HOUSE.....No. 82. [Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight. RESOLVE For furnishing the Town of Fall River with certain Books. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Commonwealth be, and he is hereby, directed to furnish the town of Fall River, in the county of Bristol, with copies of such volumes and pamphlets of the Laws and Resolves of the Commonwealth, passed before the third day of July of the year eighteen hundred and fortythree, as now are in, or may come into, his office, to supply the place of those destroyed on that day by fire. HOUSE.....No. 83. [Reported by the Committee on Claims.] Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight. RESOLVE Relating to Revolutionary Soldiers, whose term of service was less than six months. Resolved, That there be paid, out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, from time to time, such sums as, in the wisdom of the legislature, may be deemed just and reasonable, to each surviving soldier of the Revolution, who, in consequence of his not having served six months, is excluded from becoming a pensioner under the laws of the United States. HOUSE.....No. 84. MEMORIAL. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled: The memorial of the undersigned respectfully represents that, in the opinion of your memorialists, some remedy should be provided for the redress of private injuries occasioned by the traffic in intoxicating liquors. Your memorialists are advised, that, although it is the boast of the law that it provides a satisfaction for every wrong done to private rights, in this instance the grossest violations of those rights are entirely remediless. They cannot but regard this as an anomaly in our otherwise just and equitable system of jurisprudence. Your memorialists cannot understand the reason why civil rights should be so carefully regarded in other respects, and left so exposed in this particular. If one man should entice away a minor son or daughter, or even a servant, from the care and custody of another, the offender would be responsible, civilly, in damages, to the person injured. If some heartless villain should seduce a daughter or wife, the parent or husband could bring his action for the loss of service of the daughter or wife, and, on his claim, recover damages, measured only by the opinion which a jury may entertain of the value of chastity in a daughter or a wife. But if the keeper of a grog-shop should, for the sake of gain, attack and destroy the happiness of a family, |