Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Relating to the City of Boston Passed Prior to Jan. 1, 1893

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Rockwell and Churchill, 1892 - Law - 623 pages

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Page 130 - Boston, who shall have been such for at least three years prior to the date of their appointment, one for the term of five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 164 - A tenement-house within the meaning of this title shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them.
Page 186 - Education, for the purposes hereinafter set forth; and with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities set forth in all general laws, which now are or hereafter may be in force relating to such corporations.
Page 499 - Congress, and it is the Constitutional right and duty of the House of Representatives, in all such cases, to deliberate on the expediency or inexpediency of carrying such Treaty into effect and to determine and act thereon, as, in their judgment, may be most conducive to the public good.
Page 394 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 93 - ... office for three years, three for two years, and three for one year ; and...
Page 466 - American experience table of mortality, and interest at the rate of four and one half per cent per annum.
Page 498 - ... as towns by the laws of this commonwealth have power to make and establish, and to annex penalties, not exceeding...
Page 172 - Board shall cause the same to be inspected, and may, if found necessary, cause the same to be immediately cleansed or disinfected at the expense of the owner, in such manner as they may deem necessary and effectual ; and they may also cause the blankets, bedding, and bedclothes used by any such sick person, to be thoroughly cleansed, scoured, and fumigated, and in extreme cases to be destroyed.
Page 516 - ... shall be assorted, counted, declared and registered, in open ward meeting, by causing the names of all persons voted for, and the number of votes given for each, to be written in the ward records in words at length.

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