Ample notice had been given that it would convene on May 13, 1787, but when that day arrived a mere handful of the delegates, less than a quorum, had assembled.

Henry IV convenes a council which deposes Gregory VII; it elects Guibert, Antipope Clement III, in his stead.

At Zeist, where there is a settlement of Moravians, the ministers, finding the Friends desired to convene their members in a meeting for worship, readily consented.

My lord, in your great grandfather's time there was, I remember, such a breach amongst them; therefore my counsel is that, after his example, by the strength of your authority you convene them before you.

On extraordinary occasions he may convene the legislature in extra session.

Where and when did the first representative assembly in America convene?

By this arrangement, too, the Senate becomes a permanent body, ready at any time to convene for the consideration of treaties, for the trial of impeachments, or for confirming executive appointments.

Could the president convene one house without the other?

This provision is necessary because the senate is not always in session, and it would not pay to convene it for the purpose of acting upon nominations every time a vacancy occurs.

Under the guidance of a Dublin ironmonger, named Napper Tandy, they now proposed to convene a Congress, to consist, not, as before, of delegates from the Volunteer body, but of persons who should be representatives of the entire nation; and Tandy had even the audacity to issue circulars to the sheriffs of the different counties, to require them, in their official capacity, to summon the people to return representatives to this Congress.

While they were reviewing the legions, posting guards along the walls and other places where they had determined that there should be outposts and watches, a vast multitude of persons demanding peace terrified them first by their seditious clamouring, and then compelled them to convene the senate, to consider the question of sending ambassadors to Gnaeus Marcius.

Nor could he see how it was less allowable for him, a private citizen, to summon the people to an assembly, than for them to convene the senate.

As a consequence, while he was consul for the third time no tribune nor prætor dared to convene the senate.

The same emperor ordered the senate to convene and affected to grant its members amnesty, saying that there were only a very few against whom he still retained his anger.

Caesar convenes an assembly.

The joint commission was organized, and adjourned to convene at the same place on the 12th of October.

After the fever of 1878, when our constitutional convention was going to convene, broke the agony and grief of my own heart, for one of my children died, and took part in the suffrage movement in Louisiana, with the wife of Chief-Justice Merrick, Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, and Mrs. Harriet Keatinge, of New York, the niece of Mr. Lozier.

"The people in great masses," he says, "and the Legislature that had been elected, with almost a unanimous voice called upon me to convene the Legislature, in order that they might take such steps as they could to counteract the misfortune which they conceived was about to befall them in the adoption of this constitution," As already stated, Stanton had come to Kansas with the current Democratic prejudices against the free-State party.

Her Legislature, which convenes here next Wednesday, will have to determine on the time when the convention shall be held.

The king convenes, adjourns, and dissolves parliament.

English B-l convenes.

English B-l convenes.

I went to my place earlya few minutes past the noon hour, as the Reichstag usually convenes at 1 p.m.

There was no time to convene them.

And so, my noble lords, I took the care To ask her royal majesty, the Queen, Although our business much concerns herself, Here to convene with us and take her place, That we may know we are not masterless, Nor feel 'tis usurpation brought us here.