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To define the powers and duties of the General Court relative to the military and naval forces, and of the Governor as Com- mander-in-Chief thereof.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 8
To provide for the succession, in cases of vacancies in the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, by the secretary, attorney-general, treasurer and receiver-general, and auditor, in the order named.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 9
To authorize the Governor to return to the General Court with a recommendation for amendment bills and resolves which have been laid before him.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 10
ARTICLE IV of the articles of amendment of the constitu- tion of the Commonwealth is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: Women shall be eligible to appointment as notaries public. Change of name shall render the commis- sion void, but shall not prevent re-appointment under the new name.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 11 (Relative to the Retirement of Judicial Officers)
Article I Chapter III of Part the Second of the Constitu- tion is hereby amended by the addition of the following words:
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and provided also that the Governor, with the consent of the council, may after due notice and hearing retire them because of advanced age or mental or physical disability. Such retire- ment shall be subject to any provisions made by law as to pen- sions or allowances payable to such officers upon their voluntary retirement.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 12
Every charter, franchise or act of incorporation shall forever remain subject to revocation and amendments.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 13
The general court shall have power to limit buildings accord- ing to their use or construction to specified districts of cities and towns.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 14
The General Court shall have authority to provide for com- pulsory voting at elections, but the right of secret voting shall be preserved.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 15
To limit the power of the General Court to lend the credit of the Commonwealth and to contract loans.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 16
To provide for a State budget and the veto by the Governor of items or parts of items in appropriation bills.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT NO. 17
To provide for biennial elections of State officers, councillors and members of the General Court.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 18
No person elected to the General Court shall during the term for which he was elected be appointed to any office created or the emoluments whereof are increased durin gsuch term, nor
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receive additional salary or compensation for service upon any recess committee or commission except a committee appointed to examine a general revision of the statutes of the Common- wealth when submitted to the General Court for adoption.
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 19
On or before January first, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth shall be organized in not more than twenty departments, in one of which every executive and administrative office, board and commission, except those officers serving directly under the Governor or the council, shall be placed. Such departments shall be under such supervision and regulation as the General Court may from time to time prescribe by law.
All the above to be voted for on one ballot. The polls will be opened immediately after the reading of the warrant and will be kept open until five o'clock in the afternoon.
Hereof, fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Selectmen, on or before the said day and hour of meeting.
Given under our hands at said Arlington, this twenty-first day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
WILLIS P. HOWARD, THOMAS J. DONNELLY, HORATIO A. PHINNEY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
In pursuance of the vote of the Town, the following places have been designated as polling places:
Precinct 1: At Robbins Memorial Town Hall.
This Precinct comprises all of the Town north of the center lines of the following streets: Linwood Street, Tufts Street and River Street.
Precinct 2: At Crosby School Building, Winter Street.
This Precinct comprises the east part of the Town south of the center lines of Linwood, Tufts and River Streets.
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CONSTABLE'S RETURN
Arlington, November 4, 1918.
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 assemble at their respective voting places in said Town 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 two local papers of the Town.
(Signed) 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 their respective voting places in said Town on Tuesday, the 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and in each precinct were called to order by the Town Clerk, who read articles 1 and 2 of the Warrant calling the meeting, and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Article 1 taken up. Jacob Bitzer was unanimously elected Moderator of the meeting, and sworn to the faithful performance of his duties by the Town Clerk. .
PRECINCT OFFICERS
The following Election Officers were appointed by the Select- men to serve in the Precinct indicated :
Precinct 1. George J. White, George F. McCaffery, Richard Healey, John H. Savage, Frank E. Kenney, George C. Tewks- bury, William P. Slattery, Herbert L. Converse, James Moir, Frank Y. Wellington, William H. Evans, David T. Dale, William D. Grannan, George M. Richardson, Ernest H. Free-
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man, James E. Doughty, William E. Bunton, Joseph W. Moore and George H. Peirce.
Precinct 2. Harry S. Smith, Clayton Hilliard, Herbert W. Rideout, Elmer Buckley, Eugene Paradis, George H. Lowe, John B. Meany, John W. Dacey, Thomas H. Patterson, William P. Luddy, Carroll B. Moore, William H. Nolan.
All of the above-named officers were sworn to the faithful performance of their duties by the Town Clerk.
Sealed packages of ballots were delivered to the Precinct Officers and all the paraphernalia for conducting the election were inspected by the Election Officers of both precincts, and found to be in proper condition.
Lists of registered voters were supplied by the Registrars of Voters to the Election Officers at both precincts.
