Resolved, that the Senate, after due notice given according to the constitution, will proceed to consider the adoption of an address to the governor, for the removal of Woodbury Davis, one of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the causes following ...
1856
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Maine. Legislature. Senate.
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Resolved, that the Senate, after due notice given according to the constitution, will proceed to consider the adoption of an address to the governor, for the removal of Woodbury Davis, one of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the causes following ...
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[Augusta, Maine?] : Fuller & Fuller, Printers to the State, [1856]
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At head of title: State of Maine. In Senate, March 19, 1856
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Causes of removal
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(NNC-L)LLMC1428174632
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(TEMPOCo)1428174632
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"The said Woodbury Davis, at the terms of the supreme judicial court, holden by him for the county of Cumberland, in the month of January last, and in the present month of March, has refused to recognize the official authority and privilege of Daniel C. Emery, who had before been duly appointed, commissioned and qualified as the sheriff of said county ... Because, the continuance of such acts, proceedings and assumptions of the said Woodbury Davis, tends to produce insubordination, confusion and violence; is of dangerous and pernicious example; confounds the distribution of the powers of government, and tends to the subversion of the actual, constituted and lawful authority of the state. Resolved, that these resolutions and statement of causes of removal, be entered on the journal of the senate ..." (page 2-3).
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