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MISCELLANEOUS LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS.64
law, it being considered that such power could be given only by an act of the Congress of the United States, and that the said provision was not adopted from the laws of any of the original states and particularly from the state of Vermont from which it purported to be adopted, and did further decide that the power attempted to be given being a void power the acts done under the supposed power were also void; and whereas the Governor of the Territory of Michigan on the 19tb day of
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