Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont

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Vermont. General Assembly. Senate, 1881

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Page 190 - If any bill presented to the governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portions of the bill.
Page 190 - ... of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect. If the Legislature be in session, he shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy of such statement, and the items objected to shall be separately reconsidered.
Page 24 - When a bill or resolution, which shall have passed in one house, is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.
Page 444 - That when any issue in fact, proper for the cognizance of a jury is joined in a court of law, the parties have a right to trial by jury, which ought to be held sacred.
Page 525 - He shall annually communicate to the legislature each case of reprieve, commutation, or pardon granted, stating the name of the convict, the crime of which he was convicted, the sentence and its date, and the date of the commutation, pardon, or reprieve, with his reasons for granting the same.
Page 334 - Where the statutes provided that " all real and personal estate liable to taxation be estimated and assessed by the assessor at its full and true value, as they would appraise the same in payment of a just debt due from a solvent debtor...
Page 39 - Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings previous to its passage, which readings shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise; and the Presiding Officer shall give notice at each reading whether it be the first, second, or third: Provided, That the first or second reading of each bill be by title only, unless the Senate in any case shall otherwise order.
Page 36 - I will not propose or assent to any Bill, Vote or Resolution, which shall appear to me injurious to the People, nor do or consent to any Act or Thing whatever, that shall have a Tendency to lessen or abridge their Rights and Privileges as declared in the Constitution of this State...
Page 131 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the parties have a right to trial by jury, which ought to be held sacred.
Page 525 - The governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations, as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons.

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