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... Effects of Tariff on , 82 City Stocks , Amount and Value of New York , 89 Coal Trade of Pennsylvania , 91 and Copper of Virginia , 104 Coal Region of the Schuylkill and Wyoming Valley , .539 Closing of the Navigation of the Hudson River ...
... Effects of Tariff on , 82 City Stocks , Amount and Value of New York , 89 Coal Trade of Pennsylvania , 91 and Copper of Virginia , 104 Coal Region of the Schuylkill and Wyoming Valley , .539 Closing of the Navigation of the Hudson River ...
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... Effects of War on American , Moral Uses of , . of France , in 1844 , of the Dismal Swamp Canal , a Theme for the Poet , and Resources of Alabama , of the City of Troy , New York , of Philadephia , Commercial Chronicle and Review ...
... Effects of War on American , Moral Uses of , . of France , in 1844 , of the Dismal Swamp Canal , a Theme for the Poet , and Resources of Alabama , of the City of Troy , New York , of Philadephia , Commercial Chronicle and Review ...
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... Effects of Short Crops in Europe on the Markets and Consumption - Evils of Unstable Legislation - The Proposed Reduction of the Tariff - The Sub - Treasury and the Currency - Leading Features of 192 Banks of the United States - Arrival ...
... Effects of Short Crops in Europe on the Markets and Consumption - Evils of Unstable Legislation - The Proposed Reduction of the Tariff - The Sub - Treasury and the Currency - Leading Features of 192 Banks of the United States - Arrival ...
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... effects , so far as Germany is concern- ed , only to the tariff of the Zollverein . But the results of that tariff have been advantageous to manufactures and commerce , principally by creating Commercial Treaties Based on Reciprocity ...
... effects , so far as Germany is concern- ed , only to the tariff of the Zollverein . But the results of that tariff have been advantageous to manufactures and commerce , principally by creating Commercial Treaties Based on Reciprocity ...
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... effect , the chances are so great of a few amassing large fortunes as with that of China , but we do maintain that the great masses will derive fully as much benefit . We deem the subject one of great importance , and shall resume it in ...
... effect , the chances are so great of a few amassing large fortunes as with that of China , but we do maintain that the great masses will derive fully as much benefit . We deem the subject one of great importance , and shall resume it in ...
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Page 562 - ... and may take possession thereof, either by themselves or by others acting for them, and dispose of the same at their will, paying such dues only as the inhabitants of the country wherein the said goods are shall be subject to pay in like cases.
Page 486 - ... in the sum of five thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of such duties.
Page 326 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years : Yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 563 - ... and further until the expiration of two years after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same...
Page 449 - That below such rate discrimination may be made descending, in the scale of duties; or, for imperative reasons, the article may be placed in the list of those free from all duty.
Page 96 - ... to the superintendent of customs, who, in order to prevent fraud on the revenue, shall cause examination to be made, by suitable officers, to see that the duties paid on such goods as...
Page 96 - All which being done, on the arrival in port of the vessel in which the goods are laden, everything being found on examination there to correspond, she shall be permitted to break bulk, and land the said goods, without being subject to the payment of any additional duty thereon. But if, on such examination, the Superintendent of Customs shall detect any fraud on the revenue in the case, then the goods shall be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government.
Page 96 - It shall be lawful for the officers or citizens of the United States to employ scholars and people of any part of China without distinction of persons, to teach any of the languages of the empire, and to assist in literary labors ; and the persons so employed shall not, for that cause, be subject to any injury on the part either of the government or of individuals : and it shall in like manner be lawful for citizens of the United States to purchase all manner of books in China.
Page 56 - The object of this institute is, as stated in its constitution, " the promotion and encouragement of manufactures, and the mechanic and useful arts, by the establishment of popular lectures on the sciences connected with them ; by the formation of a cabinet of models and minerals, and a library ; by offering premiums on all subjects deemed worthy of encouragement ; by examining all new inventions submitted to them ; and by such other means as they may judge expedient.
Page 255 - During the general lassitude of mechanical exertion which succeeded the American Revolution, the utility of steam-engines appears to have been forgotten; but the subject afterward started into very general notice in a form in which it could not possibly be attended with success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which, indeed, has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steamengines.