The Department of State of the United States: Its History and FunctionsDepartment of State, 1893 - 212 pages |
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45th Cong abroad Act of June Act of March agent America annum application appointed archives Arthur Lee Assistant Secretaries August 18 authorized certificate charge Charles W. F. Dumas Chief Clerk citizen commissions Committee communications Consuls correspondence courts custody department of foreign Diplomatic Bureau distributed District duties Edmund Randolph Executive Departments extradition February 28 fifty copies foreign affairs foreign powers fugitive further enacted Government gress House hundred copies indexed issued Jefferson John Adams Journals of Congress July June 20 justice Laws of second Letters letters of credence Library ment Minister Plenipotentiary name or names newspapers oath offender or offenders pamphlet papers partment passport patent person President publication received records resolutions retary Richard Henry Lee salary seal second session Secret Journals Secretary for Foreign Senate sent September 23 Statutes at Large Territory Territory of Orleans thereof tion Treasury treaties United volumes Washington
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Page 44 - States, or to negotiations with public ministers from foreign States or princes, or to memorials or other applications from foreign public ministers or other foreigners, or to such other matters respecting foreign affairs, as the President of the United States shall assign to the said department...
Page 153 - I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion : So help me God.
Page 45 - ... whenever the said principal officer shall be removed from office by the President of the United States or in any other case of vacancy...
Page 121 - ... provided that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 50 - ... shall be referred to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.
Page 115 - Officer of the foreign State, where the same were taken to be the original depositions or statements, or to be true copies thereof, as the case may require ; and (3.) If the certificate of or judicial document stating the fact of conviction...
Page 115 - If in every case the warrants, depositions, statements, copies, certificates, and judicial documents (as the case may be), are authenticated by the oath of some witness or by being sealed with the official seal of the Minister of Justice, or some other Minister of State.
Page 44 - That there shall be an executive department, to be denominated the department of war; and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the department of War, who shall perform and execute such duties as shall, from time to time, be enjoined on, or entrusted to, him, by the President of the United States...
Page 118 - Revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas, against the authority of the master...