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Joseph Walker had seven hundred nine (709).
David I. Walsh had seven hundred seventy-one (771). Sherman L. Whipple had eight hundred thirty-three (833). George H. Wrenn had six hundred fifteen (615).
Blanks, one thousand eight hundred thirty-three (1,873).
DELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Claude L. Allen had six hundred twenty-two (622).
Everett C. Benton had nine hundred thirty-one (931).
John Q. A. Brackett had one thousand two hundred fifty-five (1,255).
Lawrence G. Brooks had five hundred twenty-six (526). Theodore Eaton had one hundred seventy (170).
Wilton B. Fay had seven hundred thirty-six (736). Albert Bushnell Hart had siy hundred seventy-two (672). Harry N. Stearns had four hundred nineteen (419). Blanks, one thousand eighty-six (1,086).
DELEGATE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. TWENTY-SEVENTH MIDDLESEX REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT.
Edward S. Crockett had five hundred thirty-eight (538). J. Howell Crosby had one thousand one (1,001).
Blanks, sixty-five (65).
The Election Returns were filled in, signed by the Selectmen, and countersigned by the Town Clerk, and were delivered to the Town Clerk to be forwarded by him to the several places of destination.
All business calling the meeting having been disposed of, the meeting at ten minutes before eight o'clock voted to adjourn. The Chairman declared the meeting dissolved.
A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
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TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Arlington in 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 Primaries to meet in the Town Hall, Arlington, Tuesday, the twenty-fifth day of Sep- tember, 1917, at two o'clock P. M., for the following purposes:
To bring in their votes to the Primary Officers for the nomi- nation of candidates of Political parties for the following offices:
Governor for this Commonwealth. .
Lieutenant Governor for this Commonwealth.
Secretary of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth.
Treasurer and Receiver General for this Commonwealth.
Auditor of the Commonwealth for this Commonwealth.
Attorney General for this Commonwealth.
Councillor for the Sixth Councillor District.
Senator for the Sixth Middlesex Senatorial District.
Representative in General Court for the Twenty-Seventh Representative District.
County Commissioner for Middlesex County.
And for the election of the following officers:
District Member of State Committee for each political party for the Sixth Senatorial District.
Members of the Democratic Town Committee
Members of the Republican Town Committee.
Delegates to State Conventions of Polical Parties.
All the above candidates and officers are to be voted for upon one ballot.
The polls will be open from two o'clock P. M., to seven o'clock - P. M.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting attested copies thereof seven days at least before the time of said meet- ing, as directed by vote of the Town and you are further directed to leave an attested copy of this Warrant at every dwelling house in the Town.
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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 tenth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventeen.
HORATIO A. PHINNEY, WILLIS P. HOWARD, THOMAS J. DONNELLY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
CONSTABLE'S RETURN.
Arlington, September 24, 1917. MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elec- tions and Town affairs, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes herein named, by causing a printed, attested copy of the same to be left at every dwelling house in the Town and also by posting an attested copy of said Warrant at the doors of the Town Hall in said Arlington, seven days at least before said day of meeting. Notice of the time, place and object of said meeting was published in the Arlington Advocate and the Arlington Weekly News.
(Signed) WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant, the voters of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in Primaries, met in the Town Hall the twenty-fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and were called to order at two o'clock in the afternoon by Horatio A. Phinney, Chair- man of the Board of Selectmen, who requested the Town Clerk to read the Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Under the law governing Primaries, Mr. Phinney served as Chairman of the meeting
The law governing elections prevailed and the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, a space railed off and forty steel
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booths prov ded for the use of the voters to examine and mark their ballots.
Each booth was supplied with suitable facilities for the pur- pose. Cards of instruction to and penalties on voters were posted in accordance with the law.
The following election or primary officers, having been ap- pointed by the Selectmen, were sworn to the faithful perform- ance of their duties by the Town Clerk, and assigned as follows:
Ballot Clerks - Joseph J. Duffy, David T. Dale, James Moir, William D. Grannan,
Checkers at Ballot Boxes - Arthur J. Hendrick, Frank Y. Wellington, George C. Tewksbury, George H. Peirce.
Special Assistant to the Town Clerk in tabulating the votes cast - George McK. Richardson.
These officers acted as tellers and counters, as the ballots, under the law, could not be counted until the close of the polls.
