Word: bill
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...bill for the extension of the franchise for voting for Overseers was laid on the table by the Massachusetts Senate yesterday. The Senate has already passed the bill in its original form, but has not yet concurred in the amendment recently offered by the House. The bill will be acted upon the first of next week...
...bill for the extension of the franchise in the election of Overseers, which has been considered during the present session of the Massachusetts legislature, passed the House of Representatives yesterday at its third and final reading. This practically means that the bill has become a law. The only remaining step necessary is that it shall go back to the Senate for concurrence in the amendment which was engrossed by the House at the second reading, providing that if passed the bill shall not become operative for three years. The Senate is almost sure to concur in this amendment which does...
...bill for the extension of the franchise in the election of Overseers has passed its second reading in the State House of Representatives, and will come up for final reading today. The bill will undoubtedly be passed by the House in its present form, and will then go to the Senate for concurrence in the amendment which was engrossed by the House, providing that the bill shall not become operative for three years. In all probability the Senate will concur in the amendment, as all differences of opinion of the opposing interests have been settled...
...committee on Education in the State Senate has come to an agreement regarding the Overseers Bill, which provides for a change in the system of electing Harvard Overseers. The bill was approved by the committee, but an amendment has been adopted whereby, although it may be accepted at any time, the act shall not become operative for three years, or until after three changes in the personnel of the Board of Overseers shall have taken place. The bill provides that the President and Fellows and Board of Overseers shall determine by themselves what degrees entitle graduates to vote for Overseers...
...Samuel Hoar and the Hon. Charles F. Adams, 2nd, went before the Committee on Education of the Massachusetts Assembly yesterday to advocate a favorable report on a bill to enable the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers separately to determine what degrees shall entitle graduates to vote for Overseers. The bill is subject to acceptance by the Overseers, and the president and Fellows respectively. It is a compromise measure, agreed to by those who believe graduates from postgraduate schools, who originally graduated from some other college, should be entitled to vote, and by those who take the opposite...