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Title
Town Warrant 1871 (copy)
Description
A copy of the original public warrant for the "Act of Incorporation of the Town of Maynard, Mass". This public notice requested all eligible voting citizens to attend a public meeting to be held at 1:00 PM, on April 27, 1871 at Riverside Hall for the express purpose of completing the process of organizing the Town following the incorporation of the Town of Maynard, Mass (on April 19, 1871). The Board of Town Officers were to be elected.
Creator
D. C. Osborn, Maynard, Mass (formerly Assabet, Mass.)
Date
1871-04-20
Identifier
2016.352
Format
10 x 11.5 in.
Source
Publisher
D. C. Osborn, Maynard, Mass
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Text
TOWN WARRANT.
To JOHN P. FUSTER, an inhabitant of the Town of Maynard, in the County of MIDDLESEX.
GREETING:
WHEREAS, by the 7th Section of an Act of the GENERAL COURT of MASSACHUSETTS, entitled an "Act to incorporate the TOWN of MAYNARD" in the County aforesaid, approved April 19th A. D. 1871, 'Any Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex, may issue his warrant directed to any inhabitant of the Town of Maynard, requiring him to warn the Inhabitants thereof, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet at the time and place therein appointed for the purpose of choosing all such Town Officers as Towns are by law authorized and required to choose at their annual meetings";
Therefore, I, Joseph W. Reed, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for the County aforesaid, do issue the following warrant:
IN THE NAME OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS,
you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the TOWN oF MAYNARD,
qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at RIVERSIDE HALL, in said town,
ON THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF APRIL, CURRENT,
AT ONE O'CLOCK P.M., TO ACT ON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES, VIZ.:
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting
Art. 2. To choose all such Town Officers, for the year ensuing, as towns are by law authorized and required to choose at their annual meetings.
And you are required to serve this Warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in five
public places, in said town, seven days at least before said meeting.
Hereof fail not to make due service of this Warrant, and to return your doings there-on at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under my hand this twentieth day of April, A. D. 1871.
JOSEPH W. REED: Justice of the Peace.
A TRUE COPY, ATTEST:
JOHN P. FOSTER; An Inhabitant of the Town of Maynard.
The above is a verbatim copy of the original WARRANT issued for the first TOWN MEETING, in MAYNARD for completing its organization by choosing a board of TOWN OFFICERS.
Printed b y D. C. Osborn, Maynard, formerly "Assabet," Mass.
To JOHN P. FUSTER, an inhabitant of the Town of Maynard, in the County of MIDDLESEX.
GREETING:
WHEREAS, by the 7th Section of an Act of the GENERAL COURT of MASSACHUSETTS, entitled an "Act to incorporate the TOWN of MAYNARD" in the County aforesaid, approved April 19th A. D. 1871, 'Any Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex, may issue his warrant directed to any inhabitant of the Town of Maynard, requiring him to warn the Inhabitants thereof, qualified to vote in Town affairs, to meet at the time and place therein appointed for the purpose of choosing all such Town Officers as Towns are by law authorized and required to choose at their annual meetings";
Therefore, I, Joseph W. Reed, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for the County aforesaid, do issue the following warrant:
IN THE NAME OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS,
you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the TOWN oF MAYNARD,
qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at RIVERSIDE HALL, in said town,
ON THURSDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF APRIL, CURRENT,
AT ONE O'CLOCK P.M., TO ACT ON THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES, VIZ.:
Art. 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting
Art. 2. To choose all such Town Officers, for the year ensuing, as towns are by law authorized and required to choose at their annual meetings.
And you are required to serve this Warrant, by posting attested copies thereof in five
public places, in said town, seven days at least before said meeting.
Hereof fail not to make due service of this Warrant, and to return your doings there-on at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under my hand this twentieth day of April, A. D. 1871.
JOSEPH W. REED: Justice of the Peace.
A TRUE COPY, ATTEST:
JOHN P. FOSTER; An Inhabitant of the Town of Maynard.
The above is a verbatim copy of the original WARRANT issued for the first TOWN MEETING, in MAYNARD for completing its organization by choosing a board of TOWN OFFICERS.
Printed b y D. C. Osborn, Maynard, formerly "Assabet," Mass.
Original Format
Paper
Storage
DB6