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Page 19
... fix the standard of weights and measures : 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securi- es and current coin of the United States : 7. To establish post offices and post roads : 8. To promote the progress of science and ...
... fix the standard of weights and measures : 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securi- es and current coin of the United States : 7. To establish post offices and post roads : 8. To promote the progress of science and ...
Page 37
... fixed and established as follows , to wit : the western state in the said territory , shall be bounded by the Mis- sissippi , the Ohio , and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Post Vincents , due north , to the ...
... fixed and established as follows , to wit : the western state in the said territory , shall be bounded by the Mis- sissippi , the Ohio , and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Post Vincents , due north , to the ...
Page 50
... fix on some other place for the seat of justice of said county , as convenient as may be to the inhabitants of said county , which place being fixed and de- termined upon , the commissioners shall certify under their hands and seals ...
... fix on some other place for the seat of justice of said county , as convenient as may be to the inhabitants of said county , which place being fixed and de- termined upon , the commissioners shall certify under their hands and seals ...
Page 51
... fix the county seat of Marion county , shall receive a compensation of two dollars per day , for each and every day they may be necessarily employed in performing that duty . Two dollars per day allowed com missionors for each day ...
... fix the county seat of Marion county , shall receive a compensation of two dollars per day , for each and every day they may be necessarily employed in performing that duty . Two dollars per day allowed com missionors for each day ...
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... fixed upon for taking the depositions , shall not exceed sixty days from the day of election ; and the party whose election is contested shall have a right to select another justice of the peace ; and the two justices of the peace so ...
... fixed upon for taking the depositions , shall not exceed sixty days from the day of election ; and the party whose election is contested shall have a right to select another justice of the peace ; and the two justices of the peace so ...
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Page 10 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Page 8 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty "with any King prince or state ; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state ; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them,...
Page 12 - State shall appoint the regimental officers, raise the men, and clothe, arm, and equip them in a soldierlike manner, at the expense of the United States; and the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped shall march to the place appointed and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled...
Page 9 - United States in Congress assembled, for the defence of such State, or its trade ; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State, in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgment of the United States, in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such State ; but every State shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred...
Page 9 - United States in Congress assembled can be consulted ; nor shall any State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States...
Page 7 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 7 - ... the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 12 - 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 12 - State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 10 - States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.