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To have permitted all the laws of the territorial legislature to have gone to the island would have resulted in the nullification of the convention.
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Jacobs warns that allowing all territorial laws to apply to the island would undermine the treaty's integrity.
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When I was elected, I do not think there was a single lighthouse, or fog signal, or foghorn, on the waters of Puget Sound, and I secured the establishment of quite a number of them.
As time advances and light and knowledge increase, the dead and useless branches are pruned off and the fit and vigorous remain to blossom and bear fruit.
I, in fact, re-wrote the whole bill making its retained provisions full and accurate--omitting surplus statements, and embodying many new provisions.
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