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Page 172 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 162 - The judges are all appointed for the term of seven years. The judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the governor, with the consent of the Senate ; the presidents of the Circuit Courts, by the legislature ; and the associate judges are elected by the people.
Page 342 - Kentucky boatman, swaggering and boasting of his prowess, his rifle, his horse and his wife. One is sawing away on his wretched old fiddle all day long; another is grinding a knife or razor; here is a party playing cards ; and in yonder corner is a dance to the sound of the Jew's harp; whilst a fe!w are trying to demean themselves soberly by sitting in silence or reading a book.
Page 236 - This amendment, while retaining an existing clause vesting the exclusive legislative power in a general assembly consisting of a senate and a house of representatives...
Page 217 - The legislative authority is vested in a General Assembly, consisting of a Senate, the members of which are elected for three years, and a House of Representatives, elected annually. The number of representatives...
Page 62 - About twenty barges, averaging 100 tons each, comprised the whole of the commercial facilities for transporting merchandise from New Orleans to the ' Upper country ;* each of these performed one trip down and up again to Louisville and Cincinnati within the year. The number of...
Page 237 - Assembly may, from time to time establish. The Judges are appointed by the General Assembly...
Page 61 - Shreve, an enterprising man, made a trip from New Orleans to Louisville in twenty-five days. The event .was celebrated by rejoicing, and by a public dinner to the daring individual who had achieved the miracle. Previous to that period, the ordinary passages by barges, propelled by oars and sails, was three months. A revolution in western commerce was at once effected. Every article of merchandise began to ascend the Mississippi, until we have seen a package delivered at the wharf at Cincinnati, from...
Page 201 - Union, bounded on the north by Kentucky and Virginia, east by North Carolina, south by Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and west by Arkansas and Missouri ; area, 42,022 square miles.
Page 80 - Dr. Drake, who is a native of the western country, after noticing the effects of a dry summer, adds, ' ' But, fortunately, such extraordinary droughts occur too seldom, and are too limited in their extent, to be regarded as any great calamity." — Picture of Cincinnati, p. 105. — FLINT. On the 23d, a regiment of Militia was reviewed. The state of discipline is so bad that every movement is accompanied with disorder. The time occupied in training is short, and the practice of privates electing...