The Encyclopedia Americana: A General Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Etc., of the World; Editor-in-chief, Frederick Converse Beach ... Managing Editor, Forrest Morgan ... Assistant Editors, Nathan Haskell Dole ... Edward Thomas Roe ... Thomas Campbell Copeland ...Frederick Converse Beach, Forrest Morgan, E. T. Roe, George Edwin Rines, Nathan Haskell Dole, Edward Thomas Roe, Thomas Campbell Copeland Americana Company, 1903 |
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Page 5 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 8 - ( County. ) I [name and style of the officer] hereby certify that , whose name is signed to the foregoing conveyance, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me, on this day, that, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he executed the same voluntarily, on the day the same bears date.
Page 5 - These states are the following : Alabama, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
Page 15 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 9 - An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon.