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Page 260 - The legislative power shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives, both to be elected by the people.
Page 384 - In all elections, not otherwise provided for by this constitution, every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twentyone years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months immediately preceding such election ; and every white male of foreign birth of the age of twenty-one years and upwards...
Page 357 - ... preserve the faith of the nation by an exact discharge of its debts and contracts, expend the public money with the same care and economy we would...
Page 53 - All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Page 22 - Resolved, That a committee of two be appointed on the part of the Senate to act with a like committee on the part of the House...
Page 356 - The mode may be so regulated as to preserve to each state its present relative weight in the election ; and a failure in the first attempt may be provided for, by confining the second to a choice between the two highest candidates.
Page 597 - Resolved, That a committee of two on the part of this house be appointed, to act with a similar committee on the part of the Senate, to wait on his Excellency the Governor, and inform him that the two Houses of the General Assembly have convened, elected their officers, and are ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make to them, and to ascertain of him at what time he will make such communication.
Page 9 - Mr. President: I am directed by the House of Representatives to inform the Senate, that the House have...
Page 25 - The tendency of this state of things, is to relax the hand of industry by creating false notions of wealth, and to tempt to sudden acquisitions, by means as delusive in their results, as they are contrary to a primary law of the Author...
Page 351 - An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an Act entitled 'An Act...

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