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... Draft of such a Representation , which was read and considered whereupon Voted unani- mously , that the same be accepted , and that the draft be recom- mitted for a further Revision , and when the same is compleated , that they forward ...
... Draft of such a Representation , which was read and considered whereupon Voted unani- mously , that the same be accepted , and that the draft be recom- mitted for a further Revision , and when the same is compleated , that they forward ...
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... draft of a Letter to be sent our friends in England , and the same having been read and considered Voted , that said draft be accepted , and that the said Committee be desired to transmit fair Copys of said Letter to such Gentlemen in ...
... draft of a Letter to be sent our friends in England , and the same having been read and considered Voted , that said draft be accepted , and that the said Committee be desired to transmit fair Copys of said Letter to such Gentlemen in ...
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... Draft- Viz ' . - The Petition of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston legally Assembled by Adjournment in Faneuil Hall on Fryday 30. of October 1772 [ 370 ] Humbly Sheweth- That your Petitioners are still greatly ...
... Draft- Viz ' . - The Petition of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston legally Assembled by Adjournment in Faneuil Hall on Fryday 30. of October 1772 [ 370 ] Humbly Sheweth- That your Petitioners are still greatly ...
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... drafts , City account Paving Assessments , refunded 20 32 96 10 • 5 18 $ 1,652,361 78 * Amount of general draft through City Auditor's office for May . Less not paid . † Includes City Debt paid † Includes Interest paid , as follows ...
... drafts , City account Paving Assessments , refunded 20 32 96 10 • 5 18 $ 1,652,361 78 * Amount of general draft through City Auditor's office for May . Less not paid . † Includes City Debt paid † Includes Interest paid , as follows ...
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... Draft , including Treasurer's payments in May . Expenditures for 1887-88 . Unexpended . Balances Total expendi- tures on uncom- pleted public buildings and works , May 1 , 1887 , including June Draft . Armories · Assessors ' Department ...
... Draft , including Treasurer's payments in May . Expenditures for 1887-88 . Unexpended . Balances Total expendi- tures on uncom- pleted public buildings and works , May 1 , 1887 , including June Draft . Armories · Assessors ' Department ...
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according to Adjournment accordingly Anno Domini Benjamin Austin Esq Boston ss Brought forward Capt Charges chosen City Council Court Cushing Hewes Scollay Cushing Scollay desired DISEASES Draft ensuing Esq Samuel Ezekiel Lewis Faneuil Hall four pence Gentlemen Grant Hill Henshaw Jackson Cushing hereby are appointed Honble Hospital House impowered Inhabitants Jackson Cushing Hewes James John Hancock Esq John Ruddock John Scollay Esq Jonathan Mason Joseph Joseph Jackson Joseph Warren Joshua Henshaw Esq June Land Liberty Loaf Wheaten Household Master Meeting be adjourned Motion O'Clock Ordinances Overseers penny Wheaten Loaf penny White Loaf Persons Petition Present Mess Present Thomas Cushing Province Rainsfords Island Report Samuel Adams Samuel Hews Esq Samuel Sewall School-house Scollay Austin Selectmen Small Pox Street Taxes thereof Thomas Cushing Esq Town Meeting Town of Boston Vessell Vizt Voted Ward Wheaten Loaf Household White Loaf Wheaten William William Whitwell Writing School
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Page 93 - The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same.
Page 86 - ... to state the rights of the colonists, and of this province in particular, as men, as Christians, and as subjects ; to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this province and to the world, as the sense of this town, with the infringements and violations thereof that have been, or from time to time may be, made ; also requesting of each town a free communication of their sentiments on this subject.
Page 163 - An Act to discontinue, in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of goods, wares, and merchandise at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America.
Page 90 - And further our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, grant establish and ordain, that all and every of the subjects of us, our heirs and successors...
Page 6 - American experience table of mortality with interest at the rate of three and one-half per cent per annum...
Page 89 - the first fundamental positive law of all commonwealths or states is the establishing the legislative power; as the first fundamental natural law also, which is to govern even the legislative power itself, is the preservation of the society.
Page 25 - And her successor, King James the first, who had imbibed high notions of the divinity of regal sway, more than once laid it down in his speeches, that, " as it is atheism and blasphemy " in a creature to dispute what the Deity may do, so it " is presumption and sedition in a subject to dispute what " a king may do in the height of his power...
Page 89 - Province it is granted ordained and established (that it is declared as an original right) that there shall be liberty of conscience allowed in the worship of God, to all Christians except Papists, inhabiting or which shall inhabit or be resident within said Province or Territory.
Page 23 - A series of occurrences, many recent events, and especially the late journals of the house of lords, afford good reason to believe, that a deep-laid and desperate plan of imperial despotism has been laid, and partly executed, for the extinction of all civil liberty...
Page 135 - That the disposal of their own property is the inherent right of freemen ; that there can be no property in that which another can, of right, take from us without our consent ; that the claim of Parliament to tax America, is, in other words, a claim of right to levy contributions on us at pleasure.