Sealed packages of ballots, supplied by the Commonwealth, were then delivered to the Election Officers by the Town C'erk.
These ballots were publicly opened and given to the ballot clerks for distribution to the voters.
Specimen ballots, cards of instruction to and penalties on' voters were conspicuously posted for the information of voters as in the case of a State or Town election.
The ballot boxes were examined by the presiding officer and the Town Clerk and were found to be empty and the register set at zero.
Lists of registered voters were supplied the election officers by the Registrars of Voters.
At five minutes after two o'clock the polls were declared open and they remained open until seven o'clock at which time, after due notice, they were declared closed.
In accordance with law, the ballot boxes were not opened until the close of the polls.
At the close of the polls at seven o'clock, the registers on the boxes showed that 461 ballots had been cast, which on being removed and sorted were found to be divided as follows: Re- publican, 422, Democratic 39.
The ballot clerks and tellers counted the names checked by
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them and found the number to agree with the number regis- tered by the ballot boxes, 461.
The ballots were sorted, counted, and announcement made of the result at ten (10) minutes before nine o'clock, as follows:
REPUBLICAN PARTY (422). GOVERNOR.
Grafton D. Cushing had eighty-five (85).
Samuel W. McCall had three hundred thirty-five (335).
Blanks, two (2).
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Calvin Coolidge had three hundred ninety-two (392). Blanks, thirty (30).
SECRETARY. Albert P. Langtry had three hundred eighty-six (386). Blanks, thirty-six (36).
TREASURER. Charles L. Burrill had three hundred eighty-five (385). Blanks, thirty-seven (37).
AUDITOR.
Charles Bruce had one hundred fifteen (115). Alonzo B. Cook had two hundred eighty-three (283). Blanks, twenty-four (24).
ATTORNEY GENERAL. Henry C. Attwill had three hundred sixty-two (362). Conrad W. Crooker had thirty-nine (39). Blanks, twenty-one (21).
SENATOR. Edwin T. McKnight had three hundred sixty-four (364). Blanks, fifty-eight (58).
COUNCILLOR. James G. Harris had three hundred sixty-seven (367). Blanks, fifty-five (55).
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REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT. Jacob Bitzer had three hundred sixty-nine (369). Blanks, fifty-three (53).
COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Walter C. Wardwell had three hundred seventy-one (371). Blanks, fifty-one (51).
STATE COMMITTEE.
Arthur Birch had one (1). Jacob Bitzer had one (1). Max Meyer had one (1). Frank V. Noyes had nineteen (19). Horatio O. Phinney had one (1). Walter A. Robinson had one (1). Blanks, three hundred ninety-eight (398).
DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION.
John G. Brackett had three hundred seventy-seven (377). William A. Muller had three hundred sixty-one (361). M. Ernest Moore had three hundred seventy-one (371). Charles C. Warren had three hundred sixty-four (364). W. Forbes Robertson had three hundred sixty-eight (368). Max H. Meyer had three hundred sixty-eight (368). Horation A. Phinney had three hundred seventy-seven (377). George H. Shirley had three hundred sixty-five (365). Jacob Bitzer had three hundred seventy-five (375). Walter A. Robinson had three hundred sixty-nine (369). John R. Foster had three hundred sixty-nine (369). Truman L. Quimby had three hundred sixty-one (361) Blanks, six hundred forty-six (646).
TOWN COMMITTEE.
Charles C. Warren had three hundred sixty-four (364). George H Shirley had three hundred sixty (360). Max H. Meyer had three hundred sixty-six (366). Ernest R. Uimball had three hundred sixty-six (366). John E. Woodend had three hundred sixty-three (363). Wilder M. Hodgkins had three hundred sixty (360).
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Alexander J. Jardine had three hundred sixty-three (363). Arthur P. Wyman had three hundred seventy-two (372). W. Forbes Robertson had three hundred sixty-three (363). Clinton W. Schwamb had three hundred fifty-eight (358). John Z. Lawson had three hundred sixty-one (361). Nelson B. Crosby had three hundred sixty-five (365). Edwin T. Luce had three hundred fifty-eight (358). Oman E. Bennett had three hundred sixty-four (364). Charles A. Paine had three hundred sixty-four (364). Blanks, eight hundred eighty-three (883).
