Records Relating to the Early History of Boston ...Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1903 - Boston (Mass.) |
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according to Adjournment Anno Domini Article Assembled at Faneuil Assessors become due Benjamin Boston duly qualified Caleb Davis Esq calling the Meeting Capt Charles Jarvis chosen Moderator Clock Committee appointed Commonwealth County of Suffolk Court directed to withdraw Edward Edward Burt Esq¹ Esqr Expences Faneuil Hall Fire Wards Freeholders hand Vote hereby are given Honble Inhabitants were directed James Bowdoin Jonathan Mason Joseph Barrel Joseph Russell legally warned Meeting was dissolved Motion Voted Moved & Voted moved and Voted Number of Votes O'Clock Overseers paid him Quarterly Persons Voted Petition Public Town Meeting qualified and legally read whereupon Revd Samuel Adams Samuel Breck Selectmen Stephen Higginson Suffolk thereon Thomas Crafts Esq Thomas Dawes Esq Town Clerk Town Meeting Assembled Town of Boston Town Treasurer Votes being brought warned in public Warrant for calling Warrant Vizt whereupon Voted William Cooper William Eustis William Tudor withdraw and bring
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Page 408 - Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to individuals of the other, nor shares, nor monies, which they may have in the public funds, or in the public or private banks, shall ever in any event of war or national differences be sequestered or confiscated...
Page 365 - At a meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, duly qualified and legally warned in public Town meeting, assembled at Faneuil Hall, on Monday the 10th day of October, Anno Domini 1796.
Page 239 - Boston is, perhaps, the only instance known where persons of every description and disease are lodged under the same roof and in some instances in the same contagious apartments, by which means the sick are disturbed by the noise of the healthy, and the infirm rendered liable to the vices and diseases of the diseased and profligate.
Page 405 - Oration this day delivered by him, at the request of the Town, upon the anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America, in which according to the institution of the Town, he considered the feelings, manners and principles which led to that great national event, — And to request of him a Copy thereof for the Press.
Page 209 - Masters as they shall think proper, to examine the Scholars in the particular branches which they are taught, and by all proper Methods to excite in them a laudable ambition to excel in a virtuous, amiable deportment and in every branch of useful knowledge.
Page 178 - Independence — shall be constantly celebrated by the delivery of a public oration in such place as the town shall determine to be most convenient for the purpose ; in which the orator shall consider the feelings, manners, and principles which led to this great national event, as well as the important and happy effects, whether general or domestic, which already have, and will for ever continue, to flow from this auspicious epoch.
Page 268 - A theatre, where the actions of great and virtuous men are represented, under every possible embellishment which genius and eloquence can give, will not only afford a rational and innocent amusement, but essentially advance the interests of private and political virtue ; will have a tendency to polish the manners and habits of society, to disseminate the social affections, and to improve and refine the literary taste of our rising republic.
Page 213 - I rejoice with you, my fellow-citizens, in every circumstance that declares your prosperity; and I do so most cordially because you have well deserved to be happy. " Your love of liberty, your respect for the laws, your habits of industry, and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness, and they will, I trust, be firmly and lastingly established.
Page 236 - Oration this day delivered by him at the request of the Town upon the Anniversary of the Independence of the United States Of America, in which according to the Institution of the Town, He considered the feelings, manners and Principles Which led to that great National Event — and to Request of him A Copy thereof for the...
Page 407 - ... objectionable, suspense gave place to widespread popular agitation. In the course of July, and in rapid succession, meetings were held in all the principal cities, apparently with the expectation of inducing General Washington to withhold his final approval. In BOSTON, the instrument was declared to " be highly injurious to the commercial interests of the United States, derogatory to their national honor and independence, and dangerous to the peace and happiness of their citizens.