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SILAS WRIGHT . SILAS WRIGHT . the Chemung and the Chenango canals . All these canals were constructed under his supervision and superintendence . As early as 1833 he became convinced that the Erie canal was not large enough to do the ...
SILAS WRIGHT . SILAS WRIGHT . the Chemung and the Chenango canals . All these canals were constructed under his supervision and superintendence . As early as 1833 he became convinced that the Erie canal was not large enough to do the ...
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... Chenango and Chemung counties ; the Town Law , in regard to the divisions of towns ; in relation to an issue of bonds by Norwich , the cemetery association of Oxford . At the election of 1896 , Mr. Allds received 6,223 votes , to 4,099 ...
... Chenango and Chemung counties ; the Town Law , in regard to the divisions of towns ; in relation to an issue of bonds by Norwich , the cemetery association of Oxford . At the election of 1896 , Mr. Allds received 6,223 votes , to 4,099 ...
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... Chenango v . Brown , 26 id . 467 ; People v . Learned , 5 Hun , 626. ) Subject to the limitations of the constitution , the legislature may change or abrogate a right derived from legislative authority ( People , ex rel . McCarthy , v ...
... Chenango v . Brown , 26 id . 467 ; People v . Learned , 5 Hun , 626. ) Subject to the limitations of the constitution , the legislature may change or abrogate a right derived from legislative authority ( People , ex rel . McCarthy , v ...
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... Chenango , 8 N. Y. 317. ) It is not necessary under the constitution that the presiding officer should certify that an act was passed by a majority of all the members elected . This is presumed . ( Id . ) It is sufficient where a bill ...
... Chenango , 8 N. Y. 317. ) It is not necessary under the constitution that the presiding officer should certify that an act was passed by a majority of all the members elected . This is presumed . ( Id . ) It is sufficient where a bill ...
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... Chenango , 8 N. Y. 317. ) Laws 1855 , chapter 428 , An act for compensating parties whose property may be destroyed in consequence of mobs and riots , " did not require three- fifths to constitute a quorum , although it might result in ...
... Chenango , 8 N. Y. 317. ) Laws 1855 , chapter 428 , An act for compensating parties whose property may be destroyed in consequence of mobs and riots , " did not require three- fifths to constitute a quorum , although it might result in ...
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Page 285 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Page 354 - The term corporations, as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint-stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporations shall have the right to sue, and shall be subject to be sued, in all courts in like cases as natural persons.
Page 311 - ... that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the state, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.
Page 286 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased...
Page 283 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 336 - If any bill presented to the governor contain several Items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items, while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects, and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect.
Page 307 - Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 307 - Private roads may be opened in the manner to be prescribed by law; but in every case the necessity of the road and the amount of all damage to be sustained by the opening thereof shall be first determined by a jury of freeholders, and such amount, together with the expenses of the proceeding, shall be paid by the person to be benefited.
Page 320 - ... each senate district shall contain as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and be in as compact form as practicable, and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and shall at all times, consist of contiguous territory, and no county shall be divided in the formation of a senate district except to make two or more senate districts wholly in such county.
Page 333 - The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for Governor and LieutenantGovernor, shall be elected ; but in case two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes...