Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, Volume 1; Volume 16D. Appleton & Company, 1886 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... constitution conferring upon its inhabitants , of all races and religions , the principal rights enjoyed by the people under constitutional monarchies . The article " Turkey " has , therefore , a prominent place in this volume , and ...
... constitution conferring upon its inhabitants , of all races and religions , the principal rights enjoyed by the people under constitutional monarchies . The article " Turkey " has , therefore , a prominent place in this volume , and ...
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... constitutional liberty into the world , and whose descendants , by the blessing of God , mean to keep it there . Then followed a statement of what the Dem- ocratic party had accomplished in the State in two years by revising the ...
... constitutional liberty into the world , and whose descendants , by the blessing of God , mean to keep it there . Then followed a statement of what the Dem- ocratic party had accomplished in the State in two years by revising the ...
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... constitution that a ma- jority of the electors voting on the proposition for a convention should determine whether it was to be held , and the majority maintained that a majority of the persons voting at the election for any purpose was ...
... constitution that a ma- jority of the electors voting on the proposition for a convention should determine whether it was to be held , and the majority maintained that a majority of the persons voting at the election for any purpose was ...
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... Constitution , gold and sil- ver , the only legal tender . 11. A tariff for purposes of revenue only . 12. No Chinese immigration . It is so thoroughly prohibition is imperatively demanded , and all the obnoxious to our people and ...
... Constitution , gold and sil- ver , the only legal tender . 11. A tariff for purposes of revenue only . 12. No Chinese immigration . It is so thoroughly prohibition is imperatively demanded , and all the obnoxious to our people and ...
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... constitution . The constitution provides that no property , as property , shall be taxed , except such as is capable of a valuation by the assessors , which shall be ratably equal and uni- form with that affixed to all other property ...
... constitution . The constitution provides that no property , as property , shall be taxed , except such as is capable of a valuation by the assessors , which shall be ratably equal and uni- form with that affixed to all other property ...
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Page 120 - The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation ; and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, as may be specially exempted by law.
Page 154 - ... provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote...
Page 199 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 119 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say : Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Page 176 - Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring) : That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 142 - ... shall be referred • to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.
Page 152 - The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States...
Page 183 - Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.
Page 159 - Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the Clerk's desk; for the other officers of the two Houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of the
Page 232 - A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign State unless provision is made by the law of that State, or by arrangement, that the fugitive criminal shall not, until he has been restored or had an opportunity of returning to Her Majesty's dominions, be detained or tried in that foreign State for any offence committed prior to his surrender other than the extradition crime proved by the facts on which the surrender is grounded...