The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... increase and development of the country in keeping up prices of all articles neces- sary in every - day life . It fosters a spirit of gambling prejudicial alike to national morals and the national finances . If the question can be met ...
... increase and development of the country in keeping up prices of all articles neces- sary in every - day life . It fosters a spirit of gambling prejudicial alike to national morals and the national finances . If the question can be met ...
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... increase of fifty - five per cent . in the quantity of tea imported , twenty per cent . in the quantity of coffee ... increase in many other articles . The probability is that the customs revenue for the current year will exceed that for ...
... increase of fifty - five per cent . in the quantity of tea imported , twenty per cent . in the quantity of coffee ... increase in many other articles . The probability is that the customs revenue for the current year will exceed that for ...
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... increased use of paper money in the South , but chiefly by the establishment of the credit of the United States upon a firm basis . On the first of January , 1871 , the last - named fact was fully accomplished , and since that time the ...
... increased use of paper money in the South , but chiefly by the establishment of the credit of the United States upon a firm basis . On the first of January , 1871 , the last - named fact was fully accomplished , and since that time the ...
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... increasing their salaries without any increase of appropriations from the Treasury ; the sum now paid from moieties being quite sufficient to place the entire force upon a satisfactory footing in regard to pay . During the last fiscal ...
... increasing their salaries without any increase of appropriations from the Treasury ; the sum now paid from moieties being quite sufficient to place the entire force upon a satisfactory footing in regard to pay . During the last fiscal ...
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... increase is asked for the item of extending the triangulation across the country to the Pacific ocean , great interest having been manifested by the authorities of the States traversed in the prosecution of the work . The business ...
... increase is asked for the item of extending the triangulation across the country to the Pacific ocean , great interest having been manifested by the authorities of the States traversed in the prosecution of the work . The business ...
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