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Page 127 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 43 - Resolved, by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law...
Page 44 - Wilson, to show cause why an attachment should not be issued against him for a violation of the injunction, which was accordingly granted. The defendant showed cause by affidavit, in which he affirms, that immediately...
Page 74 - ... a copy of an indictment found or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any state or territory charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime...
Page 108 - Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof...
Page 59 - The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the General Assembly, or of any branch of government ; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions...
Page 215 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
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Page 127 - ... made to the several States, therein mentioned, for the purposes of internal improvement, shall be made, respectively, in such manner as the Legislatures thereof shall direct, is so far modified as to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to cause the selections to be made for those States without the necessity of convening the Legislatures thereof for that purpose.