Acts and Resolves Passed by the General CourtUniversity Press of Cambridge, 1906 |
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ACT RELATIVE act shall take aforesaid amended by striking amount annual apply appointed appropriated Approved April Approved March April 28 assessed authorized by chapter Berkshire board of aldermen board of railroad bonds Boston certificate Chap chapter four hundred chapter one hundred cities and towns city of Boston city or town clerk commis commission Commonwealth construction damages district dred easements eighteen hundred election elevated railway enacted expenses fifty dollars filed governor hereby amended hereby authorized highway hundred and six inserting in place issue land lars loan Mass Massachusetts Massachusetts highway commission mayor ment Middlesex nineteen hundred paid passage payment person place thereof police probate provisions of section purpose railroad commissioners railroad corporation read as follows registry of deeds Resolved Revised Laws salary SECT selectmen sinking fund street railway company sum not exceeding superior court take effect thousand dollars tion trustees vote
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Page 8 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 9 - ALL men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights ; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Page 8 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Page 11 - Every subject of the Commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it; completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay ; conformably to the laws.
Page 422 - ... one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years ; and one member of said board shall be elected annually thereafter, who shall hold his office for three years.
Page 11 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
Page 34 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all .future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them ; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns...
Page 39 - This form of government shall be enrolled on parchment, and deposited in the secretary's office, and be a part of the laws of the land; and printed copies thereof shall be prefixed to the book containing the laws of this Commonwealth, in all future editions of the said laws.
Page 13 - The people have a right, in an orderly and peaceable manner to assemble to consult upon the common good; give instructions to their representatives, and to request of the legislative body, by the way of addresses, petitions, or remonstrances, redress of the wrongs done them, and of the grievances they suffer.
Page 9 - We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other...