Report of the Attorney General

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Page 38 - All the provisions of the existing constitution, inconsistent with the provisions herein contained, are hereby wholly annulled.
Page 59 - To insure upon the stock or mutual plan vessels, freights, goods, money, effects, and money lent on bottomry or respondentia, against the perils of the sea and other perils usually insured against by marine insurance, including risks of inland navigation and transportation...
Page 52 - ... by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars ; for a second offense by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days...
Page 38 - ... is hereby annulled. ART. XXXIII. A majority of the members of each branch of the general court shall constitute a quorum for . ~ „ , . , . -.. the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members.
Page 1 - Columbia from nine o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock in the afternoon...
Page 25 - If no cause for delay can be shown, it would seem reasonable to require the demand to be made within the time limited by the statute for bringing the action. There is the same reason for hastening the demand, that there is for hastening the commencement of the action ; and in both cases the same presumptions arise from delay.
Page 183 - That the person named as agent is a proper person, and that he has no private interest in the arrest of the fugitive. (e) If there has been any former application for a requisition for the same person, growing out of the same transaction, it must be so stated, with an explanation of the reasons for a second request, together with the date of such application, as near as may be.
Page 67 - Every person who has been committed to a workhouse shall, if able to work, be kept diligently employed in labor during the term of his commitment. If he is idle and does not perform such reasonable task as is assigned, or if he is stubborn and disorderly, he shall be punished according to the orders aud regulations established by the directors.
Page 184 - ... given for the absence of such affidavit. 2. Proof by affidavit of facts and circumstances satisfying the Executive that the alleged criminal has fled from the justice of the State, and is in the State on whose Executive the demand is requested to be made, must be given. The fact that the alleged criminal was in the State where the alleged crime was committed at the time of the commission thereof, and is found in the State upon which the requisition was made, shall be sufficient evidence, iu the...
Page 183 - The full name of the person for whom extradition is asked, together with the name of the agent proposed, to be properly spelled, in roman capital letters, for example: JOHN DOE.