Mrs. Griswold was of course innocent of all knowledge of her husband's whereabouts, though she told them she well knew the legislature was in session, and that business required his presence at the capital.
He had been for many years a member of Congress--and was sent by the legislature of Massachusetts to command in the District of Maine.
A few members of the legislature and the prominent gentlemen of the neighborhood were admitted and formally introduced.
Before the expiration of the charter the stock-holders of the bank obtained an act of incorporation from the legislature of Pennsylvania, excluding only the United States.
Neither are the charters granted unto Nauvoo by the legislature of Illinois dangerous, and those who say they are are fools.
Shall they appeal to the legislature of the State of Missouri for redress?
The Legislature of Illinois granted a liberal charter for the city of Nauvoo; and let every honest man in the Union who has any knowledge of her say whether she has not flourished beyond the most sanguine anticipations of all.
After which, President Smith continued as follows: "If the legislature have granted Nauvoo the right of determining cases of habeas corpus, it is no more than they ought to have done, or more than our fathers fought for.
By the repeal of your charter, and by refusing all amendments and modifications, our legislature has given a kind of sanction to the barbarous manner in which you have been treated.
The State legislature was also in session and consequently there was a general gathering of the principal men of Illinois, and the Prophet extended largely his circle of acquaintances among them.
The municipal court has all the power to issue and determine writs of habeas corpus within the limits of this city that the legislature can confer.
The city of Nauvoo was incorporated by act of the legislature of Illinois, on the fourteenth of December, 1840.
As neither of the two could, of course, give way, when Hartford and New Haven were made into one, the houses of legislature and the seat of government are changed about year by year.
No member of the New York legislature can also be a member of the Washington Congress, or hold any civil or military office under the General States government.
The existing legislature of the State was presumed to be secessionist, but the legislature was not sitting, nor in the ordinary course of things would that legislature have been called on to sit again.
Who has heard of the legislature of New York or of Massachusetts?
What one individual may say to another is not of much moment, but this Senator was expressing the feelings of his constituents, who were the legislature of the State from whence he came.
Late in the autumn an election for a new legislature of the State had taken place, and the members returned were all supposed to be Unionists.
The State legislature was not sitting; and we went on, merely remarking that the manner in which the railway cars are made to run backward and forward through the crowded streets of the town must cause a frequent loss of human life.
He makes a message to the legislature when it meets--a sort of Queen's speech; and he receives for his services a compensation to be established by law.
The immense national concerns with which it was and still is entrusted, called upon the legislature for particular provisions in its favour.
The great object of the legislature was to add security and administer protection to the Bank of England.
As interpretation is difficult, when it is difficult, just because the legislature had no actual intent to ascertain, so the finding of the common law on a new point is difficult because there is no rule of law to find.
Yet if anyone's holdings were to exceed the bounds of reason, "the legislature would undoubtedly interfere on behalf of society and prevent the wrong which would be done by caricaturing an abstract right.
Attorneys are admitted by some court to which the legislatureconfides the power, and on examination prescribed by the court, or by a board of state examiners, as the case may be.
The attention of the Legislature was awakened to the importance of this investigation by Mr. David Ridgely, the State Librarian, and he was appointed by the Executive to undertake the labor.
In the event of popular rejection of a measure which the cantonallegislature has passed, the executive council gives the proper notice to the legislature, which thereupon pronounces the measure void.
The Saxon legislature (Standeversammlung) consists of two houses.
If the legislature desires to prepare a counter-project to be submitted to the voters along with the popularly initiated proposition, it may do so.
But their responsibility lies so much more directly to the king than to the legislature that what is commonly understood as the parliamentary system can hardly be said to exist in the kingdom.
It would be understood to manifest an alteration in the opinion of the Legislature as to the heinousness of the crime of homicide, and of course tend to diminish the efficacy of the law against it.
