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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 controversics to which the United States shall be a party ; to controversics 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 differcut 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 mentioncd, 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, the 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 np 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 thercof, 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 SPAIGHT.
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 establishinent of religion, or prohibiting the frec 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 whercin the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertaincd 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 inembers 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 statc, 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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SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this act.
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.
SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro- priate legislation.
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
NOVEMBER 7, 1876.
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF HENRY COUNTY.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ILLINOIS IN 1873 - HENRY COUNTY.
BY HON. JAMES SHAW.
GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS.
These consist of the usual Quarternary deposits, the lower Coal Measure series, and some low outcrops of the Hamilton and Niagara limestones. The geology of the county at first thought appears quite simple; but the paucity of stone quarries, and workable outcrops, over most of the county, makes the problem more difficult than one would at first imagine. The best section I can construct will give the formations about as follows :
Alluvial deposits and Drift clays -50 to 100 feet.
Lower Coal Measures 250 to 300 20 66
Hamilton (Devonian) limestone Niagara or Le Clair limestone. 15 44
In this section a very marked hiatus of Illinois rocks will be observed between the Hamilton limestone and the Coal Measures.
Niagara Limestone .- In the bed of Rock River, where it first touches the northwestern boundaries of Henry County, and from thence about half way to Cleveland, the soft, fine-grained, yellowish Le Clair limestone shows itself, and is quarried during low stages of the river, at one place to a considerable extent. The Coal Measures at Aldrich's, and Johnson & Kent's coal mines, rest directly upon this member of the Niagara limestone. Except this limited outcrop in the banks and bed of Rock River, this formation can not be said to be developed in the county. At ordinary stages of water in that stream, the outcrop would hardly be detected. With the exception of a few .encrinite stems, no fossils were noticed in it.
Hamilton Group .- On descending Rock River from the Niagara outcrops, just mentioned, the lower division of the Hamilton limestone is next discovered, commencing in the .bed of the river about a mile and a half above Cleveland, and continuing as the river flows to the west line of the county, and thence west at intervals across Rock Island County. A short distance above Cleve- land, and two or three times below it, in a distance of three miles, a short axis of upheaval appears to extend from the river almost south across Rock River bottom, which is here three-fourths of a mile in width, and runs under the bluff line. At these places the Hamilton limestone comes to the surface of the ground, where the rains or little streams have removed a few feet of the top soil. These axes, or undulations, rise twenty-five or thirty feet above the low bottom land of Rock River. Between are depressions or troughs, filled with Coal Measure deposits. The heavy seam of coal, worked so extensively at Cleve- land, rests in one of these basins, and extends half way across Rock River, resting almost directly on the Hamilton limestone. The top of the axis spoken of above, east and west of the coal basin, is higher by several feet than the coal seam. Southward, however, the Coal Measures continue uninterrupted under the bluffs to Coal Valley, and the Minersville mines.
These natural outcrops of the Hamilton limestone are massive and solid in
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their structure. The stone breaks with a smooth conchoidal fracture, almost resembling polished marble. On fresh fractures the color is a beautiful bluish- white or pale dove color. A semi-transparent, splintery, horny appearance was noticed in some cases, on breaking a rock to pieces, with snart blows of the hammer. No fossils were observed. Indeed, the lower portion of this rock is almost devoid of organic remains.
While making these observations, parties were engaged in boring an artesian well, two miles above Cleveland. Prospecting for petroleum and coal was the object of the boring. Any practical geologist could have told the proprietors that their hopes would not be realized, and that their labor and money was being foolishly expended. In connection, however, with the geology of this part of the county, they made an interesting hole in the ground, of which the follow- ing is the best section I could obtain :
I. Black earth, alluvial deposit 12 feet.
2. Black and dark colored shales and slate. 18
3. Dark limestone, cap rock of Cleveland coal 3
4. Limestone (probably Hamilton and Niagara) 398
5. Soft shale (probably Cincinnati group). 77
At this depth the drill struck a sharp, hard rock with sandy grit in it. How much deeper this well was put down I have not ascertained. Another artesian well was put down, just north of Kewanee, to a depth of six hundred feet, in search of water, I believe. No accurate record of strata bored through was kept. Three hundred and fifty or four hundred feet of the bottom penetrated a hard light-colored limestone, being perhaps the same formations passed through in the lower part of the Cleveland well. This, however, is only conjecture.
COAL MEASURES.
With the exception of the formations just described, the whole county is un- derlaid, below the usual drift deposits, by the lower Coal Measures. It is quite difficult to obtain a correct knowledge of the local extent of particular deposits, on account of the scarcity of outcrops. In other counties the railroads and the streams nearly always expose the upper rock formations, and give, in their cuts and banks, well marked outcrops. In Henry County, the railroads only afford a few clay cuts, not once exposing any rock formation. The river banks of Green and the Edwards, are, if possible, still more unfavorable for geo- logical examinations. Not once, so far as I know, do the banks or bends of these streams afford good outcrops of even the sandstones and limestones of the Coal Measures. Large portions of- the county are utterly without stone quarries of any kind. In a few places fragmentary outcrops of rotten sandstone, or defec- tive shaly limestone, occur ; and in a very few localities limestone or sandstone is quarried in abundance. I shall first speak of these outcrops, before attempt- ing to describe and trace the coal seams.
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