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Thomas J. Downing,
Warren C. Omer,
Henry J. Eigenberg,
Oliver S. Omer,
Reiner Gronewold,
Carroll K. Omer,
Herre Herrn,
H. Allie O'Harra,
Frank Enlow.
THE CAMP POINT GUARDS.
The military company known as the Camp Point Guards was organized at a meeting of the citizens of Camp Point, in Centennial hall, on Friday evening, July 20, 1877, and were sworn into the State service the same evening by Col. William Hanna, of Keokuk Junction.
The company then proceeded to the election of officers, with the following result: Cap- tain, Richard Seaton ; 1st Lieutenant, Joseph P. Lasley; 2d Lieutenant, Henry Folckemer ; 1st Sergeant, Jacob N. Ettinger. The balance of the officers were appointed by the com- missioned officers of the company. The company is composed of a good class of citizens, ranging in age from twenty to forty-five years, and of average height. About one-fifth of the company have seen active service in the war for the Union. The company was not called out during the riots of 1877, not having received their arms until the troubles were over.
At the Adams county fair for 1878 they took the third premium for efficiency in the manual of arms, marching and bayonet exercise. Should their services be needed by the State at any time no doubt but what they will respond promptly and do efficient service.
ROSTER OF THE COMPANY.
OFFICERS.
Captain-Richard Seaten,
1st Lieutenant-Joseph P. Lasley,
2d Henry Folckemer. 3d Jay De Haven.
1st Sergeant-Jacob M. Ettinger.
4th 66 Alvin A. Dewey.
2d Henry C. Rogers.
5th יו Rezin A. Downing.
3d John Boyle.
6th 66 Daniel Hunsaker.
4th 66 John Vancil.
ith 66 Barnet P. Cummings.
5th Benjamin Bowen.
8th Harry E. Craver.
PRIVATES.
Brune F. Bruns,
George M. Jacobs,
William R. Strickler,
Joseph H. Bralert,
Jacob F. Joseph,
Robert F. Stivers,
J. W. Colwell, Regimental Color. Bearer.
Leander J. Miller,
James M. Seaton,
Henry T. Conner,
Frederick A. Morley,
William M. Seaton, Wesley Simmonds,
Isaac Cutter,
Jacob Omer,
Austin B. Tolbert,
Henry N. Crippen,
James G. Pound,
Virgil G. Williams,
George Y. Downing,
Frank M. Prettyman,
John S. Wallace,
Latimer Ensminger,
John W. Roth,
George M. Yeargain,
Samuel Ensminger,
Herman Rethmeyer,
Henry Zeigler.
August Gruny,
E. A. Rhea,
George Harmon,
J. W. Rhea,
CLAYTON GUARDS.
Company I., 8th Regiment, I. N. G., was organized July 26, 1878, at Clayton, with H. A. Horn, Captain ; W. H. Harbison, 1st Lieutenant; A. R. Downing, 2d Lieutenant; James B. Coe, 1st Sergeant. The company was mustered in with an enrollment of sixty-two men, and in twelve hours were ordered to East St. Louis, to assist in quelling the strike of 1877. They received the order only three hours before train time, and in that time unpacked the arms, and armed and equipped fifty men for the campaign (that being all the arms the com- pany had drawn), and reported at Quincy, the headquarters of the regiment. From Quincy the company proceeded to East St. Louis, and while there acquitted themselves creditably
Thomas A. Lyon,
James Simmons,
Charles K. Conner,
C. H. Oliver,
1st Corporal-A. D. Bates. 2d James F. McGaughey.
Wm. W. Gallemore, J. R. Gray,
Charles F. Howard,
Nathaniel Pierce,
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On Sept. 7, 1878, W. H. Harbison was elected Captain; A. R. Downing, 1st Lieutenant; S. M. Irwin, 2d Lieutenant.
The following is the roster :
Captain-W. H. Harbison.
1st Corporal-Monroe Babb. 2d Henry Hoffer.
1st Lieutenant-A. R. Downing.
2d S. M. Irwin.
