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When the college buildings were occupied by the army in 1775, 240 men were quartered in Stoughton, and the Provincial Congress assigned a room in the same building to Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, who there published the N. E. Chronicle and Essex Gazette. In 1780, Stoughton Hall was torn down, as it was pronounced unsafe on account of the poor masonry. It was begun in 1698 and finished two years later, at the cost of L1000, given by Lieutenant-Governor William Stoughton...
...Women desire the right of suffrage. (a) They are asking for it through their representative women. (b) They have sent memorials to Congress and State legislatures.- H. R. Mis. Doc., 46th Cong., 2nd Sess...
...would be unconstitutional. (a) Congress cannot make internal improvements merely because they promote the "general welfare."- Story's Commentaries, and 1272-1276. (b) Congress can make only such laws as are "necessary and proper" for the execution of the granted powers.- Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 18, 8 Wallace...
...owners of vast amounts of property into the hands of a few practically irresponsible men. All transactions are secret, and there is no effective method of judicial control. Pools and corporations are public contracts, and are thus under the control of the laws. A law should be passed by Congress, that all combinations giving property to trustees shall be incorporated with charters, and obliged to publish their a ccounts. Upon information filed by the attorney general of any state that any corporation is injurious to the public welfare, the charter shall be taken away. This regulation would destroy the essential...
...Probably both Houses, and certainly the lower branch of Congress, would be in political sympathy with the President, obviating the danger of deadlocks and fixing political responsibility on one party.- G. Bradford's "The Practical Working of Our Government...