The history of Jackson County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., biographical sketches of citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion history of the Northwest, history of Iowa miscellaneous matters, &c, Part 31

Author: Western Historical Co., pub
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago, Western Historical
Number of Pages: 788


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The President sball have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.


SEC. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such mea- sures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ; he may on extraordinary


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occasions convene both houses, or either of them. and in case of disagree- ment between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers ; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.


SEC. 4. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and con viction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.


ARTICLE III.


SECTION I. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.


SEC. 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority ; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls ; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party ; to controversies between two or more states; between a state and citizens of another state; between citizens of differ- ent states ; between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects.


In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.


In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.


The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any state, tlie trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.


SEC. 3. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levy- ing war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the tes- timony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.


The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.


ARTICLE IV.


SECTION 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And


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the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.


SEC. 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.


A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.


No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.


SEC. 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state ; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the Legislatures of the states concerned, as well as of the Congress.


The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular state.


SEC. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Execu- tive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic vio- lence.


ARTICLE V.


The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the ap- plication of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when rati- fied by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by con- ventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratifi- cation may be proposed by the Congress. Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.


ARTICLE VI.


All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adop- tion of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.


This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land ; and the Judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.


The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the mem-


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bers of the several state Legislatures, and all executive and judicial offi- cers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.


ARTICLE VII.


The ratification of the Conventions of nine states shall be sufficient for the establishment of this Constitution between the states so ratifying the same.


Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.


GEO. WASHINGTON, President and Deputy from Virginia.


New Hampshire. JOHN LANGDON, NICHOLAS GILMAN.


Massachusetts. NATHANIEL GORHAM, RUFUS KING.


Connecticut. WM. SAM'L JOHNSON, ROGER SHERMAN.


New York. ALEXANDER HAMILTON.


New Jersey. WIL. LIVINGSTON, WM. PATERSON, DAVID BREARLEY, JONA. DAYTON.


Pennsylvania. B. FRANKLIN, ROBT. MORRIS, THOS. FITZSIMONS, JAMES WILSON, THOS. MIFFLIN, GEO. CLYMER, JARED INGERSOLL, GOUV. MORRIS.


Delaware. GEO. READ, JOHN DICKINSON, JACO. BROOM, GUNNING BEDFORD, JR., RICHARD BASSETT.


Maryland. JAMES M'HENRY, DANL. CARROLL, DAN. OF ST. THOS. JENIFER.


Virginia. JOHN BLAIR, JAMES MADISON, JR.


North Carolina. WM. BLOUNT, HU. WILLIAMSON, RICH'D DOBBS SPAIGET.


South Carolina. J. RUTLEDGE, CHARLES PINCKNEY, CHAS. COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, PIERCE BUTLER.


Georgia. WILLIAM FEW, ABR. BALDWIN.


WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary.


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ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO AND AMENDATORY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.


Proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several states, pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution.


ARTICLE I.


Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


ARTICLE II.


A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


ARTICLE III.


No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be pre- scribed by law.


ARTICLE IV.


The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio- lated ; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.


ARTICLE V.


No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger ; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.


ARTICLE VI.


In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation ; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.


ARTICLE VII.


In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact


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tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.


ARTICLE VIII.


Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.


ARTICLE IX.


The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.


ARTICLE X.


The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.


ARTICLE XI.


The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or sub- jects of any foreign state.


ARTICLE XII.


The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person to be voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed ; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest number not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two- thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a Presi- dent whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice- President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be the majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a major-


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ity, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.


ARTICLE XIII.


SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their juris- diction.


SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro- priate legislation.


ARTICLE XIV. -


SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


SEC. 2. Representatives shall be appointed among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of per- sons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed; but when the right to vote at any election for the choice of Electors for President and Vice- President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the execu- tive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crimes, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the num- ber of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.


SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or Elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previ- ously taken an oath as a Member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state Legislature, or as an execu- tive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.


SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States author- ized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and boun- ties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be ques- tioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall pay any debt or obligation incurred in the aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any loss or emancipation of any slave, but such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.


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ARTICLE XV.


SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.


VOTE FOR GOVERNOR, 1877, AND PRESIDENT, 1876.


COUNTIES.


COUNTIES.


Rep.


Dem.


Gr.


Pro.


Rep.


Dea.


Rep.


Dem.


Gr.


Pro.


Rep


Dem.


Adair.


982


161


581


15


1334


593, Johnson.


