| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1970 - 584 pages
...duly elected, and a certificate thereof shall be given accordingly: and the Constitution and all the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said District of Columbia as elsewhere within the United States." The first election of a District... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1070 pages
...government of Hawaii passed by Congress in April 1900 it was provided ' that the Constitution and all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said territory as elsewhere in the United States.' Also ' that the Territory of Hawaii shall comprise... | |
| Franklin K. Van Zandt - United States - 1976 - 210 pages
...and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same iorce and effect within the said State of Ohio as elsewhere within the United States. The formal wording... | |
| Juan R. Torruella - Constitutional history - 1985 - 354 pages
...Foraker Act of 1900.380 Under §1891, Congress had explicitly provided that: "The Constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within all the organized Territories, and in every territory hereafter organized as... | |
| Arnold H. Leibowitz - Law - 1989 - 788 pages
...the language in the Organic Act for the Territory of New Mexico: "[T]he Constitution, and al1 1aws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of New Mexico as elsewhere within the United States." Act of Sept. 9, 1850, ch. 49,... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...legislate slavery in or exclude it therefrom, the territory. SEC. 14. That the constitution, and all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within said territory of Nebraska as elsewhere in the United States, except the 8th... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...also met the demands of Dixon and the proslavery senators in this fashion: "The Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territories as elsewhere in the United States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory... | |
| Robert Walter Johannsen - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 1012 pages
...carried with him from the White House. To the section that declared "that the Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory as elsewhere in the United States" he now added the words, "Except the eighth section... | |
| José López Baralt - Law - 1999 - 400 pages
...Charter, 2 Thorpe 822. See also Section 1891 of Revised statutes, providing the Constitution and all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within all the organized territories and in every territory hereafter organized as... | |
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