Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands, Primitive Education, Religion, Morals, Indians, Etc., with Authentic Records of the Origin and Growth of Pioneer Settlements, Embracing Also a Condensed History of the States and Territories |
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... servants and slaves ; for the pun- ishment of blasphemy ; and for the punishment and banishment of Roman Catholic priests , and those who were described , in a statute of Virginia , as " an unreasonable and turbulent sort of people ...
... servants and slaves ; for the pun- ishment of blasphemy ; and for the punishment and banishment of Roman Catholic priests , and those who were described , in a statute of Virginia , as " an unreasonable and turbulent sort of people ...
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... forestalling the market . All servants to fare alike in the colony , and their punishment for any offenses is to serve the colony in public works . SECTION 3 . VIRGINIA , 1623. - Laws and Orders RELIGION AND MORALS . 23.
... forestalling the market . All servants to fare alike in the colony , and their punishment for any offenses is to serve the colony in public works . SECTION 3 . VIRGINIA , 1623. - Laws and Orders RELIGION AND MORALS . 23.
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... servants , shall travel on the Lord's Day , or any part thereof , except by some adversity they shall have been belated and forced to lodge in the woods , wilder- ness or highways the night before ( and in such case it shall be law- ful ...
... servants , shall travel on the Lord's Day , or any part thereof , except by some adversity they shall have been belated and forced to lodge in the woods , wilder- ness or highways the night before ( and in such case it shall be law- ful ...
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... servants and their slaves . " * * * " You are also , with the assistance of the General Assembly , to find out the best means to facilitate and encourage the conversion of negroes and Indians to the Christian religion . " [ Leaming ...
... servants and their slaves . " * * * " You are also , with the assistance of the General Assembly , to find out the best means to facilitate and encourage the conversion of negroes and Indians to the Christian religion . " [ Leaming ...
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... servants , and others , not being Christians , shall be deemed and taken to be persons incapable in law to be witnesses in any cases whatsoever . [ Hening's Statutes , iii . 298. ] SECTION 45 . Freedom of Conscience in Rhode Island ...
... servants , and others , not being Christians , shall be deemed and taken to be persons incapable in law to be witnesses in any cases whatsoever . [ Hening's Statutes , iii . 298. ] SECTION 45 . Freedom of Conscience in Rhode Island ...
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Page 427 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it - expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Page 428 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed In any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 427 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Page 427 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Page 427 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government...
Page 518 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute ; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 427 - ... conveyed by lease and release, or bargain and sale, signed, sealed, and delivered, by the person, being of full age, in whom the estate may be, and attested by two witnesses, provided such wills be duly proved, and such conveyances be acknowledged, or the execution thereof duly proved, and be recorded within one year after proper magistrates, courts, and registers, shall be appointed for that purpose...
Page 427 - Woods and Mississippi. The middle State shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from Post Vincents to the Ohio, by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Page 411 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 427 - Previous to the organization of the general assembly, the governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same...