Votes and Proceedings

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Page 11 - ... influence the giving or withholding of any such vote, nor made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of such election. The legislature shall enact laws excluding from the right of suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous crime.
Page 904 - A superintendent of public works shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and hold his office until the end of the term of the Governor by whom he was nominated, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. He shall receive a compensation to be fixed by law. He shall be required by law to give security for the faithful execution of his office before entering upon the duties thereof.
Page 906 - A Superintendent of State Prisons shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and hold his office for five years, unless sooner removed; he shall give security in such amount, and with such sureties as shall be required by law for the faithful discharge of his duties...
Page 904 - He may be suspended or removed from office by the Governor, whenever, in his judgment, the public interest shall so require ; but in case of the removal of such Superintendent of Public Works from office, the Governor shall file with the Secretary of State a statement of the cause of such removal, and shall report such removal, and the cause thereof, to the Legislature at its next session.
Page 647 - ... 2. To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law or equity.
Page 858 - Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election.
Page 232 - An act to revise and consolidate the statutes of the state relating to the care and custody of the insane, the management of the asylums for their treatment and safekeeping, and the duties of the state commissioner in lunacy.
Page 532 - An act to extend the operation and effect of the act passed February 17, 1848, entitled 'An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes...
Page 825 - It shall be the duty of the legislature, and they are hereby empowered 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 assessment and taxation, and in contracting debts by such municipal corporations.
Page 648 - To make by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States, for the management of its property and the regulation of its affairs.

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