Testimony vs. Boston and Maine Railroad, 1852.

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Testimony vs. Boston and Maine Railroad, 1852.

Notes of testimony of H.N. Hooper and others given to the Massachusetts General Court concerning the construction of a railroad by the Boston and Maine Railroad in an area already serviced by the Eastern Railroad.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6943267

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Eastern Railroad Company

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Boston and Maine Railroad

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Hooper, H. N.

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Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...