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Maine. Legislature. 100 shares in Augusta Bank , Augusta . 60 do Mercantile Bank , Bangor . 50 do Maine Bank , Portland . One third part of the Massachusetts claim against the United States for disbursements made during the last war ...
Maine. Legislature. 100 shares in Augusta Bank , Augusta . 60 do Mercantile Bank , Bangor . 50 do Maine Bank , Portland . One third part of the Massachusetts claim against the United States for disbursements made during the last war ...
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... Bank tax , Duty on Commissions , Bank dividends , 40,000 00 29,590 00 • 1,500 00 1,000 00 $ 292,566 42 The receipts of the Treasury from the ordinary sources of revenue for 1843 , will be much less than the amount of necessary ...
... Bank tax , Duty on Commissions , Bank dividends , 40,000 00 29,590 00 • 1,500 00 1,000 00 $ 292,566 42 The receipts of the Treasury from the ordinary sources of revenue for 1843 , will be much less than the amount of necessary ...
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... Bank tax and the State tax . The Land office has heretofore been considered an im- portant source of revenue to sustain the Treasury , and it may , and probably will continue to yield a considerable income ; but the receipts from that ...
... Bank tax and the State tax . The Land office has heretofore been considered an im- portant source of revenue to sustain the Treasury , and it may , and probably will continue to yield a considerable income ; but the receipts from that ...
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... Bank tax belong , and they are the only important sources which can be looked forward to with assurance to sustain the Treasury . They together furnish revenues amounting to about $ 230,000 . The annual expenditures may also be divided ...
... Bank tax belong , and they are the only important sources which can be looked forward to with assurance to sustain the Treasury . They together furnish revenues amounting to about $ 230,000 . The annual expenditures may also be divided ...
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... Bank tax , was , under the most favorable circumstances , highly questionable ; and if that was true when it was not needed for the purposes of government , it most clearly ought not to be distributed when the im- mediate and pressing ...
... Bank tax , was , under the most favorable circumstances , highly questionable ; and if that was true when it was not needed for the purposes of government , it most clearly ought not to be distributed when the im- mediate and pressing ...
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Page 11 - President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Page 15 - ... party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the congress shall make.
Page 21 - ... on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Page 6 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 5 - Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. 3. No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Page 10 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 14 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 68 - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 21 - And if the house of representatives shall not choose a president whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the vice president shall act as president, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president.
Page 6 - ... Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide.