Trial of Charles A. Edmonds: Commissioner of the State of Michigan Before the Senate of Said State, on an Impeachment, Preferred by the House of Representatives Against Him, for Corrupt Conduct in Office, Crimes and Misdemeanors ...

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W. S. George & Company, state printers, 1872 - Trials (Impeachment) - 1891 pages

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Page 1015 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.
Page 1724 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Page 1826 - States, unmindful of the high duties of his office, of his oath of office, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and contrary to the provisions of an act entitled "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices...
Page 1761 - This trial, though it varies in external ceremony, yet differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments, prevail.
Page 1599 - That no obscene book, pamphlet, picture, print, or other publication of a vulgar or indecent character, or any letter upon the envelope of which, or postal card upon which scurrilous epithets may have been written or printed, or disloyal devices printed or engraved, shall be carried in the mail...
Page 1598 - ... or shall introduce into any family, school, or place of education, or shall buy, procure, receive, or have in his possession, any such...
Page 1592 - It is not so much designed to punish an offender as to secure the State. It touches neither his person nor his property; but simply divests him of his political capacity.
Page 1267 - ... taken the oaths annexed to the said commission, according to the tenor and effect thereof and as thereby directed, on the part and behalf of the said [complainant...
Page 1876 - Representatives will in due time exhibit particular articles of impeachment against him and make good the same...
Page 1599 - ... delivery, an obscene book, pamphlet, picture, print, or other publication, knowing the same to be of a vulgar and indecent character shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and, being duly convicted thereof, shall, for every such offense, be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, according to the circumstances and aggravations of the offense.

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