Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volumes 19-31Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1893 |
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acute admis ALBERT WOOD Almshouse amount annual report Assistant Physician asylum ATTACK Barnstable Berkshire blind Boston bread building bushels butter Charles chronic cities clerk commissioners Commonwealth Commonwealth of Massachusetts Congenital mental deficiency County court Danvers Deaths DISCHARGED AND DIED Discharged recovered District Edward ENDING SEPT Epilepsy Erysipelas ESTATE expenses farm feeble-minded Females fish fisheries George HABITUAL DRUNKARDS Hampshire Henry hospital Sept improved increase inmates insane institution Jamaica Plain John kindergarten large number lobsters Males Mashpee Massachusetts School Mattapoisett melancholia menhaden Middlesex Miss months number of patients NUMBER OF PERSONS Persons admitted Plymouth POST OFFICE SQUARE potatoes pounds private patients pupils remaining Sept repairs Showing the Results silver eels SIMEON BORDEN South Boston superintendent TABLE Taunton tion Total of persons town patients towns decreased treasurer trustees VOLUNTARY PATIENTS wards WHOLE KNOWN PERIOD Whole number William WILLIAM ENDICOTT women
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Page 95 - In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell ; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow...
Page 53 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 36 - The title thus held is subject to the paramount right of navigation, the regulation of which, in respect to foreign and interstate commerce, has been granted to the United States.
Page 76 - THE BLIND. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows : — SECTION 1. The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind is authorized to establish and maintain a primary school for the education of little children, by the name of KINDERGARTEN FOR THE BLIND, and to hold for this purpose, real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars in addition to the...
Page 48 - Act, 1878, after nine o'clock at ni^ht, from the first day of April to the first day of October, and after seven o'clock at night from the first day of October to the first day of April.
Page 115 - To get, then, the quantity of shelled corn in a crib of corn in the ear, measure the length, breadth and height of the crib, inside of the rail; multiply the length by the breadth and the product by the height; then divide the product by two, and you have the number of bushels of shelled corn in the crib.
Page 115 - Rule. — From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side separately. Multiply the half sum and the three remainders together, and extract the square root of the product.
Page 15 - Massachusetts be authorized and requested to appoint two or more suitable persons, who shall appear before the committee on merchant marine and fisheries of the house of representatives of the United States...
Page 31 - The corporation then proceeded to ballot for officers for the ensuing year, and the following persons were unanimously elected : — President — Samuel Eliot, LL.D.