1884


2345


18


273


2345


3563


Adams


876


397


485


38


1376


626 Jones


1868


1218


14


68


2591


1763


Allamakea


1547


1540


69


36


1709


1646 Keokuk


1772


1526


322


105


2364


1862


Appanooss


1165


1049


729


32


1711


1419 Kosanth


463


236


13


89


638


227


Anduboo


410


352


26


427


352 Lee


2157


2863


350


299


3100


3682


Bentoo.


1432


712


567


449


290I


1356


Lion


2524


2316


75


585


4331


2917


Black Hawk.


1780


1111


95


244


2979


1592 Louisa


1328


817


89


108


1920


1008


Boone.


1612


981


466


10


2018


1305


Lucas


1203


804


103


12


1478


1044


Bremer


1180


682


196


I


1737


757 Lyon


261


17


9


14


262


46


Buena Vista


747


192


161


20


770


200


Mahaska


1823


1046


1011


696


3221


1701


Butler


1453


758


19


95


1828


780 Marion


1976


186G


760


95


2736


2304


Calhoun


418


75


171


74


622


196 Marshall


1448


837


389


504


3056


1189


Carroll ..


633


744


141


11


799


771 Milla.


1435


1102


98


28


1452


1165


Cass ..


1592


839


116


30


1876


979 Mitchell


1396


459


35


36


1663


671


Cedar ..


1315


1093


206


446


2328


1445 Monona


580


119


432


9


713


304


Cerro Gordo


903


318


72


40


1274


418 Monroe


1034


928


247


26


1418


124G


662


74


383


86


861


175


Montgomery


1122


441


632


47


1749


759


Chickasaw


1279


1107


37


94


1574


1090 Muscatine.


1753


1775


171


387


2523


2075


Clark


1054


267


813


19


1405


816 O'Brien.


306


21


201


14


463


116


Clay


517


20


67


567


94 Osceola ....


295


40


13


33


329


59


Clayton


1873


1770


66


167


2662


2621 Paga


1166


508


348


293


2243


867


Clinton


2444


2327


286


66


3654


3398 Palo Alto


311


357


77


39


835


502


Dallas


1541


215


1241


80


1043 2136


752 Pocahontas


370


93


44


36


374


141


Davis ..


893


1231


803


1586


1631 Polk


3171


1885


1353


94


4321


2382


Decatur.


1269


961


310


19


1647


1282 Potta wattamie


2223


2059


218


121


2565


2414


Delaware ..


1226


1143


32


525


2233


1466 Poweahjek


1496


882


420


346


2509


1083


Des Moines


2315


1384


767


6


3325


2917 Ringgold ..


964


71


671


47


1246


422


Dickinson


197


8


12


259


18 Sac


656


128


177


13


661


166


Dubuque ..


1587


3415


406


53


2798


3031


1963


309


37


3819


2853


Emmett


213


28


889


27


3029


1709 Sioux


436


132


49


897 439


220)


Floyd


1233


208


162


30


2032


751 Story


1260


344


644


187


1843


679


Fraukliu


1311


336


36


10


1178


379 Tama


1426


833


196


133


2337


1317


Fremont


1250


1331


334


1658


1682 Taylor


1325


293


868


63


1238


795


Grundy.


909


504


496


364


21


1434


629 Wapello


1710


1029


1265


296


2582


2412


Hamilton


842


265


422


57


1187


425 Warren


1726


944


742


101


2439


1315


Hancock


340


95


29


2


281


99 Washington


1687


1221


303


112


2467


1508


Harrisoo


1348


86.


523


19


1557


1386 Webster


850


127


1421


47


1299


987


Henry


1770


424


1041


140


2809


600 Wioneahiek


2074


1009


279


238


2759


1617


Humboldt


382


149


115


3


523


183


Woodbury


1109


867


226


1034


997


Ida


321


54


104


212


57 Worth


628


132


8


14


703


149


Jasper.


1977


1154


1018


269


3375


1804


Totala


121546


79353


34220


10639 171332 112121


Jefferson


1396


753


576


109


2166


1449|


Majorities.


42193


Total vote, 1877, 245,766, 1876 (including2949 Greenhack), 292,943.


VOTE FOR CONGRESSMEN, 1876.


District.


Rep.


Dem.


R. Maj.


Total.


Maj. '74.


District.


Rep.


Dem.


R. Maj.


Total.


Maj. '74.


