Ohio, admission of, 277-279; constitution
of, 330-345.
Ordinance of 1787, 278; App., xxv.
Oregon, admission of, 288.
Original jurisdiction of courts, 192, 193.
PARDONS, power to grant, in the Presi-
dent, 164, 165; before conviction, 165.
Patent Office, established, 116; receipts of,
118; reports, 124; a bureau in the De-
partment of the Interior, 317.
Patents, power over in Congress, 114;
history of, 116; Commissioner of, 116;
for term of seventeen years, 116; for-
merly by the States, 116; mode of ob-
taining, 117.
Pay of Army officers, 312; of privates, 312;
of Navy officers, 315; of seamen, 316.
Peck, James H., impeached 181.
Pennsylvania, its legislature in 1787, 47;
ratification of the Constitution by, 269;
first constitution, 329.
Pension Office, 317.
75; term of office, 151; seven re-elections,
153; mode of electing, 153-160; Amend-
ment in regard to electing, 155; chosen
by House of Representatives twice, 157;
qualifications of, 161; case of removal
of, 161-163; compensation of, 163; oath
of office, 164; commander-in-chief of the
army and navy, 164; power to reprieve
or pardon, 165; power as to treaties, 167;
power as to appointments, 167; power to
fill vacancies in recess of Senate, 175;
annual message, 176, 177; may call special
sessions, 177; may adjourn Congress,
176; shall receive ambassadors, 176, 178;
shall see that laws are executed, 176, 178;
list of, 298-300.
President pro tempore of Senate, 63; com-
pensation of, 72; list of, App., ii.
Press, freedom of, 245, 246.
Probate Court, Ohio, 333.
Proprietary governments, 24-26.
Provincial, or royal governments, 24-26.
Public debt of U. S., amount of, 84; valid-
ity of, 259; incurred in aid of rebellion
declared void, 259.
People, right of to assemble, 245, 246; Punishments, cruel and unusual, 248.
the source of power, 251, 347.
Petit treason, 204.
Pickering, John, impeached, 181.
Pierce, Franklin, President, 299.
Piracy, clause concerning, 119.
Political powers, 195, 219.
Polk, James K., President, 299.
Postage, 111; letter, 112.
Postal, cards, 112; money-order system,
112; telegraph, 114.
Postmasters, 110, 111.
QUORUM, a majority, in Congress, 68; in
Ohio, 332.
RATIFICATION, of an amendment to the
Constitution; can a State withdraw her,
234; by disloyal States, 236; of the Con-
stitution by conventions, 241, 242; case
of Rhode Island and North Carolina, 243.
Postmasters-General, salary of, 322; list of, Rebellion, disabilities from, 258.
App., viii; Assistants, 322.
Post-office, Congress has power to estab-
lish, 110; number of in 1790 and 1886,
110; Department established, 322.
Post-roads, Congress has power to estab-
lish, 113; internal improvements, 113.
Pound Sterling, value of, 101.
Powers not delegated, 249; none delegated
by the States, 251.
Presentment, 200, 247.
Reconstruction of States, 225-228; West
Virginia and Missouri, 226.
Recorder, county officer in Ohio, 339.
Register of the Treasury, duties of, 308.
Registration of letters, 112.
Religion, law respecting, 245; free exer-
cise of guarantied, 245, 246.
Religious Test for office prohibited, 239;
action of South Carolina, 240.
Removal from office, 171-175.
Presents from foreign powers, 144; pro- Reporters of the Supreme Court, 187.
posed amendment, 144, 262.
President of United States, has veto power,
Representation, 49-53; basis of, 52; ratios
the successive decades, 54.
Representatives, term of office, 48; how
chosen, 48; qualifications, 48; apportioned
among the States, 50; number in First
Congress, 50; numbers n successive dec-
ades, 54; vacancies, how filled, 54, 55;
choose their Speaker, 55; have power to
impeach, 55; number of, reduced, if the
right to vote be denied, 256; number of,
262; compensation of, 262; in State leg-
islatures, 346.
