Message No. 1 of His Excellency Governor J. L. Orr, with Accompanying Documents. Prepared for the Called Session of the Legislature, July, 1868Phoenix Book and Job Power Press, 1868 - 238 pages |
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Page 39 - All the public schools, colleges, and universities of this State, supported in whole or in part by the public funds, shall be free and open to all the children and youths of the State, without regard to race or color.
Page 85 - ... the proper officer ; they are not to suffer their attention to be taken from their work to look at visitors, nor are they to gaze or look at them when unemployed.
Page 82 - In their intercourse among themselves the officers and guards of the penitentiary are at all times to treat each other with that mutual respect and kindness that become gentlemen and friends, and are required to avoid all collisions, jealousies, separate and party views and interests among themselves, and are strictly forbidden to treat each other with disrespect or to use any ungentlemanly epithets.
Page 34 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 34 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 39 - Sec. 3. The General Assembly shall, as soon as practicable after the adoption of this Constitution, provide for a liberal and uniform system of free public schools throughout the State, and shall also make provision for the division of the State into suitable school districts. There shall be kept open at least six months in each year one or more schools in each school district.
Page 123 - DWIGHT. Report on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada, made to the legislature of New York, Jan., 1867.
Page 34 - That all moneys derived from the sale of lands aforesaid, by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per cent. upon the par value of said stocks; and that the money so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund...
Page 131 - ... after conviction, (except in cases of impeachment,) in such manner, on such terms, and under such restrictions as he shall think proper; and he shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, unless otherwise directed by law. It shall be his duty to report to the general assembly, at the next regular session thereafter, all pardons granted by him, with a full statement of each case, and the reasons moving him thereunto.
Page 85 - ... about the Prison ; nor will any prisoner be suffered to mark, injure or in any way deface the walls or any part of his cell or night room, nor is he to execute his work badly, when he has the ability to do it well.