This number of muskets is not half sufficient to supply the States with the muskets they are now entitled to receive under their apportionment of the permanent appropriation for arming and equipping the militia.
Assuming voters as the basis ofapportionment and allowing to Vermont three representatives, California would be entitled to eight.
Mr. Schenck submitted his amendment basing apportionment upon the number of male citizen of the United States who are voters, but it was rejected by an overwhelming vote, only twenty-nine of the entire House voting in the affirmative.
But the facts presented by Mr. Blaine and elaborated by other speakers turned the attention of the House away from an apportionment based on voters.
Nation would exclude the negro from the basis of apportionmentwherever the State should exclude him from the right of suffrage.
But, as there was no census, therefore there could be no justapportionment until an enumeration of the people was taken.
The question of congressional apportionment was early before them, and there was great diversity of opinion.
In the first place, as five slaves are to be counted as three free men in the apportionmentof representatives, such a clause would leave an encouragement to this traffic.
In New York the matter might have to become an issue in a general election, at which members of a Board of Apportionment should be elected under pledge to vote against the library's appropriation.
The argument that the delegates lacked information (such as a census would have provided) to arrange a proper apportionment of votes to different colonies prevailed.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, withoutapportionment among the States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
An old and inequitable apportionment law was still in operation; and a majority of the members chosen under it were, as it was intended by the law-makers they should be, Democrats.
In the course of the debate on the Apportionment Bill, Mr. Lincoln had occasion to address the House in defence of "The Long Nine," who were especially obnoxious to the Democrats.
M^r Butler urged warmly the justice & necessity of regarding wealth in the apportionment of Representation.
On the question for agreeing to the apportionment of Rep^s as amended by the last committee, it passed in the affirmative Mas.
Eleven out of 13 of the States had agreed to consider Slaves in the apportionment of taxation; and taxation and Representation ought to go together.
It was followed in part by the Com^e in the apportionment of Representatives yesterday reported to the House.
The Apportionmentof Members Among the States From the New York Packet.
Suppose the difficulties of agreeing upon a rule surmounted, and the apportionment made.
States in the Senate is strictly defined by the constitution, and that therefore the consideration of the relative influence of the States, then, should not be resorted to as an argument in the apportionment of Representatives to this House.
The completion of this decennial enumeration devolves upon Congress the duty of making a new apportionment of Representatives "among the several States according to their respective numbers.
There are thirty States, and under the existing apportionment of Representatives there are 230 Members in the House of Representatives.
It is hoped, however, that the returns will soon be received, and no time will then be lost in making the necessary apportionment and in transmitting the certificates required by law.
No provision having been made at the last session of Congress for the ascertainment of the claims to be paid and the apportionment of the funds under the convention made with Spain, I invite your early attention to the subject.
The Holy Church cannot confirm the apportionment of the districts which you have made, excepting the chieftains swear each other an everlasting truce.
The third matter is the apportionment of the districts after my death.
It was a common complaint that the last survey and apportionment of rent had been unfair.
He effected improvements in the apportionment and levy of the taille.
The terror spread by punishment, and the apportionment of it in particular cases, are the principles of the law of penalties.
This apportionment of punishment according to the castes is most striking in the case of injuries and outrages inflicted by members of the lower orders on the members of the higher.
Law XLVII The governor of Filipinas shall send the viceroy of Nueva España a report of the apportionment of toneladas that he shall make, and what is to be laden in the ships of that commerce.
Law XLIV The apportionment of the permitted amount of two hundred and fifty thousand pesos, conceded to the inhabitants of the Filipinas Islands, must be made among them, and the whole amount must be registered.
Fortunately for Poland, the tsar and the king of Sweden now quarrelled over the apportionment of the spoil, and at the end of May 1656 Alexius, stimulated by the emperor and the other enemies of Sweden, declared war against her.
The tax reaches only revenues derived from local operations, and the fact that the apportionment formula does not result in mathematical exactitude is not a constitutional defect.
Nor can he rightfully complain because the statute renders conclusive, after said hearing, the determination as to apportionment by the same body which levied the assessment.
The principle might either be that of complete equality, or of apportionment to the necessities or deserts of individuals, in whatever manner might be conformable to the ideas of justice or policy prevailing in the community.
To create an inducement for this unequal apportionment of the cultivation, wheat must be relatively dearer, and oats cheaper, than according to the cost of their production on the medium land.
Instead, the case is one calling for an apportionment of the external means, and so, proximately, not for immediate determination of the final end, but for economic determination of the means.
