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... respect the example of the Auditor General . It is scarcely to be supposed , that our bond holders will ever consent to an adjustment for less than the sum which has actually been received by the State . Such a demand on our part ...
... respect the example of the Auditor General . It is scarcely to be supposed , that our bond holders will ever consent to an adjustment for less than the sum which has actually been received by the State . Such a demand on our part ...
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... respect , whatever it may be , is by no means an equivalent , for the settled marketable value of the property of New York and Pennsylvania . A tax of one mill on the dollar is less felt and more easily paid , in either of those states ...
... respect , whatever it may be , is by no means an equivalent , for the settled marketable value of the property of New York and Pennsylvania . A tax of one mill on the dollar is less felt and more easily paid , in either of those states ...
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... fancied profits , we find ourselves saddled with a debt of nearly five millions , without revenue from any of these in vestments , with which to meet the interest . But the experience of Michigan , in this respect , SENATE . No. 9 . 12 d.
... fancied profits , we find ourselves saddled with a debt of nearly five millions , without revenue from any of these in vestments , with which to meet the interest . But the experience of Michigan , in this respect , SENATE . No. 9 . 12 d.
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Michigan. Legislature. Senate. But the experience of Michigan , in this respect , is that of almost every state , which embarked in the same schemes of speculation.— The State of Pennsylvania , in prosecuting her works of internal im ...
Michigan. Legislature. Senate. But the experience of Michigan , in this respect , is that of almost every state , which embarked in the same schemes of speculation.— The State of Pennsylvania , in prosecuting her works of internal im ...
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... respects , yet they would have little weight in deciding a question involving as this does , the character of the ... respect should be , in the opinion of your committee , to grant a charter delegating liberal powers and privileges ...
... respects , yet they would have little weight in deciding a question involving as this does , the character of the ... respect should be , in the opinion of your committee , to grant a charter delegating liberal powers and privileges ...
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Page 7 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Page 1 - The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature; and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Page 5 - ... and that the States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the Federal Union ; having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States.
Page 4 - States, such stipulation would have been void and inoperative, because the United States have no constitutional capacity to -exercise municipal jurisdiction, sovereignty, or eminent domain within the limits of a State or elsewhere, except in the cases in which it is expressly granted.
Page 12 - By the preceding course of reasoning we have arrived at these general conclusions. : First, the shores of navigable waters, and the soils under them, were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Secondly, the new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States.
Page 6 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 5 - ... shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the Confederation or federal Alliance of the said States Virginia inclusive according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Page 1 - An act granting two townships of land for the use of a university in the Territory of Iowa," are hereby granted and conveyed to the State, to be appropriated solely to the use and support of such university, in such manner as the legislature may prescribe.
Page 1 - University ; and the funds accruing from the rents or sale of such lands, or from any other source, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a permanent fund...
Page 6 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...