City Documents ...Buckland Printing Company, 1902 - Lowell (Mass.) |
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00 EXPENDITURES 00 Sundries Additional Appropriation Agawam Amount brought forward Amount carried forward appointed Avenue Bartlett Board of Aldermen Board of Health Bros cent Charles Charles E Chelmsford City Clerk City Council City Hall City of Lowell City Treasurer coal committee COMMON COUNCIL cost coupon bonds Courier-Citizen DAVID CHASE December diphtheria E. A. Wilson East Merrimack Edward Engine House expense feet south Fire Department Frank gallons George GEORGE GARDNER George W Gorham Street Henry Hoseman Inspector James John Joseph Kindergarten labor Lawler Lowell Sun Mammoth Road Mayor Middlesex Nesmith north line Ordinances Paid Pawtucket pipe Police Primary School-house Printing Public Buildings pumping pupils Repairing Salaries School Houses Sect Sinking Funds Street Sewer Suffolk SUNDRIES-Continued Sundry Persons Superintendent teachers Term Expires Thomas Total Transferred Treas ury Fund Varnum WARD Water Board Westford William William H wires Wood
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Page 14 - The previous question shall be in this form, " Shall the main question be now put ?'' It shall only be admitted when demanded by a majority of the members present, and...
Page 15 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but : To adjourn; To lay on the table ; For the previous question ; To postpone to a day certain; To commit, refer or recommit; To postpone indefinitely.
Page 44 - Possession of any pistol, machine gun, or sawed-off shotgun upon which any such mark shall have been changed, altered, removed, or obliterated shall be prima facie evidence that the possessor has changed, altered, removed, or obliterated the same within the District of Columbia...
Page 15 - Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order ; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain, and the House...
Page 16 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 19 - ... or food impure or unwholesome, are declared to be nuisances and to be illegal; and every person having aided in creating or contributing to the same, or who may support, continue or retain any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance, and shall also be liable for the expense of the abatement or remedy required.
Page 94 - Physiology and Hygiene, which, in both divisions of the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics on the human system...
Page 18 - All papers addressed to the Council shall be presented by the President or by a member in his place, and shall be read by the...
Page 15 - ... to postpone indefinitely ; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged : and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall be again allowed on the same day, and at the same stage of the bill or proposition.
Page 15 - House shall, if appealed to, decide on the case without debate; if the decision is in favor of the member called to order, he shall be at liberty to proceed, but not otherwise; and, if the case require it, he shall be liable to censure or such punishment as the House may deem proper.