The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents and Every Other Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 4Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1828 - Pennsylvania |
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... attention . It has been attempt- ed to involve it with the right of settlement . This right rests on a solid foundation , not now to be shaken ; and is to be traced to a very early period of the province . Of the possession , what ever ...
... attention . It has been attempt- ed to involve it with the right of settlement . This right rests on a solid foundation , not now to be shaken ; and is to be traced to a very early period of the province . Of the possession , what ever ...
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... attention of a nation , justly jealous of the government of such a profligate and arbitrary prince as Charles II . and indignant at the conduct of such a judge as Howel . Sir Thomas Smith , about a century before , had considered the ...
... attention of a nation , justly jealous of the government of such a profligate and arbitrary prince as Charles II . and indignant at the conduct of such a judge as Howel . Sir Thomas Smith , about a century before , had considered the ...
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... attention of the members to certain important this provision of the constitution , might well be doubt duties , requiring their immediate attention under the ed . The isolated word ESTABLISH is significant of , new structure of the ...
... attention of the members to certain important this provision of the constitution , might well be doubt duties , requiring their immediate attention under the ed . The isolated word ESTABLISH is significant of , new structure of the ...
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... attention of the legislature to the necessity of providing by law , for the exercise of the powers which had formerly been vested in the executive authority , and which had not been pro- A committee was immediately appointed , to ...
... attention of the legislature to the necessity of providing by law , for the exercise of the powers which had formerly been vested in the executive authority , and which had not been pro- A committee was immediately appointed , to ...
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... attention , during the session , at the end of which , they return to their constituents perfectly satisfied with havingeffected the purposes for whichthey were elected . 1829 . REPORT ON EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE . The next legislature 20 ...
... attention , during the session , at the end of which , they return to their constituents perfectly satisfied with havingeffected the purposes for whichthey were elected . 1829 . REPORT ON EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE . The next legislature 20 ...
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Page 162 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 30 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify and declare that I do believe that in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever...
Page 263 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Page 213 - A school or schools shall be established in each county by the legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices: And all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities.
Page 30 - And I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority preeminence or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm: So help me God.
Page 28 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, and Michigan— send you this letter of peace and friendship, signed by my own hand.
Page 260 - 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. The Vice-President of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 30 - ... the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 30 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify and declare, That I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the plain and Ordinary Sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any Evasion, Equivocation or Mental Reservation whatsoever...
Page 351 - Resolved, That the committee of ways and means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating $30,000, to enable Professor Morse to establish a line of telegraph between Washington and Baltimore.