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Page 255 - In all elections every white male citizen above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State one year next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election; and every white male inhabitant of the age aforesaid who may be a resident of the State at the time of the adoption of this constitution shall have the right of voting as aforesaid...
Page 300 - ... issuing notes or other evidences of debt to be loaned or put in circulation as money...
Page 56 - SIR — In compliance with the request contained in your communication of the...
Page 299 - The said corporation shall not, directly or indirectly, deal or trade in any thing except...
Page 381 - The interrogatory was answered by both individuals in the negative. On motion, a committee of one from the senate, and two from the house, was appointed for the purpose of drafting questions to be put to the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank. The committee named, was Mr. Edmunds, on the part of the senate, and Messrs. Turner and Brown, on the part of the house. After which, the committee adjourned, to meet at the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank, at 6i o'clock, on Tuesday, 4th instant.
Page 497 - ... labourers, and to the Woman who washes for Mrs. Hamilton — and secondly towards the satisfaction and discharge of certain accommodation notes made by me and indorsed by him and which have been or shall be discounted in and by the Manhattan Bank and the Office of Discount & Deposit of the Bank of the United States in the City of New York. And for this purpose I do hereby constitute and appoint him my Attorney to ask demand sue for recover and receive the said Debts and every of them and upon...
Page 532 - The voice of the people is said to be the voice of God. No man will be so hardy and presumptuous, as to affirm the truth of that proposition in it's fullest extent. But if this is considered as the intent of it, that the people have always a disposition to promote their own happiness, and that when they have time to be informed, and the necessary means...
Page 149 - A surface studded with smooth small segments of spheres, like the swell of the breasts. Mammoth. An extinct species of the elephant. Marl. By this term an argillaceous carbonate of lime is usually implied. By custom, its signification is much more extended, and means mineral substances, which act as stimulating or fertilizing manures. There are clay marls, shell marls, and various others. Marly clay. Clay containing carbonate of lime.
Page 148 - Laminae. The thin layers into which strata are divided, but to which they are not always parallel. Lacustrine. Belonging to a lake. Depositions formed in ancient as well as modern lakes, are called lacustrine deposites. Landslip. It is the removal of a portion of land down an inclined surface. It is in consequence of the presence of water beneath, which either washes away the support of the superincumbent mass, or so saturates the materials, that they become a slippery paste. Line of Bearing, is...
Page 330 - Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring. That a joint committee of three members of the Senate and four members of the House of Representatives...