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ACTS

AND

RESOLVES

PASSED BY THE

General Court of Massachusetts,

IN THE YEAR

1869,

TOGETHER WITH

THE MESSAGES OF THE GOVERNOR, A LIST OF
THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT, CHANGES

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BOSTON:

WRIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS,

79 MILK STREET, (CORNER OF FEDERAL.)

1869.

The General Court of 1869 assembled on Wednesday, the sixth

day of January.

The oaths of office required by the Constitution to be administered to the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor elect, were taken and subscribed by His Excellency WILLIAM CLAFLIN and His Honor JOSEPH TUCKER, on Saturday, the ninth day of January, in the presence of the two Houses assembled in convention.

ACTS,
GENERAL AND SPECIAL.

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE COUNTY SEAT
OF THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE AT PITTSFIELD, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

Chap. 1.

of correction to

til provided at

SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter three hundred and Jail and house twenty-five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and be at Lenox unsixty-eight, entitled An Act to establish the county seat of Pittsfield. the county of Berkshire at Pittsfield, and for other purposes, is so far amended that the jail and house of correction for said county shall remain and be at Lenox, in said county, until a jail and house of correction shall be provided at Pittsfield.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved January 30, 1869.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE
GOVERNMENT DURING THE PRESENT YEAR.

Be it enacted, &c., as follows:

Chap. 2.

SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appro- Appropriations priated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, authorized. from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, to meet expenses for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to wit:

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

For the salary of the clerk of the supreme judicial court S. J. Court, for the Commonwealth, three thousand dollars.

clerk.
G. S. 121.

For the salary of the assistant-clerk of said court, one Assistant-clerk.

thousand five hundred dollars.

G. S. 121.

For the salary of the reporter of decisions of the supreme Reporter.

judicial court, three hundred dollars.

G. S. 121.

For the expenses of said court, a sum not exceeding one Expenses. thousand five hundred dollars.

G. S. 121.

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