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Albin M. Richards, 22 Bigelow street, Cambridge . 28
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STATE COMMITTEE
Osborn McLeod, 22 Whitney street, Saugus . 28
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DELEGATES TO STATE CONVENTION, READING
William J. Parsons 14
Frank K. Black
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Edwin L. Hutchinson
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Warren L. Fletcher
14
Charles B. Harkness
11
Joseph S. Temple
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TOWN COMMITTEE, READING
William J. Parsons
14
Adelbert E. Batchelder
12
Joseph S. Temple
15
John A. Hanley
12
Frank W. Young
14
Frank K. Black
12
Edwin L. Hutchinson
14
Charles B. Harkness
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The votes were counted, sealed and delivered to the Town Clerk in open meeting after which it was voted to adjourn.
MILLARD F. CHARLES,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX SS.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Reading, Greet- ing :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet in Lyceum Hall in said Reading, on Monday, the third of November, A. D. 1913, at eight o'clock in the evening, to act on the following articles, viz :
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
Art. 2. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Accountant to transfer from the Cemetery Reserve Fund to the Cemetery Appropriation for the purpose of erecting a wire fence along its western boundary and for making addi- tions to its supply of water the sum of six hundred and fifty ($650) dollars, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 3. To consider whether the Town will issue its note or notes in the sum of twenty-seven hundred ($2700) dollars for providing funds for defraying the expenses of the School Department to December 31, 1913, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 4. To hear and act on the report of the Sewerage Committee.
Art. 5. To see if the Town will authorize the Town Accountant to transfer from the receipts from licenses, per- mits, etc., the sum of sixty ($60) dollars for the purpose of completing alterations and furnishings at the Central Fire Station.
Art. 6. To see if the Town will instruct the School Committee regarding the use of soft coal in the school buildings, or what they will do in relation thereto.
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Art. 7. To hear and act on the report of the Committee on Building Laws.
Art. 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or otherwise provide the sum of six thousand ($6000) dollars to purchase the Claggett property, in accordance with the recommendation of the Playground Commission, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 9. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate or otherwise provide the sum of thirty five hundred ($3500) dollars to purchase the land between Eaton street and the Wakefield line, in accordance with the recommendation of the Playground Commission, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 10. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to the purchase of a playground, and how much money they will raise and appropriate or otherwise provide for that purpose, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will authorize the Treas- urer to sell one one thousand ($1000) dollar bond Reading Water Loan, or what they will do in relation thereto.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will accept the Provisions of Chapter 635 of the Acts of 1912, known as the Tenemant House Act, or what they do in relation thereto.
Art. 13. To see what instructions the Town will give its Town Officers.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands this twenty-fifth day of October, A. D. 1913.
EDWIN L. HUTCHINSON, JAMES W. KILLAM, OTIS B. RUGGLES,
Selectmen of Reading.
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READING, MASS., October 27, 1913.
By virtue of the within warrant, I have this day notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, quali- fied to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet in the place and at the time within specified by posting attested copies of same in the following public places within the said Town of Reading as follows : Post Office, Lyceum Hall Building, Electric Light office, Frank Parker's barber shop, Horrocks' store, Main street barber shop, Reading Spa, Chapin's garage, Morse's lunch room, Danforth's drug store, Badger's real estate office, Town Building, Austin's lunch cart, Salem street garage, Pierce organ pipe factory, Moran's barber shop, Reading Co-operative store, Myers' lunch room, Reading depot, Hancock engine house, the same being more than seven days before the return hour hereof ; and causing the same to be published in the Reading Chronicle, issue of October 31, 1913, the same being more than one day before the return hour thereof.
Signed, ARDINE M. ALLEN, Constable of Reading.
TOWN MEETING
LYCEUM HALL, November 3, 1913.
Pursuant to a warrant issued a town meeting was held at the time and place specified therein and was called to order by the Town Clerk, Millard F. Charles. The warrant was partly read when Edwin L. Hutchinson moved to dis- pense with further reading except the Constable's return, and it was so voted.
Art. 1. Proceeded to the election of a Moderator. Whole number of votes cast, two. George L. Flint received that number and was declared elected.
Art. 2. On motion of Galen A. Parker it was voted that for the purpose of providing funds for furnishing and erecting a wire fence along the western boundary and mak-
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ing addition to the supply of water for the cemetery, the Town Accountant be and is hereby authorized to transfer from the Cemetery Reserve Fund from the sale of lots and graves the sum of six hundred fifty ($650) dollars to the Cemetery Appropriation.
