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Página 50 - ... done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Página 55 - The existence of the Courts of Common Pleas, and General Sessions of the Peace.
Página 299 - That in a free country with a written constitution any intelligent man should wish a dependent judiciary, or should think that the constitution is not a law for the court as well as the legislature would astonish me, if I had not learnt from observation that with many men the judgment is completely controuled by the passions. The case of the mandamus may be the cloak, but the batture is recollected with still more resentment.
Página 60 - Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that the Office of REGISTER of DEEDS for the County of Suffolk is removed by order of the late General Court, from Roxbury to Boston, and is opened in Orange-Street, at the southerly part of said Boston. • "June 11, 1782.
Página 258 - For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God will bring them about ? Our planet is one, the suns are many, the world is wide. Shall I weep if a Poland fall ? shall I shriek if a Hungary fail ? Or an infant civilization be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide.
Página 92 - L 378. Consistory, and is prominent in many other fraternal societies and in various clubs. He was formerly connected with the Dorchester and Boston fire departments. He is a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and was its Commander in 1886, and he was for many years a member of the National Lancers. He was for twenty years on the Board of Overseers of the Poor in Boston, served several terms as Chairman, and finally resigned in 1890. He was married in Dorchester, July 16, 1863,...
Página 299 - ... perhaps depend in some measure on the sentiments of our sister States. To excite this ferment, the opinion has been grossly misrepresented; and where its argument has been truely stated, it has been met by principles one would think too palpably absurd for intelligent men.
Página 43 - Inhabitants hereby oblige themselves to repay and reimburse." (Town Records, V. 26.) At a town meeting October 28, 1767, he was appointed one of a Committee "to consider of some Measures For employing the Poor of the Town of Boston, by reviving the Linen Manufacture.
Página 319 - ... exceeding five thousand dollars, and a further annual sum of one thousand dollars, for the period of five years, to be expended in the purchase of law books; and that the Librarian shall make the purchases of the books for the law library, under such directions, and pursuant to such catalogue, as shall be furnished him by the Chief Justice of the United States.
Página 258 - We are puppets, Man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower; Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game That pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed? Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour; We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame; However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.

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