Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 2, Part 2 |
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Page 217 - I accept the civil and political equality of all men, and agree not to attempt to deprive any person or persons, on account of race, color or previous condition, of any political or civil right, privilege or immunity enjoyed by any other class of men...
Page 76 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee of either House of Congress...
Page 501 - ... of the General Assembly. The person having the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected ; but if any two or more shall be highest, and equal in votes, for the same office, one of them shall be chosen by the joint vote of both houses.
Page 216 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide, from time to time, for the registration of all electors...
Page 466 - House with his trunk on his shoulder, and I asked him where he was going. He said he was going to change his old trunk.
Page 226 - State, of men who, under the cover of masks and other grotesque disguises, armed with knives, revolverá, and other deadly weapons, do issue from the places of their rendezvous, in bands of greater or less number, on foot or mounted on horses, in like manner disguised, generally in the late hours of the night, to commit violence and outrages upon peaceable and law-abiding citizens, robbing and murdering them upon the highway, and entering their houses, tearing them from their homes and the embrace...
Page 500 - The returns of every election for the officers named in the foregoing section, shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, by the returning officers...
Page 253 - ... names of voters,' and called ' poll lists,' and the number of the order in which such elector votes must at the same time be entered by each clerk against his name, the first elector voting being numbered 1, the second 2, and so on, to the last elector voting.
Page 518 - ... in the presence of a majority of the members of each house of the general assembly...
Page 76 - House or any of its committees, " shall willfully make default, or who, appearing, shall refuse to answer any question pertinent to the matter of inquiry in consideration, and the facts shall be reported to the House, it shall be the duty of the Speaker of the House to certify the facts under the seal of the House to the District Attorney for the District of Columbia."— Stat.