Past and Present of Alameda County, California, Volume 1 |
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Past and Present of Alameda County, California, Volume 1 Joseph Eugene Baker No preview available - 1914 |
Past and Present of Alameda County, California, Volume 2 Joseph Eugene Baker No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 303 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 263 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 305 - Acts amendatory thereof ), subject only to such legislative control as may be necessary to insure compliance with the terms of its endowments, and the proper investment and security of its funds.
Page 64 - ... the said party of the first part, in consideration of the sum of dollars, to him in hand paid by the party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged...
Page 304 - ... sciences and their application to the practical arts, shall be expanded into distinct colleges of the University, each with its own faculty and appropriate title.
Page 55 - An Act to incorporate the Town of Oakland, and to provide for the construction of wharves thereat...
Page 41 - FATHER: — I understand, through the medium of one of your Christian Indians, that you are anxious to know who we are — as some of the Indians have been at the mission and informed you that there were certain white people in the country. We are Americans, on our journey to the River Columbia. We were in at the Mission San Gabriel, in January last. I went to San Diego and saw the General, and got a passport from him to pass on to that place. I have made several efforts to pass the mountains, but...
Page 304 - ... and the Legislature shall provide that if, through neglect, misappropriation, or any other contingency, any portion of the funds so set apart shall be diminished or lost, the State shall replace such portion so lost or misappropriated, so that the principal thereof shall remain forever undiminished. No person shall be debarred admission to any of the collegiate departments of the University on account of sex.
Page 305 - The University of California shall constitute a public trust, and its organization and government shall be perpetually continued in the form and character prescribed by the Organic Act creating the same, passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight (and the several Acts amendatory thereof...
Page 59 - Burgess 6, 6-A, and 6-B," which is as follows: " STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of St. Louis, ss: " William Burgess, being first duly sworn, on oath .deposes and says that he is a resident of the city of...