Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1906 - 522 pages |
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... Congress in the absence of a constitutional provision , and appointed by the President at the beginning of his administration . Unless death , personal considerations , or other circumstances prevent , cabinet officers hold their places ...
... Congress in the absence of a constitutional provision , and appointed by the President at the beginning of his administration . Unless death , personal considerations , or other circumstances prevent , cabinet officers hold their places ...
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... Congress , and attends to the publication of the same and their distribution throughout the country . No regular annual report is made to Con- gress concerning the work of this depart- ment , but special information is given whenever ...
... Congress , and attends to the publication of the same and their distribution throughout the country . No regular annual report is made to Con- gress concerning the work of this depart- ment , but special information is given whenever ...
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... Congress , March 3 , 1849 . The business of the department is conduct- ed by eight bureaus - viz . , bureau of the public lands , pensions , Indian affairs , pat- ents , education , railroads , and the geo- logical survey . These ...
... Congress , March 3 , 1849 . The business of the department is conduct- ed by eight bureaus - viz . , bureau of the public lands , pensions , Indian affairs , pat- ents , education , railroads , and the geo- logical survey . These ...
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... congress of German - Catholic societies at Dubuque , Ia . , in 1892 , ap- proved the movement , as did also a na- tional congress in Newark , N. J .; but seemed overshadowed later by the pre- dominance of more liberal views under the ...
... congress of German - Catholic societies at Dubuque , Ia . , in 1892 , ap- proved the movement , as did also a na- tional congress in Newark , N. J .; but seemed overshadowed later by the pre- dominance of more liberal views under the ...
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... Congress , stating the reasons for the changes that had been made , refer only to the necessity which required a different organization of the government , without making any allusion whatever to any change in the relations of the ...
... Congress , stating the reasons for the changes that had been made , refer only to the necessity which required a different organization of the government , without making any allusion whatever to any change in the relations of the ...
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Page 340 - States. 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 334 - Legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. 3. Representatives and direct taxes...
Page 309 - 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, provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property, imported into any State, to any other State of which the owner is an inhabitant...
Page 313 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 339 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 334 - Georgia three. 4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
Page 309 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 338 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 313 - ... 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 309 - 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 ; and 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,...