Art. 3. On motion of Walter S. Parker it was voted that for the purpose of providing additional funds for the School Department for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1913, be it ordered that the Town Treasurer issue the note of the Town for twenty-seven hundred ($2700) dollars, paya- ble in one year, said note to be designated as School Defi- ciency Loan.
Art. 4. Voted to lay on the table.
Art. 5. On motion of Edwin L. Hutchinson it was voted that for the purpose of furnishing additional funds for the alterations and furnishings of the Central Fire Station, the Town Accountant be and hereby is authorized to transfer sixty ($60) dollars from licences and permits to the appro- priation for alterations and furnishings at the Central Fire Station.
Art. 6. On motion of Edwin L. Hutchinson it was voted to instruct the School Committee to use hard coal in all school houses on the beginning of the next school year, on and after that time.
Art. 11. On motion of Lewis M. Bancroft it was voted that the Town Treasurer be authorized to sell one one thou- sand ($1000) dollar Reading Water Bond, the proceeds to be used by the Water Department to pay for the extensions of the main pipe.
Art. 4. Voted to take from the table.
Art. 4. On motion of Edwin L. Hutchinson it was voted that the Sewerage Committee report in print one week from tonight at adjourned meeting to be held on Monday, Novem- ber 17, 1913.
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Art. 7. On motion of Jesse L. Morton it was voted to accept Section 3 as amended as follows :
Sect. 3. No building within the building limits as set forth in Section 8, except those which come under the pro- visions of the Revised Laws, Chapter 104, Section 22, and one story wooden buildings less than ten feet square. shall be erected, and no addition or alteration changing the char- acter of any such building, shall be made by any person unless he has received a permit therefor from the Inspector of Buildings. To obtain a permit the person intending to erect or make such alteration in such building shall, seven days at least before the work is begun, file with the Inspector a notice of the intention, with plan. together with specifica- tions or a full description of the proposed work. Outside of the building limits the provisions of this section shall apply to dwelling houses only.
On motion of Jesse W. Morton it was voted that Section 8 be adopted as amended.
Sect. S. All buildings hereafter erected which are to be used in whole or in part for business or manufacturing purposes, or as places for public meetings, which buildings are to be more than one story in height and which shall be erected within one hundred feet of an area bounded by a line beginning at the junction of Salem street and John street, thence running along John street to Village street, continuing to Washington street, thence turning and run- ning along Washington street to High street, thence along High street to Mount Vernon street, along Mount Vernon street to Linden street, along Linden street to Lowell street, along Lowell street to Salem street, along Salem street to John street at the point of beginning, shall be constructed of brick, stone or concrete, and having slate, metal or com- position roof covering and metal gutters, unless permission is otherwise given by the Board of Selectmen. And no such building shall be built in any part of the Town without a permit from the Selectmen having been first obtained after
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a written notice of the application for such a permit having been given to all owners of land within three hundred feet of the proposed location for such building, giving such owners an opportunity to attend a hearing on the matter before the Selectmen; such hearing shall be held by said Board and shall be held not less than seven days after giving of the notice aforesaid.
Sect. 9. No wooden building to be used for a dwelling house shall exceed forty-five feet in height, and no wooden building shall be built the walls of which to the main cor- nice exceed thirty feet in height; and no portion of any wooden building shall be placed at a less distance than ten feet from the side line of the lot upon which the building is to be located or within twenty feet of another wooden building, except where a masonry external wall is substituted for a wooden wall and carried to under side of roof covering, and of a thickness and in the manner prescribed for external walls of brick buildings, openings in same to be provided with fire-proof shutters. A wall with coating of cement on wood frame shall not be considered a masonry wall.
Sect. 10. In all wooden buildings not exceeding three stories in height the posts of which exceed twenty-two feet in length, the sills shall not be less than six by eight inches, and the posts not less than four by eight inches; in all such buildings, the posts of which are twenty-two feet or less in length, the sills shall not be less than six by six inches or four by eight inches, and the posts and girts not less than four by six inches ; in all wooden buildings the studding of the outside walls shall not be less than two by four inches, set sixteen inches on centres ; in all wooden buildings, the studding in all partitions carrying floor timbers shall be not less than two by four inches, set not more than sixteen inches on centres, and resting on girders not less than six by eight inches. Ledger boards may be used in place of girts in one and one-half story houses, or in dwellings where the attic floor is below the plates, if the studding spaces between which shall be filled with joists of same size as wall studs
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cut in tight so as to prevent a draft in case of fire. All one and one-half story buildings shall have end girts mortised, tennoned and pinned together.
