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... OF CONGRESS FROM ST . LAWRENCE COUNTY , N. Y. , MORE RECENTLY REGISTER AND SOLICITOR OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT , SOLICITOR FOR THE UNITED STATES IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS , COUNSELOR - AT - LAW , ETC. PUBLIC WOOLWORTH ...
... OF CONGRESS FROM ST . LAWRENCE COUNTY , N. Y. , MORE RECENTLY REGISTER AND SOLICITOR OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT , SOLICITOR FOR THE UNITED STATES IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS , COUNSELOR - AT - LAW , ETC. PUBLIC WOOLWORTH ...
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... OF CONGRESS FROM ST . LAWRENCE COUNTY , N. Y. , More RECENTLY REGISTER AND SOLICITOR OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT , SOLICITOR FOR THE UNITED STATES IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS , COUNSELOR - AT - LAW , ETC. PUBLIC WOOLWORTH ...
... OF CONGRESS FROM ST . LAWRENCE COUNTY , N. Y. , More RECENTLY REGISTER AND SOLICITOR OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT , SOLICITOR FOR THE UNITED STATES IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS , COUNSELOR - AT - LAW , ETC. PUBLIC WOOLWORTH ...
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... Department of State ...... 167 CHAPTER XXXII . The Secretary of the Treasury . .............. 184 CHAPTER XXXIII . The Public Debt . 191 CHAPTER XXXIV . The Bureaus in the Treasury Department .... CHAPTER XXXV . Officers and Business ...
... Department of State ...... 167 CHAPTER XXXII . The Secretary of the Treasury . .............. 184 CHAPTER XXXIII . The Public Debt . 191 CHAPTER XXXIV . The Bureaus in the Treasury Department .... CHAPTER XXXV . Officers and Business ...
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... of marque and reprisal ; coin money ; emit bills of credit ; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment ... treasury of the United States ; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress . No ...
... of marque and reprisal ; coin money ; emit bills of credit ; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment ... treasury of the United States ; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress . No ...
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... DEPARTMENT . UPON the executive department is devolved the execution of the ... treasury , and the expenditure of all appropriations made by Congress for ... of the cabinet , as well as the CHAPTER XXVI The Executive Departments.
... DEPARTMENT . UPON the executive department is devolved the execution of the ... treasury , and the expenditure of all appropriations made by Congress for ... of the cabinet , as well as the CHAPTER XXVI The Executive Departments.
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Page 53 - 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...
Page 33 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 49 - ... strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that number not less than seven nor more than nine names, as Congress shall direct, shall, in the presence of Congress, be drawn out by lot ; and the persons whose names shall be so drawn, or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges, to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges, who shall hear the cause, shall agree in the determination...
Page 435 - Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Page 42 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 44 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year...
Page 53 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of ,war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander-in-chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Page 49 - ... reasons which congress shall judge sufficient, or being present shall refuse to strike, the congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each state, and the secretary of congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing; and the judgment and sentence of the court to be appointed, in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive...
Page 51 - ... office ; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers ; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States ; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated...
Page 429 - The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature can not be convened) against domestic violence.