Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of MassachusettsSecretary of the Commonwealth., 1902 |
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ACT RELATIVE act shall take ACT TO AUTHORIZE aforesaid allowed and paid amended by striking amount annual appointed Approved April Approved February Approved June Approved March April 17 assessed authorized by chapter Berkshire bonds Chap chapter one hundred city of Boston city or town clerk commission common carrier Commonwealth corporation damages dred easements eighteen hundred election enacted February 25 five hundred dollars grade crossings Haverhill hereby amended hereby authorized inserting in place issue June 27 land Laws is hereby loan March 12 March 26 Massachusetts mayor ment monwealth nineteen hundred notes or scrip ordinary revenue passage payment person place thereof purchase purposes read as follows registry of deeds Revised Laws SECT selectmen sewer sinking fund street railway company sum not exceeding sums hereinafter mentioned superior court take effect thereof the words thousand dollars three hundred tion treasury twenty-five vote voters Ward Worcester
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Page 9 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent, as the lot of humanity will admit.
Page 6 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
Page 17 - ... rules and orders of proceeding in their own house. They shall have authority to punish, by imprisonment, every person, not a member, who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house, by any disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence...
Page 20 - ... to take and surprise by all ways and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons, with their ships, arms, ammunition and other goods, as shall, in a hostile manner, invade, or attempt the invading, conquering, or annoying this Commonwealth...
Page 29 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all .future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them ; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns...
Page 15 - The senate shall be a court with full authority to hear and determine all impeachments made by the house of representatives, against any officer or officers of the commonwealth, for misconduct and mal-administration in their offices.
Page 21 - Governor shall not, at any time hereafter, by virtue of any power by this Constitution granted, or hereafter to be granted to him by the legislature, transport any of the inhabitants of this Commonwealth, or oblige them to march out of the limits of the same, without their free and voluntary consent, or the consent of the General Court...
Page 458 - A general partner shall have all the rights and powers and be subject to all the restrictions and liabilities of a partner in a partnership without limited partners...
Page 44 - All moneys raised by taxation in the towns and cities for the support, of public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated by the state for the support of common schools, shall be applied to, and expended in. no other schools than those which are conducted according to law, under the order and superintendence of the authorities of the town or city in which the money is to be expended ; and such moneys shall never be appropriated to any religious sect for the maintenance, exclusively, of its...
Page 350 - One of said registrars shall hold his office for the term of three years, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of one year, from the first day of April in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four.