Sect. 11. Floor timbers in dwelling houses, when of good sound timber set sixteen inches on centres, shall be of the following sizes : for a span not exceeding ten feet, the timbers shall not be less than two by seven inches; for a span not exceeding fourteen feet, the timbers shall be not less than two by eight inches; for a span not exceeding six- teen feet, the timbers shall be not less than two by nine inches; for a span not exceeding eighteen feet, the timbers shall be not less than two by twelve inches; for a span not exceeding twenty feet, the timbers shall be not less than two by fourteen inches ; for a span not exceeding twenty-two feet, the timbers shall be not less than three by twelve inches; for a span not exceeding twenty-four feet, the tim- bers shall be not less than three by fourteen inches in size, or of a size giving their equivalent in strength.
There shall be girders not less than six by eight inches under main partitions; there shall be floor timbers doubled, or their equivalent, under all cross partitions in the first floor of all dwellings. Headers and timbers of all openings more than four feet square in first floor of dwellings shall be floor joists doubled, or their equivalent. Beams carrying main or cross partitions in first floor shall be supported on piers or filled iron posts; trimmers in first floor over twelve feet in length shall be supported by a pier or post.
The attic floor timbers shall not be less than two by six inches for any attic, whether finished or unfinished, to which there is access which can be used for storage or other pur- poses.
All floor timbers with a span from ten to sixteen feet shall have one row of bridging; all floor timbers with a span of sixteen feet or more shall have a bridging at least every eight feet and all bridging stock shall be not less than one by two inches.
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All cutting of floor timbers for the passage of pipes shall be on their upper edges, and no cut shall exceed two inches in depth or be made more than three feet from the point of support of the timber unless the consent of the Inspector has first been obtained. No cutting in the under side of a floor timber will be allowed for any reason.
Sect. 30. The six following sections shall apply to every tenement or apartment house, and to every building to be used as a hotel, lodging or boarding house with accom- modations for more than ten lodgers above the first floor, and to every building of more than two and one-half stories within the building limits.
On motion of Jesse W. Morton it was voted that Sec- tion 11 be part of Section 10, and that all sections following be one less in number.
On motion of Jesse W. Morton it was voted to accept Article 37, now Article 36, as follows :
The partitions enclosing staircase halls shall be plastered on metal laths on both sides or be filled solidly between the studding with brick and mortar or concrete so as to form with the metal lathed ceiling above described a complete enclosure with no openings except for windows in external walls and for doors. In cellars or basements, staircases or staircase halls, shall be enclosed by brick walls, except in the case of a flight of cellar stairs not opening from a staircase hall on the first floor.
Art. 13. On motion of Edwin L. Hutchinson it was voted that the Selectmen be instructed to have the building laws approved by the Attorney-General.
Art. 13. Voted to lay on the table.
Art. 8. Voted to take up.
Art. 8. It was voted that for the purpose of acquiring land of Sumner E. Claggett containing fifteen acres more or less for a public playground, in accordance with Section 19, Chapter 28, of the Revised Laws and amendments thereto,
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be it ordered that the Town Treasurer under the direction of the Selectmen to issue, under the direction of the Selectmen, notes or bonds of the Town for six thousand ($6000) dollars payable one thousand ($1000) dollars each year at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent. per annum.
One hundred and twenty-six voted in favor, forty-two voted against.
Art. 9. It was voted to indefinitely postpone.
Art. 10. Voted to lay on table till adjourned meeting to be held on November 17, 1913, also referred to Playground Commission to report on at adjourned meeting in regard to a ball field, etc.
Art. 13. Voted to take from the table.
Art. 13. Voted that in the matter of a suit against the Town of Reading by Adelbert E. Batchelder the Selectmen have full powers to settle this suit.
Voted to adjourn to meet in this hall on Monday even- ing, November 17, 1913, at eight o'clock.
MILLARD F: CHARLES,
Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MIDDLESEX SS.
