Ordinances of the City of Boston, Passed Since August 1, 1874: & Acts of the Legislature of Massachusetts, on Municipal Subjects Passed in 1874 ...Rockwell & Churchill, 1875 - 67 pages |
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Page 53 - ... 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 55 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 34 - ... payment, made either upon the person assessed or upon any person occupying the estate ; such sale to be conducted in like manner as sales for the nonpayment of taxes.
Page 19 - The commission, to make any taking by right of eminent domain, shall cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county of Suffolk a description of the lands, easements, estates or rights to be taken, as certain as is required in a common conveyance of land...
Page 23 - ... idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, and persons convicted of any infamous crime, shall be enrolled in the militia.
Page 59 - ... may from time to time determine. The said board may be empowered by said city council to exercise all or any of the powers conferred by the statutes of the commonwealth upon the city of Boston, with reference to supplying said city with water, or of the Cochituate and...
Page 23 - Persons so convicted after enrolment shall forthwith be disenrolled ; and in all cases of doubt respecting the age of a person enrolled, the burden of proof shall be upon him. SECTION 2. Assessors shall annually in May or June Assessor* to make a list of persons living within their respective limits anTcierks...
Page 27 - Whenever any corporation shall cease to require the services of any of the railroad police appointed upon its petition, it may file a notice to that effect in the several offices in which notice of such appointment was originally filed, and thereupon the power of such officers shall cease.
Page 45 - The certificate executed as provided in the last section shall be recorded with the articles of association, and the original certificate, or a duly certified copy of the record thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of the' establishment of the corporation at the date of such certificate.
Page 31 - ... and we further certify that said town raised the sum of dollars for the support of public schools for...