 | 1858 - 406 էջ
...such persons as any of the Slates now existing shall think proper to I admit, shall not be 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." The power to limit foreign... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - 1858 - 488 էջ
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person." It may be said, very plausibly,... | |
 | 1859 - 436 էջ
...trade in Africa, open or disguised. The 9th section of the first article of the Constitution provides, that " the migration or importation of such persons,...prohibited by the Congress, prior to the year 1808." At the 2d session of the 9th Congress, Mr. Jefferson, then President of the United States, presented... | |
 | Alvan Stewart - 1860 - 442 էջ
...Indian Tribes." The first clause of. the ninth section of the first article of the Constitution says that " the migration or importation of such persons...Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding $10 for each person." The authority to abolish the domestic... | |
 | 1860 - 268 էջ
...another and more special provision inferred in the Constitution, from abundant caution has declared, " that the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808." That this commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends described as the subject of the said... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1857 - 934 էջ
...exercised in regard to this subject as well as in regard to others ? " The constitution declares, ' that the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited 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... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 558 էջ
...another and more special provision, inserted in the Constitution from abundant caution, has declared, " that the migration or importation of such persons...prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808." That this commonwealth does admit the migration of alien friends described as the subject of the said... | |
 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - 1860 - 412 էջ
...such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit shall not bo prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may bo imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each person." Mr. Martin was. present... | |
 | Edward Ely Dunbar - 1861 - 124 էջ
...such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person." The foreign and domestic slave... | |
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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, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars... 