To either of the Constables of Reading, Greeting :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs to meet in Lower Lyceum Hall, in said Reading, on Tuesday, the fourth day of November next, it being the Tuesday next after the first Monday of said November, to bring in their votes to the Selectmen, for Governor, Lieu- tenant-Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver Gen-
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eral, Auditor, Attorney-General, of the Commonwealth, Councillor for the Sixth District, Senator for the Seventh Middlesex District, two Representatives in General Court of Massachusetts for Middlesex District Number 20, one County Commissioner, two Associate County Commissioners, District Attorney for Northern District, Register of Probate and Insolvency, Register of Deeds for Middlesex Southern District ; also to bring in their votes, yes or no on the accept- ance of the following :
Shall the proposed amendment to the Constitution mak- ing women eligible for appointment as notaries public be approved and ratified?
Shall the proposed amendment to the constitution authorizing the referendum be approved and ratified?
Shall Chapter 807 of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being an Act to provide for compensating laborers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained in public em- ployment and to exempt from legal liability, counties and municipalities which pay such compensation, be accepted by the inhabitants of the Town of Reading?
The polls will be opened at six o'clock A. M. and may closed at four be o'clock P. M.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to ourselves at or before the time appointed for said meeting.
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of October, A. D. 1913.
EDWIN L. HUTCHINSON, JAMES W. KILLAM, OTIS B. RUGGLES, Selectmen of Reading. READING, October 27, 1913.
By virtue of the within warrant, I have this day notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, quali- fied to vote in elections and Town affairs, to meet in the
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place and at the time within mentioned by posting attested copies of the same in the following public places within the said Town of Reading, namely : Post Office, Lyceum Hall building, Electric Light office, Frank Parker's barber shop, Horrocks' store, Main street barber shop, Reading Spa, Chapin's garage, Morse's lunch room, Danforth's drug store, Badger's real estate office, Town Building, Austin's lunch cart, Salem street garage, Pierce's organ pipe factory, Moran's barber shop, Reading Co-operative store, Myers' lunch room, Reading depot, Hancock engine house, the same being more than seven days before the return hour hereof and causing the same to be published in the Reading Chronicle, issue of October 31, 1913, the same being more than one day before the return hour thereof.
Signed, ARDINE M. ALLEN, Constable for the Town of Reading.
STATE ELECTION, NOVEMBER 4, 1913
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant, on which the Con- stable's return was duly made, a town meeting was held at the time and place therein specified in Lower Lyceum Hall, and was called to order by the presiding officer, Edwin L. Hutchinson, chairman of the Board of Selectmen. The Town Clerk, Millard F. Charles, delivered to him 1800 bal- lots for the State election, and the following ballot clerks and tellers were duly sworn by the Town Clerk :
James A. Waters, Samuel Rounds, Chester C. Richard- son, ballot clerks.
Richard N. B. Wilson, Bernard T. Granfield, Barthole- mew J. Lehan, William H. Baker, John D. Canty, Percy L. Horrocks, George M. Hutchinson, James A. Freeman, Syl- vanus L. Thompson, Frank W. Willis, tellers.
Prayer was offered by Reverend Joseph E. Waterhouse. The ballot box was duly examined and declared empty ; the keys of ballot box were delivered to Constable in charge
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Ardine M. Allen. The warrant was read and the polls were duly declared open. It was voted to close the polls at four o'clock and thirty minutes p. M.
The polls were duly closed at four o'clock and thirty minutes p. M.
The ballot box registered 1109 as having voted. The check list showed that 1106 voted and eleven hundred and six votes were counted with the following result :
GOVERNOR
Charles Sumner Bird of Walpole
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Alfred H. Evans of Northampton
1
Eugene N. Foss of Boston
29
Augustus P. Gardner of Hamilton
379
Arthur E. Reimer of Boston . 29
David I. Walsh of Fitchburg
203
George H. Wrenn of Springfield
6
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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Edward P. Barry of Boston
197
Daniel Cosgrove of Lowell
. 423
Augustus H. Goetting of Springfield
457
Albert J. Orem of Sharon
5
Peter O'Rourke of Medford
George E. Roewer, Jr., of Boston
3
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SECRETARY
Frank J. Donahue of Boston .
205
William S. Kinney of Boston
446
John A. Nichols of Boston
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Fred E. Oelcher of Peabody
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Ella M. Roberts of Springfield
5
Russell A. Wood of Cambridge Blanks
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TREASURER
Charles L. Burrill of Boston .
477
Charles E. Fenner of Worcester
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Thomas A. Frissel of Hinsdale
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Warren R. Keith of Brockton
379
Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston
193
Dennis McGoff of New Bedford Blanks
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AUDITOR
Herbert S. Brown of Greenfield
7
David Craig of Milford .
