| United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 680 pages
...the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the Government of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall he construed to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, or to affect the rights of individuals... | |
| 1854 - 488 pages
...I860, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1857 - 810 pages
...slavery contained in the organic act of Congress of the 30th May, 1854. Congress declared it to be "the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States : Provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, as to effect the... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth action of the first article of the Constitution of the United States: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, as to efK-ct the... | |
| Truman Smith - Kansas-Nebraska bill - 1854 - 28 pages
...the enacting clause. "Is hereby declared inoperative and void." Here the peroration. •'It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institnlions in... | |
| Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...1850, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void, it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
| Missouri - 1854 - 470 pages
...I860, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any Territory or State; nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institulions in... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - History - 1854 - 262 pages
...fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in... | |
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