DEMOCRATIC PARTY. GOVERNOR.
Frederick W. Mansfield had thirty-three (33). Blanks, six (6).
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
Matthew Hale had eleven (11). Blanks, twenty-eight (28).
SECRETARY.
Arthur B. Reed had ten (10). Blanks, twenty-nine (29).
TREASURER.
Humphrey O'Sullivan had ten (10). Blanks, twenty-nine (29).
AUDITOR.
Eldear G. Choquette had ten (10). Blanks twenty-nine (29).
ATTORNEY GENERAL. Josiah Quincy had ten (10). Blanks, twenty-nine (29).
COUNCILLOR.
Blanks, thirty-nine (39).
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SENATOR. Blanks, thirty-nine (39).
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT. Maurice P. Ahearn had twelve (12). Blanks, twenty-seven, (27).
COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Blanks, thirty-nine (39).
STATE COMMITTEE. William H. Henchey had twenty-six (26). Blanks, thirteen (13).
DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION.
Daniel F. Ahern had thirty-five (35).
Timothy F. Collins had thirty-five (35). Daniel W. Grannan had thirty-five (35). Thomas D. Kennedy had thirty-five (35). Thomas J. Green had thirty-five (35).
William C. Scannell had thirty-three (33). Augustus F. Crowley had thirty-three (33). Arthur J. Hendrick had thirty-three (33). James M. Mead had thirty-four (34). Blanks, forty-three (43).
TOWN COMMITTEE.
Daniel F. Ahern had thirty-five (35). Timothy F. Collins had thirty-four (34). Danie! W. Grannan had thirty-five (35). Dennis J. Driscoll had thirty-three (33). Thomas D. Kennedy had thirty-four (34). Thomas H. Mullin had thirty-four (34). Thomas E. Duffy had thirty-three (33). Thomas J. Green had thirty-four (34). David T. Dale had thirty-three (33). William C. Scannell had thirty-three (33). Augustus F. Crowley had thirty-two (32).
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Arthur J. Hendrick had thirty-two (32). Frank J. Lowder had thirty-three (33). James M. Mead had thirty-three (33). James P. Donnelly had thirty-four (34). William D. Grannan had one (1). John L. Pichette had one (1).
Thomas J. Donnelly had one (1). Edward T. Ryan had one (1).
Blanks, two hundred seventy-four (274).
The election returns were filled in, signed by the election officers and the Town Clerk, and were delivered to the Town Clerk to be forwarded by him to the Secretary of the Common- wealth.
All business calling the meeting having been disposed of, the presiding officer, at nine o'clock, declared the meeting dissolved. A true record. Attest:
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX, SS.
To any Constable of the Town of Arlington, GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the Constitution requires, to vote in elections and town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall, in said Town, Tuesday, the sixth day of November, next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in said month, at six o'clock, A. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To bring in their votes to the Selectmen for a Governor, a Lieutenant Governor, a Secretary, a Treasurer and . Receiver-General, an Auditor of Accounts, an Attorney General of the Commonwealth, a Councillor for the Sixth Councillor District, a Senator for the Sixth Middlesex District, a Repre- entative in General Court for the Twenty-seventh Middlesex
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District, a County Commissioner for three years for the County of Middlesex.
To vote "Yes" or "No" on the acceptance by the Town of the following Articles of Amendment submitted by the Con- stitutional Convention:
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 1.
The General Court shall have power to provide by law for the voting by qualified voters of the Commonwealth, who, at the time of an election, are absent from the city or town of which they are inhabitants in the choice of any officer to be elected or upon any question submitted at such election.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT NO. 2.
ARTICLE XVIII. Section 1. No law shall be passed pro- hibiting the free exercise of religion.
Section 2. All moneys raised by taxation in the towns and cities for the support of the public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated by the Commonwealth for the support of common schools shall be applied to, and expended in, no other schools than those which are conducted according to law, under the order and superintendence of the authorities of the town or city in which the money is expended; and no grant, appro- priation or use of public money or property or loan of public credit shall be made or authorized by the Commonwealth or any political division thereof for the purpose of founding, main- taining or aiding any school or institution of learning, whether under public control or otherwise, wherein any denominational doctrine is inculcated, or any other school, or any college, in- firmary, hospital, institution, or educational, charitable, or religious undertaking, which is not publicly owned and under the exclusive control, order and superintendence of public offi- cers or public agents authorized by the Commonwealth of Fed- eral authority or both, except that appropriations may be made for the maintenance and support of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts and for free public libraries in any city or town. and to carry out legal obligations, if any, already entered into; and no such grant, appropriation or use of public money or prop-
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erty or loan of public credit shall be made or authorized for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding any church, religious denomination or society.
