 The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution, to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant...  Report of the Attorney General - Page 25by Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1918Full view - About this book
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...shall be respectively administered unto them, for the execution of their several offices and places, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution ; and also to impose f,nes, mulcts, imprisonments, and other punishments; and to impose and levy proportional... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...reasonable orders, laws, Sec. but it leaves not this important power without restriction, for it adds, " so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this constitution." It is a possible case, the legislature may inadvertently overleap their bounds, that they might do... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...respectively administered unto them, for the execution of their several offices and Taxes may he places, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution ; and to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...shall be respectively administered unto them, for the execution of their several offices and places, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution; and to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants... | |
 | New Hampshire. General Court. Senate - Legislative journals - 1828 - 1056 pages
...ti;ne, to n.ake, or. Iain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, ordinances, directions and instructions, either with...repugnant or contrary to this constitution, as they may judge for the benelit an:l wej/are of I'm Stats." Here the potver granted is a power, tp make all... | |
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...and ordinances, directions, and instructions, cither with penalties or without, C*o as the same he not repugnant or contrary to this constitution,) as they shall judge to he for the good and welfare of this commonwealth, and for the government and ordering thereof, and... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...shall be respectively administered unto them for the execution of their several offices and places, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution; and to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants... | |
 | Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 516 pages
...or without, (so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the laws of this our realm of England) as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of our said province or territory, and for the government and ordering thereof, and of the people inhabiting,... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...shall be respectively administered unto them for the execution of their several offices and places, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution ; and to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants... | |
 | Harvard University - 1835 - 104 pages
...or without, (so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to the laws of this our realm of England,) as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of our said province or territory, and for the government and ordering thereof, and of the people inhabiting,... | |
| |