Reprieves, power to grant, 165–167.
Reprisal, letters of marque and, 120; sig-
nification of, 121; forbidden to States, 144.
Republican form of government guarantied
to the States, 223; defined, 221.
Republic, defined, 18.
Retired officers, of the army, pay of, 312;
of the navy, 316.
Revenue, bills originate in House of Rep-
resentatives, 74; Commissioner of Inter-
nal, 82; amount of, 83.
Rhode Island, no constitution till 1842, 26;
ratification of the Constitution by, 271;
first constitution, 330.
Rights, enumeration of, 249; difference
between political and civil, 257.
Rules of proceedings, 69.
SCIENCE, clause for promoting, 114.
Searches and seizures, 247.
tion," 61; qualifications, 61; in State
legislatures, 346.
Sessions of Congress, annual, 66; thirteen
instances of three by same Congress, 67.
Signal office, 311.
Signers of Declaration of Independence,
App., xvi.
Silver, reduction of, in coins, in 1853, 97;
legal tender for small sums since 1853,
98; ratio to gold, 98: coins of 1873, 98;
trade-dollar, 99.
Slavery, abolished in U. S., 137, 252; word
first used, 252; proposed amendment as
to, 263.
Slaves, importation of, clause regarding,
136; prohibited in 1808, 136; summary as
to Slavery and the slave trade, 136, 137;
payments for emancipation of, forbidden,
259.
"Social Compact," meaning of, 12; not
the source of civil authority, 13; the fal-
lacy of the theory, 13.
Society, the natural state of man, 12; its
authority, 12; of divine origin, 13.
Soldiers, not to be quartered in houses
without consent, 247.
Solicitor-General, 324, 325.
South Carolina, secession of, 225; recon-
struction of, 228; ratification of the Con-
stitution by, 269; temporary govern-
ment in 1776, 329.
Secession, of eleven States, 225; doctrine Sovereignty in the nation, 15, 347.
of, discussed, 228-230.
Secretaries of State, list of, App, iii; six
became Presidents, App., ix.
Speakers of House of Representatives, 55;
salary of, 72; list of, App., ii.
Special Sessions of Congress, 177.
Secretaries of the Interior, list of, App., Speech, freedom of, 245, 246.
viii.
Secretaries of the Navy, list of, App., vii.
Secretaries of the Treasury, list of, App.,
iv.
Secretaries of War, list of, App., vi.
Secretary of Legation, 303.
Senate, how composed, 56; differences in
convention as to, 57; a permanent body,
60; vacancies, how filled, 60; Vice-presi-
dent the president of, 62; President pro
tempore, 63; power to try impeach-
ments, 63.
Senators, how elected, 58; divided into
three classes, 59; doctrine of "instruc-
Spirit ration abolished in Navy, 316.
Stamp duties, 81-83.
State Department, 301-305; duties of, 301;
salary of the Secretary, 302.
States, their relation to the nation, 20;
prohibitions on, 144-151, 254; have not
exercised powers of sovereignty, 145;
out of the Union, not supposable, 221;
not compelled to remain such, 221; guar-
anty to, of a republican form of govern-
ment, 222, 223; duties on, enjoined by
the Constitution, 223, 224; may not be
sued by citizens of other, 252; origin of,
275, 292; their governments, 328-348.
Statistics, Bureau of, 309.
Suffrage, in Continental Congress, 50; in
House of Representatives, 51; by those
not naturalized, 91; in some States, 91;
of women, 257; in different States, 346.
Superintendent of the Census, 320.
Supervisor, a road officer in Ohio, 342,
Supremacy of the Constitution and Laws
of the U. S., 237, 238.
Supreme Court of the District of Colum-
bia, 185.
Supreme Court of U. S., constitutional
provision for, 182, 183; organization of,
left to Congress, 183; has pronounced
void but few acts of Congress, 196, 197;
list of Chief Justices of, 325; list of As-
sociate Justices of, App., xi; salaries of
Justices, 327.
Surveyor, in the Custom-house, 310.
