Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & House of Representatives
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
On May 21,1886, the following order was passed by the Senate and by the House of Representatives, and was transmitted on the following day to the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, who, on May 28, returned the answer which is subjoined.
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On May 21,1886, the following order was passed by the Senate and by the House of Representatives, and was transmitted on the following day to the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, who, on May 28, returned the answer which is subjoined. Whereas, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five the Legislature did pass an act entitled “ An act empowering cities to re-establish their wards,” * which act has ever since been in force, and divers cities in the Commonwealth have re-established their wards according to the provisions of said act; and Whereas, divers cities and towns have been…
1Opinion of the Court
The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, having considered the questions proposed in the joint order of the twenty-first of May present, respectfully submit the following opinion.
The twenty-second article of amendment of the Constitution provides that “ a census of the legal voters of each city and town, on the first day of May, shall be taken, and returned into the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, on or before the last day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; and a census of the inhabitants of each city and town, in the year one thousand eight…
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