Commonwealth v. Inhabitants of Sudbury
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contbaot to recover for the support of Thomas Pierce as a pauper at a state almshouse, from December 5, 1868, to October 1, 1869. The case was submitted to the judgment of the court on facts agreed substantially as follows: Thomas Pierce was admitted to the almshouse July 20,1868, and on March 5, 1^69, at which time he was a minor, the defendants were duly notified' in accordance with the Gen. Sts. c. 71, § 49, but they denied that he had any settlement with them and refused…
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Contbaot to recover for the support of Thomas Pierce as a pauper at a state almshouse, from December 5, 1868, to October 1, 1869. The case was submitted to the judgment of the court on facts agreed substantially as follows: Thomas Pierce was admitted to the almshouse July 20,1868, and on March 5, 1^69, at which time he was a minor, the defendants were duly notified' in accordance with the Gen. Sts. c. 71, § 49, but they denied that he had any settlement with them and refused to remove him. “ Thomas Pierce was a son of Luke Pierce, an adult alien, who lived in Sudbury and occupied an estate of…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The first section of the St. of 1868, c. 328, which went into operation July 9, 1868, is as follows: “ Hereafter, any person of the age of twenty-one years, having the other qualifications mentioned in the fourth, fifth, ninth and twelfth clauses of the first section of chapter sixty-nine of the General Statutes, shall be deemed to have thereby gained a settlement as therein provided, although not a citizen of this or any other of the United States.” All these clauses relate to gaining settlements by residence, having property and paying taxes; and the object of the statute is to put aliens…
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