History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources : an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages-their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies : Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers : the Whole Preceeded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United StatesWestern Historical Company, 1881 - 862 pages |
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... elected by the voters qualified to elect members of the legislative assembly ; and that the first election should be held at such time and place or places , and be conducted in such manner as the governor of the Territory should appoint ...
... elected by the voters qualified to elect members of the legislative assembly ; and that the first election should be held at such time and place or places , and be conducted in such manner as the governor of the Territory should appoint ...
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... elected , would soon expire ; it was therefore desirable that a new appor- tionment should be made . As the census would be taken the ensuing June , by the United States , it would be unnecessary for the Territory to make an additional ...
... elected , would soon expire ; it was therefore desirable that a new appor- tionment should be made . As the census would be taken the ensuing June , by the United States , it would be unnecessary for the Territory to make an additional ...
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... elected under a new apportionment based upon a census taken in the previous June , which showed a total population ... elected as delegate , having expired at the close of the third session of the twenty - seventh congress , he was , on ...
... elected under a new apportionment based upon a census taken in the previous June , which showed a total population ... elected as delegate , having expired at the close of the third session of the twenty - seventh congress , he was , on ...
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... elected delegate to the twenty - ninth congress , as the successor of Henry Dodge . The fourth and last session of the fourth legislative assembly was organized on the fifth of January , 1846. This session , although a short one ...
... elected delegate to the twenty - ninth congress , as the successor of Henry Dodge . The fourth and last session of the fourth legislative assembly was organized on the fifth of January , 1846. This session , although a short one ...
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... elected to form a constitution for the proposed new State , met at Madison on the fifth day of October . After completing their labors , they adjourned . This event took place on the sixteenth of December , 1846. The constitution thus ...
... elected to form a constitution for the proposed new State , met at Madison on the fifth day of October . After completing their labors , they adjourned . This event took place on the sixteenth of December , 1846. The constitution thus ...
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Page 71 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 101 - ... five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 301 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good...
Page 101 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 35 - Woods and Mississippi. The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio ; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said...
Page 302 - ... claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. SEC. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
Page 300 - That in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Secretary of State, or if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability...
Page 298 - No person shall' be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Page 95 - That all persons shall before conviction be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great.
Page 287 - PREAMBLE* We. the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings, form a more perfect government, insure domestic tranquility and promote the general welfare, do establish this constitution.