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... object of the convention of the same date " to provide for the payment of debts due to the citizens of the United States by the French government , prior to the 30th of September , 1800. " The 1st ar- ticle of the convention securing a ...
... object of the convention of the same date " to provide for the payment of debts due to the citizens of the United States by the French government , prior to the 30th of September , 1800. " The 1st ar- ticle of the convention securing a ...
Page 95
... object of that part of the treaty being to exempt the subjects and citizens of each party , in their inland navigation with each other , from the duty imposed on goods imported in foreign vessels , that object is certainly effected when ...
... object of that part of the treaty being to exempt the subjects and citizens of each party , in their inland navigation with each other , from the duty imposed on goods imported in foreign vessels , that object is certainly effected when ...
Page 97
... object of a patent is to complete and render perfect a title to lands , being the formal instrument established by law for this purpose . But if the title of the United States to the same lands has been before parted with by patent ...
... object of a patent is to complete and render perfect a title to lands , being the formal instrument established by law for this purpose . But if the title of the United States to the same lands has been before parted with by patent ...
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... object of this charitable relief from the legislature . I feel more doubtful in fixing , by any undeviating standard , what is meant by being in the line of his duty . Upon this point , I should presume , however , that every officer in ...
... object of this charitable relief from the legislature . I feel more doubtful in fixing , by any undeviating standard , what is meant by being in the line of his duty . Upon this point , I should presume , however , that every officer in ...
Page 123
... object ; and then drew bills on the State Department for such compensation , and for money paid , & c . , in favor of a merchant at Gibraltar - held that the employment of an agent was justified under the power , but that the true ...
... object ; and then drew bills on the State Department for such compensation , and for money paid , & c . , in favor of a merchant at Gibraltar - held that the employment of an agent was justified under the power , but that the true ...
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Page 102 - The governor, for the time being, shall be Commander-in-chief of the militia, appoint and commission all officers in the same below the rank of general officers ; all general officers shall be appointed and commissioned by Congress.
Page 772 - ... of the said territories respectively ; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce, and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.
Page 407 - No advance of public money shall be made in any case unless authorized by the appropriation concerned or other law. And in all cases of contracts for the performance of any service, or the delivery of articles of any description, for the use of the United States, payment shall not exceed the value of the service rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment.
Page 140 - That every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute...
Page 54 - States as before defined ; and in every case in which any process issuing out of any court of the United States shall be disobeyed or resisted by any person or persons having the custody of any vessel of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel of any foreign prince...
Page 202 - An act in addition to the act, entitled an act to prohibit the carrying on the slave trade from the United States to any foreign place or country...
Page 42 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Page 51 - State where he may be found, and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Page 62 - ... for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature...
Page 63 - The representatives thus elected shall serve for the term of two years and in case of the death of a representative or removal from office, the governor shall issue a writ to the county or township for which he was a member, to elect another in his stead to serve for the residue of the term The general Assembly or legislature shall consist of the governor, legislative council and a house of representatives.