The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America, Volume 5Francis Newton Thorpe U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Charters |
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Page 2535
... PROVINCE OF NEW CAESAREA , OR NEW JERSEY , TO AND WITH ALL AND EVERY THE ADVENTURERS AND ALL SUCH AS SHALL SETTLE OR PLANT THERE - 1664 a IMPRIMUS . We do consent and agree , that the Governor of the said Province hath power , by the ...
... PROVINCE OF NEW CAESAREA , OR NEW JERSEY , TO AND WITH ALL AND EVERY THE ADVENTURERS AND ALL SUCH AS SHALL SETTLE OR PLANT THERE - 1664 a IMPRIMUS . We do consent and agree , that the Governor of the said Province hath power , by the ...
Page 2536
... Province . ITEM . That the Surveyor General , that we have chosen or shall choose , ( we failing that the Governor shall choose ) shall have power by himself or deputy , to survey , lay out and bound all such lands as shall be granted ...
... Province . ITEM . That the Surveyor General , that we have chosen or shall choose , ( we failing that the Governor shall choose ) shall have power by himself or deputy , to survey , lay out and bound all such lands as shall be granted ...
Page 2537
... Province ; but that all and every such person and persons may from time to time , and at all times , freely and fully have and enjoy his and their judgments and consciences in matters of religion throughout the said Province they ...
... Province ; but that all and every such person and persons may from time to time , and at all times , freely and fully have and enjoy his and their judgments and consciences in matters of religion throughout the said Province they ...
Page 2538
... Province . V. By act as aforesaid , to erect within the said Province , such and so many manors , with their necessary courts , jurisdictions , freedoms , and privileges , as to them shall seem meet and convenient : As also to divide ...
... Province . V. By act as aforesaid , to erect within the said Province , such and so many manors , with their necessary courts , jurisdictions , freedoms , and privileges , as to them shall seem meet and convenient : As also to divide ...
Page 2539
... Province . VII . By act ( as aforesaid ) to constitute train'd bands and compa- nies , with the number of soldiers , for the safety , strength and defence of the said Province ; and of the forts , castles , cities , & c . To suppress ...
... Province . VII . By act ( as aforesaid ) to constitute train'd bands and compa- nies , with the number of soldiers , for the safety , strength and defence of the said Province ; and of the forts , castles , cities , & c . To suppress ...
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Page 2646 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature...
Page 2984 - Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 2666 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 2706 - The Governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons. Upon...
Page 2672 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence, by reason of his presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any alms-house, or other asylum, at public expense; nor while confined in any public prison.
Page 2644 - ... on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this state.
Page 2605 - If any bill presented to the Governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect.
Page 2724 - The term corporations, as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint-stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporations shall have the right to sue, and shall be subject to be sued, in all courts in like cases as natural persons.
Page 2657 - But when the Governor shall, ,with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the State, in time of war, at the head of a military force thereof, he shall continue Commander-in-Chief of all the military force of the State.
Page 2693 - Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, 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...