Dedication of the State Library Building at Concord, New Hampshire, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1895E.N. Pearson, Public Printer, 1895 - 80 หน้า |
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หน้า 77 - behalf of the state, payable in twenty years from the first day of July, 1891, at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July of each year;
หน้า 23 - which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, lest
หน้า 79 - An act for the Erection of a State Library Building," and in accordance with said act. SECT. 2. The state treasurer is hereby authorized, under the direction of the governor and council, to borrow the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars on the credit of the