The Governors' Letter-books, 1840-1853, Volume 1Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1911 - 469 pages |
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Governors' Letter Books, 1840-1853 (1911) Evarts Boutell Greene,Charles Manfred Thompson No preview available - 2009 |
Governors' Letter Books, 1840-1853 (1911) Evarts Boutell Greene,Charles Manfred Thompson No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 123 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 39 - 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 55 - That there shall be no other banks or moneyed institutions in this State but those already provided by law, except a State bank and its branches, which may be established and regulated by the general assembly of the State as they may think proper.
Page 40 - 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 70 - ... 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 104 - 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 211 - 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.
Page 81 - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the Great Seal of the State of Ohio...
Page 123 - ... 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.
Page 353 - That the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to the State of Illinois for the construction of a railroad from the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan canal to a point at or near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with a branch of the same to Chicago on Lake Michigan, and another via the town of Galena in said State, to Dubuque in the State of Iowa...