The Government of Wyoming: The History, Constitution and Administration of Affairs...Whitaker & Ray Company (incorporated), 1904 - 250 pages |
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... 239 APPENDIX D. THE SUPREME COURT OF WYOMING 240 APPENDIX E. DELEGATES TO CONGRESS FROM WYOMING TERRITORY 241 APPENDIX F. STATE ELECTIVE OFFICERS 242 PART I THE HISTORY OF WYOMING WYOMING IN THE TERRITORIAL CHAPTER XVI .
... 239 APPENDIX D. THE SUPREME COURT OF WYOMING 240 APPENDIX E. DELEGATES TO CONGRESS FROM WYOMING TERRITORY 241 APPENDIX F. STATE ELECTIVE OFFICERS 242 PART I THE HISTORY OF WYOMING WYOMING IN THE TERRITORIAL CHAPTER XVI .
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... Congress to appropriate $ 2,000,000 to be given to France for New Orleans and West Florida which would carry with it our right to navigate the entire length of the Mississippi . Robert R. Livingston , one of the five to draft our ...
... Congress to appropriate $ 2,000,000 to be given to France for New Orleans and West Florida which would carry with it our right to navigate the entire length of the Mississippi . Robert R. Livingston , one of the five to draft our ...
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... Congress November 3 , 1803 , and the purchase made December 17 , 1803 , when Livingston remarked , " We have lived long but this is the noblest work of our lives . " In round numbers we obtained 1,037,735 square miles , or about ...
... Congress November 3 , 1803 , and the purchase made December 17 , 1803 , when Livingston remarked , " We have lived long but this is the noblest work of our lives . " In round numbers we obtained 1,037,735 square miles , or about ...
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... Congress in January , 1803 , that an expedition be sent into the unknown Northwest . Con- gress supported him and his instructions were drafted and plans formulated for the trip June 20 , 1803 , which was some days before the Paris ...
... Congress in January , 1803 , that an expedition be sent into the unknown Northwest . Con- gress supported him and his instructions were drafted and plans formulated for the trip June 20 , 1803 , which was some days before the Paris ...
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... Congress for twenty miles on each side of the railroad the odd numbered sections became the prop- erty of the Union Pacific . There are no navigable rivers in Wyoming giving us natural transportation facilities and in this matter we are ...
... Congress for twenty miles on each side of the railroad the odd numbered sections became the prop- erty of the Union Pacific . There are no navigable rivers in Wyoming giving us natural transportation facilities and in this matter we are ...
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Page 209 - Every bill which shall have passed the Senate and Assembly shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Governor; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it shall have originated, which shall enter the objections at large on the journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
Page 237 - Indian tribes; and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States...
Page 200 - ... no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this state.
Page 205 - 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; Regulating the practice in courts of justice...
Page 62 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 236 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 200 - All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great.
Page 209 - Senate, but shall have only a casting vote therein. If during a vacancy of the office of Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor shall be impeached, displaced, resign, die, or become incapable of performing the duties of his office, or be absent from the State, the President of the Senate shall act as Governor until the vacancy be filled or the disability shall cease...
Page 212 - If a vacancy occur in the office of a justice oi the supreme court the governor shall appoint a person to hold the office until the election and qualification of a person to fill the unexpired term occasioned by such vacancy, which election shall take place at the next succeeding general election.
Page 216 - No member of Congress from this State, nor any person holding or exercising any office or appointment of trust or profit under the United States, shall at the same time hold or exercise any office in this State to which a salary, fees, or perquisites shall be attached. The General Assembly may, by law, declare what offices are incompatible.