money by borrowing or otherwise, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof at the Town Hall. Post Office and in at least two public and conspicuous places in each precinct of the Town and at or in the immediate vicinity of each railroad station in the Town not less than seven days before the day appointed for said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
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Given under our hands this twenty-second day of September, A.D., 1938.
ROBERT G. BYRNE', PHILIP E. BESSOM, KENNETH W. ULMAN, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest: WAYNE ANDERSON, Constable.
RETURN ON THE WARRANT
Pursuant to the within warrant to me directed, I have notified the legal voters of Swampscott, by posting attested copies of said warrant at the Town Hall, Post Offices, at least two public and con- spicuous place in each precinct in the Town, and at or in the imme- diate vicinity of each railroad station in Swampscott on Monday, September 26, 1938, the posting of said notices being seven days before the time of said meeting.
WAYNE ANDERSON, Constable.
October 4, 1938.
The meeting of the Town Meeting Members from Precinct 4 was called to order by the Town Clerk at 7.30 P.M. Mr. Titus and Mr. Livermore were elected Chairman and Clerk respectively. Mr. Harold M. King, 90 Walker Road, was elected to fill the vacancy.
Attest: MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR.,
Town Clerk.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
Tuesday, October 4, 1938
In accordance with the warrant the Town Meeting Members as- sembled at the Town Hall, and were called to order by the Moderator, John R. Hurlburt, at 8.00 P.M., the necessary quorum being present (110).
The warrant with the return thereon was read by Malcolm F. MacLean, Jr., Town Clerk.
The report of the Finance Committee was read by James W. San- try, Chairman.
Voted: Article 1. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town construct a drain or culvert for surface drainage purposes in accordance with the plan drawn by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, dated August, 1938, entitled "Nason Road Drainage Con- crete Culvert," and for this purpose and to enable the Town to secure the benefits of funds granted by the Federal Government under the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938, there be raised and appropriated the sum of $17,600.00; and to meet the Town's share of the cost of the project there be appropriated $10,000.00 from available funds in the Treasury.
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That all moneys received by way of grant from the Federal Gov- ernment on account of this project shall be applied first to meet the cost of construction.
That the Board of Selectmen be authorized and directed to accept on behalf of the Town, for use in carrying out such project, a Federal Grant of money, pursuant to the Public Works Administra- tion Appropriation Act of 1938, and the Water and Sewerage Board be authorized to proceed with the construction of said project and to enter into all necessary and proper contracts and agreements in respect thereto, all subject to applicable Federal regulations, and the Selectmen and the Water and Sewerage Board be authorized to do all other acts and things necessary or convenient for obtaining said grant, and constructing said project.
Unanimous.
Voted: Article 2. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action under this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 3. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town lay surface water drains in Beach Bluff Avenue, Bellevue Road and the extension thereof and to empty into Haw- thorne Brook; and that the said work be done as a Works Progress Administration project, or other Federal Project under the Super- vision of the Surveyor of Highways. The Surveyor of Highways is hereby authorized to purchase and hire the necessary equipment, materials, and supplies; and that the sum of $8,450.00 be appropriated therefor from available funds in the Treasury.
Voted: Article 3a. To accept the report of the Finance Commit- tee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action under this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 4. That action on this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted: Article 5. To construct three additional tennis courts at Jackson Park as a W. P. A. Project under the direcion of the Board of Park Commissioners and appropriate $2,800.00 therefor.
Voted: Article 6. That action on this article be indefinitely post- poned.
Voted: Article 7. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the sum of $2,000.00 be appropriated from available funds in the Treasury, to be expended as the Town's proportionate share for such Federal Projects as the Board of Selectmen may supervise.
Voted: Article 8. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action under this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 9. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action under this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 10. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $6,500.00 from available funds in the Treasury, to be expended by the Bureau of Old Age As- sistance to assist those persons legally entitled to Old Age Assistance.
Voted: Article 11. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town rescind the authorization to borrow money for school purposes made at Special Town Meetings held on June 11, 1935,
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and December 10, 1935, so far as the same applies to the balance of $136,000.00 now standing in the account entitled "Loans Authorized But Not Used."
Voted: Article 12. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Board of Selectmen be authorized to waive, convey and release to James H. Sisk, all right, title and interest of the Town in and to the following described parcel of land; bounded Southerly on Franklin Avenue and Paradise Road, sixty-one and ninety-four hun- dreths (61.94) feet; Easterly on land now or formerly of J. H. Mc- Donough, fifty-eight and nineteen hundreths (58.19) feet; South- westerly on another lot of said Sisk, ninety-two and sixty hundreths (92.60) feet; being a total of one thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven (1927) square feet; and authorize and direct said Board of Selectmen to execute and deliver all necessary deeds or other instru- ments in connection therewith upon the payment to the Town of $25.00.
Voted: Article 13. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to compromise and settle the case of Ada S. Lewis vs. Inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, now pending in the Superior Court for the County of Essex, in the sum of $1,500.00; and that there be appro- priated for this purpose the sum of $1,500.00, from available funds in the Treasury.
Voted: Article 14. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to compromise and settle the case of Sarah Gould vs. Inhabitants of the Town of Swampscott, now pending in the Superior Court for the County of Essex, in the sum of $120.00; and that there be appropriated for this purpose the sum of $120.00 from available funds in the Treasury.
