Cases of Contested Elections in Congress: From the Year 1789 to 1834, InclusiveGales and Seaton, 1834 - 1025 頁 |
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18th CONGRESS 1st SESSION 21st CONGRESS 23d CONGRESS admitted alleged appears appointed ballot box borough candidate canvass certificate Charles Turner citizen clerk Committee of Elections constitution contested election Daniel Hugunin Debate decided decision declared Delegate deponent depositions duty elec electors entitled evidence facts favor Gallatin Garrard county gentleman George Loyall Government Governor honorable House of Representatives illegal inhabitant inspectors intention James Guyon John Jonathan Jennings judges Kentucky Legislature Letcher majority Marksbury Massachusetts member of Congress mittee Moore motion nued number of votes oath objection opinion Parmenio Adams parties person petition petitioner poll book prescribed present principle proof proved qualifications question received rejected residence resolution seat Senate sheriff Silas Wright sitting member South Carolina Speech supposed sworn taken Territory testimony tinued tion town United Virginia voters votes given William William McCreery witnesses
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第 83 頁 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled, in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to congress, who shall have a seat in congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting during this temporary government.
第 176 頁 - No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
第 239 頁 - And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed so as in any manner to affect the government now in force in the territory of the United States...
第 57 頁 - ... provided that a notification from the magistrate before whom the deposition is to be taken to the adverse party, to be present at the taking of the same, and to put interrogatories, if he think fit, be first made out and served on the adverse party or his attorney as either may be nearest, if either is within one hundred miles of the place of such caption...
第 895 頁 - Governor and company, and their successors; and from time to time to make, ordain, constitute or repeal such laws, statutes, orders and ordinances, forms and ceremonies of government and magistracy as to them shall seem meet for the good and welfare of the said company...
第 444 頁 - Doubtless, sir. But are these cases parallel? Are the three branches of this government owners of this farm called the United States? I desire to thank heaven they are not. I hold my life, liberty, and property, and the people of the State from which I have the honor to be a representative hold theirs, by a better tenure than any this national government can give. Sir, I know your virtue. And I thank the Great Giver of every good gift that neither the gentleman from Tennessee, nor his comrades, nor...
第 84 頁 - That the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed into a state or states, containing a suitable extent of territory, the inhabitants of which shall enjoy all the privileges, benefits and advantages set forth in the ordinance of the late Congress, for the government of the western territory of the United States...
第 46 頁 - Such depositions may be taken before any judge of any court of the United States, or any commissioner of a circuit, or any clerk of a district or circuit court, or any chancellor, justice, or judge of a supreme or superior court, mayor or chief magistrate of a city, judge of a county court, or court of common pleas of any of the United States...
第 84 頁 - Whereas the people of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio...
第 11 頁 - It shall be the duty of the Committee of Elections to examine and report upon the certificates of election or other credentials of the members returned to serve in this House, and to take into their consideration all such petitions, and other matters touching elections and returns, as shall or may be presented, or come into question, and be referred to them by the House.