 Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to...  Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Page 369by Massachusetts Historical Society - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...the puhlie worship Legislature shall from time to time, authorize and rew he maintained quire, tlie several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies...societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 550 pages
...whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend. " Provided notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - New England - 1823 - 540 pages
...whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend. " Provided notwithstanding, that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting with... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...sentiments ; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship. III. As the happiness of a people, and the good order...authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precints, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision at their own... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1827 - 556 pages
...inalienable rights of which they had been forcibly deprived, was expressed in these terms ; ' that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 560 pages
...inalienable rights of which they had been forcibly deprived, was expressed in these terms ; ' that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1828 - 678 pages
...article of the bill of rights prefixed to the Constitution of Massachusetts, it is provided, " that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1828 - 688 pages
...this, we observe, 2. That the Constitution secures to them this right. The Constitution says, " that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all tir"es, have the exclusive right, " &.c. The only question is, can Congregational churches... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - Universalism - 1830 - 492 pages
...summer of 1780, the new Constitution for the State went into effect, in which it was provided, " that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing1 their public teachers, and of contracting... | |
 | William Logan Fisher - Crime - 1831 - 132 pages
...duty of all men in society, publicly and " at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme " Being — that the legislature shall from time " to time, authorize and require, the several " towns, parishes, &c. to make suitable pro" vision at their own expense, for the institu" tion of the public worship... | |
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