Journal of the Senate, Volume 22

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Page 228 - These resolutions, it will be perceived, extend an invitation " to all such States, whether slaveholding or non-slaveholding, as are willing to unite with Virginia in an earnest effort to adjust the present unhappy controversies in the spirit in which the Constitution was originally formed, and consistently with its principles, so as to afford to the people of the slaveholding States adequate guarantees for the security of their rights...
Page 618 - An Act to Reduce the Law Incorporating the City of Chicago, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, into one Act, and to amend the same.
Page 14 - ... for the purpose of repelling invasion, suppressing insurrection, or defending the State in war (for payment of which the faith of the State shall be pledged), shall be contracted, unless the law authorizing the same shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people and have received a majority of the votes cast for members of the General Assembly at such election.
Page 72 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned...
Page 10 - Cox bo requested to prepare a suitable notice of the Hon. SA Douglas, to be inserted in the Journal of the Board of Regents.
Page 233 - State be requested to appoint five Commissioners on the part of the State of Illinois, to confer and consult with the Commissioners of other States, who shall meet at Washington, provided that said Commissioners shall at all times be subject to the control of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. Resolved, That the appointment of Commissioners by the State of Illinois, in response to the invitation of the State of Virginia, is not an expression of opinion on the part of this State, that...
Page 175 - Resolved, by the Senate of the State of Illinois, the House of Representatives concurring therein; that there shall be submitted to the electors of this state for adoption or rejection at the next election...
Page 8 - ... organized and ready to receive any communication he may desire to make.
Page 21 - Resolved, by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, that the Secretary of State be and Is hereby directed to...
Page 561 - An act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled ' An act to provide for persons who wore disabled by known wounds, received in the revolutionary war...

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