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... Cent Limitation to Municipal Indebtedness in Illinois Constitu- tional Convention of 1870. Map ....... Hon . Jesse Burgess Thomas Richard Symmes Thomas , Jr .................. Hon . William Brown .. Index . 495 514 524 545 569 OFFICERS ...
... Cent Limitation to Municipal Indebtedness in Illinois Constitu- tional Convention of 1870. Map ....... Hon . Jesse Burgess Thomas Richard Symmes Thomas , Jr .................. Hon . William Brown .. Index . 495 514 524 545 569 OFFICERS ...
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... cent ovation , he closed in the following beautiful words : " But alas ! Our joy , like yours , is checked by the recollection of familiar faces which are not here ! By the remembrance of familiar names , which we may call in vain ...
... cent ovation , he closed in the following beautiful words : " But alas ! Our joy , like yours , is checked by the recollection of familiar faces which are not here ! By the remembrance of familiar names , which we may call in vain ...
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... cents per pound . Mr. Cutler further says that in 1798 the Shawnee Indians told Lieut . Geo . Irving that 50 miles inland from the Ohio river there was a salt spring . Search was made and the spring found near what is now the town of ...
... cents per pound . Mr. Cutler further says that in 1798 the Shawnee Indians told Lieut . Geo . Irving that 50 miles inland from the Ohio river there was a salt spring . Search was made and the spring found near what is now the town of ...
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... office in salt making . One that the brine in passing from the top of the structure to the bottom lost by evaporation 40 per cent of the water . This was a great saving of fuel and labor in the boiling process . Another explanation of 255.
... office in salt making . One that the brine in passing from the top of the structure to the bottom lost by evaporation 40 per cent of the water . This was a great saving of fuel and labor in the boiling process . Another explanation of 255.
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... cents for every 20 miles travel , rations and transportation of baggage and provisions while marching to the place of rendezvous . I am informed that nothing will be allowed for transportation of the men , as they are supposed to march ...
... cents for every 20 miles travel , rations and transportation of baggage and provisions while marching to the place of rendezvous . I am informed that nothing will be allowed for transportation of the men , as they are supposed to march ...
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Page 214 - State, which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 548 - ... no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent...
Page 205 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 548 - ... the heathen for an inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession.
Page 473 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union...
Page 475 - The first line running north and south as aforesaid, shall begin on the river Ohio, at a point that shall be found to be due north from the western termination of a line which has been run as the southern boundary of the State of Pennsylvania...
Page 201 - Possessing himself of a beautiful island in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace and decorates it with every romantic embellishment of fancy. A shrubbery, that Shenstone might have envied, blooms around him. Music, that might have charmed Calypso and her nymphs, is his. An extensive library spreads its treasures before him. A philosophical apparatus offers to him all the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquillity and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And to crown the enchantment...
Page 425 - They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.
Page 38 - ... forfeit of his life. Next a line drawn on the ground on either side of said plank and parallel with it, each at the distance of the whole length of the sword and three feet additional from the plank; and the passing of his own such line by either party during the fight shall be deemed a surrender of the contest.
Page 425 - They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is their reason for entering this protest. DAN STONE, A. LINCOLN, Representatives from the County of Sangamon.