 | West Virginia - 1863 - 324 pages
...tax shall be levied for the ensuing year, sufficient to pay the subscription in full. 8. An equitable proportion of the public debt of the commonwealth of Virginia, prior to the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, shall be assumed by this... | |
 | William B. Dana - 1864 - 502 pages
...repel invasion, or defend the State in time of war." Thus far no debt has been created. An equitable proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia, prior to the first of January, 1801, is to be assumed, and the liquidation of the eame is provided for by the creation... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1865 - 1112 pages
...Virginia, (Senate Miss. Doc. No. 98, 2d session, 37th Congress,) it is provided that "an equitable proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia, prior to the 1st day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, shall be assumed by this State ; and the legislature... | |
 | West Virginia - 1866 - 910 pages
...also in favor of the constitution proposed to said voters for their adoption. 'J. The- new state shall take upon itself a just proportion of the public debt of the commonwealth of Virginia prior to the first day of January, 1861, to be ascertained by charging to it all state expenditures within the limits... | |
 | FRANKLIN B. HOUGII - 1867 - 604 pages
...tax shall be levied for the ensuing year, sufficient to pay the subscription in full. 8. An equitable proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, shall be assumed by this... | |
 | West Virginia - 1872 - 734 pages
...the State of West Virginia, the following provision was inserted in the Constitution: "An equitable proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, shall be assumed by this... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury - 1900 - 756 pages
...condition precedent, assented to by the United States and by West Virginia, that 'the new State shall take upon itself a just proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to the first day of January, 1861.' " Failing to receive appropriate responses from the States named to the... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1878 - 914 pages
...Virginia; that in the ordinance authorizing the organization of said state, it was provided that said state should take upon itself a just proportion of...public debt of the commonwealth of Virginia prior to 1st of January, 1861, which provision has not yet been fulfilled, although repeated and earnest efforts... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 822 pages
...authorizing the organization of the State of West Virginia it was provided that she should take upon herself a just proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia, prior to Jan. 1, 1861, and that this provision had not been fulfilled, although repeated and earnest efforts... | |
 | 1881 - 556 pages
...authorizing the organization of the State of West Virginia it was provided that she should take upon herself a just proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to January 1, 1S01, and that this provision had not been fulfilled, although repeated and earnest efforts... | |
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The new state shall take upon itself a just proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia prior to the first day of January, 1861, to be ascertained by charging to it all state expenditures within the limits thereof, and a just proportion... 
