Acts and Resolves Passed by the General CourtUniversity Press of Cambridge, 1919 - Session laws |
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ACT RELATIVE act shall take acts in amendment acts of nineteen affected amended amended by chapter amended by striking amendment thereof appointed Approved July assessed ballots Barnstable Berkshire Braintree certificate Chap chapter five hundred chapter four hundred chapter one hundred chapter two hundred Cities and Towns city or town clerk commission commonwealth corporations court dred Dukes County duties East Bridgewater effect Feb election enacted established exceeding filed Foxborough governor and council hereby amended hereby further amended hundred and eighteen hundred and ninety hundred and sixteen hundred dollars license Massachusetts Massachusetts highway commission ment Nantucket nineteen hundred North Attleborough North Brookfield payment person petition polls probate read as follows register of deeds registered regulations Repealed and superseded Revised Laws sailors SECT soldiers Southborough substituting the following Suffolk take effect thousand dollars tion Total treasurer and receiver vote voters West Tisbury Worcester words
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Page 4 - ... the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 3 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it 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 10 - 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 7 - Every subject of the Commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it; completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay ; conformably to the laws.
Page 7 - ... the warrant to a civil officer, to make search in suspected places, or to arrest one or more suspected persons, or to seize their property, be not accompanied with a special designation of the persons or objects of search, arrest, or seizure; and no warrant ought to be issued but in cases, and with the formalities, prescribed by the laws.
Page 6 - Government is instituted for the common good ; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people ; and not for the profit, honor or private interest of any one man, family or class of men...
Page 64 - The credit of the State shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association or corporation.
Page 35 - Provided, that no such government shall be erected or constituted in any town not containing twelve thousand inhabitants, nor unless it be with the consent, and on the application of a majority of the inhabitants of such town, present and voting thereon, pursuant to a vote at a meeting duly warned and holden for that purpose.
Page 32 - ... the senators and representatives first elected under this constitution, before the president and five of the council of the former constitution; and forever afterwards before the governor and council for the time being; and by the residue of the officers aforesaid, before such persons and in such manner as from time to time shall be prescribed by the legislature.
Page 49 - The expenses of travelling to the General Assembly, and returning home, once in every session, and no more, shall be paid by the government, out of the public treasury, to every member who shall attend as seasonably as he can, in the judgment of the House, and does not depart without leave.