Until that time, outgoing president Adams and the Federalist-controlled 6th Congress were still in power.

On February 13, 1801, the outgoing lame duck Federalist-controlled Congress passed the controversial Judiciary Act of 1801 which reassigned the District of Rhode Island to the First Circuit.

Although Section 83 of the Massachusetts Legislature appears to prohibit dress codes in public schools by declaring that schools may not " abridge the rights of students as to personal dress and appearance ", Section 86 states that " The provisions of sections eighty-three to eighty-five, inclusive, shall apply only to cities and towns which accept the same " and other sections of the law allow schools to impose dress codes, and in fact many public schools in Massachusetts ( mostly in the Boston area ) have mandatory school uniforms.

On July 11, 1997, the Massachusetts State Legislature abolished Middlesex County as a governmental entity due primarily to the county's insolvency.

In 1855, the Massachusetts State Legislature created a Registry of Deeds for the Northern District of Middlesex County in Lowell.

The University of Massachusetts Boston was established by vote of the State Legislature in 1964.

Parimutuel wagering was legalized by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1934.

He took part in public affairs at the beginning of the American Revolution, he was a member of the Massachusetts General Court ( Legislature ) from 1771 until 1775, a delegate to the Provincial congress from 1774 until 1775, and a member of the Board of War from 1778 until its dissolution in 1781.

Wheeler also read from the Acts and resolutions passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts in the year 1844 ", page 319, " 2.

The Charter of Colby College, granted in 1813 by the Massachusetts Legislature.

In 1938, the Massachusetts Legislature gave the institution the power to confer the degrees of Bachelor of Science of oratory and Master of Science of oratory.

He founded the school in 1848 with a $ 2, 500 appropriation from the Massachusetts Legislature.

An act of the Massachusetts State Legislature incorporated MIT in 1861, and Rogers became its first president in 1862.

, Sampson petitioned the Massachusetts State Legislature for pay which the army had withheld from her because she was a woman.

Grimké was invited to speak at the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1837, and testified February 1838, becoming the first woman in the United States to address a legislative body.

On October 19, 2006, members of the Massachusetts Legislature Transportation Committee were quoted in The Boston Globe as saying that the Governor's actions may require state law to be amended for the toll removal to happen.

However, in 1951 the Massachusetts Legislature expropriated the same land for a State Park.

He served one term in the Massachusetts State Legislature.

By an act of the Massachusetts Legislature approved April 1, 1788, it was provided that " this Commonwealth doth hereby agree, to grant, sell & convey to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, for a purchase price of $ 1, 000, 000, payable in three equal annual installments all the Right, Title & Demand, which the said Commonwealth has in & to the said ' Western Territory ' ceded to it by the Treaty of Hartford.

By act of the Massachusetts Legislature, approved April 1, 1788, it was provided that ' this Commonwealth doth hereby agree, to grant, sell & convey ' to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, for a purchase price was $ 1, 000, 000, payable in three equal annual installments of certain Massachusetts securities then worth about 20 cents on the dollar.

Winthrop's views proved no more palatable to abolitionists than did Webster's, and he failed to win reelection by the Legislature to either of Massachusetts ' Senate seats in 1851.

Later that year, Winthrop actually won a popular plurality in the race for Massachusetts Governor but as the state Constitution required a majority, the election was thrown into the Legislature and the same coalition of Democrats and Free Soilers defeated him again.

With help from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded on of land authorized by the Massachusetts Legislature for use as a garden or rural cemetery.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

Her mother chose Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for Margaret because she considered it to be the best women's college in the United States.

The convention chose Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver over Massachusetts Senator ( and later president ) John F. Kennedy.

Seeking a New Englander for a running mate, the caucus initially chose New Hampshire governor John Langdon to balance the ticket, but after Langdon declined due to his age, a second caucus nominated Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts for the Vice Presidency, which had been vacant since George Clinton's death a month earlier.

It is uncertain who chose the name " Salem " for the new town, but it is believed to be one of two people: trustee David Leslie from Salem, Massachusetts, or William H. Willson who in 1850 – 1851 filed the plats for the main part of the city.

In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.

The state Democratic Party chose to support Director of the Massachusetts Port Authority Edward J.

However, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts the ambitious young man chose to work as a hotel bellman.

The men chose a site on the shore of what is now the Fore River in present-day Weymouth, Massachusetts, about north of Plymouth.

The original petition requested that it be named Dromore after one of the town's oldest sections, but Massachusetts chose instead to honor one of its royal governors, Sir William Phips — actually a native of Woolwich.

In 1970, Divine decided that he was fed up of earning his livelihood as a hairdresser, and chose to open up a vintage clothing store in Provincetown, Massachusetts instead, using his parents ' money to rent the premises.

The Ripleys chose to begin their experiment at a dairy farm owned by Charles and Maria Mayo Ellis in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, near the home of Theodore Parker.

In 1988 Governor Michael Dukakis ( Massachusetts ) chose Bentsen to be his running mate in that year's presidential election, beating out Ohio Senator John Glenn, who was considered the early favorite.

In 1838 the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, chose him as one of its agents.

Charles had intended to included the former Gorges territory in this grant, but the Gorges heirs instead chose to sell their remaining claims to Massachusetts.

He was also Warren G. Harding's personal preference for Vice President of the United States in 1920, but the delegates chose instead to nominate Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge.

# Though the experiment went through several variations, Milgram typically chose individuals in the U. S. cities of Omaha, Nebraska and Wichita, Kansas to be the starting points and Boston, Massachusetts to be the end point of a chain of correspondence.

In 2010 Bridgewater State was one of the Massachusetts state colleges that chose to become a university.

Two years later a deputation, sent to England to find a minister for the vacant church of Cambridge, Massachusetts chose Oakes.

In 1960, when Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts won the nomination, he chose Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas in an effort to win that state's critical electoral votes and enhance his appeal in the South.

Charles's writ commanded the Massachusetts authorities to send the imprisoned Quakers to England for trial, but they chose instead to release them.

They chose the Ellis Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts as the site of their experiment, which they named Brook Farm.

During this period, Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts was also prepared to offer Greene a regiment, but Greene chose to serve New York.

Returning to Massachusetts in 1662, he chose to enter politics instead of the ministry.