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Page 36 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 12 - That the Vice President of the United States; the officers judicial and executive of the government of the United States...
Page 87 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere, to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations...
Page 15 - That whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to call forth such number of the militia of the state or states most convenient to the place of danger or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and...
Page 12 - States; and all persons who now are or may hereafter be exempted by the laws of the respective States...
Page 30 - State reading, writing, and common arithmetic; turning out ten annually, of superior genius, well taught in Greek, Latin, geography, and the higher branches of arithmetic; turning out ten others annually, of still superior parts, who to those branches of learning, shall have added such of the sciences as their genius shall have led them to; the furnishing to the wealthier part of the people convenient schools at which their children may be educated at their own expence.
Page 11 - That each and every free ablebodied white male citizen of the respective states, resident therein, who is or shall be of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years . . . shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia...
Page 13 - ... different returns that may be required, and to explain the principles on which they should be made, to receive from the several officers of the different corps throughout the State returns of the militia under their command, reporting the actual situation of their arms...
Page 30 - This bill proposes to lay off every county into small districts of five or six miles square, called hundreds and in each of them to establish a school for teaching, reading, writing, and arithmetic. The tutor to be supported by the hundred, and every person in it entitled to send their children three years gratis, and as much longer as they please, paying for it.
Page 14 - State, to make returns to the adjutant general of the State, at least once in every year of the militia of the brigade to which he belongs reporting therein the actual situation of the arms, accoutrements and ammunition...