List of Members, with Committees of which Each is a

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290

Perkins Institution and Mass. School for the Blind,

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285

271

Population and Voters of Massachusetts,

236

Postal Regulations (for foreign letters, see page 345),

335

Representatives in Congress (1902), by Districts,

359

Rulings, Notes of, of the Presiding Officers,

535

557

Seal of the Commonwealth,

Secretaries of the Commonwealth since 1780,

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252

Secretary of the Commonwealth, Department of,
Senate:

Alphabetical List of Members,
Arrangement of Seats in,

List of Members, with Districts, Residences, etc.,

List of Members, with Committees of which Each is a

Sergeants-at-Arms of the Legislature since 1835,

259

Superior Court. (See Courts, Superior, etc.)

Supreme Judicial Court. (See Courts, Superior, etc.)

Towns and Cities, Alphabetically, with the Congressional,
Councillor, Senatorial and Representative District of
Each,.

Towns and Post-offices in Massachusetts,

Treasurer and Receiver-General, Department of,

Page

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622

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Treasurers of the Commonwealth since 1780,

Trial Justices. (See County Officers.)

United States:

Constitution of,

9

Amendments to,

23

Act regulating the Time and Manner of electing Sena-
tors in the Congress of,

Vote for Representatives, Fifty-eighth Congress,
Vote for State Officers, 1903,

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

PREAMBLE.

Objects of the Constitution.

ARTICLE I.

SECTION 1. Legislative powers, in whom vested. Page 11. SECT. 2. House of representatives, how and by whom chosen Qualifications of a representative - Representatives and direct taxes, how apportioned - Census Vacancies to be filled - Power of choosing officers, and of impeachment. 11, 12.

SECT. 3. Senators, how and by whom chosen - How classified State executive to make temporary appointments, in case, &c.Qualifications of a Senator - President of the Senate, his right to vote - President pro tem. and other officers of Senate, how chosen Power to try impeachments When President is tried, Chief Justice to preside Sentence. 12, 13.

SECT. 4. Times, &c., of holding elections, how prescribed session in each year. 13.

One

Rules Power

SECT. 5. Membership - Quorum - Adjournments to punish or expel- Journal-Time of adjournment limited, unless, &c. 13, 14.

SECT. 6. Compensation - Privileges - Disqualification in certain cases. 14.

SECT. 7. House to originate all revenue bills - Veto - Bill may be passed by two-thirds of each house, notwithstanding, &c. - Bill not returned in ten days - Provision as to all orders, &c., except, &c. 14, 15.

SECT. 8. Powers of Congress. 15, 16.

SECT. 9. Provision as to migration or importation of certain persons- Habeas corpus· Bills of attainder, &c. - Taxes, how apportioned No export duty - No commercial preferences-No money drawn from treasury, unless, &c.- No titular nobility - Officers not to receive presents, unless, &c. 16, 17.

SECT. 10. States prohibited from the exercise of certain powers. 17.

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ARTICLE II.

SECTION 1. President and Vice-President, their term of office Electors of President and Vice-President, number, and how appointed - Electors to vote on same day - Qualifications of President - On whom his duties devolve in case of his removal, death, &c. President's compensation - His oath. 17-19.

SECT. 2. President to be commander-in-chief- He may require opinion of, &c., and may pardon -- Treaty-making power - Nomination of certain officers When President may fill vacancies. 19. SECT. 3. President shall communicate to Congress He may convene and adjourn Congress, in case, &c.; shall receive ambassadors, execute laws, and commission officers. 19, 20.

SECT. 4. All civil offices forfeited for certain crimes. 20.

ARTICLE III.

SECTION 1. Judicial power - Tenure - Compensation. 20.

SECT. 2. Judicial power, to what cases it extends - Original jurisdiction of supreme court-Appellate - Trial by jury, except, &c.— Trial, where. 20.

21.

SECT. 3. Treason defined - Proof of - Punishment of. 21.

ARTICLE IV.

SECTION 1. Credit to be given to public acts, &c., of every State.

SECT. 2. Privileges of citizens of each State - Fugitives from justice to be delivered up - Persons held to service, having escaped, to be delivered up. 21.

Certain debts, &c., adopted-Supremacy of Constitution, treaties, and laws of the United States - Oath to support Constitution, by whom taken-No religious test. 22, 23.

ARTICLE VII.

What ratification shall establish Constitution. 23.