Public Documents of Massachusetts, Issues 16-42

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Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1862 - Massachusetts

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Page 3 - No subject shall be held to answer for any crime or offence, until the same is fully and plainly, substantially and formally, described to him; or be compelled to accuse, or furnish evidence against himself.
Page 11 - ... under the following heads : — Live stock on the farm ; produce of the farm on hand ; carriages and agricultural implements ; machinery and mechanical fixtures ; beds and bedding in the inmates...
Page 5 - ... precluded, in a motion in arrest of judgment, from availing himself of objections which, in the absence of his plea, would have been proper for presentation by motion to quash, under a statute providing that objections to indictment for any defect of form or substance apparent on the face thereof shall be taken by demurrer or motion to quash before the jury is sworn in.
Page 16 - The number discharged was two hundred and eighty-six ; one hundred and fiftyeight men, and one hundred and twenty-eight women. The number remaining in the hospital at the close of the year was...
Page 2 - TILBURY WEST. Secretary's Report. In presenting my annual report it gives me pleasure to be able to state that during the past year the sanitary condition of the township appears to have been good. We have not at present any epidemic of contagious or infectious disease, except a few cases of diphtheria and typhoid fever, the latter being the only infectious disease that showed any tendency to malignancy, or indication of becoming to any extent epidemic ; about...
Page 3 - The object of the Declaration of Rights was to secure substantial privileges and benefits to parties criminally charged ; not to require particular forms, except where they are necessary to the purposes of justice and fair dealing towards persons accused, so as to insure a full and fair trial.
Page 5 - REPORT. To his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council : In compliance with the...

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