Principles of American State Administration: By John Mabry Mathews ...

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D. Appleton, 1917 - 533 pages
 

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Page 96 - He may require information, in writing, from the officers in the executive department, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices ; and shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.
Page 123 - The Governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations, as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons.
Page 56 - When the Legislature shall be conven'ed in special session, there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated in the proclamation of the Governor calling such session, or presented to them by the Governor; and no such session shall be of longer duration than thirty days.
Page 270 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Page 112 - A feeble Executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution ; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.
Page 134 - An office is a public position created by the constitution or law, continuing during the pleasure of the appointing power, or for a fixed time, with a successor elected or appointed.
Page 436 - When it comes to a decision by the head of the state upon a matter involving its life, the ordinary rights of individuals must yield to what he deems the necessities of the moment. Public danger warrants the substitution of executive process for judicial process.
Page 222 - Laws shall be passed taxing, by a uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, jointstock companies or otherwise; and, also, all real and personal property, according to its true value in money.
Page 118 - it shall be the duty of the executive authority of the state" to cause the fugitive to be arrested and secured, and delivered to the agent of the demanding state. The words, "it shall be the duty," in ordinary legislation, imply the assertion of the power to command and to coerce obedience.
Page 379 - Laws of 1913, as follows: § 2-a. Public health council. There shall be a public health council to consist of the commissioner of health, and six members hereinafter called the appointive members, to be appointed by the governor, of whom at least three shall be physicians and shall have had training or experience in sanitary science, and one shall be a sanitary engineer. Of the appointive members first appointed...

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