The Massachusetts Manual: Or Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June 1814, to June 1815 .. |
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1st Tuesday 2d Monday 3d Tuesday 4th Tuesday Academy Adams American amount army Attorney Bank Barnstable battle Benj Benjamin Berkshire Bonaparte Boston British BURDICK Caleb Strong Capital cashier Christopher Gore citizens Clerk Commonwealth Congress Court Daniel David David Cobb declared District ditto dollars Ebenezer elected embargo expence France French Friday frigate Fryeburg gentleman George Governor Hampshire House Incorporated Feb Incorporated June 23 Indians James John John Lathrop Joseph Josiah Judge of Probate June 23 Justice Kennebeck legislature Levi Lincoln Lincoln loan Lodge March Masons'-Hall Massachusetts millions Nantucket Nathaniel Peleg Coffin persons Phillips Plymouth Register of Deeds Representatives Salem Samuel Samuel Sewall Saturday secretary Selectmen session Sheriff Shire town Smith Society St Andrew's Sunday Thacher Thomas Thomas Baldwin Thursday treasurer Tuesday in April United vessels vice president votes Warren Washington Wednesday William Wiscasset Worcester
Popular passages
Page 89 - I believe it cannot be doubted, but that by the general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize.
Page 128 - An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States;" and the several acts supplementary thereto, and for other purposes, passed the 25th April, 1808.
Page 207 - All elections ought to be free; and all the inhabitants of this commonwealth, having such qualifications as they shall establish by their frame of government, have an equal right to elect officers, and to be elected, for public employments.
Page 210 - Every male person, being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth for the space of one year next preceding, having a freehold estate within the same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a Representative or Representatives for the said town.
Page 212 - Selectmen, shall, in open town meeting, sort and count the votes, and form a list of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person against his name; and shall make a fair record of the same...
Page 128 - States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, and the act to enforce and make more effectual, an act, entitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States...
Page 212 - ... meeting sort and count the votes and form a list of the persons voted for with the number of votes for each person against his name; and shall make a fair record of the same in the town books...
Page 129 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 135 - ... oppression, and the capacity to perceive it, even there, sir. the tyranny of conscription rouses him to the assertion of his innate freedom, to struggle against slavery in its most malignant form. No, sir, not the dread of all the severe punishments ordained for refractory conscripts, not the '•peine du boulet...