The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year, Volume 20Gray and Bowen, 1848 - Almanacs, American Vol. 1 has title: The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge ... comprising a calendar for the year; astronomical information; miscellaneous directions, hints, and statistical and other particulars. |
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Page 204 - to raise for a limited time an additional military force...
Page 341 - June next, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States.
Page 325 - Boston, and then was elected Senator of the United States for six years, from the 4th of March, 1804.
Page 207 - An Act to revive an Act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war [with Great Britain} to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof.
Page 297 - ... acts calling elections, acts providing for tax levies or appropriations for the usual current expenses of the state, and urgency measures necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, passed by a twothirds vote of all the members elected to each house.
Page 103 - CAROLINA, . Charleston, 3d Monday in March and September, 1st Monday in July, and 2d Monday in December ; — Laurens Court-House, the next Tuesday after the adjournment of the Circuit Court at Columbia.
Page 239 - ... major part of them, and the judges of the court of appeals, or the major part of them.
Page 304 - For the term of five years, and thereafter until the legislature shall otherwise provide, the judges of the several circuit courts shall be judges of the supreme court, four of whom shall constitute a quorum, and the concurrence of a majority of the judges present shall be necessary to a decision. The legislature shall have power, if they should think it expedient and necessary, to provide...
Page 305 - ... the clear proceeds of all property that may accrue to the State by forfeiture or escheat, and all moneys •which may be paid as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws...
Page 205 - ... procure some competent analytical chemist possessing the confidence of the medical profession, as well as of the colleges of medicine and pharmacy...