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Title: Cyclopedia of American government
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861-1947 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943, joint ed
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Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hestate of Ohio a strip of land north of thisboundary; and when Michigan sent an armedforce to take possession of the territoryclaimed, the bloodless Toledo War ensued.Congress gave to the state the upper peninsulain exchange, and after the first convention ofassent had rejected the boundary proposed,an informal (frost-bitten) convention ac-cepted the terms. new features were those making all judgeselective; substitution of general incorporationacts in place of special charters; provision fora sinking fund to pay the state debt; for-bidding the issue of state script; prohibitingthe loan of the states credit to individualsor corporations; and putting a ban on internalimprovements at state expense. The lastnamed provision came to be used effectively inrestraining towns from voting aid to railroads.The low salaries for state officers, as fixed inthe constitution, were a prolific source ofamendments. Constitution of 1908.—In 1868 and again in1874, revisions of the constitution were sub-
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fULTON L L* i T.-N D. !So H I O Boundaries of the State of Michigan, Showing Teeeitoeial Changes Constitution of 1835.—The first state con-stitution was adapted to meet the wants of agrowing state. The governor, with the consentof the senate, appointed the secretary of state,auditor general and attorney general; justicesof the supreme court were appointed for aterm of seven years; county and town officers,including judges, were elective; slavery wasforbidden; education was to be encouraged,and a university and schools maintained; in-ternal improvements of all kinds were to beencouraged by the state. In 1847, the capitalwas changed from Detroit to Lansing. Constitution of 1850.—The experience of thestate in borrowing money to carry out publicimprovements was unfortunate, and the linesof railroad projected and partially built weresold to corporations. The distrust of publicofficials engendered was such as to lead to theformation of a new constitution which embod-ied a large mass of

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