This ordinance declares that it is lawful for a sanitary authority, having reason to believe that any ship arriving in its district comes from a place infected with cholera, to visit and examine the ship before it enters the port.
But we may safely say that the marriage law is generally ascribed to the ordinance of the gods, even in the lowest tribes, and that breaches of it are offences against heaven.
Men do of course die, they may be killed; but it is not an ordinance of nature that a man must be killed; and, if he is killed, his death is not natural.
Yes, most possible, and you shall see how I'll be revenged on him: I will immediately go seek the ordinance against reformadoes.
Your ordinancewill not touch the captain, for he is a known soldier.
The same sentiments dictated the terms of the Ordinance of 1787, under which our first Territories were to be organized.
There would also be some embarrassment to the government in holding that the States that passed the secession ordinance remain, notwithstanding, States in the Union.
This argument implies that, if a secession ordinance is passed by the people proper of the State, it is valid; which is more than they who urge it against the State suicide doctrine are prepared to concede.
Stockham, in her report at the Washington convention of 1885, said: After the city ordinance of Keithsburg allowed women to vote, the hardest work was to convert the women themselves.
Prayed all men to think the cause was as well her majesty's as the country's; and not to be discouraged; for you have seen such success as may encourage us all; and this my hurt is the ordinance of God by the hap of the war.
The Ordinance of 1787, however, though it was not strictly enforced, made slaveholdings north of the Ohio negligible from any but an antiquarian point of view.
After being variously amended, the ordinance without this clause was adopted.
An ordinance for the general establishment of schools more than once went forth, but an ordinance still it remained.
By the discretion and ordinance of our lord the King, weights and measures were made.
Such provision was made in the Ordinance of 1787 (for the Northwest Territory), which in Article VI.
Italy by George Thomason, was added by an ordinance of the Commonwealth.
But after the fall of Sumter she was manipulated by skilful politicians, appealed to and cajoled on the side of prejudice and sectional feeling, and on April 17th passed the ordinance of secession.
At the time (December, 1860) South Carolina passed the ordinance of secession, to be narrated later, certain things were said which may be quoted here.
The Ordinance of 1787 recognized the difference in sentiment of the two portions of the country on the subject, and was enacted as a compromise.
At the time of the Ordinance of 1787 the two parts of the country, were about evenly balanced.
The Union Convention passes theOrdinance of Secession.
We hear to-day that the loyal men of Kentucky have met in convention and adopted anordinance of secession and union with our Confederacy.
During the month which had elapsed since the passage of the ordinance in Virginia, nothing had been done, nothing attempted.
It is now understood that the very day before the ordinance was passed, the members were gravely splitting hairs over proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution!
It was quite apparent, indeed, that if an ordinance of secession were passed by the new Convention, its validity would be recognized and acted upon by the majority of the people.
During a pause in the proceedings, one of the leading members arose and announced that he had information that the vote was about being taken in the other Convention on the ordinance of secession.
People remember how many test votes were taken in the Virginia Convention, showing that the State never would secede--and at length the Convention passed an ordinance of secession!
But at a quiet hour of the night, the governor had it taken down, for the Convention had not yet passed the ordinance of secession.
Montague came in and announced the passage of the ordinance by the other Convention!
Mr. Custis had signed the ordinance of secession, and that ought to be sufficient evidence of his loyalty.
His Most Christian Majesty has generously done this for his officers and seamen serving in his marine, by his ordinance of April last.
We presume not to dispute the wisdom of the ordinance of the King, which gives to the recaptor from a pirate only one third; because we know not the species of pirates which was then in contemplation, nor the motives of that regulation.
This ordinance offers a most decided contrast to the law of prescription among the Romans.
The Prussian Jews at this time were placed in a situation both comic and tragical by an ordinance worthy of the Byzantine court promulgated by King Frederick William III.
Whoever speaks against a state ordinance in a fault-finding spirit, or to throw odium upon the government, or seeks to repeal a law against its express wish, should be regarded as a disturber of the public peace.
The ordinance was to take effect on February 1st; and if meantime the federal government should make any attempt to enforce the laws, the fact of such attempt was to end the continuance of South Carolina in the Union.
The Ordinance of 1787 dedicated to Freedom all of the immense territory which became the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Why, the State has not yet passed the Ordinance of Secession.
They passed anordinance of Secession and elected Senators and Representatives to the Confederate Congress, adjourning when they heard that Fremont had at last passed the Osage.
The Audiencia passed an ordinance requiring that within thirty days the bishop should appoint ministers of one order, to administer instruction to the natives and the Chinese.
They were commanded by ordinance to observe the past decree, until your Majesty should have been consulted and should provide otherwise.
He simply and boldly states the inflexible ordinance of God: It is not lawful for thee to have her.
So she took patience and submitted herself to the ordinance of the Lord, saying, "There is no god but the God!
Quoth the other "The lust after worldly goods, and the ordinance of Allah (extolled exalted be He!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
