Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Issues 285-334

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Page 6 - To make by-laws, not inconsistent with any existing law, for the management of its property, the regulation of its affairs, and for the transfer of its stock; 7.
Page 5 - To hold, purchase and convey such real and personal estate, as the purposes of the corporation shall require, not exceeding the amount limited in its charter:
Page 2 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property for local or private purposes.
Page 19 - God, from the highest to the lowest, from the richest to the poorest, from the wisest to the most ignorant, and from the oldest to the youngest.
Page 24 - The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the states, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.
Page 101 - American Asylum at Hartford for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, exhibited to the Asylum, May 15, 1824.
Page 5 - Limited partnerships, for the transaction of any mercantile, ilmite^alt-' mechanical, or manufacturing business within this State, may be formed by two or more persons, upon the terms, with the rights and powers, and subject to the conditions and liabilities...
Page 24 - ... currencies as states ; and thus, the intercourse among them would be impeded ; retrospective alterations in its value might be made, and thus the citizens of other states be injured, and animosities be kindled among the states themselves. The subjects of foreign powers might suffer from the same cause, and hence the union be discredited and embroiled by the indiscretion of a single member. No one of these mischiefs is less incident to a power in the states to emit paper money, than to coin gold...

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