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Page 101 - An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes", approved June 3, 1916 (39 Stat.
Page 122 - Except as hereinafter expressly provided, the terms " hawker " and " peddler " as used in this chapter shall mean and include any person, either principal or agent, who goes from town to town or from place to place in the same town selling or bartering, or carrying for sale or barter or exposing therefor, any goods, wares or merchandise, either on foot, on or from any animal or vehicle.
Page 87 - And whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing, had upon its own motion or upon complaint...
Page 15 - ... artificially colored or adulterated so as to cause it to look like an article of food in general use, and the sale of which may, by reason of such coloration or adulteration, cheat the general public into purchasing that which they may not intend to buy. The Constitution of the United States does not secure to any one the privilege of defrauding the public.
Page 11 - The general court shall have power to authorize the commonwealth to take land and to hold, improve, Sub-divide, build upon and sell the same, for the purpose of relieving congestion of population and providing homes for citizens...
Page 107 - Whoever, by himself, or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person...
Page 61 - Constitution. I am of the opinion that it was the intention of the...
Page 23 - ... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested under it, and which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right.
Page 53 - Notwithstanding these cases, the general rule holds good that whatever is contrary to public policy or inimical to the public interests is subject to the police power of the state, and within legislative control; and in the exertion of such power the legislature is vested with a large discretion, which, if exercised bona fide for the protection of the public, is beyond the reach of judicial inquiry.
Page 97 - Education, for the purposes hereinafter set forth; and with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities set forth in all general laws, which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to such corporations.