Acts and Resolves Passed by the General CourtUniversity Press of Cambridge, 1905 |
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... purpose of electing persons to be senators and coun- seded by amend . cillors ; [ and at such meetings every male inhabitant of III . , XX . , twenty - one years of age and upwards , having a freehold XXX . , XXXI . estate within the ...
... purpose of electing persons to be senators and coun- seded by amend . cillors ; [ and at such meetings every male inhabitant of III . , XX . , twenty - one years of age and upwards , having a freehold XXX . , XXXI . estate within the ...
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... purpose shall be held annually [ on the same first Monday in April ] , at such place in the plantations , respectively , as the assessors thereof shall direct ; which assessors shall have like authority for notifying the elec- tors ...
... purpose shall be held annually [ on the same first Monday in April ] , at such place in the plantations , respectively , as the assessors thereof shall direct ; which assessors shall have like authority for notifying the elec- tors ...
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... purpose of collecting their sentiments on the necessity or expediency of revising the constitution , in order to amendments . And if it shall appear , by the returns made , that two- Provision for thirds of the qualified voters ...
... purpose of collecting their sentiments on the necessity or expediency of revising the constitution , in order to amendments . And if it shall appear , by the returns made , that two- Provision for thirds of the qualified voters ...
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... purpose , change the par value of its capital stock from one hundred dollars a share to ten dollars a share , may ... purposes specified , for the year ending on the thirty - first day of December , nine- teen hundred and five , to ...
... purpose , change the par value of its capital stock from one hundred dollars a share to ten dollars a share , may ... purposes specified , for the year ending on the thirty - first day of December , nine- teen hundred and five , to ...
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... purpose . SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage . Approved February 15 , 1905 . Chap . 75 AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES Taunton in- sane hospital . AT THE TAUNTON INSANE HOSPITAL . Be it enacted ...
... purpose . SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage . Approved February 15 , 1905 . Chap . 75 AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES Taunton in- sane hospital . AT THE TAUNTON INSANE HOSPITAL . Be it enacted ...
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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.