Legal records, 1651-1910.

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Legal records, 1651-1910.

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Acts, resolves, and laws (1772-1863; 30 items) including handwritten and printed laws concerning choice of electors; acts for accurate land accounting, to provide Overseers of Poor return, to ascertain rateable real estate, census, House of Representatives organization; resolves to ascertain numbers of blind persons, and constitutional amendment; statutes concerning lunatic hospital; acts concerning apportioning and assessing tax by county, town, and commonwealth (1780 and 1781), transcript of 1824 "Bye-laws" of Gloucester, and supplement to 1863 General Statutes of Commonwealth; and undated "Bye-laws" concerning dogs, dealers in junk, old metals, and second hand articles. City solicitor opinions (1876-1910; 190 items) including opinions on wide range of matters including road and highway layouts, contracts, claims, deed, voter registration, school houses, damages, bills, police vacations, fire houses, stopping up of Old Brook, Water Company, Gas Light Company, railroad bridge, Magnolia landing, fish weir, scales, janitors, milk licenses, Rockport Town landings, duties of City Marshal and Superintendent of Schools, land of old Riggs School House, rights of city, shoeing horses, Board of Health organizations, Dolliver's drain, enforcements by collector of customs, water commissioners and ordinance, 1st and 4th class licenses, Overseers of Poor, land title in Lanesville, Amber Brewing Co., Reynard St. entry on land, and citizen compensation. And jurors lists (1804-1866; 23 items) including lists of male citizens named as prospective jurors presented by selectmen for acceptance at town meeting; land lawsuit papers, Boynton (1884; 15 items) including copies of deeds from 1794 on and birth certificates concerning city vs. Boynton; and legal miscellany (1651-1895; 47 items) including summonses to court, legal opinions, written evidence, inventories of estates, referee's reports, and correspondence. No case is completely documented.

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