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... Coal , contracts for . Letter from the Secretary of the Navy , transmitting statement relative to the purchase of Coast Survey . Annual report of the Superintendent of the ... Coinage of five - cent pieces . Letter from the Secretary of ...
... Coal , contracts for . Letter from the Secretary of the Navy , transmitting statement relative to the purchase of Coast Survey . Annual report of the Superintendent of the ... Coinage of five - cent pieces . Letter from the Secretary of ...
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... coal . Letter from the Secretary of the .... Navy , transmitting statement of vessels bought , sold , and char- tered during the war . Letter from the Secretary of the .. Navy relative to the trial trip of the Wampanoag . Letter from ...
... coal . Letter from the Secretary of the .... Navy , transmitting statement of vessels bought , sold , and char- tered during the war . Letter from the Secretary of the .. Navy relative to the trial trip of the Wampanoag . Letter from ...
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... coal - fields and iron ores which the engineers report to exist to a vast extent in the vicinity of Medicine Bow mountains and the Black Hills . Believing this to have an important bearing on the location of the road , I have despatched ...
... coal - fields and iron ores which the engineers report to exist to a vast extent in the vicinity of Medicine Bow mountains and the Black Hills . Believing this to have an important bearing on the location of the road , I have despatched ...
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... coal , limestone , sandstone suitable for build- ing furnaces , & c . , as near as these may be found to the line of railroad . Upon this work you will be occupied as long as the season will admit of your doing so to advantage ; and on ...
... coal , limestone , sandstone suitable for build- ing furnaces , & c . , as near as these may be found to the line of railroad . Upon this work you will be occupied as long as the season will admit of your doing so to advantage ; and on ...
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... coal fields and beds of iron in the vicinity of the Black Hills and Medicine Pond mountains , and the country between them and Denver , with a view to the erection of furnaces and rolling - mills for the manufacture of rails . The ...
... coal fields and beds of iron in the vicinity of the Black Hills and Medicine Pond mountains , and the country between them and Denver , with a view to the erection of furnaces and rolling - mills for the manufacture of rails . The ...
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Page 7 - The corporate authorities of counties, townships, school districts, cities, towns and villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes...
Page 13 - All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation; the General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.
Page 18 - Court for, the owner, and no right of way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal until full compensation therefor be first made in money or ascertained and paid into Court for the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corpo-ration, which compensation shall be ascertained by a jury, unless a jury be waived, as in other civil cases in a Court of record, as shall be prescribed by law.
Page 29 - ... by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the legislature to...
Page 15 - SECTION 1. The legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives...
Page 24 - I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich ; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as , according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Page 26 - That, in all capital or criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence...
Page 20 - If he approve, he shall sign it, and thereupon it shall become a law; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
Page 65 - ... warrant, to a civil officer, to make search in suspected places, or to arrest one or more suspected persons, or to seize their property, be not accompanied with a special , designation of the persons or objects of search, arrest, or seizure : And no warrant ought to be issued, but in cases, and with the formalities, prescribed by the laws.
Page 19 - In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, resignation, or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease.