 | John Franklin Jameson - United States - 1894 - 794 pages
...execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions." In 1792 an act was passed "to provide for the national defence by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States," by the enrollment of " every free able-bodied white male citizen," between the ages of eighteen and... | |
 | Oliver Ayer Roberts - Massachusetts - 1898 - 536 pages
...the t7th [13] of March, 1638. Its fourth article is as follows : — On May 8, 1792, Congress passed an act more effectually to provide for the national...establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States. The last clause of the seventh and the whole of the eleventh sections are in these words : — " And,... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - United States - 1897 - 802 pages
...execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions." In 1792 an act was passed "to provide for the national defence by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States," by the enrollment of " every free able-bodied white male citizen," between the ages of eighteen and... | |
 | New York (State). Governor (1807-1817 : Tompkins), Daniel D. Tompkins - Governors - 1898 - 938 pages
...following reply: " The third Section of the Act of Congress, passed the 8th day " of May 1792, entitled " An Act more effectually to provide for " the national defence by establishing an uniform Militia through" out the United States ", gives to Adjutants the rank of Lieu" tenants.... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...exigency of the United States. But it is an inquiry, which cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act " more effectually to provide for the national...establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States," has organized them so as to produce their full effect ; whether your own experience in the several... | |
 | New York Public Library - Bibliography - 1899 - 544 pages
...Act making alterations in the Treasury and War Departments. Approved, May 8, 1792. [ntp] 2 11. F°. An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence by establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States. Approved, May 8, 1792. [ntp] 2 11. F°. An Act for... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 376 pages
...employed in the service of the United States." The earliest of these laws, still in force, is entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States."1 This was followed by several acts in addition. Congress,... | |
 | Charles Francis Jenkins - Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1905 - 438 pages
...ri----. 1 1 >".:i:;.!"vp!- •:. : •• ••: • I • ance ol t"i: rT vi:1, Sf: r. fectually to provide for the national defence by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States," has organized them so as to produce their full effect ; whether your own experience in the several... | |
 | Edward Raymond Turner - Biography & Autobiography - 1911 - 336 pages
...white men: ..." each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective states " . . . . "An Act more effectually to provide for the National Defence by establishing an Uniform Militia throughout the United States." Stat. at L., US, Second Congress, sess. I, c. 33... | |
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But it is an inquiry, which cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act " more effectually to provide for the national defence by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States... 
