Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of MassachusettsSecretary of the Commonwealth., 1855 - Law |
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Act concerning Act in addition act shall take Act to authorize Act to incorporate aforesaid almshouses amended appointed Approved April April 14 April 27 associates and successors bank bridge capital stock Chap Charles River Railroad Charlestown city or town clerk commissioners Commonwealth corporation council Court assembled court of common Danvers dollars and fifty duties eighteen hundred election enacted established exceeding fifty cents Fish Weir Fitchburg Railroad Company follows forty-fourth chapter Governor hands employed hereafter hereby authorized hereby repealed House of Representa hundred dollars inhabitants issued jurisdiction justice land legislature manner manufactured March 26 mayor and aldermen Mystic River number of hands offence paid passage peace Penalty police court purpose Railroad Company real estate Resolved Revised Statutes River SECT selectmen Senate and House take effect takes the name thereof thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion tives treasurer trustees vote warrant West Roxbury wharf
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Page 1015 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them : the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 1007 - is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 1008 - Therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require...
Page 1033 - Whereas our wise and pious ancestors, so early as the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-six, laid the foundation of Harvard College, in which university many persons of great eminence have, by the blessing of God, been initiated in those arts and sciences which qualified them for public employments, both in church and state...
Page 1021 - 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. But previous to the trial of every impeachment the members of the senate shall respectively be sworn, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence.
Page 1007 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Page 1038 - The privilege and benefit of the writ of habeas corpus shall be enjoyed in this commonwealth in the most free, easy, cheap, expeditious, and ample manner; and shall not be suspended by the legislature, except upon the most urgent and pressing occasions, and for a limited time, not exceeding twelve months.
Page 1038 - All writs, issuing out of the clerk's office in any of the courts of law, shall be in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; they shall be under the seal of the court from whence they issue; they shall bear test of the first justice of the court to which they shall be returnable, who is not a party, and be signed by the clerk of such court.
Page 1018 - And while the public charges of government, or any part thereof, shall be assessed on polls and estates, in the manner that has hitherto been practised, in order that such assessments may be made with equality, there shall be a valuation of estates within the commonwealth, taken anew once in every ten years at least, and as much oftener as the general court shall order.
Page 1034 - College; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the legislature of this commonwealth from making such alterations in the government of the said university, as shall be conducive to its advantage, and the interest of the republic of letters, in as full a manner as might have been done by the legislature of the late Province of the Massachusetts Bay.