Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session

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Página 978 - In all elections, every white male citizen above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State one year next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election ; and every white male inhabitant of the age aforesaid, who may be a resident of the State at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall have the right of voting as aforesaid...
Página 978 - There shall be a thorough system of common schools for the education of children in the elementary branches of an English education only, as nearly uniform as practicable, the expenses of which shall be provided for by taxation or otherwise. The schools shall be free to all children of the State, but separate schools shall be provided for the white and colored races.
Página 978 - ... on the sale of spirituous and malt liquors, which the general assembly is hereby authorized to assess, and the proceeds from the commutation for militia service, are hereby set apart and devoted to the support of common schools. And if the provisions herein made shall, at any time, prove insufficient, the general assembly shall have power to levy such general tax upon the property of the State as may be necessary for the support of said school-system.
Página 608 - My wife told me to come away and shut the window. I went back to my room and went to bed. "Emanuel made a big light in his part of the house. It was a frame house, but the partition that separated my part from his did not g^o clear up to the roof, and I could see the light. He put on his shoes and vest and hat ; that was all he was found with after he was killed. He opened the door and hollered, ' Who are you ? ' He hollered twice, and then two guns were fired. He seemed to fall, and I and my wife...
Página 978 - State university, or that may hereafter be obtained in any way, a special tax on shows and exhibitions, and on the sale of spirituous and malt liquors, which the general assembly is hereby authorized to assess...
Página 1063 - Every bill, before it shall pass, shall be read three times, and on three separate days, in each house...
Página 1120 - After the colored man did this, they took the woman, laid her down on the ground, then cut a slit on each side of her orifice, put a large padlock in it, locked it up, and threw away the key, and then turned her loose.
Página 965 - No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Página 977 - Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, or who has legally declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old or upward, who shall have resided in this State six months next preceding the election, and...
Página 978 - Provided, that no soldier, sailor or marine in the military or naval service of the United States, shall acquire the rights of an elector, by reason of being stationed on duty in this State...

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