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Councillor, for 6th Councillor District.
Senator, 7th Middlesex Senatorial District.
Representative in General Court, for 19th Representative District.
County Commissioners (2)-except Nantucket & Suffolk Counties, for Middlesex County.
Sheriff, for Middlesex County.
VACANCIES-In Middlesex County-A County Commissioner.
The Polls will be open from 12 M. to 8 P.M.
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Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid :
Given under our hands this 1st day of July, A.D. 1944.
IRVING F. FRENCH, BERNARD H. GREENE EDWARD J. SULLIVAN
Selectmen of Tewksbury.
A true copy : Attest :
CYRIL L. BARKER, Constable.
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, July 11, 1944.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
I have served the within warrant by posting up Attested copies thereof, one at each of the Public Meeting Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices, and by leaving 100 copies for the use of the Citizens at the Post Offices in said Town, eight days at least, and over two Sundays, before the time of holding said meeting.
Constable of Tewksbury, (Signed) CYRIL L. BARKER.
A true copy. Attest
ALICE A. PIKE, Town Clerk.
Tewksbury, Mass., July 11, 1944
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in State Primaries, held this day in the Town Hall, the following business was transacted. Polls opened at noon (12 o'clock) with Thomas F. Sullivan, Jesse J. French, Anna E. McPhillips, Malcolm D. Buchanan, William H. McGowan, and Harry A. Treadwell sworn as Tellers. Register showed 00000. Polls closed at 8 P.M. with register showing 392 which checked with the check lists. 352 Republi- can ballots and 40 Democratic ballots were cast. Following is the result of the count.
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REPUBLICAN PARTY
Governor
Horace T. Cahill 275
Blanks
77
Lieutenant Governor
Robert F. Bradford
259
Jarvis Hunt
14
Rudolph F. King
28
Daniel E. McLean
4
William H. McMasters
9
Blanks
38
Secretary
Frederick W. Cook
313
Blanks
39
Treasurer
Fred J. Burrell 185
Laurence Curtis
112
Blanks
55
Auditor
Frank A. Goodwin 172
Wallace E. Stearns
38
Russell A. Wood
102
Blanks
40
Attorney General
Clarence A. Barnes 192
Charles Fairhurst
23
James E. Farley
85
Blanks
52
Senator in Congress
Leverett
Saltonstall
313
Blanks
39
Congressman 5th Dist.
325
Edith Nourse Rogers
Blanks
27
40
Councillor 6th Dist.
Anthony H. Elwell 41
Victor A. Friend 82
William S. Howe 70
Arthur J. Mansfield
52
David Y. Ross
18
Blanks
89
Senator 7th Middlesex Dist.
Arthur W. Coolidge 295
Blanks 57
Representative General Court 19th Middlesex Dist.
Maurice J. De Mone 36
Alfred E. Dufour
5
Everett B. Fox
80
Walter A. Raney
6
Leo C. Roth
48
Harold E. Tivey
131
Blanks 46
County Commissioners Middlesex County-Vote for 2
Nathaniel I. Bowditch 206
William Andrew 65
John Frederick Cahill
63
Robert D. Donaldson
174
Ralph L. Garrett
14
J. Walten Tuttle
49
Blanks
133
Sheriff Middlesex County
Joseph M. McElroy
273
Blanks 79
County Commissioner Middlesex County to fill vacancy
Robert H. Adams
6
William B. Bailey
2
Francis D. Collings
0
Harold M. Estabrook
4
James G. Harris
3
Samuel Ingram
16
William M. Robinson
0
Melvin G. Rogers
318
4 4
Blanks 3
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Governor
Francis X. Hurley
14
Maurice J. Tobin
20
Blanks
0
Lieutenant Governor
John B. Carr
8
Alfred P. Farese
1
Alexander F. Sullivan
12
John S. Sullivan
14
Blanks
5
Secretary
John M. Bresnahan 19
Margaret M. O'Riordan
17
Blanks
4
Treasurer
John E. Hurley
24
Francis McKenna
3
Michael A. O'Leary
2
John F. Welch
4
Blanks
7
Auditor
Thomas J. Buckley
32
Blanks
8
Attorney General
John H. Backus
4
Francis Harrigan
8
Francis E. Kelly
14
Joseph M. McDonough
9
Blanks
5
Senator in Congress
John H. Corcoran
20
Joseph A. Langone, Jr.
