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1859.— Chapters 290, 291,
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641
292.
in addition to An Act respecting the purchase and
distribution of the reports of cases argued and determined in the supreme judicial court.
Be it etiacted, ^'c, as follows
An Act
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Section 1. The secretary of the Commonwealth is liereby secretary to
authorized and directed, whenever an appropriation shall dw reports.
liave been made therefor, to furnish the seventh volume of
Gray's Reports, and any volume of reports of cases argued
and determined in the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, which may hereafter be published, to the clerks of
each town and city in this Commonwealth, for the use of
such town or city.
Section 2. This act shall take effect on and after its
passage.
Approved December
An Act relating to the writ of habeas
Be
it
fur''^'
16, 1859.
Chap. 291
corpus.
enacted, Sfc, as folloios
Section
1
Every writ of
.
liabeas corpus
which may be
Return of
writ,
issued under the laws of this Commonwealth, after this act
shall take effect, shall be made returnable forthwith, either
before the supreme judicial court, the superior court, or a
justice of either of said courts, in term time, or vacation,
and whether the court is in session or not, and at such place
as shall be designated in the writ.
Section 2. In all cases of imprisonment or restraint by
a person not a slierifif, deputy-sheriff, coroner or jailer of this
State, the writ shall be in the following form
commonwealth of MASSACHUSETTS.
[seal.]
To
the sheriffs of our several counties, and their respective Form,
deputies,
Greeting
We
command you
by
that the body of
of
imprisoned and restrained of his liberty, as it is said, you take
of
and have before
a justice of our supreme judicial court, (or superior
immediately after receipt of this
court, as the case may be,) at
writ, to do and receive what our said justice shall then and there consider
concerning him in this behalf; and summon said
then and there
to appear before our said justice, to show the cause of the taking and
detaining of said
and have you there this writ with your doings
thereon.
Witness
at
this
day of
.
in the
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year
Section
3.
This act shall take effect from and after
passage.
Approved December
its
21, 1859.
An Act making further appropriations for the repair and
maintenance op charles river and warren bridges.
Be
it
enacted,
§'c.,
The sums
shall
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^d'o
as folloios
mentioned are appropriated and
be allowed and paid out of the Charles River and
hereafter
Appropriation.
1859.— Chapters
642
293, 294.
Warren Bridges Fund, on the warrant of the governor, in
addition to the sums appropriated from said fund in chapter
Repairs
tlvee"n''janu'ary\"
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1859
Subsequent
re-
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tenlnc'^e"
Incidental
penses.
one luindred and ninety-eight, of the acts of the present
that is to say
For the payment of such claims as
l\y
approvcd
thc
auditor, for the repair and mainte^^
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^^''^^^ce of Charles River and Warren Bridges, between the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and May
nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, a sum not
cxcccding two thousaud one hundred dollars for repairs on
jcar
and
ex-
;
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Said bridgcs since the said nineteenth of May, a sum not
excccding ouc thousaud dollars ; for incidental expenses of
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draw-tcndcrs on said bridges, a
hundred
dollars.
sum
not exceeding one
Approved December 21, 1859.
Chap. 293 An Act authorizing an issue of
scrip for the payment op the
expenses of the revision op the general statutes.
Be
Treasurer
to
is-
Proviso.
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Chap. 294
Removal
enacted, Sfc, as follows
of debt, in the name and behalf of tlie Commonwealth, and
under his signature and the seal of the Commonwealth,
bearing date on the first day of January, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and sixty, for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with coupons attached for
interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually on the first days of July and January at the
office of said treasurer, and redeemable at the same place on
the first day of January that shall be in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, which scrip or certificates
shall be countersigned by the governor, and shall be deemed
to be a pledge of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth
for the redemption thereof; and the same shall be sold by
the treasurer provided, that no part thereof shall be sold
at less than par, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into
the treasury of the Commonwealth.
Section 2. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Ajwo^^'^ December 22, 1859.
$150,000.
conduct.
it
SECTION 1. Thc trcasurcr of this Commonwealth is
hereby authorized and directed to issue scrip or certificates
for mis-
An Act for the removal
Be
it
enacted,
^c, as follows
of constables, for cause, in cities.
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Tlic mayor of any city shall, with consent of the aldermen, remove from office any constable of such city, who
shall be guilty of gross misconduct.
Approved December 23, 1859.