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Page 369 - The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation ; and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, as may be specially exempted by law.
Page 19 - Resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate concurring), That a committee of three on the part of the House and two on the part of the Senate...
Page 14 - That whenever an investigation shall be made by said Commission, it shall be its duty to make a report in writing in respect thereto, which shall include the findings of fact upon which the conclusions of the Commission are based, together with its recommendation as to what reparation, if any, should be made by the common carrier to any party or parties who may be found to have been injured ; and such findings so made shall thereafter, in all judicial proceedings, be deemed prima facie evidence as...
Page 26 - Resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, That a joint committee consisting of three on the part of the house and two on the part of the senate...
Page 34 - They shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, on the most usual route.
Page 18 - In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the State during the six months...
Page 18 - States one year, and shall have resided in this State during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where he may reside.
Page 379 - There shall be a joint committee on the library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of Representatives...
Page 19 - That a committee of three from the house and two from the senate be appointed to submit a joint memorial to the United States congress on the subject of foreign immigration.
Page 26 - That a joint committee of three from the house and two from the senate be appointed to investigate and report at the regular session on the best method of conducting the " school for deaf-mutes " and the "school for the blind," and that said committee be allowed necessary clerical assistance.

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