Seymour and Blair: Their Lives and Services : with an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction

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Richardson and Company, 1868 - 275 pagini

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Pagina 258 - An act to prescribe an oath of office": Provided, That if any person shall knowingly and falsely take and subscribe any oath in this act prescribed, such person so offending and being thereof duly convicted, shall be subject to the pains, penalties, and disabilities which by law are provided for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Pagina 262 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "comprehensive Veterans' Employment Training and Supportive Services Act of 1977.
Pagina 254 - ... and when such constitution shall be ratified by a majority of the persons voting on the question of ratification who are qualified as electors for delegates ; and when such constitution shall have been submitted to Congress for examination and approval, and Congress shall have approved the same...
Pagina 257 - States, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I will faithfully support the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, encourage others so to do, so help me God ; " which oath or affirmation may be administered by any registering officer.
Pagina 254 - That, until the people of said rebel States shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same...
Pagina 182 - And we do declare and resolve that ever since the people of the United States threw off all subjection to the British Crown the privilege and trust of suffrage have belonged to the several States, and have been granted, regulated, and controlled exclusively by the political power of each State respectively, and that any attempt by Congress, on any pretext whatever, to deprive any State of this right, or interfere with...
Pagina 180 - ... where the obligations of the government do not expressly state upon their face, or the law under which they were issued does not provide that they shall be paid in coin, they ought, in right and in justice, to be paid in the lawful money of the United States.
Pagina 181 - Bureau, and all political instrumentalities designed to secure negro supremacy; simplification of the system, and discontinuance of inquisitorial modes of assessing and collecting internal revenue, so that the burden of taxation may be equalized and lessened ; the credit of the Government and the currency made good; the repeal of all enactments for enrolling the State militia into national forces in time of peace; and a tariff for revenue upon foreign imports, and such equal taxation under the internal...
Pagina 254 - ... all interference, under color of State authority, with the exercise of military authority under this act, shall be null and void.
Pagina 263 - ... the amendment to the constitution of the United States, proposed by the thirty-ninth congress...

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