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... pardon , By writ of Habeas Corpus , Died , .. Total , ... Leaving in prison Nov. 30th , 1853 , 42 24 1 9 76 205 The daily average number of convicts was 210 ; 170 of the con- victs were employed on contract , 6 in building and repairing ...
... pardon , By writ of Habeas Corpus , Died , .. Total , ... Leaving in prison Nov. 30th , 1853 , 42 24 1 9 76 205 The daily average number of convicts was 210 ; 170 of the con- victs were employed on contract , 6 in building and repairing ...
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... pardon , - Died , .. Escaped , Total , .. 3 1 62 .246 Leaving in the Prison , Nov. 30th , 1854 , - The daily average number of convicts was 219 ; of this number 199 were employed on contracts : 34 by the State , in building and repairs ...
... pardon , - Died , .. Escaped , Total , .. 3 1 62 .246 Leaving in the Prison , Nov. 30th , 1854 , - The daily average number of convicts was 219 ; of this number 199 were employed on contracts : 34 by the State , in building and repairs ...
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... pardon granted , and the reasons therefor . It is , I think , a wise provision , calculated to place a proper check upon the Executive on the one hand , and on the other to protect him from misrepresentation and unjust censure ...
... pardon granted , and the reasons therefor . It is , I think , a wise provision , calculated to place a proper check upon the Executive on the one hand , and on the other to protect him from misrepresentation and unjust censure ...
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... pardon when , from careful investigation , he is satisfied that the ends of justice have been fully met , as to refuse it when he is not . By an ex- amination of the reasons for granting these pardons , it is confidently believed , that ...
... pardon when , from careful investigation , he is satisfied that the ends of justice have been fully met , as to refuse it when he is not . By an ex- amination of the reasons for granting these pardons , it is confidently believed , that ...
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... pardons granted by me , it will be seen that eleven have been recommended by both the Judge who tried and sentenced the convict , and the Prosecuting Attorney who conducted the trial ; that seventeen have been recommended by either the ...
... pardons granted by me , it will be seen that eleven have been recommended by both the Judge who tried and sentenced the convict , and the Prosecuting Attorney who conducted the trial ; that seventeen have been recommended by either the ...
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Page 14 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 14 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 4 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 84 - University shall be to provide the inhabitants of this Territory with the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science, and the arts.
Page 4 - The State shall not be a party to, or interested in, any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property...
Page 7 - That the proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind, shall be applied, exclusively, as far as necessary, to the purpose of reclaiming said lands by means of the levees and drains aforesaid.
Page 18 - The legislature shall, within five years from the adoption of this constitution, provide for and establish a system of primary schools, whereby a school shall be kept without charge for tuition* at least three months in each year, in every school district in the State ; and all instruction in said schools shall be conducted in the English language.
Page 38 - No chamber for the use of a single patient should ever be less than eight by ten feet, nor should the ceiling of any story occupied by patients be less than twelve feet in height. XII. The floors of patients' apartments should always be of wood.
Page 39 - A complete system of forced ventilation, in connection with the heating, is indispensable to give purity to the air of a hospital for the insane; and no expense that is required to effect this object thoroughly can be deemed either misplaced or injudicious.
Page 37 - No hospital for the insane, however limited its capacity, should have less than fifty acres of land, devoted to gardens and pleasure grounds for its patients. At legist one hundred acres should be possessed by every State hospital, or other institution for two hundred patients, to which number these propositions apply, unless otherwise mentioned.