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Dog Officer:
Officer
550.00
550.00
Others
250.00
250.00
Insurance
5,350.00
5,350.00
$105,146.86
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HEALTH AND SANITATION
Health:
Commissioners
$ 500.00
Health Officer
2,448.60
Clerk
1,224.30 $ 4,172.90
Others
4,695.00
4,695.00
Health Nurse:
Salary
1,457.50
1,457.50
Others
50.00
50.00
Refuse and Garbage
13,035.00
13,035.00
Dental Clinic:
Dentist
1,100.00
1,100.00
Others
150.00
150.00
District Nurse
825.00
825.00
Sewer:
Commissioners
450.00
Engineers
6,646.20
Clerk
174.90
Secretary of Board
10.00
Extra labor
200.00
7,481.10
Others
3,210.00
3,210.00
Brooks
388.90
388.90
Emergency Sewer
1,000.00
1,000.00
Particular Sewers
200.00
200.00
$ 37,765.40
CEMETERY
Cemetery :
Wages, Superintendent
$ 2,040.50
Labor
4,849.80
6,890.30
Others
790.00
790.00
$
7,680.30
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
Highway:
Wages, Surveyor
$ 3,300.00
Clerk
220.00
Labor
43,03.7.50
$ 46,557.50
Others
32,240.00
32,240.00
Lighting Streets
26,000.00
26,000.00 $104,797.50
CHARITIES
Public Welfare:
Commissioners
$ 350.00
Secretary
1,224.30
Executive Secretary
165.00
Other Clerical services
125.00
$ 1,864.30
Others
14,930.00
14,930.00
Aid to Dependent Children .... 9,500.00
9,500.00
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Old Age Assistance:
Commissioners
$ 350.00
Secretary and Settlement
Clerk
165.00
Clerk
1,224.30
1,739.30
Others
38,000.00
38,000.00
Soldiers Relief :
Agent
330.00
330.00
Others
7,500.00
7,500.00
State and Military Aid
750.00
750.00
Pensions and Compensation:
Police
2,345.00
Fire
300.00
Highway
2,398.72
Health
954.00
5,997.72
Workmen's Compensation:
Hanifey Case
530.00
Slattery Case
954.00
1,484.00 $ 82,095.32
SCHOOLS
Schools:
Salaries, Wages and Others $224,953.00 $224,953.00
Traveling Expense Outside State ..
100.00
100.00
Library:
Salaries, Librarian
2,310.00
Children's Librarian
1,430.00
Assistants
3,581.50
Janitor
1,485.00
Assistant Janitor
50.00
High School Assistants
400.00
9,256.50
Others
5,000.00
5,000.00 $239,309.50
ENTERPRISES
Water Department:
Wages, Commissioners
$ 450.00
Clerk
1,049.40
Superintendent
3,300.00
Maintenance
12,452.30
Relaying
1,000.00
Secretary
40.00
$ 18,291.70
Others
11,172.50
11,172.50
Metropolitan Water
35,000.00
35,000.00 $ 64,464.20
The item for Water of $64,464.20 to be taken from the receipts of the Water Department for the current year.
PARKS
Park Department:
Wages, Superintendent
$ 3,031.60
Labor ...
16,230.15
Secretary
50.00 $ 19,311.75
Others
5,200.00 5,200.00 $ 24,511.75
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UNCLASSIFIED
Legion Lease
$ 1,350.00 $ 1,350.00
V. F. W. Lease
650.00
650.00
Memorial Day
400.00
400.00
Printing Town Reports
1,166.00
1,166.00
Reserve Fund
7,500.00
7,500.00
$ 11,066.00
INTEREST, MATURING DEBT AND AGENCY
Interest: General Debt
Inside Debt Limit
$ 8,847.50
School Loan Outside
3,840.00
Sewer Loans
919.75
T. B. Hospital
300.00
Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
840.00
$ 14,747.25
Maturing Debt: General Debt
Inside Debt Limit
23,000.00
School Loan Outside Limit ..
14,000.00
Sewer Loan Outside Limit ..
6,350.00
T. B. Hospital Loan
3,000.00
46,350.00 $ 61,097.25
Voted: Article 14. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town vote to appropriate the sum of $274.58 to pay bills contracted prior to January 1, 1942, and remaining unpaid at the time of the closing of the books for the year 1941.
Fire
$272.36
Dog Officer 2.22
Unanimous.
Voted: Article 19. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Bureau of Old Age Assistance to appoint one of its own members as agent and investigating officer and to fix the salary of said appointee at three hundred ($300.00) dollars as provided by Chapter 41, Section 4A, of the General Laws, Tercentenary Edition, said three hundred ($300.00) dollars to be paid from the amount of United States Grant Old Age Assistance Administration.
