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Page 12 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states, in proportion to the value of all land within each state...
Page 954 - ... swear or affirm falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly...
Page 12 - Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation ; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and threefifths of all other persons, not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each state.
Page 946 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars...
Page 832 - Products of animals : Live stock Dressed meats Other packing-house products Poultry, game, and fish Wool Hides and leather Products of mines: Anthracite coal Bituminous coal Coke Ores Stone, sand, and other like articles...
Page 759 - Due from other companies for losses or claims on policies of this company reinsured.
Page 943 - Treasurer, quarter-yearly, of all moneys and properties which shall be by him received by virtue of his office, with sureties to be approved by the Solicitor of the Treasury. Such bond shall be filed in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon any breach of the conditions thereof.
Page 925 - The marshals and their assistants shall respectively take an oath or affirmation, before some judge or justice of the peace, resident within their respective district«, previous to their entering on the discharge of the duties by this act required.
Page 953 - It shall be the duty of each enumerator to visit personally each dwelling house in his subdivision, and each family therein, and each individual living out of a family in any place of abode, and by inquiry made of the head of...
Page 929 - August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be returned as of such family ; and the name of every person who shall be an inhabitant of any district or...