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Page 90 - 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 own school.
Page 84 - When a medical examiner has notice that there has been found, or is lying within his county, the dead body of a person who is supposed to have come to his death by violence, he shall forthwith repair to the place where such body lies, and take charge of the same ; and if, on view thereof and personal inquiry into the cause and manner of the death, he deems a further examination necessary, he shall...
Page 47 - ... not to join or become a member of any labor organization, as a condition of such person or persons securing employment, or continuing in the employment of any such person or persons, employer or employers, corporation or corporations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 52 - ... shall hereafter issue only such amounts of stock and bonds, as may from time to time, upon investigation by the board of gas and electric light commissioners be deemed and be voted by them to be reasonably requisite for the purposes for which such issue of stock or bonds has been authorized.
Page 74 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for the "endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 60 - A city by ordinance, and a town by vote, may require the school committee annually to appoint a superintendent, who, under the direction and control of said committee, shall have the care and supervision of the public schools...
Page 90 - 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 commonwealth for the support of common schools shall be applied to, and expended in, no other schools than those which are...
Page 34 - The event or change of circumstances on which a law may be made to take effect must be such as, in the judgment of the legislature, affects the...
Page 32 - Such an act may be amended ; that is, it may be changed by additions to its terms or by qualifications of the same.
Page 35 - That the commissioners on the topographical survey and map of Massachusetts are hereby authorized and directed, acting with any officer or agent who may be authorized or appointed for a like purpose by the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, to locate, define and mark by appropriate monuments a series of straight lines along the jurisdictional line between the territory of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, from the so-called...