1
Joseph Lee
4
Richard M. Russell
8
Blanks
7
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Congressman 5th Dist.
Milton A. Wesson 29
Blanks 11
Councillor 6th Dist.
Joseph M. Curley
30
Blanks
10
Senator 7th Middlesex Dist. 40
Blanks
Representative General Court 19th Middlesex Dist.
Thomas F. Murphy 28
Blanks
12
County Commissioner Middlesex County-Vote for 2
Thomas B. Brennan 26
Augustine F. Watson
22
Blanks
32
Sheriff Middlesex Dist.
Blanks
40
County Commissioner Middlesex County to fill vacancy Melvin G. Rogers
4 Blanks
36
A true record. Attest:
ALICE A. PIKE,
Town Clerk.
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TOWN WARRANT FOR STATE AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss:
To either of the Constables of the Town of Tewksbury in said County :
Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet and assemble at Town Hall in said Tewksbury,-
On Tuesday, the 7th Day of November, 1944
at eight o'clock A.M. to vote on the following Officers and Questions:
The Polls will be open from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M.
ELECTION OF President and Vice President, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General, Senator in Congress, Representative in Congress, Councillor, Senator, Represen- tative in General Court, County Commissioner, 1 County Commissioner to fill a vacancy, and Sheriff.
To vote on the following, mark a Cross X in the square at the right of YES or NO:
QUESTION NO. 1. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Shall an amendment to the constitution to provide for a Fair, Concise Summary, instead of a Description, of Each proposed Amend- ment to the Constitution and Each Law submitted to the People, under the Initiative and the Referendum, and Certain Changes relative to the Filing of Initiative Petitions which is further described as follows :-
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This amendment amends Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution by striking out section three under the heading "The Initiative. II. Initiative Petitions" and inserting in place thereof a new section which provides, --
That an initiative petition for a constitutional amendment or a law shall first be signed by ten qualified voters of the Commonwealth and shall be submitted to the Attorney General not later than the first Wednesday of the August before the assembling of the General Court into which it is to be introduced. It may be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth if the Attorney General shall certify that the measure and its title are in proper form and that it is not, affirmatively or negatively, substantially the same as any measure which has been qualified for submission or submitted to the people at either of the two preceding biennial state elections, and that it contains only subjects not excluded from the popular initiative and which are related or which are mutually dependent.
The Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of subsequent signers. He shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise sum- mary of the proposed measure, as determined by the Attorney General as it will appear upon the ballot, together with the names and residences of the first ten signers. All such petitions, with the first ten signatures attached, shall be filed with the Secretary not earlier than the first Wednesday of the September before the assembling of the Legislature into which they are to be introduced, and the remainder of the required signatures shall be filed not later than the first Wednesday of the following December.
Section 3 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading "The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions." is also amended by striking out the second sentence of such section and inserting in place thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of the signers of a referendum petition on a law requesting that the operation of such law be suspended subsequent to the first ten signers and shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise summary of the proposed law as determined by the Attorney General as it will appear upon the ballot, together with the names and residences of the first ten signers.
Section 4 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading "The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions.", is also amended by striking out the third sentence of such section and inserting in place thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of signers subsequent to the first ten signers of a referendum petition asking for the repeal of an emergency law or of a law which takes effect because the referendum petition does not contain a request for
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suspension, and shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise summary of the proposed law as such summary will appear on the ballot together with the names and residences of the first ten signers.
Article XLVIII is further amended by striking out subheading "III. Form of Ballot" and subheading "IV. Information for Voters" under the heading "General Provisions" and inserting in place thereof new subheadings III and IV, which provide, respectively:
III. FORM OF BALLOT.
A fair, concise summary of each proposed amendment to the Constitution and each law submitted to the people, as determined by the Attorney General shall be printed on the ballot. The Secretary shall give each question a number and cause such question, except as otherwise authorized in said article of amendment, to be printed on the ballot in the following form:
In the case of an amendment to the constitution: Do you approve of the adoption of an amendment to the constitution summarized below, (here state, in distinctive type, whether approved or disapproved by the general court, and by what vote thereon) ? Yes .- No.
