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... Commissioner of the County from 1814 to 1817 ; member of the State Legislature from 1822 to 1824 ; and Associate Judge of Berks County from 1839 to 1842. Died in the spring of 1855 . Adgate , Asa . - He was a Representa- tive in the ...
... Commissioner of the County from 1814 to 1817 ; member of the State Legislature from 1822 to 1824 ; and Associate Judge of Berks County from 1839 to 1842. Died in the spring of 1855 . Adgate , Asa . - He was a Representa- tive in the ...
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... commissioner to settle claims against the Sioux Indians . Alexander , Adam R. — He was born in Washington County , Virginia , and was elected a Representative in Congress from Madison County , Tennessee . from 1823 to 1827 , and served ...
... commissioner to settle claims against the Sioux Indians . Alexander , Adam R. — He was born in Washington County , Virginia , and was elected a Representative in Congress from Madison County , Tennessee . from 1823 to 1827 , and served ...
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... Commissioner Plenipotentiary to Spain . Returning to his own country , he was appointed a Brigadier General in 1812 ; in 1813 , Secretary of War , He was the first Lieutenant Governor of | Missouri , BIOGRAPHICAL RECORDS . 11.
... Commissioner Plenipotentiary to Spain . Returning to his own country , he was appointed a Brigadier General in 1812 ; in 1813 , Secretary of War , He was the first Lieutenant Governor of | Missouri , BIOGRAPHICAL RECORDS . 11.
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... Commissioner of the General Land Office , and , upon his resignation , was appointed .President of the Wabash and Erie Canal Company . He held this office at the time of his death , having just returned from England , where , as the ...
... Commissioner of the General Land Office , and , upon his resignation , was appointed .President of the Wabash and Erie Canal Company . He held this office at the time of his death , having just returned from England , where , as the ...
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... Commissioner in 1849 and 1850 ; was Governor of Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852 ; Secretary of the Massa- chusetts Board of Education for eleven years ; member for six years of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College ; and Commissioner ...
... Commissioner in 1849 and 1850 ; was Governor of Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852 ; Secretary of the Massa- chusetts Board of Education for eleven years ; member for six years of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College ; and Commissioner ...
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Page 523 - The Congress of the united states shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the united states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six months, and shall publish the Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such...
Page 523 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted, by or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed. and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith, are hereby solemnly pledged.
Page 513 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 521 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment. ARTICLE VIII. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in...
Page 513 - He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our Legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
Page 523 - ... shall publish the Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request...
Page 521 - No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Page 524 - ... and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Page 524 - Ye that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and...
Page 523 - ... to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state...