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# Ex parte in the Matter of Wells

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## Dissenting Opinions

    McLean
    Curtis
United States Supreme Court
59 U.S. 307
Ex parte in the Matter of Wells
THIS was a motion for a writ of habeas corpus, founded on a petition by Wells, setting forth the following circumstances, viz: -
That Wells was convicted of murder, at the December term, 1851, of the criminal court for the county of Washington, District of Columbia, and was sentenced by said court to be hanged on the 23d of April, 1852, on which said 23d of April, Mr. Fillmore, then President of the United States, granted 'a pardon of the offence of which he was convicted, upon condition that he be imprisoned during his natural life, that is, the sentence of death is hereby commuted to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary at Washington.'That while under the constraint of duress of imprisonment and duress per minas he subscribed an acceptance of the pardon with the condition annexed.
That on the 18th of April, 1855, he applied to the circuit court of the District of Columbia, for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted, and that court proceeded to inquire into the cause of his imprisonment.
That the circuit court decided that the President had power to commute the punishment of death, and remanded him to the penitentiary, where he has ever since been confined.
He therefore prayed this court to issue a writ of habeas corpus.
In this case, as in the case of ex parte Watkins, (7 Pet. 571,) it was admitted that all the facts existing in the case had been laid before the court, exactly as they would appear if the habeas corpus had been duly awarded and returned; so that the judgment which the court were called upon to pronounce, was precisely that which ought to be pronounced upon a full hearing upon the return to the writ of habeas corpus; and it was accordingly so argued at the bar.
It will be seen also by a reference to that case that the court decided that the judgment which was pronounced upon the petition of Mr. Watkins, was an exercise of appellate and not of original jurisdiction.
The petition for a habeas corpus was sustained by Mr. Charles Lee Jones for the petitioner, and opposed by Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General.
The subject is so fully discussed in the opinion of the court and the dissenting opinions of Mr. Justice McLean and Mr. Justice Curtis, that it is not thought necessary to give the arguments of counsel.
Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

## Notes

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# Edgar Huntly, or The Sleep Walker

This transcription is from an 1831 English edition of a novel first published in America in 1799.
EDGAR HUNTLY.
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LONDON Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square
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EDGAR HUNTLY;
OR,
THE SLEEP WALKER.
BY CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN.
LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET: BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; CUMMING, DUBLIN; AND GALIGNANI, PARIS. 1831.
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* Introduction
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
* Chapter XII
* Chapter XIII
* Chapter XIV
* Chapter XV
* Chapter XVI
* Chapter XVII
* Chapter XVIII
* Chapter XIX
* Chapter XX
* Chapter XXI
* Chapter XXII
* Chapter XXIII
* Chapter XXIV
* Chapter XXV
* Chapter XXVI
* Chapter XXVII
* Letter I.
* Letter II.
* Letter III.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Edgar Allan Poe - a centenary tribute/Westminster Churchyard

