Statutes of the United States Relating to Revenue, Commerce, Navigation, and the Currency: To which are Prefixed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution |
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... according to their respective numbers , which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons , including those bound to service for a term of years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three fifths of all other persons ...
... according to their respective numbers , which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons , including those bound to service for a term of years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three fifths of all other persons ...
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... according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill . § 8. The Congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes , duties , imposts , and excises , to pay the debts , and provide for the common defence and general ...
... according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill . § 8. The Congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes , duties , imposts , and excises , to pay the debts , and provide for the common defence and general ...
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... according to his How wages to contract ; and if such wages shall not be paid within ten days after such discharge , or if any dispute shall arise between the master and seamen or mariners touching the said wages , it shall be lawful for ...
... according to his How wages to contract ; and if such wages shall not be paid within ten days after such discharge , or if any dispute shall arise between the master and seamen or mariners touching the said wages , it shall be lawful for ...
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... according to law . And that all ships or vessels , goods , wares , or merchandise , which shall become forfeited by virtue of this act , shall be seized , libelled , and prosecuted as aforesaid , in the proper court having cognizance ...
... according to law . And that all ships or vessels , goods , wares , or merchandise , which shall become forfeited by virtue of this act , shall be seized , libelled , and prosecuted as aforesaid , in the proper court having cognizance ...
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... according to law , for carrying on the coasting trade and fisheries , or one of them ) shall be denominated and deemed ships or vessels of the United States , entitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such ships or vessels ...
... according to law , for carrying on the coasting trade and fisheries , or one of them ) shall be denominated and deemed ships or vessels of the United States , entitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such ships or vessels ...
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act entitled Act of March act to provide aforesaid allowed amount appointed appraisers approved assessor bond cargo cents per pound centum ad valorem certificate certificate of registry CHAP citizens clerk collection district collector commercial agent commissioner compensation Congress consignee consul court customs deemed delivered deputy dollars per annum drawback duties on imports eighteen hundred enacted entitled An act exceeding exported fees five hundred dollars foreign port forfeiture hereafter inspectors invoice jurisdiction land Large license manner manufacture ment mulatto naval officer oath or affirmation offence Orleans packages paid passengers payment Penalty person or persons port of entry port or place ports of delivery prescribed purpose receive repealed reside respectively revenue river salary Secretary ship or vessel Stat steamboat surveyor therein thereof thereto thirtieth thousand dollars tion tonnage Treasury trict United wares and merchandise wares or merchandise
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Page 11 - Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 13 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the 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. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 436 - ... unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Page 507 - ... where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any state, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties, or laws, of the United States...
Page 2 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
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Page 335 - The liability of the owner of any vessel for any embezzlement, loss or destruction by any person of any property, goods or merchandise, shipped or put on board of such vessel, or for any loss, damage or injury by collision, or for any act, matter or thing, loss, damage or forfeiture, done, occasioned or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 397 - States in their civil rights, and for their vindication, shall be exercised and enforced in conformity with the laws of the United States, so far as such laws are suitable to carry the same into effect; but in all cases where they are not adapted to the object, or are deficient in the provisions necessary to furnish suitable remedies...
Page 428 - When a recovery is had in any suit or proceeding against a collector or other officer of the revenue for any act done by him, or for the recovery of any money exacted by or paid to him and by him paid into the Treasury, in the performance of his official duty, and the court certifies that there was probable cause for the act done by the collector or other officer, or that he acted under the directions of the Secretary of the Treasury, or other proper officer of the Government...
Page 226 - Any person who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any...