...Constitutional Convention of 1820, providing for the establishment of municipal governments, but only "with the consent and on the application of a majority of the inhabitants . . . present and voting." The very next year the General Court passed "an act establishing the city...

...Massachusetts no town containing less than a given number of inhabitants may be erected into a city "unless it be with the consent and on the application...inhabitants of such town present and voting thereon " ( 2 ) . In the case just cited, the court held that this provision did not apply to the case of the...

...Massachusetts no town containing less than a given number of inhabitants may be erected into a city "unless it be with the consent and on the application...inhabitants of such town present and voting thereon" (2). In the case just cited, the court held that this provision did not apply to the case of the annexation...

...any town unless with the consent of the town and on the application of a majority of the inhabitants "pursuant to a vote at a meeting duly warned and holden for that purpose." It was also provided that all by-laws made by the city government might be annulled at any time by...

...necessary for the government thereof, with the proviso that " no such government shall be erected in an}' town not containing twelve thousand inhabitants, nor...the consent and on the application of/ a majority, oj^thejnbabitants of such town present and voting thereon/' The bill alleges that the town of Brooklinejii(LjnoJ^w3n^in...

...in this direction. The constitution of 1820 made provision for the establishment of municipalities "with the consent and on the application of a majority of the inhabitants . . . voting." l In 1821 the legislature passed a law establishing the city of Boston, which law was...

...officers under the constitution, and the manner of returning the votes given at such meetings. Provided, that no such government shall be erected or constituted...made by such municipal or city government, shall be subject, at all times, to be annulled by the general court. fogov?* ^RT- ' Every male citizen of twenty-one...

...the manner of returning the voles given at such meetings. Provided, that no such government shall l>e erected or constituted in any town not containing...made by such municipal or city government, shall be subject, at all times, to be annulled by the general court. AKT. 111. Every male citizen of twenty-one...

...constitute municipal or city government in any corporate town " of not less than 12,000 inhabitants " with the consent and on the application of a majority of the inhabitants" present and voting at a meeting held for that purpose. (Mass. Amend. II.) Municipalities continued...

..."Provided, that no such government shall be erected or constituted in any town not containing i 2,000 inhabitants, nor unless it be with the consent, and...meeting duly warned and holden for that purpose." By annexing the town of Brookline bodily to the city of Boston, it was claimed that a city form of...