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Page 632 - ... on payment of ten dollars, he or she shall thereupon be permitted to enter the quantity of land specified: Provided, however, That no certificate shall be given or patent issued therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry; and if, at the expiration of such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry; or, if he be dead, his widow; or in case of her death, his heirs or devisee; or in case of a widow making such entry, her heirs or devisee...
Page 448 - Baptizing, we use the Name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; confessing the Christian faith, we declare our belief in the Father, and in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost ; ascribing glory unto God, we give it to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Page 302 - Tis the bells of Shandon, ^ That sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the river Lee.
Page 407 - May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and purtenance, down to the very stomach! "May he be cursed in his reins, and in his groin,
Page 351 - ... freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments, throughout the tract of land hereafter mentioned, they behaving themselves peaceably and quietly, and not using this liberty to licentiousness and profaneness, nor to the civil injury or outward disturbance of others...
Page 174 - She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. She hath looked well to the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.
Page 631 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 445 - States, toward .the aliens who become so liable ; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject, and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety...
Page 351 - But the design of the law of Maryland was undoubtedly to protect freedom of conscience ; and some years after it had been confirmed, the apologist of Lord Baltimore could assert that his government, in conformity with his strict and repeated injunctions, had never given disturbance to any person in Maryland for matter of religion ; that the colonists enjoyed freedom of conscience, not less than freedom of person and estate, as amply as ever any people in any place of the world.
Page 633 - ... after due notice to the settler, to the satisfaction of the register of the land office, that the person having filed such affidavit...