 | American Colonization Society - African Americans - 1824 - 862 pages
...the Managers, necessary for the good order and government of the settlement. ARTICLE V. There shall be no slavery in the settlement. ARTICLE VI. The common...settlement. ARTICLE VII. Every settler coming to the age of twenty -on« years, and those now of age, shall take an oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American essays - 1828 - 564 pages
...themselves;—there shall be no slavery in the settlement; and the 1828.] African Colonization. 405 common law, as in force, and modified in the United...the situation of the people, shall be in force in Liberia. Under this Constitution, the agents, in August 1824, adopted a "plan for the civil government... | |
 | American Colonization Society - African Americans - 1828 - 612 pages
...the Managers, necessary for the good order and government for live settlement. ARTICLE V. There shall be no slavery in the settlement. ARTICLE VI. The common- law, as in force and modified in the I5nite& States, and applicable to the situation of the People, shall be in force jr.' the settlement.... | |
 | William Innes - African Americans - 1831 - 186 pages
...agents, and leave the settlers to govern themselves ; there shall be no slavery in the settlement ; and the common law, as in force, and modified in the United...the situation of the people, shall be in force in Liberia. Under this Constitution, the agents, in August 1824, adopted a " plan for the civil government... | |
 | William Innes - African Americans - 1833 - 244 pages
...agents, and leave the settlers to govern themselves ; there shall be no slavery in the settlement; and the common law, as in force, and modified in the United...the situation of the people, shall be in force in Liberia. Under this constitution, the agents, in August 1824, adopted a " plan for the civil government... | |
 | 112 pages
...Liberian Constitution, said to have been written by Professor Simon Greenleaf. Article VI provided :89 The common law, as in force and modified in the United...of the People, shall be in force in the Settlement. Not the common law of Maryland, where the Society was incorporated, or of any other state, but the... | |
 | Missions - 1826 - 676 pages
...order and government of the Settlement — that there shall be no Slavery In the Settlement — that the Common Law, as in force and modified in the United States, and applicable to 2 P the lituation of the people, shall be in force in the Settlement — and that in cases of necessity,... | |
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The common law, as in force and modified in the United States, and applicable to the situation of the People, shall be in force in the settlement. 