 | John Wood - United States - 1846 - 404 pages
...establishment for the year 1798, and for other purposes.^ * By this act, the President was authorized, in the event of a declaration of war against the United States, to enlist and call into actual service, for a term not exceeding three years, an army often thousand... | |
 | John Wood - United States - 1846 - 412 pages
...establishment for the year 1798, and for other purposes. J * By this act, the President was authorized, in the event of a declaration of war against the United States, to enlist and call into actual service, for a term not exceeding three years, an army often thousand... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 676 pages
...shall judge the public safety shall require the measure," aiid to insert, in lieu thereof, the words, "in the event of a declaration of war against the...by a foreign Power, or of imminent danger of such invasion, discovered, in his opinion, to exist," being under consideration. The amendment reported... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 578 pages
...raise a provisional army " ; and the first section declared, that the President should be authorized, " in the event of a declaration of war against the United...by a foreign power, or of imminent danger of such invasion," to cause to be enlisted ten thousand men. On the 16th of July following, Congress passed... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 680 pages
...moved to insert the words recommended to be inserted in their place by the select committee, viz : " in the event of a declaration of war against the United...invasion of their territory, by a foreign Power, or of immediate danger of such invasion, discovered, in his opinion, to exist." The question was carried... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1851 - 682 pages
...moved to insert the words recommended to be inserted in their place by the Select comm ittee, viz : "in the event of a declaration of war against the...invasion of their territory, by a foreign Power, or of immediate danger of such invasion, discovered, in his opinion, to exist." The question was carried... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 792 pages
...authorized the president, at any time within three years, in the event of a declaration of war 1798. against the United States, or of actual invasion of their territory by a foreign power, or imminent danger of such invasion before the next session of Congress, to enlist ten thousand men (half... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...on the 28th of May, 1798; for on that day Congress directed that a provisional army should be raised in the event of a declaration of war against the United...by a foreign power, or of imminent danger of such invasion. Nor were we at war with France on the 13th of June, 1798 ; for on that day Congress suspended... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 578 pages
...a provisional army " ; and the first section declared, that the President should be authorized, uin the event of a declaration of war against the United...by a foreign power, or of imminent danger of such invasion," to cause to be enlisted ten thousand men. On the 16th of July following, Congress passed... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1853 - 722 pages
...preparations for such an event. Among other measures, they authorized the President of the United Stales, "in the event of a declaration of war against the...actual invasion of their territory by a foreign Power," to raise a force not exceeding ten thousand men. and, in the recess of the Senate, to appoint the officers.... | |
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in the event of a declaration of war against the United States, or of actual invasion of their territory by a foreign power, or of imminent danger of such invasion discovered in his opinion to exist, before the next session of Congress... 
