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... dollars will be required to construct and equip the road in such manner as is proposed , and that capitalists , able ... dollars , and the shares to twenty - five dollars each . It is represented that this restriction has prevented the ...
... dollars will be required to construct and equip the road in such manner as is proposed , and that capitalists , able ... dollars , and the shares to twenty - five dollars each . It is represented that this restriction has prevented the ...
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... dollars , and the shares to one hundred dollars each . The policy of enacting a law for Banking purposes at this time , I very much doubt . That a General Banking Law may be enacted under the restrictions of our Constitution , that ...
... dollars , and the shares to one hundred dollars each . The policy of enacting a law for Banking purposes at this time , I very much doubt . That a General Banking Law may be enacted under the restrictions of our Constitution , that ...
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... to be worth from two to four , millions of dollars . By the terms of the grant , these lands are made subject to the disposal of the Legislature of the State , under the follow ing proviso : " That the proceeds of said lands 6 Doc .
... to be worth from two to four , millions of dollars . By the terms of the grant , these lands are made subject to the disposal of the Legislature of the State , under the follow ing proviso : " That the proceeds of said lands 6 Doc .
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... dollars . The site for the building is finely situated , adjoining the pleasant and thriving village of Flint , and em- braces about 33 acres of land , watered by a beautiful and durable stream . The site of the Asylum for the Insane is ...
... dollars . The site for the building is finely situated , adjoining the pleasant and thriving village of Flint , and em- braces about 33 acres of land , watered by a beautiful and durable stream . The site of the Asylum for the Insane is ...
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Michigan. Legislature. enty - five thousand dollars , for continuing and completing the Asylum for the Insane , and seventy - five thousand dollars for building and other necessary expenses of the Institution for the Deaf Mutes and the ...
Michigan. Legislature. enty - five thousand dollars , for continuing and completing the Asylum for the Insane , and seventy - five thousand dollars for building and other necessary expenses of the Institution for the Deaf Mutes and the ...
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Page 14 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 14 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 4 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 84 - University shall be to provide the inhabitants of this Territory with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science, and the arts.
Page 4 - The State shall not be a party to, or interested in, any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property...
Page 7 - That the proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind, shall be applied, exclusively, as far as necessary, to the purpose of reclaiming said lands by means of the levees and drains aforesaid.
Page 18 - The legislature shall, within five years from the adoption of this constitution, provide for and establish a system of primary schools, whereby a school shall be kept without charge for tuition* at least three months in each year, in every school district in the State ; and all instruction in said schools shall be conducted in the English language.
Page 38 - No chamber for the use of a single patient should ever be less than eight by ten feet, nor should the ceiling of any story occupied by patients be less than twelve feet in height. XII. The floors of patients' apartments should always be of wood.
Page 39 - A complete system of forced ventilation, in connection with the heating, is indispensable to give purity to the air of a hospital for the insane; and no expense that is required to effect this object thoroughly can be deemed either misplaced or injudicious.
Page 37 - No hospital for the insane, however limited its capacity, should have less than fifty acres of land, devoted to gardens and pleasure grounds for its patients. At legist one hundred acres should be possessed by every State hospital, or other institution for two hundred patients, to which number these propositions apply, unless otherwise mentioned.