 | William H. R. Wood - Law - 1857 - 834 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be t the particulars of such demand, ww fk-irtr shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties, by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners...and determining the matter in question ; but if they can not agree, Congress shall name three persons out of each of the United States, and from the list... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1858 - 698 pages
...assign a day for the appearance of the parties, by their agents, before that House. The agents shall be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners...hearing and determining the matter in question. But if the agents cannot agree, the Senate shall name three persons out of each of the several States ; and... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1859 - 1086 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties, by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent commissioners...of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that numjudge»to... | |
 | Arthur Holmes - Political parties - 1859 - 410 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent, commissioners...of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that number... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties, by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners...and determining the matter in question ; but if they can not agree. Congress shall name three persons out of each of the United States, and from the list... | |
 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, M.D., D.D. - 1859 - 522 pages
...being William Houstoun, George Walton, and William Few. Congress then resolved, that these Agents might appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges,...for hearing and determining the matter in question, agreeably to the ninth article of the Confederation. As these gentlemen could not, in consequence of... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent, commissioners...of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that number... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties, by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners...and determining the matter in question ; but if they can not agree, Congress shall name three persons out of each of the United States, and from the list... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent, commissioners...of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen; and from that number... | |
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... or executive authority of the other state in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing... 
