The Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of the State of Missouri, Volume 3State Historical Society of Missouri, 1922 |
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adopted affixed amount Assembly banks bill bonds C. F. JACKSON Cavalry citizens City of Jefferson Civil Proceedings CLAIBORNE F CLAIBORNE FOX JACKSON condition Congress Constitution Convention DATE FOR ELECTION days notice direct and command dollars duty emancipation entitled an act EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT February 9 Federal FIXING DATE Gentlemen Government Governor B. F. MASSEY H. R. GAMBLE hand and caused hereby direct hereunto set House of Representatives interest issued JEFFERSON CITY Joseph Railroad Journal labor lands legislation Legislature Lieutenant Colonel Louis Louis county Major March March 23 ment militia Missouri necessary objections OFFERING A REWARD peace Penitentiary Platte County Polk present President proper R. M. STEWART Railroad Company regard Regiment E. M. M. Register of Civil respectfully roads Seal Senate September 24 session set my hand Sheriff slaves Testimony Whereof tion TRUSTEN POLK Union United virtue of authority WHEREAS
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Page 15 - When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.
Page 344 - ... far better will it be for the people of the disunited States to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint.
Page 344 - But the constitution cannot be maintained, nor the Union preserved, in opposition to public feeling, by the mere exertion of the coercive powers confided to the general government. The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people ; in the security it gives to life, liberty, character, and property, in every quarter of the country, and in the fraternal attachment which the citizens of the several states bear to one another as members of one political family, mutually contributing to promote...
Page 208 - ... to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and in prosecutions by indictment or information, a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the vicinage...
Page 277 - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the State of Missouri.
Page 183 - January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; and the clerks of the circuit and county courts of the respective counties shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective counties, and shall hold their offices for the term of six years, and until their successors are duly elected, commissioned, and qualified.
Page 188 - ... may be sold ; and when the Governor of said State shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior, that any twenty continuous, miles of any of said roads is completed...
Page 305 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States.
Page 189 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense.
Page 188 - That the lands hereby granted to said State shall be disposed of by said State only in manner following, that is to say : That a quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred and twenty sections...