Cards of instructions to and penalties on voters were posted in conspicuous places in and about the voting places, as well as in each booth, as required by law.
The polls were declared open in Precinct 1 at four minutes after six o'clock A.M., and in Precinct 2 at fifteen minutes after six A.M., and remained open in both precincts until five o'clock in the afternoon, at which time, after due notice, they were declared closed.
A canvass of the votes cast in both precincts was then made by the Election Officers and returned to the Town Clerk, who tabulated the returns and made announcement as follows:
GOVERNOR
Precinct 1
Total
Calvin Coolidge
1098
Precinct 2 407 275
1505
Richard H. Long
612
887
Sylvester J. MacBride
7
6
13
Ingvar Paulsen
0
2
2
Blanks
15
5
20
Total votes cast
1732
695
2427
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
Channing H. Cox
1135
427
1562
Oscar Kinsalas
7
10
17
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Precinct 1
Precinct 2 248
Total
Joseph H. O'Neil
561
809
Blanks
29
10
39
SECRETARY
Albert P. Langtry
1160
445
1605
Charles H. McGlue
512
219
731
William Taylor Blanks
46
19
65
TREASURER
Charles L. Burrill
1153
437
1590
Charles Giddings
508
227
735
11
11
22
Mary E. Peterson Blanks
60
20
80
AUDITOR
Alonzo P. Cook
1146
437
1583
Morris I. Becker
10
13
23
Joseph L. P. St. Coeur
501
210
711
Blanks
64
23
87
SENATOR IN CONGRESS
Thomas W. Lawson
64
31
95
David I. Walsh
645
285
930
John W. Weeks
1005
371
1376
Blanks
18
8
26
CONGRESSMAN
James F. Aylward
558
241
799
Frederick W. Dallinger
1118
437
1555
Blanks
56
17
73
COUNCILLOR
·
James G. Harris
1260
501
1761
Blanks
472
194
666
14
12
26
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SENATOR SIXTH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Edwin T. McKnight
1070
412
1482
Whitfield L. Tuck
544
227
771
Blanks
118
56
174
REPRESENTATIVE IN GENERAL COURT
Jacob Bitzer
1286
500
1786
Francis J. Williams
15
36
51
Blanks
431
159
590
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Alfred L. Cutting
1258
499
1757
Blanks
474
196
670
COUNTY TREASURER
Joseph O. Hayden
1257
500
1757
Blanks
475
195
670
REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY
Frederick M. Esty
1258
505
1763
Blanks
474
190
664
The vote on the Amendments as submitted by the Consti- tutional Convention was as follows:
Amendment No. 1. Shall the Article of Amendment relative to the establishment of the popular Initiative and Referendum and the Legislative Initiative of Specific Amendments of the Constitution, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
653
884
318 300
971
1184
Blanks
195
77
272
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Amendment No. 2. Shall the following article of amendment relative to the public interest in natural resources, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT NO. 2
The conservation, development and utilization of the agri- cultural, mineral, forest, water and other resources of the Com- monwealth are public uses, and the General Court shall have power to provide for the taking, upon payment of just compen- sation therefor, of lands and easements or interests therein, including water and mineral rights, for the purpose of securing and promoting the proper conservation, development, utili- zation and control thereof, and to enact legislation necessary or expedient therefor.
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
806
529
348
159
1154 688
Blanks
397
188
585
Amendment No. 3. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment to Provide for the Regulation of Advertising in Public Places, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be ap- proved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 3
Advertising on public ways, in public places and on private property within public view may be regulated and restricted by law.
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes 1057
No.
Yes 408
No
Yes
No
313
113
1465
426
Blanks
362
174
536
Amendment No. 4. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to the Preservation and Maintenance of Property of Historical and Antiquarian Interest, submitted by the Con- stitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
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ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 4
The preservation and maintenance of ancient landmarks and other property of historical or antiquarian interest is a public use, and the Commonwealth and the cities and towns therein may, upon payment of just compensation, take such property or any interest therein under such regulations as the General Court may prescribe.
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
1037
288
397
102
1434
390
Blanks
407
196
603
Amendment No. 5. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to Adjournments of the General Court, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT NO. 5
The General Court, by concurrent vote of the two houses, may take a recess or recesses amounting to not more than thirty days; but no such recess shall extend beyond the sixtieth day from the date of their first assembling.