2
Octave A. LaRiviere of Springfield
359
Samuel P. Levenburg of Boston
4
Frank H. Pope of Leominster
191
John E. White of Tisbury
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ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Thomas J. Boynton of Everett
191
Freeman T. Crommett of Chelsea
4
John McCarty of Abington
2
H. Huestis Newton of Everett
367
Ingrar Paulson of Boston
2
James M. Swift of Fall River
486
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COUNCILLOR, 6TH DISTRICT
John J. Hogan of Lowell 183 .
Harrie C. Hunter of Marlborough
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G. Frederick Simpson of Newton 468
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SENATOR, 7TH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT
William F. Belcher of Saugus
. 395
Edward Fisher of Westford
. 205
Otto Reither of Lynn
. 424
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REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT, 20TH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT
Henry L. Andrews of Woburn 469
Irving F. Batchelder of North Reading 767
Dennis P. Blake of Woburn
163
Leon L. Dorr of Woburn
322
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COUNTY COMMISSIONER, MIDDLESEX COUNTY
Erson B. Barlow of Lowell
. 468
John B. McCloskey of Cambridge .
. 172
Charles H. McIntire of Lowell
. 377
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ASSOCIATE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Charles W. Atkins of Everett
. 339
Frederick P. Barnes of Newton 439
John J. Butler of Wakefield 184
George W. Enwright of Lowell
. 133
Edwin P. Fitzgerald of Somerville
347
Albert F. Parker of Pepperell
356
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NORTHERN DISTRICT
Philip M. Clark of Cambridge 374
William J. Corcoran of Cambridge 181
John J. Higgins of Somerville
459
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REGISTER OF PROBATE AND INSOLVENCY, MIDDLESEX COUNTY James T. Barrett of Cambridge
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William E. Rogers of Wakefield . 807
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REGISTER OF DEEDS, MIDDLESEX SOUTHERN DISTRICT J. Frank Facey of Cambridge 170
Thomas Leighton, Jr., of Cambridge 502
Albin M. Richards of Cambridge 343
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Shall the proposed amendment to the Constitution mak- ing women eligible to appointment as notaries public be approved and ratified?
Yes .
428
No
372
Blanks 306 Shall the proposed amendment to the Constitution authorizing the referendum be approved and ratified? Yes . 467 No . . 167
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Shall Chapter 807 of the Acts of nineteen hundred and thirteen, being an Act to provide for compensating laborers, workmen and mechanics for injuries sustained in public em- ployment and to exempt from legal liability counties and municipal corporations which pay such compensation, be accepted by the inhabitants of this county?
Yes . 536
No .
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The votes were sorted, counted and declared in open town meeting, as above recorded, whereupon it was voted to adjourn.
MILLARD F. CHARLES,
Town Clerk.
RECOUNT OF VOTES FOR REPRESENTATIVES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONER NOVEMBER 4, 1913
READING, November 11, 1913.
The Board of Registrars recounted the votes cast for County Commissioner and Representatives to the General Court with the following result :
REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERAL COURT, 20TH MIDDLESEX DISTRICT Henry L. Andrews of Woburn . 471
Irving F. Batchelder of North Reading · . 767 .
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Dennis P. Blake of Woburn
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Leon L. Dorr of Woburn ·
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COUNTY COMMISSIONER, MIDDLESEX COUNTY
Erson B. Barlow of Lowell 468
John B. McCloskey of Cambridge 172
Charles H. McIntire of Lowell 376
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MILLARD F. CHARLES,
Town Clerk.
RETURN OF VOTES CAST IN TWENTIETH MIDDLE- SEX REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX CITY OF WOBURN
In accordance with the provisions of Section 257, Chap- ter 11 of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts, the City Clerk of Woburn and the Town Clerks of Burlington, Reading, North Reading and Wilmington, being the City and Town Clerks of every city and town in Representative District No. 20, within said County, met at the City Hall, Woburn, at noon on Friday, November 14, A. D. 1913, being the tenth day succeeding the day of the State election held on Tuesday, November 4th, A. D. 1913, and then and there opened, examined and compared the copies of the records of votes cast at said election for the office of Representative and determined therefrom that Henry L. Andrews of Wo- burn and Irving F. Batchelder of North Reading were elected to the office of Representative.
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