Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Eagle Graphics, Legislative Printers., 1856

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Seite 365 - By both houses (the same being agreed to by a majority of the senators and two-thirds of the members of the house of representatives present and voting thereon...
Seite 804 - The districts in each county shall be numbered by the board creating the same, and a description of each, with the numbers thereof and the number of legal voters therein, shall be returned by the board, to the secretary of the Commonwealth, the county treasurer of each county, and to the clerk of every town in each district, to be filed and kept in their respective offices.
Seite 1109 - Houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the General Court then next to be chosen, and shall be published ; and if in the General Court next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to...
Seite 801 - ... amendment or amendments shall be entered on the journals of the two houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the general court then next to be chosen, and shall be published; and if, in the general court next...
Seite 802 - Commonwealth, on or before the last day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven ; and a census of the inhabitants of each city and town, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of every tenth year thereafter.— In the census aforesaid, a special .enumeration shall be made of the legal voters, and in each city said enumeration shall specify the number of such legal voters aforesaid, residing in each ward of such city.
Seite 802 - The enumeration aforesaid shall determine the apportionment of representatives for the periods between the taking of the census. The house of representatives shall consist of two hundred and forty members, which shall be apportioned by the legislature, at its first session after the return of each enumeration as aforesaid, to the several counties of the commonwealth, equally, a...
Seite 1012 - A census of the legal voters of each city and town, on the first day of May, shall be taken and returned into the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, on or before the last day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven ; and a census of the inhabitants of each city and town, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of every tenth year thereafter.
Seite 804 - ... so formed that no town or ward of a city shall be divided therefor, nor shall any district be made which shall be entitled to elect more than three Representatives. Every Representative, for one year at least next preceding his election, shall have been an inhabitant of the district for which he is chosen, and shall cease to represent such district when he shall cease to be an inhabitant of the Commonwealth. The districts in each county shall be numbered by the board creating the same, and a...
Seite 502 - State; provided, that the provisions of this amendment relative to an educational qualification shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now...
Seite 803 - Representatives to which each county shall be entitled, to the board authorized to divide each county into representative districts. The Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Boston, the County Commissioners of other counties than Suffolk — or in lieu of the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Boston, or of the County Commissioners in each county other than Suffolk, such board of Special Commissioners in each county to be elected by the people of the county, or of the...

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