1854 Massachusetts legislature

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Massachusetts General Court
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Overview
Legislative body General Court
Senate
President Charles Edward Cook
House
Members310 [1]
Speaker Otis P. Lord
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1854 (1854-01-04) – April 29, 1854 (1854-04-29) [2]

The 75th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1854 during the governorship of Emory Washburn. Charles Edward Cook served as president of the Senate and Otis P. Lord served as speaker of the House. [3] [4]

Contents

Notable legislation included incorporation of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company [5] [6] and funding for a "project to build a railroad tunnel through Hoosac Mountain that cost state taxpayers more than $10 million and took 21 years to complete." [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
  2. ↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  3. ↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
  4. ↑ "Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts". Massachusetts Register, 1854.
  5. ↑ "1854 Chap. 0371. An Act To Incorporate The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company", Massachusetts Acts and Resolves, hdl:2452/96740
  6. ↑ Edward Everett Hale (1891). The Story of Massachusetts. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. p. 327.
  7. ↑ Robert David Sullivan (2005). "A Toast to the General Court". CommonWealth Magazine . 10 (4).
  8. ↑ Rules and Orders to be Observed in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the Year 1854, Boston, hdl:2452/739808
  9. ↑ "Members of the House of Representatives, 1854" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1854, pp. 1045+
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