1


17188


14814


2374


32002


D. 1863


VII


19496


11688


7808


31184


R. 2300


11


16439


14683


1756


31122


R. 657


V111


19358


15236


4122


345914


R. 2127


111


17423


16100


1323


33523


D. 63 1X


19563


10583


8980


30146


R. 5849


IV


20770


9379


11391


30149


R. 3824


19274


11154


8120


30428


R. 5243


168289 118356


49933


*292111


VI


18778| 14719


4059


33497 R 2724


391


160


117


98


574


184


Iowa


1132


1120


642


228


1870


1348 Wright


Jackson


1619


1906


224


15


212G


2185


1316


832


404


3


1692


1341


Hardin


1492


6G1


238


154


2152


980 Wayne


1485 Winnebago ..


544


40


498


39


Howard


551


647


201


1099


417 Van Buren


1490


1305


301


130


2113


1001


Greens


1031


215


551


27


1310


510 Union


899


516


830


3


343


333


Crawford


898


651


19


111


638 Plymouth


1792


1077


616


56


2246


1538


Buchanan ..


1290


769


725


293


2227


1416 Madison


1877. Governor.


1877. Governor.


1876. President.


1876. President.


59211|


.......


246


4977 Scott 36 Shelby


888


639


3


16


631


Fayette.


1933


1067


1727


676


Guthrie


1160


16


Cherokea ...


779


487


12


519


1194


Total vote, 1874, 184,640; aggregate Republican majority, 24,524. * lacluding 5,466 Greenback votes.


PRACTICAL RULES FOR EVERY DAY USE.


How to find the gain or loss per cent. when the cost and selling price are given.


RULE .- Find the difference between the cost and selling price, which will be the gain or loss.


Annex two ciphers to the gain or loss, and divide it by the cost price ; the result will be the gain or loss per cent.


How to change gold into currency.


RULE .- Multiply the given sum of gold by the price of gold.


How to change currency into gold.


Divide the amount in currency by the price of gold.


How to find each partner's share of the gain or loss in a copartnership business.


RULE .- Divide the whole gain or loss by the entire stock, the quo- tient will be the gain or loss per cent.


Multiply each partner's stock by this per cent., the result will be each one's share of the gain or loss.


How to find gross and net weight and price of hogs.


A short and simple method for finding the net weight, or price of hogs, when the gross weight or price is given, and vice versa.


NOTE .- It is generally assumed that the gross weight of Hogs diminished by 1-5 or 20 per cent. of itself gives the net weight, and the net weight increased by X or 25 per cent. of itself equals the gross weight.


To find the net weight or gross price.


Multiply the given number by .8 (tenths.)


To find the gross weight or net price.


Divide the given number by .8 (tenths.)


How to find the capacity of a granary, bin, or wagon-bed.


RULE .- Multiply (by short method) the number of cubic feet by 6308, and point off ONE decimal place-the result will be the correct nswer in bushels and tenths of a bushel.


For only an approximate answer, multiply the cubic feet by 8, and point off one decimal place.


How to find the contents of a corn-crib.


RULE .- Multiply the number of cubic feet by 54, short method, or


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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.


by 4} ordinary method, and point off ONE decimal place-the result will be the answer in bushels.


NOTE .- In estimating corn in the ear, the quality and the time it has been cribbed must be taken Into consideration, since corn will shrink considerably during the Winter and Spring. This rule generally holds good for corn measured at the time it is cribbed, provided it is sound and clean.


How to find the contents of a cistern or tank.


RULE .- Multiply the square of the mean diameter by the depth (all in feet) and this product by 5681 (short method), and point off ONE decimal place-the result will be the contents in barrels of 31} gallons.


How to find the contents of a barrel or cask.


RULE .- Under the square of the mean diameter, write the length (all in inches) in REVERSED order, so that its UNITS will fall under the TENS ; multiply by short method, and this product again by 430 ; point off one decimal place, and the result will be the answer in wine gallons.


How to measure boards.


RULE .- Multiply the length (in feet) by the width (in inches) and divide the product by 12-the result will be the contents in square feet.


How to measure scantlings, joists, planks, sills, etc.


RULE .- Multiply the width, the thickness, and the length together (the width and thickness in inches, and the length in feet), and divide the product by 12-the result will be square feet.


How to find the number of acres in a body of land.


RULE .- Multiply the length by the width (in rods), and divide the product by 160 (carrying the division to 2 decimal places if there is a remainder) ; the result will be the answer in acres and hundredths.


When the opposite sides of a piece of land are of unequal length, add them together and take one-half for the mean length or width.


How to find the number of square yards in a floor or wall.


RULE .- Multiply the length by the width or height (in feet), and divide the product by 9, the result will be square yards.




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