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Page 310 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 174 - Congress or officer convicted of a violation of this section shall, moreover, be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the Government of the United States.
Page 38 - ... without any fraud or further delay, then the above obligation to be void. or else to be and remain in full force and virtue.
Page 174 - States, shall, directly or indirectly, receive, or agree to receive, any compensation whatever for any services rendered or to be rendered to any person, either by himself or another, in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party or directly or indirectly interested, before any department, courtmartial, bureau, officer, or any civil, military, or naval commission whatever...
Page 43 - ... display of obtrusive partisanship, their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. • They should also constantly remember that their party friends, from whom they have received preferment, have not invested them with the power of arbitrarily managing their political affairs. They have no right as officeholders to dictate the political action of their party associates, or to throttle freedom of action within party lines by methods and practices which pervert every useful and...
Page 44 - But many now holding such positions have forfeited all just claim to retention, because they have used their places for party purposes in disregard of their duty to the people, and because instead of being decent public servants, they have proved themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management.
Page 24 - Wm. Bone, Esq., before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace of the state of Maryland, in and for the city of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.
Page 81 - Woodbury, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of the...