WESTMINSTER CHURCHYARD
(Edgar Allan Poe)
LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE
Stone calls to stone, and roof to roof;  Dust unto dust;— Lo, in the midst, starry, aloof— Like white of April blown by last year's stalks  Across the gust— A Presence walks.
It is the Shape of Song; About it throng, Great Others, and the first is Tears; The ended years; And every old and every lonely thing;  Old thirsts that to old hungers cry;  The poignancies of earth and sky; The little sobbing of the spring.
He heeds them not; They are forgot; For him, behind this ancient wall, The Best of all— The short day sped; A roof; a bed; No years; No tears.
Not his the strain Of hill or lane;  Of orchards with their humble country musk,
And bent old trees,
And companies of small black bees;
 Of gardens at the dusk,
Where down the hush,
A thrush
His heartbreak spills;
Of daffodils
By farmhouse doors a windy sight,
A yellow gust driven down the light.
Nor his the note
That trumpeted of war,
 Of ancient creed;
Strange, innocent, remote
 His reed
A wind along the hollows of an echoing shore:
 Each day was but a pool within the grass,
A haunted space,
 Where saw he as in glass,
But Wonder, with her dim, drowned face.
For Wonder was his kin,
His very twin;
Blood of his blood indeed,
And steadfast to his need;—
 The ecstasies of cloud and sky;
The cry out in the dark;
The half lit spark
That lures from earth to star;
The fleeting footsteps far and far;
 The trailing skirts so nigh, so nigh,
These drew he from their ghostly mesh
And made them flesh;
We reach dull hands, for we would know;
They fade; they go;
Yea, he and they together,
Into another weather.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
​A strange, autumnal verse; Where griefs their griefs rehearse; A flaw of rain within the air; Black pools; the bough gone bare; And red dead leaves and broken wall; The flare of tempest driven behind them all.
Yet ever is his music such, So rapt of touch, It mellows all the ache, And the heartbreak; We cannot weep, but we stand wistful-eyed, Like children at the eventide, In some fast darkening spot, Who hear their mother call, but see her not.
Oh, truest singer east or west!— Not for the poor handful of hire, But for the fury of the song, The unescapable desire, He sang his short life out, and it was best; His wage was hunger; it was long Betwixt the days of blame and jeers, And that which set him with his peers; A fragmentary song, yet dear to Art; Its numbers hold Enough of music for new world and old, To shake them to the heart.
And now, many a summer's weather, Now, many a winter's storms together, The wind; the shower; The blooms; the snows; Have petaled into this brief hour, And drop upon his dust a rose.
Roof calls to roof and stone to stone;— Like white of April blown The gust along—
EDGAR ALLAN POE
# Executive Order 12589

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Signed by President Ronald Reagan Wednesday, March 18, 1987
Federal Register page & date: 52 FR 8861, Friday, March 20, 1987
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including Title VII, Section 701(d) of the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, and for other purposes, as contained in Section 101(m) of Public Laws 99-500 and 99-591, and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

#### Section 1.

    The Director of the Office of Personnel Management is hereby delegated authority to prepare and submit to the Congress a report concerning the desirability, feasibility, and cost, if any, of permitting Federal employees voluntarily to donate annual and sick leave for the use of other Federal employees who need such leave for medical or family emergency or other hardship situations.

#### Sec. 2.

    The authority of the President to prescribe regulations under Section 701(d)(1) of Public Law 99-500 and Section 701(d)(1) of Public Law 99-591, governing a temporary program for the transfer of unused accrued leave in not more than three cases, is hereby delegated to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
RONALD REAGAN The White House, March 18, 1987.
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# Executive Order 12593

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Amends Executive Order 12367, June 15, 1982
Signed by President Ronald Reagan Tuesday, April 21, 1987
Federal Register page & date: 52 FR 13624, Thursday, April 23, 1987
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 1), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. In order to provide for additional members of an advisory committee that assists in efforts to increase private sector support for the arts and the humanities, Section l(a) of Executive Order No. 12367 is hereby amended by deleting the phrase "not more than twenty persons" and inserting in lieu thereof the phrase "such number of additional persons."
Sec. 2. Section 4(b) of Executive Order No. 12367 is hereby amended to read in full: "The Committee shall terminate on September 30, 1989, unless sooner extended."
RONALD REAGAN The White House, April 21, 1987.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:30 a.m., April 22, 1987]
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# Executive Order 1259

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See the Notes section for a list of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order.
Signed by President William H. Taft Tuesday, October 25, 1910
It is hereby ordered that the plans for no public building to be erected in the District of Columbia for the General Government shall be hereafter finally approved by the officer duly authorized until after such officer shall have submitted the plans to the Commission of Fine Arts created under the act of Congress of May 17, 1910, for its comment and advice.
The White House,
       October 25, 1910.

## Notes
### See related

* Executive Order 1010, January 19, 1909
* Executive Order 1074, May 21, 1909
* Executive Order 1862, November 28, 1913
* Executive Order 3524, July 28, 1921
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# Executive Order 12594

