Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]., Volume 3

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890

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Page 676 - ... 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 699 - That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or 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 121 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Page 202 - ... by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the duty of the legislature to...
Page 683 - SECTION 1. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in the Senate sitting as a Court of Impeachment, in a Supreme Court, Superior Courts, Justices of the Peace, and such inferior courts as the Legislature may establish in any incorporated city, or town, or city and county.
Page 677 - That private property shall not be taken for private use unless by consent of the owner, except for private ways of necessity and except for reservoirs, drains, flumes or ditches on or across the lands of others, for agricultural, mining, milling, domestic or sanitary purposes.
Page 50 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 697 - ... proper state authority, and to their successors in office, for the uses therein respectively expressed, and may be sued for and recovered accordingly.
Page 699 - 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 679 - In all other cases, where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.

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