Voted: Article 15. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the following sums be appropriated from available funds in the Treasury for the various departments enumerated below to pur- chase equipment and defray the expense incurred and repair the damage sustained by the Town as a result of the storm of Septem- ber 21, 1938, as an emergency.
Tree Department
$2,237.00
Health Department
500.00
Town Hall
175.00
Fire Department
500.00
Park Department
425.00
Total $ 3,837.00
and that there be appropriated $1,000.00 for the Cemetery Depart- ment, said sum of $1,000.00 to be raised by transfer from the account of Cemetery Lots Fund to the account of Cemetery Emergency.
Voted: Article 16. To accept the report of the Finance Committee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That upon receiving proper approval from the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation that the following sums be transferred from the Excess and Deficiency Fund of the Town for the purposes enumerated below:
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Article 1. Nason Road Drainage Concrete Culvert
$10,000.00
Article 3. Beach Bluff Avenue and Bellevue Road,
Surface Drains
8,450.00
Article 5. Tennis Courts, Jackson Park 2,800.00
Article 7. Selectmen, Works Progress Administration 2,000.00
Article 10.
Old Age Assistance, others
6,500.00
Article 13.
Ada S. Lewis Case
1,500.00
Article 14.
Sarah Gould Case
120.00
Article 15. Storm Emergency:
Tree Department
2,237.00
Health Department
500.00
Town Hall 175.00
Fire Department
500.00
Park Department
425.00
Making a total transfer from the Excess and De-
ficiency Fund of $35,207.00
Adjourned at 9.35 P.M.
Attest: MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR.,
Town Clerk.
October 5, 1938.
On the above date notice was received from the Moderator of the appointment of Francis L. Smith, 75 Bates Road, to the Finance Com- mittee to fill the vacancy in Precinct 7 caused by the resignation of Hamilton P. Edwards.
Attest: MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR., Town Clerk.
November 7, 1938.
On the above date notice was received from the Moderator of the appointment of the following as the official Armistice Day Com- mittee: John P. Costin, Chairman, Edward F. Burke, Frederick J. Hay, Joseph P. Hines, Horace R. Parker.
Attest: MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR., Town Clerk.
STATE ELECTION
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss.
To either of the constables of the Town of Swampscott, in the said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of said Town who are qualified to vote in Elections to meet in their respective precincts in said Swampscott on Tuesday, November 8, 1938, at 6 o'clock A.M. for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Election Officers on one ballot for the following officers:
Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary; Treasurer; Auditor; Attorney General; Representative in Congress; Councillor; Senator;
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Representatives in General Court (2); District Attorney; County Commissioner; Sheriff.
To vote Yes or No on the following questions:
Question No. 1-Proposed Amendment to the Constitution.
Shall an amendment to the Constitution providing for biennial sessions of the General Court and for a biennial budget which is further described as follows:
This amendment annuls all existing provisions of the Constitu- tion and its prior amendments which require annual sessions of the General Court, commonly known as the Legislature, and provides for biennial sessions in their place. It also provides that the budget of all proposed expenditures of the Commonwealth shall be so prepared as to cover two fiscal years instead of only one as at present re- quired,-which proposed amendment was approved by the General Court in a joint session of the two branches held May 27, 1936, re- ceived 141 votes in the affirmative and 117 in the negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 19, 1937, received 158 votes in the affirmative and 112 in the negative,-be approved ?
Question No. 2-Law Proposed by Initiative Petition.
Shall the proposed measure which provides that in any city or town which accepts its terms, the licensing authorities shall establish free public taxicab stands for the use of all taxicabs and motor vehicles for hire whose owners are licensed within such city or town, and shall abolish all other forms of taxicab stands on any public highway within such city or town,-which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 96 in the affirmative and 109 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 4 in the affirmative and 35 in the negative,-be approved ?
Question No. 3-To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions:
(a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this city (or town) of any and all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "Yes" on all three questions.
(b) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages only to be drunk on and off the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on question one, "Yes" on question two and "No" on question three.
(c) If he desires to permit the sale herein of all alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on questions one and two and "Yes" on question three.
(d) If he desires to permit the sale herein of wines and malt beverages to be drunk on and off the premises where sold and in addition other alcoholic beverages but only in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on question one and "Yes" on questions two and three.
(e) If he desires to prohibit the sale herein of any and all alcoholic beverages whether to be drunk on or off the premises where sold, he will vote "No" on all three questions.
1. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whiskey, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages) ?
2. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of wines and malt beverages (wines and beer, ale and all other malt beverages) ?
3. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises ?
SWAMPSCOTT PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Question No. 4
1. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed horse races be permitted in this county ?
2. Shall the pari-mutuel system of betting on licensed dog races be permitted in this county ?
The polls wil be open from 6 A.M. to 8 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof in at least two public places in each precinct not less than seven days before the time of said meeting as prescribed by the by-laws of the Town.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-seventh day of October, 1938.
ROBERT G. BYRNE, PHILIP E. BESSOM, KENNETH W. ULMAN, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
WAYNE ANDERSON, Constable.
RETURN ON THE WARRANT
Pursuant to the within warrant to me directed, I have notified the legal voters of Swampscott, by posting attested copies of said warrant at the Town Hall, Post Offices, at least two public and con- spicuous places in each precinct in the town, and at or in the imme- diate vicinity of each railroad station in Swampscott on Friday, Oc- tober 28, 1938, the posting of said notices being seven days before the time of said meeting.
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