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Page 3 - Laboratory, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a laboratory or station for scientific study and investigation, and a school for instruction in biology and natural history, and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth...
Page 3 - Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said [the names of the subscribers to the agreement of association], their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as, and are hereby made, an existing corporation under the name of [name of the corporation], with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto.
Page 108 - The assessors of each place shall, at the time appointed, make a fair cash valuation of all the estate, real and personal, subject to taxation, therein.
Page 7 - The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Association and of the Board of Government, and keep accurate records of their doings.
Page 3 - ... and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this commonwealth in such case made and provided...
Page 69 - the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before...
Page 6 - It shall be the duty of all members of the Association to make returns to the Secretary of such statistics as may be called for by him, under the direction of any committee duly appointed for the collection of statistics, when not incompatible with private interests. OFFICERS. ARTICLE 6.
Page 115 - If a sinking fund is created for replacing the machinery, three per cent, of the cost would replace it in twenty-four years. There is usually some value to machinery in a mill, even if the property were to be dismantled ; but old machinery has no value except for scrap, which is very small, as the cost of taking down is about as much as the value of the scrap. SHAFTING, BELTING AND PIPING. In an ordinary white mill it is known approximately how much these items should amount to if new. It is possible...
Page 115 - ... still there, perhaps for the same reason that the bridge remained which the engineer had figured could not hold up its load. When asked how he explained the fact that it did stand up, he said that the only reason that he could give was that it stood from force of habit. Some machines remain and do work long after it would be profitable to replace them. The value of such machinery to a purchaser is practically nothing, except that it may complete the organization of the mill and allow it to run...
Page 160 - Brahmen must be made of cotton, so as to be put on over his head, in three strings ; that of a Cshatriya, of sana thread only ; that of a Vaisya, of woollen thread.