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Seite 438 - President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Seite 29 - I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen...
Seite 490 - ... as there are many opportunities of putting it in practice, and the power and wealth of the offenders may often deter the injured from a legal prosecution. This is the oppression and tyrannical partiality of judges, justices and other magistrates, in the administration and under the colour of their office. However, when...
Seite 109 - ... decease in each other's estate, whether by allowance or widow's or widower's thirds, under general laws of the state, excepting this writing shall not cut nor interfere with any provision made in the will of the party who shall first decease, if any such provision shall be made in favor of the other. ''In witness whereof we have hereunto interchangeably set our hands and seals this 12th day of February, 1896. "ELTSHA F. PINKHAM. [Seal] "FEAXCES 0. PINKHAM. [Seal]" In this agreement the parties...
Seite 524 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at...
Seite 522 - America, firm in their principles of peace, have endeavored, by justice, by a regular discharge of all their national and social duties, and by every friendly office their situation has admitted, to maintain with all the belligerents their accustomed relations of friendship, hospitality, and commercial intercourse. Taking no part in the questions...
Seite 331 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject;' " and also to the "Act relative to evidence in cases of naturalization,
Seite 523 - ... or waters, either in such numbers or of such descriptions as are inconsistent with these or with the maintenance of the authority of the laws, I have thought proper, in pursuance of the authorities specially given by law, to issue this my proclamation, hereby requiring all armed vessels bearing commissions under the Government of Great Britain now within the...
Seite 345 - States; and in a manner the best calculated to ensure such a degree of military discipline, and knowledge of tactics, as will, under the auspices of a benign providence, render the militia a sure and permanent bulwark of national defense. None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army, to keep ours armed and disciplined, is therefore at all times important...
Seite 527 - That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to require of the executives of the several states and territories, to take effectual measures to organize, arm and - equip, according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, their respective proportions of one hundred thousand militia, officers included, to be apportioned by the President of the United States...

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