Voted: Article 29. To accept the report of the Planning Board and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the portion of land on Pine Street now used by the Water Department be rezoned for business purposes.
Unanimous.
Voted: Article 30. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute a new lease with the Joseph L. Stevens Post 1240, Veterans of Foreign Wars Building Association, Inc., for a term of four (4) years from May 6, 1942, for the purpose of providing headquarters for the Joseph L. Stevens Post 1240, Veterans of Foreign Wars, on the upper floor of the building located at 438 Humphrey Street; money for same provided for under Article 11.
Voted: Article 31. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town authorize the Board of Selectmen to execute a new lease with the Leon E. Abbott Post 57, American Legion Build-
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ing Association, for a term of five (5) years from April 5, 1942; money for same provided for under Article 11.
Voted: Article 33. That the Town authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to obtain enactment of a special act of the Legis- lature to authorize payment by the Town to Simeon J. Strong the additional amount of $180.44 per year as a retirement allowance or pension.
Voted: Article 39. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 40. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town appropriate the sum of $1500.00 for the use of the Works Progress Administration recreational project for the pur- chase or hire of materials, supplies or equipment.
Voted: Article 43. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town vote to transfer the following balances:
Commonwealth Avenue Sewer $973.98
Kings Brook
381.88
Sewer Station Pump
374.67
Removal of Car Tracks
85.83
Allen Road
50.78
Highway Compressor
443.50
Ragweed Removal
68.97
Mosquito Control
56.46
Warrants Payable
59.32
$2,495.39
and appropriate $1,904.61, the total $4,400.00 to be expended as the Town's proprotionate share for the purchase and hire of necessary equipment, materials and supplies for the continuance of WPA Fed- eral Parks Projects done under the supervision of the Board of Park Commissioners.
Voted: Article 46. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 49. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the Town vote to appropriate the sum of $200.00 for use by the Rationing Board in connection with the expenses in discharge of its duties.
Voted: Article 50. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 51. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the sum of $500.00 be appropriated for repairs and paint- ing the Phillips Beach Engine House and that said work be done under the supervision of the Fire Engineers.
Voted: Article 52. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
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Voted: Article 53. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 54. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Voted: Article 55. To accept the report of the Planning Board and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That the use of residential property, for the purposes of prac- ticing of medicine, be exempted from the provisions of the zoning by-laws of the Town of Swampscott.
Unanimous.
Voted: Article 58. That action on this article be laid on the table.
Voted: Article 60. To accept the report of the Finance Com- mittee and adopt their recommendations as follows:
That action on this article be indefinitely postponed.
Dissolved at 9:50 P.M.
Attest:
MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR., Town Clerk.
WARRANT FOR STATE PRIMARY The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Swampscott,
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 Primaries to meet in their respective precincts in said Swampscott on Tuesday, the Fifteenth Day of Sep- tember, 1942, at 8 o'clock A.M., for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the Nomina- tion of Candidates of Political Parties for the following offices:
Governor for this Commonwealth; Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth; Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Common- wealth; Treasurer and Receiver-General for this Commonwealth; Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth; Attorney General for this Commonwealth; Senator in Congress for this Com- monwealth; Representative in Congress for 6th Congressional Dis- trict; Councillor for 5th Councillor District; Senator for 1st Essex Senatorial District; Three Representatives in General Court for 13th Essex Representative District; District Attorney for Eastern Dis- trict; Register of Probate and Insolvency for Essex County; County Commissioner for Essex County; County Treasurer for Essex County.
The polls will be open from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an at- tested copy thereof at the Town Hall, the Post Office, and at least two public and conspicuous places in each precinct in 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.
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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 First day of September, A. D., 1942.
ROBERT G. BYRNE, JAMES W. BUCHANAN, PHILIP E. BESSOM, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
LEONARD H. BATES, 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 Saturday, September 5, 1942, the posting of said notices being seven days before the time of said meeting.
LEONARD H. BATES, Constable.
STATE PRIMARY Tuesday, September 15, 1942
In accordance with the foregoing warrant the voters of Swamp- scott, assembled at their voting places in the several precincts and were called to order at 8 o'clock A.M. by their presiding officers. The warrant with the return thereon was read by the Clerk in each Precinct.
