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Page 407 - And to execute throughout the district, all lawful precepts directed to him. and issued under the authority of the United States, and he shall have power to command all necessary assistance in the execution of his duty...
Page 89 - ... hand for the purpose of planting or sowing at any time within the ensuing six months, not exceeding in value the sum of two hundred dollars...
Page 403 - The United States is a government with authority extending over the whole territory of the Union, acting upon the States and upon the people of the States. While it is limited in the number of its powers, so far as its sovereignty extends it is supreme. No State government can exclude it from the exercise of any authority conferred upon it by the Constitution, obstruct its authorized officers against its will, or withhold from it, for a moment, the cognizance of any subject which that instrument...
Page 198 - No person, after the expiration of the sixty days, was allowed, without taking the oath, "to practice as an attorney or counselor at law," nor after that period could "any person be competent as a bishop, priest, deacon, minister, elder or other clergyman, of any religious persuasion, sect, or denomination to teach or preach, or solemnize marriages.
Page 409 - It is not unusual, for a legislative a/ct to involve consequences which are not expressed. An officer, for example, is ordered to arrest an individual. It is not necessary, nor is it usual, to say that he shall not be punished for obeying the order. His security is implied in the order itself. It is no unusual thing for an act of Congress to imply, without expressing, this very exemption from State control, which is said to be so objectionable in this instance.
Page 155 - ... the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title and not upon the weakness of the title of the defendant.
Page 405 - That the marshals of the several districts, and their deputies, shall have the same powers in executing the laws of the United States, as sheriffs and their deputies, in the several states, have by law, in executing the laws of the respective states.
Page 408 - The writ of habeas corpus shall in no case extend to a prisoner in jail, unless where he is in custody under or by color of the authority of the United States...
Page 151 - The gentleman sits on that bench who was then our minister there. With his own right hand he pledged the sacred honor of this nation that the United States would stand over the grantees of Mexico and keep them safe in the enjoyment of their property. The pledge was, not only that the Government itself would abstain from all disturbance of them, but that every blow aimed at their rights, come from what quarter it might, should be caught upon the broad shield of our blessed Constitution and our equal...
Page 263 - SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the right and title of the United States to the lands within the corporate limits of the city of San Francisco, as defined in the act incorporating said city, passed by the legislature of the State of California...