 | Mark Doolittle - Belchertown (Mass.) - 1852 - 294 pages
...voluntarily." The requirements of the constitution above* are that the towns and parishes etc., sAaZZmake provision,. at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of G»D, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Nathan Hale - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 700 pages
...right to invest their Legislature with power to authorize and require, and the Legislature •hall from time to time authorize and require, the several...towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, and religious societies, incorporated or unincorporated, to make suitable provision, at their own expense,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 158 pages
...whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend. Provided notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | New Hampshire - Law - 1854 - 712 pages
...corporate, or religious societies within this State, to make adequate provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality : Provided, notwithstanding, That the several towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies,... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend : — Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend : — Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1857 - 518 pages
...preservation ot public worship; tncir government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require,...maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religiou and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily. And the people... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 770 pages
...which touches on what has been familiarly called the Higl«er Law. " The people have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require,...several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies corporate and politie, and religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature •hall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several...religious societies, to make suitable provision, at tlieii own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - Massachusetts - 1857 - 546 pages
...language of the Constitution upon this subject is explicit, as follows : 4 Provided, notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and contracting with... | |
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Therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time... 