The following were appointed Precinct Officers and qualified for same:
Precinct 1: Warden, Henry A. Sadler (R); Clerk, John H. Keat- ing (D); Inspectors, Harold J. Mclaughlin, Leon F. Ximiness; Tel- lers, Cornelia T. Moore (R), Harriett T. Kain (D), Ruth B. Hough- ton (R), Bridget V. McNamara, Lauretta M. Fournier (D), Beatrice F. Hamel (D).
Precinct 2: Warden, James E. Sharp (D); Clerks, William T. Pearson (R), Michael F. Moran (D); Tellers, James E. Connor (D), Ruth H. Conley (R), Doris L. Smith (D), Lillian A. Currant (R), John H. Philpot (D), Ann A. Melzard (R).
Precinct 3: Warden, Stuart P. Ellis (R); Clerk, Walter L. Kehoe (D); Inspectors, Donald L. Sawyer (D), Almer A. Jackson (R); Tellers, Elizabeth M. Callahan (D), Francis T. Pedrick (R), Wini- fred G. Jacobs (R), Katherin E. Lamkin (R), William G. Burns (D).
Precinct 4: Warden, Thomas J. McManus (D); Clerk, John C. Pirie (R); Inspectors, Horace P. Fifield (R), Henry Grace (D); Tellers, Anna C. Howard (R), Bessie F. Maguire (D), Martha L. Graham (R), Edith J. Johnson (R).
Precinct 5: Warden, Thomas J. Boyce (D); Clerk, Irving Cur- tis (R); Inspectors, John T. Morrison (R), William J. Bonefant (D); Tellers, Gladys E. Williams (R), Joan Brown, Bessie P. Laxton (R), Alice E. Leslie (D), Mary E. Fletcher (R), Florence E. Scanlon (D).
Precinct 6: Warden, Charles M. Cahoon (R); Clerk, Anna M. Burke (D); Inspectors, Peter J. Blaser (D), Doris A. Coletti (R);
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Tellers, Margaret V. Freeman (D), Eva C. Evans (R), Elva P. Garey (R), Christina A. Pearce (D), Lucy G. Nickerson (R).
Precinct 7: Warden, Eustis B. Grimes (R); Clerk, Carrie K. Montgomery (R); Inspectors, Glover Swindlehurst, George C. Cot- ton (R); Tellers, Agnes C. Kennedy (R), Annie L. Ward (D), Doris L. Torrey, Esther M. McAuliffe (D).
Precinct 8: Warden, William J. Lynch (D); Clerk, Ralph Mel- zard (R); Inspectors, Patrick Lyons (D), William Hill (R); Tellers, Annie T. Conners (D), Pauline Duncan (R), Irene J. Johnson (R), Mary F. Way (D), Clara V. Watson.
The balloting started at 8 A.M. and the count started at 4 P.M. The polls closed at 8 P.M. The ballot boxes registered correctly and the checks on the voting list were the same as the vote cast.
Precinct 6 was the first to make a return at 8:13 P.M. and Pre- cinct 2 the last at 9:30 P.M.
The following number of votes were cast:
Republicans
Democrats
Precinct 1
130
24
Precinct 2
199
43
Precinct 3
161
32
Precinct 4
137
30
Precinct 5
167
46
Precinct 6
114
30
Precinct 7
169
43
Precinct 8
f.
176
33
Total vote cast
1253
281
REPUBLICAN BALLOT
Governor:
Leverett Saltonstall,
Newton
102 172 151 124 160 101 150 172 1132
Blanks
28
27
10
13
7
13
19
4 121
Lieutenant Governor:
Horace T. Cahill, Braintree
96 170 150 123 157
95 146 169 1106
Blanks
34
29
11
14
10
19
23
7 147
Secretary:
Frederick W. Cook,
Somerville
102 169 150 122 154
95 146 166 1104
Blanks
28
30
11
15
13
19
23
10
149
Treasurer:
Laurence Curtis, Boston
43
76
66
53
69
34
85
104
530
Edgar A. French, Marshfield 12
18
22
13
24
17
18
16
140
Sybil H. Holmes, Brookline
21
33
31
28
35
30
27
22
227
Richard E. Johnston, Boston 16
19
14
19
14
8
9
15
114
Wallace E. Stearns, Boston
9
5
13
6
7
1
10
4
55
Blanks
29
48
15
18
18
24
20
15
187
Auditor:
Russell A. Wood, Cambridge
96 155 143 122 151
89 144 166 1066
Blanks
34
44 18
15
16
25
25
10
187
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Attorney General:
Robert T. Bushnell, Newton 98 158 143 123 158
91 142 168 1081
Blanks
32
41
18
14
9
23
27
8
172
Senator in Congress:
Henry Cabot Lodge, Beverly
101 165 134 108 141
98 117 133
997
Courtenay Crocker, Boston Blanks
15
13
19
10
16
7
32
31
143
14
21
8
19
10
9
20
12
113
Congressman, Sixth District:
George J. Bates, Salem Blanks
30
32
14
15
11
19
22
9
152
Councillor, Fifth District:
Samuel R. Bailey, Amesbury 30
67
49
47
67
35
50
60
405
Washington Cook, Haverhill 24
34
31
35.
