The Baxter Manuscripts, Volumes 9-24

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James Phinney Baxter
1916 - Maine
 

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Page 279 - An act for regulating the commencement of the year; and for correcting the calendar now in use.
Page 14 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled. The...
Page 362 - Court that they or either of them may appear on that day and Shew Cause if any they have why the prayer of the...
Page 280 - Lord two thousand, two thousand four hundred, two thousand eight hundred, and every other fourth hundred year of our Lord, from the said year of our Lord two thousand inclusive, and also all other years of our Lord, which by the present supputation are esteemed to be bissextile or leap years, shall for the future, and in all times to come, be esteemed and taken to be bissextile or leap years, consisting of three hundred and sixty-six days, in the same sort and manner as is now used with respect to...
Page 418 - Rogers may then appear and shew cause if any he has, why the prayer of the said Petition should not be granted and that No Execution consequent upon the judgment recovered by the said Rogers...
Page 6 - Court, entitled an Act for prescribing and establishing an oath of fidelity and allegiance.
Page 262 - Resolved that the prayer of said Petition be so far granted as that the...
Page 363 - To the Honorable the Senate and the Honorable the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: The...
Page 67 - Ordered that the Prayer of the Petition be so far granted that the Plat herewith exhibited (Alth6 not exactly conformable to the Original Grant of Eight Miles quare) be accounted, accepted & Confirmed as the Bounds of the Township of Groton in all parts, Except where the said Township bounds on the Township of Littleton, Where the Bounds shall be & remain between...
Page 300 - In all controversies concerning property, and in all suits between two or more persons, except in cases in which it has heretofore been otherways used and practised, the parties have a right to a trial by jury; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred, unless, in causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners' wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it.

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