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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, 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 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
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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 twolor 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 violence.
ARTICLE V.
The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it neces- sary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a conven- tion for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Leg- islatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three- fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification 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 suf- frage in the Senate.
ARTICLE VI.
All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption 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 members of the several state Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, 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 Convention between the states so ratifying the same.
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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. Jolın 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 Ingersol, 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.
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.
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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 violated; 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 de- prived 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 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 emuneration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.
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 ex- tend 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 subjects 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 bal- lots the person to be voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the per- son 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-Presi- dent, 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 appointe i 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 Pres- ident. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this pur- pose 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 President 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, it such number be the majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, 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.
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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-Pres- ident of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive 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 number 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 mili- tary, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously 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 executive or judi- cial 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 autho- ized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall pay any debt or obliga- tion 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.
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.
HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY.
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ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT. NOVEMBER 7, 1876.
COUNTIES.
Hayes and
Republican.
Hendricks,
Democrat.
Greenback.
Prohibition.
Anti-Secret
Societies.
Hayes and
Republican.
Hendricks.
Democrat.
Greenback.
Prohibition.
Anti-Secret
Societies.I
Adams
4953
6308
41
17
Livingston
3550
2134
1170
..
Alexander
1219
1280
Logan
2788
2595
37
Bond
1520
1142
17
Macon
3120
2782
268
16
Boone
1965
363
43
2
Maconpin
3567
4076
114
Brown.
944
1495
183
1
Madison
4554
4730
39
1
Bureau
3719
2218
145
2
11
Marion.
2009
2444
209
1
Calhoun .
441
900
Marshall.
1553
1430
135
Carroll
2231
918
111
3 Mason
1566
1939
86
3
Cass.
1209
1618
74
Massac
1231
793
20
Champaign
4530
3103
604
1 McDonough.
2952
2811
347
8
Christian
2501
3287
207
1
6| McHenry
3465
1874
34
7
Clark .
1814
2197
236
9 McLean
6363
4410
518
8
Clay
1416
1541
112
Menard
1115
1657
10
3
Clinton.
1329
1989
132
Mercer.
2209
1428
90
Coles
2957
2832
102
Monroe
845
1651
Cook.
36548
39240
277
Montgomery
2486
3013
201
Crawford
1355
1643
38
Morgan
3069
3174
109
Cumberland .
1145
1407
129
Moultrie
1245
1672
28
8
DeKalb
3679
1413
65
3 Ogle.
3833
1921
104
De Witt
1928
1174
746
10
3 Peoria.
4665
5443
95
DuPage
2129
1276
25
8 Perry
1541
1383
48
Edgar.
2715
2883
161
Piatt.
1807
1316
117
Edwards
970
466
61
Pike
3055
4040
35
1
Effingham.
1145
2265
43
Pulaski
1043
772
Fayette
1881
2421
57
Putnam
646
459
14
Franklin Fulton
4187
4669
89
1 Rock Island.
3912
2838
Gallatin
703
1140
282
2
Saline
980
1081
641
Greene ..
1695
3160
1
9 Sangamon.
4851
5847
29
Grundy
1996
1142
108
Schuyler.
1522
1804
115
Hamilton.
627
1433
770
4 Scott.
910
1269
182
Hancock
3496
4207
Shelby
2069
3553
311
Hardin.
330
611
134
Stark
1140
786
96
Henderson
1315
1015
1
St. Clair
4708
5891
99
1
Henry
4177
1928
340
4
6 Stephenson
3198
2758
Iroquois.
3768
2578
249
14
1 Tazewell.
2850
3171
44
·2
2
Jackson
2040
2071
106
Union.
978
2155
3
Jefferson.
1346
1667
647
Wabash.
650
936
207
Jersey
1345
2166
12
Warren
2795
1984
138
1
Jo Daviess
2907
2276
140
3 Washington
1911
1671
39
Johnson
1367
893
61
Wayne
1570
1751
482
Kane
5398
2850
172
5
White
1297
2066
469
4
Kankakee
2627
1363
26
2 Whiteside
3851
2131
133
8
1
Kendall
1869
521
309
Will.
