california

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california - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  California
      n 1: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the
           3rd largest state; known for earthquakes [syn:
           California, Golden State, CA, Calif.]

california - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  California, KY (city, FIPS 11872)
    Location: 38.91965 N, 84.26262 W
    Population (1990): 130 (43 housing units)
    Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 41007
  California, MD (CDP, FIPS 12150)
    Location: 38.29615 N, 76.49616 W
    Population (1990): 7626 (2907 housing units)
    Area: 33.4 sq km (land), 4.9 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 20619
  California, MO (city, FIPS 10468)
    Location: 38.63157 N, 92.56678 W
    Population (1990): 3465 (1562 housing units)
    Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 65018
  California, PA (borough, FIPS 10768)
    Location: 40.06625 N, 79.91078 W
    Population (1990): 5748 (2038 housing units)
    Area: 28.6 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 15419

california - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CALIFORNIA. The name of one of the states of the United States. It was 
  admitted into the Union, by an Act of Congress, passed the 9th September, 
  1850, entitled "An act for the admission of the state of California into the 
  Union." 
       Sec. 1. This section enacts and declares that the state of California 
  shall be one of the United States, and admitted into the Union on an equal 
  footing with the original states, in all respects whatever. 
       Sec. 2. Enacts that the state of California shall be entitled to two 
  representatives, until the representatives in Congress shall be apportioned 
  according to the actual enumeration of the inhabitants, of the United 
  States. 
       Sec. 3. By this section a condition is expressly imposed on the said 
  state that the people thereof shall never interfere with the primary 
  disposal of the public lands within its limits, nor pass any law, nor do any 
  act, whereby the title of the United States to, and right to dispose of the 
  same, shall be impaired or questioned. It also provides that they shall 
  never lay any tax, or assessment of any description whatever, upon the 
  public domain of the United States; and that in no case shall non-resident 
  proprietors, who are citizens of the United States, be taxed higher than 
  residents; that all navigable waters within the said state shall be common 
  highways, forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said state, as to 
  citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor; 
  with this proviso, viz., that nothing contained in the act shall be 
  construed as recognizing or rejecting the propositions tendered by the 
  people of California, as articles of compact in the ordinance adopted by the 
  convention which formed the constitution of that state. 
       2. The principal features of the constitution, of California, are 
  similar to those of most, of the recently formed state constitutions. It 
  establishes an elective judiciary, and: confers on the executive a qualified 
  veto. It prohibits the creation of a state debt exceeding $300,000. It 
  provides for the protection of the homestead from execution, and secures the 
  property of married females separate from that of their husbands. It makes a 
  liberal provision for the support of schools, prohibits the legislature from 
  granting divorces, authorizing lotteries, and creating corporations, except 
  by general laws, and from establishing any bank's of issue or circulation. 
  It provides also that every stockholder of a corporation or joint-stock 
  association, shall be individually and personally liable for his proportion 
  of all its, debts or liabilities. There is also a clause prohibiting 
  slavery, which, it is said, was inserted by the unanimous vote of the 
  delegates.