LAWS

OF

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FROM

The 4th OF MARCH, 1789, TO THE 4th OF MARCH, 1815.

INTRODUCING

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATE, THE OLD ACT OF

CONFEDERATION, TREATIES,

AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE ORDINANCES AND DOCUMENTS;

WITH

COPIOUS NOTES AND REFERENCES.

ARRANGED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF AN ACT OF CONGRESS

IN FIVE VOLUMES

VOL I.

PUBLISHED BY

JOHN BIOREN AND W. JOHN DUANE, PHILADELPHIA, AND

R.C. WEIGHTMAN, WASHINGTON CITY.

1815.

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ARTICLE 13
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.

[See, as connected with this subject, art. 1, sec. 9, clause 2, page 65.]

[ Note. The 11th article of the amendments to the constitution,was proposed at the second session of the third congress; the 12th, at the first session of the eighth congress; and the13th article, at the second session of the eleventh congress.]