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• Proceedings of a meeting of friends of Rev. John Pierpont : and his reply to the charges of the committee, of Hollis Street Society. (Printed by S.N. Dickinson, 1839), by John Pierpont and Samuel N. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses delivered at various temperance meetings held in the city of Boston : with an account of the grand simultaneous anniversary, February, 1845 (T.R. Marvin, 1845), by J. R. Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings of the Temperance Convention, held in Boston on the twenty-third September, 1835 : in pursuance of an invitation of the Massachusetts Temperance Society to the friends of temperance : with an address to the friends of temperance. (Printed by John Ford, agent of the Massachusetts Temperance Society, 1836), by Mass.) Temperance Convention (1835 : Boston, John Ford, Massachusetts Temperance Society. Council, Friends of Temperance, and Massachusetts Temperance Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Temperance Convention, held in Tremont Temple, Boston, Wednesday, February 22nd, 1871, for the purpose of organizing a new State Temperance Society, with the speeches, discussions, &c. (Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, 1871), by Massachusetts Temperance Convention (1871 : Boston), C. H. Taylor, and Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• The temperance cause : a discourse delivered before the Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society, on Sunday evening, November 8, 1846 (Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1846), by Ezra S. Gannett and Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• The temperance cause : a discourse delivered before the Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society, on Sunday evening, November 8, 1846 (Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1846), by Ezra S. Gannett and Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Washingtonian Home for the year ... (Wright & Potter, printers., 1867), by Mass.) Washingtonian Home (Boston and Wright & Potter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Liquor laws of Massachusetts and digest of cases thereon : also laws relative to innholders, common victuallers, pool rooms and bowling alleys, intelligence offices, picnic groves, skating rinks, and fruit, ice cream and confectionary licenses (Printing Dept., 1912), by Massachusetts and Louis Epple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to the Liquor laws of Massachusetts : also miscellaneous laws relating to licenses under the control of the Licensing Board (Printing Dept., 1917), by Massachusetts and Louis Epple (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report - Licensing Board for the City of Boston (State printers, 1907), by Massachusetts. Licensing Board for the City of Boston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report to the mayor and aldermen by the Committee on license, Chicago City council, on the public licensing, regulation and control of the liquor traffic in Boston and New York city. ([Chicago, 1917), by Chicago (Ill.). City Council. Committee on license and John Toman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual report of the Licensing Board for the City of Boston. (Wright , 1906), by Massachusetts. Licensing Board for the City of Boston (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Proceedings of a Great Whig Meeting of Citizens of Boston, Held at Amory Hall, On the Evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838, by Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at Google)
• Report of a committee of the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance : adopted at a meeting of the Society, June 3, 1831. (Boston Power Press, 1831), by Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance and John Collins Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter, on the 'State of the temperance reform,' to the Rev. Caleb Stetson, of Medford, Mass. (W. S. Damrell : Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1836), by Lucius M. Sargent, William Shapleigh Damrell, Caleb Stetson, and Kendall Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the people of Massachusetts, by the friends of temperance : and of the statute of 1838, 'for the regulation of the sale of spiritous liquors.' (Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1838), by Jonathan Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The argument of Peleg Sprague, Esq. : before the committee of the legislature upon the memorial of Harrison G. Otis and others : February, 1839. (Published by Whipple & Damrell, no. 9 Cornhill, 1839), by Peleg Sprague and Whipple & Damrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a great Whig meeting of citizens of Boston, held at Amory Hall, on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838. (Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1838), by Samuel Gardner Drake Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) and Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aldermanic wisdom and aldermanic virtue, upon the question of license and no-license. (B. Marsh, 1849), by C. Lawton Hosmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the people of Massachusetts, on the subject of human rights. (printed for the author, 1838), by Benjamin Dole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massachusetts and rum : an address delivered April 9, 1871, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society in the Church of Our Father, East Boston (Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, 1871), by Warren H. Cudworth and Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance and political action (printed at the Office of "The Boston Spy", Kidder & Wright, 1840), by Richard Hildreth, William M. Rogers, Emory Washburn, Kidder and Wright, and Mass.) Massachusetts Temperance Convention (1840 : Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cracked jug, or five answers to my neighbor Parley's five letters cracking his "fifteen gallon jug". (printed for the author, 1911), by Moses Williams and George C. Dempsey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Convention of the Young Men of Massachusetts, Friendly to the Cause of Temperance (Printed by Ford and Damrell, 1834), by Friendly to the Cause of Temperance Convention of the Young Men of Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance and political action (printed at the Office of "The Boston Spy", Kidder & Wright, 1840), by Richard Hildreth, William M. Rogers, Emory Washburn, Kidder and Wright, and Mass.) Massachusetts Temperance Convention (1840 : Boston (page images at HathiTrust)

