Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volume 1

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Page 43 - July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, there shall be levied, collected and paid, for and in respect of the several bonds, debentures or certificates of stock and of indebtedness, and other documents, instruments, matters and things mentioned and described in Schedule A...
Page 24 - A contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party for a consideration promises to pay money or its equivalent or to do some act of value to the assured upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest...
Page 20 - Loan, shall be countersigned by the governor, and shall be deemed a pledge of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth...
Page 169 - If the fugitive is known to be under either civil or criminal arrest in the state or territory to which he is alleged to have fled, the fact of such arrest and the nature of the proceedings on which it is based must be stated. (g) That the application is not made for the purpose of enforcing the collection of a debt...
Page 20 - ... years. Said scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall be issued as registered bonds or with interest coupons attached, and shall bear interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of May and November in each year. Such scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall be designated on the face thereof as the Hospital for Consumptives...
Page 169 - B That in his opinion the ends of public justice require that the alleged criminal be brought to this State for trial, at the public expense. ^ .C That he believes he has sufficient evidence to secure the conviction of the fugitive. D That the person named as agent is a proper person, and that he has no private interest in the arrest of the fugitive.
Page 156 - Pugh, to the Circuit Court of the United States for a writ of habeas corpus. In...
Page 56 - ... were a street railway company, and shall, in addition, as compensation for the privileges herein granted, and for the use and occupation of the public streets, squares and places, by the lines of elevated and surface railroad owned, leased and operated by it, pay to the Commonwealth, on or before the last day of November in each year, during said period of twenty-five years, an annual sum, the amount of which shall, in each year ending the last day of September, be determined by the amount of...
Page 21 - ... accumulations to extinguish at maturity the debt incurred by the issue of said bonds. The amount necessary to meet the annual sinking fund requirements and to pay the interest on said bonds shall be raised by taxation from year to year.
Page 51 - An act declaring that war exists between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain...

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