Lieutenant-Governor Des Voeux told the Legislature of Trinidad that the monstrous Excise imposts of the Colony were an incentive to smuggling, and he thought that the duties, licenses, &c.
The activity of the Legislature shows the continuance of the act; but we have every reason to believe that within the pale of Catholicism it was for many centuries extremely rare.
Their legislature continually extolled as a model, 201.
The control of this district was committed to a commission of five citizens, who were subject to the supervision of the Legislature of the State.
It was easily bought of a venal Legislature with the proceeds of a new scoop into the city treasury.
They are responsible to the Legislature for their acts.
The demand for a change grew stronger every day, and at last the Legislature of the State set on foot measures for the abolition of the volunteer system and the substitution of a paid force.
In order to secure undisturbed control of the city, the Ring took care to win over the Legislature of the State to their schemes.
A member roughly replied, that the colors voted by the State Legislature were mere painted banners, 'of no account.
When the bill came before the Legislature on its final passage, it was defeated.
In March, 1865, the Legislature passed the bill creating the Metropolitan Fire Department, and it at once received the Executive signature.
The docile Legislature sits at his feet, as Saul at the feet of Gamaliel, and waits, in reverent inactivity, for his signal before proceeding to action.
Mr. Ray is well known in democratic circles and is now serving as representative in the state legislature from the twelfth district and is making a record highly satisfactory to his constituents.
As a result of a mass meeting at Theon, Jackson O'Keefe of Assotin City was delegated to visit the Territorial Legislature in the session of 1883 in the interest of a bill for the erection of a new county.
It is reported that two of our representatives in the Legislature are pledged to the removal and also to give several more townships to Walla Walla County to buy its influence.
A memorial was presented to the Territorial Legislature in 1886, setting forth the imperfections of the existing charter and petitioning for still another.
The spectacle of the Legislature neglecting its law-making functions to wrangle over the opposing ambitions of senatorial aspirants, fatally impaired the confidence of the people in the wisdom of the old method of choice.
They do not propose to give the people an opportunity to vote on the question, as they fear the result, but aim to have the change made by the Legislature without consulting the wishes of the voters of the whole county.
The members of the Legislature from Garfield have exercised an influence in general legislation far beyond the proportionate size of the county.
Less than a year after Garrison had established his paper, the Legislature of that State passed an act offering a reward of five thousand dollars to whomsoever should arrest, bring to trial, and prosecute its publisher to conviction.
He quietly waited until a few days before the choosing of the Legislature that was to decide on his case, and then he entered on a lightning canvass.
He was supported by a sympathetic corps of official assistants, including a majority of the Legislature of his State, who gave him whatever legislation he wanted.
The sessions of the committee were to be held in the great hall of the Legislature in the State House, where, up to that time, no woman had ever spoken.
His pamphlet producing the same effect on the legislature of Delaware, they rewarded him in the same way--as also did both these legislatures by throwing into his way several other jobs of public printing.
He also engraved various ornaments and devices for the bills; and putting every thing in readiness for their paper-money coinage, he set out with Keimer for Burlington, where the New-Jersey legislatureheld their session.
The day following he was elected by the legislature of Pennsylvania, a member of Congress.
Heartily a lover of man and the friend of equal rights, he had scarcely taken his seat in the legislature before he had to turn the torrent of his honest indignation against the proprietaries and their creatures the Governors.
Antigua, became a member of the legislature of that island, and in such capacity signed the "Remonstrance," drawn up in the case of Col.
He is then (as an Executive) the ridiculous picture of what a Legislature would be if all its members were in the same case.
That is the worst, which in its deliberations and decisions is subject to the precipitancy and passion of an individual; and when the whole legislature is crowded into one body it is an individual in mass.
To theLegislature and the Executive Directory of the French Republic.
The Legislature might usurp authority, and a king is needed to restrain it.
The intention of electing the Convention before the time of the former Legislature expired, was for the purpose of reforming the Constitution or rather for forming a new one.