(Set forth summary here)
In the case of a law: Do you approve of a law summarized below, (here state, in distinctive type, whether approved or disapproved by the general court, and by what vote thereon) ? Yes .- No.
(Set forth summary here)
IV. INFORMATION FOR VOTERS.
The Secretary shall print and send to each registered voter the full text of every measure to be submitted to the people, together with a copy of the legislative committee's majority and minority reports, with the names of the majority and minority members and a fair, concise summary of the measure as such summary will appear on the ballot and, in such manner as may be provided by law, other arguments for and against the measure,-
which proposed amendment was approved by the General Court and in a joint session of the two branches held July 8, 1941 received 201 votes in the affirmative and 2 in the YES negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 12, 1943, received 214 votes in the affirmative and NO 5 in the negative,-be approved ?
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QUESTION NO. 2. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Shall an amendment to the constitution to provide that the General Court may prescribe the terms and conditions under which pardons of offences which are felonies may be granted which is further described as follows :-
This article of amendment to the Constitution of Massachusetts annuls Article VIII of section 1 of chapter II of Part of the Second of the Constitution, which vested the Governor, by and with the advice of the Council, with the full and unrestricted power of pardoning offences of which a person is convicted, except such as persons may be convicted of before the Senate by an impeachment of the House, and adopts a new Article VIII in place thereof.
This new Article VIII vests the pardoning power in the Governor, by and with the advice of the Council, but provides further that if the offense to be pardoned is a felony the Legislature shall have power to prescribe the terms and conditions upon which a pardon may be granted.
The new Article VIII contains the same provisions as the old with relation to the ineffectiveness of pardons granted before a conviction,- which proposed amendment was approved by the General Court and in a joint session of the two branches held July 8, 1941, received 199 votes in the affirmative and 1 in the YES negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 12, 1943, received 198 votes in the affirmative NO and 0 in the negative,-be approved?
QUESTION NO. 3. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Shall an amendment to the constitution restoring Annual Sessions of the General Court and an Annual Budget which is further described as follows :-
This amendment to the Constitution of Massachusetts annuls Article LXXII of the Amendments which provided for biennal sessions of the Legislature and a biennial budget, and makes effective those earlier provisions of the Constitution and its Amendments which were annulled or affected by said Article LXXII,-
which proposed amendment was approved by the General Court and in a joint session of the two branches held July 8, 1941, received 172 votes in the affirmative and 38 in the YES negative, and in a joint session of the two branches May 12, 1943, received 188 votes in the affirmative and NO 52 in the negative,-be approved ?
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QUESTION NO. 4. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Shall an amendment to the constitution providing for Absent Voting by Qualified Voters who by reason of Physical Disability are unable to vote in Person which is further described as follows :-
This amendment to the Constitution of Massachusetts annuls Article XLV of the Amendments to the Constitution which related to absentee voting and adopts in its place a new Article XLV which authorizes the Legislature to provide for voting, in the choice of any officer to be elected or upon any question submitted at an election, by qualified voters of the Commonwealth who at the time of such an election are absent from the city or town of which they are inhabitants or are unable by reason of physical disability to cast their votes in person,-
which proposed amendment was approved by the General Court and in a joint session of the two branches held July 8, 1941, received 171 votes in the affirmative and 30 in the YES negative, and in a joint session of the two branches held May 27, 1943, received 184 votes in the affirmative NO and 61 in the negative,-be approved ?
QUESTION NO. 5. LAW SUBMITTED UPON REFERENDUM AFTER PASSAGE
Shall a law described as follows :- This law amends chapter 271 of the General Laws by striking out section 22A, as previously amended, and inserting in place thereof a new section 22A, which provides that conducting or promoting a game of whist or bridge in connection with which prizes are offered to be won by chance, or allowing such a game to be conducted or promoted, shall not authorize the prosecution, arrest or conviction of any person for such acts under chapter 271 of the General Laws, which deals with crimes against public policy, if the entire proceeds of the charges for admission to such game are donated solely to charitable, civic, educational, fraternal or religious purposes. This new section does not contain, as did the section now stricken out, provisions authorizing the licensing and conducting of the game of beano,- YES
which section was approved by both branches of the General Court by vote not recorded,- -be approved ?
