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... received a good common school education ; was ap- prenticed to a shoemaker , and received his freedom when nineteen years of age , after which he devoted himself to trading ; he subsequently entered largely into the shoe and leather ...
... received a good common school education ; was ap- prenticed to a shoemaker , and received his freedom when nineteen years of age , after which he devoted himself to trading ; he subsequently entered largely into the shoe and leather ...
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... received a moder- ate school education , and , instead of a college , graduated in a printing - office ; by his own personal efforts , he established , and for several years carried on , entirely unaided , the Clearfield Democrat ...
... received a moder- ate school education , and , instead of a college , graduated in a printing - office ; by his own personal efforts , he established , and for several years carried on , entirely unaided , the Clearfield Democrat ...
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... received the degree of LL.D. Bliss , George . - Was born in Jericho , Chittenden County , Vermont , January 1 , 1813 ; received an academical education ; went to Ohio in his twentieth year , and spent one year in Granville College ...
... received the degree of LL.D. Bliss , George . - Was born in Jericho , Chittenden County , Vermont , January 1 , 1813 ; received an academical education ; went to Ohio in his twentieth year , and spent one year in Granville College ...
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... received a classical education ; on removing to Pennsylvania , was appointed , in 1840 , Deputy Auditor of that State ; in 1849 he was elected Clerk of the Orphans ' Court for the City and County of Philadelphia ; and was elected a ...
... received a classical education ; on removing to Pennsylvania , was appointed , in 1840 , Deputy Auditor of that State ; in 1849 he was elected Clerk of the Orphans ' Court for the City and County of Philadelphia ; and was elected a ...
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... received his earliest education in Philadelphia , but graduated at the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1827. His whole life has been devoted , on a large scale , to the pursuits of agriculture . He was for many years President of the ...
... received his earliest education in Philadelphia , but graduated at the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1827. His whole life has been devoted , on a large scale , to the pursuits of agriculture . He was for many years President of the ...
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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...