 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 pages
...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 aud require, and the legislature shall from time to time authorize and require, the several towns,... | |
 | Massachusetts - Constitutions - 1873 - 1158 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 clcct.ing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional law - 1874 - 750 pages
...The third article of the original Massachusetts Declaration of Rights was as follows : " The people have a right to invest their Legislature with power...several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies corporate and politic, and religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for... | |
 | Massachusetts. Commission on Taxation, 1874-1875 - Taxation - 1875 - 634 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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Commission on Taxation, 1874-1875 - Taxation - 1875 - 584 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, [211] at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 854 pages
...asserted and declared " the right of the people to invest their legislature with power to authorize, and the legislature shall from time to time authorize...and require the several towns parishes, precincts * * * or religions societies to make suitable provision at their own expense for the institution of... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court - Massachusetts - 1876 - 418 pages
...promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the pcople of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize aud require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1876 - 528 pages
...pastor was elected by concurrent vote, and still later by joint vote; and in 1780, it was enacted 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 with... | |
 | First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - Dedham (Mass.) - 1878 - 146 pages
...article of the Declaration of Rights, upon which this claim is asserted. It is there provided, "that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other 'bodies politic or religious societies, shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their publick teachers, and of contracting... | |
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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... 
