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adopted Alpheus Felch Ann Arbor Austin Blair Barry county Battle Creek Bay City Big Rapids bill Board of Health boys Byron G Calhoun County called Capital Capitol citizens Clerk Congress Constitution convention Court crime criminal Cutcheon D. L. CROSSMAN Daniel death Detroit district duties early Eaton Rapids elected enacted ex-Gov Executive Committee George Governor Grand Rapids Greusel hall held Henry Henry H honor House institutions interest Ionia Jackson John June Kalamazoo L. M. Sellers labor Lake land Lansing Legislative Reunion Legislature living Mason meeting ment Muskegon National never officers Ohio organization parole party passed political Pontiac Port Huron present President prison provisions punishment Reform School Representatives Republican Saginaw sanitary Secretary Senate Senatorial session Speaker Statute Territory tion to-day township Treasurer Upper Peninsula vote William Ypsilanti
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Page 65 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 34 - The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Page 26 - Miami aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east, after intersecting the due north line aforesaid from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line...
Page 48 - ... applied to the support of said university, with such branches as the public convenience may demand, for the promotion of literature, the arts and sciences, as may be authorized by the terms of such grant. And it shall be the duty of the legislature as soon as may be. to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds of said university.
Page 34 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 61 - No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — There they alike in trembling hope repose — The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 44 - ... 6. He shall, while on parole, remain in the legal custody and under the control of said Board.
Page 43 - ... for the crime for which he was convicted, and who has not previously been convicted of a felony, and served a term in a penal institution...
Page 74 - ... to teach children to read and write, and to instruct them in the English or French language, as well as in arithmetic, orthography, and decent behavior, for such term of time as shall be equivalent to six months for one school in each year.
Page 63 - Farr on this point, it can be shown that the direct pecuniary loss to this country on account of preventable sickness and mortality is certainly over $100,000,000 annually, and this without taking into account expenditures incurred on account of sickness, etc., or the unusual losses due to great epidemics, both from waste of life and injury to commerce.