Titles of nobility, none shall be granted,
144; proposed amendment touching, 262.
Tompkins, Daniel D., Vice-president,
App., i.
Township government in Ohio, 340.
Trade-marks, patents for, not now granted,
117.
Treason, defined, 203; petit and high, 204;
constructive, 204; Aaron Burr tried for
in 1807, 206; Congress to declare punish-
ment for, 206; the act of 1790, that of
1862, 208; no treason against a State, 209.
Treasurer, duties of, 307.
Treasury Department, 304; salary of the
Secretary, 305.
Treasury notes, 84; various kinds, 101;
made legal tender in 1862, 102; are "bills
of credit," 101; decision of Supreme
Court as to, 102; not real money, 103.
Surveyors-General, of the Land office, 318. Treaties, powers of the President and
TAXATION by States, 150.
Taxation in Ohio, 342.
Taxes, power of Congress to lay, 78; direct
and indirect, 79; direct laid but five
times by U. S., 80.
Taylor, Zachary, President, 299.
Tennessee, secession of, 225; reconstruction
of, 227; admission of, 276; previously a
territory, 277.
Tenth Amendment, 249; often misquoted
and perverted, 250; meaning of, 250.
Territorial courts, 327.
Territories, 293; government of, 220, 293,
294.
Territory, in U. S., under control of Con-
gress, 215; Ordinance of 1787, prior to
Constitution, 217; no provision in Con-
stitution for acquisition of, 218; power to
acquire incident to national sovereignty,
218; sovereignty of, vested in the nation,
219; relation of to the Union, 220; dif-
ference between a State and, 220, 221.
Texas, annexation of, 218; secession of,
225; reconstruction of, 228; admission
of, 284.
Thirteenth Amendment, 252; ratification
of. 253.
Three fifths rule, origin of, 51.
Senate in making, 167: limitations of the
power of, 168; case of payment of money,
168; how framed, 169.
Treaty, etc., no State shall enter into any,
144; clause in Articles of Confederation,
Trial, by jury, 198; question of unanimity,
199; by military commission, 202; in the
State where the crime was committed,
248.
Trustees, township, in Ohio, 340.
Tyler, John, President, 299; Vice-presi-
dent, App., i.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL, but few acts of Con-
gress decided to be, 196.
Union, relation of seceded States to the,
228; admission of new States into, 215-
221; 275, 293
Useful arts, clause for promoting, 114.
Utah Territory, 293.
VAN BUREN, MARTIN, President, 299;
Vice-president, App., i.
Vermont, admission of, 275; from New
York, 275.
Veto, by the President, 75; use of, by dif-
ferent Presidents, 76; not applicable to
Warrants, for search, must be special, 247.
Washington, George, elected General, 32;
president of convention, 40, President,
Amendments to the Constitution, 77; of | War Department, 310; salary of the Secre-
Civil Rights Bill, 211; bill passed over,
how certified, 297.
Vice-president, president of the Senate,
62; no Vice-president contemplated at
first, 62; term of office, 151; mode of
electing, 151-156; chosen by Senate once,
158; list of, App., i; salary of, 295; no pro-
vision for filling vacancy in office of, 296.
Villages, in Ohio, 343.
Virginia, secession of, 225; reconstruction
of, 228; ratification of the Constitution
by, 270; temporary government in 1776,
Vote, right to, 260; in Confederate States,
66.
Voting, various modes in Congress, 70.
WAR, Congress has power to declare, 120,
action of Congress in the wars of the
U.S., 120.
Weights and measures, Congress has
power to regulate, 94, 107; the metric
system authorized, 108.
West Virginia, 226; admission of, 290.
Wilson, Henry, Vice-president, App., i.
Wisconsin, admission of, 286.
Witnesses, English practice as to, 202;
rights of accused persons to, 202, 247, 248.
Wyoming Territory, 286, 293.
YEAS and nays, in Congress, 70; under
Articles of Confederation, 70; used to
delay proceedings, 70; in Ohio legisla-
ture, 232.
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