Precinct 1
Precinct 2°
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
791
441
316
143
1107
584
Blanks
500
236
736
Amendment No. 6. Shall the Article of Amendment author- izing the General Court to prescribe, subject to certain restric- tions, the manner of the appointment and removal of military and naval officers to be commissioned by the Governor, sub- mitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
845
382
330
132
1175
514
Blanks
505
233
738
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Amendment No. 7. Shall the Article of Amendment defining the powers and duties of the General Court, relative to the military and naval forces, and of the Governor as Commander- in-Chief thereof, be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
Nc
Yes
Nc
Yes
No
856
323
335
115
1191
438
Blanks
553
245
798
Amendment No. 8. Shall the Article of Amendment providing for the succession, in cases of vacancies in the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, by the Secretary, Attorney-General, Treasurer and Receiver-General and Auditor, in the order named, be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
970
281
379
99
1349
380
Blanks
481
217
698
Amendment No. 9. Shall the Article of Amendment author- izing the Governor to return to the General Court with a recom- mendation for amendment bills and resolves which have been laid before him, be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
912
282
355
110
1267
392
Blanks
538
230
768
Amendment No. 10. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment providing that Women shall be eligible to Appointment as Notaries Public, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 10
Article IV of the Articles of Amendment of the Constitution of the Commonwealth is hereby amended by adding thereto
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the following words: Women shall be eligible to appointment as Notaries Public. Change of name shall render the com- mission void, but shall not prevent reappointment under the new name.
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
821
444
324
165
1145
409
Blanks
467
206
873
Amendment No. 11. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to the Retirement of Judicial Officers, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 11
Article 1 of Chapter III of Part the Second of the Constitution is hereby amended by the addition of the following words: and provided also that the Governor, with the consent of the Council, may after due notice and hearing retire them because of ad- vanced age or mental or physical disability. Such retirement shall be subject to any provisions made by law as to pensions or allowances payable to such officers upon their voluntary retirement.
Precinct 1
Precinct 2 Yes
Total
Yes
Nc
No
Yes
No
876
336
358
102
1234
438
Blanks
520
235
755
Amendment No. 12. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to the Revocation or Alteration of Grants, Fran- chises, Privileges or Immunities, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 12
Every charter, franchise or act of incorporation shall for- ever remain subject to revocation and amendment.
Precinct 1
Total
Yes
No
Precinct 2 Yes
No
Yes
899
318
357
108 1
1256
No 426
Blanks
515
230
745
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Amendment No. 13. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to the Power of the General Court to limit build- ings according to their use or construction to Specified Dis- tricts of cities and towns, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 13
The General Court shall have power to limit buildings accord- ing to their use or construction to specified districts of cities and towns.
Precinct 1
Total
Yes
No
Precinct 2 Yes 368
No
Yes No
928
307
102
1296
409
Blanks
497
225
722
Amendment No. 14. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to Compulsory Voting at Elections, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 14
The General Court shall have authority to provide for com- pulsory voting at elections, but the right of secret voting shall be preserved.
Precinct 1
Total
Yes 749
Nc 554
Precinct 2 Yes 290
No 206
Yes 1039
760
Blanks
429
199
628
Amendment No. 15. Shall the Amendment of the Consti- tution limiting the power of the General Court to lend the credit of the Commonwealth and to contract loans, be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Total
Yes 849
No
Precinct 2 Yes 334
No 141
1180
504
Blanks
520
220
1
743
Amendment No. 16. Shall the Amendment to the Consti- tution providing for a State Budget and the veto by the Gov-
Yes
No
363
1
No
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ernor of items or parts of items in appropriation bills be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
901
294
354
103
1255
397
Blanks
537
238
775
Amendment No. 17. Shall the Amendment of the Consti- tution providing for biennial elections of State Officers, Coun- cillors and members of the General Court, be approved and ratified?
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
834
427
310
159
1144
586
Blanks
471
226
697
Amendment No. 18. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment relative to Service on Certain Legislative Recess Com- mittees and Commissions, submitted by the Constitutional Convention, be approved and ratified?
ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 18
No person elected to the General Court shall during the term for which he was elected be appointed to any office created or the emoluments whereof are increased during such term, nor receive additional salary or compensation for service upon any Recess Committee or Commission except a committee appointed to examine a general revision of the statutes of the Common- wealth when submitted to the General Court for adoption.
Precinct 1
Precinct 2
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No 123
Yes 1217
No
870
327
347
450
Blanks
535
225
760
Amendment No. 19. Shall the following Article of Amend- ment to provide for the more efficient administration of the business of the Commonwealth, submitted by the Constitu- tional Convention, be approved and ratified?