Section 8. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the Commonwealth, or any political division thereof, from paying to privately controlled hospitals, infirmaries, or in- stitutions for the deaf, dumb or blind not more than the ordinary and reasonable compensation for care or support actually ren- dered or furnished by such hospitals, infirmaries or institutions to such persons as may be in whole or in part unable to support or care for themselves.
Section 4. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any inmate of a publicly controlled reformatory, penal or charitable institution of the opportunity of religious exercises therein of his own faith; but no inmate of such institution shall be compelled to attend religious services or receive religious in- struction against his will, or, if a minor, without the consent of his parent or guardian.
Section 5. This amendment shall not take effect until the October 1st next succeeding its ratification and adoption by the people.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 3.
The maintenance and distribution at reasonable rates, during time of war, public exigency, emergency or distress, of a suffi- cient supply of food and other common necessaries of life and the providing of shelter, are public functions, and the Common- wealth and the cities and towns therein may take and may pro- vide the same for their inhabitants in such manner as the general court shall determine.
All the above to be voted for on one ballot. The polls will be opened immediately after the organization of the meeting, and will be kept open until four o'clock and thirty minutes in the afternoon, and as much longer as the meeting directs, provided that the time shall not be after eight o'clock in the evening.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, on or before said day . and hour of meeting.
Given under our hands, at said Arlington, this twenty-second
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day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun- dred and seventeen.
HORATIO A. PHINNEY, WILLIS P. HOWARD, THOMAS J. DONNELLY, Selectmen of the Town of' Arlington.
CONSTABLE'S RETURN.
Arlington, November 6, 1917.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
Pursuant to the foregoing Warrant and in accordance with the orders therein contained, I have notified and warned the in- habitants of the Town or Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble at the time and place, and for the purposes therein named, by causing a printed attested copy of the same to be left at every dwelling house in the Town, and also by posting an attested copy at the doors of the Town Hall, in said Arlington, seven days at least before said day of meeting. Notice of the time, place and object of said meeting was pub- lished in the two local papers.
WILLIAM T. CANNIFF, Constable of Arlington.
In pursuance of the foregoing Warrant, the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall in said Arlington on Tuesday the sixth day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventeen, it being the first Tuesday after the first Monday in said month, and were called to order at six o'clock in the forenoon by Horatio A. Phinney, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The Town Clerk read the Warrant calling the meeting and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants. Mr. Phinney continued to act as Chairman of the meeting in accordance with law.
The laws governing elections prevailed and the Town Hall was fitted up as a polling place, both sides of the hall being ยท equipped with booths, and a space railed off for the use of voters. The booths were equipped with all the conveniences for the ex -. amination and marking of ballots.
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Cards of instructions to and penalties on voters were dis- played in conspicuous places both in the booths and at the ap- proaches thereto.
The following election officers, having been appointed by the Selectmen, were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and were placed as follows:
Ballot Clerks - Herbert L. Converse, Charles G. Barry, Oscar J. Schnetzer and George Howland.
Checkers at Ballot Boxes - Frank Wellington, George C. Tewksbury, Frank C. Kenney and Arthur J. Hendrick.
Tellers and Inspectors - William D. Grannan, Joseph W. Moore, James G. Moir, David T. Dale, George A. Clark, George H. Peirce, George M. Richardson, William P. Slattery, John H. Savage, James E. Doughty, Herbert E. K. Ekmark and Richard Healey.
Sealed packages of ballots, totaling 3,500, were received from the Secretary of the Commonwealth and these packages were opened in public and the ballots delivered to the ballot clerks for distribution to the voters.
The ballot boxes were examined by the presiding officer and the Town Clerk and were found to be empty and the register set at zero.
Lists of registered voters were supplied by the Registrars of Voters.
