The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston

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J. E. Farwell & Company, printers, 1864 - 958 pages
 

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Page 548 - ... make a certificate, stating the amount of the capital so fixed and paid in ; which certificate shall be signed and sworn to by the president, treasurer, and...
Page 27 - Act are hereby repealed, said repeal to take effect on and after the passage of this Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before...
Page 332 - ... lunatic resides, of his intention to make such application ; and satisfactory evidence that such notice has been given shall be produced to the judge in cases of commitment, and to the trustees upon applications for admission.
Page 292 - Whenever the board of health shall think it necessary for the preservation of the lives or health of the inhabitants to enter a place, building or vessel in their township, for the purpose of examining into and destroying, removing or preventing any nuisance, source of filth or cause of -sickness, and shall be refused such entry, any member of the board may make complaint, under oath, to...
Page 594 - The police force of such city shall consist of the chief of police, and such number of policemen as shall from time to time be fixed and determined by the city council.
Page 25 - ... ward clerk to the clerk of the city. And it shall be the duty of the city clerk forthwith to enter such returns, or a plain and intelligible abstract of them, as they are successively received, in the journals of the proceedings of the board of aldermen, or in some other book kept for that purpose.
Page 622 - Any physician having attended a person during his last illness, shall — when requested within fifteen days after the decease of such person — forthwith furnish for registration a certificate of the duration of the last sickness, the disease of which the person died, and the date of his decease, as nearly as he can state the same.
Page 3 - The inhabitants of the town of Salem, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate, under the name of the city of Salem, and as such, shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations, now incumbent upon and appertaining to said town as a municipal corporation.
Page 769 - ... and by-laws, respecting such children, as shall be deemed most conducive to their welfare, and the good order of such city or town ; and there shall be annexed to such ordinances, suitable penalties, not exceeding, for any one breach, a fine of twenty dollars...
Page 28 - And that no suit or prosecution pending at the time of the said repeal, for any offence committed, or for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture incurred under the acts hereby repealed, shall be affected by such repeal...

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