Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Relating to the City of Boston: Passed Prior to January 1, 1885 : Together with the Provisions of the Public Statutes Referring Especially to Boston |
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... present purposes , the references sufficiently indicate the changes which , from time to time , have been made . The index has been carefully prepared by Charles F. Williams , Esq . , of the Suffolk Bar , and will be a further aid in ...
... present purposes , the references sufficiently indicate the changes which , from time to time , have been made . The index has been carefully prepared by Charles F. Williams , Esq . , of the Suffolk Bar , and will be a further aid in ...
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... present year for the annexation of West Roxbury , Brookline , and Brighton , to the city of Boston 374. An act in addition to " An act relating to the Fire Department of the city of Boston ' 217 • 217 197 198 198 198 204 YEAR . сн ...
... present year for the annexation of West Roxbury , Brookline , and Brighton , to the city of Boston 374. An act in addition to " An act relating to the Fire Department of the city of Boston ' 217 • 217 197 198 198 198 204 YEAR . сн ...
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... present when such adjournment is had ; and such notice shall be given of the time of such adjournment , and the time the polls will be kept open , as the warden may direct ; and at such adjourned meet- ing a balloting shall be opened ...
... present when such adjournment is had ; and such notice shall be given of the time of such adjournment , and the time the polls will be kept open , as the warden may direct ; and at such adjourned meet- ing a balloting shall be opened ...
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... present . SECT . 29. After the organization of the city government and the qualification of a mayor , and when a quorum of the board of alder- men shall be present , said board , the mayor presiding , shall proceed to choose a permanent ...
... present . SECT . 29. After the organization of the city government and the qualification of a mayor , and when a quorum of the board of alder- men shall be present , said board , the mayor presiding , shall proceed to choose a permanent ...
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... present , it shall be in force ; but in all cases the vote shall be determined by yeas and nays , and if such ordinance , order , resolution , or vote , shall not be returned by the mayor within ten days after it shall have been ...
... present , it shall be in force ; but in all cases the vote shall be determined by yeas and nays , and if such ordinance , order , resolution , or vote , shall not be returned by the mayor within ten days after it shall have been ...
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ACT IN ADDITION act shall take ACT TO AUTHORIZE aforesaid appoint aqueducts assessed AUTHORIZE THE CITY Back Bay ballots board of aldermen board of health Boston Fire Department Boston is hereby bridge Brookline building CHAPTER Charles river city council city of Boston city of Charlestown city of Roxbury commissioners common council commonwealth construct corporation county of Suffolk damages deem Dorchester duties East Boston eighteen hundred election entitled an act erect established exceeding expense feet further enacted harbor of Boston hereafter hereby authorized inhabitants inspectors Jamaica Pond jury justice land liable license manner mayor and aldermen meeting offence ordinances overseers owners party passage Penalty person or persons pipes pond proceedings purpose railroad recovered regulations scrip SECT SECTION selectmen street take effect taxes therein thereof thousand eight hundred tion town of Boston treasurer vacancy vessels voters votes ward officers West Roxbury wharf
Popular passages
Page 210 - ... 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 171 - Every tenement or lodging-house and every part thereof, shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage or other matter in or on the same, or in the yard, court, pas.sage, are.a or alley connected with or belonging to the same.
Page 344 - ... and who shall have paid by himself or his parent, master or guardian, any state or county tax which shall, within two years next preceding such election, have been assessed upon him in any town or district of this commonwealth, and also every citizen who shall be by law exempted from taxation, and who shall be in all other respects qualified as above mentioned...
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 13 - Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before...
Page 359 - The inhabitants of the town of Salem, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate, under the name of the city of Salem, and as such, shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations, now incumbent upon and appertaining to said town as a municipal corporation.
Page 349 - General meetings of the citizens qualified "us. to vote in city affairs may from time to time be held to consult upon the common good, to give instructions to their representatives, and to take all lawful measures to obtain a redress of any grievances, according to the right secured to the people by the constitution of this Commonwealth.
Page 11 - And it shall be the duty of the City Clerk, forthwith to enter such returns, or a plain and intelligible abstract of them, as they are successively received, upon the journal of the proceedings of the Mayor and Aldermen, or some other book to be kept for that purpose.
Page 164 - ... 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 325 - Boston may license suitable persons to be dealers in and keepers of shops for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals, or secondhand articles...