3d
66 Cylon Turner.
1st Sergeant-James B. Coe.
4th Thomas Moreman.
2d John Hyler.
3d " J. W. Marrett.
6th A. A. Gross.
4th John Williams.
7th
66 Abe. Barkely.
5th W. B. May.
8th 66 Daniel Lucas.
Musicians-A. E. Smith and Lincoln Motter.
PRIVATES.
Samuel Ater,
J. W. Garner,
E. Montgomery,
N. B. Allen,
George Gooley,
F. P. McClelland,
E. D. Anderson,
A. G. Garner,
Charles Marshall,
J. E. Anderson,
Samuel Hyler,
E. McMurray,
L. A. Burdich,
J. B. Huddleson,
J. T. May,
A. H. Brooks,
J. H. Hamilton,
W. N. McCorkle,
P. M. Brower,
John Hamilton,
F. Nabell,
V. A. Brown,
Thomas Hills,
J. Noakes,
Edwin Badgley,
F. Hermetet,
E. Plew,
J. W. Bodenhamer,
J. S. Hoke,
J. W. Potter, Jr.
John Burgerser,
W. T. Harbeson,
J. G. Peyton,
J. N. Black,
L. Hermetet,
G. W. Powers,
T. J. Brooks,
C. T. Kendrick,
M. Renshaw,
G. H. Ball,
P. Kemnawan,
E. M. Scoggan,
C. H. Conner,
J. C. Kennawan,
A. Smith, L. Scoggan,
Charles Coe,
A. Kirkpatrick,
J. W. Simmonds, C. Sweeny,
Orville Dodd,
S. H. McDowell,
W. A. Swope,
W. M. Douglass,
W. E. Miller,
H. A. Swisher,
F. M. Foster,
P. Matthews,
M. C. Williams,
Richard Gooley,
Henry Miller,
X. Wesenburg,
C. T. Goodman,
F. Meats,
W. E. Young.
S. J. Croft,
G. W. Keslerg,
H. H. Curry.
J. B. Lawes,
5th " Arthur Haley.
Ho Thompson
BURTON TOWNSHIP
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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ITS AMENDMENTS.
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
SEC. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the elec- tors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.
No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the ser- eral states which may be included within this Union, according to their re- spective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole num- ber of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six. New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, and Georgia three.
When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
SEC. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The
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seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any state, the Execu- tive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of the President of the United States.
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside. And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
Judgment, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.
SEC. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Sena- tors and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the Legisla- ture thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
SEC. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide.
Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment re- quire secresy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
SEC. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensa tion for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony, and
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breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which/ he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office.
SEC. 7. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it; but if not he shall return it with his objeetions, to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to recon- sider it. If, after such reconsideration two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two- thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Presi- dent within ten days (Sundays excepted), after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment), shall be presented to the President of the United States, and before the same shall take effect shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be re-passed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limita- tions prescribed in the case of a bill.
SEC. S. The Congress shall have power-
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads ;
To promote the progress of sciences and useful arts, by securing, for
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limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court ;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water ;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the dis- cipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the. state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings; and
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
SEC. 9. 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 one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dol- lars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may re- quire it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.
No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or rev- enue to the ports of one state over those of another; nor shall vessels bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
.No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no per- son holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the
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consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
SEC. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confedera- tion; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder. ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws, and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on ton- nage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agree- ment or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION 1. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same term, be elected as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United Siates, shall be appointed an Elector.
*This clause between brackets has been superseded and annulled by the Twelfth Amendment.
[*The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, 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 the 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 shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the vote shall be taken by states, the repre- sentation 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 ma- jority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the Electors shall be the Vice-President. But if there should re- main two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice-President.]
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The Congress may determine the time of choosing the Electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice-President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inability, both of the President and Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President be elected.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a com- pensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States or any of them.
Before he enters on the execution of his office, he shall take the follow- ing oath or affirmation:
" I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, pre- serve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
SEC. 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive depart- ments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardon for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may hap- pen 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 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
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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 1. 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 different 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.
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