Acts and Resolves Passed by the General CourtUniversity Press of Cambridge, 1905 |
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... PLACIDAM SVB LIBERTATE QUIETEM A CONSTITUTION OR FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE Commonwealth of. BOSTON : WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO . , STATE PRINTERS , 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE . 1905 . unnatural . prompt . except , 7 Pick . 366.
... PLACIDAM SVB LIBERTATE QUIETEM A CONSTITUTION OR FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE Commonwealth of. BOSTON : WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO . , STATE PRINTERS , 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE . 1905 . unnatural . prompt . except , 7 Pick . 366.
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... Boston , the county commissioners of other counties than Suffolk , — or in lieu of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Boston , or of the county commissioners in each county other than Suffolk , such board of special commissioners ...
... Boston , the county commissioners of other counties than Suffolk , — or in lieu of the mayor and aldermen of the city of Boston , or of the county commissioners in each county other than Suffolk , such board of special commissioners ...
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... Boston . the Commonwealth from the ordinary revenue , to be ex- pended by the harbor and land commissioners in dredging a part of the southerly shore of South Boston during the year nineteen hundred and five . SECTION 2. This act ...
... Boston . the Commonwealth from the ordinary revenue , to be ex- pended by the harbor and land commissioners in dredging a part of the southerly shore of South Boston during the year nineteen hundred and five . SECTION 2. This act ...
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... Boston and Cambridge , a dam , at least sufficiently high to hold back all tides and to maintain in the basin above the dam a substantially permanent water level not less than eight feet above Boston base . The dam shall occupy ...
... Boston and Cambridge , a dam , at least sufficiently high to hold back all tides and to maintain in the basin above the dam a substantially permanent water level not less than eight feet above Boston base . The dam shall occupy ...
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... Boston insane hospital , Insane persons as provided for by chapter four hundred and fifty - one of in Boston in- the acts of the year nineteen hundred , a sum not exceeding ninety - eight thousand dollars . sane hospital . certain state ...
... Boston insane hospital , Insane persons as provided for by chapter four hundred and fifty - one of in Boston in- the acts of the year nineteen hundred , a sum not exceeding ninety - eight thousand dollars . sane hospital . certain state ...
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ACT RELATIVE act shall take ACT TO AUTHORIZE aforesaid amended by striking amount annual appointed Approved April Approved February Approved March April 26 assessed authorized by chapter Berkshire bonds Boston Chap chapter four hundred chapter one hundred city or town clerk commander-in-chief commission commissioners Commonwealth corporation damages dred Dukes County duty easements eighteen hundred election enacted expenses February 9 five hundred dollars forty dollars governor hereby amended hereby authorized hospital hundred and five hundred and forty hundred and four insane inserting in place land license Loan March 17 Massachusetts ment mentioned are appro naval brigade nineteen hundred notes or scrip officers ordinary revenue passage payment person place thereof Plainville prison purpose railroad registry of deeds repealed Resolved Revised Laws salary sand dollars SECT selectmen senate Suffolk county sum not exceeding take effect thousand dollars tion treasury trustees vote Worcester Wrentham
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Page 156 - The shareholders of every national banking association shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts and engagements of such association, to the extent of the amount of their stock therein, at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares...
Page 3 - 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 6 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life ; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.
Page 4 - III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Page 4 - Legislature with power to authorize and require, and the Legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 48 - Representatives, and who shall have paid, by himself, or his parent, master, or guardian, any State or county tax, which shall, within two years next preceding such election, have been assessed upon him, in any town or district of this Commonwealth ; and also, every citizen who shall be by law exempted from taxation, and who shall be in all other respects qualified as above mentioned...
Page 5 - And all moneys, paid by the subject to the support of public worship, and of the public teachers aforesaid, shall, if he require it, be uniformly applied to the support of the public teacher or teachers of his own religious sect or denomination, provided there be any on whose instructions he attends...
Page 29 - ... 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 7 - 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 7 - ... suspected persons, or to seize their property, be not accompanied with a special designation of the persons or objects of search, arrest, or seizure; and no warrant ought to be issued but in cases, and with the formalities, prescribed by the laws.