Report on secret societies and monopolies / by a joint committee of the legislature of Massachusetts.

Report on secret societies and monopolies / by a joint committee of the legislature of Massachusetts.

[Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [1836]

1 online resource (48 pages).

Senate (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. Senate) ; 1836, no. 87.

Includes report entitled "Report on secret societies and monopolies with a list of the capitals of incorporations," with a section entitled "Monopolies and incorporations." Information showing the amount of capital granted to different corporations includes manufacturing corporations, banks, institutions for savings, insurance companies, canal corporations, turnpike corporations, bridge corporations, railroad corporations, religious and charitable institutions, literary institutions, and miscellaneous corporations. The report includes a section on Masonic oaths and secret societies and Freemasonry in Great Britain.
"Ordered, that so much of the address of his Excellency the Governor, as relates to monopolies and exclusive privileges, be referred to the Committee, on secret oath bound societies, with instructions to report what monopolies and exclusive privileges, if any, exist in this state, and particularly to report a list of the several classes of corporations created in this Commonwealth since the adoption of the constitution, with the total amount of capital granted to each class."--Page [4]

From the library of Joseph Hume, radical MP, acquired by the College in 1855.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed November 15, 2023).

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Secret societies & monopolies, April 1836

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Report on secret societies and monopolies with a list of the capitals of incorporations.

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