Legislature
a word which, when fers to the Congress, which is composed of a Senate and a House of Representatives. When the States and Territories are referred to it is used to designate the legislative branch of the government, though in the majority of the States the official title is "general assembly," while the ancient of a number of tferent periods from the legion WAR nies (manipuli) ined 60 rank and file centurions and one vexillarius)! After- BRICA 10 cohorts, each (manipuli), centuries.
ONOR, a French order by Napoleon I., when reward for services or grand crosses, grand ers, officers, and legion- LEGION OF HONOR services in France dura number of Americivilians were in order an when on is composed of Representa- Territories te the ment es the assembly," while th Northern Reral. It s, corn, ang razed 14 years a aminous exorens of L milen 11,536 feet and mar ine 00.
Canal, at Centre industries ps, ston cains or Colleg 1878 an es Moines LEGNAGO in others the terms "general court" and "legislative assembly" are employed. In all the States the Legislature is composed of two houses, though Pennsylvania, up to 1790, and Vermont, up to 1836, had but one house. The upper house is called the Senate in the States, and the Council in the Territories; the lower is called the House of Representatives in the Territories and most of the States, but is known as the House of Delegates, the Assembly, or the General Assembly, in a few of the States.
LEGNAGO (len-yä'go), one of the four fortified towns of Northern Italy , known as the Quadrilateral. It has a considerable trade in rice, corn, and silk .
The fortifications were razed by Napoleon in 1801, but rebuilt 14 years later. LEGUMINOSÆ, leguminous plants, an order of perigynous exogens, alliance Rosales. Known genera 297, species 4,700, diffused, though not equally, all over the globe. It is divided into three sub-orders, Papilionacex, Cæsalpinieæ, and Mimosex.