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500 copies ordered Act relating Act to amend Act to incorporate Allen of York amend Chapter amend Section amended by Chapter Androscoggin Anthoine Aroostook Aroostook county Augusta Bangor Barwise bill An Act bill was given Bowdoinham Bridges Child Labor Amendment Clerk committee on judiciary concurrence copies ordered printed County Cumberland County enacted engrossed Fisheries and Game fishing further motion given its second Hinckley of Cumberland House Amendment ice fishing Inland Fisheries joint rules Kennebunk Knox County Legal Affairs Legislature Lewiston Maine matter ment monstrance motion was agreed move Municipal Court Oxford County passage Penobscot Pension petition plug fishing Pond Port President Private and Special Public Laws read and accepted reading and passed report was accepted Reports read Resolve in favor Revised Statutes Roberts of Bar Sangerville second reading Senate Senator from Cumberland South Portland Speaker Special Laws strance tion town viva voce Waldo County Wing of Auburn
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Page 518 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 491 - All men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no one shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God, in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of bis own conscience, nor for his religious professions or sentiments, provided he does not disturb the public peace, nor obstruct others in their religious worship...
Page 145 - Section 1. The Congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. Section 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this Article except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.
Page 491 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Page 664 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 509 - Neither the State nor any subdivision thereof, shall use its property or credit or any public money, or authorize or permit either to be used, directly or indirectly, in aid or maintenance, other than for examination or inspection, of any school or institution of learning wholly or in part under the control or direction of any religious denomination, or in which any denominational tenet or doctrine is taught.
Page 491 - Important object, the legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty to require, the several towns to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public schools; and it shall further be their duty to encourage and suitably endow, from time to time, as the circumstances of the people may authorize, all academies, colleges and seminaries of learning within the state...
Page 52 - SECTION 1. The congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. "SECTION 2. The power of the several states is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of state laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the congress.
Page 493 - Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other public corporation, shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or scientific institution controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever...
Page 491 - State, shall be equally under the protection of the laws, and no subordination nor preference of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law, nor shall any religious test be required as a qualification for...