• The temperance cause. (Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, 1878), by Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Constitution of the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance : and report of the Board of Counsel (Samuel T. Armstrong, 1813), by Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered before the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, May 31, 1827. ... (Bowles and Dearborn ..., 1827), by Charles Sprague and Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sermon, preached before the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, at their annual meeting, June 1, 1821. (Printed by Phelps and Farnham ..., 1821), by William Jenks and Massachusetts Society of the Suppression of Intemperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• The criminality of intemperance. An address delivered at the eleventh anniversary of the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance. ... (Printed by Phelps and Farnham ..., 1823), by Henry Ware and Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the Danvers Auxiliary Society, for Suppressing Intemperance and Other Vices, and Promoting Temperance and General Morality. (Printed by John D. Cushing and Brothers ..., 1822), by Warren Abbott and Danvers Danvers Auxiliary Society for Suppressing Intemperance and Other Vices (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evils of intemperance, exemplified in poetry and prose. With engravings. (Published by N. Boynton, and for sale by, 1829), by A friend to temperance and Boston Union Temperate Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address delivered before the Massachusetts Society for the suppression of intemperance, May 29, 1828. ... (Bowles & Dearborn ..., 1828), by Joshua B. Flint, Massachusetts Temperance Society, Isaac R. Butts and Co, Bowles and Dearborn, and Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address, delivered in Haverhill, Feb. 8, 1829, on occasion of the first anniversary of the Society for the Promotion of Temperance in Haverhill and Vicinity. ... (Printed by A. W. Thayer., 1829), by Dudley Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered before the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, May 27, 1833. (Temperance Press, Ford & Damrell, 1833), by Lucius M. Sargent and Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address, delivered January 24, 1830, in the Second Baptist Meetinghouse in Haverhill, preparatory to the organization of the East-Haverhill Temperance Society. ... (Printed by A.W. Thayer., 1830), by Dudley Phelps and Mass.) East Haverhill Temperance Society (Haverhill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of ardent spirits in a professing Christian a great sin. A discourse, delivered before the temperance society in Woburn, December 14, 1829. ... (Peirce and Williams., 1830), by E. Nelson, Woburn Temperance Society, and Mass Woburn Temperance Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address before the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, delivered May 27, 1833. (Temperance Press, Ford and Damrell, 1833), by Lucius M. Sargent, Mass.) Temperance Press (Boston, Ford and Damrell, and Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered at Amesbury, August 2, 1829, : previous to the organization of the Salisbury and Amesbury Society for Promoting Temperance. (Examiner Press, School Street., 1829), by David Damon and Mass.) Examiner Press (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Statistics of drunkenness and liquor selling : under prohibitory and license legislation, 1874 and 1877 (Rand, Avery, & Co., 1879), by Carroll D. Wright and Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sargent's address before the Worcester Temperance Society. (Printed by Ford and Damrell, Temperance Press, 1833), by Lucius M. Sargent and Worcester Temperance Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings of a Great Whig Meeting of Citizens of Boston, Held at Amory Hall, On the Evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838, by Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at Google)
• The Cambridge idea in temperance reform and Massachusetts laws for dealing with drunkenness. (Published by Massachusetts Board of Managers, World's Fair, 1893), by Edmund Allen Whitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports on the subject of a license law (Wright & Potter, state printers, 1867), by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on License Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the Public statutes of Massachusetts containing the laws regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors (Temperance Republican headquarters, 1883), by Henry H. Faxon, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alcohol and the state : a discussion of the problem of law as applied to the liquor traffic (National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1877), by Robert C. Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation into the Fifteen gallon law of Massachusetts, before a joint committee of the Legislature, which began Jan. 29 and closed Feb. 20, 1839, upon the memorial of Harrison Gray Otis and others for the repeal of the law : with the arguments of Franklin Dexter & B.F. Hallett, as counsel in support of the memorial. (Printed by J.H. Buckingham, 1839), by Benjamin Franklin Hallett, Franklin Dexter, Harrison Gray Otis, and Massachusetts General Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis (Whipple and Damrell, 1839), by Citizen of Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors (Temperance Republican Headquarters, 1890), by Massachusetts, Henry H. Faxon, and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Francis W. Emmons, of Sturbridge, on regulating the sale of alcohol, and prohibiting intoxicating drink. Delivered in the Massachusetts legislature, April 14, 1848. (John Putnam, printer, 1848), by Francis W. Emmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examination of the license law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (Printed and Published by J. Ford, 1833), by Lucius M. Sargent and M. L. V. