The Century Book of Facts: A Handbook of Ready Reference, Embracing History, Biography, Government, Law, Language, Literature, Invention, Science, Industry, Finance, Religion, Art, Education, Domestic Economy, Hygiene, and Useful MiscellanyHenry Woldmar Ruoff King-Richardson Company, 1906 - 726 pages |
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... Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety - three . JAMES DICKSON . [ L. S. ] and memory , do make , and declare , and pub- lish , this my last will and testament . First . I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary the use ...
... Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety - three . JAMES DICKSON . [ L. S. ] and memory , do make , and declare , and pub- lish , this my last will and testament . First . I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary the use ...
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... Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety - three , in and by which I have given to the Pennsylvania Institution for Deaf Mutes , in the city of Philadelphia , the sum of one thousand dollars . the- names as whatsoever , of the said ...
... Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety - three , in and by which I have given to the Pennsylvania Institution for Deaf Mutes , in the city of Philadelphia , the sum of one thousand dollars . the- names as whatsoever , of the said ...
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... Lords reject it . Nevertheless the House of Lords is very useful and powerful as a check upon hasty or ill considered legislation . It The term of Parliament is seven years . is required by law to meet every three years , but , since ...
... Lords reject it . Nevertheless the House of Lords is very useful and powerful as a check upon hasty or ill considered legislation . It The term of Parliament is seven years . is required by law to meet every three years , but , since ...
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... Lord Lieutenant , records . He usually nominates persons whom he con- for his county , to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor . siders fit and proper persons to be justices of the peace His duties , however , are almost nominal . There ...
... Lord Lieutenant , records . He usually nominates persons whom he con- for his county , to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor . siders fit and proper persons to be justices of the peace His duties , however , are almost nominal . There ...
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... Lord Chancellor ( who is a Cabinet tration in counties formerly exercised by the Commis - minister , ex officio president of the House of Lords , sioners of Supply and Road Trustees , were either wholly and goes out with the ministry ) ...
... Lord Chancellor ( who is a Cabinet tration in counties formerly exercised by the Commis - minister , ex officio president of the House of Lords , sioners of Supply and Road Trustees , were either wholly and goes out with the ministry ) ...
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Page 30 - States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Page 30 - ... list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-Président; 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. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-Président of the United States.
Page 26 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law ; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present emolument, office, or title...
Page 27 - 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 28 - ... 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 25 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 27 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 10 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 26 - To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Page 25 - ... Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide.