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legislates over certain places, 33.
library of, 128.

makes necessary laws, 140.

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tax laid by, 102.

members of, compensated, 29, 88, Contract defined, 149.

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of delegates, 13.

obligation of, 149.

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States, 21.

proceedings of, 46.

officers of United States cannot be Conviction on impeachment, 28.

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what it includes, 56.

Congressional districts, 80.

Copyright defined, 127.

how obtained, 127.
notice of, 128.
Counterfeiting, 31.

punishment for, 121.

Court, Circuit, 209, 210.
of claims, 214.

District, 209.

Supreme, 207.

Courts, martial, 248.

of United States, judges of, 39.

Connecticut, governor chosen by the Credit, bills of, 148.

freemen, 11.

Consignee, 107.

Consignor, 107.

Constitution, a State can alter its, 231.
adopted, 20.

and the laws of United States
supreme, 43.

amendment of, 42, 48, 232.
Congress cannot amend, 234.
debts, before its adoption, 43.
defined, 53.

difficulties in its formation, 20.
final clause of, 240.

how resembles Confederation, 70.
laid before Congress, 21.
legal operation of new, 22.

Crew-list, 112.
Crimes, capital, 49, 248.

committed on the high seas, 216.
denote serious offences, 184.
Customs, Commissioner of, 194.

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Districts, collection, 108.

congressional, 80.

vote for President, 22.
votes of, when given, 156.
when elected, 166.

who may be, 35.

who prohibited from being, 157.
Embargo defined, 114.

England has no written Constitution,

53.

King of, not answerable, 184.

Enlistments, 133.

Entry, port of, 108.

Enumeration of free persons and

others, 20.

Equality, political, 146.
Examiners, 125.

Excises defined, 102.

Executive departments, 186.

power, 155.

where vested, 35.

sessions, 85.

Exportations from any State not tax-
able, 144.

Ex post facto laws defined, 143, 149.
prohibited, 144.

Divisions, military, of United States, FAITH given to the public acts of each

191.

Drawback, 105.

Duties, ad valorem, 104.

collected, 108.

defined, 101.

net produce of, 34.

of Clerk of House, 69.
Sergeant-at-arms, 69.
imports, 104.
onnage, 104.

specific, 104.

uniform, 101.

who paid by, 105.

ELECTION Contested, 82.

of President, 155.

writs of, 69.

Elections held in several States, 22.

modes of, 80.

regulations of, 79.

times of holding, 28.

Electoral college, 157.

votes counted, 22.

State, 41.

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Gold and silver may be coined at the | Indians, free, when, 61.

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Legal operation of new Constitution, | Misdemeanors, 18...

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Military divisions of United States, Officers, civil, 183.

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PACIFIC, Department of the, 191.
Pardon defined, 173.

Post-office Department, 186, 198.
established in England, 121.
by Prideaux, 121.

present system of, 121.

United States, directed by whom,
122.

Post-offices and post-roads, 31.
established, 121.

power of, withheld from the Presi- Post-roads, what considered as, 124.

dent, 173.

Pardoning power, its extent, 173.

Parliament, acts of, 9, 263.

adjourned by the king, 87.
assembles, how, 80.

formerly assembled annually, 81.
members of, not compensated,
89.

no act of, unconstitutional, 53.
term of members of, 58.
what it consists of, 55.

Passports, 188.

Patent, 228.

defined, 126.

Commissioner of, 201.
cost of, 127.

may be extended, 127.

Patentee must furnish a model, 126.

Peck, James H., 77.

Peers, trial by their, a right, 262.
Penn, William, a proprietary, 10.
Pensions, Commissioner of, 201.
defined, 135.
gratuitous, 135.
invalid, 135.

People, rights of, 49.

to bear arms, 48.

Petitions, how presented, 244.
right of, 244.
Pickering, John, 77.
Piracies, 32.

punishment of, 128.

under the Confederation, 129.
Constitution, 129.

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Pirate, how regarded, 129.

who deemed a, 130.

Piracy defined, 129.

Poll-tax, 102.

Port of entry, 108.

Postmaster-general, 122.

duties of, 198.

list of, 200.

salary, 199.

Postmasters appointed by Postmaster-

general, 123.

President, 123.

duties of, formerly, 121.

rates of commission of, 123,

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