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Page 83 - Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Page 19 - To satisfy both these conditions they urged the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands among the several States according to population.
Page 20 - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives...
Page 10 - Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Secretary, who shall previously...
Page 24 - In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house, and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee...
Page 28 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law or resolution of Congress accepting the foregoing proposal.
Page 39 - Representatives in the Congress of the United States, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of William Wilkins, Esquire.
Page 9 - Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings previous to its passage, which readings shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise; and the Presiding Officer shall give notice at each reading whether it be the first, second, or third: Provided, That the first or second reading of each bill be by title only, unless the Senate in any case shall otherwise order.
Page 3 - School societies heretofore organized under the act of 1855, entitled "An act in addition to and in alteration of an act concerning education...
Page 25 - When a bill or resolution which shall have passed in one house is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.

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