Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-07-05

public ministers; he shall take care that
the laws be faithfully executed; and
shall commission all the officers of the
United States.
Sec. IV.-1. The President, Vice
President, and all civil officers of the
United States, shall be removed from
Office ON impeachment for, and convic-
tion of treason, bribery, or other high
crimes and uaisdemeanors.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION l. The judicial power of the
United States shall be vested in one su-
preme court, and in such inferior courts
as the Congress may from time to- time
oIdain 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 compensation which
shall not be diminished during their
continuance in Office.
SECTION 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 au-
thority; to all cases affecting embassa-
dors, other public ministers, and con-
suls; to all eases of admiralty and mari
time jurisdiction; to controversies to
which the United States shall be party;
to controversies between two or more
states; between state and citizens of
another state; between citizens of differ
ert states; between citizens of the same
state claiming lands under grants of
different states; and between 4 state, or
the citizens thereof, and foreign states,
citizens, or subjects.
In all cases affecting ambassadors,
other public ministers, and consuls, and
those in which state shall be a party,
the supreme court shall have original
Jurisdiction. In all the other cases be-
fore 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.
SECTION 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 com
fort.
No person shall be convicted of trea-
son unless on the testimony of two wit
nesses to the same overt act, or confes-
sions in open court.
The Congress shall have power to de-
clare the punishment of treason, but no
attainder Of treason shall work corrupt
ion of blood or forfeiture, except during
the life of the person attainted.
ARTICLE ".
SECTION /. 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 man
ner in which such acts, records, aud pro-
ceedings, shall be provel, and the effect
thereof.
SECTION 2. The citizens of each state
shall be entitled to all privileges and
immunities of citizens in the several
states.
A person charged i'll any state with
treason, felony, or other crime, who shall
fee 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, es-
Gaping into another, shall, in conse-
quence of any law or regulation therein,
be discharged from such service or la
Dor, but shall be delivered up on claim
of the party to whom such service or la
bcr may be due,
SECTION 3. New states may be admit
ted by the Congress into this Union; but
no new state shall be formed or erected
within the jurisdiction ofany other state;
nor any state be formed by the junction
of two or more states, or parts Of states,
without the consent Of the legislatures
of the states concerned as we'll as of the
Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dis
pose 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.
SECTION f. The United States shall
guarantee to every state i'll this Union a
republican form of government, and
shall protect each of them against inva
sion; and, on application of the legisla
ture, or of the executive (whcn the leg
islature cannot be convened), against
domestic violence.
ARTICLE V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds Of
both houses shall deem it necessary,
shall propose amendments to this con-
stitution, or on the application of the
! legislatures Of two thirds Of the several
states, shall call a convention for pro
posing amendments, which in either
case, shall be valid to all intents and
purposes, as part of this constitution,
when ratified by the legislatures of three
fourths Of the several states, or by con-
ventions in three fourths thereof, as the
one or the other mode of ratification
may be proposed by the Congress; pro
vided 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,