Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volumes 18-29Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1876 - Massachusetts |
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Aggregate length Almshouse am't p'd amount Average rate average weight baggage cars Berkshire Boston & Albany Boston & Lowell Boston & Maine Branch bridges Capital stock Capital stock authorized cent charged Class COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS construction corporations crossings of highways debt liabilities Dividends Earnings Eastern Railroad employés engine equipment fare per mile feet Fitchburg Fitchburg Railroad Company Framingham freight cars freight department gates or flagmen idiocy idiots Income insane institution Length of main locomotives Lunatic Hospital mail and baggage main line mile of road Miles run Nashua Northampton Number of stockholders Old Colony Railroad paid pass'rs passenger department passenger trains patients permanent investments Proportion for Massachusetts Railroad Company rails rate of fare receipts from passenger Repairs roads operated season-ticket passengers September 30 sh's single track Springfield stations stock and debt Superintendent tons TOTAL EXPENSES Total length Total number Total receipts train mile trustees Ware River whole number Worcester
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Page 44 - It shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor of any city or town, except the city of Boston, to commit to one of the state lunatic hospitals, or the Boston lunatic hospital, with the consent of the trustees...
Page 44 - The judge may, in his discretion, issue a warrant to the sheriff or his deputy, directing him to summon a jury of six lawful men to hear and determine whether the alleged lunatic is insane.
Page 101 - Average rate of fare per mile received from passengers to and from other roads, 21.
Page 28 - Lowest rate of freight per ton per mile, for any distance, 25. Average rate of freight per ton per mile on roads operated by this company, . 26.
Page 435 - Act. in as full and ample a manner to all intents and purposes as if the same privileges and protections were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.
Page 91 - Having a lower vitality, they feel the want of some stimulation. If they pursue the course of their fathers, which they have more temptation to follow, and less power to avoid, than the children of the temperate, they add...
Page 12 - In round numbers, then, of ten persons attacked by insanity, five recover, and five die sooner or later during the attack. Of the five who recover, not more than two remain well during the rest of their lives; the other three sustain subsequent attacks, during which at least two of them die.
Page 443 - DOE, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the second part...
Page 59 - Connecticut, .... 13. Aggregate length of tracks belonging to this Company computed as single track, 14. Same in Connecticut, .... 15.
Page 49 - Maine, 9. Length of double track on branches, . 10. Total length of road belonging to this company, 11.