California, Secretary of Sail THE NATIONAL FLAG MAGNA CHARTA DECLARATION OF 1774 RIGHTS OF AMERICAN COLONIES, 1765 AND DECLARATION OF INDEPEND- ADMITTING CALIFORNIA INTO THE UNION & CONSTITUTION OF CALIFORNIA, 1879 PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION TO Sacramento, California. This publication was first issued from this office in 1903. It contained the Declaration of Rights, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution of the United States, the Act of Congress admitting California into the Union, the Constitution of the State of California, adopted in 1879, with citations from the California Reports following each section; also the Magna Charta, in both Latin and English, which is incidentally of interest to the American people, as out of it developed the British Constitution, from which source was taken many of the fundamental principles of government embodied in the Constitution of the United States. The first edition, numbering 5,000, was soon exhausted, and a second edition of 7,500 was issued in 1907, containing also the Treaty with Mexico, 1848, General Bennet Riley's Proclamations, 1849, and the California Constitution of 1849. The edition of 1907 has also been exhausted, and owing to the constant and increasing demand for the publication, not only from lawyers, but from the citizenship generally outside of the legal profession, and from teachers and pupils in our public schools, it has been found necessary to issue a third edition. The book herewith presented contains all the matters included in former editions, and is brought up to date with the amendments to the California Constitution adopted by the people at the election held November 3, 1908, and citations from the decisions of the Supreme Court of California, completely revised and brought up to and including volume 153 of the California Reports, also citations from decisions of the District Courts of Appeal up to and including volume 7 of the California Appellate Reports, the last numbers issued of those publications, which take in the decisions of the Supreme Court up to July, 1908, and of the Appellate Courts up to March, 1908. Citations are further given from decisions rendered subsequent to those periods and are continued up to March 1, 1909, as taken from the "California Decisions" and the "California Appellate Decisions." In addition there are also given the amendments to the California Constitution proposed by the Legislature of 1909. 6. Z. Curry. SECRETARY OF STATE. PREFACE CONTENTS. ACT FOR PROTECTION OF THE FLAG..... HISTORY OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY In Latin Even numbered pages commencing.. In English-Odd numbered pages commencing. In Congress at New York, October 19, 1765.... In Congress at Philadelphia, October 14, 1774... DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICAN COLONIES, July 4, 1776.... ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION BETWEEN THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES FORMING "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"........ |