Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849J. T. Towers, 1850 - 479 páginas John Ross Browne (1817-1875) of Kentucky, the official reporter for the California State Constitutional Convention of September-October 1849, came to California in 1849 as an employee of the government revenue service. He traveled widely in the next two decades before settling down in Oakland. Report of the debates of the Convention of California (1850) comprises the official records of the convention. Browne had been a shorthand reporter for the U.S. Senate before coming west, and he provides transcripts of the proclamation calling the convention, proceedings of the convention, text of the state constitution adopted by the delegates, and official correspondence regarding the convention and the institution of state government under that constitution. |
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... appealed to members to consider the circumstances under which they were here . It was to perform the most solemn of trusts - to decide upon the fundamen- tal principles of a Government . This great question of securing to mankind the ...
... appealed to members to consider the circumstances under which they were here . It was to perform the most solemn of trusts - to decide upon the fundamen- tal principles of a Government . This great question of securing to mankind the ...
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... appealed from the decision of the Chair . Mr. HALLECK asked if an appeal could be debated . The CHAIR decided in the negative . Mr. GILBERT called for the yeas and nays on the appeal , which was ordered . YEAS - Messrs . Aram , Carillo ...
... appealed from the decision of the Chair . Mr. HALLECK asked if an appeal could be debated . The CHAIR decided in the negative . Mr. GILBERT called for the yeas and nays on the appeal , which was ordered . YEAS - Messrs . Aram , Carillo ...
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... appealed from the decision . Mr. SHANNON asked whether it was the decision of the Chair that , when a mo- tion to strike out a section is made , that motion cannot be received , but that , in its place , the original question on the ...
... appealed from the decision . Mr. SHANNON asked whether it was the decision of the Chair that , when a mo- tion to strike out a section is made , that motion cannot be received , but that , in its place , the original question on the ...
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... appealed from this decision . Whereupon , the question on the appeal was put , and the decision of the Chair sustained . Mr. PRICE moved a reconsideration of the vote on the passage of the section , in order to allow the gentleman rrom ...
... appealed from this decision . Whereupon , the question on the appeal was put , and the decision of the Chair sustained . Mr. PRICE moved a reconsideration of the vote on the passage of the section , in order to allow the gentleman rrom ...
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... appealed to this House not to sanction a principle so fatal to the best interests of society , by striking out the section . Mr. SHANNON said he would sustain the motion of the gentleman from San Francisco , ( Mr. Price , ) in ...
... appealed to this House not to sanction a principle so fatal to the best interests of society , by striking out the section . Mr. SHANNON said he would sustain the motion of the gentleman from San Francisco , ( Mr. Price , ) in ...
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