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Page 1009 - In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months...
Page 716 - An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled 'An act to amend the eighth section of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for a general system of common schools, the officers thereof, and their respective powers and duties, and matters properly connected therewith, and prescribing the fees for certain officers therein named, and for the establishment and regulation of township libraries, and to repeal all laws inconsistent therewith, providing penalties therein prescribed...
Page 232 - ... according to the form which may be prescribed by him, verified by the oath or affirmation of the president or cashier of such association, and attested by the signature of at least three of the directors.
Page 1010 - Two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may meet, adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members. A quorum being in attendance, if either House fail to effect an organization within the first five days thereafter, the members of the House so failing shall be entitled to no compensation from the end of the said five days, until an organization shall have been effected.
Page 1059 - ... to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness ; and all bonds or obligations, in excess of such amount, given by such corporation, shall be void...
Page 230 - That a committee of five, on the part of the House, and three on the part of the Senate, be appointed to inform the Hon.
Page 360 - An act to revise, simplify, and abridge the rules, practice, pleadings, and forms in civil cases in the courts of this State ; to abolish distinct forms of action at law ; and to provide for the administration of justice, in a uniform mode of pleading and practice, without distinction between law and equity," approved June 18, 1852 ; Which was read the first time, and passed to a second reading.
Page 232 - ... in the same form in which it is made to the comptroller shall be published in a newspaper published in the place where such association is established, or if there is no newspaper in the place, then in...
Page 1010 - The members of the General Assembly shall receive for their services a compensation, to be fixed by law; but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the session at which such increase may be made.
Page 1056 - State during the six months, and in the township sixty days, and in the ward or precinct thirty days, immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where he may reside, if he shall have been duly registered according to law.

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