 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1837 - 328 pages
...persons as any of the ' States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be pro' hibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty ' may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for ' each person." — Const, of US ART. I.... | |
 | James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...such persons as any of the now existing states shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808— but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person.' " I understand the sense and... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 702 pages
...such persons as any of the States, now existing, shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. The privilege of the writ of... | |
 | John W. King - United States - 1841 - 80 pages
...discountenanced. Hence the provision of the first number of the ninth section of the first article, "that the migration or importation of such persons...Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding $10 for each person." Now it is clear that this prohibition... | |
 | New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. Representative Meeting - Slave trade - 1841 - 150 pages
...such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person."—Art. 9. This restriction... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax, or duty, may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.' Now, sir, ob' Elliot's Reports,... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808 ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. The privilege of the writ of... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...importation, of such persons as any of the States shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808 ;'but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person." As this clause confers the... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...possessed to control the traffic in slaves. By Section 9 Article 1, of the constitution, it is Drovided rary. We cannot indeed place Hooker (but whom dare...master spirits ; yet he has abundant claims to be This exceptioi conclusively proves that subsequently to 1808, thi migration as well as importation... | |
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The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars... 