4770
3999
677
Knox
5235
2632
141
1 Williamson
1672
1644
41
Lake
2619
1647
55
1 Winnebago
4505
1568
70
13
2
LaSalle
6277
6001
514
15 Woodford.
1733
2105
237
1
4
Lawrence
1198
1329
27
Lee
3037
2080
100
6
Total
275958 257099
16951
130
157
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.
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Ford
1601
742
204
Randolph
2957
2589
2
966
1302
391
Richland
1410
1552
55
3
Douglas.
1631
1357
94
Pope
1319
800
5
Vermilion
4372
3031
289
9
Jasper
Wheeler,
| Tilden and
Peter Cooper,
Smith,
COUNTIES.
Wheeler,
Tilden and
Peter Cooper,
Amith,
3
-71
1
3
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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 copartner- ship business.
RULE .- Divide the whole gain or loss by the entire stock, the quotient 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 14 or 25 per cent. of itself equals the gross weight.
To find the net weight or gross price.
Multiply the given number by .S (tenths).
To find the gross weight or net price.
Divide the given number by .S (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 ans- wer 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 by 42 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 corrideration, since corn will shrink considerably during the Winter and Spring. This rule generally holde 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 312 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 widthi (in inches) and divide the product by 12-the result will be the contents in square feet.
How to measure scantlings, joists, plank's, 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.
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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 re- mainder); 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.
How to find the number of bricks required in a building.
RULE .- Multiply the number oi cubic feet by 223.
The number of cubic feet is found by multiplying the length, height and thickness (in feet) together.
Bricks are usually made S inches long, 4 inches wide, and two inches thick; hence, it requires 27 bricks to make a cubic foot without mortar, but it is generally assumed that the mortar fills 1.6 of the space.
How to find the number of shingles required in a roof.
RULE .-- Multiply the number of square feet in the roof by 8, if the shingles are exposed +2 inches, or by 7 1-5 if exposed 5 inches.
To find the number of square feet, multiply the length of the roof by twice the length of the rafters.
To find the length of the rafters, at ONE-FOURTH pitch, multiply the width of the building by .56 (hundredths); at ONE-THIRD pitch, by .6 (tenths); at TWO-FIFTHS pitch, by .64 (hundredths); at ONE-HALF pitch, by .71 (hundredths). This gives the length of the rafters from the apex to the end of the wall, and whatever they are to project must be taken into consideration.
NOTE .- By 14 or ys pitch is meant that the apex or comb of the roof is to be 14 or 1/3 the width of the building higher than the walls or base of the rafters.
How to reckon the cost of hay.
RULE .- Multiply the number of pounds by half the price per ton, and remove the decimal point three places to the left.
How to measure grain.
RULE .- Level the grain; ascertain the space it occupies in cubic feet; multiply the number of cubic feet by S, and point off one place to the left.
NOTE .- Exactness requires the addition to every three hundred bushels of one extra bushel.
The foregoing rule may be used for finding the number of gallons, by multiplying the number of bushels by S.
If the corn in the box is in the ear, divide the answer by 2, to find the number of bushels of shelled corn, because it requires 2 bushels of ear corn to make 1 of shelled corn.
Rapid rules for measuring land without instruments.
In measuring land, the first thing to ascertain is the contents of any given plot in square yards; then, given the number of yards, find out the number of rods and acres.
The most ancient and simplest measure of distance is a step. Now, an ordinary-sized man can train himself to cover one yard at a stride, on the average, with sufficient accuracy for ordinary purposes.
To make use of this means of measuring distances, it is essential to walk in a straight line; to do this, fix the eye on two objects in a line
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straight ahead, one comparatively near, the other remote; and, in walking keep these objects constantly in line.
Farmers and others by adopting the following simple and ingenious contrivance, may always carry with them the scale to construct a correct yard measure.
Take a foot rule, and commencing at the base of the little finger of the left hand, mark the quarters of the foot on the outer borders of the left arm, pricking in the marks with indelible ink.
To find how many rods in length will make an acre, the width being given.
RULE .- Divide 160 by the width, and the quotient will be the answer.
How to find the number of acres in any plot of land, the number of rods being given.
RULE .- Divide the number of rods by S, multiply the quotient by 5, and remove the decimal point two places to the left.
The diameter being given, to find the circumference.
RULE .- Multiply the diameter by 3 1-7.
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