A Handbook of Politics for 1872: Being a Record of Important Political Action, National and State, from July 15, 1870, to July 15, 1872 |
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... Congress on all controverted political issues , such as Amnesty , " Ku Klux " legislation , ( which involved the old question of a suspension of the Habeas Corpus . ) and the various phases of the " Civil Rights " agitation ; the status ...
... Congress on all controverted political issues , such as Amnesty , " Ku Klux " legislation , ( which involved the old question of a suspension of the Habeas Corpus . ) and the various phases of the " Civil Rights " agitation ; the status ...
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... Congress on this subject , while the elaborate statement of the rate of duty levied upon every article by the respective Tariffs of 1870 and 1872 will be found to be the only authentic publication yet made of the important changes about ...
... Congress on this subject , while the elaborate statement of the rate of duty levied upon every article by the respective Tariffs of 1870 and 1872 will be found to be the only authentic publication yet made of the important changes about ...
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... Congress ... .............. 3-8 III . Proclamations of President Grant ............. 8-16 Enjoining Neutrality - Declaring Neutral- ity - Warning Against Illegal Military En- terprises - Commanding Dispersion of Armed Men in South ...
... Congress ... .............. 3-8 III . Proclamations of President Grant ............. 8-16 Enjoining Neutrality - Declaring Neutral- ity - Warning Against Illegal Military En- terprises - Commanding Dispersion of Armed Men in South ...
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... CONGRESS . An Act to Enforce the Right to Vote . AN ACT to amend an act approved May 31 , 1870 , entitled " An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union , and for other ...
... CONGRESS . An Act to Enforce the Right to Vote . AN ACT to amend an act approved May 31 , 1870 , entitled " An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union , and for other ...
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... Congress shall cuit shall be unable to perform and discharge obtain the benefit of every vote for him cast , the duties by this act imposed , it shall be his the said supervisors of election are , and each duty , and he is hereby ...
... Congress shall cuit shall be unable to perform and discharge obtain the benefit of every vote for him cast , the duties by this act imposed , it shall be his the said supervisors of election are , and each duty , and he is hereby ...
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Page 46 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 40 - Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 10 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 108 - ... every such claim, whether or not the same may have been presented to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the said commission, shall, from and after the conclusion of the proceedings of the said commission, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible.
Page 57 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Page 47 - The general assembly shall provide, by law, that in all elections for directors or managers of incorporated companies, every stockholder shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, for the number of shares of stock owned by him, for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected...
Page 54 - A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public.
Page 100 - The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States...
Page 104 - ... after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same ; each of the High Contracting Parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said period of ten years or at any time afterward.
Page 97 - Now, in order to remove and adjust all complaints and claims on the part of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of such claims, which are not admitted by her Britannic Majesty's Government, the high contracting parties agree that all the said claims, growing out of acts committed by the aforesaid vessels and generically known as the "Alabama claims...