 ... resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States...  Annals of the Congress of the United States - Page 325de United States. Congress - 1852Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Wood - 1802 - 522 pages
...government of the United States, or either House of Congress, or against the President, he should be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." This act was to continue in force until the 3d of March, 1801. J CHAPTER VI. Reflections on the conduct... | |
 | Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - 1805 - 396 pages
...to defame, or to bring him into contempt or disrepute, such person, beingthereof convicted, shall be punished by a fine, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, not exceeding two years : and « that if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, it shall be lawful for him to give... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1817 - 476 pages
...being thereof convicted before- any court of> the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine. not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding1 two years. " Sec. 3. Jbid be it further enacted and declared, That if any person shall be... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1819 - 758 pages
...government of the United States, or either houses of Congress, or against the President, he should be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." But it is a much greater crime for a President to plot against a coustit'.itbn and the liberties of... | |
 | Humphrey Marshall - 1824 - 542 pages
...them, the haired of the good people of the United States," &c. And who being convicted, were to be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years. "The person prosecuted, having always, the right, upon trial of the cause, to give in evidence, in... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 738 pages
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States, having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." I think, sir, that all who heard the objection made to printing the Pennsylvania memorial will agree... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 740 pages
...being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction (hereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." We perceive that the law was only directed against false, scandalous, and malicious writings against... | |
 | 1829 - 538 pages
...person thereof convicted before any Court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years." The next and last clause in the act provided, " that the persons prosecuted under it, shall be permitted... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1833 - 514 pages
...thereof convicted " before any Court of the United States, having jurisdiction thereof, " shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and "by imprisonment not exceeding two years." On this part of the act, the following observations present themselves: 1. The Constitution supposes... | |
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