Acts and Resolves Passed by the General CourtUniversity Press of Cambridge, 1903 - Session laws |
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ACT RELATIVE act shall take ACT TO AUTHORIZE aforesaid apply appointed appropriated Approved April Approved June assessed authorized by chapter Baldwinville board of aldermen bonds certificate Chap chapter four hundred chapter one hundred Charles river city of Boston city or town clerk Commonwealth construction corporation damages district dred easements eighteen hundred election enacted expenses Fall River February 13 fifty dollars filed five hundred dollars governor hereby amended hereby authorized highways hundred and fifty hundred and seventy-five hundred and three inserting in place issue January 31 June 26 land Loan Massachusetts mayor ment Nantucket nineteen hundred Northborough ordinary revenue paid passage payment person place thereof purposes railroad registry of deeds repealed Resolved Revised Laws salary sand dollars SECT SECTION selectmen senate seventy-five dollars sewer sinking fund sum not exceeding superior court take effect thousand dollars tion treasurer and receiver treasury vote voters Worcester
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Page 640 - ... transported into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory...
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 29 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all .future periods of this Commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them ; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools, and grammar schools in the towns...
Page 389 - The sale in bulk of any part or the whole of a stock of merchandise, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade and in the regular and usual prosecution of the seller's business, shall be fraudulent and void as against the creditors of the seller...
Page 7 - ... cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation ; and if the order, in 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 4 - We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other; and of forming a new constitution of civil government, for ourselves and posterity; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, do agree...
Page 11 - Commonwealth, for the hearing, trying, and determining of all manner of crimes, offences, pleas, processes, plaints, actions, matters, causes and things, whatsoever, arising or happening within the Commonwealth, or between or concerning persons inhabiting, or residing, or brought within the same...
Page 9 - ... 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. It is, therefore, not only the best policy, but for the security of the rights of the people, and of every citizen, that the judges of the supreme judicial court should hold their offices as long as they behave themselves well; and that they should have honorable salaries ascertained and established by standing...
Page 25 - The resolutions and advice of the council shall be recorded in a register, and signed by the members present; and this record may be called for at any time by either house of the legislature; and any member of the council may insert his opinion, contrary to the resolution of the majority.