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Amended by Executive Order 12782, November 21, 1991
Signed by President Ronald Reagan Tuesday, April 28, 1987
Federal Register page & date: 52 FR 15703, Thursday, April 30, 1987
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. The President's Volunteer Action Award is hereby established for the purposes of recognizing outstanding voluntary contributions by individuals and organizations toward helping others in our society, and of demonstrating to all Americans what can be accomplished through voluntary action. The award shall consist of a sterling silver medallion, the design of which accompanies and is hereby made a part of this Order.
Sec. 2. The award may be presented by the President to recipients in ten categories: arts and humanities, education, the environment , health, human services, international volunteering, mobilization of volunteers, public safety, youth, and the workplace. The National Voluntary Service Advisory Council, in cooperation with the White House Office of Private Sector Initiatives, shall recommend recipients of the award to the President. The President may select for the award any person recommended to the President or any person selected by the President upon his own initiative.
RONALD REAGAN The White House, April 28, 1987.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:46 a.m., April 29, 1987]
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# Executive Order 12587

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Signed by President Ronald Reagan Monday, March 9, 1987
Federal Register page & date: 52 FR 7397, Wednesday, March 11, 1987
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including Section 126a(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (a)(2)), and having determined that, upon the expiration of the period specified in the first proviso to Section 126a(2) of such Act and extended for 12-month periods by Executive Orders No. 12193, 12295, 12351, 12409, 12463, 12506, and 12554, failure to continue peaceful nuclear cooperation with the European Atomic Energy Community would be seriously prejudicial to the achievement of U.S. non-proliferation objectives and would otherwise jeopardize the common defense and security of the United States, and having notified the Congress of this determination, I hereby extend the duration of that period to March 10, 1988.

## Notes
### Supersedes

* Executive Order 12554, February 28, 1986

### Superseded by

* Executive Order 12629, March 9, 1988

### See Related

* Executive Order 12193, February 12, 1980;
* Executive Order 12295, February 24, 1981;
* Executive Order 12351, March 9, 1982;
* Executive Order 12409, March 7, 1983;
* Executive Order 12463, February 23, 1984;
* Executive Order 12506, March 4, 1985;
* Executive Order 12554, February 28, 1986;
* Executive Order 12629, March 9, 1988;
* Executive Order 12670, March 9, 1989;
* Executive Order 12706, March 9, 1990;
* Executive Order 12753, March 8, 1991;
* Executive Order 12791, March 9, 1992;
* Executive Order 12840, March 9, 1993;
* Executive Order 12903, March 9, 1994;
* Executive Order 12955, March 9, 1995
* Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community
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# Executive Order 13344

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Signed by President George W. Bush Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Federal Register page & date: 69 FR 41747, Friday, July 9, 2004
Executive Order 13344 of July 7, 2004
Amending Executive Order 13261 on the Order of Succession in the Environmental Protection Agency
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345, et seq., it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 13261 of March 19, 2002, is amended as follows:

#### Section 1.

In section 2, subsections (a), (b), and (c) are deleted and replaced with the following new subsections (a), (b), and (c):
| (a) | Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste; |
| (b) | Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances; |
| (c) | Assistant Administrator (Air and Radiation); |

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### Amends

* Executive Order 13261, March 19, 2002

### See Related

* None Available

### Revoked by

* Executive Order 13614, May 21, 2012
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# Executive Order 13343

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Signed by President George W. Bush Sunday, June 6, 2004
Federal Register page & date: 69 FR 32245, Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Executive Order 13343 of June 6, 2004
Providing for the Closing of Government Departments and Agencies on June 11, 2004
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1.
    All executive departments, independent establishments, and other governmental agencies shall be closed on June 11, 2004, as a mark of respect for Ronald Reagan, the fortieth President of the United States. That day shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 2.
    The first sentence of section 1 of this order shall not apply to those offices and installations, or parts thereof, in the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, or other departments, independent establishments, and governmental agencies that the heads thereof determine should remain open for reasons of national security or defense or other essential public business.

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### See Related

* Executive Order 11582, February 11, 1971
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# Executive Order 1334

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Revoked by Executive Order 1360, May 25, 1911.
Signed by President William H. Taft Saturday, April 15, 1911
1911 CSR 110
In view of her good record and evidence of her efficiency and ability, the year of eligibility of Mrs. Mary E. Gunion, a former employee of the Government Printing Office, may be extended and she may be reinstated, with the requirement of six months' service next preceding transfer waived. This appointment appears to be in the interests of the public service.
The White House,
    April 15, 1911.
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# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Long Island City

