Districts, collection, 108.

congressional, 80.

State, 41.

mint, 120.

treaties with, 226.

under Confederation, 115.

Constitution, 115.

Indictment, what founded on, 248.
Indirect tax, 61.

Inhabitants, original, their restric
tions, 8.

Inhabited country, laws of, 9.
Insane of army and navy, 135.
Insolvent law, its power, 118.

Inspection laws, 34.

defined, 152.

object of, 152.

Interior, Department of, 186.

Invalid pensions, 135.

Inventors, rights of, 32.

Invoice defined, 106.

JEFFERSON'S the first written message,

182.

Journal, 29.

kept by each House, 85.
object of, 85.

regularly published, 86.

Judge of Supreme Court liable to im-

peachment, 76.

salary of, 206.

Judges of Courts of United States, 39.
Judicial power, 39, 206, 212.

of United States 51.

vested where, 39, 206.
Judgment in cases of impeachment,

28.

Jurisdiction appellate, 210.

concurrent, 210.
exclusive, 210.

original, 210.

Jurors challenged, 252.
Jury defined, 215.

trial by, 40, 215.

KING of England, commission of, 7.

LAND Office, Commissioner of, 201.
established, 228.

officers of, 228.

Laws, enactment of, 92.
in a new country, 9.

of an inhabited country, 9.
uninhabited, 9.

England, those of New World, 9.
nations, 32.

how understood, 130.
offences against, 130.
on bankruptcies, 100.
rules for enacting, 94.

Misprision of treason, 218.
Money bills, 93.

borrowed by United States, 31.
coinage of, 119, 148.

Congress has power to borrow
113.

for the use of armies, 32.

when drawn from the Treasury,
34.

Mother-country, power of, weakened,

PACIFIC, Department of the, 191.
Pardon defined, 173.

power of, withheld from the Presi-
dent, 173.

Pardoning power, its extent, 173.
Parliament, acts of, 9, 263.

adjourned by the king, 87.
assembles, how, 80.

formerly assembled annually, 81.
members of, not compensated,
89.

no act of, unconstitutional, 53.
term of members of, 58.
what it consists of, 55.

Passports, 188.

Patent, 228.

defined, 126.

Commissioner of, 201.
cost of, 127.

may be extended, 127.

Patentee must furnish a model, 126.
Peck, James H., 77.

Peers, trial by their, a right, 262.
Penn, William, a proprietary, 10.
Pensions, Commissioner of, 201.
defined, 135.
gratuitous, 135.
invalid, 135.

People, rights of, 49.

to bear arms, 48.

Petitions, how presented, 244.
right of, 244.
Pickering, John, 77.
Piracies, 32.

punishment of, 128.

under the Confederation, 129.
Constitution, 129.

Pirate, how regarded, 129.
who deemed a, 130.

Piracy defined, 129.

Poll-tax, 102.

Post-office Department, 186, 198.
established in England, 121.
by Prideaux, 121.

present system of, 121.

United States, directed by whom,
122.

Post-offices and post-roads, 31.

established, 121.

Post-roads, what considered as, 124.
Posts established in modern Europe
121.

original designation of, 121.

Potomac and Pocomoke rivers, 18.
Power, executive, 155.

vested in President, 156.

judicial, 39, 206, 212.

where vested, 206.

United States, 39, 51.

of Congress, 31.

each house, 83.

to punish members, 84.

impeachment, 27.
President, 38.

States, 50.

taxation, 100.

Powers concurrent, 100.

vested in Congress, 100.

Preamble of Constitution, 54.
Presentment, 248.

Preference, none given to any State,

145.

President answerable for misconduct,
184.

can fill vacancies, 180.

commander-in-chief, 38, 172.
commissions all officers, 183.

compensation of, 171.

duration of his term, 35.

duties of, devolve on Vice Presi
dent, 76.

139.
private, 250.
public, 224.

Proprietaries, 10.

their power, 10.

Proprietary governments, 10.
Protection certificate, 112.

Provincial colonies, names of, 10.
governments, 10.

Public lands, auction of, 227.

disposed of by Congress, 226.
survey of, 227.

ministers, 177.

Records of States, authenticated, 219.
Register, to obtain a, 111.

Registered vessel, privileges of a, 111.
Registry, certificates of, 111.

permanent, 112.

temporary, 112.
of a vessel, 110.
Regulation of coin, 31.
commerce, 31.

Religion, free exercise of, 242.
Religious liberty secured, 243.

test not required, 239.
Removal, &c. of the President, 37.
from office, 28.

power of, vested in President, 176
Representation, ratio of, 67.

vacancies in, 26.
Representative population, 61, 62.
removal of residence of, 60.
seven years a citizen, 26.
Representatives, age of, 26, 59.
apportioned, 26.

first House of, 65.
for each State, 66.

House of, choose Speaker, 27.
must reside, where, 26.
number of, 26, 60.

increased, 65.

one for each State, 26, 65.
qualifications for, 59.

term of, 58.

whole number of, 67.
Reprieve defined, 173.
Reprisal defined, 131.

146.

Punishment for treason, 78.

Resignation, vacancies by, 27.
Restrictions upon Congress, 141.

Senate, 147.

fined, 151.