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws of Massachusetts relating to intoxicating liquors : common nuisances, gaming, innholders and common victuallers, Lord's day, penalties for drunkenness, etc. : also, a digest of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court concerning these matters (Henry H. Faxon, 1899), by Massachusetts, Henry H. Faxon, and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the House of Representatives, Feb., 15, 1832. Ordered, that the bill regulating licensed houses be committed to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to report a bill, repealing the provisions in act regulating licensed houses, passed March 19, 1831 which requires Selectmen to take and oath, and such as are licensed to enter into recognizance: and to provide that any person may be licensed both as an innholder and retailer, the applicant paying an excise for each license. ([Boston?, 1832), by Massachusetts. General Court. 1832 (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston opposition to the new law for the suppression of rum shops and grog shops, fully detected and plainly exposed : being an appeal to the country people of Massachusetts to protect themselves : in four parts ... (Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1838), by Richard Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the people of Massachusetts, by the friends of temperance : and of the statute of 1838, 'for the regulation of the sale of spiritous liquors.' (Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1838), by Jonathan Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The argument of Peleg Sprague, Esq. : before the committee of the legislature upon the memorial of Harrison G. Otis and others : February, 1839. (Published by Whipple & Damrell, no. 9 Cornhill, 1839), by Peleg Sprague and Whipple & Damrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a great Whig meeting of citizens of Boston, held at Amory Hall, on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 10th, 1838. (Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1838), by Samuel Gardner Drake Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) and Mass.) Whig Party (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of Attorney General Clifford's report against the prohibitive liquor law of Massachusetts (Published for the State Temperance Committee by N. Noyes, 1856), by J. Porter and Wilhelm Brown Spooner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prohibitory liquor law. Abstract of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. (Wright & Potter, 1867), by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal opinion of Hon. John M. Williams on the constitutionality of the Massachusetts prohibitive liquor law (Franklin Printing House, 1855), by John Mason Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resurrection of the blue-laws (Printed by W. Chadwick, 1852), by Primitive Washingtonian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the governor's veto of the act for the better enforcement of the laws. (J.M. Usher, 1864), by State Temperance Committee (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Licensed houses." An examination of the license law of the commonwealth of Massachusetts ... (J. Ford, 1833), by M. L. V. and Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dry laws and wet politicians (International Publishers, 1922), by Harold David Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harold D. Wilson on dry laws and wet politicians. (Pequa Press, 1922), by Harold David Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liquor laws of Massachusetts and digest of cases thereon : also laws relative to innholders, common victuallers, pool rooms and bowling alleys, intelligence offices, picnic groves, skating rinks, and fruit, ice cream and confectionary licenses (Printing Dept., 1912), by Massachusetts and Louis Epple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to the Liquor laws of Massachusetts : also miscellaneous laws relating to licenses under the control of the Licensing Board (Printing Dept., 1917), by Massachusetts and Louis Epple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the public statutes of Massachusetts: containing the laws regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors, with the amendments and additions made by the legislature of 1883, and the special provisions for the Lord's day, gaming, common nuisances, innholders and common victuallers, the rights of towns to appropriate money for various purposes, and the penalties for drunkeness. Together with a digest of the decisions of the supreme judicial court bearing upon those matters; also full tables of contents and indexes. (Temperance Republican Headquarters, 1884), by Henry H. Faxon and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the public statutes of Massachusetts : containing the laws regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors : with the amendments and additions made by the legislature of 1883 and the special provisions for the Lord's day, gaming, common nuisances, innholders and common victuallers, the rights of towns to appropriate money for various purposes, and the penalties for drunkeness : together with a digest of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court bearing upon those matters ... (Temperance Republican Headquarters, 1883), by Massachusetts, Henry H. Faxon, and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laws relating to the sale of Intoxicating liquors (Temperance Republican Headquarters, 1887), by Massachusetts, Henry H. Faxon, and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Norwegian system of license examined and exposed; a careful study. (Boston, 1895), by F. A. Warfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decision (Boston : The Commission, in the 20th century), by Massachusetts. Division of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Eclipse (s.n.], 1754) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Plea for the poor and distressed, against the bill for granting an excise upon wines and spirits distilled, sold by retail, or consumed within this province, &c. (Boston, : Printed [by Thomas Fleet], in the year 1754) (HTML at Evans TCP)

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