Excerpt from Notes on the General Statutes of Massachusetts: To Which Is Added a List of Cities and Towns in the State, and of Certain State and County Officers
Persons who reside on lands ceded to the United States, when there is no other reservation of jurisdiction to the state than that of a right to serve civil and criminal process on such lands, are not entitled to the benefits of the common schools for their children in the towns in which the lands are situated; nor are they liable to be assessed for their polls and estates to state, county, and town taxes in such towns nor do they gain a settlement in such towns for themselves or their children by residence for any length of time on such lands; nor do they acquire, by residing on such lands, any elective fran chise as inhabitants of such towns. Opinion of Justices, 1 Met. 580.
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