NO
1
To obtain a full expression of opinion, voters should vote on all three of the following questions :-
(a) If a voter desires to permit the sale in this city (or town) of
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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 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 scld, he will vote "NO" on all three questions.
1. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages (whisky, rum, gin, malt beverages, wines and all other alcoholic beverages) ?
YES
NO
2. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of wines and malt beverages (wines and beer, ale and all other malt beverages) ?
YES
NO
3. Shall licenses be granted in this city (or town) for the sale therein of all alcoholic beverages in packages, so called, not to be drunk on the premises?
YES
NO
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant, with your doings there on, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid:
Given under our hands this 23rd day of October A.D. 1944.
IRVING F. FRENCH, BERNARD H. GREENE
EDWARD J. SULLIVAN Selectmen of Tewksbury.
A true copy. Attest :
CYRIL L. BARKER, Constable.
Saturday October 28, 1944.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
November 7, 1944.
Middlesex ss.
I have served the within Warrant by posting up Attested copies thereof, one in each of the Public Meeting Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices, and by leaving 100 copies for the use of the Citizens at the Post Offices in said town, eight days at least, and over two Sundays, before the time of holding said meeting.
CYRIL L. BARKER,
Constable of Tewksbury
A true copy. Attest:
ALICE A. PIKE,
Town Clerk.
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Town of Tewksbury November 7, 1944.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
At a Meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Tewksbury, qualified to vote in State and Presidential Elections, held this day in the Town Hall, the following business was transacted. Polls opened at 8 o'clock A.M. with Jesse J. French, Thomas F. Sullivan, Anna E. McPhillips, William H. McGowan, William I. Bailey, Harry A. Tread- well, Rose J. Furtado and Malcolm Buchanan sworn in as Tellers by Irving F. French, Warden. Register on ballot box showed 00000. The Polls closed at 8 P.M. and register showed 1576 but on three different occasions register recorded twice for one ballot which caused the final number shown to be three more than there were voters checked on the Voting List and also three more than there were ballots counted as votes actually cast. Therefore the correct number of votes cast this day was 1573. Thirty-three ballots were cast for "unregistered service persons" and sixty-three for service persons on Voting List.
Following is official result of count.
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT
Dewey and Bricker, Republican Party 885
Roosevelt and Truman, Democratic Party 641
Teichert and Albaugh, Socialist Labor Party 2
Watson and Johnson, Prohibition Party. 0
2
Blanks
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Governor
Horace T. Cahill, Republican Party. 821
Maurice J. Tobin, Democratic Party 721
Henning A. Blomen, Socialist Labor Party
2
Guy S. Williams, Prohibition Party
3
George F. Paine 1
Blanks 25
Lieutenant Governor
Robert F. Bradford, Republican Party 958
John B. Carr, Democratic Party 542
Alfred Erickson, Prohibition Party
3
George Leo McGlynn, Socialist Labor Party
8
Blanks 62
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Thomas and Hoopes.