27
14
37
41
243
William H. McSweeney, Salem
45
58
56
39
49
41
45
55
388
Blanks
31
40
25
16
24
24
37
20
217
Senator, First Essex District:
Elmer W. Fall, Lynn Blanks
3
3
1
9
22
13
51
130 196 158 137 166 105 147 163 1202
Representatives in General Court, Thirteenth Essex District,
Vote for 3:
Harold B. L. McIntosh, Marblehead
74 124 117
99 116
85 112 131
858
Lester B. Morley, Swampscott
102 173 135 119 136
99 144 158 1066
Edmond Talbot, Jr., Salem
69 116 114
96 114
81 108 129
827
Blanks
145 184 117
97 135
77 143 110 1008
District Attorney, Eastern District:
Hugh A. Cregg, Methuen Blanks
35
47
32
20
21
27
36 21
239
Register of Probate and Insolvency, Essex County:
William F. Shanahan, Swampscott
90 159 130 122 150
88 142 152 1033
Blanks
40
40
31
15
17
26
27
24
220
County Commissioner, Essex County :
C. F. Nelson Pratt, Saugus 16 27
11
9
17
9
23
35
147
Blanks
5
1
2
1
1
4
5
5
24
County Treasurer, Essex County :
Harold E. Thurston, Lynn
103 160 144 124 152
92 139 164 1078
Blanks
27 39
17
13
15
22
30
12
175
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DEMOCRATIC BALLOT
Governor:
Francis E. Kelly, Boston
10
14
0
3
8
13
15
9 72
Roger L. Putnam, Springfield
13
26
31
24
35
15
26
20
190
Blanks
1
3
1
3
3
2
2
4
19
109 171 148 127 149 101 141 136 1082
James D. Bentley, Swampscott
95 152 129 117 146
87 133 155 1014
100 167 147 122 156
95 147 167 1101
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Lieutenant Governor:
John C. Carr, Medford Blanks
18
30
26
23
36
21
31
25
210
6
13
6
7
10
9
12
8
71
Secretary:
Joseph J. Buckley, Boston
11
24
18
17
20
15
18
12
135
Leo A. Gosselin, Bellingham
1
3
3
5
4
1
4
4
25
John D. O'Brien, Boston
4
10
5
4
6
7
10
10
56
Blanks
8
6
6
4
16
7
11
7
65
Treasurer:
Thomas E. Barry, Boston
4
12
12
5
7
8
10
4 62
Francis X. Hurley, Boston
4
18
11
15
22
9
16
16
111
William F. Hurley, Boston
3
2
3
2
2
2
4
22
John F. Welch, Boston
3
4
0
1
0
4
4
3
19
Blanks
9
6
7
6
15
7
11
6
67
Auditor:
Thomas J. Buckley, Boston
12
32
18
19
29
17
30
18
175
Leo D. Walsh, Boston
4
7
10
8
9
8
6
10
62
Blanks
8
4
4
3
8
5
7
5
44
Attorney General:
James E. Agnew, Boston Blanks
13
13
9
9
15
10
10
8
87
Senator in Congress:
Joseph E. Casey, Clinton
8
17
17
11
20
14
20
21
128
Daniel H. Coakley, Boston
1
3
0
1
2
1
0
0
8
John F. Fitzgerald, Boston
10
15
9
13
14
8
17
7
93
Joseph Lee, Boston
2
5
2
1
3
2
2
2
19
Blanks
3
3
4
4
7
5
4
3
33
Congressman, Sixth District:
James D. Burns, Salem Leander H. Caswell, Haverhill
9
28
17
19
27
16
25
19
160
1
1
4
3
1
3
4
1
18
Arthur Hovey Teague, Salem
7
4
3
2
7
3
5
6
37
Blanks
7
10
8
6
11
8
9
7
66
Councillor, Fifth District: James A. Donovan, Lawrence
13
31
21
23
29
20
30
25
192
Blanks
11
12
11
7
17
10
13
8
89
Senator, First Essex District:
Charles V. Hogan, Lynn
20
37
26
26
40
25
33
25
232
Blanks
4
6
6
4
6
5
10
8
49
Representatives in General Court, Thirteenth Essex District,
Vote for 3:
Blanks
72 129
96
90 138
90 129
99 843
District Attorney, Eastern District:
Hugh A. Cregg, Methuen
John T. Coan, Swampscott
14
33
25
2 20
2 40
1 22
12 27
8
37
Joseph B. Harrington, Salem
6
2
1
8
2
5
2
1
27
Blanks
2
1
3
0
2
2
2
2
14
11
30
23
21
31
20
33
25
194
4
2
7
3
22
203
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Register of Probate and Insolvency, Essex County:
William F. Shanahan, Swampscott
19
35
27
25
38
22
30
30
226
Blanks
5
8
5
5
8
8
13
3
55
County Commissioner, Essex County :
Michael F. Conway, Peabody 17
32
22
21
33
21
30
27
203
Blanks
7
11
10
9
13
9
13
6
78
County Treasurer, Essex County :
William G. Hennessey, Lynn 16
33
20
23
30
22
32
25
201
Blanks
8
10
12
7
16
8
11
8
80
Adjourned at 10:00 P.M.
