Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volumen2Harper & brothers, 1906 - 522 páginas |
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... military claims in 1758. During the trouble between the American colonies and Great Britain , prior to the Revolutionary War , he was a delegate to all the conventions for secur- ing independence ; was also a member of the committee ...
... military claims in 1758. During the trouble between the American colonies and Great Britain , prior to the Revolutionary War , he was a delegate to all the conventions for secur- ing independence ; was also a member of the committee ...
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... military affairs of the government , attends to the paying of troops , and fur- nishing all army supplies ; also super- vises the erection of forts , and all work of military engineering . The department is divided into a number of ...
... military affairs of the government , attends to the paying of troops , and fur- nishing all army supplies ; also super- vises the erection of forts , and all work of military engineering . The department is divided into a number of ...
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... military officer ; after VASCO DA GAMA ( q . v . ) returned born in Philadelphia , Pa . , in 1804 ; prae- from India , Cabral was sent by King tised law there till 1846 ; served in the Emanuel , with thirteen ships , on a voyage Mexican ...
... military officer ; after VASCO DA GAMA ( q . v . ) returned born in Philadelphia , Pa . , in 1804 ; prae- from India , Cabral was sent by King tised law there till 1846 ; served in the Emanuel , with thirteen ships , on a voyage Mexican ...
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... military governor called a convention to meet at Monterey , Sept. 1 , 1849 , to frame a State constitution . One was formed by which slavery was to be excluded from the new State ; and this document revived in Congress ,. 34 CALIFORNIA ...
... military governor called a convention to meet at Monterey , Sept. 1 , 1849 , to frame a State constitution . One was formed by which slavery was to be excluded from the new State ; and this document revived in Congress ,. 34 CALIFORNIA ...
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... military and religious ceremonies , and called it St. Mary's . That scene occurred March 27 , 1634. It remained the capital of Maryland until near the close of the century , when it speedily became a ruined town , and now scarcely a ...
... military and religious ceremonies , and called it St. Mary's . That scene occurred March 27 , 1634. It remained the capital of Maryland until near the close of the century , when it speedily became a ruined town , and now scarcely a ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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,...