The Town Meeting: A Manual of Massachusetts LawG.B. Reed, 1890 - 198 páginas |
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... limits . They have no authority to enlarge their powers , or to determine who shall comprise their members , and have no duties to perform but those imposed by law . Each town and each city is a corporation . Pub . Sts . , c . 27 , § 1 ...
... limits . They have no authority to enlarge their powers , or to determine who shall comprise their members , and have no duties to perform but those imposed by law . Each town and each city is a corporation . Pub . Sts . , c . 27 , § 1 ...
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... limits of its legal capacity . A vote to raise money for contingencies only , without qualification or limitation , or any desig- nation of the purpose to which the money is to be appropriated , if it was intended to embrace any ...
... limits of its legal capacity . A vote to raise money for contingencies only , without qualification or limitation , or any desig- nation of the purpose to which the money is to be appropriated , if it was intended to embrace any ...
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... limits of the authority granted to it by the legislature in voting the money , and no mode of restraining the agents of the town in its appropriation and expenditure . Every voter in a town has a right to know or to have the means of ...
... limits of the authority granted to it by the legislature in voting the money , and no mode of restraining the agents of the town in its appropriation and expenditure . Every voter in a town has a right to know or to have the means of ...
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... limits : Pub . Sts . , c . 82 , § 9 ; and may grant and vote money therefor . Pub . Sts . , c . 27 , § 10 . Burial - Grounds . - When there is a necessity for a new burial- ground in a town , or for the enlargement of a burial - ground ...
... limits : Pub . Sts . , c . 82 , § 9 ; and may grant and vote money therefor . Pub . Sts . , c . 27 , § 10 . Burial - Grounds . - When there is a necessity for a new burial- ground in a town , or for the enlargement of a burial - ground ...
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... limits thereof , unless it is well secured in tight casks or canisters ; that no gunpowder above the quantity of fifty pounds shall be kept or deposited in a shop , store , or other building , or in a ship or vessel , which is within ...
... limits thereof , unless it is well secured in tight casks or canisters ; that no gunpowder above the quantity of fifty pounds shall be kept or deposited in a shop , store , or other building , or in a ship or vessel , which is within ...
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Página 15 - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, hoicever, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote...
Página 38 - Said directors shall hold office one-third for one year, one-third for two years, and one-third for three years, from the...
Página 98 - And where a municipal corporation elects or appoints an officer, in obedience to an act of the Legislature, to perform a public service, in which the corporation has no private interest and from which it derives no special benefit or advantage in its corporate capacity, such officer cannot be regarded as a servant or agent of the municipality, for whose negligence or want of skill it can be held liable.
Página 157 - All moneys raised by taxation in the towns and cities for the support of public schools, and all moneys which may be appropriated by the commonwealth for the support of common schools shall be applied to, and expended in, no other schools than those which are...
Página 147 - ... maintain a school to be kept by a master of competent ability and good morals, who, in addition to the branches of learning before mentioned, shall give instruction in general history, bookkeeping, surveying, geometry, natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, the civil polity of this Commonwealth and of the United States, and the Latin language.
Página 62 - A city by ordinance, and a town by vote, may require the school committee annually to appoint a superintendent, who, under the direction and control of said committee, shall have the care and supervision of the public schools...
Página 15 - XXVIII. No person having served in the army or navy of the United States in time of war, and having been honorably discharged from such service, if otherwise qualified to vote, shall be disqualified therefor on account of receiving or having received aid from any city or town, or because of the non-payment of a poll tax.
Página 132 - ... and may receive, hold, and manage, any devise, bequest, or donation for the establishment, increase, or maintenance of a public library within the same.
Página 11 - Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons, are construed as giving such authority to a majority of them, unless it is otherwise expressed in the act giving the authority; 18. When the seal of a court or public officer is required by law to be affixed to any paper, the word "seal...
Página 155 - The school committee of every city and town shall purchase, at the expense of such city or town, text-books and other school supplies used in the public schools; and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to the pupils of said public schools free of charge, subject to such rules and regulations as to care and custody as the school committee may prescribe.