Acts Passed at the First Session of the 1st Congress - 3d Session of the 25th Congress, 2d Session of the 27th, 1st-2d of the 29th, 1st-2d of the 30th, 1st of the 31st, 1st-3d of the 37th, 2d of the 38th, 1st of the 39th, 2d-3d of the 40th 1st-3d of the 41st, 1st-3d of the 42d, 1st of the 43dRichard Folwell, 1811 - Law |
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... packets from Thomas Jefferson , late President of the United States , during his life , shall be received and conveyed by post , free of postage . J. B. VARNUM , Speaker of the House of Representatives . ANDREW GREGG , President of the ...
... packets from Thomas Jefferson , late President of the United States , during his life , shall be received and conveyed by post , free of postage . J. B. VARNUM , Speaker of the House of Representatives . ANDREW GREGG , President of the ...
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... packets from Thomas Jefferson , An act making appropriations for defraying the expense of stationery , printing and all other con- tingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives , during the present session of Congress ...
... packets from Thomas Jefferson , An act making appropriations for defraying the expense of stationery , printing and all other con- tingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives , during the present session of Congress ...
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... packets , conveyed by any such posts ; and the roads designated in such contracts shall , during the continu- ance thereof , be deemed and considered as post roads within the provision of this act : And a duplicate of every such ...
... packets , conveyed by any such posts ; and the roads designated in such contracts shall , during the continu- ance thereof , be deemed and considered as post roads within the provision of this act : And a duplicate of every such ...
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... packet or their offices . parcel of letters shall arrive by land or water , Prescribed by as well as on other days , at such hours as the ter general . post - master general shall direct , for the pur- pose of performing the duties ...
... packet or their offices . parcel of letters shall arrive by land or water , Prescribed by as well as on other days , at such hours as the ter general . post - master general shall direct , for the pur- pose of performing the duties ...
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... packets ( excepting postage . such as are hereinafter exempted ) conveyed by the posts of the United States , viz ... packet of letters conveyed by the water mails shall be charged with more than quadruple postage , unless the same ...
... packets ( excepting postage . such as are hereinafter exempted ) conveyed by the posts of the United States , viz ... packet of letters conveyed by the water mails shall be charged with more than quadruple postage , unless the same ...
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aforesaid America ANDREW GREGG appointed APPROVED bank Bank of Alexandria Big Osage cents per month CHAPTER claims collector commence commissioners compensation Congress assembled contingent expenses court day of January day of March deemed dollars per month dred duty eighteen hundred election entitled An act established fifty cents fifty dollars Fire Prairie five dollars five hundred dollars Fort Clark further enacted hereby authorised House of Representatives hundred and eleven hundred and nine Indiana territory J. B. VARNUM JAMES MADISON JOHN GAILLARD JOHN POPE land office lars little chief Little Osage nation manner marshal Mississippi territory packet paid payment port Post roads postmaster president and directors propriations Provided Proviso public lands purpose receive river secretary Senate and House Speaker Specific ap stockholders surveyor tempore territory of Louisiana territory of Orleans thereof thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion tract of land treasury treaty United vote
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Page 312 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all state courts having competent jurisdiction, and in any circuit court of the United States...
Page 189 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 326 - States, and that the river Mississippi, and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, or into the Gulf of Mexico, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said State, as to other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll, therefor, imposed by the said State.
Page 293 - Directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold and make an election of Directors in such manner as shall have been regulated by the laws and ordinances of the said corporation.
Page 211 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States; all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution...
Page 309 - In case of excess, the directors, under whose administration .it shall happen, shall be liable for the same in their natural and private capacities; and an action of debt may, in such case, be brought against them, or any...
Page 291 - ... private capacities ; and an action of debt may, in such case, be brought against them, or any of them, their or any of their heirs, executors or administrators, in any court...
Page 372 - An Act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee...
Page 211 - ... of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, 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.
Page 365 - An act in addition to an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight...