 | Congregational churches - 1820 - 598 pages
...twenty years; viz, till the year 1808. It is remarkable how delicately this clause is worded. It says, "that the migration or importation of such persons,...prohibited by the Congress, prior to the year 1808; hut a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." ,... | |
 | Matthew St. Clair Clarke - Banking law - 1832 - 864 pages
...would extend when not restricted. The first clause of the 9th section of the first article, provides, that " the migration or importation of such persons...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." Among... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 614 pages
...alien friends not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force. V. Resolved, That in addition to the general principle...year 1808." That this Commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends described as the subject of the said act concerning aliens; that a provision... | |
 | Ralph Randolph Gurley - African Americans - 1835 - 566 pages
...limits; to adapt legislative measures in such manner as to extend the funda* The Constitution declares "that the migration or importation of such persons...prohihited by the Congress, prior to the year 1808." It is most manifest that the Constitution does contemplate, in the very terms of this clause, that... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...alien friends not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force. 5. Resolved, That, in addition to the general principle,...year 1808." That this commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends described as the subject of the said act concerning aliens; that a provision... | |
 | Joseph Coe - Presidents - 1841 - 416 pages
...alien friends not delegated by the constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force. 5. Resolved, That in addition to the general principle,...year 1808:" that this commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends described as the subject of the said act concerning aliens ; that a provision... | |
 | 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...prohibited by the 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1850 - 272 pages
...alien-friends not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force. 5. Resolved, That in addition to the general principle...year 1808 :" that this commonwealth does admit the migration of alien-friends described as the subject of the said act concerning aliens ; that a provision... | |
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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... 
