Acts and Resolves Passed by the General CourtUniversity Press of Cambridge, 1918 - Session laws |
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act shall take ACT TO AUTHORIZE acts of nineteen amended by striking amount heretofore appropriated Approved April Approved February Approved March April 24 assessed authorized by chapter beams bonds or notes Boston Elevated Railway Brockton ceeding cents Chap chapter one hundred chapter two hundred city council city of Boston clerk columns commission commissioner commonwealth compression members concrete construction corporation district election enacted exceeding one thousand February 14 firestopped five hundred dollars follows Haverhill hereafter hereby authorized hundred and eighteen hundred and seventeen inches load loan maintenance March 11 March 27 Massachusetts mayor ment nineteen hundred office supplies payment pension personal services Portland cement printing the annual purpose reinforcement resolves salaries sand dollars SECTION slab Spec street railway stresses sum not ex sum not exceeding supplies and equipment take effect thereof thousand dollars thousand five hundred three hundred tion travelling expenses treasurer trustees vote walls
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Page 198 - ... one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years ; and one member of said board shall be elected annually thereafter, who shall hold his office for three years.
Page 137 - Suits upon choses in actions arising out of contracts sold or assigned by any corporation dissolved by this act may be brought or prosecuted in the name of the purchaser or assignee. The fact of sale or assignment and of purchase by the plaintiff shall be set forth in the writ or other process; and the defendant may avail himself of any matter of defense of which he might have availed himself in a suit upon the claim by such corporation, had it not been dissolved by this act.
Page 50 - The mayor of the city of Boston shall be elected at large to hold office for the term of four years from the first Monday in February following his election and until his successor is chosen and qualified, except as hereinafter provided.
Page 196 - Payment the said loan or loans, provide for the payment thereof in accordance with section three of this act; and when a vote to that effect has been passed, a sum which, with the income derived from water rates, will be sufficient to pay the annual expense of operating its water works and the interest as it accrues on the bonds...
Page 189 - ... of Part I of chapter four hundred and ninety of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine...
Page 62 - The person sought to be removed, suspended, lowered or transferred shall be notified of the proposed action and shall be furnished with a copy of the reasons required to be given by section one, and shall, if he so requests in writing, be given a public hearing, and be allowed to answer the charges preferred against him either personally or by counsel.
Page 63 - Administrative following administrative officers, who shall be appointed by the mayor, and who shall perform the duties by law and hereinafter prescribed for them, respectively, and such further duties not inconsistent with the nature of their respective offices, as the city council may prescribe: — 1. A commis-sioner of public works.
Page 19 - Jiowever, that either of the officers named in this section may be removed at any time by the city council for sufficient cause. Vacancies occurring in the above named offices may be filled at any time. The compensation of the officers mentioned in this section shall be fixed by concurrent vote of the city council.