:" WHEREAS it is necessary, in this time of danger, that the militia of this colony should be well regulated and disciplined ... And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every person so as aforesaid inlisted ( except free mulattoes, negroes, and Indians ) shall be armed in the manner following, that is to say: Every soldier shall he furnished with a firelock well fixed, a bayonet fitted to the same, a double cartouch-box, and three charges of powder, and constantly appear with the same at the time and place appointed for muster and exercise, and shall also keep at his place of abode one pound of powder and four pounds of ball, and bring the same with him into the field when he shall be required ... And for the better training and exercising the militia, and rendering them more serviceable, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every captain shall, once in three months, and oftner if thereto required by the lieutenant or chief commanding officer in the county, muster, train, and exercise his company, and the lieutenant or other chief commanding officer in the county shall cause a general muster and exercise of all the companies within his county, to be made in the months of March or April, and September or October, yearly ; and if any soldier shall, at any general or private muster, refuse to perform the command of his officer, or behave himself refractorily or mutinously, or misbehave himself at the courts martial to be held in pursuance of this act, as is herein after directed, it shall and may be lawful to and for the chief commanding officer, then present, to cause such offender to be tied neck and heels, for any time not exceeding five minutes, or inflict such corporal punishment as he shall think fit, not exceeding twenty lashes ..." — An Act for the better regulating and disciplining the Militia, April 1757

WHEREAS, The Library of Congress is located beside, and is uniquely positioned, and statutorily part of, the world's most important law-making body, and the Library has an opportunity as it enters its third century to reinvigorate the interconnection between thought and action at a high level ; and

: WHEREAS by the great charter many times confirmed in parliament, it is enacted, That no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed, and that the King will not pass upon him, or condemn him ; but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land …

AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been duly ratified by the United States of America, whose instrument of ratification was deposited with the Pan American Union on July 13, 1935 ;

AND WHEREAS the said Treaty has been duly ratified also by the Republic of Cuba, whose instrument of ratification was deposited with the Pan American Union on August 26, 1935 ;

For example the preamble to the Internal Security Act states " WHEREAS action has been taken and further action is threatened by a substantial body of persons both inside and outside Malaysia ( 1 ) to cause, and to cause a substantial number of citizens to fear, organised violence against persons and property ; and ( 2 ) to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of the lawful Government of Malaysia by law established ; AND WHEREAS the action taken and threatened is prejudicial to the security of Malaysia ; AND WHEREAS Parliament considers it necessary to stop or prevent that action.

WHEREAS, American self-government was created by a very small group of people who were thinkers as well as doers ; and among them, Thomas Jefferson asked to be remembered as the founder of an educational institution rather than as President of the United States ; and building on Jefferson's own library, the Congress of the United States has built the Library of Congress into the largest collection of knowledge in human history ; and

WHEREAS, John W. Kluge has shown by his generous benefactions to the Library of Congress an abiding concern with education and the opportunity for people to use knowledge for their own and the institution's and the Nation's benefit ;

WHEREAS an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war, waged by the hostile Creeks against the United States, hath been repelled, prosecuted and determined, successfully, on the part of the said States, in conformity with principles of national justice and honorable warfare — And whereas consideration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictated by instructions relating to the re-establishment of peace: Be it remembered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek nation hostile to the United States, numberless aggressions had been committed against the peace, the property, and the lives of citizens of the United States, and those of the Creek nation in amity with her, at the mouth of Duck river, Fort Mimms, and elsewhere, contrary to national faith, and the regard due to an article of the treaty concluded at New-York, in the year seventeen hundred ninety, between the two nations: That the United States, previously to the perpetration of such outrages, did, in order to ensure future amity and concord between the Creek nation and the said states, in conformity with the stipulations of former treaties, fulfill, with punctuality and good faith, her engagements to the said nation: that more than two-thirds of the whole number of chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation, disregarding the genuine spirit of existing treaties, suffered themselves to be instigated to violations of their national honor, and the respect due to a part of their own nation faithful to the United States and the principles of humanity, by impostures denominating themselves Prophets, and by the duplicity and misrepresentation of foreign emissaries, whose governments are at war, open or understood, with the United States.

" WHEREAS the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi has extended the laws of said State to persons and property within the chartered limits of the same, and the President of the United States has said that he cannot protect the Choctaw people from the operation of these laws ; Now therefore that the Choctaw may live under their own laws in peace with the United States and the State of Mississippi they have determined to sell their lands east of the Mississippi and have accordingly agreed to the following articles of treaty ".