See also Long Island City and Queens, New York, on Wikipedia; Long Island City in the 11th Edition; and the disclaimer.
LONG ISLAND CITY, a city of the United States, the capital of Queen’s County, New York, situated on the west coast of Long Island, and separated from New York by the East River and from Brooklyn by the Newtown Creek. The area, which includes what were the post villages of Astoria, Newtown, and Ravenswood, measures 3 miles from east to west and 5 miles from north to south, and the general plan of the place is constructed on a spacious scale. The river frontage extends to about 10 miles. Hunter’s Point, as the south-west portion is called, contains the terminal depots of several railway lines, extensive warehouses for the storage of petroleum, and a variety of industrial establishments such as granite-works, chemical works, engine-works. In the Astoria district there are factories for pianos, carriages, and carpets. Long Island City dates from 1870; in 1874 its population was about 16,000, and in 1880 17,117.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Little Falls

See also Little Falls (city), New York on Wikipedia; the 11th edition; and the disclaimer.
LITTLE FALLS, a village and township in Herkimer county, New York, on the Erie canal, 73½ miles west-north-west of Albany by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, at a point where the Mohawk river passes by a series of rapids through a picturesque defile. The water-power is turned to account in the manufacture of paper, woollen and cotton goods, starch, &c. The village, which lies partly in the township of Manheim, had a population of 6910 in 1880. Little Falls has the largest cheese market in the United States.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Logansport

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​LOGANSPORT, capital of Cass county, Indiana, U.S., is situated at the confluence of the Wabash and the Eel rivers, and on the Wabash and Erie canal, 75 miles north-west of Indianapolis. It is an important railway junction, and the trading-centre of an extensive agricultural district—dealing in grain, pork, and timber (poplar and black walnut). The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and St Louis railroad maintains at this point large carriage-works, occupying 25 acres, and employing 600 men. The population was 11,198 in 1880.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Longitude

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LONGITUDE. See Geography (Mathematical) and Time.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Lincoln (4.)

See also Lincoln, Nebraska on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.
LINCOLN, a city of the United States, county seat of Lancaster county, Nebraska, and capital of the State. It is pleasantly situated about 50 miles west of the Missouri river, at the junction of several railroads, in the midst of a highly fertile and healthful region of undulating prairie, and near rich salt springs. Lincoln is the seat of the following State institutions: — university, State prison, insane asylum, and home for the friendless. The prison and the asylum grounds, occupying several hundred acres, are 3 miles from the centre of the city, and 2 miles from each other. The United States Government has lately completed, at a cost of $200,000, a massive building for collection of revenue, United States courts, and post-office. With its broad streets, its public park, and the State House and other grounds, the healthful ventilation of Lincoln is amply provided for. It has three daily papers, four banks, one of the largest printing and publishing houses west of the Mississippi, and several prosperous wholesale stores. Although but thirteen years old, it has a population (1880) of 13,003.
# Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Little Rock

See also Little Rock, Arkansas on Wikipedia; the 11th edition; and the disclaimer.
LITTLE ROCK, capital of the State of Arkansas, United States, as well as of Pulaski county, is situated on the south bank of the Arkansas river, about 250 miles from its mouth, and near the centre of the State. It derives its name from occupying the top of a rocky cliff about 50 feet in height, which is much less conspicuous than the precipitous cliffs that line the river just above the city. The river, which is navigable by large steamers to this point during two-thirds of the year, is crossed here by an iron drawbridge on the St Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway. Little Rock, founded in 1820, contains the State house, the State asylums for the blind and for deaf mutes, the State prison, the State library, St John's Military College, and other schools. It is also the seat of the United States court of the eastern district of Arkansas, and a United States arsenal and land office. Flour-mills, carriage-works, and foundries are among the chief industrial establishments. Population in 1880, 13,138.
# Executive Order 9922

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Signed by President Harry S. Truman Tuesday, January 13, 1948
Federal Register page & date: 13 FR 179, Wednesday, January 14, 1948
Whereas this dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and
Whereas this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interestate commerce within the States of Illinois and Wisconsin to a degree such as to deprive those States of essential transportation service:
    The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the said dispute within thirty days from the date of this order.
    As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railway Company or its employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.

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### Revoked by

* Executive Order 12553, February 25, 1986
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