Secretary
Frederick W. Cook, Republican Party 1006
Margaret M. O'Riordan, Democratic Party 486
Horace I. Hillis, Socialist Labor Party 4
Blanks 77
Auditor
Thomas J. Buckley, Democratic Party 611
Frank A. Goodwin, Republican Party 876
Cote Elvel Palmquist, Socialist Labor Party 7
Charles E. Vaughan, Prohibition Party 1
Blanks 78
Treasurer
Fred J. Burrell, Republican Party 802
John E. Hurley, Democratic Party. 660
Herbert Crabtree, Socialist Labor Party 12
4
Earle L. Smith, Prohibition Party
Blanks 95
Attorney General
Clarence A. Barnes, Republican Party 889
Francis E. Kelly, Democratic Party 587
Fred E. Oelcher, Socialist Labor Party 5
Howard B. Rand, Prohibition Party 5
Blanks 87
Senator in Congress (To fill vacancy)
John H. Corcoran, Democratic Party 473
Leverett Saltonstall, Republican Party 1032
Bernard G. Kelly, Socialist Labor Party 14
E. Tallmadge Root, Prohibition 4
Blanks 50
Congressman (5th District)
Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican Party. 1168
Milton A. Wesson, Democratic Party 354
Blanks 51
Councillor (6th District)
Joseph M. Curley, Democratic Party 577
Victor A. Friend, Republican Party. 876
Blanks
120
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Senator (7th Middlesex District)
Arthur W. Coolidge, Republican Party. 1143
Blanks 430
Representative in General Court (19th Middlesex District)
Thomas F. Murphy, Democratic Party. 621
Harold E. Tivey, Republican Party. 839
John Belton 1
Blanks 112
County Commissioners (Middlesex County)
Vote for Two
William A. Andrew, Republican Party 826
Nathaniel I. Bowditch, Republican Party 749
Thomas B. Brennan, Democratic Party 455
Augustine F. Watson, Democratic Party 523
Blanks 593
Sheriff (Middlesex County)
Joseph M. McElroy, Republican Party. 1225
Blanks 348
County Commissioners (Middlesex County)
To Fill Vacancy
Melvin G. Rogers, Republican Party 1326
Blanks 247
QUESTION NO. 1. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Shall an amendment to the constitution to provide for a Fair, Concise Summary, instead of a Description, of Each proposed Amend- ment to the Constitution and Each Law submitted to the People, under the Initiative and the Referendum, and Certain Changes relative to the Filing of Initiative Petitions which is further described as follows :-
This amendment amends Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution by striking out section three under the heading "The Initiative. II. Initiative Petitions" and inserting in place thereof a new section which provides, ---
That an initiative petition for a constitutional amendment or a law shall first be signed by ten qualified voters of the Commonwealth and shall be submitted to the Attorney General not later than the first
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Wednesday of the August before the assembling of the General Court into which it is to be introduced. It may be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth if the Attorney General shall certify that the measure and its title are in proper form and that it is not, affirmatively or negatively, substantially the same as any measure which has been qualified for submission or submitted to the people at either of the two preceding biennial state elections, and that it contains only subjects not excluded from the popular initiative and which are related or which are mutually dependent.
The Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of subsequent signers. He shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise sum- mary of the proposed measure, as determined by the Attorney General as it will appear upon the ballot, together with the names and residences of the first ten signers. All such petitions, with the first ten signatures attached, shall be filed with the Secretary not earlier than the first Wednesday of the September before the assembling of the Legislature into which they are to be introduced, and the remainder of the required signatures shall be filed not later than the first Wednesday of the following December.
Section 3 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading "The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions." is also amended by striking out the second sentence of such section and inserting in place thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of the signers of a referendum petition on a law requesting that the operation of such law be suspended subsequent to the first ten signers and shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise summary of the proposed law as determined by the Attorney General as it will appear upon the ballot, together with the names and residences of the first ten signers.
Section 4 of that part of said Article XLVIII under the heading "The Referendum. III. Referendum Petitions.", is also amended by striking out the third sentence of such section and inserting in place thereof provisions that the Secretary shall provide blanks for the use of signers subsequent to the first ten signers of a referendum petition asking for the repeal of an emergency law or of a law which takes effect because the referendum petition does not contain a request for suspension, and shall print at the top of each blank a fair, concise summary of the proposed law as such summary will appear on the ballot together with the names and residences of the first ten signers.
Article XLVIII is further amended by striking out subheading "III. Form of Ballot" and subheading "IV. Information for Voters" under the heading "General Provisions" and inserting in place thereof new subheadings III and IV, which provide, respectively:
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III. FORM OF BALLOT.
A fair, concise summary of each proposed amendment to the Constitution and each law submitted to the people, as determined by the Attorney General shall be printed on the ballot. The Secretary shall give each question a number and cause such question, except as otherwise authorized in said article of amendment, to be printed on the ballot in the following form:
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