Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of MainePrinters to the State., 1871 Includes special sessions. |
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... legislation affecting the whole commonwealth and all its citizens . My practice has been in those Courts in which are tried causes between party and party , and not in this highest " General Court " which presides over the destinies of ...
... legislation affecting the whole commonwealth and all its citizens . My practice has been in those Courts in which are tried causes between party and party , and not in this highest " General Court " which presides over the destinies of ...
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... legislation , as I believe , was announced by that practical statesman who knew so well how to condense the wisdom of volumes into an apothegm ; " That Government is best which governs least . " Though we come here solely as legislators ...
... legislation , as I believe , was announced by that practical statesman who knew so well how to condense the wisdom of volumes into an apothegm ; " That Government is best which governs least . " Though we come here solely as legislators ...
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... legislative assemblies that appropriations - not such as are indispensable to the conduct of the government , nor for the attainment of those objects for which it is instituted , which would be rejected by a large majority on the 25th ...
... legislative assemblies that appropriations - not such as are indispensable to the conduct of the government , nor for the attainment of those objects for which it is instituted , which would be rejected by a large majority on the 25th ...
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... legislation best calculated to produce the desired result . For centuries the traffic in intoxicating drinks has been the sub- ject of restrictive legislation in every Christian nation- the laws being more or less stringent according to ...
... legislation best calculated to produce the desired result . For centuries the traffic in intoxicating drinks has been the sub- ject of restrictive legislation in every Christian nation- the laws being more or less stringent according to ...
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... legislation does not exist . The present law , where it is enforced , is , so far as I can judge , as effective in the suppression of the traffic as are our other crim- inal laws against the crimes they are intended to prevent . In a ...
... legislation does not exist . The present law , where it is enforced , is , so far as I can judge , as effective in the suppression of the traffic as are our other crim- inal laws against the crimes they are intended to prevent . In a ...
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Page 18 - ... the widows and orphans of those who lost their lives in the...
Page 51 - Ordered, that a joint select committee of three on the part of the senate, with such as the house may join, be appointed to consider the governor's message and report the reference of its several subjects to appropriate committees.
Page 105 - Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary be directed to inquire into the expediency of...
Page 78 - Houses concerning the election of a Senator in the Congress of the United States for the term of six years from the fourth day of March next.
Page 130 - Resolved, That the committee on education be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the...
Page 54 - I have stated, he was made the chairman of a committee of seven, on the part of the House, with such as the Council might join, " to consider and report a general plan of union of the several Colonies on this Continent, except those of Nova Scotia and Georgia.
Page 347 - an act to provide for the relinquishment to the United States in certain cases of title to lands for sites of light-stations on the coasts and waters of this State...
Page 78 - An act to regulate the time and manner of holding elections for Senators in Congress...
Page 84 - ... convene the legislature at any other time than that prescribed in the constitution, and that in case of invasion or danger from the prevalence of contagious diseases at the seat of government, he may in like manner convene it at any other suitable place within the state.
Page 242 - That the Committee on the Judiciary inquire into the expediency of so amending the judicial system of the United States, as that each and all the States may equally participate in its benefits.