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ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT No. 19
On or before January 1, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth shall be organized in not more than twenty departments, in one of which every executive and administrative office, board and commission, except those officers serving directly under the Governor or the Council, shall be placed. Such departments shall be under such supervision and regulation as the General Court may from time to time prescribe by law.
Precinct 1
Total
Yes
No
Yes
No 237 Precinct 2
Yes
Nc
893
303
357
101
1250
404
536
773 Blanks
The election returns were filled in, to be signed by the Select- men, countersigned by the Town Clerk, and were delivered to him to be forwarded to the several places of destination.
All business calling the meeting having been disposed of, the meeting at nine o'clock voted to adjourn.
The Chairman declared the meeting dissolved.
A true record, attest :
THOMAS J. ROBINSON, Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX, SS. To any 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 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, Wednesday, the eighteenth day of December, 1918, at 7.30 P.M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz:
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Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Article 2. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for the taking of land on Forest Street for municipal purposes, determine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action thereon.
Article 3. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for the taking of land on Tufts Street for municipal purposes, determine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action thereon.
Article 4. To see if the Town will make an additional appro- priation for Town insurance, determine in what manner the money shall be raised, or take any action thereon.
Article 5. To see if the Town will appoint a Committee to consider and report to the Town on a Roll of Honor, for the Arlington men in the Service of the United States, make an appropriation for the use of the Committee, or take any action thereon.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to convey a strip of land in the Great Meadows, or take any action thereon.
Article 7. To hear and act on the reports of any committee heretofore appointed, who may desire to report at this meeting.
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 second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
WILLIS P. HOWARD, THOMAS J. DONNELLY, HORATIO A. PHINNEY, Selectmen of the Town of Arlington.
CONSTABLE'S RETURN
December 18, 1918.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
By virtue of this Warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Arlington qualified to vote in elec-
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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 inhabitants of the Town of Arlington, qualified as the law requires to vote in elections and Town affairs, met in the Town Hall in said Arling- ton, on Wednesday the eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, at thirty minutes after seven o'clock in the evening, and were called to order by the Town Clerk, who read the Warrant calling the meeting, and the return thereon of the Constable who served the same upon the inhabitants.
Article 1 taken up. (Choice of Moderator.)
Jacob Bitzer was the unanimous choice of the meeting for Moderator and he was sworn to the faithful performance of his duties by the Town Clerk.
Article 7 taken up. (Reports of Committees.)
On motion of Mr. C. H. Higgins it was
Voted: That the Articles in the Warrant be now taken up, and that the recommendations of the Finance Committee of ( Twenty-one, under those articles. be considered as now before the meeting to be voted on without further motion, separately and in the order in which they appear in said report.
Article 7 was then laid on the table.
Article 2 taken up. (Additional appropriation for land on Forest Street.)
Voted (by a two-thirds vote): That the sum of $2200 be appropriated for additional cost of the land taken by the Town for municipal purposes on Forest Street and Summer Street Extension, authorized by vote of the Town, March 25, 1918.
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That $200 be taken from unexpended balances now in the Treasury, and for the purpose of raising the balance ($2000) the Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, in the name and behalf of the Town, to issue four serial notes, there- for, of $500 each, one being payable in 1919, and the remaining notes to be payable, one in each of the succeeding three years, said notes to be signed by the Treasurer, countersigned by the Selectmen, and to bear interest not exceeding four and one-half per cent, payable semi-annually, and to be designated on the face thereof "Forest Street Purchase." The vote under this Article was twenty-one in the affirmative and two in the neg- ative.
Article 3 taken up. (Additional appropriation for land on Tufts Street.)
Voted (by a two-thirds vote): That the sum of $3500 be appropriated for additional cost of the land taken by the Town for municipal purposes on Tufts Street, authorized by vote of the Town, March 26, 1917. That for the purpose of raising the $3500 the Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered, in the name and behalf of the Town, to issue seven serial notes therefor of $500 each, one being payable in 1919, and the remaining notes to be payable, one in each of the succeeding six years. Said notes to be signed by the Treasurer, counter- signed by the Selectmen and to bear interest not exceeding four and one-half per cent, payable semi-annually, and to be designated on the face thereof "Tufts Street Purchase of 1918." The vote under this article was twenty-six in the affirmative and none in the negative.
Article 4 taken up. (Insurance account.)
Under this Article the Committee recommended and it was so voted that no action be taken.
Article 5 taken up. (Roll of Honor.)
Voted: That the Planning Board be a committee of five to consider and report to the Town on a "Roll of Honor," for the Arlington men in the Service of the United States; and that the sum of $100 from unexpended balances, now in the Treasury, be appropriated for their use.
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