History of California: 1860-1890

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This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.
 

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Page 385 - The term corporation, as used in this Article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint-stock companies having any of the powers and privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships.
Page 525 - That the sections and parts of sections of land which, by such grant, shall remain to the United States within six miles on each side of said roads, shall not be sold for less than double the minimum price of the public lands when sold...
Page 368 - Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature shall deem it necessary to call a convention to revise or amend this constitution, they shall recommend to the electors to vote at the next general election, for or against a convention...
Page 618 - Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, jointly. That the Legislature of the State of California...
Page 564 - The legislature shall have no power to give or to lend, or to authorize the giving or lending, of the credit of the state...
Page 389 - Any railroad corporation or transportation company which shall fail or refuse to conform to such rates as shall be established by such Commissioners, or shall charge rates in excess thereof, or shall fail to keep their accounts in accordance with the system prescribed by the Commission, shall be fined not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for each offense, and every officer, agent, or employe...
Page 387 - And whenever a railroad corporation shall, for the purpose of competing with any other common carrier, lower its rates for transportation of passengers or freight from one point to another, such reduced rates shall not be again raised or increased from such standard without the consent of the governmental authority in which shall be vested the power to regulate fares and freights.
Page 376 - The provisions of this Constitution are mandatory and prohibitory, unless by express words they are declared to be otherwise.
Page 529 - And all such lands, so granted by this section, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within three years after the entire road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and preemption, like other lands, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to be paid to said company.
Page 374 - 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.

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