The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year ..., Volume 13Gray and Bowen, 1842 - Almanacs, American |
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Page 88 - Newspaper Postage. For each Newspaper, not carried out of the State in which it is published, or, if carried out of the State, not carried over 100 miles, 1 cent.
Page 308 - ... the last utterance of his lips expressed a fervent desire for the perpetuity of the constitution and the preservation of its true principles. In death, as in life, the happiness of his country was uppermost in his thoughts.
Page 166 - Courts of bis circuit, and two assistant judges for each county; and in justices of the peace; — all the judges and justices being chosen annually by the legislature. The Supreme Court sits once, and the County Courts twice, a year in each county. Each judge of the Supreme Court is chancellor of a circuit. The Court of Chancery has two stated sessions annually in each county. An appeal from the decree of the chancellor lies to the Supreme Court. COMMON SCHOOLS. According to a statement in the "...
Page 63 - The Supreme Court is held in the City of Washington, and has one session annually, commencing on the 2d Monday of January.
Page 326 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and to grant pre-emption rights...
Page 291 - The Miseries of Human Life ; or the Last Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive, with a few supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy.
Page 218 - The Governor and other principal executive officers reside at Tuscaloosa. The Secretary of State is elected for two years ; and the Comptroller and Treasurer annually ; — all by a joint vote of the two Houses of the General Assembly.
Page 58 - Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate.
Page 3 - the 2589th year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been assigned to Wednesday the 26th of February of the 3967th year of the Julian Period...
Page 6 - The Jewish year generally contains 354 days, or 12 lunations of the Moon, but, in a cycle of 19 years, an intercalary month (Veadar) is 7 times introduced, for the purpose of rendering the average duration of the year quite or nearly correct. MAHOMETAN CALENDAR. The Mahometan Era dates from the flight of Mahomet to Medina, July 16th, AD 632.