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Page 466 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 26 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 43 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 61 - JOINT RULES. AND ORDERS OF THE TWO HOUSES. 1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house, and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee...
Page 518 - White persons of foreign birth, who shall have declared their intention to become citizens conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization.
Page 63 - Whenever there shall be an election of officers by the joint action of the two Houses, the result shall be certified by the president of the Senate and speaker of the Assembly, and shall be reported by the presiding officer of each House to their respective Houses, and be entered on the journal of each, and shall be communicated to the Governor by the clerks of the two Houses.
Page 57 - ... nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken, or within the two next days of the actual session of the senate thereafter.* Rule 20.] [1798, Jan.
Page 57 - ... no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment, or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate...
Page 330 - That a committee of two on the part of the senate and three on the part of the...
Page 398 - The capital stock, and the amount thereof actually paid in; 2. The amount expended for the purchase of lands for the construction of the road, for buildings, and for engines and cars, respectively; 3. The amount and nature of its indebtedness, and the amount due the corporation; 4. The amount received from the transportation of passengers, property, mails, and express matter, and from other sources; 5.

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