Attest:
MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR.,
RECOUNT OF VOTES
In accordance with a petition filed with the Town Clerk for a Recount of votes cast for County Commissioners at the State Primary September 15, 1942 (Republican), said recount was held on Friday morning, September 25, 1942, at 9:00 A.M., by the Board of Regis- trars assisted by the following tellers:
Charles M. Cahoon
Irving Curtis Donald L. Sawyer Walter L. Kehoe
Pratt
Bentley
Blanks
Precinct 1
17
108
5
Precinct 2
28
170
1
Precinct 3
11
148
2
Precinct
13
123
1
Precinct 5
17
149
1
Precinct 6
9
101
4
Precinct 7
24
140
5
Precinct 8
40
132
4
159
1071
23
Original Vote Recount Vote
C. F. Nelson Pratt
147
159
James D. Bentley
1082
1071
Blanks
24
23
1253
1253
HERBERT W. ANDREWS, CHARLES P. McGETTRICK, THOMAS J. MINTON, MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR.,
Clerk.
Attest:
MALCOLM F. MacLEAN, JR.,
Town Clerk.
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WARRANT FOR 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, the Third Day of Novem- ber, 1942, 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 offices:
Governor for this Commonwealth; Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth; Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Common- wealth; Treasurer for this Commonwealth; Auditor of the Conmonwealth for this Commonwealth; Attorney General for this Commonwealth; Senator in Congress for this Common- wealth; Representative in Congress for 6th Congressional Dis- trict; Councillor for 5th Councillor District; Senator for 1st Essex Senatorial District; Three Representatives in General Court for 13th Essex Representative District; District Attorney for Eastern Dis- trict; Register of Probate and Insolvency for Essex County; County Commissioner for Essex County; County Treasurer for Essex County.
To vote Yes or No on the following Questions:
To vote on the following Question, mark a Cross X in the square at the right of YES or NO.
QUESTION NO. 1 Law Proposed by Initiative Petition
Shall the proposed measure which provides that the present statutes which make it a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment knowingly to advertise, print, publish, distribute or circulate any matter containing reference to any person from whom or place where any drug, instrument or means whatever, or any advice or information may be obtained, for the purpose of preventing preg- nancy, or to sell, lend, give away, exhibit, offer or advertise any drug, medicine, instrument or other article for the prevention of conception, or to write or print information of any kind stating when, where, how, of whom, or by what means such article can be obtained, or to manufacture or make such article, shall not apply to treatment or prescription given to married persons for protection of life or health by or under the direction of registered physicians nor to teaching in chartered medical schools nor to publication or sale of medical treatises or journals, which was disapproved in the House of Representatives by a vote of 77 in the affirmative and 133 in the negative and in the Senate by a vote of 16 in the affirmative and 18 in the negative, be approved ?
To vote on a Question, mark a Cross X in the square at the right of YES or NO.
To vote on the following, mark a Cross X in the square at the right of YES or NO.
To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions:
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(a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this 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 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 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 town for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises ?
To vote on the following, mark a Cross X in the square at the right of YES or NO.
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 will be open from 6 A.M. to 8 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting an at- tested copy thereof at the Town Hall, the Post Office, and in at least two public and conspicuous places in each precinct in 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 return of this Warrant with your doings thereon at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this Twentieth day of October, A. D. 1942. ROBERT G. BYRNE, JAMES W. BUCHANAN.
PHILIP E. BESSOM,
Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
LEONARD H. BATES, 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 war-
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