Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-02-23


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 President within ten
days Sundays cxcepted) 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.
Ill. Every order, resolution, or vote,
to which the concurrence of the Senate
and House of Representatives may be
necessary exception on a question of
adjournmenD shall be presented tosthe
President Of the United States; andbe-
fore the same shall take effect, shall be
approved by him; or, being disapprov-
ed by him, shall be repassed by two
thirds of the Senate and House of Re-
| personalities, according to the rules
and limitations prescribed in the case
Of bill.
SECTION VIII. The Congress shall
have power
l. To lay and collect taxes, duties,
lmposts, and excuses, to pay the debts,
and provide for the common defence
and general welfare of the United
States; but all duties, imposts, and ex-
cises shall be uniform throughout the
United States.
II. To borrow money On the credit
of the Unite States.
i III. To regulate commerce with
foreign nations, and among the sever
al States, and with the Indian tribes.
: ~. To establish uniform rule OIL
, naturalization, and uniform laws on
, the subject of bankruptcies throughout
the United States.
u V. TO coin money, regulate the
value thereof, and of foreign coin, and
fix the standard Of weights and mea-
sures.
vi. To provide for the punishment
of counterfeiting the securities and cur
rent coin of the United States.
! VII. To establish post Offices and
post roads,
VIII. To promote the progress of
science and useful arts, by securing,
for limited times, to authors and inven-
tors, the exclusive right to their respec-
tive writings and discoveries.
TX. To constitute tribunals infer
Tor to the Supreme Court.
! x. To define and punish piracies
and felonies, committed on the higlr
seas, and offences against the law of
nations.
i XII. To declare war, grant letters Of
marque and reprisal,, and make rules
concerning captures on land or water.
XII. To raise and support armies;
but no appropriation Of money to that
use shall be for longer term than two
years.
XIII. To provide and maintain a
navy.
XIV. To make rules for the gov
eminent and regulation Of the land
and naval forces.
XIV. To provide for calling forth the
militia to execute the laws Of the Uni
on, suppress Instructions, and repel
Eintasions.
XVI. 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 discipline
prescribed by Congress.
XVII. To exercise exclusive legisla-
ton, in all cases whatsoever over such
district mot exceeding ten miles square)
as may, BY cession Of particular States,
and the acceptance Of Congress, be-
come 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, arsen-
ais, dock yards, and other needful bull
dings:-and
i XVIII. To make all laws which
shall be necessary and proper for car
! flying into execution the foregoing pow
ers, and all other powers vested by this
constitution in the Government Of the
United States, or in any department
or office thereof
SECTION TX. /. The migration or
/, importation of such persons as any of
the States now existing shall think
! proper to admit, shall not be prohibi-