Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849John Ross Browne (1817-1875) of Kentucky, the official reporter for the California State Constitutional Convention of September-October 1849, came to California in 1849 as an employee of the government revenue service. He traveled widely in the next two decades before settling down in Oakland. Report of the debates of the Convention of California (1850) comprises the official records of the convention. Browne had been a shorthand reporter for the U.S. Senate before coming west, and he provides transcripts of the proclamation calling the convention, proceedings of the convention, text of the state constitution adopted by the delegates, and official correspondence regarding the convention and the institution of state government under that constitution. |
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... citizens should understand this fact , so as not to endanger their property and involve themselves in useless and expensive liti- gation , by giving countenance to persons claiming authority which is not given them by law , and by ...
... citizens should understand this fact , so as not to endanger their property and involve themselves in useless and expensive liti- gation , by giving countenance to persons claiming authority which is not given them by law , and by ...
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... citizen of the United States and of Upper California , 21 years of age , and ac- tually resident in the district where the vote is offered , will be entitled to the right of suffrage . All citizens of Lower California who have been ...
... citizen of the United States and of Upper California , 21 years of age , and ac- tually resident in the district where the vote is offered , will be entitled to the right of suffrage . All citizens of Lower California who have been ...
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... citizens will unite in carrying it into execution . Given at Monterey , California , this third day of June , A , D. 1849 . Official - H , W. HALLECK , B RILEY , Brevet Brig . Gen. U. S. A. , and Governor of California . Brevet Capt ...
... citizens will unite in carrying it into execution . Given at Monterey , California , this third day of June , A , D. 1849 . Official - H , W. HALLECK , B RILEY , Brevet Brig . Gen. U. S. A. , and Governor of California . Brevet Capt ...
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... citizens were now en you send that member back to inform his constituency ve a seat on this floor , it is proper you should look boldly in equences . It was not for the native Californians we were stitution ; it was for the great ...
... citizens were now en you send that member back to inform his constituency ve a seat on this floor , it is proper you should look boldly in equences . It was not for the native Californians we were stitution ; it was for the great ...
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... citizens . Were they to he rejected and sent back , after incurring extraordinary expense and subjecting themselves to the greatest inconvenience in coming here ? He would wage a war of extermination against such an act of injustice ...
... citizens . Were they to he rejected and sent back , after incurring extraordinary expense and subjecting themselves to the greatest inconvenience in coming here ? He would wage a war of extermination against such an act of injustice ...
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