(1) An act to enable counties to provide water for mining, milling, (8) An act to extend the right of suffrage to women of lawful age and otherwise qualified, according to the provisions of the (9) An act to provide for the proper representation of the products (10) An act to provide for issuing warrants by the auditor in pay- ment of rent and contingent expenses of the executive, leg- (12) An act to provide for the appointment of a commission to report a plan of organization for a state reform school. ., 652 The following sections, 42 and 43, of chapter XX, revised statutes, were accidentally omitted in the compilation. They should follow section 22, of chapter XXI, on page 202, of the general laws: SEC. Whenever the legal voters of any county are desirous of changing their county seat, at any ime, upon petition being presented to the county commissioners, signed by a majority of them, to be ascerned by said commissioners, it shall be the duty of such commissioners to require the sheriff in giving the notice for the next county election, to notify said voters to designate upon their ballots, at said election, the place of their choice; and if upon canvassing the votes polled or given, it shall appear that any one place has a majority of all the votes polled, such place shall be the county seat, and notice of such change shall be given, as provided in section twenty-two. SEC. -If no place has a majority of all the votes polled in either of such elections for the location or change of the county seat, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners, within one month after any such election, to order a special election and give ten days' notice thereof, in each township in the county, at which election votes shall be taken by ballot, the same as at the general election, and if no place then have a majority of all the votes, the county seat shall not be changed until the next general election, when a vote may again be taken as provided în section twenty-two. Section 31, of chapter LIII, page 533, general laws, being section 38, of chapter XLVIII, revised stattes, is directly repealed by act of February 9, 1872, and should have been omitted. Sections 95 and 96, of chapter LV, page 570, general laws, being sections 97 and 98, of chapter L, revised statutes, are directly repealed by act of February 8, 1876, and should have been omitted. Declaration of Independence. IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident:—that all men are created qual; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of nappiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gov erned; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such princiles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are pufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former |