The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together with the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City

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J.H. Eastburn, 1850 - Boston (Mass.) - 582 pages

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Page 450 - ... shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or established, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case, before the time when such repeal shall take effect.
Page 339 - ... their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society and the basis upon which...
Page 402 - Each of the several cities and towns in this Commonwealth is authorize;! and empowered to make all needful provisions and arrangements concerning habitual truants, and children not attending school, without any regular and lawful occupation, growing up in ignorance, between the ages of six and fifteen years...
Page 475 - Representatives, 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 450 - And that no suit or prosecution, pending at the time of the said repeal, for any offence committed or for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture incurred under the acts hereby repealed, shall be affected by such repeal...
Page 276 - ... as towns by the laws of this commonwealth have power to make and establish, and to annex penalties, not exceeding...
Page 4 - ... sort and count the said votes and make a public declaration thereof, with the name of every person voted for and the number of votes for each person; and the town clerk shall make a fair record of the same, at large, in the town book, and shall make out a fair attested copy thereof...
Page 243 - Said board shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties...
Page 268 - ... shall first give notice in writing to the mayor, or one or more of the selectmen, of the place where the lunatic resides, of his intention to make such application ; and satisfactory evidence that such notice has been given shall be produced to the judge in cases of commitment, and to the trustees upon applications for admission.
Page 339 - It shall be the duty of the president, professors, and tutors of the University at Cambridge and of the several colleges, of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and of all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety...

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