At four minutes after six o'clock in the morning the polls were declared open for the reception of votes and were kept open until thirty minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon, at which time after due notice they were declared closed.
During the day, from the opening of the polls until they were closed, the keys of the ballot boxes were in the custody of Con- stable John Duffy.
By unanimous consent, the ballot boxes were opened at var- ious times during the day for the purpose of removing the ballots to be counted.
At seven o'clock the boxes registered the number of votes cast, as follows :
At seven o'clock A to L 261 M to Z 223 Total 484
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At nine o'clock 1
A to L 655
M to Z 530 Total 1185
At eleven o'clock A to L 771
M to Z 635
Total 1406
At two o'clock
A to L 998
M to Z 809 Total 1807
At four-thirty o'clock
A to L 1187
M to Z 957 Total 2144
This was the total number of votes cast.
The Chairman, Town Clerk and Election Officers canvassed the votes given in, and the whole number was found to be two thousand one hundred and forty-four, which were sorted, counted and declaration made thereof in open meeting by the Town Clerk at six o'clock in the afternoon as follows:
GOVERNOR.
John Hayes had fourteen (14). Chester R. Lawrence had twenty (20).
Frederick W. Mansfield had five hundred forty (540).
Samuel W. McCall had fifteen hundred seventeen (1517). John McCarty had thirty-five (35).
Blanks, eighteen (18). Total, twenty-one hundred forty-four (2144).
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
Calvin Coolidge had fourteen hundred eighty-four (1484). Matthew Hale had five hundred twenty-nine (529). Sylvester J. McBride had forty-four (44).
Fred E. Oelcher had fifteen (15). Blanks, seventy-two (72).
SECRETARY.
Herbert S. Brown had forty (40). Albert P. Langtry had fourteen hundred fifty-five (1455). Ingvar Paulsen had fourteen (14). Arthur B. Reed had five hundred fifteen (515). Marion E. Sproule had thirty-eight (38). Blanks, eighty-two (82).
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TREASURER. Charles L. Burrill had fourteen hundred fifty-five (1455).
Solon Lovett had twenty-three (23).
Joseph A. Murphy had thirty-four (34). Humphrey O'Sullivan had five hundred forty-two (542). Mary E. Peterson had twenty-three (23). Blanks sixty-seven (67). -
AUDITOR.
Elzear H. Choquette had five hundred twenty (520).
Alonzo B. Cook had fourteen hundred twenty-five (1425).
David Craig had seventeen (17).
Walter S. Peck had thirty-nine (39).
Henry G. Smith, Jr., had thirty-nine (39). Blanks, one hundred four (104).
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Henry C. Attwill had fourteen hundred twenty-five (1425).
Frank Auchter had twenty-three (23).
William R. Henry had thirty-nine (39).
Thomas J. Maher had fifteen (15).
Josiah Quincy had five hundred sixty-one (561). Blanks, eighty-one (81) Total, twenty-one hundred forty-four (2144).
COUNCILLOR, SIXTH DISTRICT. James G. Harris had sixteen hundred fifteen (1615). Blanks, five hundred twenty-nine (529).
SENATOR, SIXTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT. Edwin T. McKnight had fifteen hundred eighty-eight (1588). Blanks, five hundred fifty-six (556).
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT. TWENTY-SEVENTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT.
Maurice P. Ahern had five hundred fifty-six (556). Jacob Bitzer had thirteen hundred forty-six (1346). Francis J. Williams had one hundred thirty-eight (138). Blanks, one hundred four (104).
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COUNTY COMMISSIONER, MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
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Walter C. Wardwell had fifteen hundred thirteen (1513).
Blanks, six hundred nine (609).
On the question "Shall the Article of Amendment realtive to absentee voting, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?" 1571 voted "Yes" and 316 voted "No."
Blanks, two hundred fifty-seven (257).
On the question "Shall an Article of Amendment relative to appropriations for educational and benevolent purposes, sub- mitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?" 1440 voted "Yes" and 604 voted "No." Blanks, 100.
On the question "Shall an Article of Amendment relative to the taking and distribution by the Commonwealth and its municipalities of the common necessities of life, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?" 1687 voted "Yes" and 229 voted "No."
Blanks, 228.
The election returns were filled in, signed by the Selectmen, countersigned by the Town Clerk, and delivered to him to be forwarded to the several places of destination.
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