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 strani 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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... thousand American citizens were now en you send that member back to inform his constituency ve a seat on this floor , it is proper you should look boldly in equences . It was not for the native Californians we were stitution ; it was ...
... thousand American citizens were now en you send that member back to inform his constituency ve a seat on this floor , it is proper you should look boldly in equences . It was not for the native Californians we were stitution ; it was ...
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... thousand American citizens were now on the road ; and when you send that member back to inform his constituency that he shall not have a seat on this floor , it is proper you should look boldly in the face the consequences . It was not ...
... thousand American citizens were now on the road ; and when you send that member back to inform his constituency that he shall not have a seat on this floor , it is proper you should look boldly in the face the consequences . It was not ...
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... thousand of the voters of that State supported it . Have we not greater reason to fear the in- troduction of free negroes here , than they had in Illinois ? The slave owner , pos- sessed of a hundred negroes , can well afford to ...
... thousand of the voters of that State supported it . Have we not greater reason to fear the in- troduction of free negroes here , than they had in Illinois ? The slave owner , pos- sessed of a hundred negroes , can well afford to ...
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... thousand Indians in Mexico . He wished to know whe . ther these twenty thousand Indians were allowed to vote ? Mr. FOSTER said that , according to Mexican law , very few of the Indian race were admitted to the right of suffrage . They ...
... thousand Indians in Mexico . He wished to know whe . ther these twenty thousand Indians were allowed to vote ? Mr. FOSTER said that , according to Mexican law , very few of the Indian race were admitted to the right of suffrage . They ...
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... thousand others who came here but yesterday . Mr. MOORE preferred retaining the words " all free white male citizens . " He could not think that any white man would object to this clause . Mr. SHANNON moved further to amend the ...
... thousand others who came here but yesterday . Mr. MOORE preferred retaining the words " all free white male citizens . " He could not think that any white man would object to this clause . Mr. SHANNON moved further to amend the ...
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