The Historical Development of the Poor Law in Connecticut

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Columbia University Press, 1905 - Law - 520 pages

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Page 265 - Section 3.2 provides for a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment for not more than 30 days or both...
Page 28 - Oath recorded for that purpose shall have power to administer justice according to the Lawes here established, and for want thereof according to the rule of the word of God...
Page 53 - God's blessing attain at least so much as to be able duly to read the Scriptures and other good and profitable printed books in the English tongue, being their native language, and in some competent measure to understand the main grounds and principles of Christian religion necessary to salvation.
Page 397 - Administration shall be subject to review, on appeal, by such administrator. "SEC. 3. All property the title of which now stands in the name of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers is hereby transferred to and the title thereof vested in the United States.
Page 287 - Sec. 946.12 (Wis. Stats. 1955.) Misconduct in public office. Any public officer or public employe who does any of the following may be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than one year or both...
Page 410 - The trustees shall have full power to place any boy committed to said school during minority, at such employment, and cause him to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suitable to his age and capacity ; and they may, with the consent...
Page 441 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not more than $200 or by imprisonment for not more than 20 days or by both such fine and imprisonment...
Page 26 - ... of the plantation to New England, and a greater emigration ; and from the nature and necessities of the case. Through fishing and other voyages, divers persons — some in companies, some singly — had, prior to 1629, settled within the limits of what was subsequently the Massachusetts colony. i The charter of " the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England...
Page 292 - shall have the charge of the person and estate of such incapable person ; " " the conservator shall manage all the estate of his ward, and apply the net income thereof, and, if necessary, any part of the personal estate, to support him and his family and to pay his debts, and may sue for and collect all debts due to him." The statute neither expressly nor impliedly authorizes the conservator to make contracts in the name of the ward, and the ward is legally incapable of making a contract. A conservator,...
Page 159 - That if any person, whether officer or soldier, belonging to the militia of any state, and called out into the service of the United States, be wounded or disabled while in actual service, he shall be taken care of and provided for at the public expense.

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