 | Stephen Franks Miller - Georgia - 1858 - 488 pages
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person." It may be said, very plausibly,... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...Chairman : The worthy gentleman, I believe, has misunderstood this clause, which runs in the following words : " The migration or importation of such persons...prior to the year 1808 ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." Now, sir, observe that the... | |
 | Alvan Stewart - Slavery - 1860 - 434 pages
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding $10 for each person." The authority to abolish the domestic... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the congress prior to the year 1808 ; but a tax or duty may be imposed, not exceeding ten dollars on each person. " The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall... | |
 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - Cuba - 1860 - 412 pages
...such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit shall not bo prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may bo imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person." Mr. Martin was. present... | |
 | Edward Ely Dunbar - Mexico - 1861 - 124 pages
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." The foreign and domestic slave... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808 ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." For the better information... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808 ; but a tax, or duty, may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.' " In the Convention, it was... | |
 | Law - 1862 - 740 pages
...регеопя as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such persons, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." As soon as the time came Congress... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. The privilege of the writ of... | |
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The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars... 
