The History of Political Parties in the State of New-York: From the Ratification of the Federal Constitution to December, 1840 ...Phinney & Company, 1849 - New York (State) |
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... present a pretty clear view of the material points decided by the convention , and of the course of reasoning which led to the results to which that assembly arrived , so abbreviated , simplified , and arranged as will enable the ...
... present a pretty clear view of the material points decided by the convention , and of the course of reasoning which led to the results to which that assembly arrived , so abbreviated , simplified , and arranged as will enable the ...
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... present state of the world than Mr. Wright . His knowledge was particular and accu rate ; added to this , his correspondence was immense for one individual . This is intended with regard to some of his last years . Most men would feel ...
... present state of the world than Mr. Wright . His knowledge was particular and accu rate ; added to this , his correspondence was immense for one individual . This is intended with regard to some of his last years . Most men would feel ...
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... notes and accounts , and found about $ 600 in small amounts against the different individuals for whom he had done business . He said to a friend who was present at the time , ' Here are notes and accounts 38 LIFE OF SILAS WRIGHT .
... notes and accounts , and found about $ 600 in small amounts against the different individuals for whom he had done business . He said to a friend who was present at the time , ' Here are notes and accounts 38 LIFE OF SILAS WRIGHT .
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... present session of the legislature , giving to the people of this state the choice of electors of president and vice- president by general ticket . " In support of this resolution Mr. Cramer made an able and eloquent speech , which we ...
... present session of the legislature , giving to the people of this state the choice of electors of president and vice- president by general ticket . " In support of this resolution Mr. Cramer made an able and eloquent speech , which we ...
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... present existing law , providing for the appointment of the said electors , so far as the same may be inconsistent with a law containing the aforesaid provisions . " It will be perceived that the project of Mr. Wright was substantially ...
... present existing law , providing for the appointment of the said electors , so far as the same may be inconsistent with a law containing the aforesaid provisions . " It will be perceived that the project of Mr. Wright was substantially ...
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Page 608 - ... shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people...
Page 611 - No lease or grant of agricultural land, for a longer period than twelve years, hereafter made, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.
Page 654 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 605 - ... next after the passage of such appropriation act; and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.
Page 580 - No member of the Legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this State, or to the Senate of the United States from the Governor, the Governor and Senate, or- from the Legislature, or from any city government during the time for which he shall have been elected ; and all such appointments and all votes given for any such member, for any such office or appointment, shall be void.
Page 602 - ... ]N"o such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election.
Page 87 - That the Senators of this State in the Congress of the United States...
Page 398 - I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education as a man and a Christian which it was possible for me to provide.
Page 41 - J., in his dissenting opinion, reviews the course of decision in the state of New York, as well as in other states, and comes to the conclusion, which is, we think, unassailable, that the majority opinion was wrong. The decision in this case is to us a curious one, inasmuch as we find the same court, only one year previous, in the case of Hendricks v.
Page 541 - Resolved, by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Senators in Congress from this State be instructed, and the Representatives...