The Government of Wyoming: The History, Constitution and Administration of Affairs...Whitaker & Ray Company (incorporated), 1904 - 250 pages |
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... Representatives twenty - one years after when in 1890 we became a State . The boundary lines for the territory were the same as those adapted when we became a state . The area embraced within our borders is as great as New York ...
... Representatives twenty - one years after when in 1890 we became a State . The boundary lines for the territory were the same as those adapted when we became a state . The area embraced within our borders is as great as New York ...
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... Representatives but was not permitted to vote on any measure . We were obliged to obey the laws made by the General Government and demanded a voice in the formulation of them . We had no voice in the election of our Chief Magistrate who ...
... Representatives but was not permitted to vote on any measure . We were obliged to obey the laws made by the General Government and demanded a voice in the formulation of them . We had no voice in the election of our Chief Magistrate who ...
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... Representative in Congress , and the cry of Revolutionary day " Taxation without Represen- tation " was raised . We ... Representatives memorialized Congress on the " State of Wyoming . " The resolution set forth the resources of the ...
... Representative in Congress , and the cry of Revolutionary day " Taxation without Represen- tation " was raised . We ... Representatives memorialized Congress on the " State of Wyoming . " The resolution set forth the resources of the ...
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... representative . men of character and ability be chosen as delegates to justly represent all of the classes and people in Wyoming , men who would frame a Constitution which could be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection ...
... representative . men of character and ability be chosen as delegates to justly represent all of the classes and people in Wyoming , men who would frame a Constitution which could be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection ...
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... representatives for the stock in- dustry , for the mining interests , for the merchant , for the press , and , by far the largest number representing the legal profession . A majority of the members had served the Ter- ritory in the ...
... representatives for the stock in- dustry , for the mining interests , for the merchant , for the press , and , by far the largest number representing the legal profession . A majority of the members had served the Ter- ritory in the ...
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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.