MANUAL

FOR THE USE OF THE

GENERAL COURT:

CONTAINING THE

RULES AND ORDERS OF THE TWO BRANCHES,

TOGETHER WITH THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THAT
OF THE UNITED STATES, AND A LIST OF THE
EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, AND JUDICIAL
DEPARTMENTS OF THE STATE GOV.
ERNMENT, STATE INSTITUTIONS
AND THEIR OFFICERS,

AND OTHER STATISTICAL INFORMATION.

Prepared under Chapter 264 of the Acts of the year 1878,

BY

S. N. GIFFORD AND GEORGE A. MARDEN.

BOSTON:

Rand, Avery, & Co., Printers to the Commonwealth,

117 FRANKLIN STREET.

THE

Census of Inhabitants in 1875 and 1880, and Legal Voters

in 1875.

173

Cities and Towns in the Commonwealth, with the Con-
gressional, Councillor, Senatorial and Representative
District of each.

203

Cities in the Commonwealth, with the date of their Or-
ganization.

148

Common Pleas, Justices of the Court of, from 1820 to

1859

229