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... French government relative to a modification of the postal convention with France of March 2 , 1857 . JANUARY 10 , 1870. - Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed . POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ...
... French government relative to a modification of the postal convention with France of March 2 , 1857 . JANUARY 10 , 1870. - Referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and ordered to be printed . POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT ...
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... French mails in regard to the conditions of agreement between the two depart- ments . I have the honor to be , sir , your obedient servant , Hon . ALEXANDER W. RANDALL , Postmaster General . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . Mr. Berthemy to Mr ...
... French mails in regard to the conditions of agreement between the two depart- ments . I have the honor to be , sir , your obedient servant , Hon . ALEXANDER W. RANDALL , Postmaster General . WILLIAM H. SEWARD . Mr. Berthemy to Mr ...
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... French post office department . In fact , experience has demonstrated that negotiations of this kind , turning on technicalities , are tedions when carried on by correspondence , while brief verbal ex- planations between delegates often ...
... French post office department . In fact , experience has demonstrated that negotiations of this kind , turning on technicalities , are tedions when carried on by correspondence , while brief verbal ex- planations between delegates often ...
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... French not understanding a departmental power . * * * Should the French prove too negligent or dilatory , after having in- vited a delegate here , I shall not hesitate ( in the absence of other in- structions ) to signify to them the ...
... French not understanding a departmental power . * * * Should the French prove too negligent or dilatory , after having in- vited a delegate here , I shall not hesitate ( in the absence of other in- structions ) to signify to them the ...
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... French department has sent me a draught of articles , which a careful examination shows to be unsatisfactory , containing no important step in advance , except the elevation of the single weight of letters to ten grams . I shall ...
... French department has sent me a draught of articles , which a careful examination shows to be unsatisfactory , containing no important step in advance , except the elevation of the single weight of letters to ten grams . I shall ...
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Page 89 - I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States ; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Page 3 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 108 - States in all respects, framed by a convention of delegates elected by the male citizens of said State, twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition, who have been resident in said State for one year previous to the day of such election, except such as may be disfranchised for participation in the rebellion, or for felony at common law...
Page 107 - That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 47 - February 28, 1795, provided, that, " in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State or of the executive, when the legislature cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, as may be applied for, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
Page 6 - That when the people of any one of said rebel States shall have formed a constitution of government in conformity with the Constitution of the United States in all respects, framed by a convention of delegates elected by the male citizens of said State, twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition...
Page 1 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 6 - Congress, and known as article fourteen ; and when said article shall have become a part of the Constitution of the United States, said State shall be declared entitled to representation in Congress, and senators and representatives shall be admitted therefrom on their taking the oath prescribed by law ; and then and thereafter the preceding sections of this act shall be inoperative in said State...
Page 112 - That no district commander or member of the board of registration, or any of the officers or appointees acting under them, shall be bound In his action by any opinion of any civil officer of the United States.