The policy of renewing the Legislature by a third part each year, though not entirely new, either in theory or in practice, is nevertheless one of the modern improvements in the science of government.
I will speak first of the legislative body, because the Legislature is, in the natural order of things, the first power; the Executive is the first magistrate.
The prefatory Letter to the Legislature and the Directory, now for the first time printed in English, is of much historical interest, and shows the title of the pamphlet related to the rise of Socialism in France.
But we have inspected the accounts, we have examined them with that sedulous attention which belongs to that branch of the legislature that has the care of the public revenues, and we have not found one trace of this addition.
I shall show what the creature ought to be, by showing the law of the creator: what the legislature of Great Britain meant that Governor Hastings should be, not what he made himself.
He went in the two characters of governor and commander-in-chief; and yet the legislature was sensible of the doubtful validity of a Governor-General's carrying with him the whole powers of the Council.
But we might haunt the lobbies of your State legislature for fifty years, and if we didn't put up, we wouldn't get the charter.
Sanderson said nothing, but he went out and telephoned to their agent in Trenton, and the next morning a bill went through both houses of the Legislature providing a statute of limitations that outlawed the case.
And if the State Legislature comes along and asks any impertinent questions, they can open their books and say: 'See, we have spent this much for improvements.
And the Governor turned as white as a sheet, and, by God, he signed the bill and sent it off to the Legislature while Davenant waited!
Mr. Cornwell was a staunch advocate of republican principles and served in the territoriallegislature as a joint representative from Walla Walla and Whitman counties.
The legislaturereadily made the appropriation, supplemented by a complimentary resolution.
He has served as a representative of the county in the state legislature and has otherwise been prominently connected with public affairs.
He became one of the prominent and influential citizens of his community and was called upon to represent his district in the state legislature for two terms.
The father was a member of the California Legislature of 1864 and later became recognized as one of the prominent and distinguished citizens of this state.
He was largely instrumental in the legislature in promoting the bone-dry law of Washington and succeeded in having the bill passed through the house.
In politics he is a staunch republican and represented his district in the state legislature in the first, second and third sessions after Washington was admitted to the Union.
At the close of his term and on the convening of the legislature he reported to the governor, then Governor Semple, giving account of the amount required to cover all indebtedness incurred.
In 1859 John Augustine Washington sold the Mount Vernon estate to Miss Cunningham for two hundred thousand dollars--after the Virginia Legislature and the federal government had both refused to acquire it.
The Statutes at Large Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislaturein the Year 1619.
To the old city came a governor and legislature with Northern sympathies, making welcome any federal forces camping on the outskirts of town.
The action of the State legislature in repealing the ordinance of secession and accepting the emancipation of slaves within one minute, was characteristic of her later work.
Legislature and the Governor, to have a law passed to abolish bear trapping in Pennsylvania.
Let him know that you wish a law passed at the next legislature giving a closed season on fur bearing animals.
The law is still in force as it appears on the face of it, but nevertheless there has been no appropriation made by the legislature to pay the bounty.
Does the Judge mean to say that the Territorial Legislature in legislating may, by withholding necessary laws, or by passing unfriendly laws, nullify that constitutional right?
We know that it could not, if fairly made, fail to give the Republican party from six to ten more members of the Legislature than they can probably get as the law now stands.
After this he returned to Kentucky, resumed the practice of law, and continued it till the autumn of 1831, when he was by the Legislature of Kentucky again placed in the United States Senate.
He prevailed on the Virginia Legislature to adopt his views, and to cede the Territory, making the prohibition of slavery therein a condition of the deed.
MY DEAR SIR--The Maryland Legislature assembles to-morrow at Annapolis, and not improbably will take action to arm the people of that State against the United States.
How can theLegislature rightly decide the facts between P.
The Legislature is in session and has suffered the bank to forfeit its charter without benefit of clergy.
