INDEX

TO THE

GENERAL LAWS-SESSIONS 1832-33.

Accessories to attempts to commit murder, how punished,
Agencies of Foreign Insurance Companies regulated,
Aliens deceased, how administration to be granted on their estates,
Appeals from Court of Common Pleas, proviso respecting, repealed,
Assessors of Towns and Districts not responsible for the assessment
of taxes in certain cases,

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of unincorporated Districts to perform the duty of Select-
men in the appointment of Guardians,

Attachments on real and personal estate may be defended against by
all persons interested,

Attorney General, his duties,

Banking, private, prohibited,

Bills in Equity, libels, &c. to be indorsed,

Buildings, public, of the Commonwealth, penalty for defacing,
Charcoal to be measured in boxes of regulated capacities,

Children born before the marriage of their parents, to inherit in cer-

Clerks of Judicial Courts may retain one half of the fees received
by them beyond the amount of their salaries,

poor, detained in Prison for fine and costs only, may be
liberated by two Justices,

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of Supreme Judicial Court to account for fees,
Collectors of Taxes to make returns to the Selectinen,
Congressional districts, act respecting, extended,
Convicts, punishment of for second and third offences,

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meetings of, may be called by Justices of the Peace in
certain cases,

Turnpike, meetings of, how to be called, manufacturing, service of process upon, how to be made, County Commissioners to lay out turnpike roads as highways, in

certain cases,

to allow damages to turnpike corporations, Court, Supreme Judicial, to hear and determine in equity controversies between co-executors and co-administrators, .

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Courts of Probate for Middlesex County, times and places of holding,. 30 Co-executors and co-administrators, controversies between, to be de

termined in equity, .

Debt for escape, action of, abolished,

Districts for the choice of Representatives to Congress, established,

Election of members to Congress, duty of mayor and aldermen of city of Boston, respecting, duties of Selectmen and Clerks of towns, respecting,

Electors of President and Vice President of U. S. mode of choosing, Executors and administrators may plead plene administravit to suits of creditors against insolvent estates,

Fuel exempted from attachment,

Foreign attachment, process of, returnable to the Supreme Judicial

Court, in certain cases,

Forgery of foreign bank bills or notes, how punished,

Grouse not to be killed in Dukes County from 1st of January to 1st of November,

Highways, provisions of act respecting, of 1818, chap. 121, extended
to all towns and districts in the State,

Hops, inspector and deputy inspectors of, how to be appointed,
Indorsers of Writs, &c. their liabilities, .

Insolvent estates, claims upon, may be paid in certain cases,
Insurance Companies, their powers, duties and restrictions defined,

Insurance Companies, Trustees of, inay be appointed by the S. J. C.
Judge of Municipal Court may commit lunatics to State Lunatic

Hospital,

Judges of Probate to appoint guardians to persons residing on lands
not within any incorporated town,

Justices of the Peace may require sureties of the peace in certain cases, 65
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lottery act,

Licensed Houses regulated,
Lotteries not authorized by law, punishment for being concerned or

advertising tickets therein,

Members of Congress, time and mode of electing and making re-

Money received on account of prizes in lotteries not authorized by
law, forfeited to the Commonwealth,

Mortgages of personal property when to be recorded,
Murder, attempts to commit, how punished,

Nix's Mate, jurisdiction of, ceded to the United States,
Notices of petitions to the General Court, how to be served,
Oil, sale of, regulated, and adulteration of, punished,
Overseers of houses of correction, their duties,
Petitions to the General Court for roads or canals, to be accompa-

nied by plans,

for a Jury not to abate by the death of a petitioner,
Petitioners, Surviving, may prosecute,

Plaintiffs in bills of equity for redemption of mortgages, to pay costs,
unless defendants have refused to render an account,
Probate, judge and register of, for Worcester County, their salaries

Rail Road Corporations, rights and duties of, defined,
Recognizance for a city, town, parish or precinct, how to be entered

Routs, riots, &c. certain parts of the act to prevent, repealed,
Sales at auction, duties on, altered,

School Districts, meetings of, how to be warned,

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moderator of, may administer oath to clerk,

Committees, their duties in certain cases,

Selectmen to make and post lists of voters,

Sheriffs may appoint special deputies in any counties in the Com-

monwealth, .

State Lunatic Hospital, government of, established,

State Lunatic Hospital, Governor to provide for the reception of lu

Prison, convicts twice before sentenced to, how to be punished,

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provided, .

Chaplain of, his compensation,

Superintendant of Stone department in, his compensation, 14
Warden of, may increase the rations of convicts, in
certain cases,

Sureties of the Peace, when they may be required,

Taxes, how to be assessed,

Trustees of Insurance Companies, their duties,

Turnpike Corporations, meetings of may be called by directors in

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certain cases,

Roads to be laid out as highways, in certain cases,

Weighing of Beef Cattle regulated,

Wheels, broad rimmed, act for use of, suspended,

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Women, married, may recover debts due to their absent husbands,

แ and declarations on debt or contract, may be amended, by adding new parties defendants,

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by Restiamos R. Gannett of South Balich

THE

GENERAL LAWS

OF

MASSACHUSETTS.

PASSED JANUARY SESSION, 1834.

AN ACT in further addition to an Act to establish the Boston and Chap. 1. Lowell Rail Road Corporation. [Jan. 31, 1834.]

AN ACT in addition to "An Act making further provision for the sur- Chap. 2. vivorship of Civil Actions."

pass, &c. regard

which survive to

utors and admin

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, by the authority of the same, That all actions of tres- Actions of trespass and of trespass upon the case, which are ed as actions now pending, or which may hereafter be com- and against execmenced, for injury to personal property, whether istrators. such injury be caused by misfeasance or nonfeasance, shall be regarded as actions which survive to and against the executors and administrators of the parties causing and sustaining such injury, and may be proceeded in, in the same manner as is provided by the first section of the statute of eighteen hundred and twenty-two, chapter one hundred and ten, entitled, "an act for the regulating actions of replevin and trover." [Jan. 31, 1834.]

AN ACT to confirm the location of Zeno Killey's Wharf. [Jan. 31, Chap. 3. 1834.]

AN ACT to incorporate the Boston Chemical Printing Company. Chap. 4. [Jan. 31, 1834.]