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... Bill. VI. Political Votes in Third Session of jEftorty-First Congress 33-3 8 On Appointing Commissioners to San Domingo—Modification of the "Test-Oath"— To Repeal the Acts Relating to the Tenure of Civil Office— Texas Pacific Railroad ...
... Bill. VI. Political Votes in Third Session of jEftorty-First Congress 33-3 8 On Appointing Commissioners to San Domingo—Modification of the "Test-Oath"— To Repeal the Acts Relating to the Tenure of Civil Office— Texas Pacific Railroad ...
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... Bill to repeal the duties on Salt, and vote in the House — Bill to repeal the duties on Coal, and vote in the House— Resolutions in House by Messrs. Hibbard on Tariff Reform, Kelley on Revenue Reform, Bell on Taxation, Hale on Eree Salt ...
... Bill to repeal the duties on Salt, and vote in the House — Bill to repeal the duties on Coal, and vote in the House— Resolutions in House by Messrs. Hibbard on Tariff Reform, Kelley on Revenue Reform, Bell on Taxation, Hale on Eree Salt ...
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... bill, as above, passed — yeas 144, nays 64, (not voting 32,) as follow : Yeas— Messrs. Ambler, Ames, Armstrong, Asper, Atwood, Ayer, Bailey, Barry. Beatnan, Beatty, Benjamin, Bennett, Bethune, Bingham, Blair, Boles, George M. Brooks ...
... bill, as above, passed — yeas 144, nays 64, (not voting 32,) as follow : Yeas— Messrs. Ambler, Ames, Armstrong, Asper, Atwood, Ayer, Bailey, Barry. Beatnan, Beatty, Benjamin, Bennett, Bethune, Bingham, Blair, Boles, George M. Brooks ...
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... bill No. 218, u An act prescribing an oath of office to betaken by persons who participated in the late rebellion, but who are not disqualified from holding office by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
... bill No. 218, u An act prescribing an oath of office to betaken by persons who participated in the late rebellion, but who are not disqualified from holding office by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
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... Bill, June 1, 1872. To the Senate of the United States : I have examined the bill (S. No. 105) entitled "An act for the relief of J. Milton Best," and being unable to give it my approval, return the same to the Senate, the House in ...
... Bill, June 1, 1872. To the Senate of the United States : I have examined the bill (S. No. 105) entitled "An act for the relief of J. Milton Best," and being unable to give it my approval, return the same to the Senate, the House in ...
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Page 46 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 9 - States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 104 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 40 - Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 10 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 101 - Treaty, the amount of any compensation which, in their opinion, ought to be paid by the Government of the United States to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in return for the privileges accorded to the citizens of the United States under Article XVIII.
Page 54 - A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public.
Page 101 - Islands, for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish ; provided that, in so doing, they do not interfere with the rights of private property, or with British fishermen, in the peaceable use of any part of the said coasts in their occupancy for the same purpose.
Page 105 - In faith whereof, we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the 8th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1871.
Page 58 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.