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, city printer, 1834 - Boston (Mass.) - 300 pages

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Page 73 - ... a sum, not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars, as the justice thinks it reasonable to impose upon him, as a fine therefor.
Page 124 - Subject to the foregoing provisions the ancillary receiver and his deputies shall have the same powers and be subject to the same duties with respect to the administration of such assets, as a receiver of an insurer domiciled in this state.
Page 10 - 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 12 - ... 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 147 - And this act shall be taken and deemed to be a public act, of which all courts, magistrates and citizens are bound to take notice as such ; and in any libel, action, indictment, information or complaint upon...
Page 176 - ... shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dollars nor more than...
Page 74 - ... forfeit and pay a sum not less than one dollar, nor more than twenty dollars and...
Page 14 - Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age and upwards (excepting paupers and persons under guardianship), who shall have resided within the Commonwealth one year, and within the town or district, in which he may claim a right to vote, six calendar months next preceding any election of Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Senators, or Representatives, and who shall have paid...
Page 166 - Any penalty incurred under -the provisions of this act shall be sued for and recovered in an action of debt by and in the name of the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey.
Page 14 - 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...

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