 | Lucius P. Little - Biography & Autobiography - 1887 - 678 pages
...Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : " ' I have maturely considered the act passed by the two Houses entitled "An act for the apportionment of representatives among the several States, according to the first enumeration," and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1895 - 686 pages
...Jacob Thompson of Mississippi. 42. George Washington was the first President to veto any bill, viz., "An act for the apportionment of representatives among the several states according to the first enumeration." 43. Article I. of the National Constitution authorizes the President of the United... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1897 - 722 pages
...has been expressed by me in a paper lodged in the Department of State at the time of signing an act entitled "An act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the Sixth Census," approved June 22, 1842, a copy of which is in possession of the House. THIRD ANNUAL... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 836 pages
...has been expressed by me in a paper lodged in the Department of State at the time of signing an act entitled ' 'An act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the Sixth Census," approved June 22, 1842, a copy of which is in possession of the House. JOHN TYI^R. THIRD... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Constitutions - 1897 - 530 pages
..." Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: " I have Considered the act passed by the two Houses, entitled ' An Act for the Apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the first Enumeration," and return it to your House wherein it originated with the following objections:... | |
 | Charles W. Johnson (Chief Clerk of the Senate.) - 1899 - 436 pages
...ticket, and where the legislature of such State has not been in session after the passage of the act entitled "An act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the Sixth Census," approved 25th ,)une, 1842, and shall not be before the time now prescribed for holding... | |
 | Political Science - 1906 - 474 pages
...it is termed "over the President's veto." The first exercise of the veto power was by Washington, in "An Act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the first enumeration." His objections were : — Firut. The Constitution has prescribed that Representatives... | |
 | Chester Lloyd Jones - Elections - 1912 - 380 pages
...occasionally held under the old general ticket system. South Dakota does so regularly. CHAP. XL VII. An Act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 552 pages
...Gentlemen of the house of representatives — I have maturely considered the act passed by the two houses, entitled "an act for the apportionment of representatives among the several states according to the first enumeration," and I return it to your house, wherein it originated, with the following objections.... | |
 | History - 1901 - 1132 pages
...Reapportioning the Representatives among the States. Gentlemen — I HAVE RECEIVED A COPY OF AN ACT OF CONgress, entitled' An act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several states, according to the fifth census, passed the twenty-second day of the present month, duly authenticated. As the duty will... | |
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an act for the apportionment of Representatives among the several states according to the first enumeration,' and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections. 
