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... changes in the Blue Book have been significant , with the 1968 and 1970 editions particularly notable . Prior to 1968 , state departments were listed alphabetically . While this made it easy to locate a particular agency description ...
... changes in the Blue Book have been significant , with the 1968 and 1970 editions particularly notable . Prior to 1968 , state departments were listed alphabetically . While this made it easy to locate a particular agency description ...
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... changes , it allowed the Republican minority to effectively counter Democrats who hold a 25-15 edge in the Sen- ate and a 47-33 advantage in the Assembly . " can - Two former speakers of the California Assembly - one of them a Republi ...
... changes , it allowed the Republican minority to effectively counter Democrats who hold a 25-15 edge in the Sen- ate and a 47-33 advantage in the Assembly . " can - Two former speakers of the California Assembly - one of them a Republi ...
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" changes the rules by which the Legislature is governed so that any minority .... has the power to prevent the Legislature from legislating . " The initial court challenge of Proposition 24 was turned down by the Cali- fornia State ...
" changes the rules by which the Legislature is governed so that any minority .... has the power to prevent the Legislature from legislating . " The initial court challenge of Proposition 24 was turned down by the Cali- fornia State ...
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... changes , the 1961 resolution created a new rule which , accord- ing to an explanatory note by the interim committee , " incorporates the prece- dent that the rules of the previous session remain in force at the beginning of a ...
... changes , the 1961 resolution created a new rule which , accord- ing to an explanatory note by the interim committee , " incorporates the prece- dent that the rules of the previous session remain in force at the beginning of a ...
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... changes as supplied by the Legislative Reference Bureau and submitted by Senators Johnson and Knowles clearly sets forth the position of the Senators as what , in fact , the situation was when no new rules were adopted for the 1971 ...
... changes as supplied by the Legislative Reference Bureau and submitted by Senators Johnson and Knowles clearly sets forth the position of the Senators as what , in fact , the situation was when no new rules were adopted for the 1971 ...
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Page 251 - ... then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe...
Page 249 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 229 - The legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered, or the contract entered into; nor shall the compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office.
Page 249 - No county, city, town, village, school district, or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted In any manner or for any purpose to any amount, including existing indebtedness. In the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes previous to the incurring of such Indebtedness.
Page 245 - The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of district schools, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable; and such schools shall be free and without charge for tuition to all children between the ages of four and twenty years, and no sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein.
Page 247 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 800 - Bayfield Brown Buffalo Burnett Calumet Chippewa Clark Columbia Crawford Dane Dodge Door Douglas Dunn Eau Claire Florence Fond Du Lac Forest Grant Green Green Lake Iowa .... Iron Jackson...
Page 243 - The State shall never contract any debt for works of internal improvement, or be a party in carrying on such works; but whenever grants of land or other property shall have been made to the State, especially dedicated by the grant to particular works of internal...
Page 234 - Sheriffs shall hold no other office, and be ineligible for the next three years after the termination of their offices. They may be required by law to renew their security, from time to time; and in default of giving such new security, their offices shall be deemed vacant. But the county shall never be made responsible for the acts of the Sheriff.
Page 104 - And whether these forms be in all cases the most rational or not, is really not of so great importance. It is much more material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is...