Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont: Record of the Governor and Council ... 1791-1804 |
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... Legislature Take under consideration the expediency of Opening a Communication between the waters of Lake Champlain and Hudson River , and also of rendering the Navigation of Connecticut river more Easy and advantageous , was [ which ...
... Legislature Take under consideration the expediency of Opening a Communication between the waters of Lake Champlain and Hudson River , and also of rendering the Navigation of Connecticut river more Easy and advantageous , was [ which ...
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... Legislature to pass to Establish said will , having been read in General Assembly and a Committee appointed thereon to join a Committee of Council , Resolved that Mr. Marvin join said Committee . The Honorable Samuel Knight Esq ...
... Legislature to pass to Establish said will , having been read in General Assembly and a Committee appointed thereon to join a Committee of Council , Resolved that Mr. Marvin join said Committee . The Honorable Samuel Knight Esq ...
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... Legislature " for the term of twelve years , by striking out " twelve " and inserting eight . In place of Isaac Tichenor , who was disqualified by accepting the office of judge of the supreme court on that day . 3 Mr. Brigham was a ...
... Legislature " for the term of twelve years , by striking out " twelve " and inserting eight . In place of Isaac Tichenor , who was disqualified by accepting the office of judge of the supreme court on that day . 3 Mr. Brigham was a ...
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... Legislature of this State to pass the bill under consideration into a law of this State . Voted , To elect a Sub - Committee of seven , who shall nominate twenty- one persons , out of whom ten shall be chosen as Trustees for the pro ...
... Legislature of this State to pass the bill under consideration into a law of this State . Voted , To elect a Sub - Committee of seven , who shall nominate twenty- one persons , out of whom ten shall be chosen as Trustees for the pro ...
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... legislature of the state of Ver- mont , for the term of eight years . Whereas great inconvenience and expence have arisen to this state by reason of having no fixed places for holding the sessions of the legislature : And whereas no ...
... legislature of the state of Ver- mont , for the term of eight years . Whereas great inconvenience and expence have arisen to this state by reason of having no fixed places for holding the sessions of the legislature : And whereas no ...
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9 O'clock A. M. The Council according to adjournment act assessing act directing act Entitled act granting act in addition act laying Adjourned Untill Alburgh Assembly Oct Attest JAS bill Entitled cents per acre Chittenden Committee from Council concur in passing concurrence or proposals Council do concur Council met pursuant elected Eliakim Spooner Elijah Paine ELLIOT Clerk Entitled An act Esquire Gideon Olin Governor and Council hon'ble house in passing house of Representatives Isaac Tichenor John Strong join a Committee Join said Committee join the aforesaid Jonas Galusha Jonathan Arnold Jonathan Hunt laying a tax Legislature O'CLOCK P. M. P. M. 2 O'CLOCK passed the House Paul Brigham petition praying proposals of amendment pursuant to adjournment Read & Concurred Read and Concurred read and considered Read and referred referred to Mess revision &c revision and concurrence SAML Samuel Safford sent therein mentioned Thomas Chittenden town Untill 2 Oclock Vermont
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Page 399 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...
Page 525 - Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 400 - President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Page 525 - Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the...
Page 259 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to...
Page 107 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Page 399 - 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 Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as amendments to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 426 - Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.
Page 378 - Senate, to each of the Senators and Representatives from this State in the Congress of the United States.
Page 525 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.