Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volumes 10-17Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1868 |
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Page xxxi - 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 331 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page x - SECT. 2. No child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment more than sixty hours in one week.
Page 371 - That we should avail ourselves of responsible societies and organizations which aim to reform, support or help any class of dependents, thus lessening the direct agency of the State, and enlarging that of the people themselves. " 6. That we should build up public institutions only in the last resort.
Page xii - Education, for the purposes hereinafter set forth; and with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities set forth in all general laws, which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to such corporations.
Page xiii - ... with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions and liabilities, set forth in the sixty-eighth chapter of the General Statutes.
Page 21 - Overseers of the poor shall keep full and accurate records of the paupers fully supported, the persons relieved and partially supported, and the travelers and vagrants lodged at the expense of their respective towns, together with the amount paid by them for such support and relief...
Page viii - ... evidence first reported to the commissioners of state aid, and satisfactory to them, that justice and necessity require a continuance of the aid to prevent actual suffering.
Page x - ... a public or private day school approved by the school committee of the place in which such school is kept, during a term of six months, shall be deemed the equivalent of three months...
Page vii - No person shall be entitled to receive state aid under the provisions of section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six...