Secretary's Report, Volume 8

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1914

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Page 103 - An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," is hereby amended so as to read as follows : § 1850.
Page 63 - This special Board was appointed under chapter 291 of the Acts of 1895, which provided for an investigation of the wants of the port of Boston for an improved system of docks and wharves, and terminal facilities in connection therewith.
Page 66 - In 1889 he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Arts and Sciences; in 1892, Associate Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia ; in 1893, Honorary Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland...
Page 51 - Railroad and the other which included the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and the Boston & Maine Railroad, and running through the New York gateway.
Page 55 - ... High School, the latter half in the law office of Nathan Webb, Esq., afterwards United States District Judge. The next year Cummings passed in Cambridge as a member of the Law School, holding also, after Thanksgiving, the office of proctor in the College. He received, October, 1866, the appointment as tutor in Latin in Harvard University, a position which he held till March, 1870. He then resigned, and immediately began the study of law; he was admitted to the bar, May 3, 1871. In September,...
Page 69 - ... Medical Practice. Trans. Assoc. Am. Phys., 1898, xiii, 8. Typhoid Fever at the Massachusetts General Hospital during the Past Seventy-eight Years. Mortality; Intestinal Hemorrhage; Perforation; Relapse. Trans. N. Y. State Med. Assoc., 1899, xvi, 13; BOSTON MED.
Page 103 - AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled, "An act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of New York," relating to the selection of grand jurors.
Page 109 - He then entered the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, and graduated therefrom in 1874.
Page 67 - He is surgeon, with the rank of first lieutenant, in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army.
Page 63 - ... legislature and was secretary of the Republican state committee, 1877-79. He was a member of the state senate, 1880-83, and was its president in 1883. In February, 1887, he was appointed a member of the state board of railroad commissioners and was its chairman until January, 1892, when he resigned. In July, 1894, he was appointed by the governor a member of the Boston transit commission and was elected chairman of the commission. Among the principal works of this commission was the building...

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