Families of the Wyoming Valley: Biographical, Genealogical and Historical. Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Τόμος 3

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E. B. Yordy, printer, 1890
 

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Σελίδα 1027 - There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported. And some there be which have no memorial ; who are perished as though they liad never been ; and are become as though they had never been born ; and their children after them.
Σελίδα 1157 - ... we give thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labours.
Σελίδα 1036 - We are unanimously of opinion, that the State of Connecticut has no right to the lands in controversy. " ' We are also unanimously of opinion, that the jurisdiction and pre-emption of all the territory lying within the charter boundary of Pennsylvania, and now claimed by the State of Connecticut, do of right belong to the State of Pennsylvania.
Σελίδα 1370 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the -family of the deceased, and that they be spread upon the records of this society.
Σελίδα 1176 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty...
Σελίδα 1259 - All judges required to be learned in the law, except the judges of the Supreme Court, shall be elected by the qualified electors of the respective districts over which they are to preside, and shall hold their offices for the period of ten years, if they shall so long behave themselves well...
Σελίδα 1036 - ... to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question...
Σελίδα 1164 - River, and so between the said creeks backwards as far as a man can ride in two days with a horse, for and in consideration of these following goods to us in hand paid and secured to be paid by William...
Σελίδα 1087 - ... The dignity, richness and purity of his written opinions was by no means his highest title to admiration. The movements of his mind were as strong as they were graceful. His periods not only pleased the ear, but sunk into the mind. He never wearied the reader, but he always exhausted the subject. An opinion of his was an unbroken chain of logic from beginning to end. His argumentation was always characterized by -great power, and sometimes it rose into irresistible energy, dashing opposition...
Σελίδα 1259 - Any vacancy happening by death, resignation, or otherwise, in any court of record, shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, to continue till the first Monday of January next succeeding the Iirst general election, which shall occur three or more months after the happening of such vacancy.

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