:: WHEREAS, the women of the United States have designated August 26, the anniversary date of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as symbol of the continued fight for equal rights: and

") Because the Civil Rights movement was in full force during Laxalt's governorship, it is notable to refer to a Nevada State Senate Resolution which passed in 1985 and read in part as follows: WHEREAS, In 1968, Governor ( Paul ) Laxalt made history when he appointed Reverend ( William ) Wynn, the man who was able to “ get things done ,” to the position of Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, an appointment which was considered a landmark for the State of Nevada because Wynn was the first African American

" WHEREAS, The impression has gone out from some unknown cause that J. H. Kellogg, M. D., holds infidel sentiments, which does him great injustice, and also endangers his influence as physician-in-chief of the Sanitarium ; therefore

WHEREAS, The Library has been collecting the world's cultural heritage in the languages of the world and preserving through copyright deposit the mint record of American creativity in almost every media, and its expert staff preserves and makes accessible the nearly 121 million items in its collections, and a growing body of material from the emerging electronic technologies ; and

:: WHEREAS, the women of the United States have united to assure that these rights and privileges are available to all citizens equally regardless of sex ; and

WHEREAS, The United States of America is in an age where power and influence depend far more on knowledge than in the past and where our country's leaders will need to tap the wisdom of mature scholars who will make broad use of the Library's varied resources and whose judgment and objectivity would bring fresh perspectives to the city of government ;

:: WHEREAS, the women of the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not been entitled the full rights and privileges, public or private, legal or institutional, which are available to male citizens of the United States ; and

WHEREAS, War has cast its gloom over our happy homes and care usurped the place where joy is wont to

:: WHEREAS, the women of United States are to be commended and supported in their organizations and activities,

It read, in part: " WHEREAS, In 1847, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. captained the first and only steamship in California prior to the Gold Rush of 1848, the Sitka.

* WHEREAS, the 1963 Alaska State Legislature passed, and Governor Egan signed into law, the " Mandatory Borough Act " ( Chapter 52, SLA 1963 ), dictating that certain regions of Alaska-those encompassing Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Kodiak Island, Kenai Peninsula, Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna valleys, and Fairbanks-form organized boroughs by January 1, 1964 ...

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.

Marketing in the new decade will be no picnic -- for the sixties will present possibly the most intense competitive activity that you have experienced in the last 20-25 yrs..

`` What has impressed you most on your present visit ''??

True terminal bronchioles comprise the most frequent form taken by the distal airways in types 1 and 3, although small numbers of poorly developed respiratory bronchioles are present.

When the frequency response characteristics of practical components are considered, their effect on stability does not present the most serious limit on the system loop gain.

It is mirrored by the individual Willie Lohmans, whose ideas and behavior patterns are so dependent and relativistic that they always coincide with those of the individual or group present and most important at the moment.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

Asphalt or or, also known as bitumen, is the sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits ; it is a substance classed as a pitch.

The order is a cosmopolite ( plants found throughout most of the world including desert and frigid zones ), and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees ( such as the giant Lobelia and the giant Senecio ) and shrubs are also present.

It lists 144 items of shared basic vocabulary ( most of them already present in Starostin 1991 ), including words for such items as ' eye ', ' ear ', ' neck ', ' bone ', ' blood ', ' water ', ' stone ', ' sun ', and ' two '.

Six astatine isotopes, with mass numbers of 214 to 219, are present in nature as the products of various decay routes of heavier elements, but neither the most stable isotope of astatine ( with mass number 210 ) nor astatine-211 ( which is used in medicine ) is produced naturally.

Ataxia may depend on hereditary disorders consisting of degeneration of the cerebellum and / or of the spine ; most cases feature both to some extent, and therefore present with overlapping cerebellar and sensory ataxia, even though one is often more evident than the other.

Then, in probably the most interesting part of the hymn, Enheduanna herself steps forward in the first person to recite her own past glories, establishing her credibility, and explaining her present plight.

It is quite conventional in principle in past and present computing machines of the most varied types, e. g. desk multipliers, standard IBM counters, more modern relay machines, the ENIAC " ( Goldstine and von Neumann, 1946 ; p. 98 in Bell and Newell 1971 ).

With most hardliners leaving the party, it sought to present itself as a respectable conservative party and to join forces with Forza Italia in the European People's Party and, eventually, in a united party of the centre-right.

The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals — only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have one, even if diffuse neural tissue is present.

Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

The collection of prints covers the tradition of fine printmaking from its beginnings in the 15th century up to the present, with near complete holdings of most of the great names before the 19th century.

One of the primary characteristics present in most sharks is the heterocercal tail, which aids in locomotion.

The two most prominent grading services at present are the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation ( NGC ) and the Professional Coin Grading Service ( PCGS ).