Senate Manual: Containing the Standing Rules and Orders of the United States Senate, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Ordinance of 1787, Jefferson's Manual, EtcU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 574 pages |
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... Secretary of the Senate , or in his absence the Chief Clerk , shall perform the duties of the Chair . [ Jefferson's Manual , Sec . IX . 3. The President pro tempore shall have the right to name in open Senate , or , if absent , in ...
... Secretary of the Senate , or in his absence the Chief Clerk , shall perform the duties of the Chair . [ Jefferson's Manual , Sec . IX . 3. The President pro tempore shall have the right to name in open Senate , or , if absent , in ...
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... Secretary shall keep a record of the certificates of election of Senators by entering in a well - bound book kept for that purpose the date of the election , the name of the person elected and the vote given at the election , the date ...
... Secretary shall keep a record of the certificates of election of Senators by entering in a well - bound book kept for that purpose the date of the election , the name of the person elected and the vote given at the election , the date ...
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... Secretary , who shall previously certify the determination of the Senate upon all bills , joint resolutions , and other resolutions which may be communicated to the House , or in which its con- currence may be requested ; and the Secretary ...
... Secretary , who shall previously certify the determination of the Senate upon all bills , joint resolutions , and other resolutions which may be communicated to the House , or in which its con- currence may be requested ; and the Secretary ...
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... Secretary is authorized to transmit to the officer charged with the settle- ment the papers on file relating to the claim . 2. No memorial or other paper upon which an adverse report has been made shall be withdrawn from the files of ...
... Secretary is authorized to transmit to the officer charged with the settle- ment the papers on file relating to the claim . 2. No memorial or other paper upon which an adverse report has been made shall be withdrawn from the files of ...
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... Secretary to transmit all such papers to the committee in which such claims are pending . RULE XXXII . BUSINESS CONTINUED FROM SESSION TO SESSION . At the second or any subsequent session of a Congress , the legislative business of the ...
... Secretary to transmit all such papers to the committee in which such claims are pending . RULE XXXII . BUSINESS CONTINUED FROM SESSION TO SESSION . At the second or any subsequent session of a Congress , the legislative business of the ...
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Page 428 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed In any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 414 - All bills of credit emitted, monies borrowed and debts contracted by, or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States, and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Page 428 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government: provided, the constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 426 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 406 - States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State. ARTICLE V. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Page 405 - 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 405 - 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...
Page 397 - He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts...
Page 186 - 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 425 - The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writs of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law. All persons shall be bailable, unless for capital offences, where the proof shall be evident, or the presumption great.