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Page 89 - I believe it cannot be doubted, but that by the general law of nations, the goods of a friend found in the vessel of an enemy are free, and the goods of an enemy found in the vessel of a friend are lawful prize.
Page 128 - An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States;" and the several acts supplementary thereto, and for other purposes, passed the 25th April, 1808.
Page 207 - All elections ought to be free; and all the inhabitants of this commonwealth, having such qualifications as they shall establish by their frame of government, have an equal right to elect officers, and to be elected, for public employments.
Page 210 - Every male person, being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth for the space of one year next preceding, having a freehold estate within the same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a Representative or Representatives for the said town.
Page 212 - Selectmen, shall, in open town meeting, sort and count the votes, and form a list of the persons voted for, with the number of votes for each person against his name; and shall make a fair record of the same...
Page 128 - States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, and the act to enforce and make more effectual, an act, entitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States...
Page 212 - ... meeting sort and count the votes and form a list of the persons voted for with the number of votes for each person against his name; and shall make a fair record of the same in the town books...
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| Title | The Massachusetts Manual: Or Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June 1814, to June 1815 .. Issue 31034 of Early American imprints |
| Illustrated by | William M. S. Doyle, John Rubens Smith |
| Contributor | Stoddard Capen |
| Publisher | Charles Callender, no. 11, Marlboro' Street., 1814 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 May 2007 |
| Length | 195 pages |
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