Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia

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Page 205 - ... shall be made by such of the stockholders as shall attend for that purpose, either in person or by proxy.
Page 123 - ... at such times and places as they or a majority of them may appoint...
Page 277 - That a committee of two on the part of the senate and three on the part of the...
Page 278 - All elections shall be by ballot; and every white* male** citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, or upwards, who has been a resident of the State for one...
Page 95 - The male citizens of the State shall be entitled to vote at all elections held within the counties in which they respectively reside; but no person who is a minor, or of unsound mind, or a pauper, or who is under conviction of treason, felony, or bribery in an election, or who has not been a resident of the State for one year, and of the county in which he offers to vote, for sixty days next preceding such offer, shall be permitted to vote while such disability continues...
Page 68 - Any person who shall be injured in person, property, means of support, or otherwise by any intoxicated person, or by reason of the intoxication of any person, whether resulting in his death or not.
Page 175 - If a marine store dealer cuts up or unlays any cable or other article without complying with the provisions of this section he shall be liable to a fine for the first offence not exceeding twenty pounds, and for every subsequent offence not exceeding fifty pounds.
Page 141 - If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of...
Page 145 - ... 5. The former owner of any such land, shall be entitled to receive the excess of the sum for which the land may be sold over the taxes charged and chargeable thereon, or which, if the land had not been forfeited, would have been charged or chargeable thereon, since the formation of this State, with interest at the rate of twelve per centum per annum, and the costs of the proceedings, if his claim...
Page 33 - Its council, by this chapter or by any future act of the legislature of this state, the council shall have power to make and pass all needful orders, by-laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations, not contrary to the constitution and laws of this state; and to prescribe, Impose and enact reasonable fines, penalties and Imprisonments...

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