A New Gazetteer of the United States of America: Including ... Geographical, Historical, Political, and Statistical Information; with the Population of 1830

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E. Hopkins, 1833 - Geography - 630 pages
 

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Page 315 - The powers of the government of the state of California shall be divided into three separate departments, — the legislative, the executive, and judicial, — and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any functions appertaining to either of the others, except in the cases hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Page 16 - ... it shall be the duty of the general assembly, to provide by law for the improvement of such lands as are, or hereafter may be granted by the United States, to this state, for the use of schools...
Page 225 - 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 137 - ... no person in the military, naval, or marine service of the United States shall be considered a resident of this state...
Page 225 - The powers of the Government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them be confided to a separate body of magistracy — to wit, those which are Legislative to one, those which are Executive to another, and those which are Judicial to another...
Page 376 - No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 16 - Every male person subject to none of the foregoing disqualifications, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and who shall be a citizen of the United States, and...
Page 15 - The Legislative power of this State shall be vested in two distinct branches : the one to be styled the Senate, the other the House of Representatives...
Page 16 - ... 1. The supreme executive power of this State shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the governor of the State of California.
Page 16 - The general assembly shall take like measures for the improvement of such lands as have been or may be hereafter granted by the United States to this state, for the support of a seminary of learning, and the moneys which may be raised from such lands, by rent, lease, or sale, or from any other quarter, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a fund for the exclusive support of a state university for the promotion of the arts, literature and the sciences; and it shall be the duty of the general...

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