 ... resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Page 394by Henry Stephens Randall - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1850 - 274 pages
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. SECT. 3. And be it further enacted and declared, That if any person shall be prosecuted under this... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1851 - 684 pages
...and thereof convicted, before any Court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, not exceeding two years :" It was determined in the negative — yeas 6, nays 18, as follows : YEAS — Messrs. Anderson, Brown,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 682 pages
...convicted, before any Court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by afine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, not exceeding two years :" It was determined in the negative — yeas 6, nays 18. as follows : YEAS — Messrs. Anderson, Brown,... | |
 | Asa Kinne - Courts - 1852 - 736 pages
...abettors, shall be deemed guilty of a revolt, or mutiny, and felony, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor not exceeding ten years, according to the nature and aggravation of the... | |
 | James Pinkney Hambleton - History - 1856 - 550 pages
...people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, * * * * * he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.—1 Peters' Statutes at Large, p. 598." The " Alien Act," the provisions of which are too long... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 772 pages
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. Now, sir, examine the extent of the provisions I have read. It is declared, that if any persons shall... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - Indians of North America - 1857 - 1038 pages
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished, by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." These acts, known in the political history of the country as the Alien and Sedition Laws, passed as... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 772 pages
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. Now, sir, examine the extent of the provisions I have read. It is declared, that if any persons shall... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 760 pages
...to bring him into contempt or disrepute, such person, being thereof convicted, shall be punished by fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, not exceeding two years;" and " that if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, it shall be lawful for him to give in... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 728 pages
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars,...; and we soon shall see whether any of the powers with which it armed the latter were left dormant in practice. Some of the dominant party in Congress... | |
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